senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, former chief economist to Senator Rob Portman (R-OH) & director of budget and spending policy for Marco Rubio’s 2016 presidential campaign👇🏽
Yep, I’m freaked out over what has transpired the last 100 days. We all need to get involved to stop the power hungry tyrant. I know I am! And a bit of laughter helps the sanity factor.
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senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, former chief economist to Senator Rob Portman (R-OH) & director of budget and spending policy for Marco Rubio’s 2016 presidential campaign👇🏽
"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:
Dr. Dmitri Daskalakis, who resigned from the CDC says that RFKJr said he believes that Avian flu should be allowed to "burn through" the chickens and then children and others, so we can propagate a "stronger species". RFKJr believes in eugenics. RFKJr needs to resign or be fired.
An(other) actual psychopath.
“ILLEGALS” MY ASS! Green card holder Rami Othmane speaks out after being snatched off the street by ICE while driving to the grocery store. He’s a documented immigrant and the husband of Dr Wafaa Alrashid, chief of staff at a local hospital. He was locked in detention for 13 days.
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"January 6 survivor and former MPD Officer Michael Fanone launches a campaign demanding that federal officers remove their masks, advocating for transparency." Check out our new D.C. campaign demanding federal agents take off their mask! @ofthebraveusa.bsky.social www.wusa9.com/article/news...
Learn to decipher the codespeak.
"This is authoritarian bullying in its purest form. And Vance, I think, in some ways is the worst of the bunch because Vance more than anybody knows better." @radiofreetom.bsky.social joins @timmiller.bsky.social on today's Bulwark Podcast:
Dr. Demetre Daskalakis, who resigned from the CDC, revealed that RFK Jr. has NEVER been briefed by CDC experts on measles, flu, or Covid: “No one from my center has ever briefed him on any of those topics…He’s getting his information from somewhere”
@velshi.com great show tonight on @lastword.msnbc.com night
COMING SOON: "It’s Happening with Velshi & Ruhle” LIVE on YouTube on Sept. 4. @velshi.com & @stephruhle.bsky.social answer your questions and take a look at the major stories at the intersection of business, politics & the economy. Email us your video q's TODAY: Velshiruhlequestions@msnbc.com
Like a deadly virus, created in the lab of bad public policy at the Heritage Foundation, Project 2025 has been let loose on our nation with impacts we are all just beginning to comprehend. My latest on Substack: open.substack.com/pub/jimacost...
My wife, who died very young from a brain tumor, was a brilliant pharmacist who is rolling in her grave right now. She would have known RFK Jr. is a total nut-job! My physician and my Internal Medicine M.D. cousin are saying the same! I have a Master of Science in Health & I'm enraged!
A federal judge has ordered Florida to shut down "Alligator Alcatraz," after the state spent a staggering $218M to build the now-vacant detention camp. Closing it will run taxpayers another $20M. An utterly cruel and costly waste.
I hope people realize how absolutely fucked this situation is. This isn’t normal. People are resigning all over the place because the government is mishandling our data, ruining our public health services, and generally making Americans less safe.
The damage this man has done is incalculable.
wtf is this nonsense? He thinks he can understand kid’s “mitochondrial challenges” just by looking at them? This is an insane person.
We’re going to go on a rant for a minute, and yes we’re bringing some history with us. Back in 1755, Benjamin Franklin wrote words that still echo today: “Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.”
My name is Graham Platner and I’m running for US Senate to defeat Susan Collins and topple the oligarchy that’s destroying our country. I’m a veteran, oysterman, and working class Mainer who’s seen this state become unlivable for working people. And that makes me deeply angry.
In a functional government, this would be a five alarm fire where Congress calls in Kennedy and asks him what the fuck is going on
Abbe Lowell and I represent CDC Director #SusanMonarez. Contrary to govt statements, Dr. Monarez has neither resigned nor yet been fired. She will not resign. We have issued the following statement:
These guys should be home with their families.
Sue this creep.
What you missed overnight night.🥳 Utah's gerrymandered congressional map was struck down. The judge reinstated the citizen-led redistricting reforms voters approved in 2018. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
🚨BREAKING: Third Circuit STRIKES DOWN Pennsylvania requirement that mail-in ballots that arrive in undated or misdated return envelopes be discarded. Court holds that Constitution requires they be counted. A big victory for our clients DSCC and DCCC and PA voters!
Let’s all take a moment to reflect on how this just absolute alpha male sprayed on his hair for TV
John Bolton predicted a ‘retribution Presidency.’ On Friday it came for him. My new column: www.newyorker.com/news/letter-...
@sbg1.bsky.social Thank you for telling it like it is on @stephruhle.bsky.social You keep it up for us out here in TV land. MSM seems to insist on both-siding every damn thing.
UPDATE: Lisa Cook says she's not going anywhere and Trump's bid to fire her is baseless. www.politico.com/news/2025/08...
