KEEP YOUR FOOT ON THE GAS (better yet, the EV battery). secure.actblue.com/donate/vablu...
KEEP YOUR FOOT ON THE GAS (better yet, the EV battery). secure.actblue.com/donate/vablu...
Sudan Liberation Movement/Army appeals for UN help to recover bodies from village buried by landslide after heavy rain.
I’m really tired of this little game where the GOP does something and people immediately blame the clean up crew for not cleaning up well enough to their standards instead of dressing down the dude who upended the trash can.
At least 10 gun industry businesses, including Glock, Smith & Wesson, Remington and Mossberg, secretly handed over names, addresses and other data to lobbyists, who used the details to rally firearm owners to elect pro-gun politicians. By @coreygjohnson.bsky.social (Published Oct. 2024)
Platner: No one cares that you pretend to be remorseful as you sell out to lobbyists. Symbolic opposition does not reopen hospitals. Weak condemnations do not bring back Roe V Wade. Maine deserves better than Susan Collins.
Here's the response from Paul Bryant, the Black veteran and lawyer whom the govt arrested in part bc he had a legal weapon in DC, to USG attempt to get him detained. It leans heavily into the lack of Body Cam proving he shoulder checked some Guardsmen. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
It is beyond wild to me that there is zero coverage of "Workers over Billionaires" rallies anywhere on The New York Times or The Washington Post right now. This is a colossal failure in journalism. Mainstream media can't just pretend that hundreds of thousands of protesters don't exist
Let's give a shout out to the men & women who labor in the fields to put food on our tables. #WeFeedYou #LaborDay. Mandemosle un saludo a los hombres y mujeres que trabajan en el campo para poner comida en nuestras mesas. Thank you Ignacio Gomez for letting us use this art
tiktok taking down their live feature in indonesia while the protests are happening shows they understand the ability that app had to show people what was really happening in gaza and they intend not to let it happen again
www.thenation.com/article/acti... Excellent article!!
This whole thing is great but the highlighted bit made me laugh out loud. 😂 Marlon on Snoop:
Worth reading this www.creditslips.org/creditslips/...
The Trump administration is undertaking an unprecedented strategy to try to undermine our elections. They are doing so by rewriting election rules, targeting election officials, supporting election deniers, and retreating from protecting voting rights. bit.ly/4l1lUPP
Thank you!! ♥️💪⚖️💪♥️
This refusal marked a turning point in relations: Washington imposed 50% tariffs on Indian goods, while in India, Trump was openly called a "traitor" and his effigy was burned at a festival. - NYT
Media should hound him at least half as much as they hounded Biden. But they won’t.
Question: Why did US put big tariffs on India despite major national interest in cultivating a strategic counterweight to China and trying to isolate Russia? Answer: Because the US president lied that he fixed India-Pakistan and India wouldn’t go along with the lie. (Seriously, that’s the answer)
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People who might be comfortable with their neighbors quietly disappearing aren't always comfortable when the grotesque human rights abuses involved are made public. They don't like to imagine themselves as the bad people you make them seem like when you point out what's happening. So keep doing it.
DHS and others in the Trump administration have some answering to do. www.cnn.com/2025/08/30/u...
Yes.
This is why Trump’s Big Ugly Bill increased ICE’s budget by $170.7 billion More than the military spending of most countries, and more than the US appropriated for the FBI, DEA, ATF and Marshals-combined Trump is amassing an army to employ against Americans in blue states And Illinois is up first
An(other) actual psychopath.
You would think that documenting these effects - on farms, in meat-packing plants, in the garment industry, and restaurants would be a popular beat for reporters in MSM.
Currently reading what has become my absolute favorite cozy murder mystery series Kim M Watt about a bunch of little old ladies who team up with some eccentric small dragons to solve mysteries. It is ABSOLUTELY DELIGHTFUL. Nine books in total. Can’t recommend enough.
Local elections matter. In many counties sheriffs and often prosecutors & judges run unopposed, with no one questioning their policies and the cost they impose on local constituencies.
NEW: my office has received disturbing whistleblower reports that the Trump administration plans to separate 700 children from their families, lawyers, and support systems. Disappearing vulnerable children beyond the reach of American law and oversight is beyond depravity.
