The 16-year-old who shot two students in a Colorado high school on the same day Charlie Kirk was killed was a virulent white supremacist and antisemite www.denverpost.com/2025/09/11/e...
I wish there was a sad face option here. I just can't hit the ❤️.
Pretty clear that a lot of people jumped the gun on the motive behind Kirk’s assassination. The shooter: 1. Grew up in a Republican family 2. Donated to Donald Trump 3. Loved guns 4. Was steeped in Groyper culture This isn’t a simple “raging leftist hated Kirk” scenario.
RFK Jr. and the Trump administration are preparing to do exactly what many of us feared they would. Next week, they are planning to present data that have been misused or manipulated to make it *appear* that COVID19 vaccines caused the deaths of 25 children.
Thousands of undocumented immigrant workers helped rebuild New York City in the wake of 9/11. 24 years later, they're at risk of deportation as they still struggle with chronic health issues. A pathway to citizenship is the least these workers deserve. documentedny.com/2025/09/11/u...
www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/b2b3d40... Trump’s purge of CIA officers leaves us blind. Former intel officials from TSS warn of a climate of fear and distrust within the IC. With a less robust workforce, decreased intel sharing, and watered-down intelligence, we are less prepared to deal with threats.
Apparently, only *one* side is expected to "bring down the temperature."
On this day in 1991, Clarence Thomas’ hearings began. We didn’t listen to the brilliant Black woman who told us the truth. 33 years later, his seat still stains the Court. Maybe it’s time we started listening to the women in the room. #BelieveWomen
NEW @motherjones.com: Pardoned J6ers are using Kirk's killing to call for civil war Stewart Rhodes will rebuild Oath Keepers; Proud Boys call for "retribution"; & ex-insurrectionists are coming "out of retirement." Experts fear they could incite others to violence. W/ @kieraevebutler.bsky.social:
The guy just … tweeted it out
Earlier this year, Trump dismantled a leading office at the Department of Homeland Security whose mission was averting terrorism and targeted violence.
Poland has completely closed its border with Belarus. Russia is currently conducting the West-2025 offensive military exercise in Belarus for a future invasion of Poland and the Baltics.
At least seven historically Black colleges and universities across the South received threats Thursday that caused lockdowns and closures. via @wwno.org
I saw January 6th unfold with my own eyes. Then I saw the violence that occurred on January 6th be completely pardoned.
The murder of Charlie Kirk is part of a disturbing rise in political violence that threatens to hollow out our public life. A free society relies on the premise that people can speak out without fear or humiliation. No more political violence.
The asymmetrical media response to political violence in America is, in itself, one of the most important contributing factors to how we arrived at this place of escalating political violence.
So they haven’t caught the guy and you don’t have a ton of leads? Maybe sending all your federal law enforcement agents to help ICE and dismantling the JTTF and firing the head FBI field office for political reasons wasn’t the best idea.
Anyway, 72 percent of Americans support universal background checks and 76 percent support extreme risk protection orders (ERPOs). Maybe Congress should take those things up
MAGA Mike Johnson backs Trump's biggest fear: wind turbines https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2025/09/10/congress/johnson-backs-virginia-wind-project-in-break-with-trump-cw-00554569
Elizabeth Warren on people who say Dems needs to tone down their rhetoric: "Oh, please. Why don't you start with the president of the United States? And every ugly meme he's posted and every ugly word."
“She’s been in this country 47 years, is married, with five kids and five grandkids, and you’re telling me she’s a flight risk?” he said. www.wowt.com/2025/09/08/g...
No Kings, No Dictators: Take Back America on October 18 open.substack.com/pub/demcastu...
#DrawTheLine HYPE EVENT✊ "My work on Palestine has become so deeply intertwined with [climate] because I realized that the same forces that...perform a genocide walk hand in hand with forces that perform ecocide" — Dr. Tarek Loubani, Canadian-Palestinian physician Take action drawtheline.world
Marine Corps veteran served with restraining order at Pico Rivera council meeting so he couldn’t give public comment.
Charlie Kirk called me a ‘lunatic’ and a ‘prostitute’ and demanded I be deported. Nothing, *nothing*, justifies killing him, or robbing his kids of their dad. We don’t know the identity or motive of the shooter but murder can *never* be the response to political disagreements.
While Trump cuts cancer research and cruelly disrupts the lives of millions of Americans, California is taking an historic step forward. We're partnering with our world-class UCs to find solutions to protect firefighters from cancer risk for generations to come.
After heavy corporate lobbying, RFK Jr.'s new MAHA report takes a hands-off approach to Big Ag and "forever chemicals" — despite their connection to rising cancer rates and drinking water contamination. Tell me how this is supposed to make America healthy again?
