Furious pensioner, immigrant, follows The Bear
1,964 followers 131 following 1,084 posts
view profile on Bluesky
RADDATZ: One of the things they are trying to do in DC with the National Guard is have them back up local law enforcement WES MOORE: They are picking up trash
China isn’t the reason to build solar—it’s the reason we can’t afford to wait. While US nuclear flatlines, China’s solar has already rocketed past it. The lesson isn’t to copy them—it’s that the transition is happening at breakneck speed. Delay now means falling behind forever. ⚡☀️ #EnergyTransition
An upcoming news conference with victims of Jeffrey Epstein could be “explosive,” one of the congressmen pushing for full release of the files on Epstein predicts. Democratic Rep. Ro Khanna said the victims’ accounts will force lawmakers to vote on a bill requiring DOJ to release its files.
Look at this graph. The share of national income going to the richest 10 percent was lowest (and share to lower 90 percent highest) when union membership was at its highest. As unions have weakened, inequality has widened. This is why we must build back union power.
"Nobody wants to be a cop [in DC]. They were abused. They were spit on." "When you when you say they were abused and spit on, I'm assuming you're talking about January 6th, correct?" "All you guys want to do was bring up J6 about the answer to everything."
California stepping up.
Destroyer of the UK.
A lead CDC official who resigned said Kennedy’s team asked him to “change studies that have been settled in the past” to fit anti-vax views. That’s not public health leadership—it’s malpractice. 🔗 www.nytimes.com/2025/08/30/o... #BlueSky #MedSky #NewsSky #SciSky #NurseSky
I'm still waiting for the relentless onslaught of media demands for a press conference and calls to resign.
Medicare for all, paid leave, universal childcare. Busting up big corporations and tackling Wall Street’s greed. Getting big money out of politics. Supporting unions and fighting for higher wages. If Dems want to win back working people, this is the agenda they must support.
What is this "ironing " you speak of?
Pritzker: "We don't want troops on the streets of American cities. That's un-American and frankly the president ought to know better. This one doesn't seem to. He hasn't read any books. He doesn't seem to understand the Constitution or the laws."
Reminder: Most mass shootings are carried out by cisgender men.
New Mexico has issued a public health order that removes federal restrictions to COVID-19 vaccine access so that pharmacies in New Mexico can vaccinate people of all ages and risk profiles. Every state need to do this!
Donald Trump is once again threatening to issue an executive order targeting voting. This is an effort to subvert the Constitution and the 2026 election, which grants states and Congress but not the president power to regulate federal elections. If he does this, we will sue and we will win (again).
It was well worth possessing your soul in patience.
Brexit - championed by Farage - has been a significant factor in many of the UK’s problems - it’s time UK news shows and Labour started pointing that out youtu.be/be3b8RkMqvs?...
A mother is filing a $1 million claim after her 15-year-old son was held at gunpoint by immigration goons in Los Angeles.
Where will all this end? I dread to think. Next time you’re in York, do make a point of popping in to the Dragon House Chinese takeaway to show them this doesn’t represent the decent majority in the UK.
YES! Thank you... Say it again, and again, and again. They are not "illegal immigrants". - seeking asylum is legal and has been since 1951.
...and I fear this authoritarian government will try to remove charity status from any organisation which dares to criticise their support for mass murderers of children "You’ve got to know you’re on the wrong side of history when Save The Children is criticising you" via @dailypolitik.bsky.social
Fuck yeah, Gov Pritzker and Mayor Johnson. It will be fascinating what happens when ICE agents get arrested for flouting this.
Nigel Farage 'is a hypocrite' for lecturing on free speech while banning journalists
DO NOT COMPLAIN ABOUT #FARAGE ALWAYS BEING ON TV IF YOU HAVEN'T SIGNED THIS PETITION !!! DO IT!!!!! RT and thankyou for your attention to this matter! 😰 petition.parliament.uk/petitions/71...
Amazing isn’t it. 35,000 people returned from Britain who had no right to be here 35,000,that is in one year Over 6yrs the Tories returned 4 volunteers and gave them a few grand each as well Now tell me who’s serious about immigration? Not Tories and definitely not Reform. Hopefully not you as well
REP. @brotherjones.bsky.social: “People want to give thoughts and prayers after a shooting, but it’s a form of theological malpractice when you pray for something you have the power to change.”
