Your periodic reminder that nobody would ever have heard of Johnson if it hadn’t been for @semaforben.bsky.social’s avid promotion of him. Soon after that, Ben was hired by the New York Times to explain the news media to us.
Former Republican. Always Never-Trump. Self funded a tiny little PAC that helped defeat my MAGA Congressman. You can have my democracy when you pry it from my cold, dead hands. #T1D
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Your periodic reminder that nobody would ever have heard of Johnson if it hadn’t been for @semaforben.bsky.social’s avid promotion of him. Soon after that, Ben was hired by the New York Times to explain the news media to us.
Zelensky meets leaders of two Germany’s Bundestag coalition factions. #news #uazmi #zelensky #ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky met with the leaders of Germany’s Bundestag coalition groups, Jens Spahn and Matthias Miersch, to coordinate joint diplomatic ef...
MASSIVE ICE SURGE COMING STARTING TOMORROW
Reminder: the apparent plan was to spirit these children away in the middle of the night without them ever seeing the inside of a courtroom to challenge their deportation. Children.
This should be the lead story in all major national news outlets. Public health people prefer to stay out of the limelight unless there is no other choice. I can’t overstate how bad things have to be for 9 former CDC directors to band together and pen an op-ed in the NYT warning the entire country.
Pentagon Orders Reinstallation of Robert E. Lee Portrait, Complete With Slave
Elon is quoting Nazis again
The horrors! It was pandemonium at the beach yesterday for AVP. For real though, #Chicago was ELECTRIC the last few days. I can't remember it being so alive
Trump to Vance: "Do whatever you want, figure it out however you can, but when I die I want to be buried at the Arlington cemetery." That evening Vance comes back, and says: "Do whatever you want, figure it out however you can — but the funeral's tomorrow."
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How Sweden’s ‘secondhand only’ shopping mall is changing retail. Built alongside the city’s recycling centre, it includes a dedicated drop-off point called The Return, where residents donate unwanted items. theconversation.com/how-swedens-...
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When our working families are strong, Minnesota is strong. That’s why we’ve established paid leave, expanded the right to collectively bargain, and why we’re investing in the projects creating the union jobs of the future. Happy Labor Day, Minnesota.
It remains true that no major TX newspaper has opposed the Uvalde police secrecy bill except the tiny Uvalde Leader. This bill cd easily pass w/ nobody in the media but one of the smallest circulation papers in the state stepping up to oppose it. That wouldn't be out of character.
Concern over low birth rates was what the theocracy in Margaret Atwood’s Handmaid’s Tale used to come to power.
Grooming gangs are real. The abuse is horrific. This article looks at whether children’s lives are being cynically used as tools in a bigger political game. @eastangliabylines.co.uk @stephenmcnair.bsky.social
Ghislaine Maxwell's deposition was not under oath. She was not video taped, which is very unusual for a deposition. And there are many cuts where they stopped the audio tapes so lawyers could confer with her off-the-record. None of that stuff is the way you do a deposition.
Generations of workers in America bled and died to win dignity on the job. They stood together against those who refused to recognize their humanity. On Labor Day, as fascism rises again, we honor those who came before us and carry forward their spirit of solidarity & defiance. Fight like hell. ✊
If we keep calling them “mini strokes” he will be forced to tell us how big they were
This morning 9 former CDC Directors, whose tenures date back to 1977, published this warning in the NYT: RFK Jr is a danger to public health. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...
In case you were looking for this tonight … How The 25th Amendment Actually Works — And What Nobody's Ever Figured Out www.buzzfeednews.com/article/chri...
Everything is perfectly normal and fine. Nothing to see here.
"We have yet to understand, that if I’m starving—you are in danger. People think that my danger makes them safe—they're in trouble."—James Baldwin How many people realize that Americans are suffering worse wealth and income inequality now than a century ago? www.qasimrashid.com/p/9-facts-on...
Join your union!!
30 cases of voter fraud annually, and the GOP passes 104 voter suppression laws. 47,000 gun deaths a year, and the GOP does absolutely NOTHING.
Distraction. He didn't write this.
