Concern over low birth rates was what the theocracy in Margaret Atwood’s Handmaid’s Tale used to come to power.
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Concern over low birth rates was what the theocracy in Margaret Atwood’s Handmaid’s Tale used to come to power.
Hey @jaketapper.bsky.social, what’s the timeline for the book on how the President went missing like a week after he had weird bruising on his hands?
I understand the need for hope so do as you want but, what that we know about the president would ever make us think he would resign as the most powerful person in the world?
We’re only a few years removed from creatjng a vaccine to protect against a deadly airborne virus in a matter of months. Now, we have a scion fail son running the CDC into the ground not because it failed, but because its success conflicts with RFK Jr’s eugenicist ideology.
Headline: Biden coverup made it impossible to see Trump's body disintegrating
Video shows white teens punching him while yelling racial slurs like “F*** that n up” and “kill that n.”At one point, they shoved him against a meat grinder, then slammed him to the ground and kept beating him. This is not “kids being kids.” This is racial violence in 2025, in Wisconsin. 2/4
The victim was identified as Keontae. He managed to escape and called his mom from a cornfield an hour away. Thankfully, he did not suffer serious physical injuries, but local leaders say the emotional scars are already heavy—mistrust, fear, and trauma. 4/4 www.wkow.com/news/top-sto...
Local news: If you watch it through, it sounds like the police are referring to this as a “fight.” This wasn’t a fight. It was a race-based attack. On August 16, 2025, a 14 YO Black teen from Platteville, Wisconsin, was attacked by white teens at a party in the town of Pulaski, Iowa County. 3/4
This should be getting far more attention from the media, and it should be investigated as a hate crime. A 14-year-old Black teen was targeted, beaten, and dehumanized with racial slurs by white teens while people stood around cheering. 1/4
A shout-out to Portland, Little Rock, Ocean City, San Diego, Indianapolis, Salem, Denver, Asheville, and Pittsburgh!
Here in the US, “two weeks” actually means never.
Dump is trying to convince people that he is ok and posted this picture of himself playing golf with Jon Gruden. As all things Dump, seems to be a lie. Seems that picture was taken August 23rd. Seriously, is Dump ok?
A Labor Day message by Gov. Gavin Newsom’s Press Office — They didn’t hold back with this one lol
Un bebé fallecido por tos ferina. En 2025. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
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Yeah, he's dead.
The pic of TACO from this weekend it old, from 2019, or so many are saying. I don’t know if that’s true, but I am confident his latest social media posts are not from him. So I continue to indulge my favorite thought. Keeps me grounded
Where is the mainsteam media? Anyone out there? Can you hear me???
Fatality.
DESCRIPTION: self-described alpha male, wearing body armor, assault rifle, and wraparound sunglasses because he’s “afraid of nothing.”
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Marc Elias: "Congressman Raskin, rather than raising money to win by 85% instead of 82%, raises money to train a corps of young people to be engaged in politics, elections, and issues. It is a great program he runs every summer called Democracy Summer." Let's have more of these projects!
A Labor Day reminder: today there isn't a single city, metro area, or state in the U.S. where a full-time minimum-wage worker can afford a modest 2-bedroom apartment. Millions of people with jobs—even multiple jobs—aren't safe from homelessness in this country.
Just sayin’.
Fifty-one of the 85 Federalist papers were written by a guy born in Nevis.
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👇🏽
Just had to pass this along again, in honor of all the working people who keep America going. #LaborDayWeekend
If you enjoy… Weekends Safe working conditions Retirement benefits Paid vacations Breaks at work Sick leave Paid holidays … then you’re part of the labor movement. Happy Labor Day.
🚨 “The people united will never be divided!” Happening in OUR nation’s capital today. 1/2
NEW: Since corporate media won't call for Trump's resignation, I will. My latest: www.muellershewrote.com/p/trump-must...
I like the rebrand.
Can the media STOP referring to Jeffrey Epstein as a “financier”? The money he made came from SEX TRAFFICKING MINORS, RAPING CHILDREN, and BLACKMAIL. He was NOT a financier. I’ve seen at least five stories from three outlets refer to him this way in the past week. This is the latest from the Times:
An upcoming news conference with victims of Jeffrey Epstein could be “explosive,” one of the congressmen pushing for full release of the files on Epstein predicts. Democratic Rep. Ro Khanna said the victims’ accounts will force lawmakers to vote on a bill requiring DOJ to release its files.
“Firefighter arrested by US border agents was on track for legal status, lawyers say. Lawyers say arrest of man fighting Bear Gulch fire in Oregon was illegal and demand immediate release from detention. “ www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Pritzker: "We don't want troops on the streets of American cities. That's un-American and frankly the president ought to know better. This one doesn't seem to. He hasn't read any books. He doesn't seem to understand the Constitution or the laws."
One thing that's particularly maddening about what's happening today—beyond that it's happening—is that when people talk about how we are moving toward authoritarianism, toward fascism, by a collection of narcissistic sociopaths, many Americans' eyes glaze over.
RADDATZ: You talk about what can be done. After shootings in Buffalo & Uvalde, Congress passed a bipartisan Safer Communities Act. It provided hundreds of millions for schools to expand mental health services. You didn't vote for it. Why? TOM EMMER: I don't remember the reasons I didn't vote for it
A mother is filing a $1 million claim after her 15-year-old son was held at gunpoint by immigration goons in Los Angeles.
Pure fucking evil. Everyone involved in this shit needs to be held accountable.
WELKER: Do you have 100% confidence in Secretary Kennedy? LANKFORD: I believe he's who the president picked. He's challenging some of the assumption - what is it about autism? He seems to be following the science WELKER: The science has debunked links between autism & vaccines for more than 20 yrs
He won’t let the press anywhere near him. This is getting weirder and weirder.
