First itās $5B in foreign aid. Next it could be anything. Trump is testing whether a president can simply cancel Congressās funding decisions. If courts let this stand, the separation of powers collapses.
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First itās $5B in foreign aid. Next it could be anything. Trump is testing whether a president can simply cancel Congressās funding decisions. If courts let this stand, the separation of powers collapses.
Court blocks Trump from ending protections for 600,000 Venezuelans. Next stop: the Supreme Court. The real question - does America still honor temporary refuge, or is that idea ending too?
I agree with Maxine Waters - itās time to invoke the 25th Amendment. Trump trying to seize control of the Fed isnāt policy - itās dictatorship. If he controls the economy, he controls everyone.
Trump says heāll sign an executive order mandating voter ID and ending mail-in voting. Presidents donāt run elections - states do. This isnāt about security, itās about control.
By 2034 the Social Security + Medicare trust funds run dry. That means a 19% cut to every retiree check overnight. Congress wonāt act until the bond market forces them. Rates spike, budgets crack, households bleed first. The collapse isnāt theory - itās a countdown.
Rudy Giuliani - disbarred, bankrupt, found liable for defaming election workers - will now receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Thatās what Trump calls āexemplary contributions.ā
This ruling wonāt stop Trump. Heāll appeal, smear the judge as weak, and push to normalize troops in our cities. The question is simple: will courts hold the line - or let a national police force rise under a president?
A federal judge just ruled Trump violated the law by using the military for immigration crackdowns in Los Angeles. The Posse Comitatus Act exists to stop presidents from turning soldiers into a domestic police force. This is exactly what Judge Breyer said Trump tried to do.
Trump just authorized up to 600 military lawyers to serve as immigration judges - effectively doubling the bench overnight. Courts are supposed to be independent, not staffed by the Pentagon. This is how you turn immigration into a battlefield instead of due process.
REPUBLICANS RETURN TO DC WITH THEIR TAILS BETWEEN THEIR LEGS TRUMP AND THE REPUBLICAN PARTY STILL WORKING FOR PUTIN Pentagon restricts Ukraine's use of US missiles against Russia www.reuters.com/world/europe...
Let us be clear: there is no emergency in Chicago that warrants the President of the United States deploying the military. I joined Senators Duckworth and Durbin and 10 Members of Congress from IL to demand that Trump & the Pentagon suspend plans for the deployment of military personnel to Chicago.
The son of a Republican lawmaker is suing Gov. Mike Kehoe alleging his First Amendment rights were violated when Kehoe preemptively declared a state of emergency for what turned out to be peaceful protests against the Trump administration in June. - Missouri Independent www.kcur.org/politics-ele...
Cheyenne Mountain is the most hardened, survivable C2 facility in the country. It is built for nuclear scenarios. Keeping USSPACECOM nearby leverages that resilience. Why scatter assets 1,200 miles away when NORAD + SPACECOM synergy in Colorado Springs already works? Trump is a moron.
Blue States need to keep their money. The Red Welfare States can find out.
Some new street art spotted in DC š¤£
Terrific read. Frumpy cheats at everything
A federal judge in SF, Judge Breyer, ruled that Trumpās deployment of military troops in Los Angeles was illegal. It violated the Posse Comitatus Act. The case could have national implications, yet the DOJ plans to appeal to the 9th circuit court. Stay tunedā¦ apple.news/AqFr2vvxQTji...
Another terrible Trump pick of someone who is clearly incompetent.
He is using the office of the presidency to enrich himself, his family, and his friends ā while gutting health care and raising prices for the rest of us.
"A report released Wednesday by the consumer advocacy group Public Citizen found that the Trump administration has halted or ended a third of misconduct investigations and enforcement actions targeting technology firms ā including behemoths such as Meta, Tesla..." truthout.org/articles/tru...
Trump doesnāt care about crime, nor does he care about the American people. Everything is purely transactional, depending on what can be offered to him. Trump is a mob boss.
Trump withdrew or suspended enforcement actions against 165 companies in just the first six months of his term. Big Tech was the biggest beneficiary.
American worker pay increased by just 3.6% in 2024. CEOs, on the other hand, saw their pay rise twice as fast -- over 7.7% increase. Median total pay for bosses at the biggest corporations rose to $19 million last year.
New cars have become so expensive that more and more customers are taking out 7-year loans to finance the purchase. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
The Trump administration will ultimately kill 300,000 federal jobs this year, according to the director of the Office of Personnel Management. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/22/u...
AI clearly needs to be regulated! Another reason to get money out of politics. We must repeal Citizens United!
