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."
A victim of convicted sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein has revealed how a group of survivors is compiling a client list of their own.
Epstein survivor Marina Lacerda: "The worst part is that the government is still in possession right now of documents & information that could help me remember and get over all of this maybe, and help me heal. They have documents w/ my name on them that were confiscated from Jeffrey Epstein's house"
Ohhhhmygod!!! Look how many people are supporting down-ballot Democratic nominees in Missouri. This is just within the last few weeks. We are taking the fight to them. Scroll through the list for a little balm for your soul. ❤️
"Pentagon officials were still working Wednesday on what legal authority they would tell the public was used to back up the extraordinary strike in international waters." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/03/u...
The president is using the military to dismantle cities that didn't vote for him The president is using the military to distract from women speaking out against his and Jeffrey Epstein's sexual abuses. We are not living in ordinary times. Extraordinary responses are called for.
📌Republicans are bringing back polio and measles, and defending child rape, and we're actually wondering if this will affect their chances at the polls ...
"Now, together as survivors, we will confidentially compile the names we all know were regularly in the Epstein world. And it will be done by survivors – and for survivors. No one else is involved. ...Because history is watching – and so are the women who will come after us." Epstein survivor
If you saw me on Nicolle Wallace's show today, you heard us discuss my interview of her on my podcast. I promise you will learn, laugh and enjoy. youtu.be/Z_OMEmfuzzg
The verbal equivalent of an extra large milkshake to the face of a Nigel Farage. Well done, Mr. Raskin.
🚨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.
The 100 lowest-paying US corporations spent $644B on stock buybacks from 2019 to 2024. Buybacks artificially boost share prices and inflate CEO pay. The typical worker at these companies earned $35k last year. Meanwhile, the average CEO was paid $17.2M See the problem?
(🚨) In honor of Rep. Comer—congressional agent for adjudicated rapist Donald Trump—falsely claiming that Trump hasn’t been mentioned in the Epstein Scandal, I’m making the first 200 pages of PROOF OF DEVILRY: THE CRIMES OF DONALD TRUMP, GHISLAINE MAXWELL, and JEFFREY EPSTEIN free to all:
If you’re a Black person in DC with an open container, a large backpack, or a minor infraction, you could catch a federal charge from Trump’s troops. But if you’re a white person willing to break the law on his behalf, he’ll give you a pardon, money, or a medal.
If Donald Trump truly cared about crime, he wouldn't be taking an axe to community violence intervention programs with track records in making Chicago safer. I was proud to meet with volunteers today who, regardless of the President, will continue to serve our communities.
Israeli Finance Minister Smotritch’s proposal for annexation of the occupied West Bank shows plans for 82% of the Palestinian territory to be seized. The yellow bits are what would remain for Palestinians (until Israel ultimately ethnically cleanses those areas too). h/t @lowrhoufo.bsky.social
If they enact a new illegal congressional map, Missouri will be sued.
“If Donald Trump learned what happened to Virginia Giuffre and warned Epstein never to recruit sex slaves at Mar-a-Lago again, it would mean he was aware of what happened to Giuffre, aware years before law enforcement started investigating Epstein.” @emptywheel.bsky.social #ReleaseTheEpsteinFiles
We can scare him off.
Yep. Eugenics. That’s where they want to take us.
As a survivor, I can't think of a more fitting metaphor than a rapist creating loud noises with planes as a survivor tries to tell her story. I mean... just wow. Nevertheless, she persisted.
AOC: Millionaires are very overrepresented in congress… If we want a congress that reflects the actual country we seek to represent and fight for, we need to have working class people who work here
They keep losing in court because everything they’re doing is illegal
Kennedy must be removed from office. He has already caused a catastrophe at HHS and the CDC. I strongly suspect that he is about to use data manipulated by unscrupulous and unqualified individuals to attempt to falsely show that vaccines are in some way a net harm. He simply must be stopped.
Pritzker: "When did we become a country where it's ok for the US 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?"
If you're anti-vaccine, you're anti-science, and you're anti-life. GTF out of the way. You're taking away people's right to protect themselves from death, disease, and sequelae. Your voice has no place in public discourse.
RFK jr wants to throw millions of Americans into his anti-science cult volcano. We give him our collective middle finger instead.
It’s all about eugenics!
"The reality is that more and more people are becoming chronically ill through Long Covid and other health conditions that Covid can trigger, many of whom can’t work the required half-time—80 hours per month—and some of whom can’t work at all."
