Liberal Louisiananian and Chihuahua lover just trying to save democracy. My pronouns are “the one who makes a good gumbo”
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So, the woman whom Giuliani was helping was on the southbound side of Interstate 93. But the car in which he was injured was on the northbound side. And this all happened in the dark of night. www.concordmonitor.com/2025/08/31/r... www.nytimes.com/2025/08/31/u...
Disbarred bankrupt moral failure perfect for this honor from the king of moral failure joker gives award to penguin
Trump and his greedhead cronies may get a big surprise in spite of their efforts to rig the 2026 election. They could find themselves swamped by a blue wave. Americans are wising up to the fact that Trump is turning the American dream into a nightmare.
Rs, before the Trump cult took hold, frequently railed (rightly so) against communist and fascist regimes that nationalized industry, indulged in crony capitalism, and substituted propaganda for free speech. (The five-year plan is working!) How times have changed. open.substack.com/pub/contrari...
It was the first and only time I have celebrated and agreed with his actions. I remember making Walgreens appointments online for my mom and all her little ol white haired lady friends because they could not do the internet thing
DEVELOPING: Advocates are seeking a court order to block the Trump administration’s effort to deport hundreds of unaccompanied minor children to Guatemala. Judge abruptly moved 3 pm hearing up to 12:30 after she was notified that some children “are in the process of being removed" today.
I’ve had that cinnamon roll it is sumptuous. Zingerman’s is the best!
“Barack Obama did not threaten to lock up John McCain or Mitt Romney. The idea that the law is a weapon the president uses to protect his friends and harass his enemies was brought into American politics by one man. He now happens to be the one man who is very definitively above the law.” Gift
“We have to build up an apparatus to shield us from the recklessness of Robert F. Kennedy,” a senior Illinois health official in Gov Pritzker's administration tells me in this piece.
As Trump revokes Kamala Harris’ Secret Service protection, she has a lot of company. He’s also pulled protective details for: - Anthony Fauci - John Bolton - Mike Pompeo - Brian Hook - Mark Esper - Biden’s adult kids www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...
“Asked by a reporter if he’d feel partially responsible if something awful were to happen to any of these former officials, Trump said he would not, adding, ‘Certainly, I would not take responsibility.’”
You do such a fantastic job detailing these proceedings! You’re the best!
And we're done. No decision from Judge Cobb. Looks like Tuesday is the earliest date she could rule. Thanks to all who followed along. If you appreciate our live courts coverage, please consider supporting our non-profit newsroom! ⬇️ givebutter.com/journalism/a...
HAPPENING NOW: Hello from the media room in DC district court, where Judge Jia Cobb is set to hear argument on Lisa Cook's motion for a temporary restraining order to block her removal from the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve. I'm here for @lawfaremedia.org. Follow along ⬇️🧵
I still think many Americans have no idea how bad this is going to get. I saw President Obama reposting a tepid, mealy-mouthed analysis by Ezra Klein—who's never seen a phenomenon he couldn't be 5 years late in incompetently circumscribing—and I felt like we don't have what it takes to survive this.
It's really shocking that the NYT and WaPo have forgotten that Trump is a criminal who freed hundreds of violent cop assailants on his first day on the job. Every Single Story About Crime should lead with that.
Jim O’Neill is a tech investor, former CEO of the Thiel Foundation, and co-founder with Peter Thiel of the Thiel fellowship. He has no direct medical education or experience. It’s hard to get away from the feeling that they really are trying to kill us.
As long as guns are easily available to crazy people, mass killings directed at so-called soft targets will continue. This is a fact. Countries where it's more difficult for crazy people to obtain guns have less shootings. This is also a fact. Do with these facts as you will.
The most important thing to know about the “comprehensive crime bill” Trump touted earlier this week: It doesn’t appear to exist outside of his imagination. Unfortunately, this isn’t the first time he’s pushed made-up legislative efforts. www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...
Putin did more than eat Trump’s lunch in Alaska. He ate Trump for lunch and swallowed him whole. The losers? Ukraine, the EU, NATO, and the United States of America.
Last week, Boston received a letter from AG Bondi threatening to prosecute officials and withhold funds unless we cooperate with carrying out mass deportations. The US Attorney General asked for a response by today, so here it is: stop attacking our cities to hide your administration’s failures.
Bill Cassidy has blood on his hands. He let the monster in!
Breaking: BILL CASSIDY is calling for CDC's vaccine advisers meeting to be postponed. "If the meeting proceeds, any recommendations made should be rejected as lacking legitimacy given the seriousness of the allegations and the current turmoil in CDC leadership."
Cassidy’s full statement The ACIP meeting next month is part of a process expected to lead to new, narrower CDC recommendations on who should have access to covid vaccines
Fuck Bill Cassidy forever.
I hope he never lives down capitulating to Kennedy’s nomination. He could have stopped some of this bullshit and he didn’t. His hands will be forever stained by the blood of any lives lost.
