New in PN: RFK Jr gives Republicans a chance to defy Trump on easy mode "What’s really notable is the extent to which GOP leaders have remained supine even in the face of a radical assault on their grandchildren by a transparent death-dealing fraud who wasn’t even a member of the party a year ago."
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I just wanted to quickly note that this piece was an all-women effort, start to finish. From the reporters to the witnesses and even the lawyer who reviewed it, seven women working in different capacities were able to bring this story of gross malfeasance to life. Proud The Handbasket can do this.
Interesting. So where is Trump?
Which reminds me, did I miss the full media exposé of the guy who allegedly tried to assassinate the Orange Führer & killed an attendee at the rally? That all went quiet very quickly.
Trump is going to rename the Dept of Defense to the Department of WAR. Yet this is the same guy who wants the Nobel Peace prize! 🤣
'But the conservatives on the Supreme Court have so far proven more willing to permit Mr. Trump’s actions, a pattern Mr. Warrington and others on the Trump legal team see as vindication.' How Trump has hired lawyers who never say no, empowered by SCOTUS. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/02/u...
"It’s obviously not about crime, because they’re not focused on high-crime areas. They’re focused on Democratic-run cities. And you have an entire political party, not just Donald Trump, pretty eager to deploy the United States military to intimidate." trib.al/jUp6NyH
Hypocrites. Every last MAGA 💩 is a hypocrite.
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And illegitimate SCOTUS will just reverse this court and allow it.
Welcome back from authoritarian August, Democrats in Congress. Do you know that you've been made irrelevant? Are you going to use the power you have to do something about it? From me... prospect.org/politics/202...
Unacceptable 🤬
Being pro-drowning of children seems like a real are-we-the-baddies moment www.npr.org/sections/sho...
"It is a glaring example of the rules of the road under the second Trump administration. All the powers of the state are unleashed against the people who displease the President. Full stop." talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/a-mag...
New York does not miss. The bleach did it for me. 😭
When Trump tries to defend mass deportations, he claims, without evidence, that immigrants come from “mental institutions and insane asylums.” When he insults people, he calls them "mentally disabled.” The blatant stigmatization is harmful. But Trump's mental health policies are even worse.
Can you talk about his own mental disability?
This actually suggests an interesting reason why so many "centrist" pundits have stayed on Twitter (and in many cases, cooked their brains there)--on Twitter, they are much less likely to get substantive pushback on their ideas.
NEWS A federal judge BLOCKS the Trump admin from using the military in California for civilian law enforcement in violation of the Posse Comitatus Act. Ruling storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us... Background www.allrisenews.com/p/general-sc...
It’s actually just a great example of how AI can be manipulated and so shouldn’t be trusted
Great story by my colleagues on the constant political realignment of Grok, the generative AI chatbot over on the other site. This change to Grok’s answer about the greatest threat to Western civilization is particularly ironic/meta. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/02/t...
How to report on Nazis. And it's real, I checked thenightly.com.au/editions
Talking about a wealth tax might be fun, but anyone who actually wants to reduce the wealth and power of the rich might try thinking about the rules that allowed them to get so rich cepr.net/publications...
Trump illegally used thousands of military troops in California. Federal judge says Trump effectively turned 5,000 Marines and National Guard soldiers into a national police force. The ruling, by Judge Charles R. Breyer of the Federal District Court in San Francisco www.nytimes.com/2025/09/02/u...
I can’t help but notice some of the uniforms out front at the WH today don’t fit properly—pants dragging, sleeves off. Small detail, but in military bearing, details are the message. Presentation matters.
Putin told him to do this. That’s a very important piece of the story. Im not kidding. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
Election laws are controlled by the states. Trump doesn’t have the power to end mail-in ballots (which he himself has used), but he may try to use it as an excuse to nullify the next election. If Republicans lose, he could blame it on the mail-in ballots and refuse to recognize the results.
Putin’s puppet
i don't often listen to him live because it's such obvious mush, but, my god, he's a brain-damaged fool
Not to add to the discourse, but… It’s ‘toe the line,’ not ‘tow the line.’ It’s ‘free rein,’ and not ‘free reign.’ It’s ‘eke out,’ not ‘eek out.’ It’s ‘sleight of hand,’ not ‘slight of hand.’ It's ‘Anchors aweigh,’ and not ‘Anchor's away!’
Zelenskyy is here to try end a war where civilians are being killed daily and Brian Glenn wants to bring up his stupid suit controversy again. What an ass 🙄
Erin is not going to be a big deal for anyone but *maybe* the Outer Banks and even then a glancing blow. But check out how far north the hurricane-force winds are forecasted to last!
