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'merican exceptionalism.™️
It’s hard to focus on the growing existential threats abroad when your own government is intent on killing you.
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Actually…THIS is why Harris lost. Did you think he was joking about being a dictator? Did you think he was joking when he said he would roll back student loan forgiveness? Project 2025 was a joke? He’d crack down on universities? Well guess what…WE FUCKING TOLD YOU SO. Fix your demographic!!!
“Get it all on record now. Get the films. Get the witnesses. Because somewhere down the road of history some bastard will get up and say that this never happened.” Dwight D. Eisenhower
I don’t know what did or didn’t happen to Trump, but what I do know is the country has the right to know the truth.
When it happens: red, white & blue smoke should come out of the White House chimney.
Today we celebrate the strength and resilience of working people everywhere. Nearly 300,000 federal employees have lost their jobs this year not because of necessity, but because of a political agenda. And while people’s lives were destroyed in the name of “saving money,”
I just saw an article that said a CEO that stole a hat from a kid at a tennis event was the most hated man in America. I feel like that's forgeting someone.
No. They're busy watching and rewatching Weekend at Bernie's.
I bet the White House staff is busy setting up a bunch of cardboard cutouts in the Oval Office like in Home Alone
🙃 #GavinNewsom #EpsteinFiles
Just to say, I think it's worth a potential story, because Breslow trying to tie it to Fitts's injury made no sense to me either. It's puzzling.
Was Buehler well-liked in the clubhouse? I thought the Sox looked downbeat today. (And they certainly got beat down.)
I don't understand cutting Buehler. He has struggled, but it looks fixable. He can start or pitch long relief, and he has a ton of playoff experience. . I don't get it
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When a president decides to disregard the will of the American people, you’re right, that’s the mark of authoritarian rule. The White House has notified Congress that it plans to cancel $4.9 billion in foreign aid funding that lawmakers had already approved, doing so without their consent.
Thousands of farm animals & livestock are going unattended. They aren’t being milked. They aren’t being fed. I feel a great deal more for those animals than for the farmers who voted for this shit. They KNEW who their workers were & where they came from. But they voted to hurt them anyway.
If prayer really worked, I would have woken up to an enormous headline this morning.
CHICAGO…
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
The Rock, as opposed to Kid Rock.
This is going to be, if I say so myself, super-duper fun, and I hope to see you there (online)!
“…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...
That’s okay, I can wait
Leonard Leo and Stephen Miller must have reanimated him.
Also. Where are all the appropriations, that Trump has illegally seized, gone?
Aww, Mediocreman ™️ got an ouchee.
Trump is Chauncey Mussolini.
I think you're taking the missing ingredient thing a bit too far. 😂
What if we established a tax-exempt Church of Democracy and sued the government for infringing on our religious freedoms when it does authoritarian stuff?
I’m not getting my hopes up just yet. But man this country will throw a party like we’ve never seen before once it actually happens.
It's weird being an American in the UK and being on Bluesky. I sometimes feel like I miss out on some good stuff when I'm asleep.
Agreed.👍
So disabled, elderly, and poor people will die so Tech Bros and their shareholders can profit. It's beyond evil.
What a cursed sentence (gift link) “The A.I. companies selected to oversee the program would have a strong financial incentive to deny claims. Medicare plans to pay them a share of the savings generated from rejections.”
Don't worry. Schumer will bail the GOP out again.
The evils in my books are nothing compared to those in the world right now, and that breaks my heart
Those Reform nutjobs reminded me: "Being British is about driving in a German car to an Irish pub for a Belgian beer, grabbing an Indian curry or Turkish kebab takeaway, then going home to sit on Swedish furniture & watch American shows on a Japanese TV, while being suspicious of anything foreign."
GRAND JURY NULLIFICATION! Prosecutors Fail to Secure Indictment Against Man Who Threw Sandwich at Federal Agent www.nytimes.com/2025/08/27/u...
You can bet that Stephen Miller would be a big fan of G. Gordon Liddy's story about eating a rat.
THIS is the way 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
We really need another Underground Railroad in America to protect humans like Kilmar Abrego Garcia from the atrocities of the Trump Administration and ICE.
Kilmar Abrego Garcia has been detained by ICE again. This is evil done in our names by our government.
And Chuck Schumer with Adam Schiff.
Dems should swap out Hakeem Jeffries with Jasmine Crockett. They need that kind of fire.
I hope he brought some marshmallows with him.
The people who say we talk too much about slavery are the same ones who insist that we need public monuments and statues of men who are famous solely for waging a war of treason in defense of slavery. Statues that were created explicitly to deny any sense of "hope and progress" after the Civil War.
Wow.
It's a good book with some parallels to today, unfortunately.
Seriously, I want to see what happens when a bunch of citizens turn up to peacefully protest ICE with rifles and shotguns in hand. Good luck with that one Judge Pirro.
Martin Luther King Jr once said, “The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.” While that is reassuring, I think the United States is currently testing the tensile strength of that arc with all the injustice, hatred, and corruption it is piling on.
