Portland, Maine crowd as Democratic US Senate candidate Graham Platner takes the stage today.
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Portland, Maine crowd as Democratic US Senate candidate Graham Platner takes the stage today.
This is what Trumpism does. It drives our allies, enemies and adversaries closer together.
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If that Trump Truth Social account posts an apology to someone, admits making a mistake, or accepts responsibility for something, then we will know something is definitely up.
Newsom responds to Trump’s odd post announcing he is going to bed early
This is the way
REP. BUDDY CARTER: We want to make sure that children are protected from trans and that we keep men out of girls' locker rooms REP. WESLEY BELL: So we're going back to attacking trans folks ... let's talk about what's actually happening here
Pritzker: "National Guard troops, any kind of troops, on the streets of American city don't belong unless there is an insurrection, unless there is truly an emergency. There is not."
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."
Pritzker on Trump's authoritarian takeover: "The playbook is the same. It's thwart the media. It's create mayhem that requires military interdiction. These are things that happen throughout history and Donald Trump is just following that playbook."
Pritzker: "We want more help—civilian law enforcement help. We would like ATF agents to help us take more guns off the street. We would like FBI to coordinate with local law enforcement to help catch perpetrators. If they do that, we'd welcome it. That's not what they're doing."
The clown show never stops. bsky.app/profile/atru...
Kristi Noem: "We absolutely are not looking through the viewpoint at anything we're doing with a political lens."
Lori Chavez DeRemer: "Consumer confidence is up." (Consumer confidence is actually way down since Trump's second inauguration.)
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.
@meetthepress.com, Trump and JD Vance have a failed economic record. The facts: - Consumer confidence has tanked - Farm closures have doubled - Manufacturing is down 7 months in a row - CPI is 3% & the price of hamburgers has surged - Unemployment for recent college grads is over 11%
I'm reading John Fugelsang's remarkable new book, Separation of Church and Hate, and came across this passage (pic below). Can I suggest substituting "Trump" for "Rome" and keep the ... well ... faith that America has better days ahead. @johnfugelsang.bsky.social
Raddatz: "There are people out there that don't feel safe." Moore: "My heart breaks for anybody in our community and doesn't feel safe...I know what that feels like. I would love more federal support...on things that actually make sense, not on things that are performative."
> @governor.ca.gov
..”Witkoff isn’t confused. He’s obsessed. Like Trump, he came up in the real estate world of the 1990s, making money with the same Russian oligarchs who answer directly to the Kremlin. They were both swimming in Moscow’s dirty money long before Ukraine was ever on the headlines.”
CHICAGO…
Trump needs to post an unhinged, hateful all caps screed as proof of life
we'll know it's for real when Fox News starts playing Lee Greenwood's rendition of "Swan Lake" on loop
So good
The -tic is silent.
As @SpeakerJohnson @RepTimBurchett and others make it clear Republicans are going to attack trans people (to distract from common sense gun laws) — GROK tells @philinvestigates.com the data shows there is “no substantial link”
Inhuman. “I don’t have any choice” is a lie.
Fitting for a 5 year old is what he said
🔥 @airborne1970.bsky.social : “When you get rid of SNAP benefits— what’s a poor family gonna do? The middle class has carried this country since Reagan said ‘trickle-down economics’. Time for the billionaires to carry this country. That’s how 🇺🇸 will get great. But not under this regime.”
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Chinese officials "were saying, it's very interesting to watch President Trump because we've had a long-term strategy to basically try to weaken and divide America's alliances....President Trump is just doing it for us." Jake Sullivan joins @timmiller.bsky.social on the latest Bulwark Podcast:
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Bingo
From the bassinet of the president
😂 sure
I wonder if Hassett ever found his stolen baseball cards. #BetterCallSaul
Our constitutional republic does not have any provision which allows a president to enact a criminal statute by executive order that would put people in prison. bsky.app/profile/atru...
“I’m about to lose my farm… Do you think we’re idiots? You know nothing about what a working class citizen does.” 🔥 Whew. Watch. Share.
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OPINION: ‘They have a 50 state strategy’: PragerU’s alternative to PBS hits U.S. classrooms PragerU has found their biggest champion in Oklahoma, but “we don’t need PragerU to come in and tell us how to teach our kids,” says State Rep. and social studies teacher John Waldron.
Walz says Harris "would have been a fantastic president... we wouldn't wake up every day to a bunch of shit on TV. We would wake up to an adult w/ compassion & dignity doing the work, not a manchild crying about whatever is wrong with him. May his fat ankles find something today. Petty as hell."
No self awareness at all.
Over an hour of questions today. None about this.
Tim Walz: "I always get in trouble for it and I'll continue to say it, I don't think we do any favors when we don't name it -- these are fascist policies."
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As @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social says - Kilmar was not “validated” MS-13. This is a lie based on witnesses with a lot to gain (shorter sentences etc), the Tennessee judge did not buy it They also said he brought his kids on cross-country smuggling rides multiple times weekly. (1 has autism)
I don’t feel safe with Trump in charge.
