Data geek, marine corps veteran, history buff. Call me crazy but I believe leaders should be informed, ethical, and empathetic.
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Rand Paul: "The reason we have trials & we don't automatically assume guilt is what if we make a mistake and they happen to be people fleeing the Venezuelan dictator? ... off our coast it isn't our policy just to blow people up ... even the worst people in our country, they still get a trial."
I'm suddenly remembering that when Texas had those horrible floods that took the lives of many young girls, Illinois sent aid. The people of Illinois stepped up to help Texas. I know I shouldn't expect much, but maybe Texas should remember that.
Judean People’s Front vs People’s Front of Judea
It sure didn’t take long for Jeanine Pirro to turn the DC US Attorney’s Office into the most incompetent, feckless, and ridiculous prosecutor’s office in the United States.
This guy always has serious road rage vibes
It's not normal for an American president to send troops to American cities in times of peace. Chicago, document what you see and be loud for America.
Tell us you're guilty without telling us you're g......
If you really want to bring these women forward to the American public give them a reality show. (I'm not kidding)
Try not to think about it. A watched pot never dies.
Weird - if Trump did nothing wrong he would want all the information to be released to clear it up, right? Right?
MTG being there because this thing that actually happened happens to intersect her QAnon crazy world shows a weird kind of courage and character. If we could just send her off the grid to a Swiss boarding school to repeat grades 8-12 she might actually be of service to her constituents.
“Let me announce now. Several of us, #Epstein survivors, have been discussing creating our own list of names. We know the names. Many of us were abused by them. Now as survivors we will confidentially compile the names we know were regularly in the Epstein world.” #OpDeathEaters
When I see anti-fasicists fighting with one another I always think of the People Front of Judea vs Judean People's Front scene in Life of Brian www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wbog...
Kevin Ryan @kevryanforillinois.bsky.social Marine Corps veteran, Chicago Public Schools teacher, and candidate for the U.S. Senate in Illinois. I am running a progressive, grassroots campaign to take money out of politics and put it into the working class.
how long before they blow up a boat full of corporate execs fishing for marlin
when you’re upset at the cool kids for not inviting you to their lunch table
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.
you'd think the governor of illinois basically going "we're being invaded by an authoritarian" would be something you'd see real easy on the front page of most everything an hour later
Global solar deployment hit 380 GW in H1-2025 — 64% more than last year! It took until September to reach 350 GW in 2024. In 2025, we got there by June. This isn’t just a China story—it’s 🌍. Each year we add more, faster. No orange idiot or petrostate can stop exponential change. #EnergyTransition
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For those of you that don't speak MAGA, let me translate. They say "Chicago and Baltimore" when they want to say "N*ggers" and don't have to guts to just say it. www.forbes.com/sites/sarado...
Taco’s FAFO. I think all Blue states should get rid of Red! #chicago #notofascism
So sick of bullshit artists and people that give them the benefit of the doubt every time. www.cnbc.com/2025/09/02/m...
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Warfighters demonstrating leafality.
God bless the old people who know when it’s time to fuck off to a beach and give someone else a chance.
Democrats should focus on this part of American history more I think it resonates with working people today.
MAGA will collapse under the weight of their own bullshit like a dying star.
Filed under “if Joe Biden had said this”
The mental fitness of elderly Presidents has been such an important issue for the media lately, so I expect wall-to-wall coverage of how President Trump has once again thrown a fit about one of his own signature policies, showing no awareness of how it arose or who executed it.
Platner: No one cares that you pretend to be remorseful as you sell out to lobbyists. Symbolic opposition does not reopen hospitals. Weak condemnations do not bring back Roe V Wade. Maine deserves better than Susan Collins.
I love this guy
Netflix is putting its money where its mouth is: 💰 $2M to back Newsom in the redistricting fight 📺 A deal for Sesame Street — new episodes and the full archive free to watch. That’s how you pick a side.
“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
Portland, Maine crowd as Democratic US Senate candidate Graham Platner takes the stage today.
Not even the editors of Pravda during Stalin’s reign would lie this big.
They loaded up those planes with children - some as young as 10. I don’t believe they had a safe place to go in Guatemala. And the government did not care. This admin is the least compassionate of any in my lifetime.
Remember the Goolsbee Rule, also called the “pathological irony of crisis”: If you lose credibility, your statements begin to mean the opposite of what you say.
Look at this graph. The share of national income going to the richest 10 percent was lowest (and share to lower 90 percent highest) when union membership was at its highest. As unions have weakened, inequality has widened. This is why we must build back union power.
