The people in Washington who can actually stop Trump are not Democrats. They are Republicans. And we should be asking them every day when they will start. washingtonmonthly.com/2025/09/02/r...
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The people in Washington who can actually stop Trump are not Democrats. They are Republicans. And we should be asking them every day when they will start. washingtonmonthly.com/2025/09/02/r...
Cool. Btw, what was the “dot com era”? They probably ended it with a monster party, right?
Trump is once again weaponizing government power for revenge. Schiff, James, and Cook are the latest targets—dragged into “fraud” investigations pulled straight from Trump’s enemies list. This isn’t justice. It’s political retribution. adamkinzinger.substack.com/p/selective-...
We're sailing on a Ship of Fools I'm really kind of missing all those DEI hires.
Epstein Survivors Press Conference Sept 3rd, 10:30 a.m. ET Tune in to support them.
NEW: Mercenary spyware is coming to the US. ICE just quietly unsuspended their contract with spyware maker #Paragon. Remember them? Caught earlier this year being used to hack Italian journalists. This is bad, let's talk about how we got here 1/ jackpoulson.substack.com/p/exclusive-...
A landslide in the middle of a war & famine that was declared last year & has since spread across Sudan. About 25 million people need urgent food aid, according to the UN, while at least 14 million have been forced from their homes. Where is the int’l attention? www.nytimes.com/2025/09/02/w...
www.reuters.com/sustainabili... Nothing in the United States is safe with trump at the helm and his minions hellbent on pleasing him.
3 weeks and he is a like a different dog. Al Pacino was getting some very good news today!
"'The President has no unilateral authority to impound funds,' the Government Accountability Office (GAO) concluded in 2018 when it was asked by the House Budget Committee to examine the question of pocket rescissions." Trump seems intent on trying it anyway [@ericboehm87.bsky.social]
'Embarrassing': Trump's 'atrocious' plan to profit from Ukraine war stuns former diplomat www.rawstory.com/michael-mcfa...
Bringing a federal conspiracy charge against someone who blocked an entrance
NEWS: A federal judge has ruled that Trump’s deployment of military forces to Los Angeles violated the Posse Comitatus Act, a law that prohibits the use of the armed forces as a domestic police force.
He was notorious. It had a name. The "Trump Haircut."
Have no fear. Most kids will never read it, and those who do won't remember it. The teaching of US history is, for many reasons, a travesty.
Linda Ronstadt live performance Desperado share.google/1JVbW2h62SV7...
I do get that. I'm more of the mind that depression is a behavior issue, and the end result of this will be a happy pill. Helpful, of course, but not a solution.
You guys are just discovering that shrooms rewire the brain & make you feel good? You could have asked pretty much any college freshman from 1979.
This should be getting far more attention from the media, and it should be investigated as a hate crime. A 14-year-old Black teen was targeted, beaten, and dehumanized with racial slurs by white teens while people stood around cheering. 1/4
I'm guessing you mean the left eye as indication of a possible stroke?
We're animals. It's an animal thing. We're prone 2discriminate. Identity politics at a time we need identify politics. These diatribes do nothing but inflame passion. Unhelpful. I'd rather focus on income. It subsumes race 2a more broadly unifying narrative. Isn't that what we need?
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.
Unfortunately, the number of veterans in Congress has trended down. Four generations removed, & w the subject poorly taught in school, I'm not optimistic about the struggle. And it looks like our 250th will be more like a birthday party than a chance to reengage w the significance of our founding.
He was cool with walking on a debate stage, knowing he had covid, to try and infect Joe Biden. So yes, if he were capable of being seen, he would be out here proud as a peacock.
Kind of like the malign effect of men chugging testosterone supplements like they're at a frat kegger.
This is, of course, false. The United States exported $83 billion in goods and services to India last year alone.
It actually sounds like the political center, left & right. Unfortunately, the corporations that own media platforms have NO interest in normalcy. In the absence of a strong political, cultural, & economic center, entropy will only accelerate, beyond our capacity to moderate its effects.
