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I didn’t see the Tweet… is he signing something? Announcing a “trade deal”? Meeting with a foreign leader? Shy of any of those… feels ominous.
The only thing that scares me about Vance is that ppl who vote Red but don’t like Trump as a person could be convinced he’s nicer than Trump. But I don’t think he could keep the stooges in leadership roles in-line top-down like Trump, or threaten Congress to cede their powers with the same effect.
Who’s left overlap in eugenics but little else. TechBros will hate Christian Nationalists bc they think they’re the gods. Eugenics=smart (white) people. Christian Nationalists will hate TechBros bc they don’t revere humanity & push ‘singularity’. Eugenics=white Christians. Vance can’t hold them all.
Vance & Miller are buddies, & Heritage is scary. But will Congress rally behind Johnson and Thune to stay in line? Especially if it’s around midterms? I don’t think MAGA Mike can keep his ducks in a row without fear of Trump— they may be more scared of their constituents then, as it should be.
Independents don’t seem particularly thrilled either. They’re closer to Dems than Republicans right now, and he’s doing all the worst policies he can come up with.
It’s not “GOOD NIGHT! God bless all Americans but Gavin NewSCUM & radical left democrats who want you to be murdered in your sleep (TRAITORS)! America had bad nights last year bc of Biden. Signing Nightmares for Dems EO in 2 weeks! Thank you for your attention to this matter!”…so he didn’t write it.
I hope Drew Ensign wakes up every morning with a pit in his stomach— some horror movie intuition— where he feels like he’s being watched. A feeling of “somebody has seeeeeen the evil I’ve done in the dark”. And I like to imagine it’s the spirit of Anna Bower and everyone who reads her behind it.
This goes for the CDC too: 500 rounds shot, Vance was *in* Atlanta 13 days later— the day before Officer Rose’s funeral— and… nothing. We’re 1 hr north & my husband never heard about it. The FBI is helping ICE instead of looking into these threats. America no longer notices gun violence. Shameful.
U.S. politicians' responses to mass shootings are "always performative," says @cameronkasky.bsky.social. "This administration... is so defined by tragedy, cruelty, and violence that something like children being shot dead while they are praying is not going to be a topic next week."
Pour one out for Judge Sparkle Sooknanan’s clerks this Labor Day weekend
To state the obvious, petty street crime would likely be very rare in a totalitarian state where the military could execute you on suspicion of shoplifting; doesn’t mean this should be seriously discussed as an anti-crime stately. “Lowering crime” is not the only prerogative in a civilized society
Umm I am from Georgia and I definitely sound like it… but SAME. It’s like he’s copying all of Leslie Jordan’s voice but completely lacking in his grace and charm.
Not a very long path from "Why wouldn't you want the regime to deploy federal troops in your city when it reduces carjackings?" to "Why would you be opposed to the erection of internment camps for deviants when it reduces crime?" And a good chunk of mainstream media will just follow along.
Trump declares intention to issue an Executive Order mandating Voter ID for all votes, restricts mail-in voting to exceptions, and insists on paper ballots only.
Interesting: “…he’s angling for a 2028 run against the President...”
Jon Stewart asks why the GOP's "one is too many" logic applies only to immigrants but not mass shootings
Wait, isn’t JD Vance due for another vacation? Where is he? If he’s in DC in a suit like he’s going to work…
Dear God, Please, pretty please, make all the sycophantic fools up for election next year put their money where their mouth has been and be the ones who own the bill to bestow tariffs upon the land in an offering to their false idol, who threatens them with mean Twitter posts before midterms. Amen.
I mean maybe there’s a flip side: my mom-friends group chat talks A LOT about getting ahead of shifting tariff deadlines. So when we do increase spending like March and August, it’s not due to “confidence”, but “better-do-this-now panic”. We stocked things early, so now it’ll be Austerity September.
This is why Trump’s Big Ugly Bill increased ICE’s budget by $170.7 billion More than the military spending of most countries, and more than the US appropriated for the FBI, DEA, ATF and Marshals-combined Trump is amassing an army to employ against Americans in blue states And Illinois is up first
The world knows more about America than America knows about America, or they wouldn’t be coming over in a hurry to offer him platitudes on tv then signing trade deals and military alignments with each other the moment they got home. They KNOW what’s happening, by whom, and America largely does not.
