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Don't feel like doing a repost that puts the murder video on the timeline yet again but do feel like repeating the point that the president just straight-up assassinated 11 people for supposedly doing something that wouldn't be a death-penalty crime if they were caught and convicted
Vance follows a coterie of online Nazis on X, has described Curtis Yarvin as a major intellectual influence, and openly attacks immigrants in blood and soil terms. The response of most of the political press? "Doesn't look like anything to me."
HUGE. The 5th Circuit joins many other federal courts in holding that Trump’s invocation of the Alien Enemies Act was unlawful. The judges emphasize that the law is fundamentally about *war* and about military actions; not illegal immigration or drug trafficking.
Alrighty.
Alien Earth eps 5 was an impressive love letter to the first movie, while highlighting human foibles and weaknesses.
Read about how Francis J. Allman, Chief Judge of Florida’s Second Judicial District, is an un-American censorial fascist thug worthy of contempt.
Thank the Supreme Court for immunizing the president from criminal liability over cold blooded murder.
Lethal force against a civilian vessel in international waters is a war crime if not in self-defense. If not in self-defense, only non-lethal actions, such as warning shots or disabling fire, are allowed. "Not yielding to pursuers" or "suspected of carrying drugs" doesn't carry a death sentence.
I feel like in the 1980’s/90’s this would be a major plot point in a Tom Clancy novel, and the operation would be carried out as an off-book, illegal black op, with various characters trying to cover it up lest they face congressional hearings. Now the President just announces it.
Pritzker: "We've gathered information from unauthorized, patriotic officials inside the government and from-sourced reporters about Donald Trump's plan, which is to deploy armed military personnel to the streets of Chicago."
A reminder that Trump called Baltimore a 'hellhole' today to no controversy or scandalous headlines. Imagine a Democratic president calling a red state or red city a hellhole. Just imagine. Oh, the double standards.
Pritzker: When did we become a country where it's okay for the president to insist on national television that a state should call him to beg for anything, especially something we don't want? Have we truly lost all sense of sanity in this nation that we treat this as normal?
In the coming days, we expect to see what's playing out in LA and DC happen in Chicago. These efforts are not about fighting crime or making communities safer. This is about Donald Trump testing his power and producing political drama to cover up his own corruption.
Maybe trump should send in the Texas national guard to pick produce. #Redstates #Maga #losing #whitehouse #texas
She’ll cash in her billionaire favors. #iowa
This is how you do it folks: gov-pritzker-newsroom.prezly.com/gov-pritzker...
This is the most important news of the day. Sending Texas guardsmen to Illinois is an intentional, unprecedented provocation. It should be immediately challenged in court. Follow @democracydocket.com for breaking news and updates on this developing story. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
I'm aware that the President likes to go on television and beg me to call him to ask for troops. I find it strange, as Chicago doesn't want troops. I also have experience asking him for assistance – just to have the rug pulled up from underneath me when execution meets reality.
Illinois Gov. Pritzker ahead of Trump National Guard deployment: "To Chicagoans... Look out for your communities and your neighbours. Know your rights. Film things that you see happening... Authoritarians thrive on your silence. Be loud for America."
That Pritzker press conference was... surreal, and I think marks a significant moment of escalation in the constitutional omni-crisis. This was the governor of a state saying plainly the Union itself is being torn apart and his state is being militarily invaded by an authoritarian regime.
Pritzker: "When did we become a country where it's ok for the US president to insist on national television that a state should call him to beg for anything? Especially something we don't want. Have we truly lost all sense of sanity in this nation that we treat this as normal?"
Wealth taxes NOW. It’s patriotic to do your part and fund society for the workers you exploit in order to get this rich. #taxtherich
BREAKING: Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker says the Trump administration has begun staging the Texas National Guard for deployment to Illinois, and federal agencies will soon begin large-scale immigration raids in Chicago. From: @jaknutson.bsky.social
Pritzker: "It breaks my heart to report that we have been told ICE will try to disrupt community picnics and peaceful parades. Let's be clear -- the terror and cruelty is the point, not the safety of anybody living here."
I visit Chicago every summer and never feel unsafe downtown. Have seen a couple sketchy drunks late at night on the subway but wasn't wetting myself like Sean "lies for dictators" Duffy. Sending in the National Guard is a waste of $ and abuse of power. Trump is a fraud. So is anyone defending him.
Pritzker: "I refuse to pretend that any of this is normal ... I refuse to fall into the pundit trap that demands we sacrifice vital constitutional rights if it's being done in the fake guise of fighting crime."
Pritzker: Any rational person who has spent even the most minimal amount of time studying human history has to ask themselves one important question: Once they get the citizens of this nation comfortable with the current atrocities committed under the color of law, what comes next
Sure, let’s move Space Command to Alabama, where failure to launch is an everyday occurrence.
