Seattle Children’s is laying off over 150 staff and slashing hundreds of open positions. Why? Because of Trump and the Republicans' health care cuts. Republicans chose tax breaks for billionaires over care for our kids. This is Trump’s America.
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Seattle Children’s is laying off over 150 staff and slashing hundreds of open positions. Why? Because of Trump and the Republicans' health care cuts. Republicans chose tax breaks for billionaires over care for our kids. This is Trump’s America.
"What’s so maddening about Disney’s capitulation on Kimmel isn’t that it’s cowardly and unjust in itself—though it’s both—but that it’s part of a growing chain of similar capitulations."
moments ago, ice agents again came out of the broadview detention/“professing” facility to escort a silver suv out of the lot. one of the agents picked up and threw congressional candidate kat abughazaleh to the ground.
BREAKING: Federal judge tosses out Trump's lawsuit against the New York Times, Penguin Random House, & journalists, finding that the complaint violated court pleading rules due to its expansive, over-the-top, "tedious" use of language. An amended complaint can be filed without all of the BS in it.
Disney CEO Bob Iger’s wife is Willow Bay — dean of the USC School of Journalism. I wonder what she thinks of Bob Iger suspending Jimmy Kimmel & firing ABC News’ Terry Moran for the crime of offending Donald Trump.
This is the playbook, folks. If you're not paying attention now and doing something about it, then you're going to have to sit down the rest of your life because democracy is being taken away. Do not be quiet in this moment.
It’s deeply unfair to call today’s fascists “fascist” or “Nazis” just for doing bad things German Nazis did in the 1930s to advance their fascist project. And you better not say “fascism” or the fascists will come for you too!
this is the shit i want to see
The last political column I was allowed to write in the @washingtonpost.com was a criticism of Obama. His people took issue with my piece, but we were respectful. Now he is tweeting in support of me. This is how free political speech and respect for debate *actually works*. Or used to work.
Analysis | To get himself back on the air, Jimmy Kimmel must call for the execution of homeless people.
Exactly this
A free and democratic society cannot silence comedians because the President doesn’t like what they say. This is an attack on free speech and cannot be allowed to stand. All elected officials need to speak up and push back on this undemocratic act.
My fucking god
ICE badly injure 80-year-old U.S. citizen who owns the car wash—leave him with broken ribs & dislocated elbow. "They told me: ‘You don’t F with ICE! We are here!’ and then threw me on the floor." "I told them I'm an old man and need my heart medication, but they said ‘No!’" Van Nuys, California
I don’t know when it’s going to pop for a lot of normies that they are living under an authoritarian regime, but the cancellation of popular TV shows that make fun of the administration might do it www.vulture.com/article/abc-...
Wowww
Hi ICE killed a single dad at a traffic stop here on Friday Today they are disappearing people again in broad daylight, they are everywhere If you have any national platform at all Chicago is fucking begging you, please help us
Hakeem Jeffries gonna be the last man at the party, turning up with salad at midnight
Donald Trump should ask himself an important question: Does he want to be the President of the United States, or does he only want to be the President of some of the states? Because unless he changes his tone and the bullshit that spews out of his mouth, he's going to drive this nation in two.
The fact that @thenation.com published this, instead of, I don't know, firing @joanwalsh.bsky.social for having the audacity to remember the things he's actually said, is a pretty good example of why I work here, and not at some other places.
Chicagoan here. Made an online appointment at my local CVS this morning. Was in and out of the store in 10 minutes, having received both flu and covid vaccines. And Mango Mussolini is declaring war on our city? Give me a break.
rarely have I more acutely felt the dynamic by which Dems are held responsible for the rhetoric of every random left-leaning person on the internet and Republicans are not even asked to answer for their own personal words
Thank you, Senator Warren.
Ain't this interesting?
America Mourns the Loss of the Idea of America. Get it right @nytimes.com
“No Kings” unveils a big new Trump protest on October 18 to respond to Trump’s authoritarian escalations. “You don't occupy cities just because it's fun. This is all ratcheting up.” Story: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
Better start calling it The Angels just to be safe.
To protect white people, colleges absolutely, positively cannot consider race in admissions. And hiring decisions that consider minority status are forbidden. But ICE can go after brown people with impunity because everyone knows that brown people violate the law. Fucking racists.
There are people among us who are just…better humans. Maya Moore is one of those people. Her basketball excellence, which culminates tonight with her enshrinement in the Naismith Hall of Fame, is the less impressive part of her journey. In @theathletic.com: www.nytimes.com/athletic/660...
