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Public safety in California is on the rise. Last year, California had the second-lowest homicide rate since at least 1966, decreasing by nearly 12% overall since 2023. We're going to drive that progress forward up and down the state.
"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?"
The longest period we've gone without either party getting more than 55% of the vote is the period we are living in now. The second longest were the years leading up to the civil war. Take as much time as you need to think about that.
“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.
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.”
The new head of the CDC, folks, Jim O’Neill.
Well, this was a rather odd thing to say
“Do you guys feel bad about what you’re doing? Don’t you f*cking hate yourselves?”
Aloha and Happy Weekend all. If you happen to find yourself in a Bluesky starter pack, it's aleeady off to a great start. Thank you for including me, Snoops. Proud to join this list of fighters who refuse to give up. 🩵🫂🩵✊️💙🫂💙
Love your bsky handle. Thanks for the add. 💙 Very kind of you.
But of course. 💙🩵🩵💙
Wonder if appeasing 47 made their wikipedia page.
Heather Cox Richardson American Conversations: I had the extraordinary pleasure of interviewing frmr Sen. Sherrod Brown of Ohio who represented the state from 2007 to 2025 and who has recently decided to jump into the race seeking a 2-yr term for seat vacated by JD Vance youtu.be/zTIJ08vOzTA?...
It just keeps getting better.
It's Friday!! Wishing all of you a relatively peaceful holiday. Especially @hopeful66.bsky.social for making the world a friendlier place.
Washington, D.C. is once again caught in the middle of America's debate over race, policing, and power. What started as a presidential order to "restore order" has quickly turned into a daily reminder of how Black communities are often the first to feel the brunt of government overreach.
Legal and constitutional experts worry Trump is laying the groundwork to use the Guard to seize control of any city he wants to bring to heel. On Monday, he signed an executive order that primes the Guard “for rapid mobilization,” across the country. www.democracydocket.com/analysis/tru...
Everything for her will be dangerous now. First female VP. First woman of color VP. And ya just know he'll start ramping up attacks now.
Inhuman. “I don’t have any choice” is a lie.
🚨National Guard has transitioned from clean up to landscaping. This is infuriating. A gross abuse of power and misallocation of the purpose/function of these men and women.
🧊🖕🪖 TERRORIZING KIDS 😲 Schoolkids in DC ride free on Metro, and a lot of them use this benefit to commute to school. They're talking about the soldiers they're seeing at the stations, and the rumor is that if you so much as eat a snack on the train, they will grab you and deport you. ✊ FREE DC!
apnews.com/article/texa... governor signs new voting maps pushed by Trump to gain five GOP seats in Congress in 2026
This would've expired next July anyway #petty Now she'll lose 24/7 Secret Service protection including threat intelligence analysis covering in-person situations, emails, texts & social media. Harris aides are worried they'll lose the same access to threat warnings for her upcoming book tour.
Kevin, are you sending out DMs asking for votes for hosting a podcast? Seems sus.
Got a spicy one coming out at 7 AM: "Powell Will Hang Separately: The Federal Reserve Has Already Failed its Duty to Lisa Cook and the Constitution" www.crisesnotes.com#/portal/signup
Next federal takeover: Chicago. The Trump administration is asking the nearby naval base for help carrying out the president’s massive deportation campaign. “These operations are similar to what occurred in Los Angeles earlier this summer. Same DHS team." trib.al/ErB0RqN
Ice detains Native American firefighters. Republicans seem to want hell on Earth
Republicans are trying to redraw congressional district lines to keep their grip on Congress in the midterms and beyond. Voters should pick their politicians, not the other way around. Get involved with the @democraticredistricting.com as they fight back: bit.ly/3HJ1ayW
Access to Primus’ gov't devices was shut off on Wed eve. Primus found out he'd been fired after he launched a new high-speed train. He arrived home, saw his work phone wasn't functioning & thought he "actually sat on it or did something different to it" before he realized it'd been locked.
CDC leaders on why the left: “I resigned because I could not be part of the weaponization of public health and CDC… we should always be questioning - but you shouldn’t have a preconceived idea before you have the data.”
Here's some good news: Catelin Drey won a special election this week to flip a seat blue in the Iowa Senate and break Republicans' supermajority.
Also, by naming a person in a memo last week announcing she was revoking the security clearances of several current/former intelligence officials, Gabbard appears to have identified a CIA officer who was operating under cover.
70 years ago, Emmett Till took a train from Chicago to Mississippi and never made it back alive. Today, his family retraced that journey to honor his life and remind America of the truth: a 14-year-old boy was brutally lynched over lies. We must NEVER forget.
THIS 👉🏾 What price are you willing to pay? “You’re letting masked men snatch girls’ parents off the streets.”
Welch: This is a guy who has redecorated the oval Marie Antoinette style and is building himself a ballroom because he has no intention of leaving.
Daskalakis: I very specifically use the term pregnant people, and very specifically added my pronouns at the end of my resignation letter to make the point that I am defying this terrible strategy of trying to erase people
WHOOPSIE DOODLE
Today’s episode of “Revising history to normalize fascism” www.joemygod.com/2025/08/pent...
www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
Understood. Same same. But we can't give in. It's exactly the outcome we are hoping for.