The millionaire CEO who stole a hat from a child at the US Open is, ultimately, indicative of the whole ruling class. This is what we’re up against, a small number of people and a system that will gladly and unapologetically steal from children and from all of us. www.jphilll.com/p/who-steals...
Translation: The #SCOTUS nominees lied during the nomination hearings and the American Public is PISSED and see them as liars and illegitimate. www.cnn.com/2025/09/02/p...
trump's "Golden Age" seems like lies. #MAGA #tariffs #inflation #BillsAreTooHigh
Things feel uncertain right now, Illinois. I want you all to know we’re doing everything we can to protect your rights. Make sure you know how to stand up for yourself and others at illinoisimmigrationinfo.org.
Well I was close
Dying gramps was played by his aspiring role model.
Is it even trolling when you're just holding up a mirror? It's a lesson in how low the media has sunk. He's making them defend the idiocy, absurdity, and endless lies. Thank you @gavinnewsom.bsky.social and Social Media TEAM!
The epic trolling continues! 😭☠️😭 #Pinks #LoserTrump #GoGavin
The failure of the government and many Labour MPs to leave X after the 2024 riots suggests they just don't get the challenge they face or the power they have to fight back. Completely weak and callow.
RFK, Jr. is Making America Sick Again. abcnews.go.com/Health/forme...
Yeah, we notice... It's why we fight and urge leaders to fight and are kicking our leaders who won't. www.salon.com/2025/09/01/w...
I'm just going to keep noting that the owner and operator of Twitter -- the social media that too many politicians and pundits use to determine what's "normal" -- keeps on pushing the white supremacist Great Replacement Theory that has been the motivation for multiple mass shootings in this country.
That said, I don't want to hear Graham Platner give some wishy washy sell out answer on Trans, Abortion, or gun rights, etc. We already have dumbass Fetterman. Either fight for all or you're not the fighter you pretend to be. #Maine @democrats.org
I didn't realize Maine Dems wanted to back a 77 year old against Susan Collins for Senate. Maybe she's been an amazing Gov, but we need younger, stronger voices. www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...
Which is why mocking them is the way to go.
NYT reports TRUMP & MODI had a falling out because Modi wouldn’t back Trump’s lie that he brokered the India-Pakistan ceasefire — a lie 🇺🇸 media has let him get away with with even as India’s media has openly mocked him for it. Video: x.com/thetnholler/...
For the first time, [Nadler] said that when Congress returns later this month, he plans to join a growing number of Democratic lawmakers trying to use congressional authority to block the transfer of offensive weapons to Israel. “ www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/n...
Washington's speculation about Trump's health is at a fever pitch. We've seen multiple reasons this summer to ask questions — and the media doesn't seem to care. What's really going on? www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/it-s-time-...
Yeah, not normal. White House garbage bag drop conspiracy—> www.msn.com/en-in/news/w...
Wow.
BlueSky is Pritzker country.
Man, I feel this. 🙏🏽😭
Wait till the tariffs kick in for real and your healthcare skyrockets. 100% BLAME REPUBLICANS! Not one tried to stop the pro billionaire MAGA agenda.
Platner: No one cares that you pretend to be remorseful as you sell out to lobbyists. Symbolic opposition does not reopen hospitals. Weak condemnations do not bring back Roe V Wade. Maine deserves better than Susan Collins.
Bluesky is now among and often *the* highest referer to @motherjones.com. That’s traffic that has been additive. Only Twitter has dipped btw, the rest as fairly steady state (and instagram impressions and video views on all platforms up enormously.)
Starting today, 2.4M Americans, including kids, lose SNAP food benefits. Stores like Freshly’s Market in Mississippi that serve low-income communities expect a 35–45% drop in sales. Children will go hungry & employees at Freshly's lose jobs. Welcome to trickle-down starvation.
OMG, it’s #Blueskyism. Sign me up! Take it to all 50 states. @jbpritzker.bsky.social @govpritzker.illinois.gov
Like the winning Mamdani coalition that is sweeping NY and poised to take off in 2026. Make things affordable. Make things work. Stand up to corrupt politicians no matter their party. Make things better for average Americans. Treat others like neighbors. Sounds great. #Blueskyism
"We’ve reached a new stage in the authoritarian takeover of American democracy. It’s not just that the multi-faceted assault on the truth, on the rule of law, on a free society has picked up steam—though it has. It’s that the assault, from our own government, now proceeds so openly & unashamedly."
Yep. Optics not great. He may have been sharp still (or sharper on a bad day than trump will ever be), but he couldn’t sell his ideas. You could give him benefit only for so long. Let’s face it, Netanyahu f*cked him, and he refused to stand against him. Too many Dems still making same mistake.
