If you want security guarantees from this administration you're going to have to pay for them ... they wont do it because it's the right thing to do, or even in the US' best interests.
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If you want security guarantees from this administration you're going to have to pay for them ... they wont do it because it's the right thing to do, or even in the US' best interests.
Many European allies need certainty the US will provide a so-called backstop before signing off on security guarantees for Ukraine. #EuropeNews
Trump on moving Space Command to Alabama from Colorado: They went to all mail-in voting. So they have automatically crooked elections. When a state is for mail-in voting, that means they want dishonest elections. That played a big factor also
🚨OMG: In one of the wildest things Trump has EVER said, he claims there are people in D.C. “BORN to be criminals.” “They're not gonna be good in 10 years, in 20 years, in 2 years.” He is now Openly embracing authoritarian eugenics. 🤬
GOP Rep. Thomas Massie files discharge petition to force House vote on releasing Epstein files www.cbsnews.com/news/thomas-...
A quarter of Banks will go bankrupt. The Bloviating Billionaire Bailout (BBB) Emergency Commodity Assistance Program could pay farmers up to 25% of their losses, but only for their losses in 2026, nothing for this year. Farmers going bankrupt will sell family owned farms for pennies on the dollar.
They adjourned for a month to avoid taking a vote on releasing the files, and THIS is the best scam they could come up with to fool people? Who hatched this genius plan - Comer? bsky.app/profile/meid...
www.facebook.com/reel/1633060.... This tells you just how much our Trusted Neighbours who can no longer Trust us could almost sink The United States. Are we winning with Tariffs that actually are the largest Tax increase on Americans in History.Just to pay for Tax Cuts to the Rich. 🤑 No we aren’t.😡
The House just released the first tranche of documents in its Epstein investigation. But the materials likely won't satisfy those clamoring for more info about the case. Most of what was released in the first batch of files is already publicly available.
Thats what happens when you populate cabinet positions with sycophants, as opposed to actual experts in the respective fields.
I know this sounds crazy, but shouldn’t the Secretary of Energy know something about energy?
I’m old enough to remember when we had 47,000 congressional hearings over Hunter Biden allegedly making money off his father’s name. Meanwhile, Trump’s corruption, in the billions, gets openly celebrated.
SCOOP: Sources at the House Oversight Committee confirm documents posted by Rep. Anna Paulina Luna are the same ~33,000 pages of Epstein documents they received — 97% already public — and part of a broader plan to block transparency.
NEWS: A federal judge has ruled that Trump’s deployment of military forces to Los Angeles violated the Posse Comitatus Act, a law that prohibits the use of the armed forces as a domestic police force.
It also explains Germans who fled that did not have to leave. Einstein is a great example.
KASIE HUNT: Over the summer you said, “There’s no vaccine that’s safe and effective”. Do you still believe that? RFK JR: “I never said that.” KASIE HUNT: “Play the clip.” RFK JR (clip): “There’s no vaccine that is safe and effective.” (March 2024) ht: @cwebbonline.com
Lawyers say men deported by US to Eswatini are being imprisoned illegally - The Guardian
Israel is refusing to release the body of a 17-year-old Brazilian-Palestinian boy who died in one of its notorious prisons of extreme malnutrition. Israel's dungeons hold thousands of Palestinians indefinitely with no charges, and many are abused, starved and raped.
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As many as 100 survivors of Jeffrey Epstein and other victims of sexual abuse are expected to attend a rally Wednesday in Washington, D.C. as a bipartisan Congressional effort gains steam to force the U.S. Department of Justice to make public its controversial files on the disgraced sex trafficker.
Republicans should have done this before interviewing Maxwell and sending her to a lower security prison.
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Pritzker: "When did we become a country where it's ok for the US president to insist on national television that a state should call him to beg for anything? Especially something we don't want. Have we truly lost all sense of sanity in this nation that we treat this as normal?"
Roland Barthes: "Anti-intellectualism is a historical myth, linked no doubt to the rise of the petite-bourgeoisie... yet its *political* danger must not be overlooked: it is quite simply fascism, whose first objective always and everywhere is to liquidate the intellectual class."
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The Trump admin dumped half a dozen men with serious criminal records in the Kingdom of Eswatini, where they are being jailed indefinitely despite all having finished serving criminal sentences in the United States. It’s a disturbing situation.
