NBC was doing the same thing on the local and national news this afternoon.
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NBC was doing the same thing on the local and national news this afternoon.
They have jobs, lives, & families. And Trump is using them as political props. What a waste. Even though Trump is incapable of shame, this is shameful.👇
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Happy Labor Day to all - something on my mind this afternoon - open.substack.com/pub/shanlonw...
There can be no more fitting conclusion to the career of a disgraced politician than to receive recognition from the most corrupt and despicable leader in our history.
Washington's speculation about Trump's health is at a fever pitch. We've seen multiple reasons this summer to ask questions — and the media doesn't seem to care. What's really going on? www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/it-s-time-...
You guys see where this is going? Right?
Pope Bob continuing Pope Francis's love of making moves that anger the trads.
This is nothing else but a hybrid war that Russia wages against Europe Let's name things as they really are:Russia has made an assassination attempt of the President of the European Commission Russia has been jamming GPS-signals over many Eastern Europe countries that are in its immediate vicinity
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.
Out for a stroll on another incredible Chicago day. This is ‘meet me on Milwaukee,’ a car free event in the Wicker Park neighborhood. Happy people & happy dogs everywhere. Remember this when Trump tries to paint an ugly picture of our beautiful city. #chicago
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.
Also, if Dems ever have control of Congress again, I assume they will compel Rob Manfred to testify about the "deal" he struck with POTUS? Very curious to know how secret deals with the president jibe with MLB's anti-trust exemption.
New Mexico is overriding the federal government on the topic of COVID19 vaccines to ensure their residents can access them. States hold a tremendous amount of public health power. They should use it.
As I recently wrote: “Mr. Trump may think his word is law, but neither a social media post nor an executive order has the power of a royal edict“ www.nytimes.com/2025/08/20/o...
This is the type of person Trump pardoned. He proudly asserts that they should have injured a US Capitol Police Officer worse than they did on January 6th (@sergeantaqgo.bsky.social) had to medically retire). But MAGA supports law enforcement? Seriously? Then show me by condemning this guy.
Lucky!
welp. i just went to try to schedule a covid vaccine at the local duane reade and got this pop-up
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...
As we all know, the American Revolution was fought to ensure the chief executive could impose taxes without representation.
"The visible health problems of the oldest president in American history barely registered in mainstream coverage," writes @passantino.bsky.social for Status_. But @nytimes.com 🐔, @wsj.com 🐔🐔 & other major outlets published dozens of stories about Biden's physical fitness while he was in office.
“…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...
This entire article can be summed up as, “Steve Witkoff is an ignorant motherfucker.” www.politico.com/news/2025/08...
This is something @proptermalone.bsky.social talked about a bit in the latest ep of Normal Men. Pretty clear Pulte is doing something highly illegal.
WITH THE HELP OF THE SUPREME COURT just straight up saying it lmao
Gotta say Joni deciding to pull her objections to Hegseth to spare herself a primary challenge only to not even run for re-election is incredibly on brand for a Very Serious National Security Republican
"I am extremely skeptical that Bill Pulte would come across 1/100th as well as Lisa Cook if his paperwork were scrutinized as closely as he has scrutinized Cook’s paperwork" www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
The silence of so many Republican elected officials on so many disastrous policies like this from Trump & Vance is deafening.
This is insanity. This is the sign of a government that has lost its mind.
Consider that this person has direct influence on the President of the United States, but Republicans in Congress are too cowardly to say anything about it.
I’ve seen a lot of fucked up shit in my day, but this might just take the cake.
Robert E. Lee was a mid military tactician, a traitor, and a loser. His best maneuver was the retreat. Other than Chancellorsville, he was entirely unremarkable. His one accomplishment may have been saving a little college in Virginia. He doesn’t deserve honors. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/28/u...
A higher resolution pic than my screenshot that captured the salute, from Alyssa Pointer (Reuters) – press weren’t allowed past the front gate for security reasons.
Vance has taken eight vacations during those 200 days
Someone tell DOGE a way that the gov't could have been more efficient, by not building a stunt concentration camp...
