Lesson 1: Lie your ass off. All the time. Even when caught. Never stop. Lesson 2: Cheat. All the time. Even when caught. Never stop. Lesson 3: Rape. All the time. Even if they're kids. Never stop. Lesson 4: Go ahead. Look into the sun during an eclipse. Nothing will happen.
Why, EVERY time I see Bessent, do I see Terry Gilliam in Monty Python as "A Man With A Stoat Through His Head"?
False. Early post-dose adverse events are not wholesale reassigned to the unvaccinated group; they are tracked explicitly (often as partially vaccinated or by days since dose). This man is either dumb or lying. You tell me.
The combo of legit speculation on the health of Trump and this weird kumbaya makes for quite a dangerous situation for the USA: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/w...
Important to remember that during COVID a lot of people primarily experienced the world online and so when you hear them resurrecting their gripes it’s actually just them getting mad again about the things they saw *on social media*
A tell if there ever was one.
Curious
BREAKING: Oh nothing. Just a president who talks compulsively but has not spoken publicly in a week scheduling "an announcement" at 2 PM tomorrow, per Trump official WH schedule:
ICYMI — “LA wouldn’t be standing today” This is a real thing @Sec_Noem said on tv, with a straight face
NYT reports TRUMP & MODI had a falling out because Modi wouldn’t back Trump’s lie that he brokered the India-Pakistan ceasefire — a lie 🇺🇸 media has let him get away with with even as India’s media has openly mocked him for it. Video: x.com/thetnholler/...
He is not ok and the decision to not report it as such is a choice: www.publicnotice.co/p/trump-heal...
Headline: Biden coverup made it impossible to see Trump's body disintegrating
possible that Trump heard about the Lutnick boys placing a major bet on tariffs being overturned and it just broke him
Roseanne
Who does Vance nominate for Veep? Don Jr or RFK Jr?
The only important thing about tomorrow's press conference is whether Trump can dispel the serious concerns over his health. Can he convince the public he's not experiencing severe medical issues? Get up there, do announcement, take questions, and act normal. It shouldn't be difficult, and yet...
What it makes it hard to read is that it's packed like inspiration porn. The bluster and bombast aren't there, which is weird.
The White House YouTube account posted this video -- "President Trump's 11 Life lessons" -- a few hours ago. It's taken from a commencement address he gave. It feels... odd. It comes across as a rallying cry, sure, but it also can't help seeming a bit like a somber review.
Kressly: I expect in the next couple of weeks, this is going to get worse. You’re going to hear from the same administrative people who have gutted the expertise needed to promote child health — pushing false narratives like, “we need to look at the link between vaccines and autism.” That is a lie.
Portland, Maine crowd as Democratic US Senate candidate Graham Platner takes the stage today.
REPUBLICAN @repthomasmassie & DEMOCRAT @rokhanna.bsky.social are holding a bipartisan news conference on Wednesday with 10 victims of Epstein demanding the House vote on the files Speaker Johnson has been avoiding. www.foxnews.com/politics/kha...
This is how to cover this. NPR did a spot on the award and said nothing about 2020 and Giuliani’s lies.
Concern over low birth rates was what the theocracy in Margaret Atwood’s Handmaid’s Tale used to come to power.
2/ forced him out of the race in the final stretch. totally unprecedented in American history. meanwhile you've got Trump showing up in public events with parts of his body looking like morgue photos and talking like he's playing mad libs and yet ... I guess the elite press ran out of reckoning ...
Oh stop it, both the media for this idiotic reductive narrative and Dem centrists for being such astonishing wimps. The voters of NYC — especially young ones — made their clear choice, so either move along or go sit down. You win nothing by being cautious and scared www.politico.com/news/2025/09...
Never forget this: Working people outnumber the billionaires and CEOs by a huge margin. If workers stand together, they will win. Solidarity.
78 YEAR-OLD REP. NADLER TO RETIRE: “Watching the Biden thing really said something about the necessity for generational change in the party, and I think I want to respect that.” www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/n...
They ain’t mediocre, Jack.
How fucking embarrassing.
Warfighters demonstrating leafality.
The Trump administration used Benny Johnson's claims that his house was "burned to the ground" and that "people were murdered in my front yard" to justify its federal takeover of DC. @kenbensinger.bsky.social found out that Johnson made it all up. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/30/b...
Wow imagine that
Is this the *emergency* you had in mind when you took these National Guard troops from their families @GovBillLee?
🔥 future Senator of Maine @grahamformaine.bsky.social Platner rallying with Bernie…
More framing like this, please www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/u...
