Deporting the people who are constructing our homes will not solve the housing crisis. Nor will declaring an emergency.
Deporting the people who are constructing our homes will not solve the housing crisis. Nor will declaring an emergency.
Remember the Goolsbee Rule, also called the “pathological irony of crisis”: If you lose credibility, your statements begin to mean the opposite of what you say.
9 CDC Directors going back to 1977 speak out. What RFK Jr has done to our nation’s public health system "should alarm every American." It "is unlike anything we have ever seen at the agency, and unlike anything our country has ever experienced." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...
CHICAGO…
“…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.” My latest in @thebulwark.com www.thebulwark.com/p/honoring-a...
Mulch stops crime!
Learn to decipher the codespeak.
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Reason 4857 why health care should never be for profit: AI DEATH PANELS. This is the same kind of program used to deny claims at United Health, and they want to use this for VA claims, too.
"Ashli Babbitt was a grown ass adult who made a series of conscious, ill-advised decisions to engage in treasonous behavior, and she got exactly what she deserved. She was a traitor. She was a threat to national security. There is no nuance needed here."
They're now saying it out loud: The Administration's goal is to undo the political independence that Congress granted the Fed, so that the President can directly set rates.
NEW: Kilmar Abrego Garcia is asking a federal judge for a gag order against Kristi Noem, Pam Bondi and their subordinates. w/ @joshgerstein.bsky.social www.politico.com/news/2025/08...
Donald Trump was found guilty on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records.
Here is Pritsker's speech from yesterday. Charlie Sykes posted it. substack.com/@sykescharli...
“The hiring of an election conspiracy theorist with no election knowledge or expertise is the culmination of this reversal,” said David Becker of the Center for Election Innovation & Research. “DHS now appears poised to become a primary amplifier of false election conspiracies.”
Veterans are speaking out. Trump's use of Troops against Americans isn't leadership—it's an abuse of power. We served the Constitution, not a king, a bully, or a dictator.
Four Palestinian journalists, a rescue worker and several more people were killed on Monday after two Israeli strikes hit a hospital in southern Gaza on Monday, according to local officials. Israel confirmed its forces struck the hospital area, without saying why.
A disgusting, vindictive prosecution of this poor man by the Trump DOJ, led by law-lackey, Pamela Jo Bondi.
If DOJ has evidence of criminal conduct by Kilmar Abrego Garcia, why are they deporting him without a trial? www.wsj.com/us-news/law/...
We’re 7 months in, and “Pentagon plans military deployment in Chicago” is a headline in the Washington Post. And because it’s city number three, we’re already numbing to it. If you read this about any other democracy in the world, you’d conclude that it was well on the road to a dictatorship.
It’s not the first time Jim Jordan has covered for sexual abusers. The Republican Party is no longer functioning as a political party. It’s a child sex trafficking and sexual abuse ring. Reprehensible.
False statements - information is, by definition, true.
NFL teams to again stencil social justice messages in end zones.
It’s very conspicuous rewatching this that Trump is desperately trying to hide the back of his right hand from the camera
NEW: The government has offered Mr. Abrego deportation to Costa Rica if he pleads guilty, and threatened deportation Uganda if he does not. According to his lawyers in a new filing, that violates his 5th Amendment due process rights. My latest: www.muellershewrote.com/p/the-govern...
In preparing the nation for federal military takeovers of policing in Chicago, NY, and other major cities, Trump said his takeover of DC had produced a murder-free week “the first time in memory.” Only if you have the memory of a bowl of jello! DC had lots of weeks with no homicides this Feb & March
I love Eric’s sense of humor. Serious guy who can crack a good joke.
NOW: The FBI is executing a search warrant on John Bolton’s home. www.newsweek.com/john-bolton-...
Capitalism works when competition decides winners. The President is swapping market tests for political favors—mates rates, not merit. It leads companies to spend more on K Street than R&D. The result: fewer breakthroughs, slower growth, and lower incomes. But it won't happen overnight.
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Novo Nordisk’s move to cut the price of Ozempic to $499 for the uninsured is a modest step forward, but let’s not forget. Ozempic costs just $59 in Germany while it costs less than $5 to make. The U.S. must no longer pay the highest prices in the world for prescription drugs.
