White House to make an announcement at 2pm September 2, all roads to Walter Reed hospital shutdown.
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White House to make an announcement at 2pm September 2, all roads to Walter Reed hospital shutdown.
something something two weeks tremendous never seen anything like it huge many people saying
Ukraine is pursuing a multibillion-dollar arms buildup that would be funded by Europe, seeing it as the best chance of ensuring the country’s long-term survival as U.S. assistance dries up.
Hope springs eternal...
No idea what this Oval Office announcement is. Could be resigning Could be apologizing because Stephen Miller molted all over the Residence and someone caught staff dumping the exuviae out of the window Could be clarifying that tariff revenue is really eleventy three trillion
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.
And for me the real inflection point is Celine Song’s Materialists. Today became A24’s 3rd highest grossing movie ever nearing $100 million on a supposed budget of $20m & way less than Civil War’s marketing spend. This idea that ‘middle range’ movies are dead is bullshit!!! Celine keeps proving it.
Aaron knows what he’s talking about and I don’t but I feel safe presuming a lot of this is white dudes being mad they were so wrong about SINNERS and being pissed Coogler’s contract isn’t the disaster they wanted it to be
🚨 BREAKING: People on X are sharing this Photo of Joe Biden with the hashtag #WeMissJoe
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NEW: Mercenary spyware is coming to the US. ICE just quietly unsuspended their contract with spyware maker #Paragon. Remember them? Caught earlier this year being used to hack Italian journalists. This is bad, let's talk about how we got here 1/ jackpoulson.substack.com/p/exclusive-...
Platner: Our taxpayer dollars can build schools and hospitals in America, not bombs to destroy them in Gaza.
Finally we will end the scourge of Lisa Cook buying up all the houses to get tax breaks
www.politicususa.com/p/mike-johns... Mike Johnson Is Having A Breakdown As His House Majority Slips Away ...
Never forget this: Working people outnumber the billionaires and CEOs by a huge margin. If workers stand together, they will win. Solidarity.
Seems like as good a time as any to reshare my story on the Coffee County voting system breach, which details the key role Giuliani played in Trump’s effort to overturn the 2020 election. www.lawfaremedia.org/article/what...
Vaxxed?
"Even in a long line of anti-labor GOP presidents, Trump stands out. And while he may not succeed in completely destroying collective bargaining in America, he’s poised to strike terrible blows against organized labor." — @paulwaldman.bsky.social
This is literally the largest act of union busting in American history. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/u...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...
The Presidential Medal of Freedom is now less valuable than a few Chuck E. Cheese tokens.
Foreign-funded white supremacists, neo-Nazis, and affiliated criminal groups orchestrated a series of anti-immigration rallies across Australia under the banner “March for Australia.”
I love this guy
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Remember when people used the term "false equivalency"?
Wondering if Putin had something to do with Trumps sudden absence. Hmmm
Thank you on this labor day!!
Trump on the cover of French magazine Le Point. Translation: “Man from Moscow” Le Point is a major French weekly news magazine. It is considered a center-right / conservative-leaning publication.
Putin's top propagandist and a former economics professor at the University of Alabama, Vladimir Solovyov, threatened that Russia would “march on Paris” after France’s President Macron called Putin "a predator and an ogre at our doorstep".
I’m not sure you can actually call another country weak if yours got taken over by a genocidal game show host. Threats to humanity are threats to humanity no matter their effectiveness.
Hours after trying to assassinate the EU Commission president, Russia tried to assassinate Germany’s military's inspector general, Carsten Breue, the highest-ranking general in the Bundeswehr. His plane was also jammed once over the Baltic Sea and once over Lithuania.
Russia’s actions get played down to avoid “major escalation”; even if Russia were to kill a major world leader or general, everything would be done to avoid evoking real retaliatory measures.
Trump could shoot someone in the middle of 5th Avenue and get away with it, Netanyahu could kill 53,000, and Putin could kill millions. The table of impunity only gets longer. It’s important to fight tyrants at all levels. #3E
Bluesky has been critical to Democracy Docket's growth and reach. Nate Silver is an idiot.
If giving Trump credit for Operation Warp Speed is what it takes to get rid of RFK Jr, then so be it. RFK Jr. is threatening Trump's core accomplishment which was to fast track mRNA vaccines which saved millions of lives. RFK Jr. is making it harder to get access to the COVID vaccine. He has to go.
Michelle Obama: kids should have healthier school lunches RFK Jr: maybe if we let the plague run wild we can build a master race Media: wow these are the same thing
Give RFK Jr time, he’s working on it.
I shot this video at a history of polio museum in Joburg, South Africa This is how dreadful things were before mass vaccination made this disease disappear If quacks like RFK Jr had their way, we could see the return of polio!!
the one time I think dems should get on Fox news and demand to know why RFK Jr hates Trump's vaccine
18K US Doctors Signed Quickly! Remove RFK Jr because he endangers lives. More are signing every minute!
www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2...
This Labor Day (and all other days): Thank the workers who serve you. Appreciate the workers who care for you. Respect the workers who pick up your trash. Salute the workers who get you your mail. Honor the workers who teach your children. Pay all workers a living wage.
Lol
they were just talking about escargot and body odor here
My undergrad religious studies department is bringing in Mike Pence to speak, and I'm going to be losing my mind about it all day
Wages of unionized workers are 13% higher than their nonunion counterparts. But unions also set a higher pay standard that all workers enjoy. In high-union-density states, median household income is $12,000 higher than in low-union-density states. This is why unions are vital.
Without public education, people are easier for billionaires & extremist ideologues to control. Knowledge & critical thinking help avoid manipulation by misinformation & erosion of rights. Hold corrupt Republicans accountable!