Trump is going to announce he's going to do that Doctor Who thing where he gets a new body isn't he
“LIKE A BROKEN RECORD” Now that the @nytimes is reporting Modi and Trump had a falling out over Trump’s lie that he deserves credit for the India-Pakistan ceasefire, we re-submit to you this clip of an Indian anchor calling him out months ago — even as 🇺🇸 media wouldn’t.
“Travel to 🇺🇸 down… Trump’s tariffs, immigration crackdown etc. alienated travelers… 🇺🇸 the only country among 184 studied where foreign visitor spending would fall in 2025...” The Trump effect. World Cup & Olympics are disasters waiting to happen. apnews.com/article/inte...
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So are we in a Weekend at Bernie's situation right now?
3/ those rights have already jumped dramatically. Lutnick is one of two cabinet secretaries running Trump's demolition derby. Crooked as all fuck would be the formal economics term for it.
Always be closing
Platner: No one cares that you pretend to be remorseful as you sell out to lobbyists. Symbolic opposition does not reopen hospitals. Weak condemnations do not bring back Roe V Wade. Maine deserves better than Susan Collins.
What these Schatz posts say to me is that Dem elected officials like him seem incapable of perceiving the right as a *political movement.* The response to Covid mitigation and the Floyd protests was not a spontaneous reaction...it was a right wing backlash organized by a reactionary movement.
Anyway, I’m glad to know the president is still technically alive so he can watch this tomorrow www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...
We share this graph as often as we can. #UnionStrong
This is now two consecutive popes who have loudly stood against fascism and general malfeasance by the far-right -- both elected, in part, by conservative cardinals within the Catholic Church. It's almost as though God is trying to communicate something here.
From my latest: Emergency-Gate: Focus on Challenging the Premise of Trump’s Power.” open.substack.com/pub/sherrily...
Trump announces he will severely devalue the Presidential Medal of Freedom
JD Vance: “I don’t believe Trump” will improve the lives of his voters. { ht: @patriottakes.bsky.social }
To be clear: Trump’s tariffs + Trump’s trillions transfer amount to the biggest tax INCREASE on regular folks ever… yet @MarshaBlackburn calls it “the biggest tax CUT ever” — because for rich people it is, and they are all she cares about. She hopes we don’t understand this.
His actions to cast aspersions on many things, like food dyes, HFCS and vaccines, is simply setting the table for his firm to sue these companies. He does not care about your health. He cares about the health of his bank account.
He must take increasingly authoritarian steps to convince people that vaccines are “bad” because when people break free of his cult and see the truth of the safety and efficacy of vaccines, he will be revealed as a fraud to the entire world. He CANNOT let that happen.
I believe that 99% of what RFK Jr. does is motivated by: 1. Protecting his ego and vanity. He must convince people vaccines are bad b/c he can’t be wrong. Endless photos of himself exercising b/c vanity. 2. Creating conditions for his law firm to increase profits from suing various companies.
Tennis Cap Swipe update: Piotr Szczerek, the swipee, is either denying he made the "tough luck" non-apology - or apologizing for it (Auto-Translated from Polish. Hat tip - yup - to @patriottakes.bsky.social)
Dear Trump staffers: It would really help sell the whole thing if you were a bit less observant of traditional rules of grammar, punctuation, and casing in his social media posts.
Ban the pill and ladies will revert to their true maga selves
On #LaborDay, I stand with every worker demanding fair pay, safe conditions, and respect on the job. The fight for dignity is far from over. (2/2)
Trump and Republicans attack unions because they know organized workers are powerful. But let’s be clear: workers built this country—not billionaires. (1/2)
Photo passed along from a federal employee from inside the Dept of Labor building, where a giant Orwellian image of Trump's face is now draped outside. Big Brother is watching.
Today is the first day of public trading for Trump’s crypto scam.
This Labor Day (and all other days): Thank the workers who serve you. Appreciate the workers who care for you. Respect the workers who pick up your trash. Salute the workers who get you your mail. Honor the workers who teach your children. Pay all workers a living wage.
New Labor Day Countdown Podcast: whatever the deal is with Trump, they are clearly keeping us from hearing what he sounds like right now And this 6th all-you-can-eat salad bar of rumors day? Entirely Trump's fault ALL-NEW COUNTDOWN PODCAST HERE: tinyurl.com/32zr8a9t
That will never happen. A lifetime of deceit.
I don’t know what did or didn’t happen to Trump, but what I do know is the country has the right to know the truth.
