NEW: Nadler will not seek re-election, citing the need for a new generation of leaders. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/n...
Masked deplorable barbarians disappearing people is very bad. ABOLISH ICE I stand with Ukraine 🇺🇦 Well, we are all going to die. - New America 2025 Californian from Old America.
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NEW: Nadler will not seek re-election, citing the need for a new generation of leaders. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/n...
@mermeg.bsky.social Lol
‘Never felt better in my life’
carver langston. #FreeDC
Happy Labor Day, California! I’m proud to live in a state where workers and unions have secured safe working conditions, fair wages, and good benefits for so many people. Workers built our economy, and they'll continue to help it grow and prosper.
I don't know. I think owning a Kennedy means something to trump (he's of that generation), even if it's the crazy one, and the Kennedy influencers have a far reach.
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Pete Hegseth in December on military training: “We’re bringing a war-fighting ethos back to the Pentagon. Everything else that distracts from lethality shouldn’t be happening.”
WE ARE A NATION OF IMMIGRANTS FUCKING GET USED TO IT
@mermeg.bsky.social ?? What is happening?
Maybe whatever was in the bag was too messy to take to a trash can??
Something press pool could ask about
You guys see where this is going? Right?
What a time for stickers in DC! #walkswithmaisey #FreeDC @joeheim.bsky.social
You won't see this on the news. In fact, you may not see this anywhere. Residents of Washington D.C. march up 14th Street on Saturday August 30, 2025 chanting "Troops Go Home".
A picture of Palestinian lawyer Ahmad Matar before and during the ongoing Israeli war on Gaza. Once, he was dressed in a sharp suit, smiling with hope behind his desk. Today, he is sitting on the rubble of a demolished home, in worn-out clothes, his face exhausted by hunger, siege, and fear.💔💔💔🤬🇮🇱
www.cnn.com/2025/08/30/p... Maybe this is just a fiction I picked up from television, I was under the impression either the president or a governor can deploy the National Guard. If that is true, maybe J.B. Pritzker should deploy them first, with orders to protect the states people from ICE.
I keep writing my AG @robbonta.bsky.social asking for a class action lawsuit.
Remembering Leonor Fini on her birthday 🎂 - and #caturday! 📷 Martine Franck, Paris, 2004 "Her art is the crack in the mirror, the edge of the equation, the dream of tremendous import half-grasped upon awakening, whose meaning dissolves with daylight." - Catherine Styles McLeod
Against all evidence, we can still hope the democrats as a party will come to the realization it's OK to make their republican friends upset.
Trump/RFK are destroying the American public health system, so Dem governors need to step up now and defend their constituents against this madness. In this piece, I suggest things these govs can do to protect their people. This is a big opening to show leadership. newrepublic.com/article/1998...
BLOCKED: Trump’s “liberation day” tariffs ruled illegal. I call on the Administration to repay and provide relief to small businesses that were forced to pay these damaging tariffs.
We need sane everything again.
Didn't the fine get thrown out on appeal?
Thousands of DC residents chanting “fuck Jeff Bezos” outside of the P Street Whole Foods
This is Thanos. He has figured out how to rest and babysit at the same time. Very impressive, very Montessori. 13/10 (TT: thanosthesaint)
CDC employees walk out to rally in support of ousted leaders www.msnbc.com/top-stories/...
Outside the CDC, people are chanting “USA, not RFK.” They are fed up with having one unqualified person dictate the nation’s health. #USANotRFK
Q: “Are you worried all this pushback could provoke Trump to follow-through with sending the National Guard?” MAYOR @brandon4chicago.bsky.social Johnson: “As a descendant of slaves, can you imagine if my ancestors had that same rationale?“
"Dems are so worried about alienating a small slice of the electorate they’re hesitating to condemn the most abusive act yet by an unpopular president. I’m no strategist, but boy does that sound like a losing strategy," writes @monicapotts.bsky.social. newrepublic.com/article/1996...
He thinks seth meyers host a news program.
Mayor Brandon of Chicago responds to a question from a reporter if pushing back will make things harder? “Can you imagine if my ancestors would have had the same rationale? Let’s not fight against the Confederacy. Let’s just try to get along, and maybe one day they’ll give us our freedom?”
