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I know, I know, but: The president of the US saying, literally, "we're going in" in reference to sending the military to an American city for no reason beyond terrorizing the local population should be the most immediately impeachable shit imaginable
something something two weeks tremendous never seen anything like it huge many people saying
If you're 60, 69.1% of all job growth since your birth occurred under Democratic administrations. If you're 45, that number is 74.7%. If you're under 28, the number is 100%. Happy Labor Day.
If heâs not dying, perhaps the next best thing is for him to know how excited the world was at the possibility that it might be true
If Missouri Republicans mid-cycle redistrict and break the law, they will be sued. That is a promise and I don't bluff. Just ask Texas. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
2 birds, 1 stone
Welch: As someone who lives in a red state, let me just tell you what MAGA supermajorities get you. We're 50th in education. The worst in the whole country for women to live. We're poorer, worst health care. And if you look at the bottom ten states, they are all MAGA supermajorities.
Chicago keeping art alive:
I dare you to go to Annunciation School and tell our grieving community, in effect, guns donât kill kids, antidepressants do. Just shut up. Stop peddling bullshit. You should be fired.
On the other hand, I can tell he has brain worms just by listening to the unadulterated dumbfuckery that comes out of his mouth.
The shooter at Annunciation Catholic School used an assault weapon to fire dozens of rounds through the stained glass windows of the schoolâs churchâkilling two children and wounding 17 others, including 14 children.
If something happened to be daughter and in response I was told that she is now "with the person who loved her the most," you could not hold me legally liable for what I would do next.
The Republican Party is a terrorist organization. Literally, by definition, it is a terrorist organization.
Or even throwing them. Outside of a few, itâs just a complete and irredeemable failure to meet the moment.
And that man is Vladimir Putin.
Free cartoon idea: A line of Democratic consultants and members of Congress are being forced into a cage or van by jackbooted thugs. Some are cuffed or hooded in black bags. The one at the front of the line is shouting as he's locked away: "This is just a distraction!!"
Stephen Miller Tears Up As Son Says First 14 Words
Cue the Benny Hill music.
usually if you ask experts why an empire fell theyâll say itâs nuanced and multifaceted, so i think itâs kind of cool that with America future historians will get to just say like âoh they took the idiot train to moronsvilleâ
The CEO of a a multi-trillion dollar company went to the White House, openly handed the US president a gift made of gold, and his company got a special exemption to tariffs the president has illegally imposed. Also, the Founders took bribery so seriously the Constitution bans it 3 separate times.
âMediocreâ is putting it generously.
Stephen Colbert is going SCORCHED EARTH right now. To RFK Jr: âFuck you, you roid-addled nepo carnie! Fuck you, you roadkill-munching Luddite human slim jim!â
âParade of Volcanoesâ would be a great name for a rock band.
Russia thanks her for her service.
Finally, a united nation.
Until we pass a nationwide ban on gerrymandering (which we need), Democrats should gerrymander every state to the fullest extent. 52-0 in CA, 17-0 in IL, and so on. No more unilateral disarmament. Time to get serious about fighting back.
Do it. Asymmetrical gerrymandering ends in place - unchecked authoritarianism. Only after wresting power and using it to force fair, independent maps, can we expect this experiment to survive. Yes, that will also require reforming the Court. Play the long game. Win.
One was beaten unconscious. Others were covered in bruises, struggling to walk or vomiting blood. Another said heâd been sexually assaulted. These are the stories of 16 former detainees who were deported to El Salvadorâs mega prison.
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Wow, imagine being a journalist and writing âmisled lawmakersâ when you could instead write âliedâ and not only save space, but more accurately describe what happened.
Both, preferably. It is, and always will be, the Sears Tower.
Starmer is thinking what we are thinking and what most of the world is thinking.
LOL. LMAO even.
âthe party being led by jeffrey epsteins best friend wants to repeatedly examine your childs genitalsâ is a true statement
Sharing this GIFT LINK so people canât say they didnât know whatâs been happening in our name. wapo.st/3GZuXCW
Let that sink in for a sec.
We should have listened when the modems screamed at us.
I've been saying this for years
1) You donât cancel the #1 show in its time slot - a show that makes the network money - as a âfinancialâ decision. 2) You donât need to make âfinancialâ decisions when you donât settle a frivolous lawsuit so your potential merger will be approved. Itâs entirely, transparently political.
On Feb. 15, JosĂ© Manuel Ramos Bastidas called his wife from inside a Texas immigration detention facility. He asked her to record a message, âjust in case something happens to me.â Thread đ
when i think of Colbert, i think of an interview he gave to GQ when he first took over The Late Show, and had this to say about losing his father and brothers in a plane crash. www.gq.com/story/stephe...
We have a coup plotter right here at home, but instead of putting him on trial and barring him from speaking to foreign officials, we made him president again đ€Šââïž
I think people aren't describing the Emil Bove corruption adequately. He blew off an order from a judge SO THAT he could send hundreds of mostly innocent men to a concentration camp, based on false claims of gang ties.
Why canât they both be right?
simplest explanation is that the court conservatives believe trump is sovereign and thus free of all limits on his authority
Every Republican who goes on the Sunday shows tomorrow should be pressed to denounce this illegal and authoritarian proclamation from the president. And none of this "I didn't read the tweet" bullshit.
