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If you enjoy… Weekends Safe working conditions Retirement benefits Paid vacations Breaks at work Sick leave Paid holidays … then you’re part of the labor movement. Happy Labor Day.
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.
Newsom responds to Trump’s odd post announcing he is going to bed early
No joke, PragerU is one of the most dangerous, malevolent right wing propaganda operations going right now.
Rudy Giuliani has been released from hospital after doctors realized he just looks like that
An Israeli Official Was Arrested in Vegas For Trying to Have Sex With a Child: Why Was He Allowed to Flee to Israel? How come Trump, Republicans, Democrats & corporate media aren't covering the scandal of the summer? open.substack.com/pub/thelefth...
You may want to disclose that this was written not by a user of Substack, but by the CEO of Beehiiv, a Substack competitor. It is also highly misleading. Substack is pushing people to subscribe directly to publications and NOT through the Apple.
NEW: A week or so ago, one federal agent kept popping up in videos from Trump's violent DC crackdown—so @jsweetli.bsky.social and I investigated. Turns out he's a 26-year-old US Parks Police officer, a lesser known law enforcement unit currently championed by Interior Sec. Doug Burnum. Our report:
This dude has it. We got some generational talent in the party.
1) I have NEVER said I was ex-CBP bc I was Border Patrol. 2) U-visas are renewed every 4 years as cases often taken much longer than 4 yrs. 3) He is NOT legally deportable. 4) Typical crappy know-nothing analysis from a man. Be sure to bring your A-game next time!
Trumpdoesnotcare
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They’re radicalizing us all now.
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He doesn’t look good. But he never looks good. I’m still going with Covid and someone hastily yelling “Get his Granddaughter! We need him next to someone young!”
Just another reason to keep giving Netflix my money.
Republicans are trying desperately to consolidate power into a full-fledged dictatorship.
Zohran Mamdani is the happiest politician in America, his whole campaign is about how New York is awesome and can be even awesomer. Meanwhile, there has never been a politician in history who talked as much about what a shithole he thinks America is as Donald Trump does.
🚨BREAKING: Missouri Gov. Mike Kehoe (R) reinforced GOP power grabs sweeping the country, calling a special legislative session Friday to redraw congressional districts and weaken the ability of voters to pass laws through ballot initiatives. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
Mass shooters since 2018 who were transgender — 4. Mass shooters since 2018 who were not transgender — 4,193. Hope that helps.
Trump wasn't seen yesterday by the White House press pool. He wasn't seen today. He has no public events scheduled this weekend. Trump hasn't been seen in public since Weds, and it's unclear if he'll be seen in public until Tues. That's pretty damn weird.
New NYT article detailing new requirements for the COVID-19 vaccine across US. This is all very preliminary information, but I suggest if you live in these states that may require a prescription, you acquire a script from your family doctor asap.
And that explains why the U.N. is moving out of the U.S.
At 3 pm Wed., a woman was stabbed just off a busy intersection on H Street, NE. National Guard members were dining al fresco at a taqueria DIRECTLY across the street, yet the suspect got away. "So safe," a local texted us. Our postcard from an Occupied D.C.: www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
Wrote about Comer/Mace attempting to doxx and intimidate Wikipedia editors in an effort to force their own viewpoint onto Wikipedia.
🚨Just another way for Trump to take healthcare from Americans. People enrolled in traditional Medicare who live in AZ, NJ, OH, OK, TX and WA will be included in this experiment, which is expected to start in January and last for 6 years. Should be a gifted article www.nytimes.com/2025/08/28/h...
A big powerful man just came up to Trump with tears in his eyes. He said: "Sir?" Security brushed him aside. "SIR!?" Trump turned. "I heard the ruling on tariffs -" The man was very big and powerful; tears dripped down his cheek: "Sir, will you be returning the $40 Trillion to the American people?"
I miss the old brand #CDC
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.”
The same GOP that wants to gut the Voting Rights act, that has banned programs which support diversity and claim white people are the greatest victims of discrimination, now is putting up on federal property a huge image of a slaveowner and his slave. This is where are with the cancer known as MAGA
He’s trying to get her killed…
What. The. Actual. Fuck.
Gavin Newsom responds to a completely fake Vanity Fair cover being spread by MAGA, who think it is real
The Christian Nationalists at Homeland Security neglected to tell us *what* to pray for. I doubt they would be pleased to find out.
Oh, honey . . . JD Vance isn't even ready to be *vice* president.
