Chicago this Labor Day… Thousands fighting for what #WorkersDeserve
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Chicago this Labor Day… Thousands fighting for what #WorkersDeserve
Weekends. The 40-hour work week. Sick days. That didn't just happen. Organized labor did that. And today, we celebrate how far we've come. And how far we've yet to go to build an economy – and a country – that works for working people.
RUSSIA backs Hungary Hungary backs heritage foundation Heritage Foundation pushes project 2025. Which part don't you get?
This is, of course, false. The United States exported $83 billion in goods and services to India last year alone.
You guys see where this is going? Right?
RFK is like Mengele, only his experiments aren’t just limited to death camps. He has the whole country as his personal laboratory. He can destroy all life-saving medicines and measures on a whim to see how many of us die.
MO Gov Mike Kehoe is calling a special session to gerrymander the 5th District which encompasses Kansas City. He is specifically violating Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, which bans any voting practice that denies or weakens the power of a racial minority to elect its preferred candidates.
We won't stop until they stop ✊🏽 East LA
Couldn’t agree more. Even the lesser charge of inciting a riot would have been something! However, bringing charges they couldn’t prove beyond a reasonable doubt might have caused even more damage. You can see the creature’s post now, “TOTAL VINDICATION!”
Robber barons will make that unlikely unless there’s something substantial in it for them.
No, not “alarming” more like inspiring.
California stepping up.
🚨 “The people united will never be divided!” Happening in OUR nation’s capital today. 1/2
No. Technicalities prevented it. reason.com/volokh/2025/...
Great men tried to heal the country’s wounds using the message of unity. In both cases, the gesture was wasted on the unworthy.
What could have been. What SHOULD have been.
Yes, because the chief architect was never prosecuted and it cost us everything.
Very soon, we hope.
He obviously knows where he’s going.
Medicare for all, paid leave, universal childcare. Busting up big corporations and tackling Wall Street’s greed. Getting big money out of politics. Supporting unions and fighting for higher wages. If Dems want to win back working people, this is the agenda they must support.
It was always thus. While unions can make outrageous and unrealistic demands, they are a necessity. Employers will not do right by their workers voluntarily. History shows this clearly. Trickledown is the oligarchy pissing on the working class, while distracting them with imaginary enemies. Wake up!
Look at this graph. The share of national income going to the richest 10 percent was lowest (and share to lower 90 percent highest) when union membership was at its highest. As unions have weakened, inequality has widened. This is why we must build back union power.
Pritzker is right: Trump wants to control elections. But in his speech, he excused a military invasion by saying the invaders may fear court martial if they refuse. Their oath requires them to refuse. This is the right speech: https://americanmanifesto.news/stop-clapping-for-pritzkers-speech
He’s providing them with valuable mulching experience though.
Witnesses to a kidnapping of a young boy on 14th Street in Washington, DC captured this picture of the vehicle used by the domestic terrorist group known as ICE. This 2022 Ford Truck VIN: 1FTEW1EB0NKE15478 is currently untitled and illegally being used in crimes.
Pritzker: "We don't want troops on the streets of American cities. That's un-American and frankly the president ought to know better. This one doesn't seem to. He hasn't read any books. He doesn't seem to understand the Constitution or the laws."
Netflix co-founder and Democratic megadonor Reed Hastings has given $2 million to help California redraw its House maps in the latest indication of the campaign’s outsize stakes.
REP. BUDDY CARTER: What eroded confidence in the CDC was the covid vaccine BEDINGFIELD: Who was president in 2020?
@jollygoodginger.bsky.social is in DC with other vets right now standing up for democracy. He's playing General Milleys speech on repeat for them today 💜 #LoveTheVets!
WELKER: Do you have 100% confidence in Secretary Kennedy? LANKFORD: I believe he's who the president picked. He's challenging some of the assumption - what is it about autism? He seems to be following the science WELKER: The science has debunked links between autism & vaccines for more than 20 yrs
Yes, as they are.
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This is why Republicans have to cheat with maps. They can't win on policy.
Trump is again threatening Chicago with a takeover on social media. We will again say those who trade liberty for the illusion of temporary safety deserve neither. We are not, and will not become, a military state. Remember freedom is something they can never take away, no matter what they tell you!
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Check on the rest of them. The head will just be off the zit. Lots left to squeeze out.
It was indeed. They also used their obscene wealth to buy Congress, and SCOTUS. The current Presidency was already in the hands of a foreign enemy. Only the people rising en masse can right these wrongs.
Thank you for this perfect depiction of America's MAGA Christianists.
This part. Everyone should be taking notes from @ivehaditpodcast.bsky.social’s @mizzwelch.bsky.social
If wishes really came true, this orange fungus and its spawn would have been eradicated long ago.