Did you know in 1890 manufacturing employees worked on average 100 hours a week? It would be decades before the eight-hour workday became real. It took labor activists and labor unions to turn the cry for change into policy and practice. www.americaamerica.news/p/a-labor-da...
The thing about JD is that other Republicans don't fear him, & mainstream media isn't enriched by him. The GOP was set to let Trump run in 28 despite its illegality, now they'll have primaries & the return of their motley clue. The party will implode. Good times.
'94 Rwanda was the last time I felt like I was "witnessing" genocide. Discussions like this are difficult because the horror is real & civilians are caught in the middle. Trump's certainly isn't helping w a belief Gazans should be removed if they don't evacuate. Sounds a familiar tone.
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I'm sorry I'm new to this stuff. Didn't we used to call this theft or fraud? Sure reads like it. Everything is just a game?
Dr Demetre Daskalakis is one of the big CDC officials who just resigned. He said RFK Jr never met with experts from his division, not even for briefings on measles, COVID, or RSV, in the seven months he has served. “He has never been briefed by any human from my center about anything.”
They are all shameless. Last week, on the day Gov Pritzker made his wonderful defense of American democracy, NBC allotted <15 seconds of audio, but spent over a minute later that broadcast exploring the prospects of Trump on Mt. Rushmore. 🙄 They choose not 2give a shit. They've abandoned us.
Tulsi Gabbard is *very obviously* a foreign intelligence asset and I hope we all live long enough to see her tried and convicted for it.
He’s providing them with valuable mulching experience though.
Pure fucking evil. Everyone involved in this shit needs to be held accountable.
Pretty terse for a man who can't shut up.
Last night, at the final show of her Girls Just Wanna Have Fun Farewell Tour, Cyndi Lauper brought out Joni Mitchell (for “Carey”), Cher (“Girls Just Want To Have Fun”), SZA (“True Colors”), John Legend (“Time After Time”), and more. www.stereogum.com/2321337/cynd...
As union membership goes down, more wealth gets transferred up to the top 10% from the working class. There’s a reason why corporations and billionaires spend $400 million per year busting unions.
@jollygoodginger.bsky.social is in DC with other vets right now standing up for democracy. He's playing General Milleys speech on repeat for them today 💜 #LoveTheVets!
What the hell is in those Epstein files???
Ah, white bread. I sometimes made my drink money sitting at the bar challenging people to eat a slice of white bread in a minute. Let's just say i stumbled home more than a few times.
Sidenote: in A.C. there was a term "the Trump Haircut." He would notoriously lop 10% off the contracted billing submitted by union contractors, then tell them to take it, or sue me. On Labor Day weekend, figured it was worth saying.
40% of Missourians vote for Democrats, and this is the Congressional map the Republicans are pushing for.
“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.
If you were a user or admirer of NOAA’s amazing climate.gov website - which has had all the good stuff (e.g., actual data and climate monitoring indices) removed by government - some web and data gurus/guerrillas are about to launch a recreation at climate.us. Follow @climate.us for launch updates.
🚨 🚨 🚨 Elgin, Illinois. Has Governor Pritzker seen this?! 1/2
“…I am infuriated that the Air Force plans to grant military funeral honors to Ashli Babbitt. She did not die defending the Constitution. She died trying to overturn it.” My latest in @thebulwark.com www.thebulwark.com/p/honoring-a...
Opt in should be the baseline standard for all tech platforms.
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This photo was taken of miners at the end of their shift during the Gilded Age before they were unionized. A Labor Day reminder of the blood, sweat, and tears that those before us paid to give the working class the basic rights that Trump and his thugs are trying to strip away.
Welch: Am American president talks to other American citizens like that, and propagandists come on TV and normalize this behavior. And nothing about this is normal. Nothing
Facts. There is nothing normal about him, he has been painfully inadequate in everything he's done his entire life.
“Do you guys feel bad about what you’re doing? Don’t you f*cking hate yourselves?”
A great question (loaded, admittedly) that we'll never hear him asked: "So, Mr. president, you'd be perfectly OK w the next president removing your Secret Service protection if he or she so chooses?"
