it is genuinely wild that Trump’s top domestic policy guy is basically a monarchist who has all but written that he thinks Trump should rule as a dictator
it is genuinely wild that Trump’s top domestic policy guy is basically a monarchist who has all but written that he thinks Trump should rule as a dictator
Lord save us: "Paramount is on the verge of acquiring Bari Weiss’s The Free Press and tossing her the keys to CBS News. The deal is on the 1-yard line, I’m told."
Just to be clear, the lesson 47 learned from Harvard is NOT "don't pull grant funding (or renege on contracts to reimburse for work performed) based on flimsy, unconstitutional pretext." It's "when you pull grant funding and renege on contracts to reimburse for work, don't tell the university why."
This is also why I reject the idea that the 2SS will die at one exact moment. If annexation occurs, annexation can be overturned. If partition occurred, partition could be overturned. I don't believe in some permanence that isn't malleable. But this makes the apartheid/not tougher for liberal Jews.
Why didn’t some of the Epstein survivors speak out earlier? “I thought someone was going to kill me,” one explained. As another asked, “Why did the government work so hard to protect Jeffrey Epstein and not victims like me?”
Trump had 8 fighter jets flyover the #Epstein survivor conference, interrupting them mid speech. #opdeatheaters
Ahahah
I spent two hours listening to four of the right's leading thinkers debate topics such as: -should Black men in Baltimore be indentured to churches? -should Ron DeSantis create a youth militant organization in Florida? -is the American public crying out for purges? www.vox.com/on-the-right...
🚨NEW: Declarations filed in the lawsuit against the rushed attempt to deport 600 Guatemalan children reveals the chaotic way the Trump admin carried out the operation. Children were taken out of bed after midnight to be rushed onto planes. One girl "was so scared she vomited."
Explaining to people on here what the letter of the law verbatim says on arms transfers vis a vis humanitarian law and presidential authority was like pulling teeth.
National Guardsmen now stationed outside our DC building confirmed that the only thing they can do if they witness a crime is call 911. The have no more authority than my office mate to intervene. Despite the handcuffs, they can't make arrests. They are very expensive mall cops.
The whole piece is terrific but the concluding paragraphs really nail it
As a governor who cares about the well-being of my people, I can’t live in a fantasy land where I pretend Trump is not tearing this country apart for personal greed and power.
TBH I have seen multiple people say that the endorsement game is only important to Bluesky users and means nothing to real life voters and this is definitely not true at least re: Muslims. To be blunt, a lot of Muslims see how Mamdani and Fateh are treated. This is kind of a real problem.
One of which being the minor detail that deploying them off federal property in the territory of one state under another state's authority without the permission of the government of the first state is quite literally an invasion
🧵 Wait for it...
Tom Suozzi voted to censure fellow Democrat Al Green. He has also accepted more than $300k from the pro-Israel lobby.
Dems should Polarize The F--- out of the national debate over RFK, vaccines, and public health
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Powerful.
Quit your job, loser.
dems are not going to get the leadership they deserve, and america is not going to right the ship, until people like jeffries and schumer start paying with their careers and in humiliating fashion
this pencil-dick needs to be primaried
This is so cool.
We could not have placed a more worthless, spineless schmuck in this position. History will remember his name alongside Vidkun Quisling, if history bothers to remember him at all. It is difficult to properly articulate my spite for this stain of a human, this smear on the toilet paper of history.
"It is past time for both Hakeem Jeffries and Chuck Schumer to step down and step aside. This fascist moment, this age of Trump, demands outspoken, unrelenting and fearless opposition... we all deserve better." I make the case, in my latest for The Guardian, for new leadership:
Well bitch Democratic primary voters disagree
America is dealing with an accelerating fascist movement that is adopting some of the darkest nazi beliefs possible all while the fascist in power is using ground troops to invade opposition cities and states while claiming the opposition are “vermin” and “cockroaches” you don't get clearer on this
Trump's obsession with sending military in has nothing to do with the facts but with showing force in urban centers that are perceived as "black" and have black mayors.
