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This isn't about antifa, this is about the NGO's. The goal here is to eliminate philanthropic support to major liberal groups through intimidation. They're going to starve liberal groups of funding while hitting them with millions in legal fees from investigations. www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
And Trump hates dogs. Go figure.
Wow. After being fired from @washingtonpost.com, my Substack, The Golden Hour, has been #1 rising bestseller in Culture for three days. Thank you all for the support!! Please subscribe! substack.com/@karenattiah...
“If data points to a problem, stop collecting the data.” Ridiculous and dangerous (gift article) www.nytimes.com/2025/09/18/c...
Extrajudicial killing. We need to use human rights language to describe what the Trump Administration is doing. Arbitrary detention, enforced disappearance, violation of freedom of expression, etc.
Rev. David Black of Chicago's First Presbyterian Church has been a staunch and peaceful protester at the Broadview IL ICE facility. Today he was hit by pepper balls fired by federal agents. He was not alone. Thank you, Reverend Black and all protesters who are defending immigrants in Illinois.
As I told @newrepublic.com, "Once last week, twice today, ICE has picked me up and thrown me on the ground. Honestly, it doesn’t compare to what our neighbors who are trapped inside the Broadview processing facility are going through. They’re committing crimes against humanity there."
Plz don’t send me classified info but if you want to tell me what’s going on at the Pentagon my Signal username is annabower.24
International Women’s Media Foundation is reconsidering letting Bob Iger’s wife host their fundraiser 😭
Katie Fallow from @knightcolumbia.org said the new policy is part of “the Trump administration’s broader assault on free speech and press freedom.” “A reporter who publishes only what the government ‘authorizes’ is doing something other than reporting,” she said.
NEW: The Pentagon told journalists it will require them to pledge they won’t gather any information — even unclassified — that hasn’t been expressly authorized for release, and will revoke the press credentials of those who do not obey. @washingtonpost.com
At least Trump's dropped the pretense that this is about Charlie Kirk and is instead really just about him not wanting to be made fun of.
I hope her campaign uses this. Because this represents what she'll fight AGAINST.
For my latest, I wrote about how Jimmy Kimmel’s suspension is proof that when it comes to American media, it’s time to change absolutely everything:
Here's part of Stephen Colbert's monologue about Jimmy Kimmel
This is a clearly impeachable offense he’s reportedly going to finish committing tomorrow. abcnews.go.com/US/trump-poi...
This is precisely the kind of government coercion that the First Amendment was designed to prevent — and media companies need to start standing up rather than capitulating to it.
Thank you @barackobama.bsky.social The @washingtonpost.com, after 11 years, fired me for just doing my job — speaking the truth about political violence in America. open.substack.com/pub/karenatt...
incredible beyond satire real brunchlord shit
Every headline talking about Kimmel being suspended for his “Kirk comments” is journalistic malpractice. He was suspended for comments about MAGA opportunists exploiting Kirk’s death, after the FCC chair issued a Mafioso threat.
Remember in Trump’s first term when Jared Kushner couldn’t get a security clearance because of all the information and conflicts of interest he omitted from his application?
The administration has offered no credible evidence that Khalil is a threat. He was a barely visible actor voicing views that ran contrary to the government and that is why he is being deported.
Trump sued me for $5 billion and lost. This is what I think he’s really after in the $15 billion defamation suit he just filed against the NYT, four reporters and Penguin Random House: www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
One sign that the US is hosed is that it would prefer to piss off an enter country, a rising power, at the behest of a failed local politician. This is the sort of dumb, petty end of empire behavior.
Don’t forget the Epstein files. Trump is still a rapist on 9/11
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!
Is this a fucking joke? Calling Charlie Kirk "a truly Great American Patriot" and flying flags across America at half mast... In what fucking world does Kirk — who has been described as a bigot, white supremacist, Christian nationalist, racist, antisemite, and Islamophobe — 1/2
He pardoned a bunch of people that committed political violence
Sigh.
