The Supreme Court has original jurisdiction for disputes between states (meaning they can actually file the lawsuit there, rather than have it go up on appeal). This would be a good time for Illinois to utilize it.
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The Supreme Court has original jurisdiction for disputes between states (meaning they can actually file the lawsuit there, rather than have it go up on appeal). This would be a good time for Illinois to utilize it.
Huh. No mention of the $787.5M lie fine.
I’m supposed to believe the most litigious woman-hating POS on the planet doesn’t want to press charges? That’s….VERY interesting. Has anyone learned anything about the 19 year old woman Rudy is protecting?
They fucking did it, when these lawyers have no experience in this field. Cc @thelolo.bsky.social @5gw.bsky.social
Secretary of State Marco Rubio said that the US military conducted a "lethal strike" in the southern Caribean against a drug vessel that had departed from Venezuela after Trump said US forces "shot out" a drug-carrying boat that he linked to Venezuela.
END/ The tough talk from Pritzker is refreshing. But now it’s time to take all nonviolent, legal, and perhaps even borderline legal actions to disrupt this federal invasion of Chicago.
Little Narco Marco is playing with missiles.
The last CR (allowed to advance to a vote by several democratic senators including Chuck Schumer) defunded DC by $1.1B to include law enforcement. I'll be writing and calling and screaming that the next continuing resolution IS NOT PASSED without FUNDING DC (among other things.)
This is the one vote where your phone call might make a difference. It might be the only thing they're willing to resist Trump on, and it's only because the MAGA base is fired up about it.
"We should act like he's not joking... they're gonna try and manufacture some sort of a crisis." @keithellison.bsky.social, one of the only US politicians to predict a Trump win in 2015, agrees that Trump wants to stay in office beyond 2028, as a "dictator." Full intv: zeteo.com/p/keith-elli...
Rao is right up there with Aileen Cannon and Emil Bove on the list of worst judges ever.
Heads, you lose...and Trump wins. Tails, Trump wins...and you lose.
Fuckin’A-men
To be a political reporter in 2025, you have to be gullible enough to believe that a convicted felon who launched a violent coup attempt is worried about crime. Or you just have to be willing to pretend you’re that gullible. Either way, we deserve better.
Disgusting
My pre-labor day reward was to get laid off, do me a favor and sign up to get my now-independent reporting and writing
#EPA Environmental Prostitution Agency!
#EPA Environmental Prostitution Agency!
Note: the EPA is the bad guy now
Yes. #LetsGO. Let us know how to help you AG.
Pritzker: "It breaks my heart to report that we have been told ICE will try to disrupt community picnics and peaceful parades. Let's be clear -- the terror and cruelty is the point, not the safety of anybody living here."
#SHUTitDOWN. #NoFascism.
Senate Democrats: DO NOT FUND the government when the current continuing resolution expires at the end of the month. SHUT IT DOWN unless DC is funded, the troops are withdrawn from our cities, elections are protected, the Epstein files are released in full... SHUT IT DOWN.
Brian Stetler just told CNN that we were memeing about Trump's health this weekend to monetize speculation and make a quick buck on Bluesky. Are we supposed to be getting checks?
💥🖕FUCK These FASCISTS. - @jesseduquette.bsky.social
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
If you should go skating On the thin ice of modern life Dragging behind you the silent reproach Of a million tear-stained eyes Don’t be surprised when a crack in the ice Appears under your feet You slip out of your depth & out of your mind w/ your fear flowing out behind you As you claw the thin ice
Bummer. That’s terrible. So sad, so misguided.
If it’s under Title 32 authority, the Texas guard remains under state control. That would mean that one state is deploying armed forces into the territory of a non-consenting state. And that’d clearly be a violation of the principle that states are co-equal, territorially limited sovereigns.
BREAKING: Gov. JB Pritzker says the Trump administration has sent the Texas National Guard to Great Lakes Naval Base outside Chicago, awaiting orders to deploy to Chicago. Trump administration officials will target Mexican Independence Day (Sept. 16) celebrations. @wttw.bsky.social
BREAKING: DC Circuit, 2-1, reinstates Biden appointee Rebecca Slaughter to FTC despite Trump attempt to fire her without cited cause. Majority: Millett (Obama), Pillard (Obama). Dissent: Rao (Trump) www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
He just looks like his usual deathly unwell. Fuck.
This is like in The Wall when they give him just enough to get through the show.
If you should go skating On the thin ice of modern life Dragging behind you the silent reproach Of a million tear-stained eyes Don’t be surprised when a crack in the ice Appears under your feet You slip out of your depth & out of your mind w/ your fear flowing out behind you As you claw the thin ice
Pritzker: "Unidentifiable agents in unmarked vehicles with masks are planning to raid Latino communities and say they're targeting violent criminals."
DC will be occupied territory for a long time
Charles Breyer doing something interesting w/Trump v. US here. Not that it'll work, but it gives SCOTUS an out. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
![First, “[i]t is emphatically the province and duty of the judicial department to say what the law is.” Marbury v. Madison, 5 U.S. (1 Cranch) 137, 177 (1803). Without question this principle applies to cases, like this one, where the Executive is accused of overstepping bounds set out by the Legislature. “If the President claims authority to act but in fact exercises mere ‘individual will’ and ‘authority without law,’ the courts may say so.” Trump v. United States, 603 U.S. 593, 608 (2024) (citation omitted).](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:bbp2b224lro3bfnzcqwwnkfo/bafkreigw7unwx3hl5xpacc7oatksql53mrgbte6g7yyzt2cmd33nnpe5x4@jpeg "Click to view full size")
Amen... so far out on a delusional limb...