whenever a progressive Democrat raises a million dollars by promising to fight the GOP it triggers Chuck Schumer's Spidey Sense and he rushes to find the oldest, most depressing moderate available to challenge them and placate the donors
Massie: "The Speaker of the House just offered a fig leaf to my colleagues. They're gonna vote on a non-binding resolution today that does absolutely nothing ... they're allowing the DOJ to curate all of the information that the DOJ is giving them ... the perpetrators are being protected"
this physically pains me to read
The loop the Democrats didn’t fully close on their “weird” talking point is that great wealth and unaccountable power corrupts the minds and souls of the people who desire and possess them—they become ever weirder and unhinged because they are so detached from the concerns of us normies.
“following rumors of his death donald trump held a press conference announcing extrajudicial killings of civilians and plans for a military invasion of an american city” is a perfectly factual headline that could be used to describe what we saw yesterday
Also why is a Democratic leader asking Trump to legislate
So despite no Authorization for Use of Military Force and no possible invocation of the War Powers Act, the U.S. military is now going to be drone striking people alleged to be committing a crime? Again, on what legal authority?
someone tell Ross Barkan that black commentators in the 1930s and 40s both identified Jim Crow as a variety of fascism and saw right-wing movements in this country — some antecedents of Trump, in fact — as operating along the same continuum.
goddamn I'm sick of these fucking people
Congress has constructively dissolved itself
i don't think it's great that there is no one in the GOP asking about congressional war powers
The Everglades Concentration Camp costs 3x one of these trains.
And it has to be something pretty blunt. It can’t be “Donald Trump is taxing consumers with tariffs.” That’s true but won’t be amplified. “Donald Trump raped teen girls and called it a wonderful secret” would get some attention if said enough.
A sick man is in charge. Rather than reporting on this, the #BrokenTimes mocks citizens' concerns. President Trump Is Alive. The Internet Was Convinced Otherwise. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/02/u...
I’ll never understand how “you get the post-1945 international political economy of the entire world rigged in your favor and I get to wear a dress sometimes without being murdered” was seen as an arrangement unfairly rigged in my favor by like half of American elites.
It’s not just that the President of the United States posted a video of eleven people being murdered in international waters it’s that the President of the United States ordered the murder of eleven people in international waters so he could post a video of it.
Do we realize how insane this is? Obliterating people in international waters because they are *suspected* of crimes? We used to fight pirates, not operate as one. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/02/u...
Creating a force that can kill people at will almost anywhere on the globe and then giving control over that force to one person with no operable constraints is a way to make very bad things happen. Intentionally killing non-combatants without trial is one of those.
Local man embraces fascism.
If the only other choice is Mills, Mainers should take their chances with the galoot.
why hasnt a democrat had their mic cut on fox news yet for repeatedly bringing up trumps connections to epstein
the democratic party's bias to normalcy is gonna kill us off. the gop is literally talking about a military junta and the democratic leader is operating like he can just cut a deal with republicans like its normal times.
Wherever there's an inspiring younger candidate for office, rest assured that the leadership of the congressional Democrats will do whatever they can to snuff it the fuck out. Jeffries already has Mamdani covered, so Schumer is going to take down Platner.
The reason I go to these events and rallies and post these photos is because another world isn't just POSSIBLE, it's HERE and has ALWAYS been here. The racists are liars because racism is built on lies. This country is ALL of us, and we are going to win. bsky.app/profile/greg...
This is like watching a Victorian time traveler befuddled at trying to work an iPhone. Just completely lost and confused by all the intervening context of the different era he's now in.
Look out Ward 5 - cluster of unmarked cars with guys in tactical gear at old Walgreens at RI Ave and Montana NE @cmzparker5.bsky.social @spacelawshitpost.me @tombridge.com
Schumer is out of his fucking mind. www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...
White Nationalism is so pathetic and immediately an indicator of microscopic horizons. We live on a rock in space with animals and humans in a vast universe of unfathomable age. Wrapping yourself in the flag and people who look like you is the same developmental rung as a pacifier and blankie
Absolutely the fuck not NO DYNASTIES
People, get ready. Trump’s just a punk-ass chump, and I have faith in the people of Chicago. We’ve got this.