I don't care how many generations removed I am removed from my enslaved ancestors. I will never deny that part of their past and the history on the impact of this country. We're still dealing with the backlash of that horrible institution. A civil war was fought to keep us in chains as property.
Watch this. Apparently, police followed Rep Collier into the bathroom and threatened her with a FELONY for being on a press call with Senator Corey Booker and Governor Newsom.
Omg, JD Vance getting heckled by people yelling ‘COUCH F*CKER’ as he visits Union Station to survey Trump’s militarization of D.C.
Ever notice how for the GOP, the protesters are always paid, fake, antifa, aren't the right color or sex or orientation or age
A CBS News reporter in Austin says Democratic legislators that were locked in the House Chamber were not removed when a shooting threat came into the Texas Capitol tonight.
Of course I am a good aunt to small children. I bartended for years and little kids are basically drunk people. I got this
“first they came for the democratic consultants and I said nothing…because they were part of the problem”
I listened to In the Garden of Beasts by Erik Larson about the American Ambassador to Germany when Hitler came to power. At one point it says that there were German officials who didn't think Hitler was a threat even as the Nazis were putting handcuffs on them.
Free cartoon idea: A line of Democratic consultants and members of Congress are being forced into a cage or van by jackbooted thugs. Some are cuffed or hooded in black bags. The one at the front of the line is shouting as he's locked away: "This is just a distraction!!"
Me too, and I've been a Dem for over 40 years.
A Minnesota legislator was literally assassinated two months ago and the Democrats just… let it go. It feels like the GOP spent more time and energy talking about Obama’s tan suit. I wish I understood what the Dem leadership was thinking
I'm retired, but when that day comes I'm still going to call in sick and go out drinking.
Especially inspector number 3.
The wallet inspector will never go out of business
Vladimir Putin is now an advisor to the US president about voting rights
BREAKING: Zelensky issues blunt demand — “Russia must end this war. It started it, and it must stop it.”
album covers but with muppets: thread
The ICE camps are a mass disabling event The inhumane conditions, overcrowding and lack of regard for human rights will cause death and disability At least 52 deaths were recorded between 2017-2021… and 95% of them were preventable No one even tracks the people who become disabled. It must stop
How about asking them why they're on a goddamned recess when troops are on the streets of our Nation's Capital?
Meanwhile, Trump's Gestapo is beating up and disappearing delivery drivers.
You argue to make a point. I argue for fun and I got all day
So, I wasn't the only one who thought Trump looked like a puppy happy to see his Master.
A community member bravely drove off a group of ICE GOONS who were going door-to-door in Middletown, New York.
Fighting for freedom and democracy has nothing to do with your outfit and everything to do with your character. Zelenskyy has more important things to deal with than appeasing the fascist fashion police.
Happy Birthday!
It is mind blowing to hear Democratic politicians talking about the president sending the military into American cities as a “distraction.” Actually you are all now one degree away from being violently removed from power. The fact that this may not happen does not erase the fact that it may happen.
A Democratic legislator is literally confined in the Texas State House right now. What the fuck are the Democrats thinking?
Just wondering if your Grandma ever took you to the market when you were little.
I guess that's your Achilles heel...
I think Tom Brady looks good. Maybe just a little more filler in the jawline though…a few more cc’s…
If his jawline gets any squarer he's going to look like he's made of Lego.
Trump has put the military on the streets of our Nation's Capital and you're on vacation sipping Chardonnay. Get off your ass and get back to your goddamned job you utter sack of shit.
ICE GOONS snatching a man off a bike. They just left the bike there. His mom walked by about 20 minutes later and was heartbroken. That’s how she found out. Santa Clarita, Ca
No one is asking the important questions about that moped driver attacked and beaten by Trump's thugs in Washington, DC on Sunday, so I will: 1)Who is he? 2)Where is he? 3)Is he still alive? 4)And who were those supposed "Federal Agents"? They sure didn't look like professional law enforcement.
No one is asking the important questions about that moped driver attacked and beaten by Trump's thugs in Washington, DC on Sunday, so I will: 1)Who is he? 2)Where is he? 3)Is he still alive? 4)And who were those supposed "Federal Agents"? They sure didn't look like professional law enforcement.
Everything that is good and admirable about our Country is under attack from within. Trump and his regime are a cancer.
Evangelicals are convinced the Rapture is near. I, for one, will be glad to see them go.
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That is cool.
Who's a good girl?😂
Please make your resistance efforts accessible! It’s important to commit to not leaving disabled people behind. We can bring a lot to the fight, but it starts with a commitment to inclusion. That includes wearing masks so you can keep yourselves (and us!) healthy!
Damn! That Sue Bird statue is rad!✊🏻 #WNBA #Mondays #Seattle
That is pretty cool. 👍
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Folks keep talking about the parallels between real life and The Handmaid’s Tale. Here’s another one: they seized Washington, DC, and the seat of American power collapsed overnight into authoritarian rule.
Reminder: gerrymandering maps to protect democracy is like privatizing Medicaid to advance single-payer healthcare—it goes in the wrong direction. The answer is for the Democratic Party to use its money, membership, and political network to organize strikes and boycotts. Organize the people MORE.