Trump REALLY, REALLY, REALLY doesn't want the Epstein files released.
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Trump REALLY, REALLY, REALLY doesn't want the Epstein files released.
Okay but you're the one we don't want in OUR party, so...
Primary primary primary primary.
Read about how Francis J. Allman, Chief Judge of Florida’s Second Judicial District, is an un-American censorial fascist thug worthy of contempt.
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💯, all of this (And also our fascist hellhole of a country, which has ALREADY BANNED CHILDREN FROM THE LITTLE LEAGUE WORLD SERIES BASED ON NATIONAL ORIGIN, should not be hosting the Olympics. 🙅🏼♀️)
This is what Nazis look like.
© Andre Kohn. 'The Yellow Umbrella.' Oil on canvas, 51 × 88 cm.
[Chuck Schumer looks over the political landscape, then sits down on his rocking chair on his porch. He turns to his imaginary couple, the Baileys, and says knowingly]: What we really need is another septuagenarian Senator. [Baileys nod enthusiastically]
THEY ARE ALL SO BAD AT THIS.
Oh look, appeasement of fascists still doesn't work. Shocked, I am shocked.
you'd think the governor of illinois basically going "we're being invaded by an authoritarian" would be something you'd see real easy on the front page of most everything an hour later
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sure does feel like every time I see this man in front of a microphone lately my response is “thank fuck someone besides us is finally saying it”
Everything is fine. 🙃
I feel like in the 1980’s/90’s this would be a major plot point in a Tom Clancy novel, and the operation would be carried out as an off-book, illegal black op, with various characters trying to cover it up lest they face congressional hearings. Now the President just announces it.
The Chicago Mexican Independence Day parade in Pilsen is on the 6th, the one in Little Village is on the 14th. I am going to pay close attention to whatever calls for support are made by the organizers.
Very excited for these!
The Aussie press not holding back when it comes to its coverage of neo-Nazis.
Intel Corp., whose new largest shareholder is the US government, isn’t renewing a partnership with North Carolina Central University’s law school that sought to increase the company’s pipeline of recruits from diverse groups
BREAKING: Judge Breyer rules that President Trump's deployment of the military to Los Angeles violated the Posse Comitatus Act, says Trump is using military as a "national police force with the president as its chief." Injunction granted. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Wut. Rahm can go join Bill at the farm upstate.
I have a 3-legged Siamese cat who can only really swat if she's standing on her back legs, so I get screeches and play bites when I am petting incorrectly. 😹
The president has been spotted in silhouette dancing in front of his bedroom window in the White House. Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree is playing loudly. He seems in good spirits.
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When is Judge Sooknanan's birthday? Sparkle Sooknanan Day needs to be an official bluesky holiday. 🦋 ✨
Normal White House things.
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That is very important work!
Tough to try to reasonably call this body antisemitic but they’ll try it!
Judge Sooknanan is giving a master class in judging during the Trump Administration -- but really in how judges should always value the people whose lives are affected by their decisions.
Trump/RFK are decapitating our public health system, a pillar of American greatness. So Dem Govs should scour every corner of the law for creative new ways to defend their people from this madness. Dems should polarize this debate to the max. Thoughts on this here: newrepublic.com/article/1998...
I think part of school is to give one a general preparation for life, which includes sometimes having to unplug and concentrate fully on something irl. Moreover, ICE must be destroyed
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JUST IN: Drew Ensign, on behalf of DOJ, reports that all of the migrant children have been returned to ORR custody.
Keir Starmer just appointed Tim Allan, a board member of the anti trans hate group, Sex Matters, to be his new communications director.
So all of his hot takes are bad, regardless of the topic. Noted.
Back in the day, when people were cheering for the Bulls, they were mostly fans of teamwork who occasionally acknowledged Horace Grant.
⬇️ Old thread that I didn't know I needed this morning. I didn't listen to all of them, but damn, I def recommend the last one. He absolutely shreds on guitar.
replacing Batman fight onomatopoeiae with old midwestern brewery names
I’ll never be able to accept how fucking stupid people are.
Agree w this thread 100% And well-intentioned calls for progressives to empathize or offer advice and support to these guys miss this key point. They aren't looking for advice on finding a connection, getting women to like them. They're looking for someone to hand them sex mommy...
Let's have this asshole speak at the DNC again. 🙄
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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.
Fucking INSANE scenes in this country of ours where a judge needs to do a bed check for scared children because our government is trying to ship them to a place they don't want to go
Everything in this country is garbage, very much including our federal judiciary, which at higher levels will continue bowing to Dear Leader, but I still think it's important to: 1. Acknowledge the judges who are still trying to stop these horrors, and 2. Note that THIS SHIT ISN'T NORMAL.
The extent to which ICE is ignoring all civil rights and due process is astounding — and indicative of a culture where they’ve been told they can do literally no wrong. Agency and admin leaders must face sanctions and legal consequences.
This “explicit” is a weird editorial choice. The constitution gives the president no power over this at all. It’s not ambiguous.
you’re posting about random BS, i’m checking the apps to find out if i have to go through checkpoints to go home. we are not the same, but one day soon we will be. free dc.
