This is a United States senator, on his official government account, publicly saying full white nationalism & great replacement theory is central to the country’s identity & the GOP platform. Also: explicitly opposing Lincoln’s message in Gettysburg Address (reference to “proposition”)
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.
Apologies for following the Constitution instead of the crazy illegitimate zealots on the SC? Great. They’re in office to follow the Constitution- all of them.
BREAKING: On a 2-1 vote, D.C. Circuit denies the Trump administration's request to let Trump fire a Federal Trade commissioner during appeals. Citing Humphrey's Executor, about the FTC: "To grant a stay would be to defy the Supreme Court's decisions that bind our judgments. That we will not do."
Sadly, this administration will just lie if/ when the numbers are bad.
The number of homeless Americans over the age of 65 is expected to more than double in the next five years and for most of them, it will be their first time being unhoused. NBC News’ Stephanie Gosk traveled to Arizona, where homeless seniors are fighting rising rents and hundred-degree days.
The largest SNAP cuts in history went into effect yesterday, eliminating or drastically cutting food assistance for millions of Americans. And it’s all to pay for more tax cuts that primarily benefit the super-rich. Trickle-down economics isn't just a hoax — it's cruel.
If Joe Biden had a now near constant hand bruise--likely from some sort of regular IV--gave the press a flimsy excuse of it being "aspirin therapy" and from "shaking too many hands," and regular tried to hide it with makeup, I'm not sure the news media would be covering anything else.
According to the press release, they expect ~107,000 residents of #NY15 alone to lose healthcare coverage due to the #BigUglyBill, and that's just via Medicaid & the Essential Plan. Several thousand ACA exchange enrollees will also be priced out of coverage. That's over 15% of the total population.
this is almost certainly under Title 32 authorities (meaning the TX guard will be nominally under TX state control but on a federal mission), meaning the posse comitatus issues that came up in California will not apply. that said, it raises a whole lot of other legal problems
Being pro-drowning of children seems like a real are-we-the-baddies moment www.npr.org/sections/sho...
The one where a national reporter finds out what I’ve said all along about Dems focusing on Epstein— voters are not focused on the files. Every group I’ve spoken to is concerned about Medicaid cuts and grocery prices and high rent. I hope Democrats will listen. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
I just received notice there’s going to be a military flyover of DC tomorrow at 11am, just in time to distract from the 10:30 press announcement about the Epstein victims. Surely the timing is coincidental.
It’s the opposite. His tariffs are inflicting severe financial damage. But the illegitimate court is basically his lapdog.
More than 85 scientists say that a recent U.S. Department of Energy report is full of errors and misrepresents climate science.
2/ If Trump cared about lowering crime rates, then why did he cut the gun violence prevention programs? Maybe @morningjoe-msnbc.bsky.social & others could talk about that. "In Chicago alone, seven organizations lost almost $16 million." www.thetrace.org/2025/08/trum...
I am so disgustingly sick of avoidable tragedies like the mass shooting at Annunciation Church (where I was baptized) in Minneapolis. The problem is simple: it's the guns. Here's the data, charts, and maps that prove it, with plenty of robust international comparisons:
CNN - A federal judge rules that President Trump and Defense Secretary Hegseth violated federal law by using the US military to help carry out law enforcement activities in and around Los Angeles this summer. www.cnn.com/2025/09/02/p...
4. After Trump won the 2024 election, we found out. Crypto entrepreneur Justin Sun — who was being prosecuted by the SEC for fraud and market manipulation — purchased $75 million worth of WLFI. Sun's investment paid off. In February, the SEC told a judge it was halting the prosecution of Sun.
But it’s true. He’s taking large stakes in private companies. That’s exactly what the GOP has been screaming that the DNC will do.
2/ this is quite revealing about the local impacts of data farms: www.bbc.com/news/article...
She’s no First Lady. This isn’t in her contract.
Congress was supposed to have the purse strings!
STAGGERING: This new study of 133 countries is the first to estimate the impact of all USAID’s work. In 2 decades, it has saved *92M* lives. Current cuts, if not reversed, are forecast to cost up to *14M* lives thru 2030. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
They came for the foreign aid workers, justice department, public health institutions, universities and researchers, law firms, media organizations, not to mention longtime immigrants. Now it is nonprofits too. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/27/o...
#freedc I returned from the wedding of our daughter to find the city where I have lived for the last 3 years in the midst of a military takeover. The military policing Americans. This is happening. It is a danger for everyone in our country. Now is the moment to turn out in protest.
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...
“.. a scene .. almost certainly intended for an audience on the other side of the world: The leaders of China, Russia and India .. smiling and laughing like good friends ..” @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/w...
We’re going to be also rans in world diplomacy, at best. Nobody will ever trust us again, at least not for many, many generations. And they shouldn’t.
It’s a recipe to destroy the markets too. If people don’t have faith in our laws, the entire system collapses.
