Portland, Maine crowd as Democratic US Senate candidate Graham Platner takes the stage today.
Portland, Maine crowd as Democratic US Senate candidate Graham Platner takes the stage today.
Genuinely upsetting
More than 445,000 federal employees saw their union protections disappear in August, as agencies moved to comply with an executive order President Trump signed earlier this year that called for ignoring collective bargaining contracts with nearly one million workers.
A very cynical me thinks he is manipulating us into moving off Epstein/voter suppression/gerrymandering/sending troops into blue states.
senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, former chief economist to Senator Rob Portman (R-OH) & director of budget and spending policy for Marco Rubio’s 2016 presidential campaign👇🏽
If only there is karma in this world...
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.
I’m here for it.
Gov. Wes Moore: "As the Commander in Chief of the Maryland National Guard...the National Guard is not trained for municipal policing. You know who is? Local law enforcement, FBI agents, and ATF agents—and the president's budgets cut funding for them."
The thing about a lot of these never Trump Republicans is that, unlike a lot of institutionalist Dems who think the fever will break and we can all return to comity or whatever, these guys saw the rot up close and know the only appropriate response is to tear them out of government root and branch.
Pour one out for Judge Sparkle Sooknanan’s clerks this Labor Day weekend
An upcoming news conference with victims of Jeffrey Epstein could be “explosive,” one of the congressmen pushing for full release of the files on Epstein predicts. Democratic Rep. Ro Khanna said the victims’ accounts will force lawmakers to vote on a bill requiring DOJ to release its files.
Medicare for all, paid leave, universal childcare. Busting up big corporations and tackling Wall Street’s 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.
If you say 'heteronormative' or 'unhoused person' or 'food insecurity' you're basically talking gibberish and nobody can understand you but if you say you can see inflammation in children at the airport and that vaccines lower IQ or that germs are a myth you get to fire all the scientists.
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Make no mistake, everything that’s happening in the United States is being significantly enabled by the right wing oligarch capture of media. Every other country needs to do everything possible to keep that from happening where they are. Including protecting the CBC from Poilievre here in Canada.
They are not cut throat or mean spirited, help each other-all for a cake plate as a prize. People from ordinary walks of life make amazing dishes!
Jones: I want to bring theology into this because you have all these people that want to give thoughts and prayers. But I was a minister, and that is a form of theological malpractice—when you pray for something you have the power to change.
The Republicans must have drilled the no tax on tips talking point to the members. My MAGA Rep in MI says the exact same things. Wait until people buying insurance on the marketplace get a load of their increase-no amount of tax savings on tips will off set tgat
Mid-west states need to do what north eastern states just did; form their own regional advisory boards
So by your own metric we should stop listening to you and your appointees? THAT I can get behind.
DOGE wasn’t a cost-cutting venture. It was a data mining operation for private interests. Trump opened the gates to the castle from inside for invaders with bad and greedy intent to plunder and exploit.
I feel like the Trump administration has turned into a bad Holiday Inn Express parody Except with deadly consequences
I first read of Fr Coughlin in The Glory and the Dream by William Manchester. Ultra was based from the book The Nazis of Copley Square. Steven Hassan interviewed the author Charles Gallagher on his Influence Continuum podcast-both books and podcasts are time well spent.
Explaining this to my students was fun. "When you spend money to buy stuff, does the place where you shopped buy stuff from you?" Of course not. "That's a trade deficit, then. Is it bad?" Well, no, I have the stuff I bought still. "EXACTLY!"
I’ve never applauded jury nullification. Until now. Free DC.
Sorry Mike-the warped heart, failing mental health guy did not angst those kids, he did not emote all over those kids; he SHOT those kids.
Correction: our money
I don't give a fuck what color, demographic or gender he was because he did his job and stopped an insurrectionist from breaching a barrier❗ Babbitt was in the wrong and that's of her own doing❗
Finish the story Laura- Attempting an assault on Congress.
