Literally face palmed while muttering "Oh for fuck's sake ..." when I saw this on CNN. Stupidest. Timeline. Ever.
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Literally face palmed while muttering "Oh for fuck's sake ..." when I saw this on CNN. Stupidest. Timeline. Ever.
And so it began
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.
Well because Gena Rowlands tho.
Misogynist! Genius!
My latest: “Emergency-Gate: Focusing on Challenging the Premise of Trump’s Power.” open.substack.com/pub/sherrily...
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School just started and already our kids are being sacrificed to the gun lobby. It's time - it's way past time - to do something about it. www.facebook.com/share/v/1Fzh...
Where all these "NEW JOBS" at yo? Cuz all I see from here is stores closing, projects shutting down, factories shuttering - and prices going up for everything from food to electricity. Also, who made up that $8 trillion number? Was it just a random number that sounded good? Not even close to true.
Stephen Miller is REALLY bad at pretending to be Trump. Like this doesn’t even almost sound like a Trump tweet
If they enact a new illegal congressional map, Missouri will be sued.
Honestly, the hour-long run and march of people shouting “Free DC” up 14th Street today is the energy I needed this morning. I love you, DC.
This is like a puzzle box. Thoughts & prayers, of course. But what is going on here?
I think JD et al have been discussing that for a while now - possibly for the last 9 months or so.
Never say never, Laura. Tom Vilsack would have done it; I imagine Bob Ray would have, too. In fact I often imagine Bob Ray these days when I think of what the GOP has become. What a shame there aren't Republicans like him anymore.
One thing's for sure: this will never happen in Iowa.
Oh, Andy Borowitz. What a gem you are.
This was incredible, important lawyering from National Immigration Law Center (@nilc.org) over the past 24 hours. Here's their case page: www.nilc.org/litigation/l... Here was the statement from Efrén Olivares, NILC VP of litigation, from earlier today regarding the TRO:
Sorry you have to deal with this, Chris. Please don't let folks who don't understand your analysis or its importance stop you from providing it - it's immensely helpful and would be a great loss to the community.
Anna has had excellent coverage of this developing case in which the Trump administration tried to use the holiday weekend to secretly and illegally deport children.
This whole thread is just appalling. The hearing arises from the Trump admin conspiring with a foreign country to violate a federal court order in the middle of the night so it can deny due process to children who escaped dangerous circumstances.
So I imagine that folks who insisted it wasn’t ethnic cleansing, land theft, forced removal are lined up to apologize for insisting that this was just about defeating Hamas fighters and the return of the hostages.
I feel this is demeaning ... to cats.
I made a spreadsheet of all the federal cases filed as part of Trump's DC crackdown. It's not going great
More than 1,000 people currently imprisoned in Louisiana were convicted by split juries — ruled unconstitutional in 2020. Yet the state Supreme Court has declined to grant new trials, and lawmakers have repeatedly denied a reexamination of their cases. With @veritenews.org
So focused on making trans people villains they'll just ignore the overwhelming evidence: 'straight' white men & guns are killing our kids. And Republicans are firmly on the side of the bad guys with guns.
Good article. Written by Garrett Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social who does the EXCELLENT podcast “Long Shadow” which has 4 seasons—all relevant to what is going on today in the U.S. Lessons on what got us to where we are now politically. It’s a great podcast akin to Rachel Maddow’s “Ultra” Podcast.
One of the country's most successful export products destroyed by Trump.
Oh, I love novelty pin cushions! I don't really sew but I do have lots of pins.
"We are watching and we are taking names." This is where Pritzker has leveled up over his fellow Dems, by promising a future of accountability and retribution for the destruction Trump and his minions are doing to the constitutional order and our individual freedoms. newrepublic.com/post/199800/...
He can pretend to be dead all he wants. I still want the Epstein files released.
I endorse donating to Innovation Law Lab. I’ve worked with them a number of times over the years, they’re legit.
Stephen Manning, this guy’s lawyer, is one of the best in the country. It’s very good news that he’s taken this case.
Sure - with AI doing the spelling & punctuation. Most likely it's a talk-to-text app.
I hope we'll see such orders signed by every official with the power to sign them. This isn't radical or even liberal; it's 101, it's like saying the king can't house his soldiers in people's homes.
