You know that boat the administration blew up? A former law enforcement official told the NYT the boat seemed to be carrying not drugs but *’migrants * www.nytimes.com/2025/09/03/u...
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You know that boat the administration blew up? A former law enforcement official told the NYT the boat seemed to be carrying not drugs but *’migrants * www.nytimes.com/2025/09/03/u...
As a lawyer, I'll tell you that there's nobody who knows this law better than Ryan and Brian. Sure looks like murder or war crime to me. But as a human, I'll tell you that the Rubio statement -- we could have stopped the boat but we blew it up to send a message -- is sickening and depraved.
🚨BREAKING: Cleta Mitchell thinks President Donald Trump may declare a national emergency to allow him to take control of national elections. Her comments will add to growing concern that Trump is plotting a way to use his power over the military and federal law enforcement to rig next year’s vote.
One of DOGE’s key players is an early 20’s douchebag who goes by Big Balls, but okay… 🤪
More than 1000 FBI agents reviewed the files to redact Trump’s name, but sure bruh.
The Trump administration rushed the rollout of a new AI-powered phone bot to handle a large volume of Social Security calls, resulting in glitches that leave millions struggling to get help.
Director of Turkish Delights.
This is a fraction of what is happening in the House and Senate when Democrats are given a chance. They are all fighting like this in committee hearings.
holy shit dude using a fake deployment for wildland fire crews from a fire that’s only 13% contained during peak western US fire season to detain multiple firefighters and remove the crews from the fire is a scale of evil & dangerous I can’t fully communicate to people not from wildfire regions
Why did you vote for the crypto bill that further enabled Trump and his family???
Because there aren’t many other options.
A federal appeals court said Trump’s use of the Alien Enemies Act to rapidly deport alleged Venezuelan gang members is unlawful and blocked its use in several southern states, issuing another blow to Trump’s invocation of the 18th century law. www.cnn.com/2025/09/02/p...
A man on the streets of the UK is asked about the “problem of immigration” and dismantles talking points with ease.
“following rumors of his death donald trump held a press conference announcing extrajudicial killings of civilians and plans for a military invasion of an american city” is a perfectly factual headline that could be used to describe what we saw yesterday
As many as 100 victims will show up to today's Epstein victim press conference. www.miamiherald.com/news/politic...
“Potentially harmful messages documented by the nonprofits included chatbots asking underage users to move to a more private platform and at other times encouraging users to hide their relationship with the chatbot from their parents.”
One possible answer… stop overdoing it with sequels and remakes of already classic movies. Get some new ideas out there.
A little-known US indicator of the nation’s freight transportation market is flashing hints of a slowdown during what’s supposed to be peak season.
Schumer is out of his fucking mind. www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...
COMMENTARY: If this was happening in another nation, we'd call it by name. It's authoritarianism.
BREAKING: Judge Breyer rules that President Trump's deployment of the military to Los Angeles violated the Posse Comitatus Act, says Trump is using military as a "national police force with the president as its chief." Injunction granted. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
If you’re a convicted felon and your character witness is your dear old friend, the convicted child sex trafficker and enabler of your other dear old friend, the most notorious raper of children in modern history, you’re definitely a total piece of shit.
mamdani had his fourth meeting with jeffries, and jeffries continues to withhold an endorsement in a race against a corrupt cop, a fascist, and a sex criminal who intentionally handed the state senate to republicans and gerrymandered against the democrats.
About a week ago, it was $8T. He’s pulling these numbers out of his ass.
Reforming and reining in law enforcement agencies is a must. We cannot continue to have a society where law enforcement get to do whatever the fuck they want with no accountability or consequences when they, themselves, break the law.
GOP Rep. Thomas Massie files discharge petition to force House vote on releasing Epstein files www.cbsnews.com/news/thomas-...
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.
This regime lies about every fucking thing. What it looks like is they just murdered multiple people on a boat. Capital punishment. Zero due process.
The president is sending the military to control American cities and if you're a reporter who's framing that illegal power grab as "pushing the boundaries of constitutionality" or "acting boldly to fight crime" or whatever, please go find another line of work where you won't get us all killed.
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?"
