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There is a plethora of non-elected, unapproved, arrogant pricks giving orders to people they have no business giving orders to, e.g., Steven Miller, Russell Vought, and Laura Loomer. Oh, let's not forget Elon. They're in the top 10 for the dock at #Nuremberg2.0
WOW. This is one of the original Alien Enemies Act cases going back to March. The conservative 5th Circuit has ruled Trump’s use of the Alien Enemies Act to disappear people to El Salvador was UNLAWFUL.
This isn't inching closer. It's just diving deeper.
He is really hurting if this is his major news announcement. And you all know Space Command went to Colorado because of their assinine and dangerous abortion laws, right? So he's endangering pregnant service members on top. The bonus is always if he's hurting someone.
I don’t think it’s likely we will get enough Rs to vote for this since they all know it implicates Trump but it’s good to force a vote
Brilliant.
This is how the majority of developed countries live, why are we not demanding the same?
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That second possibility, tho. 🤣
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.
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A Democratic super PAC is launching a $700,000 digital ad blitz slamming Susan Collins for opposing a bipartisan bill that would ban members of Congress from trading stocks. This ad accuses Collins of “the worst kind of greed… using insider information to trade stocks.” Please WATCH and SHARE. 👀
Let's make this a trend.
I love it here.
A sea turtle surfacing by a MASSIVE school of rays near Clearwater, Florida a couple days ago. Another post into the BluSky void. Maybe 2 or 3 people will see this one and my time won't have been wasted. I'll keep trying a little longer. #nature #animals #amazing #wildlife #awesome #ocean
Betting pool, anybody? I'm betting it's a new grift of some kind. Or the invocation of the 25th Amendment.
86 Candles 🎂 today for the wonderful LILY TOMLIN
He might not be afterwards.
Could not happen to a shittier bunch of people. Go on, ruin them. Save our jobs. Save our water. Save our creative workers.
MO Gov Mike Kehoe is calling a special session to gerrymander the 5th District which encompasses Kansas City. He is specifically violating Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, which bans any voting practice that denies or weakens the power of a racial minority to elect its preferred candidates.
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Unions built this city and keep it running. They’ve fought against power and greed to make the impossible possible. Now, they need an ally in City Hall. On Labor Day, the presidents of the Hotel Trades Council, 32BJ and SEIU 1199 make the case at @cityandstateny.bsky.social.
American unions have a lot to learn from the French, that's absolutely true. But American *workers* have even more to learn. The French understand how strong we are in a union. Its our best way to fight for a decent living. Our own history shows it.
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 people’s lives were destroyed in the name of “saving money,”
I don't get how people don't realize that a technology that replaces junior and entry level positions in a field destroys that field. There's no skipping steps. You have to be a junior before you can be a senior, and if you don't have senior people, you don't have a field.
The Guardian has today printed the names, and where possible, images, of all the media workers killed in Gaza, as part of an international day of action involving more than 150 media organisations. www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
Congrats! And well done! It's no easy task!
A Labor Day reminder: today there isn't a single city, metro area, or state in the U.S. where a full-time minimum-wage worker can afford a modest 2-bedroom apartment. Millions of people with jobs—even multiple jobs—aren't safe from homelessness in this country.
If you enjoy… Weekends Safe working conditions Retirement benefits Paid vacations Breaks at work Sick leave Paid holidays … then you’re part of the labor movement. Happy Labor Day.
Wooooooo! This right here! More of this plz! Thank you, Ali Velshi!
There is no illegal immigration. #wato
The thing about a lot of these never Trump Republicans is that, unlike a lot of institutionalist Dems who think the fever will break and we can all return to comity or whatever, these guys saw the rot up close and know the only appropriate response is to tear them out of government root and branch.
Beautiful 1860s Victorian butterfly, which was used to store small packets of sewing needles on the underside of the wings. This was a collaboration between a London-based drapers company and a sewing needle manufacturer. On exhibit at Tatter Blue, a Brooklyn textile museum. IG tatterbluelibrary
This. Is. Brilliant.
The rot inside is particularly apt in this case.
Holographic images of Trump have gone up in Los Angeles and it’s pretty cool.
New Mexico is overriding the federal government on the topic of COVID19 vaccines to ensure their residents can access them. States hold a tremendous amount of public health power. They should use it.
Keep sound off, but hilarious.
💀 how many people will this MONSTER KILL before we can rid ourselves of him…#KennedyKills 🦠
Need people to understand that literally the only lever here is public opinion
Marc Elias is a fucking badass. And he's right. Lead, follow, or get the fuck outta the way. That goes for the Democratic Party leadership.
Mock him accordingly.
He's a tiny, tiny man, in all the ways possible, as well as a vile and revolting bigot and a massive danger to democracy. Also a lying liar who lies. But Americans hate him so much that he's desperate and it shows; his statements are getting more and more frantic and absurd.
99% agree with you. I think *this meme* is picking on the guard, and I've seen other people do it too. There's a point where following orders is participating in evil, but this is not it. Not yet. I have faith the Guard will keep that in mind and disobey when necessary.
🍊💩🐒 is already a mass murderer thanks to his COVID non-response and he's working on round 2. RFK is going to join him. They both need to be arrested and tried for that. It's as heinous as a school shooting, RFK is our own Dr. Mengele, without the medical credentials.
Hey Missourians! Time to fight back against gerrymandering if you want your vote to count. Don't make the blue states do all the work.
Goodness, if the President has a serious health problem I certainly hope he follows the expert medical advice of his Secretary of Health and Human Services
Alas, this is many of us. I know it's ruining my retirement. Fuck these people.
