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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 Rubioās 2016 presidential campaignšš½
If you're 60, 69.1% of all job growth since your birth occurred under Democratic administrations. If you're 45, that number is 74.7%. If you're under 28, the number is 100%. Happy Labor Day.
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When the bell finally tolls, all of this will start to unravel and the sychophantic cultists will pretend they were never part of it. There must be no rehabilitation for any of them. No Leavitt on Dancing With the Stars. No Gabbard as CNN analyst. None of it for any of them. #NoPardons
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."
He wonāt let the press anywhere near him. This is getting weirder and weirder.
I used to have a modicum of hope for Lankford. Me and my misplaced optimism, or as soccer fans say, "Hope Kills".
Life for Palestinians in Gaza has gotten worse under Trump, not better. So where are Jill Stein and Cornel West now? They arenāt leading protests in DC outside the White House, no rallies. Almost like the whole 2024 thing was just performative.
Pritzker: "No one in the administration -- the president or anybody under him -- has called anyone in my administration or me. It's clear that in secret they're are planning this invasion with US troops."
One week ago, thousands of New Yorkers tried something new. They heard about it last minute. They didnāt know where it would take them or who they would meet. It was free, earnest, even educational. It was the #ZcavengerHunt and it was a thing of beauty.
Bernie Sanders endorsed political newcomer Graham Platnerās Maine Senate bid, as Democratic leadership pushes to recruit Gov. Janet Mills to run against Susan Collins. āGraham is a Marine and Army National Guard veteran, an oyster farmer and a proud member of Americaās working class,ā Sanders said.
This part. Everyone should be taking notes from @ivehaditpodcast.bsky.socialās @mizzwelch.bsky.social
On the way the Right has responded to the shooting in Minnesota (and all of them really)
"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:
The Rev took attendanceā¦
The phone number for the U.S. Capitol switchboard is (202) 224-3121.
āMr. President, JD Vance says heās ready to take over for you as soon as you die. Any comment?ā
BREAKING: James Talarico just gave one of the best speeches we've seen this year. Every American needs to see this.
24 years later. We are an embarrassment in the world.
Trump DISHONORS All Military Members! youtu.be/hn9UL7xKq7E?...
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.
Heard. Thanks for being here. #solidarity #ReleaseTheEPSTEIN_Files
You can't speak coherently about what has to happen in America now if you even allow for the possibility that Trump did not run the most deceitful campaign about what he planned to do as president that contemporary American politics has ever seen. Any attempt to legitimize his actions is grotesque.
CHICAGO Time to start printing, folding, & distributing ā¬ļø How to Report ICE - zine by @meganpiont.bsky.social I've handed out ~25 since yesterday, as I went about my day, & the folks behind counters to whom I handed them have all been VERY grateful. (The file also has instructions for folding!)
Well-informed, historically consistent speculation about how these ghouls operate across the board.
Watch. If you claim one of these to get a vaccine, theyāll use it later as a preexisting condition to crank up your health premium or kick you off your plan.
RFK Jr is driving this country towards an almost certain public health disaster. If Democrats canāt stop it, at the very least they can get it on the record now that they wanted him gone and the GOP wanted him kept in. Underline how they own the disasters to come. Itās Politics 101.
Extremist like saying women shouldn't be allowed to vote or extremist like saying every American citizen should be able to vote easily and in non-gerrymandered districts?
Do it!
*AGAINST THE REPEATED WARNINGS OF LAW ENFORCEMENT* The GOP is the party of abject lawlessness.
Ashli Babbitt was a grown ass adult who chose to break into an unauthorized area during an insurrection against the repeated warnings of law enforcement. She ignored those warnings and got killed through no one's fault but her own. She was a traitor. She doesn't deserve full military honors.
No rehabilitating any of them. None. They will pretend they were never part of it. They will be lying bc all of them are without souls and morality. #NoPardons
When the bell finally tolls, all of this will start to unravel and the sychophantic cultists will pretend they were never part of it. There must be no rehabilitation for any of them. No Leavitt on Dancing With the Stars. No Gabbard as CNN analyst. None of it for any of them. #NoPardons
This. Thread.
When the bell finally tolls, all of this will start to unravel and the sychophantic cultists will pretend they were never part of it. There must be no rehabilitation for any of them. No Leavitt on Dancing With the Stars. No Gabbard as CNN analyst. None of it for any of them. #NoPardons
The phone number for the U.S. Capitol switchboard is (202) 224-3121.
