Retired history teacher, Grandma, wife of a Navy vet, liberal Democrat wondering WTF. Oh, of Czech descent. Chicago, IL. Don't obey in advance!
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JUST IN: Judge who blocked the transfer of about 600 Guatemalan minors from US to Guatemala Sunday is keeping a very tight leash on the government. Echoes of Alien Enemies Act litigation simply deafening here. Earlier: www.politico.com/news/2025/08...
Early Sunday morning Judge Sooknanan forbid Trump from deporting dozens of children from Guatemala after their lawyers pointed out the gov't ignored special protections for minors who cross the border alone DHS currently has 2,000 children held in shelters www.nytimes.com/live/2025/08...
They loaded up those planes with children - some as young as 10. I don’t believe they had a safe place to go in Guatemala. And the government did not care. This admin is the least compassionate of any in my lifetime.
Our government tried to send a planeful of unaccompanied minors to Guatemala without due process. Fortunately a judge was able to block it before they took off. What fucking monsters the United States has become. Trafficking innocent children. www-cbsnews-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/www.cbsn...
Loading children up to fly them to Guatemala without a hearing to find out if they can be cared for by relatives in USA and whether they will be greatly harmed by the Deportation. These Trump MAGAS sink so low on the morality scale there is no bottom.
Can this Democrat flip a key U.S. Senate seat now that Joni Ernst announced her retirement? www.msnbc.com/the-last-wor...
It's no surprise Joni Ernst dropped out of the race. Just this week, a poll showed our campaign in a position to defeat her. Make no mistake – we're building the organizing operation to defeat whoever Republicans nominate instead.
Trump is abusing the global economy like a personal stock market scheme. This manipulative prick is wrecking industries and pocketing power while Americans pay higher prices because of his idiotic tariffs. Of course, he never had that authority under IEEPA. He is the living embodiment of grift.
Great, but what are the chances the Supreme Court will let the Appeals decision stay?
n this post, I summarize key points from the Federal Circuit ruling against Trump's massive IEEPA tariffs, in our case against them: reason.com/volokh/2025/...
“We discern no clear congressional authorization by IEEPA for tariffs..Given these considerations, we conclude Congress..did not give the President wide-ranging authority to impose tariffs of the nature of the Trafficking and Reciprocal Tariffs simply by the use of the term 'regulate..importation.'"
Stay with us, man. We need everyone's voice. It's ok to take a break.
Take a break. But don’t stop. Trump is getting the messages. He has reversed himself many times because of feedback.
Yes, Kathryn, you are exactly right. We need to keep pushing. We need to make sure fence sitters understand the issues.
He's a pathetic asshole.
You too, Allan. Take a break if you need it.
I totally get it! I am having the opposite reaction. I am at the foaming at the mouth stage of near-rage posting!
Good! Keep it up!
Between RFK decimating the CDC, normalizing Ashli Babbitt & the umpteenth school shooting... I'm losing the will to post. #ReleaseTheEPSTEIN_Files
You told us to never give up! We are listening. We need every voice. We need every lover of our great country! We need you Mark! We need millions of you! There are millions of us.
Sigh. Me too, @markhamillofficial.bsky.social. Me too.
There are days when I dread checking in to see what is happening. So many of us are in the same boat. 💔
What a tough day. Harder than usual and that’s saying a lot.
They are getting tougher, Mary Clair. Make sure you take a mental health break.
Sometimes you need to take a day off. That's okay. We're not superhuman.
We need you too. Keep pushing...one foot in front of the other!
Yes!
No, we can't let it continue... but how do we stop it? What do we do?
😡😡😡 How do we counter this insanity?
Mark--I understand. I sit down to post here, at dead bird or at Face; I start to write; I stop & erase. I don't know what to say or how to say it. I walk away, do puzzles, go for treats. But we need each other, & we REALLY need people with your influence. PLEASE keep podding along--You're important.
