Lawyer, former DIA, Montanan
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I know, I know, but: The president of the US saying, literally, "we're going in" in reference to sending the military to an American city for no reason beyond terrorizing the local population should be the most immediately impeachable shit imaginable
Netflix is putting its money where its mouth is: š° $2M to back Newsom in the redistricting fight šŗ A deal for Sesame Street ā new episodes and the full archive free to watch. Thatās how you pick a side.
Iām assuming heās talking about US support for China in WWII? You know he didnāt know about that himself. I wonder whoās been talking to him?
That Pritzker press conference was... surreal, and I think marks a significant moment of escalation in the constitutional omni-crisis. This was the governor of a state saying plainly the Union itself is being torn apart and his state is being militarily invaded by an authoritarian regime.
Things feel uncertain right now, Illinois. I want you all to know weāre doing everything we can to protect your rights. Make sure you know how to stand up for yourself and others at illinoisimmigrationinfo.org.
"To pretend that her death deserves the same recognition as that young soldier at the gate is obscene. It is a betrayal of the oath she once swore and a desecration of the sacrifice made by so many who kept faith with theirs."
Imagine boasting of increasing taxes on Americans.
If you're 60, 69.1% of all job growth since your birth occurred under Democratic administrations. If you're 45, that number is 74.7%. If you're under 28, the number is 100%. Happy Labor Day.
Hey @jaketapper.bsky.social, whatās the timeline for the book on how the President went missing like a week after he had weird bruising on his hands?
Under Eisenhower the top tax bracket was around 90%.
āGet it all on record now. Get the films. Get the witnesses. Because somewhere down the road of history some bastard will get up and say that this never happened.ā Dwight D. Eisenhower
Sheās also just making stuff up.
Today we celebrate the strength and resilience of working people everywhere. Nearly 300,000 federal employees have lost their jobs this year not because of necessity, but because of a political agenda. And while peopleās lives were destroyed in the name of āsaving money,ā
Here's the response from Paul Bryant, the Black veteran and lawyer whom the govt arrested in part bc he had a legal weapon in DC, to USG attempt to get him detained. It leans heavily into the lack of Body Cam proving he shoulder checked some Guardsmen. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Now THIS is interesting. Especially that last bit about Melania making an unscheduled visit to ātourā Walter Reedā¦.
I was at a prof. sporting event at the Navy Yard in D.C. today. Passed multiple Nat. Grd. members fully kitted out with long arms. It wasn't "normal" as we've been doing this for years. It felt dystopian. It's NOT supposed to be like this in the U.S. I was federal law enforcement. This isn't OK.
Solar power is the cheapest electricity in history and in 2024 delivered 2/3rds of new capacity and 40% of new global generation. Yet myths, often politically motivated, are holding back its progress. @carbonbrief.org debunks 16 of of the biggest āļø mythsš interactive.carbonbrief.org/factcheck/so...
Hey Congress ā make Alex Acosta's testimony public and televised. There's absolutely no ethical reason for it to be private and transcribed. Nefarious AF. We need to hear your questions. We want to see him squirm. We need to see him squirm. Yet another sign of a cover-up.
Platner: No one cares that you pretend to be remorseful as you sell out to lobbyists. Symbolic opposition does not reopen hospitals. Weak condemnations do not bring back Roe V Wade. Maine deserves better than Susan Collins.
To read the 337-page transcript of Ghislaine Maxwellās interview with the Deputy Attorney General, Todd Blanche, is to be horrified, even enraged, by Maxwellās brazen airbrushing of her conduct, and by Blancheās placid acceptance of her rendition of events.
The President of Portugal Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa called the orange felon a Russian asset in a live televised speech. Well done, this is how you do it. š
Ghislaine Maxwell's deposition was not under oath. She was not video taped, which is very unusual for a deposition. And there are many cuts where they stopped the audio tapes so lawyers could confer with her off-the-record. None of that stuff is the way you do a deposition.
Fifty-one of the 85 Federalist papers were written by a guy born in Nevis.