A thing I can never get out of my head is that this song has the lyrics “reporters baffled” and “Trump[ed]” on the same line, in a song about the “end of the world,” and the song came out in 1987, same year a certain future president released the art of the deal and was publicly trashing NATO
Following Trump's deployment of the National Guard and a surge of federal law enforcement to D.C., it's critical that people can identify with whom they are interacting and that they document those interactions. Our guide helps distinguish between federal law enforcement and U.S. armed forces.🧵
5th Cir., 2-1, holds that Texas' ban on compensating people who assist voters with mail-in ballots is not preempted by the Voting Rights Act. Held: federal law does not really mean what it says. www.ca5.uscourts.gov/opinions/pub...
CW: Sexual assault Women are being kidnapped and assaulted by men who impersonate ICE agents. This is one of many reasons why we can’t have a masked, unaccountable secret police force roaming the streets. Urge your elected officials to take action today: www.bluestatedefianc...
Corporate America’s playbook: 1) Exploit workers to maximize profits 2) Use profits to buy Congress 3) Use Congress to pass union-busting laws 4) Use these laws to further exploit workers 5) Repeat Let's break the cycle and keep building back a powerful labor movement.
Worth noting, this isn't an isolated occurrence. It's why deportation and deterrent policies, such as Labour's "one in one out policy in the UK" inevitably end up boosting smugglers. They ignore why people come to any particular country, and create a never ending cycle of people needing to re-enter.
A must read for anyone trying to figure out how to resist the creeping autocracy and wanting to understand how their personal acts of Resistance matter: www.thenation.com/article/acti...
Russian leader calls for reform of World Bank, International Monetary Fund ahead of talks with China’s Xi Jinping.
Video shows one man wrapping what appears to be a chain around the neck of one of the brothers, while another man beat him with a stick-like object.
If they were comfortable and unbothered they wouldn’t be gerrymandering like lunatics.
Crazy how we don’t even discuss the rampant drug use by White House staff during Trump’s first term: www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
Gonna take a point of elder organizer privilege to say that while I was on a panel this evening with two younger organizers who I've gotten to know over the past few years, I felt such a sense of pride in them and their work. They are so smart, creative and hard working. Truly inspiring.
MontCo PA Visibility Brigade hits long weekend shore traffic with a pre-Labor Day message! @hcrichardson.bsky.social @maddow.msnbc.com @visibilitybrigade.bsky.social @lawrenceodonnell.msnbc.com @governor.pa.gov
Every time your electricity bill goes up for the next 10 years, it can be traced back to this Administration’s actions. They are making solar and wind power illegal to build in the United States. They are artificially restricting supply while demand is going up.
I vaguely remember tweeting something like the country that effectively captures this free energy source at scale will rule the 21st century. whelp.
We built a calculator that doesn't work, but don't worry, it's also a plagiarism machine that will tell you to kill yourself. It runs on the world's oceans and costs 10 trillion dollars.
I think it means the original 3 judge panel put their decision on hold because all the court as a whole is going to hear the case. (But I'm not a lawyer. )
What a cursed sentence (gift link) “The A.I. companies selected to oversee the program would have a strong financial incentive to deny claims. Medicare plans to pay them a share of the savings generated from rejections.”
Broken record territory rapidly approaching, but once again: Homelessness is not a societal inevitability. It's a policy failure. This is a solvable issue with a known solution, even under capitalism, because that solution is less expensive than the current responses. We just don't want to do it.
Our national parks generated $56 billion in visitor spending and supported 415,000 jobs in 2023. The entire National Park Service budget was just $3.6 billion. That’s some return on investment — so why is Donald Trump taking an axe to our parks?
Trump just declared “Overdose Prevention Week.” But behind the scenes, his team is withholding $140 million Congress already set aside to fight fentanyl overdoses. Programs are being forced to pause. Lives are at stake. youtu.be/RFW-OlmAgDE
@marisakabas.bsky.social had this 1st bsky.app/profile/mari...
a scoopy one from me, with an assist from @accountable.us: Bill Pulte is using Palantir to gather "mortgage fraud" accusations and weaponize them against Dems in order to abet Trump's government capture. but, he formerly disclosed owning Palantir stock—and that's not his only potential conflict:
Trump's trying to help those targeting Kamala Harris. edition.cnn.com/2025/08/29/p...
