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The Trump regime has pulled the US out of the UN Human Rights Universal Process Review. This is chilling. This review happens every 4-5 years for each country in the UN. No country has ever pulled out of the review. Until now. I remember the last time the US had its UPR... 🧵
As our neighbors vanish daily, this serves as a meaningful way to honor them and highlight the extent of this issue throughout the city’s
“I love this city fiercely. It has given me every good thing in my life. It has given me my children. It has given me my friends who are now my family. It has given me purpose.“ thetriibe.com/2025/08/trum...
Question: Why did US put big tariffs on India despite major national interest in cultivating a strategic counterweight to China and trying to isolate Russia? Answer: Because the US president lied that he fixed India-Pakistan and India wouldn’t go along with the lie. (Seriously, that’s the answer)
I dunno, is Trump?
Jones: We have a presidential administration that has more outrage about the changing of the cracker barrel logo than they do about changing the policies that allow our children to be gunned down in school…
FEMA employee on leave describes "culture of fear “ among agency employee
I know, I just wish he said it differently. Thanks
They have Guard units picking up trash in D.C. playgrounds, disabled veterans waiting months for care, and a vice president lecturing _some other_ politician to show due gratitude to the country. Wretched, despicable people.
Trump doesn't care about black people Tim.
Yeah, but I don't like the phrasing of "trans people are 1% of the population." I know he means well, but it comes across like "it's only 1% so whatever they do it doesn't really matter." Same with Muslims, etc.
⚡️Ukrainian forces liberate village near Kupiansk in Kharkiv Oblast. The positions previously allowed Russian troops to control the road leading into Kupiansk, approximately 104 kilometers (65 miles) east of Kharkiv, the regional capital.
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And now a few words from my Governor...😂
Garcia: We finally got word from the Epstein estate. They're going to be providing the actual Epstein book… the estate is actually going to actually now get us that book and a bunch of other documents that they have that's actually not been reported yet.
Following his summit with Putin, Trump is growing increasingly frustrated with the lack of tangible progress he’s made to end the war in Ukraine and is contemplating how involved he should be personally in brokering a meeting between Kremlin and Ukrainian leaders, administration officials tell CNN.
Breaking news: A federal judge has temporarily blocked the Trump administration from rapidly deporting undocumented immigrants detained away from the border without a court hearing, a setback for its mass deportation agenda.
He doesn't care about Ukraine, he just wants the minerals and a Nobel prize. And he's too stupid to see that Putin won't stop, unless he is forced to back down by sanctions and Ukrainian military superiority. All this talk is a waste of time, while Ukrainian civilians are being murdered every day.
COBB also slowed an effort by DOJ to obtain a list of FBI officials who worked on Jan. 6 cases. She also presided over the trial/conviction of Ryan Samsel, the violent instigator of the J6 riot. www.politico.com/news/2025/08...
Tulsi Gabbard released the names of CIA OPERATIVES! “It could potentially put CIA cover procedures at risk. It could put relations with foreign governments at risk.” The Predator in Chief picks all the best people...right? Not! www.thedailybeast.com/intelligence...
Ha! 🤣
The Trump DOJ literally cannot indict a ham sandwich. www.advocate.com/news/grand-j...
He still has a removal order on the books and it didn’t go away when he was wrongfully deported to El Salvador.
Let me be blunt. DHS was created after 9/11 to protect the country, not rig its elections. But I worry that’s what the president is trying to do. www.treason.io/p/news-trump...
NEWS: Trump installs czar at DHS to oversee U.S. “election integrity” It’s not just gerrymandering, folks. The White House is gearing up to use broader federal powers to shape the 2026 election in its favor.
Good Morning Everyone Things I see happening Iowa State Senate Race Catelin Drey, Democrat WINS A republican district tRump won by 11 points In Maine, Susan Collins gets booed All over the republican town halls people are rising up In Texas ICE hiring event only protesters showed up !
and other extreme weather disasters. Of the 182 FEMA employees who signed the letter, 36 publicly attached their names, while the others withheld their identities out of fear of retaliation.
Federal Emergency Management Agency suspended over 30 employees after they wrote to Congress warning that the Trump administration had severely weakened the nation’s ability to respond to hurricanes, floods,
Antifa is everywhere.
Trump now has the “warfighters” picking up trash near the White House. www.fox5dc.com/news/nationa...
All true. 😪
Does this big fat baby know how many Solar construction projects are happening RIGHT NOW? This is going to stunt our growth just for the construction industry alone. He sits on a thrown of LIES. Renewables are the future. Solar Energy is thriving . The only scam of the Century is TRUMP.
Remember your oath to the Constitution.
