They've shown us what they actually believe in. Massive tax cuts for the wealthy & corporations. Dismantling of regulation and oversight. White Christian nationalism. Hatred of women and people of color and gays and Muslims and the educated and the urban and the non-religious. Donald Fucking Trump.
The National Guardners
9 CDC Directors going back to 1977 speak out. What RFK Jr has done to our nation’s public health system "should alarm every American." It "is unlike anything we have ever seen at the agency, and unlike anything our country has ever experienced." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...
Democracies balance protecting public safety with preserving individual rights & freedoms. Accountability for law enforcement, proportionality in use of force & surveillance, consent of the governed, equal application of the rule of law, all protect civil liberties.
Maybe this will trigger your memory, Tom. The NRA opposed this bill, arguing that it could restrict lawful gun purchases, infringe on the rights of law-abiding Americans, fund gun control measures at the state and local level & support “red flag” laws.
Pritzker: "National Guard troops, any kind of troops, on the streets of American city don't belong unless there is an insurrection, unless there is truly an emergency. There is not."
Is she "concerned"?
Huh, these "affluent" jurors never seemed to have any problem issuing indictments from 2013-2016, when there were 685,750 grand juries convened in DC and indictments issued in all but 44 cases. The jury pool is the same; the only change is the prosecutor overcharging without adequate evidence.
The stupid looking face is perfect😂
Even greater than this: www.theatlantic.com/photo/2020/1...
"She did not die defending the Constitution. She died trying to overturn it. She was not protecting lives at a gate in Iraq; she was forcing her way through windows in the Capitol to stop the peaceful transfer of power." New from @markhertling.bsky.social:
Missouri voters in the last 4 presidential elections voted Democratic 38% of the time. Democrats have 25% of the congressional seats with 2 out of 8 seats. It's already gerrymandered pretty well, boys.
The administration has known from the start that Trump didn't have this authority and that his actions were unconstitutional. They just don't care.
He's too busy scolding non-MAGAs who criticize the Court. We're the real villains in his mind.
I mean, they just restored the painting of Robert E Lee with his slave to the Pentagon. Someone who committed sedition and treason against the United States. MAGA's belief is that both acts of sedition were righteous.
Not really a response as to why Trump is sending troops to cities that don't have the highest crime rates because they're in red states.
You can believe plenty in prayer and still find it utterly lacking as a concrete public policy response from an elected leader. If Biden had asked people to pray for inflation to cool off, what would these exact same people have said?
Gibberish from the senile blithering idiot in the White House. Just for any FOX news people reading this, anyone who actually lives in California can tell you that this is utter nonsense with zero basis in reality.
AMERICA: “It’s a mental health issue.” REST OF THE WORLD: “We have those. But don’t have mass shootings.” AMERICA: “It’s video games.” WORLD: “We have those too. But don’t have mass shootings.” AMERICA B: “It’s cause they took Jesus out of the classroom.” WORLD: “God, you’re stupid.”
And none of this matters because in case people haven’t noticed, we no longer live in a representative democracy. We live under minority rule and they’re fully intend for that rule to continue. It’s staring us right in the face.
The US National Guard. We’re looking for a few good janitors.
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.
Well, that's one way of looking it. Let's now turn to Scott Jennings to see if he agrees." 😏
Iowa tonight is exactly why Republicans are redrawing their maps.
We are very far off the cliff here folks. 🇺🇸
Maybe Travis fell in love with her not just because he's beautiful & talented but because she is a strong, successful, independent woman with her own wildly successful career & life? And maybe she has no interest in the kind of idiot loser who would expect her to "submit"?
Thinking it made him look better? 😅
Because they think they'll come out on top and only "libs" will have their rights trampled on. Real students of history, apparently.🙄
Ooh, here’s another idea. How ‘bout we chop off the hand of any thief? That’ll reduce crime, right?
In plain sight. And honestly, who’s gonna stop him? Certainly no one in the Republican party.