Welch: As someone who lives in a red state, let me just tell you what MAGA supermajorities get you. We're 50th in education. The worst in the whole country for women to live. We're poorer, worst health care. And if you look at the bottom ten states, they are all MAGA supermajorities.
By a 7-4 vote, the full Federal Circuit has *affirmed* a lower-court ruling holding that many of President Trump’s tariffs exceed his statutory authority. The ruling won’t go into effect until October 14, though—which gives the Trump administration plenty of time to seek intervention from #SCOTUS:
With O'Neill (apparently) taking over CDC (if they ever get around to firing Monarez), I think it's worth looking back to Project 2025 and asking what they actually intend to *do* to CDC. So, I went to remind myself today. Here's what's in store:
Pete Hegesth keeps talking about a warrior culture, which apparently means masked man kidnapping our allies to send them to our enemies to be tortured. Absolutely shameful.
Ok, actually… this was fantastic questioning 🤣🤣🤣
He’s so precious.
We know the US has historically been behind-the-scenes fomenters of regime change & government overthrows but isn’t it… something we endeavor to grow out of? Didn’t JD Vance say, “Europe’s biggest threat is from within”? Feel more like colonizers than “No More Wars! America 1st!” isolationists.
Kinda feels like they looked across the pond and planned for a George III… but we’ve ended up with a Henry VIII.
Since the Roberts court will do nothing else, the VERY least they can do is slap the smirk off this fool’s face.
So he’s saying that since he’s praying which is not action, but he’s definitely not doing anything else… that he’s taking *no action*. Thanks for clearing that up, VP, but we noticed.
Let us know how the asylum paperwork is supposed to be filled out.
How many of these people are actual cops as their real job and aren’t at home doing law enforcement? How many have spouses at home and kids starting school? And they’re out of state, probably sleeping in barracks or tents, and SHOVELING MULCH???
GOV. @gavinnewsom.bsky.social : “Facts are stubborn things… Mississippi, Tennessee, Arkansas…. Alabama is a top 3 murder state. Where is the President? — He isn’t focused on crime & violence. It’s about an expression of authoritarianism.” (H/T @acyn.bsky.social )
Funny that RFK can spot an inflammation disorder in a kid’s face at a glance— but a woman going to Dr appts for real inflammatory issues gets diagnosed w/ autoimmune illnesses around the 5 year mark, 7-10 years for endometriosis, & hears endless “but are you managing your stress?” in between.
“Very simply, he’s not forcing this, except when they don’t ask.”
i find this image so fascinating. it is both a literal example of authoritarianism but also a second-hand reproduction of the aesthetics of other authoritarian states. it's like a simulacra of authoritarianism whose purpose is to attempt to make the simulacra real.
Republicans have time to pettily paint over a memorial for people killed in a mass shooting because they can’t hate gay people enough, but they can’t be bothered to stop school shootings because they don’t love children enough. www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...
The MAGA in my local FB feed are all, “Trans is a mental illness! They need MENTAL HELP!” No clue that DSM-5 guidelines for gender dysphoria are individualized to the patient & include therapy, hormone treatment, & gender-affirming surgery. But I bet that’s not the “help” they had in mind, huh?
Bet the 41% live in suburbs/rural areas— they fear cities bc they’ll “get shot by a crackhead” at any given city street corner. Willfully blind to rampant meth usage & Walmart parking lot ODs in their own hometowns. Spoken from the meth & fentanyl epicenter of small-town N GA/not an hr north of ATL.
We are in very dark times. It’ll take an entire political/social movement, an overwhelming rebuke at the polls, and a new vision of governance to unstick this country from whatever this collapse is.
Maybe the tactic here isn’t to point out the millions of lives on the line— just his own. At 79 years old, he’s one bad bout of flu, or a long stretch with Shingles, or the wrong mosquito bite on the golf course away from catastrophe. Bet it’d be hard to bounce back from Covid as a cardiac patient.
