The helpful split-screen of Scott Jennings’ condescending smugness as Rana states this obvious truth makes it real easy to understand how we got here.
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The helpful split-screen of Scott Jennings’ condescending smugness as Rana states this obvious truth makes it real easy to understand how we got here.
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The month of August 2025 may go down as the worst in the history of the US Health and Human Services Department. After a month of shocking removals, resignations, and a shooting at the CDC, Democrats are demanding that RFK Jr. pack his bags.
And yet Nancy supports and voted for a pedophile/rapist to be President. And yet Nancy mocked E. Jean Carroll. #SheShed
Jesse Watters, a man obsessed with masculinity, admitted that his 13-year-old daughter beat him in a foot race. Then a viewer sent text pointing out that it was proof that men don't always win in women's sports.
Folks, a party iffy on protecting completely innocent and ordinary immigrants and transgender people is not going to go out of its way to defend the human rights of accused drug traffickers. We're talking about people who lack the moral courage of the average Pomeranian. Don't know what to tell you.
Oh, nothing to see here. Just corrupt self-dealing by the Secretsry of Commerce's family Lutnick Family Angling To Make Astronomical Sums Off Court Nixing Tariffs talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/lutni...
It's really worth a call to your rep about this. They really do want to release the files, but Trump is threatening them if they do. However, for once MAGA is on the right side of this issue, so GOP reps are caught between Trump and their base.
This is the little boat that Trump bombed. Literaly bombed it with a cruise missile. 11 people murdered. Where are the drugs that a little skiff like that could carry, crammed with people? Stop calling it the Venezuelan strike. It is outright murder in international waters.
Amazing what an advanced society can achieve when it's not controlled by a bunch of moronic unqualified idiots
And ... being inside.
More train, FTR:
Reid: Bondi is not a real AG. She just works for Trump. All these U.S. attorneys — what’s her name from Fox (who I hope is sober) — she’s not a real U.S. attorney. She works for Trump. They’ve gutted the DOJ. The DOJ doesn’t exist. The FBI doesn’t exist. It’s all just Trump’s employees.
32 USC § 502(f)(2) would violate Article IV of the Constitution if applied to support deployment of un-federalized out-of-state National Guard troops into a state that didn’t want those troops there, as with Trump’s proposed use of the Texas National Guard to invade Illinois
The Everglades Concentration Camp costs 3x one of these trains.
Made Swedish shrimp salad sandwiches and pickled cucumber for the first time, and had friend over to eat same and watch The Thursday Murder Club.
i don't think it's great that there is no one in the GOP asking about congressional war powers
"Men think they are happier and wealthier married—and they're right. Women think they are happier and wealthier alone—and they're right. The [patriarchal] bargain is not good for women, and more and more we are declining to make it."
First of all, again, Don't. Stenographically. Print. Lies. In. The. Newspapers. Second, the actual headline should be that this is a massive violation of international law. What is journalism, anyway?
I REALLY need this timeline--not the Bluesky one, but the real one--to stop creating nightmare Mad Lib sentences that should not exist in the English language. "Vice chair of the Intelligence Cmte denied a meeting ... because Laura Loomer objected." That's, like, a mantra that opens doors to hell.
Trump threatening members of Congress not to sign the Epstein files discharge petition saying it would be a “hostile act” against him is definitely something an innocent person would do. And scheduling a military flyover in the middle of the survivor press conference is also totally normal behavior.
That Pritzker presser? Unreal. A sitting governor saying, flat out, the Union is coming apart and his state is being invaded by an authoritarian regime. This is a whole new level of crisis.
i think the framers would be genuinely aghast at how fucking whipped this congress is, just the absolute lack of self-respect and unwillingness to use any of their power
Rep. Jim McGovern: "Republicans are terrified because the president doesn't want to release all the Epstein files after promising that he would release them during the campaign ... What are they trying to hide?"
If there’s one thing that I have learned from engaging with primary sources, it is that people in the past weren’t smarter or more principled than we are today they just weren’t drowned in omnipresent propaganda and/or prosperous enough to be detached from material conditions
BIG: 5th circuit strikes down administrations use of alien enemies act to deport folks to El Salvador. “We conclude that the findings do not support that an invasion or predatory incursion has occurred. We therefore conclude that petitioners are likely to prove that the AEA was improperly invoked.”
Wanna guess which station is owned by Sinclair?
