President Trump, speaking at a news conference, said he was planning to send the National Guard to Chicago. Gov. JB Pritzker of Illinois said the state was ready to fight the Trump administration’s plan in court. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/02/u...
President Trump, speaking at a news conference, said he was planning to send the National Guard to Chicago. Gov. JB Pritzker of Illinois said the state was ready to fight the Trump administration’s plan in court. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/02/u...
Didn’t take long to tank economy… Zandi, one of first economists to forecast 2008 financial crisis has issued numerous warnings about similar downturn over past couple of months as implications of administration's policies on trade & federal job cuts came to light. www.newsweek.com/economy-brin...
BREAKING: A federal judge blocks the Trump administration from using military troops in immigration raids or law enforcement operations in California, ruling the President's deployment of National Guard troops in Los Angeles earlier this year violated a federal law.
🚨BREAKING: A federal judge ruled Tuesday that President Donald Trump’s use of National Guard troops and Marines in Los Angeles earlier this year violated a federal law that prohibits using the military as a domestic police force. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
1. Monday was a landmark day in one of the most brazen political and economic grifts in history. It netted Trump, at least on paper, $3.4 BILLION. Follow this thread for details. 🧵
The selective prosecution of Trump’s political opponents could lead to a “dysfunctional cycle of revenge,” Conor Friedersdorf argues.
Surviving Jeffery Epstein: This week we hear from Jess Michaels, a survivor of Epstein's abuse, who exposes both the monster himself and the wider system that affected so many. Watch it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFqeOt_rNFM
Trump’s regime wants to put AI in charge of deciding which Medicare patients receive care — and they're giving AI companies a profit-incentive to deny coverage. Everything about this is sick and wrong, and Congress must take action. 👇
"That is why I am infuriated that the Air Force plans to grant military funeral honors to Ashli Babbitt. She did not die defending the Constitution. She died trying to overturn it." Yes, there is a difference.
The United States Constitution is clear: President Donald Trump can’t take control of the country’s elections. But he can sow confusion and fear. www.wired.com/story/trump-...
More framing like this, please www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/u...
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...
Trump and Dr. Oz want AI to decide which Medicare patients get care—and they're giving AI companies a profit-incentive to deny coverage. Everything about this is sick and wrong. Tell Congress to intervene NOW:
A man who was being held in a Manhattan police precinct station house on Friday was found unconscious and was rushed to Bellevue Hospital, where he was later pronounced dead, according to a city official. He is at least the fourth detainee in city custody to die in a little over a week.
More than 445,000 federal employees saw their union protections disappear in August, as agencies moved to comply with an executive order President Trump signed earlier this year that called for ignoring collective bargaining contracts with nearly one million workers.
Breaking News: Representative Jerry Nadler will not seek re-election, ending a 34-year career as one of Congress’s leading liberal voices.
Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro on Monday said he “would constitutionally declare a republic in arms” if the South American country were attacked by forces that the United States government has deployed to the Caribbean. https://to.pbs.org/4nf6BEV
As we begin a new month, my law firm is litigation 51 voting and election cases in 25 states. 6 in Arizona 6 in Georgia 4 in Florida 4 in North Carolina 8 involve redistricting
You guys see where this is going? Right?
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.
Never forget…
Trump continues to pursue an imperial presidency. Here's what you need to know to be ready to follow events in court this week: open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...
Pete Hegseth’s move to reinstall a Confederate statue is, at worst, a move to show that “he and the Trump administration are making common cause with apologists who believe that the wrong side won the Civil War,” Mike Nelson argues.
Gov. Wes Moore: "As the Commander in Chief of the Maryland National Guard...the National Guard is not trained for municipal policing. You know who is? Local law enforcement, FBI agents, and ATF agents—and the president's budgets cut funding for them."
🚨BREAKING: President Donald Trump said in a weekend social media post he plans to issue an executive order to impose voter ID requirements. And he reiterated his desire to ban mail voting. The president lacks the authority to take either step. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
Republicans are doing everything & anything they can think of to make it more difficult to vote, attempting to control results of midterms. Americans need to make Republicans efforts, blow up in their faces on Election Day! 🗳️Vote All Republicans Out!🗳️
I guess he changed hats and won’t go anywhere near the press for 5 days for no particular reason. Also can’t get any video of him actually playing golf from the usual sources.
“If the model employer, the federal government, is unilaterally terminating high-performing Black employees, what hope is there?” President Trump’s efforts to shrink the federal work force have disproportionately affected Black women. Those losses are also rippling through the private sector.
NEW: Many of the unaccompanied minors who Trump is trying to traffic to Guatemala today are in foster care - some of which seem to be Christian facilities. These 10 represent a putative class of nearly 600 children nationwide. Our government is trafficking children.