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We can't allow ourselves to become numb to mass shootings. What happened today in Minneapolis is heartbreaking, and Michelle and I are praying for the parents who have lost a child or will be sitting at their hospital bedside after yet another act of unspeakable, unnecessary violence.
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Washington DC, 62 years ago today, August 28, 1963. #MLK #IHaveaDream youtu.be/8LWuu2Zwsfs?...
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It’s always a treat to see creepy racist scumbag JD Vance get booed everywhere he goes because he’s a repulsive piece of shit.
Fascist asshole Ron DeSantis ordered the removal of a rainbow crosswalk in Orlando that was part of the city’s Pulse Memorial meant to honor the 49 people who were murdered by a gunman at Pulse LGBTQ nightclub in 2016. Bigotry, hate and cruelty have always been the point.
There’s nothing surprising about the orange felon attacking and going after disabled people, he made his hate for them clear when he openly mocked a disabled reporter at one of his MAGA Nazi rallies. Many wanted cruelty, chaos and fascism and that’s exactly what he’s giving them.
Hell yes, in a stunning upset tonight, Democratic candidate Catelin Drey has won the special election for Iowa State Senate and has flipped the seat from red to blue thus ending the Iowa fascist GOP supermajority in the state senate. Let’s keep this going. 💙👊👏
😆Yep.... You can find anything, Mau!
Too much? 🤷🏼♂️
It’s continues to be despicable how the media has spent a decade normalizing the orange felon so much so that they are reporting on his authoritarian militarization of Washington DC as if it were a routine military exercise. They deliberately failed democracy for clickbait.
Three things, at least, from which nobody should be distracted - N0.1 - Epstein - N0.2 - Becoming a Dictator, Defying the Rule of Law - N0.3 - Failing Health
So Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce are engaged! Congratulations to them🍾👰🤵 You know what would be even better? If Congress engaged in their job and released the #EpsteinFiles! #EpsteinTrumpCoverUp
The Iowa Senate seat that Democratic candidate Catelin Drey flipped tonight has been in GOP hands for 13 years. Not anymore.
I can't send you a message. Says "disconnected"!
I'm trying to remember if he sat as much during Trump 1. I don't think so.
They are chickensh!ts who fear loss of access. Disgusting that any of them consider themselves "journalists" or "reporters".
Can one reporter for the love of stand up and ask “Mr. President, why do you tell such lies and bullshit when you speak?”
They are afraid of losing their access to him/WH. I don't like them not correcting him, but I guess I can understand their chickenshit behavior. He won't interview with any legit reporter and instead plays it safe with Fox. They won't question him about his claims.
If you asked Trump, right now, if he personally ended the Battle of Hastings ... the odds of him saying "100%. IT WAS A GREAT, BIG, BEAUTIFUL END THAT LIKES OF WHICH THE WORLD HAS NEVER SEEN. AND HONESTLY, IT WASN'T HARD" are greater than 75-80%.
Blast (within legal decibel limits) silly songs (for ex: Vanilla Ice) Lawfully engage ICE, feds, cops etc Film them Ask them why they're wearing masks Ask them to remove their masks Ask them their names Ask what agency they work for Ask them where they're from Ask them why they're here 2/3
If you can: Be there Be there with others Film stops, arrests, detainments etc by ICE, feds, cops etc Film them walking down the street or standing around Warn others esp potentially vulnerable people Waste their time Monopolize their attention Distract them Make them a spectacle 1/3
ICYMI This is so smart and clear. If you want to see how Kennedy will "prove" vaccines cause autism, please read. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
You didn't bother to answer my question. You just pivoted to some MAGA-iin-disguise bullsht.
I prefer to spend my energy arguing and opposing fascists vs. trashing Democrats whom I mostly agree with.
Democrats may not be perfect but they aren't fascist autocratic trump-loving repubicans. And I do listen to what many of them say on MSNBC and CNN.
He's running as a Democrat in Iowa?
Lots of gossip there.
Doesn't look like Fetterman. Newsom used to be married to the now-ugly then-attractive gargoyle woman who was dumped by LittleDonnyJ. So what?
