šØ The Trump admin is moving to de-legalize more than a quarter of a million Venezuelans who have been here for at LEAST four years. The vast majority entered before Biden took office (often on tourist visas) and were previously granted deportation protections by Trump himself.
Leaning towards writing tomorrow's column on Trump's unlawful boat attack and Googled "boat attack illegal" and the top hits were from non-US news orgs like BBC and the Independent. The American media has gone completely brain dead, no longer chasing even the most obvious stories and angles
In 2018 I planted a bunch of ruby-red morning glory seeds in a dirty little courtyard behind my apartment building in Brooklyn. At the end of the season I saved the seeds. One of them just grew into this
About this Florida vaccine story: When they were little - 1 yr and 3 1/2 - my two older boys, whoād had all their shots, got whooping cough. We asked their pediatrician what wouldāve happened if they hadnāt been vaccinated. āOh, theyād have died.ā
The CO of whatever platform launched that payload better keep a personal, secure copy of their orders.
Paramedics DeSoto and Gage did their best to save Bernie before his unfortunate weekend. #MeTVEmergency
"Go to an old cemetery. See all the baby graves from before the 1950s & 60s? After that, hardly any. That's when people started vaccinating their children. If you're unsure what to do to protect your kids, the answer is literally written in stone." ā Michael Okuda How quick we forget.
Boom!
This is legitimately insane conspiracy crank nonsense. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/03/c...
ACBās new memoir plays up the myth that sheās just a reluctant, powerless vessel for delivering radical opinions. Everyone knew this kid. The FedSoc troll who tried to act like they really sympathized with people but cared too much about judicial restraint. It was phony then and itās phony now
Moskowitz: Do you think the Epstein list should come out? Farage: I have no opinion on it. Raskin: Itās been reported that heās called for it to be released Moskowitz: I have it here. Do you agree with yourself?
As a parent, aunt, uncle, grandparent, human beingāif you donāt feel for this young woman and see the injustice here, youāre dead inside. Deported to Guatemala. Sheās an honor student, a track star. She doesnāt even speak Spanish. And this isnāt the worst story out there, not by a long shot.
Weāll let Jamie handle this one šš½šÆ
Says the guy who invited Bill Clinton's accusers to a debate with Hillary Clinton
Heās in the files.
Let me get this straight: in order to see if your medical procedure is covered by insurance, the government will use AI to decide if it is really necessary?? For-profit companies will deny care for seniors and working people to get richer. Despicable.
Breaking: Peaceful activists, many with disabilities, are being arrested at the Capitol right now. These individuals are putting themselves on the line to do all they can to save healthcare for millions of Americans.
(1/6) š§µ The August jobs report is looking grim. After July's report was so bad it got the BLS commissioner fired, we're expecting another weak showing. Here's what @deanbaker13.bsky.social wants you to watch for:
We cannot discount the impact Florida's anti-health agenda will have on our country. We learned that during COVID. I sacrificed everything trying to stop this. Please don't throw that away. Call your representatives and tell them to reverse course. Please. Lives are on the line.
Ted Cruz wouldnāt get between Donald Trump and his own wife.
Courts are really clearing their throats in the past five days.
The Trumpist majority on SCOTUS, like Trump himself, is spending down a trust fund they did not create, apparently believing it refills automatically. But it doesnāt. The whole system depends on other key institutions treating their rulings as legitimate.
Exactly right.
Good.
RFK Jr.ās apparent new appointees to ACIP: Joseph Fraiman, MD, who thinks COVID19 vaccines are bad and that higher rates of obesity have been caused by medical care allowing for overweight patients to survive childbirth. This paper is absolutely chilling, vile, and scientifically unsound.
It sounds like Vance went to Trump University. š
Normally he gets away with gaslighting his own supporters pretty easily, but I suspect the MAGA folks whoāve been fixated on Epstein for years are going to recall that it wasnāt Democrats who kept milking the topic for clicks all that time.
Feeling pretty vindicated in clocking this guy as a piece of shit from the get go
Yes @davidjolly.bsky.social!!!!!!
I refer you to 50 USC Ā§CuzIWanna
In win for infectious diseases, Florida to end all school vaccine requirements arstechnica.com/health/2025/...
@zohrankmamdani.bsky.social: We welcome anyone to join this movement.
We are living in the stupidest of stupid times.
He is the worst, most dangerous, most unqualified cabinet member in American history. Nine former CDC directors and now over 1000 current and former HHS employees demand he resign over his gross incompetence. This maniac needs to quit or be replaced ASAP. www.cnn.com/2025/09/03/h...
