i sometimes wonder if we've internalized that a low-intensity version of the third world war has been unfolding since at least 2022
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i sometimes wonder if we've internalized that a low-intensity version of the third world war has been unfolding since at least 2022
It was all a lie.
You know old guy is really losing it, when he’s criticizing the deal he made in his 1st term in office, and doesn’t realize it.
Old Man Yells at Himself
It’s simple.
We've got more for you on Labor Day. More than 82 percent of civilian federal workers have had their right to collectively bargain stripped in the largest act of union busting in US history. Unions are a voice from below, and their autonomy poses a threat to autocrats, Harold Meyerson writes:
Can you believe some leftists are desecrating our beautiful flag? Well you can spit in their faces by wearing this $45 t-shirt that features me, the guy who inspired a coup attempt and is teasing an unconstitutional run for president in 2028, hugging and kissing the flag!
During Jim Crow, many states mandated that anyone seeking to register to vote or apply to a state university had to have multiple voters/alumni “vouch” for their character. It was an easy if unsubtle way to maintain all-white (or mostly-white) institutions
News outlets should send their medical correspondents (the ones who are actual doctors) to the White House on Tuesday - and every day after that - to ask him questions about his health, hand bruising, if he’s getting lasix infusion, etc etc
this is the guy that the modern right wing considers one of their finest intellectuals
Nobel Prize worthy 🔥👏🏽🙌🏽 www.instagram.com/reel/DOC7KBw...
Epstein’s victims , holding news conference, following “Epstein Files” recess called by MAGA Republicans and MAGA Speaker Johnson. 🔥🔥🔥
Trump has still not sanctioned Russia, he’s done nothing to Putin. Pathetic Republicans, you are pathetic. Still on your “Epstein Files Recess” & afraid to do town halls ?
$50 says that’s Stephen Miller wearing his skin
@erikloomis.bsky.social I admire your scholarship But there are some serious omissions in your Times essay as I detail below I don't see how you can write that essay without addressing the evidence to the contrary I know you are not coming from a bad place but this is wrong
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Let’s see. Who should I trust? My own doctor, 1,000’s of scientists, & researchers. Or someone who thought using heroin for 12 years was one of the best things he could have done, swam in a sewage polluted creek with his grandkids, had a brain worm, has no actual medical training. Tough call.
> @governor.ca.gov
More than 1,000 protests are scheduled today all across America. Large crowds will be standing up to the Trump regime, and joining major unions for “Workers Over Billionaires” events. More here:
What these Schatz posts say to me is that Dem elected officials like him seem incapable of perceiving the right as a *political movement.* The response to Covid mitigation and the Floyd protests was not a spontaneous reaction...it was a right wing backlash organized by a reactionary movement.
“The obscure Trump official behind Lisa Cook’s firing *** If Trump doesn’t like you, Bill Pulte may be looking into your mortgage soon.” 8/26/25 … 1/ www.vox.com/politics/421...
JUST IN: Drew Ensign, on behalf of DOJ, reports that all of the migrant children have been returned to ORR custody.
Anna has had excellent coverage of this developing case in which the Trump administration tried to use the holiday weekend to secretly and illegally deport children.
#Florida All for a political stunt.
Trump & ICE Barbie Noem have announced plans to paint the existing border wall black. Cost? A half BILLION dollars, plus $25-$150/hour labor... Now that's cutting government waste! Wonder which Trump donors get the contract? MAGA!
Pay attention #Florida, the political stunt pulled by Ron DeSantis, is gonna cost you dearly. What’s it gonna take before Floridians realize they are being played like rubes. The radicalized right wing MAGA GOP is gaming you at the Federal, State & local government levels.
#Florida #Georgia Marc Elias is an ass-kicking lawyer that MAGA fears. He’s not gonna bend the knee, he’s not gonna backdown. Wish every lawyer in America had that kind of integrity& spirit.
Every lawyer in America should be fighting as hard & tenaciously as @marcelias.bsky.social to save American democracy. If you’re related to, friends with, a neighbor to, etc. a lawyer: Ask them what they are doing? Ask them about Marc Elias. -If they give an excuse why they can’t help, you know.
NEW: This morning, DOJ's Drew Ensign confirmed that the last of 76 children the Trump administration tried to put on planes & send to Guatemala in the middle of the holiday weekend are back in the custody of the Office of Refugee Resettlement, the result of a well-timed lawsuit & fast-moving judge.