The job of Fox News is to scare not only old white people, but also an old orange one.
I was in the military, I carried concealed for years, and I taught for a few. But you don't need people like me to tell you how insanely stupid this old idea is
I am honestly quite worried about Chicago, and begging the national press to report it as what it is: an invasion of a US city by the national guard of another state at the behest of a fascist president for purposes of terrorizing the people into submission. There is no legitimate debate about it.
Sen. Mark Warner, D-Va., the vice chair of the Intelligence Committee, says he was denied a meeting with career intelligence workers because Laura Loomer objected.
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...
Pritzker: "When did we become a country where it's ok for the US president to insist on national television that a state should call him to beg for anything? Especially something we don't want. Have we truly lost all sense of sanity in this nation that we treat this as normal?"
The only viable strategy for Democrats in Congress is obstruction. Keep putting sticks in the spokes. Delay, delay, delay. Bipartisanship is surrender.
imagine being so detached from reality that you long for “common ground” with the people destroying your country.
A hearty fuck you to those blaming healthcare workers and scientists for RFK Jr. blocking vaccines. Thousands of us warned Congress and are doing everything in our power to fight this. The people with whom you should be angry are Republican elected officials and the people who voted for them.
Let’s get ready to litigate.
The free world needs to boycott the 2028 Olympics in Los Angeles, just as they should have boycotted the 1936 Olympics in Nazi Germany.
You and me both. He’s been a pleasant surprise.
This is especially troubling given that final approval was expected by many for COVID19 vaccines last week, and it did not come. I’m devastating that the Republican Party would rather watch people die than remove Kennedy from office.
Kamala Harris at her closing campaign rally: "Donald Trump intends to use the United States Military against American citizens who simply disagree with him."
If Trump invades Chicago, use of the word "jagoff" is going to increase to levels no Chicagoan thought possible.
We’re never going to learn all the illegal shit they did because they are destroying the records as they go.
Virginia Giuffre’s family denounces “DAG Todd Blanche’s bizarre interview” of Ghislaine Maxwell in a statement. www.allrisenews.com/p/maxwell-tr...
Ghislaine Maxwell from her prison cell: I never saw Trump, Clinton, Prince Andrew, or literally any man do anything inappropriate ever. She was literally convicted for facilitating this exact thing.
That was one of the most batshit press conferences of Trump's public life. He brandished a photo of Putin and promised to deploy the US military to occupy Chicago, New York, and San Francisco. A sane country would be moving toward impeachment and removal right now.
The only thing I can say about this paragraph is read it. Sit with it. Read it again. @michaelharriot.bsky.social
What Danielle said. According to the Yale Budget Lab, the average effective tariff rate in this economy right now is 18.2% Let me put that another way. President Trump has raised taxes on American businesses and consumers by -- on average -- 18.2%
The number of people, now in positions of authority, whom I've never heard of before, who have wholesale bought into the authoritarian project and talk about it casually, like it's normal, is utterly mind-blowing.
NEW: After DOGE outed Mohammad Halimi on social media, Taliban intelligence agents blindfolded and took three of his family members to a remote prison. They were repeatedly beaten and questioned about Halimi and his recently publicized work for the United States.
at a certain point this is just condescending to the people he’s trying to “empathize” with
The only reason to remove the college degree requirement for FBI agents is to get more yes men. More people who follow Trump instead of the law and the evidence. Fewer willing to take on crypto schemes and other corruption in Trump world.
Swimmable? Or RFK Jr. swimmable?
NEWS: Federal judge finds that Alina Habba is NOT lawfully performing functions and duties of U.S. Attorney in New Jersey. Judge Matthew Brann disqualifies Habba from prosecution of two criminal defendants who challenged her appointment
And yes, this is the NYT. Here's another ridiculous euphemism, as a special bonus:
New euphemism for "corrupt authoritarian abuses of power" just dropped
On any given day, just 16% of Americans read for pleasure (including reading a newspaper or listening to an audiobook) 😱https://www.ft.com/content/5dcf01d6-7a70-4990-9ae6-217d07c9d674
I threw the sandwich but I did not kill the deputy
Proving once again that @radiofreetom.bsky.social was dead on hanging the “asshole” sign on him.
Trump claiming slavery wasn't so bad is part of a pattern. It's a Christian Nationalist theme. Pete Hegseth's pastor Douglas Wilson, in addition to saying women shouldn't be able to vote, claimed that "there was a mutual affection between slaves and their masters."
