Platner: No one cares that you pretend to be remorseful as you sell out to lobbyists. Symbolic opposition does not reopen hospitals. Weak condemnations do not bring back Roe V Wade. Maine deserves better than Susan Collins.
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Platner: No one cares that you pretend to be remorseful as you sell out to lobbyists. Symbolic opposition does not reopen hospitals. Weak condemnations do not bring back Roe V Wade. Maine deserves better than Susan Collins.
Concern over low birth rates was what the theocracy in Margaret Atwoodās Handmaidās Tale used to come to power.
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 jobsāeven multiple jobsāaren't safe from homelessness in this country.
When unions are strong, our communities and our country are strong. Every person in our nation has benefited from the labor movement. This Labor Day, we celebrate the workers and unions who have fought for fair wages, safe workplaces, and sick leave for all of us.
You guys see where this is going? Right?
šØWhen all is said and done the money that was WASTED on Alligator Alcatraz couldāve easily been the 1 TRILLION that was cut from Medicaid. There must be oversight for the OUTRAGEOUS costs: 1) Monetarily 2) Environmentally & 3) The Physical & Mental Health stress this cost people and their families.šØ
This is the second judge in a week that has brought up the fact that the government can't be trusted with clear instructions - likely because the government ignored Judge Boasberg's order to turn the planes around last March saying "verbal orders from judges don't count."
"Nobody wants to be a cop [in DC]. They were abused. They were spit on." "When you when you say they were abused and spit on, I'm assuming you're talking about January 6th, correct?" "All you guys want to do was bring up J6 about the answer to everything."
I'm still waiting for the relentless onslaught of media demands for a press conference and calls to resign.
www.cnn.com/2025/08/30/u... This isn't going away like the Epstein files.
ATTN UNIONS: You're next on the menu.
WELKER: Do you have 100% confidence in Secretary Kennedy? LANKFORD: I believe he's who the president picked. He's challenging some of the assumption - what is it about autism? He seems to be following the science WELKER: The science has debunked links between autism & vaccines for more than 20 yrs
FEDERAL AGENTS TAKE NOTEā¦ Itās not just Chicago standing strong. Other blue cities and governors are ready to unite against Trumpās federal invasion. Iām not an attorney, but this point seems huge: if federal agents break state or city laws, they can prosecuted. And Trump cannot pardon them.
I miss that, too. And independence. Doing anything seems like such an event. I hope you get some relief soon.
One of the things that drives me crazy about being chronically ill is that itās BORING. I miss seeing friends and doing stuff
Another loss in court for Trump Admin A federal judge overnight barred the administration from deporting a group of unaccompanied migrant children to Guatemala.. after lawyers argued the effort would skirt legal protections Congress established for these minors
This āexplicitā is a weird editorial choice. The constitution gives the president no power over this at all. Itās not ambiguous.
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ICYMI ā JUDGE: āThis case represents the consequences of a decades long drumbeat of anti-immigrant sentiment and misinformation being broadcast & broadcast & broadcastā¦ā 2 immigrants shot in Washington, gunman sentenced in June. Barely even a story. š¤·š»āāļø www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/g...
Masked ICE arenāt about safety; theyāre about fear and evading responsibility. Demand transparency and accountability by adding your name to this petition:
āILLEGALSā MY ASS! Green card holder Rami Othmane speaks out after being snatched off the street by ICE while driving to the grocery store. Heās 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.
DOGE wasnāt a cost-cutting venture. It was a data mining operation for private interests. Trump opened the gates to the castle from inside for invaders with bad and greedy intent to plunder and exploit.
This part. Everyone should be taking notes from @ivehaditpodcast.bsky.socialās @mizzwelch.bsky.social
The damage this man has done is incalculable.
Dump is trying to get his adversaries killed. When something happens, I suspect that they will react with "thoughts and prayers." They use the phrase as a cover for the fact that they are more closely aligned with the Devil than any religious beliefs.
Inhuman. āI donāt have any choiceā is a lie.
WHOOPSIE DOODLE
Does he think the job is "vacation"?
"Literally no one thinks prayer is a substitute for action." Then why is prayer, literally, *always* the substitute for action, you willfully obtuse asshole?
No one deserves the violence and dehumanization Alice Correia Barbosa endured at the hands of the federal government. And we know targeting immigrants and LGBTQ+ people are not unrelated. Itās all part of Donald Trumpās coordinated attack on liberty and justice.
It shouldn't be up to American children to save each other from getting shot. It's the job of American adults to stop shootings from happening in the first place. Ban assault weapons again now.
Good. I have questions and the American people deserve answers.
The chaos at the CDC wouldn't have been possible without Sen. Bill Cassidy, a medical doctor, providing the crucial vote to confirm RFK Jr as HHS Secretary. We should make sure he never forgets that.