One of the first times I ever converted my father (silent gen!) on a policy position was when he complained about this exact thing, and I said the government would waste less money by cutting everyone over 65 a flat check. Means testing is a huge money sink!
Pritzker: Over the last four years, we have seen homicides drop in half. That’s something the President should pay attention to. I know he doesn’t read but I know he watches TV so perhaps if someone from Fox or Newsmax is here
That IS the dream! 🥰
I’m just saying that when it happens I’m jumping out of bed, running to my window, and tossing a coin to a boy to buy the biggest goose in town
I can't get too excited because I just don't think we're that lucky but I also can't overstate how much this would make an already excellent birthday even better.
Me too! Virgo power.
No updates/no sightings... but thank you to EVERYONE who's looked. We have one trap in the backyard ("smelly fish and water!") and one more is on the way, and my friend M is coming to sleep over for the next few days till I get back. 🥹 I have a good community and good friends I am very lucky
Why thank you!
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Merci!
Thank youuuu!
I refer to her as "bad Bradley," because we used to also have a good Bradley on SCOWIS. Yes, at the same time. Yes, they were both white women. Yes, I occasionally mixed up their first names when writing in the middle of the night. Welcome to Wisconsin. 🧀
Art depicting “Sandwich Guy” now at the scene of the alleged misdemeanor.
If your kid is on a Lego Robotics team, this is pretty bad. There will be schools who won't be able to compete due to increased costs
This is good: With Trump/RFK destroying CDC, JB Pritzker's officials are exploring the possibility of buying Covid vaccines from manufacturers and distributing them in-state themselves, source tells me. Dem govs must step up and fill the void. New piece from me: newrepublic.com/article/1998...
The Nazis took power in Germany in January 1933. In May of the same year, the Institute for Sexual Science in Berlin was ransacked and closed. It was the worlds first academic institution that researched people that we would call trans today. The fascists always come for trans people first.
What people always miss is that it isn't just about politics — or even really about politics at all, when you get down to it. It's about what your politics say about you as a human being. I have no interest in sharing space with people who see others as subhuman. 💁🏼♀️
Another banger!
Why thank you!
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Paying AI to deny medical claims instead of a functioning healthcare system. Great job we're doing over here.
Ugh. I'm just glad she's gone from SCOWIS after this year, she's the fucking worst.
I'm listening to a silly playlist, and, well... Partyin, partying, YEAH! @buckrawheat.bsky.social how much do you miss me?
I am choosing to believe this announcement came out today as a birthday present to me. 🎉 🥂 Byeeeeeeeee, bad Bradley! www.wpr.org/news/justice...
Never forget that Peter Thiel is a real-life supervillain.
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Every Democrat should be talking like this
Good piece, includes the fact that Pulte was investigated for giving $500K to a Trump superpac via his wife and a shell company he controlled.
They usually can! Until 2025, when they actually failed to indict a Subway sub.
This is a purposeful endangerment through stochastic terrorism and willful efforts to undermine our democracy
the founders envisioned a madman potentially becoming president what the founders did not envision was the majority of Congress and the Supreme Court becoming part of a cult of personality around said president. it’s both pathetic and horrifying
More or less universally a country seeking to limit foreigners studying in that country is a sign of a society, culture, great power in severe decline.
The main people who got us here cannot get us out. That's what everyone is seeing in real time.
They are disappearing undesirables. They are deploying the military into cities. And now they are trying to commandeer railway stations. I can’t put my finger on it but this sounds familiar.
The only reason for Emil Bove to be still showing up for Trump administration photo opps (in this photo from Trump’s D.C. takeover, peeking out at top right) is that Emil Bove understands himself to be part of the Trump administration on an ongoing basis www.nytimes.com/2025/08/29/u...
ok this is...absurd I mean we knew that he would continue working in Trump's interest on the bench but literally continuing to work for Trump post-confirmation is ???? I know it's kinda trite at this point to acknowledge the hypocrisy but MAN can you imagine if, say, Dale Ho kept doing ACLU work?
Me, every day:
Pretty sure the feds are setting records here for failed indictments.
I was wrong, keep her there. 💁🏼♀️
"I stand right in the fucking way of anyone who's going to try to come after the freedoms of the LGBTQIA+ community," he wrote in a Reddit AMA. On X, he put it baldly: "There is a genocide happening in Palestine."
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.
NASA Marsquake Data Reveals Lumpy Nature of Red Planet’s Interior Fragments from the aftermath of massive impacts on Mars that occurred 4.5 billion years ago have been detected deep below the planet’s surface, thanks to the now-retired InSight lander. www.nasa.gov/missions/ins... 🧪🔭 #Mars #InSight
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There is no route out of fascism that involves sacrificing the vulnerable. All that does is tell the fascists that we're willing to turn on each other for the illusion of safety.
Sacrificing whole groups of people is the path to fascism, not the path away from it
oh my god I mean I've heard Zohran speak before but boy if you don't understand why that Columbia admissions smear was never gonna stick with the black community, you listen to him here and you get it. god damn he's good.
They're openly calling to lock up every trans person by force. We need every ally to speak out forcefully against this because trans folks cannot do this on our own.
I decided to tell myself this is parody because I refuse to believe someone is really mad about someone answering their phone by saying hello.