My heart goes out to Charlie Kirk’s family. Political violence is a crisis and a sign of democratic weakness. I condemn it in all forms. We all share responsibility to end it, protect democracy, and promote peace in our nation.
Senator Ron Wyden has called for an investigation into Peter Thiel’s Epstein ties as part of his proposed Produce Epstein Treasury Records Act. gizmodo.com/democrats-ca...
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said that Kirk's shooting is "the latest incident" of the "scourge of gun violence and political violence" that must end.
One day after the Supreme Court lifted the ban on racial profiling, federal agents swarmed a car in Van Nuys. Four masked agents with guns drawn yanked people out, slammed them to the ground, and pointed a weapon at a pregnant woman. There is no justification for this. None.
There is no place for violence in our democracy — against anyone.
Wow. Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. just single-handedly ruled that Congress doesn’t really control the purse strings. This is becoming a massive crisis for checks and balances and the separation of powers.
Links: apnews.com/article/5e08... www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025... apnews.com/article/trum... www.reuters.com/sustainabili... apnews.com/article/8de6...
The Trump administration announced plans to roll back protections that had reserved millions of acres of public land for conservation and recreation.
We don’t yet know what motivated the person who shot and killed Charlie Kirk, but this kind of despicable violence has no place in our democracy. Michelle and I will be praying for Charlie’s family tonight, especially his wife Erika and their two young children.
Moskowitz on Mike Johnson: "If he was lying then, is he lying now? ... I don't think in the history of this country we've had a Speaker of the House say the president was an FBI informant ... we need to hear from the FBI."
No sleep for ICE! The community showed up loud outside the Hampton Inn in Downer's Grove, a Chicago suburb.
A National Guard report accidentally emailed to the Post says veterans and active-duty troops view the D.C. deployment with "shame and alarm" @alexhorton.bsky.social www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
apnews.com/article/fire... fired FBI officials sue Patel, saying he bowed to Trump administration's 'campaign of retribution'
California is where bold ideas become world-changing breakthroughs. One in four U.S. Nobel Prizes in science has gone to a California institution, and California is home to more Nobel Prize winners than any country in the world.
Stoke fear. Exploit desperation. Suspend the rule of law. Fan brutality. Every time the stronger brutalize the weak, it’s fundamentally the same playbook. Our duty is to stand up to brutality. Our moral obligation is to protect the vulnerable and hold the powerful accountable.
Release ALL of the Epstein files, Release ALL of the Epstein files, Release ALL of the Epstein files, Release ALL of the Epstein files, Release ALL of the Epstein files, Release ALL of the Epstein files, Release ALL of the Epstein files and furthermore...Release ALL of the Epstein files...
The only way to deal with a tyrant is to stand up to him. Harvard — where I taught many years ago — is doing just that.
History will NOT be kind to them.
One of the ways a democracy disappears: the legislative branch neuters itself and takes orders from the leader. This week Senate Republicans will go "nuclear" to change the body's rules. The change? Stop having separate votes on nominees. Just do 50 at a time. Not kidding.
As Donald Trump continues to undermine the rule of law, Rep. Mikie Sherrill (D-NJ) has a stark warning for all of us: “He’s not leaving willingly.” www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
1. Jared Kushner is taking TENS OF MILLIONS OF DOLLARS annually from Saudi Arabia and other Middle Eastern governments Simultaneously, Kushner is playing a CENTRAL ROLE shaping Trump's Middle East policy It's a massive conflict. And a scandal. That's getting scant attention
Every House Rules Republican just voted to block the Epstein Files Transparency Act from advancing.
Yes, this is a must read. "The U.S. is drifting into an undeclared war of assassination across half a hemisphere, led by unaccountable officials who equate explosions with effectiveness." Also: "unlawful orders—foreign or domestic—must be disobeyed."
The 400 richest Americans are now worth a record $6.6 trillion, after getting $1.2 trillion richer over the past year alone. Meanwhile, the rest of the country is getting squeezed by tariffs and high prices for groceries, utilities, and health care. The system is broken.
You would think at some point, SCOTUS would decide they’ve done enough to help that man, but apparently, nope.
We're three lines into "First they came..."
The Trump Administration is once again failing to do its job — and California is cleaning up their mess. We're deploying state resources to protect the 2,000-year old sequoias on FEDERAL LANDS from the wildfires the federal administration are supposed to handle.
"Harvard can't use race as a factor in admissions, but ICE can use race as a factor in detentions" is a retrenchment essentially to a pre-Civil War understanding of the Constitution. It's vanishingly few steps removed from "Latinos have no rights which the white man is bound to respect."
