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Congress approved $4.9 billion in spending for foreign aid. The Trump White House canceled all of it. Whether he likes it or not, the Congress that you elect decides on spending. These "pocket rescissions” can start with foreign aid, but your education, your roads, your healthcare could be next.
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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?"
LAPD sergeant Vazquez falsely claimed press are NOT exempt from dispersal orders — a direct violation of both California law (PC 409.7) as well as a federal restraining order. He said the federal restraining order “didnt matter right now.” He then refused to ID himself.
this now brings us up to six (!) grand jury refusals to charge (that we know about), plus two cases filed as part of the dc surge dismissed on the us attorney's office's request
there is no common ground with fascism
Florida counts quick! And they've just tallied up two more sizable overperformances for Dems: • In #SD15: +22 vs. 2024 presidential results • In #HD40: +15 Dems now averaging +15.7 vs. 2024 across 38 qualifying special elections. Complete Big Board: docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
I am calm. I am breathing deeply through my nose. I am counting to ten. I… WHAT, ARE YOU AFRAID YOUR DOG WILL INFODUMP TO YOU ABOUT THE FUCKING BALL?!?
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 — 97% already public — and part of a broader plan to block transparency.
I don’t know how this is possible. Texas cannot control guard sent to Illinois without violating Illinois sovereignty. It must be federally controlled units, otherwise instead of a Posee Comitatus problem, we have a major constitutional crisis.
30,000 files released and nothing new to report? This administration is nothing but smoke and mirrors. Smoke and mirrors protecting child predators. SMH. youtu.be/UagsB3U-goo
From the latest proof of life video released by the White House, Trump is caked with make up, reporters kept at a distance, voice is weak, and the podium is acting as a walker to help him stand up. It's not looking good health wise.
trump has repeatedly voted by mail over the years while suing to keep others from doing the same
Trump: "We've taken in almost $17 trillion of investment." (That would be more than half the entire US GDP, so no.)
For anyone not watching, the Space Command press conference is like the cliff notes version of the 3 hour long cabinet meeting where everyone told Trump how much of a visionary he is and how they're all so honored to work for him.
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Councilwoman @jerrigreen4tn , a Democratic candidate for governor, reacts to @marshablackburn backing Trump putting the National Guard in Memphis:
Remember in early 2022, when Anthony Fauci was overheard on a live mic describing Sen. Roger Marshall as a “moron”? tinyurl.com/4hpn9j52 I find myself thinking about that quote with some regularity.
Multiple people this weekend arrested outside the Pulse memorial for *checks notes Chalk.
ICE is on track to gain access to controversial spyware designed to hack phones and read private messages after the Trump administration jettisoned a Biden-era order.
Trump has scheduled a military flyover tomorrow of DC at the same time as the Epstein announcement.
Today, Congress is back in session. Priority #1: The Epstein files must be made public. The victims deserve justice, and Americans deserve the truth.
On Sept. 3, the House Natural Resources Water, Wildlife, and Fisheries Subcommittee will consider a bill that would prematurely remove Endangered Species Act protections for Mexican gray wolves Take action!📣Urge your Representative to OPPOSE this bill and prevent it from passing: bit.ly/3I0QDPx
Note: the EPA is the bad guy now
This is scary but I'm taking The Film Maven off Substack and have transferred to Ghost. Not only does this give me complete ownership of my work, but also means I won't continue to lose money to Substack and Apple. I lay everything out for Subscribers here. thefilmmaven.substack.com/p/the-film-m...
If only they would actually follow them instead of displaying them on government property.
“She reportedly secured a $2 million advance for her book published on the conservative Sentinel imprint of Penguin Random House.” Their attacks about “activist judges” were always a projection.
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important to reiterate from time to time: "artificial intelligence" does not exist. there is no sentient artificial being. no threepio. no demerzel. no terminator. what the tech publicists call "a.i." is just big, crappy databases and mindless and often incorrect autocorrect.
It's so weird how Greenwald and Nate Silver and the like—who aren't even here—keep insisting that Bluesky is pro-DNC, when I've yet to see anyone here ever say anything nice about the DNC at all. Also, evaporating? Lol. Bluesky now sends WAY more traffic to @techdirt.com than Twitter *ever* did.
