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I couldnāt tune in for all of this, of what I saw some partisanship was embarrassing but Warnock did a great job. Under his questioning RFKJ said that he believes the CDC is the most corrupt government agency. On the record. They are not corrupt fwiw.
This economic stagnation should worry everyone. 1 and 4 companies has a hiring freeze right now. Hiring managers are anticipating a recession. And instead of doing anything to fix it, Trump fired the person who counts the jobs.
All. Of. This. My former colleague Stuart Stevens knocks it out of the park here. We have to stop being polite. Fight like our lives depend on it because they do. www.lincolnsquare.media/p/my-plea-to...
He doesn't know what his department's plans are to help Americans. Maybe it's because there are none.
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TRUMP & EPSTEIN ARE SEX TRAFFICKERS!!! Iām gonna post this every day so nobody forgets exactly who Pedophile Trump is and why the Epstein files have suddenly disappeared.
Next they'll be rewriting textbooks to say Japanese American internment camps were delightful summer resorts.
Ossoff: "It's been extraordinary to see the Speaker of the House reduced to lying in order to cover up sex crimes"
In his first term, McMaster recalls, āTrump would say āoutlandishā things like, āWhy donāt we just bomb the drugs?āā Now weāre in Trumpās second term, and weāre bombing random boats in the open seas that might or might not be carrying drugs. www.cnn.com/2024/08/25/p...
The US government is torturing children. Just say that.
"Pennsylvania is the latest state to adopt vaccine counsel from nongovernmental agencies in order to ensure access to COVID-19 shots this fall as health leaders with the Trump administration move to restrict or limit eligibility."
Ha! The poorest 25% of workers LOSE money under this bill while the richest Americans get a $270,000 tax cut. They can rebrand all they want. The facts are the facts. They screwed working people to help their billionaire and corporate donors.
I have had to show ID in every election I have voted in since 1980. I'd like to know specifically where you can vote without it. Give me a list, please. Is this just grandstanding on Trump's part?
Pay attention folks and do t allow this to become normal to you. This is not normal.
September 3, 2025
No joke. Seriously. Imagine if Biden pulled anything like this. Donāt forget to subscribe: www.dworkinsubstack.com/subscribe
There it is
As a parent, aunt, uncle, grandparent, human beingāif you donāt feel for this young woman and see the injustice here, youāre dead inside. Deported to Guatemala. Sheās an honor student, a track star. She doesnāt even speak Spanish. And this isnāt the worst story out there, not by a long shot.
Heās in the files.
"@GOP: Our debt reduction policy is - Let them die" Ā®ā¢ "@GOP: Our healthcare policy is - Let them die" Ā®ā¢ "@GOP: Ours school gun violence policy is - Let them die" Ā®ā¢ "@GOP: Our disaster aid policy is - Let them die" Ā®ā¢ "@GOP: Our farm aid policy is - Let them die" Ā®ā¢
#ICYMI: Nearly 1.5M Texans now live in jurisdictions where sheriffs or police chiefs have agreed to train some of their officers to act as immigration agents in the streets of their communities. These agreements currently cover around 30 Texas law enforcement agencies.
šØBREAKING: Cleta Mitchell thinks President Donald Trump may declare a national emergency to allow him to take control of national elections. Her comments will add to growing concern that Trump is plotting a way to use his power over the military and federal law enforcement to rig next yearās vote.
If athletes can't bet on sports (because they can control the outcome) then for all things Holy BAN MEMBERS FROM STOCK TRADING (you know since they can kinda control the market)
With the continued attack on vaccines the safest thing...at this point...is to consider MAGA folks to be contagious and infectious unless proven otherwise. #BeHealthy #StayAwayFromContagiousFolks
Trump himself is LITERALLY trying to silence their voices.
šØ In Other News : Xi Jinping, Vladimir Putin, Kim Jong Un, & Alexander Lukashenko walking arm-to-arm in Beijing should alarm us all. This image isnāt just a photo-op; itās a display of authoritarian unity, & of Chinaās massive global power. Trump did this šš½
They are being threatened by entitled men. Women are waaay stronger than men. These GOP members are cowards. COWARDS. IT COULD BE THEIR DAUGHTERS NEXT.