An upcoming news conference with victims of Jeffrey Epstein could be āexplosive,ā one of the congressmen pushing for full release of the files on Epstein predicts. Democratic Rep. Ro Khanna said the victimsā accounts will force lawmakers to vote on a bill requiring DOJ to release its files.
REP. BUDDY CARTER: What eroded confidence in the CDC was the covid vaccine BEDINGFIELD: Who was president in 2020?
Nope. Trump was tried and convicted of 34 felony counts. Garland had two cases going on J6 and the classified documents. This is on the electorate.
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."
I like the rebrand.
Can the media STOP referring to Jeffrey Epstein as a āfinancierā? The money he made came from SEX TRAFFICKING MINORS, RAPING CHILDREN, and BLACKMAIL. He was NOT a financier. Iāve seen at least five stories from three outlets refer to him this way in the past week. This is the latest from the Times:
Another day, another way Trump finds a way to disrespect our troops.
Heās providing them with valuable mulching experience though.
The media itself is to blame for much of this. The endless drivel about Bidenās age when under his watch the economy was the best in the world only to be ruined by the same guy who ruined it before Biden.
Good thing the fourth largest economy in the world is stepping up.
So we can get hopeful again?
Jill Stein and Cornel West both disgust me ā such goddamn, self-serving hypocrites.
Sunrise over Wild Goose Island, Glacier National Parkāmountain peaks glowing, colors dancing across St. Mary Lake, and a timeless stillness that feels almost otherworldly. #montana #sunrise #glacier #nationalpark #landscape #nature #photography
RADDATZ: One of the things they are trying to do in DC with the National Guard is have them back up local law enforcement WES MOORE: They are picking up trash
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!
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."
Putin arrived in China for the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO). He got a red carpet in the airport but Xi Jinping did not arrive to greet him personally.
Seems very low energy.
I guess he changed hats and wonāt go anywhere near the press for 5 days for no particular reason. Also canāt get any video of him actually playing golf from the usual sources.
Youāll notice that propagandists like Jake Tapper no longer have a problem with older age in office nor do they mention the orange felonās obvious mental and physical decline.
He wonāt let the press anywhere near him. This is getting weirder and weirder.
Netanyahu is restricting aid trucks into Gazaāthe best way to get food to starving people thereāso Jordan is delivering some with air drops. The Jordanians said @merkley.senate.gov & I could join one of those flights to see the devastation, but Israel denied authorization for our scheduled flight.
RFK Jr. likes to claim that thimerosal in childhood vaccines causes autism spectrum disorder (ASD). So I wonder if heād like to explain how the rates of ASD diagnoses in the U.S. have kept going up when thimerosal was removed from all childhood vaccines in 2001?
Meanwhile, heās deporting Venezuelans who fled here for safety.
Heās desperate.
"She did not die defending the Constitution. She died trying to overturn it. She was not protecting lives at a gate in Iraq; she was forcing her way through windows in the Capitol to stop the peaceful transfer of power." New from @markhertling.bsky.social:
No press pool, no camerasā¦ even Iāll say itās weird.
If you're looking to join a protest on Labor Day, check out the site below for a Workers Over Billionaires rally location near you. #WorkersOverBillionaires maydaystrong.org
CARTOON OF THE DAY (From @mluckovichajc)
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Not sure what a āhigh mindedā Democrat is, but it sure appeals to everyone who is tired of Dems not fighting back.
Thatās not why the rest of us are feeling disappointment around the breakfast table today tbh.
Thereās some basis to be skeptical of the Krasnov theory, but it would at least explain this administrationās efforts to kill Americans.
āA 14% price increaseā When Trump & @MarshaBlackburn tell you there has been no inflation, theyāre lying
Then we should be informed where heās been hiding since Tuesday.
I had no idea: The case will now continue to move forward toward trial, offering a path to hold the Saudi government accountable for its alleged role in the attack. Judge Rejects Saudisā Attempt to Dismiss Lawsuit by 9/11 Families - The New York Times www.nytimes.com/2025/08/28/u...
