Gee, I wonder why workers are reaching their breaking point. 😐 NEVER feel bad for corporations. Never.
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Gee, I wonder why workers are reaching their breaking point. 😐 NEVER feel bad for corporations. Never.
The president is sending the military to control American cities and if you're a reporter who's framing that illegal power grab as "pushing the boundaries of constitutionality" or "acting boldly to fight crime" or whatever, please go find another line of work where you won't get us all killed.
Commemorating the Battle of DC...
You have a baby too young to vaccinate, and your older kid is exposed to Freedom Measles or Populist Polio in their classroom. You don’t have kids,but you may be impacted if you have cancer. Herd immunity is the point. The silent majority needs to get loud; make this a political liability for Ron.
the rest are pedophile protectors
"You can say what you like, I don’t care, because that’s what free speech is," Nigel Farage has just told the House Judiciary Committee, about three hours after his party banned me from covering its conference this weekend.
More of this.
Ahem
Terrible news for public health www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
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."
BREAKING: Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker says the Trump administration has begun staging the Texas National Guard for deployment to Illinois, and federal agencies will soon begin large-scale immigration raids in Chicago. From: @jaknutson.bsky.social
The next stop in the federal invasion: Baltimore enews.baltimoresun.com/q/N36cYvDDb8...
100 percent
These are "ex" Republicans with no home. Of course, their ideas are going to be out of line with the Democratic party in general. They need to move the Democrats to think like Republicans to create a new home. As a life long Dem, I don't see it happening. Sarah Longwell is doing it too.
wrote about the internal GOP battle over RFK. It should be easy for Rs to reject him; he wasn't even a Republican a year ago! and yet... www.publicnotice.co/p/rfk-jr-mon...
The argument is: We're all meant to sacrifice a bit, so that tariffs can help rebuild American manufacturing. Let's ask American manufacturers whether they're helping.
Listen to my wonderful cohost Kate Shaw @kateshaw.bsky.social talking with Ezra Klein about the Supreme Court and Trump!! A must-listen conversation - in part because if Kate & Ezra are where they are on SCOTUS ... it's a 5 alarm+ fire! @strictscrutiny.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/09/02/o...
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At some point, you have to defend democracy, not just pivot to talking points, or there won't be fair future elections to win www.cnn.com/2025/08/31/p... What I told @ronbrownstein.bsky.social (joking/not joking):
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No, Idris Elba.
Right?
We’re all complaining about the poor quality of journalism in the MSM, and rightfully so. Here’s a solution: don’t use it. Fewer views = less revenue. They respond to the marketplace same as any other business. I get 90% of my news from NPR…and I contribute every month.
No WAY!!!
Again, the Sunday shows are complicit. This is not reporting, this is not communication. It is propaganda. Raddatz is asking absurd questions like they are reasonable.
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That post was not made by Trump, it's his account but not him. Every word is capitalized. How does that happen?
The Sunday news shows are not news, they are propaganda outlets
The press is the enemy
IT’S ALL NATIVE LAND!
Fatality.
BREAKING: Bernie Sanders wants RFK Jr. under oath. He’s demanding a special Senate hearing on the CDC disaster RFK Jr. helped create. Go Bernie!
support opposing the repeal.. mouthful... anyway make your thoughts known that you do not want the 2001 roadless rule to be repealed.
Go and support opposition of the repeal of the 2001 roadless rule now!
Trump is trying to repeal a roadless rule that prevents loggers from denuding National Parks—something they just announced and which public only has a few weeks to speak against insideclimatenews.org/news/3008202...
Thank you!
Bluesky discover is serving explicitly false, twitter-style bullshit accounts. There's no such Colbert deal, no explanation why this person would know this information, no real reason to claim this besides content farming.
Big turnout for the first day of Econ 101. #GoBlue
Astrid Johnson
SARAH PALIN: "There are going to be death panels!" RFK JR: "Technically, it's just me."
JD Vance on Donald Trump: “I’m a Never Trump guy. I never liked him. I don’t think he’s the person. I don’t think he cares about folks. I think that he’s noxious and is leading the white working class to a very dark place.” { ht: @marcofoster.bsky.social }
Nazi clown gotta clown
The Rev took attendance…
Oh
CHICAGO…
Sarah Isgur
On brand.
Oh come on www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
Maybe ICE shouldn’t have lowered their standards for new recruits.
This part. Everyone should be taking notes from @ivehaditpodcast.bsky.social’s @mizzwelch.bsky.social
Promise tariffs ⟶ faff around ⟶ announce tariffs ⟶ pause tariffs ⟶ promise deals ⟶ court rules tariffs illegal ⟶ appeal ⟶ court order stayed ⟶ make no deals ⟶ 90 days expires ⟶ delay tariffs again ⟶ announce tariffs again ⟶ appeals court rules tariffs illegal again ⟶ you are here
Bernie is right. Health care should be based on medical science. I’m glad I found out I needed a measles vaccine this summer. And it’s right to provide shingles shots to seniors and vaccines for kids. Let’s focus on health care costs instead of upending the CDC. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/30/o...
A collection of clips from MSNBC of multiple Republicans getting booed at town halls this week.
McArdle is so overrated. She is a hack. There is nothing serious about her, someone at WAPO wanted a bullshit hit piece, so Megan gets another paycheck for drivel.
Team Trump is purposefully raising your electricity prices, hoping you’ll be mad at your electric utility and not blame them. The benefit to them is extra dollars for their greedy fossil fuel donors. Here’s how it works.🧵
It will be ok, BJ.