That's a tough list 2weigh. Our intelligence programs are in the hands of a Russian asset. Regulatory agencies r gutted. Election oversight is in the hands of a denier. A deputy COS channels Himmler. DOJ has a hit list. And our President is a traitorous, wannabe King engaged in a massive cover up.
Trump First. That's the message. The word "america" is barely visible.
Excellent question.
It's called funk.
I can't believe how good he is starting to look already. One of the kindest and most gentle dogs we've ever had.
Reason 4857 why health care should never be for profit: AI DEATH PANELS. This is the same kind of program used to deny claims at United Health, and they want to use this for VA claims, too.
It just keeps getting better.
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You can add the NRC to that list. Today's front page FT story is foreboding.
Neil Young quits Facebook and Instagram over Meta's use of chatbots with children 'Meta's use of chatbots with children is unconscionable,' Young's team shared in a statement. www.cbc.ca/music/neil-y...
I will never get over how a handful of tech bros set billions of dollars on fire to build a plagiarism machine that doesn't work and will destroy human society when they could have used a fraction of that money to fund a new golden age of creativity and knowledge.
Can't believe that in 2025 we have to be telling people that vaccines are safe and slavery was bad.
If I were charged with a federal crime, I’d hire Pam Bondi’s brother as my lawyer. Because I don’t think this is a coincidence.
Don’t look away
Someone needs to ask Tom Homan, under oath, if any ICE agents were charged w crimes on J6. Worth knowing.
Portugal’s President Rebelo de Sousa: “The top leader of the world’s foremost superpower is, objectively, a Soviet or Russian asset. He operates as an asset.”
NEW: A judge in Utah orders fair maps, Susan Collins is heckled during a ribbon cutting, democrats CRUSH in an Iowa special election defeating the GOP supermajority, and prosecutors fail to indict sandwich guy. News, with swearing! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
(So this happened.) Federal agents arrest firefighters working on WA wildfire www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news... via @seattletimes
Just in case you forgot…
Hi, immunologist here: (a scientist who studies immune & inflammatory processes) RFK Jr is talking absolute bullshit when he says he can “see in kids faces that they have inflammation” That’s NOT how immunology works. He is an anti-science profiteer. Start calling him such.
“Does the US still want to pressure - or seize - Greenland from Denmark?” “Absolutely.” Danish investigative journalist @nielsfastrup.bsky.social says the US is running a hostile campaign aimed at destabilising Denmark.
Here he goes.
I just can't get over the fact that this is Robert F. Kennedy's son.
It's possible ... hear me out, here …. It may well be that these people lie their asses off whenever they exhale
Yes, it's easy focusing on and chasing the policies because their so inane, but opponents should be addressing Trump's *behavior*. He can "both sides" the other stuff, but he can't both sides the erratic behavior.
One part of the resignation letter from Dr. Demetre Daskalakis, who formally resigned from his position as Director of the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases at the CDC.
@govpritzker.illinois.gov made the same point as @governorwalz.mn.gov Enough of the damn "Dems in disarray" written-on-autopilot coverage. Or "how does this change odds for 2028?" The country is under attack. That's the story.
Can a reporter please ask Trump the simplest of questions: "Mr. President, why are you awake at 2am tweeting about Seth Myers?"
Really intelligent dogs, both. A border collie that is walked where I play tennis has a larger vocabulary- responds to over 100 specific commands- than our current president.
This is what fascism looks like. And it’s here. In America. And only we the people can stop it.👇
Yeah. It’s happening here.
It *is* confusing & complicated, especially when it's one among many descriptors of Trump's bullshit. If u said the government was being run like the mob, or by billionaires, podcasters, & Fox News hosts people would get the point. My personal preference 4 2026 is Washington v Trump.
Me, trying again, on how John Roberts gave Big Balls access to all our Social Security data. www.youtube.com/watch?v=TzdH...
Frey: And don't just say, this is about thoughts and prayers right now. These kids were literally praying. It was the first week of school. They were in a church.