"God forbid--GOD FORBID--there should be a tragedy and I should EVER have to take Mr. Trump's job," said JD Vance while signaling to this interior design team to measure the Oval Office drapes.
One of the firefighters arrested is an Oregonian. My office has been in touch with his lawyer who says he can't locate his client. My office is working to get more information on his whereabouts ASAP.
“.. potentially clears a path for Kennedy to continue his efforts to overhaul federal vaccine policy after the agency’s prior leader, Susan Monarez, balked at his requests.” @ddiamond.bsky.social www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
Setting aside all of the obvious here, what does Vance know that we don't, such that he's comfortable talking about Trump's death to the media?
NEW QUINNIPIAC POLL: Trump approval rating: 37% Trump's handling of: Crime: - 12 Russia/Ukraine: -12 Foreign Policy: -16 Economy: -18 Trade: -18 Israel/Hamas/Gaza: -19 Sending weapons to Israel: -28 National Guard to DC: -15 Epstein files: -48 Smithsonian: -27 poll.qu.edu/poll-release...
This is officially known as the "Alan Dershowitz" form of snowflakery.
This guy is an unhinged MAGA election truther appointed this year, one of hundreds administering elections across the country.
The recently selected chair of a North Carolina county Board of Elections was charged for allegedly drugging ice cream from Dairy Queen with MDMA and Cocaine and giving them to his two grandchildren
Will Tucker Carlson take credit for the deaths of two children in Minneapolis today, or is he too modest to admit he contributed to this evil?
NEW: Yesterday, I posted that I was unable to get the COVID vaccine at my VA clinic, and many of you assured me that the new one would be available soon and that I was overreacting. I was not overreacting. I am no longer eligible for the vaccine. apnews.com/article/vacc...
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Super.
Anti-Kamala voter: “She’s a Marxist! She’s a socialist! She’s a Communist!” The U.S. government buys 10% of Intel Anti-Kamala voter: “Woo hoo! Hurray for government owning the means of production!”
Look, we have a new statement of principles for the Republican Party.
It's almost like the large media outlets are owned by billionaires who are all in on placing corporate profits above everything else.
Trump Pentagon is 'thinking' about taking equity stakes in defense contractors, says Lutnick www.cnbc.com/2025/08/26/t...
MAGA Mike Duggan should be run out of Michigan in shame. He's Trump's Labubu.
Russians use drones to hunt civilians in Kherson Russians are deliberately targeting civilians in Kherson, dropping grenades from drones and filming the attacks as “training.” Russians publish these videos themselves: this time they tried to kill a man out walking with his dog.
What you missed overnight night.🥳 Utah's gerrymandered congressional map was struck down. The judge reinstated the citizen-led redistricting reforms voters approved in 2018. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
And the World Cup. The United States is a fascist police state where no one is safe.
Newsom responds saying Dwight Evans a great player with no PED involvement should be forced into HOF by the Federal Government before Clemens. www.usatoday.com/story/sports...
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Vance: “If you go back to WWII, if you go back to every major conflict in human history, they all end with some kind of negotiation.” Narrator: “World War II ended with Hitler’s suicide, two atomic bombs, and Germany & Japan’s unconditional surrender.” Does he know anything about anything?
Written by my talented friend and frequent fellow writer Michael Saltzman.
A lot of call backs from season one
Andrew McCabe casts doubt on Ghislaine Maxwell’s interview with DOJ: “It‘s so suspicious. When you listen to the tapes, you get the sense that Ghislaine Maxwell went into that room knowing what information she had to deliver…to get some sort of benefit that she is pursuing from the administration.”
A man is detained and taken by ICE in the Columbia Heights neighborhood in D.C. You can hear his only concern is for his newborn child and wife who is bedridden after childbirth and begs them to check to prove he isn’t lying. His pleas fall on deaf ears.
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A father was taken last week while dropping his child off at Encinitas Elementary School in California. Families are being torn apart and innocent people are being sent to states far away from their homes. You are watching this on your devices but children watched it live. Imagine their trauma. 💔
So, the People’s House is being closed to…the Public. White House tours are cancelled starting in September so Dear Leader’s McPalace makeover can begin. I don’t think he plans to leave, do you?
It's weird how Republicans call Liberals groomers, but they're totally fine with a convicted rapist and pedophile in the White House. #ProudBlue #Pinks #TrumpIsUnfitForOffice
But yes, by all means, let’s write more books about Joe Biden’s lack of fitness to be President.