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Federal agents violently detained a food delivery driver as he emerged from a D.C. coffee shop Saturday morning. The incident captured on video showed the officers throwing him to the ground and beating him before sweeping him away in an unmarked vehicle. wapo.st/45Egtkc
If you haven’t seen this, it’s about time you did. Sound up!
RADDATZ: The president went in to that meeting saying he wanted a ceasefire and there would be consequences if they didn't agree on a ceasefire in that meeting, and they didn't agree to a ceasefire. Where are the consequences? RUBIO: That's not the aim RADDATZ: The president said that was the aim
Rubio repeatedly won't name a single specific concession that Russia will have to give up as part of a peace deal, then pivots to talking about land that Ukraine will have to give up
No offense to Trump, who tries his best, but Putin is clearly the alpha sociopath of the duo.
How about Donald?
"When he was taken into custody Friday, immigration agents tied his dog to a tree and then unclipped his collar, allowing the animal to run loose on Sepulveda Boulevard"
🚨BREAKING: Supreme Court will hear oral argument in critical rehearing in Louisiana redistricting case on October 15. This timing raises the threat that the Court could be looking to limit or strike down VRA Section 2 in advance of 2026 midterm elections. www.democracydocket.com/cases/louisi...
BBC International Editor Jeremy Bowen has confirmed that the entire Al Jazeera team in Gaza City has been killed.
To keep loyalists at the helm of U.S. attorneys' offices, legal experts warn that Trump and the DOJ are exploiting loopholes and making extraordinary claims of presidential power that circumvent the appointment processes outlined in the Constitution and federal law.
Kelly: "I had another situation here with a kid who was on his little league trip in a baseball tournament. Border Patrol pulls over the vehicle, identifies the brown kid, he winds up in lockup for a week...this isn't what the American people wanted and I don't think it's consistent with our values"
This is exactly why Dems get their ass handed to them by Trump's world. They have no clue how to leverage social media algos to their advantage. open.substack.com/pub/weaponiz...
GOV. PRITZKER: "It's cheating. Trump is a cheater. He cheats on his wives. He cheats at golf. And now he's trying to cheat the American people out of their votes."
The winners of the midterms are already working on how to integrate ChatGPT , Gemini , etc into their campaigns. Millions of voters will simply ask " who should I vote for this election"
Multiple times this year I’ve had coffee with fellow immigrants who grew up in corrupt third world countries and the shared sentiment has been that Americans don’t understand how bad things are going to get.
I realize broad science-literacy problems cannot generally be solved just by shoving more facts at people but I really wish more people understood that the entire purpose and mechanism of a vaccine is to educate your OWN immune system, making it about the most "natural" medical intervention possible
A government-sanctioned "truth arbiter" will soon arrive at CBS. Their role will be to ensure that journalists do not criticize this Administration or express views that conflict with its agenda. This is a betrayal—not just of journalistic independence, but of the public trust. 🧵
Do Americans support increasing, decreasing or stopping, or maintaining the same level of military aid to Israel? (Economist / @today.yougov.com) More, via Opinion Today: opiniontoday.substack.com/p/250806-top...
. . . nearly $5 near me in CA.
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Thomas Massey pointing out Republican hypocrisy
NEW: @wyden.senate.gov asked the Social Security Admin’s Office of the Chief Actuary what Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” would do to Social Security’s solvency — and as expected they said it will cause Social Security to run out of money more quickly: 2032Q4 instead of 2033Q1 (4-5 months earlier).
Reminder that in 2021, Senate Republicans filibustered a bill that would have banned partisan gerrymandering of congressional districts.
US steps up efforts to help Bolsonaro avoid jail over alleged coup plot
Scoop @puck.news: Carol Leonnig, a 25-year veteran of The Washington Post, is leaving the paper and joining MSNBC. The latest in the long and extensive exodus of Washington Post journalists under CEO Will Lewis.
Why didn't Todd Blanche talk to the victims to get the names of the perpetrators?
. . .and lead paint.
Good info:
Pete Hegseth says, “I’ll drink to that!”
This is Virginia Guiffre's statement to Ghislane Maxwell, read by Guiffre's attorney in court the day Maxwell was sentenced. I had to divide it into 2 parts. Please read each & share. These are the words of a child rape victim, a victim of the monster Trump now protecting & arranging her freedom.