Big tech companies are pouring over $100 million into a network of PACs and organizations to advocate against AI regulations leading up to the 2026 midterms ā the PACs are led by former Schumer, Cuomo and Romney staffers. www.wsj.com/politics/sil...
BREAKING: Workers at Yosemite and Sequoia-Kings Canyon National Parks just won their union elections. They are the first national parks to unionize in several years.
Stanford researchers have found that employment for younger workers in AI-impacted jobs has dropped 16% since 2022. www.axios.com/2025/08/26/a...
More proof of the income inequality that we now face in the United States.
Lynda and Stewart Resnick, the agricultural billionaires known for privately controlling a large chunk of California's water, are selling an Aspen property for $300 million. If it sells for anything close to that, it will set a record for the most expensive house in the country.
Individuals who have Medicare & Medicaid arenāt responsible for fraud. Companies like UnitedHealth Group is where you will find fraud!
The Justice Departmentās investigation into UnitedHealth Group is larger than previously known. The DOJ is looking into the company's prescription management services and its reimbursement of its own doctors, in addition to possible Medicare fraud. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
FEMA has suspended over 20 workers who criticized the agency's new direction under Trump. These staff signed an open letter calling out Trump officials and funding cuts. In their letter they warned that another "national catastrophe" like Hurricane Katrina is possible. www.bbc.com/news/article...
not to mention that 400,000 federal workers lost their union contracts
The average home price is now about twice what it was in 2009.
The family of 16-year-old Adam Raine, who took his own life after ChatGPT helped him write a suicide note and advised him not to disclose a previous attempt to his parents, is suing OpenAI and CEO Sam Altman for wrongful death. fortune.com/2025/08/27/a...
The Foodborne Diseases Active Surveillance Network (FoodNet) program has reduced surveillance to just two pathogens, down from eight. Monitoring for the other six pathogens is no longer required for the 10 states that participate in the program. www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...
The @uaw.org has claimed a narrow victory in a union election at the BlueOval battery plant in Kentucky, a historic win. The tally is 526-515 for unionization. Ford is contesting 41 ballots, a challenge the union is urging them to drop.
Trumpās top housing regulator wants to allow crypto to be used as collateral for mortgages. The FHFA has ordered Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to develop proposals allowing them to 'count cryptocurrency as an asset for a mortgage' during the application process. prospect.org/economy/2025...
Medicare will start requiring prior approval for certain procedures ā and will hire private AI companies to determine if patients are covered. The AI companies would have financial incentives to deny claims, because Medicare plans to pay them some of the savings from rejections.
BREAKING: California lawmakers have reached an agreement with Uber and Lyft that will open the door for app drivers to form unions and organize for increased pay and better benefits. www.politico.com/news/2025/08...
@landericus.bsky.social @sanders.senate.gov @aoc.bsky.social @msnbc.com @maddow.msnbc.com
The City of Atlanta is opening its first municipal grocery store today. The city is spending $3.5 million in partnership with a neighborhood grocery chain in an effort to eliminate a downtown food desert. www.wsbtv.com/news/local/a...
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Way to go, San Francisco!! šš
No lies told here.
āI was r*ped sometimes 3 times a day on that islandā¦ and I was not the only girl on that islandā¦ Ghislaine must die in prison, because Iāve been in hell and back for the last 17 years.ā Listen to the survivors.
The memoir will be released just months after Giuffreās death.
Unreal
This is painful to watch. Felon Trump has the National Guard picking up trash in D.C. Because there isnāt enough crime to keep them busy?
I recall another Black woman who refused to give up her seat. Lisa Cook Says She Will Not Step Down From the Fed Board www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/u...
Kennedy is killing people and he doesn't care
Scum
Reminder: Most mass shootings are carried out by cisgender men.
Self serving losers
This gives me good chills! Great job, Anchorage! I hope Zelinskyy can see this. Nice message to Trump & Putin too. America needs to stand with Ukraine! šŗš¦
ANCHORAGEā¦
Masked raids are tools of fear, not freedom. Despite what this administration wants you to believe, they are not about āsafety.ā They are about letting ICE agents hide from accountability while carrying out inhumane acts.
Virginia Giuffre, the sex trafficking victim who accused the Duke of York of sex crimes, wrote an autobiography which will be published posthumously later this year. Giuffre claimed she was forced to have sex with the Duke when she was 17. She died by suicide at the age of 41 in April.
Walz says Harris "would have been a fantastic president... we wouldn't wake up every day to a bunch of shit on TV. We would wake up to an adult w/ compassion & dignity doing the work, not a manchild crying about whatever is wrong with him. May his fat ankles find something today. Petty as hell."
