An Instagram reply to the White Houseās post bragging about Trumpās economy
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An Instagram reply to the White Houseās post bragging about Trumpās economy
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)
I wish people would stop blaming COVID mitigation policies for the acceleration of right wing extremism, and instead acknowledge the fact that we endured a mass casualty and mass disabling event that was mismanaged by narcissistic authoritarians who shifted the blame to marginalized communities
Washington's speculation about Trump's health is at a fever pitch. We've seen multiple reasons this summer to ask questions ā and the media doesn't seem to care. What's really going on? www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/it-s-time-...
Seems like as good a time as any to reshare my story on the Coffee County voting system breach, which details the key role Giuliani played in Trumpās effort to overturn the 2020 election. www.lawfaremedia.org/article/what...
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On Thursday, Sept. 4 at 4 p.m. ET, ProPublica reporter @hannahallam.bsky.social will lead a panel of extremism and political violence experts to discuss how the federal governmentās retreat from counter-extremism efforts is reshaping the landscape of domestic security. š RSVP and submit q's:
An absolute travesty. Our safety in the hands of this stupid-looking, mediocre mfāer.
Attention Chicago: We will NOT be meeting at Federal Plaza. We now will be meeting at Ida B Wells and Michigan. Time and date depends on the arrival time of the troops: IF TROOPS ARRIVE BEFORE 3PM, PROTEST SAME DAY AT 5PM. IF TROOPS ARRIVE AFTER 3PM, PROTEST NEXT DAY AT 5PM.
Tomorrow, 11:00 AM. Capitol steps, Harrisburg. 201,701 steps. 105 miles. One message: Fund Mass Transit. Bring a friend, a sign, and your voice. Letās finish strong. #WalkForTransit
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Breaking news: It's a beautiful weekend in Chicago. So for this weekend, the city has safely hosted: š“āāļø Bike the Drive where hundreds pedal down a temporarily closed Lake Shore Drive š The ARC music festival (Chicago is the home of house music) ā¾A White Sox game šFarmers markets & food fests 1/
Ridiculous waste of resources. Plus, imagine how it looks to the rest of the world, our trained troops reduced to picking up trash thanks to Trump and that drunkard dumbass Hegseth.
NEW: Mercenary spyware is coming to the US. ICE just quietly unsuspended their contract with spyware maker #Paragon. Remember them? Caught earlier this year being used to hack Italian journalists. This is bad, let's talk about how we got here 1/ jackpoulson.substack.com/p/exclusive-...
Platner: I believe that input from working people is far more important than input from someone who simply has money. I believe that we shouldnāt be settling for crumbs while billionaires eat the cookie we baked.
Aside from how Obama is remembered, it's striking that Obamacare is basically the last serious presidential legislative agenda that wasn't just trying to contort an annual budget bill to fit in everything you can crowbar into it.
for Oakland residents: whatās being done in your county
NEW: This weekend in Trump's effort to make fascism happen. The Trump administration tried to illegally send children to Guatemala as troops walked aimlessly around Dupont Circle. This evening, at Law Dork:
WE DID IT!!! 82 hours. 201,701 steps. Countless stories and supporters along the way. Iām proud, Iām sore, and Iām more certain than ever: Pennsylvanians wonāt stop until we #FundTransit.
Here's the response from Paul Bryant, the Black veteran and lawyer whom the govt arrested in part bc he had a legal weapon in DC, to USG attempt to get him detained. It leans heavily into the lack of Body Cam proving he shoulder checked some Guardsmen. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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.
I remember when I first started dating a Black man, I would watch LP/AP in stores start following him or us. Never before had I experienced that phenomenon. Insanity that Black Americans deal with it every day of their lives.
It is folks like this that just piss me offā¦ Iām a Black man from SC. By 21, Iād been pulled over a few times for ādriving too slowā or ālooking suspicious.ā Trailed 10 miles on I-20, asked if I had drugs when Iāve never touched drugs in my life. Thatās profiling. So donāt pretend to know my life.
Crime is literally lower than it has been in the entire life of every single non-senior-citizen American. If you are under age 65 you have never lived at a time with lower property crime rates, lower violent crime rates or lower homicide rates. Never.
š¢ We are the union! The mighty, mighty union! #WorkersOverBillionaires #Chicago @ctulocal1.bsky.social @chicagolabor.bsky.social @seiuhcii.bsky.social @seiulocal73.bsky.social
Critics of Andrew Bailey, Trump's pick to help run the FBI, say the Missouri AG got the attention of the White House by following Trumpās tactic of targeting political opponents. āWhat better way to show loyalty than to do exactly what Trump wants,ā one said. By @jeremykohler.bsky.social
District Attorney of Iowa County, Wisconsin is Zachary Leigh email: zachary.leigh@da.wi.gov
Local news: If you watch it through, it sounds like the police are referring to this as a āfight.ā This wasnāt a fight. It was a race-based attack. On August 16, 2025, a 14 YO Black teen from Platteville, Wisconsin, was attacked by white teens at a party in the town of Pulaski, Iowa County. 3/4
Video shows white teens punching him while yelling racial slurs like āF*** that n upā and ākill that n.āAt one point, they shoved him against a meat grinder, then slammed him to the ground and kept beating him. This is not ākids being kids.ā This is racial violence in 2025, in Wisconsin. 2/4
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THE MEDIA NEEDS TO BE ASKING QUESTIONS ABOUT DONNY SENILE MISSING IN ACTION! Remember the relentless scrutiny over Biden merely coughing?!? BE CONSISTENT!