This thread posted by George Conway is worth the read for the assessment you seek. bsky.app/profile/gtco...
Read this thread.
Today was a tragedy and a national disgrace. Please, for the love of GOD, do not give the Republicans the gun control debate they desperately want to distract from Epstein, the failing economy, inflation, Trump's criminal blackmail and our utterly failed foreign policy. Please.
Today is a day when the systemic racism and misogyny of an electorate finding this abject clown show more credible than the smart Black lady - and the smart white lady before her - is really on display. There is no bar too low for white men in this country, no matter how stupid, venal, or cruel.
Every Democratic and Independent Senator and Representative needs to get on the floor every day and directly ask their Republican colleagues how they can justify allowing this babbling mushbrain to continue in office. Every time they get on the floor. Read the quotes. Ask them why.
We are a nation of self-absorbed idiots and those who actively take electoral advantage of that fact.
Schools Theaters Concerts Malls Churches Synagogues Mosques Parks Nightclubs Offices Festivals Stores Military Bases Bars Post Offices Yoga Studios Super Bowl parades Nowhere is safe from the scourge of gun violence in America. You can't tell me we must simply accept it.
Scott does a great job sharing the victories and fights of the governors and senators this week. A nice breath of relief in this time of constant turmoil from the president and his corrupt regime. open.substack.com/pub/dworkin/...
That hours-long Cabinet slobberfest? So painful.
Article dated August 2024. But yes, EVERYONE should ALWAYS be checking their voter registration. Every month at least. Every week leading up to elections.
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We need much much more than words, and the words we hear must show a burning hot fire in the belly for justice. Pritzker, Newsom, Zohran, AOC, Murphy, etc al. Join them.
It's painful to watch the collapse into irredeemable idiocracy.
Masked immigration raids donāt protect us. They hide abuse and strip away our dignity. Stand with me in demanding transparency and accountability by adding your name to this petition.
These guys should be home with their families.
National Guard troops, pulled from their homes, families and jobs to go pick up trash. Absolutely unforgivable abuse of these troops.
Armed National Guards in DC to intimidate peopleā¼ļø When the American President deploys American servicemen on American soil against American citizens he has declared war on the American peopleā¼ļø
So many used to say the same thing about Felon47
And not one single Republican currently serving in any state or federal capacity will speak aloud the obvious truth that this babbling, embarrassing imbecile is unfit for public office of any kind, let alone POTUS. The entire GOP are cowards, fetid and rotten to the core.
POTUS's baseless allegations against Lisa Cook are an attack on the independence of the Fed It's already making everything more expensive, weakening the dollar & harming us all I discussed @symonedsanders.bsky.social @michaelsteele.bsky.social @eugenedaniels2.bsky.social
We are very far off the cliff here folks. šŗšø
Tyrants govern through fear. Dictators take their power from the acquiescence of the good people who don't speak out. It is our obligation as citizens to set aside fear and take a step forward not a step back.
The level of constant harassment of Biden for his age, mental acuity and "is he able to serve" versus the minute-to-minute pass given to the Hannibal Lecter and His Electrocuted Sharks guy remains has always been highly suspect and totally unacceptable.
To Donald Trump and his administration: If you hurt my people, nothing will stop me ā not time or political circumstance ā from making sure you face justice under our constitutional rule of law.
Among all the other things, "The President has screwed things up so badly that the world's other rich countries won't deliver mail to us anymore" really should end it immediately.
Gov JB Pritzker (D-IL) āThis isnāt a time to pretend there are two sides to this story. This is not a time to fall back into the reflexive crouch that I so often see, where the authoritarian creep by this administration is ignored in favor of some horse race piece on who will be helped politicallyā
Read my newsletter, Civil Discourse. No sugarcoating. We have work to do to keep the republic. joycevance.substack.com/p/only-monday
THISā¦is the mindset. THISā¦is the attitude. THISā¦is the fire in the gutā¦.that we are going to ALL have to adopt. I have. Have you? We canāt have people sit this one outā¦and still prevail.
They want us focused on street crimes so that we won't be focused on theirs. And the toll of theirs in lives and money and total victims dwarfs anything happening on the street. Street crime is realābut if you're obsessed with it, they've got you right where they want you, pal.