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BREAKING: Bernie Sanders has called for a special Senate committee hearing on the CDC crisis, demanding that RFK Jr. testify under oath about the disaster he’s created.
May they spread across the nation.
Don't pick on the Guard, people. They're following harmless orders and they're as pissed about the waste of their time as you are. Yell at them if they start participating in law enforcement and ICE raids. This is the 🍊💩🐒 and Boozebreath humiliating them. Yell at them.
Bluesky right now ...
In Which Nadine Amuses a Dragon and Makes Autumn Happen
Our elected officials should not get to do shit in secret. If this is about safety, they need to make their work less controversial, i.e. stop stripping rights from the people who elected them. And if you're too chickenshit for office, don't run.
Old Soviet joke for today: A man walks into a newsstand every day, looks around, and leaves. After a long time of this, the owner says “Can I help you find something?” “I’m looking for the obituaries.” “The obituaries are in the back of the newspaper, comrade.” “Not the one I’m looking for.”
This right here. Day 2? Start the arrests and impeachments.
The NRA buys off Congress. No action on guns. The oil industry buys off Congress. No action on climate. Insurance companies buy off Congress. No action on health care. The list goes on and on. Money in politics is the root of our dysfunction.
Them: “Cities are all rotting hellscapes!” Cities:
Officially prepared for the orange moron's national guard occupation (thanks @raygunsite.com )
Was rummaging through old articles and found this one of Demetre Daskalakis. Apparently, back in 2013, he went to New York City's gay sex clubs and bathhouses and administered meningitis vaccines and helped beat an outbreak.
Living a moral life in an age of bullies requires collective action; it cannot be done alone. Each of us must organize and participate in a vast network of moral resistance. From this solidarity we will grow stronger. This is what our current moment requires.
Huge news - appeals court rules that a majority of the President’s tariffs are illegal. The President is wreaking havoc on our economy, and he is breaking the law to do it. We must right this ship. We need sane trade policy again.
JUST IN: Judge Cobb has blocked the Trump administration’s effort to extend rapid-fire deportation procedures to immigrants who have been in the U.S. more than two years — warning that it is a flagrant deprivation of due process that could ensnare anyone. ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/show...
The fun would be watching Chump's reaction to it. 🤯 #ReleaseTheEPSTEIN_Files
The damage this man has done is incalculable.
Good.
Chicago keeping art alive:
More than this is that they have been actively antagonistic.
Hey New Yorkers! Looking for an action this weekend? Go mess up some Oligarchs' Labor day! RSVP for a free bus ride and bring your signs and beach gear!
Doooo EEEEEET!
The presidential candidate who runs on the slogan "THERE WILL BE TRIALS!" has my vote.
i find this image so fascinating. it is both a literal example of authoritarianism but also a second-hand reproduction of the aesthetics of other authoritarian states. it's like a simulacra of authoritarianism whose purpose is to attempt to make the simulacra real.
New Yorkers, the MTA is taking comments on a proposed fare hike for 2026. Tell them we cannot afford another fare hike. Do it here: contact.mta.info/s/forms/publ... And FFS, vote for Mamdani.
If you don't have alternative actions, keep your negativity to yourself. You're not helping. You're actually hurting people and hurting democracy. FFS, you work at Mother Jones. What would she say?
I got a wild idea, instead of explaining all 151 phrases on the mass murderer's guns, why don't we explain the online subcultures that's turning young people into mass murderers.
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"We can't let the market determine who gets to live a dignified life." That's it. Right there. The market has no morals. People do.
Hey Republican physicians – what happens when your political ideology runs 180º to your scientific training? Doctors, nurses, healthcare providers of all kinds – regardless of your political beliefs, need to scream from the rooftops to get RFK jr TF out of our government. He is culling America.
Why, you might ask, do the BBC and Sky News, casting their editorial guidelines to the wind, keep giving massive airtime to the far right, while shutting out leftwing voices? Don't their bosses understand the likely consequences? Only one explanation now remains. They do. And it is what they want.
Please read this. Of all the agencies Project 2025 has dismantled, this is the one that will kill the most Americans. It's a racist eugnics plot, which sounds crazy because it is. But it's real. COVID is still killing people, lots of them, and RFK Jr. and Vought are glad about it.
You know what else it's going to take? Accountability. Or these fucks will try their treason all over again. Try them all and jail them. That was our mistake last time. Start at the top and work down this time.
And not half the balls those firefighters have.
I had serious doubts about CDC Director Monarez’s willingness to stand up against RFK Jr.’s personal mission to destroy public health in America—I’m glad that I was wrong. If there are any adults left in the White House: we cannot let RFK Jr. burn what's left of CDC. FIRE HIM.
This is a siege by a gang, not law enforcement. They need to get the fuck out of the way.
Immigrants make this nation great. Yet another example:
No matter what you think of Corbyn, he's not wrong about this.
Kind of genius.
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Damn right we are everywhere.
Not surprised. DOJ is having a lot of trouble bringing in bogus indictments against citizens exercising their right to free speech. The people are not stupid. Once again, we are saving ourselves and each other. Be fearless!
The sit in by veterans in Washington D.C. protesting Trump’s military take over is growing!! Jay Carrey, the army veteran who was arrested for burning the flag has been released and is there! These veterans will continue their sit in until the National Guard leaves DC!! 💪
Shepard Fairey claps back🔥 🧵 “I was disgusted to see the style of my Obama HOPE poster used to attack Kilmar Agrego Garcia. The case against Kilmar is corrupt. Kilmar has been convicted of no crime, and his alleged ties to the gang MS-13 were based on him wearing a Chicago Bulls jersey and hat.
