imo a fair conclusion to draw about dem leadership's obstinance in the face of revolt from their voters is that they'd rather win an intra-party fight with their left wing & their own voters than maximize potential electoral gains in the midterms
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imo a fair conclusion to draw about dem leadership's obstinance in the face of revolt from their voters is that they'd rather win an intra-party fight with their left wing & their own voters than maximize potential electoral gains in the midterms
Tom Homan 'investigated for accepting $50,000 from undercover FBI agents': report. Authoritarian regimes are rife with corruption. Look at all the money Trump is making. www.rawstory.com/tom-homan-in...
History rhymes a bit too well sometimes.
ICE continues to assault us. We are peacefully protesting. They are kidnapping and hurting us.
They just tear-gassed us. They tried to run us over in a van holding a peaceful protester. They shot us with pepper balls. They dragged another protester into the facility.
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Iโm shocked that the Juggies werenโt offered cabinet posts.
Pro tip: To GOP, โANTIFAโ means all Democrats and LIBs.
All of the unions in Hollywood should immediately boycott Disney/ABC. They only care about money, so go after that.
Previous generations fought fascism in nearly every corner of the earth. Today itโs on our streets, silencing opposition and attempting to control the airwaves. The GOP has declared all out war on free speech. Itโs up to us to fight for it.
I would love to be part of the conversation on MSNBC related to the Kimmel story and it's chilling effects on first amendment, but unfortunately I was terminated by MSNBC for stating that "hateful thoughts lead to hateful words which lead to hateful actions".
ICE GOONS trying to bully a 16 year old? Chicago
After years of complaining about cancel culture, the current administration has taken it to a new and dangerous level by routinely threatening regulatory action against media companies unless they muzzle or fire reporters and commentators it doesnโt like.
Those text messages are bullshitโฆ
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Checking in on this
Exactly this
I stand with Jimmy Kimmel.
MY GOD, I HAVE A NEW HERO. SHE HAD THEM SO HOOKED AND THEN BAM, SHE ATE THEM, BONES AND ALL.
The Publisher of the New York Times, A.G. Sulzberger, outlined what he calls the "playbook" for governments that want to weaken and ultimately neuter the press. www.nytco.com/press/ag-sul...
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There it is.
Stay focused.
The free speech activist who built a list of professors he worked to get fired for their speech must be celebrated for his support of free speech, and anyone who quotes his speech accurately in context will be fired and/or face state punishment by the champions of free speech, do I have that right?
Whoa.
Neither do dinosaurs, but that didn't stop you either! Lol
So not surprising that the people who fetishize assault rifles kill more Americans than those who don't.
An apology is insufficient. Everyone email foxfeedback@foxnews.com and tell them Kilmeade must be fired immediately. #GoodTrouble
This breakdown is ๐ฅ The debate on which side uses political violence as a weapon is over. The receipts are here, and they all point right. PS: Only one side has been threatening civil war, and it isnโt the left.
Well said!
I hadnโt seen this. Kirk, the moderate free speech guy who did politics the right way per some liberals (!), called for Biden to be executed. Meanwhile Joe Biden put out a very strong statement condemning Kirkโs killing. Both sides!
Wow, indeed!!!
Hypocrite much?
Gov. JB Pritzker Is Why Trump Chickened Out On Sending Troops To Chicago
New video of ICE murdering someone in Franklin Park, Illinois for driving away. He claims he was dragged.
I hear you, but consider WHY they wonโt use the threat of a shutdown for leverage. They canโt even agree on what they want in exchange. They have no strategy or narrative. So a shutdown just looks like they are doing it for political revenge rather than fighting for the people (or a principle)
The President of the United States said, on TV today, that the U.S. should have a justice system more like China's, with quick trials that happen the next day. And most of the media decided that wasn't news, because .... you know what he's like.
Axios is reporting that groceries are up the highest since 2022. What was it Trump said about "groceries" while campaigning? I forgot....๐
All comments below were before the Right Wing Media knew anything about the shooter. Now that it's one of their own, the narrative has changed. Always the same pattern - immediately blame the left. First impressions stick.
๐๐๐ I can't help but see a pattern here.
The #GOP is going to keep punching us in the face constantly. If we don't punch back, we're "pussies". If we do punch back, we're the radical left destroying America. They're never going to applaud our restraint or our reaction. We can't behave to please them. We can behave to protect our nation.
Online right-wing rhetoric began shifting last night from saying the left-wing must be destroyed because someone on the left supposedly killed Charlie Kirk to saying the left-wing must be destroyed because there were people on the left who celebrated his death. In case anyone was wondering.