WOW. I missed this last week. What a disgraceful decision to bar nonprofits like the League of Women Voters from registering voters after naturalization ceremonies.
be loud for america is probably one of the most cogent things a dem politician has said in recent years
Did anyone at the times think to call Jon Gruden's office?
All Nazi shit by definition!! All of it!!
The kind of organized resistance that tells a story about Chicago rejecting this authoritarian maneuver (which is not a question about crime rates at all, but a question about whether authoritarian consolidation should be resisted, period) will take organization.
Someone asked me what victory against the forces seeking to occupy Chicago looks like. Obviously, those forces being repelled is the goal, but there are layers to what success looks like in these deteriorating conditions. The first is to successfully resist the normalization of military occupation.
"[Rep. Ritchie] Torres is one of the most prolific backers of Israel in Congress, and has gained a reputation for his often heinous comments regarding the genocide. His top contributor is [AIPAC] ... and the pro-Israel lobby gave his campaign over $1.1 million in the 2023-2024 election cycle alone."
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?
The Senate should be convicting by now.
“Film things you see happening…Be loud for America” is quite the rallying cry.
Guardsmen have a choice to make: If you show up here, you'll have disgraced your uniform and tarnished your service, which you should no longer expect to be thanked for. To be sure, saying "I won't do that" isn't an easy or consequence-free choice. But it's one you'll be judged on.
Loser who loves losing mad at criticisms of losers. 🌊🌊🌊
Hey @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social: you said this three days ago. And now today you want to find bipartisan solutions with them? Why should any person take you fucking seriously? bsky.app/profile/hake...
It might be a 15 year-old meme format, but at least it's really poorly executed.
Woody Allen and Donald Trump's mutual admiration is just too on the nose for a Tuesday. On top of sharing hang-out buddy Jeffrey Epstein - coincidence! - Woody's daughter-marrying must make Trump engorged (sort of) with respect. He did it, Don. The dream lives.
This continues in a long line of cooperation and collaboration between the federal and metropolitan police departments highlighted by the DHS fusion center on MLK ave. As long as Black people are considered acceptable sacrifices we’ll always see this sort of capitulation.
Man, she *really* wants that stadium.
Any person watching this can assume that he’s ok with what the regime is doing. Is it normalcy or complicity?
"Why didn't voters listen to Democrats' warnings about Trump?"
Imagining how galvanizing a simple "Democrats will never find common ground with racist thieves" would be, instead of being served this putrid gruel.
The greatest gift you can give Trump if you don't support him is pretending like he's the eternal god king who will never die. He deserves the level of ridicule he got this weekend every single day.
Oh, and if you're shaming people for speculating that he's dead or sick, get a grip. That's just the centrist in you, and you should kill that part dead. Speculate! Joke about it! Point out that he's weak and pathetic! He's going to die someday.
The Vice President was in private chats with minors while he was in his 30s
bUt ThiS Is tHe OnlY wAy DeMocRAts CaN wIn
cw: suicide i tried to end my life 4 times as a teen & not once could i have had my mom speak for me because i was afraid of what would happen if *anyone* knew “i’m actually a girl & people keep assaulting me.” someone else in my family would’ve sent me to boot camp. this policy will kill kids.
Microsoft tried to renew my Office subscription last night. They were disappointed.
"maybe we can find common ground" please resign and let someone who actually opposes fascism do the job
oh are we going to do dumber gulf of tonkin
Trump’s entire right hand appears to be covered in pan makeup:
The Olympics aren't happening in the US.
Checkmate, libs
This should be outside, on the Rose Garden patio, in dry, 76° weather. It sure looks like was set up to be that way, which means they couldn't risk having him walk more than a few steps.
LOL they brought a lectern into the oval office just to make a point of him standing.
"Trump" is now speaking at the White House.
Huntsville, Alabama is where they put a lot of the NASA Nazis during Operation Paperclip.
eye roll
You need your parents’ permission to not commit suicide?
actual footage of the white house rn