Ashley Babbit dishonored her service by committing insurrection against her country. While her death is absolutely tragic and I wish it hadn’t happened, the Air Force giving her honors is in itself a dishonor.
He is wrong on the facts. 1. The data is clear, VBM benefits Democrats electorally and it remains true. Rejected mail ballots skew Democratic as well. 2. Strict photo ID laws also disadvantage Democrats, particularly young voters and those in urban areas. Again, this is data not opinion.
The condition I have that puts me at high risk is the condition that I don’t want to die of Covid when there are options to prevent it
Is the Trump Regime Trying to Kill Us? The CDC meltdown is part of an epidemic ... assaults across the board on health and safety open.substack.com/pub/contrari...
They should have used his mug shot
i find this image so fascinating. it is both a literal example of authoritarianism but also a second-hand reproduction of the aesthetics of other authoritarian states. it's like a simulacra of authoritarianism whose purpose is to attempt to make the simulacra real.
It’s no longer just vibes yall! Maybe we’ll get a colossal statue that we can adorn with flowers and ribbons and lay prostate to and adore for all eternity or a MAGA temple with incense and a QAnon oracle inside.
As a historian—I can only say that we are all jumping up and down on the deck of the titanic, and saying don’t do this. We know how this story ends. But this administration seems to want everyone to learn the hard way.
THEY ARE TRYING TO KILL US ALL!!
That’s a good reason to go!
Now do Merrick Garland.
The Lisa Cook Case Could Be the Whole Ball Game If the Supreme Court lets Trump replace Cook with a loyalist, he might soon achieve a full-blown takeover of the Federal Reserve.
I don’t follow you and your post appeared from you, not a retweet, on a feed I curated which is supposed to be just people I include in the list. Not sure how you appeared in my curated BlueSky list
I told y'all it was an Italian BMT!!!!
They don't want them to speak about uncomfortable things.
But really, what’s so uncomfortable about democratic policies that aim to help people?
I think they *start* with 4 votes supporting Rehnquist's dissent in Johnson (Roberts, Thomas, Alito, and Kavanaugh), and then we see if Neil or Amy wants to play ball. AND THAT'S IF THE TEST CASE IS A WHITE GUY. They bring this against a Palestinian and they probably get all 6.
People saying flag burning is "clearly constitutional" have not met this Republican Supreme Court, a court which changes the rules of the game every day so Trump can "win." If they *want* to make flag burning "un"consitutional, they certianly *can.* My latest in @thenation.com
So the sandwich guy ... beat the wrap
I really need to know if the sandwich was a ham sandwich
I believe it was reported to be subway BMT with banana peppers. The BMT contains Black Forest HAM, salami, and pepperoni. So you could get away with calling it a HAM sandwich! nypost.com/2025/08/15/u...
SUB-OPTIMAL www.nytimes.com/2025/08/27/u...
Send me!
Trump: "We send hundreds of millions of gallons of water a day to the Pacific Ocean. They turn a valve and the valve heads out. And we turned the valve back. I actually had to do it using force. We turned the valve back and now they have water."
For fucks sake! UKRAINE DID NOT “GO INTO WAR.” THE WAR CAME INTO IT BY BEING INVADED BY VLADIMIR PUTIN!!!
Our slide into authoritarian rule would not be possible without Trump's willing accomplices. William Pulte's corruption of the bureaucracy to single out the mortgages of Trump foes like Lisa Cook for "investigation" is the perfect example of this. New piece from me: newrepublic.com/article/1996...
We are very far off the cliff here folks. 🇺🇸
As constitutional scholar Larry Tribe put it to me recently: “The presumption of regularity rests on what has become a counterfactual assumption of normalcy.” It is time to make the presumption of irregularity (i.e. bad faith) when it comes to the Trump crowd. open.substack.com/pub/contrari...
Why should people care about Trump’s offensive against the Fed’s Lisa Cook? At issue is an attempted White House power grab, launched by an authoritarian president, that ignores the rule of law and puts global economic stability at risk. www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...
A lot of people They come up to me, tears in their eyes, and say, Sir please we need a dictator!
Judge blocks Trump from withholding funds from Los Angeles, other sanctuary cities
William Orrick strikes again. Since Donald Trump's first term, he's one of the biggest Tenth Amendment stans in the entire federal judiciary. I gave him a shout-out in my National Guard piece, which remains as relevant as ever: www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...
“The picture is pretty clear for anyone who’s read a history book what kind of administration we’re dealing with.”
Over the course of three days, Democratic Gov. Wes Moore, former Republican Gov. Chris Christie, and Democratic Mayor Muriel Bowser told the public the truth. Each faced threats from Trump soon after. www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...
Recognition that the MAGA-ized court majority, devoid of judicial integrity, is nothing but a band of partisan hacks should inform democracy advocates’ agenda.
