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Okay. I just came back to this and you aren’t calling these efforts resegregation yet, you absolutely should be
This “explicit” is a weird editorial choice. The constitution gives the president no power over this at all. It’s not ambiguous.
I’ve been sent numerous photos the last few days of guards members with rifles, including down by the wharf for jazzfest.
Trump’s FHFA apointee, Bill Pulte, is using Palantir’s AI tools to accuse Fed Gov. Lisa Cook of fraud. The "evidence" showed routine filing errors – nothing close to misconduct. We at accountable.us/ are shining a light on these tactics to protect both families & the economy. tinyurl.com/274j8dev
The Guardian has today printed the names, and where possible, images, of all the media workers killed in Gaza, as part of an international day of action involving more than 150 media organisations. www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
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.
This should be the lead story in all major national news outlets. Public health people prefer to stay out of the limelight unless there is no other choice. I can’t overstate how bad things have to be for 9 former CDC directors to band together and pen an op-ed in the NYT warning the entire country.
Wait, what the fuck are the sandbags for. Sandbags are for floods and fighting positions.
The Trump administration has moved to end temporary protected status for immigrants from Honduras and other countries. Among them are health care workers tending to older and disabled people.
This is an unconstitutional and authoritarian power grab. The constitution grants power over federal elections to the states and Congress - not the president.
It’s not on citizens to prove they’re innocent. It’s on the government to prove their claims of guilt. Forgetting that is ceding power to the government that they should never have.
She’s not accepting his answers. Is every single reporter baldly arguing for the regime now?
The DeSantis administration currently has at least seven Florida Highway Patrol troopers just on anti-chalk duty: Two watching from a Dunkin Donuts next door and five more parked in the lot right behind them.
The extent to which ICE is ignoring all civil rights and due process is astounding — and indicative of a culture where they’ve been told they can do literally no wrong. Agency and admin leaders must face sanctions and legal consequences.
40% of Missourians vote for Democrats, and this is the Congressional map the Republicans are pushing for.
Wasn’t their charge against VP Harris that she “had no experience?” 🙄
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.
The Free State of Florida is now trying to ban *sidewalk chalking*
“A 14% price increase” When Trump & @MarshaBlackburn tell you there has been no inflation, they’re lying
DOGE wasn’t a cost-cutting venture. It was a data mining operation for private interests. Trump opened the gates to the castle from inside for invaders with bad and greedy intent to plunder and exploit.
A Democratic candidate for prosecutor in Virginia wants lawmakers to ban ICE agents from operating while masked or while concealing their identities; she says she’d then prosecute those who don’t comply.
Every time your electricity bill goes up for the next 10 years, it can be traced back to this Administration’s actions. They are making solar and wind power illegal to build in the United States. They are artificially restricting supply while demand is going up.
The average American simply has no idea how quickly the infrastructure that keeps us safe and healthy is collapsing. These systems run in the background thanks to government employees who quietly do critical work. Those employees are being purged and systems are being destroyed.
Joni Ernst won't run for re-election to the U.S. Senate in Iowa. Iowa, you have another assignment. Elect the Democrat in 2026. Don't give your vote to GOP cult members anymore. Never forget she didn't hesitate to abandon you. The GOP does not care about you.
Where is #NicolleWallace, #DeadlineWhiteHouse?
Not only is our new acting director of the CDC NOT a scientist, but he also has deep ties to Peter Thiel and Silicon Valley’s techno-utopia movement. One epidemiologist compared Jim O’Neill’s appointment to “making Elon Musk head of the FAA.”
NEW by me -- The CDC said this week it is seeing a nationwide increase in COVID cases and emergency room visits as Labor Day nears. --The warning arrives as the federal health agency struggles with its own internal chaos.
The first Nazi book burnings were the biggest archive of trans research that existed at the time.
There is no legitimate reason to do this, or to have done it to Fauci or Bolton. It tells you everything, in case you have not been listening.
JUST IN: President Donald Trump revoked Kamala Harris’ Secret Service protection on Thursday, according to a copy of a letter reviewed by CNN.
Imagine that. Getting rid of a leader who violates ethics?
Robert E. Lee killed more U.S. troops in battle than Adolph Hitler and Osama bin Laden combined
The party of “freedom”
NEWS: CVS, the largest pharmacy chain in the country, is currently not offering Covid vaccines in 16 states and DC — even to people who meet the new FDA criteria — because the CDC hasn't signed off and isn't expected to do so (if it does so) for at least three weeks.
"Pediatric Brain Cancer Trial Group to Be Phased Out" "A network of hospitals and cancer centers dedicated to early phase trials of novel treatments will no longer receive federal funding." 🎁🔗 Nina Agrawal for @nytimes.com
Dear people who are saying that the CDC directors who quit yesterday should have “stayed and fought”, With all due respect, you do not grasp the magnitude of the problem of RFK Jr. He is asking them to do unethical and immoral things that will actively harm the people of the United States. 1/3
A small group of about 10 writers, researchers and web development ninjas are launching an ambitious effort to preserve key climate data that the Trump administration has taken offline.