Trump announces plans to scrap mail-in ballots just a few days after Putin told him they were fraudulent. Has there ever been a world leader this easy to manipulate and puppeteer? Tears of laughter flowing in the Kremlin.
ICE just posted this video taking down the sign in Mount Pleasant on Twitter.
Dear ICE, you can tear down one sign and another will rise tomorrow, and the next day, and the day after that. The words may change, the place may shift, but the message will endure. We will not be silenced. And when democracy prevails, there will be no pardons. #DemVoice1 #ProudBlue #Pinks
This dude has it. We got some generational talent in the party.
"I'm not saying the United States is pro-Russia. I'm saying the Russians believe the United States is pro-Russia..."
Her name was Amna al-Mufti, age 11
in crazed early morning screed, the president announces "I am going to lead a movement to get rid of MAIL-IN BALLOTS, and also, while we’re at it, Highly “Inaccurate,” Very Expensive, and Seriously Controversial VOTING MACHINES"
"Democrats cannot and should not hide behind neutrality and fairness as MAGA incinerates the remaining tatters of our republic." Some excellent comments on the efforts of Gov. Newsom and others and why it is the right move. The latest from @nberlat.bsky.social...
Anyone with half a brain knows that James Comer’s Oversight Committee probe into Jeffrey Epstein is nothing but an orchestrated Trump tactic to obfuscate the sordid truth of what happened and who was involved. Release the unedited Epstein files and let the public decide for themselves.
Newsom (parody) or Trump (earnestly) — who do you think posted this?
I've noticed some people on Twitter are prone to arguing with Grok, posing leading questions to get Grok to confirm their most delusional, conspiratorial beliefs. I worry that this behavior + AI's politeness bias + lack of mental health services + widespread guns will lead to bad things.
Republicans don’t believe in state’s rights or safe/free elections, they believe in Republican right to impose their will on the rest of US & elections rigged for Republicans.
🖕MAGA
The Russian strike on a residential building in #Kharkiv was deliberate -5 drones approached it from different directions,targeting people who were sleeping at five in the morning. The number of people killed in Kharkiv has risen to 7, including two children. 📹: Kharkiv Mayor Ihor Terekhov
New— Nazis with giant swastika flags marched in downtown Indianapolis on Saturday with two police escorts. They shouted “white power” and said to the woman who took this video (reshared here with her permission) “fuck you, n***** bitch.” Police did not intervene. I cannot find local news coverage.
Everything About Senator Kennedy Is Fake!
It’s not silly or performative. These are tests and practice runs. If Dems win the midterms, MAGA is going to declare the elections illegitimate. They’ll ignore congress, deny funds, salaries, access to offices or just outright abolish congress. They’re preparing for a full dismantling of the US.
General Michael Flynn told him to implement martial law, seize voting machines and re-do the election so he could “win”. And the only thing that stood in his way was The DOJ. That’s not going to happen again.
Soldiers in MRAPs rolling around Union Station—blocks from the Capitol—seems silly, performative, and useless. But it raises a much darker question: What would Trump have done on Jan. 6, 2021 if he had possessed then the kind of control over local law enforcement that he seeks to acquire today?
My daughter just read it for her 9th grade ELA class. We are in Florida so it made me extra happy. She really enjoyed it too! Then we watched the movie.
Really important article.
If you’ve never read Animal Farm and 1984, now is the time to do it.
A day after Laura Loomer posted videos of sick children from Gaza arriving in the U.S. for medical treatment, questioning how they got visas, Gelatinous Secretary of Trump's taint said it was halting all visitor visas for people from Gaza pending a review. apnews.com/article/stat...
the irony of MAGA is that the actual result of its “governance” will be sharp national decline and humiliation
Why aren't powerful executive speaking out? Because the new game is crony capitalism: you need the president’s say-so. When the referee also keeps score, you don’t heckle the ref—you play along.
In his first term, President Trump framed mental health as a national crisis, His second administration has paused rules to hold insurers accountable for unlawfully denying coverage. Read this story by @mayatmiller.bsky.social @jeremykohler.bsky.social
You mean like when they said Kilmar was a criminal? Liars!
I don't believe anything this administration claims. They're all liars and you do nothing to fact check or even call them out on it when they do it. None of you have any credibility-you are a mouthpiece for the regime and the oligarchy that props it up.
Federal thugs, i.e., untrained contractors who are thugs violently kidnap hardworking man! Do better!
So much pride in their work they are hiding behind masks 🤡
If pundits would like to talk about violence, a terrorist recently shot up the CDC and another assassinated Democratic officials in Minnesota but they sort of let both stories disappear Not as threatening as motorbikes in DC I know but maybe we could circle back?
