I know two things about Rudy Giuliani: 1) IDGAF what happened to him or what kind of shape he’s in but whatever did happen; 2) it sure as shit didn’t go down like that.
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I know two things about Rudy Giuliani: 1) IDGAF what happened to him or what kind of shape he’s in but whatever did happen; 2) it sure as shit didn’t go down like that.
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.
Illinois is currently exploring the possibility of purchasing Covid-19 vaccines in bulk straight from manufacturers to make sure everyone will still have access.
The irony of all this is that if he manages to take down the Sullivan precedent, one of the very first victims will be the right wing social media influencers who are basically his last group of political support these days. They will get buried in lawsuits.
Good night 🌙 and….
Ok, hear me out. A Lord of the Rings re-make, but with these two taking the One Ring to Mordor:
WHITE HOUSE AIDE: we need a distraction from the president being dead OTHER WHITE HOUSE AIDE: let’s kill Rudy
Creative writing prompt: Make a simple press statement about a car accident sound suspicious on at least three different levels.
Thread BREAKING: A new 38 page proposal shows Trump & Netanyahu are openly planning to take over Gaza & turn it into a casino & tourism resort. Here are the horrid details, & yes all of this is a violation of international human rights law & further confirms Israel is committing genocide. 1/4
Whether or not these people are actual foreign agents is almost irrelevant. Their actions are observationally equivalent to & indistinguishable from the actions actual foreign agents would be taking. The consequences of our total Article I constitutional crisis, right here:
I was today’s years old thatI learned that Albert Einstein taught at an NCBU, Lincoln University, and received an honorary degree from the first Degree granting HBCU in 1946, and spoke out about racism. I know he was brilliant, but learning this touched my fucking soul ❤️
I get that not everybody is an electoralist but it takes some effort to ignore the absolute streak of beatings the GOP is taking in elections right now
#BlackSky
Republican voters don't care about Trump making their lives better. They just want him to make the lives of everyone they don't like worse. And in that sense, he has been very successful.
If you prefer to read this thread on our site, here’s the link: www.lawfaremedia.org/article/emer...
One week ago, thousands of New Yorkers tried something new. They heard about it last minute. They didn’t know where it would take them or who they would meet. It was free, earnest, even educational. It was the #ZcavengerHunt and it was a thing of beauty.
NEWS: Walgreens just got taken over by private equity. Private equity has a record of running companies into the ground. Walgreens could be the latest victim: closing more stores, service plummeting, workers losing their jobs, and eventually bankruptcy.
Spit on his casket for me, please! 😊
I stand with Chicago. I stand with Mayor Johnson. 🚨 NEW: Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson just signed an executive order to resist Trump’s federal invasion and occupation of the city. Details in 🧵
Damn, his face is super puffy. He looks like shit.
So many netizens tonight seem to be indulging in the kind of hopeful flights of fancy typically reserved for kids on Xmas Eve. It’s all silly, of course. But seeing the joy it brings warms the heart. We haven’t lost the capacity to dream.
trump dead don't worry about it
WHAT DID I TELL YOU during the LIVE? According to Kremlin pool, Putin is traveling to China from 8/31-9/3. There he will meet with Xi, Modi, Erdogan, Kim Jong Un. The visit will begin with the Shanghai Cooperation Organization summit. Oh, believe me you, I’ll cover the heck out of it.
Zohran Mamdani is the happiest politician in America, his whole campaign is about how New York is awesome and can be even awesomer. Meanwhile, there has never been a politician in history who talked as much about what a shithole he thinks America is as Donald Trump does.
She’s that bitch! 🙌
its *probably* going to be this, he had scheduled surgery but because he's a big paranoid wet boy and was convinced vance wouldn't give it back he refused to sign over power for the six hours it would take
did Trump ever actually fire the CDC director or is it still the WH personnel office having done it?
any argument that trump has fully consolidated authoritarian power has to contend with the fact that the government wants to deport kilmar abrego garcia to uganda but hasn't done so, because a judge told them not to
Theres really no point to scrolling your phone waiting to hear about the day it happens, if you are a Real American and live in a decent sized city you'll know from horns honking, fireworks, people spontaneously hollering, passing out drinks, etc
People are misreading him when they say he’s going to appeal Trump voters by *avoiding* “culture war” issues. He just doesn’t want to debate them because, to him, there’s no debate.