I often talk about the fact that MAGA does not access the same news as the left wing. I present to you Exhibit A. Dr. Daskalakis’ resignation letter excoriated RFK Jr. and shared that RFK Jr. was lying to the public, manipulating data, and ordering unethical actions. This what Fox News served.
Cop Casually Threatens To Shoot A Black Man In The Head
If RFK Jr. will not resign, he must be impeached and removed, for the sake of the nation's health and safety.
#NIH is hanging by a thread. The #CDC has been decimated. #RFK Jr. and Russell #Vought are psychopaths--I don't say this frivolously--they are cold, calculating, inflicting violence on millions through public policy. It is where we are right now. These men are not normal. 1/
This is absolutely catastrophic for U.S. higher education, and for U.S. global leadership. Just the latest in a series of senseless acts of self-sabotage by a malevolent administration bent on making the United States weak and poor.
The ongoing National Guard mission in Washington, DC, as part of President Donald Trump’s crime crackdown in the city, is costing roughly $1 million a day, experts estimated to CNN.
Russia bombarded the Ukrainian capital with drones and missiles early Thursday, including a rare strike in the city center, killing at least 15 people and wounding 48, local authorities said.
These are really insane numbers. Even if we only look at formal political offices, billionaires are more than 10,000x more likely to hold a national political position than the average person.
This is a real photograph of Washington, DC this week, where the United States president has ordered military occupation in peacetime, and ordered the display of colossal portraits of himself. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
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Can’t wait for my electrician - who is great, by the way - to serve in his next role as an immigration judge.
So much of their power flows from the way people quietly bow out of their way, forcing them to expend essentially no political capital to shred vital and popular institutions. And then, having done so, they look even stronger, and it’s even easier next time.
Here's what the third day of elementary school looked like in Mount Pleasant, Washington DC.
What a shame. "WGBH … has laid off the 13 people who worked on the history series 'American Experience' and announced that no new documentaries will be produced for the show until further notice." (gift link) www.nytimes.com/2025/08/27/a...
National Guard soldiers called into service for President Trump's law enforcement surge in D.C. have been assigned to spread mulch at federal monuments. Normally the Park Service does that, but the administration laid off the workers. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
DC jurors thank you for your service
Brutal. A humiliation ritual.
Trump's allegations against Lisa Cook are not the story. The story is that a Trump loyalist is deeply corrupting agency processes for the express purpose of manufacturing pretexts for referring Trump's leading enemies for DOJ prosecution. Dug into this process here: newrepublic.com/article/1996...
A whistleblower complaint says that the personal data of over 300 million Americans was copied to a private cloud account to allow access by members of the Department of Government Efficiency team.
This was not true until John Roberts made it true.
Shout out to all our “small government” Republican friends
A notorious Pennsylvania election denier is now a top official for "election integrity" at the Department of Homeland Security www.inquirer.com/politics/ele...
Exactly, @donmoyn.bsky.social, and writers are tuned in. Here's @rexhuppke.bsky.social: "Of course he’s going to keep pushing these unnecessary shows of force, hoping they spark a violent outburst that gives him a Reichstag-fire-like excuse to take more control." www.usatoday.com/story/opinio...
Ominous: Trump and Stephen Miller are very clearly working to acclimate Americans to the spectacle of US troops in US cities, to the idea of the military carrying out domestic enforcement on US citizens. Harrowing stuff from @vermontgmg.bsky.social in this exchange: newrepublic.com/article/1995...
FUCK ME DO NOT DESCRIBE TRUMP'S PLANS IN THE HEADLINES WITHOUT NOTING THEY ARE ILLEGAL.
Trump keeps insisting we're the envy of the world but they have a weird way of showing it
“GOING TO BE A BLOODBATH” @BalladHealth CEO Alan Levine (a Republican Lee pal) says a flooded East TN hospital may not get rebuilt thanks to Trump’s monstrous Bill. Will anyone ask @MarshaBlackburn & @RepJohnRose about backing it, as they run for guv? 🤷🏼♀️ www.politico.com/news/2025/08...
Sam, a Georgia father...said he noticed higher prices “across the board” when shopping for appliances and other items his kids need to go back to college...“The consequences of the election, for many people, are becoming clearer and clearer.” #TrumpFlation #MomSky
They're trying to kill us. The Trump administration will pull the COVID vaccine off the market "within months," one of RFK Jr.’s closest associates said. “It could [happen] in a number of stages, including learning more about the data.” www.rawstory.com/donald-trump...
Please read this and take notes. This is the Miller playbook and you’ll soon see it not just levied against immigrants but against anyone the administration views as undesirable. And as we’ve seen the media just parrots the admin’s claims with zero push-back. Thank God for the lower courts.
