They don't solve problems they bring chaos to them.
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They don't solve problems they bring chaos to them.
The Police are more trouble than theyโre worth. Completely unhinged and out of control. Just randomly closing down streets and causing chaos. Theyโre currently making all these drivers angry and everyone is laying on their horns right outside my windows. FUCK THE POLICE! #ACAB #FreeDC
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Why do you appreciate unions? Iโll start: Weekends off Paid vacations Work breaks Sick leave Paid holidays No child labor Safer working conditions Health care and retirement benefits
Over 300 MILLION American citizen's files stolen by DOGE. Why can't 1 person with access steal the EPSTEIN Files? #LEAKtheEPSTEIN_Files
#NYC baseball coach confronts ICE child predators. โThere's only one way to get into the cage, so my whole thing was I can control that. I was in front of the entrance and that's when I just said, you know, I may die here, but they will not take one of these kids." www.wcpo.com/politics/imm...
โRise up. Roll up. Resist.โ DC flag redesign underway.
listen he cannot officially be declared un-dead until his caddie casually drops a ball on the green after he shanks one into the woods sorry I don't make the rules here
The past 12 hours gave all of us a sense of just how huge the nationwide celebration will be when he finally does kick the bucket. ๐๐ฅณ๐
"She did not die defending the Constitution. She died trying to overturn it. She was not protecting lives at a gate in Iraq; she was forcing her way through windows in the Capitol to stop the peaceful transfer of power." New from @markhertling.bsky.social:
I really hope this becomes the black eye it deserves to be www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Television legend Stephen Colbert has just signed a $13.5 million deal with Netflix for a 7-episode series.
You heard the lady! zohranfornyc.com/events
You mean Trump, not Seth Meyers, right?
My reporting uncovered the existence of DoJ training videos instructing FBI personnel on how to flag Trumpโs name in the Epstein files. Iโm suing to get the videos under FOIA. substack.com/@muellershew...
@nealkatyal.bsky.social: โYouโve got the president who's imposed the largest tax increase on American consumers since 1993 โฆ and he did it without Congress saying one word. That is not our constitutional structure.โ
Nature is healing
when it happens... I will be online ALL day. cancel my appointments. hold my calls. "what were you doing when you found out?" my grandchildren will ask. "the posts, children, I was reading the posts!!" I'll say, and we'll all crowd around my scrapbook containing the best ones
P25 is the Cultural Revolution with Christianist dressing instead of Marxist utopianism.
And they all fit in one tiny car.
We want to apologize if it feels like weโve been venting a lot lately. Itโs just hard to ignore that nearly every move from this administration seems to be illegal, unlawful, or outright unconstitutional and yet nothing happens.
BREAKING: Bernie Sanders has called for a special Senate committee hearing on the CDC crisis, demanding that RFK Jr. testify under oath about the disaster heโs created.
Savage but accurate in this second Gilded Age.
The Dear Leader will make the trains run on time.
Krasner: So, if what you have is a group of ICE agents, or even the military, coming into Philadelphia and committing crimesโassaults that are illegal, kidnapping, unlawful restraint, obstruction of the administration of justiceโthey can be prosecuted.
Moore: "The thing that gets me most about this is how deeply disrespectful this is to members of the National Guard who signed up for this job as I did when I deployed overseas & led paratroopers in combat where we signed up w/the expectation the commander in chief was actually taking it seriously"
Mariners fans staring an LA Owns You chant at the Padres fans here. 10/10 no notes
Yes.
Third one arrived today.
Already received two NO flyers in the mail.
It's still new. A lot of people aren't locked in, particularly over the summer.
Yup. #YesOn50
California voters are leaning YES on the redistricting ballot. 48% in favor, only 32% opposed. People get it. The narrative is on our side. Remember: CA puts it to the voters. Texas skipped the people. Ours is a one-time fightback that returns to the commission. Texasโ gerrymandering is permanent.
๐จBREAKING: Third Circuit STRIKES DOWN Pennsylvania requirement that mail-in ballots that arrive in undated or misdated return envelopes be discarded. Court holds that Constitution requires they be counted. A big victory for our clients DSCC and DCCC and PA voters!
Afraid of big cities? Then donโt come. โค๏ธ this video.
This is the way โฆ
Administrative burden is a great way to slowly squeeze people out of benefits programs.
