That Pritzker press conference was... surreal, and I think marks a significant moment of escalation in the constitutional omni-crisis. This was the governor of a state saying plainly the Union itself is being torn apart and his state is being militarily invaded by an authoritarian regime.
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?"
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Is Bernie the only one working this summer?
Barrett makes no sense when she says that the Court got ahead of Americans' positions, since the majority of Americans support abortion rights. www.cnn.com/2025/09/02/p...
Fatality.
Witnesses to a kidnapping of a young boy on 14th Street in Washington, DC captured this picture of the vehicle used by the domestic terrorist group known as ICE. This 2022 Ford Truck VIN: 1FTEW1EB0NKE15478 is currently untitled and illegally being used in crimes.
JD’s pre-makeover days
What a ridiculous person.
"There is a very strong organizing community in this city and in this region, and I hope that you see from our legislative leaders a desire to not live in a tyrannical state." On Chicago. boltsmag.org/chicago-publ...
The way that housing co-ops work in Switzerland may seem foreign to many. But the central idea is simple: What if homeownership had no profit motive and no capital gains? Advocates say their model could reshape how the world thinks about affordable housing. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/r...
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Television legend Stephen Colbert has just signed a $13.5 million deal with Netflix for a 7-episode series.
"She did not die defending the Constitution. She died trying to overturn it. She was not protecting lives at a gate in Iraq; she was forcing her way through windows in the Capitol to stop the peaceful transfer of power." New from @markhertling.bsky.social:
"The President, on his own, can't tax the American people. That's what King George III tried to do – we had a revolution about that." Neal Katyal
We want to apologize if it feels like we’ve been venting a lot lately. It’s just hard to ignore that nearly every move from this administration seems to be illegal, unlawful, or outright unconstitutional and yet nothing happens.
Just another reason to keep giving Netflix my money.
Welch: Everybody's missing the point here. The point is, he's doing this on purpose. He's priming the public to get accustomed to having the military in the streets
If I were charged with a federal crime, I’d hire Pam Bondi’s brother as my lawyer. Because I don’t think this is a coincidence.
As long as guns are easily available to crazy people, mass killings directed at so-called soft targets will continue. This is a fact. Countries where it's more difficult for crazy people to obtain guns have less shootings. This is also a fact. Do with these facts as you will.
Welch: He claims that he's the law and order president. But we all know that's a lie because he's a convicted felon. He pardons convicted felons, he surrounds himself with obsequious people that kiss his all day, every day
@hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social @schumer.senate.gov are you all STILL on vacation? If you continue to play by old rules & ways, we will all suffer. Do your job! Can you get a fire in your belly? If not, move over!!
Where’s Schumer & Jeffries? No time for vacation, they should be publicly talking about Trumps lawlessness! Everyday!
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.
Ashley Babbit dishonored her service by committing insurrection against her country. While her death is absolutely tragic and I wish it hadn’t happened, the Air Force giving her honors is in itself a dishonor.
This interview, which is also available to listen to as a podcast, provides a useful overview of some of the dangerous trends we’ve been seeing in recent months regarding federalization and militarization of state and local police functions.
It’s continues to be despicable how the media has spent a decade normalizing the orange felon so much so that they are reporting on his authoritarian militarization of Washington DC as if it were a routine military exercise. They deliberately failed democracy for clickbait.
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.
Real Sep 6 vibes.
From the weakest man in the world.
Translation: my legs don’t work.
W.T.F?
Constituent: You need to take your head out of Trump’s ass.
THIS…is the mindset. THIS…is the attitude. THIS…is the fire in the gut….that we are going to ALL have to adopt. I have. Have you? We can’t have people sit this one out…and still prevail.
🚨BREAKING: In a landmark victory for voters, a Utah judge struck down the state Legislature’s gerrymandered congressional map and reinstated the citizen-led redistricting reforms voters approved in 2018. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
A “we were wrong” correction would be nice.
Pritzker: To the members of the press who are assembled here today and listening across the country, I am asking for your courage to tell it like it is. This is not a time to pretend here that there are two sides to this story.
IF we take back our country, we need to expand the SCOTUS
The corruption of the US Supreme Court has arguably been the most serious single contributor to the US's transformation into autocracy
Walz: "It boggles my damn mind that in the midst of a military takeover of our cities, the flaunting of the rule of law, that the press finds the need to talk about, 'Oh, there's a division in the Dem Party.' There's a division in my damn house & we're still married and things are good. That's life"
I hope is a lot more sickly than we know.
STFU! Seriously.
So the girl on the left with her 70’s, hair sprayed, feathered bang’s wants his signature? Shocking!
Yes, I’d love to entrust him with my well-being& democracy. 🙄🙄
Did you know there’s a special election THIS Tuesday in Iowa that could break the GOP super majority in the Iowa state senate? I had no idea. Just saw it on Tik Tok. Now…just out of curiosity, do you think the DNC should have rallied national Dems to support this election?
Dems should swap out Hakeem Jeffries with Jasmine Crockett. They need that kind of fire.
Got that, Bone Spurs? Wes Moore says keep his name out of your mouth. Well done, Governor! 👏🏻
Not only do they think it’s normal, they crave this nonsense & chaos.