NEW: Jeanine Pirro and the Trump DOJ suffered MASSIVE embarrassment this past week as they keep failing to get federal grand juries to indict dissidents. Andy McCabe and I discuss on today's UnJustified. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/m...
Turkey-it is spending our money frivolously when Americans are being financially hurt in sooooo many ways. You need to go.
"'One of the things about people like Trump [...] is they like to accuse people of what they themselves are trying to do,' he continued. 'You’ve heard it said about Trump many times, every accusation is a confession.' "'Deep down, he’s a destructive force. Deep down, he wants to destroy,' he said.
Learning the hard way that bullying is NOT negotiating
“Since Mr Trump singled out India with an unexpectedly draconian double dose of tariffs earlier this month, he has reportedly phoned the Indian prime minister on four occasions to seek a compromise. Each time, the Indian leader refused to pick up.” (The Telegraph)
Q: "Your congressional map already gets an F from most good government groups for being gerrymandered. Would you wipe out all the Republican districts?" Pritzker: "Ya. It is possible to have more Democratic districts in Illinois. We could do it. It's not something I want to do."
Israeli strikes killed at least 17 people in Gaza City on Saturday, Palestinian emergency workers said. The attacks came a day after Israel ended a policy of pausing attacks for several hours daily to facilitate the delivery of humanitarian aid.
Frog in proverbial boiling water
One thing that's particularly maddening about what's happening today—beyond that it's happening—is that when people talk about how we are moving toward authoritarianism, toward fascism, by a collection of narcissistic sociopaths, many Americans' eyes glaze over.
Exclusive: President Trump and international partners are discussing plans to build a “Riviera of the Middle East” on the rubble of Gaza. One plan would establish U.S. control and pay all of Gaza’s more than 2 million population to leave.
Rest assured. The seeds of Trump’s destruction have already been sown. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/sunday-thought-263
Dozens of immigration courts across the country have become epicenters of the Trump administration's efforts to increase the rate of immigration arrests.
Our community and religious leaders know the stakes. Trump must stop the chaos, corruption and cruelty in his own administration and stop endangering Americans.
"Another picture emerged: that of small businesses being harmed by a president who was elected because of his purported business acumen; of a man whose obsession with appearing tough on crime now threatens to sabotage urban economies across the country."
www.msnbc.com/the-last-wor...
With the Trump regime threatening to invade Chicago, The Joy Reid Show got their first, interviewing Mayor Brandon Johnson www.youtube.com/watch?v=RHJf...
Comedian Rita Brent previews Gloria Gaynor’s upcoming Kennedy Center performance
Why Isn't Donald Trump's Declining Health Being Covered by Corporate Media? Where are the op-eds & news programs calling for Trump's resignation due to his declining health, impaired abilities, & march towards fascism? Oh, yeah, "both sides" corporate journalism. open.substack.com/pub/thelefth...
YAY FUN! Hanging out with the Veterans at the rememberyouroath.org at Union Station. Reminding Guardsmen to Remember They swore an oath to the Constitution. PS the Navy Baby Goat Binky is for WATB Louisiana National Guard who say they can’t share sidewalks with old Veterans. Boo hoo!
If Missouri Republicans mid-cycle redistrict and break the law, they will be sued. That is a promise and I don't bluff. Just ask Texas. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
If Republicans really think there is a national emergency to justify the tariffs, why don’t they just pass them in Congress like they are supposed to under the constitution. This is supposedly a national emergency, but they are gambling on the Supreme Court while doing nothing?
"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:
Since returning to the White House, Trump has widely deployed the National Guard, with clear plans to expand its presence nationwide and few safeguards to limit him. And it looks like he might take his use of the military to the polls in 2026 and 2028.
American federalism goes to work. As RFK Jr. heads down the road of more measles, more COVID-19 and more flu, public health states must develop our own strategies to stay safe.
"The enemies of a free society—the enemies of limited government and the rule of law, the opponents of political liberty and human equality—don’t sugarcoat what they’re doing. There’s surely no reason we should sugarcoat what we’re seeing."
Not an exaggeration substack.com/@jzacek/note...
"Trump’s age, his visible health problems, and the White House’s cagey answers raise real questions about transparency and capacity. Yet the institutions that pride themselves on holding power to account have largely looked away," @passantino.bsky.social writes. www.status.news/p/trump-heal...
The Education Department has cut off funding for campus-based child care at more than a dozen colleges, accusing the schools of conflicting with the administration’s polices by teaching children about gender and race or prioritizing diversity in hiring.
guys please please don't jinx this
DOGE wasn’t a cost-cutting venture. It was a data mining operation for private interests. Trump opened the gates to the castle from inside for invaders with bad and greedy intent to plunder and exploit.