One, plus all the quisling sycophants who constantly repeat his lies.
More Americans expressed concerns that tariffs would impact prices.
Oh God. Andriy Parubiy, a key Euromaidan revolution figure and former Rada speaker, has been assassinated in Lviv.
Welch: As someone who lives in a red state, let me just tell you what MAGA supermajorities get you. We're 50th in education. The worst in the whole country for women to live. We're poorer, worst health care. And if you look at the bottom ten states, they are all MAGA supermajorities.
And yet Biden was declared unfit - loudly and by all media - for not wanting to schedule events past 8 pm.
Trump wants you to forget Epstein. Or at least, trust the lady whose been convicted of the crime. My latest adamkinzinger.substack.com/p/maxwell-th...
The month before a shooter opened fire on children gathered in a Minnesota church this week, the Trump administration cut funding in the state for efforts to identify potential mass shooters and head off their violence. "What could go wrong?" www.cnn.com/2025/08/30/u...
āThe CDC you knew is over,ā Dr. Demetre Daskalakis told me today. āUnless someone takes radical action, there is nothing there that can be salvaged.ā www.advocate.com/politics/dem...
Republicans' "Big Beautiful Bill" kicks 270,000 Wisconsinites off of their healthcare and takes away basic food assistance from kids, families, and seniors, and Wisconsinites are going to be stuck footing the bill. There's nothing beautiful about it.
āA respected network of hospitals and cancer centers is halting enrollment in clinical trials for children with brain cancer after the federal government said it would no longer provide funding to the groupā
Letās see it then.
Iowa State Senator Zach Wahls, who hopes to fill the Senate seat being vacated by Joni Ernst, talks with Jen Psaki about the top two issues he hears about on the campaign trail: the economy, and political corruption. @zachwahls.bsky.social
Yet another tech āadvanceā that no one really needs.
And yet crickets the crew who used to boast of being Constitutionalists.
Iāve noticed it seems to be mainly DC national guard around the Mall (where this appears to be). Figures Trump would have them do this.
āA respected network of hospitals and cancer centers is halting enrollment in clinical trials for children with brain cancer after the federal government said it would no longer provide funding to the group.ā This is on Trump. Gift link here: www.nytimes.com/2025/08/28/w...
NEWS: Netflix co-founder and Democratic megadonor Reed Hastings has given $2 million to help California redraw its House maps. www.politico.com/news/2025/08...
If/when he does re-emerge it would be fun to insist that it's a clone just to be annoying
Hello, I am furious www.liberalcurrents.com/let-it-burn-...
Trump finds new ways to dishonor the military every day.
āā¦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.ā My latest in @thebulwark.com www.thebulwark.com/p/honoring-a...
Any thoughts on why he just doesnāt make an appearance?
One of my favorite things about blue sky is the Jake Tapper ratio. Thank you š
Donāt forget to add more tacky fake gold.
Every American should have that face listening to Trump. It was a sign of Bidenās fitness for office. All out of fs to give.
There once was this guy named Jake Tapper Whoās seemingly proper and dapper He fell down a hole Forgot his real role Now heās unable to see the clear and present authoritarian and fascist crisis facing America and what a fucking idiot he is
@maniisnala.bsky.social @Vamroses.bsky.social @elemjay.bsky.social @daibhi.bsky.social @revbluessusie.bsky.social @nerineskinner.bsky.social @howdyandy.bsky.social @pabloccollins.bsky.social @johnsensible.bsky.social @charlottehughes.bsky.social @paulapeters19.bsky.social Todayās quotes
www.politico.com/news/2025/08... Time to sign back up with Netflix.
Is this a sign?
Until the TCJA, the top 400 US individuals by wealth and the full US population both had effective tax rates of ~30%. The TCJA reduced the Top 400 individualsā total effective tax rates to 23.8% in 2018 ā 2020, well below those of the full population (still ~30%). www.nber.org/system/files...
And be grateful you wonāt be hassled or kidnapped by masked men claiming to be law enforcement like is happening in US cities.