“Mimi” (gma), Mom, ret English teacher, life-long learner, news & politics junkie, American & English history buff, armchair psychologist, frmr Rock/Blues/Jazz singer, on the NC coast. GO WOLFPACK!
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📌The suicide of Joni "We are all going to die" Ernst’s political career means another crucial U.S. Senate seat is in play, which suddenly gives life to the possibility that Democrats could pull an inside straight and gain control of the Senate next year. Maine and N.C. are already highly flippable.
NEW: Today, a split verdict would mean a mistrial. But in 1980s Louisiana, when nonunanimous juries were still legal, 19-year-old Lloyd Gray, a Black man, was sentenced to prison for life — even though the only two Black jurors had voted not guilty. By @richardawebster.bsky.social, @veritenews.org
"It didn't make sense to put Space Force headquarters in any state other than Colorado when the only priority should be quick and effective communication in a nuclear crisis and there was already an infrastructure."
Trump has suffered major losses recently — in both federal courts and the court of public opinion. It's why he lashes out at the media, spreads lies, attacks his political enemies, and tries to rig elections. These are the actions of a tyrant with his back against the wall.
Today I began another year coaching the local high school writing club. If I can help these kids grow into seeing the world with open eyes, and then show it to others in ways that help them see too, I’ll feel that I did something that matters. And quietly needling the school board doesn’t hurt.
when you’re upset at the cool kids for not inviting you to their lunch table
Well, I'm no JAG, but yes, I think illegal, for following reasons: 1. Civilian vessel 2. Not self-defense 3. No attempt at interdiction (i.e. disable engines) 4. Int'l waters 5. No PID on folks in boat (could be civilians) 6. No declared state of war or hostilities so unclear authorization
Dems "need to just go at this stuff and they need to *very* personalize it. I would be putting billboards in front of Mike Johnson's church, saying, does Mike Johnson support a pedophile? Child sex trafficker in a Club Fed?" Stuart Stevens joins Tim Miller:
They want to make it a race war, but it’s a class war and some racist, white, working, but poor folks are going to come their— lost my healthcare, Meemaw’s moved in and we can only eat meat once a week— fucking senses.
They want to make it a race war, but it’s a class war and some racist, white, working, but poor folks are going to come their— lost my healthcare, Meemaw’s moved in and we can only eat meat once a week— fucking senses.
Every report and statistic that comes out isn’t just suspect, but total bullshit and none should be believed. The real scientists will continue to do the correcting. Thank you to all the folks from the real DOEn, EPA, HHS, CDC, NIH, FDA, etc.
Every report and statistic that comes out isn’t just suspect, but total bullshit and none should be believed. The real scientists will continue to do the correcting. Thank you to all the folks from the real DOEn, EPA, HHS, CDC, NIH, FDA, etc.
🧵The "Climate Working Group" at Departnent of Energy was Steve Koonin, Judith Curry, John Christy, Ross McKitrick, and Roy Spencer. They are climate contrarians, akin to the antivax scientists RFK Jr put into study the vaccine-autism link. 1/ www.npr.org/2025/09/02/n...
BREAKING: Republican Thomas Massie speaks out against the pathetic release of the already released Epstein documents, equating it to the Binders Trump gave to influencers a few months ask.
I feel bad for all the scholars who've written exhaustive histories of the Civil War. How were they to know that troops from South Carolina, Mississippi & Louisiana would march the streets of DC, and that troops from Texas would roll into Chicago, for God's sake -- 160 years later? *Not* the end ⤵️
Federal Appellate Court Finds the NLRB to Be Unconstitutional This matters to you if you work. Rights you had for 90 years are gone. Employers can now violate whatever rights workers thought they enjoyed. How did we get here? prospect.org/justice/2025...
I’d like to believe Rudy’s story about the car crash, but I remember Shop Rite 2022.
They fought for our freedom. Now Trump’s regime is trying to let them die. The VA wants to ban abortion care for veterans even in cases of rape, incest, or life-threatening pregnancies. ⚠️ There isn’t much time. Veterans’ lives are on the line.
They are setting up America's own immigration kangaroo court. Who believes these military lawyers will be impartial judges of immigration law?
