Bowser appreciates Johnson’s support.
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Bowser appreciates Johnson’s support.
We’re gonna reach a point in NYC where the number of people who die in police custody is higher than the number of murders.
Chicago
Nigel Farage has more TV time than any other politician with the exception of Keir Starmer, though some weeks he has more than him as well. You are being relentlessly forced every day by the Media to listen to a biased racist narrative that 80% of the UK do not agree with.
Schatz cooking his brain on Vichy Twitter. many such cases.
Schatz needs to get off of Twitter
Crime rates are not the issue. There is no emergency. The discussion must stay on the lack of an emergency and the illegality of Trump’s directives. Bowser’s statement and the AG decision to not file suit has made this incredibly harder to do.
Another ad for American tourism www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Grifters are gonna grift
“.. with the exception of the pandemic, Black women have never seen such staggering losses in employment.” @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2025/08/31/u...
I wouldn't make a big distinction between the situation for Black women and Black men. The labor market situation for both has deteriorated sharply since January. The Black unemployment has risen a full pp to 7.2%, the white rate hasn't budged at 3.7%
As a friend recently put it: the venn diagram of people who assured us the gun violence was worth it because we need the guns to protect ourselves against a tyrannical federal government and the people cheering on Trump as he deploys the military to take over American cities is a circle
DC Residents again:
You said the guard is troll ing their governors and Trump. Trump is telling them to pick up trash, therefore they are not trolling.
Yes, but once deployed to dc they are no longer in control
UPDATE: A federal judge has barred the Trump administration from deporting 600 unaccompanied Guatemalan children overnight, halting the effort while many of them sat on the tarmac in El Paso — and maybe have, in one case, been in the air. t.co/4QRs4oLf0G
Evil. *This* is end-stage capitalism: Genocide for profit.
Also, if Dems ever have control of Congress again, I assume they will compel Rob Manfred to testify about the "deal" he struck with POTUS? Very curious to know how secret deals with the president jibe with MLB's anti-trust exemption.
He’s providing them with valuable mulching experience though.
Business at DC restaurants and bars and the like has plummeted. To whatever degree crime is "down," if any, it's because people in MD and VA are literally too scared to come into DC, and those in DC are being terrified into staying home and off the streets as much as possible.
"My kids have stopped spilling things on the carpet. Yes it's because I keep breaking their legs so they can't move to the carpet to spill anything in the first place, but again, no stains on the carpet. Lot of screaming from my kids, what with me breaking their legs and all, but again, no stains."
And again, if reporting a crime means you could get kidnapped if you are an immigrant, legal or not, of course crime reporting will go down. Also, with low numbers big percentages drops are meaningless.
Trump admin is directing NG, not governors.
Raddatz: why can’t you just give up the liberty of your citizens to drop crime from 10 times a day to 5? Or carjackings from 1 every 2 days to 1 every 6 days? I mean, random checkpoints where you can be kidnapped is making me feel more comfortable, why not you governor?
I’m sure you all know the irony here
I'm shocked.
I’ve said Newsom shouldn’t be amplifying the idea that going to any city is wise. Bowser shouldn’t be saying she appreciates anything. It’s illegal, not an emergency and playing on their turf. They will be happy to militarize minority majority cities in their states.
La isn’t any different now. They arrested contractors. It would be better off if they didn’t do anything. Don’t buy the frame.
Always being nice.
Why didn’t he just say that? Democrats are wild? “Martha, I have the bronze star I earned now. The paperwork took longer than expected. Are you question my service or the honesty or my superiors? I want to make sure I am answering the right question. Do you know something I don’t?”
Seeing it would mean they are neutral. On the other hand, they can say stuff like this as a guess and call it neutral. #brokentimes
This is the type of person Trump pardoned. He proudly asserts that they should have injured a US Capitol Police Officer worse than they did on January 6th (@sergeantaqgo.bsky.social) had to medically retire). But MAGA supports law enforcement? Seriously? Then show me by condemning this guy.
Just saw a video of Bill Maher calling Mamdani a “straight up communist” and I continue to be struck by the depiction of policies associated with the New Deal Order as far-left extremism, which goes along with a refusal to depict Trump’s unprecedented authoritarian actions as far-right extremism.
the person who needs to "come clean" is Pulte. It sure looks like he is using his position to investigate the mortgages of Trump's enemies on the taxpayers' dime. That deserves an investigation.
This is how low the WaPo has fallen. Megan McArdle tells us Lisa Cook has to "come clean" when Trump and everyone around him is openly stuffing their pockets with billions washingtonpost.com/opinions/202... This is too stupid for words.
My son asked us why there was a bear at school and we were like WHAT?! A bear is not out of the question around here but it turns out he was talking about an active shooter drill. For the little kids they tell them there’s a bear and they have to be very quiet and hide against a wall.
Iowa Senator Joni Ernst is not seeking reelection in 2026: www.cnn.com/2025/08/29/p... Iowa swung hard to the right starting in 2016, but the 3 special elections that have happened in Iowa so far in 2025 have swung toward Dems by 22, 24, & 26 percentage points. Two seats have flipped blue.
Still waiting for leaders to catch up with citizens.
I also hope people realize arrests and crime stats may simply be down because no immigrant community is willing to report crime. Communities know the risk as ICE will be along for the ride, documents or no documents. It’s like going to a Covid filled hospital with the flu. A catch-22.
Checkpoints all over the city like they are searching for the DC Sniper. I would not recommend coming near DC as a person of color and definitely without US citizenship right now. The risk isn’t worth it.
Tough to tell the difference between DC and a military occupation right now other than the actual violence. www.reddit.com/r/washington...