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"Defund the police" was on many many protest placards over the past 4-5 years. I don't think any Democrats of note used it, but it was out there.... a lot.
How can Democrats make Repubs and the MSM answer to us? What would that look like?
I've never heard of this Third Way group either.
"I’m honestly not sure what to do about the general media consensus that Democratic politicians are responsible for everything ever said at an obscure academic conference, but Republicans are not responsible for the rhetoric of Republican presidents."
"I’m honestly not sure what to do about the general media consensus that Democratic politicians are responsible for everything ever said at an obscure academic conference, but Republicans are not responsible for the rhetoric of Republican presidents."
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It ain't the Smithsonian that's out of control. It's tfg thinking that he has any fvkng right to decide what they should feature.
Who is Rob Sand?
We will not be erased. We will not be silenced. And we sure as hell will not cosplay as Republicans to win votes.
The choice is crystal clear: Stand with truth and our coalition or stand aside while Trump rewrites history.
I wrote about this in my latest piece: My identity will not accommodate erasure, dismissal, or cosplay. open.substack.com/pub/jaimehar...
We do not win by shrinking ourselves. We do not win by apologizing for who we are. We win by standing tall, telling the truth, and fighting like hell for the people who built this party.
Our backbone as a party has always been building a coalition of Americans from every background and walk of life who know history matters because it shapes our politics, our identity, and our dignity.
This is not history, it is whitewashing. Trump wants to erase our struggles, silence our stories, and replace truth with propaganda. That is not leadership, it is authoritarianism.
🧵 Trump just declared the Smithsonian “OUT OF CONTROL” — furious that our museums talk about slavery and injustice instead of painting some fairy tale version of America.
When people spend most of their time posting negative comments under anything to do with Rep Jeffries instead of using that energy to uplift democrats to help them get out of the minority by electing more democrats next year then they are the problem not him. 👇 bsky.app/profile/maud...
Yep. I opened my computer this morning to 1/Constant attacks on Chicago as an unlivable city from MAGAs on X and 2/Constant attacks on Democrats like Jeffries & Schumer from supposed resisters & anti-MAGA people here at the Sky. Ignorance on all sides.
Jeffries has told Democrats to ignore detention camps? Source for this?
You're ignoring the Indivisible & 50501 movements? Why?
What do you think Democrats like Schumer & Jeffries should be doing considering Democrats in Congress are in the minority & have no ability to actually make/change policy?
Ask her what she thinks Democrats should be doing. The complainers rarely have a sensible answer to that.
No.
What do you think Democrats should do that they aren't doing? Especially those in Congress when the minority in Congress has little authority & no power?
What do you think the Democrats should be doing that they are not?
Huh? The polls I've seen show that even Repubs are not happy with trump's approach to immigration. These polls have been mentioned by Democrats & more liberal media. Where have you been?
I Love Newsom Trolling Trump💙
Newsom ain't playing!
Good to see. Please, my dear democrat friends in USA, continue resisting and protesting! Here in 🇪🇺 we often ask why we can't see more pictures and videos of those protests. It is necessary to show them, so people can hope you will kick that orange dumb thing away... 💙👍💪💪
This is very concerning! No one knows this is happening. The news is not covering it in Illinois!
I hadn't heard anything about this concert... not on any local news shows.
We could have had one or both of these 👇 compassionate, experienced, hard working people leading our country right now instead of the chaos and hate we are living with. I will never forgive those who contributed to what is happening to this country.
President Zelenskyy: When Russia raises the issue of security guarantees,I honestly don't know who is threatening them yet.They attacked us, they’re on our land.I don't quite understand what guarantees the aggressor needs.Guarantees of what?
Fascists need an "other". They need people to think this or that group is "bad" & is violating norms/wasting resources/doing something bad. Then the fascists claim to clean up the "bad" & expect people to support them. Trump fascists are "othering" immigrants, trans people, & any possible criminal.
That was my question before reading other replies. What is this about?
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