Crime is literally lower than it has been in the entire life of every single non-senior-citizen American. If you are under age 65 you have never lived at a time with lower property crime rates, lower violent crime rates or lower homicide rates. Never.
"Even in a long line of anti-labor GOP presidents, Trump stands out. And while he may not succeed in completely destroying collective bargaining in America, he’s poised to strike terrible blows against organized labor." — @paulwaldman.bsky.social
It’s still early, but pretty good turnout so far for Bernie Sanders and Graham Platner’s (running against Susan Collins) rally here in Maine today.
A 1941 WPA road gang of migrant workers in New Mexico, many of whom were simultaneously working as farm laborers. Trump would have deported all of them.
When our working families are strong, Minnesota is strong. That’s why we’ve established paid leave, expanded the right to collectively bargain, and why we’re investing in the projects creating the union jobs of the future. Happy Labor Day, Minnesota.
I didn’t really need more evidence that RFK Jr is nuts and delusional.
Given his rant this AM, I wonder if Trump will grasp that the main propagandists against COVID19 vaccines are all now running his admin’s health agencies: RFK Jr. (HHS), Bhattacharya (NIH), Makary and Prasad (FDA). Someone should tell him why so many people wrongly think COVID19 vaccines are bad.
MO Gov Mike Kehoe is calling a special session to gerrymander the 5th District which encompasses Kansas City. He is specifically violating Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, which bans any voting practice that denies or weakens the power of a racial minority to elect its preferred candidates.
New in PN: "By the time you read this, the White House may have put out a Labor Day statement. It will no doubt offer an effusive tribute to Trump, who in his infinite beneficence has delivered workers a utopia of prosperity. But back on Earth, he's the most anti-labor president in modern history."
This is, of course, false. The United States exported $83 billion in goods and services to India last year alone.
Washington's speculation about Trump's health is at a fever pitch. We've seen multiple reasons this summer to ask questions — and the media doesn't seem to care. What's really going on? www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/it-s-time-...
This is nothing else but a hybrid war that Russia wages against Europe Let's name things as they really are:Russia has made an assassination attempt of the President of the European Commission Russia has been jamming GPS-signals over many Eastern Europe countries that are in its immediate vicinity
He's making it like a standing in the school house door thing Fleischmann says ‘never’ to town hall edition.timesfreepress.com/article/2817...
Statement from Trump about his good friend Rudy Giuliani who was injured in a serious car crash on Saturday:
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.
The White House posts that the US has now taken in $8 Trillion in tariff revenue so far. Preposterous insane lies on an hourly basis.
It actually took U.S. court judges, various state judges and the Supreme Court to stop the toddler tot from shipping these undocumented immigrants children and teens to Guatemala secretly.
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👇🏽
THE TRUMP DEATH RUMOR WAS ENTIRELY TRUMP'S FAULT. Of course he's not dead. On the other hand, how could you really tell? But his staff screwed this up. He’s never before STFU for five days since 1946 GET THE ALL-NEW COUNTDOWN LABOR DAY PODCAST HERE: tinyurl.com/32zr8a9t
We’re only a few years removed from creatjng a vaccine to protect against a deadly airborne virus in a matter of months. Now, we have a scion fail son running the CDC into the ground not because it failed, but because its success conflicts with RFK Jr’s eugenicist ideology.
This morning 9 former CDC Directors, whose tenures date back to 1977, published this warning in the NYT: RFK Jr is a danger to public health. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...
Kudos to Pope Dude
"All you guys want to do is bring up the time the sitting President fomented an insurrection in order to ignore the results of a national election and remain in power"...🖕
“Stop talking about that time we did a insurrection”
One of my pet peeves. NYT and others keep calling him a vaccine skeptic not a vaccine opponent.
He obviously knows where he’s going.
"Nobody wants to be a cop [in DC]. They were abused. They were spit on." "When you when you say they were abused and spit on, I'm assuming you're talking about January 6th, correct?" "All you guys want to do was bring up J6 about the answer to everything."
At least while alienating all of our allies, Trump has been instrumental in bringing others closer together.
“Something clearly is up with the 79-year-old president, and the official explanations don’t make sense. That’s not surprising given that Trump is a world historical liar surrounded by toadies who surrendered their shame long ago. But it’s past time for reporters to ask some questions.”
Distracts from lethality FFS
Pete Hegseth in December on military training: “We’re bringing a war-fighting ethos back to the Pentagon. Everything else that distracts from lethality shouldn’t be happening.”
