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Just imagine if that was painted on a wall of every block in every city. AND.... How about hoisting thousands of these flags as well. The repukers would blow their tiny little cult minds. Also show us the EPSTEIN files. Also show us the EPSTEIN files. Also show us the EPSTEIN files.
It's like staying up late to see if Santa is real but we're hoping Santa's dead
What a ridiculous person.
He can pretend to be dead all he wants. I still want the Epstein files released.
CARTOON OF THE DAY (From @mluckovichajc)
Read every word of this "And if an 81-year-old woman can beat Donald Trump? Twice? Anybody can. In the larger picture. I think money is the answer. When the [powers that be] get hit in the pocket book by Trump, that’s going to be it. That moment hasn’t come yet." variety.com/2025/film/ne...
Image caring more about stopping a memorial for people killed in a mass shooting than stopping mass shootings. #Priorities
This firefighter arrived in the US at age 4, has been here for 19 years, was on track to legal status, and was on a crew trying to contain a major blaze (in Washington state, vs Oregon, fwiw.) h/t @joshuajfriedman.com www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Dear Leader's greatest achievement. 😉 Karma? Karma, where are you? Hurry up, ya hear?
Yep, Biden is alive and having fun on the beach with his family unlike your walking corpse, Mango Jesus.
Hanan Qahwaji, aka Brigitte Gabriel, came here for a better life, found it, & instantly betrayed the country by becoming a MAGA/Trump shill. She hides behind a fake name to work against America's best interests. She has no integrity, & is PRECISELY the type of immigrant that ICE should be deporting.
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I really hope this becomes the black eye it deserves to be www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
I’m absolutely begging reporters to stop suggesting that Lisa Cook stated that she would use both properties as a principal residence on her mortgage APPLICATIONS Mortgage APPLICATIONS and mortgage AGREEMENTS are not the same thing We have no idea what she represented on the APPLICATIONS
@nealkatyal.bsky.social: “You’ve got the president who's imposed the largest tax increase on American consumers since 1993 … and he did it without Congress saying one word. That is not our constitutional structure.”
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Speaker Mike Johnson left Washington with his tail between his legs, hoping that America would forget the Epstein saga. It didn't work. #coward #TrumpIsAPedophile #GOPShame
Trump's DOJ Engages in Overreach and Abuse! youtu.be/tG_CN87k-j8?...
Television legend Stephen Colbert has just signed a $13.5 million deal with Netflix for a 7-episode series.
Masked ICE aren’t about safety; they’re about fear and evading responsibility. Demand transparency and accountability by adding your name to this petition:
And I am the world's foremost astrophysicist ballerina who invented the piano, aspirin, and appetizers.
The Social Security Administration official who exposed that the Department of Government Efficiency had left millions of Americans’ personal data vulnerable says he has been forced to resign due to retaliation. Charles Borges, who served as the SSA’s chief data officer, told
“ILLEGALS” MY ASS! Green card holder Rami Othmane speaks out after being snatched off the street by ICE while driving to the grocery store. He’s a documented immigrant and the husband of Dr Wafaa Alrashid, chief of staff at a local hospital. He was locked in detention for 13 days.
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CHICAGO…
Don’t look away
Welch: He claims that he's the law and order president. But we all know that's a lie because he's a convicted felon. He pardons convicted felons, he surrounds himself with obsequious people that kiss his all day, every day
Everyone around DC should be walking around town like this...
We were warned by Washington, Lincoln and others. Now we must oppose this authoritarian regime, firmly voice our commitment to the Constitution and rule of law—and assert what it means to be American. www.americaamerica.news/p/its-villai...
A couple of months ago, the Navy dishonored civil rights hero Harvey Milk by removing his name from a ship. Now, the Air Force is dishonoring itself by celebrating a domestic terrorist called Ashli Babbitt.
Just because he won't listen doesn't mean we shouldn't say it. Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. should be fired immediately.
Firing RFK Jr would unburden a lot of overworked mitochondria in this country
Learn more about Kari Lake’s activities from Stephen Richer m.soundcloud.com/profciara/de... #elections #AZ #electionadmin #defamation
Just months short of the nation’s 250th birthday, Trump is close to batting a thousand at speed-running the very abuses of power that led the Founders to write the Declaration of Independence in the first place.
The decision to quit vs stay to fight but also become complicit is a very painful decision. I feel lucky I just got fired rather than have to agonize over it. Synchronized quitting is a powerful choice and I'm sure the top people at the CDC didn't come to it lightly.
The injustice continues. A terrorist is now being honored by our military... My latest God I'm pissed!!! substack.com/@harrydunn/n...
