We don’t know if the 11 people on the boat killed by Trump were gang members, were carrying drugs, their names, their criminal histories, what specific drugs were on the boat. In a real operation, DEA/military would have already provided details #TrumpMurder www.bbc.com/news/article...
Lethal force against a civilian vessel in international waters is a war crime if not in self-defense. If not in self-defense, only non-lethal actions, such as warning shots or disabling fire, are allowed. "Not yielding to pursuers" or "suspected of carrying drugs" doesn't carry a death sentence.
Let me tell you a story about one of these hardcore criminals who was born into a very wealthy family. Despite his life of obscene privilege, he relished being a scam artist his entire life. Conning people made him feel powerful…something he would later parlay into politics…
DOGE cutting that waste and fraud.
The president is sending the military to control American cities and if you're a reporter who's framing that illegal power grab as "pushing the boundaries of constitutionality" or "acting boldly to fight crime" or whatever, please go find another line of work where you won't get us all killed.
Pritzker: "When did we become a country where it's ok for the US president to insist on national television that a state should call him to beg for anything? Especially something we don't want. Have we truly lost all sense of sanity in this nation that we treat this as normal?"
The asymmetry between the parties is reflected perfectly in these bad-faith dust-ups over TV news editing. CBS edited Harris down for time; here, by contrast, edited out a bunch of defamatory nonsense from Noem. Fox edits down Trump to make him sound sane. Etc. newrepublic.com/article/1998...
Concern over low birth rates was what the theocracy in Margaret Atwood’s Handmaid’s Tale used to come to power.
The United States is the only place on earth where poor people shun unions, free healthcare, and free education because the rich tell them to.
If you're 60, 69.1% of all job growth since your birth occurred under Democratic administrations. If you're 45, that number is 74.7%. If you're under 28, the number is 100%. Happy Labor Day.
Wake up, MAGAts.
Stuart Stevens, currently to the left of most democratic leaders on the Hill
In 7 months, Trump has taken the world's most powerful nation and turned it into a train wreck, inviting both our allies and our adversaries to reshape the world based on our irrelevance.
This should be a bigger story. A government official had the YouTube channel of a private citizen shut down bc he didn’t like what that citizen was saying. This administration’s version of free speech is a joke.
He won’t let the press anywhere near him. This is getting weirder and weirder.
Reminder: Most mass shootings are carried out by cisgender men.
Release the Epstein files!
Over 300 MILLION American citizen's files stolen by DOGE. Why can't 1 person with access steal the EPSTEIN Files? #LEAKtheEPSTEIN_Files
"Guns don't kill people, people kill people," is one of the most obnoxious, stupid, and brain dead arguments of the gun lobby. Yes, John, we know guns are inanimate objects, but laws regulate access to these deadly objects so violent or irresponsible people don't get easy access. This isn't hard.
Talk to Putin, then fire your Russia expert. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
As we all know, the American Revolution was fought to ensure the chief executive could impose taxes without representation.
Unbelievably bad. “The CDC you knew is over. Unless someone takes radical action, there is nothing there that can be salvaged.” www.advocate.com/politics/dem...
Live your life in such a way that an entire social media platform doesn’t spend hours on a Friday night anxiously awaiting news of your possible demise.
Wow. On NPR, @gbrumfiel.bsky.social reports a Social Security official “copied the Social Security numbers, names and birthdays of over 300 million Americans to a private section of the agency's cloud.” The source is a whistleblower, who is named: Charles Borges, SSN chief data officer.
I analyzed and did interviews on Trump’s Putin and European meetings. Discussed all the details and manipulations. Then realized there was a deeper truth: Trump has absolutely no clue what he is doing. joecirincione.substack.com/p/the-idioti...
The things you say when no member of the opposite sex finds you remotely attractive.
