"Whatever their motives, it seems clear that somebody really is trying to commandeer the Pulse crosswalk to make a political point. And it’s not the people holding the chalk."
"Whatever their motives, it seems clear that somebody really is trying to commandeer the Pulse crosswalk to make a political point. And it’s not the people holding the chalk."
Thinking about this moment ahead of RFK Jr's Senate hearing tomorrow.
🚨BREAKING: Cleta Mitchell thinks President Donald Trump may declare a national emergency to allow him to take control of national elections. Her comments will add to growing concern that Trump is plotting a way to use his power over the military and federal law enforcement to rig next year’s vote.
Scotland stands up for the people of #Gaza. #Israel cannot be allowed to continue its slaughter of innocents in #Palestine I wish the world had acted sooner.
Google won’t be forced to sell its Chrome browser and can keep paying companies to keep its search engine as the default on smartphones, thanks to a federal ruling. In other words? Google gets to remain a monopoly and keep its harmful, anti-competitive practices. Shameful.
This tactic - pressuring corporations financially until they put a regime friendly voice in charge - is exactly how Orbán took over the free press in Hungary
There is something unspeakably terrible but also hilarious that in the future historians are going to have to teach people about the time the government used a kid named Big Balls as an excuse to invade an American city with feds and national guardsmen
"So, the very same day free speech champion Nigel Farage denied banning critical journalists from his events, his team did exactly that. "In theory, this could be more than just painfully ironic for Farage. Evidence sessions to Congressional committees are given under oath…"
He’s such a whiny fraud. Good to hear @jamesrball.com reference this earlier… www.theguardian.com/culture/2019...
wat
Two things I am following with a sense of foreboding. 1.) The ombudsman forced upon CBS News. See Brian Stelter: view.newsletters.cnn.com/messages/175... 2.) Dershowitz knocking on the Times vs. Sullivan door after losing his defamation case. See: www.cnn.com/2025/08/29/b...
FFS I’m agreeing with Rand Paul 😐
Rand Paul: "The reason we have trials & we don't automatically assume guilt is what if we make a mistake and they happen to be people fleeing the Venezuelan dictator? ... off our coast it isn't our policy just to blow people up ... even the worst people in our country, they still get a trial."
RIP CBS News
fine i will buy the smiths i will make sure the light never goes out
AOC: If anybody says “this isn’t fair, I'm gonna have to divest all my stocks if I run for congress” maybe you should stay home.
Putin is inviting Zelenskyy to Moscow. “If Zelensky is ready, let him come to Moscow. Such a meeting will take place,” the war criminal said after his visit to China. I have a better proposal: let Putin come to Kyiv.
If the U.S. military isn't going to release details on the justification for killing 11 civilians in a civilian boat who weren't posing a threat to anyone, then we have to conclude the "justification" is: the U.S. military is willing to kill civilians to give Trump social media content.
EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs Kaja Kallas: Looking at President Xi standing alongside the leaders of Russia, Iran, and North Korea in Beijing today, these are not just anti-Western optics; this is a direct challenge to the international system built on rules.
1/ I worked at DoD. I literally cannot imagine lawyers coming up with a legal basis for lethal strike of suspected Venezuelan drug boat. Hard to see how this would not be "murder" or war crime under international law that DoD considers applicable. Read expert analysis by @bcfinucane.bsky.social⤵️
I thought the post-9/11 patriot police who demanded politicians wear little flag pins were pathetic but the UK has put that to shame
😂
This lawsuit was originally filed by anti-abortion legal terrorist Jonathan Mitchell, and it is now crumbling apart
It seems like federal district courts are in full revolt against SCOTUS. I've never seen such direct scathing criticism of SCOTUS like this from the bench over their shadow docket rulings quietly overturning precedent without explanation. From the Harvard decision today.
too bad we don't have any public health officials who know anything about public health
People celebrating the extrajudicial execution of persons who, even if guilty of the crime they are accused of, would not be convicted of a capital offense... it is a perversion of any sense of law.
I don't want Linehan in a cell I want people to acknowledge that if this call to punch trans women was made instead about Rowling or someone who people actually give a shit about the government would have a very different attitude.
😂👍
Hey, everyone, Ted Cruz is making fun of another politician’s appearance. Ted Cruz!
“Trump’s policies are making a mockery of our republican tradition…Are we really the worthy inheritors of Paine’s legacy if we’re too timid to even offer a word of protest? To speak the truth in the face of near-constant lies? To simply be brave?” open.substack.com/pub/adamkinz...