Bluesky has been critical to Democracy Docket's growth and reach. Nate Silver is an idiot.
My new one is up! open.substack.com/pub/sherrily...
This is utterly unhinged.
Photo passed along from a federal employee from inside the Dept of Labor building, where a giant Orwellian image of Trump's face is now draped outside. Big Brother is watching.
Meanwhile US EV tax credits expire this month.
Why arenāt these dudes in the park picking up trash?
Troops hanging out in the DC metro today, displaying assault rifles, doing absolutely nothing
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Blocks and blocks of Chicagoans marching against Trumpās fascism.
It makes me emotional to see Judge Sooknanan showing that she values each individual childās life at a moment when this administration is doing exactly the opposite
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Cville peeps, it's time to make your voice heard! Charlottesville city council is considering an action that will, in effect, criminalize homelessness in city limits. We keep each other safe. Act nowāthere are simple steps in the thread belowāand tell council to reject the police chief's request!
I've never seen such a disconnect between Dem elected/staff/consultants and actual Dem voters. The latter understand what's going on. The former are awash in right-wing brainrot, hence @schatz.bsky.social blaming COVID mitigation and BLM marches for the GOP's wanton destruction of public health.
![@EsotericCD It was in this moment that many of us hanging on to a thin sliver of trust in our institutions irrevocably lost faith in them. One of the most poisonous blows to public trust in living memory - worse than the effect of the Iraq War in many ways. RFK Jr is a direct result of this. Quote Steve Guest @SteveGuest Ā· Aug 31 Politico 5 years ago: [screenshot of article falsely claiming public health officials lied about COVID measures then abandoned them for BLM protests] Views](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ddvus7otnqtlh7fdooxm6qat/bafkreihsypwydo5rcis7mc54cwct6h33l5co477nvh7g7hs7na2fz4jl3q@jpeg "Click to view full size")
When unions are strong, our communities and our country are strong. Every person in our nation has benefited from the labor movement. This Labor Day, we celebrate the workers and unions who have fought for fair wages, safe workplaces, and sick leave for all of us.
After Sec. RFK Jr.ās ouster of the CDC director, four more high-ranking officials reportedly resigned. Letters from them include warnings that the agencyās mission has been compromised, with anti-vaccine policies and other growing misinformation. trib.al/XyuOntD
Eaves argues that the pervasive sexual violence was widely known and affected everyone, though people were expected to keep silent. She points out that this is what rape culture means.
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Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick says Elon Musk is āone of the only people in the worldā who could build Houstonās much-needed tunnel system for flood water mitigation. But Musk's Boring Company has never completed a major public project in Texas.
Chicago pay attention ICE on your streets, stores, restaurants, etc do not sell, or serve them anything. Ask them to leave. Their presence and money is no good here.
Veterans against Trumpā¼ļø šÆ Absolutely Correct
Unbelievable www.nytimes.com/2025/08/31/u...
šØ A billion-dollar no-bid contract. A secretive desert detention camp. A contractor with no website and no experience. This isnāt a thrillerāitās Trumpās America. Take a look before this gets memory-holed:
Euronews - Russia accused of jamming the GPS of the airplane carrying European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen during her official visit to Bulgaria.
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In 7 months, Trump has taken the world's most powerful nation and turned it into a train wreck, inviting both our allies and our adversaries to reshape the world based on our irrelevance.
TODAY: This Labor Day, we stand together for a country that puts working families before billionaires. Find an event near you: bit.ly/3Vm59ED
Weāre only a few years removed from creatjng a vaccine to protect against a deadly airborne virus in a matter of months. Now, we have a scion fail son running the CDC into the ground not because it failed, but because its success conflicts with RFK Jrās eugenicist ideology.
On this day in 1884, a San Francisco public school refused to accept an 8-year-old Chinese student's enrollment because of her race.
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The White House posts that the US has now taken in $8 Trillion in tariff revenue so far. Preposterous insane lies on an hourly basis.
It's official. The books that I wrote arrived. I am an author y'all. I AM AN AUTHOR. A childhood dream I never thought could happen is happening!!!!!! š„¹ In 15 days, #TheDoubleTax is coming to a doorstep, bookstore, and library near you. Please pre-order by 9/16: annagifty.com! #booksky #blacksky
Today we celebrate the strength and resilience of working people everywhere. Nearly 300,000 federal employees have lost their jobs this year not because of necessity, but because of a political agenda. And while peopleās lives were destroyed in the name of āsaving money,ā
the government is still on track to spend more this year than last. As we gather with friends and family, letās also stand together. Labor Day is not only about enjoying a well-earned rest itās about remembering the struggles and sacrifices that built this holiday in the first place.