The most boring season of Jack Reacher yet: Jack Reacher Guards Pete Hegseth's Ex-Wife's Second Home
I have been searching for the proper term for the free legal work that the capitulating law firms have promised to Trump and his efforts to advance authoritarianism. It's obviously not pro bono. "Pro malo" and "no bono" are good, but a friend called it "pro bozo," which seems perfect. Make it so.
I want a president who thinks slavery was a big deal.
If Democratic politicians do not fight this because it's a "distraction," it will simply happen. They need to get in front of every mic and say that we will not allow Trump to destroy American history. He wants a culture war? GIVE HIM ONE. There are no distractions. Have every fight.
19 years ago at the White House Correspondents Dinner, Stephen Colbert explained the relationship between the White House Press Corps and the President. Exactly what has changed?
Downstate Proud Boys look to recruit after J6 pardons
Thank you, Boston Globe. This is how it's done.
Actually, if you went to someone's house for an important meeting crucial to world peace and then they showed you this display, what would you think?
The number has jumped from six to seven in one day. Perhaps he’s counting the infamous Bowling Green Massacre as a war?
Jackson, Mississippi, has the nation's highest homicide rate, more than 3 times the rate in DC
Trump: "I've ended six wars, seven wars. All wars, really. I could go back in time and end World War II - the big one, many say the biggest of them all - but I won't. Hitler has said some very nice things about me, thinks I'm doing a great job. So I won't end that one. All the others, though."
More Americans Buying Firearms To Defend Selves From Toddlers Who Found Their Guns
I think it’s high time we take back the national narrative. For centuries Americans of all races, genders, religions, and abilities have worked to create a more perfect union, and we should shout from the rooftops that WE are America. Not these idiot white supremacist authoritarians.
As was the Bluesmobile.
The president of Ukraine arrives in Washington. As usual, no red carpet, no warm greeting, and conduct that tests the outer boundaries of what is required under the rules of diplomacy and statecraft.
Anyone who has spent time with an elderly person experiencing mental decline knows exactly what we're looking at, and it's terrifying realizing the power he has in the condition he's in. This is what 25A was intended to protect against.
MS New Coke was taken?
you’re telling me the trump administration was lenient toward someone accused of sex crimes against children? crazy
I saw my first ICE attack — 4 unmarked black SUVs with blue lights flashing, w three house painters cuffed on the side of a highway they'd backed up for 30 minutes in both directions — and I can tell you this much: I will die hating these people, and I will spend the rest of my life ruining theirs.
Roll out the red carpet Clap like a circus seal I understand why he was clapping, not every day you get to see your hero, right Donnie ? And Putin Knows I dont know the creator of this cartoon is to give KUDOS, but those chicken legs are perfect !
Such a stark contrast.
Wrote about how both dangerous and ineffably stupid everything is right now in these DC streets. www.thenation.com/article/poli...
Throwing a sandwich at a cop: REQUIRES 10-PERSON TACTICAL TEAM TO AREEST IN FULL RAID GEAR (even tho subject wanted to turn himself in) Beating a cop unconscious with a flag pole: “Go home. We love you.”
Stephen Miller Tears Up As Son Says First 14 Words
Love this 🔥 from a federal judge. And let me get our ahead of comments like, “It doesn’t matter, they’ll just ignore his orders.” While thats a popular narrative, it is wrong. This simply HASN’T been the case with habeas decisions involving domestic detentions. Judges’ orders have been obeyed.
Waiting For The Dough Ain’t Misbehavin’ (Because Six Justices Said So)
NEW: An investigation by ProPublica and @texastribune.org found more than 60 instances of nepotism, self-dealing and conflicts of interest among 27 private schools that likely would have violated state laws had the schools been public. By Lexi Churchill and @emsimani.bsky.social
Moby Raisin
National Guard chatter from the front lines in Georgetown: “You got eyes on this?” “Could be a weapon.” “Hold.” “What are you seeing?” “Stand down. It’s a falafel wrap. Looks like a male, thin, late 40s with a falafel wrap. Walking a schnauzer.” “OK. Stay sharp boys. Eyes on the dog.”
The 5 Wildest Moments From Laura Loomer’s Rollercoaster Bill Maher Defamation Depostion
Not all heroes eat fresh. I wrote about Footlong Guy and the power of being able to laugh at the powerful.
This is real life.
This is the way we are ultimately gonna win this thing.
Well, this is flattering. I may add "Deranged BUM" to my profile www.thedailybeast.com/donald-trump...
Incel lands in cell. #WNBA