DOGE wasn’t a cost-cutting venture. It was a data mining operation for private interests. Trump opened the gates to the castle from inside for invaders with bad and greedy intent to plunder and exploit.
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DOGE wasn’t a cost-cutting venture. It was a data mining operation for private interests. Trump opened the gates to the castle from inside for invaders with bad and greedy intent to plunder and exploit.
What will America be under President JD Thiel, excuse me, I meant JD Vance? Time to start seriously thinking about this as Trump’s health continues faltering.
If you don’t know about Heather Honey, you should. She’s a national embarrassment, virulent election denier and now in charge of election policies for the US government. www.propublica.org/article/heat...
I've been watching MANY videos of protests all over the country. They are huge, people are taking to the streets in masses. IT IS HAPPENING ‼️ I truly believe that the beginning of the end of Trump is here! Don't let up. Put the pedal to the metal. We're at the pivotal point! #StopTheMadness
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Good Saturday Morning ✌🏽💛🌼 I’m sorry to announce: yesterday’s rumor was just that, a rumor 💔 #Trump and #Epstein are mot reunited ~~ yet 💀 #SheShed
The mother of a 15-year-old boy who was detained at gunpoint by federal immigration agents is seeking $1m in damages and accusing the Trump administration of false imprisonment and “unconstitutional racial profiling”. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
This interview, which is also available to listen to as a podcast, provides a useful overview of some of the dangerous trends we’ve been seeing in recent months regarding federalization and militarization of state and local police functions.
“A respected network of hospitals and cancer centers is halting enrollment in clinical trials for children with brain cancer after the federal government said it would no longer provide funding to the group.” This is on Trump. Gift link here: www.nytimes.com/2025/08/28/w...
"This is the bottom line...They don't like facts because facts are bad for them." Trump's war on facts makes all of us less safe— @neeratanden.bsky.social explains.
Hey Republican, Professed Christians, If all you're going to offer in the face of this kind of repeated carnage are "thoughts and prayers", people will continue to die, and you will continue to be an accessory. johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/thoughts-a...
Yes. Until the land was declared to be part of the US. Re: 19th century Euro-American white dude views. They had no problem with this whatsoever. The Manifest Destiny crowd is back in power.
So just give the money directly to Muskrat?
It was funnier when he claimed he didn't know Ghislaine Maxwell had been transferred to a minimum-security prison. 🤣
John Bolton, 12 days ago: “ I think he's already come after me… it is a retribution presidency.”
yeah i read civ-mil scholarship
Did they find the EPSTEIN FILES?
On one level, it is embarrassing that a democratic leader facing down military aggression needed “protection” from a U.S. president, but that is the upside-down world we now inhabit—one in which the U.S. is a greater threat to Ukraine than it is to Russia.
Searching the Constitution for this job requirement… Nope.
Did he happen to channel Boss Tom Pendergast? No? I get it. MAGA moronitocracy is a bridge too far even for the guy who showed the country how to run a political machine.
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.
The world is dividing into two spheres. The oil producing countries dead set on continuing their oil dependency and other countries adopting alternative energy
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Maybe he meant they are BELOW the law…like, in the swamp.
Good morning to all y’all who can name a convicted felon President and quite a few of his elected pedophiles who seem to be way above our laws. Pure retribution. Shut it, Patel. #Voices4Victory #DemVoice1 #Pinks
Worth remembering (and pointing out where necessary) that drawing equivalence between raiding Bolton’s house for documents and raiding Mar-a-Lago requires Bolton to have similarly dismissed and worked around demands for their return for months.
On the National Mall, thugs with no badges, no warrant, and no shame dragged a man down and left him screaming for help. This is not law enforcement. It is fascism in plain sight: state violence in the shadow of the Capitol. We need to find a way to stop this cruelty & brutality. It’s evil.
"There is a despicable purge underway of senior FBI officials, all of whom have risen in their careers as nonpartisan, and who have been targeted for vindictive, political purposes," said Mark Zaid, a whistleblower attorney who represents a number of federal workers www.cbsnews.com/news/politic...
The most important histograms you'll see this year. @adambonica.bsky.social is doing incredibly important work in revealing the ills of our campaign finance system. Beyond dysfunction, SPAM PACs approach criminality. data4democracy.substack.com/p/spam-pacs-...