Reuters: US JUDGE DISMISSES TRUMP ADMINISTRATION LAWSUIT AGAINST MARYLAND FEDERAL JUDGES OVER IMMIGRATION ORDER
thehill.com/homenews/cam... IOWA VOTE BLUE TODAY GEORGIA VOTE BLUE TODAY STATE SENATE RACES
Constituent: You talked about abuses in the medicare and medicaid system and I found interesting that the president pardoned someone that defrauded the medicaid system for $1.3 billion
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📌BREAKING: Trump officials put HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS of people's social security data at risk. 📌SOURCE INSIDE AGENCY: "This is the tip of the iceberg" of the problem's inside the agency right now. 📌Democrats need to call for hearings now. 📌RIGHT NOW.
“Dear White People…If you believe in democracy and you care about freedom, don’t stand with us, stand in front of us. Because that work is waiting, and it’s yours.” 🎬@majorleeg (IG)
BREAKING: Trump-appointed judge *dismisses* DOJ lawsuit against Maryland judges over their decision to automatically pause deportation cases for 48 hours He also calls Trump and his admin's attack on judges a "smear" that is "unprecedented and unfortunate storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Another night of people in minority communities being harassed by fascist pigs 🤬Washington DC
What the hell is Secret Service doing there????
A message from a veteran who is participating in the sit-in at Union Station in Washington, D.C.
"The world can tell the difference now between a war being waged for the survival of the Jewish state and a war being waged for the political survival of its prime minister."
I celebrate every victory for voting rights, but this one is particularly special. No issue has been more hotly contested or more important to PA voters than this one. The DSCC and DCCC fought hard and it is great to see them prevail. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
I am proudly one of the attorneys representing @yaeleisenstat.bsky.social. We will not permit the #securityclearance process or national security to be weaponized by the Trump Administration.
The barbarity of the president’s extreme mass deportation policies will leave a stain that lasts for generations. It was never about removing violent criminals. It’s about harassing immigrant communities, as this mother and legal resident can attest. www.masslive.com/news/2025/08...
The last time troops policed America was in the 1770s. We fought a revolution against that king, and wrote into the Constitution the Second, Third, Fourth, and Fifth Amendments to prevent it from ever happening again. Pass it along…
"Law Firm Pressures Brown University to Erase Research on Anti-Wind Groups" by Lisa Friedman for @nytimes.com [Peter Hotez & I discuss coordinated assault on clean energy by dark money plutocrats (e.g. Kochs) & Murdoch media empire in #ScienceUnderSiege (out 9/9)] www.nytimes.com/2025/08/25/c...
This is patently unconstitutional. For one, 18 USC § 700 has been void since Texas v. Johnson (1989) and United States v. Eichman (1990) under the First Amendment. Second, there is no federal authority for an anti-flag burning statute. The national government does not have a general police power.
Today we approach the 20th anniversary of Katrina, FEMA workers across the nation sound the alarm on unqualified leadership, interference w/ ability to execute, our mission,staff cuts & more. Join us in signing The Katrina Declaration. #katrinadeclaration www.standupforscience.net/fema-katrina...
We need to hold on to those moments, breathe them in. 💫💜🌈
My daughter is cuddling our dog on my bed, and for a brief, fleeting moment in time… all is right in the world. 🥹
⚡️Putin is 'obstacle to peace,' retired US General Petraeus says. In an interview with ABC News on Aug. 24, retired US General David Petraeus cast doubt on the likelihood of a meeting between President Zelensky & Vladimir Putin, and on Putin's willingness to negotiate in good faith.
The only way Putin stops this illegal war is if he is losing. If he can't buy any more men from N. Korea as cannon fodder. If Ukraine takes out enough infrastructure and disrupts the Russia economy.
Yeah we don't have state run media in America. (Except for Fox.)
This doesn’t feel very free speech-y
F*ck‼️ Fort Bliss Army base used for a WWII Japanese internment is now the nation's largest ICE detention center.
- Russia bombed an American company in Ukraine. No condemnation from Trump, so that's of course completely acceptable! 😤
Nichols: Even though these guys come across as clowns, they're clowns with flamethrowers.. They have the machinery of government behind them. These are people that normally would be struggling to hold on to middle management jobs in a department store somewhere
"Contrarian climate assessment from U.S. government draws swift pushback -- Researchers say DOE report [yes, #JudithCurry is one of the 5 authors] cherry-picks data to downplay threat of greenhouse gases" via #Science: www.science.org/content/arti... "
Today marks both Ukrainian National Flag Day and Kharkiv Day. Kharkiv is a blue-and-yellow city, and it pays a brutal price to remain that way. Wounded, shelled, grieving, yet standing. It refuses to break. It refuses to fade. It chooses to be Ukraine every single day.