Shoutout to the National Guard on the Mall today for bravely holding the line…of tourists waiting for photo ops.
Cracking down on crime in DC, one Instagram pic at a time
"Today’s decision ... to deny the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia’s motion to dismiss ensures that the plaintiffs may continue their long pursuit of truth and justice." Lawyers for the 9/11 families react to a breakthrough in their case against Saudi Arabia. Full story www.allrisenews.com/p/saudi-arab...
![“It has been nearly 25 years since the largest terrorist attack in United States history, which took the lives of nearly 3,000 innocent people. Today’s decision by the Honorable George B. Daniels to deny the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia’s motion to dismiss ensures that the plaintiffs may continue their long pursuit of truth and justice. The Court’s finding that the plaintiffs presented ‘reasonable evidence as to the roles played by Bayoumi, Thumairy, and KSA [Kingdom of Saudi Arabia] in assisting the hijackers’ paves the way for these critical issues to be fully examined at trial, and for all responsible parties for this act of terrorism to be held accountable.”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:353gzbhcjbznfxegvayffqek/bafkreid6hjue7dkuywo26c52daojpr26dqpvqayqctv2cw5ytcd4zfjf4i@jpeg "Click to view full size")
Hello, everyone. Today, thanks to @sbg1.bsky.social and @newyorker.com, I learned a new word. The word is: "butt-snorkeler."
70 years ago today, Emmett Till was lynched by white supremacists. Here in Illinois, we promise to never hide from our history — no matter how painful the chapter. We honor his memory and his brave mother, Mamie Till-Mobley, by continuing the fight for civil rights and justice.
📌“It’s incomprehensible to me that someone who is willing to exploit his own painful family tragedies for publicity would be put in charge of America’s life and death situations." -Caroline Kennedy speaking about cousin, RFK Jr. This isn't new, but is wildly relevant. Fire this grotesque monster.
Constantly amazed by the compassion people show! 💜
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Did I mention ICE arresting firefighters who were LITERALLY fighting a massive fire at the time of their arrest? 🔥 #ReleaseTheEPSTEIN_Files
Between RFK decimating the CDC, normalizing Ashli Babbitt & the umpteenth school shooting... I'm losing the will to post. #ReleaseTheEPSTEIN_Files
this is an important moment.
RFK Jr is driving this country towards an almost certain public health disaster. If Democrats can’t stop it, at the very least they can get it on the record now that they wanted him gone and the GOP wanted him kept in. Underline how they own the disasters to come. It’s Politics 101.
RFK is cutting us off from vaccines.
From the article: Those states are Arizona, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Massachusetts, Nevada, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Utah, Virginia and West Virginia, along with the District of Columbia.
NEW: Kilmar Abrego Garcia is asking a federal judge for a gag order against Kristi Noem, Pam Bondi and their subordinates. w/ @joshgerstein.bsky.social www.politico.com/news/2025/08...
Daskalakis: I very specifically use the term pregnant people, and very specifically added my pronouns at the end of my resignation letter to make the point that I am defying this terrible strategy of trying to erase people
Like I said. They aren’t embarrassed by history, it’s their playbook.
BREAKING: Bernie Sanders just demanded a special Senate committee hearing on the crisis at the CDC, making RFK Jr testify under oath on the disaster he's created. Go Bernie!
Father Michael Louis Pfleger a priest at the Sabina Catholic Church, a Black parish in Chicago's Auburn Gresham neighborhood has a message for Trump! Before you dare speak about any violence in Chicago, look into your mirror, and address the violence coming from the White House! 🔥
We’re being governed by monsters. Just absolute monsters.
🚨BREAKING: Arizona Court of Appeals REJECTS right wing challenge to Arizona's signature matching process. Another VICTORY for my law firm's clients and the voters of Arizona. www.democracydocket.com/cases/arizon...
This is what happens when you order delivery in DC right now.
A few years in, a CDC drowning prevention program was ready to share its findings on how to mitigate the leading cause of death among young children. Then the administration terminated that staff.
Back in 2020, YouTube suspended OAN's channel, demonetized it, and noted it was not an "authoritative" source. Now, five years later, the Google-owned platform has inked a deal to put the MAGA propaganda network in millions of living rooms. Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/youtube-oa...
Demetre Daskalakis was a key figure in the Covid, mpox, and bird flu responses. This is a huge loss.
According to federal data, 13 of the top 20 cities in homicide rates have Republican governors. None of those cities are Chicago. 8 of the top 10 states in homicide rates are led by Republicans. None of those states are Illinois. And yet Trump is sending troops here.