“.. Memphis, after all, has long been one of the most dangerous cities in the country, with a murder rate about twice as high as the nation’s capital ..” @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/u...
In a “we’re all gonna die” kinda way. #rfkjr #trump
100%. Where are the Latinos, Asians, or Native Americans too? It’s the whitest (maybe not in history), but certainly dumbest, most corrupt, incompetent cabinet in US history. #whitehouse #maga #trump
University of Michigan’s consumer sentiment index was 74.0 in December, now 58.2 in August. Conference Board’s consumer confidence index was 104.7, now 97.4. Government officials shouldn’t go on TV and blatantly lie like this.
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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...
Tulsi Gabbard is *very obviously* a foreign intelligence asset and I hope we all live long enough to see her tried and convicted for it.
Guy too dirty-nappy to walk the streets of DC with his goon squad is Superman. 😉
Black women have every right to be furious. The irresponsible choices of white voters has for many of us, taken our livelihood with consequences for our homes, the education of our children, our ability to care for parents. It’s unconscionable. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/31/u...
I would read a whole series of reports like this on each individual federal goon. They all deserve a profile.
I was doing something super heroic and cool before I got in a car accident, please do not look into this any further
One week ago, thousands of New Yorkers tried something new. They heard about it last minute. They didn’t know where it would take them or who they would meet. It was free, earnest, even educational. It was the #ZcavengerHunt and it was a thing of beauty.
“.. with the exception of the pandemic, Black women have never seen such staggering losses in employment.” @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2025/08/31/u...
🎯💯‼️🤡
I’d like to compare it to Kamala’s genocide plan. Oh, wait, she was pro two state solution! It’s like trump lied and voters don’t know their head from their ass. Good job everyone. 🤬 #Gaza #NeverTrustRepublicans
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.
NEW: A week or so ago, one federal agent kept popping up in videos from Trump's violent DC crackdown—so @jsweetli.bsky.social and I investigated. Turns out he's a 26-year-old US Parks Police officer, a lesser known law enforcement unit currently championed by Interior Sec. Doug Burnum. Our report:
Sorry, I should have been more precise. Yes, Trump’s approval is falling; below 40%. That’s good. But it’s not enough. We need to get him down in the 20’s before Congressional Republicans will start to stand up and buck him. What Noem is doing here is shoring up his vibes and approval.
Hurry up.
Reminder: Most mass shootings are carried out by cisgender men.
Words cannot express the joy I feel watching the extraordinary trolling of trump by @governor.ca.gov. Tis a thing of beauty. #TrumpCorruptionCoin
Absolutely absurd. I think you agree to get labotomized when you join MAGA. 🤡🧠☠️ #LA #Whitehouse
not only is our society physically segregated, and our political moment reenforced by an urban / rural divide. social media platforms have created a truth segregation where these kind lies can flourish in algorithmic walled gardens it's truly a dangerous dynamic
#ResistanceRoots “Extremism thrives amid ignorance and anger, intimidation and cowardice.” — Hillary Clinton
French President Emmanuel Macron’s decision to recognize a Palestinian state, prompting similar moves from other Western nations, angered Israel and its U.S. ally by putting a two-state solution back at the heart of diplomatic efforts to end the devastating war in Gaza.
O'Keefe to Noem: "At least 20 people who signed this letter were current FEMA employees & they've been placed on administrative leave. Is it now the policy of DHS that anytime an employee puts their name on something criticizing you or POTUS, they should anticipate being put on leave or fired?"
Using fear to blame others, terrorize minorities, destroy democracy, enrich billionaires and collect votes. Republicans are pathetic. We must stand up and vote them all out. www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...
Jon Ossoff @ossoff.bsky.social "Trump and his family are using the office of the Presidency to enrich themselves in a way we have never, ever seen in American history. They’re selling gold sneakers, phones, crypto, whatever they can to make a buck from those looking to trade money for influence."
BECAUSE OF THE FACT THAT KID ROCK IS NOT IN THE BEST INTERESTS OF OUR GREAT STATE, I AM GIVING SERIOUS CONSIDERATION TO TAKING AWAY HIS RESIDENCY. HE IS A THREAT TO CALIFORNIA'S EARDRUMS, AND SHOULD REMAIN IN THE WONDERFUL STATE OF MICHIGAN, IF THEY WANT HIM. GOD BLESS AMERICA! — GCN
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Is there a bigger stooge than Erick Erickson… I mean, yes, but that guy is one dumb son of a bitch!
he didn't think they'd do eugenics to him www.thedailybeast.com/maga-radio-h...
If you don’t believe that Trump’s authoritarianism can be defeated, look at how scared MAGA is of chalk:
flip.it/hwHjUk
Normally they've booked 40% of their fall soybean sales to China at this point. This year, they are at 0% booked, and no, that's not a typo. www.farmprogress.com/soybean/us-s...