If today is Department of War Day, in particular, Dems need to openly start saying that removal and charges are the only way forward. Trump didn't float this before. This is a fetish of Hegseth & changing the name amid these urban occupations sends only one message: You are subjects, not citizens.
NEW: Massie tells CNN that there is significant pressure from the White House to BLOCK the release of the Epstein files.
Vance follows a coterie of online Nazis on X, has described Curtis Yarvin as a major intellectual influence, and openly attacks immigrants in blood and soil terms. The response of most of the political press? "Doesn't look like anything to me."
The asymmetry between the parties is reflected perfectly in these bad-faith dust-ups over TV news editing. CBS edited Harris down for time; here, by contrast, edited out a bunch of defamatory nonsense from Noem. Fox edits down Trump to make him sound sane. Etc. newrepublic.com/article/1998...
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Here we go. Massie discharge petition with help from Ro Khanna, filed.
Agreed. So many outstanding roles over the years. Besides DwW, personal faves = Walter Crow Horse (Thunderheart), Malachi Strand (Longmire), Joseph (Maverick, '94 movie), Rafe McCawley (Defiance) & Conquering Bear (Into the West). He was one of my favorites & will be missed. 😢 Rest in peace, sir.
SSRIs didn’t storm Sandy Hook. An AR-15 did. It’s not the pills. It’s the guns. johnfugelsang.substack.com/p/the-measle...
Comedian and political commentator, @johnfugelsang.bsky.social, is imploring Democrats to fight harder against Donald Trump’s agenda! He hopes to see Dem leaders hit the streets, and be a bigger part of the resistance!! Thank you for being vocal!! 💙 I second this!!
Your reminders: Trump ended the National Cryptocurrency Enforcement Team which investigated crypto-related crimes like fraud and money laundering. Trump also fired the ethics watchdog overseeing corruption in the executive branch. This is just another Trump family scam.
That about sums it up.
Great lead headline right now, @nytimes.com.
This is really terrifying. They should, in no way, be this comfortable. We need to bring our country back and make ot even better than it has ever been. #USDemocracy
If AOC's star power helps propel Mamdani to mayor in NYC, and Bernie's star power helps Graham Platner unseat Susan Collins, while small moves, they would be nice steps toward a more progressive future. It does my little socialist heart good thinking about them boosting other progressives.
Google's search engine was the greatest information retrieval tool I'd ever experienced in my life. So many mysteries unraveled under the scrutiny of a few keystrokes. They lobotomized it *for this*.
We’ve spent more time talking about nonexistent crime in 🇺🇸 cities in the last month, even as we’ve totally erased actual political violence from the National Conversation™️. Hard to overstate how disheartening & deeply unserious this has been.
More than 1.2 million immigrants disappeared from the labor force from January through the end of July, according to preliminary Census Bureau data analyzed by the Pew Research Center. That includes people who are in the country illegally as well as legal residents. https://to.pbs.org/46d1uiJ
One of the world’s most prominent hedge fund billionaires has warned that rising inequality is turning the US into an autocratic state and condemned business leaders for failing to speak out against Donald Trump’s policies.
Warfighters demonstrating leafality.
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Oh, the ketchup gonna fly!!!
Trump announces he will award Giuliani the Presidential Medal of Freedom. If you are corrupt...a criminal...and just an overall dirt bag....your odds of getting the Presidential Medal of Freedom from Trump...skyrocket.
Concern over low birth rates was what the theocracy in Margaret Atwood’s Handmaid’s Tale used to come to power.
White House to make an announcement at 2pm September 2, all roads to Walter Reed hospital shutdown.
@seananmcguire.bsky.social amazing prescience.
Yes, it was carefully hidden in the New England Journal of Medicine. Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine (www.nejm.org/doi/pdf/10.1... ) 1/2
Time to remind people about the Commercial Pattern Archive — it doesn’t have instructions and search is a bear but there’s two hundred years’ worth of clothing patterns in here including all the big names new and old: copa.apps.uri.edu
Michelle Obama: kids should have healthier school lunches RFK Jr: maybe if we let the plague run wild we can build a master race Media: wow these are the same thing
this guy built a city for cats..
8 cops making over $100k each to arrest one man. But your food, water & air are killing you. Your daughter is carrying her rapist’s baby to term & will probably die when it becomes complicated & your veteran son in jail for being unhoused. But at least that Brown guy sitting on a bench is gone.🙄
Photo of the Three Stooges promoting the polio vaccine for kids in 1961. You know your country’s in trouble when Moe, Larry and Curly Joe understand more about public health than the Secretary of HHS.