A woman. Cannot. Address the president. Without fear. Of inordinate. Violent. Reprisal. We live in an insane timeline of monsters.
Reporter: What is your message to President Trump? Epstein Survivor: Listen, I don't want to send a direct message to him. I'm already scared enough. Just pass the vote. Listen to us. This is not a hoax. Itās not going to go away
I hope the Epstein survivors do compile a list and release every single fucking name, whether Democrat or Republican. Everybody should be held accountable for being a part of these disgusting crimes.
Oh my.
....made a snuff film (he murdered them), then proudly posted it, and all to distract from credible accusations that he raped children. Dystopian doesn't really cover it any more.
appeasement ... its whats for dinner
The overall takeaway from the Epstein survivorsā press conference is that they are united and are no longer going to allow rich and powerful men to victimize, silence and intimidate them. Including the ones in Congress and the perp in the Oval Office.
This level of corruption is not normal or acceptable. Even if we are exhausted by each report of it going further and further, we can never grow numb to it.
Epstein survivors say theyāre compiling their own client list. āWe know who abused us. We saw who came and went. This list will be survivor-ledāfor survivorsā
Trump murdered 11 civilians, whether they were involved in organized crime or not, doesn't take away their human rights. Trump murdered those people and released the video to boast about it. It's not law enforcement or legal military action, it is simply premeditated murder.
Nobody is āgroomingā your kids to be gay or trans but people ARE grooming them to be Nazis.
A man on the streets of the UK is asked about the āproblem of immigrationā and dismantles talking points with ease.
Nothing they say is truthful anymore. The very few Republicans who do know science ā lie about it constantly.
Trump: Iām anti-war MAGA: yay heās the president of peace! Trump: weāre going to rename the Department of Defense the Department of War MAGA: yay Department of War! Trump: Iām going to make things cost more so I can pay for tax breaks for my rich friends MAGA: yay tariffs!
There's so damn much psychological pathology here, I don't know where to begin.
when youāre upset at the cool kids for not inviting you to their lunch table
September 2, 2025
Khanna: Itās going to be a bombshell press conference tomorrow at 10:30 a.m. The American people will hear directly from survivors of the Epstein abuse. And theyāre not just going to talk about Epsteinās and Maxwellās abuse ā theyāre going to talk about rich and powerful menā¦
KASIE HUNT: Over the summer you said, āThereās no vaccine thatās safe and effectiveā. Do you still believe that? RFK JR: āI never said that.ā KASIE HUNT: āPlay the clip.ā RFK JR (clip): āThereās no vaccine that is safe and effective.ā (March 2024) ht: @cwebbonline.com
I know this sounds crazy, but shouldnāt the Secretary of Energy know something about energy?
So they re-released most of the same shit they gave the GOP binder crew in February? Color me shocked. Never thought Iād say this, but Iām with Massie. Release the rest of the damn Epstein files, not this cherry-picked bullshit.
Trump is way late to his Oval Office address. 22 minutes and counting. Waiting on the uppers to kick in? š¤Ø
Trump says heās moving Space Force because Colorado has mail in voting. Lol wut
This sycophancy would make North Korea blush
Not a single reporter has asked about Trumpās health yet. Doocy asked how āhe found out he was deadā this weekend, and thatās as close as itās gotten.
Aside from looking very puffy, sniffing a ton, and rambling off track even more than normal, Trump doesnāt look bad. He seems to be recovering well from whatever the White House was hiding.
Those pupils. In a bright ass room.
"Whatās really notable ā is the extent to which Republican senators and leaders have remained largely supine even in the face of a radical assault on their grandchildren by a transparent death-dealing fraud who wasnāt even a member of the party a year ago." Noah Berlatsky re RFKjr
"When did we become a country where it's okay for the US president to insist on national television that a state should call him to beg for anything ā especially something we don't want? Have we truly lost all sense of sanity in this nation ā that we treat this as normal?" Gov. JB Pritzker
Epstein Survivors Press Conference Sept 3rd, 10:30 a.m. ET Tune in to support them.
