At a time when people should be uniting to reduce global heating, demagogues are doing everything possible to divide us.
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At a time when people should be uniting to reduce global heating, demagogues are doing everything possible to divide us.
At Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute yesterday with the Neil Armstrong—one of the best oceanographic vessels im the world. How long before he attacks it for delivering too many facts?
When it had failed, he grudgingly stalked out on the White House lawn, and told his homegrown terrorists to surrender and go home, but not before also telling them: “We love you, you're very special.” dearlstephens.substack.com?utm_source=n...
Millions of dollars of damage was done to OUR capitol building, where Republicans and Democrats — were hunted down and threatened with hanging and/or death. Instead of stopping his attack, Trump sequestered himself in the White House for more than three hours and rooted for its success.
“Trump declared war on the United States on January 6, 2021, when he refused to accept the results of an election he lost by more than seven million votes. It was an attempted insurrection, in which law enforcement officers were savagely beaten by Trump’s mob…
Why don’t you send everyone proof of life first? (Either way, Chicago doesn’t want you here)
Then mobilize your police department #lapd to demand ID from any masked, armed individual, and enter that info into the police record.
That Trump and Trumpism are fascist doesn’t explain the sheer vandalism of unleashing mass murdering mayhem via RFK to replace medical/scientific institutions of immense value and prestige with medieval peasant superstitions. That is a criminal madness facilitated by but above and beyond fascism.
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Must be reiterated by every Mayor and Mayoral candidate. @mayorwu.boston.gov @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social
Open investigations into each and every breach of the Constitution.
Points I made at the end of his last term that were eerily prescient and remain crucial. progressive.org/latest/resto...
They knew either plausible deniability or irrelevancy were coming soon. Both have arrived. And yet, the people might say “nyet, komrade.”
To all those who protested the Gaza situation by not voting or voting for Trump: Trump Administration Bars Palestinian Officials From U.N. Meeting in New York www.nytimes.com/2025/08/29/u...
Looks like JD will have to get up off the bench. I mean, couch.
Looks like JD will have to get up off the bench. I mean, couch.
"When Musk’s band of merry incels were set free to rummage through the nation, they expected to find accounts of waste, fraud, and abuse. What they found instead was the opposite. One former DOGE employee said that he was “pretty surprised, actually, to find out how efficient the government was.”
Americans have no idea that the CDC is one of humanity’s greatest creations. The #CDC should be treasured, and we should be enormously proud of it.
Alligator Concentration camp has been emptied.
The strength you’re showing against tyranny is exactly what the nation needs if it is to survive.
Jersey raised me to be tough and to stand up.
They sent an ICE team to a remote area to arrest firefighters who were actively fighting a wildfire. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
This is insanity. This is the sign of a government that has lost its mind.
Glad he solved this war in his “first 24 hours.”
Illinois governor JB Pritzker shows off parts of Chicago and tells AP there's no need for Trump to send the National Guard to fight crime.
The problem is that he and Trump are financially tied up with Putin and so they try to invert the old order and paint Putin as an ally instead of an enemy. White nationalists buy right into it.
Tricky reality: the Escambia County School District pulled the graphic novel version. Other FL counties list the regular version on their recommended reading list. Meanwhile, the US Constitution itself has been shredded by the Trump admin.
Tan suits
Big turnout protesting ICE today.
Pirro is a delusional alcoholic.
Bored sh!tless
A lifelong criminal is our nation’s self-proclaimed “chief law enforcement officer.”
Note to Americans: refuse to believe anything he says, ignore his EOs, and just say no to any unConstitutional proclamations he makes.
Idiocracy and kleptocracy are always joined at the hip.
State governors can always so no dice. That must happen.
Ha that’s great! It was fun to watch the play/film Rent tried to capture that time and place.
Gus Speth was the best administrator that UNDP ever had. He’s correct in pointing out that human failings are biggest environmental threats, and they also apply to war, injustice, and inequality.
Riis Park. (Born in Flatbush). Life Cafe, (at its old location on NE corner of Thompkins Square Park).
Protecting the Russian aggressor makes the war bloodier and longer. And that is just what we are doing. Good reporting by WSJ here but poor choice of photo. www.wsj.com/politics/nat...
Putin’s kompromat is paying dividends beyond his wildest dreams.
@democrats.org shout this out!!!
@demgovs.org should all state this fact. Unify.
Never happen. He brings eyeballs. And hence, ad dollars. He’s lifted profits across the entire media industry.
Presidential material.
Pritzker is crushing it.
And since the Governor retains control over the Guard, he can deploy them to stop any invasion by outside forces.
Gov. Pritzker: “Earlier today in the Oval Office, Donald Trump…asked for me personally to say, ‘Mr. President, can you do us the honor of protecting our city?’ Instead, I say, ‘Mr. President, do not come to Chicago. You are neither wanted here nor needed here.’”
We’ll have to defeat the Nazis all over again. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/america-ti...
I am sounding the alarm on the real crisis we face today. Donald Trump’s overreach is what our founders warned against – it is unprecedented, unwarranted, and un-American. There’s no emergency here that calls for military intervention.