Can’t wait for those drug companies to pay me, for a change.
NEWS --> An internal Homeland Security memo suggests Trump's use of military for domestic enforcement is about to get worse. It details top-level talks between Defense Department and DHS on what this should look like. Experts say it's alarming. We obtained the memo: newrepublic.com/article/1987...
“A hunger strike at a South Florida immigration detention center state officials have named “Alligator Alcatraz” has entered its tenth day, as detainees protest what they call inhumane and dangerous living conditions.”
Finishing the week with a very special program. Public speaker and Epstein survivor Jess Michaels joins today to ask: would you like Ghislaine Maxwell released into your community? Plus Harry Dunn on Trump erasing history. See you at 4p ET / 1p PT on Substack and later on YouTube.
From May: “Trump Media’s SEC filings say the company paid CEO Devin Nunes $47,640,469 last year” www.barrons.com/articles/djt...
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They’re not just redrawing districts. They’re rigging democracy. Texas proposed a map that could wipe out 5 Democratic seats— and they’re not stopping there. Gerrymandering is the biggest threat to our democracy. And, if we don’t fight back now, we forfeit fair elections. @katiephang.bsky.social
Are there DHS posts saying that she is in Argentina with longtime paramour, Cory Lewendowski? Both are married. And we taxpayers are footing the bill.
In case you are keeping track at home, Trump has successfully turned the US government into the largest extortion racket in history. open.substack.com/pub/charlies...
Also, this Trump IG just left the DoJ after he conveniently LOST the Bove whistleblower complaint because Trump has installed him as the watchdog for the Federal Reserve. NOTHING TO SEE HERE.
NEW: The FBI and DOJ have the original Epstein jail video, and their copy doesn't have a missing minute like the one they released to the public. They should release the missing minute. www.cbsnews.com/news/jeffrey...
Shameful
Riding Kristi Noem
They’ve been an item for years. Both have spouses and kids.
1/ Important: "Epstein was actually still on the Mar-a-Lago membership logs up to 2007. ... That of course is a year after Jeffrey Epstein's arrest in Florida." So Trump didn't kick him out for many years after knowing Epstein 'stole' Virginia Giuffre from MAL in 2000. 🧵
2/ Here's the Miami Herald piece that Barry Levine referenced: "A footnote in the book says the authors were shown the club’s registry from more than a decade earlier and that Epstein in fact had been a member until October 2007." www.miamiherald.com/news/state/f...
Unbelievable: “The Senate confirmed former Trump lawyer Emil Bove 50-49 for a lifetime appointment as a federal appeals court judge Tuesday as Republicans dismissed whistleblower complaints about his conduct at the Justice Department.” apnews.com/article/emil...
Yes, this IS absolute madness.
Lordy, there are tapes
"The man who is not yet mayor is to blame for a shooting that happened under the watch of an ex-cop mayor who's thrown every available dollar at the NYPD," insists sex pest
Keir Starmer says UK will recognise Palestinian statehood in September unless Israel agrees ceasefire and two-state solution – UK politics live
We should be incredibly skeptical when Trump announces big investment promises as part of his trade deals — when China promised to buy more US imports in Trump’s first term, they didn’t even meet baseline levels.
Donald Trump says he wants to keep Americans safe from fentanyl. Yet, he's once again putting lives at stake as he slashes and burns the very programs actually lowering overdose death rates and implementing recovery and health programs.
Only the actual grand jury information is implicated by this restriction. Not the agency files. Those files may be subject to other statutory restrictions on disclosure, of course, but that’s not what Mullin is talking about.
In Markwayne’s defense, he’s actually two people named Mark and Wayne in a trench coat, and today only Wayne, who’s not exactly the brains of the operation, showed up for work.
Just learned that Mike Johnson, before coming to Congress claimed to be the Dean of a law school named after a pedophile. Which may explain a few things. Notably…
On March 15, President Donald Trump’s administration sent more than 230 Venezuelan immigrants to a prison in El Salvador. Last week, the men were released as suddenly as they’d been taken away. Now, their stories will begin to be told. Starting here 👇
Exclusive: The former senior CIA officer who helped oversee the 2017 intelligence assessment on Russia’s interference in the 2016 election says DNI Tulsi Gabbard and the White House are “lying” when they claim that it was an attempt to sabotage President Trump.