It's possible ... hear me out, here …. It may well be that these people lie their asses off whenever they exhale
Guns may also be contributing to gun violence.
RKF Jr. is a dangerous man who is determined to abuse his authority to act on truly terrifying conspiracy theories and disinformation—leaving us unprepared for the next deadly pandemic and snuffing out potential cures while he’s at it. My full statement.
“Soldiers wear camouflage to conceal themselves from the enemy they want to kill. Safety vests are what municipal workers put on so you can see them at work,” @chrislhayes.bsky.social on the “comically absurd” spectacle of Trump’s army of garbage collectors in DC.
Vanity Fair staffers threaten to walk out over a proposed Melania cover: “We are not going to normalize this despot and his wife… if this happens, i’m gone, and so is half my team.” www.thedailybeast.com/i-will-walk-...
Are we to assume that the members of the press that are apparently in these rooms when Trump makes these nonsense assertions have zero agency to do actual journalism?
They’re in an airport, dude. You’re looking at kids who are bored in an airport.
Three?
@schiff.senate.gov @padilla.senate.gov It would be cool if the democrats kept a running tally of how many billions trump is spending on nonsense and how many extra billions we are paying for his insanity. -Including health care premiums because he selected an idiot to be in charge of public health.
Whether it’s on MSNOW or @meidastouch.com - I know I speak for all those involved that we will do whatever we can to continue to fill the gap in basic health information, now more than ever. Thank you for the trust.
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:
Where are the insurance companies? Hospitalizing someone in lieu of giving them a vaccine or bringing someone back from the brink of death in lieu of an abortion RAISES PREMIUMS FOR ALL OF US on top of the increases already being implemented because of the big bad bill.
Same reason they haven't started a shadow government, I guess.
Hoo boy
WOW
@governor.ca.gov @robbonta.bsky.social
Krasner: So, if what you have is a group of ICE agents, or even the military, coming into Philadelphia and committing crimes—assaults that are illegal, kidnapping, unlawful restraint, obstruction of the administration of justice—they can be prosecuted.
Danish publication reports that some Trump-connected goons are attempting to infliltrate Greenlandic society as part of a takeover plot www.dr.dk/nyheder/indl...
Amazon’s plastic packaging waste alone could encircle the globe 500 times: We need to do better. Use less, buy less, waste less. AND THE THREE R’S REPAIR- REUSE - RECYCLE
“Denmark summoned the head of the U.S. Embassy … after allegations emerged that three Americans with close ties to President Trump were running ‘covert influence operations’ in Greenland.” Is there a Nobel prize for creating a conflict by threatening to seize the territory of a democratic ally?
National Guard soldiers called into service for President Trump's law enforcement surge in D.C. have been assigned to spread mulch at federal monuments. Normally the Park Service does that, but the administration laid off the workers. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
Responses and improvements from individual billionaires?!? It seems We The People don't improve infrastructure or respond to disasters anymore.
Since trump learned the word trilat, he really seems to be expecting a trilat.
I'd like to know who this a lot of people are.
@mermeg.bsky.social
I invited one of my friends to a protest. She said she wasn't interested because none of this was affecting her yet. I told yeah, someone wrote a poem about that once. (She didn't get it.)
BREAKING: VETERAN'S BEGIN A SIT-IN IN WASHINGTON DC AND WON'T STOP UNTIL THE MILITARY LEAVES TOWN
the thing I love about Zohran’s campaign is that instead of “this place fucking sucks and I alone can fix it” his message is “being a New Yorker rules, we live in the best city in the world, let’s make it even better together” show some damn pride in the places you want to govern
Bree Fram is very impressive. www.youtube.com/live/YMySsrg...
A Sparkling Celestial Jewel...💫💙💫✨💫💙💫 This breathtaking image showcases the globular cluster Terzan 9, shimmering within the constellation Sagittarius, near the Milky Way’s core. (Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, R. Cohen)
🚨 San Diego sends ICE packing! Power to the People! ✊🏼 Love seeing white people standing up. 1/2
@padilla.senate.gov @schiff.senate.gov NO BUDGET DEAL UNTIL TRUMP GETS THE MILITARY OFF OUR STREETS AND HIS POLICE FORCE REMOVES THEIR MASKS. PERIOD. SHUT IT DOWN. (it's not like we are receiving government services for our tax dollars anyway.)