We have heard your message. Loud and clear. Our children are expendable-in service to the wealthy, the powerful, the connected. Listen to the victims Believe the victims Justice for the victims G.O.P=Guardians of Pedophiles ⬆️ No longer a meme; stone cold fact And I vote
I plan on continuing to send post cards, will now add Speaker Johnson to my list. I would love if many, many would do this-to POTUS, your Rep. and Speaker Johnson
I am an oncology nurse. As if it isn’t enough you have to worry about cancer-but not your insurance and any social safety net. I am struggling to not hate those who voted for him as well-
That has happened already. When I retired I tried to get a UHC medi-gap policy but found it would be over $340 a month due my history of asthma. Why I have a Medicare advantage plan. Can’t wait to see what happens to my premiums
New rule. A parent may only propose removing a book from the school library only after reading it in its entirety and delivering a book report to the librarian. Until then no discussion shall be entered into.
Here he goes.
Angus: I’m saying we need to start building progressive media that people actually listen to. I’ll give you an example: MeidasTouch. Wherever I go in Canada, working-class people listen to MeidasTouch because they talk about what’s happening in a practical way. They give facts.
Newsom: Perhaps the president could deploy the National Guard in every corner of Mississippi. Murder rate is out of control there. And the governor may want to make that phone call.
"Ashli Babbitt was a grown ass adult who made a series of conscious, ill-advised decisions to engage in treasonous behavior, and she got exactly what she deserved. She was a traitor. She was a threat to national security. There is no nuance needed here."
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RULE ABOUT AMERICAN FLAGS: If you burn the fabric part, you're looking at jail. But it you use the pole part to assault a police officer, you get a presidential pardon, praise, and some cash.
Absolutely agree.
These guys should be home with their families.
Then ask how many crimes they have stopped, how many arrests made-and as they are policing-should they be called Deputy rather than their rank? Curious how that works
I hope everyone who encounters them, politely asks “hey! You got kids going back to school? Did you miss their first day? Have a conversation over dinner-do they like their teacher? Do they have friends in class? Who are they eating lunch with? How is your spouse doing-handling things alone?”
"For those people out there who ... say, 'Well, I just don't like those people either' ... You could be next. ... This is not about any one individual, this is about our rights as Americans, and our right to have a justice system where choices about prosecuting are made without fear or favor."
Witkoff: "There's only one thing I wish for: that that Nobel committee finally gets its act together and realizes that you are the single finest candidate since that Nobel award was ever talked about."
Hey folks! Do you live in IA SD-01, or someone you know that lives in IA SD-01? If you haven't voted yet, please make a plan to vote this Tuesday for Catelin Drey and break the Iowa State Senate supermajority. We're counting on you!
Pritzker gets it.
How @atrupar.com doesn't run screaming into a Minnesota lake is beyond my comprehension.
Meiselas: Stop both-sidesing it, media. Stop trying to sow division within the Democratic Party when we literally have military invasions into American cities, aided and abetted by red state governors, who, again, are the takers who wouldn't exist without the blue states
Michaels: It’s fascinating to me to hear people in charge of our country say they’re listening to a convicted pedophile—someone with multiple perjury charges—and taking her word as gospel, rather than listening to the victims.
Must be nice to have no oligarchs on your supreme court.
Be wise people, don’t give them an excuse. Just one more transparent provocation.
If deported to Uganda-what happens next? Is he incarcerated like El Salvador? Or just dropped off to fend for himself? I don’t know the in’s and outs of these random country deportations
Can the PRESS ask Noem WHY ARE YOU PAINTING THE U.S. SIDE OF THE FENCE? THE PEOPLE YOU WANT TO KEEP OUT DOES NOT HAVE THEIR SIDE PAINTED BLACK?
-I LiKE having public libraries, public schools, 911 where I have options-police, fire, EMS; I like clean water and sanitation; I like the interstate and plowed roads in the winter. I am not fond of government owing 10% in Intel (socialism-government owning means of production)
If DOJ has evidence of criminal conduct by Kilmar Abrego Garcia, why are they deporting him without a trial? www.wsj.com/us-news/law/...
Let’s be clear: deporting Kilmar Abrego Garcia to Uganda makes no sense—it’s not his home country. Nothing about this process has been fair. ICE is targeting him with cruelty. This is the weaponization of government, not justice.