"In July, five months after her death, we discovered that Sophie Rottenberg, our only child, had confided for months in a ChatGPT A.I. therapist called Harry." www.nytimes.com/2025/08/18/o...
As we approach the 20th Anniversary of the Roberts Court, here is my list of the Top Ten Worst Con Law Cases of his Court. Boy was that a hard list to whittle down and no doubt people will disagree with some omissions but the harm to America is truly awful. www.dorfonlaw.org/2025/08/mour...
yea i’m surprised to see nazis marching down an american street with nazi flags shouting nazi things and if that doesn’t surprise and scare the shit out of you then lmk which meds you’re on
21.73 kw
This is a list of events that have occurred in America in the last six months. When described plainly, it becomes clear that the US is an authoritarian country.
In authoritarian crackdowns, it’s important to randomly ensnare some people whom one would think would be safe, so that everyone is at least a little bit afraid that something could happen to them. The regime scales up its power of intimidation over a much larger group than those directly affected.
It's a surreal experience to find myself on the cover of Time Magazine but it's truly a reflection of what we have built together over these past ten months. Read the story: time.com/7308924/zohr... ...and sign up to canvass: zohranfornyc.com/canvasslaunch
In their defense, they didn’t sell it before and had no plans to start selling it. This reads more like an empty statement that the right can paint as a win so they’ll get off Costco’s back.
Clarification: Costco apparently never sold the pill. They received pressure from the left to be certified for selling it and from the right to not get certification. Their statement says it was purely a matter of low demand. I find it disappointing still. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
Gotta say, Costco, this is really disappointing Don't give in to the right. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
ALABAMA: “The verdict is in. The state’s tough immigration law just isn’t working out… American workers not mentally or physically fit enough to last one day…”
“If it’s a national emergency we can do it without Congress, but we expect to be before Congress very quickly” -Trump Where’s the “national emergency”? Make this make sense.
14th Amendment on Line 1.
TODAY at 2 PM ET: A federal judge will hold a hearing over Trump’s attempt to federalize the Metropolitan Police Department. D.C. is asking the court to temporarily block the President’s takeover. 📲 Tune into the hearing by calling 1-833-990-9400 Meeting ID: 787605272
also Black folks sometimes talk about "slavery days" but when it's a white person that's generally a signal it aint gonna be good.
uhhhhh
The Institute of Education Sciences lost 90% of its staff. Combined with the contract terminations, the federal research infrastructure in education is on life support.
This formula can be replicated. Do something the right does, then when the media holds you to a different standard, and they will, answer with a comment about that double standard.
Trump slump
It's so weird how all the private swimming pools in the Alexandria area were built between 1954 and 1958
Oh my god, Russell Vought is a straight up sociopath. There is no rationale for this than a profound sadism. And this man calls himself a Christian. Like Torquemada I guess. How did he get to be so damaged? www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
BLADELESS !!! ...wind turbines 😳🙀😱 !!! 🍊🐂💩/pedo-potus ...is going to s..t a FEW bricks ! He ISN'T prepared with appropriately disparaging comments .😱😱😱. 😇🤣🤣🤣 #USDemocracy
What kind of a public-health moron would say, “We have never talked about environmental exposures that may, say, cause cancer.”
This CBS report on **additional** problems with the Epstein prison video Dan Bongino released. www.cbsnews.com/news/jeffrey...
I really hate the line that Epstein is the “thinking man’s QAnon”. It’s smug, inaccurate, glib and demonstrates a complete lack of understanding of how the two entities interact with each other and with reality. The Epstein case involves is a real criminal conspiracy with dozens of actual victims!
Why is it still so expensive to power my home with solar?
I predicted Republicans would push for this when Trump first took office. None of us are safe until this regime is forced from power.
I'm glad Senator Scott acknowledges that we're almost at full employment. Because you know what would be destabilizing to an economy at full employment? Mass deportation of around 4% of the population. You can't fill those jobs if you're already at full employment!
I mean, just think about this for a moment. Top F.D.A. Official Resigns Under Pressure www.nytimes.com/2025/07/29/h...
THEY LITERALLY DID THE ONION HEADLINE
“.. At no point in the unfolding Epstein scandal has Trump focused on the young victims of these heinous criminals. .. The president has shown no concern for anything other than protecting himself.” @rexhuppke.bsky.social @usatoday.com www.usatoday.com/story/opinio...
UPDATE: The pause was scrapped Tuesday evening after intervention by top White House officials. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
They confirmed Emil Bove. They know better. They did it anyway. Power now. Regret later. Cowardice dressed up as “leadership.”
Can’t get enough of these videos. @diaperdiplomacy-m.bsky.social is a must-follow.
We got an estimate for our house-$72,000! That’s ridiculous!