BREAKING: Judge Jia Cobb, a Biden appointee in DC, blocks Trump expansion of expedited removal deportation to interior of US. Judge says risk of deporting foreigners not eligible is too great. Doc: ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/show...
This administration won’t stop until it undermines all our independent institutions and centralizes power under its far-right cronies. From the Fed to the CDC, they’re chasing out nonpartisan career professionals that don’t bow to their crazy ideas.
🌱 outdoor garden is good and all - peak okra time and some squash, planted beets - but hydroponics are doing *amazing* rn. I’ve never done shishito before so I’m not sure when to harvest but there are 4 dozen on 2 plants…Bok Choi, basil, thai basil, Thai eggplant not pictured. The 🍆 is oddly pale…
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FORTUNATELY, for everyone we have a fun way to tell your House rep that you think Bobby Jr is a quack and has to go… For $3 we will hand deliver (by a man in a duck costume) a rubber ducky with a message to “impeach the quack” to your rep! QUACK-O-GRAMS! act.standupforscience.net/fundraising/...
Bella's eye is much better today #bella #cats #catsofbluesky #kitty
We "on the left" are simply enjoying the fact that he isn't golfing at massive taxpayer expense.
We were warned by Washington, Lincoln and others. Now we must oppose this authoritarian regime, firmly voice our commitment to the Constitution and rule of law—and assert what it means to be American. www.americaamerica.news/p/its-villai...
me after the tariffs are struck down as illegal
Yes and I’m one of the world’s foremost professional basketball players.
🇺🇦 The Armed Forces of Ukraine recaptured Myrne, Sobolivka and approached the outskirts of Radkivka, - DroneBomber
Block block block. Curate your followers
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DEERE: “.. Due to decreased demand and lower order volumes, the following factories will be implementing workforce reductions in the coming weeks. Affected employees were informed today.” @kwqc.com #Iowa $DE www.kwqc.com/2025/08/28/o...
A federal grand jury has declined to indict another person arrested as part of President Trump's D.C. crime surge. This was the only case we know of in which the National Guard participated in an arrest. After the grand jury declined to return an indictment, DOJ moved to dismiss the case.
This is the peak Axios AI story. Workers are getting stressed because they’re under pressure to find something useful to do with AI. If they don’t investors will have bought into a bubble. Why do workers hate investors?
🚨ICE agents are racially profiling and arresting Hispanic drivers in the DC area today, targeting work vehicles like trucks and vans. A friend who was targeted sent me video today. Here’s a picture that shows one of two agents before he pulled on his mask. Unmarked black Ford truck, plate: NTV9211.
Citation for $245 million number:
JUST IN: Judge COBB has set a 10am hearing for *tomorrow* on the emergency bid by Lisa Cook to remain in her job at the Fed.
New: In 7 months, Kennedy has broken the CDC, perhaps irreparably. For all he’s done with mass firings, gutting expertise, and attacking vaccines, Wednesday’s loss of its most senior and competent leaders—truly the CDC’s backbone—is the most consequential attack yet. www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/c...
For those commenting on gender: About half the US population is male. What percentage of that ~172 million are mass shooters? Tiny. Also a handful of female shooters. What about those identifying as trans? A tiny fraction of those tiny fractions. There is no causal, let alone predictive, meaning.
That ol’ New York-London spread isn’t just for market geeks anymore. 🤡 @joncooper-us.bsky.social
He is wrong on the facts. 1. The data is clear, VBM benefits Democrats electorally and it remains true. Rejected mail ballots skew Democratic as well. 2. Strict photo ID laws also disadvantage Democrats, particularly young voters and those in urban areas. Again, this is data not opinion.
Tariff inflation effects are just getting started. (via Apollo)
BREAKING: Large-scale Russian attack kills at least 19 in Kyiv
The authoritarian checklist open.substack.com/pub/donmoyni...
I dare you to go to Annunciation School and tell our grieving community, in effect, guns don’t kill kids, antidepressants do. Just shut up. Stop peddling bullshit. You should be fired.
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Experts have studied this for decades, but RFK and his band of liars claim they found an aggregation of causes in a few months. What a disgrace to the nation.
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RFK Jr is not mentally fit.
After the MN school shooting, sounds like this may not have been very smart www.reuters.com/world/us/fbi...
"The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention—the agency with responsibility for protecting America’s health—may have just lost its director and four seasoned leaders...It’s shaping up to be a crisis of governance as unnerving as any we’ve seen in the Trump era." www.thebulwark.com/p/prayers-pe...
Monarez is playing her weak hand perfectly, and should be a model for institutional resistance for the next four years: 1. Make them fire you 2. Don’t go along to get along 3. Don’t apologize, have confidence in your own integrity and the importance of your role 4. Always escalate the conflict
I guess the grand jury thought it was funny
The article does not say he ordered the portraits hung. It’s just as likely, and possibly more frightening, that the Labor Sec ordered it herself, knowing it would please him. (Gift link) www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
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.
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.
🚨Border Patrol arrested two firefighters who were actively fighting a wildfire at the time. When the other members of the crew asked for a chance to say goodbye, a Border Patrol agent told the crew member “you need to get the f*ck out of here. I’m going to make you leave.”
There aren't many stories that prompt gasps at our editors' daily budget meeting. But this was one.
Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer is headed to the Ocean State, likely to spout talking points about how Trump is “putting workers first.” She should try telling that to the thousands of union workers who Trump just fired through his stop-work order on a nearly complete wind farm in Rhode Island.