Wise advice to cities targeted or shall I say invaded by ICE Small towns are also seeing these unlawful kidnappings too Spread the word! All it takes to stop them is a few arrests Show the video to your local DA
Notorious sex trafficker and child r@pist, Ghislaine Maxwell was inexplicably moved to Club Fed and now fellow inmates who speak out against her are being transferred to Maximum Security facilities. okmagazine.com/p/outspoken-... 1/2
Woulda been nice if we had some contempt proceedings underway by now
They just can’t fathom it and since their lives still feel pretty normal, they don’t believe it. They won’t care until it destroys their life and the economy.
Now they care about data privacy
Trump cancels millions in funding for offshore wind projects. From @npr.org ⬇️ www.npr.org/2025/08/31/n...
📣 As the Musk/Trump Regime tries to Nazify America, a reminder that FLIPPING THE HOUSE BLUE is critical to reining them in, and donations are part of achieving that. #Blue26 Reminder: Donations to "TBD" districts go to the eventual Democratic nominee. secure.actblue.com/donate/house...
Judge Sooknanan: As I said at the start of this hearing, I got a call at 2:36 am [last night] because the government chose the wee hours of the morning on the Sunday of Labor Day weekend to execute a plan to move these children. That's why we're here.
Recommend you do it soon…my grandson had his sports physical today and the physician suggested a booster today because “we expect to not be resupplied in a timely manner, if at all”. Yikes
I’m serious. This REALLY infuriates me. @nbcnews.com @cbsnews.com @cnn.com Do your job. You failed to lift this up in 2024. If farmers are hurting, explain why and who is to blame. And remind Americans that we paid BILLIONS for Trump’s first tariff blunder. It’s so irresponsible to ignore this.
This is why Republicans have to cheat with maps. They can't win on policy.
@nealkatyal.bsky.social: “You’ve got the president who's imposed the largest tax increase on American consumers since 1993 … and he did it without Congress saying one word. That is not our constitutional structure.”
Talk to Putin, then fire your Russia expert. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
If it was really about crime, the National Guard wouldn't be forced to leave their civilian jobs to pick up trash in D.C.
And we won’t have the data to know it.
A former Speaker of the Rada, Ukraine's parliament, has been shot dead in Lviv. Andriy Parubiy was gunned down by a killer disguised as a fast-food delivery driver. Parubiy was an activist arrested by the USSR pre Independence and was a prominent figure in the Maidan protests.
“…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.” My latest in @thebulwark.com www.thebulwark.com/p/honoring-a...
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Well this is sobering : “produce prices could rise 50% to 100% by early next year as inventories clear and new contracts kick in” < fortune.com/2025/08/28/t... >
The media needs to stop calling this an “immigration crackdown.” That’s not what Trump’s doing. He’s using the military and ICE to invade cities and occupy them. Trump is itching for a fight, and he wants it with blue-city mayors and blue-state governors. The good news: they’re not backing down.
Good!
Effective ex ante lawyering within the executive branch could have prevented all of this.
Florida could be on the hook for $218 million the state spent to convert a remote training airport in the Everglades into an immigration detention center dubbed " Alligator Alcatraz."
A Republican official in North Carolina was charged with felony child abuse after he allegedly attempted to drug his two granddaughters with cocaine and MDMA. trib.al/3r2r48y
💥 Russia: Ukraine destroyed a diesel pumping station in Bryansk region that supplied the Russian military in occupied Ukraine using the main Druzhba oil pipeline network. Annual pumping capacity of 10.5 million tons. This could have a significant impact.
35 minutes—another, strong, helpful interview with Sarah Kendzior. If you only have 2-3 minutes now, scroll to the 14’20” mark and hear her address the darkening threats of technofascism.
Tulsi Gabbard ‘accidentally shared name of CIA spy on X.’ National intelligence director blindsided agency by posting list of names stripped of security clearances which also included an undercover CIA agent.
The best piece I’ve read this year on Trump’s increasingly blatant lurch towards total power. To quote Sinclair Lewis, if you think “it can’t happen here” you are just not paying attention. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
“[Bill] Pulte got his job in the administration about three years after his wife, Diana Pulte, donated $500,000 to a super PAC backing Trump. The donation was channeled through a Delaware shell company, ML Organization LLC, that Bill Pulte controlled.”
119th Senate: 53 GOP, 45 Dems, & 2 Independents 0 GOP cosponsors of Sen. @schiff.senate.gov's bill to ban assault weapons. 42 Dems & Sanders have cosponsored There are 4 Dem/I Holdouts: @heinrich.senate.gov @captmarkkelly.bsky.social @senangusking.bsky.social @cortezmasto.senate.gov
Dem Govs and Health Secretaries need to organize a ferocious campaign of resistance to what Kennedy is doing to their constituents.