Today is Friday, Aug 29. Good morning ❤️ eat take your meds hydrate tell your people you love them let them love you back We are here. This is real. Let's build a home for each other and fight like hell.
Good.
GOP: We are the pro-life party! So—free pre-natal care? GOP: No Extend child tax credit? GOP: No Paid family leave? GOP: No Universal pre-K? GOP: No Gun reform to stop school shootings? GOP: No So...HOW Exactly are you pro-life?🤔 GOP: We force 11-yr-old rape victims to give birth
Not only is our new acting director of the CDC NOT a scientist, but he also has deep ties to Peter Thiel and Silicon Valley’s techno-utopia movement. One epidemiologist compared Jim O’Neill’s appointment to “making Elon Musk head of the FAA.”
No. These are snapshot figures; 61,226 in detention as of August 24, but there are tens of thousands of people cycling into and out of detention each month. Total book-ins to ICE detention for Fiscal Year 2025 so far are 277,342.
A dramatic, extremely worrying moment; over 61,000 people held in ICE detention. That is the highest number ever on record in United States history; roughly 6,000 higher than the previous record set under Trump six years ago, and over 21,000 higher than when Trump took office just seven months ago.
The City of Atlanta is opening its first municipal grocery store today. The city is spending $3.5 million in partnership with a neighborhood grocery chain in an effort to eliminate a downtown food desert. www.wsbtv.com/news/local/a...
People are often surprised to learn that Lee was an officer who never made it past colonel. The purported promotion to general was awarded by a treasonous cabal calling itself the "confederate states of america" which was put down by force by the Union army, which also had superior generals.
This is good: With Trump/RFK destroying CDC, JB Pritzker's officials are exploring the possibility of buying Covid vaccines from manufacturers and distributing them in-state themselves, source tells me. Dem govs must step up and fill the void. New piece from me: newrepublic.com/article/1998...
In a two week period: Trump fired 7 of the 8 members who do independent federal oversight on nuclear waste. Peter Thiel (Palantir) is found to be backing the first privately developed uranium enrichment facility in the US.
The maddening thing is that we know EXACTLY how to prevent this. Yes, kids should get vaccinated, test, stay home when sick, mask as much as possible. But even without any of that: Better ventilation and filtration in schools can MASSIVELY reduce viral spread, for all sorts of respiratory diseases.
The only reason for Emil Bove to be still showing up for Trump administration photo opps (in this photo from Trump’s D.C. takeover, peeking out at top right) is that Emil Bove understands himself to be part of the Trump administration on an ongoing basis www.nytimes.com/2025/08/29/u...
Last night, about 60 Chicago activists and organizers gathered to discuss Trump's threatened military occupation of our city. Our convo centered around a worksheet that some friends and I put together this week—a tool that can help us build and strengthen local networks of support and protection.
This is an amazing video. There's so much to appreciate about it. Not only is most--if not all--of the analysis spot on, but I absolutely love this style of meandering teaching, starting from one point and just wandering around in a widening spiral of topics until you get to the end ...
IT WAS A FUCKING FUNDRAISER TO HELP GIVE MEDICAL CARE TO STARVING CHILDREN. @lindsayellis.bsky.social deserves all the accolades for this magnum opus of a Youtube video. Everyone should watch it. But it's rough, so be prepared. It will hurt. And that's good.
Yes!!
I wish Biden had just fired Trump appointees in independent federal agencies left and right. It would have forced the SCOTUS to address these issues with a Democratic president, and then those would have been precedents that would be more awkward for the Court to backtrack (w/o looking obvious)
They charged Sean Dunn--the sandwich hero--w/a misdemeanor after getting no-billed by a grand jury for a felony assault charge. The Chief of the Criminal section at DC USAO is prosecuting submarine warfare. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
A clarification is not a diminishment. Any public action at this time by federal employees is brave and quite risky.
