Jeffries and Schumer have got to go. New leadership is needed in this moment.
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Jeffries and Schumer have got to go. New leadership is needed in this moment.
Minoqua Brewing Company PAC in Wisconsin has filed a lawsuit about this very issue since WI AG Josh Kaul has refused to do anything about these masked thugs abusing and arresting people.
Jeffries is hopeless. He has to go.
Both Dem leaders are hopeless and need to be replaced.
This!
As many as 100 survivors of Jeffrey Epstein and other victims of sexual abuse are expected to attend a rally Wednesday in Washington, D.C. as a bipartisan Congressional effort gains steam to force the U.S. Department of Justice to make public its controversial files on the disgraced sex trafficker.
More than 85 scientists say that a recent U.S. Department of Energy report is full of errors and misrepresents climate science.
Pritzker: "Any rational person who has spent even the most minimal amount of time studying human history has to ask themselves one important question: once they get the citizens of this nation comfortable with the current atrocities committed under the color of law, what comes next?"
Pritzker: "He has no idea what's he's talking about. There is no emergency that warrants deployment of troops. He is insulting the people of Chicago by calling our home a hellhole, and anyone that takes his word at face value is insulting Chicagoans too."
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?
One of my all time favorite movie moments.
Apple is sneaking AI into everything. Turn off enhanced visual search on your photos:
Pritzker: "When did we become a country where it's ok for the US 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?"
I love it when they show they are mental giants
I'm just going to keep noting that the owner and operator of Twitter -- the social media that too many politicians and pundits use to determine what's "normal" -- keeps on pushing the white supremacist Great Replacement Theory that has been the motivation for multiple mass shootings in this country.
How do such stupid people get elected? Were they this stupid when they entered office, or does all that PAC money make them stupid?
Stephen Miller has been disrespecting janitors since high school.
A Texas County Cuts Over 100 Polling Sites as Trump Attacks Mail-In Voting Nationally talkingpointsmemo.com/news/a-texas...
“Get it all on record now. Get the films. Get the witnesses. Because somewhere down the road of history some bastard will get up and say that this never happened.” Dwight D. Eisenhower
So now Musk is a British citizen? He has ruined the US, and he has the same plans for Britain.
The people shouldn’t be afraid of their government. @chefjoseandres.bsky.social is amongst the most sincere, giving men on the planet. Today, he’s serving an honest #CupOfJoe to the felon in chief. Chef José Andrés radiates compassion. #DemsUnited
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My favorite evergreen Molly Ivins quote: "I prefer someone who burns the flag and then wraps themselves up in the Constitution over someone who burns the Constitution and then wraps themselves up in the flag."
I stand with Chicago. I stand with Mayor Johnson. 🚨 NEW: Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson just signed an executive order to resist Trump’s federal invasion and occupation of the city. Details in 🧵
Every time I see masked ICE officers ripping a parent from their child, I think: “Americans chose this; they knew this would happen. A lot of people were happy at the thought.” And I feel that I do not at all understand the country I am in and the world around me.
Indeed.
Old Soviet joke for today: A man walks into a newsstand every day, looks around, and leaves. After a long time of this, the owner says “Can I help you find something?” “I’m looking for the obituaries.” “The obituaries are in the back of the newspaper, comrade.” “Not the one I’m looking for.”
This part. Everyone should be taking notes from @ivehaditpodcast.bsky.social’s @mizzwelch.bsky.social
Sad, but so damn true.
@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.”
Hakeem Jeffries will never provide that leadership. He needs to be replaced.
The NRA buys off Congress. No action on guns. The oil industry buys off Congress. No action on climate. Insurance companies buy off Congress. No action on health care. The list goes on and on. Money in politics is the root of our dysfunction.
At 3 pm Wed., a woman was stabbed just off a busy intersection on H Street, NE. National Guard members were dining al fresco at a taqueria DIRECTLY across the street, yet the suspect got away. "So safe," a local texted us. Our postcard from an Occupied D.C.: www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
The average American simply has no idea how quickly the infrastructure that keeps us safe and healthy is collapsing. These systems run in the background thanks to government employees who quietly do critical work. Those employees are being purged and systems are being destroyed.