🚨BREAKING: Amid his threats to deploy the military against Chicago over objections from state and city leaders, President Donald Trump sent a fundraising email to his supporters Wednesday vowing to “liberate” the U.S.’ third-largest city. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
Holy shit: Stateline spoke to nearly a dozen firefighters, agency staffers and contractors, who said that top officials assigned to the fire deployed the crews to a remote location under false pretenses so federal agents could check their immigration status. www.hcn.org/articles/fir...
I'm always blown away by how smoothly @kateshaw.bsky.social can synthesize and communicate her impossibly vast knowledge of the law and court cases with such insight and precision, but even by that standard this convo w @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social is top tier stuff. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/02/o...
Update on this from the Boston Globe. This is great news!
And I would never want to get between Ted and a trip to Cancun when there’s an emergency in Texas
incredible to talk like this after consistently refusing to publish the epstein files
Hilarious that they offered Adams a position at the US Department of the only thing they hire black people for
Cankle President
DoD institutionally wouldn't have communicated the orders without someone doing some sort of legal analysis about authorities, and the longer they keep up this "we did it because we can nyah nyah nyah" the more likely it is that leaks
No wonder Trump is so intent on keeping the files from being released.👀
Firefighting veterans believe the management team overseeing fire crews played a key role in handing team members over to immigration authorities, shares Stateline. buff.ly/CicG9BT
Stephen Miller declared that RFK, Jr. is "one of the world's foremost experts on public health." Some Democrats see it differently.
There is nothing in the Constitution that explicitly states that the president must be a living person. So it's hard to understand why the Democrat Party thinks anyone other than Trump will be president from here on out. by Jonathan Turley
Can't believe Farage ran away from further questions today after soiling himself under scrutiny. Reminds me of something. Can't quite put my finger on what...
" How did you find out over the weekend that you were dead?" —Boy Doocy Amazing that you can bomb this hard in front of the United States without the Secret Service stepping in.
oh don't want a sex pest who actively hates the city to be mayor? how about a sex pest who hates the city and is completely beholden to donald j trump
Nigel Farage missed today’s session of UK Parliament to serve as witness in this Congressional hearing. But now he’s skipped out that, too, leaving before all members could complete their questions.
"It is past time for both Hakeem Jeffries and Chuck Schumer to step down and step aside. This fascist moment, this age of Trump, demands outspoken, unrelenting and fearless opposition... we all deserve better." I make the case, in my latest for The Guardian, for new leadership:
“.. a way to clear the field in November’s mayoral election and damage the chances of the Democratic front-runner, Zohran Mamdani ..” @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2025/09/03/n...
Why didn’t some of the Epstein survivors speak out earlier? “I thought someone was going to kill me,” one explained. As another asked, “Why did the government work so hard to protect Jeffrey Epstein and not victims like me?”
these people are fucking morons and the mainstream “lets just hear them out” bull shit is going to get so many people killed
Moskowitz uses his questioning time of Farage to tick through everything Republicans are doing to cover up the Epstein files
Farage flees the hearing right ahead of Goldman's questioning
It is really hard not to conclude that being a stupid insecure baby is a prerequisite for accumulating great wealth.
Raskin: "When private comments made by federal employees are scrutinized for anti-Trump bias and they can lose their jobs because of it, then we've entered the realm not just of Vladimir Putin but Joseph Stalin."
that feeling when
An emotional press conference involving victims of Epstein was drowned out briefly due to a noisy flyover Trump had organized that coincided with the event.
It’s corruption, plain and simple.
"Week after week, month after month, they embarrass themselves, undermine their colleagues and demoralize their voters. Theirs is a record of cowardice and capitulation."
Nigel Farage just repeatedly denied – under oath! – to @raskin.house.gov ever banning journalists he doesn’t like from his party’s conventions. This happened to me *literally today*.
House Republicans dumped mostly public docs from the Epstein files to try to divert attention away from Trump We at @democracydefendersfund.org are fighting to uncover the most important Trump Epstein files I discussed our litigation efforts on @briefingwithpsaki.bsky.social
Schumer is not built for this moment.
they want to kill your kids
He’s always so shit in the face of decent questioning. Absolutely amazing how rarely it happens.
Watching Republicans join EPSTEIN survivors was powerful and deserves the response they are asking for. Watching Dump just refer to them as part of a Democratic hoax was expected because he is a habitual liar. What happens next is up to the enablers. Will this move them? RELEASE THE FILES!
Worrisome
He's continuing "the hoax" take instead of calling for more transparency, that should tell everyone *everything* they need to know about this cover up.
