senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, former chief economist to Senator Rob Portman (R-OH) & director of budget and spending policy for Marco Rubio’s 2016 presidential campaign👇🏽
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senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, former chief economist to Senator Rob Portman (R-OH) & director of budget and spending policy for Marco Rubio’s 2016 presidential campaign👇🏽
During Jim Crow, many states mandated that anyone seeking to register to vote or apply to a state university had to have multiple voters/alumni “vouch” for their character. It was an easy if unsubtle way to maintain all-white (or mostly-white) institutions
Remembering when the NYT went on a weeks-long bender covering a decades-old real estate deal the Clintons were involved in, in which they *lost money*.
Except not Netflix. It’s Reed Hastings personal donations
Something press pool could ask about
All kidding aside, it is so *insane* & *shocking* & *dangerous* that Corporate Media has collectively decided to completely bury objective fact that the President is uninformed, confused, and physically & mentally deteriorating.
This is so anti-military and anti-veteran. This is not what the National Guard was intended for.
The lack of ego Rep. Nadler is showing is a perfect example of putting service before self. This deserves so many props and respect. Thank you, @nadler.house.gov.
Trump’s mysterious disappearance from public raises new questions about Joe Biden’s advanced age
Our former friends are laughing at us in private; our empowered enemies are laughing at us in public. Who but Trump could have brought such jolly unity to the world? by Marc Thiessen
Someone please kill me right now.
Satire is dead.
I’m sorry, WHAT?
Of the many reasons this is a bad answer — the kind of answer I would delight to get in cross-examination because it makes the speaker look shifty and untrustworthy - is that “maintain or rebuild institutions” is not particularly less abstract than “democracy under threat.” It’s just less direct.
@FieldTeam6.org is going to the Hopewell Farmer's Market. We'll be working with ILNH to expand our Democratic base in New Jersey thru voter registration. It's easy! Sun. Sept. 7, 9 & 11am ET Help elect Mikie Sherrill as Governor! #Voterizer #RegisterDemocrats social.fieldteam6.org/s/XQMxubUu
Today we get to enjoy Labor Day, because of the generations of workers who came before us to fight for fair wages, benefits, and basic decency.
Some insiders have theorized that the White House installed Fugate to oversee a pivot away from traditional counterterrorism and to steer resources toward MAGA-friendly sheriffs and border security projects before eventually shuttering operations. (Published June)
22 year old man whose previous experience is a grocer. The header of counter terrorism. MAGA is Affirmative Action for Mediocre White Men
More framing like this, please www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/u...
FAFO Farmers were aware of the impending tariff and chose their ideology over self-interest, so no one should feel sorry for them.
He’ll let you know once he stops throwing Biden under the bus.
None - he’s MAGA not a journalist since approx 2015
Hey @jaketapper.bsky.social, what’s the timeline for the book on how the President went missing like a week after he had weird bruising on his hands?
God damn is he good at this
The Trump administration used Benny Johnson's claims that his house was "burned to the ground" and that "people were murdered in my front yard" to justify its federal takeover of DC. @kenbensinger.bsky.social found out that Johnson made it all up. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/30/b...
At least 10 gun industry businesses, including Glock, Smith & Wesson, Remington and Mossberg, secretly handed over names, addresses and other data to lobbyists, who used the details to rally firearm owners to elect pro-gun politicians. By @coreygjohnson.bsky.social (Published Oct. 2024)
🔥 future Senator of Maine @grahamformaine.bsky.social Platner rallying with Bernie…
I hope he beats her butt! Metaphorically speaking ofcourse
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.
NEW: Nadler will not seek re-election, citing the need for a new generation of leaders. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/n...
Chicago this Labor Day… Thousands fighting for what #WorkersDeserve
I’m back there in the 687th row, 3rd from the right.
so that's the residence - specifically a hallway outside a bedroom on the third floor:
What's going on at the White House?
Concern over low birth rates was what the theocracy in Margaret Atwood’s Handmaid’s Tale used to come to power.
something something two weeks tremendous never seen anything like it huge many people saying
I'm just gonna flip on some corporate media really quick... ABC: ads CNN: ads Back to CNN: Trump's Chicago "immigration enforcement" MSNBC: Protests in Chicago Back to ABC: A "federal judge getting in the way of Trump's immigration crackdown" Back to CNN: Weekend travel Nothing about Trump MIA
Exactly. Keep the pressure on. Trump will not stick with anyone he thinks may be dragging him further down. That was the beginning of his distancing from Elon. Keep the pressure on. RFK must go.
Leaving aside the typical histrionics, this seems to be Trump beginning to distance himself from Kennedy (who’s “ripping apart” CDC), and inviting mainstream physicians and scientists to defend the vaccines, so Trump can then say, I got them to explain it better and vaccines are OK.
i know i shouldn’t be surprised at the speed with which america’s news outlets have pivoted to stenographers and propagators of trumpism but it’s still startling to see stuff like this
🚨Let’s hear it for Columbus, Ohio! 🚨
“Mr. Nadler said he had tried to make the Declaration of Independence’s claim that “all men are created equal” his north star. “Much of the evolution of our country is broadening the definition of what that meant,” he said. “And I like to think I played a part.” T
NEWS: Democratic Rep. Jerrold Nadler, 78, will not seek re-election
@tombartlett.bsky.social evil fuck
@nadler.house.gov “…said he had tried to make the Declaration of Independence’s claim that “all men are created equal” his north star. “Much of the evolution of our country is broadening the definition of what that meant,” he said. “And I like to think I played a part.”
