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Chicago’s Mayor Brandon Johnson says “Chicago will continue to have a violence problem as long as red states continue to have a gun problem.” Mayor Johnson points out if Trump really cared about violence in America, he would work on gun reform not militarizing cities!
“He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.” —Declaration of Independence, 1776
just when i thought people were as dumb as possible they yell “hey yall watch this” and faceplant into the patio furniture
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Get ready for them all to deny their complicity...
Texas loaded busses with desperate migrants and dropped them off in Chicago like trash in the middle of winter. We welcomed them into our communities. Now Texas is sending its National Guard to terrorize them on our streets. In our neighborhoods. What the fuck.
Looks like Kristi Noem’s de facto Chief of Staff thinks he’s lined up the kind of “judges” that they want.
Reminder that Laurent Freixe, former CEO of Nestle, once said that access to potable water for people was an "extremist view," as he bullied governments to sell him water rights so he could sell bottled water. www.cnbc.com/2025/09/01/n...
Pritzker says the press should be asking this question, too, and he's right.
I still maintain that these unidentified and unidentifiable “federal authorities” can be traced to Betsy Lou Who DeVos’ brother Eric Mercenary Prince. We used to have journalists who’d be on the money trail like bloodhounds. Now they just whine at us online for disagreeing with them.
Taco’s FAFO. I think all Blue states should get rid of Red! #chicago #notofascism
As a physician, I know conversion therapy is dangerous and goes against everything we stand for in healthcare. It's abusive and not grounded in science.
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“Fire RFK Jr. now.” From @motherjones.com ⬇️ www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
WATCH: “This is a real place. And you’re just clearing it aside so Trump can build a f*cking beachside hotel. It’s sick.” @krystalball.bsky.social & @esaagar.bsky.social on 🇮🇱 openly clearing Palestinians out for a “Gaza Riviera” — paid for by 🇺🇸 Full segment: www.youtube.com/watch?v=noEO...
O hail the red cap bravado
Bernie Sanders: These oligarchs lack that humanity, that sense of empathy. They believe they are entitled. They believe they have the right to rule and democracy is an impediment to their success. They want it all and they don't care who they step on to get more and more.
Pritzker: "I refuse to pretend that any of this is normal ... I refuse to fall into the pundit trap that demands we sacrifice vital constitutional rights if it's being done in the fake guise of fighting crime."
Today's ISM survey commentary is fun: "Tariffs continue to wreak havoc" "There is absolutely no activity in the transportation equipment industry. This is 100 percent attributable to current tariff policy. "We are also in stagflation: Prices are up due to material tariffs, but volume is way off.”
Pritzker: When did we become a country where it's okay for the 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?
When did we become a country where Congress lets him get away with it??
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?"
Cc: @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social 👇🏽
WTH? Who does he even think he’s talking to? Sure as fukc isn’t targeting dem constituents with this drivel. Seriously, what the actual fukc?
This is an important acknowledgment that we are each doing what we can with the tools and capacity we have 👇🏽
Australia’s battery boom is astounding yet predictable ⚡🔋 Daily discharge: <2 GWh in 2023 → 10+ GWh by Aug 2025. A 5–10× surge in just 2 yrs. Why predictable? Solar is scaling fastest in history, and batteries always follow. #BESS #EnergyTransition #Lithium reneweconomy.com.au/graph-of-the...
Trump continues to act as Putin’s lapdog, this time by abruptly firing a senior-level CIA Russia expert. As astonishing as this is, the continued silence of Republican foreign policy “experts” who know better is unforgivable.
. THIS is one of the biggest problems of our time . . . ⬇️ ⬇️ ⬇️ .
🚨Who makes money off of human detentions? Core Civic and GEO Group 1/2
It's being reported that the Pentagon is authorizing military lawyers to serve as immigration judges. This is a threat to the Constitution. Don't say we didn't warn you. From the archives:
Political theater.
#Seaweed farms are a dual solution for climate change & sustainable energy. - don't require freshwater, fertilizer, or arable land to grow, making it one of the most eco-friendly resources - naturally absorbs massive amounts of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere through photosynthesis helping 1/...
