The US has spent $374B more than at this point in the last fiscal year, a 7% increase
The US has spent $374B more than at this point in the last fiscal year, a 7% increase
"The agency (ICE) called her a thief and said her record showed "a clear disregard for U.S. laws."" A clear disregard for U.S. laws? That's grounds for deportation? Ironically, it's also the description of the entire Trump administration!
EPA Fires ‘Dissent’ Statement Signers The EPA fired agency employees who signed a June declaration decrying moves that contradict science and undermine public health www.scientificamerican.com/article/epa-... as Labor Day weekend started.
No kings. No dictators. No using the military on U.S. soil. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Introverts don’t recharge with sleep, we recharge by being left completely alone for 3–5 business days
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. 👀
Just amazing
Video credit: itsjuliencohen Description: "11 and 8-year-old prodigy sisters played Vivaldi Winter with me" This is serious musical talent 🎻🎻🎹🎶🎵 #VivaldiWinter #Song #music #Piano #Violin #Instruments #Instrumental
#Seaweed farms are a dual solution for climate change & sustainable energy. - don't require freshwater, fertilizer, or arable land to grow, making it one of the most eco-friendly resources - naturally absorbs massive amounts of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere through photosynthesis helping 1/...
Hurricane season begins with Trump gutting the "gold standard" weather services that save lives. "We’re squandering our future. We’re squandering our ability to keep getting better with these predictions."
When you think it’s super dark It’s a thousand times darker than anything you’ve imagined
Enjoying Labor Day? Thank a union! Organized labor is the backbone of America. As Trump and Republicans continue attacking unions and our rights to organize in the workplace, we’ll keep fighting for better wages and protections for all.
Trump and Republicans attack unions because they know organized workers are powerful. But let’s be clear: workers built this country—not billionaires. (1/2)
Good dog!
Hey Congress – make Alex Acosta's testimony public and televised. There's absolutely no ethical reason for it to be private and transcribed. Nefarious AF. We need to hear your questions. We want to see him squirm. We need to see him squirm. Yet another sign of a cover-up.
Even in this age of police bodycams and bystander videos, there are certain categories of footage that most media organizations won’t share with the public. But it’s hard to imagine today’s media suppressing, as they did in 1937, footage from the anti-labor crackdown that resulted in 10 deaths.
What’s the Problem Bunky?
RIP. He was also a regular on the Canadian comedy, The Red Green Show. His character was Edgar Montrose, an incompetent explosives expert. Great actor.
Nine former CDC directors basically said RFK Jr is a threat to public health.
Thank you on this labor day!!
From border towns to major tourist draws, international visitor numbers have dropped since Trump returned to office in January.
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.
I personally believe it began with the pardoning of Richard Nixon, but Fox Noise certainly accelerated the process.
Jill Stein and Cornel West both disgust me — such goddamn, self-serving hypocrites.
Wages of unionized workers are 13% higher than their nonunion counterparts. But unions also set a higher pay standard that all workers enjoy. In high-union-density states, median household income is $12,000 higher than in low-union-density states. This is why unions are vital.
Revoking an entire nationality’s visas is collective punishment and never acceptable — especially in this moment when millions of Palestinians lack equal rights, basic healthcare, and so much more at home, forcing them out of the US is unfathomably cruel. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/31/w...
If you're 60, 69.1% of all job growth since your birth occurred under Democratic administrations. If you're 45, that number is 74.7%. If you're under 28, the number is 100%. Happy Labor Day.
GOP: Guardians of Pedophiles
Graham Platner, an oyster farmer from Maine, announced a bid for the seat of incumbent GOP Sen. Susan Collins. His goal? To “claw back wealth that was created by the labor and the consumption of working class Americans who have not shared in the riches they helped build.”
Rep. Richard Hudson (R-N.C.) told a closed-door meeting of House Republicans to stop hosting town halls in the midst of backlash from voters. Most appear to have taken that to heart: By mid-August, only 16 of the 219 House Republicans had held at least one in-person town hall event.
Difference between a husky and border collie... 👀😅🤣 #dog #dogday #bluesky
IT’S ALL NATIVE LAND!
Take the putt, Donnie
Last night, at the final show of her Girls Just Wanna Have Fun Farewell Tour, Cyndi Lauper brought out Joni Mitchell (for “Carey”), Cher (“Girls Just Want To Have Fun”), SZA (“True Colors”), John Legend (“Time After Time”), and more. www.stereogum.com/2321337/cynd...
"Everyday People" by Sly & The Family Stone is a powerful anthem of unity, highlighting that despite differences, all people are equal and should coexist peacefully. Its messages challenged prejudice and celebrated inclusivity, as the band was one of the first major integrated rock groups.
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
Republicans keep getting booed at their own town halls
Not only is our new acting director of the CDC NOT a scientist, but he also has deep ties to Peter Thiel and Silicon Valley’s techno-utopia movement. One epidemiologist compared Jim O’Neill’s appointment to “making Elon Musk head of the FAA.”
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...
Jamie Oliver brilliantly debunks the lies and ridiculous statements that RFK JR. has stated on multiple occasions. Experts are saying that RFK JR’s statements could very well be related to the worm in his brain. He is extremely dangerous and unfit! #USDemocracy #Pinks youtube.com/shorts/JPzXG...