📌This is what a hero looks like. This is Dr. Susan Monarez, who just announced she WILL NOT resign her post as C.D.C. Director underneath the anti-vax monster, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. She is standing up for the health and well-being of hundreds of millions of Americans, and we MUST stand up for her.
Minneapolis Mayor Frey: "Anybody who is using this as an opportunity to villainize our trans community or any other community out there has lost their sense of common humanity. We should not be operating out of a place of hate for anyone. We should be operating out of a place of love for our kids."
Vanity Fair staffers threaten to walk out over a proposed Melania cover: “We are not going to normalize this despot and his wife… if this happens, i’m gone, and so is half my team.” www.thedailybeast.com/i-will-walk-...
National Park rangers are being censored and discarded—while Trump’s executive orders gut the soul of the National Parks. Training centers shut down. Guided tours silenced. Lifelong careers erased. It's part of Trump's rampant abuse of power, and it needs to end. Read more about it here:
As a black woman.. Im tired of being strong and independent. Wish I could get a week of having the soft life and not having to do everything myself.
This happened to a lesser degree in 2017 when Alteryx left data for 100+ million Americans unsecured on AWS servers. The Alteryx CEO of the time, Dean Stoecker, had ties to Jared Kushner www.latimes.com/business/tec... www.ocbj.com/news/weekly-...
This is so funny. The US is already finding out how it goes when you try to interfere in a village where everyone knows each other, is related to each other, and no one has secrets. Namely that it doesn’t go very far. It was probably the Danish source’s second cousin who exposed the whole thing.
Update: it got funny again
It's sooo dangerous in DC, that the National Guard are now tasked with picking up trash there. I suggest they start at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.
It's *almost* always a young, white male who's been radicalized by white nationalists and the racist gun-lovers the right loves to promote. It's *almost* never the people they want you to be afraid of who are doing this shit.
This. For the love of God, this.
He "complained about radical leftist ideologies in ballet” but "did not specify how the ballet company was affected by the culture." One aspect of authoritarian regimes is that second-rate talents who know the right symbols of loyalty are able to climb the ladder. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/25/a...
Don't get it twisted. Trump is having the National Guard pick up trash to debase them. He hates the military. He is incapable of understanding anyone who would make sacrifices for the greater good. He thinks they are suckers and losers, and he's treating them as such.
Having covered mass shootings for almost 20 years now, the things that so many have in common—and how we can prevent them absent, you know, sane gun laws—are best explained in this piece by @markfollman.bsky.social : www.motherjones.com/criminal-jus...
NEW: Yesterday, I posted that I was unable to get the COVID vaccine at my VA clinic, and many of you assured me that the new one would be available soon and that I was overreacting. I was not overreacting. I am no longer eligible for the vaccine. apnews.com/article/vacc...
After the 2017 Las Vegas shooting, Pope Leo retweeted this from Senator Chris Murphy: “Your cowardice to act cannot be whitewashed by thoughts and prayers.”
"The oft-mentioned tyranny being opposed by gun owners is really just the sense that the wrong people are encroaching on the privileges and prerogatives of whiteness." From 2020:
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This isn’t bad luck or coincidence or predestination. This is our choice. To live in a nation where our leaders teach hate, and military style guns are everywhere.
"The deeper we get into this morass of corruption and criminality, the more people are going to confront their own future legal liability and will worry about what happens if and when Trump leaves office." People trying to forestall their own prosecution is a dangerous recipe for America’s future.
🇲🇽🏥 “Healthcare is not a business. This year we delivered 31 hospitals, 12 health centers and we are equipping 256 operating rooms. And we begin construction of 20 hospitals… we are delivering healthcare to every elderly and disabled person’s home”. - President Sheinbaum of Mexico
Republicans: Mass shootings: “it’s the price of freedom. Send thoughts and prayers” Homelessness: “Deploy the National Guard”
NEW: Sen. Blumenthal sent a letter to ICE Acting Director Todd Lyons today seeking info “regarding the training and compensation ICE agents are receiving as it relates to how they are constitutionally fulfilling their duties” following reports of aggressive use of force by ICE.
Gov. Pritzker is one of 23 Dem governors who must defy this despot deploying the military: “This is exactly the type of overreach our country's founders warned against, and it's the reason that they established a federal system with a separation of powers….” www.americaamerica.news/p/snapshot-y...
“Pursuing peace” kyivindependent.com/ukrainian-so...
All the ways he could have been stopped, but no.
Trump v. United States, 603 U.S. 593 (2024)
Jim Jordan has a track record of covering up sexual abuse
Lisa Cook's Unjust, Illegal Firing- BRAVO... where are the other voices? the defenders of Fed independence? former Treasury Sectys? open.substack.com/pub/econjare...