The Supreme Court has original jurisdiction for disputes between states (meaning they can actually file the lawsuit there, rather than have it go up on appeal). This would be a good time for Illinois to utilize it.
The Supreme Court has original jurisdiction for disputes between states (meaning they can actually file the lawsuit there, rather than have it go up on appeal). This would be a good time for Illinois to utilize it.
Repeat after me: Trump CANNOT deploy the National Guard to Chicago. He does not have the constitutional authority to do so. National Guard troops, outside of DC, are NOT his to command. So Chicago & my home state of Illinois need to tell Trump to fuck right off.
Maria Bartiromo thinks we're making a big mistake by thinking the wind will blow and the sun will shine in the future.
BREAKING: D.C. Circuit panel rules 2-1 to permit Trump administration to axe $16 billion climate funds authorized by Biden administration. Ruling lifts Judge Chuktkan's injunction. s3.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
NEWS: Judge Breyer bars the military in LA from performing police functions like arrests and crowd control. He says this was not a "one-off" violation of law by individual troops but a systmatic and knowing violation by Pentagon leaders w/ @joshgerstein.bsky.social www.politico.com/news/2025/09...
NEW: Lawmakers unwilling to battle Trump directly have been quietly hopeful the courts would resolve President Trump's bid to commandeer their power of the purse. It hasn't happened, and now the hour of reckoning has arrived. w/ Jen Scholtes www.politico.com/news/2025/09...
We have until about 50 years until oil runs out. The sun and wind will be around a lot longer than that
Hereās another pic of Trump golfing this weekend. These trips add up costing taxpayers millions. Why doesnāt the GOP cut these instead of Meals on Wheels?
It hasn't been a great last week of the August recess for Republican members of Congress. At town hall events across the country, attendees booed, laughed, jeered, and demanded answers as their GOP representatives tried to defend President Trump's agenda.
The Trump familyās historic, obscene corruption continues. The right wing freaked out over Hunter for allegedly making a fraction of this, meanwhile the Trumps are doing this all out in the open and they are silent. š¦ š¦ www.wsj.com/finance/curr...
"If the federal government truly cared about safety in the district, it would restore the $1 billion in local tax dollars that Congress recently blocked...Instead, federal taxpayer money is being spent on troops and a federal police takeover"
Hedge fund titan Ray Dalio decries surging inequality morphing the US into an autocratic fiefdom, as spineless CEOs cower from rebuking Trump's debt-fueled folly, echoing the grim 1930s prelude to tyranny. #IncomeInequality
SSRIs didnāt storm Sandy Hook. An AR-15 did. Itās not the pills. Itās the guns. johnfugelsang.substack.com/p/the-measle...
Today's my birthday and I'm hoping @realDonaldTrump will send me one of his amazing handcrafted cards with a beautiful Sharpie-drawn woman on it
NEWS: Trump will make a major defense related announcement this afternoon, Congress faces a possible government shutdown, Nadler retires, China and Russia grow closer, and much more. All the news, just the facts, that you need to know: open.substack.com/pub/aaronpar...
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.
#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...
Yet another sign of the self-serving world of narcissistic delusion inhabited by this monster. His removal from office is a moral necessity.
The math ain't mathing.
As my high school math teacher said, āShow me your work.ā Is $8T even possible?
Platner: I believe that input from working people is far more important than input from someone who simply has money. I believe that we shouldnāt be settling for crumbs while billionaires eat the cookie we baked.
Alaska vowed to resolve the murders of Indigenous people. But when one nonprofit asked state law enforcement officials for a fundamental piece of data ā a list of Indigenous murders theyād investigated ā the state said no. By @kylehopkinsak.bsky.social, w/ @adn.com
Scenes of chaos play out in Gaza City as military closes in on panic-stricken residents facing forced displacement.
India wanted to be a strong ally & trading partner - Trump fucked it up. China wanted good relations - Trump fucked it up. Putin would like nothing more than to destroy the US - Trump embraced him instead and Putin quickly double-crossed him. Now theyāre all teaming up.
Presidents Xi, Putin and PM Modi would never be palling around today if it wasnāt for the extraordinary foolishness shown by the president of the United States.
I like your content, but you are bombing my feed. Throttle it.
Today Iād like to share two poems with you. To me, both feel appropriate to the dark time weāre now living in. Read them and let me know what you think. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/two-poems-that-feel-apt
Even in this age of police bodycams and bystander videos, there are certain categories of footage that most media organizations wonāt share with the public. But itās hard to imagine todayās media suppressing, as they did in 1937, footage from the anti-labor crackdown that resulted in 10 deaths.
