The presidential medal of freedom to commit sexual assault.
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The presidential medal of freedom to commit sexual assault.
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John Oliver covered this. That fake couple are also Trump-voting republicans, basically, and they guide all of Schumer’s decisions.
Rudy Giuliani happened to be in the middle of one of his favorite pastimes - RESPECTING WOMEN - when he suddenly broke every single bone in his body. Please do not call and ask any questions because his business partner is taking care of him ❤️
I hate to bring it up, but isn’t there a(n) (in)famous journalist whose calls he always takes?
How to think beyond my “live to see them die” motto.
“Overhaul.”
FFS www.nytimes.com/2025/08/29/u...
According to federal data, 13 of the top 20 cities in homicide rates have Republican governors. None of those cities are Chicago. 8 of the top 10 states in homicide rates are led by Republicans. None of those states are Illinois. And yet Trump is sending troops here.
Enough is enough. The health of the country is in danger. Read our resignation letters: insidemedicine.substack.com/p/breaking-n...
I listened to a radio caller complain at length about the “unacceptable” air quality in Michigan this summer. Her proposed remedy? Punish Canada.
Yhgtbfkm
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.
Cost of Trump's D.C. Occupation: $1.1M per day. Cost to operate public housing for D.C.'s entire homeless population: $169,226 per day. It's not about what this country can or can’t afford. It’s about priorities.
I get it, but I still think it’s on a continuum of…increasingly sophisticated algorithms? We still called it OCR when computers were reading Middle English texts and other somewhat gnarly stuff.
And he’s proud of it.
Computers have been digitizing print text of all kinds for decades, why do we call every algorithm AI now?
If you saw the clip, watch the whole 12 minutes. This is it. Electeds—everyone around Pritzker is knowingly putting themselves at risk—meeting the moment. It’s not glib, it’s not a meme, it’s clear-eyed, brave, & necessary. www.msnbc.com/deadline-whi...
Florida banned The Diary of Anne Frank. Whoever signed off on that should have to eat every page of that book — one by one — and choke on the lesson they’re trying to erase. 📚🔥 #BannedBooks #AnneFrank
FUCK ME DO NOT DESCRIBE TRUMP'S PLANS IN THE HEADLINES WITHOUT NOTING THEY ARE ILLEGAL.
I know you, Chicago — and I know you’re up to the difficult time we have ahead, thanks to this President.
To Donald Trump and his administration: If you hurt my people, nothing will stop me — not time or political circumstance — from making sure you face justice under our constitutional rule of law.
Do not come, Donald Trump. You are neither wanted nor needed here in Illinois.
I am sounding the alarm on the real crisis we face today. Donald Trump’s overreach is what our founders warned against – it is unprecedented, unwarranted, and un-American. There’s no emergency here that calls for military intervention.
Important thing to note - we all need to question why Ghislaine Maxwell was allowed back into the most elite circles even after credible accusations against her in publicized court filings and a high profile interview with an accuser.
There's a reason why sports teams don't chant "I believe that we will lose" before a game, a reason so obvious that I'm pretty sure it needs no explanation. Which is why it makes my head explode when people surrender in advance verbally, which they do all the time about politics.
Many won’t understand the significance of this because it’s wonky and niche—but it’s unprecedented and authoritarian.
How Israel plays its strike to the media: first in English, then in Hebrew.
BREAKING: Four journalists, including a freelancer who worked with AP, are among eight killed by an Israeli strike on southern Gaza's Nasser Hospital.
Say their names: Mu'adh Abu Taha, Maryam Abu Daqa, Muhammad Salama, and Hossam Al-Masri. Israel killed FOUR journalists today, as they bombed Nasser, as they have bombed every hospital for two years now. They’re among 275 journalists murdered by US-Israel
“This is nuts.” —- Franz Kafka
It's so rare these days for an elected official to keep his promises to voters! Except the politician is Trump, and his campaign pledge was American fascism. How could anyone have not seen all this coming? My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/comm...
I agree! And I think spreading an unsupported story undermines efforts to find and propagate the truth. Which is the OP’s intent, I suspect.
Still waiting for someone of prominence to admit it was not about eggs.
Look how this disinformation relies on people not reading the linked story (I did because I wanted it to be real). It’s a semi-sophisticated campaign in that it understands “too good to check” is effective.
Kamala Harris at her closing campaign rally: "Donald Trump intends to use the United States Military against American citizens who simply disagree with him."
“No sort of duplicity can long flourish without the help of vocal falsehoods.” — George Eliot, Silas Marner
That would be this guy: “Kushner hired a prostitute to seduce his brother-in-law, arranging to record a sexual encounter between the two and send the tape to his sister.” en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles...
"We’re witnessing, in real-time, a profound consolidation of power & collusion among political & tech elites... wherein the tools and technologies that this industry has built... can now be deployed in service of an authoritarian regime" — @katie-drummond.bsky.social www.status.news/p/wired-kati...
The president plans to invade Chicago this week. Now to schedule the vet appointment and get the kids’ backpacks ready for school!
This is pretty old, but… www.nytimes.com/2008/08/24/m...
Dementia does weird things to a brain.
Biden did what the left claims is their top goal. He caused relative wages to grow amazingly for low income people and he ended up getting almost no credit for his big achievement and ended up very unpopular as people complained about the cost of burrito delivery. www.epi.org/publication/...
Some nattering nabobs were shocked by Friday’s FBI Bolton raid to realize that Trump actually is a fascist after all But he spent all of 2024 telling America exactly how he’d be a dictator- and now is keeping that promise My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/comm...