Trump & MAGA Republicans are the most anti-labor elected leaders in modern history. Way too many rubes were fooled by them, lied to by them, at the Federal, State, County and Municipal level. -It’s imperative, they all be voted out, at every opportunity& that includes red states like #Florida
Trump wants us to stop focusing on the bad parts of slavery. Wrote about how we tend not to focus on one of the worst parts—sweeping, horrific sexual violence. Christofascist patriarchs don’t want to talk about that, for obvious reasons. www.everythingishorrible.net/p/slavery-wa...
Trump leaves the White House this morning (Andrew Caballero/Getty)
Tomorrow, in Part 1 of a two part episode on the Did Nothing Wrong Pod, I sit down with Professor @sethcotlar.bsky.social to talk about the history of the Radical Right in the Pacific Northwest and beyond. Subscribe Today! www.didnothingwrongpod.com/p/did-nothin...
Smell the glove!
‘Despite deep divisions among members, Trump’s unpredictable policies have helped create “a coalition of like-minded countries against the U.S.,”’ China is kicking America’s ass in every way possible. All because we elected an orange rapist criminal moron fraud.
Suggesting that China - who is the main enabler of Russia’s genocidal war - should be part of a ‘peacekeeping’ mission to Ukraine, is beyond stupid. The level of incompetence in the American administration is staggering. You don’t ask the rapist to protect the victim. Unless you’re Trump.
9 CDC Directors going back to 1977 speak out. What RFK Jr has done to our nation’s public health system "should alarm every American." It "is unlike anything we have ever seen at the agency, and unlike anything our country has ever experienced." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...
Pam Bondi has destroyed the credibility of the DOJ. Really wish lawyers, would have the integrity and guts to say it out loud.
In 7 months, Trump has taken the world's most powerful nation and turned it into a train wreck, inviting both our allies and our adversaries to reshape the world based on our irrelevance.
Fifty-one of the 85 Federalist papers were written by a guy born in Nevis.
J.B. Pritzker is 100% right. Please listen to him, pay attention, and join us in speaking out against authoritarianism and to protect free and fair elections.
Where is the mainsteam media? Anyone out there? Can you hear me???
Radicalized right-wing MAGA Republicans in Federal, state & local government, licked Trump’s nasty feet, every step of the way, to make this happen.
Trump's Ego is a National Security Risk: India Was the Economic Alternative to China. Trump Ended That. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/b...
I guess Trump should call his friend Xi to discuss. wapo.st/421KwBm
Telling it like it is 🔥 "Once again, we are seeing the federal government retaliate against our civil servants for whistleblowing—which is both illegal and a deep betrayal of the most dedicated among us." www.newsweek.com/fema-staff-l...
Well done MAGA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
A DOGE whistleblower revealed that employees uploaded a Social Security database—containing full names, dates of birth, and addresses of hundreds of millions of Americans— to a cloud server without “independent security or oversight," creating “enormous vulnerabilities" to hackers. trib.al/FDTWG43
Good morning with good news: Japan, world's 4th largest economy, cut its fossil fuel generated electricity from 73.1% in June 2018 to 54.8% in June 2025. That's 18.3 points drop or 2.6 points/year! It could be near zero FF by 2045. Gas fell from 38.1% to 27.4% Coal fell from 30% to 20% #energysky
MO Gov Mike Kehoe is calling a special session to gerrymander the 5th District which encompasses Kansas City. He is specifically violating Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, which bans any voting practice that denies or weakens the power of a racial minority to elect its preferred candidates.
This is, of course, false. The United States exported $83 billion in goods and services to India last year alone.
At least while alienating all of our allies, Trump has been instrumental in bringing others closer together.
This bullshit is so bad.
This man is a fool.
52 of 53 Republican senators voted to confirm him.
You’re ignorant if - you believe that the government is ‘chipping’ you with vaccines. You’re a ignorant if - you think that the mRNA in a vaccine is manipulating your DNA. You’re a ignorant if - you believe that vaccines cause autism. Vaccines are safe and effective! Vaccines cause old age.
Way to go Pam, you’re really making America safer with this bullshit. #Florida
True ✅
Roger Marshall (R-KS) Bill Cassidy (R-LA) Rand Paul (R-KY) John Barrasso (R-WY) These doctors voted for RFK Jr., swimmer in poop, with his grandchildren, the former 14 year heroin addict, sexual abuser, to become the Secretary of Health and Human Services.
Pope Leo XIV met with one of the most prominent advocates for greater LGBTQ+ inclusion in the Catholic Church. The Rev. James Martin said Leo told him that he intended to continue Pope Francis’ policy of LGBTQ+ acceptance in the church and encouraged him to keep up his advocacy.
Oh, Andy Borowitz. What a gem you are.
Whee! fortune.com/2025/08/28/t...