Maybe it's part of the long term plan. To keep us in. But I have gloves and pants.
I seem to recall @petebuttigieg.bsky.social being transportation secretary when funds were appropriated for the bridge.
As I heard @hcrichardson.bsky.social say the other day, the version of trump we are seeing is the best version of trump. Who knows what they are pumping into him before he goes out in public.
Once again: the military takeover of U.S. cities is not a distraction from the thing, it is the the thing
If the US government had to pay for medical care of its citizens, it might care more about climate change impacts, air and water pollution, gun violence, traffic crashes, the food we eat, etc. It’s past time for single payer healthcare.
If a president wanted to become effectively a dictator, he’d likely: 1. Purge govt of non loyalists 2. Weaponize law against opponents 3. Use military to police opposition strongholds 4. Threaten media, schools, businesses w penalties to get them to heel 5. Change election rules in his favor.
Donald Trump's threat to bring the National Guard to Chicago isn't about safety — it's a test of the limits of his power and a trial run for a police state. Illinois has long worked with federal law enforcement to tackle crime, but we won't let a dictator impose his will.
I can't believe this isn't bigger news! A cover-up! Of course, he's doing this!! How are we not freaking out even more about this?? Epstein files 🗂️
we really do need to figure out how this guy managed to create an environment where he can say "i wasted an amount of taxpayer dollars so large I can't even tell you how much it was" & it doesn't cause immediate national outrage
@mermeg.bsky.social 🤣😂🤣
This is the stuff they didn't edit out
Referring to a mediocre breakfast restaurant as your culture and heritage is one of the whitest things I've ever read.
I just signed the Election Rigging Response Act to put Proposition 50 up for a vote on November 4th. The people of California will have the power to push back against Texas and any other state that obeys Donald Trump's demand to rig the next election.
I hope it's painful.
Ghislaine Maxwell and Jeffrey Epstein could not have sold women and girls for sex without wealthy men buying women and girls for sex. I feel like more people should mention that.
@mermeg.bsky.social Can't smoke, drink, or eat in public anymore.
Is he going to kick people out of the housing a lot of the factories were converted into?
Salmon! #alaska
Elizabeth Warren: "The one thing I want to remind everyone is when Democrats get in power again -- and we will -- we've got to change the rules. We've got to change the rules on the impact of money in politics and we've got to pass the voting rights act again and make sure there is true protection."
The only thing I can say about this paragraph is read it. Sit with it. Read it again. @michaelharriot.bsky.social
I'm a pretty awake person, and I'm failing to see what's woke about the change. Is it just change in general? Or is it the missing picture of the cracker and barrel?
Gov. Gavin Newsom’s Press Office just posted this hilarious cut of Jesse Watters calling Gavin Newsom “Daddy” lol
Gavin Newsom, governor, dinosaur rangler, and American savior! 🤭😅🤣
Gavin Newsom responds to Fox's OBSESSION with him
Republicans and Donald Trump were counting on California to cave in response to their election rigging attempts in Texas. But they've got another thing coming. We're fighting back.
Do not give the Gestapo a moment's peace. Do not let them believe for a second they will ever be respected, trusted, or seen as anything but invaders.
WATCH: Prem Spots FBI Agents Responding to DC Fare Evasion and a Huge Crowd Chases Federal Agents Out of Area #Trump
Oregon Firefighters in race to save Oregon’s tallest tree after it ignites Crews are working to douse blaze on the 325-ft Doerner fir, one of the tallest non-redwood trees in the world www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Psychopathy is a personality disorder characterized by a lack of empathy, shallow emotions, and manipulative, antisocial behavior. It's associated with criminal behavior and difficulty forming meaningful relationships. Severe psychopathy leads to significant dysfunction and harm to others. ⬇️
Video of Columbia Heights residents driving ICE agents out of their area. source: www.instagram.com/reel/DNjkvLQ...
Look at what happened to divorce rates in Mexico when some areas extended the school day by 3.5 hours! Why did divorce rates go up as a result of the change? "The availability of childcare...translate[d] into increased bargaining power and economic independence for women."
This is terrifying
They are stealing tax payer money from publically funded university's. That's our money the government is stealing from us.
Well, people are talking about our country....
But Putin said he should do it.