Bluesky has been critical to Democracy Docket's growth and reach. Nate Silver is an idiot.
NEW: Nadler will not seek re-election, citing the need for a new generation of leaders. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/n...
Republican governors have sent National Guard troops to Democratic-led Washington, D.C., even though cities in their states all have higher rates of violent crime than the nation’s capital. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/u...
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I'm just gonna flip on some corporate media really quick... ABC: ads CNN: ads Back to CNN: Trump's Chicago "immigration enforcement" MSNBC: Protests in Chicago Back to ABC: A "federal judge getting in the way of Trump's immigration crackdown" Back to CNN: Weekend travel Nothing about Trump MIA
Portland, Maine crowd as Democratic US Senate candidate Graham Platner takes the stage today.
What is this? A Republican with a pair?? And they said unicorns were not real! #DemVoice1 #ProudBlue #Pinks
Hey Sen. James Lankford, stop your Orwellian doublespeak. We're not "jumping to conclusions" – RFKjr is a dark tetrad. He knows nothing about human healthcare. He's systematically trying to cull the American public. Remove him from office. Immediately.
Can the media STOP referring to Jeffrey Epstein as a “financier”? The money he made came from SEX TRAFFICKING MINORS, RAPING CHILDREN, and BLACKMAIL. He was NOT a financier. I’ve seen at least five stories from three outlets refer to him this way in the past week. This is the latest from the Times:
If all the documents were released, all the records, all the interviews, if every shred of paper written on the Epstein sex trafficking operation were released tomorrow, there would still be horrific things we’ll never know. Think about that.
Republicans: “Stop making everything about race.” Really? White people enslaved Black people for generations, stole Native land, lynched and segregated us, burned down Black communities that thrived, and treated Mexican land & labor like property to be taken. America already made it about race.
No candidate interviewing for medical school who, upon expressing RFK jr's views, would ever be accepted. They'd be laughed right out of the room. And yet this man runs the HHS – including the CDC, NIH, ACF, CMS, HRSA, and SAMHSA? WTAF?! Remove RFK jr for dereliction of duty. Immediately.
ABC is still traumatized by the lawsuit they stupidly settled.
New Mexico has issued a public health order that removes federal restrictions to COVID-19 vaccine access so that pharmacies in New Mexico can vaccinate people of all ages and risk profiles. Every state need to do this!
“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...
Did you know Trump is launching AI death panels for Medicare? His admin. is hiring private companies to use AI to determine whether patients would be covered for certain procedures. The AI companies will get a cut of the “savings,” incentivizing them to deny care. open.substack.com/pub/messageb...
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CHICAGO…
Peter Thiel discussing his relationship w Opus Dei priest Arne Panula. x.com/DBrozeLiveFr...
Trump did this
Trump admin is slashing FEMA’s disaster aid ahead of peak hurricane season...rolling back federal support...cutting staff...and shifting responsibilities to states. Emergency officials warn this jeopardizes readiness...and risks a repeat of Katrina-level failures. Standard Trump level incompetence.
"The President, on his own, can't tax the American people. That's what King George III tried to do – we had a revolution about that." Neal Katyal
It seems safe to say it's been a tough week for Republicans coming home from the Washington DC bubble.
Thank you
It’s important to stay abreast of the news, to organize, and to resist what’s happening in all ways possible, but it’s equally important to preserve your sanity. Play with your pets, enjoy your families, work on hobbies. Pace yourselves. This is a marathon, not a sprint. Love to you all.💙
there is no question in my mind that rfk jr is the most dangerous person in this administration and that his eugenicist ideology threatens the lives of millions of people www.advocate.com/politics/dem...
Psaki: Comer was a little slow to move forward with the subpoenas, at least in my view. Moskowitz: That’s actually his regular speed. He’s just a little slow in general.
Like we’ve been saying, it eugenics.
RFK jr, a man with a laundry list of behavioral problems is running the HHS (including the CDC, NIH, FDA, CMS). If he wants to personally have cult-beliefs, that's on him – but we must not allow him to project his own pathological beliefs onto 345 million people of this country. This is not science.
I went to Moshannon Valley ICE Detention Center to conduct oversight and was shut out. We will not be intimidated and we will not be silent. Congress should pass my Congressional Oversight Access Act to protect lawmakers from violence and retaliation for doing our jobs.
over over and over "The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity"
THIS 👉🏾 What price are you willing to pay? “You’re letting masked men snatch girls’ parents off the streets.”