Is this Melania's younger sister?
Imagine how black your heart and soul have to be for you to treat children the way the DOJ has What monsters
Ackshully that’s a false choice fallacy not a straw man fallacy
Trump's dodging the cameras as much as he's been dodging the Epstein files
Taken an hour ago. Healthy and fit as ever.
He said he would end the war on day one.
There are almost zero voting adults that aren’t aware of climate change. The issue isn’t awareness it’s the decades long intentional misinformation efforts that convinced millions it is a hoax or not that bad.
New rule. When a MAGA asshole brings their kid to the ER with a rupturing appendix tell them they can’t have a surgeon operate but they have the health influencer of their choice.
This is never going away, is it?
Which version of JD Vance shows up for work after the funeral?
Show them any policy where every dollar spent saves many more dollars in policing, courts, and prisons and they’ll opt to keep paying for the cruelty every time
We need to have another No Kings march but this time make it The Dictator is Dead National Street Party just so the evil narcissistic motherfucker can get a preview of the party we’re gonna have when he really is gone.
Television legend Stephen Colbert has just signed a $13.5 million deal with Netflix for a 7-episode series.
So is JD Vance gonna snap back into a rational adult like when he tried to warn us about Trump years ago or is he gonna double down on the gift?
The words that come out of their mouths are so ungrounded in any reality that the media harms the public just by conveying them.
I just saw someone refer to rfk jr as microwaved mel gibson & i can’t unsee it.
The Rev took attendance…
This part. Everyone should be taking notes from @ivehaditpodcast.bsky.social’s @mizzwelch.bsky.social
All three have destroyed their country’s standing in the world
I am pretty sure there is a special place in hell for Western media headline writers. The deliberate and painstaking effort to whitewash genocide requires a special talent that only total moral emptiness can produce.
The warfighters in DC got the trash picked up, now time to mulch.
I nominate Citizens United’s “money is free speech” as the root of it all.
“They’re attacking our faith” If there was a Gaslighting Awards I would nominate this for 2025’s winner.
Ashli Babbitt died doing what she loved—being a domestic terrorist.
At least this headline frames it correctly
"A mural of the Statue of Liberty in shame" by JDL Street Ar in Lille , Roubaix France 🇫🇷
KING
The United States of America will be Trump's 7th bankruptcy.
If these people were killed by a company in any other industry they could be sued but for some reason we've given tech companies immunity from any responsibility for their products because we're afraid we'll stifle the rate at which billionaires can accumulate more wealth.
NEW DATA | In the 12 months to June, 53% of New Mexico’s electricity came from wind and solar power ☀️ 20 years ago, fossil fuels made up 98%. 10 years ago, still 91%… 12 months to June 2025? Just 46% 🤯 Electricity transition made in 🇺🇸, powered by ☀️ and 🍃
#ProudBlue #Resist #Coup This admin. is clear abt its plan to use its power to make America into whatever the fuck Dear Leader wants, i.e., a nation that looks like North Korea, acts like Russia, runs its economy like China, & is run by white Christian Nationalist men, w/ blonde bimbo spokespeople.
she said that “black” with a hard r
We need to lock up and study all white men until we figure out why they keep blowing up federal buildings and molesting children in bible study.
📌 Scientists are not in the business of advancing missions antithetical to public health. ✊🏼
What’s their secret?
The grift that keeps on griftin.
If I were charged with a federal crime, I’d hire Pam Bondi’s brother as my lawyer. Because I don’t think this is a coincidence.
THIS 👉🏾 What price are you willing to pay? “You’re letting masked men snatch girls’ parents off the streets.”
after Ashley Babbitt herself, Donald Trump was the person most responsible for her death.
Don’t look away
Angus: I’m saying we need to start building progressive media that people actually listen to. I’ll give you an example: MeidasTouch. Wherever I go in Canada, working-class people listen to MeidasTouch because they talk about what’s happening in a practical way. They give facts.
..and they could pool their money and if a member needs emergency medical care they could draw from the fund...
This interview, which is also available to listen to as a podcast, provides a useful overview of some of the dangerous trends we’ve been seeing in recent months regarding federalization and militarization of state and local police functions.
She took her shoes off so she could run. Amazing photo that captures so much. Photojournalism is not dead.
THIS IS AMERICA 🇺🇸 A mom runs to find her child after a school shooting because Republicans ran to protect the NRA.