I am very glad to see that Monarez will get a chance to share what actually happened. This promises to be much more enlightening than anything RFKJ had to say.
They lied to Congress at their confirmation hearings. They shouldn’t be on the Supreme Court. So why are they???
NEWS Charles Munger Jr, the son of the late Charlie Munger, Warren Buffett’s business partner, has put in another $10 million into the campaign against Gavin Newsom’s redistricting initiative. Munger has contributed $30 million so far in just the last three weeks.
This
As a trial lawyer for 15+ years, I’ve never seen a case this big. The Epstein files aren’t about partisan politics. They’re about predators, power, and justice. And Trump’s lies about his ties tell us everything we need to know.
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Canceling Tom Hanks? Unbelievably petty. Then again, with everything going on these days, it feels right on brand.
Just sitting back, eating some popcorn, watching people attempt to make the Supreme Court’s decision that racial profiling is ok for the purpose of ethnic cleansing about something else that makes them feel more comfortable.
The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee has received the Epstein estate files. The materials could include the so-called birthday book.
LAPD arrested an activist on behalf of ICE during the protests at the DTLA Federal Detention Center. He was reportedly detained, handed over to ICE, and subsequently disappeared.
Here is a longer form of the thread I did earlier on what the real play is with Trump, the Fed, his stablecoin, and how he's planning to loot the Treasury. With the blessing of the Supreme Court and 3 dangerous bills now with the Senate. docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Our Supreme Court is a wreck, now they’re okay with racial profiling. The Court has lifted restrictions on immigration-related stops by federal agents in the Los Angeles area, which amounts to blatant racial profiling. Agents have been stopping people solely based on their appearance,
@leahlitman.bsky.social said it best: “Political culture imagines that the Supreme Court safeguards the Constitution, when in reality it is chipping away at the constitutional rights of historically marginalized groups."
"The group brings together hundreds of grandparents nationwide who lived through diseases such as polio, tuberculosis and measles — illnesses once thought eliminated in the United States..." www.kgw.com/article/news...
This has a very specific context: That Pam Bondi's DOJ refused to enforce an arrest warrant for Cory Mills after his girlfriend called the cops on him. We should keep repeating that fact: Pam Bondi is letting a powerful white man engage in violence in part bc GOP Majority depends on her doing so
At some point, we need federal judges, state officials, Democratic lawmakers, and others to start loudly pointing out that all their various oaths are to the CONSTITUTION, and that: yes, it IS possible for SCOTUS to behave in unconstitutional ways, and that it should be ignored when it does.
Yes, we are living in a constitutional crisis. Yes we are. And we’ve been living in a constitutional crisis for the past 7 months. And it’s only going to get worse. And maybe the courts might help somewhat, but the only thing that will truly save us is…us. The American people.
Republican leaders are moving closer to implementing a major change to Senate rules that would allow them to confirm scores of President Donald Trump’s nominees in batches, rather than vote on each one individually.
As a bookish kid, I admired the Supreme Court for having the character to unanimously come out against segregation in the 1950s, when no other branch of our government would have had that courage. So it saddens me to see it lose its way and endorse judging people for the color of their skin today.
WHAT THE ACTUAL F*CK
Senate Majority Leader John Thune says Republicans are ready to change the chamber’s rules to allow quick confirmations of dozens of President Donald Trump’s executive branch nominees and will move to speed up votes after months of Democratic delays. https://to.pbs.org/3I2E6LG
Chicago TURNED it out, showing up at the naval base where ICE agents have been stationed.
It's not often these days for the left and right voters to come together on anything, but calling out this despicable behavior by the rich and influential is one of those times.
CHICAGO Naval Station Great Lakes. A truck is seen driving around, and on it reads "DO NOT COME TO CHICAGO. FASCISTS ARE NOT WELCOME HERE."
Millions of Americans took to the streets in June to drown out Trump’s birthday parade. As Trump’s regime escalates his authoritarian power grab, we’re gathering again on October 18 for a nationwide day of peaceful protests to say NO KINGS. We hope you will join us: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i...
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Simply THE WORST excuse for a human being I've ever known. Every day, I wake up thinking that I couldn't possibly hate the treasonous, felonious, racist, misogynist and rapist of women and children any more than I already do, then BAM! fathitler.com
Ah yes, the Academy Awards, a famously Fake Award Show ™️ clown.
Folks in the city of Columbia, don't miss the chance to let the Mayor and City Council hear your voice! #scpol
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Imagine what it'd be like if the President of the United States didn't live in an alternate reality... Donald Trump's deployment of U.S. soldiers and federal agents against the American people in LA brought nothing but chaos, terror, and millions in wasted tax dollars.
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