"Gavin Newsom's Office: "St. Louis' murder rate is a staggering 190% higher than Oakland's. Do you think Fox will cover that?" Nope. But that doesn't stop us."
This is 100% correct.
Dear journalists: The President has not fired Lisa Cook. The President is *trying* to illegally fire her. Your words shape people’s reality. Please be accurate in your reporting.
My heart breaks into 10,000 pieces once again.
www.axios.com/2025/08/26/t... Per Paul Krugman, economist "THIS IS A FIVE-ALARM FIRE WE ARE ALL LISA COOK" She has not been charged with any crime Of course, the first BLACK WOMAN on the FED BOARD OF GOVERNORS Allegedly, mortgage fraud GET OUTRAGED The dollar just took a nose dive
A pardon. @wutangforchildren.bsky.social
Starting in September, Gov. Greg Abbott and GOP lawmakers will make it even harder in Texas to prevent school shootings, suicides, and murders by domestic abusers www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
My law firm is currently litigating 52 voting and election cases in 23 states. This includes the Ohio case we filed on Friday night and the redistricting case challenging Texas' new congressional map. I am thankful for our clients willing to wage these fights. They, not the lawyers, are the heroes.
Florida Decides To Screw Over Kids With Disabilities Even More
🚨BREAKING: Hours after Texas passed its new map, my law firm has challenged it in federal court. In addition to violating the VRA, HB 4 violates the 14th Amendment because it unjustifiably considers race and partisanship as part of a voluntary, mid-cycle redistricting. @redistrictfdn.bsky.social
@rokhanna.bsky.social: “Only 3% of the documents given to the [House] Oversight Committee are new. The rest are already in the public domain. Less than 1% of files have been released. DOJ is stonewalling.” khanna.house.gov/media/press-...
I promised Texas would be sued. And I don't bluff. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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Watch @kendallyb.bsky.socialtalk show was how Kristi Noem is living rent free in military housing that is reserved for coast guard leadership in order to better hide her affair with Corey Lewandowski. This is causing a ripple effect to active duty service members not getting base housing
The only thing we can ‘do’ to stop this is mass, sustained protests. I’m talking protests that are big enough to impact the economy. Folks who aren’t on political social media don’t think it’s bad enough for that yet, though, and I honestly question whether we have the attention span for it at all.
Hoping you are 💯 correct!
Alright folks, here we go! Ask me anything, 30ish mins, gogo!
Here’s what was NOT released today: - the proffer agreement between Maxwell and the DoJ - the agreement transferring Maxwell to club fed - communications showing who waived Maxwell’s sex offender status allowing her transfer and possible work assignments outside prison - the Epstein files
Here is the link to the DOJ's website for the transcripts and audio of Todd Blanche's meetings with Ghislaine Maxwell: [NOTE: The level of fiction in these transcripts borders on the absurd.] www.justice.gov/maxwell-inte...
Just saw all your comments from last night’s post and someone shared a pic, Orlando showed up and used chalk to bring the rainbow crosswalk back! We love this so much!!! ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜
This is so important… Sharon has been tracking license plates on cars driven by ICE agents, and she’s finding they don’t match the vehicles. In other words, ICE is using secret, illegal tactics—just like we suspected. REMINDER: the DMV is not a federal agency. @governor.ca.gov 🧵
More destruction of education.
From "highly CONFLICTED" to "Highly Respected" in just weeks — and all it took was for him to give away 10% of his company
The people who reflexively say that everything happening in the news every day is just a distraction from the Epstein files are allowing themselves to get distracted by the Epstein files from many other things that are incredibly important also.
Newsom: We can’t do things the way we’ve done. Let’s disabuse ourselves of that. The Democratic Party needs to assert itself. We need to be strong again. Strength matters. People want conviction. They want character. They want a sense of intention and purpose…
Outstanding video from Texas to close out the night.
The clearest picture of corporate greed in this country is CEO-to-worker pay ratios. At the 100 lowest-paying major US companies, CEO pay averaged $17.2M in 2024. Median worker pay at these companies was just $35,570. That’s a ratio of 632 to 1. How can anyone defend this?
"Here legally, engaged in a sanctioned process to determine their eligibility for asylum, they have committed no crime. They are arrested anyway, and the lives they’ve risked to come to the United States are thrown into chaos."
Check this shit! Earlier today, ICE tried to break into private property in Lynwood, California — no judicial warrant, no authority. Acting like thugs, not federal agents. Spoiler alert: Lynwood does not play. This trio of goons got sent packing.
The only thing I can say about this paragraph is read it. Sit with it. Read it again. @michaelharriot.bsky.social
Some Putin history over the last 20 years…some of which was cited on @lastword.msnbc.com last night. My latest in the @thebulwark.com www.thebulwark.com/p/putin-alwa...