There are 273 Republican members of Congress, and not ONE with a spine to push back on the dictator who just fired Lisa Cook and is deploying the military against our cities. Disgraceful.
Blithering senile idiot
Every dictator in history has claimed that they’ll only use their powers to go after the worst of the worst. Every dictator in history has lied. Donald Trump is no different.
Meiselas: Stop both-sidesing it, media. Stop trying to sow division within the Democratic Party when we literally have military invasions into American cities, aided and abetted by red state governors, who, again, are the takers who wouldn't exist without the blue states
Oh he will and he’ll get some special relief for farmers like he always does. Must be great to vote for someone & escape the consequences of his actions. Too bad for the rest of us.
In a country with a normal attorney general, this order would never have been issued because a normal AG would have advised the president that the Supreme Court has repeatedly ruled that this is blatantly unconstitutional.
They’re still thinking, “Yeah, but he’s not sending after US! He’s sending them after THEM!”
Why are just Democrats pushing back? Would Republicans have accepted federal occupation in red states from Biden or Obama? I think not.
Ditto the Civil War, which ended with surrender, not negotiation. These guys just assume their voters are absolute morons and will believe anything they say.
How ‘bout a little more fire here??
This guy thinks he's the supreme ruler who can bloviate "I hereby decree" and everyone has to get in line. Guess this makes sense given that no one in his party will ever lift a finger to tell him that's not actually how America works.
The headline should be "Deluded Idiot Finds Out What Everyone Else Already Knew"
Guess we'll find out when companies' earnings reports come out and we see the impact on their profit margins and forecast outlooks. Leading to lower stock prices and cost cutting measures, aka layoffs. The other shoe has yet to drop.
Indeed. What does it say about the state of our democracy that he told us in advance that he was going to do all of these things and America elected him anyway?
Actually, the first move was here in LA, where he sent in National Guard and military against the express wishes of the LA Police Chief and LA County Sheriff, who hadn't asked for assistance and didn't need assistance.
Most unsurprising story ever. Who could have ever predicted that allowing unidentified mask law enforcement to rampage through our streets grabbing people could lead to this?
Wasn't there a trial? With evidence? And witness testimony? Why do we care what this lying perv says in an interview with Trump's personal attorney as if that carries any weight at all? The gov't is holding all of the evidence, they're just dangling shiny objects to make us look away. What a joke.
Consider the inanity. Renewable energies are not only the right answer for our planet but a source of new jobs and economic growth. We know this. But we have to pretend they're bad, bad, bad because the fool in the WH says so.
After agreeing to what he would describe as a "great deal".
Hello, is there a Congress out there???
I remember as kids, there was a strawberry and raspberry farm that hired kids to pick. We were middle-school age and decided that would be a great way to make money. Not sure we even lasted a whole day!
Ever since all the “institutionalists” fell all over themselves swooning in praise of Bill Barr’s appointment as AG as a fellow “institutionalist”, that word raises the hair on the back of my neck.
Why is he sitting in the Oval Office wearing a MAGA hat? That’s gross.
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?
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 🧵
Shakedown by the president of the United States. In plain sight. Remember when we used to have 3 co-equal branches of government? Yeah, good times.
A sane country would be bringing in the nice men in their white coats
I thought they were going to start releasing the actual case files and not a phony interview from a couple of weeks ago with a clear quid pro quo? Next up - info in the case files linking Democrats to Epstein. They really are relying on their voters being idiots, aren't they?
The clearest picture of corporate greed in this country is CEO-to-worker pay ratios. At the 100 lowest-paying major US companies, CEO pay averaged $17.2M in 2024. Median worker pay at these companies was just $35,570. That’s a ratio of 632 to 1. How can anyone defend this?
Repost this again and again so the MAGAs realize their mistake!