👀 apnews.com/article/paxt...
Nothing says respect for our troops like deploying the National Guard only to have them pick up trash and spread mulch all day.
A discussion about pro-choice.
Nigel Farage skipping Parliament for two days 'to help Donald Trump meddle with UK' www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
To a large degree, the collapse of American power is driven by the stupidity of its leaders.
The past 12 hours gave all of us a sense of just how huge the nationwide celebration will be when he finally does kick the bucket. 🎉🥳🎊
No matter what @MarshaBlackburn keeps saying, it’s not criminals they’re targeting. www.cnn.com/2025/08/30/u...
My reporting uncovered the existence of DoJ training videos instructing FBI personnel on how to flag Trump’s name in the Epstein files. I’m suing to get the videos under FOIA. substack.com/@muellershew...
DO NOT COMPLAIN ABOUT #FARAGE ALWAYS BEING ON TV IF YOU HAVEN'T SIGNED THIS PETTION !!! 1,940 signatures needed! RT and thank you for your attention to this matter! 😰 petition.parliament.uk/petitions/71...
CHICAGO…
A good weekend to remember that unions were the thing that gave us this holiday. The forty hour workweek, work place safety regulations and laws, and ensure pay increases despite federal stagnation. This is the worker's holiday.
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.
@nealkatyal.bsky.social: “You’ve got the president who's imposed the largest tax increase on American consumers since 1993 … and he did it without Congress saying one word. That is not our constitutional structure.”
At his funeral there will be a yeulogy, the biggest yeulogy you’ve ever seen, in all history. And a big beautiful covfoffin
The nose is wrong. That guy's nose is sharp. Trump's is squishy and oblique.
Actually jaw dropping from James McMurdock MP, even by his standards. We cannot become numb to this. The far right are in Parliament, and they're trying to normalise outright, vicious racism (same goes for the likes of Rupert Lowe too)
Scum government. Hungary refused to back an EU statement condemning Russia’s massive August 28 strike on Kyiv and other Ukrainian cities, which killed dozens of civilians. The declaration was supported by all 26 other EU member states.
WT actual F, America?!
#Brexit #Farage should be walloped with this👇
The Afghan women's football/soccer team, who relocated to the UK to escape the Taliban's removal of female rights, including exclusion from all public life #WomensArt #AfghanWomen
so many people are going to die because not enough people were willing to believe that RFK jr would actually try to do exactly what he has said for decades that he wanted to do
‘Racist as hell’: Trump’s cabinet is almost all white, and he keeps firing Black officials
Trump is not dead. He just smells that way.
Who remembers this? Nigel Farage slammed for ‘inciting racist hate’ after comparing Black Lives Matter protesters to the Taliban www.thesun.co.uk/news/1181773...
Dandy’s feud with the foot continues. She’s using techniques she honed in her war with the Hydra.
Nearly 70% of Americans support labor unions. Why? Because more and more people know that unions ensure workers get higher paychecks, safer working conditions, and a real voice in both the workplace and our democracy. It's what every worker deserves.
California lawmakers reach an agreement with Uber and Lyft that will open the door for app-based drivers to form unions. This is a victory for organized labor that could lay the groundwork for similar efforts in other states.
ICE GOONS forcibly removed a law-abiding man from his distraught children, despite his recent renewal of immigration documents in court. Where is the real law enforcement in all of this, and why are they allowing kidnappers to operate within government buildings?
The same people who villainize Dr. Anthony Fauci, an actual doctor with a speciality in immunology and research in virology, are praising RFK Jr who has never seen the inside of a lab.
Learn to decipher the codespeak.
Excellent question.
The damage this man has done is incalculable.
A federal judge has ordered Florida to shut down "Alligator Alcatraz," after the state spent a staggering $218M to build the now-vacant detention camp. Closing it will run taxpayers another $20M. An utterly cruel and costly waste.
The NRA buys off Congress. No action on guns. The oil industry buys off Congress. No action on climate. Insurance companies buy off Congress. No action on health care. The list goes on and on. Money in politics is the root of our dysfunction.
Sadly, I can't make it. But I'm sure it will be splendid!
Canoga Park, CA — 3 days ago Rodrigo Almandariz, an American citizen born in Canoga Park, was arrested by ICE agents who pulled him from his truck without asking any questions or listening to him. It happened so fast they failed to put their SUV in park and it rolled away & hit a parked car.