If I had a kid in one of these schools, I'd be making one helluva fuss, including law suits. Is this happening?
6/ News reporting is not a crime. bsky.app/profile/iwil...
That got us wondering: How would those governors feel if National Guard troops from other states were ordered onto their streets, perhaps to patrol one of the 53 cities in those states with a higher murder rate than Washington’s? So, we asked them. www.democracydocket.com/analysis/the...
8/ Large groups of agents stopping commuters at a Mtero station: bsky.app/profile/notu...
Why can’t a single American journalist do this? Trump has repeatedly claimed he’s ended numerous wars — he’s now increased the number to ten! — and he’ll surely do it again. Ask him to name the wars he says he’s won. Ask Leavitt. Ask Hegseth. Ask Rubio. Just fucking ask them & don’t let go.
"The Manson Family Killing of Sharon Tate Shows And Uneasy Mix of Murder and Film Criticism."
Forget the mysterious blotch on his hand, his sleepy demeanor, his batshit crazy ideas, and his inability to complete a coherent thought. The fact that Trump wears a hat that refers to himself in the 3rd person— that should disqualify anyone from being President.
Dangerous lunatic
I remember that quite clearly. Funny how that works.
UPDATE: Fox News reports that ICE told Kilmar Abrego Garcia they are going to deport him to Uganda on Monday.
This is so important… Sharon has been tracking license plates on cars driven by ICE agents, and she’s finding they don’t match the vehicles. In other words, ICE is using secret, illegal tactics—just like we suspected. REMINDER: the DMV is not a federal agency. @governor.ca.gov 🧵
I guess the play they're settling on running is to argue that Epstein was innocent?
On the left: Nate Cavanagh, a 28-year-old DOGE staffer and college dropout. On the right: Mohammad Halimi, a 53-year-old exiled Afghan scholar. This is the story of how DOGE targeted Halimi on social media. Then the Taliban took his family. 🧵
BREAKING The FBI has raided the home of former US National Security Advisor and UN Ambassador John Bolton. The New York Post was first to report the raid.
𝘚𝘵𝘢𝘳𝘣𝘶𝘤𝘬𝘴’ 𝘊𝘌𝘖 𝘱𝘢𝘺 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘭𝘢𝘳𝘨𝘦𝘴𝘵 𝘨𝘢𝘱 𝘪𝘯 2024, 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘪𝘵𝘴 𝘊𝘌𝘖, 𝘉𝘳𝘪𝘢𝘯 𝘕𝘪𝘤𝘤𝘰𝘭, 𝘳𝘦𝘤𝘦𝘪𝘷𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘰𝘵𝘢𝘭 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘱𝘦𝘯𝘴𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘵𝘩 $95.8𝘮, 6,666 𝘵𝘪𝘮𝘦𝘴 𝘢𝘴 𝘮𝘶𝘤𝘩 𝘢𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘱𝘢𝘯𝘺’𝘴 $14,674 𝘮𝘦𝘥𝘪𝘢𝘯 𝘱𝘢𝘺. This is authoritarian economics: unsustainable inequality and a politics that is increasingly ruled by the wealthy.
August 21, 2025
It's good that James Dobson is dead and let's use the occasion to say that it's bad to beat children, because he is one of the main reasons we have to say explicitly that it's bad to beat children
You can tell yourself we are not living under a personalist authoritarian regime or you can listen to the spokesperson for that regime
If the AI bubble really is bursting, please take this lesson from it: Nothing marketed to you this relentlessly is ever worth it. If it was, they wouldn’t need to beg you.
He thinks he can threaten anyone he wants to do anything he wants. This one post is 100% worth impeaching all by itself.
More of this, please.
"I have watched with dismay and increasing horror as my nephew, an educated man who is well aware of his heritage, has become the architect of immigration policies that repudiate the very foundation of our family’s life in this country." www.politico.com/magazine/sto...
Newsom is winning… 🤭😂🤣 #SheShed
"The fundamental genius of Donald Trump's political success is he's AUTHENTIC!" Authentic? ❌He pretended to be a success in real estate on "The Apprentice." He was not ❌He wears lifts to pretend to be tall ❌He pretends to read the Bible ❌He pretends his family came from Sweden
Netanyahu confirms in an interview with an Australian news channel that even if a partial deal is reached with Hamas (again), Israel will violate it (again) and bomb Gaza indiscriminately (again)