Hey Ron DeSantis, you're gonna want to check out MeidasCanada tomorrow. We're taking the fight straight to you from Newfoundland. @charlieangus104.bsky.social
A very good article explaining why sex is not gender is the one from the National Institutes of Health - belib.org/jfI3O93
Support for Trump amongst his youngest voters is already collapsing. And, trust me, weāre gonna keep dragging it down. š«”
Because nothing screams āqualified diplomatā like a guy whose entire foreign policy experience is yelling at women from his car. johnfugelsang.substack.com/p/trump-pick...
US Navy P-8 Poseidon reconnaissance plane right off the coast of Northern Russia. Unknown what the operation is. Lots of background movement happening now worldwide. (šø @MoloWarMonitor)
Behold the Trump clan's alchemy: transmute political clout into $6 billion paper riches via WLFI crypto's pseudo-IPO debut on World Liberty Financial, where locked tokens suddenly spawn liquidity for the elite. #CryptoScam
I.E. identify bomb shelters, prepare emergency kits, identify evacuation routes. You have until 2026.
US not prepared for war with Russia, it's recommended local and state governments take initiative due to near collapse of federal agencies under Trump. Unlike previous wars, this one will reach the homeland.
Leaked White House prospectus pitches 'Gaza Riviera' as glitzy megacities, mandating forced exodus of 2 million Palestinians into US trusteeshipāa deranged facade for ethnic cleansing, peddled with Trumpian bravado and AI gloss. #Gaza
Any day spent with union workers and their families is a good day. Thanks for having me at your annual Labor Day celebration, Lorain. Together, we'll fight to make sure workers have a seat at the table in Washington.
That sullies the award.
BREAKING: Trump announces that Rudy Giuliani will be awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, which is the nationās highest civilian honor. Note that Giuliani has been charged with felonies in two different states, including racketeering and has been found liable for over $100 million in damages.
Itās not āif we go to war with Russiaā it is āwhen we go to war with Russia.ā
Since the best in healthcare no longer serve at the top of the Federal Government, we are bringing them directly to you at Meidas Health. Donāt miss Episode 14 with the President of the @ameracadpeds.bsky.social Jam packed with useful information! @meidastouch.com
This is, I swear to Christ, the lead story at the Atlantic Monthly right now
Good grief. www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-r...
Putin's top propagandist and a former economics professor at the University of Alabama, Vladimir Solovyov, threatened that Russia would āmarch on Parisā after Franceās President Macron called Putin "a predator and an ogre at our doorstep".
NEW Democracy Atlas: Leadership isnāt confined to the political sphere ā it can stem from anyone working to make a change. In our latest, we learn endurance from Cambodiaās unexpected pro-democracy leaders: https://www.ifyoucankeepit.org/p/rule-4-leadership-lives-in-everyone
Critics of Andrew Bailey, Trump's pick to help run the FBI, say the Missouri AG got the attention of the White House by following Trumpās tactic of targeting political opponents. āWhat better way to show loyalty than to do exactly what Trump wants,ā one said. By @jeremykohler.bsky.social
Tens of thousands gather under āWorkers Over Billionairesā, pushing for livable wages and economic justice.
NYT: āWhen Tennesseeās Republican governor @GovBillLee dispatched troops to support Trumpās crackdown on crime, critics wondered why he didnāt keep them within state lines. Memphis has a murder rate twice DCās, Nashvilleās is higher as well.ā www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/u...
Iām not sure you can actually call another country weak if yours got taken over by a genocidal game show host. Threats to humanity are threats to humanity no matter their effectiveness.
Trump announces he will severely devalue the Presidential Medal of Freedom
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Maybe Disney can buy it for the āAlligator Alcatraz Adventureā?
Kressly: I expect in the next couple of weeks, this is going to get worse. Youāre going to hear from the same administrative people who have gutted the expertise needed to promote child health ā pushing false narratives like, āwe need to look at the link between vaccines and autism.ā That is a lie.
Itās still early, but pretty good turnout so far for Bernie Sanders and Graham Platnerās (running against Susan Collins) rally here in Maine today.
