He put chalk on his shoes then walked on the Pulse Memorial crosswalk. Police arrested him. But the court said they had no cause and he was released. The man arrested is now considering suing the state of Florida citing first amendment right violations.
Good grief. www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-r...
Thank you on this labor day!!
If ever
I love this guy
EPA Fires āDissentā Statement Signers The EPA fired agency employees who signed a June declaration decrying moves that contradict science and undermine public health www.scientificamerican.com/article/epa-... as Labor Day weekend started.
The moderation system here at Bluesky @safety.bsky.app is really amazing. An impersonator account scamming people was taken down within five minutes of reporting. The block function is nuclear. I can hide offensive replies, and even replies to replies. I truly feel safe here. Thank you @bsky.app
Somebody is throwing things out of a window of the White House wtaf
The 2PM Oval Office announcement tomorrow is the only thing on his calendar. rollcall.com/factbase/tru...
My statement on @nadler.house.govās decision not to seek re-election next year.
3/ those rights have already jumped dramatically. Lutnick is one of two cabinet secretaries running Trump's demolition derby. Crooked as all fuck would be the formal economics term for it.
2/ So when Lutnick became Commerce Secretary he turned over leadership of his firm Cantor Fitzgerald to his two twenty-something sums. They've been aggressively buying up tariff refund rights. Six weeks ago they were buying them for about 25% of face value. After Friday's decision the value of ...
gun culture
Longtime NYC Rep. Jerry Nadler tells the NYT he's retiring. āWatching the Biden thing really said something about the necessity for generational change in the party, and I think I want to respect that,ā Mr. Nadler said, adding that a younger successor ācan maybe do better, can maybe help us more.ā
Lutnick Family Angling To Make Astronomical Sums Off Court Nixing Tariffs talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/lutni...
False. Early post-dose adverse events are not wholesale reassigned to the unvaccinated group; they are tracked explicitly (often as partially vaccinated or by days since dose). This man is either dumb or lying. You tell me.
I desperately want to email this to a certain journalist
Enormous impoundment-related changes in Trump/Vought's Circular A-11 update from Friday, which is OMB's guidance to agencies They: -removed the definition of impoundment -said GAO's impoundment determinations don't matter -claimed pocket rescission authority -claimed profound deferral authority š§µ
Just an astonishing, powerful op-ed that drives home what we are losing and what's already been lost. We are so incredibly fortunate to live with the advances modern medicine and health science. Destroying and stymieing it is just unforgivable. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...
Ban the pill and ladies will revert to their true maga selves
Lots of people with questions about this The government said there were 76 putative class members (children) loaded on planes yesterday But the putative class covered by the judgeās order isnāt limited to kids that were loaded on planes for imminent deportation Thatās why the ~600 estimate
Has Trump addressed the public yet?
Fifty-one of the 85 Federalist papers were written by a guy born in Nevis.
Honestly, the hour-long run and march of people shouting āFree DCā up 14th Street today is the energy I needed this morning. I love you, DC.
Where's his hair? He looks like he's on death's door. He needs to address the media.
The last time Donald Trump showed his face live in front of the press was Tuesday, August 26th, during a marathon three-hour cabinet meeting. Maybe all that staged roundtable praise from his sycophants was too much for him.
some white racists mad as hell today
Trump going to sleep earlier, which I think is a little noteworthy
Three demential chess I tell you
A Texas County Cuts Over 100 Polling Sites as Trump Attacks Mail-In Voting Nationally talkingpointsmemo.com/news/a-texas...
Meanwhile, did you see? A federal judge on Friday allowed the Trump admin and the Oklahoma AG to use his court to subvert democracy through a sham lawsuit manufactured to get rid of a pro-immigrant state law they donāt like without needing to go through the trouble of actually repealing the law.
If you're 60, 69.1% of all job growth since your birth occurred under Democratic administrations. If you're 45, that number is 74.7%. If you're under 28, the number is 100%. Happy Labor Day.
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.
Troops in the streets and he thinks heās going to get a Nobel, peace begins at home
NEW: A week or so ago, one federal agent kept popping up in videos from Trump's violent DC crackdownāso @jsweetli.bsky.social and I investigated. Turns out he's a 26-year-old US Parks Police officer, a lesser known law enforcement unit currently championed by Interior Sec. Doug Burnum. Our report:
Iāve been sent numerous photos the last few days of guards members with rifles, including down by the wharf for jazzfest.