I for one am concerned.
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Can’t hard same any harder than I already am.
Please follow up on these brave employees.
More than 750 current and former HHS employees signed a letter to Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. demanding he stop spreading inaccurate information and guarantee the safety of the workforce. n.pr/4fL6a2l
This growth in AI’s energy demand is not sustainable, notwithstanding Trump’s attacks on alternative energy sources
"The Washington Post repeatedly reached out to the White House for the arrest records undergirding their statistics and has not received answers to questions about the specific details of each arrest." {gift link} wapo.st/45XIQez
"I don't want to hurt you, stop fighting back, you're hurting yourself" is literally the language of an abuser. One of the most banally horrifying things about this administration is that there is no subtext, no dog whistles, no need for interpretive work. It's all just explicit racism and cruelty.
Newsom is doing the right thing. People of our most populous and best state should vote for this proposal.
2 hours after hannity asks about the 2020 election being rigged these court documents come out on his co-worker
Microsoft is required to regularly provide U.S. officials with its plan for keeping government data safe from hacking. Yet a copy of Microsoft’s security plan obtained by ProPublica makes no reference to the company’s China-based operations. @reneedudley.bsky.social w/ Doris Burke
But did America elect him or did Elon help him steal it? Inquiring minds would like to know.
Friday: Trump says Putin claims voting by mail cannot be fair and it's how the 2020 was purportedly "rigged" against him Today: Trump announces executive order to ban mail voting and also voting machines Also today: Newsmax pays Dominion $67 million to avoid trial for lying about voting machines
DUMP THEM.
In today's least-shocking news that we all knew before, Fox staff and producers all along the election wasn't stolen in 2020 and lied for ratings. www.mediaite.com/media/tv/fac...
Texas Rep. Sheryl Cole (D) said her DPS escort, who “was forced upon” her to track her “every movement” — lost track of her on a trail, blew up and “made a scene” in front of her constituents. This is why Democratic Legislators don't need babysitters. www.statesman.com/news/article...
Answer to the dilemma: dump FB
Six Republican-led states sending National Guard troops to D.C. under the guise of a fake crisis. Texas Republicans using police to impose a rigged map on Texans and steal an election. Congressional Republicans funneling taxpayer dollars into kidnappings and concentration camps. This is fascism.
Gov. Shapiro: “Trump can’t change the constitution with an executive order.” 🇺🇸
When Mike DeWine was in the Senate, he was a standard issue, reasonable conservative. As governor, he became a corrupt radical monster.
Republicans Turned America Into Playground For International Pedophiles Israeli government official Tom Alexandrovich was released and returned to Israel after being charged with luring a child for sex. Apparently attempted Child Rape is no longer a crime. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Chris Murphy: "What is most impactful and will be most impactful are more weapons for Ukraine. And here's where Putin has the upper hand. So long as Trump is still opposed to continuing to arm Ukraine, Putin knows that it is just a matter of time before he can gain the advantage."
Cleveland, Toledo, Akron & Dayton have higher crime rates than DC and yet Ohio Governor Mike Dewine is sending OH National Guardsmen to DC as Trump demands! Ohio Republicans are Trump puppets Mike Dewine abides fascism!!!
Just the military arm of the GOP at this point.
The pretexts for these paramilitary takeovers don’t matter They’re lies Don’t buy into their narrative They’re normalizing military takeovers That should be the opposing narrative, not crime rates which let them steer the conversation WE should steer it What they’re doing is unacceptable Period
Blumenthal: "My stomach turned when I heard the president of the United States characterize Vladimir Putin as his fabulously good friend. Vladimir Putin is a war criminal."
@gavinnewsom.bsky.social: "Let's go. This is it. We need to wake up. We cannot survive if he rigs not just Texas, but he goes to Indiana, goes to Missouri, goes to Ohio, goes to Florida. We have to have other governors of like mind, and there are many, to now do something, not just say something."
Epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein Wholesale inflation up .9%. Epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein Strikes out with make-believe peace meeting. Epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein $60 million taxpayer money on golf outings. Epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein
Evil has a face.
So can we officially start calling him Dementia Donald?
Everything I needed to know about Kristi Noem I learned on Southpark.
Another pathetic distraction. Release the Epstein files.
Pathetic show to distract America. Oh, and release the Epstein files.
