All the Constitutional scholars etc... can yell at me if they want but this Supreme Court is illegitimate and everyone who disagrees with whatever they say should ignore their edicts. That's my *solution* - they can try to enforce their own orders.
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All the Constitutional scholars etc... can yell at me if they want but this Supreme Court is illegitimate and everyone who disagrees with whatever they say should ignore their edicts. That's my *solution* - they can try to enforce their own orders.
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Not the point of this at all, but guys like this are a dime a dozen across the entire country, and I don't see why Democrats should be trying to engineer influencers in a lab when they could be thinking about ways to platform compelling ordinary folks.
"I’ve never seen the Democratic leadership not endorse the Democratic candidate. It’s so ugly, it’s so cowardly, it’s so stupid." @timothypmurphy.bsky.social talked to Democratic voters who want their leaders to stop running from Zohran Mamdani
this is extremely real and I don't think people totally grasp the scope of it yet. June's No Kings had literally 3x as many protests around the country as the single biggest day of protest in Trump 1.0, and penetration into rural and red areas that we never reached back then
THIS THIS THIS
i don’t know how to do it and i don’t know how to word it and i don’t know what would work, but, man, the utter fucking depravity of that epstein birthday book makes me think there’s an opportunity to claim a mantle of fire and brimstone and damnation, and *someone* is going to, our side oughta try
Get their asses, Jasmine!
Art therapist here. The lack of arms, legs, and head on the figure renders her literally helpless. And the very small breasts goes with his pedophilia. The signature/pubic hair “joke” is again dehumanizing women. Just more evidence that Trump/Epstein/Maxwell et al are very sick.
Excellent 🧵
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OMG they got Hot Beard! Do Christine Baranski next!
CARTOON OF THE DAY
Thrilled to see growing consensus that Dems must step up in the Continuing Resolution fight. Key to doing so? Refuse to frame this as "shutting down government." Instead, call it what it is - refusing to be an accomplice to turning the government into a weapon against the American people.
Just to underscore - Trump is flailing. His numbers with huge majority of Americans are in the toilet. Anyone advising Dems that they shouldn't be making the upcoming fight to keep funding the Trump regime with more blank checks without making it about opposing Trump are living in another planet.
The New Yorker asked me “how bad” today’s Supreme Court ruling was. I boiled it down to one paragraph: link.newyorker.com/view/5bda429...
You might think, "why would some working-class schmuck who's near the bottom of the hierarchy *support* this?" The answer is that even the lowest white man is promised domination over his family, over women, and over other races. They get shit on from above, but are allowed shit on those below.
just look at level of contempt that generally pro-system elites (lawyers, retired judges, journalists and analysts) now routinely show scotus. that is not a sign of a system that has long to survive — even in a competitive authoritarianism context. 2/2
FUCK YES
On the nose. When will the Democratic Party as a whole fire the consultants and wake up and start acting like a real opposition party?
What the next Democratic President, Speaker & Sen Majority Leader can't do is the bullshit, cosmetic Biden presidential commission on courts that kicked the can. All options need to be on table for accountability and complete restructuring of this rogue, stolen, illegitimate MAGA #SCOTUS
it’s great too that when district courts follow the law as written, one of the chuds on the Supreme Court pops up to scold them for not treating trump like a very special boy
Justice Sotomayor, joined by Kagan and Jackson, in dissent: "We should not have to live in a country where the Government can seize anyone who looks Latino, speaks Spanish, and appears to work a low wage job. Rather than stand idly by while our constitutional freedoms are lost, I dissent."
Said it before and I'll say it again: I do not think a legal profession that venerates the Supreme Court has a clear way of dealing with a Supreme Court justice as dumb as Brett Kavanaugh. This is the jurisprudential equivalent of him writing his name at the top in crayon with the "E" backwards.
Roberts should just pledge allegiance to Trump already, and be done with this charade.
BREAKING: By an apparent 6–3 vote, the Supreme Court halts an injunction that had prevented immigration agents from racially profiling Latinos in central California. Sotomayor, dissenting, says the decision is "unconscionably irreconcilable with our nation's constitutional guarantees."
Congress Plays Keep-Away With Child’s School Lunch
Peter Thiel & the Heritage Foundation's Evil Plan to Complete Project 2025 open.substack.com/pub/blueamp/...
If you're a reporter, please stop referring to RFK Jr and his cronies as "vaccine skeptics." They're not skeptical. Skepticism would be fine. Skeptics look at evidence and can be persuaded. These people are extremist anti-vaccine cranks, and that's how news organizations should describe them.