My main observation from the last few hours of monitoring US social media is that Democrats are universally denouncing political violence and calling for calm while MAGA are escalating language and openly lusting for retribution against broad categories of people they identity as their enemies.
I am.
Whoever made that shot was a SHARP SHOOTER. Professional.
I didn't wanna say false flag out loud but a lot of these right wing bozos seem to be celebrating and they are the ones with all the guns.
He completely ignored the assassination of a democratic lawmaker, her husband, and their dog, and the attempted assassination of another lawmaker and his wife, so f*ck this…
The possibility of this being a false flag event is huge, and it is wild that this is a thought I'm having right now The creation of a martyr galvanizes movements in direct, violent ways. This could be a tipping point to darker, more sister days ahead
He is. He wanted to give it to Denmark in exchange for Greenland way back in the first season.
Dear Georgia, You are going to lose your Hyundai factory. Compliments of PRESIDENT DONALD J TRUMP, Killer of all things he touches.
It really is difficult to destroy the greatest economy in the world in less than a year, but he is always looking to find new ways to do it.
America's disrespect for Black women encapsulated in one photo: Arkansas governor Sarah Huckabee stands under a canopy to deliver a speech while four young Black girls are left standing in the rain.
Most telling interview I ever heard with him was about how growing up he would throw away the rule books of board games he played and then create his own rules so that everyone would have to play the way he wanted.
South Korea to fly detained workers back as US vows more raids on employers reut.rs/4m2Ca3G
More or less what you would get if you told a large language model to make pro-Trump fascist imagery (maybe what happened, TBH). Almost cartoonishly fascist; no mystery about what's going on here. Again, these are being promoted by the government that is in power right now.
I consume a good amount of normie, center-left political content (New Yorker, NYTimes, Atlantic, Bulwark, Hayes, Maddow, etc.) produced mostly by people who've been in the US politics biz for over 2 decades...and in the past month there's been a noticeable shift in tone and urgency.
Donald Trump successfully groped women at two prior U.S. Opens (1997 and 1998). Will he claim another title today? Tune in at 2 pm EDT on ABC and ESPN! abcnews.go.com/amp/Politics...
What the actual fuck. US Tennis Association: “We ask all broadcasters to refrain from showcasing any disruptions or reactions in response to the President’s attendance in any capacity, including ENG [Electronic News Gathering] coverage.”
Can you imagine the torrent of unseemly sleaze that is going to be released when Trump dies? And just watch all his advisors and allies run to be the first to dump the buckets of corruption he's been hiding.
Know your rights, Illinois. Stay safe and stay informed.
This is an actual exchange from a VP who took an oath to defend the constitution and, as a citizen, is expected to abide by the law. May we one day have accountability for the grotesque lawlessness of this regime.
Trying to understand how the WaPo believes there is an audience for a DC based WSJ-style news org with right-leaning editorials defending the indefensible.
Michelle Wu is an example for other leaders in these times. We must call this what it is: authoritarianism.
Tesla’s value is entirely fake and at this point is a conspiracy to funnel as much of the world’s wealth to a single otherwise useless man of no notable skills or talent but who creates outsized harm.
Absolutely wild. An Epstein survivor—and a Trump voter—just went on TV responding to Trump’s claim that the Epstein files are a hoax. And she asked the only question that matters right now: "Who are you hiding [the files] for? Because if it’s not you… then who is it?"
Sen. Warren Daniel (R–NC, District 46) was caught trading stocks right on the Senate floor. Didn’t even wait for a break. Playing the market on the taxpayers’ time…pure abuse of power.
Pritzker: It appears they are amassing ICE officers… It’s been reported that about 300 officers are planning to come in and do what they did in LA — terrorize neighborhoods and cause mayhem. Their plan is to create enough chaos on the ground that troops will have to be called in
Trump's military flyover yesterday happened right as Epstein survivor Anouska de Georgiou was speaking. Ghislaine Maxwell introduced de Georgiou to Trump at a party in NYC in 1997. De Georgiou and her daughter continue to be stalked, followed, and threatened.