The president sent 4,000 National Guards and 700 active-duty Marines to LA, claiming “violent mobs” were attacking ICE—the same officers snatching up residents. It was a clear exaggeration then, and Breyer has made it known now that it was a complete violation of U.S. law as well. trib.al/a9hMjvd
Women continued to outvote men in 2024, despite an overall drop in turnout. “The turnout rate for women voters in 2024 was the second highest in all presidential elections since 1980.” Great data in this report from the Center for American Women and Politics. cawp.rutgers.edu/blog/women-c...
The EPA fired five agency employees who signed a June declaration decrying moves that contradict science and undermine public health, alongside four more served removal notices
Trump & Republicans ran on lowering prices on day ONE. Sounded impossible, but they were trusted to at least try. Along comes Trump’s tariffs - a double tax on Americans no one wanted. Now, prices are now SKYROCKETING and Republicans are running from constituents. #ProudBlue #Voices4Victory #Pinks
We are being governed by a cabal of pedophiles who protect each other. They rape children.
Day # 225 Equality Matters #proudblue
Candon Dean Dahle raped a little girl for 5 years when she was 7-12 years old The judge decided to suspend a 5-10 year prison sentence & instead sentenced Dahle to probation, 180 days in jail, & community service even after the little girl begged the judge for justice #Pinks Video 1/2
Lethal force against a civilian vessel in international waters is a war crime if not in self-defense. If not in self-defense, only non-lethal actions, such as warning shots or disabling fire, are allowed. "Not yielding to pursuers" or "suspected of carrying drugs" doesn't carry a death sentence.
It's weird how Republicans call Liberals groomers, but they're totally fine with a convicted rapist and pedophile in the White House. #ProudBlue #Pinks #TrumpIsUnfitForOffice
“The great underreported story of our time is Russian compromise of the Republican Party…It's like Churchill's party became the pro-Nazi party.” @stuartpstevens.bsky.social talks Russia and the Republican Party with @timmiller.bsky.social on The Bulwark Podcast:
Why couldn’t the Coast Guard just board the boat leaving Venezuela, arrest the people and get more information on who they’re working for? Why did they have to kill the people?
Rudy Giuliani Awarded Presidential Medal Of Incest https://theonion.com/rudy-giuliani-awarded-presidential-medal-of-incest/
BREAKING: Appeals court REJECTS Trump’s attempt to fire Democratic FTC Commissioner Rebecca Slaughter. The judges ruled “the government has no likelihood of success on appeal,” representing a major setback for Trump’s attempt to purge independent agencies.
Yup! Republican Sen. Eric Schmitt from Missouri, July 23: “The revolution has gone by many names, Affirmative Action, anti-racism, social justice. Today, it most commonly is referred to as diversity, equity, inclusion, or DEI… The victims are the rest of America.” Poor straight white men victims!
Another protest in Washington, D.C.!!! Women dressed in red lined the street for almost a block!! What a strong statement by women who took time off to protest on a Tuesday!! Thank you so much!! 💗
Free D.C. and every other city from Trump’s tyranny!! United States veterans are marching up Capitol Hill with Sgt. Rhodes!! True American heroes!! 💙
🚨Regarding the #Pentagon and #SpaceForce announcements: Reps @rokhanna.bsky.social (D-CA) and Thomas Massie (R-KY) are holding a press conference tomorrow, 9/3, 10:30am, with ten victims of Epstein’s sex trafficking. Link to watch live: youtube.com/live/q6fUosr... 🗣️ Release the Epstein files
Chicago’s Mayor Brandon Johnson says “Chicago will continue to have a violence problem as long as red states continue to have a gun problem.” Mayor Johnson points out if Trump really cared about violence in America, he would work on gun reform not militarizing cities!
But I thought the Trump admin was trying to fight crime in DC. Open carry isn’t legal, but they’re going to turn a blind eye? MAKE IT MAKE SENSE! 🚨 U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro directed her office to no longer seek felony charges against individuals carrying rifles or shotguns in D.C.
DOGE cutting that waste and fraud.
🚨 Pam Bondi’s firing of DOJ ethics chief Joseph Tirrell underscores rising concerns that a pattern of political firings is weakening internal oversight and enabling conflicts of interest at the Department of Justice. open.substack.com/pub/theintel...
Simple: Someone who dies defending the Constitution is not the same as someone who dies attacking it.
Texas loaded busses with desperate migrants and dropped them off in Chicago like trash in the middle of winter. We welcomed them into our communities. Now Texas is sending its National Guard to terrorize them on our streets. In our neighborhoods. What the fuck.
