Math/Physics, Engineer, Programming, Wiccan Sympathizer, Retired, I ponder the 1000 year storm. Vote Blue! Vet before block. Blocked by @denverr.bsky.social bc I responded "get real" signal: lw_smiley.86 https://sites.google.com/site/snaexample
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I like the rebrand.
Elie’s comments are giving me life rn
And when they say *they* are protecting the country from the people who want to destroy it, they are engaging in pure psychological projection.
The clown show never stops. bsky.app/profile/atru...
RADDATZ: You talk about what can be done. After shootings in Buffalo & Uvalde, Congress passed a bipartisan Safer Communities Act. It provided hundreds of millions for schools to expand mental health services. You didn't vote for it. Why? TOM EMMER: I don't remember the reasons I didn't vote for it
Unafraid to speak truth to power, President of the American Academy of Pediatrics Dr. Susan Kressly joins @vinguptamd.bsky.social on Meidas Health for a powerful discussion on truth, conviction, and her deep commitment to ensuring optimal childhood health for the nation amid chaos at the CDC.
Oh, Andy Borowitz. What a gem you are.
California stepping up.
This is the way
If we will never be a Socialist [sic] or Communist [sic] Country [sic], then why are you giving billions of dollars to farmers to make up for losses from your stupid tariffs (SOCIALISM) and having the US government own part of Intel (COMMUNISM)?
Public safety in California is on the rise. Last year, California had the second-lowest homicide rate since at least 1966, decreasing by nearly 12% overall since 2023. We're going to drive that progress forward up and down the state.
Increasing political pressure on the Fed by half as much as Nixon did, for six months, raises the price level more than 8%. www.nber.org/papers/w32461
This is the second judge in a week that has brought up the fact that the government can't be trusted with clear instructions - likely because the government ignored Judge Boasberg's order to turn the planes around last March saying "verbal orders from judges don't count."
Su: The BLS collects statistical information — things like the nation’s inflation rate, the unemployment rate, the number of jobs created, which industries are growing, and which are contracting. And on every one of those fronts, Trump is failing.
"We're going to need a story about this accident. Say he was helping a woman. That should work. Also, is he wearing pants? Make sure he's wearing pants."
“'ILLEGALS' my ass.” Rami Othmane has a green card and is married to Dr. Wafaa Alrashid, a hospital chief of staff. Despite having legal residency, ICE detained him for 13 days after grabbing him during a grocery run. This injustice cuts deeper than words.
lol, many years ago I commented on a woman's large breasts in front of a female friend with small breasts not thinking it might possibly hurt her feelings. Delayed guilt. Nonetheless joking about a large package is ok by me amongst friends.
Fit as a fiddle!
"Nobody wants to be a cop [in DC]. They were abused. They were spit on." "When you when you say they were abused and spit on, I'm assuming you're talking about January 6th, correct?" "All you guys want to do was bring up J6 about the answer to everything."
This Is What—and Who—We’re Losing in RFK’s Purge open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...
My dream is for it to happen like it does to vampires. When the leader kicks the bucket, the rest of them burst into flames.
Pretending eugenics and fascism are in no way related is like being aggressively ignorant in public
REP. BUDDY CARTER: What eroded confidence in the CDC was the covid vaccine BEDINGFIELD: Who was president in 2020?
WTF are all you commie libs talking about? He looks great!!
Pritzker: "We don't want troops on the streets of American cities. That's un-American and frankly the president ought to know better. This one doesn't seem to. He hasn't read any books. He doesn't seem to understand the Constitution or the laws."
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...
Medicare for all, paid leave, universal childcare. Busting up big corporations and tackling Wall Street’s greed. Getting big money out of politics. Supporting unions and fighting for higher wages. If Dems want to win back working people, this is the agenda they must support.
What a piece of shit.
He’s providing them with valuable mulching experience though.
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."
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"The straw man being put forward is that it's either we have the military or we're going to get our throats cut at night in DC. Is there no middle ground? Do local law enforcement account for nothing? We've got the National Guard GARDENING right now in DC. Is that an efficient use of our resources?"