I’ve found that one of the more important aspects of homicide detective work is talking with victims’ families during the investigation & in the lead up to trial. I’m paid by the city but I work for the families. They call often. And I answer. And their worry & grief is intense
Meidas Health is filling the void in healthcare leadership and trusted health information. 1 million views in less than 24 hours! We are just getting started. @meidastouch.com
I still think many Americans have no idea how bad this is going to get. I saw President Obama reposting a tepid, mealy-mouthed analysis by Ezra Klein—who's never seen a phenomenon he couldn't be 5 years late in incompetently circumscribing—and I felt like we don't have what it takes to survive this.
"As someone who has the cultural background of a grandfather who was killed fighting fascism in Greece, that's sort of embedded in my brain." Dr. Demetre Daskalakis sees eugenics at play in RFK Jr's anti-vaccine perspective.
Absolutely repulsive! Trump granted full military funeral honors to someone who violently stormed the Capitol J6 (Ashli Babbitt), while refusing such recognition to honorable service members is a grotesque disgrace and a betrayal of everything the uniform stands for.
Having a medically vulnerable child and watching everything devolve is yeah. No one cares what happens to kids when it comes to illness. People care less as it's normalized. Getting ousted for still believing in vaccines and preventative care. Just wow, eugenics never left but God damn 🥴
All the news is bad…bad bad bad. I just went outside to literally touch some grass. While sitting next to my Verbena, a hummingbird flew around them right next to me. It took him a few seconds to realize I was there before he flew off. It was the break I needed. Fuck Trump.
Philadelphia D.A. Larry Krasner will be Jen Psaki’s guest tonight in The Briefing! 9pmET on MSNBC
Angus: I’m saying we need to start building progressive media that people actually listen to. I’ll give you an example: MeidasTouch. Wherever I go in Canada, working-class people listen to MeidasTouch because they talk about what’s happening in a practical way. They give facts.
Wow.
Will wonders never cease?
This is Thanos. He has figured out how to rest and babysit at the same time. Very impressive, very Montessori. 13/10 (TT: thanosthesaint)
The death knell of any empire is when it deems it necessary to invade its own homeland.
This man is not even a doctor, nor has he had any medical training, but he claims he can diagnose kids who are walking by him in an airport.
We saw all your comments yesterday on our post about celebrity chef and D.C. icon José Andrés, and we agree with you he truly deserves the Nobel Peace Prize! 💚
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It's time to remove Robert F. Kennedy Jr from government before he kills us all
Now is the time to fill the void. Thank you @meidastouch.com for the trust.
It’s outrageous that Sec. Kennedy is trying to fire the CDC Director — after only a few weeks on the job — for her commitment to public health & vaccines. The Sen. HELP Committee must hold a hearing with Kennedy & the CDC Director as soon as possible. Vaccines save lives. Period.
We are seeing.
BREAKING: In a major win for voting rights, an Arizona Court tosses a GOP lawsuit that tried to make voting by mail even harder. With nearly 90% of Arizonans voting by mail — this ruling protects voters from mass ballot rejections based on minor signature mismatches.
We’ll wait…🤔
Anyone else notice a pattern in the government officials Trump is firing?
ICE took 2 firefighters OFF THE FUCKING FIRE LINE!?
Another example. Republican efforts to curb Veterans benefits by creating a disability rating system that costs more to operate than simply giving all veterans direct government healthcare. Same goes for healthcare for all Americans. Doing the right thing is always cheaper than the cost to block it.
More on the uses of stigmatization and shunning to split apart fascist coalitions in @ruthbenghiat.bsky.social's best-seller "Strongmen," and in my piece with Alex Cooley in @foreignaffairs.com: www.foreignaffairs.com/russian-fede...
People who claim fascism is a leftist ideology do so because it hurts their feelings to admit that fascism is rightwing and that they agree with much of it.
This will be tough, but the fight is in her and she has my full support to do all she can.
NPR: “A whistleblower says a former senior DOGE official now at the Social Security Administration copied the Social Security numbers, names & birthdays of over 300 million Americans to a private section of the agency's cloud lacking adequate security...” www.npr.org/2025/08/26/n...
The #LawAndOrder Presidency. 🙄
Good news. For now, at least. abcnews.go.com/amp/US/wireS...
Yes Chef!
“This is about the President of the United States and his complicit lackey, Stephen Miller, searching for ways to lay the groundwork to circumvent our democracy, militarize our cities, and end elections.” – Gov. J.B. Pritzker
Pam Bondi knows what’s on the files and is actively covering it up. She is now a co-conspirator in the overall crime.