A majority of the Norwegian Nobel Committee panel have concerns that could torpedo Trump's ambition.
Moskowitz on Vance's comments about Russia's war on Ukraine: "It's just adjective, verb, Joe Biden."
Moskowitz on Trump: "Just treat Russia like you're treating Washington DC, or how you treated Greenland or Canada when you came into office. Where is that President Trump with the Russians? It seems like he's tougher on Chicago than he is dealing with Putin."
Gov. Wes Moore: "I always thought that the Republican Party was the one that wanted to get big government out of our lives. And we have never seen such an overreach of big government like we are seeing with the Trump administration."
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MAGA preacher: “And the Lord raised up a thrice-married New York real estate developer to show American Christians what manhood and warrior courage looks like.”
He’s complaining about having to wear a yellow polyester jumpsuit and says the conditions violate the 5th Amendment prohibition against cruel and unusual punishment. (It’s 8th Amendment)
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On the way. Using the FBI to raid the homes of your critics? Authoritiarian. ✔️
Here is how the media should be reporting this morning's news. As part of a growing pattern of political retribution, Donald Trump's FBI has raided the home of a prominent administration critic. In this instance it happens to be John Bolton. The pretense is largely irrelevant.
Comer Simpson
Petition to refresh the Cracker Barrel logo—restoring its old glory with a proper, updated flair!
“First they came for Uncle Ben and Aunt Jemima, and I said everything — it’s not just a restaurant, it’s my heritage!” Hope you’re happy @CrackerBarrel you finally broke @brentterhune.bsky.social
Turns out the absurd red envelope with cash in the potato chip bag to reporters at Mayor Adams campaign rallies wasn’t a one time thing. So, yeah. #ZohranForMayor www.nytimes.com/2025/08/21/n...
In case you missed it, this is fucked www.nytimes.com/2025/08/21/u...
Page One. @washingtonpost.com
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Someone’s jealous 😂
that summit could've been an email
OBAMA TO TEXAS DEMS: "We became complacent... This precious democracy is not a given. It requires us to fight for it." 🇺🇸
speaks volumes… this won’t stop with Ukraine…
Oh pleeze 🤦♀️
Wow— Republican Rep. Carl DeMaio hung a curveball over the fat part of the plate and Newsom’s crew was waiting on it and hit it into the Pacific Ocean 👀 They are not playing. Goodnight Carl.
She’s insufferable.
Governor Newsom declares today “A SUCCESSFUL LIBERATION DAY!”
"He stiffs contractors. He announces tariffs and calls them 'deals.' He shakes down an ally for its minerals and calls it a 'partnership.' He tells a victim nation to cede land and calls it a 'swap.'" He doesn't understand consent in *any* context.
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Obama met with Texas House Democrats to praise them for leaving the state to stop a GOP-backed redistricting effort. “He was very clear: If we are all playing to our higher angels as politicians, we should want the people determining our lines,” state Rep. Ann Johnson told us.
uhhhhhhhhh
Why does this entire administration struggle with the concept of linear time?
I was thinking the exact same thing.
The Republican senate confirms this guy? A final victory for the cult.
A late night message from Gavin Newsom
Imagine the reaction from Republicans if Obama or Biden “opened up Alaska’s natural resources” to a foreign adversary like Putin. www.telegraph.co.uk/us/news/2025...
Trump's BLS pick EJ Antoni has said that Social Security, America's greatest anti-poverty program, is a "Ponzi scheme" that needs to be sunset. Reminder that BLS data is what determines annual cost-of-living adjustments for Social Security benefits. This is a five-alarm fire.
Oddly enough, when Trump’s approval rating started sinking a few months ago, he actually did argue that independent pollsters “should be investigated for election fraud” for releasing data he didn’t like: www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...
We just threw up a little
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NEWS: U.S. layoffs in July surged to highest level since the early months of the COVID pandemic, jumping 29% from June and 140% compared to July 2024.
He doesn’t blink
You ok, Kash?
😂
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👏👏👏
Hasn’t changed
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Donald Trump, Speaker Mike Johnson, and Pamela Jo Bondi are all working overtime to protect someone so evil and abhorrent that she isn't even trusted to be around dogs. They are *not* good people or followers of Jesus.
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👂ZOHRAN: “This is not just buzzy, it’s disqualifying.” @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social talks to Brian Lehrer about reports of Cuomo talking directly to Trump about how to stop him, and says the city needs a mayor willing to stand up to Trump, not a collaborator — like Cuomo, or corrupt Adams.
NEWSMAX: CBS and CNN and others are attributing airplane turbulence to higher temperatures and climate change. Has this come across your desk? LEE ZELDIN: Listen, this is crazy. And it just doesn't pass any smell test for even the average layman in this country.
Just absolute, needless cruelty that has no business being policy in our modern times.