The Social Security Administration official who exposed that the Department of Government Efficiency had left millions of Americans’ personal data vulnerable says he has been forced to resign due to retaliation. Charles Borges, who served as the SSA’s chief data officer, told
“Pig eats shit But only when he hungers Pig's in zen Pig's in zen Talkin' bout the pig The pig The pig - uh Pa-pa-pa-pa-pig Goddamn pig” Powerful. Deeds, not words. But if you got to use words you might as well cite Pig’s in Zen, that’s all I can think of when I see that disgrace. Hope 🇺🇸 ⚖️ 🗽
…and possibly a better Congress.
Television legend Stephen Colbert has just signed a $13.5 million deal with Netflix for a 7-episode series.
CHICAGO…
The race to the bottom, but Texas is still ahead.
Are there any veterans still voting republican? God, I hope not. Now the active military needs to wake up and do their duty to the COUNTRY and the CONSTITUTION they swore to defend.
Shame about New Hampshire. Stupidity still reigns there.
@nealkatyal.bsky.social: “You’ve got the president who's imposed the largest tax increase on American consumers since 1993 … and he did it without Congress saying one word. That is not our constitutional structure.”
In a national poll, 9 out of 10 American flags prefer Governor Gavin Christopher Newsom.
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CARTOON OF THE DAY (From @mluckovichajc)
“…I am infuriated that the Air Force plans to grant military funeral honors to Ashli Babbitt. She did not die defending the Constitution. She died trying to overturn it.” My latest in @thebulwark.com www.thebulwark.com/p/honoring-a...
Old Soviet joke for today: A man walks into a newsstand every day, looks around, and leaves. After a long time of this, the owner says “Can I help you find something?” “I’m looking for the obituaries.” “The obituaries are in the back of the newspaper, comrade.” “Not the one I’m looking for.”
From last year. Still holds true.
Okay, time to stop this madness.
Hmmmm. 🤔
Inhuman. “I don’t have any choice” is a lie.
A collection of clips from MSNBC of multiple Republicans getting booed at town halls this week.
No republican should. They do not deserve to hold any office.
Did y’all see this?!
Ah yes, but he swims in sewage, cuts heads off of large sea creatures, and leaves animal carcasses in public places. Rumor has it, a particularly voracious worm ate whatever intelligent potential his brain was capable of.
So not only do churches NOT have to pay taxes, they're going to get YOUR tax dollars to boot. This seems like oh, I don't know, government establishing a religion in violation of the First Amendment?
The damage this man has done is incalculable.
You can just see the IQ declining dramatically in each succeeding generation.
When a president decides to disregard the will of the American people, you’re right, that’s the mark of authoritarian rule. The White House has notified Congress that it plans to cancel $4.9 billion in foreign aid funding that lawmakers had already approved, doing so without their consent.
The kind of willful ignorance that deliberately harms. Leave it to the GOP to weaponize stupidity.
NEW: A federal judge ordered an Arkansas school district to take down Ten Commandments displays in its classrooms following our lawsuit.
WATCH — @jessicatarlov.bsky.social : “If a Democratic president were doing any of these things you would be losing your mind.” 🎯
He’s trying to get her killed…
There’s no honor in treason no matter how they try to dress it up. Our history will NOT be rewritten by such as these.
she said that “black” with a hard r
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What a disgrace. The GOP denigrates every profession. Their contempt for the working class is manifest.
NEW: A judge in Utah orders fair maps, Susan Collins is heckled during a ribbon cutting, democrats CRUSH in an Iowa special election defeating the GOP supermajority, and prosecutors fail to indict sandwich guy. News, with swearing! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
Oh how we need some super-heroes. Some NAZI-destroying, bully-beating, democracy-defending, traitor-thrashing heroes. C’mon, we know you’re out there.
The New Yorker…
Yes, well, it won’t be up to him. One way or another he will be leaving.
Three senior CDC leaders who resigned told The Post they were asked to participate in an unscientific vaccine recommendation process that they believe could harm the health of Americans.
Wow!! Incredible news!! 👏👏
RFK Jr.'s #2 is stepping in as acting CDC director. You need to call your Congress people now and demand hearings until RFK is forced out. They're politically weak for another 48-72 hours, then they'll do unbelievable damage in the next month. Show me that you called and I will give you a reward 👇
Oh no. Not this hillbilly hairball. The entire regime needs to go. Every. Last. One.
RFK jr, a man with a laundry list of behavioral problems is running the HHS (including the CDC, NIH, FDA, CMS). If he wants to personally have cult-beliefs, that's on him – but we must not allow him to project his own pathological beliefs onto 345 million people of this country. This is not science.
The Christian Nationalists at Homeland Security neglected to tell us *what* to pray for. I doubt they would be pleased to find out.
🚨🚨 U.S. March on Wall Street: Americans are sick of having a mob boss running the country.
Things must be real slow there. They are down to investigating people for exercising their constitutional rights.
Between RFK decimating the CDC, normalizing Ashli Babbitt & the umpteenth school shooting... I'm losing the will to post. #ReleaseTheEPSTEIN_Files
Clutch those pearls!
You're not going to believe this but Susan Collins is "extremely alarmed"
