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Gerrymandering
This is, of course, false. The United States exported $83 billion in goods and services to India last year alone.
I’m not saying football hopes around here are excessive. I’m just saying don’t be surprised if ESPN shows a dozen evangelical ministers parachuting in to lay hands on Belichick during the pregame tonight.
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Not a shred
Say what?
Yeah, man, totalitarianism is when people listen to experts. Good talk, always a pleasure to hear from you.
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Release the Epstein files!!!!
Yes. Why? The Maxwell “interview” looks phony, to say the least. The coverup continues.
Excellent piece. Keep fighting! www.nytimes.com/2025/08/29/o...
It’s not like they can’t easily check someone’s ID and immigration status before arresting and detaining them. They just don’t care. Because their bosses just don’t care, all the way up to the gilded Oval Office.
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⬇️ This.
The thing is, the absence of “unelected bureaucrats” is a primary characteristic of “shithole countries.” Hello?
Right, Mike. And Speakers of the House need to help ordinary Americans and not be engaged in covering up the Epstein files.
Keep going.
Watch what they do, not what they say
Anyone else detecting mitochondrial problems in both frames?
The cognitive dissonance required to be anti-abortion (“saving” babies) and anti-vaccine, risking children’s lives and health through exposure to vaccine-preventable diseases is staggering.
Quack is whack.
"The top story of the moment is the one story that our most influential newsrooms won’t touch: That the United State has become an authoritarian state." — Dan Froomkin @froomkin.bsky.social presswatchers.org/2025/08/we-h...
I don’t see him anywhere in the picture though.
Brutal. A humiliation ritual.
Antifa is everywhere.
Attempting to rig elections on his behalf. Turning the military on citizens. Toying with the idea of declaring martial law. Attacking political enemies and punishing those who speak out against his regime. If this were happening in another country, what would you call it?
They are sending soldiers into cities to prepare to intimidate people at the polls next year. They gerrymander because they can’t win on policy. They intimidate because even gerrymandering won’t work at this point.
I can step outside and see this whenever I want and that’s not nothing.
"many ... wrongly believe there would be one clear unambiguous moment where we go from 'democracy' to 'authoritarianism.' Instead, this is exactly how it happens — a blurring here, a norm destroyed there, a presidential diktat unchallenged. Then you wake up one morning and our country is different."
Trump is in the midst of the most intrusive, outrageous, dangerous individual power grab in US history. He is, backed thus far by a corrupt and complicit Supreme Court, trying to establish a monarchy in the US, asserting the president both is the law and is above the law. It’s what dictators do.
Pritzker: Over the last four years, we have seen homicides drop in half. That’s something the President should pay attention to. I know he doesn’t read but I know he watches TV so perhaps if someone from Fox or Newsmax is here
kitchen table issue: stop kidnapping my neighbors!
TRUMP: “A lot of people are saying maybe we’d like a dictator.” He’s saying it. Are you listening? 🇺🇸
Fun 🧵. If we want to re-open this worm-can, we can also re-ask questions about reasonable tax rates for everyone. Rates that might allow universal health care, public education funded to teach critical thinking, a functioning safety net, and so on. Other countries have figured this out.
⬇️⬇️ The rationale, whether it’s phony crime concerns or something else, doesn’t matter. If you leave the elements of an authoritarian state in place, one will be assembled.
The takeover is a “performative” “stunt” in the sense that it’s political theater designed to distract from Trump’s tanking approval rating and the Epstein scandal. But it’s also more than that: an authoritarian show of force that is genuinely terrorizing innocent people. trib.al/tfFQXqO
A good thing in my timeline. Also, started by a good person now running for U.S. Senate.
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A genuinely hilarious thing for Bongino to tweet when his boss has pocketed $3 Billion+ and counting (at least) since he took office. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
Schiff on the investigation into him: "Mortgage is their new weapon to go after their critics ... the common denominator is they will manufacture anything to go after their critics ... it's free rein with the corrupt leadership at the Justice Department."
the actual communication problem democrats have is this: their most prominent national figures filter everything through focus grouped lines and are incapable of plain speech
Is that how World War II ended, J.D.?
I gather this is the level of what he posts all the time, even after the massive lawsuit loss. I wish I could say I’m shocked so many people believe stuff like this.
You got me. But it sounds like something his followers have heard before, maybe?
I’m sorry, our circuits are not transmitting this level of batshit crazy right now. Please try your call again later.
@rokhanna.bsky.social: “Only 3% of the documents given to the [House] Oversight Committee are new. The rest are already in the public domain. Less than 1% of files have been released. DOJ is stonewalling.” khanna.house.gov/media/press-...
For anyone who is confused: the government owning the means of production is quintessentially Marxist. Just remember that every time they throw that word around like a slur.
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.
Meanwhile in NY, Mamdani is hosting…an actual scavenger hunt, apparently. Dem establishment, are you at least taking some notes here?
