oh this is straightforward white nationalist agitprop
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oh this is straightforward white nationalist agitprop
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.
So depressing…
So the U.S. military just blew up 11 people on the open sea in an extrajudicial massacre, saying they were dangerous drug traffickers but offering no court prior evidence to claim such. And other military units are patrolling U.S. cities with guns and no training in criminal procedure. Cool, cool.
Here's the video Trump just posted to Truth Social, with the claim that 11 people aboard the boat were killed. There is zero evidence of self-defense here. Looks like a massacre of civilians at sea. Even if they had drugs aboard, that's not a capital offense.
Senate Democrats: DO NOT FUND the government when the current continuing resolution expires at the end of the month. SHUT IT DOWN unless DC is funded, the troops are withdrawn from our cities, elections are protected, the Epstein files are released in full... SHUT IT DOWN.
A federal judge in California cited President Donald Trump’s threat to send National Guard troops into Chicago as he ruled against Trump’s use of the military in Los Angeles and accused the president of a “serious” violation of federal law.
I want EVERYONE to stop thinking about 2028. Way too early. Let's stop the advance of fascism instead.
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."
Bernie Sanders and AOC tour red and blue states to packed, fired-up houses and these dipshits think what the Dems need is Paul Tsongas.
Exactly- who’s tracking Javanka, Uday, & Qusay?? Isn’t this someone’s beat??
Not today, Satan‼️ Got this garbage in the mail a few days ago. Republicans trying to trick California voters into voting NO on Prop 50. Suddenly they care about “democracy”? Please. Vote YES on Prop 50. Don’t let the cheaters write the rules.
What these Schatz posts say to me is that Dem elected officials like him seem incapable of perceiving the right as a *political movement.* The response to Covid mitigation and the Floyd protests was not a spontaneous reaction...it was a right wing backlash organized by a reactionary movement.
1/ Honestly this is as good an illustration about how staying primarily on X warps people. @schatz.bsky.social is among our most social media literate Senators. And I have no doubt some of his constituents voice this to him (tho' Hawaii bars...notoriously open air!). But...
If Senate Dem leaders cave to Trump later this month and fund the government without getting major concessions (ending ICE raids, firing RFK Jr., getting troops out of cities) the revolt from the Dem base, particularly the normies, will be earth shaking.
Is any reporter tracking the whereabouts of Javanka & Uday & Qusay? Wouldn’t it be news if they show up at WH?? Or Walter Reed?
DC area folks — this non-partisan rally in solidarity with survivors exploited by Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell is happening Wed morning if you want to support.
We’re gonna have to hit the streets en masse, hard, before all is said & done with these criminals…
Jones: We have a presidential administration that has more outrage about the changing of the cracker barrel logo than they do about changing the policies that allow our children to be gunned down in school…
Conspiracy theories are the connective tissue of fascism. RFK is fighting the imaginary deep state that brought us vaccines, fluoride, and the rule of law.
RFK Jr. transformed conspiracy theories into action and reshaped American policy in just a few months. @annamerlan.bsky.social and @kieraevebutler.bsky.social break down just how we got here:
Crazy freaking landlord nextdoor, 84 degrees, & he’s rebuilding his back porch, on Labor Day weekend, every freaking power tool known to man…naught to do but blast TTB in kitchen! open.spotify.com/track/3C0PKF...
I remain a one-issue voter for the 2028 Democratic presidential primaries, and that issue is the promise of prosecutions.
I refuse to say ‘Ply-knee’; get looks from barkeep or waiter…
My #Raspishake seismometer is about 5,300 km away from the M6.0 #earthquake in Afghanistan a few minutes ago. The seismic waves arrived here in Herne, Germany approximately 9 mins after origin time. 🧪 ⚒️ @raspishake.bsky.social
These people are vicious psychopaths who delight in destroying families and harming children.
Word.
My favorite sentence in the New York Times explainer on Mamdani and socialism.
More potential GOP atrocities.
Batshit. In the WH. In America. Let’s get sane!!!
