“Even though the future seems far away, it is actually beginning right now.” Mattie Stepanek, American Poet. Trump said, “A lot of people are saying maybe we'd like a dictator.” Not me.
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BREAKING: Trump announces that Rudy Giuliani will be awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, which is the nation’s highest civilian honor. Note that Giuliani has been charged with felonies in two different states, including racketeering and has been found liable for over $100 million in damages.
My current favorite bit of right-wing Christian hypocrisy today is Texas AG Ken Paxton, a man whose wife is divorcing him for adultery, forcing Texas schools to post the 10 Commandments, including "Thou Shalt Not Commit Adultery." -U.S. Democratic Socialists
Okay here’s the explanation. Roger Stone tweeted Aug 28 that the judge and Lisa Cook are in the same sorority. I have no idea if that’s true or whether that would require recusal. Trump has appointed judges that are hearing his cases (3 to SCOTUS), which seems like a bigger conflict of interest.
Before Trump brags about the various key demographics he has won in the polls, let’s add parents/guardians, family members of children with cancer to the mix.
Trump did this
Troops in the streets and he thinks he’s going to get a Nobel, peace begins at home
Johnson may have thought taking an early break would cover up the Epstein files but Massie and Khanna have enough votes for their discharge petition to overrule the speaker. They are coming back with a press conference on Wednesday that includes Epstein Victims. #ProudBlue#Voices4Victory apple.news
RFK Jr: “If you’ve ever compared an unvaccinated kid to a vaccinated kid… you see the bright eyes, the engagement, the social interactions, the curiosity. And you compare them to the child who even had one or two vaccines, and they’re completely different.“ This man is an existential threat.
One would think….
Isn’t bragging about passing your cognitive impairment test in itself a sign of cognitive impairment? 🤔
While these world leaders unite to focus on a trade/security summit, here in the U.S. Trump focuses on division by showcasing his executive powers. Is Chicago next on Trump’s list of American cities in Blue states to have the National Guard step in to stick it to sanctuary cities w/Democrat mayors?
Modi & Putin met at the SCO summit in Tianjin, discussing deepened bilateral cooperation across various sectors, including trade & security. Meeting follows US pressure on India to reduce Russian oil imports. #SCOsummit #News
One thing that's particularly maddening about what's happening today—beyond that it's happening—is that when people talk about how we are moving toward authoritarianism, toward fascism, by a collection of narcissistic sociopaths, many Americans' eyes glaze over.
MORE: Judge Sooknanan order DOJ to file yet another status report. She sets 10:45 pm deadline for Ensign to address whether all of the children have been returned to ORR custody.
Robert Mueller was diagnosed with Parkinson’s in 2021. We’re just learning about it now because he was asked to testify in the Epstein matter and won’t be able to. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/08/31/u...
The federal government apparently believes that assaulting journalists covering protests is legal because "videotaping can lead to violence." The First Amendment says otherwise. All Americans should be disturbed by this outrageous argument. We don't have secret police in the U.S.
Walk & Talk - Our rogue injustice dept plays with the lives of unaccompanied migrant children, trying to send them to Guatemala despite a court order barring deportation, what kind of nation is this when it can’t stop these lawless thugs; there’s more. youtu.be/JwSkki_s0es?...
JUST IN: Judge who blocked the transfer of about 600 Guatemalan minors from US to Guatemala Sunday is keeping a very tight leash on the government. Echoes of Alien Enemies Act litigation simply deafening here. Earlier: www.politico.com/news/2025/08...
The officiant who puts the crown on the head of a king is typically an “archbishop,” except for here in the United States where it was Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts who made the decision to proclaim Donald Trump as America’s first King. He must live w/what he did, unfortunately so do we.
He doesn’t deserve to be a Supreme Court Justice.
Despite following new guidelines set forth by the Trump administration, Rep. Yassamin Ansari (D-AZ) said she was denied access to the Eloy Detention Center, the largest immigration detention center in Arizona. www.calonews.com/ari...
The world needs to see millions of us protest the abuse of immigrant children being sent to a country where they have no family. Women in detention provided 1 meal a day get UTIs from wearing USED UNDERWEAR distributed to them. 80 adults are sharing a room w/no beds, drinking over chlorinated water.
Today, I read in the NYTimes, that ICE, slithered into a children’s dorm, like the fascist Nazis, they are, and kidnapped immigrant children. Loaded them onto chartered plane headed for Guatemala. Quick-thinking staff got ahold of a judge to give an emergency order, and get the children deplaned!!
And I want House and Senate Committees to obtain names of ALL Trump Administration staffers who think it is acceptable for women housed in an AZ immigration detention center to drink water so highly chlorinated they are covered in rashes, and to wear someone else’s used underwear and end up w/UTIs.