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You guys see where this is going? Right?
MO Gov Mike Kehoe is calling a special session to gerrymander the 5th District which encompasses Kansas City. He is specifically violating Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, which bans any voting practice that denies or weakens the power of a racial minority to elect its preferred candidates.
This is what a fascist authoritarian regime looks like. 😳👇
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"No one needs to wonder any longer how nations morph into police states under the thumb of dictators determined to wreak vengeance and destroy the lives and livelihoods of millions. It happens gradually and then suddenly". open.substack.com/pub/contrari...
The CEO of a Polish paving company, Piotr Szczerek, said in a statement Monday morning he thought the player had offered him the hat for his sons.
Studs Terkel's Working is 50 years old and STILL kicks like a union mule. A deep dive into labor, dignity, and why we crave meaning in even the crappiest jobs. Still timely, still necessary. www.wonkette.com/p/fine-heres...
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Stephen Miller is REALLY bad at pretending to be Trump. Like this doesn’t even almost sound like a Trump tweet
My classmate at Chicago. We hold the same degree. He started working with Peter Thiel while he was still a student at Chicago.
Back in 1996 when we were at UChicago together, he called me "obtuse" in class because I was in favor of pluralism and democracy. His fave topic in our Critical Theory seminar was discussing how people are not created equal and that some people are less intelligent or useful than others.
Happy Labor Day.
One day, should literacy survive the current fascism, we will learn just how much ghoulish care went into propping this man up. I feel like it will ironically be a cross between Hawking’s vast health team and four 20 year old tan studio clerks who also do IV drips.
Correct
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This is the second judge in a week that has brought up the fact that the government can't be trusted with clear instructions - likely because the government ignored Judge Boasberg's order to turn the planes around last March saying "verbal orders from judges don't count."
Creative writing prompt: Make a simple press statement about a car accident sound suspicious on at least three different levels.
"The gap in confidence between high- and low-earners is now the widest it has been in the seven years of tracking the data." helluva time to be writing a book about middle class culture www.wsj.com/economy/cons...
Robert Mueller was diagnosed with Parkinson’s in 2021. We’re just learning about it now because he was asked to testify in the Epstein matter and won’t be able to. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/08/31/u...
I was going to say 'boiler room stockbroker who chases espresso martinis with Michelob Ultra at the Yankee Stadium Steakhouse, tells women he parties with Maroon 5 at Jones Beach' but the truth 'former Rikers Island guard who dropped out of a City Council race for petition fraud' isn't far off
'Ordinarily, the streets in the lively Columbia Heights neighbourhood of Washington, D.C., would be filled with Latinos shopping or working at local stores, street vendors and restaurants. But lately, the normally vibrant community is nearly empty.'. 🤬🤬🤬
We are literally becoming a police and military state under this administration, when chalk at a memorial is treated like a crime, it’s not about “safety.” It’s about this administration having complete control on the American people.
“Let’s begin by saying that we are living through a very dangerous time.” So opens “A Talk to Teachers,” which James Baldwin delivered to a group of educators in October, 1963.
“There are those who would try to refuse the worker any effective power to bargain collectively, to earn a decent livelihood and to acquire security. It is those shortsighted ones who threaten this country with class dissension…” — Franklin Roosevelt, Sep. 6, 1936 www.thebulwark.com/p/labor-day-...
Damn.
He starts randomly jabbering on about getting into heaven. Mysterious bruising on his hand. He disappears from the public eye for days. Even a child would suspect something was up. Everyone but Congress and mainstream media.
Why do I blame Bill Cassidy for the destruction of the CDC and the NIH? Because he is a physician. He knew or should have known the danger that Kennedy poses to the U.S. and the globe. Kennedy has never hidden what he is—a predator, a fraud, an anti-science hack, and a gargantuan narcissist.
Happy Labor Day! Thank a union. Listen to some Dead.
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."
Pritzker on Trump sending troops into cities: "He has other aims other than fighting crime... he would like to stop the elections in 2026 or frankly take control of those elections. He'll just claim there's some problem with an election and then he's got troops on the ground that can take control."
Pritzker on Trump's authoritarian takeover: "The playbook is the same. It's thwart the media. It's create mayhem that requires military interdiction. These are things that happen throughout history and Donald Trump is just following that playbook."
JB Pritzker uses the word "invasion" to describe what Trump has planned for my city, Chicago. And that's exactly what it would be – an autocratic government trying to crush our dissent because we oppose his corruption, cruelty and incompetence. It's what dictators do.
These people are in a cult and live inside a batshit alternate reality and are trying to get as many Americans as possible to join them inside it.
“Something clearly is up with the 79-year-old president, and the official explanations don’t make sense. That’s not surprising given that Trump is a world historical liar surrounded by toadies who surrendered their shame long ago. But it’s past time for reporters to ask some questions.”
Mueller, the former FBI director and special counsel, had been subpoenaed by the House Oversight Committee as part of an investigation into Jeffrey Epstein.
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Google developer #1: "That's it. Our search engine is simple, efficient, and reliable. It's perfect. We're done." Google developer #2, presumably: "But wouldn't it be *more* perfect if the first search result was always a robot who mansplained your search results to you incorrectly?"
New Orleans, Philadelphia, Baltimore, and Detroit will end August with the fewest murders since 1970, 1966, 1965, and 1964 respectively. Chicago and Dallas will both end the month with the second fewest murders since 1966.
My theory is that, when the FBI opened Epstein's safe and left all the contents sitting on top for several days while they went off to get a warrant July 6th 2019, Trump got copies of everything. And he's been blackmailing everybody who was in that safe. www.yahoo.com/gma/fbi-agen...
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