Important clarification, multiple CDC sources tell me: Federal employees are not allowed to strike/walk out, so this is *not* a walkout but a "clap out" to show support for departing leadership. Current employees were either given permission to attend by a supervisor or used leave time to attend.
Malcolm Kenyatta walks the talk, literally. He is walking all 105 miles from Philly to the state capitol to protest Pennsylvania Republicans defunding public transit over petty politics. www.notus.org/pennsylvania...
What is deemed to be “crime” has more to do with criminalizing specific populations i.e. Black and poor people (and not others). Even when something is labeled a “crime,” cops choose to focus enforcement on some while ignoring others, e.g. shoplifting baby formula is punished; wage theft is ignored.
BREAKING: Big moment as CDC staff stage a mass walkout. They have lined the street outside its HQ to greet and salute the four top officials who have resigned in protest at RFK Jr’s attack on the agency’s science base. (🎥 AP)
It is not just that these employees are risking being put on leave or even fired for standing up for science (see EPA/FEMA officials), they are standing in front of a workplace that was the subject of a terrorist attack a couple of weeks ago, by a man who believes what their boss believes.
Finally, take a look at the last category: An older couple, just a year or two out from Medicare eligibility, who earn $90,000/year. Right now they're paying $638/mo for their Silver plan (8.5% of total income). Starting January 1st, 2026, they could see their premiums QUADRUPLE to $2,628/mo.
Listening to a podcast where a well known tech world wannabe fascist calls journalism "nonconsensual invasion of privacy for profit" and thinks that's clever and my goodness does that reveal a lot of how completely brain wormed a bunch of these guys are once they faced a tiny bit of criticism.
ICE agents in DC today appear to be focusing on the North Capitol Street corridor. One is wearing a Texas-themed hat and a “thin blue line” patch that says SEND ME. Again: Keep an eye out for an unmarked black Ford truck with the Texas plate NTV9211.
This Day in Labor History: August 28, 1963. The March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom took place in Washington, DC. Unlike what modern conservatives and even much of the civil rights establishment wants you to remember, workers rights and economic freedom was central to the March!!!!!
Watch. If you claim one of these to get a vaccine, they’ll use it later as a preexisting condition to crank up your health premium or kick you off your plan.
The national news will move on, but Minnesota will not.
This is very good, I think it's the right kind of encouragement -- recognizing that part of Trump's fascist project is pure psychological warfare DESIGNED to wear you down emotionally
What did Putin think of the Alaska summit? Well, he just sent drones and missiles to hit an apartment building, a shopping mall and the headquarters of the European Union in Kyiv. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/28/w...
This thread and its point is so unbelievably important — and why it is so absolutely essentially to accurately describe what Trump does and how he’s done it. Otherwise, you — looking primarily at journalists and lawmakers — are just making it easier for him to create that reality.
Vaccines are safe and effective. RFK Jr. isn’t.
No one is acting as if this in an emergency, except those of us who work in these fields. But we see the tsunami approaching--a wave of sickness and death that will wash over us all in growing numbers down the months, down the years. 15/
It's important to know what we're dealing with. Though some in the media still try to horse-race, both sides this, we're faced with psychopaths at the helm of our nation's public health, scientific and healthcare efforts. They want to inflict pain and suffering. It's a goal, not a by-product. 6/
It's always 3 known votes. Meaning anything requiring decency or respect for precedence takes a 5-1 majority.
Monarez is playing her weak hand perfectly, and should be a model for institutional resistance for the next four years: 1. Make them fire you 2. Don’t go along to get along 3. Don’t apologize, have confidence in your own integrity and the importance of your role 4. Always escalate the conflict
remember folks, we cant have gun restrictions because if we do the federal government will occupy our streets, imprison people without due process, ship dissidents to foreign gulags and things of that nature
Back in 2020, YouTube suspended OAN's channel, demonetized it, and noted it was not an "authoritative" source. Now, five years later, the Google-owned platform has inked a deal to put the MAGA propaganda network in millions of living rooms. Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/youtube-oa...
this is a scene straight out of a war zone. the president has declared war on his own country.