But he’ll try to cancel the elections to stay in power.
Home depot is owned by a trumper.
I have never seen so many public servants protest the mismanagement of a government. Trumpists will point to this as proof of the deep state, but the reality is that these are professionals who are desperately trying to get the public to understand how bad things are.
Jesus Christ. If your credit isn’t frozen at all three bureaus, I would strongly consider doing that now
This has been an informative and interesting class. Looking forward to 102!
So is this: bsky.app/profile/char...
This thread addressing how ACA premiums will skyrocket under the TRUMP BUDGET BILL in several states and will effectively price millions of people out of having any insurance at all is beyond depressing. Nobody is going to be able to afford this and people will get sick and die.
Same shit is happening in Altadena right now. White rich developers/investors are buying up the burned homes of Black people. www.blackenterprise.com/corporations...
Dr. Demetre, in his resignation from the CDC, said this: “I have never experienced such radical non-transparency, nor have I seen such unskilled manipulation of data to achieve a political end rather than the good of the American people”. It is an outrage that RFK Jr. remains as head of HHS.
Can’t wait for my electrician - who is great, by the way - to serve in his next role as an immigration judge.
Trump administration moves to bar states and even private (!) nonprofits, such as Red Cross, from helping undocumented immigrants after disasters. Evil. s2.washingtonpost.com/4467742/68af...
www.theatlantic.com/health/archi... Great use of our tax dollars.
He’s going to isolate us, destroy the rule of law and damage our economy for the long term. China will eat us for lunch inside of 10 years unless something changes this trajectory.
1/EU-US deal quickly unraveling. This is not a new peace where Europe can go about its business. Instead, it is a steady drip of asks/coercion, which threaten not only profits but also national security. Latest US target: Digital. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Hard to feel bad for them when they voted for this disaster.
Trump's Big Ugly Bill could cause hundreds of local radio stations to close in rural areas. It's yet another way he's badly screwing his own voters. On the pod, Dem rural organizer @lynleethorne.bsky.social is so good in explaining why these stations are a lifeline: newrepublic.com/article/1996...
A congressional change in liability laws for vaccine manufacturers saved the vaccine industry decades ago. Guess who might, under an alleged "fix" of the liability regime, destroy the vaccine industry? The latest from @citizencohn.bsky.social: www.thebulwark.com/p/hhs-kenned...
I miss when we had laws…
Hi: Public administration professor here. This is not good.
"Some of you may be concerned that this resembles socialism, but don’t worry. It’s not. This is nationalism. Socialism is only what you get when you open five municipally-owned grocery stores in New York City."
ICE agents waited until this woman’s attorney went to the bathroom to quickly grab her. She faints over and over from the stress. A bystander yells, ‘Wait for her lawyer! She’s in the bathroom!’ The agents ignore his pleas and drag her into the elevator as if she’s a violent criminal! 🤬
Q: "You called Kamala Harris a communist. But the Biden-Harris administration never called for nationalizing a private company like you're doing to Intel...Is this the new way of industrial policy?" Trump: "Ya. Sure it is. I wanna try to get as much as I can."
The ethos behind Kennedy’s Make America Healthy Again movement blames individual people for their chronic diseases—particularly by associating health conditions with choices like vaccination—and links Medicaid users’ value to their economic productivity.
#ProudBlue Trump’s ICE detained Kilmar Abrego García this morning—snatching him without cause. This isn’t law enforcement, it’s political terror. Deporting him to Uganda is cruel and unnecessary. Ripping him from his family is next level evil. His family needs him. We must fight for him.
This is the stuff of nightmares. He didn’t do anything and he’s an American citizen. This could be anyone.
Today we approach the 20th anniversary of Katrina, FEMA workers across the nation sound the alarm on unqualified leadership, interference w/ ability to execute, our mission,staff cuts & more. Join us in signing The Katrina Declaration. #katrinadeclaration www.standupforscience.net/fema-katrina...
As Trump plunges into fascism, tech billionaires sign up for website design www.sfchronicle.com/tech/article...
Abrego Garcia’s dark journey through the lawless Trump immigration system took another grievous turn Monday morning when he was detained by ICE in Baltimore only three days after being freed from criminal custody in Nashville. His next stop could be...Uganda. talkingpointsmemo.com/morning-memo...
Kamala Harris nailed it. We warned everyone the stakes were too high to hand the guy built for Project 2025 another shot — but noooo. Ever have one of those mornings you just want to throw the window open and yell, FUCK YOU ALL? Yeah, that.
No American should accept how this country has treated Kilmar Abrego Garcia. No American. Thread.👇
Epstein survivor Sarah Ransome on Ghislaine Maxwell: “I have spent the last 17 years in my own prison for what she, Jeffrey, and all the co-conspirators did to me. I was raped three times a day. Ghislaine must die in prison.”
I was wrong about Trump before I was right about Trump.