Jeffries has been such a huge disappointment. “Common ground”??? Also dictatorships don’t legislate, they dictate.
Hakeem Jeffries: "Donald Trump promised that he would lower housing costs on day one. Here's a suggestion for the Trump administration: try to legislate, and maybe we can find common ground in order to get something done for the American people."
It’s time for these victims receive justice. It’s time for Trump to stop protecting the rich & powerful & to start telling the truth. It’s also time for Republicans in Congress to find the courage to sign the discharge petition that would force a vote to release the Epstein files. (2/2)
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Finally, 10 months after graduation, I accepted a job offer. I can now officially call myself a real Electrical Engineer
LMAO!! Red state town feels 'stabbed in the back' by Trump move: 'So much had already been done' www.rawstory.com/trump-carbon...
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with the recent assassination attempts the world needs a much stronger #NATO & #EU #Ukraine has proven itself time & time again Against #Russia aggression they show without a doubt they R brave smart & resilient Fighters that the free world needs Now more than ever. U can not trust #Trump 4 anything
BREAKING 🚨 Thousands of Epstein-related records from DOJ released, Oversight Committee says RELEASE THE #EPSTEIN FILES
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It’s still hard to believe we’ve come to this.
The largest SNAP cuts in history went into effect yesterday, eliminating or drastically cutting food assistance for millions of Americans. And it’s all to pay for more tax cuts that primarily benefit the super-rich. Trickle-down economics isn't just a hoax — it's cruel.
ICYMI — “LA wouldn’t be standing today” This is a real thing @Sec_Noem said on tv, with a straight face
Savannah, GA #WorkersOverBillionaires #WorkersDeserve #LaborDay How was your holiday?
Corporate executives who defraud nursing homes? Pardoned. Reality TV stars who evade millions in taxes? Pardoned. Thousands of January 6th rioters? Pardoned. Anyone who opposes Trump? Prosecuted.
The average Dem overperformance in 2017 vs. 2016 was 11 points...and that following year Democrats won the national House vote by 9 points and flipped 40 seats. The average Dem overperformance in 2025 vs. 2024 is nearing 16 points. bsky.app/profile/the-...
Jeffrey Epstein survivors say they haven't had any contact with the DOJ
Looks like Kristi Noem’s de facto Chief of Staff thinks he’s lined up the kind of “judges” that they want.
You’d think. Legacy media is poison. Support independent media that tells unvarnished truth and is not beholden to corporate interests. We are living into an active civil conflict and the legacy media is keeping its viewers in the dark about it.
Pritzker: "When did we become a country where it's ok for the US president to insist on national television that a state should call him to beg for anything? Especially something we don't want. Have we truly lost all sense of sanity in this nation that we treat this as normal?"
Why is the Draft Dodger-in-Chief trying to drag us into a war with Venezuela? The claim is that drug cartels are so out of control they’ve been designated an international terrorist organization, so we need to send warships. But we’re denying Venezuelan’s asylum claims who fled for their lives. 🤔
If you're buying guns "for self-defence" and you own more guns than you can keep on your person at the same time, you're technically just spending extra money to arm future home invaders.
IMO many Americans don't even buy guns for personal protection or to defend themselves against a tyrannical government. They simply have a shopping addiction
I’ll even chip in for that, my friend! They’re all gutless! Thank you so much for adding me to your Wednesday Friends Group! I greatly appreciate you and your friendship @sassy0210.bsky.social 💙👊🏽🌊
The entire country ought to send Roberts Thank You notes for aiding and abetting in the wholesale destruction of our republic.
Maybe not enabling a convicted felon to do whatever he wants as President might have been a step towards avoiding this?
The take over of America by the orange felon is insidious. The heritage foundation and its anti American minions are taking away your rights and my rights. We must anticipate the worst is coming. Total authoritarian control of America and disregard for the Constitution. Thanks you SCOTUS
Alligator Alcatraz will be alligators-only soon, with internal emails suggesting that the last detainee will be gone within days.
kind of just endlessly and irrevocably furious at anyone and everyone who euphemized rfk jr’s malign conspiracism as “skepticism” or co-signed the idea that “he makes some valid points” or “is asking the right questions”
"These guys are the best in the business. They know their stuff,” said one CDC staffer who requested anonymity for fear of retaliation. “I’m stunned how fast this all happened.”
Wind power. It’s clean. It’s free. It’s powerful. It’ll move you.
