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Wow! Billionaire hedge fund manager Ray Dalio calls out this autocratic power grab & says historically “most people are silent because they are afraid of retaliation if they criticise.” It’s up to us to keep fighting for a future where everyone can thrive. www.ft.com/content/b86b...
Pritzker: "Any rational person who has spent even the most minimal amount of time studying human history has to ask themselves one important question: once they get the citizens of this nation comfortable with the current atrocities committed under the color of law, what comes next?"
That Pritzker press conference was... surreal, and I think marks a significant moment of escalation in the constitutional omni-crisis. This was the governor of a state saying plainly the Union itself is being torn apart and his state is being militarily invaded by an authoritarian regime.
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I'm aware that the President likes to go on television and beg me to call him to ask for troops. I find it strange, as Chicago doesn't want troops. I also have experience asking him for assistance – just to have the rug pulled up from underneath me when execution meets reality.
Pritzker: "I refuse to pretend that any of this is normal ... I refuse to fall into the pundit trap that demands we sacrifice vital constitutional rights if it's being done in the fake guise of fighting crime."
Jesse Watters accidentally declared that the Fox News merch is made in China. So much for America First and made in the U.S.A.
Pritzker: "He has no idea what's he's talking about. There is no emergency that warrants deployment of troops. He is insulting the people of Chicago by calling our home a hellhole, and anyone that takes his word at face value is insulting Chicagoans too."
Pritzker: When did we become a country where it's okay for the president to insist on national television that a state should call him to beg for anything, especially something we don't want? Have we truly lost all sense of sanity in this nation that we treat this as normal?
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. 👀
What are they pumping into Donald Trump right now to give him energy to do this press conference that was scheduled for 2 pm but still hasn't started at 2:36 pm? Any guesses? This is what corporate media and MAGA did 24-7 with Biden. Perfectly fair to ask.
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I know, I know, but: The president of the US saying, literally, "we're going in" in reference to sending the military to an American city for no reason beyond terrorizing the local population should be the most immediately impeachable shit imaginable
New York does not miss. The bleach did it for me. 😭
Senate Democrats: DO NOT FUND the government when the current continuing resolution expires at the end of the month. SHUT IT DOWN unless DC is funded, the troops are withdrawn from our cities, elections are protected, the Epstein files are released in full... SHUT IT DOWN.
Pritzker: "It breaks my heart to report that we have been told ICE will try to disrupt community picnics and peaceful parades. Let's be clear -- the terror and cruelty is the point, not the safety of anybody living here."
OVER THE WEEKEND: Wisconsin liberal activist and brewer Kirk Bangstad files class-action lawsuit in federal court in Madison, WI over masking of ICE agents. Doc: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
SPOTTED: Mobile billboards driving around D.C. demanding federal agents take their masks off — because public servants should face the public. Go follow @ofthebraveusa.bsky.social!
It’s odd that the president would need to give an Oval Office address about something as arbitrary (albeit idiotic) as moving Space Force or renaming the DoD. I have to assume he’s doing it because he knows the world thinks he’s hiding.
Every movement built around a single man faces the same question: what happens when he’s gone? And now with Trump visibly unraveling, many are asking what the MAGA succession plan looks like. While JD Vance hopes to be Trump's heir, he simply doesn’t inspire the same blind devotion.
Pritzker: "When did we become a country where it's ok for the US president to insist on national television that a state should call him to beg for anything? Especially something we don't want. Have we truly lost all sense of sanity in this nation that we treat this as normal?"
Trump promised lower prices on Day One. Instead he’s raised prices on everything from groceries to electric bills to health insurance premiums.
One of the biggest topics in the history of this time is how the media simply ignored this guy's ignorance, poor cognition, mental health issues, lack of basic morals and simply treated everything he said as a a serious proposal instead of as the unhinged rambling of a truly foul human being.
I love this guy
Los Angeles, CA Music Festival 9/1/25
"That is why 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." Yes, there is a difference.
This happened while my dead brother was still in a freezer. (We finally buried him, with lots of masking and distancing and people standing in a parking lot, a week later. He'd been dead for almost two months.)