Trump was... 🎶 BOOED IN THE U.S.A. Got in a little hometown jam 'Cuz Queens doesn't like the man with tiny hands They all cheered when they saw "The Boss" But when they saw Trump, they told him to get lost Booed in the U.S.A. 🎶
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Springsteen gets cheered at US Open, Trump gets booed. As it should be.
Not only do they try and protect Trump the media has a special deference for Trump voters, who they think need to be protected from any type of criticism.
BREAKING: Trump makes his first appearance at the US Open. There were audible boos and a few light claps. Important to stress the stadium is at most 10% full and the start time has been pushed to 2:30pm ET.
Im at the US Open where Trump is expected shortly. Follow here for updates.
Few weeks ago Trump flew up to Alaska and got his diapered ass handed to him by Putin, red carpet and all. Kyiv is being attacked now at levels not seen before by Russia drones. Fatboy is going to watch tennis on your dime after a weekend of zero work & major trolling.🖕🏻MAGA.
CBS poll on support for deploying the National Guard to police cities. It’s not popular. We’re Americans, after all.
I consider it an act of media collusion how little coverage protests of Trump get. Like 100x the size of tea party shit.
This is why Molly is not allowed to do tours.
WTF? There is no fucking universe that a massive company from a rich county employing their own nationals in manufacturing here is hiring undocumented people. They're probably all here on guest-worker visas of various kinds. www.bbc.com/news/article...
Remember when stupid and uneducated Americans were generally apolitical? Like they didn't know or care. Man, I miss those days. Though not ideal, their stupidity was largely harmless to America. His Magasaty changed that, and now public health and democracy are in deep danger because of it.
They say familiar surroundings are important for dementia patients, so it makes since that they're doing everything they can to recreate the tackiness of Mar-a-Lago to calm down President Sundown O'Bruisehands. I bet they start forcing the Cabinet to get shitty plastic surgery next.
FYI: Got my shot at Shoreline Safeway today (the one at Aurora and 155th), no hassles. đź’Ş
I got it wrong, it’s “Marvelous” - but still brilliant.
I am from Mass as well. I know the phenomenon well. Cheryl does not get a pass for enabling this POS. Someone on here called her “The Fabulous Mrs. Measels”. 🤣
Of course!
Re: Cheryl Hines, there are women of a certain age who grew up awed by the Kennedy Mystique. Marrying a Kennedy (specifically, JFK Jr) was the dream. See Elaine on “Seinfeld”. It’s a phenomenon Larry David was amused by. He intro’d Cheryl to RFK Jr. She doesn’t care that he’s the worst Kennedy.
Secretary Hegseth has ordered the destruction of all unidentified ships in the Caribbean. Except for those ships that are believed to be carrying rum.
Holy shit what a cover up
Hitler, Goebbels and Himmler committed suicide after they figured out their 1000-year Reich wasn’t going to last. Goring killed himself just before he was to be hanged after being convicted of crimes against humanity and other crimes at Nuremberg. Fascist regimes falsely think they’ll rule forever.
The Onion News Network truck is currently stationed outside the Broadview ICE Detention facility just outside of Chicago.
The We Are All DC march to protest against Trump admin’s takeover of DC is currently heading toward the White House: Via @benjalvarez1.bsky.social
More news breaking at Bounces about Donald Trump's visit to the US Open men's final. The US Open has sent an email to broadcasters, obtained by Bounces, ordering them to censor any reactions or protests from the crowd to Trump's appearance. Read more here: www.benrothenberg.com/p/us-open-do...
This video was taken at approximately 12:55 PM and these church bells are not ringing the hour. They are ringing, and ringing, and ringing as the protest passes by
Keeping an eye on this thread -
Important to remember that everyone involved in renaming the DoD to the Department of War is afraid to take the subway.
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Thank you Boston.
Our Department of Health issued a Standing Order for the COVID-19 vaccine today, as we work to ensure that all Washingtonians 6 months or older have access to these vaccines. I will do everything in my power to protect our residents with policies still based in rigorous science.
This is the excuse you hear from a teen when his parents find a bag of weed in his sock drawer.
youtube.com/watch?v=sWh0... Re: Trump’s jobs report today.
Once again, “Everything Trump touches dies”.
If you think Wuthering Heights is a romance novel you need to seek the help of a professional
Zohran and his team: Here’s a free master class in messaging, social media and rizz. Learn from us! Establishment Dems: Nah, we’re good.
CHICAGO!!! We’re out protesting at the Broadview Detention Center (1930 Beach St) where ICE is detaining and deporting our neighbors. We’ve scared them off once today. Come by and help us do it again.
I just want to say that I do not enjoy living in a country that has spent its entire existence spinning a giant wheel of marginalized communities to exterminate or oppress and now has landed on mine.