A great city needs leadership that shares our values, leadership that can anticipate the future and ensure that all residents share in it. A leader brave enough to stand up to bullies & blaze the path forward. That’s why I’m voting for @wutrain.bsky.social Mayor Wu on primary day.
Why do you appreciate unions? I’ll start: Weekends off Paid vacations Work breaks Sick leave Paid holidays No child labor Safer working conditions Health care and retirement benefits
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.
Yeah, man, totalitarianism is when people listen to experts. Good talk, always a pleasure to hear from you.
You know who benefits most from antivaccine conspiracy theories as national health policy? Our enemies.
not just that he has no constitutional authority, there isn't even any particular legal or institutional mechanism by which the president can make anyone treat this as anything other than a weird advisory opinion.
Actually, Limbaugh made the America we live in. He and his imitators took your neighbors who disagree with you because you're liberal and turned them into people who hate you because you're liberal.
This “explicit” is a weird editorial choice. The constitution gives the president no power over this at all. It’s not ambiguous.
Has anyone checked on Walter Reed?
If I were an editor with resources I’d have people tracking down the whereabouts of the Trump children.
Hard to tell; maybe a Berndoodle?
A-freaking-men.
More of this please. Generally speaking public officials should eschew funds from pro war crimes organizations.
If anything happens to Trump, this juiceless try-hard will instantly be the softest president in American history. I am aware of the qualifications of the contenders for this title, and stand by my analysis.
It is of course extremely important to put front and center that Robert E. Lee was literally a traitor and he was a traitor on behalf of the institution of slavery which he strongly supported. But in the battles we have over public memory - which is what the statues and portraits and base names ...
a scoopy one from me, with an assist from @accountable.us: Bill Pulte is using Palantir to gather "mortgage fraud" accusations and weaponize them against Dems in order to abet Trump's government capture. but, he formerly disclosed owning Palantir stock—and that's not his only potential conflict:
Really great work.
Mike Johnson makes clear that when Congress returns next week he's going to work tirelessly to cover up the Epstein files
yo this guy is cooking
Stuporvillain
This is such a completely intentional misreading of the very purpose of the separation of these duties and responsibilities.
Openly telling us that the goal is to completely politicize the Federal Reserve and monetary policy.
Massive walkout underway at CDC. RFK jr. must resign so that we can be safe.
This administration's immigration policy is fundamentally sick. Trump has wrongly detained lawful green card holders and even CITIZENS. No one should assume this was necessary. These firefighters put their lives on the line for us ALL and Trump is detaining them.
She was a criminal and now they are giving her the honors of an American hero at the same time that the Republicans in the House refuse to hang a plaque honoring the hundreds of Capitol Police that defended them. Just disgusting. thehill.com/policy/defen...
BREAKING: Robert F. Kennedy Jr poised to surpass gun violence as leading cause of death among American children.
Sen. Patty Murray is calling for RFK Jr. to be fired. "We cannot let RFK Jr. burn what's left of the CDC and our other critical health agencies to the ground—he must be fired." "I hope my Republican colleagues who have come to regret their vote to confirm RFK Jr. will join me."
New, from me: America is no longer a functioning democracy. It is a competitive authoritarian system, hurtling rapidly toward authoritarianism. This was a hard piece to write but we can't move forward if we don’t acknowledge where we are. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-author...
According to federal data, 13 of the top 20 cities in homicide rates have Republican governors. None of those cities are Chicago. 8 of the top 10 states in homicide rates are led by Republicans. None of those states are Illinois. And yet Trump is sending troops here.
Sen. Patty Murray (D-Wash.), top Dem on the Senate health committee, on this evening's chaos at CDC: “We cannot let RFK Jr. burn what’s left of the CDC and our other critical health agencies to the ground—he must be fired."
This mofo is more wack than The Donald!!! Rise up, America!!!
The hair, I mean, what…
Who did this?
Take this clip and a camera onto the streets of Dublin or Edinburgh and you'd quickly assemble a feature-length documentary of the most withering insults known to man.
It’s hard to overstate how big a deal this is - for the economy (ours and globally), for the rule of law, and for the proper and efficient function of government. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/08...