As Trump attacks unions and occupies our city, we’re called to remember how we got here. Labor Day would not exist without the workers who fought and died at the Haymarket Massacre and the Pullman Strike in Chicago. It’s not a coincidence he’s targeting Chicago:
Ok, if he’s had a stroke that has incapacitated him in some way, I wanna start a TikTok trend of videos making fun of him with stroke face and body, just like he mocked a disabled journalist. Not a fucking molecule of sympathy from any of us.
A Baptist chaplain at a privately-run ICE lockup in Pennsylvania is facing accusations of sexually abusing a detainee over the course of more than a year, beginning shortly after he gained her trust by gifting her a Bible. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
How the idiot thinks it’s going. How it’s actually going.
Just sayin’.
Rural states in the American South and West had some of the nation's highest violent crime and homicide rates in 2024, driven by violence in small communities, according to an Axios analysis of FBI data www.axios.com/2025/09/01/v...
A Labor Day reminder: today there isn't a single city, metro area, or state in the U.S. where a full-time minimum-wage worker can afford a modest 2-bedroom apartment. Millions of people with jobs—even multiple jobs—aren't safe from homelessness in this country.
U.S citizen temporarily detained by ICE says he regrets voting for Trump "We were brainwashed!"
"MAGA" Signs in Los Angeles
Genuinely upsetting
A special message from WA Dems Chair, Shasti Conrad!
According to a Washington Post investigation, sites that complied with the new law now see their traffic switch to non-compliant websites. Slow hand clap.
My son just texted me that every road around Walter Reed is closed...👀
Shame on the courts for going along with the pernicious fiction that American national security required stripping employees of union protections
⚠️ Trump to make unspecified announcement from Oval Office tomorrow
Federal District Court Holds Unconstitutional South Dakota Law Moving Filing Deadline for Initiatives from 6 Months Before Election to 9 Months electionlawblog.org?p=151858
It is insane to me that the richest man in the world is using his global megaphone to call for millions of British people to be rounded up and deported (including my family) and somehow this isn’t even news.
if your answer isn’t an unequivocal “yes” then you’re a shit journalist
#WomensRights ✊🏾 #ONEV1 #Pinks 🌸 #Voices4Victory
Curious
Bluesky is now among and often *the* highest referer to @motherjones.com. That’s traffic that has been additive. Only Twitter has dipped btw, the rest as fairly steady state (and instagram impressions and video views on all platforms up enormously.)
The saying goes that success has many fathers, but failure is an orphan. While many helped in this result, I want to single out @tupped.bsky.social for his work and (reluctantly) @garygannontd.bsky.social for taking on the risk. But it’s not over. Not until the EU says no to Israeli war bonds.
If you're a homeowner, just to be on the safe side... call your insurance company and ask them if your property is covered for damage from political violence. It's time to start thinking like you lived in Afghanistan.
Who is protesting? We are 🇺🇸
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Serious Credit Card Delinquencies (unpaid balances for at least 90 days) hit their highest level in 14 years 🚨🚨🚨
Dead, alive, or hiding — doesn’t matter. Release the Epstein files.
Can Vance kill Trump with the same black magic he used on Pope Francis? We asked three MAHA moms at a Bob Evans in the north Cincinnati suburbs.
“In 2017, O’Hanlon was captured at Trump’s first inauguration festivities in DC decked out in his full Eagle Scouts uniform. The photographer who took the photo wrote on his personal website of ‘the Boy Scout kid that looked like a Brownshirt.’”
On this Labor Day, let us remember that it wasn’t the CEOs and billionaires who saved us during COVID-19. It was the janitors, nurses, cleaning crews, grocery and food workers with their hard, often invisible labor.
All kidding aside, it is so *insane* & *shocking* & *dangerous* that Corporate Media has collectively decided to completely bury objective fact that the President is uninformed, confused, and physically & mentally deteriorating.
The Feds appointed Atwood to the Order of Canada because of her contributions to literature. Alberta banned children from reading that contribution in school. Canadian politics in a nutshell. Somewhat related, until this morning I was sure she was also a Senator. #cdnpoli #ableg #abpoli
The president is healthy and will be golfing at his private course inside Walter Reed hospital for the next two to three weeks.
