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From the news, it feels like America has really lost its way with the amount of pure and utter bulls--t coming from this administration that is unmoored, antithetical to our best traditions. It's as if they think we're all stupid. We will remember and teach our kids. They won't get away with it.
All kidding aside, it is so *insane* & *shocking* & *dangerous* that Corporate Media has collectively decided to completely bury objective fact that the President is uninformed, confused, and physically & mentally deteriorating.
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In a major setback to President Donald Trump’s attempt to purge independent agencies, the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals refused to block a lower court order reinstating Democratic commissioner Rebecca Slaughter to the Federal Trade Commission. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
"Bowser issued an executive order that requires local coordination with federal law enforcement “to the maximum extent allowable by law within the District.” The order gives no expiration date." I, for one, would like a new mayor (and statehood) www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
My fervent wish for 2026 Democratic primary voters in winnable GOP-held House/Senate elections is to vote for the Democratic candidate that has the best chance of winning. I know that won’t be easy for some, but there will be no room for purity tests among this narrow sliver of elections.
Gotta remember that a big part of the decline in total fertility rates is the disappearance of teenage pregnancy
About to go to bed but the man who ran on "NO NEW WARS" just ordered a lethal military strike on a ship in the Caribbean, alleging it is a "narco terrorist vessel," but of course no regard for Congressional due process, no evidence, & no care for potential civilians. Nothing autocratic about this.😐
As a human in DC right now I would get a significant boost to quality of life via a widely available COVID vaccine compared to armed men harassing my neighbors. Would call my representatives in federal government to point this out, if I had any
So our military just bombed a boat in international waters and extrajudicially killed suspected drug traffickers without so much as a conversation, let alone a trial? Then posted it on social media? And we’re all supposed to just trust their account?
Democrats just MASSIVELY overperformed in 2 Florida special elections. House 40: Harris +35 → RaShon Young +50 (75–25). Senate 15: Harris +23 → Lavon Bracy Davis +45 (73–27). That’s 15- and 22-point swings toward Democrats.
If you can track the boat on camera to slaughter everyone aboard then you can track the boat on camera to intercept the boat and arrest them
My first reaction was fury. My second reaction was, what has Trump got on her? He sure loves to blackmail people.
Hey so she shouldn’t have a career in Democratic politics after this
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Don't feel like doing a repost that puts the murder video on the timeline yet again but do feel like repeating the point that the president just straight-up assassinated 11 people for supposedly doing something that wouldn't be a death-penalty crime if they were caught and convicted
Every year, the Supreme Court’s nine justices fill out a form that discloses their financial connections to companies and people. Using our database, you can search for organizations and people that have paid the justices, reimbursed them for travel, given them gifts and more.
NEW: Massie tells CNN that there is significant pressure from the White House to BLOCK the release of the Epstein files.
It’s not just that the President of the United States posted a video of eleven people being murdered in international waters it’s that the President of the United States ordered the murder of eleven people in international waters so he could post a video of it.
The military strike in Caribbean is VERY worrisome. Drug smuggling is a crime, a felony punishable by up to life in prison. Not punishable by the death penalty. The heavily armed U.S. Coast Guard stops drug smuggling boats 24/7, 365. The military performed an extrajudicial execution without trial.
Shooting a boat out of the water and killing everyone onboard is a weird way to lower grocery prices.
I dunno. They sure have a lot of tubas.
Trump made health concerns worse with his appearance today. His brain is pudding. He isn't just stupid, he can't maintain a thought.
This is interesting @lsaclassof2000.bsky.social
The truth is breaking through. Michael Wolff holds 100+ hours of Epstein tapes where Epstein calls Trump’s White House a “chaotic circus” & speaks of him at length. The web of deceit is unraveling. Survivors deserve justice, and soon the world will see just how deep the rot goes.
I’m sorry, no. Take care!!!!
Today, we met and heard the stories of the victims of Jeffrey Epstein. What they revealed is not only the trauma of hundreds of young women, but a cover-up of epic proportions involving the wealthy, the well-connected, and even our own government. We will follow every thread until there is justice.
Countries on track to eliminate cervical cancer: -Australia by 2028 -Sweden by 2027 -Rwanda by 2030 -UK by 2040 -Indonesia by 2030 -Bhutan 2030 -El Salvador by 2030 -Canada by 2040 How? HPV vaccine. Same one RFK Jr is trying to ban. You will note USA is not on this list.
Today the Oversight Committee heard heartbreaking testimony from Epstein's survivors. They deserve justice. Ranking Member Robert Garcia makes it clear: no matter who you are, if you harmed innocent women and girls, Oversight Dems are coming after you.
Not going to repost the snuff video of the DJT folk killing a boat full of people. Were they guilty of something? Maybe. Was death the proper penalty, if they were? Nope. Due process matters, folks. We all deserve the right to be innocent until proven guilty.