Thank you @nadler.house.gov “He helped craft compromises reauthorizing the Voting Rights Act in 2006, curtailing Bush-era surveillance powers in 2015 and codifying the right to same-sex marriage in 2022. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/n...
Thank you Doctors William Foege. William Roper, David Satcher, Jeffrey Koplan, Richard Besser, Tom Frieden, Anne Schuchat, Rochelle Walensky, Mandy Cohen www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...
“This is unacceptable, and it should alarm every American, regardless of political leanings” www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...
This Labor Day (and all other days): Thank the workers who serve you. Appreciate the workers who care for you. Respect the workers who pick up your trash. Salute the workers who get you your mail. Honor the workers who teach your children. Pay all workers a living wage.
It’s still early, but pretty good turnout so far for Bernie Sanders and Graham Platner’s (running against Susan Collins) rally here in Maine today.
Way to rise up San Diego Labor Day ✊
📢 TEXAS WORKER WIN: Food service workers at Meta in Austin just voted to unionize with UNITE HERE Local 23! (@unitehere.org) These workers are coming together for respect, job security, and guaranteed raises and benefits. Welcome to the labor movement, y’all!
We are suing Texas in two cases -- one voting, one redistricting.
Dead, alive, or hiding — doesn’t matter. Release the Epstein files.
The White House account on X boasts of “$8 trillion in tariff revenue.” 🤡
Thank you on this labor day!!
The thing I don’t get is the same press that is being kept at a distance from an obviously not hale and hearty president isn’t screaming for answers?
If they enact a new illegal congressional map, Missouri will be sued.
Portland, Maine crowd as Democratic US Senate candidate Graham Platner takes the stage today.
As Republicans inevitably blame mental health and not the guns for yet another school shooting - kindly remind them that 205 of them voted AGAINST a bill to expand school-based mental health services.
If “people are the problem”, but the guns aren’t, then why do Republicans want to keep giving the problem, guns?
The very same Republicans who said it was “too soon to talk about politics” after Sandy Hook, Pulse, Parkland, Buffalo, Uvalde etc… have been blaming the trans community for the Annunciation Catholic School shooting since the second it happened.
Literally.
Hey Congress – make Alex Acosta's testimony public and televised. There's absolutely no ethical reason for it to be private and transcribed. Nefarious AF. We need to hear your questions. We want to see him squirm. We need to see him squirm. Yet another sign of a cover-up.
Wages of unionized workers are 13% higher than their nonunion counterparts. But unions also set a higher pay standard that all workers enjoy. In high-union-density states, median household income is $12,000 higher than in low-union-density states. This is why unions are vital.
On #LaborDay, I stand with every worker demanding fair pay, safe conditions, and respect on the job. The fight for dignity is far from over. (2/2)
Trump and Republicans attack unions because they know organized workers are powerful. But let’s be clear: workers built this country—not billionaires. (1/2)
✈️🇪🇺🇧🇬A plane carrying European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen was forced to land in Bulgaria using paper maps after suspected Russian GPS jamming disrupted its navigation systems, the Financial Times reports.
An upcoming news conference with victims of Jeffrey Epstein could be “explosive,” one of the congressmen pushing for full release of the files on Epstein predicts. Democratic Rep. Ro Khanna said the victims’ accounts will force lawmakers to vote on a bill requiring DOJ to release its files.
“Americans do not want kings! Americans do not want oligarchs!” Thousands cheer Bernie Sanders at the “Workers Over Billionaires” Labor Day rally in Concord.
If you are in or near Baltimore you should know that the Walters Art Museum (which is free!) has a small but wonderful exhibit about cats in medieval manuscripts
Revoking an entire nationality’s visas is collective punishment and never acceptable — especially in this moment when millions of Palestinians lack equal rights, basic healthcare, and so much more at home, forcing them out of the US is unfathomably cruel. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/31/w...
Fifty-one of the 85 Federalist papers were written by a guy born in Nevis.
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Robert Mueller was diagnosed with Parkinson’s in 2021. We’re just learning about it now because he was asked to testify in the Epstein matter and won’t be able to. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/08/31/u...
MORE: Judge Sooknanan order DOJ to file yet another status report. She sets 10:45 pm deadline for Ensign to address whether all of the children have been returned to ORR custody.
Let's give a shout out to the men & women who labor in the fields to put food on our tables. #WeFeedYou #LaborDay. Mandemosle un saludo a los hombres y mujeres que trabajan en el campo para poner comida en nuestras mesas. Thank you Ignacio Gomez for letting us use this art
Thank you for the suggestions - following everyone!
A FANTASTIC pack by my great friend Hopeful @hopeful66.bsky.social! These are all excellent accounts!
If this is the “strong leader” they keep selling us, why are they hiding him like Weekend at Bernie’s? 👀
RADDATZ: One of the things they are trying to do in DC with the National Guard is have them back up local law enforcement WES MOORE: They are picking up trash
Exactly. It doesn't give him implicit authority, either.
Exactly. Nor implicit. MAGA NYT at it again
This “explicit” is a weird editorial choice. The constitution gives the president no power over this at all. It’s not ambiguous.
Not @netflix.com. Donation from the fabulous Reed Hastings, a cofounder of Netflix (and Ex CEO - stepped down a couple of years ago)
Sad news about Robert Mueller.
REP. BUDDY CARTER: What eroded confidence in the CDC was the covid vaccine BEDINGFIELD: Who was president in 2020?
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:
I like the rebrand.
California stepping up.
I can't wait to find out why this statement is so bizarre.