One thing that's particularly maddening about what's happening today—beyond that it's happening—is that when people talk about how we are moving toward authoritarianism, toward fascism, by a collection of narcissistic sociopaths, many Americans' eyes glaze over.
Kristi Noem: "I do know that LA wouldn't be standing today if President Trump hadn't taken action."
BREAKING: Bernie Sanders wants RFK Jr. under oath. He’s demanding a special Senate hearing on the CDC disaster RFK Jr. helped create. Go Bernie!
No mercy for RFK jr
This is just sad. We’ve posted about this before. Now here is what is going down. The rainbow crosswalk at the Pulse memorial in Orlando (created to honor the 49 lives lost in the 2016 shooting) has now become the target of state enforcement.
I'm still waiting for the relentless onslaught of media demands for a press conference and calls to resign.
Senator Jellyfish
WELKER: Do you have 100% confidence in Secretary Kennedy? LANKFORD: I believe he's who the president picked. He's challenging some of the assumption - what is it about autism? He seems to be following the science WELKER: The science has debunked links between autism & vaccines for more than 20 yrs
Brexit - championed by Farage - has been a significant factor in many of the UK’s problems - it’s time UK news shows and Labour started pointing that out youtu.be/be3b8RkMqvs?...
As a federal operation looms, Chicago's mayor signed an executive order looking to safeguard the city. “Unfortunately we do not have the luxury of time. We have received credible reports that we have days, not weeks, before our city sees some kind of militarized activity by the federal government.”
Feed the troops and Guard deep dish and Chicago fare, make nice and win them over, do not discuss politics or religion, don't give them the finger, but fuck the ICE goons, dox, identify, interogate
No mercy for Gorka
No mercy for Gorka
GORKA: Instead of blaming an inanimate object, which is the weapon, how about addressing the human being instead? KEILAR: DHS cut funding in July to the Minnesota Dept of Safety and the Hennepin Country Sheriff's Office in July that is the kind of funding used to assess mass violence threats
I know that Sebastian Gorka is *always* a ridiculous buffoon, but throughout history inanimate objects have killed for more people than conscious ones.
Oh come onnnnnnn
Jill Stein and Cornel West both disgust me — such goddamn, self-serving hypocrites.
If they do, make nice with the troops and Guard, feed them cookout food etc, win them over, do not discuss politics or religion, don't give them the finger, they're basically just civilians trying to bring home extra cash...not talking about the ICE goons mind you, feel free to give them shit etc.
RADDATZ: One of the things they are trying to do in DC with the National Guard is have them back up local law enforcement WES MOORE: They are picking up trash
Feed them Labor day cookout food, win them over, no giving the finger, no politics, no religion discussed
For decades, Republicans in Washington have told us that tax cuts would trickle down to workers. Instead, wealth and power have accumulated in the hands of the richest 1% at the expense of the rest of us. Trickle-down economics was never supposed to work. It was a hoax.
Penis shaming is just another form of body shaming. Lots of collateral damage. Had to deal with it starting in junior high gym. Not a great way to raise boys. I'll never turn fascist though even if you're thoughtless.
Lily really wanted to come outside and be part of the party today and my daughter filmed it and added a soundtrack (volume on)
Looking plump!
Stillsuit
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The FTC notified companies like Google, Meta, and Apple that they must not apply the Digital Services Act, which regulates digital platforms, if it jeopardizes the freedom of Americans. www.wired.com/story/big-te...
www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus... AG Pam Bondi fired a Justice Department employee on Friday accused of flipping off National Guard members deployed to Washington D.C.
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On a special Labor Day weekend Coffee Klatch, I reflect on what I’ve witnessed during my time in politics and how it connects to our struggle today. We also discuss Trump’s continued occupation, not just of American cities, but the American economy. https://youtu.be/v5mmLwI_KmA
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New in PN: Making Slavery Great Again "Without irony or shame — and to absolve their followers of any guilt or responsibility — Trump wants to whitewash America’s original sin."