Between RFK decimating the CDC, normalizing Ashli Babbitt & the umpteenth school shooting... I'm losing the will to post. #ReleaseTheEPSTEIN_Files
CHICAGOā¦
If Missouri Republicans mid-cycle redistrict and break the law, they will be sued. That is a promise and I don't bluff. Just ask Texas. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
Bill Cassidy is a disgrace! He had the power to not confirm RFK Jrās nomination, but he blew it & fell in line with Trump & the GOP, voting against the best interests of his constituentsā & the nationās health. We need senators & representatives who will work for the people!
A new tech partnership would allow DHS access to private dash cam data - trillions of images from hundreds of thousands of private vehicles across the country. This raises civil liberties & privacy concerns. Text PUMLQT to 50409 Share & call Congress 202-224-3121 resist.bot/petitions/PU...
People want to be by the water. Some cities make that safer and easier.
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I guess he changed hats and wonāt go anywhere near the press for 5 days for no particular reason. Also canāt get any video of him actually playing golf from the usual sources.
Trump is hiding his health status like it's the client list from a child sexual trafficking case in which he allegedly may be implicated
RADDATZ: One of the things they are trying to do in DC with the National Guard is have them back up local law enforcement WES MOORE: They are picking up trash
Between #RFK decimating the #CDC, normalizing Ashli Babbitt & the umpteenth school shooting... I'm losing the will to post. #ReleaseTheEPSTEINFiles
Iāll continue to post this to show what a real leader looks like standing up to a dictator.
Medicare for all, paid leave, universal childcare. Busting up big corporations and tackling Wall Streetās greed. Getting big money out of politics. Supporting unions and fighting for higher wages. If Dems want to win back working people, this is the agenda they must support.
Bill Cassidy is a physician who is being humiliated daily by Robert F. Kennedy. Kennedy has exposed Cassidyās craven prioritization of his own power over the health and safety of his constituents and of the United States of America. Kennedy has exposed Cassidyās powerlessness to stop him.
They create the 'issue' and then justify their fascist illegal co-opting of patriotic American law enforcement and military. An age old ploy..
@govpritzker.illinois.gov
They could be planning how to disrupt this...
If you want your Dem governor and electeds to be talking like this or following Pritzkerās lead - take all the actions below!! www.bluestatedefiance.org
Over 900 pro-Labor, anti-Trump marches and rallies planned for tomorrow. If youāre in the US, make sure to join one! maydaystrong.org
We must Fight Fire With Fire Now š„ Remember this at Mid-Term electionsāļøāļøāļø33 seats in the Senate and ALL 435 seats in the House are up for reelection in the 2026 midterms. You know the assignment.šš
Attend a town hall!! Tell congress no invasions into our cities. citizensimpeachment.com/townhalls/
Yep. That's what that big ICE budget bump in the #OBBB was for--the American equivalent of the German #Gestapo or SS. American #Kristallnacht, if Trump has his way. It just won't be Jews this time. It'll be ALL dissidents. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kristal...
The point of Amendment Two is a state has right to its own militia and has a right to call their own Gusrd to defend their state against the Fed govt . He knows this! Declare Illinoisā sovereignty
@govpritzker.illinois.gov @governorwalz.mn.gov @governor.ca.gov @govwesmoore.bsky.social @govandybeshear.bsky.social @kathyhochul.bsky.social
DC has a disadvantage because they are not a state & they donāt have a Governor. DC was low hanging fruit for Trump. A testing ground after the fiasco in LA. A way to normalize troops on the street & claim itās for our āsafetyā. Of course itās not about crime! Itās about intimidation.
From a European perspective I lament what is happening in America Gavin Newsome and Mr Pritzker give hope that trump will be defeated, hopefully jailed and destined for the garbage bin of history They are only two... They are not the only two decent people left in America. Help them.. Please...
The Governor of each blue state is a General. Battle plan: - Publicly oppose unwanted troops & ICE - Get the people to come out in peaceful protests - Have all the blue state AGās file a lawsuit to keep troops & ICE off our streets - Have local law enforcement & the stateās NG protect residents
Letās call it what it is. A hostile invasion by our federal government and an occupying force meant to strike fear and intimidate Trumps perceived enemies. This is an unprovoked attack on democracy. This is what fascist dictators do. This is no distraction. This is cruelty. This is unlawful.
Pritzker: "No one in the administration -- the president or anybody under him -- has called anyone in my administration or me. It's clear that in secret they're are planning this invasion with US troops."
Thou shalt not end vaccines. God will not save you from plague. The Middle Ages shouldāve made that very clear.