Read about how Francis J. Allman, Chief Judge of Florida’s Second Judicial District, is an un-American censorial fascist thug worthy of contempt.
we’re about to see a second wave of teen reddit atheism the world has never seen before
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.
Seems Trump might be trying an end-run in which Texas mobilizes its National Guard. That would be Texas invading Illinois, which as you can imagine is unconstitutional. One wonders about potential remedies, such as IL seizing assets of TX corporations like X, xAI, and SpaceX. Just a thought. 🤔
If it’s under Title 32 authority, the Texas guard remains under state control. That would mean that one state is deploying armed forces into the territory of a non-consenting state. And that’d clearly be a violation of the principle that states are co-equal, territorially limited sovereigns.
That Pritzker press conference was... surreal, and I think marks a significant moment of escalation in the constitutional omni-crisis. This was the governor of a state saying plainly the Union itself is being torn apart and his state is being militarily invaded by an authoritarian regime.
It’s corruption, plain and simple.
Crime is down in Chicago, but it’s up 752% in the imaginary Chicago in their heads.
"To be a political reporter in 2025, you have to be gullible enough to believe that a convicted felon who launched a violent coup attempt is worried about crime. Or you just have to be willing to pretend you’re that gullible. Either way, we deserve better." bsky.app/profile/samy...
“well this is certainly a bold departure from political norms!” as they are marched to the gulag
It’s time for these victims receive justice. It’s time for Trump to stop protecting the rich & powerful & to start telling the truth. It’s also time for Republicans in Congress to find the courage to sign the discharge petition that would force a vote to release the Epstein files. (2/2)
We’re back in session after Speaker Johnson let us out early at the end of July, feeling the pressure from our subpoenas for the Epstein files. Today, @oversightdemocrats.house.gov sat down with survivors who endured horrific abuse. What we heard was beyond disturbing. (1/2)
See through it.
The Trump admin dumped half a dozen men with serious criminal records in the Kingdom of Eswatini, where they are being jailed indefinitely despite all having finished serving criminal sentences in the United States. It’s a disturbing situation.
In 2001 Peruvian forces, acting on US-provided intelligence, shot down a planeload of US missionaries over the Amazon. Bad things happen, often, when forces kill civilians aboard vessels or aircraft without a clear self-defense justification. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2001_Pe...
Here's the video Trump just posted to Truth Social, with the claim that 11 people aboard the boat were killed. There is zero evidence of self-defense here. Looks like a massacre of civilians at sea. Even if they had drugs aboard, that's not a capital offense.
They wanted to kill some Drug Guys for Fox News and they did. Simple as.
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I liked him so much better when he was dead.
oh this is straightforward white nationalist agitprop
Mobile billboard rolling thru downtown Washington DC
The funniest thing about this is Doocy no doubt thought clearing this up would be a softball and instead Trump just launches a new round of conspiracy theories.
Federal law requires top officials to avoid financial conflicts of interest *except* for President Trump and VP Vance. And while every other president since the Civil War has voluntarily avoided conflicts, Trump openly flouts ethics norms.
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 can't wait for the Illinois National Guard to turn back the Texas National Guard in the Battle of Cairo
Pritzker: "I refuse to pretend that any of this is normal ... I refuse to fall into the pundit trap that demands we sacrifice vital constitutional rights if it's being done in the fake guise of fighting crime."
Oh So Now It's ILLEGAL For The Military To Invade US Cities Against Their Will? Judge rules SURPRISE that the regime violated Posse Comitatus Act. By @marciej.bsky.social www.wonkette.com/p/oh-so-now-...
Man, can't wait to rally behind the message of "let's find common ground." That'll really juice the numbers. Fucking milquetoast bullshit.
The last CR (allowed to advance to a vote by several democratic senators including Chuck Schumer) defunded DC by $1.1B to include law enforcement. I'll be writing and calling and screaming that the next continuing resolution IS NOT PASSED without FUNDING DC (among other things.)
This was a local Memphis TV station's news website this morning. Sure seems awfully violent there, but, weirdly, no troops needed.
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."
Senate Democrats: DO NOT FUND the government when the current continuing resolution expires at the end of the month. SHUT IT DOWN unless DC is funded, the troops are withdrawn from our cities, elections are protected, the Epstein files are released in full... SHUT IT DOWN.
Brian Stetler just told CNN that we were memeing about Trump's health this weekend to monetize speculation and make a quick buck on Bluesky. Are we supposed to be getting checks?
