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Phang: The judge notes that the MacArthur Park show of force was just sheer political theater. Major General Sherman, objected, expressing concern that there would be a large number of people because it was Father’s Day. To which Bovino criticized him, questioning his loyalty to the country.
Fox News had to pay 3/4 of a BILLION dollars for lying to its viewers. And it STILL lies.
The president is sending the military to control American cities and if you're a reporter who's framing that illegal power grab as "pushing the boundaries of constitutionality" or "acting boldly to fight crime" or whatever, please go find another line of work where you won't get us all killed.
Ikr?!?!?!!!!
Pritzker: When did we become a country where it's okay for the president to insist on national television that a state should call him to beg for anything, especially something we don't want? Have we truly lost all sense of sanity in this nation that we treat this as normal?
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."
The United States is the only place on earth where poor people shun unions, free healthcare, and free education because the rich tell them to.
More than 85 scientists say that a recent U.S. Department of Energy report is full of errors and misrepresents climate science.
Epstein Survivors Press Conference Sept 3rd, 10:30 a.m. ET Tune in to support them.
We MUST change our healthcare system.
And this is your reminder that Noem, Miller, Vought, Bondi, Hegseth, and all the others are NOT elected officials. Never forget that.
👀 Uhh, this strikes me as an awfully large crowd for a Democratic Senate candidate in Maine over a year prior to an election for which they have not even won the primary yet.
Meiselas: Xi Jinping and Modi and Putin and all these world leaders are gathering in China, and they're laughing. You know when Donald Trump says the world was laughing at us — the world was not laughing at us before. The world is quite literally laughing at us right now.
“Travel to 🇺🇸 down… Trump’s tariffs, immigration crackdown etc. alienated travelers… 🇺🇸 the only country among 184 studied where foreign visitor spending would fall in 2025...” The Trump effect. World Cup & Olympics are disasters waiting to happen. apnews.com/article/inte...
Los Angeles, CA Music Festival 9/1/25
Proud to say I’ve NEVER EVER tasted any of their product. They don’t believe women and LGBTQ deserve equal rights so screw them. And btw, they have a warped interpretation of Jesus and the New Testament, Jesus LOVED all. Do unto others!!!!!
TRUMP IS AMERICA’S BIGGEST LOSER.
Public safety in California is on the rise. Last year, California had the second-lowest homicide rate since at least 1966, decreasing by nearly 12% overall since 2023. We're going to drive that progress forward up and down the state.
Donald Trump turned a booming economy into a stagnant one in record time. His war on affordability and small businesses are having real impacts — from his chaotic tariffs to his job and economy-killing immigration raids. California will continue to fight back.
What an utter disgrace. Major racism.
Oh how great it would be if every Black player on Texas and Ohio State boycotted the game until Texas cancels the redistricting vote and Ohio pulls their National Guard from DC. Those players have so much power and they don’t even use it.
What looks just like a meeting of the DPRK Politburo? Trump's cabinet is a study in incompetence and sycophancy. And an all-time low for US democracy. Gideon Rachman has his say. www.ft.com/content/4052...
Exactly 💯
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.
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There is an inbuilt assumption within the US that a white man in any position has earned that position, while a black woman was put there for optics. It should be obvious at this point how untrue that assumption is, but this is a deeply, deeply racist country.
I like the rebrand.
Pete Hegseth’s move to reinstall a Confederate statue is, at worst, a move to show that “he and the Trump administration are making common cause with apologists who believe that the wrong side won the Civil War,” Mike Nelson argues.
Pritzker: "We don't want troops on the streets of American cities. That's un-American and frankly the president ought to know better. This one doesn't seem to. He hasn't read any books. He doesn't seem to understand the Constitution or the laws."
🚨BREAKING: President Donald Trump said in a weekend social media post he plans to issue an executive order to impose voter ID requirements. And he reiterated his desire to ban mail voting. The president lacks the authority to take either step. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
Well done, Governor!
President Trump is cutting services for veterans across the country. @jeffjacksonnc.bsky.social and I both served in uniform and know firsthand how much our servicemembers sacrificed. That’s why we held a veteran town hall in Raleigh — to hear from them directly and fight back together.
Republicans, that’s what happened.
🚨This OK lawmaker was found guilty of running a vehicle with his daughter and an adult relative off of the road and INTO a ditch, causing injuries — and he is STILL in office?!? Of course, he has a history of both domestic violence and law enforcement.
This federal judge understated the matter when she called “surprising” the government’s attempt “to remove minor children from the country in the wee hours of the morning on a holiday weekend.” She was right to issue a temporary restraining order. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/08...
This week’s Sunday @thetimes.com cartoon times.newsprints.co.uk/morten-morla...
Hey Chump ! If Your Cankles Don't Get too Rankled on The Golf Course,Sure Would Be Nice if You'd Fulfill Your Promise and Release The Epstein Files.......
Flooding “blue” cities with soldiers on the pretext of fighting crime would be an unprecedented abuse of power that would violate states’ rights and threaten our most fundamental liberties. And it is illegal. bit.ly/4m6TG77
Perfectly normal way to draw boundaries, following natural features or established communities or longstanding political borders I’m sure.