“Trump says…” Trump is a pathological liar. Any credible journalist or media outlet should start from that truth and act accordingly.
🚨BREAKING: Federal court STRIKES DOWN down new South Dakota law imposing a nine-month deadline to file ballot measures declaring it unconstitutional under the First Amendment. Congrats to Dakotans for Health and their legal team! www.democracydocket.com/cases/south-...
Then why do you insist you n bringing a stuffed animal to a gun fight, and trying to work with a fascist party?
This is literally the largest act of union busting in American history. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/u...
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. filling an IV bag from a murky puddle near Trump National's sixth tee. "The president needs parameciums," he tells the assembled media. "It's the only treatment proven to work in real testing." His golf cart is piled high with dozens of dead birds.
This does a good job ad links to it. But basically, a pretty convincing case for all the weirdness adding up to stroke. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/it-s-time-...
Whether or not these people are actual foreign agents is almost irrelevant. Their actions are observationally equivalent to & indistinguishable from the actions actual foreign agents would be taking. The consequences of our total Article I constitutional crisis, right here:
Happy Labor Day everyone! A reminder that Trump has just about decimated the federal workforce. Nearly 10% of all federal workers forced out of their jobs since Jan. "We’re seeing the arson of our government." www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
A DOGE whistleblower revealed that employees uploaded a Social Security database—containing full names, dates of birth, and addresses of hundreds of millions of Americans— to a cloud server without “independent security or oversight," creating “enormous vulnerabilities" to hackers. trib.al/FDTWG43
No one wants to work in our meatpacking plant at the same “very aggressive” wages we were offering in December. Verily, it’s a complete mystery why we can’t fill these positions 🤔 bsky.app/profile/mcop...
A Labor Day reminder: today there isn't a single city, metro area, or state in the U.S. where a full-time minimum-wage worker can afford a modest 2-bedroom apartment. Millions of people with jobs—even multiple jobs—aren't safe from homelessness in this country.
Gas is ~$5 a gallon in my area.
“They had so much fun.” What in the actual fuck???
Little kids with brain cancer. That’s who Donald Trump and RFK Jr. are screwing over by cutting health care.
None of them should be masked.
My students, who attend a working-class rust-belt college, openly talk abt how much they hate AI & are afraid of its consequences. I wonder how much of the oft-reported student enthusiasm for the tech is the merely result of the NYT’s Ivy League bias
It’s long past time you all stopped using “Congress” when you mean “Republicans”. Not a single Democrat voted for this hot mess of an appointment. This endless grind to maintain a non-partisan tone, despite the partisanship of our fascist reality, is willfully blind, & a betrayal of your country.
“Congress” didn’t do this. Republican senators did.
Dear Americans, welcome to the thrilling game of ‘Did this dictator die or just disappear for a day?’ We’ve been playing it with Putin and Lukashenko for decades. Enjoy the suspense.
All I know is when he dies, anyone tries “don’t speak ill of the dead” is getting punted into the sun. I’m gonna speak so ill of that dead it’ll make Satan blush.
“.. Roberson predicted produce prices could rise 50% to 100% by early next year due to tariffs and deporting agricultural workers.” @waiterich.bsky.social @fortune.com #CPI fortune.com/2025/08/28/t...
In detailed budget logs it tried to keep from public view, the White House is trying to wrest more control over spending from Congress. (and this was *before* last night's pocket recision) www.nytimes.com/2025/08/29/u...
Unbelievably bad. “The CDC you knew is over. Unless someone takes radical action, there is nothing there that can be salvaged.” www.advocate.com/politics/dem...
Republican lawmakers and judges continue to enable the torture of our youth with mass shooter drills and actual mass shootings.
Democrats just picked up a seat that was +11 pts for Trump in 2024 to break an Iowa supermajority. Trump wants to appear indomitable. But he's also a lame duck and those winds can shift quickly. www.the-downballot.com/p/iowa-democ...
The fecklessness of Dem congressional leaders… infuriating.
Dear journalists: The President has not fired Lisa Cook. The President is *trying* to illegally fire her. Your words shape people’s reality. Please be accurate in your reporting.