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There are few things Elon Musk knows less about than birth control. However, his āseed the world to save Western Civilizationā fantasies know no bounds. Itās also worth noting that heās retweeting this British racist for his āfacts.ā hopenothate.org.uk/2024/06/20/e...
"Nobody wants to be a cop [in DC]. They were abused. They were spit on." "When you when you say they were abused and spit on, I'm assuming you're talking about January 6th, correct?" "All you guys want to do was bring up J6 about the answer to everything."
Can the media STOP referring to Jeffrey Epstein as a āfinancierā? The money he made came from SEX TRAFFICKING MINORS, RAPING CHILDREN, and BLACKMAIL. He was NOT a financier. Iāve seen at least five stories from three outlets refer to him this way in the past week. This is the latest from the Times:
So the photos we get of the āgolf outingā today is a pale and feeble looking one of him getting to a car at the WH and this one of him returning. Nothing from the course.
Iāve heard wall streeters are buying up the tariff refund rights from importers as speculative investments.
Id heard that Cantor Fitzgerald, the Wall Street firm formerly run by Commerce Secy Lutnick and now run by his sons is one of the big buyers of these refund rights. Turns out itās already public back in July when they were buying them at 20 to 30 cents on the dollar. www.wired.com/story/cantor...
Robert Mueller has Parkinsonās disease, his family said, and will not be able to comply with a request that he testify before Congress
As a friend recently put it: the venn diagram of people who assured us the gun violence was worth it because we need the guns to protect ourselves against a tyrannical federal government and the people cheering on Trump as he deploys the military to take over American cities is a circle
Hire a Black woman. We tend to be very good at what we do because we simply are not allowed to be bad at it.
If we donāt stand up for these victims, who will ?
NEW: Since corporate media won't call for Trump's resignation, I will. My latest: www.muellershewrote.com/p/trump-must...
Pour one out for Judge Sparkle Sooknananās clerks this Labor Day weekend
Kamala Harris at her closing campaign rally: "Donald Trump intends to use the United States Military against American citizens who simply disagree with him."
Why canāt they stay?
NEW: Many of the unaccompanied minors who Trump is trying to traffic to Guatemala today are in foster care - some of which seem to be Christian facilities. These 10 represent a putative class of nearly 600 children nationwide. Our government is trafficking children.
Pritzker: "No one in the administration -- the president or anybody under him -- has called anyone in my administration or me. It's clear that in secret they're are planning this invasion with US troops."
Exactly. It doesn't give him implicit authority, either.
I'm still waiting for the relentless onslaught of media demands for a press conference and calls to resign.
The DOJ is telling the court that all unaccompanied children Trump is sending to Guatemala have parents or guardians in that country who have requested their children be returned to them. The plaintiffs are saying that's not at all true. You can read the back and forth here:
This is the second judge in a week that has brought up the fact that the government can't be trusted with clear instructions - likely because the government ignored Judge Boasberg's order to turn the planes around last March saying "verbal orders from judges don't count."
I guess he changed hats and wonāt go anywhere near the press for 5 days for no particular reason. Also canāt get any video of him actually playing golf from the usual sources.
Judge Sooknanan: As I said at the start of this hearing, I got a call at 2:36 am [last night] because the government chose the wee hours of the morning on the Sunday of Labor Day weekend to execute a plan to move these children. That's why we're here.
NEW: The trump administration attempted to remove 600 terrified unaccompanied minors to Guatemala in the middle of the night on a holiday weekend. Judge Sooknanan stopped it. My latest: www.muellershewrote.com/p/the-sookna...
There's only one way to stop the rumors about Donald Trump's health: a press conference. Why won't he talk to the press, and why isn't the media doggedly demanding it?
Also HHS document indicates some facilities housing Guatemalan minors in US balked at handing them to ICE, prompting a Trump administration official to threaten criminal prosecution. She worked for DHS just a few months ago before taking the HHS job. www.politico.com/news/2025/08...
