RAOK (@evolvingempathy.bsky.social) reposted
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RAOK (@evolvingempathy.bsky.social) reposted
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Texas Paul (@realtexaspaul.com) reposted
Today's Coffee With Texas Paul goes live at 11 am Eastern! Join the discussion in our LIVE chat. Jobs PLUMMET! America summarily executes Venezuelans! Another Republican Christian leader pleads to having CSAM! More news of the day!
Matthew Budman, book guy (@matthewbudman.bsky.social) reposted reply parent
Who needs batteries? What are batteries anyway?
Aaron Reichlin-Melnick (@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social) reposted
Great time for the U.S. to raid a battery plant construction site in Georgia and arrest 450 people, including executives of the company building the plant!
Guy Berger (@econberger.bsky.social) reposted reply parent
7/ The unemployment rate for African Americans continues to rise - 7.5% in August, the highest in almost 4 years.
NOELREPORTS (@noelreports.com) reposted
Finlandās president Stubb says Trump urged the US and Europe to act together on sanctions, with Russian oil and gas as the main targets. Ursula von der Leyen and Trumpās advisers will discuss the plan in the next 24 hours.
The Tennessee Holler (@thetnholler.bsky.social) reposted
Yikes.
Mike Rifer (@thelifeofrifer.bsky.social) reposted reply parent
The president is the one facing āunresolved allegationsā. Lisa Cook is facing state intimidation and politicized bullshit.
Senator Mark Warner (@markwarner.bsky.social) reposted
For the good of our kids and all Americans, itās time for RFK Jr. to resign.
Rep. Jamie Raskin (@raskin.house.gov) reposted
Epstein survivors gave a brave accounting of the horrific abuse they endured as children caught up in the billionairesā human trafficking ring. Trump's desperate campaign to bury their testimony and demands as a āDemocrat hoaxā is pathetically transparent. Release the files.
Elevate Utah (@elevateutahpac.bsky.social) reposted
Every Utah Republican in the House has refused to sign onto the Epstein discharge petition, even after hearing the gut wrenching comments by the survivors. Ask yourself why, then work to vote them out.
Amy Oddoāš»šāļø (@amyoddo.bsky.social) reposted reply parent
JUST SHUT UP!!!!š¤¬š¤¬š¤¬š¤¬
Hakeem Jeffries (@hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social) reposted
The extremists remain obsessed with FORMER President Joe Biden. Meanwhile. Republicans havenāt done a damn thing about the high cost of living.
The Atlantic (@theatlantic.com) reposted
Senator Bill Cassidy cast a pivotal vote to confirm RFK Jr. while vowing to constrain him. Cassidy has clearly failed to do so, Nicholas Florko argued in June.
NY Times Pitchbot (@nytpitchbot.bsky.social) reposted
Twitter is owned by a neo-Nazi, the LA Times, Washington Post, and Wall Street Journal are owned by pro-Trump billionaires, and CBS News will soon be run by a far-right Likud extremist. American media still has a liberal bias problem.
Senator Tim Kaine (@kaine.senate.gov) reposted
As an avid hiker, Iāve seen how the Appalachian Trail Conservancy and other partners work to protect our national trails. Thatās why I introduced a bill to strengthen these public-private efforts and preserve these lands for future generations.
FulcrumOut (@fulcrumout.bsky.social) reposted reply parent
the brain and the body. A secure transgender person, regardless of what type of transition they make and how is not considered mentally ill under the DSM-5.
Dart Knobslobberer šš¦āā¬š³ļøāš (he/him/they) (@deejdart.bsky.social) reposted reply parent
You can request asylum at any port of entry from either direction. According to treaty, you will be heard and if granted, you will be settled in a signatory country. In case anyone needs to know
Alejandra Caraballo (@esqueer.net) reposted reply parent
Now being reported by CNN. edition.cnn.com/2025/09/04/p...
Alejandra Caraballo (@esqueer.net) reposted reply parent
It was incredibly easy to see where this was going after last week. bsky.app/profile/esqu...
Alejandra Caraballo (@esqueer.net) reposted
DOJ is openly stating that "trannies shouldn't have guns." The Trump administration is moving to strip trans people of their 2nd amendment rights. Nothing good ever comes out of an authoritarian regime stripping a minority group of owning guns.