Epstein files. Loop. Flood the zone.
Epstein files.
Epstein files, repeat on loop.
Fuck Trump. 8647 kdvr.com/news/politic...
Facism on display under the U.S. flag and lauded by GOP Congress. Next step, they will try to use militarization to control “violence” around elections.
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July 6-10, FEMA received 55,000 calls from TX flood survivors in need of food, a place to sleep, and basic supplies. 40,000 calls went unanswered b/c FEMA didn’t adequately staff its call centers. Then, FEMA’s acting administrator lied about it to Congress. www.npr.org/2025/08/12/n...
In other words, if you can directly pay for it,you can control it.
authoritarians are afraid of the potential of public broadcasting to unhinge U.S. journalism from the easily exploitable corporatist ad-based model that kisses power's ass for access and merger approvals and deregulation
This is sad. New video shows FBI, MPD, and DEA agents patrolling the streets of the Georgetown neighborhoods of Washington, DC, like it’s some kind of war zone. This isn’t a “crime emergency” — it’s pure political theater by Trump.
Our country.
The road to authoritarianism is littered with people telling you you’re overreacting.
"Let me be crystal clear: crime in DC is ending and ending today."
We knew this was coming. What are the plans to protect marriage equality? Oh, and release the Epstein files.
Who is paying for the appeal? Follow the money.
#USpol
Project 2025
Trump now wants to deploy 1,000 National Guard troops to Washington, DC Even though violent crime in the Capital is down by 26% I shudder to think how many cities will be terrorized by this tyrant once he spends $30 billion to hire more ICE agents-as contemplated by the Big Ugly Bill
#ICYMI: Kristi Noem, while governor of South Dakota, supplemented her roughly $130,000 salary by secretly accepting $80,000 donated to a political nonprofit she was affiliated with, records show. She never disclosed this income on federal ethics forms.
It's not state capitalism, it's personalism www.liberalcurrents.com/americas-pat...
Invasion from within.
A deranged convicted felon who wants to distract from his involvement with Jeffrey Epstein is lying about Washington, DC, which tallied a 30-year low in violent crime last year. It’s important to keep speaking the truth and not permit this pathological liar to control the narrative.
Inslee: If you need more energy, the dumbest thing you can do is disallow access to wind, solar, and advanced batteries—three of the most productive ways of producing new energy. And yet, that’s exactly what he’s done.
We do not "liberate" our own democratically governed streets like they are an occupied foreign nation.
"By calling his bluff and asserting an independent policy on Palestine, despite Trump’s threats, Canada has dared to speak in the only language Trump understands: leverage." @rollingstone.com www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
No, Antifa didn't attack the Capitol. No, the election wasn't stolen. No, the insurrectionists weren't tourists. No, the insurrectionists weren't treated unfairly. Criminals were held accountable for their crimes. #ProudBlue #TrumpIsUnfitForOffice
Rally in D.C. at 10am today. Learn more at bit.ly/free-dc-our-home. Follow @freedcproject.bsky.social and @50501dc.bsky.social for updates.
BREAKING: It’s official. The Trump regime will deploy the National Guard in D.C. Let’s be clear about what this is. This is NOT about homelessness or crime. This is an authoritarian regime using the US military to seize a Democratic city, terrorize its residents, and lock up Black & Brown people.
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You cannot have a functioning economy when so few people at the top hold so much of the nation’s wealth. It’s not sustainable.
I'll keep saying it until someone does something about it: THE ONLY 'DEAL' TRUMP KNOWS HOW TO STRIKE IS EXTORTION
Despite Trump's repeated attacks on their service, our brave transgender servicemembers are still fighting for the chance to defend this great nation— And that's something the five-time draft dodging coward can never say. www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...
This is fascinatingly disgusting but definitely worth a read! @rachelandthecity.bsky.social maps a clear and real path to get at the #truth! Waiting for the fuckin criminals to rat themselves out is silly if there's an easier, prosecutorial approach available! Please give her a follow! 🔥🔥
Take a few minutes out of your day & listen to these Texas patriots speak up for our country! Gov Newsom was on 🔥 as he spoke out against the totalitarian regime. Watch Dems hit back hard!! Democracy isn't cheap! Donate to Gov Newsom’s Ballot Measure Committee secure.actblue.com/donate/ggn-b...