How ridiculous that Trump, who stole highly classified documents, refused to give them back, had his goons move them ahead of the FBI search, lied to the FBI, instructed his lawyers to lie to the FBI & stored documents in a bathroom, has the gall to go after Bolton for having classified docs?
Why hasn't there been front page headlines calling out the nearly 39% increase in wholesale produce costs in July??
Yeah, but he bankrupted his casinos, so...
Why should this be an either/or? This isn’t a competition but a fight for our life and we need all hands on deck.
The next episode of the Trump show. This guy still thinks he’s on reality TV show. 🙄
So important to raise this issue. We keep hearing about affordability, but the biggest issue for young people by far is housing/rent costs. That’s what’s killing their futures.
Richard Thompson is in a league of his own.
The shamelessness is astonishing. As is her disdain for her voters.
I keep repeating: we are war. The question is will this turn into a hot war or remain what we have now?
Surely Peter Thiel and Elon Musk—two white Nazi billionaires from South Africa who are actively ransacking the U.S. government in hopes of amassing power, enriching themselves, and replacing democracy with authoritarian “network states” run by CEO-dictators—have nothing to do with this…
Did anyone ask him to confirm the integrity of the files and confirm they had not been altered by Obama or Biden or Comey or Brennan like the clown in the WH claims?
Meanwhile, MAGA continues to rage at Newsom’s mocking tweets.
Exactly what I was thinking!
They are truly shameless.
Side note, but it is sadly funny that Trump takes pot shots at others' looks in the sure belief that he is some paragon of beauty. God, what a delusional and pathetic fool.
In Illinois, Democrats have 43% of the land, 82% of the population and 82% of the districts. Republicans have 57% of the land, 18% of the population and 18% of the districts. In other words, we got a whole lot more people and you've got more land. Guess which votes?
Waiting for the MAGA's utterly outraged at Newsom's posts to direct the same criticism at these posts from the blithering idiot in the WH.
So has any journalist asked her to explain why she changed her mind?
Guess accountability is for Democrats only
One would think
You think they’d be embarrassed.
Yes
We (Vlad) have decided that Ukraine should surrender & give up all territory that the Russian invaders seized. And that Ukraine not be allowed to join NATO. Or receive foreign aide. Now where’s my Peace Prize?
[writing the constitution] Benjamin Franklin: Write down "no dumb fucks as president" Alexander Hamilton: Stop saying that Benjamin Franklin: I'm tellin' you. You're gonna regret not writing that down
Lmfao
Ya think?
The upward redistribution of wealth over the past 50 years has shifted $80 trillion from the bottom 90% of Americans to the top 1%. That’s $80 trillion that would have gone into the paychecks of the working class. The greatest trick of all is trickle-down economics.
@gavinnewsom.bsky.social: "I think he should start with Shreveport, Louisiana, and Speaker Johnson's district that has 6x the per capita murder rate of Nancy Pelosi's San Francisco. What about the carnage, Mr. President, in Shreveport? Why aren't you protecting the folks there? What bullshit."
Why didn’t someone do this years ago? 😂
They start in my majority-Latino city then move on to a majority black city. Neither of which has the highest crime rates in our country. Ain’t about law enforcement, folks.
Whip that mofo
Corporate America supported him, dreaming of massive tax cuts and the end of regulation. They heard warning after warning of how authoritarian regimes come for everyone in the end. But the $ were too alluring.
Exactly what does he plan to with those people? Or is this just another example of his bloviating “I hereby decree…” without any actual plan or execution? My prediction? He’ll send them to blue states he hates.
Very apparent indeed.
They’re more stenographers now, right?
For the record, our division commander BANNED things called “presence patrols” in Iraq. “If you don’t have a specific task & purpose, your ‘presence’ doesn’t do anything.” National Guard stating they are now doing presence patrols in DC. A complete waste of soldier’s time & effort.
He declared a fake emergency to impose tariffs and Congress refused to end it and take back that right which the Constitution gives to him. The real villains here are the Republican legislators who refuse to stop him.