He’s clearly being shielded from significant public exposure while he recuperates from something, degenerates from something, or both.
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Not today, Satan‼️ Got this garbage in the mail a few days ago. Republicans trying to trick California voters into voting NO on Prop 50. Suddenly they care about “democracy”? Please. Vote YES on Prop 50. Don’t let the cheaters write the rules.
He’s not traveling to NJ like they had announced. Not even to Florida. Sure does seem like someone is staying awfully close to Walter Reed, doesn’t it?
I know. That first sentence was sarcastic. Hence the 🙄.
Anyway, pick a page, pick some Dems and donate today! Remember: --NO spam emails --NO spam texts --NO "consultants" --NO "list acquisition" --96% goes directly to the candidates (4% to cc fees) --NONE goes to me (unless you happen to feel like leaving a tip *afterwards*) Blue26.org
This is, of course, false. The United States exported $83 billion in goods and services to India last year alone.
Slava Ukraini 🇺🇦
I've seen some vocally anti-AI people recently make an anti-AI post and be surprised there are still pro-AI people following them, and I can explain this; most pro-AI people think they are somehow the exception. the way THEY are using it, SURELY you would take no issue! well, we do. so fuck off.
If you're 60, 69.1% of all job growth since your birth occurred under Democratic administrations. If you're 45, that number is 74.7%. If you're under 28, the number is 100%. Happy Labor Day.
9 CDC Directors going back to 1977 speak out. What RFK Jr has done to our nation’s public health system "should alarm every American." It "is unlike anything we have ever seen at the agency, and unlike anything our country has ever experienced." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...
This is how they beat up on a minority they already despise to distract from guns being the #1 killer of US children. Pls read, comment, subscribe... johnfugelsang.substack.com/p/straight-w...
PSA: migrate off of substack to beehiv or ghost etc before apple captures your subscriber data and locks you in ASAP
If you enjoy… Weekends Safe working conditions Retirement benefits Paid vacations Breaks at work Sick leave Paid holidays … then you’re part of the labor movement. Happy Labor Day.
Coming along nicely! ✨🎨
This is pure love. We should all aspire to have this love for each other.
The cruelty wasn’t a byproduct~it was the point! We see Felon47 & ICE as tools of fear, trauma, & political messaging. What the hell is happening? They turned cruelty into policy. Caged children. Shattered families. Abused power. It is state-sanctioned trauma. Never forget. Never forgive.
THIS is what the five time draft dodger is doing to veteran's healthcare.... #DefendVeteransBenefits Trump is a mob boss. A convicted felon. Lock him up.
This is why NO institution should pay him a bribe. No university , no corporation , no individual, NEVER. He is not a King! #DoNotObeyInAdvance #NoKingsInAmerica #25thAmendmentNow
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Pritzker: "No one in the administration -- the president or anybody under him -- has called anyone in my administration or me. It's clear that in secret they're are planning this invasion with US troops."
Let's give a shout out to the men & women who labor in the fields to put food on our tables. #WeFeedYou #LaborDay. Mandemosle un saludo a los hombres y mujeres que trabajan en el campo para poner comida en nuestras mesas. Thank you Ignacio Gomez for letting us use this art
What’s wild to me: NOW, media outlets & medical organizations are “stunned” by the damage RFK Jr. is doing to CDC, other health agencies, & public health. Me & my colleagues have been screaming about him for years. Years. Even more so in the last year. We were called hyperbolic. 1/
A good bit of progress so far! ✨🎨 (Gesso / Acrylic Gouache on illustration Board)
Can the media STOP referring to Jeffrey Epstein as a “financier”? The money he made came from SEX TRAFFICKING MINORS, RAPING CHILDREN, and BLACKMAIL. He was NOT a financier. I’ve seen at least five stories from three outlets refer to him this way in the past week. This is the latest from the Times:
Fatality.
And now IL is following NM's lead. I hope it's a trend!
It’s time for the GOP’s old favorite, “state’s rights”, to do some heavy lifting.
But I thought turning once federal decisions over to the states was their whole thing?! 🙄 Both he & brainworm can pound sand! 🤬 We have plenty of super qualified scientists here (many of whom worked to develop the C-19 vaccinations) who can guide us.