Most Trump supporters will stick with him because the alternative would require a self-reckoning that none of them are willing to do.
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Tomorrow is hump day? Couch F’er Mascara-Aiding as President. @laloalcaraz.bsky.social
Just makes it all the more astonishing that women don’t all see this. As I’ve noted repeatedly, I know my gender is as ignorant as they are lost, but how any woman could ever vote for this, is way beyond me.
Yep.
Why MAGA men love the loathsome piece of shit: This woman nailed it. 🎯🎯🎯👇
MEMPHIS: “Despite locals’ health concerns, the Greater Memphis Chamber has gone to unusual lengths to promote a data center, including sending a mailer with inaccurate information.” www.propublica.org/article/memp...
Tomorrow is hump day? Couch F’er Mascara-Aiding as President. @laloalcaraz.bsky.social
J.D. Vance is a couch fucker 🛋️🍆
Fascists mascara-aiding as president?
USA: Caught between a decrepit rock and a fascist mascara place!
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'The press office has issued a series of not-reassuring “proof of life” images, the authenticity of each called into question after Zapruder-film-level analysis by internet sleuths. His social media posts are clearly being written by someone else.' Perhaps they need to hire Gavin's team? * #TYFYATTM
"Silence speaks louder than words, and all we’ve gotten from the loudest-ever White House, for a full week now, is silence."
Attention Florida Bluesky friends!!! YOU HAVE AN ELECTION TOMORROW!!!! Please vote. (please share w/ your Florida friends)
Today's my birthday and I'm hoping @realDonaldTrump will send me one of his amazing handcrafted cards with a beautiful Sharpie-drawn woman on it
Until Trump speaks publicly, I’m going to assume he’s incapable.
the failure to confront russian aggression for over a decade makes a bigger war in Europe all but inevitable. Instead of reading hospitals, Europe can and should help 🇺🇦 stop russian aggression in #Ukraine and prevent WWIII from breaking out chakhoyan.substack.com/p/if-this-is...
France preparing for war with Russia, has ordered doctors and hospitals to ready themselves for an influx of wounded and casualties, they have only until May 2026 to get ready, must be able to treat hundreds if not thousands per day. Also urges citizens prepare emergency survival kits.
From the weekend: ".. bonds are likely to react negatively."
Thread on USA today. 🧵🪡
Think about it. "Dems were too zealous in trying to prevent the spread of the virus" is, in US politics, a greater disadvantage, a bigger problem, than "Republican lies got hundreds of thousands of Americans killed for no reason." Just a pathetic fucking country. Pathetic.
And then afterward -- this is the part that makes me feel crazy -- all the retrospective analysis & discussion *shit on Democrats*. They've been on the defense ever since, criticized from all quarters for this or that decision. Much of that criticism is fact-free bullshit, but ...
But the entire Dem professional establishment was desperately *trying* to do the right thing & be responsible. Contrast: immediately upon the arrival of the virus, the right started spreading insane conspiracy theories, attacking public health officials, & refusing to act in solidarity.
KOH: “Trump Stripped 1 million workers’ bargaining rights while plastering his face on the Labor Dept… Closed miner health clinics… Cut $2.4 Billion from youth & senior job programs… This is the real story of Trump & Labor.” #LaborDay
Florida Rep Carlito Gimenez? Marco Rubio spilled the beans; it's not about drugs or freeing Venezuelans from Maduro. Maduro wants Essequiba. Guyana currently controls it. Exxon owns the rights. Trump and Republicans' dependence on fossil fuels and undercutting green energy is the problem. #DCFL
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Preview of the announcement:
Lots of people are saying, we dare you to ask Melania who was better in bed.
Kristi Noem's Non-Stop Slander Invites Congress to Ask Melania about Her Close Ties to Jeffrey Epstein www.emptywheel.net/2025/09/02/k...
The difference between the text of the post and the headline of the article below it is staggering
Tapper is a chump and a bad journalist
“Get it all on record now. Get the films. Get the witnesses. Because somewhere down the road of history some bastard will get up and say that this never happened.” Dwight D. Eisenhower
I’m wondering if Don’s dying wish is to be part of the dictators’ parade… which if he’s dying today I’d bet it is… what do the SS do about it? Can our clown shoot himself out of a cannon towards Beijing? 🤡
NEW: Kremlin officials continue to deny White House statements about the prospect of a bilateral Ukrainian-Russian or trilateral US-Ukrainian-Russian meeting in the near future. 🧵 (1/7) Read more: isw.pub/UkrWar090125 Other Key Takeaways ⬇️
Off to Seb’s Siberia?
Somebody is throwing things out of a window of the White House wtaf
A friend in DC sent me these.
Tell Elmo to continue west until he reaches Mars.
Concern over low birth rates was what the theocracy in Margaret Atwood’s Handmaid’s Tale used to come to power.
* With Jared’s Baby?? “These are the days of our lives!”
They who deserve to burn in hell deign to burn us all first, along with the planet.
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"Blueskyism" helped make The Onion one of the largest newspapers in the world in less than a year. If we had spent all of our time on Twitter, we'd be poorer, dumber and terminally ill with internet poisoning. He's just angry he's wasting away over there in a nazi agnostic lane that doesn't exist.
Finally, that witch is concerned.
I love this guy
Amen. Rest old man. Rest.
NEW: Nadler will not seek re-election, citing the need for a new generation of leaders. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/n...
They who deserve to burn in hell deign to burn us all first, along with the planet.
EPA Fires ‘Dissent’ Statement Signers The EPA fired agency employees who signed a June declaration decrying moves that contradict science and undermine public health www.scientificamerican.com/article/epa-... as Labor Day weekend started.
13BulliTs 