Peter Morley āæļø (@petermorley.bsky.social) reposted
š„š„BRAVO: SENATOR WARNOCK TOLD RFK JR. to resign or the president should fire him!
Social Security Works (@socialsecurityworks.org) reposted
@smith.senate.gov: So let me ask you, when were you lying, sir? When you told this committee that you were not anti-vax or when you told Americans that there's no safe and effective vaccine? RFK: Both things are true. Smith: Oh, so more denial? More back and forth?
Glenn Kirschner (@glennkirschner.bsky.social) reposted
The Trump/Epstein/Maxwell scandal must remain front and center until everything that can be done has been done to achieve justice for the victims. #ReleaseTheFiles
Peter Morley āæļø (@petermorley.bsky.social) reposted
Listen to RFK Juniorās breathing. In addition to his extreme & dangerous policies, he is clearly a sick man who cannot be trusted.
Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD (@elizabethjacobs.bsky.social) reposted
These statements about corruption in science are egregious lies. Kennedy is a tsunami of anti-science propaganda. This isnāt just a moral injury to scientists, it is downright dangerous. It is devastating that the U.S. Senate is permitting this.
Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) reposted
RFK Jr: It's gonna be the biggest infusion of federal dollar into rural healthcare in American history BERNIE SANDERS: Yeah. You know why? Because you're cutting $150b for rural hospitals, you're putting $50b back. That's not an infusion. That's a loss of $100b.
Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD (@elizabethjacobs.bsky.social) reposted
Senator Welch (D, VT) says that the U.S. Senate is failing Americans. āWeāve confirmed a vaccine denierā as HHS Secretary. This is correct. Republican Senators are failing us.
WIRED (@wired.com) reposted reply parent
Immigration enforcement, according to one DSS worker who spoke to WIRED on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak to the press, is solidly outside the usual duties of DSS agents. www.wired.com/story/state-...
Peter Morley āæļø (@petermorley.bsky.social) reposted
BRAVO: The Democratic governors of Washington state, Oregon & California announced CREATION of an alliance to establish their own recommendations for who should receive vaccines because they believe the Trump administration is putting Americansā health at risk. youtube.com/watch?v=LeWk...
šš¦š Political Americans šš¦š (@politicalamericans.bsky.social) reposted
Millions of proudly ignorant Americans voted for this poisonous administration and this reptile of a man.
The Washington Post (@washingtonpost.com) reposted
To fill vacancies left behind from the Trump administrationās overhaul of the federal government, agencies are reassigning people to new jobs they know little about. The result, employees said, is that work is being done less efficiently.
Dan Diamond (@ddiamond.bsky.social) reposted
A partial list of politicians and organizations that have called for RFK Jr to resign
memurata.bsky.social (@memurata.bsky.social) reply parent
It looks like a motel, not the peoples White House. He has atrocious taste. Hope it will become a rose garden again someday. Shouldnāt there be some architectural committee that regulates what can be done to the White House? Let him muck with the residence rooms, leave the rest for a committee.
nhwharfrat.bsky.social (@nhwharfrat.bsky.social) reposted reply parent
it would be very easy for any head of state to bring charges against Trump for participation in a global child sex trafficking operation, in which case he would immediately become a fugitive of justice
Benjamin Johns (@baj.bsky.social) reposted reply parent
Finally an admission from Rubio that an indicted fugitive cannot be the legitimate leader of a nation.
Los Angeles Times (@latimes.com) reposted
āLet us not forget what this political theater is costing us all ā millions of taxpayer dollars down the drain and an atrophy to the readiness of guardsmembers,ā Newsom said. āTalk about waste, fraud, and abuse.ā Read more: https://lat.ms/4mQrM0a?utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky_
Krassensteins (@krassenstein.bsky.social) reposted
BREAKING: Senator Raphael Warnock just called for RFK Jr. to resign to his face.
Mark Chadbourn (@chadbourn.bsky.social) reposted
Trump doing Putinās work. The US wants to phase out security assistance for eastern European countries bordering Russia, the FT reports. The alleged aim is for NATO allies to fund more of their own defence.