I spent two days with Platner and, as you’ll read, was as impressed by his theory of power as I was by his policies. I think it’s FAR more important than the “how do you talk to Trump voters” question.
This story has it all: aquaculture, Black Flag, Bernie Sanders, Star Trek as policy, John Hodgman, male tears, and a candidate citing Luthen’s monologue from Andor. Meet Graham Platner, the Maine oysterman trying to crack the senate. @grahamformaine.bsky.social newrepublic.com/article/1996...
That Ritchie Torres interview in the Adam Friedland Show is insane… Zionist dems are fucking sociopaths.
serious l i t e r a l Nazi shit
reduced administrative capacity has some significant downsides
There’s an enormous amount of stuff in this book I’d like to highlight, but start with: “What emerges as the most elementary insight is that, since we do not now have any ways of making computers wise, we ought not now to give computers tasks that demand wisdom.”
More than this is that they have been actively antagonistic.
EXCLUSIVE: Immigration agents arrested two Mexican contractors helping to tackle a wildfire in Olympic National Forest in Washington, a supervisor who oversees the crews said.
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They project EVERYTHING. I think we know what this means.
Should’ve been plastered on billboards next to every evangelical church in this country. Shame the bastards.
Just in case you forgot…
I'm not against Gavin Newsom's trolling. I also think that Pritzker is the first Democrat I've seen take on Trump with the level of seriousness warranted, and I hope he's not the last
They ALWAYS project so the rumors must be true. He must have a fatal illness.
in the last year this is the onion headline i most often think about
That’s great. They’ll prob drop my insurance.
Share this tweet if you are down for a national walkout.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA This...this is one of the least destructive ways he could make himself colossally unpopular, tbh.
One of the firefighters arrested is an Oregonian. My office has been in touch with his lawyer who says he can't locate his client. My office is working to get more information on his whereabouts ASAP.
“The People’s Project is our attempt to honor the fact that, terrified as we are, we are nonetheless proud to understand the stakes of our work. No way forward but through, together. As it should be.”
Fed governor Lisa Cook sues Trump over his ‘illegal attempt’ to fire her
Yeah, turns out if you hit a bully in the mouth, they shut the fuck up. Who knew?
Little kids being killed in mass is Jesus's way of letting you know he's sending all your prayers to voicemail.
I will never understand how American elites managed to convince themselves that uncivil debate — not fascism, not impunity and not widespread indifference to facts — is the defining problem of our time. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/o...
I am for debate. Vigorous, principled, candid debate about the things that matter most. And in good debates about things that matter, people may frown at you. In fact, they might do worse. This is the price of being a serious person. Embrace it, or shut up.
Wow
The recently selected chair of a North Carolina county Board of Elections was charged for allegedly drugging ice cream from Dairy Queen with MDMA and Cocaine and giving them to his two grandchildren
And even admitting that the organization is messed up might not be enough to ditch it. But in the midst of a fascist takeover where it is existentially threatened, it's worth questioning if it is super important to prop up in any capacity given its malevolence and inability to solve problems.
Vanity Fair staffers threaten to walk out over a proposed Melania cover: “We are not going to normalize this despot and his wife… if this happens, i’m gone, and so is half my team.” www.thedailybeast.com/i-will-walk-...
Maybe not from the ground up but we def need a lot of people to wake the fuck up and unfortunately that is not gonna happen without A LOT of personal discomfort for most people. How… painful?.. that discomfort is still tbd but yeah.. not great Having kids has kinda hardened me to fight for it tho
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It has been wild to see what were always the two most paranoid pro-Second Amendment scenarios—the government snatching people away and sending occupying armies into communities—literally happen this year, to the delight of conservatives
Yeah, it wasn’t the prices they voted on.
