J.B. Pritzker is 100% right. Please listen to him, pay attention, and join us in speaking out against authoritarianism and to protect free and fair elections.
J.B. Pritzker is 100% right. Please listen to him, pay attention, and join us in speaking out against authoritarianism and to protect free and fair elections.
remember folks, we cant have gun restrictions because if we do the federal government will occupy our streets, imprison people without due process, ship dissidents to foreign gulags and things of that nature
@raskin.house.gov @govwesmoore.bsky.social I would very much like to see Maryland in this coalition NOW, please. The Mason-Dixon line is not relevant here, reason and giving a damn about the people are.
Which is why parents and teachers should tell them the truth and not lie to them to protect them—those are bad men sent here by Trump and republicans to scare and hurt people. Kids need to know repubs and gestapos are bad as a foundational memory.
The guy in the kayak is coming to get you!
If I hear “boys are falling behind!” one more gd time FINISH THE SENTENCE falling behind WHOM, motherfuckers? SAY IT SAY AND OWN THAT YOU THINK IT’S UNNATURAL FOR GIRLS TO BE BETTER AT SHIT THAN BOYS
“This is about the President of the United States and his complicit lackey, Stephen Miller, searching for ways to lay the groundwork to circumvent our democracy, militarize our cities, and end elections.” – Gov. J.B. Pritzker
Lol, we’re going back to the 1960s for pwns now, eh?
Of all the things that didn't happen, this didn't happen the most
Wet City’s Monday burger night—$3 off their top notch Oklahoma burger!
I still don’t think we talk enough about the fact that Trump’s secret police has a larger budget than most countries’ militaries
Where’s the economic productivity in America?
It cost about 75 bucks at hobby lobby/temu.
The point is to seed large numbers of proud boys and the like into the national intelligence apparatus very quickly.
Please no. Keep your fascist orange ass out of our city.
Source: mpdc.dc.gov/dailycrime
yay! more completely made up numbers! There have been 101 murders in DC in the 231 days so far in 2025. That averages to one murder every 2.3 days. Over 9 days at that rate, you would have ~4 murders. A reduction of 35% amounts to ~1 murder "prevented" by a multi-million dollar occupation AT MOST.
They're performatively "mad" about it because it's a convenient distraction. Also, it gives them a chance to create new gender norms that have never existed and then hold people to them out of thin air, which is something they love to do.
The fact that they completely miss the mocking is just 🤌.
I said "almost exclusively" not "exclusively." Also, men are allowed to dance and do in many other contexts? See: every halftime show ever?
And they’re even wrong about that. Male cheerleaders are almost exclusively part of the stunt squad—aka, they’re tossing the ladies in the air, not waving pom-poms.
Small correction: the Ravens have had male cheerleaders since they formed in 1996. shorebread.com/2012/12/10/b...
James Madison was elected in 1812 during the War of 1812. Abraham Lincoln was elected in 1864 during the Civil War. FDR was elected in 1944 during WWII. JBJ & Nixon were elected in 1964 & 1972 during the Vietnam War. George W. Bush was elected in 2004 during the Iraq and Afghanistan wars.
I think they misheard the first word...
He's gonna bomb Mexico and Canada a week before the election so he can break that streak, isn't he?
I mean, they voted for the guy who said he was going to do those things. They may not have noticed because they were so busy jerking off to the racism, homophobia, and misogyny, but they did vote for this as well.
A key challenge for BLS is adequate funding for data collection and modernization. During my tenure I tried to identify the causes. One person told me, ‘your problem is that while BLS has no enemies you also have no friends’ meaning no powerful interest groups advocating for economic data.
This is basically saying that saying that someone who breaks into your home, kills your family, and holds you hostage should get your TV in exchange for leaving because they did the hard work of kicking down your door. Fuck off.
James Madison: “The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive & judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many, whether hereditary, self-appointed, or elected, may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny.”
"they’re not allowing people to burn down buildings and bomb buildings and cheat people" Who was burning down and bombing buildings in DC? How will the NG stop people from getting cheated? Media really has to do a better job of fact checking Trump's blatant lies. Facts are not bias.