We need gun control And better mental health support Period
people love bringing up japan when it comes to deporting immigrants/ creating a homogenous society, but if you bring up japan's anti-gun laws it's "woah woah woah"
Divider The Minneapolis Student Church Shooting overwhelmed Jen Psaki …as are the rest of us who don’t offer thoughts and prayers without a thought in the world for the grieving families this time. And next time. And the time after that. #ProudBlue #DemVoice1 #Voices4Victory #ResistanceGunControl
Frey: I think the impetus has to be on all of us to recognize that we've got more guns in this country than we have people, and it's on all of us to recognize the truth and the reality that we can't just say that this shouldn't happen again, and then allow it to happen again and again
Abbe Lowell and I represent CDC Director #SusanMonarez. Contrary to govt statements, Dr. Monarez has neither resigned nor yet been fired. She will not resign. We have issued the following statement:
🚨BREAKING: 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...
Everyone should read Dr. Demetre’s CDC resignation letter. They really are trying to kill us. Partial quote & QR code for full letter below.
Why do this?
Timeline cleanse
NEWS: Japan's top trade negotiator Ryosei Akazawa CANCELS his visit to the United States this week. (Kyodo)
The photo?
CHAOS ERUPTS AT CDC CDC Director Susan Monarez has been ousted after RFK Jr. demanded she change her policy on the COVID vaccine. Top officials from the Vaccine Unit, Zoonotic Division, and the Chief Medical Officer are resigning, per reports. Horrifying news for public health.
Sandwich man is free!!!!
AMERICA: “It’s a mental health issue.” REST OF THE WORLD: “We have those. But don’t have mass shootings.” AMERICA: “It’s video games.” WORLD: “We have those too. But don’t have mass shootings.” AMERICA B: “It’s cause they took Jesus out of the classroom.” WORLD: “God, you’re stupid.”
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/...
The elders are calling bullshit, but the representatives aren’t listening. I feel the aggravation in that room. As though this government was hellbent on causing our elders to go into early graves.
Timeline cleanse
*googling E day*
There’s plenty of disinformation trying to blame the nascent offshore wind industry for whale deaths without evidence. Not only is that misleading, it also takes the focus away from solutions that might actually address the leading causes of death — vessel strikes and entanglement with fishing gear.
Denmark's state broadcaster DR said Danish intelligence services uncovered a network of at least three people working on "influence operations" in Greenland to drive a wedge between Denmark and its territory, which President Donald Trump has said he wants to become part of the United States.
President Donald Trump announced his administration will seek the death penalty for D.C. murders. He said states will have to decide on their own whether to follow suit. bit.ly/4p975ya
NEW: A federal grand jury has REFUSED to indict sandwich guy! I imagine the DoJ will keep trying. They have two weeks, at which point they’ll have to drop the charges or reduce it to a misdemeanor. 🥪 www.nbcnews.com/politics/pol...
#SoftSuccession #BlueStates
Brutal. A humiliation ritual.
FUCK YEAH SCIENCE arstechnica.com/science/2025...
Why do this?
As kids return to school, another mass shooting has stolen young lives. Children shouldn’t fear their classrooms. Teachers shouldn’t risk their lives. Parents shouldn’t wonder if their kids will come home. We are the only country with more guns than people—and this is the devastating result.
This article was published in 2014 theonion.com/no-way-to-pr...
Annunciation Catholic School is K-8, so children as young as five were in the school Mass when the incident happened.
Three people are dead, including the shooter who died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound, and 20 others injured after a shooting at Annunciation Catholic School in Minneapolis. The incident occurred during morning drop-off at the Catholic school. abcnews.go.com/US/shooting-...
🦋 LATEST: Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O'Hara on school shooting at Annunciation Catholic School Two children aged 8 and 10 killed 17 injured; 14 are children with 2 in critical condition Shooter armed with rifle, shotgun & pistol took his own life 🦋
Trump has asked everyone to pray after today's school shooting during the 1st week of classes at Annunciation Catholic School in southern Minneapolis. Our hearts & thoughts are with their community but we are calling on him & Congress to pass gun control laws NOW! www.cnn.com/2025/08/27/u...
A lot of times, I just repost because I don't have the words.
"You cannot put into words the gravity, the tragedy, or the absolute pain of this situation." Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey speaks at a press conference for shooting at Annunciation Catholic School www.msnbc.com/top-stories/...
It's. The. Guns.
Frey: And don't just say, this is about thoughts and prayers right now. These kids were literally praying. It was the first week of school. They were in a church.
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These guys should be home with their families.
#Chicago There is no emergency according to the Governor, the Mayor, the FBI's own stats. Even if the courts stop Trump the whole American Fascist Party has to be removed from power.
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."
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go.bsky.app/BADjdeM Even though injustice is hitting us hard we do not lose our faith Kilmar Abrego GARCIA 8-25-2025
BREAKING: Abrego Garcia just renewed his bid for asylum. Keep fighting!
National Guard is now tasked with picking up garbage in DC
Update: last night, the council passed both the policy to ban ICE from doing warrantless arrests at ticketed street festivals, and the community workforce agreement to require unionized labor on big city contracts!
For all the dog lovers. This is a classic. Worth seeing again.
Timeline cleanse: The Boogie Woogie Twins - Dr. John & Jools Holland's legendary duet from NBC's Night Music show, 1988. (It's now on Jools Holland's album Pianola: Piano & Friends)
DAILY MEMO: ''A-Kidnapping We WILL Go:’ Agents Mock With Nearly 50 Kidnappings Since Friday" @eltragon.bsky.social
Y’all are wild
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This is going to cost them so much money just to appease proslavery racists. What a shame.
Woohoo!!!! We're #1 Roll Call 1, that is. Happy Tuesday, everyone. Thanks @hopeful66.bsky.social 😊💖💙🩵💜🩵💖👆🫂
Um, no. No he can't.
Couldn't be happier for them.
I don’t think he's selling bibles. The gag was listing it with a sold out stamp.
And that leads us to *checks notes* the 2020 coup attempt by 47. Is that right?
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