A judge dismissed the case, finding no probable cause after Florida police arrested a man as part of Ron DeSantis’ crackdown over rainbow chalk ark memorializing the victims of the Pulse nightclub shooting in Orlando. More: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
RFK Jr. transformed conspiracy theories into action and reshaped American policy in just a few months. @annamerlan.bsky.social and @kieraevebutler.bsky.social break down just how we got here:
CNN vs Democracy Docket. Why does CNN simply repeat Trump's lies without noting he has ZERO authority to do this?👀 Support pro-democracy independent media. Subscribe to Democracy Docket today. hubs.ly/Q03jcjqP0
www.newsweek.com/joni-ernst-r...
On this day in 1987, U2 released "Where the Streets Have No Name" - the third single from the band’s fifth studio album “The Joshua Tree”
"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...
Trump’s plan to rename the Department of Defense as the Department of War shows (once again) that his self-characterization as the “pro-peace” candidate was complete bullshit. www.wsj.com/politics/nat...
My thoughts exactly.
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.
WH fervently trying to show proof of life….with 2 month old photos and videos!! #IThinkItHappened
ICE is holding a man with both physical and developmental disabilities, who doesn’t understand or speak English, and who is nearly deaf at a detention facility in Washington State. Inhumane doesn’t begin to describe it. We can and must be better. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
So now we're blaming the trans community. Before that it was "antifa". Before that it was radicalized immigrants. The right always has to wave around one of their standard boogeymen to deflect attention from the real problem: the absolute lack of ANY commonsense gun control.
Reminder: Most mass shootings are carried out by cisgender men.
The United States, just months before its 250th birthday as the world’s leading democracy, has tipped over the edge into authoritarianism and fascism.
Iowa leading the way youtu.be/dR7T_MJz8C8?...
The loss of subject matter expertise impacting DOJ — particularly in the counterintelligence sphere — cannot be understated. It will take years to rebuild, and in the meantime, will exact a very real cost in terms of our national security.
"The oft-mentioned tyranny being opposed by gun owners is really just the sense that the wrong people are encroaching on the privileges and prerogatives of whiteness." From 2020:
Today is the National Park Service’s birthday! 🥳🏞️ You know what would be a great birthday gift? Not firing staff or cutting funds from the agency responsible for keeping our public lands pristine and accessible!
Florida banned The Diary of Anne Frank. Whoever signed off on that should have to eat every page of that book — one by one — and choke on the lesson they’re trying to erase. 📚🔥 #BannedBooks #AnneFrank
Congratulations to the nurses at UPMC Magee Hospital on their victory. Health care workers across the country are unionizing to fight for better care for all of us. Magee must respect the results of the election and begin bargaining for a fair contract immediately.
Let’s be clear: deporting Kilmar Abrego Garcia to Uganda makes no sense—it’s not his home country. Nothing about this process has been fair. ICE is targeting him with cruelty. This is the weaponization of government, not justice.
Dog stealing the show! 😊 #dog #dogday #bluesky
It isn’t normal for a president to repeatedly threaten the use of military force against American citizens. Treating the National Guard as a political pawn disrespects those who serve and undermines public trust in our military.
Dog doesn't like being compared... 😅🤣 #dog #dogday #bluesky
North Korea is "no longer content to have its nuclear weapons and be left alone," a former senior U.S. official told Newsweek.
Threatening to traffic Kilmar Abrego Garcia to Uganda if he doesn't plead guilty is extortion, not justice. If the corrupt and incompetent Pamela Jo Bondi had evidence of a crime, she would have the DOJ prosecute instead of making threats. apnews.com/article/abre...
No frickin way #allythepiper #piperally #freebird
He’s wanted to declare martial law from day one. Bypass all checks and rule as a tyrant. Many have speculated how he’d do it. Now his gambit is clear. DC was a test. He’s using manufactured crime stats to send troops into blue states & cities. This is not a drill. Democracy is at defcon 1.
This feels like a spot of good news www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...
Reducing crime, especially violent crime, requires a lot more work than just sending a bunch of FBI desk-jockeys in tactical gear to wander around the city hassling weed smokers.
It’s my opinion that humanitarian and musical genius Dolly Parton (as well as Chef José Andrés) deserves the Nobel Peace Prize. tucson.com/life-enterta...
It isn't until the 26th paragraph that there is mention that what Trump is doing is being challenged as illegal. And it accepts Trump's stated rationale to act. Here is what I think: Trump is illegally deploying the military in blue cities to set the stage to interfere with the 2026 elections.
I sat down with Lisa Smith, Executive Director of the Washington State Microenterprise Association, to hear more about what she’s hearing from small business owners as Trump continues to ramp up reckless trade wars. Listen 👇
I promised Texas would be sued. And I don't bluff. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
That got us wondering: How would those governors feel if National Guard troops from other states were ordered onto their streets, perhaps to patrol one of the 53 cities in those states with a higher murder rate than Washington’s? So, we asked them. www.democracydocket.com/analysis/the...
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Trump told us he would be a dictator from day one. News orgs said it was a joke, but smart people knew it was a chilling warning.
Night Sky on Mars #nasadailyupdates
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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 never realized I'd spend the last years of my life in a dictatorship.
The ruling sided with environmental groups and the Miccosukee Tribe, who had filed a suit alleging that the facility built in the Florida Everglades violated federal environmental laws.
Antonio Bonasera 