LOOK AT VANCE!
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LOOK AT VANCE!
Since returning to office, Trump has: -Stripped 1 million federal workers of collective bargaining rights -Reversed Biden's minimum wage hike for federal contractors -Gutted OSHA and frozen enforcement of a regulation protecting miners from lung disease "Pro-worker" president.
EPSTEIN
The people in Washington who can actually stop Trump are not Democrats. They are Republicans. And we should be asking them every day when they will start. washingtonmonthly.com/2025/09/02/r...
Science Fiction in our White House.
BREAKING: WASHINGTON (AP) - Trump's use of National Guard during Los Angeles immigration protests is illegal, a judge rules.
We need a class action suit.
ICE is holding a man with both physical and developmental disabilities, who doesn’t understand or speak English, and who is nearly deaf at a detention facility in Washington State. Inhumane doesn’t begin to describe it. We can and must be better. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
The United States has seen 291 mass shootings in 2025. That’s more than one mass shooting every day. This isn’t normal. Weapons of war don’t belong on the streets. We need real action to save lives.
They do have vending machines with ammo in TX…
Both these guys need more followers! Please give Rick and Nash a follow!
Fishing????
Why not honor all VISAS???? We are a democracy after all.
The economy has always done better under Democrats control.
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.
NEVER FORGET
Meanwhile, did you see? A federal judge on Friday allowed the Trump admin and the Oklahoma AG to use his court to subvert democracy through a sham lawsuit manufactured to get rid of a pro-immigrant state law they don’t like without needing to go through the trouble of actually repealing the law.
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...
Were the children fed? Adequate water? Handcuffed?
Media outlets have staged a front page protest to highlight the killings of more than 200 journalists in 22 months.
JUST IN: DOJ says all children on planes that were supposed to fly to Guatemala today have been unloaded and are being returned to custody of HHS's Office of Refugee Resettlement. Drew Ensign says missed deadline earlier was bc DOJ wasn't aware. Doc: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Can the media STOP referring to Jeffrey Epstein as a “financier”? The money he made came from SEX TRAFFICKING MINORS, RAPING CHILDREN, and BLACKMAIL. He was NOT a financier. I’ve seen at least five stories from three outlets refer to him this way in the past week. This is the latest from the Times:
Geez!
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HOW MANY CHILDREN??? HOW LONG HAVE THEY BEEN SITTING ON PLANES??
JD Vance on Donald Trump: “I’m a Never Trump guy. I never liked him. I don’t think he’s the person. I don’t think he cares about folks. I think that he’s noxious and is leading the white working class to a very dark place.” { ht: @marcofoster.bsky.social }
Why don’t we require the stock holders and CEO’s to live next door or onsite to super polluting chemical companies? After toxic exposure from explosion this company wants the effected neighbors to use their own resources for cleanup. Smitty’s reported almost 69 million dollars in revenue last year.
This is the type of person Trump pardoned. He proudly asserts that they should have injured a US Capitol Police Officer worse than they did on January 6th (@sergeantaqgo.bsky.social) had to medically retire). But MAGA supports law enforcement? Seriously? Then show me by condemning this guy.
For those of you, stlll somewhat bewildered as to the actual allegiance of this administration.
The clearing of the rubble in a Kyiv high-rise house bombed by russia — which claimed 25 lives — has just ended, and already a new swarm of russian drones fills our skies, with Tu jets preparing for takeoff and the launch of cruise missiles. This is a never-ending 9/11.
He Plagiarized and Promoted Falsehoods. The White House Embraces Him. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/30/b...
This is good: With Trump/RFK destroying CDC, JB Pritzker's officials are exploring the possibility of buying Covid vaccines from manufacturers and distributing them in-state themselves, source tells me. Dem govs must step up and fill the void. New piece from me: newrepublic.com/article/1998...
BREAKING: Lawyers on Thursday night asked the full DC Circuit for en banc rehearing of the Trump administration's appeal of Chief Judge Boasberg's "probable cause" order in the criminal contempt proceedings over the March 15 Alien Enemies Act flights. Background: www.lawdork.com/p/dc-circuit...
Last January, a source shared evidence with me that DOGE was installing devices on govt servers to upload data to the cloud. Some hosts were FOREIGN. On Friday, a whistleblower resigned and came forward to share the same. Listen to what we found in January: www.muellershewrote.com/p/a-fork-in-...
Thanks, everyone! Woman-run. Veteran-owned. No bullshit. Always free. Muellershewrote.com
Not only is our new acting director of the CDC NOT a scientist, but he also has deep ties to Peter Thiel and Silicon Valley’s techno-utopia movement. One epidemiologist compared Jim O’Neill’s appointment to “making Elon Musk head of the FAA.”
I hope people realize how absolutely fucked this situation is. This isn’t normal. People are resigning all over the place because the government is mishandling our data, ruining our public health services, and generally making Americans less safe.
Sounds like a reason to work out solutions to the conflicts.... Sort of like a professional department would do on behalf of students. Will the money go to ICE or will this become a court case?
Will this become a court case?
“Disaster money is just sitting,” one FEMA employee tells WIRED. “Every single day applicants are asking their FEMA contact ‘where’s my money?’ And we are ordered to just say nothing and redirect.” Trump wants to use the FEMA budget to build concentration camps around the world.
Perfect!