They adjourned for a month to avoid taking a vote on releasing the files, and THIS is the best scam they could come up with to fool people? Who hatched this genius plan - Comer? bsky.app/profile/meid...
SCOOP: Sources at the House Oversight Committee confirm documents posted by Rep. Anna Paulina Luna are the same ~33,000 pages of Epstein documents they received — 97% already public — and part of a broader plan to block transparency.
I think Illinois can and should sue Texas in the Supreme Court’s original jurisdiction and seek a preliminary injunction against the use of any un-federalized Texas National Guard troops in Illinois.
BREAKING: On a 2-1 vote, D.C. Circuit denies the Trump administration's request to let Trump fire a Federal Trade commissioner during appeals. Citing Humphrey's Executor, about the FTC: "To grant a stay would be to defy the Supreme Court's decisions that bind our judgments. That we will not do."
The other GOPer who sometimes counters President Trump — and then still votes for things that advance his agenda, like the sweeping Medicaid cuts in Trump’s “big, beautiful” bill this summer — is slamming the White House for lawlessly withholding federal spending that’s been authorized by Congress.
If it’s under Title 32 authority, the Texas guard remains under state control. That would mean that one state is deploying armed forces into the territory of a non-consenting state. And that’d clearly be a violation of the principle that states are co-equal, territorially limited sovereigns.
NEW: After Democracy Docket resurfaced a 2022 video of a Texas GOP lawmaker suggesting a way to deal with immigrants might be to “shoot, shovel and shut up,” he issues an apology on the Senate floor. From: @yuniorarivas.bsky.social
Benny Johnson Was Fired for Plagiarism. At the White House, He’s Embraced. - The New York Times
If scientists are loving Bluesky, but Glenn Greenwald and Matt Yglesias hate it, I know I’m in the right spot.
Retired Master Sergeant here… “Alex, I’ll take things that GIs have never said for $1000.”
I don’t know who needs to hear this but the National Guard of one state can’t invade another state. They are separate sovereigns
Senate Democrats: DO NOT FUND the government when the current continuing resolution expires at the end of the month. SHUT IT DOWN unless DC is funded, the troops are withdrawn from our cities, elections are protected, the Epstein files are released in full... SHUT IT DOWN.
This photo is from a car crash more than a year ago in California, not the accident involving Rudy Giuliani that took place in New Hampshire over the weekend. factcheck.afp.com/doc.afp.com....
American business has no objections to crony capitalism as long as they are the cronies. As it turns out, they also have few objections to a state-run economy if they think they will be the beneficiaries of a beneficent regime. open.substack.com/pub/charlies...
It’s official as of yesterday: Gov. Greg Abbott and GOP leaders have now made it even harder in Texas to prevent school shootings, suicides and murders by domestic abusers www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
"You've kind of come around on the new Rose Garden, right?" "Oh shut the fuck up....it's a stage 9 gold explosion." @timmiller.bsky.social and @samsteindc.bsky.social have a little fun with Trump's nutty Daily Caller interview:
Jerry Nadler and the Democrats (and Congress's) generational issue. www.pbump.net/o/democrats-...
The spray-painted gold ornamentation is spreading like a cancer
Yesterday the president demanded that evidence about Covid vaccines be shown to the public. Today @apoorvanyt.bsky.social & I run through some of the studies made public over the past 4+ years that show that the vaccines work. Gift link: nyti.ms/46k17Tq
I know, I know, but: The president of the US saying, literally, "we're going in" in reference to sending the military to an American city for no reason beyond terrorizing the local population should be the most immediately impeachable shit imaginable
Why are federal agents covering their face? What are they hiding? Public servants should face the public! @ofthebraveusa.bsky.social has a mobile billboard driving around D.C. demanding that federal agents take their masks off. Check it out!
As many as 100 survivors of Jeffrey Epstein and other victims of sexual abuse are expected to attend a rally Wednesday in Washington, D.C. as a bipartisan Congressional effort gains steam to force the U.S. Department of Justice to make public its controversial files on the disgraced sex trafficker.
If you want to see where MAGA is headed, look no further than this week’s National Conservatism summit. Here, the vision of a single religion, as the glue that holds a nation-state together, is at the forefront. Read @kieraevebutler.bsky.social on the ideology undergirding the conference and MAGA.
He’s dying of a broken heart. Everyone he truly loves is in Beijing.
He’s dying of a broken heart. Everyone he truly loves is in Beijing.
Warfighters demonstrating leafality.
