Another GOPer Calls Out Trump’s ‘Pocket Rescissions’ Gambit For What It Is talkingpointsmemo.com/where-things...
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Another GOPer Calls Out Trump’s ‘Pocket Rescissions’ Gambit For What It Is talkingpointsmemo.com/where-things...
A reminder that Trump called Baltimore a 'hellhole' today to no controversy or scandalous headlines. Imagine a Democratic president calling a red state or red city a hellhole. Just imagine. Oh, the double standards.
Here’s a comment that isn’t fake: Homophobia isn’t cool, Dogg. This is how you want to be remembered?
I know this sounds crazy, but shouldn’t the Secretary of Energy know something about energy?
Judge Rules Trump's Deployment Of Military To LA Is Illegal; Orders Him To STOP! youtu.be/BRpDHOJd_ng?...
I’d like to believe Rudy’s story about the car crash, but I remember Shop Rite 2022.
“The great underreported story of our time is Russian compromise of the Republican Party…It's like Churchill's party became the pro-Nazi party.” @stuartpstevens.bsky.social talks Russia and the Republican Party with @timmiller.bsky.social on The Bulwark Podcast:
Why couldn’t the Coast Guard just board the boat leaving Venezuela, arrest the people and get more information on who they’re working for? Why did they have to kill the people?
Probably not a great month to go out fishing in the Gulf now. The US military might be your judge, jury and executioner.
NEW — Trump’s “two weeks” nonsense is letting Vladimir Putin get away with murder. www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
Epstein survivors are going to have their day tomorrow to tell their story. It'll likely be the first time many Americans hear from them firsthand. It's important they get this moment, and we need to have their backs. What they're doing is very brave.
Yeah, I don’t know …
If I were Susan Collins, I’d be “concerned.”
What We Know About America’s Billionaires: 1,135 and Counting - The Wall Street Journal
Baffled and appalled
Mesmerized is not exactly the right word to describe it.
Via "One First," my quick stab at the legal authority President Trump will likely claim allows him to deploy un-federalized Texas National Guard troops to Illinois; why such a deployment without Illinois's consent *ought* to be unlawful; and the options Illinois will have for litigating that issue:
The Supreme Court has original jurisdiction for disputes between states (meaning they can actually file the lawsuit there, rather than have it go up on appeal). This would be a good time for Illinois to utilize it.
Epstein survivors speak out. www.nbcnews.com/politics/pol...
'We've been compiling lists of our own': Epstein victims give Trump an ultimatum
Newsom is on a tear! 😂
He’s trying to put our military on our streets bcuz he wants Americans to get used to seeing our military on our streets bcuz he wants to intimidate brown & black voters in the 2026 midterms and keep them from voting. Me, this weekend on @MSNBC. Have a listen.👇
I don’t know who needs to hear this but the National Guard of one state can’t invade another state. They are separate sovereigns
Texas state Sen. Charles Perry (R) apologized on the Senate floor Tuesday, after Democracy Docket reported last week on racist remarks he made about immigrants at a 2022 legislative hearing. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
The Trump administration has decided to get more immigration judges from an unprecedented source: the military. According to several former military lawyers, this move is probably illegal and “should raise all sorts of alarms."
Bill de Blasio: Why I am endorsing Zohran Mamdani www.nydailynews.com/2025/09/02/b...
Now, “even the most fervent and optimistic supporter of the tyrannical Russian regime must realise its army is at its last gasp.”
I know, I know, but: The president of the US saying, literally, "we're going in" in reference to sending the military to an American city for no reason beyond terrorizing the local population should be the most immediately impeachable shit imaginable
Cybersecurity experts who spoke to TPM described the situation with Kristi Noem's poorly hidden secret Facebook as "sloppy," "inadvisable," and a problem for "basic operational security." talkingpointsmemo.com/news/dhs-sec...
If only the most powerful military in the history of the world could compel a boat to you know stop for an inspection.
Oh boy. @ericowens.bsky.social @radiofreetom.bsky.social www.cnn.com/2025/09/02/p...
“We do not surrender our citizenship or the sovereignty of our cities and States because of crime rates.” open.substack.com/pub/sherrily...
The cruelty is the point. I come from the right. Cruelty is a big part of what appeals to the right.👇
Brian Stetler just told CNN that we were memeing about Trump's health this weekend to monetize speculation and make a quick buck on Bluesky. Are we supposed to be getting checks?
Looked to me like the Trump tariffs WERE the chaos. Plus, he’s free to come to Congress for authority to declare a trade war.
"The mood in Hungary is palpably different than it was a year ago. Not only is everyone talking about Péter Magyar, but people are also more comfortable criticizing Orbán in public." Orbán likes illiberal democracy; but the democracy part might still work.