RFK Jr & the FDA have made it much harder for Americans to access Covid vaccine Itās no longer recommended for children, healthy adults or pregnant people You can technically still receive it if your doctor prescribes it, but this will mean insurance may not cover it & pharmacies may not stock it
We did a whole declaration thing, went to war, and ratified it into our constitution. How do folks not remember this?
Lynx coach Cheryl Reeve on the Minnesota shooting: "The sad thing is we can't sit here and tell them that help is on the way. Because we're not going to do a damn thing about it."
remember folks, we cant have gun restrictions because if we do the federal government will occupy our streets, imprison people without due process, ship dissidents to foreign gulags and things of that nature
Tariffs will increase costs on many of the goods we consume: Food, Health Care, Construction costs, Agriculture, Energy and more! The tariffs imposed by Trump are basically a new tax on everyone in the United States.
I dare you to go to Annunciation School and tell our grieving community, in effect, guns donāt kill kids, antidepressants do. Just shut up. Stop peddling bullshit. You should be fired.
Remember when COVID vaccines were first available? Remember how they saved lives and helped us move toward normalcy? Remember how relieved and grateful we were? Remember how amazing our healthcare workers were? Remember how science rescued us?
Starbucksā CEO made 6,666x more than the company's median employee in 2024. This was the widest CEO-to-Worker pay gap in the entire S&P 500. Remember this before you order your next pumpkin spice latte.
This is very bad news. Louisiana won't even defend its own map in SCOTUS. It abandoned its own Black voters. Those of us committed to defending the VRA are now entirely on our own. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
I had serious doubts about CDC Director Monarezās willingness to stand up against RFK Jr.ās personal mission to destroy public health in AmericaāIām 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.
Anyone who looks at America in 2025 and thinks, "maybe we can fix this by throwing trans people under the bus" 1) doesn't have the brains to understand what's going on or how we got here 2) doesn't have the stomach for any of the fights ahead and 3) is vice signaling to their MAGA friends.
āŖAfter watching and reading comments about the horrific Minnesota shooting, it appears most Americans people missed our stories about the secret roots to the madness. I pray this repost helps. www.propublica.org/article/gunm...
šØBREAKING: Arizona Court of Appeals REJECTS right wing challenge to Arizona's signature matching process. Another VICTORY for my law firm's clients and the voters of Arizona. www.democracydocket.com/cases/arizon...
That sounds like a bland mid-life crisis.
The Roadless Rule is one of our most important conservation safeguards, protecting forests from the bulldozer and chainsaw. The move to gut this protection is a handout to logging interests at the expense of clean water, wildlife, and local communities. www.rawstory.com/roadless-rule/
Shuler: This is the choice working Americans have been given: chaos, or the same broken status quo. We wanted cheaper groceriesāand we got tanks in our streets. We wanted affordable health careāand instead, 16 million Americans are about to be kicked off their coverage
Sen Patty Murray (D-WA): āIf there are any adults left in the White House, itās well past time they face realityā¦ We cannot let RFK Jr. burn whatās left of the CDC and our other critical health agencies to the groundāhe must be fired.ā
Last year, $75M in CSBG funds helped Massachusetts families with job training, housing, nutrition programs and heating assistance. Trumpās budget wipes that out entirely. Republicans have a choice: stand up to Trump or let hardworking families face higher bills, colder homes and less opportunity.
Moore: "The thing that gets me most about this is how deeply disrespectful this is to members of the National Guard who signed up for this job as I did when I deployed overseas & led paratroopers in combat where we signed up w/the expectation the commander in chief was actually taking it seriously"
Trump on deploying the National Guard to Chicago: "I have the right to do anything I want to do. I'm the president of the United States."
Krasner: So, if what you have is a group of ICE agents, or even the military, coming into Philadelphia and committing crimesāassaults that are illegal, kidnapping, unlawful restraint, obstruction of the administration of justiceāthey can be prosecuted.
IL YESTERDAY - The Illinois Pride Connect hotline for legal services for queer individuals went live! Nationwide Fri, Aug 22 - @acog.org will continue to recommend the COVID vaccine before, after and during pregnancy. sources below 2/
If we ever get out of this, the Trump cabinet members like RFK, Jr. who appear to have perjured themselves at their confirmation hearings need to be tried and, if convicted, sentenced to lengthy prison sentences.
Worth reading this www.creditslips.org/creditslips/...
šØBREAKING: Third Circuit STRIKES DOWN Pennsylvania requirement that mail-in ballots that arrive in undated or misdated return envelopes be discarded. Court holds that Constitution requires they be counted. A big victory for our clients DSCC and DCCC and PA voters!
This is how you stand up to bullies and aspiring tyrants.