Good to know. Mine is at Safeway in Shoreline, hope I don’t get a call.
The "Abundance" people think it's okay to have a speaker from the Manhattan Institute promote "deportation abundance." The conference is filled with people like this, making it clear that the "Abundance" grift sits far to the right of the median voter. It exists to move the country farther right.
The Bob Newhart Show opening features public transit & high rise living on Chicago’s lakefront in Edgewater. Join us at 11am tomorrow Fri Sept 5 on Bob Newhart’s bday w/ the Newhart family to unveil honorary Bob Newhart Way at Bob Newhart building 5901 N Sheridan Rd www.youtube.com/watch?v=V-PL...
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Hey, remember when the DoD was renamed in 1947 by a bunch of woke soy boys who killed so many Nazis that Germany surrendered and Hitler shot himself in the head?
Abundance is “trickle down”, just for tech bros instead of finance bros.
Hey, @lizlogan.bsky.social -
Where?
Oof.
Bruce out here Dad Texting like a champ.
something that drives me nuts is how legacy media will write that "scholars question legality" of a trump administration action when there is not a shred of evidence that it is in fact legal. it leaves room for the federal government to manufacture a legal justification when literally none exists.
COVID shot successfully booked! Fuck you, Wormy McWheezypants.
Twitter is owned by a neo-Nazi, the LA Times, Washington Post, and Wall Street Journal are owned by pro-Trump billionaires, and CBS News will soon be run by a far-right Likud extremist. American media still has a liberal bias problem.
Sex Robot says what?
The irony of today’s RFK Jr testimony is that the man is a walking advertisement for the HPV vaccine.
Leaving a YouTube playlist called "RFK Sounds" on in my backyard at medium volume. It scares away all known predators, bugs to bears. I am working with European scientists to discover if this may ultimately eliminate malaria.
In my view, Amy Coney Barrett kicking off her book tour by doing a sold-out event with Bari Weiss and publishing an exclusive excerpt in The Free Press should end the "Supreme Court justices are not motivated by ideology" discourse once and for all ballsandstrikes.org/legal-cultur...
No reason other than a clip of this skit was shown in the intro to Martin Short and Steve Martin’s show in Seattle recently, and I’ve been thinking about it. Every second of it is comedy perfection. youtube.com/watch?v=q-2J...
So Hegseth’s missiles were fired at a boat: ✅ they had no idea where it was going ✅ they had no idea who was on it ✅ they had no established authority to act ✅ but definitely wanted to murder whoever was on it Everyone involved should rot in prison forever
In a minimally functioning democracy, the defense minister has already resigned & parliament is now debating the vote of no confidence in the prime minister. Alas, presidentialism was a grave mistake & impeachment a useless method accountability for the chief executive.
I know political memories are short, but damn! In July, Schiff joined Republicans to pass the industry-friendly crypto bill that allowed Trump to take in more crypto bribes.
MAGA Republicans like RFK Jr are making our families sicker and raising health care costs on us by rolling back scientific progress. West Coast Democrats are fighting back by restoring access to life-saving vaccines that keep us safe and working hard to put food on the table.
Oh for fuck's sake. John Roberts is the most active Republican in the country. He is more political than any elected official in America. He has inserted himself in US politics relentlessly and to the great and perhaps everlasting detriment of the country.
The Trumpist majority on SCOTUS, like Trump himself, is spending down a trust fund they did not create, apparently believing it refills automatically. But it doesn’t. The whole system depends on other key institutions treating their rulings as legitimate.
Suozzi and his ilk are more welcoming to Republicans than to other Dems. And that’s the biggest problem the party has. If they would just grow up, we could solve our “messaging” and “young men” problem, because it all stems from their assholery.
Hilarious that they offered Adams a position at the US Department of the only thing they hire black people for
It may sound insane now, but this sort of thing will eventually make secession — or at least a dissolution of Union — inevitable. Blue states will need to close their borders to red state residents in order to prevent the spread of deadly diseases.
“We have the truth. And the FBI knows the truth. The government knows the truth,” Robson said. “You may pull the wool over the sheep’s eyes, but we are the keys, we know who was involved.” trib.al/hYLEtkq
We can scare him off.
Both.
"Be loud for America", is an astoundingly good rallying call for US citizens to resist the Trump autocratic takeover. Actionable and patriotic. Pritzker sure brings the fire to Democratic resistance.
All I want is for everyone to hate these fucking fascists as much as I do. That's really all that remains of my politics.
By standing up to Trump’s unpopular military occupations of cities that he doesn’t like, Pritzker is on the way to becoming a household name and the true leader of the opposition.