Pritzker: "I refuse to pretend that any of this is normal ... I refuse to fall into the pundit trap that demands we sacrifice vital constitutional rights if it's being done in the fake guise of fighting crime."
Pritzker: "Any rational person who has spent even the most minimal amount of time studying human history has to ask themselves one important question: once they get the citizens of this nation comfortable with the current atrocities committed under the color of law, what comes next?"
The last CR (allowed to advance to a vote by several democratic senators including Chuck Schumer) defunded DC by $1.1B to include law enforcement. I'll be writing and calling and screaming that the next continuing resolution IS NOT PASSED without FUNDING DC (among other things.)
Pritzker: "He has no idea what's he's talking about. There is no emergency that warrants deployment of troops. He is insulting the people of Chicago by calling our home a hellhole, and anyone that takes his word at face value is insulting Chicagoans too."
Senate Democrats: DO NOT FUND the government when the current continuing resolution expires at the end of the month. SHUT IT DOWN unless DC is funded, the troops are withdrawn from our cities, elections are protected, the Epstein files are released in full... SHUT IT DOWN.
As part of his administration’s war on “woke,” Donald Trump has asked the American public to report anything “negative” about Americans in US national parks. But, the public has largely refused to support a worldview without inconvenient historical facts. From our friends at @theguardian.com:
“RIers”?
He just doesn't understand. Common ground? Fuck common ground.
Over the long weekend, the Trump administration quietly tried to deport 76 unaccompanied children to Guatemala – ignoring laws protecting such minors from speedy deportations. Thankfully, a federal judge blocked the effort. The cruelty of this regime knows no bounds.
Trump to move U.S. Space Command headquarters from Colorado to Alabama - The Washington Post The impending announcement marks the latest twist in a years-long partisan battle over the agency’s home.
the DOJ atty (& 2x Harvard grad) who suggested Harvard showed "wanton indifference to antisemitism" once wrote a paper from the perspective of Hitler & expressed admiration for Mein Kampf stunning reporting from @hilaryburns.bsky.social @talkopan.bsky.social www.bostonglobe.com/2025/09/02/m...
THE UNITED STATES WILL DECLARE WAR ON NORWAY IF THIS ABOMINATION OCCURS. THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER!
Trump lives and looks pretty much normal by his standards
KASIE HUNT: Over the summer you said, “There’s no vaccine that’s safe and effective”. Do you still believe that? RFK JR: “I never said that.” KASIE HUNT: “Play the clip.” RFK JR (clip): “There’s no vaccine that is safe and effective.” (March 2024) ht: @cwebbonline.com
this is rapidly becoming trump's "I killed fiddy men"
Since returning to office, Trump has: -Stripped 1 million federal workers of collective bargaining rights -Reversed Biden's minimum wage hike for federal contractors -Gutted OSHA and frozen enforcement of a regulation protecting miners from lung disease "Pro-worker" president.
My fellow Democrats must get on the damn offensive & stay on the damn offensive when it comes to the issue of crime and Trump putting the military on our streets. Hey Dems, don’t listen to your consultants. FIGHT Trump on the issue of crime. Today’s show.👇 podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
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?"
There’s some language! Candidates for position “whose only merit … is ‘of being in some way or other personally allied to him, or of possessing the necessary insignificance and pliancy to render them the obsequious instruments of his pleasure.’”
Illinois Public Transit Gun Ban Upheld by Seventh Circuit news.bloomberglaw.com/litigation/p...
Pritzker on Trump's plan for Chicago: "Unidentifiable agents in unmarked vehicles with masks are planning to raid Latino communities and say they're targeting violent criminals."
Pritzker: "It breaks my heart to report that we have been told ICE will try to disrupt community picnics and peaceful parades. Let's be clear -- the terror and cruelty is the point, not the safety of anybody living here."
"The good news is that the axis of authoritarians, so far, they seem to believe that they should be setting up an opposition to America, and not including America. So good for us. I guess." @jvl.bsky.social looks at the bright side with @timmiller.bsky.social:
Pritzker: "We have reason to believe that the Trump administration has already begun staging the Texas National Guard for deployment in Illinois."
Shameful. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
We need folks like @jbpritzker.bsky.social @mayorofchicago.bsky.social to make it plain: the military policing civilian streets is a violation of our long-cherished Revolution Principles. It is offensive to very heart of the American constitutional order.
Pritzker: When did we become a country where it's okay for the 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?
BREAKING: Mayor Muriel Bowser ALLOWS federal law enforcement INDEFINITELY in DC. Gift article: wapo.st/3VyXMcY
Here's the discharge petition to release the Epstein files in the House. Every member of Congress who refuses to sign is complicit in Donald Trump's cover-up.
