Kim (@kimdem.bsky.social) reply parent
It does alarm me. What alarms me even more is that Congress hasn’t shut down RFK Jr.
Kim (@kimdem.bsky.social) reply parent
It does alarm me. What alarms me even more is that Congress hasn’t shut down RFK Jr.
Mueller, She Wrote (@muellershewrote.com) reposted
NEW: Since corporate media won't call for Trump's resignation, I will. My latest: www.muellershewrote.com/p/trump-must...
Kim (@kimdem.bsky.social)
@msnbc.com you need to can John kasich. You don’t need to be part of his campaign to suck up to trump to be forgiven for supporting Biden. Don’t want to hear him telling Dems to make nice with trump when in fact stronger fighting is desperately needed.
Carolyn Barber, MD (@cbarbermd.bsky.social) reposted
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
Just Jack (@just-jack-1.bsky.social) reposted
Maybe Red state governors are sending their national guard to DC because they’d be safer there picking up trash than patrolling their own murder capitals.
Kim (@kimdem.bsky.social) reply parent
For all those people who think the military will adhere to the constitution, take note they won’t.
Adam Kinzinger (@adamkinzinger.substack.com) reposted
Ashley Babbit dishonored her service by committing insurrection against her country. While her death is absolutely tragic and I wish it hadn’t happened, the Air Force giving her honors is in itself a dishonor.
BytePilot (@binaryorhex.bsky.social) reposted reply parent
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God (@thegodpodcast.com) reposted
Those who have the power to stop mass shootings can go to hell with their "thoughts and prayers." Do something about it, you evil bastards.
Wajahat Ali (@wajali.bsky.social) reposted
Christians for Trump, what say you? Is that how Jesus wants you to behave? www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2025...
Mrs. Betty Bowers (@mrsbettybowers.bsky.social) reposted
RULE ABOUT AMERICAN FLAGS: If you burn the fabric part, you're looking at jail. But it you use the pole part to assault a police officer, you get a presidential pardon, praise, and some cash.
Kim (@kimdem.bsky.social) reply parent
As a Mainer, I could not love this more
Kim (@kimdem.bsky.social) reply parent
THIS!!!!
Kim (@kimdem.bsky.social)
John Kasich seems very much to be trying to get trump to forgive him for getting along with democrats. lol.
Kim (@kimdem.bsky.social) reply parent
I guess my 1795 house must be prehistoric?
Kim (@kimdem.bsky.social) reply parent
Closer to autocracy? There are few directives or orders that he’s given that anyone has said no to. There have been few SCOTUS rulings against him. Ketanji Brown Jackson has sent some very clear messages that we are not a democracy now.
Kim (@kimdem.bsky.social) reply parent
Your “interpretation” missed the whole point. Please stop being more ignorant than you have to be.
Kim (@kimdem.bsky.social) reply parent
Oh my, all the arguing about socialism and apparently no one actually understands what it consists oh. Adieu 😆
Adam Kinzinger (@adamkinzinger.substack.com) reposted
The second amendment guarantees the right to a militia to guard against federal tyranny. But if a president can use that force against its own state, against the wishes of that state, then it is no militia at all and a clear violation of the second amendment.
Kim (@kimdem.bsky.social) reply parent
Yes. To break a super majority. Why did they not?
Kim (@kimdem.bsky.social) reply parent
Geezus. No one is aware that govt owning the means of production is ….socialism
Acyn (@acyn.bsky.social) reposted
Garcia: What we got was complete bullshit. We demanded the full Epstein files, and that’s not what was sent over. The White House cover-up clearly continues. What they sent us was 33,000 pages of documents that have already been in the public domain.
Jon Cooper (@joncooper-us.bsky.social) reposted
Despite receiving billions of dollars in federal contracts and subsidies, SpaceX, Elon Musk's rocket and satellite company, has reportedly taken advantage of a benefit from Trump's first term to avoid paying income taxes. www.muskwatch.com/p/how-spacex...
Bradley Whitford (@bradleywhitford.bsky.social) reposted
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.
Mueller, She Wrote (@muellershewrote.com) reposted
Here’s what was NOT released today: - the proffer agreement between Maxwell and the DoJ - the agreement transferring Maxwell to club fed - communications showing who waived Maxwell’s sex offender status allowing her transfer and possible work assignments outside prison - the Epstein files
Christopher Webb (@cwebbonline.com) reposted
This is so important… Sharon has been tracking license plates on cars driven by ICE agents, and she’s finding they don’t match the vehicles. In other words, ICE is using secret, illegal tactics—just like we suspected. REMINDER: the DMV is not a federal agency. @governor.ca.gov 🧵
Kim (@kimdem.bsky.social) reply parent
Yet you seem the be blaming her?
Mueller, She Wrote (@muellershewrote.com) reposted
FYI: the fundraising ALL goes to the redistricting effort - not to a Newsom POTUS run. I checked.
John Locke of Boston 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇺🇦 (@johnlockeboston.bsky.social) reposted reply parent
If we don’t stop Trump now, and I mean *right now*, we will not even survive until 2028. If you want to have an actual election in 2028, you better figure out, at a minimum, how to regain the House in 2026. Newsom is doing more than any major political figure to turn the tide.