We should be setting up grills and tailgates and feeding the National Guardsmen and police (only - no ICE) to get them on our side...
A friend was in DC this past week and said, “Man, those National Guard folks are bored out of their minds.” That’s the farce of all this: there simply isn’t enough crime for them to do anything. So, fuck it, arrest people for chalking the pavement. At least it makes the day go by faster.
Why I keep retweeting this: His schedule is empty, so they won’t tell you whom he met with or had calls with. That’s why it’s now all off the record. Think about it - all that has been on the record is what was a photo op on camera. In fact, we have no idea of actual “business” from 1/20 on.
King McKankles made it through the night without a McArteries attack, but he's wearing some interesting golf shoes today. Socks and shower shoes? His Pillsbury Doughboy feet must not fit in regular footwear anymore. BTW, how're those practice mimosas going, everyone? Fun party last night.
OK, this one he wrote.
Today, this chapter of the Weimar Republic’s history should be revisited. At a moment in which democracy is backsliding in places as varied as Hungary, India, Turkey, and the United States, it is a reminder that democracy often erodes slowly at first, via the gradual surrender of those entrusted..
Russia kills children from a distance with missiles and drones. Those who fall under its control, it steals — erasing their Ukrainian identity. Russia forges their names, their documents, their entire lives. Children are forced to forget who they are. (Bring Kids Back UA)
A respected network of hospitals and cancer centers is halting enrollment in clinical trials for children with brain cancer after the federal government said it would no longer provide funding to the group. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/28/w...
RFK Jr. likes to claim that thimerosal in childhood vaccines causes autism spectrum disorder (ASD). So I wonder if he’d like to explain how the rates of ASD diagnoses in the U.S. have kept going up when thimerosal was removed from all childhood vaccines in 2001?
The way that housing co-ops work in Switzerland may seem foreign to many. But the central idea is simple: What if homeownership had no profit motive and no capital gains? Advocates say their model could reshape how the world thinks about affordable housing. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/r...
Venezuelan dictator Maduro prepares country’s army for possible clashes with the U.S Maduro has been touring military bases and staging patriotic rallies with Venezuelan soldiers amid the prospect of a U.S. military operation.
You say that like it's bad
Masked ICE aren’t about safety; they’re about fear and evading responsibility. Demand transparency and accountability by adding your name to this petition:
Anybody checked the admissions records at Walter Reed lately?
Maybe ICE shouldn’t have lowered their standards for new recruits.
listen he cannot officially be declared un-dead until his caddie casually drops a ball on the green after he shanks one into the woods sorry I don't make the rules here
These spineless people won’t do damn thing.
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Question: Why did US put big tariffs on India despite major national interest in cultivating a strategic counterweight to China and trying to isolate Russia? Answer: Because the US president lied that he fixed India-Pakistan and India wouldn’t go along with the lie. (Seriously, that’s the answer)
When it happens, it’s going to be like this on the socials:
Far Right Looks To Consumer Drones To Carry Out A Civil War
“For the second time in less than a month, the Justice Department abruptly dropped charges against a client represented by Brad Bondi, the brother of U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi.” Must be nice! abcnews.go.com/US/doj-drops...
If you aren’t completely loyal to the regime or dare to voice dissent, you risk being removed. Time and again, anyone who stands up is pushed out. Most recently, the Environmental Protection Agency dismissed eight employees after they
My reporting uncovered the existence of DoJ training videos instructing FBI personnel on how to flag Trump’s name in the Epstein files. I’m suing to get the videos under FOIA. substack.com/@muellershew...
We’ve had Russian assets in our government for so long that one even has a nickname: MOSCOW MITCH. NO ONE DID SHIT.
I’m going to be hosting on msnbc with @ayman.msnbc.com & @elisejordan.bsky.social tonight from 6-9 and tomorrow night from 6-9pm Please join us
You’ll notice that propagandists like Jake Tapper no longer have a problem with older age in office nor do they mention the orange felon’s obvious mental and physical decline.
Trump needs to post an unhinged, hateful all caps screed as proof of life
If Trump is dead -