If they enact a new illegal congressional map, Missouri will be sued.
He didn’t know about the the CDC decision on COVID shots until the announcement, even though he led division on vaccination & respiratory disease He kept asking to see the justifying evidence, or hear from experts who supported the move RFK’s team kept saying no www.thebulwark.com/p/kennedy-rf...
Ever since Trump met with Putin in Alaska, we've seen Russia increase deadly attacks on Ukraine including it appears executing a Ukrainian political leader. Trump must have told Putin in private do whatever you want. Or Putin saw Trump is physically so weak he knows he can do what he wants.
If all the documents were released, all the records, all the interviews, if every shred of paper written on the Epstein sex trafficking operation were released tomorrow, there would still be horrific things we’ll never know. Think about that.
This. They must go. Removing them must become a top Congressional priority or the deaths they cause will be on the hands of every member of Congress...and lest they think there be no consequences, those deaths will be mounting up by the time of next year's election.
Half a year of Trumpian diplomacy on display. Where will we be after 4 years? edition.cnn.com/2025/09/01/w...
I think it's time to discuss the 25th Amendment.
In July, Florida Republicans launched the brutal “Alligator Alcatraz” immigration detention center deep in the Florida Everglades. But less than two months later, the camp is being dismantled by DHS and emptied of detainees after a district judge ruled that it violated federal environmental law.
9 CDC Directors going back to 1977 speak out. What RFK Jr has done to our nation’s public health system "should alarm every American." It "is unlike anything we have ever seen at the agency, and unlike anything our country has ever experienced." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...
This man is an authentic American hero A Black man facing armed federal agents to stand up for his youth baseball team. Brave. www.wcpo.com/politics/imm...
We do not fully grasp how damaging the SCOTUS’ presidential immunity decision was. What we know is it was a disaster and the huge damage it has caused is being compounded daily. That is because the result is a collaboration between corrupt justices, a supine Congress and a demented President.
Troops in the streets and he thinks he’s going to get a Nobel, peace begins at home
Does pushing India closer to China and Russia make America great again? www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/w...
GOV. @gavinnewsom.bsky.social : “Facts are stubborn things… Mississippi, Tennessee, Arkansas…. Alabama is a top 3 murder state. Where is the President? — He isn’t focused on crime & violence. It’s about an expression of authoritarianism.” (H/T @acyn.bsky.social )
This is Thanos. He has figured out how to rest and babysit at the same time. Very impressive, very Montessori. 13/10 (TT: thanosthesaint)
Trump is starting Gilead policies here... www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Everyone at the CDC is getting fired or resigning. RFK Jr. wants to ban all vaccines. His idiocy will get millions of people killed.
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.
"It never does any good to suck up to an autocrat. He will screw you over anyway. You should preserve your integrity and your dignity if he's going to try to steal everything else." www.youtube.com/watch?v=7CaI...
*We all die!* Joni Ernst is not running again 💙💙 GO BLUE 💙💙
BOOM! Iowa Sen. Joni Ernst isn't running! Bye. You won't be missed.
Hi, immunologist here: (a scientist who studies immune & inflammatory processes) RFK Jr is talking absolute bullshit when he says he can “see in kids faces that they have inflammation” That’s NOT how immunology works. He is an anti-science profiteer. Start calling him such.
If I were charged with a federal crime, I’d hire Pam Bondi’s brother as my lawyer. Because I don’t think this is a coincidence.
WHOOPSIE DOODLE
Interim CDC Director Jim O’Neill thinks we should be able to decide to sell our own organs if we want since there are “plenty of healthy spare kidneys walking around, unused”. Which is problematic enough, but just wait until *he* decides he should be able to sell your organs.
Welch: Everybody's missing the point here. The point is, he's doing this on purpose. He's priming the public to get accustomed to having the military in the streets
"Hats off to the good citizens of the District of Columbia and the others who are meeting this moment with signs of fight and the recognition of what we’re facing."
That’s what they want. Don’t let them win.
Consider sharing. The time for debate is over. The time for hoping they’ll play fair is over. The path forward is crystal clear: We either use the power we have, or we lose the country we love. There are no other options left. Prop 50 is the path. Vote YES on 50. #yeson50
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.”