This looks like a community theater’s attempt at portraying a Russian palace on a budget.
Let me tell you a story about one of these hardcore criminals who was born into a very wealthy family. Despite his life of obscene privilege, he relished being a scam artist his entire life. Conning people made him feel powerful…something he would later parlay into politics…
Probably not terribly difficult to turn a Harvard man's disdain for the unwashed masses into a raging MAGA asshole.
Googled this guy and came up with this. He's like a pompous Paper Chase character.
There is only one reason Space Command is being moved from Colorado to Alabama: Donald Trump is a petty tyrant who doesn't care about Americans who didn't vote for him.
This is the most important news of the day. Sending Texas guardsmen to Illinois is an intentional, unprecedented provocation. It should be immediately challenged in court. Follow @democracydocket.com for breaking news and updates on this developing story. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
Deploying the military against Americans.
Trump can decorate a door any way he likes, as long as it's death's door.
I’m old enough to remember when we had 47,000 congressional hearings over Hunter Biden allegedly making money off his father’s name. Meanwhile, Trump’s corruption, in the billions, gets openly celebrated.
Epstein survivors speak out. www.nbcnews.com/politics/pol...
In a major setback to President Donald Trump’s attempt to purge independent agencies, the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals refused to block a lower court order reinstating Democratic commissioner Rebecca Slaughter to the Federal Trade Commission. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
Hell, no! 😡 AOC for House Minority Leader!
...thousands of people die every year due to their selective attention. I want electeds, appointed officials, career civil employees, and journalists to start paying attention.
There are so many parallels to the way so many disasters--natural and otherwise--have unfolded in the last 20 years. Government officials at every level who don't take problems, or their jobs, seriously. Media who downplay or fail to cover people being harmed.
...trusted images from out of town reporters hanging out in tourist areas more than they did 911 calls and local first responders. And reporters/their bosses felt no obligation to do due diligence beyond getting a photo op in the most recognizable part of the city.
2) The media holed up in the French Quarter congratulating the city on dodging a bullet while 80% of the city drowned is so on-brand for the modern press. It actively contributed to the long delays in responses because all they cared about was Bourbon Street, and government officials...
I started watching the new Katrina documentary last night, and 2 things stuck out to me: 1) Seemingly no one in state, federal, or local government was tapped into 911 calls or what firefighters and other first responders knew and were doing.
It wasn't a difficult prediction, but nailed it.
In his never ending attempt to piss off his base, Jeffries succeeded again.
The official position of the Democrat party: petitioning to find common ground with Nazis and white supremacists.
Jeffries wants to "find common ground" with authoritarians and fascists and racists? uh... no thanks? they don't need a seat at the table they need a seat in a cell. who is asking for them to have ANY input at all? definitely not normal people who aren't weird fascist enablers and appeasers.
still going on with this line of talking. This is the weakest party ever. It's like they want Americans to suffer and die. "We're upset. We won't raise our voices or say anything mean. But know we're upset. I feel upset, in case I didn't say it already."
Its pretty embarrassing to still be in "reach across the aisle" when there's a fascist military takeover happening across the country.
Spoiler alert: you can’t find common ground with a fascist. Hope this helps, Hakeem
Pity, that.
You need your parents’ permission to not commit suicide?
So this whole thing is just for Trump to shit on Colorado for a few minutes before huffing Alabama farts from Tuberville and heading back to bed.
I reported on that last week - he wants to create his own space guard that’s under his control. That’s part of it
President Trump will announce Space Command will move from Colorado to Alabama, reversing a Biden-era decision, per AP
Obviously it’s the Republicans who won’t do it, every Dem would support everything you talk about but they are vetoed by the GOP. Don’t say “Congress”,say the “Republican controlled Congress”. Please.
🚨Congress is back from recess today. If they’re serious about protecting democracy in this crisis and beyond, here’s what they *must* do—immediately. 🧵
Pro tip for covering pregnancy-related arrests: don't use the word 'infant' before finding out what actually happened. More often than not, these are miscarriages, but outlets will repeat the language cops use - smearing women in the process www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Today in NYC
Note: the EPA is the bad guy now
"The GOP is signing on to mass murder of children based on the novel theories of a man who has no party ties except a single Trump endorsement. It is a measure of the party’s utter hollowness, brokenness, and evil that even in this case, it can barely find the resources to demur."