China added 256 GW of solar in H1 2025—over 2× the rest of the world combined (124 GW). With ~80–85% of new solar investment happening in China, it dwarfs nuclear builds & makes short-term coal bumps irrelevant. Exponential change is cementing China as the world’s energy leader. #Solar #BESS #SWB
I used to read books like Lord of the Rings or watch movies like Star Wars and think the villains were unbelievable. And of course, now watching the tech oligarchs (who could not spend all their money if they tried) destroy civilization for power, I’m like, guess I was wrong. People are that awful.
Israel's assassination of the Houthi prime minister last week is another signal "to the Yemenis and everybody else in the region" that Israel will keep launching attacks regardless of "any laws or reprisals," says journalist Rami Khouri. https://www.democracynow.org/2025/9/2/yemen
Not legal 🤷♀️
The Arizona attorney general has sued Trump over trying to end birthright citizenship, cut health care funding and more.
Fascists do NOT want us knowing our labor movement history nor, especially, the abuses employed to suppress us.
Last weekend, I retraced the steps of two of the most important moments in American (and Chicago) labor history, starting with the Haymarket Massacre. But the Haymarket Massacre wasn’t just a tragedy. It still provides a compass for us to fight against fascism today:
again i will say this today, the greatest threat to democracy, individual freedoms, and most citizens personal safety is not islam, socialism or wokeism, or someone's sex or sexuality. The greatest threat today is "christian" nationalism.
One thing that's really reassuring about SCOTUS is how their actual, real, serious, genuine position on ethics is "we are not bound by any mortal law nor any code or creed, this is our world, you merely live in it."
From the weekend: A few weeks ago, Scott Bessent suggested Trump wanted delay before SCOTUS rules on tariffs. Now, Trump is wailing about urgency (and lying, on epic scale, about $$). www.emptywheel.net/2025/09/01/i...
Margaret Atwood fires back with a beautiful satire! 💪 "But while they were doing that The Handmaid's Tale came true and [Premier] Danielle Smith found herself with a nice new blue dress but no job,"
Countries on track to eliminate cervical cancer: -Australia by 2028 -Sweden by 2027 -Rwanda by 2030 -UK by 2040 -Indonesia by 2030 -Bhutan 2030 -El Salvador by 2030 -Canada by 2040 How? HPV vaccine. Same one RFK Jr is trying to ban. You will note USA is not on this list.
A Democratic super PAC is launching a $700,000 digital ad blitz slamming Susan Collins for opposing a bipartisan bill that would ban members of Congress from trading stocks. This ad accuses Collins of “the worst kind of greed… using insider information to trade stocks.” Please WATCH and SHARE. 👀
Man, I feel this. 🙏🏽😭
Pay our teachers what they’re worth!!!!!!
KEEP RFK JR. FAR AWAY FROM THIS STUDY‼️
Such a corrupt administration‼️
Not complicated. Wish everyone could give this a watch 👇🏽
and look who was there instigating... www.thehandbasket.co/p/parks-offi...
So, if you know @dgcomedy.bsky.social and her decades-long, tireless advocacy and fundraising, you’ll want to vote for her here www.out.com/out100/voting
IDF spokesperson: "we are doing everything we can to keep civilians out of harms way" Like dropping 2,000lb bombs on densely crowded refugee camps, killing 15 medics in cold blood, firing 355 bullets into a car to slaughter a family, double tap strikes to murder journalists etc?
I love this for us.
NEW: Judge Sooknanan gets all 76 children trump tried to send to Guatemala back home, trump has been MIA for almost a week, the Epstein estate is going to hand over some actual Epstein files, and a discussion with @rweingarten.bsky.social about her new book. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
Happy Anniversary Shimmy and Lisa 💕
Portland, Maine crowd as Democratic US Senate candidate Graham Platner takes the stage today.
“Get 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.” Dwight D. Eisenhower
Kressly: I expect in the next couple of weeks, this is going to get worse. You’re going to hear from the same administrative people who have gutted the expertise needed to promote child health — pushing false narratives like, “we need to look at the link between vaccines and autism.” That is a lie.
"Even in a long line of anti-labor GOP presidents, Trump stands out. And while he may not succeed in completely destroying collective bargaining in America, he’s poised to strike terrible blows against organized labor." — @paulwaldman.bsky.social
Make no mistake, everything that’s happening in the United States is being significantly enabled by the right wing oligarch capture of media. Every other country needs to do everything possible to keep that from happening where they are. Including protecting the CBC from Poilievre here in Canada.
RFK Jr. is like the guy you never wanted to have to partner with in science class. He thought he knew the answers and is ultimately the guy who would light his hair on fire, and now he's lighting all of HHS on fire.
VOTE BLUE!
The United States had one of the worst COVID outcomes in the entire world from a body count standpoint. Anyone who argues with a straight face we were TOO cautious is an unserious imbecile.
The Holocaust and the Genocide in Gaza are exactly the same. Fascist Governments with all the power, murdering innocent civilians to steal all their land and possessions. The identity of the victims and the people doing it is irrelevant.
Hey Congress – 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.
Morning, B! youtu.be/IA6mzSGTMGk
Watch what Don Jr does with his left hand. This needs to be streaming inside the Capitol, Senate chamber, House chamber, and hologrammed across the White House and Department of Homeland Security.
"This country’s story has always been a contradiction. Slavery alongside freedom. Erasure alongside invention. Art carries what is too heavy for language to hold. Museums, at their best, give us the full picture rather than the flattering one." Independence is vital. www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...
Brilliant
A lead CDC official who resigned said Kennedy’s team asked him to “change studies that have been settled in the past” to fit anti-vax views. That’s not public health leadership—it’s malpractice. 🔗 www.nytimes.com/2025/08/30/o... #BlueSky #MedSky #NewsSky #SciSky #NurseSky
The “Putin wants peace” crowd, especially the “poor persecuted Russia just has some reasonable security requests” variety, really need to reckon with . Peace-seekers don’t go after the bureaucrats and diplomats.
"Nobody wants to be a cop [in DC]. They were abused. They were spit on." "When you when you say they were abused and spit on, I'm assuming you're talking about January 6th, correct?" "All you guys want to do was bring up J6 about the answer to everything."
Following Cracker Barrel's lead, I think some rebranding of American government agencies would be helpful.
The Minocqua Brewing Company Super PAC Just Filed A Class Action Lawsuit to Unmask ICE in Wisconsin kirkbangstad.substac... #wiunion #wipolitics #WiReists
Good to see a bipartisan group of former CDC Directors raise alarms in the NY Times about RFK Jr. dismantling US public health. And I can’t help but feel frustrated that they didn’t do this last year when public health was on the ballot—nor did NYT frame it that way—when we had a chance to stop it.
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.
You know all those slasher-horror movies where they go in the haunted house or down the basement? And you scream, "OMG, how TF could they be so dumb!?" Yeah, well – that's America right now, with RFK jr as the head of HHS, including the CDC, NIH, etc. No good endings. Insane AF.
The eyeliner pencils‼️ Brilliant‼️ NO 🛋️ FRIEND‼️
The treadmill screening of ‘THE LONG WALK’ took place, where every person had to walk on a treadmill faster than 3MPH for the whole movie. If they stopped, they were escorted out of the theater.
We need to start putting people like Mr. Rogers and Ms Rachel in our government‼️
Prison chaplain at ICE facility in Pennsylvania accused of sexually abusing immigration detainee
Honestly, the hour-long run and march of people shouting “Free DC” up 14th Street today is the energy I needed this morning. I love you, DC.
Trump and his Department of Veterans Affairs celebrate Labor Day after stripping VA employees of their ability to unionize — another step toward privatizing care for those who have served rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
…but it’s the faschy thrust that really drives you insayayayayayn 🎶
Unions built this city and keep it running. They’ve fought against power and greed to make the impossible possible. Now, they need an ally in City Hall. On Labor Day, the presidents of the Hotel Trades Council, 32BJ and SEIU 1199 make the case at @cityandstateny.bsky.social.
“Netflix stepped in May, inking a deal for the show beginning with this year’s new season, also striking an unusual arrangement that will see new episodes become available on PBS the same day they premiere on Netflix, ensuring wide availability of the show.“ 👏
QUACK! QUACK! Secretary of Health RFK Jr. said a paper that found no link between aluminum in vaccines and disease must be retracted. The journal refused. In an extraordinary move for a U.S. public official, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has demanded the retraction
Out of curiosity I swear, which male coaches are you on fnb with?
Oh, Andy Borowitz. What a gem you are.