Newsom: Perhaps the president could deploy the National Guard in every corner of Mississippi. Murder rate is out of control there. And the governor may want to make that phone call.
Many students felt unsafe with CBP on campus. Meanwhile, the university’s career center is reassessing its programming for future events. By @afroxander.bsky.social The full story: lataco.com/cal-poly-pro...
The children were literally gunned down as they were praying but other than that rock solid argument, Karoline.
I have never seen so many public servants protest the mismanagement of a government. Trumpists will point to this as proof of the deep state, but the reality is that these are professionals who are desperately trying to get the public to understand how bad things are.
He also said, “I can do anything I want, I’m the president of the United States.” The man wants to be king, but we became our own country to never again be ruled by one.
🚨ICE agents are racially profiling and arresting Hispanic drivers in the DC area today, targeting work vehicles like trucks and vans. A friend who was targeted sent me video today. Here’s a picture that shows one of two agents before he pulled on his mask. Unmarked black Ford truck, plate: NTV9211.
Chicago Catholic Priest, Fr. Michael Pfleger has a message for Donald Trump: “Some Americans will die because of your Medicaid cuts.” #MedicaidCutsKill 🎥Video: @couriernewsroom.bsky.social Instagram
Trump lies about everything. Today, he said there was NO inflation. That’s a lie. But as @JustinWolfers.bsky.social says here, his lies about inflation won’t work bcuz every American knows things are costing more. Have a listen.👇
How did this bad thing happen, says the person responsible for this bad thing happening
“mitochondrial challenges” This man is a fucking lunatic. An absolute imbecilic numpty. A worm-infested sod. And he’s in charge of our health.
Academics once loved Twitter—but in the age of X they’ve abandoned it in droves. www.wired.com/story/bluesk...
Dear people who are saying that the CDC directors who quit yesterday should have “stayed and fought”, With all due respect, you do not grasp the magnitude of the problem of RFK Jr. He is asking them to do unethical and immoral things that will actively harm the people of the United States. 1/3
And current, like Treinan of the Dodgers.
New, from me: America is no longer a functioning democracy. It is a competitive authoritarian system, hurtling rapidly toward authoritarianism. This was a hard piece to write but we can't move forward if we don’t acknowledge where we are. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-author...
Guns may also be contributing to gun violence.
I have to believe that many Americans would get it...if only this image were plastered across the media.
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:
We’re being governed by monsters. Just absolute monsters.
Meteorologists now face a Trump ‘loyalty test’ when applying to National Weather Service jobs. The essay questions — which have nothing to do with meteorology — are part of federal guidelines launched as part of the Trump administration’s efforts to recruit “patriotic Americans” to its workforce.
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The winning. Please make it stop.
National Guard soldiers called into service for President Trump's law enforcement surge in D.C. have been assigned to spread mulch at federal monuments. Normally the Park Service does that, but the administration laid off the workers. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
Once again, there is a class of Democratic officials in DC who are fundamentally unsuited for the current political moment. They can't see that the fascism is the signal, not the noise. And they are unable or unwilling to change their pre-authoritarian approach to politics. It is deeply revealing.
Look, we have a new statement of principles for the Republican Party.
"f you look at the short list of people being considered for the Fed chair job, at least half of them are totally credible, serious economists. They're not necessarily the folks I'd choose, but they're very serious people. The bad news is that half of the group are charlatans."
A Trump "Cabinet Meeting" is the perfect summation of the end of a professional and functioning executive branch. A 2 hour jerk off session in which he spouts endless unchallenged lies and gibberish and the only role for the Cabinet is to jockey for the award for most feckless sychophant.
This is the second day in a row he’s said this. This is an intentional normalization effort.
MAGA Maoism
Reading an article titled "Why didn't Brazilian democracy die?" and a key part of the story is a Supreme Court that actually did its job
They’re making fun of the media referring to Kilmar Abrego Garcia as a Maryland man as they threaten to send him to Uganda, a country where he’s never lived. They’re simply fucking vile.
Japan Post just announced they will no longer deliver mail to the United States, joining Germany, Austria, Denmark, Italy, France, and Sweden.