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The second amendment guarantees the right to a militia to guard against federal tyranny. But if a president can use that force against its own state, against the wishes of that state, then it is no militia at all and a clear violation of the second amendment.
Frost: He knows they can't win, so he wants to cheat. The same thing he's done his entire life. But I'll tell you something else I feel really good about, is what California's doing. They're saying we're not gonna let you do this without a fight.
Way to go, San Francisco!! 👏👏
We hear you loud and clear, Madame Secretary.
Holy shit. This legit gave me chills. Texas State Rep. Ann Johnson clapped back at GOP members amid Wednesday's redistricting vote. WHITE WOMEN, this is the model. We have more power than others. We are the last to be silenced. We have a responsibility to SPEAK so others are HEARD.
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Not one qualified person in this administration
If a Democratic president starting sending Blue state national guard troops to occupy a red city as a power grab, the GOP officials in that state would arrest the invading guard troops to send a message that they are defending their sovereignty.
He’s not deteriorating fast enough.
We are living in Bizarro World. Classified docs? Patel, “nobody is above the law”?
MAGA’s are the dumbest of the dumb.
May this portion of the dissent by Ketanji Brown Jackson haunt John Roberts forever and be the final word on his tenure as Chief Justice.
Don’t forget that we are in this redistricting battle because the ideological Supreme Court held (5-4) that partisan gerrymandering cases couldn’t be heard in federal courts Remember: This was a SC that that was configured that way after Republicans stole a SC seat. No stolen seat=different result.
If ICE were libs, MAGA’s would be attacking them on the streets. Guaranteed.
WATCH — @jessicatarlov.bsky.social : “Some people may not like how @gavinnewsom.bsky.social is talking. You may not find his posts funny. It is absolutely working. His fundraising #’s just came out. $6.2 million THIS WEEK. 200,000 donors… Dems feel like ‘finally someone is fighting for us’.”
Now that’s a d*ck move
Newsom: We got here because the President is struggling. We got here because the President is one of the most unpopular presidents in U.S. history. We got here because he recognizes that he will lose the election.
Democratic governors move forward. Advance. Now. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
Just now…
Here, fixed it.
@emptywheel.bsky.social what is your take on polls showing Dems are losing registered voters & Repubs are gaining?
First, I don’t know that very skinny man.
What real leadership looks like. Thank you, President Barack Obama, for standing strong with California, defending our rights, and fighting for the people of this nation.
BREAKING: A federal court ruled that Mississippi’s Supreme Court district lines must be redrawn to ensure Black people in the state don't have their voting power diluted.
Haven’t we already proved Barr lies? Why would we believe him now?
Joe is a sellout that is still living in his few years in Congress. His opinion means nothing. Haven’t watched the show since he kissed the ring.
I don’t think Newsoms posts will sell him as the next POTUS. But I do think it’s all hands on deck right now & I like this punch back at MAGA’s.
@hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social don’t just go after her, HOLD HER ACCOUNTABLE!!
Smithsonian: lock your doors & close until further notice.
ICE is targeting delivery drivers in DC, and MPD is helping them. 📌 ICE is not police 📌 DC law requires uniformed officers to show their badge and nameplate while on duty And Uber needs to do better by its drivers!
Video of Columbia Heights residents driving ICE agents out of their area. source: www.instagram.com/reel/DNjkvLQ...
If we ever get out of this nightmare, every degenerate must be prosecuted. No more, “it’s over, let’s just move forward”!
Of all the things that didn’t happen, this didn’t happen the most.
It is mind blowing to hear Democratic politicians talking about the president sending the military into American cities as a “distraction.” Actually you are all now one degree away from being violently removed from power. The fact that this may not happen does not erase the fact that it may happen.
Putin is laughing his ass off all the way back to Russia 🤡
Oh how great it would be if every Black player on Texas and Ohio State boycotted the game until Texas cancels the redistricting vote and Ohio pulls their National Guard from DC. Those players have so much power and they don’t even use it.
Thank you, Boston Globe. This is how it's done.
here's clips of Elise Stefanik getting brutally booed at an event today in her district
As a former Texas State Rep, let me be clear: LOCKING Rep. Nicole Collier inside the chamber is beyond outrageous. Forcing elected officials to sign “permission slips” & take police escorts to leave? That’s not procedure. That’s some old Jim Crow playbook.
“With less they beat slavery. With less they beat Jim Crow… Harriet Tubman didn’t have email, Twitter, Texts, TikTok…”
“My advice would be to not capitulate to Trump,” Rhodes said. “He has grown all too accustomed to people he perceives as weaker bending to his will, which is something that Putin does not do… Zelenskyy needs Europe.” www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
Gov. @GavinNewsom’s @GovPressOffice team has really cracked the code on how to give them a taste of their own medicine, remarkable to watch
Crow: "Look at what happened. US military personnel in uniform literally were on hands & knees rolling out a red carpet for the most murderous dictator of the 21st century...we keep on acting like Putin deserves to be brought out in open like any of head of state. This is a historic embarrassment."
@gavinnewsom.bsky.social: "He's a wartime president. He's the head of a war party. War on women. War on voting rights. War on Hispanics. A war on this state. War on institutions. Now he wants war on history."