Frustrated Russians grapple with fuel crisis as Ukraine attacks oil refineries | Russia | The Guardian www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
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📌Republicans tell us more guns will make us safer when America is the only place in the civilized world where the slaughter of our children has been reduced to a way of life. 📌More guns, mean more dead children. 📌This is ALL ON REPUBLICANS, and it's about time we said so. 📌Don't get it twisted.
In a functional government, this would be a five alarm fire where Congress calls in Kennedy and asks him what the fuck is going on
Someone needs to crack open a history book.
Fascism ended in annihilation and surrender in WW2, but please go on.
Frey: And don't just say, this is about thoughts and prayers right now. These kids were literally praying. It was the first week of school. They were in a church.
DHS is forcing synagogues & other institutions to choose between vital nonprofit security $ and their core religious values & beliefs, with grant conditions potentially requiring cooperation with ICE & banning DEIA @thejcpa.bsky.social is urging these terms be waived now www.jta.org/2025/08/26/p...
Isn’t it funny how White Americans don’t know how to organize themselves to vote or fight for civil rights and democracy and against fascism and all the things but they are organizing machines when it comes to forming groups to terrorize non-white people?
Fox News viewers flip out after analyst Trey Gowdy blames 'white males' for mass shootings
It's time to remove Robert F. Kennedy Jr from government before he kills us all
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It’s bad enough to flatter the boss as a requirement for employment. But it’s even worse to sell out your fellow Oregonians along the way.
Those who have the power to stop mass shootings can go to hell with their "thoughts and prayers." Do something about it, you evil bastards.
Republicans have time to pettily paint over a memorial for people killed in a mass shooting because they can’t hate gay people enough, but they can’t be bothered to stop school shootings because they don’t love children enough. www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...
So the Felon is getting rid of everything that ever made the US' attempt at making a more perfect union. What's the plan? To what end do you fuck up 360 million people & think there will be no consequences? There will be consequences.
The number of people being held at "Alligator Alcatraz," an immigrant detention center in the Florida Everglades, may soon be down to zero, despite the state’s insistence that the facility was desperately needed as part of President Trump’s crackdown on unauthorized immigrants.
Hi, Maureen. What a lovely graphic. You are so talented. 💕
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CHAOS ERUPTS AT CDC CDC Director Susan Monarez has been ousted after RFK Jr. demanded she change her policy on the COVID vaccine. Top officials from the Vaccine Unit, Zoonotic Division, and the Chief Medical Officer are resigning, per reports. Horrifying news for public health.
People who claim fascism is a leftist ideology do so because it hurts their feelings to admit that fascism is rightwing and that they agree with much of it.
Hey, @mattyglesias.bsky.social, have you literally just not left your apartment? They’re in every single metro station, all over the mall, and doing checkpoints on 14th and U. DHS is all over Hispanic neighborhoods and harassing uber drivers. You genuinely cannot not see this. Go outside.
Monarez, who was a longtime federal government scientist, declined to commit to support changing coronavirus vaccine policy without consulting her advisers, two people said. That prompted Kennedy to urge her to resign for “not supporting President Trump’s agenda,” one of the people said.
Words cannot adequately describe what a colossal disappointment our mainstream media has been during our slow descent into authoritarianism.
My first born child. My baby girl, was murdered by someone just like this. He never should have had access to a gun. Never. I get horribly triggered after every one of these events. My family and I will never be the same. I am broken inside. Forever.
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#Iowa 🌽 🐷 #Medicaid #Medicare
"The sad part is there are so many daily tragedies in this current administration, there is no room for today's tragic school shooting to stay in the news." - some dude on MSNBC just now.
Loyalty over legitimacy in every agency
It has been wild to see what were always the two most paranoid pro-Second Amendment scenarios—the government snatching people away and sending occupying armies into communities—literally happen this year, to the delight of conservatives
Release the Epstein files. We don’t care about party. Hold them all accountable! But think about it: why is Trump trying to stop the Epstein files from coming out? He’s not doing it to protect Bill Clinton.
They're spending practically 10x each day on keeping the additional law enforcement, ICE and National Guard in DC what it would cost to house thr entire homeless population. 10x. For unnecessary and unwanted demonstration of martial law enforcement on America's streets. The priorities are messed up
Trump’s Answer to Homelessness? Lock Unhoused and Disabled People Up. truthout.org/articles/tru...
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