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DEVELOPING: Advocates are seeking a court order to block the Trump administration’s effort to deport hundreds of unaccompanied minor children to Guatemala. Judge abruptly moved 3 pm hearing up to 12:30 after she was notified that some children “are in the process of being removed" today.
Lawyers for the children say they're still on planes in El Paso. SOOKNANAN: "I have the government attempting to remove minor children from the country in the wee hours of the morning on a holiday weekend. That's surprising." www.politico.com/news/2025/08...
Here's the latest infuriating display of Trump's lawlessness
It's possible ... hear me out, here …. It may well be that these people lie their asses off whenever they exhale
Yikes! The CDC has quietly scaled back its FoodNet surveillance, now only tracking salmonella and STEC. Monitoring for Listeria, Campylobacter, Vibrio and other pathogens has stopped- even after last year’s deadly Listeria outbreak. buff.ly/OyTTIOA h/t @boghuma.bsky.social #medsky #IDsky 🛟🧪
I encourage you to visit Aaron Rupar’s page today @atrupar.com and read his reporting on F47’s cabinet meeting. If the craziness in that meeting doesn’t scare the heck out of you nothing will. We are in serious trouble.
If Obama or Biden had said this, it would be rightfully understood as them arrogating dictatorial authority to themselves, it would be the only thing anyone in the media or opposition would talk about for a year, and it would probably end their presidency. For Trump, it’s literally just Tuesday.
Pritzker gets it.
he literally thinks he is a king. i mean, this entire media blitz for when he signs executive orders is meant to create the impression that they are royal decrees
Good Gods. Y,all need to read @atrupar.com posts right now. FFS! It is madness.
Tim Walz: "Think of how easy it would be to be a damn Republican. 'Oh, what should I wear today? This stupid frickin' red hat. What should I say today? I don't know, just make sure it's cruel. Who do we listen to? That guy -- the felon in the White House.'"
We are very far off the cliff, folks. 🇺🇸
Here is an image of the crowd of people that chased a dozen ICE agents out of Columbia Heights yesterday. I don’t see one “elderly white hippie” there. I do see a wide variety of ages, genders, and races; DC residents united in disgust at what Miller is cheering on.
1/ Popping back in with another #fallvaccine update. 👇 In case you missed it, Friday (or soon after) the FDA is expected to license the Covid-19 vaccine. Word is that the label will be restricted to adults 65+ and people at high risk. But a few organizations have made different recommendations.
He interrupted a meeting with world leaders so he could call his Russian handler for forty minutes, but he did it in another room because he didn’t want to disrespect *Putin*
NEWS: Far-right MAGA network Newsmax has agreed to pay $67 MILLION to settle a defamation lawsuit with Dominion Voting Systems over 2020 election lies LINK: meidasnews.com/news/newsmax...
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164 years later, South Carolina finally occupies Washington.
Documents with sensitive details about the meeting between President Trump and Russian President Putin were left behind on a public hotel printer.
Standing and waiting like a pet poodle for a murderous foreign dictator who kills America’s friends and allies, trying to suck up to him by rolling out a show of the armed forces that mostly exist to fight that very dictator.
Tyrant greets tyrant
uh what
The stats he’s attacking are from the Department of Justice: www.justice.gov/usao-dc/pr/v...
Americans elected the dumbest person on the planet. This is an astonishing level of ignorance.
This is appalling. Civilized countries look at us and are rightly horrified that this idiocy and cruelty is sanctioned by--encouraged by--our government. (I originally wrote "Other civilized countries look at us..." But do we any longer count in their ranks?) www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
New Analysis Finds Trump Family Has Raked in $3.4 Billion Off the Presidency www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
And here it is. Property rights and a market economy cannot survive this authoritarian assault.
Head of NASA Sean Duffy intends to destroy a satellite that collects key data on carbon dioxide and plant health, by causing it to burn up in the atmosphere. The U.S. Dept of Agriculture and private agriculture firms use the data to forecast crop yield, drought conditions and more.
NEWS: Annie Farmer, an Epstein survivor who testified against Ghislaine Maxwell, just revealed on CNN that she wrote a letter with her concerns to Deputy AG Blanche — and received no response. She says neither she nor other survivors have heard a word from the DOJ.
t took six months for a Trump official to be politely forced by a journalist to admit live on air what everyone - including every economist - knows to be true (but which Trump keeps lying about): tariffs are paid in the US by US importers. What an indictment of our media.
This 20 seconds is pure art. It’s like the essence of Trump - the fraud, the lies, the simplistic idiocy - is reduced to its singularity. Nothing in high office, anywhere, will ever be this stupid again.
Remember when they said Obama would ruin the White House with Escalades on the South Lawn? Those people are really quiet about Trump turning this shit into a gaudy casino
Here’s a 🔥🔥exchange between me and Mick Mulvaney during @mehdirhasan.bsky.social's brilliant interview of Mulvaney on Al Jazeera's Head to Head. The whole episode is worth a watch, and you can find it on @aljazeera.com's YouTube channel.