The ICE camps are concentration camps. They should be called concentration camps. It is, of course, important to distinguish between concentration camps and death camps, but also, I am not sure we will know when or if we undergo the transition from concentration camps into death camps.
my view is that everyone should be able to earn a living wage doing whatever it is they like. if you love working in a bookshop, you should be able to live a comfortable life doing so. if you loving being a barista, the same. and if you want to do more traditional blue collar work, thatâs cool too!
Last time I tried this, they said âno thanks.â Dang it.
WhY dO fAcTs HaVe A lIbErAl BiAs??
Itâs a nice sentiment on July 4, but we very much have a king, the courts have forced his lawlessness upon us, congress has abdicated its duty of protection, and honestly, it sure seems like weâre all thoroughly and incredibly fucked. But I mean, yaaaayyy
This is so important. Keep writing. Keep creating. Protect your neighbors doing the art that sustains life. And fight anyone who comes for you or them.
Happy Independence Day to everyone. Except the MAGA fascists actively destroying our constitutional republic. You fuckers can get bent.
Weâre running low on freedoms, Amy.
I donât think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE. This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined. It is setting up to make whatâs happening now look like childâs play. And people are disappearing.
I am grieving the barbarism that is going to unfurl from all this. People are going to die. Livelihoods gone. All to feed a corrupt kleptocracy. I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. Iâm sorry we have to live through this.
Jeffries: âI never thought that I'd be on the House floor saying that this is a crime scene."
Nobody prepared me for how much of my adult life I would spend ripping up cardboard boxes so theyâll fit in the recycling bin.
True, but to be fair, the Allies didnât expect the US would be the next authoritarian threat that an organization like NATO would need address.
I admire your optimism that weâre still going to be around when heâs gone.
We donât call it a death cult for no reason darth
Spoiler alert: yes. Yes, they will go along, because theyâre a bunch of spineless cretins.
I mean, thatâs kind of his thing.
So am I reading this court decision correctly? We now have 50 micronations with their own laws interpreting the U.S. Constitution wholly separate from one another? But there's one guy with private law enforcement who is immune from all punishment who can do whatever he wants in those 50 states?
Assuming we make it to 2026, and assuming there are elections in 2026, this is both accurate and also impossible. But like, we should still try. Because what else is there.
Apparently, no.
Yes. Even without the humidity (but definitely with).
We have a madman in the White House who is actively trying to trigger total war. If Jeffries, Schumer, or any other Democratic leaders try to justify this, shrug indifferently, or write a strongly-worded letter and call it a day, they need to step down or be aggressively primaried.
Just to be crystal clear: bombing Iran is completely illegal.
Yes, people famously hate days off of work.
What happened, did she get too close to some morals?
First honest thing heâs ever said.
This is so humiliating that Stephen Miller is in a chair in a corner somewhere watching
Today in Boston. Over a million people turned out. Even the drone couldn't get it all. #NoKingsDay #BostonStrong #ICEProtest
Ben Shapiro getting all upset at the parade coverage as though he isn't used to taking part in activities where no one comes
Donald Trump does NOT want you to share this footage of his pathetically tiny birthday parade crowd.
Raskin: You are not our king, and we are not your subjects. We will never be your subjects. All of us born here on this land are citizens and your executive order is nothing but bad graffiti on the Constitution, and we're going to wash it off today
[Exit King.]
SCHATZ: "This is the stuff of dictatorships. He identified himself. That should be enough."
NEW FROM CBO: brutal distributional analysis of House GOP "Big Beautiful Bill" On avg the bottom 30% of households get poorer under the GOP bill Avg gets little - and are worse off if you include tariffs This'd be the largest transfer of wealth from the poor to the rich in a single law in history
Not only is Gym Jordan a jacketless ghoul and an unmitigated hypocrite, heâs also blatantly wrong. We fly any flag we damned well please because we (theoretically) have a constitutional right to freedom of expression.
No, no he does not, nor does he care.
In more ways than one.
Where was this energy over the last six months? Did Trump decline to come on your âNormalizing Fascistsâ podcast? Iâm glad youâve (presumably) awakened from your stupor, but youâll understand if we question your authenticity here.
No it fucking is not.
Heâs too busy booking Pee Wee German for his next podcast episode.
Youâre mostly right, except the last part. Their base wonât turn. Theyâre members of a cult. Theyâll take up arms and shoot their neighbors dead before they go against their King.
đšNEW: @cbsnews.com reports ICE is arresting people who can't even legally be deported and holding them without enough food or water in a federal building BASEMENT in Los Angeles. Families dutifully attending check-ins with ICE are being arrested and held for days, forced to sleep on the floor.
must be incredibly frustrating and disheartening to have federal funding that was promised to you for important work suddenly and arbitrarily ripped away
this is like drake and kendrick lamar but they're both drake
Thank you! So tired of the media taking these apocalyptically disingenuous people at their word.
What a time to be alive.
Nintendo of America President Doug WHO??
The man on the left is defending his nation's capital. The man on the right plotted an attack on his.
Why arenât Dems on everything talking about the Joni Ernst âyou can dieâ bill?
There are two kinds of Americans: 1) those who watch the movie Awakenings and feel tremendous empathy and sadness; and 2) Republicans, who either refuse to watch because theyâre afraid of feelings, or who do watch and think the money was more important than the people.
it is jarring to know in detail how many people, including many senior elected officials, simply don't care how millions of people in and out of the US will unnecessarily suffer and die for the second time in five years