O'Keefe to Noem: "At least 20 people who signed this letter were current FEMA employees & they've been placed on administrative leave. Is it now the policy of DHS that anytime an employee puts their name on something criticizing you or POTUS, they should anticipate being put on leave or fired?"
Hi. Iām the executive director of the organization that had the honor of hosting the FEMA Katrina Declaration and I can confirm this is a lie. NICE TRY, KRISTI! @standupforscience.bsky.social @atrupar.com
The LGML case came very close to being JGG redux. But just before the hearing began, the judge decided not to wait. She entered a TRO barring removal of all the children. That made all the difference: DHS already had the kids loaded on planes. One plane even took off (then turned around).
Itās based on FDA approval. What happens when they rescind it?
This is the way
Once again I ask, whatās it going to take?
No matter what @MarshaBlackburn keeps saying, itās not criminals theyāre targeting. www.cnn.com/2025/08/30/u...
Um, I donāt buy it until I see them safely down the other side.
Instagram influencer Adventorin goes viral after demonstrating how simple it is to climb over the U.S. Border Wall.
Remove RFK Jr for dereliction of duties. Immediately.
Television legend Stephen Colbert has just signed a $13.5 million deal with Netflix for a 7-episode series.
Jones: We have a presidential administration that has more outrage about the changing of the cracker barrel logo than they do about changing the policies that allow our children to be gunned down in schoolā¦
Threats should work. š¤” @acyn.bsky.social
Threatening the people who give out the Nobel Peace Prize
Life for Palestinians in Gaza has gotten worse under Trump, not better. So where are Jill Stein and Cornel West now? They arenāt leading protests in DC outside the White House, no rallies. Almost like the whole 2024 thing was just performative.
Just saw a video of Bill Maher calling Mamdani a āstraight up communistā and I continue to be struck by the depiction of policies associated with the New Deal Order as far-left extremism, which goes along with a refusal to depict Trumpās unprecedented authoritarian actions as far-right extremism.
Fascism-plus.
That Trump and Trumpism are fascist doesnāt explain the sheer vandalism of unleashing mass murdering mayhem via RFK to replace medical/scientific institutions of immense value and prestige with medieval peasant superstitions. That is a criminal madness facilitated by but above and beyond fascism.
Actually, itās facilitated by the American public since they have a collective power to stop it.
No, theyāve been told they can do wrong without consequences.
The extent to which ICE is ignoring all civil rights and due process is astounding ā and indicative of a culture where theyāve been told they can do literally no wrong. Agency and admin leaders must face sanctions and legal consequences.
š Rep Chuck Fleischmann (R) tells the Chattanooga Times Free Press he will āneverā do a town hall www.timesfreepress.com/news/2025/au...
This āexplicitā is a weird editorial choice. The constitution gives the president no power over this at all. Itās not ambiguous.
BREAKING: A federal judge has *blocked* the Trump administration from abruptly deporting 600 unaccompanied Guatemalan children ā perhaps within a matter of hours ā granting an emergency restraining order after advocates called the plan illegal + dangerous. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
not just that he has no constitutional authority, there isn't even any particular legal or institutional mechanism by which the president can make anyone treat this as anything other than a weird advisory opinion.
My reporting uncovered the existence of DoJ training videos instructing FBI personnel on how to flag Trumpās name in the Epstein files. Iām suing to get the videos under FOIA. substack.com/@muellershew...
Oh
Ha. Haha. Haaa. I get it.
JD Vance on Donald Trump: āIām a Never Trump guy. I never liked him. I donāt think heās the person. I donāt think he cares about folks. I think that heās noxious and is leading the white working class to a very dark place.ā { ht: @marcofoster.bsky.social }
Media should hound him at least half as much as they hounded Biden. But they wonāt.
This is the type of person Trump pardoned. He proudly asserts that they should have injured a US Capitol Police Officer worse than they did on January 6th (@sergeantaqgo.bsky.social) had to medically retire). But MAGA supports law enforcement? Seriously? Then show me by condemning this guy.
The Free State of Florida is now trying to ban *sidewalk chalking*
Fight. Also, turn off the blue spigot.
FLAG: Missouri's governor just called a special session of the state legislature to pass a gerrymandered congressional map in favor of Republicans. Just like what Greg Abbott did in Texas.