Multiple people this weekend arrested outside the Pulse memorial for *checks notes Chalk.
One thing that's really reassuring about SCOTUS is how their actual, real, serious, genuine position on ethics is "we are not bound by any mortal law nor any code or creed, this is our world, you merely live in it."
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.
SPOTTED: Mobile billboards driving around D.C. demanding federal agents take their masks off ā because public servants should face the public. Go follow @ofthebraveusa.bsky.social!
While von der Leyen's plane landed safely, Rutte said the entire continent is now under direct threat from Russia's escalating tactics.
Note: the EPA is the bad guy now
US factory construction continues steadily declining as CHIPS & IRA projects either complete or cancelāin official data released today, overall US manufacturing construction activity is down 7% compared to last year & electronics/electrical manufacturing construction is down 14%
So much for wasteful spending
Moving Space Command away from NORAD is stupid. Colorado already has the existing ecosystem to support both the command and the operations. Thank you for coming to my TED talk.
#BREAKING: Judge Breyer has held that the Trump admin. *violated* the Posse Comitatus Act in its military deployments in and around Los Angeles, and has enjoined further use of those troops for law enforcement tasks. The order is stayed through 12 PDT on 9/12: georgetown.app.box.com/file/1973361...
This is so stupid. The DOD never was the Dept of War. That was the army. The DOD came out of WWII to bring together the different branches. But I guess we need a Department of War on US Citizens
Welcome back from authoritarian August, Democrats in Congress. Do you know that you've been made irrelevant? Are you going to use the power you have to do something about it? From me... prospect.org/politics/202...
At some point, you have to defend democracy, not just pivot to talking points, or there won't be fair future elections to win www.cnn.com/2025/08/31/p... What I told @ronbrownstein.bsky.social (joking/not joking):
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Concern over low birth rates was what the theocracy in Margaret Atwoodās Handmaidās Tale used to come to power.
These people are either incredibly disingenuous or not very smart. Or both.
BREAKING: Trump, Hegseth violated the Posse Comitatus Act with their troop deployment to Los Angeles, Judge Charles Breyer rules after trial. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
go fash, lose cash
Performative public lying is a hallmark of far right authoritarian regimes
I wasnāt super convinced that something was seriously wrong with Trump until he tweeted this
Defenestration ode de White House.
When 9 former CDC directors are ringing alarm bells about RFK and his dangerous policies, all of America must listen and act
Trump working hard to lower prices this morning
Per White House pool report: Trump āhas visited golf courses he owns on 66 of the 225 days of this termā¦ā
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New Mexico has issued a public health order that removes federal restrictions to COVID-19 vaccine access so that pharmacies in New Mexico can vaccinate people of all ages and risk profiles. Every state need to do this!
To be clear: 1. Weāve taken in roughly $150 billion in tariffs - nowhere near a single trillion, much less trillions. 2. Tariffs single-handedly saving our military ā which has been the strongest in the world for decades ā is the dumbest shit Iāve read today.
Free advice for the administration: If you want to stop the Trump health coverage, maybe stop posting verifiably old videos and keeping him as far away from cameras as humanly possible
They're both lying to you.
After losing an appeal against CNN, Alan Dershowitz plans to ask the Supreme Court to overturn New York Times v. Sullivan, the 1964 case that protects journalists and others from weaponized lawsuits. edition.cnn.com/2025/08/29/b...
The average American simply has no idea how quickly the infrastructure that keeps us safe and healthy is collapsing. These systems run in the background thanks to government employees who quietly do critical work. Those employees are being purged and systems are being destroyed.
A Texas Republican lawmaker suggested in 2022 that a way to deal with immigrants is to āshoot, shovel and shut up.ā The comments could strengthen the legal challenge to the stateās gerrymander by demonstrating racial discrimination against Latinos. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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āā¦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.ā My latest in @thebulwark.com www.thebulwark.com/p/honoring-a...
"I AM GROOOOOT!" 