Fuck them. •RFK didn’t call the guy who fired 500 rounds at the CDC just 19 days ago a domestic terrorist. •JD Vance was in ATL last week— the day before Officer Rose’s funeral— but did not go to the CDC, speak about what happened, or meet with Officer Rose’s family. •They fired 600 ppl last week.
Another successful cabinet meeting with Dear Leader
This is the second day in a row he’s said this. This is an intentional normalization effort.
I think this little slip— “I don’t WANT to declare a national emergency”— is the conversation probably dominating the Admin. How do invade 19 places without it? He’s telling us where his head is.
trump does not intend for the next january 6th to fail www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
Sometimes the outside looking in is a pretty clear view.
“I am the Peace President! I end wars! I should get the Nobel Peace Prize! But I *will* have a Department Of War, and I am not asking anybody to give permission.”
The precise moment when and where in recent weeks America crossed that invisible line from democracy into authoritarianism can and will be debated by future historians, but it’s clear that the line itself has been crossed. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/america-ti...
It’s racial snuff porn for the MAGA base.
Has a dictator ever announced that he wants to be a dictator, run a campaign as a wannabe dictator, and acted like a dictator — all while his supporters say he is not a dictator before?
I like how none of the Veterans around him— Vance, I guess Hegseth— have seemingly told him that military etiquette requires that damaged/defunct flags be burned and that it can be a whole ceremony.
Oh look. We’re almost to a Constitutional Crisis. Let’s watch the debate about how this hard red line looks kinda pink under a certain light and how this is a normal Exec just out here executing. (Obviously— JK. We’re hanging out in our sleeping bags and pillows getting comfy here at Rock Bottom.)
I’d like to know how many of them are cops taken off their regular beat where they are actually DOING the job.
That’s hilarious 😆
I hope the judges read Rolling Stone bsky.app/profile/naom...
My husband is a combat vet. He takes flag etiquette seriously, and thus I’ll share this that he’s taught us: “Although the U.S. Code says that burning is the preferred method to dispose of a Flag, people also do so flag via burial.” nationalflagfoundation.org/etiquette/ho...
Did he seriously just cite a court case which determined that flag burning is considered protected freedom of speech… while signing an EO that it is now a crime?
This was 11 weeks ago:
Trump: "A lot of people are saying maybe we'd like a dictator."
so it’s tyranny then?
Keisha Lance Bottoms
Yeah— I’ll back whoever has the best shot but I want to be realistic. Thurmond has the strongest record but he’s older. Geoff is younger & has all the PR right now. We’ve seen a lot of votes on vibes over records the last few cycles, which I think swings Geoff’s way today… but things can change.
I’m interested in him. I think he has a pretty good record and he could beat Bottoms. Don’t know if he could beat a Duncan PR campaign. You?
I’m with you, @atticus59914029.bsky.social. I don’t think Bottoms has broad support, and I don’t think she’ll swing independents and the political orphans that Georgia needs to win.
Respectfully, I disagree. Bottoms has powerhouse support in some places, but I don’t think it spread to the suburbs. I don’t know of Dems in my area who are excited about her running, which makes me wonder if she could pull enough of our own party + independents.
Jones is trying to get rid of income tax, but doesn’t have a plan how. Carr doesn’t read the lawsuits he signs onto and has never been inside a courtroom to my knowledge. The Dems running are iffy at best. Keisha would have zero shot. I’d back Geoff as a Dem, & I think he’d pull Independents too.
Thousands of ICE agents are doing a lot more damage to our social fabric than millions of undocumented immigrants.
100%! And also: you should raise some hell that she is erasing her text messages that discuss official information that should be archived.
It’s almost like they don’t want to attend their own trials one day. Weird.
Just a little “I don’t like you so I’m taking your ball away” on the playground today. In a total democracy-centered way, of course.
On one hand— I’m afraid there may come a day where Trump’s health lands us with THIS GUY in charge, and that feels scary. On the other though— Vance would have to wrangle all the MAGApublicans behind him… & my confidence in his ability to do so is more the size of a Trump hand than a Trump ankle.
His hand can’t hide under the desk like his cankles without looking weird.