Trump regime’s arrogant abuse of power in manipulating state officials and independent agencies to execute its program of revenge should shock Americans. Fortunately, MAGA persecution of Media Matters shocked the judge who delivered a rip-roaring defense of 1stA open.substack.com/pub/contrari...
#MAGA
One week after Trump rolled out the red carpet for Putin on American soil, Ukraine is no closer to peace. No ceasefire. No additional sanctions against Russia. No new help to allow Ukraine to bring the fight to the Russian invaders.
I don’t hear “Democrats” using these terms. Pelosi? Jeffries? Clyburn? Schiff? Swallwell? Waters? If you mean liberals then provide the alternative word that would be clearer. Or is it that you don’t think the concepts are real? Patriarchy is a thing. If there’s a better word, let’s hear it.
Men need to stop telling me how to talk.
In other words Dems should just shut up about all their liberal causes WTF they supposed to talk about?
Jeffries on Trump planning a military crackdown in Chicago: "We should continue to support local law enforcement and not simply allow Donald Trump to play games with the lives of the American people as part of his effort to manufacture a crisis and create a distraction because he's deeply unpopular"
Damn that's a lot of words to say he gonna keep on spewing lots of meaningless words and sending sternly worded letters
It’s time for @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social to fire his comms people. That’s a lot of words to say “GTFO.” Also, unleashing the military on the people isn’t a distraction. It’s five-alarm fascism.
JD Vance: "This is how wars ultimately get settled. If you go back to World War 2, if you go back to every major conflict in human history, they all end with some kind of negotiation."
I think there was something I remember like something about two nuclear bombs unleashing an entire atomic age we now live under that helped the Japanese across the line to unconditional surrender. But these couch fuckers don't care about facts they just make shit up I can’t believe he’s so ignorant
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I honestly don't know what I did to deserve this incredible tribute. I can only say I'm honored, flattered, and humbled—and, of course, deeply grateful to everyone who made this accolade possible. I pledge to do my utmost to live up to it. 🙏🏼🤗
well she did not consider pedophilia inappropriate so what does this even mean
So if Intel is now being taken over in part by the Trump regime, we now know who the real Socialist lunatics are—or are the cultists now in favor of Socialism if their Dear Leader is ruling?
Kinda seems like socialism but what do I know maybe the us can buy Exxon next
Great shot!
This is getting very bad: *FBI raids top Trump critic's home *Trump loyalist gins up "mortgage fraud" pretexts for DOJ probes of Schiff, Letitia James, Lisa Cook *Bannon says ICE will monitor 2026 voting *DHS memo vows LA operations "for years to come" New from me: newrepublic.com/article/1994...
It used to be they would “twist” the truth, bend it toward a particular proposition. it was called spin and people spent a lot of effort crafting statements with a modicum of truth. Now we get this: “the earth is flat and there was no crime at mar a lago.”
Larry Kudlow, interviewing Kash Patel, pretends like it's a big mystery why the FBI raided Mar-a-Lago (it's because Trump was keeping classified documents in the shitter)
It used to be they would “twist” the truth, bend it toward a particular proposition. it was called spin and people spent a lot of effort crafting statements with a modicum of truth. Now we get this: “the earth is flat and there was no crime at mar a lago.”
Anyone want to put money down he cracks down on cracker? He ended 9 wars if he ends the war on cracker surely he gets the “noble.”
Why do they all talk about bland restaurant chains changing logos like they're Winston Churchill standing before Parliament in May 1940? It's a little unbecoming.
They swiftly rose to a challenge, put egos aside, and stood to help defend another leader on the front line in the battle against an authoritarian bully (actually two bullies, but only one waging physical war). open.substack.com/pub/contrari...
After Bolton told the public that Trump is “unfit to be president”: - Trump tried to block his book from being published - Trump canceled his security detail - Trump revoked his security clearance - and now the FBI has raided his house www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...
Forget the law, just do what I want, says the unfettered convicted felon. Nice work, John Roberts and 77M + voters.
evil is a shorter description www.mediaite.com/media/news/d...
But if, like @gavinnewsom.bsky.social, you're not a deranged narcissistic sociopath like Donald Trump, you are *not* allowed to make fun of a deranged narcissistic sociopath like Donald Trump by tweeting like one.
I finally figured out what Dana Perino is telling us here: It's okay to be a deranged narcissistic sociopath like Donald Trump, and it's okay to tweet like a deranged narcissistic sociopath like Donald Trump if, in fact, you are a deranged narcissistic sociopath like Donald Trump.
The “Hey Ed!” series is back Looking forward to Ed’s response!!!
How Gavin Newsom trolled his way to the top of social media Inside the MAGA-parodying strategy that has rocketed the California governor to algorithmic dominance — while annoying leading Republicans.
The telltale sign that Trump’s declared crime “emergency” is an utter farce? Trump claims the crime has vanished—in less than a week! open.substack.com/pub/contrari...
Trump says Smithsonian African American museum has too much focus on Africans, needs to include white people