"Everybody who understands what is best for America's economic interest, understands that we need to have a functional immigration system." @aprildryan.bsky.socialā¬ & āŖ@vcardenas.bsky.socialā¬ on Trump's ignoble ICE raids and rampant deportation efforts:
Lol
Trump called republicans and threatened them not to sign the discharge petition to release the Epstein files saying he would consider it a "hostile act" against him.
The Supreme Court keeps yelling at the district courts for not understanding that the new rule is to decide in favor of the Trump administration and their allies in every case regardless of the facts or the substance of the law.
District and appellate courts, I think fairly, keep asking the Supreme Court to clarify what they actually meanāi.e. "If the new rule is that the Trump admin can never lose then you have to say that" and the Supreme Court keeps being like "No, you're supposed to just do it without us having to say."
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Yet again, we are going over a bill which puts Billionaires first, and slashes resources for working households. It limits the IRS' ability to ensure the ultra wealthy and big corporations pay their fair share, while cutting free tax filing services. We need to support Main Street, not Wall Street.
Gift link.
Smotrichās map envisions millions of Palestinians penned into enclaves with no state, no sovereignty, no freedom. For Israelis, it means permanent conflict and global isolation. Unless those with leverage act, everyone loses ā except extremists like Smotrich.
They're using us.
once again I am asking people to correctly answer the question "who was President in 2020"
Get out of town if they can.
Eff the both of those scumbags.
I've decided to add the implications for the EU in a separate post: ā¢ Strategic Caution: the EU must recognize that China and Russia are actively courting European actors, including some current and former leaders , to normalize their illiberal vision of world order.
The problem isn't Graham Linehan the individual. The problem is the UK actively discriminates against and normalises persecution of trans people. Graham is a grade A asshole but if he does get punished while the rest of this situation goes ignored we'ree missing the bigger picture.
The next 3.5 years will be a race to see which feature of Trumpism will triumph--incompetence or malevolence.
Neguse: Facts matter. Under President Trump, Americans are paying more for their electricity than ever before. So spare us lectures about energy costs as Republicans preside over an economy over which everything is getting more expensive.
Dan Campbell loves Lambeau Field, where the Lions have won the last three years. www.nbcsports.com/nfl/profootb...
White House officials are on Capitol Hill to instruct Republicans on how to āsellā the Big Ugly Bill to their constituents. What's to sell It raises the cost of living, guts healthcare, and it gives tax cuts to billionaires. The reality is Republicans are selling out Americans.
Full show: Substack: www.thebulwark.com/p/lina-khan-... YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=zOCE... Apple: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/l... Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/59sP...
"Not only are they not enforcing the law going forward, they're actually undoing the past law enforcement where companies had already agreed to pay out the money they had stolen from people." That's the kind of "populist" Trump is. Lina Khan joins @timmiller.bsky.social on The Bulwark Podcast:
Chicago would like federal resources to address crime. Thatās why I secured $2.5 million for our cops to have bulletproof vests and better squad car technology! But for Trump to send the National Guard? Thatās a PR stunt ā not to mention expensive AND illegal.
This summer, Israeli bulldozers rolled through the West Bank city of Hebron with ruthless efficiency, targeting Palestineās only surviving national seed bank. What happened in Hebron fits the legal definition of ecocide ā the deliberate destruction of ecosystems to undermine human survival.
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Shocking stats from this paper on the extreme 2024 summer heat in Arctic Svalbard, which lost 1% of its total ice volume in just ~6 weeks. š„ In fact, Svalbard's 2024 glacier mass loss actually exceeded that of the Greenland Ice Sheet, which is 50 times larger!!! š± www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... āļøš§Ŗš
Trump and Republicans spent 8 months calling this the Big Beautiful Bill over and over like a mantra, but itās so unpopular across the country that their solution is to start calling it something different hoping they can fool voters.
Thanks Trump.
You cannot ārebrandā crap.
Straight up evil.
Imagine going on TV to display how thoroughly you have gelded yourself. I'm having an involuntary sympathy cringe.
Pay very close attention. On the campaign trail, Trump promised to release the Epstein files. Now that survivors are naming him as Epsteinās close friend, heās calling it a āhoax.ā Miss me with that bullshit.
The whole nation must hear their stories. We owe them that, and Trump owes us full transparency.
So yes, theologically speaking, "little kids" are not capable of evil, even if they become swept up in evil acts.