We walked home along Massachusetts Avenue & then Penn Ave It’s a Monday night during the August recess, but our restaurants & bars are uncommonly empty on a gorgeous summer night. The streets are mostly dark & empty on the Hill. Trump’s authoritarian power grab is devastating local DC businesses.
The precise moment when and where in recent weeks America crossed that invisible line from democracy into authoritarianism can and will be debated by future historians, but it’s clear that the line itself has been crossed. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/america-ti...
the actual communication problem democrats have is this: their most prominent national figures filter everything through focus grouped lines and are incapable of plain speech
I think everyone understands that you get less crime (defined a certain way) in a police state but also there are other good reasons you don’t want to live in a police state
Time for all flavors of courage…
It’s clear that the main goal of the Maxwell interview was to get her to say that she didn’t see Trump do anything wrong. Which can only mean that there is something in the files that suggests that he did. Why else would she need to say that? The interview is more incriminating, not less.
Epstein survivor Sarah Ransome on Ghislaine Maxwell: “I have spent the last 17 years in my own prison for what she, Jeffrey, and all the co-conspirators did to me. I was raped three times a day. Ghislaine must die in prison.”
Gonna be tough to name the problem of a police state if the messaging rule is that one mustn’t in any way imply anything bad about police. (Even though a police state is *not* created by or in the interest of the regular police forces.)
you can always tell a PragerU man
Once again: the military takeover of U.S. cities is not a distraction from the thing, it is the the thing
He’s such a pure dipshit.
Just this, Hakeem!
Donald Trump is attempting to manufacture a crisis, politicize Americans who serve in uniform, and continue abusing his power to distract from the pain he's causing families. We'll continue to follow the law, stand up for the sovereignty of our state, and protect Illinoisans.
Ötzi’s death was violent, 3,300 yrs ago - PBS on in the kitchen- whose DNA…? Farmer or hunter? Farmer. He carried mushrooms around his belt that were first-aid for wounds. Closest DNA - Sardinia! Stable chunk of DNA.
refusing to accept this isn’t just about “purity” or whatever, it’s about effective politics. someone who thinks it’s practical to cave on trans rights misunderstands how politics works, they don’t recognize that public opinion is forged by perseverance
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
Texas is a majority-minority state, yet Republicans drew maps that make white votes carry 2-3 times more political power than Black or Hispanic votes. That’s what gerrymandering does: it cracks and packs communities of color so their growing numbers translate into less representation.
It’s a flat out LIE to blame clean energy for higher bills. Experts point to fossil fuels, aging grids, and extreme weather. Wind and solar are the cheapest power. Trump promised lower costs—families are getting the opposite. abcnews.go.com/Business/wir...
Awesome composition.
Alvin. open.spotify.com/track/7n3WO6...
That was one of the most batshit press conferences of Trump's public life. He brandished a photo of Putin and promised to deploy the US military to occupy Chicago, New York, and San Francisco. A sane country would be moving toward impeachment and removal right now.
It's really something to read a convicted abuser and trafficker make sure in her DOJ interview to praise the President of the United States, who is trying to prove he wasn't one of her clients, in order to try and get a pardon from the President of the United States. Not at all disturbing.
Who voted for this?
Not enough to matter… Vote.
It’s a pure vanity thing about his hair.
This is courage.
here's today's post: "California, fuck yeah" — Republicans started this war. Democrats are going to finish it. thanks for reading, and please sign up for my daily newsletter to keep getting the good stuff —
Yeah, here is Trump just openly admitting that he is ordering the FBI to target his opponents. Impeachable offense number infinity
It’s important to see that Trump didn’t have to push these people too hard to become fully fascist thugs.
The primary distinguishing characteristic of the modern conservative is vicious psychopathic sadism.
This is a big deal, it’s the right decision, and it’s very gracious of Doggett. Many other D politicians should take note and follow suit if / when the time comes rather than fighting to the bitter end (or dying in office)
Burn in Hell James Dobson, you complete fascist child abusing misogynist homophobic scumbag. Here's a quick 4,000 word obit that really lays out the truth about him. www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2025/08/jame...
Rest in piss, bozo
