Trump on the cover of French magazine Le Point. Translation: “Man from Moscow” Le Point is a major French weekly news magazine. It is considered a center-right / conservative-leaning publication.
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Trump on the cover of French magazine Le Point. Translation: “Man from Moscow” Le Point is a major French weekly news magazine. It is considered a center-right / conservative-leaning publication.
ICE detains green card holder—days after she passed citizenship exam. She was awaiting the official ceremony—when agents tricked her into coming in for appointment—only to arrest her. She and her husband have owned their Los Angeles balloon shop together for almost 20 years.
The United States is now Putin's deportation partner. Russian political refugees who sought safety in the U.S. are being returned on charter flights. Upon return, they face hours-long interrogations by security services. 🧵Here's what is known about the latest flight:
Photo passed along from a federal employee from inside the Dept of Labor building, where a giant Orwellian image of Trump's face is now draped outside. Big Brother is watching.
As we begin a new month, my law firm is litigation 51 voting and election cases in 25 states. 6 in Arizona 6 in Georgia 4 in Florida 4 in North Carolina 8 involve redistricting
Former Arizona Sen. Kyrsten Sinema is finding lucrative opportunities in Republican-controlled Washington An Arizona business advocacy organization led by Sinema is taking credit for portions of Trump's ‘big, beautiful bill.’
In July, Florida Republicans launched the brutal “Alligator Alcatraz” immigration detention center deep in the Florida Everglades. But less than two months later, the camp is being dismantled by DHS and emptied of detainees after a district judge ruled that it violated federal environmental law.
❗️The plane Ursula von der Leyen @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu was on was forced to land in Bulgaria due to suspected Russian GPS interference -FT There are reports that the pilots even had to use paper maps due to GPS jamming as they made the emergency landing.
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Cleveland’s mayor wants Democrats to know millennials like him are impatient and ready to lead. Justin Bibb says Democrats need to listen more to mayors. They see the impact of federal policy first-hand.
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Cartoon by @billbramhall.bsky.social.
Trump’s unprecedented weaponization of National Guard troops in recent months raises alarming concerns that the administration might be laying the groundwork to interfere with elections in key cities next year and in 2028.
9 CDC Directors going back to 1977 speak out. What RFK Jr has done to our nation’s public health system "should alarm every American." It "is unlike anything we have ever seen at the agency, and unlike anything our country has ever experienced." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...
JD Vance is champing at the bit for a “terrible tragedy” to take place. He’s not even hiding it. www.primetimer.com/news/x-user-...
Just sayin’.
Oh, thank you!
I’m not an ornithologist. Can anyone identify the bird in this photo?
Where is the mainsteam media? Anyone out there? Can you hear me???
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Pick a letter.
Nobody actually saw Trump golfing today.
An upcoming news conference with victims of Jeffrey Epstein could be “explosive,” one of the congressmen pushing for full release of the files on Epstein predicts. Democratic Rep. Ro Khanna said the victims’ accounts will force lawmakers to vote on a bill requiring DOJ to release its files.
He obviously knows where he’s going.
There's only one way to stop the rumors about Donald Trump's health: a press conference. Why won't he talk to the press, and why isn't the media doggedly demanding it?
Taken an hour ago. Healthy and fit as ever.
AP: “Florida could be on the hook for $218 million… Alligator Alcatraz may soon be completely empty as a judge upheld her decision late Wednesday ordering operations to wind down indefinitely…” apnews.com/article/flor...
Meet Candon Dahle, Why isn't he not in jail for life? Bingham County Idaho THIS CHILD RAPIST was sentence to 180 days in jail for raping a 7 year old girl for 5 years, part of the plea deal was that he would not have to register as a sex offender. WOW: (white privilege )
California stepping up.
This isn’t politics. It’s not left or right. It’s not conservative or liberal. Cutting funding to treat children with brain cancer is hate and greed.
It has now been SIX DAYS since Donald Trump has delivered any public remarks. His last public remarks were on August 25th, during a ceremony in the Oval Office. THIS IS NOT NORMAL.
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."
New Mexico has issued a public health order that removes federal restrictions to COVID-19 vaccine access so that pharmacies in New Mexico can vaccinate people of all ages and risk profiles. Every state need to do this!
Personally, I prefer tan suits to brownshirts.
I guess he changed hats and won’t go anywhere near the press for 5 days for no particular reason. Also can’t get any video of him actually playing golf from the usual sources.
They got palm trees in Virginia?
THIS IS NOT NORMAL FOR TRUMP. Something very strange is going on.
THIS IS ALL MERRICK GARLAND’S FAULT.
🚨BREAKING: Bread is now woke, according to Alex Phillips
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.
What’s wild to me: NOW, media outlets & medical organizations are “stunned” by the damage RFK Jr. is doing to CDC, other health agencies, & public health. Me & my colleagues have been screaming about him for years. Years. Even more so in the last year. We were called hyperbolic. 1/
Trump’s Decapitation of the CDC Takes a Darker Turn—and Hands Democrats a Weapon Illinois’s JB Pritzker is leading a charge other Democratic governors should take up: In our America, we’ll make sure public health systems remain strong.
Jill Stein and Cornel West both disgust me — such goddamn, self-serving hypocrites.
That Trump and Trumpism are fascist doesn’t explain the sheer vandalism of unleashing mass murdering mayhem via RFK to replace medical/scientific institutions of immense value and prestige with medieval peasant superstitions. That is a criminal madness facilitated by but above and beyond fascism.