But do we have to have those selfish assholes’ votes? Can’t Dems do things that would appeal to the millions of eligible voters who’ve given up on government because it never delivers for them? Or are you saying those non voters all selfish assholes too, like Republican voters?
every day i am haunted by this from First Reformed
Pretty sure that if Jesus was here, he’d tell Trey Gowdy he’s full of shit.
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I know there is some anxiety around how to protect yourself in light of Muskrat and his herd of shitler youth getting their hands on all our personal information so here are the steps you can take to protect yourself. I’ve seen these in various threads but thought it worth putting them together🧵 1/?
Wow. On NPR, @gbrumfiel.bsky.social reports a Social Security official “copied the Social Security numbers, names and birthdays of over 300 million Americans to a private section of the agency's cloud.” The source is a whistleblower, who is named: Charles Borges, SSN chief data officer.
I don’t think the United State should conduct hostile intelligence operations against a US treaty ally. I think the US should reserve that sort of thing for foreign adversaries. Sorry to get so partisan, but that’s how I feel.
well well well www.the-downballot.com/p/iowa-democ...
Name them and mock them until they cower in shame.
I’m told by Dem leadership that’s it’s just a distraction from kitchen table issues. Isn’t that right, @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social @schumer.senate.gov?
Those Jade Helm folks are pretty silent now, aren’t they.
The Meidas Touch Meiselas brothers grew up with Diddy as a close family friend via their dad, his close friend and longtime attorney. They even went to a bunch of Those Parties and Ben interned with his dad for Diddy.
If the people fight and organize, the fascists lose. What we have right now is the fascists using spectacle and propaganda to intimidate people out of fighting, and (worse) people who are intimidated trying to persuade others that it's all over and to lie down and die.
@hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social @schumer.senate.gov Grow a fucking spine already or fucking resign.
In an interview with the Prospect, the rising populist star Graham Platner spoke of a new Gilded Age and a need to take on billionaires and their control of our political system. Read the full profile from Austin Ahlman:
They should’ve never restrained this man during the campaign.
I’ve been saying this since 2016, as have others, that you don’t defeat a bully unless you bully his/her mean, dumb ass right back. We should have been naming, shaming, and mocking every single person who voted for this shit years ago. We should have made them cower in shame.
They should have let him cook. We could have had nice things.
John Prine never had a chance to write his own memoir. But parts of a heartfelt new book about the singer-songwriter find him writing about his life in his own words
A disgusting, vindictive prosecution of this poor man by the Trump DOJ, led by law-lackey, Pamela Jo Bondi.
Yeah, it’s the MuellerSheWrote crowd. They started this shit during his first term and have all grown their following together by doing this bullshit. Leeches, the lot of them.
Union station, DC
Nah, let him ramble. Eventually he will tell on himself/others around him.
Morbidly curious to find out if the prize was the Mamdani supporters you met a long the way
fwiw it's not hard to craft a line that nods to kitchen table issues but still captures some urgency. "you put this asshole in office to make your life easier but all he's done is cut taxes for his rich buddies, kidnapped your neighbors and sent the military to tell you to shut up when you complain"
Words/phrases Democrats should never use: * bipartisan * my Republican friends * real, valid, legitimate, serious, important (to describe issue raised by Republicans) * yea (when voting on Republican bills) * distraction (to describe bad thing Republicans did) * woke (in derogatory sense)
He’s a complicit asshole. We’ve got to get him out of office immediately, and anyone like him in the Democratic Party.
Your leadership is feckless, @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social. Resign and let someone who can see the imposition of military forces on our civilian streets and call it what it is. Pathetic.
He’s a complicit asshole
Again, fuck Tom Nichols and everyone like him. Block that disingenuous, self-righteous asshole already. He has nothing good to offer any of us who are interested in saving democracy.