Zohran Kwame Mamdani (@zohrankmamdani.bsky.social) reposted
Meet Shakira. Ten years ago, she was living in a shelter with her three kids, working at a non-union hotel. Now she's a member of HTC. Unions are how working people can build a dignified life. But in a city as expensive as ours, they need local government on their side.
Gregg Gonsalves (@gregggonsalves.bsky.social) reposted
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.
Christian Petersen (@iwantyoustudio.bsky.social) reposted reply parent
Senator Bernie Sanders (@sanders.senate.gov) reposted
Novo Nordisk’s move to cut the price of Ozempic to $499 for the uninsured is a modest step forward, but let’s not forget. Ozempic costs just $59 in Germany while it costs less than $5 to make. The U.S. must no longer pay the highest prices in the world for prescription drugs.
Dan Kennedy (@dankennedy.net) reposted
M. Gessen has written a brilliant takedown of Trump and Putin's joint effort to destroy Ukraine (gift link). www.nytimes.com/2025/08/19/o...
The Tennessee Holler (@thetnholler.bsky.social) reposted
ARIZONA: “(Voucher) parents bought diamond rings, luxury clothing, dog food, grills, mopeds with public education dollars….” A handout for the wealthy. This has been @GovBillLee’s #1 priority. #LeesVoucherScam www.12news.com/article/news...
Kim (@kimdem.bsky.social) reply parent
He also reported that he has ended 6 wars. Gonna report that, or nah? ALSO: AREN’T YOU DOING EXACTLY WHAT HE WANTS: LETTING THE EPSTEIN FILES SLIP OUT OF FOCUS AND FADE AWAY?
Kim (@kimdem.bsky.social)
How many hours do we think trump has spent watching Putin and himself walk down the red carpet together, on endless loop?
Kim (@kimdem.bsky.social) reply parent
How is this legal?
John Pavlovitz (@johnpavlovitz.bsky.social) reposted
All you had to do was listen to her.
Kim (@kimdem.bsky.social) reply parent
The fact that Zelenskyy does not back down is something the autocrat boys should take extremely seriously. He’s afraid of no one, especially a fake gold-loving criminal who has lost his marbles.
The Tennessee Holler (@thetnholler.bsky.social) reposted
Life comes at you fast
Acyn (@acyn.bsky.social) reposted
Hill: Trump asserted in his Fox interview there were no countries in the world that allow mail-in voting. Well, Russia allows mail-in voting.
Christopher Webb (@cwebbonline.com) reposted
Masked men jumped a San Bernardino family in unmarked cars, opened fire, and shattered their truck windows—all while the family was just coming home from work. The feds later admitted it was CBP, but the family says the agents never showed warrants or IDs.
Mark Hamill (@markhamillofficial.bsky.social) reposted
The body language alone speaks VOLUMES. #SlavaUkraine 🇺🇦
Ben Rhodes (@rhodesben.bsky.social) reposted
So Putin gets a red carpet welcome, a ride in the presidential limo, speaks first at the presser, frames the meeting as a successful talk among equals, while making absolutely no concession on the conduct or outcome of the war.
Jack Hopkins-The Original (@therealjackhopkins.bsky.social) reposted
I hate these motherfuckers with every fiber of my being. substack.com/@amysiskind/...
Mueller, She Wrote (@muellershewrote.com) reposted
Remember when Kamala said Putin would eat Trump for lunch? I was thinking about that today for no particular reason.
Kim (@kimdem.bsky.social)
From Robert Reich If Democrats got off their asses, here’s what they’d be doing now open.substack.com/pub/robertre...
Jess Piper (@piperformissouri.bsky.social) reposted
Throwing a sandwich at a cop: felony. Beating a cop unconscious with a flag pole: tourist behavior.
Kim (@kimdem.bsky.social) reply parent
Point taken. But Newsom is, at least right now, taking the fight to maga in a way that has the possibility of helping our position going forward. Very few, if any, other Dems are doing that. Dems need to dump the purity test that is dooming us to the end of our democratic republic.
Acyn (@acyn.bsky.social) reposted
Newsom reveals what Trump discussed with him the night before he federalized the National Guard in Los Angeles: How original the “Newscum” nickname is How many MAGA hats he sold The debate with Kamala Harris
Kim (@kimdem.bsky.social) reply parent
This is one of the truest statements he made.
Kim (@kimdem.bsky.social)
Hey @msnbc.com @morningjoe-msnbc.bsky.social so you don’t think hundreds of armed military stalking the street is “overreach?”
Mrs. Betty Bowers (@mrsbettybowers.bsky.social) reposted
Just when I thought I couldn't loathe Representative Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) any more, I watch HBO's "Surviving Ohio State" and realize I was wrong. What a despicable person, laughing off the molestation of young men in his care.
Anne Applebaum (@anneapplebaum.bsky.social) reposted
ICE, America's first interior police, are not being built up, at the cost of billions, just to monitor immigration www.nytimes.com/2025/08/14/u...