Why are newsrooms silent?🤔 Uh, seems pretty obvious at this point…
Stuart Stevens, currently to the left of most democratic leaders on the Hill
Fined in the NFL🙄
So not only do churches NOT have to pay taxes, they're going to get YOUR tax dollars to boot. This seems like oh, I don't know, government establishing a religion in violation of the First Amendment?
Wouldn’t it be super ironic if Jake Tapper and the other DC reporters were so focused on the health of a President that did his job and wasn’t in office anymore, and missed the biggest health story (or refused to report on it) since FDR. The problem when you chase access vs news.
Imagine if the media didn’t pretend he was 225 pounds because some fake doctor said so, and relentlessly asked about his visible health issues. Then a short absence wouldn’t be major news. We are so far gone. Sigh.
This man is so ridiculously narcissistic that the media uses him as a content farm and he uses them as disinfo launderers. So he is seemingly everywhere and constantly causing harm. A President with no appearances for 2 days should not be a major news story. But here we are🙄
Starting? Did you forget that time he tried to get his own VP killed by an angry mob?
Fascism. "If this were happening somewhere else – in Latin America, say – how might it be reported? Having secured his grip on the capital, the president is now set to send troops to several rebel-held cities, claiming he is wanted there to restore order..." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
In some ways Ham-Face is the perfect Trump voter: all his decisions blow up in his face but the explanation is always, you don't understand, the radical leftist Joe Biden made us mad.
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Agree this could be the issue. If so, never forget. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
Agree.
This crime at Social Security might amount to the biggest data theft in human history. Committed by a government against its own citizens. I don’t think anyone has begun to grasp the sheer scale of corruption and institutional destruction that has occurred in the last few months. Era-defining.
Chamber of Commerce and Business Roundtable can’t shut up about the most minor thing when a Democrat is in office. Now, their silence is costing their members billions. Ironic.
“.. Roberson predicted produce prices could rise 50% to 100% by early next year due to tariffs and deporting agricultural workers.” @waiterich.bsky.social @fortune.com #CPI fortune.com/2025/08/28/t...
Dear courts/fed/other countries: We did something illegal, save us.
Not yet!!!
It’s not over and even if Supreme Courts strikes down IEEPA tariffs there are other ways President can levy tariffs. Even so, it would matter. bsky.app/profile/mich...
It will be stayed.
There's going to be a lot of dumb political noise following this decision, so it's worth being clear about the key finding. It does not ban tariffs. It simply says that you have to convince Congress.
Raise your hand if your bingo card for the past seven days had: 1. US takes 10% stake in intel 2. Trump fires Fed Reserve Governor 3. US appeals court declares emergency tariffs illegal You win.
we don't need to investigate Trump on his loan forms, he already was convicted for lying about what he put down.
I honestly don’t think reporters understand how things are working now. Not due to incompetence, due to an admirable belief that SCOTUS and POTUS aren’t working together to reorder our Constitutional system. I’m very confident this will be stayed before the end of the weekend, if not tonight.
Dear Supreme Court: That’s a nice little bench you have there. Would be a shame if anything happened to it.
When the Supreme Court overrides this, which they will, everyone needs to remember that this court believes almost every judge in America is doesn’t understand the Consitution, but they are all knowing. Court reform is desperately needed
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Boston had a historic low of 24 homicides in 2024, the lowest since 1957. Joe Scarborough: You just can’t walk around Boston anymore. It is a hellscape and I can’t believe Democrats refuse to recognize the danger to my friend Mike Barnicle. They just need 5000 more police and it will be safer.
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Lawyers make hypothetical/conditional arguments ALL THE TIME. A hypothetical/conditional argument IS NOT THE SAME THING AS A FACTUAL ADMISSION. LEARN TO READ, FOLKS.
Bigger question. Why does Sarah Longwell continue to pretend those principles exist, much less if they ever existed.
Yet predictable. And they will keep going if their opposition (Gallego, Buttigieg, Newsom, et al) decide human rights are merely an inconvenience to their electoral objectives.
No. It was not. The pattern is White young men. For decades.
oh come on www.nytimes.com/2025/08/29/u...
Ah…more anti-semitism from the Speaker of the House, unremarked upon by a media member. 🤷♂️
Narrative buster: NYT finds that DC arrests were up only 13% over the previous two weeks and that the biggest change has been more arrests for minor infractions like smoking weed in a public place. (This does not include immigration abductions.) (Gift link.) www.nytimes.com/2025/08/29/u...
I'm often asked why dire predictions about how Trump would destroy economy haven't (yet) come to pass. Part of the answer is that he's paused/delayed/reversed some things (e.g., TACO on tariffs). But part of the answer is about actions like this, on student visas...
I think Catherine realizes this is a feature, not a bug.
Says does she have to figure out if the cause was real or not? Counsel says no. It’s not the courts job. Says it’s relevant if cause doesn’t make sense.
Now saying she wants to know what to do if the “cause” is pretextual. What should she do then if cause isn’t defined. Says it is hypothetical question.
Says SCOTUS basically says President can do as they please unless Congress says he can’t. Will be interesting.
Will see how she questions gov, but seems like she doesn’t want to decide with some legislation or legal history. Seems like she thinks this is an issue of first impression. Looking for a cite or authority to allow her to do something for her to make a framework on her own.
Judge questioning Cook’s counsel as to why President doesn’t have latitude to define cause as he/she sees it due to no definition of cause in the statute? Also asks why cause has to occur in office if it isn’t stated in the statute.
At least citizens are not bowing to pressure unlike many members of the legal, media, and political pressure.
No notes
Btw-now reading it, I see none of that. Agree the blocklists are probably pretty strong.
Pretty sure 1. He searches it out. 2. You aren’t making add arguments intended to generate the reactions he suggests is bad.
Judge states she would like response to the government and a request for an injunction. Essentially stating there will not a ruling today and expecting additional briefings over the weekend.
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