In Judaism, a person becomes accountable for their own sins at the age of their Bar or Bat Mitzvah (about 13). In Catholicism, prior to age 7 children are presumed not to have the cognitive ability to distinguish right from wrong, hence they don't go to Confession/Reconciliation.
National Guardsmen now stationed outside our DC building confirmed that the only thing they can do if they witness a crime is call 911. The have no more authority than my office mate to intervene. Despite the handcuffs, they can't make arrests. They are very expensive mall cops.
The National Guard is, in some ways, a distraction. What's going to happen in Chicago is going to be a massive ICE enforcement blitz.
We're not talking about Covid or mRNA. We're talking about polio, measles, tetanus. This is absolute insanity and will get people killed. www.cnn.com/2025/09/03/h...
U.S. Navy Ensign Eugene Mandeberg was piloting a Hellcat when it was shot down moments after Japan surrendered in World War II.
The Independent's David Maddox has written about Reform's approach to dealing with the media He says he has taken "threatening calls" from the Reform leadership, who warned him the paper would be banned from all events if they did not change their critical tone in stories
āPresident Trump, Iām a registered Republicanā¦ this is not a hoax. The abuse was real. Humanize us. I would be more than happy to meet with him.ā
Haley Robson was visibly shaking as she told the story of being one of the many survivors of Jeffrey Epstein, a wealthy financier arrested for molesting girls and trafficking them.
"For so many years, it felt like Epstein's criminal behavior was an open secret." āWeāre not going away. Weāre not staying quiet. Weāre not going to give up.ā Annie Farmer (Epstein survivor)
By three-year cash versus top 20 players at his position (aka the Kyle Juszczyk award), Parsons's deal is comfortably the largest for any player in football.
Numerous wildfires erupted in the central and northern regions of California on Tuesday during an outbreak of thunderstorms and dry lightning.
New Kid Easily Wins Over Classroom With Belly Tricks https://theonion.com/new-kid-easily-wins-over-classroom-with-belly-tricks/
"Stay tuned for more details" -- Epstein survivor announces that survivors are creating their own list of Epstein-related abusers
Martha Raddatz is horrible in this interview, but Wes Moore is almost as bad. Has a couple of good lines about the regime's misuse of the Guard, but he's rougher on Democrats than he is on Trump.
"The same desire for stability that has worked in OrbĆ”nās favor in the past might cause Hungarians to break for Magyar this time around, because they believe Magyar will need a two-thirds majority to govern effectively." OrbĆ”nism *might* be at its end.
The survivors.
BREAKING: Epstein survivors are speaking out, demanding the release of the files and blasting the White House for hiding them. I was at the press conference today. It was one of the most powerful moments I have witnessed. We cannot stop sharing their stories. open.substack.com/pub/aaronpar...
šÆ from the debt to Epstein survivors, @reptimburchett is entirely full of shit and pretends to care about anything but attention
When you put it like that!
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I really want to see the JAG memo which purported to justify the idea the military can randomly drone strike a boat in international waters because we suspect it might be doing something illegal under civilian law. Preferably because it's being used as an exhibit at trial.
When young people ask me why they should get involved ā I tell the story of Grace.
Watching Republicans join EPSTEIN survivors was powerful and deserves the response they are asking for. Watching Dump just refer to them as part of a Democratic hoax was expected because he is a habitual liar. What happens next is up to the enablers. Will this move them? RELEASE THE FILES!
3,000 health workers call for Kennedy to resign and delouse.
Oh, did Marjorie Taylor Green and Thomas Massie switch parties?
Trump says the BS theyāve released so far is enough. bsky.app/profile/acyn...
Fox refuses to cover what the Epstein victims are saying publicly for the first time, but they are covering military jets flying over them during their press conference.
tears streaming down my face. anger pulsing through me. i know what it feels like to receive no justice. my r@pist went abroad for a semester bc he wasn't allowed within 250 ft of me. standing up & speaking out is terrifying & lonely. believe the survivors. release the Epstein files.
Dawn raids arresting peaceful protestorsā¦ š There is a crime that arrests should be made for: Israelās genocide against Palestinians in Gaza. ā¼ļøUPDATE: Seven arrests have now been made
šØEpstein survivor Chauntae Davies: Jeffrey Epsteinās biggest brag forever was that he was a very good friend with Donald Trump. He had an 8Ć10 framed picture of him on his desk with the two of them
Fun fact: this would be true if we lived on Pluto