Historically, in the American Colonies, grand juries played an important role in popular resistance to English rule. Grand juries often “nullified” – refused to indict their neighbors even when there was probable cause to do so – as a way of opposing King George and his henchmen.
You know they don't give a shit about crime, so it's obviously the latter two options.
I use these as backup, because the screen in my widows are just fabric mesh, and I had a cat get out by ripping through a screen years ago and I'm super paranoid about it happening again. The expandable ones are metal mesh, so they can't tear it up.
Horrible, and I've seen this too. I have these in all my windows—even the ones with flimsy screens. They cost less than $20.
So, he's imposing martial law on a city because he was forced to see poor people on his way to his oligarch retreat. Not sure I would call that "sanewashing."
Just to note, Baltimore had 68 total homicides through the first half of 2025. If that rate holds, the per 100k rate for the year will be 23.9, placing us well outside the top 5. www.baltimorepolice.org/news/baltimo...
No. It conveniently does that, but this is part of a longer-term plan to seize permanent power and cleanse the country of those he and his cult consider "filth and scum."
Baltimore literally just broke records with low crime rates. Their new young Black Mayor did that in record time. Almost kind of like how this felon fucked the economy in record time
Your data is outdated. Baltimore's homicide rate per capita was 34.3 in 2024, and it's down significantly again so far in 2025. there has been a massive drop in the past 3.5 years: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crime_i...
He's already threatened Baltimore, which has had the biggest drop in crime rates in the US: 334 homicides in 2022, 262 in 2023 (21% drop), 202 in 2024 (23% drop). 1st half of 2025: 68, a 62% drop from 2022. Auto thefts are down 34%, robberies 22%, and arson 10% vs. 2024.
Those are in states that voted for him and therefore not full of "scum and trash" to round up.
Please help disseminate the following stats on how very far reduced is all crime in DC. A couple of anecdotes about white victims mean *nada*. For one thing, because the city is only 39% white.
It's not really a mystery, is it? Concentration/forced labor camps. Those who are not able to provide labor will be eliminated.
Breakthrough the noise: This step in DC is a pilot project for militarizing other American streets. President Trump just said so.⬇️ Even when DC violent crime is down 26 percent. Reminder of August leaked memo (via @gregsargent.bsky.social): newrepublic.com/article/1987...
Breaking News: Trump implies that he will in the future "go further" by taking over additional American cities, including New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, Baltimore, and Oakland—an unmistakable assertion of an intent to become a dictator over the United States
Not if you count not supporting him a crime, which he does.
Breaking News: Trump says that under his control the Metropolitan Police Department will be free to do "whatever the Hell they want" to protesters, confirming that one of the primary purposes of his taking over the capital is to prevent people protesting him
He's literally declared martial law in DC and stated his plans to do so in Baltimore, NYC, and Oakland next. Competitive elections are not going to be allowed to happen, so it's a moot point.
And they got the "gold" from the Home Depot spray paint aisle.
"gold"
What these cult members don't understand is this is if Dem leaders were fucking kids, we would like to know about so we can be rid of them. That's the fundamental difference between a cult and a political party.
"gold"
Note to self: Buy stock in gold Rust-o-lium ASAP.
Either that, or he was looking for more verdant areas to pave over.
He thought he was emerging to the adulation of cheering crowds.
You might be hearing the term “civil society” a lot more lately. But what exactly does it mean? Our CEO @skyeperryman.bsky.social offered insight for @npquarterly.bsky.social on how Democracy Forward is protecting—and is part of—a nongovernmental collective that helps communities thrive.
Too much energy and media is being spent on Sydney Sweeny that should be spent against real issues like Trump’s corruption, Epstein files, or the other criminal activities happening. The jeans commercial is a symptom not a cause, sweeny is an actor, not your government.
🚩 The BLS commissioner has been removed without any shred of evidence simply because Trump didn't like the jobs numbers. This is unprecedented. It's also a slap in the face to all of the dedicated feds who work across administrations to produce accurate data without political interference.
Numbers released are preliminary for 2 months. Revisions have always happened.
Tax cuts for billionaires AND $169 billion for concentration camps and an all-encompassing police state.