Release the Epstein files!!!!
Well, Trump IS insane, you know.
Axios: Trump considering stepping back from Ukraine peace talks. WH official: “We are going to sit back and watch. Let them fight it out for a while and see what happens.” Truly a smashing success, that Alaska summit.
This is never going away, is it?
Just saying.
I don’t want to read too much into this, but several White House sources confirm that Vance was seen earlier today measuring the drapes in the Oval Office.
Two psychologists have warned that Trump shows signs of dementia—specifically frontotemporal dementia, linked to deteriorating psychomotor functioning. The blurry photos released today do nothing to dispel the growing speculation that something is seriously wrong with Trump.
CHICAGO…
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I don’t care that Trump went golfing today. Something strange is going on—his lack of interaction with the press is simply not normal. What is the White House hiding? 🤨
"Upgrade?" The Felon Administration is putting pressure on the Holocaust Museum to 'upgrade' the US response to Nazi Germany during WW2. They will whitewash the awful part of history when America turned away fleeing Jews. Many had to return, resulting in death.😢✡️ abcnews.go.com/US/upcoming-...
Workers at the CDC have been told to return to the office by September 15 — a little over a month after a gunman attacked the agency’s Atlanta campus, firing almost 500 shots and killing a police officer before dying of a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
Bernie Sanders endorsed political newcomer Graham Platner’s Maine Senate bid, as Democratic leadership pushes to recruit Gov. Janet Mills to run against Susan Collins. “Graham is a Marine and Army National Guard veteran, an oyster farmer and a proud member of America’s working class,” Sanders said.
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Some of the names have changed since I wrote this last November, but the central reality is, sadly, upon us. snyder.substack.com/p/decapitati...
I hate that Trump has made me so mean. 🤣
A Ukrainian FPV drone blows up a hidden Russian stock of TM-62 anti-tank mines. The resulting kaboom is beautiful! Glory! 📹: drone operators of Rubaka unit, 77th separate aeromobile brigade
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A senior Pentagon official in the Trump administration had a months-long extramarital affair with a woman claiming to be “the internet’s most notorious astrologer” — and claims in a defamation lawsuit filed in Florida that she cyberstalked him and his wife after they split up.
Me, too!! 🍾
Well, I’m already stocked up on the good stuff. 🍾
The past 12 hours gave all of us a sense of just how huge the nationwide celebration will be when he finally does kick the bucket. 🎉🥳🎊
Ditto.
Yup.
Yes, please.
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Yes, I actually released a podcast episode about Brian’s disappearance on April 29th. As you said, the story is tragic and truly baffling. Here’s the link in case you’d like to listen to it.
“…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...
If you have some spare time this weekend, check out the latest episode of my podcast … before the next one drops on Tuesday. It delves into the baffling disappearance in 2001 of Patti Adkins, which stands as one of Ohio’s most perplexing unsolved cases. 🔎 On ALL podcast platforms. 🎧
This is the enduring lesson of Weimar: extremism never triumphs on its own. It succeeds because others enable it—because of their ambition, because of their fear, or because they misjudge the dangers of small concessions www.foreignaffairs.com/germany/hitl...
One group of Democrats knows how to run — and win — Trump’s crime debate Big-city mayors are in the best position to push back on Trump's overreach.
You heard the lady! zohranfornyc.com/events
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Has anyone checked in on President Vance
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Trump has not made any public appearances in the last several days. His public schedule shows no public events or appearances scheduled on August 29 and 30. Makes you wonder…
A collection of clips from MSNBC of multiple Republicans getting booed at town halls this week.
We are so fucked.
Inhuman. “I don’t have any choice” is a lie.
All hail Chairman Trump — long live Socialism!!!
Federal appeals court strikes down major chunk of Trump’s tariffs The ruling will not take effect right away, giving the administration time to appeal to the Supreme Court.
Missouri Gov. Mike Kehoe on Friday announced a special session to draw new congressional maps — becoming the latest governor of a Republican-run state to accede to Trump’ s demands to undertake mid-decade redistricting.
NEW: Social Security’s chief data officer, Charles Borges, has resigned, three days after submitting a whistle-blower complaint that alleged members of DOGE had uploaded the confidential personal information of hundreds of millions of Americans to an insecure cloud server.
TGIF. zohranfornyc.com/events
NEW: The Texas Republican lawmaker who blocked Democrats’ effort to filibuster the state’s gerrymander suggested “shoot, shovel and shut up” as a way to deal with immigrants — a comment that could boost legal efforts to block the state’s map.
The history of Germany’s Weimar Republic serves as “a reminder that democracy often erodes slowly at first, via the gradual surrender of those entrusted to defend it.”
Cartoon by @mluckovich.bsky.social.
They’re already fiction-novel villains.
On Thursday, I joined the National Action Network's March on Wall Street with Rev. Al Sharpton, MLK III and hundreds of union members, civil rights leaders, and people from NYC and around the country.
Excellent question.
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Not only is our new acting director of the CDC NOT a scientist, but he also has deep ties to Peter Thiel and Silicon Valley’s techno-utopia movement. One epidemiologist compared Jim O’Neill’s appointment to “making Elon Musk head of the FAA.”
🚨🚨 JD Vance is allegedly “moving fast” behind the scenes to seize power as an aging Trump continues to brush off rumors that his health is slipping.