Of course, Lutnick fails to mention here that CHIPS Act funds were structured based on milestones — as companies built out their projects. Intel has recognized about $2.2B in grants to date.
A man, near the White House, who describes himself as a "retired disabled combat veteran," after burning an American flag tells bystanders "I am being detained because I expressed my First Amendment rights."
native washingtonian here. i've lived in this area my whole life. i've never felt less safe than i have in the past couple weeks.
Every single one of these guys should be locked in a cage somewhere.
Trump is trying to hide the back of his right hand from cameras but here you can see the nasty bruising on it
Listen to the full audio. Everything he says is 100% wrong, including “tariff was not a word until the 1870s.” This is bespoke historical fantasy, unsupported by anything any historian has ever written. The arrogance required to be this wrong is astounding. And he’s basing public policy on it.
I'm still seeing news stories which suggest the US govt purchased a 10% stake in intel. But that's simply not true. They're pointing to money that was already appropriated as part of the CHIPs bill and other programs. Intel gave Trump 10% purely as a result of threats.
Some notes, from an airport, on this dumb performative decision, which is calculated to appeal to vapid totalitarian twats. /1 www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
The ubiquitous right wing talk about getting swooped up by gubmint "black helicopters" was always a form of aspirational projection masquerading as anti-government libertarianism.
Didn't take long to get to this...
he literally thinks he is a king. i mean, this entire media blitz for when he signs executive orders is meant to create the impression that they are royal decrees
They gaslit you all throughout the election.
A conservative New Yorker analysis finds that Trump and his family have made at least $3.4 billion off his presidency, with the vast majority of that coming over the seven months of his second term. Most comes from crypto, including schemes that let people essentially just give him money.
Trump looks like hammered dogshit these days. His ankles are horribly swollen, he's got a weird discoloration on his hand, his eyes are glazed over and he's not even wearing a necktie in the Oval Office anymore. He's rambling more than ever and seems deeply out of it. But Joe Biden, huh.
It’s very conspicuous rewatching this that Trump is desperately trying to hide the back of his right hand from the camera
Don’t forget his bloated face and slitty lizard-like eyes. What’s up with that?
Luttig is communicating vastly more clearly and honestly about Roberts and Scotus than most Democratic officials are. It’s absolutely flabbergasting.
We inch ever closer to the abyss.
“We’re not leaving. We’re going to protect our neighbors” By God this is an American! Squarely in the tradition of a bunch of New England farmers in 1775 who told the most powerful army in the world: you’ll come this far and no further.
So, uh, first off, the US gov't getting a $10b stake in Intel (by converting grants to equity) is not "giving us $10b." And, second, this is insane. Nationalizing US businesses used to be the sorta thing that Republicans freaked out about. As a former Intel employee, I find this all very stupid.
Kicking off now: A faith-led protest in DC’s Columbus Heights neighborhood against Trump’s effort to federalize the DC police force and deploy the national guard.
Phew, the sex trafficker and perjurer exonerated the one man who can free her. I am totally persuaded.
Media reporters: Trump is still adjudicated criminally as a fraud and civilly as a fraud. Get your act together.
The press needs to be talking about mental health. Trump displays every symptom of poor mental health - from grandiosity to delusions to tangentiality to derailment to constant swaying (a clear sign of a neurological condition). Forget politics. He needs significant psychiatric and medical treatment
Trump is mentally ill and needs treatment. I say this as a mental health professional who is concerned about a person who appears to be a danger - if not to himself (because he is so closely watched) - then to others
For the record, the president isn’t the chief law enforcement officer. Also, this is how mafia states are run and he, as usual gives away the game. He says he tells them he “doesn’t want to know about it,” but they get the message. Do what it takes to please Dear Leader. So it happens.
Could we just talk about the hat for a moment. Who in their right mind would think that someone who goes around wearing a hat like this should be president of the United States?
Biden saying this to Elon about Tesla would've been the end of his Presidency
Richard Nixon was impeached in part because he abused his power as chief law enforcement officer (which the president technically is, as chief executive) to levy the power of the state against political enemies and obstruct justice to cover up his own crimes Trump makes Nixon look like an amateur