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'The labor movement has taken it on the chin repeatedly in the last several decades, but Trump is the most ruthlessly antilabor president since before the Great Depression. If the labor movement does not fight harder than it has since Mr. Trump regained the presidency, its future will be dire.'
Unemployment for Black Americans has surged to 7.2%, the highest level since October 2021, when the job market was still recovering from the pandemic. The drop in employment is a warning sign. @wsj.com www.wsj.com/economy/jobs...
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AP: āFlorida could be on the hook for $218 millionā¦ Alligator Alcatraz may soon be completely empty as a judge upheld her decision late Wednesday ordering operations to wind down indefinitelyā¦ā apnews.com/article/flor...
Can the media STOP referring to Jeffrey Epstein as a āfinancierā? The money he made came from SEX TRAFFICKING MINORS, RAPING CHILDREN, and BLACKMAIL. He was NOT a financier. Iāve seen at least five stories from three outlets refer to him this way in the past week. This is the latest from the Times:
At least 50 National Guard with long guns around Audi field and Navy Yard metro station as I leave the Washington Spirit soccer game. Free DC.
They loaded up those planes with children - some as young as 10. I donāt believe they had a safe place to go in Guatemala. And the government did not care. This admin is the least compassionate of any in my lifetime.
The Constitution provides Congress the power to override a Presidential veto. They arenāt co equal on law passing. Congress is the superlative body.
Hey! Just icymi: FEMA is now evicting THOUSANDS of Hurricane Helene survivors Our government hates us. And millions voted for this degree of brutality and cruelty. Why?
Why do you appreciate unions? Iāll start: Weekends off Paid vacations Work breaks Sick leave Paid holidays No child labor Safer working conditions Health care and retirement benefits
Why is the Draft Dodger-in-Chief trying to drag us into a war with Venezuela? The claim is that drug cartels are so out of control theyāve been designated an international terrorist organization, so we need to send warships. But weāre denying Venezuelanās asylum claims who fled for their lives. š¤
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šIf Rudy Giuliani had been a bear after being struck by that car, RFK Jr. might have scooped him up to eat him. Long way of saying: It could have been worse.
Get ready #chicago Save and share this image. It will be helpful when the #iceraids begin
Did their Photoshop guy quit?
So the photos we get of the āgolf outingā today is a pale and feeble looking one of him getting to a car at the WH and this one of him returning. Nothing from the course.
They got palm trees in Virginia?
He wonāt let the press anywhere near him. This is getting weirder and weirder.
He obviously knows where heās going.
Links: apnews.com/article/immi... www.reuters.com/world/us/us-... www.fox13seattle.com/news/lawyers...
Targeting firefighters while they work. Dragging children from their beds in the dead of night. MAGA will go to any length. Weāve said it before, eventually the monster comes for us all!
Tell the Smithsonian to protect US history -- refuse to whitewash it by hiding artifacts and changing displays. We must face our past, not hide from it.
āSomething clearly is up with the 79-year-old president, and the official explanations donāt make sense. Thatās not surprising given that Trump is a world historical liar surrounded by toadies who surrendered their shame long ago. But itās past time for reporters to ask some questions.ā
YAY FUN! Hanging out with the Veterans at the rememberyouroath.org at Union Station. Reminding Guardsmen to Remember They swore an oath to the Constitution. PS the Navy Baby Goat Binky is for WATB Louisiana National Guard who say they canāt share sidewalks with old Veterans. Boo hoo!
Okay. I just came back to this and you arenāt calling these efforts resegregation yet, you absolutely should be
The Trump regime wants us to forget that the Kent State massacre happened ā that pitting the National Guard against American citizens is a recipe for disaster.
Out for a stroll on another incredible Chicago day. This is āmeet me on Milwaukee,ā a car free event in the Wicker Park neighborhood. Happy people & happy dogs everywhere. Remember this when Trump tries to paint an ugly picture of our beautiful city. #chicago
Just want to remind folks during these messy times that you can buy a copy of Read This When Things Fall Apart for an activist in need. This book is a care package that my friends and I made for people on the front lines & in the thick of crisis. Let's pass it around: www.akpress.org/read-this-wh...
Every five minutes some rich guy somewhere is like I have a brand new idea: colonization!
Nor have Black communities marched in protest to keep white Americans out of Harlem or Howard University. Yet Black men in particular are portrayed as angry, dangerous, and natural born criminals, including subtly, too often, by the mainstream media.
For every one Nat Turner in U.S. history, there are a hundred Tulsa massacres and more than a thousand massacres of indigenous tribes. The formerly enslaved, even after being armed to fight the confederate traitors, did not go on rampages to mass murder and burn down white communities.
Wise advice to cities targeted or shall I say invaded by ICE Small towns are also seeing these unlawful kidnappings too Spread the word! All it takes to stop them is a few arrests Show the video to your local DA