Reuters (@reuters.com) reposted
Publisher Gannett wins dismissal of nearly all of journalists' job bias lawsuit reut.rs/4g4HthC
Rep. Dan Goldman (@repdangoldman.bsky.social) reposted
The 9/11 Victim Compensation Fund helps individuals who suffered as a result of the September 11th terror attacks. You can still sign up if you are eligible. Click the link below or call 855-885-1555 to see if you or a loved one are eligible for the program.
Jon Cooper (@joncooper-us.bsky.social) reposted
Reps. Thomas Massie and Ro Khanna's discharge petition to force a vote on releasing the Epstein files had 206 signatures as of this afternoon ā it needs 218. So far, four Republicans have signed ā Massie, Nancy Mace, Marjorie Taylor Greene and Lauren Boebert. Only two more Republicans are needed.
Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) reposted
Ossoff on RFK Jr: "Absolutely he should resign. And he never should've been confirmed to begin with... in any normal Senate, he never would've gotten so much as a hearing. This is someone who throughout his public life has embraced just about every piece of quackery & pseudoscience he's come across"
Reuters (@reuters.com) reposted
Texas lawmakers pass bill allowing private citizens to sue abortion pill distributors reut.rs/4lUYkF7
CajunBlueAZ āļøšŗšø šŗš¦ (@cajunblue.bsky.social) reposted
šØDoes he think he is fooling the country or what? This is an insult to survivors across the globe and a disgrace to our nation. youtu.be/2exBvT3M210
Kim Wexler's Ponytail ššš (@madisonkittay.bsky.social) reposted
Watch @crockett.house.gov talk about the Epstein case like the kickass lawyer she is. youtube.com/watch?v=WOZy...
Americans for Tax Fairness (@4taxfairness.bsky.social) reposted
Verizon expects to pay $2 BILLION less in taxes next year. Lumen Tech has requested a $400 MILLION tax refund. Diamondback Energy is projecting its cash tax rate to drop by 4%. That's billions less for America. And their CEOs and shareholders will keep it all. Great.
Mother Jones (@motherjones.com) reposted
Thereās one issue that is gaining rare bipartisan support in DC: Outrage over the continued stonewalling of the full release of the Epstein files.
Ron Filipkowski (@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social) reposted
Heās providing them with valuable mulching experience though.
Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) reposted
Ossoff: "It's been extraordinary to see the Speaker of the House reduced to lying in order to cover up sex crimes"
Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) reposted
Rand Paul: "The reason we have trials & we don't automatically assume guilt is what if we make a mistake and they happen to be people fleeing the Venezuelan dictator? ... off our coast it isn't our policy just to blow people up ... even the worst people in our country, they still get a trial."
Joyce White Vance (@joycewhitevance.bsky.social) reposted
It's Time to Release the Epstein Files. People who fight this hard to hide something have something to hide. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...
Ruth Zakarin (@ruthz.bsky.social) reposted
Massachusetts has got the juice www.bostonglobe.com/2025/09/03/m...
Unusual Whales (@unusualwhales.bsky.social) reposted
JUST IN: The US now has more unemployed people than job openings for the first time since April 2021
Governor Gavin Newsom (@governor.ca.gov) reposted
California will not let a compromised federal agency endanger our people. We are partnering with Oregon Governor @tinakotek.bsky.social and Washington @governorferguson.bsky.social to launch a new West Coast Health Alliance in the face of Donald Trumpās mass firing of CDC doctors and scientists.
Mario Nicolais (@marionicolais.bsky.social) reposted
Epstein Survivor presser ends and Trump immediately calls it āa Democratic hoax.ā RELEASE THE EPSTEIN FILES.
Senate Commerce Dems (@commerce.senate.gov) reposted
RM @cantwell.senate.gov, @klobuchar.senate.gov, @blumenthal.senate.gov and Rep. @wassermanschultz.house.gov led 23 of their congressional colleagues in filing an Amicus brief defending the bipartisan, independent CPSC. www.commerce.senate.gov/2025/9/cantw...
Aaron Parnas (@aaronparnas.bsky.social) reposted
BREAKING: Epstein survivors are speaking out, demanding the release of the files and blasting the White House for hiding them. I was at the press conference today. It was one of the most powerful moments I have witnessed. We cannot stop sharing their stories. open.substack.com/pub/aaronpar...