🎯 trump is literally too dumb - and far too uncultured, unread and uneducated - to understand the premise of Les Misérables: that greed and ignorance are the enemies of justice and liberty. Which premise extends quite naturally to the conclusion that trump is the enemy of all Americans.
I wonder, does he hear the people sing?
🚨”Milk prices jumping from $7 to $14… produce prices could rise 50% to 100% by early next year.” Trump’s grocery prices are already too high but soon it could be so much worse. fortune.com/2025/08/28/t...
So glad your grandfather has found a creative way to cope with the fascist attack on our democracy. Never give up, Aaron's grandfather! Our nation, conceived in liberty, will have a new birth of freedom. Government of the people, by the people, for the people shall not perish from this earth. 💙
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"But it’s not just the individual threats that weigh on us. It’s the sheer volume. The autocrat’s playbook isn’t just about single acts of repression; it’s about creating a dozen crises at once. This is not incompetence; it is a strategy," explains tonight's guest @ianbassin.bsky.social
In a two week period: Trump fired 7 of the 8 members who do independent federal oversight on nuclear waste. Peter Thiel (Palantir) is found to be backing the first privately developed uranium enrichment facility in the US.
Just so long as the IRS isn't being run by DOGE bros ...
Definitely fill out this survey
Well, he should know.
ATLANTA: “The city is opening a grocery store to clear up a downtown food desert… City leaders say the market will help those in the area who have not previously had easy access to healthy food.” (cc: everyone acting like @ZohranKMamdani is crazy🤔) www.wsbtv.com/news/local/a...
This notion that Republicans are coasting right now and the wind is beneath the sails of Donald Trump is just not true. Joni Ernst is not going to run for reelection in Iowa. There was a special election in Iowa earlier this week and the Democrats have now broken the Republican super majority.
Like I said. They aren’t embarrassed by history, it’s their playbook.
Kellogg was sidelined specifically because he’s a better negotiator. They aren’t actually trying to end this war.
If you were going to condense that sentiment to oh idk let's say the length of a protest banner - a banner that might be dropped over a viaduct, just for example - what would it say? (asking for everybody)
I hope people realize how absolutely fucked this situation is. This isn’t normal. People are resigning all over the place because the government is mishandling our data, ruining our public health services, and generally making Americans less safe.
We dead.
Damn…
Garcia: This is a great ruling by the court. Of course, Donald Trump is already overreacting, saying this is going to somehow be the destruction of the United States. I'm not sure if he's aware he's trying to do that all on his own.
Young men who voted for Trump... Now you're paying more for Nintendo Switch, PS5, and you can't get Lego bricks shipped to America by the Lego company. Bravo, bros. Time to listen to Joe Rogan for advice on what to do next in your lives.
The “involuntary resignation” comes days after Borges filed a formal whistleblower complaint accusing the DOGE of wrongfully uploading SSA data, which included highly sensitive information on millions of people with Social Security numbers, to an unsecure cloud server.
the fuck is going on at SSA? & is anyone reporting on the Nevada hack? Seems like DOGE has sold Americans SS info - which is a LOT of PII - to some bad folks. You have to wonder who has all our info now.
“We are going to overthrow some of our institutions, but in the way that Americans have always done it: through the ballot, through public consensus. That’s a revolution. That is a real revolution.” ¡Viva la revolución!
We're already the most "usable" country in the world. Just ask Putin.
Meanwhile trump's little Johnson is calling Jen out by name on Fox "News" this morning ... someone please lmk when Jen takes that little bitch to school, don't want to miss that!
Funny how this only seems to apply to human hearts in the US though huh?
Whole new take on organized crime boast about 'having a judge in our pocket' eh?
There is no possible legitimate reason to do this. It’s what despots do. It’s petty. It’s dangerous. It’s unAmerican. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/08...
I've kept saying one of the most dangerous MAGA Horsemen is RFK JR due to the damage he will do to America's public health infrastructure and his promotion of reckless, baseless, and destructive anti-vaxx conspiracies. You're seeing it play out now, folks. Should be bigger news.
The replies here are building up a lot of promises to Venmo cash to any reporter who will actually ask this question, so if you're looking for a quick buck *and* a boost of fame, take your shot!
Jesus Christ. If your credit isn’t frozen at all three bureaus, I would strongly consider doing that now
The GOP is preparing to change Senate rules to make it easier to adopt Trump’s agenda and confirm nominees. Good thing Manchin and Sinema “preserved democracy” with their performative bullshit. Dems have to quit holding themselves to standards the GOP won’t meet.