NEW: A judge in Utah orders fair maps, Susan Collins is heckled during a ribbon cutting, democrats CRUSH in an Iowa special election defeating the GOP supermajority, and prosecutors fail to indict sandwich guy. News, with swearing! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
WI SUPREME COURT?
Landlords say they can’t afford a rent freeze, but have $2.5M to give to Cuomo. Reminds me of corporations that spend millions to bust unions instead of just raising wages and offering benefits. Doing the right thing is always cheaper than the cost to block it.
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Jesus Christ. If your credit isn’t frozen at all three bureaus, I would strongly consider doing that now
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Wrong! Fact Check: Majority of US mass shooters are cis men, not transgender or non-binary people | Reuters www.reuters.com/article/fact...
My guess is they exposed every living American to data mining.
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There is a special election in Iowa that Democrats can win...TODAY. Hope you get the message out.
The new order being imposed on American industry doesn’t come from a vast authoritarian bureaucracy. It’s personal and arbitrary. A single so-called “strongman” is beginning to control everything. Some thoughts... https://robertreich.substack.com/p/whatss-fascist-capitalism-and-which
A man, near the White House, who describes himself as a "retired disabled combat veteran," after burning an American flag tells bystanders "I am being detained because I expressed my First Amendment rights."
The race to AUTOCRACY HAS BEEN GOING SINCE…. at least Reagan and forever within the Heritage Foundation.🇺🇸
Pritzker gets it.
Walz says Harris "would have been a fantastic president... we wouldn't wake up every day to a bunch of shit on TV. We would wake up to an adult w/ compassion & dignity doing the work, not a manchild crying about whatever is wrong with him. May his fat ankles find something today. Petty as hell."
FASCISM
“I was r*ped sometimes 3 times a day on that island… and I was not the only girl on that island… Ghislaine must die in prison, because I’ve been in hell and back for the last 17 years.” Listen to the survivors.
Russia does this for many reasons, but one of them is to show that Putin owns Trump. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/18/u...
As usual, making the important points. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
One of the most terrible crimes of Russia’s terrible war. www.newsweek.com/president-pu...
Horrible, oppressive, anti-education.
Arabic Studies, Holocaust Studies, Russian, Eastern European & Eurasian Studies, Religion, & more—decimating the humanities destroys our ability to understand the world, act in it, and envision a future. Blue states are complicit in this destruction of scholarship and teaching @uoregon.bsky.social
Everyone who was wrong about Trump — please say so openly to those who trust you and follow you. You have influence and thus bear responsibility.
She went to prison. Now she is out, just like that!
WHAT IS THIS????
“Papers, please”
You mean we can't trust the DoJ or republicans in congress?
NEW: Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s defense team says that the government is attempting to coerce him to plead guilty to his criminal charges. Per filing, the government promised to deport him to Costa Rica if he pleads guilty — and is now threatening to remove him to Uganda if he doesn’t accept the deal.
Why do you allow it? @housedemocrats.bsky.social @democrats.org @msnbc.com @cnn.com @nbcnews.com @cbsnews.com @abc7.bsky.social
🧊😲✈️ CHILD IN CHAINS‼️ 👉 Thursday August 21, 2025 at Boeing Field in Seattle, we spotted this apparent girl in chains being directed up the steps of an Avelo Airlines 737 (tail: N805VL) on the live web cam feed from the airport 👀 (clip courtesy lalabote.bsky.social)
"Never before has [the supreme court] entertained such challenges from the president, and never before has it decided them so flippantly." - J Michael Luttig
Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/21/a...
UNAWARENESS OF REALITY.
Hey look. It’s the worst economy since the last time Trump was in office. Probably just a coincidence
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This is how we fight. apnews.com/article/cali...
"A Prince, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people." —The Declaration of Independence
Elizabeth Warren: "The one thing I want to remind everyone is when Democrats get in power again -- and we will -- we've got to change the rules. We've got to change the rules on the impact of money in politics and we've got to pass the voting rights act again and make sure there is true protection."
Tremendous crossover move right here:
If you had told me 30 years ago that Michael Luttig and Bill Kristol would have a clearer understanding about what's going on than a lot of Democratic leaders, I'd have wondered whether you tried the brown acid.
If one Democratic governor doing good social media causes this much turmoil on the right, imagine where we’d be if the entire party was doing it.
If you’re trying to make it harder for people to vote, stop pretending to give a shit about democracy. Every American - regardless of their political views - deserves to have their voice heard.
Democracy is worth the fight!🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
PATHETIC!
Great idea! Mexico stickers all around!
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So GD weird!
Where is her lawyer? She needs one with her 24 hours a day!
NEWS: DNC Chair Ken Martin says TX State Rep. Nicole Collier was threatened with a FELONY charge for speaking on a press call with him, Cory Booker, and Gavin Newsom.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=R8AG...
It cracks me up that they used a touchscreen to bring up the big number zero.
By the way, the California republicans trying to stop Gavin Newsom said at their press conference that they were offended by Newsom’s use of the phrase “fight fire with fire” calling it insensitive because of the recent wildfires. What’s insensitive is not sending disaster relief, you choads.
Heads up, @washingtonpost.com @nytimes.com @latimes.com -- here's how to inform your readers with a headline, and make them want to click for the details. Fist bump to @bostonglobe.com and thanks to @sulliview.bsky.social for spotlighting media normalization of Trump
Oh how great it would be if every Black player on Texas and Ohio State boycotted the game until Texas cancels the redistricting vote and Ohio pulls their National Guard from DC. Those players have so much power and they don’t even use it.