Video of objects being thrown from a window at the Temu Trailer Park (aka White House) popped up on a feed. Anyone else see it? š¤
You canāt make this shit up.š¤¦š¼ In an executive order entitled āMaking Federal Architecture Beautiful Againā Trump urges architects and engineers who will design federal buildings from now on, to make them using as a blueprint the monumental ancient architecture. .belib.org/L99bDEm
AXIOS: ā(Trumpās) tariff policy will cost midsize businesses $82.3 billion, according to a new report from the JPMorganChase Instituteā¦ā www.axios.com/sponsored/mi...
senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, former chief economist to Senator Rob Portman (R-OH) & director of budget and spending policy for Marco Rubioās 2016 presidential campaignšš½
Yesterday, after enjoining DOJ/DHS from removing dozens of unaccompanied Guatemalan minors, Judge Sooknanan ordered DOJ to file 4 status reports *later that same day*āwith a 5th still due this morningāto prove it complied. (āPresumption of regularityā is gone for this DOJ.) ... 1/2
In 7 months, Trump has taken the world's most powerful nation and turned it into a train wreck, inviting both our allies and our adversaries to reshape the world based on our irrelevance.
Fifty-one of the 85 Federalist papers were written by a guy born in Nevis.
Media outlets have staged a front page protest to highlight the killings of more than 200 journalists in 22 months.
Rep. Richard Hudson (R-N.C.) told a closed-door meeting of House Republicans to stop hosting town halls in the midst of backlash from voters. Most appear to have taken that to heart: By mid-August, only 16 of the 219 House Republicans had held at least one in-person town hall event.
We are all the CDC this week. My weekend Substack community issue. Check it out and, if youāre interested, consider joining our Social Contract Community. Thanks.š open.substack.com/pub/socialco...
Trump *never* stays in DC on a long weekend (or almost any weekend.) Why did he stay there on this one? Shouldn't he be at Bedminster or Mar-a-lago?
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.
here's today's post: "Chicago cordially invites the Mad King to go fuck himself" ā Chicago will not comply with Donnyās police state fascism. thanks for reading, and please sign up for my daily newsletter so you never miss a post ā
āBut, other than that, Iād be proud to be his VP.ā
JD Vance on Donald Trump: āIām a Never Trump guy. I never liked him. I donāt think heās the person. I donāt think he cares about folks. I think that heās noxious and is leading the white working class to a very dark place.ā { ht: @marcofoster.bsky.social }
The mysterious case of disappearing Trump continues to leave more questions than answers with each āproof of lifeā post put out by him. Get the latest updates in this weekend's bulletin.
India and China fought a war in 1962 over border disputes. Theyāve never been allies, which has been to our geopolitical and economic advantage. Thanks to Trumpās insane tariffs the two manufacturing/pharma/tech giants are teaming up, accelerating their riseā¦and our subsequent downfall.
Hereās what we are barreling towards: India and China sign massive trade agreements (coz of Trump), buoyed by Russian and Iranian oil. New markets and alliances open up in the East, all with the US on the outside and without the sway they once had. This is the price of America First.
Perfection.
This federal judge understated the matter when she called āsurprisingā the governmentās attempt āto remove minor children from the country in the wee hours of the morning on a holiday weekend.ā She was right to issue a temporary restraining order. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/08...
After 6 months of "death by a thousand cuts" -- including layoffs, rescinded grant funding, and content censorship -- the CDC descended into chaos on Wednesday. First, CDC Director Susan Monarez, PhD, was fired after refusing to resign. belib.org/Kl5mOX8?
Pour one out for Judge Sparkle Sooknananās clerks this Labor Day weekend
I'm never 100% convinced that anything is true until Donald denies it.
Ghislaine Maxwell, that paragon of veracity convicted for trafficking minors, now peddles bald-faced lies to shield Trump from Epstein's shadow, much as she groomed victims for her former paramourāearning a cushy prison upgrade for her sycophantic drivel. #EpsteinFiles
He obviously knows where heās going.
"Rudy Giuliani nursed an injured crow back to life with warm milk, then drove to a place not a liquor store, and then got in a car accident. After this, an unscrupulous stranger littered the backseat of his car with scores of emptied airline-size bottles of Gilbertās vodka. Two may have been gin."
JUST IN: Judge Sooknanan ordered the government to file a status report by 4 pm to address whether the children have been deplaned. DOJ blew the deadline. Now she orders them to show cause why they didnāt file the report in time ā and sets new 6:30 pm deadline.
Why has Trump been attacking unions and workersā rights? He wants working people to feel helpless and divided. Trump and his billionaire backers realize that the collective power of a unified labor movement outweighs their own power. Know this: Workers outnumber the oligarchs.
RFK Jr. transformed conspiracy theories into action and reshaped American policy in just a few months. @annamerlan.bsky.social and @kieraevebutler.bsky.social break down just how we got here:
Has anyone said whether Rudy was driving or whether he had been drinking? www.cbsnews.com/news/rudy-gi...
I do not believe for one second he was helping a DV victim before he got into the car crash. I'm going to need proof of that, given his treatment of women in the past.