The thing is, as much as they want to immortalize Charlie Kirk to justify and escalate their platform of hate, theyโll forget about him in a month and move onto something else. Hate is a fire. It has no memory. It doesnโt need a reason. It just needs to burn.
Proofread your headlines much?
Just watch. The whole system is swinging into action, using Kirk's killing to advance the power & interests of the right. The crucial thing to notice is that *the process wouldn't work without the complicity & assistance of the mainstream elite establishment*. Every time.
The Show Me State is showing up for our democracy.
Facts are facts: Right-wing extremists account for the overwhelming majority of extremist-linked deaths in America.
If I had to make a wild guess about the political leaning of the shooter, I'd say it's the group that goes to the shooting range all the time.
I just saw a comment that said "I don't support what happened to Charlie, but Charlie supported what happened to Charlie." THAT ... that's what I've been trying to put into words.
โWhy are democrats and formerly left leaning media platforms capitulating to fascist framings of eventsโ because they believe in nothing but money, and see right leaning policies and talking points as more financially beneficial.
Charlie Kirk, in an interview with Megyn Kelly: "The DOJ should immediately move to unseal all the Epstein documents...Every file should be released to the public." - Sept. 2025 Want to honor Charlie Kirk? RELEASE THE EPSTEIN FILES!
In other news, someone who made positive contribution to the world died. Rest In Peace, Polly Holliday. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/10/a...
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The U.S. government has become a neofascist regime run by a sociopath. Keeping it funded now is to participate in the most atrocious abuse of power in U.S. history. So I for one have decided that the best route is to shut the whole thing down.
Trump confronted by protestors in a DC restaurantโฆ
People who are very vocal about their "faith" tend not to be virtuous people extolling the reason for their virtues, but nefarious people seeking to camouflage their immorality.
Notice how the media is once again hyping the โBirthday Bookโ (great graphics for TV), yet not one mention of Sen. Ron Wydenโs letter to Treasury Sec. Scott Bessent...naming names, entities, and the financial transactions that actually matter. The WH has the networks scared shitless.
WHO DID THIS???!!!
ICE raid in Chicago, Illinois [South Homan Avenue & West 18th Street] at 2 pm Central time - September 9th, 2025
It is being reported a huge ICE presence in with multiple arrests in Fountain Valley Orange County, California
One day after the Supreme Court lifted the ban on racial profiling, federal agents swarmed a car in Van Nuys. Four masked agents with guns drawn yanked people out, slammed them to the ground, and pointed a weapon at a pregnant woman. There is no justification for this. None.
No clear answers on whether mommy disappeared entirely behind hands during game of peekaboo Mommy's face was not visible from behind hands, and experts say they can't be sure
Ha! I think I still have that drawing in my basement.
His weakness is that heโs a slave to the whims of fashion.
Good times at the US Open.
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No offense to Mr. Russell but these designs are not appealing let alone in sync with the design aesthetic of the movie era. But Iโm hard to please. I never liked the Excelsior either.
Nobody should be surprised by this. Nobody at all.
โ๏ธ๐ช No troops in our streets! @indivisibledupage.bsky.social stands with Chicago and Chicagoland!
The latest excuse for Trumpโs involvement with Jeffrey Epstein is by far the funniest. ๐คฃ๐คฃ
Chicago, you showed up tonight what an amazing turnout! โ
THEN: "I will be the president of peace and end all wars on day one." NOW: "We will now be creating the Department of War."
If you're conversant in the lingua franca of the online right, you know the helicopter emojis the official White House account is using here are a reference to the Pinochet dictatorship's practice of flying people above the ocean and dropping them to disappear them. That's what they're threatening.
An enormous crowd marching in DC right now against Trump. Donโt forget to subscribe: www.dworkinsubstack.com/subscribe
Seen out and about in Chicago.
โJack the Ripperโ, but I agree.
Happening right now in DC!!! ๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ฅ
I love the Tall Man. At first, he's like this evil school administrator, right down to the echoing footsteps. By year four, you find out he's kinda cool. You get a free lemonade, too.
I recently visited an ICE detention center with @ravenreveals.bsky.social just outside of Chicago. Kidnapping people off the streets isnโt keeping us any more safe. Letโs close this facility and all the other ones like it down.
Well, actually: It would mark the Trump administration's next effort to IMPOSE A DICTATORSHIP via military occupation. (Fixed it for you, Washington Post.)
I agree with Jess but this is a very sound counterpoint.
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This Labor Day is one for the history books!!! ๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ฅ