Sen. Bill Cassidy, who chairs the oversight committee that backed RFK Jr. for confirmation as HHS chief & committee member Sen. Susan Collins are suddenly “concerned” about the wreckage he’s making of the CDC. These veteran senators are who we’re supposed to trust as guardians of our well-being?
This “explicit” is a weird editorial choice. The constitution gives the president no power over this at all. It’s not ambiguous.
Good! In 2020 a bus w/Biden Harris campaign staffers/volunteers was being followed, harassed and intimidated by a MAGA caravan on a highway in San Marcos, TX. Law enforcement there chose to ignore phone calls for help, and Trump later made fun of the incident. www.texastribune.org/2021/10/29/t...
Rudy Giuliani suffered a fractured vertebra in a car crash in New Hampshire, his head of security said. A person close to Rudy Giuliani said he was expected to recover. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/31/u...
'Rock bottom': Internet mocks Jeanine Pirro for 'failing to prosecute a ham sandwich'
When Jeanine Pirro was a host of “The Five” on Fox News she disparaged giving $14T in reparations for slavery saying “70% of Americans were opposed.” Since Ashli Babbitt’s family received $5M from DOJ, convicted insurrectionists Trump pardoned want some money too. www.foxnews.com/video/632777...
Anyone who assaults a police officer in DC will be charged with a felony. Especially if they do so during our forthcoming military funeral for Ashli Babbitt. by Jeanine Pirro
Before today ends' Join me in CONGRATULATING Rachel Vindman You will be an EXCELLENT CO-CHAIR for the DNC Veterans and Military Families Council... Our Military and Veterans will be served well.!! @natsechobbyist.bsky.social @gene4va.bsky.social
In addition to being a really stupid move on the part of the idiocracy Trump has created, it would take decades to correct this “brain drain.” Other countries that once laughed at Trump are now disgusted by what he and his regime are preparing to do. Wiser world leaders will welcome global talent.
Trump admin planning to change student visas from lasting for duration of academic program to fixed 4-yr term, and then much harder to renew Could destroy US ability to attract global talent, particularly those seeking advanced degrees in STEM. The median time to complete a PhD is 5.7 yrs per NSF.
Rubio has denied Palestinian diplomats visas to attend the UN meeting claiming "terrorism"—but grants access to Israeli officials despite undeniable evidence of war crimes, genocide, famine, bombing Christians, & child sexual abuse & prisoner rape by IDF soldiers. This is what fascism looks like.
Helps to have a sister head of the DOJ I guess. They dont even hide their corruption from the public. Any media out there asking the WH press secretary anything these days? abcnews.go.com/US/doj-drops...
You and Republicans own it www.nbcnews.com/politics/don...
Release the Epstein files!!!!
Chavez-DeRemer: “Mr. President, I invite you to see your big beautiful face on a banner in front of the Department of Labor because you are really the transformational president of the American worker.”
Imagine the huge outcry if a gigantic sized banner of either President Obama or President Biden had been hung on a federal government building when either one of them was in office? There is no need to televise these sycophantic Cabinet meetings. We get it, they’re hopelessly devoted to Trump’s BS.
💙Rep Jasmine Crockett Dunks on 🤡💩MAGA Rep Kevin Kiley 🚨⚖️🇺🇸 youtube.com/shorts/ofmLp...
California Republicans Doug LaMalfa, Kevin Kiley, David Valadao, Ken Calvert, Darrell Issa. Likely to lose seats in California’s redistricting. 🚩They all voted to slash USAID. Replace them with anyone who will stand for democracy and America’s role in the world.
I heard Dr. Daskalakis describe the decision to resign after comparing his workplace under RFK Jr. and the Trump Administration as experiencing death by a thousand cuts.
I urge everyone to read the resignation letters form the CDC directors that are in the public. From Dr. Demetri Daskalakis, former Director of the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases and Dr. Houry
Catherine is right about this; a lot of the biggest changes to immigration will take years to manifest, including mass deportations. The price shocks are not going to be sudden.
"The first wave of grocery-price increases will likely hit this winter. Roberson predicted produce prices could rise 50% to 100% by early next year as inventories clear and new contracts kick in." fortune.com/2025/08/28/t...
American heroes resigning at the CDC won't do anything illegal, won't do anything that defies science, oppose the unskilled manipulation of data. Congress has 2 options: tell RFK Jr. that in the interest of public safety, he must resign, or impeach RFK Jr. How many Senators have buyer’s remorse?