She said she made it 21 years but that’s long enough to know this is bullshit. In my 53 years I agree. They’re dehumanizing us.
Any one defending Trump's sanity after listening to this is a hard MAGA partisan.
Brennan to Greer: "The US has a trade surplus with Brazil. So it doesn't seem to be consistent here when you have the president put 50% tariffs on Brazil, one of the highest of any country, & at the same time Trump is bringing up things that have nothing to do with trade when he's justifying them."
NEW: A federal judge ordered the Trump administration to unfreeze federal funds. Then the harassment began. Pizzas sent to his home in the name of Judge Esther Salas’s murdered son, Daniel. Six credible threats to his life. More than 400 “vile” calls to his chambers—including this voicemail:
How low can they go? We know the answer: Even lower. Always. There is no bottom to the rot.
By all means, let the guy who told the secretary of state of Georgia "I just want to find 11,780 votes" make decisions about whose numbers are wrong.
Some dudes would rather start a nuclear war than release the Epstein files or talk about their jobs report
What is going on. Like genuinely. What the fuck are we doing here.
Listen to this mealy-mouthed non-answer about the billions in CANCER RESEARCH funding Trump's budget chief is illegally blocking. Clinical trials have been cut short. Research is shutting down. We're talking irreparable harm. Keep speaking up until they get this money out.
The whole point of government is that it can do needed things that don't generate revenue. The framing of "stock price" is complete bullshit meant to deflect from the LEGITIMATE role of public investment in medical research and care.
Friendly reminder: the president who most increased debt in US history? Donald Trump! More than 43 other presidents accumulated in the country’s first 216 years combined.
a moral degenerate
And ask Acosta why he just got a streaming deal with Trump media and a job on the board at Newsmax just three months ago.
July 18: If we have a smart president, you're never going to let the dollar slide. If you have a dummy, that could happen. July 25: A weak dollar makes you a hell of a lot more money. It doesn't sound good, but you make a hell of a lot more money with a weaker dollar than with a strong dollar
Beyond the 60 Minutes payoff & Colbert cancelation, an unprecedented capitulation: as part of merger agreement, new parent company agrees to install an official to "monitor bias" at CBS’s news division. CBS news will essentially be state controlled media. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/24/b...
Mike Pompeo was once described as “like a heat-seeking missile for Trump’s ass” but he was Mr. Magoo compared to Lutnick
I just don’t think that this man is well.
The Japan “deal” means “some cars manufactured by U.S. companies could end up facing higher duties than some cars built entirely overseas.” 🤡 @politico.com $GM $F www.politico.com/news/2025/07...
Maybe instead of making Micheal look like a drug addict just tell the court one of his 3 kids living under his roof had to leave the country for being “targeted” after security failed to protect her. #GH. Not that I want Drillow to get the kids!
Kill me
CNN: Trump has launched crypto ventures, his family has made hundreds of millions of dollars. Would you like to see more transparency about who's investing? COMER: Well what President Trump has done w/crypto we all know. Now, we can debate whether we like it or not. They're doing this transparently
No because they're INTERNATIONAL you fucking morons
Yeah but it was Hunter is a fucking hilarious admission
District court judges voted today against keeping Alina Habba in her role as interim US attorney. Instead of abiding by that, AG Pan Bondi announces she's firing the woman who would've replaced her. A Watergate-style attack on the rule of law.
IMPORTANT: The Dutch invest €595 million annually on urban biking, resulting in €19 BILLION saved in public health care costs alone. That’s how smart govts do the math on investing in better mobility. Let’s be clear— it wastes public money to NOT do it. #CityMakingMath HT @modacitylife.bsky.social
wish he’d just say “this creep’s a fucken liar”
Stop falling for the trap of latching on to the price of an item (eggs, beef…) as the message. The issue is affordability. From 2001-2023 wages failed to keep up with rising costs. Medical premiums rose 301% Travel expenses were up 170%. Rent grew by 131%. The cost of raising children grew by 107%.
“a company connected to the United Arab Emirates government bought $2 billion in stablecoins issued by World Liberty Financial, the Trump family crypto firm, enabling the family to use the actual money it received to make tens of millions of dollars in interest” No attempt to hide the corruption
WTF
This is really evil, demented, panicky stuff--just psychotic behavior from a sitting president, including the mid-thought digression about decorating--and political reporters and major media whose take on it is "You know, that's just how he is" should be viewed as his willing courtiers.
lol Trump says press has to "look at" the made up Gabbard stuff and "stop talking about" Epstein. I mean, he's pretty clear about why they're doing this.
