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The White House posts that the US has now taken in $8 Trillion in tariff revenue so far. Preposterous insane lies on an hourly basis.
š #GavinNewsom #EpsteinFiles
"The lunatics are running the asylum."
NEW: The trump administration attempted to remove 600 terrified unaccompanied minors to Guatemala in the middle of the night on a holiday weekend. Judge Sooknanan stopped it. My latest: www.muellershewrote.com/p/the-sookna...
And yet the far right bubble castigates the athletes not Trump. Itās almost like there is a double standard made just for him.
After losing an appeal against CNN, Alan Dershowitz plans to ask the Supreme Court to overturn New York Times v. Sullivan, the 1964 case that protects journalists and others from weaponized lawsuits. edition.cnn.com/2025/08/29/b...
Hooray!!!
Isnāt he a confirmed Russian asset? Why is CNN letting him on the air?
Both on the payroll of MAGA & Putin!
CEOs are trying to convince you that quiet quitting is worse than wage theft, while they plan on replacing you with a robot. Unions know better. Happy Labor Day Weekend.
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."
Trump supporters report higher levels of psychopathy, manipulativeness, callousness, and narcissism www.psypost.org/trump-suppor...
Why do you appreciate unions? Iāll start: Weekends off Paid vacations Work breaks Sick leave Paid holidays No child labor Safer working conditions Health care and retirement benefits
CDC vax chief Daskalakis on quitting: āI am v, v worried abt the safety of our country + our health. I have to say it out loudā¦ the data is going to be compromised + the science is not going to be the science. Itās going to be some Frankenstein of science + ideology.ā www.nytimes.com/2025/08/29/p...
Lots of right-wing political pastors and charlatans about to get rich from FEMA money.
Join one in your location!!! Nearly 1,000 āworker over billionaireā actions planned for Labor Day in US www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Iām looking forward to watching Lame Duck Ron Desantisās attempts to gain traction to revive his dead end political career as a private citizen using money he has to raise himself rather than pissing away taxpayer funds and abusing govt power.
Americans! Are you in favor of this terrorist receiving full military honors?!? This regime is morally & ethically bankrupt.
The push to see all of the Epstein files disappears. Keep talking about it. Never stop!
This is happening all over this country! When we will say, āNo, more!!!ā
NEVER FORGET: The GOP Congress lack of interest in the breach of actual science at the CDC has made it CLEAR: they donāt care if we live or die.
A couple of months ago, the Navy dishonored civil rights hero Harvey Milk by removing his name from a ship. Now, the Air Force is dishonoring itself by celebrating a domestic terrorist called Ashli Babbitt.
I think most of the country is ignoring the mountain of manure coming from this regime. Theyāre in denial at the worst possible time for democracy & the rule of law.
CDC scientists receive a heroes welcome after walking out today.
Here he goes.
Misogyny is as American as apple pie. His voters didnāt & donāt care. They revel in the basest of his behavior.
Mass Walkout at CDC Atlanta Headquarters, Atlanta (AP)
Do it. Donāt ask permission.
NEW: ProPublica has identified at least 15 major disasters since 2016 in which officials in the most-harmed communities failed to use a federal system to send emergency alerts to residents ā or waited until it was too late. By @jenniferberryhawes.bsky.socialā¬
Lynx coach Cheryl Reeve on the Minnesota shooting: "The sad thing is we can't sit here and tell them that help is on the way. Because we're not going to do a damn thing about it."
Poster Boy for waste, fraud & abuse. Ron DeSantis wasted $250 million on Alligator Alcatraz as it faces closure www.newsweek.com/ron-desantis...
MAGA Puts Wikipedia in Its Crosshairs gizmodo.com/maga-puts-wi...
āYou don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.ā ~Ray Bradbury Keep reading, friends. š
It's possible ... hear me out, here ā¦. It may well be that these people lie their asses off whenever they exhale
Ashley Babbit dishonored her service by committing insurrection against her country. While her death is absolutely tragic and I wish it hadnāt happened, the Air Force giving her honors is in itself a dishonor.