And taking horse dewormer.
Things I believe:
"What’s really notable – is the extent to which Republican senators and leaders have remained largely supine even in the face of a radical assault on their grandchildren by a transparent death-dealing fraud who wasn’t even a member of the party a year ago." Noah Berlatsky re RFKjr
Not to mention, it’s not our place to mete out death sentences without any court appearance or defense.
It seems off and completely convenient that as Krasnov impounds 5B in congressional foreign aid funds, that his children magically make 5B in their crypto scams 😵💫🤨🤔 share.newsbreak.com/etjjyik7?s=i16
“Destiny” my sweet patoot. Most early settlers came over because they were criminals or the losers of Europe. Mine were wanted by the King for taking part in a religious freedom march.
There is a recurring message in the Bible. 🙏🏻It’s simple🙏🏻 If you think the book 📖 allows you to starve children 👶🏻keep medicine💉💊 from the sick😷and look away 👀 while people are slaughtered praying 🙏🏻 in churches🕍 or synagogues ⛪️, your ideology is flawed. #pinks #thebiblesays #loveoneanother
I don't have cable TV anymore, so I'm depending on all of you to show those girls' speeches here, please. That's going to be the spectacle of the century and hopefully finish Taco off.
Tomorrow is going to be something to witness. 100 brave victims will rally to speak truth to crimes being hidden by world elites. Listen to the victims.
🚨Governor Pritzker is calling Stephen Miller OUT! 👏🏻The👏🏻Cruelty👏🏻is👏🏻the📌
Ain't no way that they actually think that 33,000 JPEGs of procedural court materials — most of which were already public — are gonna quiet down people asking questions about Epstein.
BREAKING: We secured a court order requiring the State Dept to preserve & account for Signal messages of senior national security officials, including Sec. Marco Rubio. This is an important step to force accountability for an admin that’s shown alarming disregard for transparency required by law.
My daughter (13) has styled my son (11) for his first day at her school, carefully curated the contents of his backpack, and tied his shoes in the correct way in order that he not risk becoming a "neec". I am old.
This is a really silly press conference about nothing that is entirely designed to prove he was alive. To that end, he showed up 45 minutes late and appears to be crowded and propped up by everyone around him.
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Why is a talking corpse in charge of my health???
Why couldn’t the Coast Guard just board the boat leaving Venezuela, arrest the people and get more information on who they’re working for? Why did they have to kill the people?
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So they re-released most of the same shit they gave the GOP binder crew in February? Color me shocked. Never thought I’d say this, but I’m with Massie. Release the rest of the damn Epstein files, not this cherry-picked bullshit.
They fought for our freedom. Now Trump’s regime is trying to let them die. The VA wants to ban abortion care for veterans even in cases of rape, incest, or life-threatening pregnancies. ⚠️ There isn’t much time. Veterans’ lives are on the line.
Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson: “This president doesn’t care about gun violence. He just wants his own secret police force that would do publicty stunts whenever his poll numbers are sinking. That’s what this is about.”
Nation Mourns As 79-Year-Old President Shows Proof Of Life
Today, Congress is back in session. Priority #1: The Epstein files must be made public. The victims deserve justice, and Americans deserve the truth.
OVER THE WEEKEND: Wisconsin liberal activist and brewer Kirk Bangstad files class-action lawsuit in federal court in Madison, WI over masking of ICE agents. Doc: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Los Angeles - Black mayor D.C. - Black mayor Chicago - Black mayor Baltimore - Black mayor San Francisco - Just lost a Black mayor Seattle - Black/Japanese mayor New York - Black mayor (technically) and Letitia James We gotta stop with the "Democratic Run cities" bullshit and see what it is
"The GOP is signing on to mass murder of children based on the novel theories of a man who has no party ties except a single Trump endorsement. It is a measure of the party’s utter hollowness, brokenness, and evil that even in this case, it can barely find the resources to demur."
Best advice I got before my defense was “Just hit the ball” Answer the question asked and then stop.
Background from @lawfaremedia.org on the limits of Title 32, Section 502(f): "If a ... president were to ... ask governors to send unfederalized Guard personnel into a nonconsenting state—as opposed to a non-state jurisdiction like D.C.—that deployment would violate the Constitution."
Sitting adjacent to the Iowa Supreme Court building in Des Moines, the Shattering Silence sculpture was built in commemoration of the 170th anniversary of the landmark 1839 Iowa Territorial Supreme Court ruling that prohibited slave Ralph Montgomery from being extradited back to Missouri.
I am organizing multiple workshops this week for Chicago activists and organizers as we prepare for a possible military occupation of our city. I am tired but moving fast.
Mutual aid is important but we need sustained repair LIKE SAY A RECONSTRUCTION
If Article II and the National Emergencies Act are such magic wands, the next Dem president should: ✅ Make D.C. & Puerto Rico states ✅ Abolish ICE ✅ Grant citizenship to immigrants ✅ Disband the 5th Circuit ✅ Expand SCOTUS Why. The. Hell. Not.