I mean, MD only has one R district as it is. Hard to see how to break up the MAGAt eastern shore to get rid of him…
Yes, but they were mad about brown people being housed humanely. These are not humane, they are death camps for brown people, which maggats support wholeheartedly.
Concentration camps, say it. This is money being taken from disaster response to be used to disappear people into concentration camps.
Found this absolute gem. Word of the Day! (alt text has account name)
As much as this is evidence of the dems rediscovering their vestigial backbones, it also sure smacks of the kind of cover an unchecked authoritarian who has been backed into a corner might take when planning to try to dissolve the legislature...
Affordability doesn’t matter in the gulag. Lean into democracy, please.
Wages have been rising faster than inflation since February 2023. www.statista.com/statistics/1...
Also, wages have been rising faster than inflation since February 2023. www.statista.com/statistics/1...
And of course these estimates don’t include lives that will be lost due to increased conflict, oppression and targeting of HRDs and margpops, crackdowns on civil society and human rights, and increased corruption.
Trump destroyed 60 years of American generosity— aid that fed families, kept girls in school, saved 26 million from AIDS, and now puts 14 million lives at risk. He wants your tax dollars for raids, cages and terrorizing our communities. If you mean it, don’t just like it. Repost it!
Ethics? Where we’re going we don’t need ethics!
He has concepts of deals.
Thank you—America lost the service of so many dedicated, caring people today who made our country both great and good. Very proud (and also sad) that my senator seems to be one of the few who care and get it.
Solidarity with my colleagues at the late, great DRL. Thank you for your service 💝
Do a lot of people not understand that because it's not true??
The gutting is spread out, not immediate. These people have and will continue to be frogs in a boiling pot. They will absolutely not see the impacts immediately and will say we’re crying wolf. By the time it hits, they won’t even connect the things.
This is fucking disgusting. People are going to die, go hungry, and be thrown in concentration camps. Her cheery celeb news take on this is monstrous. This woman is a ghoul.
Congressman Derrick Van Orden of Wisconsin’s Third Congressional District has deleted this tweet.
Like we should have found another sun or?
Texas was stolen from Mexico, so yeah? My great-great-great grandparents didn’t cross the border, the border crossed them.
The fact that the dems didn’t hammer this home given how unpopular the current ICE is malpractice. The only messaging I saw was Medicare/aid and SNAP-not a peep about this. Many of those cuts are over time so people are going to think they cried wolf. This will be immediate.
Don't forget the $100 billion to make ICE the 3rd-highest funded military in the world.
And fund a full police state, with ICE and other "immigration enforcement" agencies getting more funding than the Marines. You don't need food and medicine if you're rotting in a cage in the Everglades for wrongthink.
Let’s be real. If Trump and/or Vance went, it would have been performative and certainly wouldn’t have provided any comfort to the family. Not that that was their reason, but I doubt the family is sad they’re such assholes in this case.
They’ve already terminated almost all of them anyway (8/9 of ours were cut). Implementers knew the few remaining ones were on shaky ground and our GOs and GORs were on the chopping block.
Sounds great, though I can't read the WaPo article (I assume this will be covered by DevEx or Chronicle of Philanthropy soon enough).
Congrats, lady!! So happy for you and so well deserved! Now I can brag about having a piece by the Sondheim winner in my dining room 😂
I think this one is more his fundamental stupidity then dementia. The likelihood of Trump ever having bothered to learn anything about the civil war—or really anything that he can't earn money or get laid off of—is extremely low to nil because he's a moron.
And also some other minor things that will negatively impact every person in the country. He can now issue edicts to strip us of all of our rights—assembly, speech, privacy, etc.—and we have no recourse. Rule of law in this country is dead, it's a dictatorship, but yes, gender-affirming above all.
I'm super ashamed to be a UVA alum today.
"Trump’s success in harnessing the investigative powers of the federal government to accomplish his administration’s policy goals." Wouldn't that otherwise be known as, um, "weaponizing the justice department?" I seem to recall a big baby whining about that recently...
Meanwhile, BGE is telling residential customers to set their thermostats to 80 and "use fans"...
Well, now you know you can leave it in the bedroom and text from the home office 😜
It totally is, I do it multiple times a day.
Unless by nearby you mean in the same building, that's not a requirement.