Authoritarians thrive on your silence — be loud — for America.
Authoritarians thrive on your silence — be loud — for America.
Where are the red Make America Great Again hats out in the fields? You know, the same people who swore immigrants were “taking their jobs.” Keep snatching hard-working folks who are just trying to support their families and don’t be shocked when this becomes the new norm.
Keep buying and stockpiling.
He is the danger yam's favorite celebrity distraction. The larger the RFK train wreck, the more the rubbernecking is turned away from all the illegal crap he is doing.
This is a huge story. Don't let him get away with it. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
When will RFK realize he is merely a pawn in the danger yam's distraction scheme? Trump doesn't give a rip about public health or human services. I suppose RFK just loves the limelight. What a mess.
As your Governor, I won’t stop fighting to defend your reproductive freedom.
Reminder: At the start of his legal career, RFK Jr. failed the bar, was forced out as a D.A., and got arrested for heroin. Without the Kennedy name, that story ends there.
Former Rep. Joe Kennedy (D-Mass.), a vocal critic of his uncle Robert F. Kennedy Jr., is calling on the Health and Human Services secretary to resign.
Try as they might, Republicans can’t silence Epstein’s victims www.salon.com/2025/09/05/t...
Bonkers
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Love this. States' rights!!!!
He is right to be speaking out against this insanity.
This is so true. Knowing what happened to you is important. Trauma OFTEN causes your brain to forget things to protect you from the risk of self harm, in light of the pain the memory might cause. We now know that knowledge + the care of a trauma therapist can change survivors' lives.
I love that these assholes were delusional enough to think these girls would stay 17 and vulnerable enough to keep their mouth shut. Now they are women. I am going to feel warm watching them burn down the reputations of these sociopathic pedophiles.
Oh Florida.
Pritzker: "Any rational person who has spent even the most minimal amount of time studying human history has to ask themselves one important question: once they get the citizens of this nation comfortable with the current atrocities committed under the color of law, what comes next?"
Trump voters are nuclear hypocrites. States rights? They have zero consistency in terms of their values. The GOP tagline should be #values...whateverisconvenient
Pritzker: "When did we become a country where it's ok for the US 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?"
Pritzker: "I refuse to pretend that any of this is normal ... I refuse to fall into the pundit trap that demands we sacrifice vital constitutional rights if it's being done in the fake guise of fighting crime."
I'm aware that the President likes to go on television and beg me to call him to ask for troops. I find it strange, as Chicago doesn't want troops. I also have experience asking him for assistance – just to have the rug pulled up from underneath me when execution meets reality.
Anti-maskers are now wearing masks to abduct and disappear people. Funny the way it is.
Lordy.
Illinois is currently exploring the possibility of purchasing Covid-19 vaccines in bulk straight from manufacturers to make sure everyone will still have access.
With or without the aliens?
Truth. What I wonder about is Trump's base. Do they not see this as government interference with the "free market"? I am flabbergasted that after years of Don't Tread on Me, the same group is marching to Trump's tyrannical beat. The NRA is silent. 🤔
They want people to die. Somehow they think they will escape it.
I am 55 and ready for the millennials to go for it. www.politico.com/news/2025/08...
So many.
Union leadership has to do something to actuallly lead. I am in a union shop and I only make 20 K more than I did 32 years ago and my benefits are much worse. Leadership saying "it woud be worse without us" does not substantiate their 180k salary. I was a grievance chair for a decade. Never won one.
"The straw man being put forward is that it's either we have the military or we're going to get our throats cut at night in DC. Is there no middle ground? Do local law enforcement account for nothing? We've got the National Guard GARDENING right now in DC. Is that an efficient use of our resources?"
These people have families and jobs at home. Why isn't his base remotely aware of that?
wow
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."
Word.
Both men intend it this way, meaning the don’t get into all the Bad News that they could, but this conversation with Bill McKibbin and @chrislhayes.bsky.social really is the most hopeful, optimistic thing I’ve heard in months. Smash the glass and use it. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/w...
This is the tone right now. You are right, they will target anything noticeably different. Many of us can hide behind our ability to blend in. I think I may need to keep rewatching the Handmaid's Tale so I can have some strategies to fight the good fight when they come after us.
Fair point.
I am thinking in their confusion and grief they will just let Vance and Miller step in.
Internal union leadership is on the blue line. While the membership is on the red line. Some MEA leaders now make up to 180K while as a teacher, after 33 years, I only make 20k more than I did when I was 23. There might be a problem with actually helping members recieve better pay and benefits.
Netflix co-founder drops $2 million into Gavin Newsom's redistricting campaign www.politico.com/news/2025/08...
Right? It's going to happen and those that are basically Nazi's have positioned themselves exactly where they want to be. He doesn't know they are hoping he will die too. So things won't get better. Regardless, it will be a brief moment of joy knowing we never have to watch those tiny hands again.
They don’t care if you have papers or not. What they care about is whether you look like an immigrant from south of the border.
How many of the members of the congregation own assault rifles? Where I live, those in that demographic often have quite a few. They even send Christmas Cards with the whole family observing what appears to be military style Christmas.
"January 6 survivor and former MPD Officer Michael Fanone launches a campaign demanding that federal officers remove their masks, advocating for transparency." Check out our new D.C. campaign demanding federal agents take off their mask! @ofthebraveusa.bsky.social www.wusa9.com/article/news...