“It feels like the CDC is over.” Current and former CDC officials say that the departure of several top leaders will further undermine the agency’s ability to provide reliable guidance to Americans, Tom Bartlett reports.
If groceries aren't expensive enough for you, electricity bills are spiking around the country—rising twice as fast as the rate of inflation. Democrats are honing a new message ICYMI @lauren-egan.bsky.social: www.thebulwark.com/p/paying-too...
Welch: As someone who lives in a red state, let me just tell you what MAGA supermajorities get you. We're 50th in education. The worst in the whole country for women to live. We're poorer, worst health care. And if you look at the bottom ten states, they are all MAGA supermajorities.
PLEASE substack.com/@jameslbruno...
Breaking news: A federal judge has temporarily blocked the Trump administration from rapidly deporting undocumented immigrants detained away from the border without a court hearing, a setback for its mass deportation agenda.
NEWS: ACLU pushes to revive criminal contempt proceedings against Trump officials
VIDEO: Marc Elias joined Deadline: White House on Wednesday to discuss the California Supreme Court's rejection of the latest GOP redistricting challenge, Louisiana’s decision to no longer defend its congressional map in the SCOTUS, and more. Watch now: youtu.be/h68Yg0ml9dQ
Wow: French President Emmanuel Macron just called out Trump at a major press conference with the German Chancellor 😳
The MAHA agenda is making America less safe.
"The people that have been installed by Secretary Kennedy are full of ideology and bias that will actually contaminate the science," said Dr. Demetre Daskalakis.
Republicans are going to do everything to stay in power forever. Will Democrats understand and respond? Trump isn't leaving peacefully or legally. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
Less than 30 minutes after the Social Security Administration’s chief data officer resigned following a whistleblower complaint, recipients could no longer access the resignation email. www.wired.com/story/charle...
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.
DOGE isn't fighting fraud — it's potentially exposing Americans to more of it. And now a Social Security Administration whistleblower is resigning after apparently being punished for trying to warn the public. Nothing about this fake government agency is "efficient."
The FBI is calling the attack at a Minnesota Catholic church an act of domestic terrorism driven by "hate-filled ideology." Extremism analysts say the picture may be more complex.
Police said Burns attempted to gouge out his wife's eye and ran his 16-year-old daughter off the road.
Maybe they learned from us what not to do
NEW: In a loss for voters, the 5th Circuit upholds parts of a Texas voter suppression law that restrict how people can assist voters in casting ballots. The court ruled that the pro-voting groups challenging the provisions lacked standing. From: @jenrice.bsky.social
What will America be under President JD Thiel, excuse me, I meant JD Vance? Time to start seriously thinking about this as Trump’s health continues faltering.
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”?
The fundamental divide of the Democratic Party is between those who believe Donald Trump is an existential threat to democracy and those who think he is very bad, but survivable.
YouTube knows—and previously acknowledged—that OAN is a misinformation machine. And yet, it’s now putting them in millions of homes. We discuss on Power Lines. Watch the full episode on YouTube: youtu.be/CxH8o3h-8p0?... Or listen wherever you get your podcasts: link.chtbl.com/PowerLines_S...
Good try you moron
Stephen Miller: Secretary Kennedy has been a crown jewel of this administration
A Texas Republican lawmaker who last week blocked Democrats’ effort to filibuster the state’s gerrymander made disturbing comments at a 2022 legislative hearing — suggesting a way to deal with immigrants might be: “shoot, shovel and shut up.” www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
What on earth!
Telling people exactly how voting security works helps defeat election misinformation, experiments suggest. But outside experts question how well that works in the real world
And you think their kids will automatically be conservatives? I doubt that when they experience a terrible, bankrupted society
Today’s update from Weirdo HQ.
Corruption knows no end with this administration
If you are a wealthy criminal defendant, it makes sense under this administration to hire the AG’s brother to represent you.
Yea yea yea. Sit down. Your credibility is shot
Patients are flooding New York City medical practices with reports that they are experiencing Covid symptoms amid a late-summer surge of coronavirus infections and the appearance of a new variant. Many are also asking if they qualify for a vaccine after the FDA released new restrictions.
Gov. Pritzker: “The president doesn't seem to understand that it's actually Republican states that have the crime problem. Of the 20 states that have the biggest crime problem, 13 of them are red states controlled by Republican governors.”
NEW VIDEO: Trump is attacking the Constitution and Rep. Jamie Raskin is calling him out. He joined me to discuss restoring American democracy, the administration’s overreach into elections, and Trump’s desire to be a dictator. www.youtube.com/watch?v=YDLI...
Seems like treason to me