Can't believe that in 2025 we have to be telling people that vaccines are safe and slavery was bad.
Absolutely.
As I speak across Missouri's 2nd Congressional District and the St. Louis area I keep hearing our fellow Americans expressing doubt and fear of what lies ahead. We have to push away defeatism. It’s nothing more than surrendering in advance. I refuse. You should too. Check out my new post!
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.
ICE’s unchecked power has turned into lawless overreach—abductions by masked agents, denial of due process, secret police tactics. Democratic leaders can stop this, but only if we demand it: bit.ly/45Umbi3
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Welch: He claims that he's the law and order president. But we all know that's a lie because he's a convicted felon. He pardons convicted felons, he surrounds himself with obsequious people that kiss his all day, every day
NEW: A federal judge ordered an Arkansas school district to take down Ten Commandments displays in its classrooms following our lawsuit.
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
Newsom: Perhaps the president could deploy the National Guard in every corner of Mississippi. Murder rate is out of control there. And the governor may want to make that phone call.
It’s not “we.” It’s Trump & team.
Ashley Babbit dishonored her service by committing insurrection against her country. While her death is absolutely tragic and I wish it hadn’t happened, the Air Force giving her honors is in itself a dishonor.
I dare you to go to Annunciation School and tell our grieving community, in effect, guns don’t kill kids, antidepressants do. Just shut up. Stop peddling bullshit. You should be fired.
As the CDC descends into chaos, this seems like a good moment to re-up this piece about the senator who helped give us RFK Jr. open.substack.com/pub/charlies...
Mark this day as the death of expertise at the CDC. All we have between us and the next pandemic are a bunch of horse paste eating conspiracy loons.
I have a dream… That one day people will care about children the way they care about embryos.
It’s almost as if appointing an anti-vax lunatic with zero qualifications to oversee America’s health was a numbskull idea and everybody with a functioning brain knew it.
Right-wing pundits and hacks are only concerned about the Minneapolis shooter being identified as a trans female. The mass shooting, the assault rifle, the radical hate and anti-semitism, the embrace of previous white nationalist shooters, the endless gun violence in this country? All good.
Dr. William Foege, 89, who helped end smallpox in the 1970s, recently wrote: RFK Jr.’s “words can be as lethal as the smallpox virus.” And his actions are more lethal still. He’s waging war on America. That’s an impeachable offense. He must be removed from office. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/27/h...
Louisiana GOP Officials ask US Supreme Court to gut Voting Rights Act and ban use of race in redistricting. If they succeed, next GOP will ask Supreme Court to end the Civil Rights Act ban on racial discrimination. GOP has gone full white hoods as they seek to impose a new American apartheid
“It’s a five alarm fire for democracy in the United States of America.” — Gov Gavin Newsom
Disease will no longer be controlled in America
The President of the United States sat in the Oval Office and said "a lot of people are saying maybe we'd like a dictator" and that is not even a top story.
It’s continues to be despicable how the media has spent a decade normalizing the orange felon so much so that they are reporting on his authoritarian militarization of Washington DC as if it were a routine military exercise. They deliberately failed democracy for clickbait.
In a functional government, this would be a five alarm fire where Congress calls in Kennedy and asks him what the fuck is going on
Trump’s ICE goons now literally arresting firefighters. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
When we rise, we win! stacked.mothersfordemocracypac.com/p/when-we-ri...
Jones responds to Ogles…
Why aren't Democratic leaders holding daily press conferences to list out every single authoritarian action he's taking each day? Please. Start now. Stop waiting for what the polls say. Stop looking to consultants for what language to use. Speak plainly about fascism now. START NOW!
“This is just another sad, desperate attempt by a small man, to distract the American people from ... the countless personal scandals he’s trying to sweep under the rug,” Duckworth said about Trump. RELEASE THE EPSTEIN FILES More here:
On the same day the FDA restricted access to COVID vaccines, the CDC director was sacked and top CDC scientists are resigning. And it’s barely been two weeks since an antivax conspiracy theorist fired 180 bullets at CDC headquarters. None of this is making America healthier. What a disaster.
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