SCOOP: CBP has had access to more than 80,000 Flock cameras nationwide. Cops said they didn’t understand they were sharing with CBP. Flock has just cut off access: www.404media.co/cbp-had-acce...
“Do not come to Chicago” -JB Pritzker This is what we have been talking about, since 2020. Hit back harder. That’s how you win a fight. The entire Democrat party should be taking notes.
They should have let him cook. We could have had nice things.
Illinois Gov. Pritzker vows to pursue Trump officials who participate in an illegal National Guard deployment to Chicago: "If you hurt my people, nothing will stop me - not time or political circumstance - from making sure that you face justice under our constitutional rule of law."
He hasn’t done anything wrong.
I feel like we don't talk enough about how the current President tried to kill his challenger in the 2020 election with Covid. bsky.app/profile/seth...
He is breaking their brains.
the Cuomo and Adams responses to Zohran’s scavenger hunt are the most “we’re going to lose this race by 30+” responses I’ve ever seen
We’ve got armored personnel carriers roaming the streets of DC, “investigations” of political enemies, masked secret police brutalizing immigrants and U.S. citizens, SCOTUS rubber-stamping unconstitutional orders, GOP reps gerrymandering at the president’s order. America is an authoritarian state.
Today, the president threatened to militarily occupy numerous American cities without authorization or rationale. He was also praised by a notorious child sex trafficker, with whom he obviously cut a deal, to cover up evidence he sexually abused kids. The GOP is united behind him. 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
This video should be Exhibit A in the crimes against humanity trial for every government agent standing there in that video - and the people in positions of authority, from Trump on down, who ordered them to do it.
Trump admin cares so much about election security that it wants to cut funding to states that don't do it the way the admin wants them to.
“A bold departure from norms…” What the fuck?????
May this portion of the dissent by Ketanji Brown Jackson haunt John Roberts forever and be the final word on his tenure as Chief Justice.
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lol remember how Nate Silver prophesied Eric Adams for a presidential candidate?
Vance remains a couch fucker.
Its pretty stark to watch mass media focus the gerrymandering conflict on California -- despite it being in reaction to Texas. California is seeking voter approval, while Texas is coercing Democrats to provide a quorum. But California is the problem here.
Thank you, Boston Globe. This is how it's done.
Is it on Netflix?
look, not to be annoying but men make up a full 80% of the Texas House — but everyone holding the line at this point appears to be a woman, if not also a woman of color x.com/RyanChandler...
Well. That’s a massively slappable face.
Stop calling this authoritarian overreach a distraction. He is trying to normalize military occupation of American cities in an attempt to stifle protest and free speech, but also to intimidate people and to potentially obstruct elections.
NEW: McCarthyism returns to immigration law, as @USCIS announces that it will begin screening applicants for immigration benefits for "Anti-America ideologies or activities." The term has no prior precedent in immigration law and its definition is entirely up to the Trump admin.
The fact that the thing we're calling artificial intelligence *can't do math* and yet we're jamming it into programs that successfully *have done math* for decades, then warning people against using the AI to do math, seems like an excellent summary of where we are.
A poorly-written letter isn’t an agreement. A poorly-worded letter isn’t an agreement. A poorly-worded letter isn’t an agreement. 🤡🤡
These motherfuckers need to be hauled in front of a tribunal.
"The community’s two architects — a classically trained French horn player who has livestreamed his own sex videos, and a former jazz pianist arrested but not charged for attempted murder in Ecuador — say they must personally confirm that applicants are white before they can be welcomed in."
That Trump's nominee to lead the BLS was part of the Jan 6 insurrection, has a Nazi ship hanging in his Zoom background, has called for suspending the monthly jobs report, and wrote a paper incorrectly saying the country was in a recession in 2022 should, in a normal world, be an enormous scandal.
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It is mind blowing to hear Democratic politicians talking about the president sending the military into American cities as a “distraction.” Actually you are all now one degree away from being violently removed from power. The fact that this may not happen does not erase the fact that it may happen.
The people dominating our political landscape, culture, and economy are just so stupid and full of shit it's almost impossible to describe
That is fucking embarrassing.
The worst Chris.