Constituent: You talked about abuses in the medicare and medicaid system and I found interesting that the president pardoned someone that defrauded the medicaid system for $1.3 billion
๐จBREAKING: In a landmark victory for voters, a Utah judge struck down the state Legislatureโs gerrymandered congressional map and reinstated the citizen-led redistricting reforms voters approved in 2018. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
Trump doesnโt check the weather, he just draws it with a Sharpie.
Meiselas: Stop both-sidesing it, media. Stop trying to sow division within the Democratic Party when we literally have military invasions into American cities, aided and abetted by red state governors, who, again, are the takers who wouldn't exist without the blue states
The baby goat video you all needed! ๐๐ #bluesky #animals #goats
"To the members of the press who are assembled here today and listening across the country โ I am asking for your courage to tell it like it is. This is not a time to pretend here that there are two sides to this story." Governor JB Pritzker
My heart breaks into 10,000 pieces once again.
Japan Post just announced they will no longer deliver mail to the United States, joining Germany, Austria, Denmark, Italy, France, and Sweden.
The John Bolton search should be a wake-up call to every American This escalation in the use of law enforcement to target political opposition marks a dangerous new front for American authoritarianism.
Kid Rock: โNo more music in California.โ Scott Baio: โNo more acting in California.โ Newsom: โExcellent. My policies are clearly effective.โ
TBF, Miller isn't a lackey. He's an imp on Trump's shoulder whispering lies and biles into his ear.
Walz says Harris "would have been a fantastic president... we wouldn't wake up every day to a bunch of shit on TV. We would wake up to an adult w/ compassion & dignity doing the work, not a manchild crying about whatever is wrong with him. May his fat ankles find something today. Petty as hell."
An M.I.T. study found that 95% of companies that had invested in A.I. tools were seeing zero return. It jibes with the emerging idea that generative A.I., โin its current incarnation, simply isnโt all itโs been cracked up to be,โ johncassidysays.bsky.social writes.
Kamala Harris nailed it. We warned everyone the stakes were too high to hand the guy built for Project 2025 another shot โ but noooo. Ever have one of those mornings you just want to throw the window open and yell, FUCK YOU ALL? Yeah, that.
If it's like LA or DC, the troops will do a lot of standing around in tourist locations and outside federal buildings. The ICE goons are a different matter, but even are scrupulously avoid high crime neighborhoods. They stick to stip malls, box stores, restaurants and suburban yards. It's an act
Donald Trump says he is going to deploy the National Guard to Chicago. This is what weak men do to pretend theyโre strong. Stay safe, stand with your community, and most importantly, know your rights:
Check this shit! Earlier today, ICE tried to break into private property in Lynwood, California โ no judicial warrant, no authority. Acting like thugs, not federal agents. Spoiler alert: Lynwood does not play. This trio of goons got sent packing.
BREAKING: We're filing a petition for the immediate release of Mario Guevara, a journalist who is being detained by ICE because of his reporting on law enforcement activity. The First Amendment is clear: Journalists cannot be detained for doing their jobs.
Good morning happy bike commuters
Texas Republicans are redistricting early at the behest of Donald Trump. The response by Democrats in California to counter-balance is being triggered by a blatant GOP plot to steal the 2026 midterms. This isnโt a race to the bottom. Itโs a means of avoiding the bottom.
America: Universal healthcare creates wait times for healthcare. Also America: waits six months for a neurosurgeon consult and a year to get into a dermatologistโฆ
Do you know how insane and infuriating it is to live in a country where one party claims, with media and public support, the mantle of being the โtough on crimeโ party while its leader openly calls for convicted criminals to be released from prison โor elseโ?
The president emblazoning his name on the ICE cars suggests 1) that ICE is intended to be a personal, partisan police force, and that 2) he does not intend to leave office in a mere three years. What *other* conclusion could you draw from it?
Dear Smithsonian.......send your historical records to Canada before they're destroyed.
Watch where you drive today, Nebraska Folks
New in PN: The slide toward "competitive authoritarianism" "Orbรกn subverted Hungaryโs democracy with gerrymandering and by creating a nationwide right-wing media network. He put loyalists in the public prosecutorโs office, ensuring the judicial system would go after his enemies. Sound familiar?"