This Labor Day weekend, workers across the country will stand up to the billionaires. Will you be one of them? Find your fight here: maydaystrong.org #WorkersOverBillionaires #UnionStrong
Pretty sure he's gone TACO on this one. 🤞
Weird how Elon is being so quiet these days. Personally I find this ominous ... it's generally the snake you don't hear that gets you.
🚨 The CDC as we know it is being severely altered tonight. In addition to the CDC director being ousted, the Post is reporting that several senior leaders are leaving as well. Here are from two of the resignations:
Monday: asked nurse about covid booster. She literally just laughed. Today: home w/covid-like symptoms. No testing sites; dr's office says I have to pay OOP to get one there. Paxlovid? Remdesivir? $100s. Dr says they can write steroids, that's it. I'm too poor to survive this timeline.
The fire sale at the end of the empire www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...
Arguably the most anti-religious administration in history. Just nakedly hostile to those who wish to practice their faith.
Even the fact that this needs to be said is absolutely appalling.
After the 2017 Las Vegas shooting, Pope Leo retweeted this from Senator Chris Murphy: “Your cowardice to act cannot be whitewashed by thoughts and prayers.”
So fed up with Republicans and their sick firearm fetish and their useless, performative prayers after each mass shooting they facilitated.
Voters of Tomorrow statement on shooting at Annunciation Catholic School in Minneapolis, Minnesota
Trump Says Cracker Barrel Should Go Back to Old Logo politicalwire.com/2025/08/26/t...
The fundamental choice has not been as stark since World War II: democracy and freedom, or dictatorship and tyranny. Trump and his sycophants are siding with the latter. The rest of us must loudly, proudly, and boldly proclaim our allegiance to the former.
Every day I ask how can I help? Returning the shopping cart at a store, adding a comment of encouragement on somebody’s post. Mailing books to state representatives, or checking on a friend. Whatever our actions, keep asking: how can I help? RS I am America: inspired by Heather Cox Richardson
“Transparent”
A woman’s right to vote, inviolable for 105 years, right? Reminder, 2016 Republican Convention Speaker Abby Johnson, supported Household Voting w/the one household vote belonging to men. The same Christian Nationalist agenda is supported by Hegseth. But hey, like Roe, that won’t ever change, right?
#ResistanceRoots Today in history, 1970: As many as 20,000 women protest in the Women’s Strike for Equality in New York City, with more throughout the U.S. The event was held on the 50th anniversary of the certification of the 19th Amendment, giving women the constitutional right to vote. /1
Litter is definitely a massive emergency that warrants mobilizing units from several states’ National Guard, arming them heavily and sending them into the streets of the capital.
As someone with grandkids to whom I explain lots & lots of things: Not.
When the but-I-have-a-PENIS crowd starts calling a woman "strident" it's a clear sign she's got something important to say. Gonna say again tho: Fuck all this infighting! I doubt it's organic and always ask: who gains by it? IMO at this point there are only 2 sides.
Why would anyone follow only one voice? Marcy has a lot of good insights and genuinely cares about American democracy. That's good enough for me. I really don't like the infighting tho. So counterproductive.
We are very far off the cliff here folks. 🇺🇸
Is there truly not one single person at this table who understands that autism WAS NOT EVEN A DIAGNOSIBLE CONDITION UNTIL 1980??? Are they ALL morons? There must be something causing this epidemic of idiocy ... some drug or something.
... when in fact that agent fell down because he was unfit and untrained.
As Trumps calls in the National Guard it's important to know that law enforcement has more tools than ever to track your movements and access your communications. Here’s how to protect your privacy if you plan to protest. wrd.cm/4lEVQu9
NEW: Jack Smith’s lawyers write to the Office of Special Counsel to say that they’ve read news reports about an investigation into Jack Smith, but no one has actually reached out. “The predicate for this investigation is imaginary and unfounded.” 1/
They also want to replace teaching kids to think for themselves with programming kids to think whatever they're told to think. E.g., slavery wasn't bad; a few special white men built the world; women should be subservient to their husbands because that's God's will.
I’m an old-school English teacher and I know why they push AI in education. You do too. They want to replace teachers and teacher unions.
The great @jamiegangel.bsky.social nails it!