For the record, when Democrats are asked in the future why they won’t work with Republicans, this will be Exhibit A.
sure seems like "you ought take a look at that and stop talking about nonsense" is a tell a pretty big fucking tell
"Democracy is a system in which parties lose elections" People & parties who believe in democracy do not speak like this about other people & parties in their country. It's fundamentally incompatible with democracy. Tolerating it is how concentration camps & stripping people of citizenship happen.
“who should the DOJ target” is a *grossly* inappropriate question to ask the president, it’s even more inappropriate for him to answer, and every member of the press corpse with an ounce of integrity should have made that point and walked out the door and there
Trump appointees ran the government in 2020. The Big Lie has expanded into a complete alternate reality.
The first question for every Trump administration appointee (whatever their subject matter areas), every Republican elected official, every donor and supporter, now should be: Will you say that this rhetoric from the president is dangerous? Will you denounce it?
That press event Trump just did was as bleak as it gets. We better hope what he said about prosecuting Democrats for treason and other false allegations is just bluster, or we are headed to an extremely dark place.
Speaker Johnson doesn't mind keeping the House in session to cut healthcare for 17 million Americans, but he draws the line at exposing child predators.
Speaker Johnson would rather cancel all votes & hearings than simply have a vote on bipartisan legislation demanding release of the Epstein files, something he, Trump & Bondi have been demanding for months! A pathetic new low in political cowardice & legislative malpractice.
Jess Anderson nailed her commentary here: Poor @SpeakerJohnson is living like a pauper in Washington, DC. Aren't you sorry for him?
This was already the least productive Congress in history—and now it’s shutting down entirely because Mike Johnson is terrified of Trump (and what might be in the Epstein files). The GOP’s contempt for the American people couldn’t be more obvious.
“I reject objective measurements of reality” is a good distillation of the administration.
This is, to me, the defining dyamic of everything the last six months. Any game theory notion of deterrence or the shoe being on the other foot ever is entirely gone. Either 1) They don't think they'll ever lose power again or 2) they're confident Democrats won't ever do the same things back to them
It’s because there are no consequences. When we get the reins back, kill the filibuster, pass strong contempt and disbarment laws, and expand the Supreme Court. (Disclaimer: yes there are other things to do when we get the reins back but this post is specifically about judicial reform. Thank you.)
Workers at 3 of the most important US science agencies — NIH, EPA, and NASA — have now filed letters of dissent against their leadership.
BREAKING: In our lawsuit with @publiccitizen.bsky.social the judge just ruled that the Office of Management and Budget must restore its website that shows how it is spending taxpayer dollars. The judge had some strong words for OMB about the illegal removal of the site:
Migrants at Ice jail in Miami made to kneel to eat ‘like dogs’, report alleges. Incident in which migrants were shackled with hands tied of one succession of alleged abuses at jails in Florida. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
We’re just going full QAnon now.
It was exactly 6 months ago that this administration issued blanket pardons to everyone involved in the January 6 insurrection.
I hope everyone notices that Trump is trying to normalize the idea of arresting political opponents for no reason (Trump attempted a coup in 2021 so miss me with the false equivalences)
When he was president the first time, advisers had to remind him Puerto Rico was America
Records obtained by ProPublica show the Trump administration is preparing to shut down seven major investigations of alleged housing discrimination and segregation, including some where HUD already found civil rights violations had occurred. By @jessecoburn.bsky.social
The next stage of the fascist takeover: Announcing referrals to the Department of Justice to target President Obama, members of his Administration & federal judges. Why? Because they had the gall to investigate Putin’s effort to elect Trump in 2016. Their deranged gaslighting has no limits.
"None of the [DOJ]offices in Manhattan, Brooklyn, Albany and Newark has a permanent leader. Instead, Mr. Trump has concentrated power within the Justice Department in Washington and, in two of the offices, has elevated loyalists with little prosecutorial experience,"
"It is frustrating that someone who does not know the worth of what they're breaking, breaks it.” www.cbsnews.com/news/sources...
The Trump administration’s dramatic reorganization of the State Department was engineered primarily by a handful of political appointees that were chosen for their “fidelity” to the president and willingness to “break stuff” on his behalf.
Trump’s EPA just eliminated its entire research arm—the “heart and brain” of the agency—and is laying off 3,700 workers. That’s 1,155 scientists, chemists, and biologists gone. Less science. More pollution. This isn’t reform. It’s sabotage. #ProtectOurPlanet
Neguse: Only in Washington, D.C. could politicians come to the floor and brag about cutting $9 billion from rural radio stations while two weeks ago they voted to increase the deficit by $4 trillion. Spare us these lectures.
This morning, like every morning, Trump will wake up: paint his face orange, clip on his comical wig, put on a big floppy tie & oversized suit & weird platform shoes, and will go out in the world to steal as much money has he can while undermining US national security & economy & democracy.
Not really an overstatement to say that the test of a free society is whether or not comedians can make fun of the country's leader on TV without repurcussions.