Justin Wolfers (@justinwolfers.bsky.social) reposted
It's his imagination and we're just lucky to be living in it.
SantaInSeattle (@santainseattle.bsky.social) reposted reply parent
Note how Red States are having "Special Sessions" while Blue state are having ballot initiatives; the Shouts of a DICKtatorship vs the Voice of the People.
Democracy Docket (@democracydocket.com) reposted
Missouriās Republican governor Mike Kehoe called a special legislative session to redraw congressional districts and weaken ballot initiatives, partaking in the new Republican strategy of a mid-decade gerrymander to secure a House majority in 2026.
memurata.bsky.social (@memurata.bsky.social) reply parent
Shows standing up to bullies pays off, not appeasing them.
scarfr.bsky.social (@scarfr.bsky.social) reposted reply parent
Even if it wasn't unconstitutional, there's no actual plan! It's a show, then after the show is over, there is no policy or ongoing action to keep crime down... It is the definition of wasting government funds
joss17.bsky.social (@joss17.bsky.social) reposted reply parent
EPSTEIN EPSTEIN EPSTEIN EPSTEIN EPSTEIN EPSTEINā¦.we are not going to LET anyone forget it! Got it?
Ed Hirsch (@edhirsch.bsky.social) reposted reply parent
#FactsMatter RED STATES HAVE THE HIGHEST CRIME RATES The Two-Decade Red State Murder Problem www.thirdway.org/report/the-t...
Sharon š«¶š»ššŗšøš¦šæ (@sharonsf.bsky.social) reposted
WTH IS WRONG WITH HIM
Bayly Winder for Congress (@winder4congress.bsky.social) reposted
Jeff Van Drew is refusing to sign onto a discharge petition to release the Epstein files. Heās siding with secrecy instead of survivors. The truth must come outāand in Congress, Iāll fight for the victims.
Alt National Park Service (@altnps.bsky.social) reposted
A federal appeals court has blocked the Trump administration from invoking wartime powers under the Alien Enemies Act to deport migrants. In a 2-1 decision, the court rejected the claim that immigration (even on a large scale) constitutes a military breach of U.S. borders.
Democracy Forward (@democracyforward.org) reposted
Texas Governor Greg Abbott and Attorney General Ken Paxtonās partisan political ploy to expel sitting legislators is unconstitutional. We filed a āfriend of the courtā brief to urge the Texas Supreme Court to reject this unlawful scheme to suppress voters.
Kerri ā®ļøāļø (@jlk74.bsky.social) reposted
Congressman Al Green, Jessica Denson and others marching to the Capitol now in DC to demand the release of the Epstein files and the impeachment and removal of Trump
Radio Free America (@radiofreeameri.ca) reposted
They Were Some of Earthās Last Stable Glaciers. Now, Theyāre Melting.
Stephen Moran (@moranstephen1000.bsky.social) reposted reply parent
Traitorous Trump telling XI "Please give my warmest regards to Vladimir Putin, and Kim Jong Un as you conspire against America..." has some serious "jilted lover" vibes about it. He's bigly mad that he was left out of the dictators' party. But they have all played him for the vain fool that he is.
Stephen Moran (@moranstephen1000.bsky.social) reposted reply parent
Anton Gerashchenko (@antongerashchenko.bsky.social) reposted
The SCO Summit and Beijing Parade: signals of a Chinese order Beijing used the military parade and the SCO summit to cement Chinaās image as an alternative center of the global system. Xi Jinping declared that "the revival of the Chinese nation cannot be stopped,"
Greg Sargent (@gregsargent.bsky.social) reposted
Shockingly, it turns out that when CBS handed $16 million over to Trump's "presidential library," it didn't placate him in the least. Kristi Noem has now used precisely the same scam, a phony accusation of deceptive editing, that Trump used to extort CBS last time! newrepublic.com/article/1998...