The Department of Homeland Security is reportedly barring states and organizations that receive government funds from helping undocumented immigrants. This will make it harder for the most vulnerable people to get help in the aftermath of disasters. It was always about cruelty.
I spent the day in one of our country’s “blood-soaked” dystopias, counting trees
Meiselas: It seems that the outcome that Republicans want is whatever the worst possible outcome could be. More disease, more deaths, more murders, a horrible economy. And let’s literally pick the worst people for each possible position at every level.
I do not understand why government officials resign when asked to do something bad. The resignations will no longer be treated by the public like a scandal. It’ll be out of the news within 24 hours. People should stay and force the White House to fire them. Do not make it easy.
❗️It is obvious that the US leader is a Soviet or Russian agent. Objectively speaking, the new American leadership has strategically facilitated the Russian Federation — Portuguese President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa
Outstanding.
🚨🚨🚨 Alligator Alcatraz 🚨🚨🚨 Univision is reporting calls from Alligator Alcatraz that guards have used teargas against the detainees. Several Florida detainees and their families contacted Noticias 23 to report an alleged riot. "They're mistreating us, they're beating us, help us." #DCFL
Angus: I’m saying we need to start building progressive media that people actually listen to. I’ll give you an example: MeidasTouch. Wherever I go in Canada, working-class people listen to MeidasTouch because they talk about what’s happening in a practical way. They give facts.
The fact that Reform were trying to run a person who had been dead for six months as their Croydon Mayoral candidate is proof if it were needed that they are not a serious party. It demonstrates abject incompetence and no vetting as well as utter contempt for the electorate.
The DNC actually did set up a "shadow cabinet" back in April. It was just a list of people available to be interviewed, who weren't assigned to any specific departments or areas of expertise, and it immediately disappeared and was never heard from again.
He’s looking more like this every week! 😳
My grandfather, who was an imam, used to say, “if you don’t water a plant, you can pray all you want, it’s not going to grow.” Meaning, God wants action, not just words.
Don’t look away
Newsom: Perhaps the president could deploy the National Guard in every corner of Mississippi. Murder rate is out of control there. And the governor may want to make that phone call.
NEW: Kilmar Abrego Garcia is asking a federal judge for a gag order against Kristi Noem, Pam Bondi and their subordinates. w/ @joshgerstein.bsky.social www.politico.com/news/2025/08...
Thousands of Mike Johnson's own constituents are at risk of losing Medicaid coverage following the passage of a budget bill he pushed for. And it’s all so he could help bankroll more tax cuts for corporations and the super-rich. Don’t let him forget.
If only they protected children as well as they're protecting the Epstein files
GOV. @gavinnewsom.bsky.social : “Facts are stubborn things… Mississippi, Tennessee, Arkansas…. Alabama is a top 3 murder state. Where is the President? — He isn’t focused on crime & violence. It’s about an expression of authoritarianism.” (H/T @acyn.bsky.social )
Trump’s movement, just like his health, is deteriorating. MAGA is furious that he's been lying to them, covering up a huge pedophilia scandal. That's why the GOP is scrambling trying to cheat and pass every agenda while Trump is flailing, because they know their time is running out.
I posted this 20 months ago in an unmentionable place. It has become no less true.
FEMA employees were just placed on leave after criticizing the Trump regime in open letter. Their letter was meant to "sound the alarm" about inexperienced appointees and drastic cuts to agency programs. Like all tyrants in history, Trump wants to squelch dissent.
And another… Former Reform UK councillor officially expelled from party after internal investigation A Reform UK spokesman said that Cllr Smith's actions and behaviours had brought the party into 'disrepute' nliveradio.com/former-refor...
Here's how the real two-tier Britain works: 1. Whatever Nigel Farage says, however stupid, is looped and discussed by the media, while left-wing voices are treated as noises off. 2. Tiny far-right protests get massive airtime, while 10s of 000s gathering for Palestine or green causes are ignored.🧵
Farage owns four homes: Family home (£1M, retained after his divorce) Two beachside homes in Kent (via his comp. Thorn In The Side Ltd) One investment property in Surrey (rented out) Radio silence from media about this but uproar about Angela Rayner’s two homes & ministerial home #NigelFarage