Dr. Demetre Daskalakis, who resigned from the CDC, revealed that RFK Jr. has NEVER been briefed by CDC experts on measles, flu, or Covid: “No one from my center has ever briefed him on any of those topics…He’s getting his information from somewhere”
Turning the National Guard into Four Seasons Landscaping, Part 2 is not a good look for the Trump Administration. “Warfighters” don’t carry rakes, leaf blowers, and weed whackers.
The warfighters in DC got the trash picked up, now time to mulch.
Does this count as protecting public safety? This kind of work is not what members of the National Guard signed up for. Instead of sending the National Guard to the most crime-ridden areas of DC, Trump has them focused on removing graffiti, weeds, litter - i.e. executing the cosmetic fixes he wants.
Listeria and Vibrio are among the bugs that nuevo #CDC thinks need not concern us being in our food. If there's an outbreak and no one knows about it? Did it even happen? www.cidrap.umn.edu/foodborne-di...
In Trump’s Bizarro World, American physician-scientist, immunologist Dr. Anthony Fauci is vilified, and conspiracy theorist Laura Loomer is an “American patriot.” Trump HHS nominee RFK Jr., a former heroin addict w/no medical degree, was confirmed by every Republican Senator, save Mitch McConnell.
Not just an American hero. What he did helped the whole world. Everyone of the immunologists helping us during the Pandemic helped each other and helped us all. Thank you Dr Fauci, and Dr Tam in 🇨🇦 too.
The same people who villainize Dr. Anthony Fauci, an actual doctor with a speciality in immunology and research in virology, are praising RFK Jr who has never seen the inside of a lab.
One meal a day, no bathing for days: Inside the 'crisis' at one Virginia ICE field office. Senior White House Correspondent Laura Barrón-López reports. READ MORE:
I'm tired of this theater where Donald Trump asks Republicans to do something, they seem to push bank and then cave. The only two factions of the current GOP are proud MAGA and scared MAGA. Anyone who thinks Republicans are acting in good faith is delusional.
Thom Tillis Bothering Squad, to the phones!!! DC: (202) 224-6342 Raleigh: (919) 856-4630 GBO: (336) 885-0685 Other locations: www.tillis.senate.gov/office-locat...
Is anyone keeping track of Trump’s wasteful expenses, or determined the cost of turning the WH Rose Garden into a Mar a Lago patio look-alike? Supposedly donors will cover the cost of the new, unnecessary $200M ballroom. Will donors pay for construction changes to the East Wing, refurbishing a jet?
A federal judge has ordered Florida to shut down "Alligator Alcatraz," after the state spent a staggering $218M to build the now-vacant detention camp. Closing it will run taxpayers another $20M. An utterly cruel and costly waste.
The CDC is gutting a program that monitors foodborne illnesses. The program will now only track infections caused by two pathogens, rather than eight. Hello? How does this “Make America Healthy Again”?
📌Something called "good news" -Conservative Wisconsin SC Justice Rebecca Bradley won't seek reelection, citing "conservative failures" -Iowa Sen. (R) Joni Ernst surrenders -Democrat Catelin Drey smashes Republican supermajority in Iowa, winning big in Trump district Keep hittin' back. He did.
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
gonna need a couple of R's in the House to vote to impeach, and 20 R senators to get to 67 in the Senate.
The NRA buys off Congress. No action on guns. The oil industry buys off Congress. No action on climate. Insurance companies buy off Congress. No action on health care. The list goes on and on. Money in politics is the root of our dysfunction.
Good.
Write Senators and especially Senator Cassidy- a physician who betrayed his oath. I’ve sent him nasty messages. If you have never seen a child get MIS after COVID, on a ventilator with organs shutting down, or seen a healthy 2 year old turned into a dead mute after measles you will. RFK must go.
Well, the town halls during the summer should help a bit. We all need to call and email our Representatives and Senators to let them know that RFK Jr. should never have been nominated, let alone confirmed as Sec. of Health and Human Services. He is a threat to our national health and security.
And if he won’t resign, he must be impeached.
Massive walkout underway at CDC. RFK jr. must resign so that we can be safe.
CDC scientists receive a heroes welcome after walking out today.
After we see what, if anything, SCOTUS has to say, let’s concentrate on impeaching RFK Jr. as Sec. of Health and Human Services. Trump and all Republicans, except Mitch McConnell, have risked our national health for too long. No education in medicine or science was on his resume, they didn’t care.
aww ... Trump loses on Tariffs, Stephen Miller says (per @allinwithchris.bsky.social ) 'the judicial coup is well underway'
Today the 7 member Federal Appeals Court just rejected Trump’s sweeping tariffs, ruling most Trump tariffs are illegal. What a blow to blowhard Trump! Welcome back, Congress!