I want a thought bubble out of that guy walking by.
So much crime! Wait, where is the crime?
The warfighters in DC got the trash picked up, now time to mulch.
It's anti-social. We have lost our ability to expect one another to be civil in this country. Other places have norms that bring people together, despite their differences in opinion. I think Americans are still fighting a civil war on the daily.
“Abrupt changes” threaten to send the continent past the point of no return, at which point continued ice-melting would submerge coastal cities around the world. www.wired.com/story/antarc...
I am not sure I will be able to stomach an Elliot Lee departure as well. This is so hard! ❤️ 🏴
Wrexham hero Ollie Palmer has been handed a glorious parting message by teammate Elliot Lee following his move to Swindon Town. It has been confirmed...
The CDC is gutting a program that monitors foodborne illnesses. The program will now only track infections caused by two pathogens, rather than eight. Hello? How does this “Make America Healthy Again”?
Hitler 2.0
🚨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/...
I continue to think we just need to draw the line and form two new countries. It's not that easy of course, but at this point it's pretty obvious that that is what eventually must happen. We are no longer United.
Missouri governor calls special session to redraw congressional maps to aid Republicans www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
A federal judge has ordered Florida to shut down "Alligator Alcatraz," after the state spent a staggering $218M to build the now-vacant detention camp. Closing it will run taxpayers another $20M. An utterly cruel and costly waste.
Truth
Good www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
So true. People have just accepted it. Where is the outrage?
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The national Democratic Party has forgotten how to fight. But in this critical moment, we need fighters — not folders. We need a Democratic Party that is a little less Washington and a little more Texas.
With every shooting, and subsequent period of mourning, I wonder more often how many of the mourners also own guns, what kind, how many and whether they store them properly. It can't be a low percentage, right?
In Michigan, we passed a red flag law, safe storage, universal background checks, and closed the domestic violence loophole. We CAN make change. But we won’t stop this epidemic of gun violence until we elect people at every level who view our kids and communities' safety as a priority.
So, when we learned about this in history class, were half the people in my class thinking, "We should do that again."? I've been to Manzanar many times. It is stunning that we have so any who are okay with that and this. Argh!
The Trump administration plans to deploy more than 200 Homeland Security officers to a naval installation outside of Chicago to start an immigration enforcement campaign in the city.
More of this. We the people will celebrate and welcome all who resist this fascist regime.
According to federal data, 13 of the top 20 cities in homicide rates have Republican governors. None of those cities are Chicago. 8 of the top 10 states in homicide rates are led by Republicans. None of those states are Illinois. And yet Trump is sending troops here.
“First it was independent advisory committees and career experts. Then it was the dismissal of seasoned scientists. Now, Secretary Kennedy and HHS have set their sights on weaponizing public health for political gain and putting millions of American lives at risk” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Immigration officials conducted an operation at the site of the largest wildfire in Washington State. The incident appeared to be a rare case of federal officials enforcing immigration laws at the site of an emergency.
"I realize the last two weeks have seemed interminable. But you haven’t seen anything yet. We’ve got three and a half years left under the best-case scenario. In the worst case our present condition will persist indefinitely."
"Tony Blair took part in a White House meeting with US president Donald Trump to discuss Gaza after the war" A reminder that the Tony Blair Institute recently helped produce a plan to forcibly expel the entire civilian population from Gaza #GMB
HCR's Aug 27 post is a must read. Sickening. open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
exactly
Goons
Truth to power and music are great bedfellows.
I am pretty sure he is on acid all the time.
I hope we're afforded the opportunity to win elections in 2026 and 2028, but MAGA's gotta go either way. This is appalling.
Starbucks’ CEO made 6,666x more than the company's median employee in 2024. This was the widest CEO-to-Worker pay gap in the entire S&P 500. Remember this before you order your next pumpkin spice latte.
Krasner: So, if what you have is a group of ICE agents, or even the military, coming into Philadelphia and committing crimes—assaults that are illegal, kidnapping, unlawful restraint, obstruction of the administration of justice—they can be prosecuted.
For a cost of over $1 million per day to taxpayers.
Cost of Trump's D.C. Occupation: $1.1M per day. Cost to operate public housing for D.C.'s entire homeless population: $169,226 per day. It's not about what this country can or can’t afford. It’s about priorities.
exactly
Banger that is now also a harbinger.
Tin soldiers and Nixon coming We're finally on our own This summer I hear the drumming Four dead in Ohio Gotta get down to it, soldiers are cutting us down Should have been gone long ago What if you knew her and found her dead on the ground How can you run when you know?
That one person in the zombie movie who doesn't tell the rest of the group they got bitten.
Do not mistake cruelty and strength. Cruelty is the whip of the weak, desperate to rein those it wishes to control. A cruel groom does not make a good horseman.
Peter Thiel, Musk, Stephen Miller, and Russell Vought realize their King is sick and dying. This is why they're ramping up towards a dictatorship. To ensure their groomed boy toy, JD Vance, has all the power to do their bidding.
Exactly
Say what you will about Michigan Football, but UofM has always been known as a hub for intellectual pursuits driven by students from ALL backgrounds. This is tragic.
Exclusive: The University of Michigan Will End Gender-Affirming Care for Minors Amid Trump Admin Legal Onslaught talkingpointsmemo.com/news/univers...
I can't help but think Musk arranged it. Then he wanted a "say so." That backfired, but he needs those government contracts, so here we are.
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