The thing about a lot of these never Trump Republicans is that, unlike a lot of institutionalist Dems who think the fever will break and we can all return to comity or whatever, these guys saw the rot up close and know the only appropriate response is to tear them out of government root and branch.
This whole thing is great but the highlighted bit made me laugh out loud. 😂 Marlon on Snoop:
This is an actual congressman. People heard the words that came out when this man opened his mouth and said, yes, this minor character from a Faulkner novel is indeed the best person we could find to represent our interests in the national government.
Pritzker out here giving a master class in countering the right wing propaganda machine’s efforts to justify further federal invasions and occupations of American cities: he’s effectively reframing the discussion (beyond debates re: crime rates) to one of rising authoritarianism & federal overreach.
Looking good, Billy Ray.
Trump's contribution to our politics was exposing that conservatives don't care about any of the principles they've said are sacrosanct for 100 years, and all they wanted was to be openly evil instead of circuitously evil. The Democrats who win will be the ones who understand this and act like it
Every single US city needs to do this, and enforce it.
I missed a chance to screencap it, but there was a question about the end of the Cold War that JD Vance would've gotten wrong, as one of the options was "the US and USSR negotiated a treaty"
Trump just issued an executive order declaring himself immortal.
Pure fucking evil. Everyone involved in this shit needs to be held accountable.
This is the way
I was given a 24-hour suspension here for posting my dream scenario for how it will happen.
I can't wait to find out why this statement is so bizarre.
“The use of ignorance to establish oneself as a greater authority than the expert” is something I’ve seen as a problem for a long time, but I’ve never seen it expressed as well as it is in this essay.
MAGA Rep Caught in Epstein Firestorm at Chaotic Town Hall www.thedailybeast.com/maga-rep-dan...
IRS Criminal Investigators go after people who commit serious criminal financial fraud. Money laundering, bank fraud, political corruption, identity theft, ripping off Medicaid/Medicare, employment fraud. You know, real crimes that hurt real people. Instead, here they are, doing... This.
This is the horrible reality of what we are facing right now. #USDemocracy
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."
Wonder what the numbers for fecal contamination on the beaches of #Florida ?
🦈s don't scare this scuba diver, but 💩 does.
BREAKING: Judge Sooknanan says the children are being removed right now so has advanced today’s hearing to 12:30pm. www.politico.com/news/2025/08...
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Looks like the folks who voted for him in rural areas are gonna end up living in tents. Ron DeSantis does tent city concentration camps & his just got shut down in the Everglades.
NEWS: Trump and House Republicans' budget cuts seek to eliminate the HOME affordable housing program that’s built/rehabbed 1.3M homes in 30 yrs, including 540k in rural areas. 84% of those homes are in districts that voted for him. Rural families now face losing their lifeline.
“Trump said.”
I’m stoked to see State Governors pushing back on the 💩🤡’s LIES! Here Pennsylvania Gov. #JoshShapiro reminds us that, according to the U.S. CONSTITUTION… 🗳️States run their own elections! 🗳️ Mail in voting is safe and secure and… 🗳️ …it is up to each State to decide! substack.com/@demwinsmedi...
Trump’s policies are leading to an economic disaster & Republicans are doing absolutely nothing to stop him. newrepublic.com/article/1996...
🤣🤣🤣🤣 Come on you nut-job, do an executive order on limestone & maybe a tariff, you petulant man-child.
“ILLEGALS” MY ASS! Green card holder Rami Othmane speaks out after being snatched off the street by ICE while driving to the grocery store. He’s a documented immigrant and the husband of Dr Wafaa Alrashid, chief of staff at a local hospital. He was locked in detention for 13 days.
trump can issue as many executive orders as he wants, perhaps coverage should reflect the fact that a lot of these have the legal force of a child's wishlist for santa
Wow! Finally some pushback on that barrage of executive orders coming out of the White House with no attempt to work with Congress to pass legislation. And coming from Chuck Grassley of all people! Oh wait, hang on a sec, I’m getting word that this is not about Trump but rather…
An important piece of context here is that Democrats controlled both houses of Congress for only the first two years of Obama’s presidency. Republicans currently control not only Congress and the WH, but also the SCOTUS. And still, Trump is governing by EO and fiat.
Ah….never mind. Executive orders are bad when Democrats do them. FWIW, Obama signed 129 EOs in his second term. Trump has issued 198 so far in **the first seven months** of his second term.
Some important “What to expect when we’re electing” messaging from the Brennan Center. Election fraud lies are integrated into the administration’s strategies of election interference going into 2026. What we need to be aware of… and what we can do: