Jerry Nadler ends his remarkable career, conceding that his brand of politics on the Middle East is over. “I don’t know what to say at this point,” he said. “I can’t defend what Israel is doing.” www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/n...
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Jerry Nadler ends his remarkable career, conceding that his brand of politics on the Middle East is over. “I don’t know what to say at this point,” he said. “I can’t defend what Israel is doing.” www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/n...
This is the kind of thing you post at 6:54 if you might be dead.
Release the health records
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The CEO of a a multi-trillion dollar company went to the White House, openly handed the US president a gift made of gold, and his company got a special exemption to tariffs the president has illegally imposed. Also, the Founders took bribery so seriously the Constitution bans it 3 separate times.
Columbia University has handed over its undergraduate admissions process to Donald Trump and his MAGA allies, who will now decide at their sole discretion whether the university has admitted enough white people. It's no longer an independent institution.
I think like many, many people I find the idea that CBS has just cancelled Colbert out of the blue like this for financial reasons *highly* implausible. He’s the most viewed late night host on TV, and his ratings have been going up.
The stories are coming every hour - this is like Watergate if you replace illegal break-ins with underage girls
say it in native german though ron
DESANTIS: “You’ll have an ability for food. You’ll have an ability to consult legal rights - if you have that.” History has seen this darkness before. But this is the first time it has been broadcast live.
I was one of those men who couldn’t stop talking. Here’s how I learned to shut up and listen
🔥🔥🔥 Everyone should be a paid subscriber to Democracy Docket. No one is fighting harder than Marc Elias. No one.
If you’re an American should watch the Anthony Bourdain Parts Unknown ep on Iran. A deeply humanizing look at a country full of people just like you and me. I watched it after Anthony died and it moved in ways that are hard to relay. I also immediately ran out to try kabob koobideh and tahdig.
Host: Are you saying the US did not see intelligence that the Supreme Leader had ordered weaponization? Rubio: That’s irrelevant Host: No, that's a key point Rubio: No it’s not… Forget about intelligence
I was briefed on the intelligence last week. Iran posed no imminent threat of attack to the United States. Iran was not close to building a deliverable nuclear weapon. The negotiations Israel scuttled with their strikes held the potential for success.
As major American cities brace for potential terrorist attacks in retaliation against the U.S. air strikes on Iran, it’s reassuring to know that Trump just appointed a 22-year-old former gardener and grocery store assistant to lead U.S. terror prevention. 🥺
Sean Hannity, and many others, are posting this video claiming it is the explosion at Fordow after the US military bombed it. Its not. This is from Syria in December 2024.
Reminder that disinformation from all sides will, historically, be rampant in a moment like this. Be careful what you repost.
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I just want to say for the record that when the history books are written centuries from now, I believe the election of Donald Trump in a free and fair election in 2024 will go down as one of the most senseless and self-destructive own goals in human history
Congress must impeach and remove Trump. Period.
BREAKING: Iranian State TV just said "Every American citizen or military in the region is now a target"
We’ve bombed Iran. And dismantled our joint terrorism task force. And sent a third of the FBI to help ICE. And gutted the National Security Council. And a drunk guy is in charge at the pentagon. And our intelligence allies probably won’t share intel with us. Because people couldn’t vote for a woman.
"We will measure our success not only by the battles we win, but also by the wars that we end, and perhaps most importantly, the wars we never get into." -- Donald Trump inaugural address, Jan. 20, 2025 The biggest lie ever from the biggest liar in American history
Trump has no constitutional authority to take us to war with Iran without authorization from Congress, and Congress has not authorized it.
Netanyahu has spent the better part of two decades trying to strong arm the United States into an unprovoked war against Iran and finally found a president stupid enough to do it for him. Unbelievable.
Uh. We are not, Sir.
For the first time in its 116-year history, the NAACP will not invite the president to their convention. www.pbs.org/newshour/pol...
“I had nothing to do with the parade. I didn’t even really know anything about it. They said Sir, there’s a parade and they want you there, so I went but I didn’t know anything about it.”
Donald Trump does NOT want you to share this footage of his pathetically tiny birthday parade crowd.
Do you know how badly you have to screw up as a Republican to get this kind of turnout in IDAHO? #NOKINGS
Yah NYC! Massive No Kings protest!
PSA: If you’re protesting today, turn the biometrics on your phone OFF. No facial recognition, no fingerprint, PASSCODE ACCESS ONLY. Law enforcement can make you unlock your phone with those, but they can’t make you use your passcode. That gives you a case in court should they go that route anyway.
A king parades tanks through the capital today while our democracy bleeds. This isn’t a celebration—it’s a threat. When the military marches for one man, not the people, you’re no longer a republic. You’re a hostage.
Walz announces that Rep. Melissa Hortman is dead as a result of a "politically motivated assassination"
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Thank you to all of our service members and veterans. We appreciate you, your families, and your sacrifices for our country. Wish we were spending millions on you instead of a parade.
America has never been broke. It’s just violently anti-poor. Troops in LA cost $134M — the price of 44 million school lunches. But sure, let’s keep pretending the issue is lazy parents and not a government that eats kids for breakfast.
This is actually perfect. The emptiness makes it look as ridiculous and wasteful as it is.
This is upsetting.
So then Elon goes "Kill the Bill!" and Trump goes "Elon has TDS!" so Elon goes "I'm the reason Trump won!" so Trump goes "we waste billions on Elon!" so Elon goes "Epstein!" and a corpulent flunkie goes "Deport Elon!" and Elon goes "Impeach!" And THAT'S why women are too emotional to be President.
That any of us have to care about the messy breakup of these two massive narcissists — and that they both individually wield such massive power — is an indictment of our political system and further proves the poisonous influence of Big Money on our democracy.
After #Springsteen criticized the administration, the president said he should “KEEP HIS MOUTH SHUT.” Undeterred, Springsteen included his comments on a new release, which begins with his remarks that America “is currently in the hands of a corrupt, incompetent and treasonous administration."
The absolute disgrace taking place today in front of cameras in the White House is yet another reminder that for all the talk of Joe Biden's failures, the people who failed America the most are our citizens. Empowering this guy (again) was a foreseeable disaster we'll be lucky to survive.
RAMAPHOSA: I am sorry I don't have a plane to give you TRUMP: I wish you did. I'd take it. If your country offered the US Air Force a plane, I would take it RAMAPHOSA: Okay
Their entire schtick is to just talk over anyone who calls them out on their lies. They all do it and and clearly have been instructed to do it. Just keep spewing nonsense. I’m waiting for these Senators and Congresspeople to assert their oversight authority on these fools.
These are deeply, profoundly, tragically abnormal times riven by cruel, hateful, reckless and ignorant people bent on dismantling our government, strengthening Putin, stoking fear, breaking our spirit, enriching themselves and ruling over the ashes of public liberty. We won’t let them succeed.
"Political fairy smut" is a keeper
Noem : I do spend time out there with our components Gallego: We’ve seen the Instagram photos Noem: They’re not photos. They’ve meant the world to the individuals at DHS Gallego: I’ve seen some of them especially some really bad weapons handling
HASSAN: What is habeas corpus? NOEM: Habeas corpus is a constitutional right that the president has to be able to remove people from this country HASSAN: That's incorrect
On the topic of presidential mental acuity, the current president was awake at 1:30am rage tweeting about his former opponents’ crowd sizes and calling Beyoncé, Bono, and Bruce Springsteen ‘unpatriotic entertainers.’ Where is the news cycle about his fitness for office?
Today is unfortunately a good reminder of just how depraved many Trump supporters are. It should be the easiest thing in the world to just wish someone well in light of a devastating health diagnosis. That they can't even meet that very low bar says a lot about their character.
It’s not just Newark: Nearly all air traffic control facilities in the U.S. are understaffed.
New: GOP congressman during a hearing on Capital Hill today confirms Defense Secretary Hegseth ordered pause in cyber operations against Russia, despite Pentagon denial. www.cbsnews.com/news/gop-con...
“Poor man wanna be rich. Rich man wanna be king. The king ain’t satisfied ‘til he rules everything.”—Springsteen, Badlands
Let’s compare crowd sizes… 😜 #bruuuuce
@politico.com DO BETTER bc this horseshit right now adds nothing.
There are two ways a US President can win business for the US economy. The first is by establishing rules that favor competition and create an open, productive playing field for everyone. The second is by brokering corrupt deals for big companies that court his personal favor.
Good morning to everyone but the most corrupt president to ever exist, who is at this moment selling out his nation to the funders of terrorism so his boy can sign another $2 billion deal. Oh and Tom Holman
And there it is folks. Qatar orders 160 Boeing aircraft. Trump gets 1 free $400M jet as his brokerage fee. Nothing to see here.
Yes, I'm pissed about the jumbo jet too. But this is actually the most important story today.
Like Pritzker's approach to this more and more!
52 years in prison for being at the wrong place at the wrong time
“After library officials resisted, the DOJ officials departed without resolving the conflict.” One of those sentences that tells you who and where we are as a country in 2025: librarians are braver than law firms and CEOs.
I don’t know if it is “stupid” to decline a gift from a foreign government, but it is ethically and constitutionally required. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/12/u...
So Mr. “made in America,” Mr. “America first” wants to fly around for the next four years in a plane made in Qatar, huh? Trump thinks you’re all stupid.
It’s incredible that the President of the United States is openly flirting with suspending Habeas Corpus, disappearing people left and right, arresting judges and politicians, accepting ludicrous bribes from foreign countries, and people are still trying to normalize this shit.
Trump surrenders It’s Monday. There are 540 days until the midterm elections. Tough guy surrenders to China, Republicans want 14 million to lose health coverage and Trump welcomes the whites.
But remember, *you* can only have two dolls and five pencils
Every single day, that bloated carcass of a president goes out looking the way he does, yet every article is "Have you seen Pamela Anderson???" who merely stopped wearing makeup.
Elect clowns, get a circus.
The elevation of Pope Leo XIV is a profound and historic occasion. Like so many around the world, I am praying for him and wishing him and the Church well as his papacy begins.
CDC leadership just told staff on Monday that they could stop sending their "5 things I did last week" emails. Finally. Per source, people were mostly just sending the same things every week. Many folks added read receipts and were able to see that no one at DOGE was actually reading the emails.
Pope Leo XIV — born in Chicago, IL — is the first American pope in history.
Carney. Albanese. Prevost. We’re uniting the world. 🇺🇸
IMPORTANT: first Canada...then Australia... now Vatican City Trump is helping his opponents get elected all over the world!
Trump, June 15, 2020: “if we stop testing (for Covid) right now, we’d have very few cases, if any.”
has the conclave invoked cloture on the motion to proceed yet?
Your kids get a max of two toys and then grow up to work in the same factory as their father and grandfather screwing in tiny screws. It’s called The American Dream.
I know there's a lot going on, but I would like to highlight that Mike Johnson slipped language into an otherwise routine House procedural vote yesterday that now blocks Democrats from forcing an investigation into Pete Hegseth’s Signal scandal, through October.
101 days in. Someone's got Biden Derangement Syndrome.
* U.S. IMMIGRATION AUTHORITIES RELEASE DETAINED PALESTINIAN COLUMBIA STUDENT FOLLOWING JUDGE'S ORDER -- CBS NEWS @reuters.com
This is getting overlooked: Trump *openly admitted* he hasn't even asked Bukele to return Abrego Garcia, claiming *his lawyers haven't said he has to.* Either Trump is knowingly flouting SCOTUS or his lawyers have deceived him. Exchange w/ @speechboy71.bsky.social: newrepublic.com/article/1945...
complete batshit insanity
We are no longer Democrats or Republicans. We are either patriots fighting the Trump regime or we are complicit in its tyranny. There is no middle ground. Now is the time for all of us to become activists. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/the-start-of-week-14
What results? The worst approval rating for a POTUS in the first 100 days in more than 80 years?!?
The American people are turning a cold shoulder to Trump almost as fast as Melania
Wearing a bright blue suit, texting, and then sleeping at Pope Francis’s funeral. What an embarrassing mess.
THEY HAVE DEPORTED A TWO YEAR OLD CHILD BIRTHRIGHT CITIZEN This is why I have no patience anymore for people playing games with this stuff.
NEW: A federal judge raised alarm Friday that the Trump administration appeared to have deported a 2-year-old U.S. citizen to Honduras with "no meaningful process" — even as her father was fighting to keep her in the country. Details w/ @joshgerstein.bsky.social www.politico.com/news/2025/04...
I was ripped to shreds on #CNN for standing up for the safety of the American military before Hegseth was hired. Told l was a "disgrace" who should be "ashamed of myself", berated through the commercial break and threatened with defamation. Look where we are now.
Gramps. 👴🏼 @mediaitenews.bsky.social www.mediaite.com/news/thats-n...
The entire transcript of Time's interview with Trump is insane. Just to pick one moment: Trump says Biden would never do an interview with Time, then when told that he had asks how it went, then when told he can read it himself says that he had read it and it didn't go well time.com/7280114/dona...
Through all his troubles, neither the DOJ/FBI nor any state authorities ever subjected Donald Trump to arrest, preferring in every case to proceed by indictment and voluntary surrender. It’s notable that a sitting judge and pillar of the Milwaukee community was not extended the same courtesy.
🚨BREAKING: Federal Court BLOCKS Trump executive order seeking to impose proof of citizenship requirement for voter registration. Big victory for our clients DNC, DSCC, DCCC, DGA, Sen. Schumer and Cong. Jeffries. www.democracydocket.com/cases/washin...
On June 12, 1987, Ronald Reagan demanded "Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!" On April 24, 2025, Donald Trump whined "Vladimir, stooooooop!" Has the United States ever looked weaker?
I would like for stupid people to stop making important decisions that affect my life