I look forward to listening. Just pointing out that - as does the column - we're long past "slowly sliding". I'd argue the precise moment it happened was 20 Jan 2025, when Biden and our entire NatSec apparartus failed their Constitutionally mandated duty to protect the nation.
I hadn't seen this before today. Totally spot on.
The precise moment was 20 Jan 2025, when instead of being in govt custody for treason, the J6 architects were willingly handed the nuclear codes. Total failure of Biden and the entire NatSec team to do their Constitutionally mandated duty to protect and defend the Constitution and the nation.
First, the govt fkd up by not dealing with the J6 architects as a serious national security threat. Then the voters fkd up. Then the govt fkd up AGAIN by not dealing with the J6 architects as a serious national security threat. Biden/Harris had the Constitutional mandate to protect the country.
We are not slowly sliding into authoritarianism. We are fully in it. bsky.app/profile/verm...
Solid, necessary must-read-right-now: bsky.app/profile/verm...
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The precise moment when and where in recent weeks America crossed that invisible line from democracy into authoritarianism can and will be debated by future historians, but itās clear that the line itself has been crossed. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/america-ti...
Words cannot adequately describe what a colossal disappointment our mainstream media has been during our slow descent into authoritarianism.
Too bad that our legal and institutional safeguards only work to prevent good policies. It would be cool if they also stopped the evil stuff
Yep. Today is one of those days.
It is not deportation if it is not their birth country. Removal to a non-birth country is human trafficking. Please don't legitimize fascist framing.
Ahem
Truly brilliant campaign strategy. National Democratic leadership really need to be taking note from Mr. Mamdani's team. "The hunt proved so popular that volunteers ran out of cue cards for participants."
Doesnāt matter how the cards fallā¦preparation is never wasted. You either win with it now...or you bank it and win later. But it always pays.
The PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA is planning to use the US military to invade US cities that vote Democratic because, in addition to raping children, two things that animate him most are rectifying narcissistic injury and hating Black people. Call your reps 202-224-3121 #RemoveTrump
When you erase Black history from schools and strip our artifacts and truths from museums, youāre not just attacking us; youāre dismantling the very fabric of America itself. Without our story, there would be no America.
Must be nice to have no oligarchs on your supreme court.
š incredible ā and he didnāt even have to slip them cash in potato chip bags to show up #ZohranForMayor
And swap Schumer with Chris Murphy.
Dems should swap out Hakeem Jeffries with Jasmine Crockett. They need that kind of fire.
āI was r*ped sometimes 3 times a day on that islandā¦ and I was not the only girl on that islandā¦ Ghislaine must die in prison, because Iāve been in hell and back for the last 17 years.ā Listen to the survivors.
They want us fighting so we never notice who is stealing from us all. Donāt get lost in the circus.
I've heard many a deeply religious person say that a day of reckoning awaits all of us...
The road to hell is paved with good intentions; the ride is smooth and the drinks are free...
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Know your rights, Chicago. Ask for a warrant. Record the goons from a safe distance. We donāt want or need them here.
@rokhanna.bsky.social: āOnly 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.ā khanna.house.gov/media/press-...
It's bizarre but unsurprising to see so many people waiting with bated breath to see what Ghislaine Maxwell will say to get a pardon whilst ignoring the testimonies of the many women she exploited in a massive sex trafficking operation linked to Trump.
āTrumpās DOJ saidā¦ā Shut the fuck up. Who cares what they said. Theyāre fucking criminals. They lie.
Unfortunately, Bluesky is unavailable in Mississippi right now, due to a new state law that requires age verification for all users. While intended for child safety, we think this law poses broader challenges & creates significant barriers that limit free speech & harm smaller platforms like ours.
Donald Trump says he is going to deploy the National Guard to Chicago. This is what weak men do to pretend theyāre strong. Stay safe, stand with your community, and most importantly, know your rights:
This šš¾ āWhy do they need masks? Theyāre federal officials, theyāre paid by the taxpayers. They should be doing their jobs in a way thatās lawful and constitutional, and thatās part of the job.ā DC Mayor Bowser questions why so many federal officers in the capital continue to cover their faces.
People are constantly asking me ā what can I do? Between now and the 2026 midterm elections, here are five practical steps you can take to make a difference.