The Boots Theory is an economic theory that people in poverty have to buy cheap and subpar products that need to be replaced repeatedly, proving more expensive in the long run than more than the expensive items the wealthy only need to buy once. open.substack.com/pub/jesspipe...
In another instalment of: “Didn’t Age Well” This video was deleted from Twitter. So you know what to do. 😏
This message from Pope Leo XIV is about Trump and his immigration policies. It’s worth listening to even if you aren’t religious. He addresses the deeply moral issues of separating families and how it goes against Christianity. Even God agrees with Democrats.
It shouldn't be up to American children to save each other from getting shot. It's the job of American adults to stop shootings from happening in the first place. Ban assault weapons again now.
Lynx coach Cheryl Reeve on the Minnesota shooting: "The sad thing is we can't sit here and tell them that help is on the way. Because we're not going to do a damn thing about it."
WTF?
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.
Finding such people used to be the FBI’s job. Now they are out in the streets looking for landscapers and dishwashers.
Just in case you didn’t hear about this Monday. 😳
Vaccines are safe and effective. RFK Jr. isn’t.
What a disgrace.
Senator Katie Porter would be 🔥
DJT: “I have the right to do anything I want to do. I’m the President of the United States.” This would have been considered a pretty shocking statement under any other circumstances.
Shuler: Thirteen billionaires in one picture—four of whom now run agencies of our federal government. If you’ve ever met someone who says the word “oligarchy” is too confusing or too complicated, well, you can explain it with that one photo.
"We cannot even make it through the first week of school without mass shootings. And the @GOP will continue to do absolutely nothing while our kids are being gunned down.” “This is sick,” Newsom added. www.huffpost.com/entry/gavin-...
Starbucks’ CEO made 6,666x more than the company's median employee in 2024. This was the widest CEO-to-Worker pay gap in the entire S&P 500. Remember this before you order your next pumpkin spice latte.
We can't allow ourselves to become numb to mass shootings. What happened today in Minneapolis is heartbreaking, and Michelle and I are praying for the parents who have lost a child or will be sitting at their hospital bedside after yet another act of unspeakable, unnecessary violence.
Meiselas: Stop both-sidesing it, media. Stop trying to sow division within the Democratic Party when we literally have military invasions into American cities, aided and abetted by red state governors, who, again, are the takers who wouldn't exist without the blue states
The only thing more disgraceful than having groveling cabinet members so willing to debase themselves in this shameless way is having such a damaged, insecure, and needy president that they know desperately needs to hear this BS.
Undermining the Fed to get lower rates now is like ripping the batteries out of your smoke alarm because it’s beeping. It’s quiet for a bit. Then your house burns down. Credibility anchors expectations; expectations anchor inflation.
And what a small person that Trump needs all these people to grovel in front of him telling laughable lies.
Jeffries is impotent.
43% of social welfare recipients are White. 11 of the top 12 most dependent states are red states. Alaska is the most dependent on federal aid while California (49) and New Jersey (50) are least dependent, contributing far more than they receive. #RedStateMoochers
And what is Congress doing? They hold the purse strings.
Ohio State, did you eliminate your history requirement when Vance was an undergrad?
He says he wants to meet with North Korean dictator again. Guess he needs advice.
Who even watches Scarborough? I am predicting a divorce soon. Why did Mika marry this dolt?
This. 100%.
Sending troops into US cities against their will. Strong-arming corporations and extracting gifts in exchange for tariff exemptions. Calling on state governments to gerrymander in his favor. Trump is the "big government" nightmare conservatives have always warned us about.
Sen. Warren on Trump's attempt to fire Fed Governor Lisa Cook: "The illegal attempt to fire Lisa Cook is the latest example of a desperate President searching for a scapegoat ... It's an authoritarian power grab that blatantly violates the Federal Reserve Act, and must be overturned in court."
