Fifty-one of the 85 Federalist papers were written by a guy born in Nevis.
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Fifty-one of the 85 Federalist papers were written by a guy born in Nevis.
Fatality.
If this is the “strong leader” they keep selling us, why are they hiding him like Weekend at Bernie’s? 👀
J.B. Pritzker is 100% right. Please listen to him, pay attention, and join us in speaking out against authoritarianism and to protect free and fair elections.
🚨 “The people united will never be divided!” Happening in OUR nation’s capital today. 1/2
The United States is slipping from its place as a world leader. You can thank Trump for that.
I wasn’t super convinced that something was seriously wrong with Trump until he tweeted this
The “Most Transparent Presidency Ever”…is not letting the PressCorp anywhere near him & his cankles…
I guess he changed hats and won’t go anywhere near the press for 5 days for no particular reason. Also can’t get any video of him actually playing golf from the usual sources.
More name changes afoot… Department of Defense = Department of War Department of Education = Department of Keeping You Stupid Center for Disease Control = Center for Crackpot Conspiracies Department of Agriculture = Department of Subsidies for Farmers going broke from tariffs
This text is quoted accurately. It is also a clarifying lie. Totalitarian governments know that normal people do not have time or resources to research every health, economic, or security issue. Their project of attacking all expertise is a project of seizing trust & thus power for themselves.
"The lunatics are running the asylum."
When this national nightmare is finally over, no pardons. No “This is necessary to heal the country.” Public trials. Jail time. We need to expose, convict & punish every corrupt & complicit one of them.
"The straw man being put forward is that it's either we have the military or we're going to get our throats cut at night in DC. Is there no middle ground? Do local law enforcement account for nothing? We've got the National Guard GARDENING right now in DC. Is that an efficient use of our resources?"
Look at this graph. The share of national income going to the richest 10 percent was lowest (and share to lower 90 percent highest) when union membership was at its highest. As unions have weakened, inequality has widened. This is why we must build back union power.
This is the way
WE'RE ABOUT TO PUT A MEMECOIN OUT 😂
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RADDATZ: You talk about what can be done. After shootings in Buffalo & Uvalde, Congress passed a bipartisan Safer Communities Act. It provided hundreds of millions for schools to expand mental health services. You didn't vote for it. Why? TOM EMMER: I don't remember the reasons I didn't vote for it
Texas AG Partizan Attack On Beto Ken Paxton threatens to arrest Beto O'Rourke for fighting the illegal gerrymander of five congressional seats. Speech is no longer Free in Texas! open.substack.com/pub/betoorou...
Jesse Watters: “You weren’t ever on Jeffrey Epstein’s jet, were you?” RFK Jr: “I was on Jeffrey Epstein’s jet two times.” Release the freaking Epstein Files. Believe the survivors and their families. We want accountability.
Translation: WELKER: Do you have 100% confidence in Secretary Kennedy? LANKFORD: I'm afraid of Trump so I can't say.
"Here’s the truth we cannot escape: If Ashli Babbitt is honored, then few things are sacred. If loyalty to the Constitution and an attempt to overthrow it are treated as equal, we lose the very meaning of service." www.thebulwark.com/p/honoring-a...
Our recent report, Decades of Deceit, comprehensively documents how major fossil fuel companies have misled the public and prevented climate action. We created a timeline that shows a small selection of their actions. Explore it here:
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."
He’s providing them with valuable mulching experience though.
He won’t let the press anywhere near him. This is getting weirder and weirder.
not just that he has no constitutional authority, there isn't even any particular legal or institutional mechanism by which the president can make anyone treat this as anything other than a weird advisory opinion.
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."
Me too!
Remove RFK Jr for dereliction of duties. Immediately.
www.cnn.com/2025/08/30/u... This isn't going away like the Epstein files.
Haven't you heard? In the new MAGA World there is no US Congress. The Republican majority have all signed off on self elimination.
Trump thinks if the US is at war, we can't have elections. Ergo he becomes King. Look for War-A-GoGo in the coming year.
Good night 🌙 and….
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
The entire point right here: The GOP majority in Congress COULD- at any time- pass tight controls on assault rifles, but they REFUSE. The regular murders of children in schools would NOT occur with Democrats in power.
No matter what @MarshaBlackburn keeps saying, it’s not criminals they’re targeting. www.cnn.com/2025/08/30/u...
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.
What a ridiculous person.
What in the ever loving fuck is going on here
SHOCKED 😳 NOT😉
We have become a "shithole country."
MAGA = greedy sociopaths.
Masked ICE aren’t about safety; they’re about fear and evading responsibility. Demand transparency and accountability by adding your name to this petition:
“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.