Cruelty is the point. DeSantis is patting himself on the back & laughing his smarmy, little laugh.
Republicans have time to pettily paint over a memorial for people killed in a mass shooting because they canāt hate gay people enough, but they canāt be bothered to stop school shootings because they donāt love children enough. www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...
Minnesotaās flags are flying at half-staff in honor of the lives lost to gun violence at Annunciation Catholic School today.
Going through the complexities of day-to-day life while keeping up with the latest horror coming out of this regime is unsustainable. Somethingās got to give.
CHAOS ERUPTS AT CDC CDC Director Susan Monarez has been ousted after RFK Jr. demanded she change her policy on the COVID vaccine. Top officials from the Vaccine Unit, Zoonotic Division, and the Chief Medical Officer are resigning, per reports. Horrifying news for public health.
Meet the lawyer challenging Trumpās Fed firing ā and defending other targets of Trumpās retribution.
Wind power. Itās clean. Itās free. Itās powerful. Itāll move you.
An ex-DOGE staffer developed an AI tool that hallucinated the size of Veterans Affairs contracts. For example, it concluded that more than a thousand deals were each worth $34 million, when in fact some were for as little as $35,000. (Published June)
Yes, and the Village People too.
Social Security and Medicaid arenāt red or blueātheyāre dignity or despair. HANDS OFF these life-saving programs!
Donāt forget: we are the change makers. And no President can take that away. Keep showing up. It matters.
āAs long as the general population is passive, apathetic, diverted to consumerism, or hatred of the vulnerable ā then the powerful can do as they please, and those who survive will be left to contemplate the outcome.ā Noam Chomsky
Drones have changed modern warfare. The Pentagon is behind.
Breaking: According to Minneapolis police, two children ā ages 8 and 10 ā have been killed in the church shooting. 14 children and three adults injured. Minneapolis mayor Frey: "Don't just say this is about thoughts and prayers right now. These kids were literally praying."
Looks like a huge data grab by unvetted teenagers. Now tell me again how this has reduced waste & fraud?
Iād call that Heaven.
Antifa is everywhere.
Intellectually bankrupt, clueless, classless, grifters.
First, they came for John Bolton And I did speak out Because even though I'm not a nutty right-wing warmonger with a ridiculous mustache, I am an American who is horrified by a simple-minded tyrant using our Justice Department to avenge his petty, personal grudges.
This man is an expert on looking the other way on sex abuse incidents. I absolutely cannot believe they brought this guy on to talk about this subject. bsky.app/profile/acyn...
āTotalitarianism in power invariably replaces all first-rate talents, regardless of their sympathies, with those crackpots and fools whose lack of intelligence and creativity is still the best guarantee of their loyalty.ā ā Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism
US bankruptcies hit highest level since COVID www.newsweek.com/us-bankruptc...
There is only one way to respond to this GOP gerrymandering power-grab: hit them back harder. Newsom has shown what we can do when weāre not afraid to play their game. Time for other Dems to follow suit.
Treasury's No. 2 official Faulkender is leaving administration, Treasury says reut.rs/3HCES1K
Here is how the media should be reporting this morning's news. As part of a growing pattern of political retribution, Donald Trump's FBI has raided the home of a prominent administration critic. In this instance it happens to be John Bolton. The pretense is largely irrelevant.
Heās completely correct!
Newsom: We canāt do things the way weāve done. Letās disabuse ourselves of that. The Democratic Party needs to assert itself. We need to be strong again. Strength matters. People want conviction. They want character. They want a sense of intention and purposeā¦
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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.
Way to go George!!!
PREACH.
Powell: "GDP growth has slowed notably in the first half of this year, to a pace of 1.2%, roughly half the 2.5% pace in 2024. The declining growth has largely reflected a slowdown in consumer spending ... higher tariffs have begun to push up prices in some categories of goods."