Adam Kinzinger (@adamkinzinger.substack.com) reposted
There would be an immediate cease fire if Russia immediately ceases firing.
Brian Tyler Cohen (@briantylercohen.bsky.social) reposted
@gavinnewsom.bsky.social: "It's the rule of Don, no longer the rule of law. And people need to understand the lines that are being redrawn in Texas are not about party. They're about power. And you've got to meet fire with fire and power needs to be asserted in blue states, not just red states."
Acyn (@acyn.bsky.social) reposted
Vladeck: There’s one video showing a DEA officer telling a D.C. resident he couldn’t drink alcohol on his porch—D.C. law says exactly the opposite. It also highlights how these officers aren’t even trained in the laws they’re purportedly enforcing.
emptywheel (@emptywheel.bsky.social) reposted
It really bothers me that we're not talking about how the GOP cut DC's funding before invading.
Lydia Polgreen (@polgreen.bsky.social) reposted
I am congenitally resistant to conspiracy thinking, but this really does feel like a eugenic plot. There is some dark, pseudo-Darwinian thinking on the right that equates illness with moral unfitness, and prefers that the weak die, indeed demands that they be culled. Truly a death cult.
George Takei (@georgetakei.bsky.social) reposted
The moment he named his platform “Truth Social” we were headed this way.
Mueller, She Wrote (@muellershewrote.com) reposted
Ghislaine Maxwell’s attorney - addressing me directly - says there’s no such thing as prisoner work details outside the facility in the federal prison system. Yes there are. I have receipts.
Kim (@kimdem.bsky.social)
@msnbc.com @theweekendmsnbc.bsky.social @theweeknightmsnbc.bsky.social Stop taking your eye off the balll
Kim (@kimdem.bsky.social) reply parent
I’m afraid it is for this generation. The list in my attachment identifies several pages of concrete, tough actions they could be taking to maybe make an actual impact. I’ve sent this to several of them. I’m sure others have as well. 🦗. These would require action and risk.
Zohran Kwame Mamdani (@zohrankmamdani.bsky.social) reposted
Peggy is a healthcare worker and @1199seiu.org member at a dialysis center in Brooklyn. She knows what Trump’s cuts to Medicaid will mean for her patients — and why we need a Mayor who will fight for New Yorkers, not conspire with a President who kicks them off their insurance.
Kim (@kimdem.bsky.social) reply parent
And who will do anything about it?
Kim (@kimdem.bsky.social) reply parent
It apparently worked for that guy.
Kim (@kimdem.bsky.social) reply parent
It doesn’t matter in the slightest if anybody trusts his numbers. He will say what trump wants him to.
Kim (@kimdem.bsky.social) reply parent
But trump controls everything , including this - once it’s commissioned. We didn’t stop him when we might have been able to. www.facebook.com/share/r/19QH...
Kim (@kimdem.bsky.social) reply parent
They are not even close to doing what they can do. Hiding in DC and occasionally making strongly-worded statements is cowardly and a waste of time. robertreich.substack.com/p/a-remarkab...
Kim (@kimdem.bsky.social) reply parent
Zampolli had close ties with Epstein.
brutallyrandom.bsky.social (@brutallyrandom.bsky.social) reposted reply parent
Fox New is shown on their bases 24/7 named after confederate generals I…don’t think the oath has the same meaning as it did a decade ago
Kim (@kimdem.bsky.social) reply parent
Kinda like trump. Playing king, just like trump.
Kim (@kimdem.bsky.social) reply parent
Because I’m not a stupid antisemite.
Kim (@kimdem.bsky.social) reply parent
Tell me, why did Ukraine elect a Jew as president?
Kim (@kimdem.bsky.social) reply parent
But seriously, could you be any more ignorant and anti-Semitic?
Kim (@kimdem.bsky.social) reply parent
Don’t be stupider or more antisemitic than you are.
Mrs. Betty Bowers (@mrsbettybowers.bsky.social) reposted
This former model, with no background in history, has been put in charge of curating what is "appropriate" at the National Museum of African American History.
Mueller, She Wrote (@muellershewrote.com) reposted
I want to remind everyone as we discuss the CPI/inflation numbers today, from July 30: "The Bureau of Labor Statistics is reducing or ending the collection of data that is used to calculate the Consumer Price Index." www.nytimes.com/2025/07/30/b...
Charlotte Clymer (@charlotteclymer.bsky.social) reposted
I controversially believe that teenagers shouldn’t have to show their bare chests to adults in order to use a restroom.
Marc Elias (@marcelias.bsky.social) reposted
We must insist the Supreme Court protect voting rights and democracy. In 2015-17, I litigated and won 4 redistricting cases in the Supreme Court. In the last few years my firm has litigated two others in the Court and won both. Don't give in to the cynics. When we fight we can win!
Kim (@kimdem.bsky.social) reply parent
Yet, apparently, no one can figure out how to stop it?
Kim (@kimdem.bsky.social) reply parent
Which is why they will do EVERYTHING to prevent a free and fair election.