Todders (@todders707.bsky.social) reposted reply parent
Appeasement never works. It just opens the door for repeat occurrences
Citizens' Impeachment (@citizensimpeachment.com) reposted
The Epstein victim press conference will occur on Wednesday, Sept. 3 at 10:30 a.m. ET at the House Triangle just outside of the House wing of the Capitol building. www.youtube.com/c/USATODAY/v... Release the Epstein files, then impeach this criminal President.
nedinmo.bsky.social (@nedinmo.bsky.social) reposted reply parent
There are so many stories like this. A wife and mother who was days away from citizenship; the wife of a US citizen nursing her newborn; a pregnant woman torn from her children who were left with no caregiver. The cruelty is the point; instill fear in everyone. This has to stop.
FactPost (@factpostnews.bsky.social) reposted
Host: 17 year old Nory Sontay Ramos. She's an honor roll student. She's a star athlete. She should be starting her senior year of high school. Instead, Nory is living in fear in Guatemala with her mom. After showing up for a routine ICE check in, Nory and Estela were suddenly detained and deported
sophieresists.bsky.social (@sophieresists.bsky.social) reposted reply parent
Trumpās weakness with Putin and his ridiculous dream of the Nobel have pushed Putin, Xi, Kim and now Modi together. Itās terrifying. Man up, Pete, and stop blaming Biden for the chaos and danger you and Trump are fomenting.
Kitt (@uncertaintiming.bsky.social) reposted reply parent
LOL blaming the previous administration Like Putin and Xi havent sized up our current weak leadership and now striking when their iron is hot SMH #SignalChatAnyone ?
Red Painter (@redpainter1.bsky.social) reposted reply parent
Yeah, this wasn't an issue last year.... seems it took off when Trumpy Boy took office 7 months ago
Gen X Vet (@bluegenxveteran.bsky.social) reposted reply parent
Hegseth has a childās understanding of the world. For a military officer, he didnāt pay much attention to either history or doctrine. What a fool. And how utterly mediocre to blame Biden for everything. Idiot.
Drew Altman (@drewaltman.bsky.social) reposted
The ACA tax credits are the biggest unresolved health policy issue before Congress. But with both sides bobbing and weaving, and the news media focused elsewhere, the prognosis is unclear. on.kff.org/3HTxsHy
Dave Levitan (@davelevitan.bsky.social) reposted
I know, I know, but: The president of the US saying, literally, "we're going in" in reference to sending the military to an American city for no reason beyond terrorizing the local population should be the most immediately impeachable shit imaginable
Robert Reich (@rbreich.bsky.social) reposted
The largest SNAP cuts in history went into effect yesterday, eliminating or drastically cutting food assistance for millions of Americans. And itās all to pay for more tax cuts that primarily benefit the super-rich. Trickle-down economics isn't just a hoax ā it's cruel.
Governor JB Pritzker (@govpritzker.illinois.gov) reposted
I'm aware that the President likes to go on television and beg me to call him to ask for troops. I find it strange, as Chicago doesn't want troops. I also have experience asking him for assistance ā just to have the rug pulled up from underneath me when execution meets reality.
The Tennessee Holler (@thetnholler.bsky.social) reposted
REPUBLICAN @RepThomasMassie says the Epstein files *release* was bogus
MeidasTouch (@meidastouch.com) reposted
SCOOP: Sources at the House Oversight Committee confirm documents posted by Rep. Anna Paulina Luna are the same ~33,000 pages of Epstein documents they received ā 97% already public ā and part of a broader plan to block transparency.
Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD (@elizabethjacobs.bsky.social) reposted
Kennedy must be removed from office. He has already caused a catastrophe at HHS and the CDC. I strongly suspect that he is about to use data manipulated by unscrupulous and unqualified individuals to attempt to falsely show that vaccines are in some way a net harm. He simply must be stopped.
Ron Filipkowski (@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social) reposted
If only they would actually follow them instead of displaying them on government property.
salbr29891.bsky.social (@salbr29891.bsky.social) reposted reply parent
youtu.be/R8AGEjj2Jds?...
MARSanders (@mars3-ox.bsky.social) reposted reply parent
Trump is in real panic mode; heās throwing everything at the wall. Chicago, Baltimore, Space Force, AI, firings left & right, Xi, Ukraine, etc⦠Heās really scared of: Epstein victims press conference, bad economic numbers this week, his failing health rumors or all the above?