Powerful.
Epstein & Maxwell explicitly threatened their victims with death if they spoke out.
"Stay tuned for more details" -- Epstein survivor announces that survivors are creating their own list of Epstein-related abusers
Epstein survivor Annie Farmer: 30 years later, we still do not know why that report wasn't properly investigated. We are not going away and we are not going to give up. Passing this Epstein transparency bill is one step that can be taken to prove the government does not side with sexual perpetrators
I was a victim of childhood sexual abuse. Seeing these women getting the coverage and support they are this morning...brings a smile to my face. I don't see broken women. I see strong and empowered women. They. Will. Prevail.
Chicagoans: buy up some Texas flags to burn in the presence of military uniforms. abc7chicago.com/post/texas-n...
Today’s presser with survivors of Epstein and Maxwell’s gruesome debauchery just reinforces that the Epstein files are being covered up to protect RICH and POWERFUL MEN from shame and to keep them above the law. It’s disgusting.
This #epstein press conference where survivors are speaking is incredible. The unity & power of this group of women (and their families) is so moving.
Epstein survivor on Epstein: "His biggest brag forever was that he was very good friends with Donald Trump."
Worrisome and concerning 😐
Nigel Farage branded 'far-right, pro-Putin Trump wannabe' in blistering US Congress takedown www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
great hearts sometimes condense to one deep pang, the sum total of those shallow pains kindly diffused through feebler men’s whole lives
Trump will reportedly be holding court behind the Resolute Desk more frequently, as staging events in other rooms at the White House means spending too long on his feet.
Florida road crews in St. Pete were out at 3 a.m. just to do this
Erm lmao
I knew this was coming for young women. May the men in the Supreme Court who reversed Roe vs Wade have a special corner of hell.
the rest are pedophile protectors
Repercussions…..they’ll name Merrick Garland chair of the truth and reconciliation committee 😐
FFS
Epstein victim who helped put him behind bars breaks her silence - as other survivors promise their own ‘client list’
@jkbjournalist.bsky.social went through all the…old…Epstein Files dumped last night and found many were duplicates to make it seem like a big release. “This has repeatedly happened as Miami Herald has fought over the past six years to unseal Epstein files,” she says. Where are the real Files?
Wait they transferred a Club Fed inmate who complained to media that Ghislaine Maxwell being sent there was inadequate to her crimes to a HARSHER prison??!? Wtaf!! one.npr.org/i/nx-s1-5519...
In the hiearchy of sciences physics is often at the top and Biology and Earth Sciences are at the bottom and it leads to stupid ideas like this like you can live to 150 with organ transplantation. A very basic understand of human biology would explain that you cannot.
The MAGA project is about the erasure _ distortion of history. Schmitt's migration history makes the story highly individualistic, about bootstrapping individuals bravely clearing the vast wilderness & soldiers fighting for a "homeland" b/c of "destiny." What's missing from this account? 1/
NEW: DC grand jurors reject more Justice Dept cases Former DOJ attorney: “Not only have I never heard of this happening, I've never heard of a prosecutor who's heard of this happening” www.cbsnews.com/news/d-c-gra...
Breaking News: Saying the CDC has become “a political tool,” California, Oregon and Washington announced plans to form an alliance that would coordinate vaccine recommendations for the three states.
Trump doesn't care. RFK was a "troll the libs, f-you to everyone" choice that put a compliant, if weird, guy in the Cabinet. RFK destroying American health is just a side effect that Trump couldn't care less about.
Even before the start of President Trump's surge, D.C. had the most police per-capita of any U.S. city. By a quite a bit. And that's just counting the city's force, not the huge array of other police agencies here. The Capitol Police, also in D.C., is bigger than Baltimore's police department.
This is like watching a Victorian time traveler befuddled at trying to work an iPhone. Just completely lost and confused by all the intervening context of the different era he's now in.
All this far-fetched theorizing about Trump's ailments has gotten totally out of hand. As always, it's best to apply Occam's razor: The simplest explanation is usually the right one. Satan probably smacked him upside the head last week for getting too kinky.
"There are four doctors in the Senate: Cassidy, John Barrasso of Wyoming, Roger Marshall of Kansas Rand Paul of Kentucky. All are Republicans and all voted in February to confirm Kennedy." www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...
Trump's been engaged with the Russian mob since the first wave of sales in Trump Tower, per Craig Unger's reporting. And they, in turn have become KGB, then FSB tools. So a significant part of this story is foreign sabotage in a long-game at a much deeper level than one-off election interference.