The people who reflexively say that everything happening in the news every day is just a distraction from the Epstein files are allowing themselves to get distracted by the Epstein files from many other things that are incredibly important also.
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Mitch Miller Christmas, and I often chill to my parent’s Frank Sinatra albums. And my parents were huge Broadway musical fans-a love they passed to my sister and me. I still play their original cast album of Camelot, Oliver and I Do! I Do!
FYI: the fundraising ALL goes to the redistricting effort - not to a Newsom POTUS run. I checked.
Here, fixed it.
"A Prince, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people." —The Declaration of Independence
You *know* if everything that happened with Texas, FEMA, and federal disaster relief had happened under Obama instead of Trump and Noem, people would be saying *Obama killed those Texan girls.* Yet under this administration, the story vanished.
The U.S. Department of Justice is threatening Victims of Crime Act funds to get states to assist with immigration enforcement. In New York, over $212 million in funds are at stake. I'm fighting back so New Yorkers can access the support they need.
Ossoff: "There is at some point is going to be a reckoning for all of this. These folks who are working at these private prison companies who are on Kristi Noem's staff right now, they are at some point going to have to testify under oath about what is happening in the facilities they're running."
THEIR children are doctors and lawyers. We are the American Dream.
They were forced out in immigration riots-wound up in Detroit. My grandfather learned English-graduated from U of M-civil engineer and land surveyor. His children became college graduates-a teacher, a surveyor, a soldier in the Air Force. Their children are nurses, teachers, business executives
My grandparents emigrated from Ukraine, England,Holland and Canada. With nothing more than a work ethic and a belief in the American Dream. My Ukrainian great grandfather was recruited to work in lead mines in MO.
When people ask me what gives me hope, my answer is simple: you do. Every person who refuses to look away. Every lawyer who files a brief. Every protester who shows up. Every voter who refuses to surrender their rights. You give me hope—not because victory is certain but precisely because it is not.
🎶 $787.5 million dollars How do you measure, measure the lies? 🎶
Watch this. Apparently, police followed Rep Collier into the bathroom and threatened her with a FELONY for being on a press call with Senator Corey Booker and Governor Newsom.
😳 It’s always good to put would-be criminals on notice of what kind of guns they can carry without fear, prosecution, but good to know the administration cares about all of the hunters in DC www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
William J. Burns spent three and a half decades as a career diplomat. Now the former director of the CIA and deputy secretary of state has watched as the Trump administration has discarded his colleagues. “This is not about reform,” he writes. “It is about retribution.” https://theatln.tc/LPrKTKDr
these people just fundamentally believe that only they have the legitimate right to political power www.gelliottmorris.com/p/new-house-...
An American President messing with free elections because the leader of Russia told him to, is what we call a Russian Agent.
NJ AG Platkin: 40+ years ago, Reagan signed into law the Victims of Crime Act, because we as a nation were not supporting victims… And yet here we are, for the first time ever, with an administration saying: unless you bend the knee… we’re not going to fund your victim services.
JUST IN: Judge Berman agrees that effort by DOJ to unseal Epstein grand jury files is a “diversion” when DOJ could just release a trove of far more comprehensive documents without court involvement. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Because nothing says “you should feel free to come visit Washington” like standing in front of dozens of armed soldiers next to a guy who thinks women shouldn’t be able to vote 🙃
Garcia: What I can say is that I want the American public to hear what Bill Barr said in his deposition — about how he views the current DOJ’s actions, and Todd Blanche’s actions as they relate to this deal with Ms. Maxwell. The American public should know what was said
I love this: the America that made America famous- I’m from Detroit-we put America on wheels-made autos affordable-we were the arsenal of democracy, put a man in the moon and brought Apollo 13 home. We have amazing local, state and national parks. AND We have many ills to acknowledge and atone for
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Attorney General Bondi sent me a letter last week. It purports to notify me that Washington state “has been identified” as a “so-called sanctuary jurisdiction” — on grounds that her letter makes no effort whatsoever to explain.
There has been so many times when he has said & done things over many decades that leave me utterly mystified that any veteran falls for his performative BS displays that ultimately leads them to believe that he understands, respects or cares about real service & sacrifice. bsky.app/profile/meid...
Same