MAGA Host’s Wife To Die Thanks to RFK Jr., But He Blames Biden
"Blueskyism" helped the Mississippi Free Press overcome algorithmic suppression on other platforms (Facebook, Threads) and ride out plummeting engagement on Twitter following Musk's X takeover. Thank God we took our eggs out of the X basket when we did.
Today is the first day of public trading for Trump’s crypto scam.
California Labor Day Protest 2025. We vote yes on Prop 50 soon. We organize, protest, stay vocal, and unite until then. Keep going! #50501Movement #Indivisible
Jan. 6 rioters want cash to follow their newfound freedom.
Compare these first two photos of Trump from the cabinet meeting last Tuesday, August 26 (screen captured from the video) to the recent ones from Getty images from this weekend (after his several day disappearance).
#Chicago: partied all weekend, protested Monday. What an incredible photo, BTW
PragerU spelled certify wrong on the Oklahoma certificate of completion, because of course they did.
"We have reached the point where the U.S. Supreme Court has become one of the greatest threats to public health and welfare in this country.” —Katherine Franke (Op Ed in the Nation)
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent told Fox News on Sept. 1 that the Trump administration is considering new sanctions on Russia after Moscow intensified strikes on Ukraine despite recent peace talks.
On Labor Day, we celebrate the extraordinary progress unions have delivered for worker rights, fair pay and so much more. As collective bargaining rights are under attack from the Trump Admin, I won’t stop fighting for the unions and workers that form the backbone of our economy.
It's genocide.
Rwanda is the third African nation, after South Sudan and Eswatini, to accept deportees under arrangements with Washington.
20 years ago, our government utterly failed in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. But we learned – Congress reformed FEMA and invested in disaster response. Now, Trump is taking us backwards – reversing these reforms and gutting FEMA. History will repeat itself if this continues.
Meiselas: Xi Jinping and Modi and Putin and all these world leaders are gathering in China, and they're laughing. You know when Donald Trump says the world was laughing at us — the world was not laughing at us before. The world is quite literally laughing at us right now.
Chicago stands up against Trump! #WorkersOverBillionaires
When unions are strong, our communities and our country are strong. Every person in our nation has benefited from the labor movement. This Labor Day, we celebrate the workers and unions who have fought for fair wages, safe workplaces, and sick leave for all of us.
Happy Labor Day!
This exactly. This is what's particularly glaring.
❗️The plane Ursula von der Leyen @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu was on was forced to land in Bulgaria due to suspected Russian GPS interference -FT There are reports that the pilots even had to use paper maps due to GPS jamming as they made the emergency landing.
#KeepItInTheGround
I am reminded that until the 1974 passage of the Equal Credit Opportunity Act, women in the US didn’t have the legal right to open bank accounts, obtain credit cards, or secure loans in their own name without a male co-signer or a husband's permission. What a groundbreaking show.
The epic trolling continues! 😭☠️😭 #Pinks #LoserTrump #GoGavin
Ukrainian intelligence says Russia’s top tank maker depends on more than 260 Western-made machines that require foreign parts and updates — exposing a major gap in sanctions. www.kyivpost.com/post/59254
There is a news conference scheduled for 10:30 a.m. ET on Wednesday, September 3, at the House Triangle in Washington, D.C., for survivors of Jeffrey Epstein's sexual abuse. #Justice4Survivors #ReleaseAllTheEpsteinFiles
Los Angeles music festival 2025 Throwback edition ✊
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NEW: Kremlin officials continue to deny White House statements about the prospect of a bilateral Ukrainian-Russian or trilateral US-Ukrainian-Russian meeting in the near future. 🧵 (1/7) Read more: isw.pub/UkrWar090125 Other Key Takeaways ⬇️
Billionaires continue to hoard record wealth while the 99% struggle to afford basic necessities. We demand better and to be treated fairly. #50501satx #laborday #workingclass #downwithbillionaires #minwage #union
Yeah robots are definitely not taking over the world. Not the red one, at least. 🤣
First day for the new headline writer? Don't let the bastards grind you down!