GOP Rep Chuck Edwards is confronted by infuriated constituents at his town hall.
Media should hound him at least half as much as they hounded Biden. But they won’t.
🙃 #GavinNewsom #EpsteinFiles
This is the most compelling case I’ve seen yet that America is no longer a democracy but an authoritarian state. Not a *soon-to-be* authoritarian state—a *current* one.
What a ridiculous person.
Everything we take for granted — weekends, paid vacations, sick leave, safer workplaces, health care — exists because of unions.
RFK Jr: “If you’ve ever compared an unvaccinated kid to a vaccinated kid… you see the bright eyes, the engagement, the social interactions, the curiosity. They’re completely different.“ Normally they put people who say things like that, in a mental asylum.
An excellent idea!! Blue States make the money, Red States take the money. The. Biggest welfare queens are the red states.
I miss the days when the CDC and the FDA were just quietly operating in the background and there was little reason for the average person to even think about them.
I’m absolutely begging reporters to stop suggesting that Lisa Cook stated that she would use both properties as a principal residence on her mortgage APPLICATIONS Mortgage APPLICATIONS and mortgage AGREEMENTS are not the same thing We have no idea what she represented on the APPLICATIONS
No matter what @MarshaBlackburn keeps saying, it’s not criminals they’re targeting. www.cnn.com/2025/08/30/u...
not just that he has no constitutional authority, there isn't even any particular legal or institutional mechanism by which the president can make anyone treat this as anything other than a weird advisory opinion.
#EpsteinFiles Remember the victims will be holding a press conference this week with lawyers and lawmakers. This is not going away. 💙
Why do you appreciate unions? I’ll start: Weekends off Paid vacations Work breaks Sick leave Paid holidays No child labor Safer working conditions Health care and retirement benefits
Exactly😂
SIGNS OF FASCISM 🪧
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Thousands of farm animals & livestock are going unattended. They aren’t being milked. They aren’t being fed. I feel a great deal more for those animals than for the farmers who voted for this shit. They KNEW who their workers were & where they came from. But they voted to hurt them anyway.
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My own version of this is that I was just in Washington County, Maine, a solidly purple county, and saw only a single Trump sign when in previous years I’ve seen multiple (even in non-election years).
I’ve heard from a couple of messaging strategists now that people shouldn’t post so much about COVID19 vaccines because it’s “divisive”. I am here to say that I do not give a damn what is popular. I will never ignore scientific evidence for the sake of expediency, and neither should anyone else.
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My reporting uncovered the existence of DoJ training videos instructing FBI personnel on how to flag Trump’s name in the Epstein files. I’m suing to get the videos under FOIA. substack.com/@muellershew...
The Social Security Administration official who exposed that the Department of Government Efficiency had left millions of Americans’ personal data vulnerable says he has been forced to resign due to retaliation. Charles Borges, who served as the SSA’s chief data officer, told
“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.
These spineless people won’t do damn thing.
ICYMI — JUDGE: “This case represents the consequences of a decades long drumbeat of anti-immigrant sentiment and misinformation being broadcast & broadcast & broadcast…” 2 immigrants shot in Washington, gunman sentenced in June. Barely even a story. 🤷🏻♂️ www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/g...
At least SOME countries recognize the value of NATURE and all its offerings.
This firefighter arrived in the US at age 4, has been here for 19 years, was on track to legal status, and was on a crew trying to contain a major blaze (in Washington state, vs Oregon, fwiw.) h/t @joshuajfriedman.com www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
In a national poll, 9 out of 10 American flags prefer Governor Gavin Christopher Newsom.
This part. Everyone should be taking notes from @ivehaditpodcast.bsky.social’s @mizzwelch.bsky.social
I really hope this becomes the black eye it deserves to be www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Mike Johnson is a mild mannered, closeted, silver tongued sociopath. #TrumpsLimpLittleDick
@nealkatyal.bsky.social: “You’ve got the president who's imposed the largest tax increase on American consumers since 1993 … and he did it without Congress saying one word. That is not our constitutional structure.”
Complete dangerous lunatic!
If prayer really worked, I would have woken up to an enormous headline this morning.
CHICAGO…
In America they hang pictures of traitors in their military academies
"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...
Denying Palestinian officials this same access breaks with that precedent. It isn’t just unusual, it’s a dangerous deviation from norms the United States has upheld for decades!
Iran, North Korea, Cuba, and Syria (all under broad U.S. sanctions) still attend the UN General Assembly without obstruction. Their presence underscores a long-standing commitment to international law and the principle that diplomacy, not isolation, takes center stage at the UN.
Under the UN Headquarters Agreement, the United States is required to provide access to representatives traveling to the UN, regardless of political disputes. That’s why, year after year, delegations from countries like
effectively blocking them from attending next month’s United Nations General Assembly. By tradition and by obligation, the U.S. issues visas to allow foreign leaders to participate at U.N. headquarters in New York, even for governments under some of the harshest American sanctions.
This isn’t normal, but then again, nothing they do ever is. And yes, this is fucked up, but so is almost everything else coming out of this administration. So here’s what’s going on. Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced that the United States will not grant visas to Palestinian officials,
🚨🚨🚨Police draw a firearm IN A CLASSROOM. Details at the end of the video. There is something terribly wrong when a law enforcement officer is unable to use critical thinking skills in order to take different actions to protect all involved.
In all seriousness if Meta stopped existing today the world would be orders of magnitude improved
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Trump wasn't seen yesterday by the White House press pool. He wasn't seen today. He has no public events scheduled this weekend. Trump hasn't been seen in public since Weds, and it's unclear if he'll be seen in public until Tues. That's pretty damn weird.
“Do you guys feel bad about what you’re doing? Don’t you f*cking hate yourselves?”