White House, tell me there is a 100% chance that the name "Donald Trump" is all over the Epstein Files without telling me there is a 100% chance that the name "Donald Trump" is all over the Epstein Files.
Ossoff: "It's been extraordinary to see the Speaker of the House reduced to lying in order to cover up sex crimes"
Let's pretend he's dead every weekend
Epstein survivor on Epstein: "His biggest brag forever was that he was very good friends with Donald Trump."
No notes
The media's basic assumption that crimes only count if they happen in secret has been Trump's saving grace throughout his two terms. He keeps blabbing about them -- here, he's posting a video of a targeted assassination of civilians -- but because he's so brazen they assume it's no big deal.
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?
DEFINITIVE PROOF THE “SPACE FORCE” ANNOUNCEMENT WAS PRE RECORDED! If you look closely at the video, it features Donald Trump in the right side of the frame, and if you zoom in you can clearly tell that he is alive, which is impossible because he is dead.
Got that champagne chilling! 🍾
Harvard is no longer committing to funding student affinity groups after closing the office space for the office of LGBTQ life and the Women's Center. This university is run by craven cowards. www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
3 more #Florida people who used chalk to protest DOT's deletion of the Pulse crosswalk released from jail: “I would argue water-soluble chalk that washes away while you’re being arrested doesn’t amount to over $1,000 worth of damage." www.orlandosentinel.com/2025/09/01/t...
.@velshi.com “Head in the sand”? Please. Part of the problem is limp news coverage that turns every Dem wobble into a five-alarm fire while treating GOP extremism as background noise. That’s what depresses our base.
Hopefully both a first and a last. 😉
the sun would no longer rise without tariffs
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Call to Action: Mass protest at Washington D.C. on November 5th. Plan accordingly. #3E #RefuseFascism
Why do you appreciate unions? I’ll start: Weekends off Paid vacations Work breaks Sick leave Paid holidays No child labor Safer working conditions Health care and retirement benefits
Trump whining about “too many holidays” while he spent half his presidency golfing and his VP was on permanent vacation is peak comedy. The guy who turned the White House into Mar-a-Lago South doesn’t get to lecture anyone about “working.”
So sorry for your loss. 😿
I truly believe that the ancestors are going to tell me. I will get the best sleep I’ve had in a decade and I will know.
What are we even doing?
“…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.” My latest in @thebulwark.com www.thebulwark.com/p/honoring-a...
trumpwatch is the bluesky version of buying a powerball ticket. It's not about the odds, it's about the dream
He could have made this the best Labor Day ever… a perpetual disappointment.
Look, can people stop getting everyone's hopes up just because he has, finally, shut up for five minutes. I need to go shopping and would like to not be crowded out by people panic buying party supplies.
Doomscrolling is a lot more fun when you're rooting for the doom
Dropping dead at the start of a three day holiday weekend would be the first considerate thing Trump ever did.
This is like in Peter Pan where the audience tries to revive Tinkerbell with applause. Except, you know, the opposite.
Me logging onto social media just now.
BREAKING: Social Security Administration chief data officer and whistle-blower Charles Borges has resigned after bombshell report that SSA put highly-sensitive data at risk. He sent out an email to colleagues moments ago. Here is the text of his email shared with me:
The man’s a blithering idiot. The whole Trump administration is an experiment to discover if you can run a country with people you stumble across on a golf course.
First thing I noticed.
Portugal’s president gets it, branding Trump a “Russian asset,” and blasting him for his tepid response to Moscow. “The supreme leader of the world’s greatest superpower is, objectively, a Soviet, or Russian, asset. He functions as an asset.” www.thedailybeast.com/portuguese-p...
They're openly calling to lock up every trans person by force. We need every ally to speak out forcefully against this because trans folks cannot do this on our own.