Regular people don’t know what “existential” means.
Pritzker: This is not about fighting crime. This is about the President and his complicit lackey, Stephen Miller, searching for ways to lay the groundwork to circumvent our democracy, militarize our cities, and end elections.
And they painted the wrong side.
🚨 This is what it looks like to watch an officer of the D.C. bar be falsely detained for daring to be black under a police state. Glad the crimes committed against him were documented for the world to see.
No surprise whatsoever, the number of abandoned babies in TX has skyrocketed. Weirdly, the number of people willing to adopt these babies, many of whom are not white, has NOT kept up with surge. GOP policy is always stupid and cruel. Always.
No lies told here.
Here’s what I see: A) The vast majority of Dems have coalesced around a morally clear platform. B) The vast majority of elected Dems have coalesced around protecting and pleasing their donors. C) Those two encampments are miles apart.
Inflation rose by 22.6% from 2019-2024. In that same period, the 100 lowest-paying corporations paid their CEOs 34.7% more. Worker pay didn't even keep up with the rate of inflation. Those corporate tax breaks will never, ever, ever trickle down. WE ARE BEING SCAMMED.
“Totalitarianism in power invariably replaces all first-rate talents, regardless of their sympathies, with those crackpots and fools whose lack of intelligence and creativity is still the best guarantee of their loyalty.” ― Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism
The State of Illinois at this time has received no requests or outreach from the federal government asking if we need assistance, and we have made no requests for federal intervention.
The University of Missouri (Mizzou) recently canceled a back-to-school event, the "Black 2 Class Block Party," organized by the Legion of Black Collegians (LBC), a Black student group, for using the word Black in the name of the event. It’s clear Mizzou is trying to erase Black voices. 🤬
WELL BETWEEN THE TACO AND FUTON WE HAVE WASTED OUR TAX DOLLARS ON TOTAL BULLSHIT. MEANWHILE THEY ARE CUTTING OUR BENEFITS. FUCK THEM BOTH🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕
"YOU NEED TO UNDERSTAND THE SICK, PSYCHOLOGICAL DYNAMIC OF WHAT PRESIDENT TRUMP IS UP TO WITH THESE PROSECUTIONS"
How about all those children at Uvalde? All the children who drowned in Texas? Are those enough?
He failed to negotiate with Putin. He failed to release the Epstein files. He failed to lower grocery prices. He failed to protect our democracy. Trump didn't just fail, he failed America. — credit @calltoactivism.bsky.social
Virginia Giuffre’s family denounces “DAG Todd Blanche’s bizarre interview” of Ghislaine Maxwell in a statement. www.allrisenews.com/p/maxwell-tr...
Neil deGrass Tyson: "How sad it must be believing that scientists, historians, scholars, economists, journalists devoted their entire lives to deceiving you, but a reality-TV star proven in court to be a lying felon is your beacon of truth & honesty"
@rokhanna.bsky.social: “Only 3% of the documents given to the [House] Oversight Committee are new. The rest are already in the public domain. Less than 1% of files have been released. DOJ is stonewalling.” khanna.house.gov/media/press-...
Has this quote been verified?
If you’re a convicted felon and your character witness is your dear old friend, the convicted child sex trafficker and enabler of your other dear old friend, the most notorious raper of children in modern history, you’re definitely a total piece of shit.
“The FBI went through my wife’s area, my wife’s drawers.” Uh, sir. EVERYONE went through your wife’s drawers. And probably her “area” too. 😂
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.
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Danielle Bensky is one of hundreds of women to have suffered abuse by convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epsteinng She is speaking out as the Epstein scandal dogs the White House and grips the United States. #ReleaseAllTheEpsteinFiles
CW: Sexual assault Women are being kidnapped and assaulted by men who impersonate ICE agents. This is one of many reasons why we can’t have a masked, unaccountable secret police force roaming the streets. Urge your elected officials to take action today: www.bluestatedefiance.org/no-secret-po...