"you're not even playing Calvinball right" is the sickest burn I have ever seen in a dissent anywhere ever
"If you want to have a coup against the constitutional order, you want to control the capital city. And if he has control of the policing in the city of Washington...Who's gonna tell him to leave the White House?" @gtconway.bsky.social joins @jvl.bsky.social:
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Some call us shortsighted if we focus on retaking Congress in the midterms rather than on what comes next. No! Thatās like calling shortsighted those on the Titanic who focused on avoiding the iceberg rather than on the rest of the voyage. Thereās no ārest of the voyageā if we hit the damn iceberg!
The Bolton raid should chill you: my emergency video (full video linked) adamkinzinger.substack.com/p/emergency-...
Of course there will be an appeal and possibly a stay, but hopefully this decision sticks www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...
Newsom: We got here because the President is struggling. We got here because the President is one of the most unpopular presidents in U.S. history. We got here because he recognizes that he will lose the election.
Powerful & Inspiring Words from Gavin Newsom! Letās go!!! www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8BFQASf/
Fox News Reporter Jacqui Heinrich: The way that it felt in the room was not good. It did not seem like things went well. And it seemed like Putin came in and steam rolled, got right into what he wanted to say and got his photo next to the president and then left
New episode just dropped
Just for those who may be a little confused: This is how an American president should treat Putin.
Newsom: "He doesn't play by a different set of rules. He doesn't believe in the rules. As a consequence, we need to disabuse ourselves of the way things have been done. It's not enough to just hold hands, have a candlelight vigil, talk about way the world should be...we have got to meet fire w/fire"
* NORWAY FINANCE MINISTER: WE WILL NOT HAVE TALKS WITH THE U.S. AT ANY PRICE @reuters.com
Excellent TNR article! Corporate Dems need to be minimized not encouraged. The Democratic Party has a deep bench of young, dynamic candidates & the leadership is rejecting them for corporate shills. Establishment Democrats Are Going to Torpedo the 2026 Midterms newrepublic.com/article/1987...
The President of the United States has unleashed the United States Military against U.S. citizens. There is no "good" way to spin this. Sorry.
I hope everyone is sitting down because Benedict Cumberbatch is constipated again!
Unanswered question: What did Maxwell offer up as her side of the bargain? This is unprecedented, lenient treatment of a sex offender serving a 20 year sentence. Her side of the deal must have been highly valuableāsomeone really wanted whatever she offered.
Ghislaine Maxwell trafficked girls. Now she gets work release. This isnāt justice. Itās a reward. Sheās not reformed,sheās rehearsing her comeback. The system that let Epstein off the hook is doing it again. The survivors get silence. She gets a job. This isnāt a mistake. Itās how power works.
Leavitt confirms that monthly jobs reports may be suspended "until they can get the data and methodology in order"
Donāt forget she gets to leave prison for āwork assignments.ā Hide your children Texas mothers,fathers & families! There is a predator on the loose with the blessing of the regime.
In addition to being a āfallen womanā who has turned her back on Christian faith, through her actions. She is now renting out her forehead for movie screenings suitable for bar mitzvahs, speaking in tongues & the occasional circus.
NEW: In June, ProPublica reported that the FDA has given more than 20 foreign factories a special pass to send drugs to the U.S. even though they were made at plants the agency had banned. Today, weāre publishing a list of those exempted drugs.
How many boxes of Card Bordeaux did she power down before this press conference?
So, you do not like my criticism of legacy media and think I should "DO something." I litigate every day for free and fair elections. I started a pro-democracy news outlet to provide news, information and analysis about democracy and the courts. I'm sorry if that isn't enough for you.
Letās hope they uphold their oath to support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic.
Raskin: In any event, if he really cared about public safety in DCā¦ he would not have pardoned 1600 insurrectionists and violent cop beaters on his first day in office.