Preach. It was on the news and then off the news so fast, many missed it entirely (we only live an hour north of there). Then Vance came to Atlanta less than 2 weeks afterward— the day before Officer Rose’s funeral— and said not a DAMN thing. Probably bc they fired 600 CDC employees this week.
I live in N GA. 80% Trump voters. We won’t have to compliment him to win anything if he keeps creating economic volatility for regular ppl. Houses aren’t selling. Food’s going up. Insurance is up. They’re getting more cruel. He’s not a self-made man, but he’s a self-made disaster— and it’s showing.
Your company is great, but my dad’s on fixed SS trying to get groceries w/ prices up, all our car ins WAY up, niece’s b-day toy she wants was raised 30%, my husband is scared for his job… and none of that is even the cruel parts. Do we compliment… the crypto bill? What words get us midterm voting?
The ppl using your RX drug site bc it makes RXs affordable like my dad are struggling elsewhere. The shop I work at is ⬆️ prices bc wholesale’s up. Beef’s $2 more/lb @ store than Nov. Son’s friend’s dad was deported. Hubs works for a Big 3 car co taking $1B hits & he’s scared. What’s to compliment?
"Twenty-three Democratic attorneys general now gather on near-daily Zoom calls at 8 AM Pacific, which means the East Coast officials are already on their third coffee. They divide responsibilities and share templates for lawsuits they’ve been drafting since last spring."
I don’t understand the suggestion that not complimenting the president leads to not having elections as an inevitability, and that the alternative is to praise him to ensure we have them. What would be the point? Or are you just opining on election outcomes based on a Trump Friendliness scale?
Should we have to compliment one dude to ensure we have free and fair elections? We’re guaranteed that right, and a lot of people work hard to ensure it happens. Does one guy get to stop those? Is he running in the mid-terms now? Can you think of any countries that only ever have 1 guy on a ballot?
We’re gonna see it a lot more as they move National Giard and ICE into cities— cities in Red, Stand Your Ground states. What do they think is going to happen in Georgia?
Frost: On one end, we have the big ugly law. And then on the other, we have the federal government occupying our cities.. It's not two different things. It's the same damn thing. These aren't things that distract from one another. This is the thing to enable the other thing,
How’s that song go? “…you look so dumb right now….”
Normally, the Department of Justice rewards witnesses for turning on co-defendants, co-conspiracists, and accomplices. Ghislaine Maxwell is probably the first witness rewarded for *absolving* them. Because she is part of a coverup, not a prosecution.
bsky.app/profile/anna...
NEW: Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s defense team says that the government is attempting to coerce him to plead guilty to his criminal charges. Per filing, the government promised to deport him to Costa Rica if he pleads guilty — and is now threatening to remove him to Uganda if he doesn’t accept the deal.
Does he have the right to “self deport” somewhere in the meantime? I mean… if the point is that they want him gone, can he flee to like Canada or Mexico without fear of arrest and deportation to Uganda? Or can he not leave the country because of the case going on in TN? (I’m afraid it’s the latter.)
🚨🚨🚨 FBI raids John Bolton’s house as an act of retribution against DT. DT declares himself the Chief Law Enforcement Officer of the United States.
Safety & security??? You didn’t go to the CDC to support the Federal employees who had 500 rounds shot at them 2 weeks ago. You didn’t take the time to visit Officer David Rose’s family the day before his funeral. He died keeping Americans who work for us, for our betterment, safe… you hypocrite.
WHAT?!?
Yes and no. Depends on the size of the backlash. On the one hand, I’m fully aware of how much power he’s grabbed and how authoritarian this all is. On the other, I also see where they’re whiney little bitch babies.
These people have actual paid jobs. They have families. Many of them are actually cops. They are all leaving their everyday lives…. For fucking what??
They’re planning to send him to Uganda no sooner than Monday
This is crazy. Do they have ANY idea the backlash they’re likely to get for this???
Ya know… it could have been worse. She could have said “oh now that you mention it, here’s 14 of your least favorite democrats. Only democrats came to the island.” At least this version holds nobody to the fire… not even herself 🤣🤣🤣
It’s about racism and pretending it’s not about racism will not magically erase the racism
Oh NOW I understand why this sculpture is too “woke” to be in a museum… it’s the tomatoes. Got it.