Mike Johnson makes clear that when Congress returns next week he's going to work tirelessly to cover up the Epstein files
Neil deGrass Tyson: "How sad it must be believing that scientists, historians, scholars, economists, journalists devoted their entire lives to deceiving you, but a reality-TV star proven in court to be a lying felon is your beacon of truth & honesty"
Hey, there. Quick reminder that our country's leadership DOES NOT WANT US TO BE HEALTHY. As you were.
If I were charged with a federal crime, I’d hire Pam Bondi’s brother as my lawyer. Because I don’t think this is a coincidence.
RFK Jr was not chosen to preside over US public health and science because he had any qualifications. He had a famous family name and Trump needed his endorsement and supporters. We saw it happen live in this call. That’s why we are here.
If Ashli Babbitt's parents really wanted to avenge her death they would, instead of pitifully whitewashing her legacy, be suing Fox News for filling their child's gullible head with dangerous nonsense that directly led to her death.
Disgraceful.
Via @alecstapp.bsky.social $TAN #ICYMI www.cnn.com/2024/11/18/c...
WHOOPSIE DOODLE
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.
What’s the ratio of straight white mass murderers to those that happen to be trans? But do go on about how it’s a “Liberal” policy problem you pos.
"Pediatric Brain Cancer Trial Group to Be Phased Out" "A network of hospitals and cancer centers dedicated to early phase trials of novel treatments will no longer receive federal funding." 🎁🔗 Nina Agrawal for @nytimes.com
Welch: He claims that he's the law and order president. But we all know that's a lie because he's a convicted felon. He pardons convicted felons, he surrounds himself with obsequious people that kiss his all day, every day
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)
Blaming the unnerving prevalence of mass shootings in America on the existence of trans people here isn’t just a dangerously stigmatizing, politically motivated take. It’s also bad math.
Here he goes.
DOGE has apparently created a cloud database of gov’t data & personal info about almost every American … used AI to mine it … and, evidently, exposed it to grave security vulnerabilities in the process. This isn’t dystopian fiction. This is happening in the United States.
RFK Jr. needs to go. Like, right now.
Farmer also told the FBI that Epstein stole nude... who he transported across state lines and that he and others engaged in "possession, production, and distribution of sexually lascivious or exploitative images of children," which could constitute child pornography. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
Yeah. It’s happening here.
There aren't many stories that prompt gasps at our editors' daily budget meeting. But this was one.
Trump’s cabinet meetings weren’t about governance, they were about groveling. Loyalty oaths, not leadership. This is what authoritarianism looks like. 👇 #BlueCrew #Resist #ProtectDemocracy
Brutal. A humiliation ritual.
The irony of Trump trying to usurp control over the BLS, Federal Reserve, the tariff power of Congress, and even private corporations is that he'll have no one else to blame when the economy crumbles. His hubris will be his undoing.
Wow
Someone should notify all of those “Don’t Tread On Me” cosplayers that they are being Tread upon.
There can’t be any gun restrictions because we have to protect against federal government tyranny, and if kids get shot we just have to live with it. Also the President can send troops to cities because the federal government can do whatever it wants. These two ideas are consistent and reasonable.
First, they came for John Bolton. And I did speak out. Because even though I’m not a nutty right-wing warmonger with a ridiculous mustache, I am an American horrified by a petty tyrant using our DOJ for revenge.
Arguably the most anti-religious administration in history. Just nakedly hostile to those who wish to practice their faith.
This isn’t bad luck or coincidence or predestination. This is our choice. To live in a nation where our leaders teach hate, and military style guns are everywhere.
Two UB biomedical engineering students from Sri Lanka were taken by ICE in Williamsville today. @ubuffalo.bsky.social
President Trump demanded that top Democratic donor George Soros and his son, Alex, face federal racketeering charges, making an unsubstantiated claim that they are backing violent protests across the country.
Two children were killed and seventeen people were injured in a shooting at Annunciation Catholic School. A Cracker Barrel logo change received far more scrutiny and attention than any fight against the epidemic of gun violence in this country. Our priorities remain idiotic.
I detest that in just one week this story is gone from the media cycle. An Israeli citizen & report of Netanyahu was charged & arrested for attempting to rape a 14-year-old child. He was bailed out & flew back to Israel, despite an Aug 27 court date. WHY??? www.qasimrashid.com/p/netanyahu-...
Cost of Trump's D.C. Occupation: $1.1M per day. Cost to operate public housing for D.C.'s entire homeless population: $169,226 per day. It's not about what this country can or can’t afford. It’s about priorities.
Trump and his MAGA movement have mastered the art of projection, accusing the left of doing what they themselves have done. But now, Trump has taken that to a new level, becoming the manifestation of an oppressive state that the right has always warned against. So why aren't more sounding the alarm?
🧵Important Statistical Reminder: Once fascists win power democratically, they have never been removed democratically. Not once. Ever.
Defending against an invasion is not the same as starting a war. Why is he still here???
If you have ICE in your contacts, you might just be a racist asshole.
Witkoff: "There's only one thing I wish for: that that Nobel committee finally gets its act together and realizes that you are the single finest candidate since that Nobel award was ever talked about."
"For what we are seeing is not merely a 'slide toward authoritarianism.' It’s a march toward despotism. And it’s a march whose pace is accelerating." Despotism at the Door www.thebulwark.com/p/despotism-...
here's today's post: "no, idiots, World War Two didn’t end because of ‘negotiations’" — what fucked-up fairy tale nonsense is this? thanks for reading, and please sign up for my daily newsletter so you never miss a post —
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Pesky facts.
This 👇
53 cities in Louisiana, Mississippi, Ohio, South Carolina, Tennessee and West Virginia had higher crime rates than D.C. in 2024. Despite this, these states deployed their own National Guard troops to help address D.C.'s newly declared "crime emergency."
Tim Walz: "I always get in trouble for it and I'll continue to say it, I don't think we do any favors when we don't name it -- these are fascist policies."
President Trump balked when asked whether he would send National Guard troops to Republican-led cities with high crime rates: “Sure, but there aren’t that many of them." Of the 30 U.S. cities with the highest number of violent crimes, more than half were in certifiably red states. trib.al/WEcfqPk
Last week Trump said he likes the idea of starting a war so he can declare “no more elections” and stay in office forever. Today he just said “a lot of people” want “a dictator.” See where this is going?
We now have an economy subject to the whims and desires of one person, unaccountable to anyone else. Call it what it is: a dictatorship.
Veterans to Union Station! Defend democracy. Resist authoritarianism.
Words cannot adequately describe what a colossal disappointment our mainstream media has been during our slow descent into authoritarianism.
That one person in the zombie movie who doesn't tell the rest of the group they got bitten.
Tyrants govern through fear. Dictators take their power from the acquiescence of the good people who don't speak out. It is our obligation as citizens to set aside fear and take a step forward not a step back.
Pritzker is getting it in a unique way.
Pritzker: To the members of the press who are assembled here today and listening across the country, I am asking for your courage to tell it like it is. This is not a time to pretend here that there are two sides to this story.
If you believe that a white woman who is a convicted child sex abuser and trafficker is innocent and honest, but a Latino father who had to be released because they could find no evidence against him is guilty and a liar, then it isn't law & order you believe in, it's child abuse & white supremacy.
Ask yourself why Trump's DOJ is treating Ghislaine Maxwell, a convicted child trafficker, with kid gloves – and yet is seeking to deport (kidnap) Kilmar Abrego Garcia a second time. There's only one answer.
Judge Xinis: Your clients are *absolutely forbidden* from removing Mr. Abrego from the continental United States. You understand this? DOJ: Yes.
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Trump’s America is a cruel, ugly, ignorant, fearful, chickenshit America.
The PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA is planning to use the US military to invade US cities that vote Democratic because, in addition to raping children, two things that animate him most are rectifying narcissistic injury and hating Black people. Call your reps 202-224-3121 #RemoveTrump
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