America now
No, my mother made me go to HSHS which I hated because all my friends were at AC (and because uniforms, and nuns, and priests). One of my brothers transferred to AC after torturing her about it his entire freshman year.
Ah, much debate in my fam about Dino’s v Sack-o
I worry that it’s only a “disaster” for Trump if he cares at all about American leadership (and he only ever cares about himself).
We really haven’t talked nearly enough about just how much of a disaster the Alaska summit was for Donald Trump and American leadership.
Margate, lol, but I too worked on the Boardwalk (and most of my family worked for Trump at one time or another).
Same.
We are now staring down the barrel of a bona fide, definitional fascist takeover of the United States—and the pro-democracy leaders and institutions that remain need to be thinking hard not only about countering Trump, but the litany of failures that feed him. trib.al/UwbdiV6
She also thinks Trump is a great president, so case closed I guess?
Maxwell said she didn't see Epstein do anything wrong with children. Maxwell said she didn't see Trump do anything wrong. Republicans now cheering on every right-wing media outlet. Because the world's most prolific sex trafficker "said"
Perfect. Those words the consultants say Dems should stop using? They don't use them. *Republicans* use them... in the process of saying that Dems use them.
“We’ll never know” says the paper of record that helped normalize it into being.
The full write up is here: Was It Something The Democrats Said? A Response to Third Way’s Political Language Memo open.substack.com/pub/dcinboxi...
"Birthing Person" has been used in 9 official e-newsletters. 8 are Republicans making fun of the term and saying Democrats say that and 1 is from Bernie Sanders when his staff was interviewing a midwife.
“Talking down” by speaking “academic bullshit?” 🤔
This, please.
I made a promise to the women of Illinois — as governor, I will ensure your medical decisions will be your own. Now, we continue fulfilling that promise. Public colleges will now provide contraception and medication abortion at on-campus pharmacies and student health centers.
“Cracks down on.” No. That is not what is happening, and by describing it as such you become a mouthpiece for fascism. Good luck in your quest for a White House gig, I guess.
"Hey, we need a Republican to talk about how totally believable it is that an eyewitness to sexual assaults now insists they never saw anything wrong -- who should we get?"
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
Ghislaine Maxwell has more freedom in Texas than Nicole Collier.
I keep using the word “plausible” to describe AI output, and I think most people have lost the ability to distinguish between that and…actual. Maybe because the range of plausibility is so much greater in these times.
Don't take it for granted.
I remember when women couldn't have credit cards, before 1974. This is why education is important. All must remember... none of this is ancient history.
#ICYMI: You can spot E.J. Antoni, Trump's pick for Bureau of Labor Statistics Chief, in the crowd of Capitol rioters via our archive of 500+ Jan. 6 videos. Watch him walk through the bottom of the screen starting at ~1:41 in this clip: projects.propublica.org/parler-capit...
Part of a bullshit take that GOP candidates might win mayoral races by saying they can prevent occupation.
(Unless you’re a Democrat.)
The only lesson from Watergate anyone remembers is “the conspiracy is worse than the crime,” so you can do anything out in the open.
This should be a bigger story. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Everything is Chernobyl now. Ignore the radioactive glow shining up from the core, the party says all is well!
Sometimes I see people like 20 tweets deep into an argument with Grok. Like, what are you doing brother? You are trying to win an argument with a vending machine.
Life comes at you fast
Good stuff in this thread, and I hope Newsom follows the advice to mimic Trump’s ludicrous grooming as well as his demented posting.
30. Show up wearing a suit that’s too big, a tie too long, and a tan that comes out of a can, while bragging about being the manliness man to walk the earth, despite falling in love with men who flatter him, or chickening out at the sight of conflict. I would love to hear questions about that.
Release the full Epstein files with victims names only redacted. Until that happens, children in Ukraine and Gaza suffer and we will be entering a civil war at home and controlled by Putin still. I also believe Israeli intelligence has the goods on Donald and others.
A flyer for the South Carolina national guardsmen being deployed in DC, courtesy of @emptywheel.bsky.social. I would have added that Big Balls is the grandson of the notorious KGB lieutenant colonel Valery Martynov (Валерий Фёдорович Мартынов) because the apple never falls far from the tree.
Did the Trump administration intervene to protect a notorious Israeli child sex offender who was caught in the US with massive amounts of child pornography? Yes, of course they did.
"empathy"
This headline is obscene and every involved should be ashamed.
Gonna try to stay positive about this clear and true headline, but can't help thinking 1) it's about time @nytimes.com and 2) maybe too little too late, @nytimes.com
The women who have been trafficked by Epstein deserve justice. Stop protecting billionaire pedophiles
He has kept among us in times of peace Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures. He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power. He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution & unacknowledged by our laws.
🚨 Trump Approval Hits Second-Term Low Gallup finds Trump’s approval down to 37% overall — and just 29% among independents — matching his all-time worst with the group. Favorability and issue ratings are falling — even after a major legislative win. open.substack.com/pub/theintel...
Reminds me of the broken shackles at the feet of the Statue of Liberty, in celebration of the abolition of slavery. www.nps.gov/stli/learn/h...
I didn’t know until now that in the original Rosie the Riveter painting, she is crushing a copy of Mein Kampf under her foot. Happy feast of the Blessed Virgin Mary, remembering all the women who crush the serpents of Satan under their heel.
This is a real AP photo
“Friendship”
Is that what it was? A show of friendship? If so, why be friends with a war criminal who’s holding 20,000 kidnapped Ukrainian children?
“Putin would eat you for lunch.” Today, exactly that happened.