Situation on 14th St and W St. NW, with federal agents -- no specific agency identified -- pulling cars over for checks. They arrested a Black woman in this car. BIG crowd of people shouting at police. "Fuck you!" "What is wrong with you!" "You don't need to terrorize people like this!"
Whip that mofo
Based on LA, they will spend the next few weeks away from their homes and jobs, mostly standing around.
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Did anyone ever get an answer for why the crimebusters in this administration let a triple murderer back in to the U.S. and walk free?
She really is. She is a peer with Mrs. Astor but is using her standing to better the mores of the set.
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Someone forgot to take down this webpage: www.justice.gov/usao-dc/pr/v...
The Republican-controlled Congressโs refusal to stop Trump from playing games with tariffs like this is economic insanity.
Trumpโs move to mobilize the National Guard against Americans in DC is another telltale sign of his authoritarian ambitions. But at some point signs of authoritarianism stop being signs and become symptoms of an autocratic regime. Weโre far past that point now. www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/t...
Larry Summers: "This is way beyond anything Nixon ever did ... this is the stuff of democracies giving way to authoritarianism. Firing statisticians goes with threatening the heads of newspapers, launching assaults on universities, launching assaults on law firms. This is really scary stuff."
Everyone drink.
That Kamala interview was heart breaking because it's one of the few times that I've ever seen a national political figure say the system is broken and that trying to work within it to change things probably wont work.
Detainees at Floridaโs โAlligator Alcatrazโ are on a hunger strike over what they call inhumane, dangerous conditions. Some havenโt eaten in 10 days. One of them, Pedro Hernรกndez, was hospitalized and still refuses food until they are treated with dignity.
Dear Democrats, if you want to stand out in Texas, do what the state is not doing and help individuals in Kerrville www.nytimes.com/2025/07/31/u...
The Ukrainian parliament today approved a bill submitted by President Volodymyr Zelenskyy last week that returned independence to key state anti-corruption agencies.
NEW: We now know what Bove lied to Congress about according to the 3rd whistleblower. He lied when he said he didnโt offer promotions for DoJ lawyers who helped him dismiss the Eric Adams case and consequences for those who didnโt. There is audio evidence. Gift link: wapo.st/4fdVVmX
Earlier this month, Flint, Michigan finished replacing its lead pipes to ensure clean drinking water for the community. Congratulations to the residents, activists, and public servants who made this happen. www.nrdc.org/press-releas...
@gavinnewsom.bsky.social: "This party needs to wake up. These guys aren't screwing around... They're assassins when it comes to the way they weaponize grievance and the way they play politics. Enough! What more goddamn evidence do we need? They have rolled back the last half century in real time!"
The Americans with Disabilities Act โ passed 35 years ago โ was not a gift. It was the result of a powerful movement led by people who demanded to be seen, heard and treated with dignity. The fight for equality is far from over. In fact, it is more urgent now than ever.
Someone find out who this Bad Ass woman is. She deserves to be acknowledged!! Well Done! ๐๐
While Oklahoma just ranked 50th in educationโฆ ๐จ An executive session of the Oklahoma State Board of Education was interrupted when images of naked women popped up on a TV in the office of Superintendent Ryan โanti-pornโ Waltersโyes, that guyโduring the meeting he was hosting.
Scotlandโs signs are delivering. Yโall understood the assignment. ๐
Scotland
ICE is out of control. They must be reined in.
The deportations are about to turn into detentions. There isnโt money in deporting folks, but there is in detaining themโฆ
NEW: Indigenous activists opposed to Nevadaโs Thacker Pass lithium mine have for years been surveilled by law enforcement agencies and the company behind the mine, records show. โThey treat us like weโre domestic terrorists,โ an organizer said.
Russia was never a hoax The 2020 election wasnโt stolen Tariffs are a tax on you Haitians didnโt eat pets The Epstein files exist
Service Journalism - News you can use. The Big Bad Bill ends Federal tax credits for residential rooftop solar but if you install it by December 31, 2025 you can still get the 30% rebate for the project cost!
Breaking from the Office of Pres. Obama: "Our office does not normally dignify the constant nonsense and misinformation flowing out of this White House with a response. But these claims are outrageous enough to merit one. These bizarre allegations are ridiculous and a weak attempt at distraction.
Here's me literally doing exactly that. #StandingWithStephenColbert
Will they be going to Brighton Beach?