Remember: these are distractions for Tuesday as the Women testify to what they experienced with the Pedos! 💪🏽👏🌸 I’ll be waiting on the news conference 💯
In the latest Texas redistricting hearings in Texas, maps were revealed to show Native American Tribes were split into multiple districts carving up Indigenous communities and weakening their voting power!! Texas Republicans have gerrymandered maps to divide and dilute their voices! 🤬
Good Morning Everyone Happy Labor Day Weekend And Tell everyone Thank You Union Members The 1% didn't do this The blood, sweat, and tears of hardworking people did Keep fighting Keep raising your voice
Gorka has become the Deputy Assistant and senior counter-terrorism advisor to Trump again. He had been forced out of the Trump regime in 2017. He makes Stephen Miller look like a choirboy. He could be the most unifying topic since the Epstein Files.
Pritzker: "No one in the administration -- the president or anybody under him -- has called anyone in my administration or me. It's clear that in secret they're are planning this invasion with US troops."
Important advice: participate in local elections where democracy actually functions well. The tragedy isn't that American democracy doesn't function. It's that Americans ignore the parts that do function well in blue states and cities that enact real change. open.substack.com/pub/cmarmita...
Donald Trump isn’t sending in soldiers to make the streets of cities like DC or LA safer - he’s doing it to target predominantly non-white communities in this country as a fear tactic. We cannot accept that as the new normal.
#MessWithTexas ✊🏾 #ONEV1 #Pinks 🌸 #Voices4Victory
We have to get through November elections first (and the December #TN07 Special after that). But come 2026 our first priority will be to elect Chris Taylor for Wisconsin Supreme Court on April 7th. She only has 32 followers on Bluesky. Let's get her more. Follow her @christaylorwi.bsky.social!
If you live in California you now have one goal: Convince and encourage every family member, friend and neighbor that supporting the (eventual) redistricting referendum is the right thing to do. Do NOT automatically assume it will pass because just you’re in a blue state. WORK FOR IT!
Trump’s regime is requesting a federal judge to nullify a New York law targeting fossil fuel companies for their purported contribution to climate change. #ProudBlue #DemVoirce1
Holographic images of Trump have gone up in Los Angeles and it’s pretty cool.
#EpsteinFiles
WTAF?!?!?!!
#EpsteinFiles
“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.
No matter what @MarshaBlackburn keeps saying, it’s not criminals they’re targeting. www.cnn.com/2025/08/30/u...
We won’t notice it at first Maybe an outbreak of cholera in southwest Kansas goes undetected Perhaps the number of flu related deaths ticks up just a bit each year But-ultimately, inexorably-the destruction of the CDC will lead to countless deaths All because of two men Trump and RFK, Jr
Why do you appreciate unions? I’ll start: Weekends off Paid vacations Work breaks Sick leave Paid holidays No child labor Safer working conditions Health care and retirement benefits
Grift baby grift!!! Insane. Stealing from the American taxpayers in broad daylight.
Grift baby grift!!! Insane. Stealing from the American taxpayers in broad daylight.
Thanks, everyone! Woman-run. Veteran-owned. No bullshit. Always free. Muellershewrote.com
The MAGA movement is focused on touting only the exceptional parts of our past “because having to look too closely at the disturbing parts of American history would mean having to look closely at the disturbing parts of themselves,” Clint Smith argues:
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I vaguely remember tweeting something like the country that effectively captures this free energy source at scale will rule the 21st century. whelp.
Don’t worry guys, we now have an investment banker/former political speech writer with no medical, scientific, or public health training heading the CDC. American will not get healthier with the clown car of unqualified bozos dismantling public health services. We are fucked.
I’m not sharing this to scare people—though it’s fucking terrifying. I’m sharing it because we all need to be on guard. We won’t be getting reliable data from the CDC anymore. Worse, the guidance could be harmful. RFK Jr. has no medical training, no scientific background…
Excellent point. A very scary man and scarier administration.
How f’d up is America?! Emmitt Till would have been 84 today! How old are your grandparents?!? America makes you believe that his murder was sooo long ago meanwhile…
Actual post by Gavin Newsom, and it’s perfect lol
Trump putting an election denier in charge of elections is like hiring a bank robber to guard the vault. We see you, Donnie.
Switch immigration hearings to online! Spread the word. Let’s stop courtroom abductions. www.uscannenbergmedia.com/2025/06/18/u...
The party of “freedom”
Just in case any of you missed this! ⬇️⬇️ Don’t let up on the Epstein Files everyone! #ReleaseTheEpsteinFiles #USDemocracy #Pinks
A bombshell report from @mapthepower.bsky.social has uncovered the names of those funding the super PACs attacking Zohran. The list includes companies like AirBnB, the owners of the New York Giants, and New York's richest man. Their collective net worth? Over $369 billion dollars.
NEW: Last week, oil literally rained down on a Black town in rural Louisiana where 60% of folks live in poverty. The company isn’t taking responsibility & the federal + state governments are saying residents have to clean it up themselves. capitalbnews.org/louisiana-oi...
Reason 4857 why health care should never be for profit: AI DEATH PANELS. This is the same kind of program used to deny claims at United Health, and they want to use this for VA claims, too.
GOP Rep. Elise Stefanik hasn't done an in-person town hall in 6 years www.nny360.com/news/it-s-be...
Friendly reminder. www.cbsnews.com/texas/news/k...
Donald Trump wants to turn the Federal Reserve into his own bank. We need to pause all Fed nominations amid his illegal takeover attempt and hold a hearing on how it will raise costs on American families instead.
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