Constituent: You talked about abuses in the medicare and medicaid system and I found interesting that the president pardoned someone that defrauded the medicaid system for $1.3 billion
Pritzker: To the members of the press who are assembled here today and listening across the country, I am asking for your courage to tell it like it is. This is not a time to pretend here that there are two sides to this story.
Ć better measure of the US economy would be how the bottom 33% are making do on their income, rather than how the top 10% are making do in the stock market.
F*ckā¼ļø Fort Bliss Army base used for a WWII Japanese internment is now the nation's largest ICE detention center.
Whoopsy
This hits right on timeā¦ My wife and I had the great privilege of visiting the African-American Museum in DC, and let me just tell you if you have not beenā¦It is a masterpieceāgo.
Good point!
Donāt be afraid to share your writing. There are six Sharknado movies.
When youāve lost Ammon Bundyā¦
Props to Welker for the questions!
Lavrovās response 3 times is to insist that Russia has ānever, ever targeted civilian sites.ā So the apartment buildings and hospitals we see in flames every day and bodies of civilians is all made up apparently. This is who they are - liars and barbarians.
But carrying long guns in DC is okay...
Virginia Giuffre's family: "The content of these transcripts is in direct contradiction with felon Ghislaine Maxwell's conviction for child sex trafficking. During DAG Todd Blanche's bizarre interview, she is never challenged about her court-proven lies, providing her a platform to rewrite history."
www.threads.com/@vbgvandring...
The ad while the game is going is ridiculous!
Welker to Lavrov: "Here are the facts. Close to 50,000 civilians have either been killed or injured in this war. Russia has hit maternity wards, churches, schools, hospitals, a kindergarten just this week. So either the Russian military has terrible aim or you are targeting civilians. Which is it?"
āI was r*ped sometimes 3 times a day on that islandā¦ and I was not the only girl on that islandā¦ Ghislaine must die in prison, because Iāve been in hell and back for the last 17 years.ā Listen to the survivors.
@rokhanna.bsky.social: āOnly 3% of the documents given to the [House] Oversight Committee are new. The rest are already in the public domain. Less than 1% of files have been released. DOJ is stonewalling.ā khanna.house.gov/media/press-...
I will not authorize the use of the Maryland National Guard for any mission that isnāt mission critical or mission aligned. Full stop.
Garcia: What we got was complete bullshit. We demanded the full Epstein files, and thatās not what was sent over. The White House cover-up clearly continues. What they sent us was 33,000 pages of documents that have already been in the public domain.
If DOJ has a strong criminal case against Abrego Garcia, they should welcome the chance to prove his guilt at trial. This offer of guilty plea or Uganda is coercive. www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...
Honestly, I'm surprised there isn't a Trump version. Did he really leave in Leviticus 19:33, "When a foreigner resides among you in your land, do not mistreat them. The foreigner residing among you must be treated as your native-born."
Itās my opinion that humanitarian and musical genius Dolly Parton (as well as Chef JosĆ© AndrĆ©s) deserves the Nobel Peace Prize. tucson.com/life-enterta...
In case anyone is still wondering why Bolton was raided
Two more senior military firings. No reason given, both in command about a year.
"CBS News wrote that Uganda had āagreed to accept deportees from the US who hail from other countries on the continent, as long as they donāt have criminal historiesā." Worst 9f the worst, right?
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Keep up the great work!
šØBREAKING: Hours after Texas passed its new map, my law firm has challenged it in federal court. In addition to violating the VRA, HB 4 violates the 14th Amendment because it unjustifiably considers race and partisanship as part of a voluntary, mid-cycle redistricting. @redistrictfdn.bsky.social
Garcia: So this release today is meant to distract from the broader question of why Pam Bondi and Donald Trump refused to release the full Epstein files.
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Krishnamoorthi on the FBI raiding Bolton's house: "It looks like it's also an attempt to distract from the other big news of the day, which is the first production of the Epstein files that is required by subpoena from the Oversight Committee and they want to change the conversation."
Yes. Collapsing all fed law enforcement into one undifferentiated, untrained, masked force. "Agents said they worried the changes would transform the FBI from an investigative agency focused on national security into something more akin to a federal police force..." www.nytimes.com/2025/08/21/u...
i named a cat after Jack White and right now i couldnāt be more proud
Hereās what was NOT released today: - the proffer agreement between Maxwell and the DoJ - the agreement transferring Maxwell to club fed - communications showing who waived Maxwellās sex offender status allowing her transfer and possible work assignments outside prison - the Epstein files
Exactly.
Ghislaine Maxwell and Jeffrey Epstein could not have sold women and girls for sex without wealthy men buying women and girls for sex. I feel like more people should mention that.
The DOJ releases Maxwell audio and transcripts. I have a suggestion: listen to the number of times she says, "...I believe..." It's one of the primary perjury busting tools around. Right up there with, "I can't recall," or "To the best of my memory."