Washington Post Editorial Board: “It is a valid fear that the case against [John] Bolton is a fresh instance of the old Soviet saying, ‘Show me the man, and I’ll show you the crime.’” Trump’s FBI is going on fishing expeditions into his enemies. It. Is. Happening. Here.
Newsom’s Twitter troll is genius because pleading and crying in front of an authoritarian does nothing, but pointing and laughing enrages the authoritarian.
As U.S.-led efforts to end Russia's war against Ukraine were gaining momentum, Poland, once among Kyiv's most vocal backers, was noticeably absent from high-level talks. Analysts say dwindling military stockpiles and shifting domestic politics have reduced its role.
This gets more nauseating every day.
NEW: Just before being transferred to a low security, cushy prison, Ghislaine Maxwell says Trump was “never inappropriate” and was “a gentleman in all respects”. It would all be so laughable if it wasn’t adding yet more trauma for the victims.
This 👇🏾 “Why do they need masks? They’re federal officials, they’re paid by the taxpayers. They should be doing their jobs in a way that’s lawful and constitutional, and that’s part of the job.” DC Mayor Bowser questions why so many federal officers in the capital continue to cover their faces.
Why would anyone believe a convicted sex trafficker that's trying to get a pardon from a rapist?
Plus didn't the FBI say they made a spreadsheet of the names they saw in the files earlier this year? That's a list.
“There is no Epstein list” - Ghislaine Maxwell Well Ghislaine, when you take all the rich and powerful people who regularly spent time with Epstein on his island, planes, boats parties etc and write them all down on a piece of paper… That’s the Epstein list. Hope this helps.
"Action news!" 🤣
In July, Judge Xinis tried to get info about the government’s plans to deport Abrego after his release from criminal custody. DOJ insisted that nothing would be decided until he’s in ICE custody and assigned a desk officer. He’s not in ICE custody but suddenly they know exactly what the plan is.
CHF is the opposite. You have to limit fluids right?
Maybe an infection that won't heal.
Yes! And send weapons.
New York Post knows what must be done!
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The media is failing voters in Texas. They didn’t just make new maps that ‘favor Republicans’, they made new maps without the voice of the voters that further disenfranchise large communities of Black Texans. These are racist maps through and through.
62% of Americans now support arming Ukraine — the highest in nearly 2 years. The surge comes largely from increased backing among Republicans and Independents. In today’s divided America, helping Ukraine might be one of the few things most people can actually agree on.
Obama is right. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/20/u...
But by all means, let's let kids go hungry and veterans die from lack of a VA.
Then the air defense started firing. The kids went silent for maybe two minutes. As soon as the shooting stopped, they were back to running and screaming with joy. Whenever I try to explain this to people who’ve never lived through war, I fail because honestly, I can’t fully grasp it myself.
May God protect you and those children. 🙏
I love America but I hate being an American right now. 😪
UPDATE on the Border Patrol arrest outside of Newsom's press conference last week. A dozen Border Patrol agents descended on the streets outside his conference. They ended up arresting a delivery driver with no criminal record — then appear to have lied and claimed he was a drug dealer.
It’s so strange, sometimes, to notice how we live. There are kids playing in the yard of my apartment building. Today I heard a drone and an air raid alert while a bunch of happy children screamed their lungs out, running around without a care. 👇
Breaking NYT: A close adviser to NYC Mayor Eric Adams was suspended from his re-election campaign after giving a journalist cash tucked inside a potato chip bag. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/20/n...
Denver Mayor Mike Johnston is defending the city's layoff decisions, which did not impact the public safety department (fire/police) but hit nearly every other department. @marcsallinger.bsky.social reports. #copolitics
National Guardsman condemns colleagues' cooperation with ICE
You talking to me, Miller? You POS
Yet another damaging and dangerous blurring of the line and the law to give this kind of political derision in the presence of troops. Secretary of Defense should be preventing it, instead is encouraging it.
Hardworking Coloradans in the building trades go to work every day building our community. I worked construction to put myself through school. I know the value of an honest day’s work. Labor not only built America–it’s built our middle class. I’m proud to stand with our unions.
Another federal court calls out Government request to release grand jury transcripts as a "diversion." "The Government's 100,000 pages of Epstein files and materials dwarf the 70 odd pages of Epstein grand jury materials." Real transparency: DOJ can release the Epstein files.
Ope! 😯
Trump is leading the most anti-Veteran administration IN HISTORY. From gutting the VA to abandoning those who served, actions speak louder than any flag hug. Veterans are done being used and discarded. #DefendVeteransBenefits