Russia considers Ukraine’s NATO membership unacceptable — Putin He added that Russia has never opposed Ukraine’s membership in the European Union.
⚠️ Russia is throwing its main forces into Pokrovsk, not the DRG as before — they are looking for weaknesses in the private sector and are gradually advancing towards the railway station, — military "Muchnoy"
Texas AG Partizan Attack On Beto Ken Paxton threatens to arrest Beto O'Rourke for fighting the illegal gerrymander of five congressional seats. Speech is no longer Free in Texas! open.substack.com/pub/betoorou...
His career in public service should be the envy of any young person looking to change the world and do so with integrity. Well done, Congressman. Take a bow. And thank you for always showing up to lead the way to a better future. /thread
Weird, putting tariffs on construction materials and throwing day laborers in concentration camps should have solved the supply problem by now
EPA Fires ‘Dissent’ Statement Signers The EPA fired agency employees who signed a June declaration decrying moves that contradict science and undermine public health www.scientificamerican.com/article/epa-... as Labor Day weekend started.
For being a corrupt, disbarred attorney who spread lies?
Seems like as good a time as any to reshare my story on the Coffee County voting system breach, which details the key role Giuliani played in Trump’s effort to overturn the 2020 election. www.lawfaremedia.org/article/what...
On Thursday, Sept. 4 at 4 p.m. ET, ProPublica reporter @hannahallam.bsky.social will lead a panel of extremism and political violence experts to discuss how the federal government’s retreat from counter-extremism efforts is reshaping the landscape of domestic security. 📌 RSVP and submit q's:
Your power bill is going up, your water is being poisoned, your air is polluted, and if you live near a data center you just get used to the non-stop humming of the place. But look on the bright side: AI is making a tiny handful of billionaires even richer so Google can get basic math wrong.
Grift, meet gravity.
1997: the president was born in 1946 2007: the president was born in 1946 2017: the president was born in 1946 2027: we’ll see
In a recent interview, Governor Pritzker discussed that he believes that Donnie's eagerness to put troops in US cities stems from Donnie's intention to make false claims about the upcoming 2026 elections & would be "an invasion". #PINKS
www.greenmatters.com/pn/japanese-... Some GOOD NEWS to share Japanese Scientists develop plastic that dissolves in seawater in a few hours !! It can also breakdown in soil taking about 200 hours SEE WHY SCIENCE MATTERS
Oh ffs
🚨Denmark has summoned the U.S. envoy after reports tied Trump-linked operatives to covert influence in Greenland. The clash raises NATO tensions, threatens Arctic sovereignty, and spotlights a brewing fight over security, resources, and U.S. credibility. open.substack.com/pub/theintel...
Happy Labor Day! #ONEV1 #Pinks 🌸 #Voices4Victory
El Chapo’s son, Ovidio Guzman, changed his plea from not guilty to guilty shortly after 17 members of his family were escorted across the border and into CA, are receiving Federal protections. Ovidio’s attorney denies the family entry into USA was part of the deal 🙄🙄 m.youtube.com/watch?v=I9ZJ...
Get well, Mr. Mayor. Whoever did this is dethpicable.
NEW: This weekend in Trump's effort to make fascism happen. The Trump administration tried to illegally send children to Guatemala as troops walked aimlessly around Dupont Circle. This evening, at Law Dork:
Platner: Our taxpayer dollars can build schools and hospitals in America, not bombs to destroy them in Gaza.
White House releases new photo of Trump golfing today Your move, shitlibs
What? A 2023 poll showed that “37% believed that vaccines could lead their dogs to develop cognitive issues, such as autism.” www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...
It's odd to call people on a platform an "ism," Nate Silverism.
Platner: I believe that input from working people is far more important than input from someone who simply has money. I believe that we shouldn’t 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 — a list of Indigenous murders they’d investigated — the state said no. By @kylehopkinsak.bsky.social, w/ @adn.com
The MaGops are gonna have a hard time out-Alphaing this Viking, lumberjack looking dude whose voice is an octave lower than anyone who speaks for them. And fuck Susan Collins and Bill Cassidy for condoning and advancing — Mass-murdering ☠️ Americans 🇺🇸 Gop 🐘 Approved! 🏴☠️
Here's the response from Paul Bryant, the Black veteran and lawyer whom the govt arrested in part bc he had a legal weapon in DC, to USG attempt to get him detained. It leans heavily into the lack of Body Cam proving he shoulder checked some Guardsmen. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