Guess it took a lot of drugs and B-12 infusions to get him upright.
As many as 100 survivors of Jeffrey Epstein and other victims of sexual abuse are expected to attend a rally Wednesday in Washington, D.C. as a bipartisan Congressional effort gains steam to force the U.S. Department of Justice to make public its controversial files on the disgraced sex trafficker.
VOTE ID you’re in Florida SD-15z and make it the Democrat you elect!
Wonder how much of what they shot him full of, to get him upright?
"Husband wins Ohio lottery scratch-off, plans to cover wife's cancer treatment" The United States is one of the wealthiest countries in the world and should provide universal healthcare. No one should have to win the lottery to afford cancer treatment. www.freep.com/story/money/...
"I refuse to fall into the pundit trap that demands we sacrifice vital constitutional rights if it's being done in the fake guise of fighting crime." Gov. JB Pritzker
"Russia has never had, does not have, and will never have any desire to attack anyone" -- Putin in Beijing. He simply keeps mocking all those who, for 25 years, have bent over backwards for this petty creature, tiptoeing around him in fear and granting full license to his megalomania and sadism.
The largest SNAP cuts in history went into effect yesterday, eliminating or drastically cutting food assistance for millions of Americans. And it’s all to pay for more tax cuts that primarily benefit the super-rich. Trickle-down economics isn't just a hoax — it's cruel.
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?
All these military deployments violate our Posse Comitatus law!! No military may be deployed against US citizens!!
GOP Rep. Thomas Massie has filed a discharge petition to force the disclosure of Justice Department investigative files related to the late sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein.
Oooo, so thallium poisoning.
Damn. It seems he’s alive after all. And so far, no visible plutonium damage.
Pritzker: "I refuse to pretend that any of this is normal ... I refuse to fall into the pundit trap that demands we sacrifice vital constitutional rights if it's being done in the fake guise of fighting crime."
🚨BREAKING: Federal court STRIKES DOWN down new South Dakota law imposing a nine-month deadline to file ballot measures declaring it unconstitutional under the First Amendment. Congrats to Dakotans for Health and their legal team! www.democracydocket.com/cases/south-...
BREAKING: The Pentagon has authorized up to 600 military lawyers to serve as temporary immigration judges. This is a blatant expansion of military power into a civilian judicial process, a dangerous erosion of the separation between the two. Every day, we inch closer to fascism.
📌Labor Day Fun* Fact 2015 average weekly wages: Men: $895 Women: $730 2025 average weekly wages: Men: $1,330 Women: $1,078 *Unless yer a woman
"It breaks my heart to report that we have been told ICE will try and disrupt community picnics and peaceful parades. Let's be clear, the terror and cruelty is the point, not the safety of anybody living here." JB Pritzker
Frankly those stupid Daleks can go too. More annoying than feared.
Surely, the decision to hold a military spectacle at that time is just coincidence.
One in 65. Wear your masks, people. Long COVID truly sucks.
Pritzker: "He has no idea what's he's talking about. There is no emergency that warrants deployment of troops. He is insulting the people of Chicago by calling our home a hellhole, and anyone that takes his word at face value is insulting Chicagoans too."
If you’re in Iowa, there’s wind. But for everyone else, there are batteries.
That's what happened in South Carolina this summer, when reporters claimed a woman used a “plastic bag to dump stillborn baby.” @kylietcheung.bsky.social and I uncovered that she actually had a miscarriage at 18 weeks - yet her name and *mugshot* were splashed across the crime pages
I met president of Mongolia and made mistake of mentioning historical ownership of territories...
The next Democratic president should declare that the National Emergencies Act and Article II of the Constitution allow him to: •admit D.C. and Puerto Rico as states •abolish ICE •grant citizenship to any immigrant •disband the 5th Circuit •expand the Supreme Court Seriously: Why the hell not?
Plutonium????
Like almost everywhere in NA - the warblers are moving through. In #YYC Yellow-rumped & Tennessee Warblers (both common boreal breeders) are our most frequently seen migrants - including these from my yard this AM!
Moving Space Command away from NORAD is stupid. Colorado already has the existing ecosystem to support both the command and the operations. Thank you for coming to my TED talk.
. THIS is one of the biggest problems of our time . . . ⬇️ ⬇️ ⬇️ .
Epstein Survivors Press Conference Sept 3rd, 10:30 a.m. ET Tune in to support them.
@support.bsky.team What if you had a separate section for the gamers and another separate section for the folks doing anime art, so they weren’t popping up in our Discover feeds if we’re here for politics, pets, and plants?
This is Nube. She is a modern piano pawdigy. So good she can play Beethoven in her sleep. 14/10