Refuse federalization. Deny access for outside forces. Don’t collaborate with Unconstitutional and illegal acts.
Another 9/11 before the midterms would benefit him greatly.
But burn all copies of the Constitution immediately.
We are lucky he’s just a fat and greedy old pedophile. Imagine if he were a fit and young decorated war hero? You know, like Germany in the 30s.
On one level, I’m not shocked to see a portion of the country and the elite on board with American dictatorship. On the other hand, I am kind of surprised how many people are willing to loyally submit to a fat stupid old pedophile.
A posthumous memoir by one of Jeffrey Epstein’s most prominent accusers, Virginia Roberts Giuffre, will be published this fall.
This brave woman spoke for a thousand others abused as children by TrumpStein.
Israel double tap strike. It murders journalists then sends a drone in to kill the paramedics trying to retrieve their bodies. A war crime, broadcast live and sponsored by the US and Europe. 🚨Boycott EVERY news channel that doesn’t show this footage today🚨
Bombing hospitals takes a special kind of psychopath. And don’t even try saying it harbored terrorists.
On the one hand, it took 1,000 FBI agents to scrub the Epstein Files of references to Donald Trump. On the other hand, we have one of history's most notorious trafficker of underage girls telling us, "Donald Trump? Run along. Nothing to see here."
Just say NO. Simple as that. No federalization of state Guard troops. Not today nor any day.
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.
Cold hard facts.
The State of Illinois at this time has received no requests or outreach from the federal government asking if we need assistance, and we have made no requests for federal intervention.
Good! Deny the illegal attempt to federalize your state Guards. And, Block any outside troops attempting to illegally enter your state.
The Hill became Trumpist agitprop during his first term.
“WILL send the army” Nope “HAS sent the army!”
Epstein survivor Sarah Ransome on Ghislaine Maxwell: “I have spent the last 17 years in my own prison for what she, Jeffrey, and all the co-conspirators did to me. I was raped three times a day. Ghislaine must die in prison.”
And as such, states must refuse federalization of their National Guard.
Yes way past time to organize a boycott of Twitter. Let’s not even call it X. @indivisible.org
Trump always exploits paradoxical situations like this one and they’ve been preparing this one for a long time. But the Governor could win by pointing out that federalization in this case is Unconstitutional and illegal, and use statesmanship to encourage the guards to uphold their oath.
Yes. The Guard remains under state command and control, unless they’re federalized, which in this case, must be refused by the state.
@chefjoseandres.bsky.social for the Nobel.
Yes. But no landing crafts lol.
They aren’t the Marines.
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Refuse federalization. Period.
Refuse federalization. Period.
Activate your National Guard and station them along with your State Troopers at all major points of entry into Illinois. Turn away any uninvited National Guard arriving from other states.
The WSJ is moving toward truth.
Breaking: Trump's next terrorist attack will be on Chicago per WaPo. Several thousand guard and possibly active troops. It's unconstitutional of course but who's going to stop him? His whores on the Supreme Court? www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
Neither Hamilton nor Madison nor Jefferson imagined that all 3 branches of Government would be captured by money. Greed has overwhelmed the Constitution.
Marc: If CA beats Tr*mp in court, then blue state governors would retain control of their Guard. (Of course he would lie and try to usurp that control). But blue governors could deploy their various law enforcement agencies and national guard to block other state guards at their borders. Correct?
Delay. Distract. Disappear. Don’t let it happen.
Sheer hubris.
No offense taken. If he loses in court, then blue state governors would retain control of their Guard. (Of course he would lie and try to usurp that control). But blue governors could deploy their various law enforcement agencies and national guard to block other state guards at their borders.
Wow. A lesson in how to stand up to petty tyrants. substack.com/@sugarrhi/no...
Hold up. National Guard forces are controlled by state governors. Trump’s unprecedented move to federalize CA guard troops was probably illegal and is now being challenged in court. He will face lawsuits in each state where he plans similar moves.
Today, the president threatened to militarily occupy numerous American cities without authorization or rationale. He was also praised by a notorious child sex trafficker, with whom he obviously cut a deal, to cover up evidence he sexually abused kids. The GOP is united behind him. 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
Thanks for your non-attention to this matter!!
“Today would be a good day to release the Epstein files” Is today’s “Today would be a good day to release his taxes.” Remember that pollyannish nonsense? Either there’s force to back up the request or don’t waste my time.
"If you want to have a coup against the constitutional order, you want to control the capital city. And if he has control of the policing in the city of Washington...Who's gonna tell him to leave the White House?" @gtconway.bsky.social joins @jvl.bsky.social:
Exactly. I said this at the beginning.
Even the Italian mafia wouldn’t say that.
People will die because Epstein.
The Epstein files will not be produced. There better be a plan for physically wresting them from whoever has them.
They will find classified documents and they will charge him with a felony and move him quickly to jail. Unlike, oh well, forget it. Are Democrats learning anything??
They will find classified documents and they will charge him with a felony and move him quickly to jail. Unlike, oh well, forget it.