Led by US senator Jon Ossoff, the investigation cites hundreds of reports since January, including accounts of miscarriages, child neglect, and sexual abuse at ICE detention centers in dozens of states. www.wired.com/story/senate...
Aug. 10th Jaimen Hudson "Somewhere over the rainbow 🙌🏻 I filmed this last Friday while out on my regular morning Cruise. I had to wait for awhile to get this shot but it was definitely worth it!"
So happy to see you on @msnbc @lawrenceodonnell Your perspective is always a must listen for me!
Dear Smithsonian… safeguard the past. Move your archives to Canada before destruction claims them.
Private prison and surveillance companies like Geo Group, CoreCivic, and Palantir just reported massive profits last quarter thanks to lucrative government contracts for Trump's mass deportation machine. All of course donated to Trump's inauguration. They're getting rich off cruelty.
Every single museum in America needs to print out "Actually, slavery WAS that bad" and post it on their front door today.
When people ask me what gives me hope, my answer is simple: you do. Every person who refuses to look away. Every lawyer who files a brief. Every protester who shows up. Every voter who refuses to surrender their rights. You give me hope—not because victory is certain but precisely because it is not.
Mississippi is now sending their National Guard to D.C. too. 🤔 Now seems like a good time to bring up that Mississippi has one of America's highest murder rates; roughly 40% of those killings go unsolved. Maybe THEY need the National Guard.
For the sake of our children, our loved ones, and the futures they deserve, we can’t just stand back and watch this democracy disappear. It’s time to level the playing field. It’s time to fight back.
Can you describe the president's perspective on taking a stake on Intel in exchange for federal grants? Are we expecting to see the white house make similar arrangements with other companies? Leavitt: It is a creative idea that has never been done before China, Russia, NK… all are cry-laughing
NEWS: DNC Chair Ken Martin says TX State Rep. Nicole Collier was threatened with a FELONY charge for speaking on a press call with him, Cory Booker, and Gavin Newsom.
Amen
A beatdown in broad daylight was caught on video: Masked men in tactical vests grappled, tased, and piled onto a delivery worker. Pinning the worker face down on the pavement, agents tased him again and punched him repeatedly in the head.
US army rolling the red carpet to murderer’s plane. I will never forget this image.
Ghislaine Maxwell’s attorney - addressing me directly - says there’s no such thing as prisoner work details outside the facility in the federal prison system. Yes there are. I have receipts.
@briantylercohen.bsky.social: The concern with having American troops in American cities that are answerable to the commander in chief, who has been proven to abuse his powers? Mark Esper, Trump's own secretary of defense in his first term, had to deny Trump's request to shoot protesters in the leg.
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This is A+ trolling
WHAT A MESS — WSMV now says the contract with ICE for a detention center was approved by MASON, TN along with the core civic contract, and votes were miscounted🤔 “mayor admitted he did not know the final decisions” His email: enoeman@townofmasontn.org www.actionnews5.com/2025/08/13/p...
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She's also the only child rapist in history to be moved to a minimum security camp with potential work release one week after meeting with the Deputy Attorney General.
For the record, our division commander BANNED things called “presence patrols” in Iraq. “If you don’t have a specific task & purpose, your ‘presence’ doesn’t do anything.” National Guard stating they are now doing presence patrols in DC. A complete waste of soldier’s time & effort.
Remember last year when the South Korean president tried 2 declare martial law in a blatant power grab, was immediately opposed by both parties, impeached, suspended, removed from office, & ultimately arrested this year for leading an insurrection? Just reminding everyone in case we've forgotten.
This is a turning point for ocean protection: The US goverment is pushing to reverse decades of conservation and allow commercial fishing in Papahānaumokuakea-the planet's largest marine sanctuary. Since 2005, this protected area has sheltered over 7,000 species-
Koh: If he were serious about cutting crime he wouldn't be proposing cutting $400 million from the ATF or cutting $500 million from the FBI, 700 agents or the DEA with with drug enforcement or the office of violence against women, 100 million from there
Since we passed the Affordable Care Act, Republicans have tried over and over to repeal it. And over and over, they’ve failed — in part because millions of people now depend on the ACA for quality, affordable health care.
Used-car prices are “now back near the record high set during the pandemic in 2022.” 🇺🇸 @wsj.com #CPI www.wsj.com/business/aut...
Raskin: In any event, if he really cared about public safety in DC… he would not have pardoned 1600 insurrectionists and violent cop beaters on his first day in office.
Clearly this is not about making DC, or any of us, safer.
BREAKING: EXCLUSIVE: Senator Whitehouse asked the BOP for Ghislaine Maxwells sex offender waiver, custody level, transfer code, and security point score. I have them. She's also been granted the ability to leave the facility for work assignments. My latest: www.muellershewrote.com/p/exclusive-...