Pritzker: Any rational person who has spent even the most minimal amount of time studying human history has to ask themselves one important question: Once they get the citizens of this nation comfortable with the current atrocities committed under the color of law, what comes next
As we begin September, Democracy Docket is tracking 139 voting and election cases is 40 states. 13 in Georgia 13 in North Carolina 10 in Texas 9 in Arizona 8 in Pennsylvania 8 in Wisconsin Democracy is on the docket! www.democracydocket.com
We need Democratic AGs to make it clear they will launch investigations under state law if one of their residents dies due to RF Kennedy Jr's dangerous actions. This is the only way to save lives! My article: deanobeidallah.substack.com/p/rfk-jr-mus...
“Trump pulls the fire alarm so that he can take over the empty building. And we end up talking about fire-preparedness. What are we doing?” open.substack.com/pub/sherrily...
After Court Defeat, Trump Warns of Economic Chaos From Loss of Tariffs www.nytimes.com/2025/09/02/u...
#BREAKING: Judge Breyer has held that the Trump admin. *violated* the Posse Comitatus Act in its military deployments in and around Los Angeles, and has enjoined further use of those troops for law enforcement tasks. The order is stayed through 12 PDT on 9/12: georgetown.app.box.com/file/1973361...
Pretty damn good campaign launch video from Paige Cognetti.
"We are retaining some features for premium users. Want rule of law? That’s premium. The right to run your company without government interference? That’s a paid feature now. An explanation from the Supreme Court as to why it just ruled against you? Maybe!"
BREAKING: Judge Breyer rules that President Trump's deployment of the military to Los Angeles violated the Posse Comitatus Act, says Trump is using military as a "national police force with the president as its chief." Injunction granted. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
"The Department of Defense is an executive department of the United States." 10 U.S.C § 111
Hurricane season begins with Trump gutting the "gold standard" weather services that save lives. "We’re squandering our future. We’re squandering our ability to keep getting better with these predictions."
🚨BREAKING: A federal judge ruled Tuesday that President Donald Trump’s use of National Guard troops and Marines in Los Angeles earlier this year violated a federal law that prohibits using the military as a domestic police force. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
New in PN: RFK Jr gives Republicans a chance to defy Trump on easy mode "What’s really notable is the extent to which GOP leaders have remained supine even in the face of a radical assault on their grandchildren by a transparent death-dealing fraud who wasn’t even a member of the party a year ago."
Have a listen. Great candidate.👇
That’s because former Fox host Jeanine Pirro was unable to get the grand jury to indict her, which is conveniently left out here.
Today's my birthday and I'm hoping @realDonaldTrump will send me one of his amazing handcrafted cards with a beautiful Sharpie-drawn woman on it
Never forget this: Working people outnumber the billionaires and CEOs by a huge margin. If workers stand together, they will win. Solidarity.
"That is why I am infuriated that the Air Force plans to grant military funeral honors to Ashli Babbitt. She did not die defending the Constitution. She died trying to overturn it." Yes, there is a difference.
"The courts have been unpersuaded that we live in a state of permanent national emergency that is global in scope and decades-long in duration, requiring swift executive action on the theory that Congress could never assemble in time to address the issue. … www.nationalreview.com/corner/divid...
Afterparty by invitation only at FOUR SEASONS TOTAL LANDSCAPING 7339 State Road Philadelphia, PA 19136
His administration is more authoritarian than ever, the red states are as aggressive as ever, the destruction of our health care system is worse than ever—and Trump doesn’t seem particularly engaged or even well. What’s up as we enter September? Tim and JVL discuss. youtu.be/N3XMfXXnD4I?...
JUST IN: Drew Ensign, on behalf of DOJ, reports that all of the migrant children have been returned to ORR custody.
In Ghislaine Maxwell’s Justice Department interview, she comes off as pathetic, loathsome, and utterly lacking in remorse. The entire operation was damage control—an attempt to exculpate President Trump from his own involvement with Jeffrey Epstein.
An 11-year-old boy who was shot while playing the “ding dong ditch” prank in Houston on Saturday night has died, the authorities said.
Trump’s mysterious disappearance from public raises new questions about Joe Biden’s advanced age
Great lead headline right now, @nytimes.com.
ive got no idea what's going on with Trump's health. But the 'biden precedent' is just so glaring and hilarious. half of 2025 has been taken up with elite press shaming of how no one ever talked abt Biden's age which was actually their main topic in 2024. Ok. Set aside that his party literally ...
"There is no cleavage between white-collar workers and manual workers, between artists and artisans, musicians and mechanics, lawyers and accountants, architects and miners." FDR:
possible that Trump heard about the Lutnick boys placing a major bet on tariffs being overturned and it just broke him