I really hope this becomes the black eye it deserves to be www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Television legend Stephen Colbert has just signed a $13.5 million deal with Netflix for a 7-episode series.
Some perspective…
People aren’t dumb. They see what’s going on. And Republicans holding town halls are getting DRAGGED for defending this regime
Hooray!
The Deere layoffs this week. The Caterpillar warning about tariffs. Just the beginning. @bloomberg.com $CAT $DE @scottlincicome.bsky.social www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Such a conundrum for Trump: let Putin invade neighboring countries and kill civilians for years? Or put a stop to it? Oh the grappling that man has to do...
Corporate America’s playbook: 1) Exploit workers to maximize profits 2) Use profits to buy Congress 3) Use Congress to pass union-busting laws 4) Use these laws to further exploit workers 5) Repeat Let's break the cycle and keep building back a powerful labor movement.
@nealkatyal.bsky.social: “You’ve got the president who's imposed the largest tax increase on American consumers since 1993 … and he did it without Congress saying one word. That is not our constitutional structure.”
You’ll notice that propagandists like Jake Tapper no longer have a problem with older age in office nor do they mention the orange felon’s obvious mental and physical decline.
Well I just read that CVS and Walgreens now give COVID shots with prescriptions only and in some states not at all even with prescriptions. Only 5 states let them give it upon request. fuck you RFK. I can't believe vaccines are controversial. btw we landed on the moon and the earth is not flat.
TRUMP EPSTEIN PEDOPHILES TRUMP EPSTEIN PEDOPHILES TRUMP EPSTEIN PEDOPHILES #RNC #CPAC #NRSC #NRCC WE SEE YOU PROTECTING PEDOPHILES. Are all yall pedos too?
"She did not die defending the Constitution. She died trying to overturn it. She was not protecting lives at a gate in Iraq; she was forcing her way through windows in the Capitol to stop the peaceful transfer of power." New from @markhertling.bsky.social:
Another long week in the fight for democracy. If you want to stay up to date on what is happening to democracy in court, subscribe now to Democracy Docket. hubs.ly/Q03jcjqP0 Goodnight.😴
DO IT!
You know who benefits most from antivaccine conspiracy theories as national health policy? Our enemies.
Unbelievably bad. “The CDC you knew is over. Unless someone takes radical action, there is nothing there that can be salvaged.” www.advocate.com/politics/dem...
And the Republican majority in Congress are going to let it happen? Like they've let Trump shit all over this once great nation? #ThanksRepublicans
A proposal to censor info about lawmakers is being sold as a safety bill. But it won’t protect them from anything but investigative reporting. Contact your senator to tell them to scrap the bill and protect their safety — and everyone else’s — without sacrificing transparency and accountability.
ideas👇 youtube.com/shorts/39RIF...
SO SO TIRED of the firehose of lies. Calling my Congressional reps.
The GOP refuses to enact legislation to control automatic weapons. Thus the weapons get into the hands of crazy people. GOP = murderers.
Question: Why did US put big tariffs on India despite major national interest in cultivating a strategic counterweight to China and trying to isolate Russia? Answer: Because the US president lied that he fixed India-Pakistan and India wouldn’t go along with the lie. (Seriously, that’s the answer)
Food isn't expensive. Water isn't expensive. Even power isn't expensive. Mega-rich bosses demanding gigantic profits are expensive.
So not only do churches NOT have to pay taxes, they're going to get YOUR tax dollars to boot. This seems like oh, I don't know, government establishing a religion in violation of the First Amendment?
Good morning and happy Saturday to everyone. What kind of punk ass bitch revokes the Secret Service security detail for Kamala Harris? One that’s petty, small, pathetic, vengeful, and on the Epstein list, that’s who.
The warfighters in DC got the trash picked up, now time to mulch.
Pediatric Brain Cancer Group to Lose Federal Funding. Gift link: nyti.ms/47PHvI8
“…I am infuriated that the Air Force plans to grant military funeral honors to Ashli Babbitt. She did not die defending the Constitution. She died trying to overturn it.” My latest in @thebulwark.com www.thebulwark.com/p/honoring-a...
BAN all for-profit prisons and detainment camps.
someone should put together a "kennedy death count" for everyone who dies of a preventable disease and just plaster it everywhere www.statnews.com/2025/08/28/c...
Learn to decipher the codespeak.
What if we established a tax-exempt Church of Democracy and sued the government for infringing on our religious freedoms when it does authoritarian stuff?
Katrina inspired a $3B wetlands rebuilding project. Louisiana just killed it.
We are so fucked.
Like a deadly virus, created in the lab of bad public policy at the Heritage Foundation, Project 2025 has been let loose on our nation with impacts we are all just beginning to comprehend. My latest on Substack: open.substack.com/pub/jimacost...