The DOJ released the security video of Epstein's jail in parts so they could take out anything inconvenient. The DOJ released the Maxwell/Blanche transcript in parts so they could take out anything inconvenient. Such an obvious cover-up.
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.
Ah. The insanity behind the Cracker Barrel insanity?
Yet another way 🌮 is killing the economy
Well done to whoever did this
"If you want to have a coup against the constitutional order, you want to control the capital city. And if he has control of the policing in the city of Washington...Who's gonna tell him to leave the White House?" @gtconway.bsky.social joins @jvl.bsky.social:
This 👇🏾 “Why do they need masks? They’re federal officials, they’re paid by the taxpayers. They should be doing their jobs in a way that’s lawful and constitutional, and that’s part of the job.” DC Mayor Bowser questions why so many federal officers in the capital continue to cover their faces.
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These people are very sensitive and also not very smart and also ruining the country
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The entire administration is occupied with bogus distractions from the Epstein files. And it will be for who knows how long, while the “release”is dribbled out in redacted pieces. So that’s our tax dollars at work. Well, at least we don’t have our health anymore.
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Newsom: We got here because the President is struggling. We got here because the President is one of the most unpopular presidents in U.S. history. We got here because he recognizes that he will lose the election.
Trump's approval ratings are tanking. He hasn't done squat to help the working class. The Epstein scandal haunts him. He's a tyrant with his back against the wall, so he's lashing out with troops in DC and rigging elections in Texas. These are signs of weakness, not strength.
Hardball. Nasty. Brutal. Used to be the sort of stuff the “go high” blue side wouldn’t touch. But look around and you might conclude that it’s hard to argue for the used-to-be ways.
Ossoff: "Democrats need to strike back. We have no time or luxury for high-minded hesitation, because Trump and MAGA are going to do everything within their power to hold on and to lock in one party rule in America. That's the reality that we face."
Sometimes the sheer idiocy of this moment overwhelms me. The idea that our convicted felon POTUS who incited an attack on DC police then pardoned the attackers & who's the most corrupt official in US history is going on an "anti-crime" ride-along in a city w/falling crime rate is...(brain explodes)
Preach your Ossoff, Senator!
We are very far off the cliff, folks. 🇺🇸
Newsom is winning… 🤭😂🤣 #SheShed
Yeah. I’ll own that. But there was dude I liked who said something about the audacity of hope 😊
Trolling so good Fox News is forced to cover it, that works. Counter-gerrymandering works. The Epstein nightmare works. Lawsuits work. Voter education works. Protests work. Because nope, we are not doing fascism in this country.
In case you missed it, this is fucked www.nytimes.com/2025/08/21/u...
BREAKING: We're filing a petition for the immediate release of Mario Guevara, a journalist who is being detained by ICE because of his reporting on law enforcement activity. The First Amendment is clear: Journalists cannot be detained for doing their jobs.
“Trump is working as an insider trader… a drop in the bucket…” Obscene, historic corruption. And Republicans say nothing.
Please share! Epstein survivors to have press conference on Sept 3rd! substack.com/@livelysue/n...
Gavin Newsom responds to Fox's OBSESSION with him
With an inescapable, smashmouth, all-caps-laden and meme-filled X account, Newsom is holding a mirror up to MAGA — and MAGA doesn’t like what it sees.
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Seems like a long time since that was a thing 😊
Isn’t it rich? Fox News is clutching pearls over Gov. Newsom’s tweets, tweets designed to parody Trump’s own style. The outrage proves the parody hit too close to home. Yep, it’s painfully accurate. Can’t handle the mirror, much FoxNews?
Reminiscent of Kowgirl Kristi “liberating” LA. They’re slugging that yummy Dear Leader Kool-Aid by the pitcher now.
Why does this feel so right?
While Americans wait for the “big bang,” Putin has already conquered ground in our minds, our markets, and our politics. The invasion isn’t coming. It’s here.👇 www.jackhopkinsnow.com
Mail-in voting is safe. Period. Trump and Republicans know it. But they also know winning fair and square doesn’t look likely with their horrible policies and broken “promises.” That’s why they’re hell-bent on gutting voting rights. When you can’t win fair, you cheat.
Actual question: It has been only 72 hours since the disastrous puppeteer/puppet show in Anchorage. Has there yet been a background story on how, and by whom, this emergency intervention of *eight* big-time world leaders was pulled together, over a weekend?
Two big takeaways from yesterday. First, by “joking” that if the U.S. were at war in 2028 there would be “no more elections,” brushing aside the constitutional mandate for regularly scheduled votes. Then later, when a hot mic caught him telling French President Macron that
PSA: Don’t forget to “ask yourselves this question daily”
🤣She forgot the tears of gratitude, the thrown flowers, and so on.
Many, many ghostly whisperers are afoot in our nation’s capital
Thank you for sharing this!
⬇️ 🧵 unequal justice nicely chronicled.
www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...