MAGA Mike Johnson recessed Congress early so they could not vote on releasing the Trump/Epstein Files until September Johnson hoped the Trump Epstein Scandal would die down by Sept. Boy was he wrong. We are just getting started Little Mikey.We will never give up on exposing pedophiles #ProudBlue
Trump cabinet officials told a federal appeals court that ruling president’s global tariffs illegal would seriously harm US foreign policy, with Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent warning of “dangerous diplomatic embarrassment.”
Ruling Trump’s global tariffs illegal would not be viewed as a “U.S. embarrassment,” but most definitely considered as another well-deserved source of embarrassment to Trump.
If it helps, I would like to assure Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent that the “Dangerous Diplomatic Embarrassment” ship has absolutely sailed.
You’re right. What Trump says, the words he uses, have become tells for those who pay attention. His attempts at storytelling quickly become monologues that morph into boring soliloquies. Most clumsy long performances filled w/lies are delivered w/o skill in an Oval Office full of gold tchotchkes.
Learn to decipher the codespeak.
Anyone remember Signalgate? Hegseth needs to resign.
Maybe Hegseth can use the clips of soldiers in uniform picking up trash around DC in a recruiting ad.
No one at the time of the memorial's dedication referred to it as the "Reconciliation Memorial." This is a fabrication intended to mask the fact that we are talking about a Confederate monument commissioned by the United Daughters of the Confederacy to celebrate the Confederacy. End of story.
Republicans didn’t like it when an estimated 5 million Americans took to the streets for “No Kings” protests on June 14th because Trump is ignoring the U.S. Constitution by acting like a king or dictator. We will vote them out in 2026 but until then let’s participate in more pro-democracy protests.
I have never seen so many public servants protest the mismanagement of a government. Trumpists will point to this as proof of the deep state, but the reality is that these are professionals who are desperately trying to get the public to understand how bad things are.
Hi, immunologist here: (a scientist who studies immune & inflammatory processes) RFK Jr is talking absolute bullshit when he says he can “see in kids faces that they have inflammation” That’s NOT how immunology works. He is an anti-science profiteer. Start calling him such.
Next time it’s removed, destroy it Burn it like Sherman burned Atlanta
NEW: A federal judge ordered an Arkansas school district to take down Ten Commandments displays in its classrooms following our lawsuit.
Excellent question.
I wonder why Bill Pulte didn’t send this case over to DOJ with a criminal referral along with his selective targeting of Adam Schiff and Lisa Cook? apnews.com/article/paxt...
Incredible that Trump does not understand that Putin will refuse to see Zelensky until the bitter end. Putin's reasons are many. 1. On July 12, 2021, Putin published his big declaration of war on Ukraine: ”On the Historical Unity of Russians and Ukrainians“...
Its essence was that no Ukrainian nation existed, since it was merely part of Russia. But, of course, Trump got rid of Alexander Vindman, Fiona Hill & John Bolton who understood what this meant and went for Witkoff et al who know & understand nothing. en.kremlin.ru/events/presi... /2
Previous generations initially allowed the defeated side in the Civil War to honor Confederate war dead, failed to restrain future waves of glorification of the cause of Civil War, honoring Confederate generals, battles, w/names of military installations, monuments, memorials, statues, works of art.
Jen Easterly is highly qualified to serve as the Robert F. McDermott Distinguished Chair in the Dept. of Social Sciences at West Point. RW conservative Laura Loomer admits to “playing to an audience of one,” but the stage she performs on is overcrowded w/other sycophants vying for his attention too.
The Pentagon is restoring a portrait of Gen. Robert E. Lee, which includes a slave guiding the Confederate general’s horse in the background, to the West Point library three years after a congressionally mandated commission ordered it removed, officials said. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/28/u...
The Trump administration reached a tentative settlement with the family of Ashli Babbitt, a Capitol rioter fatally shot while trying to breach a barricaded door near the House chamber on Jan. 6. The terms remain secret, but the family had demanded $30 million in a wrongful death suit.
Let’s work on discovering and publicizing the terms of that $5M government settlement to insurrectionist Ashli Babbitt’s family and “claw back” those funds the same way the Trump Administration is attempting to “claw back” foreign aid funds appropriated by Congress.
This is wrong—and illegal. Not only is Trump gutting $5 billion in foreign aid that saves lives and advances America’s interests, but he’s doing so using an unlawful “pocket recission” method that undermines Congress’ power of the purse. www.politico.com/news/2025/08...
ICYMI: Prime Minister Viktor Orban's eldest daughter, Rahel Orban, confirmed reports that her family is preparing to relocate to New York, where she will pursue studies in the autumn. Bne IntelliNews