And internal emails released by whistleblower revealed top DHS officials internally debating the urgent need to "find" evidence that Abrego was a violent MS-13 member. "I have not found anything," said one, "but I'll keep looking." They never found anything. 4/ newrepublic.com/article/1977...
As you watch the extraordinary spectacle of Trump's government attempting to deport Kilmar Abrego Garcia to Uganda, let's not lose sight of just how lawless and indefensible Trump's misconduct has been all throughout. Here's a thread recapping all of it. 1/
President Trump is expected to sign two executive orders Monday aiming to end cashless bail in Washington and nationwide, marking the latest move in the administration’s agenda to crack down on crime.
As @MarshaBlackburn praises Trump for attacking solar as payback for Big Oil donating big bucks to his campaign — keep this in mind as your electricity bills continue to skyrocket. We’d say ask her about it at a town hall, but… well, you know. 🐔 www.cnbc.com/2025/08/24/s...
Um…no Jeanine. That isn’t actually tyranny…
TRIGGER WARNING ⚠️ - Israel just bombed Nasser Hospital again as they were trying to recover bodies after a bombing that had killed 15. Live on air.
Breaking news: About 150 FEMA employees sent a letter to members of Congress, arguing that the agency’s direction and current leaders’ inexperience harms the agency’s mission and could result in a disaster on the level of Hurricane Katrina.
JFC.
In the NIH funding case, Justice Gorsuch (joined by Justice Kavanaugh) claimed that this was the third time in recent weeks that lower courts had "defied" a #SCOTUS ruling. As today's "One First" explains, that claim is not only nonsense; it's enabling a dangerous anti-court narrative on the right:
Newsom shapes everything around the brute fact that Trump is serially breaking the law and using government sponsored violence and intimidation to entrench authoritarian power. He accepts this as the core fact of our moment. Me and @whstancil.bsky.social on this: newrepublic.com/article/1995...
And while the right wing story was constantly changing, the police report and the story from the teenagers both remained consistent. The teenagers say that big balls was harassing and trying to pick up the 15-year-old girl, and when he wouldn't leave her alone the boy jumped in to defend her.
The clip doesn’t show if Walker pushed back on any of this ahistorical blather?
Governor Wes Moore hurt Trump’s feelings so now Trump is threatening to take away money to fix the bridge
You’ll be great even with no prep. Take care of yourself first. 💪🏼
In case people are confused, people really like revenge. It's relatable and often seems justified beyond conventional morality.
Grievance OR "The Grievance Myth" does a better job. It explains how a guy who has lucked out more than any human on earth pretends to be wronged and manages to make his particular imagined grievances rhyme with the primordial victimhood of the right.
8/ Large groups of agents stopping commuters at a Mtero station: bsky.app/profile/notu...
The chief justice of the US has painted himself as a modern institutionalist over the past 20 years. Experts say he’s emboldening Trump’s drive toward authoritarianism.
There isn’t a middle ground. You DO have to get political. It IS going to mean “looking like you’re taking a side” because…you do have to take a fucking side. There are lives at stake, a democracy at stake, and the collapse of our society at stake. Reimagine yourself as an activist.
Epic
last night was a bleak one for TX legislature history. dan patrick literally denied senate democrats the ability to filibuster redistricting, even though rules allow it. roland gutierrez asked what precedent there was for this. patrick didn't even bother to answer. that's how the map passed.
kudos to @eddiekimx.bsky.social who, whilst dealing with the lingering effects of pepper spray, walked to the office, changed his shirt and sat down to report this morning's events
The Coast Guard works for ICE now. Coast Guard planes previously used for search and rescue have done hundreds of secret ICE flights in recent weeks, including two I watched from a public parking lot near BWI. My exclusive for Rolling Stone: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
The One Ugly Distraction let ACA premium tax credits expire—jacking up health care costs for 22M Americans. In VA, a 55-year-old making $63K will pay $2,410 more just to keep their plan. Working families pay the price for GOP cruelty.
The only thing worth saying on Maxwell: she’s denying her own criminal conduct for which she was convicted & sentenced. So she has zero credibility & her statements on Trump doing nothing wrong are meaningless. DOJ in any semi-normal time would say that (well not interview her in first place but…).
Bolton’s home raided, Gen. Kruse fired, Epstein coverup proceeds, seizure of 10% of Intel another step towards state capitalism. Just one day in the somewhat chaotic but directionally purposeful march towards…despotism. Does anyone think they’re doing all this so they can hand over power in 2028?
Socialism arrives.
That was one of the most batshit press conferences of Trump's public life. He brandished a photo of Putin and promised to deploy the US military to occupy Chicago, New York, and San Francisco. A sane country would be moving toward impeachment and removal right now.
DOJ releases redacted transcript of the interview Ghislaine Maxwell gave in exchange for being moved to a nicer prison. Oh look, she says Trump was a perfect gentleman. 🙄 www.justice.gov/maxwell-inte...
