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A brilliant post from Prof Timothy Snyder for Labor Day. A snippet: "The death that Trump and Vance prefer, and cause, and need is indirect and passive-aggressive: by destroying government functionality, the generate unnecessary suffering, which they then blame on migrants and African Americans."
I’d think that the current secretaries would be embarrassed to see themselves doing nothing but playing toadies while they spend THREE HOURS praising their incompetent boss for being so terrible at running OUR government into the ground. It was clearly cringeworthy watching it. Can we survive this?
Indeed she was.
One of the best responses, I think. 🤣🤣🤣
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KOH: “Trump Stripped 1 million workers’ bargaining rights while plastering his face on the Labor Dept… Closed miner health clinics… Cut $2.4 Billion from youth & senior job programs… This is the real story of Trump & Labor.” #LaborDay
💯% agreed.....
NEW: The trump administration attempted to remove 600 terrified unaccompanied minors to Guatemala in the middle of the night on a holiday weekend. Judge Sooknanan stopped it. My latest: www.muellershewrote.com/p/the-sookna...
Medicare to start requiring pre-authorization for some procedures, likely delaying potentially life-saving procedures. Explore this gift article from The New York Times.4 www.nytimes.com/2025/08/28/h...
This is the simple explanation and it seems to make sense:
I signed up to read the explanation & the "expert" explanation doesn't even make sense to me.
I used to be good at standardized tests back in the day, but I'm honestly completely clueless about how to complete this analogy. I just guessed & selected option 3. Anybody know how I would even start this? I don't even know what I'm looking at here?
I'm not seeing 4 of a kind in the top right hand picture? I see six + signs and two empty circles. Bottom left has four boxes with X and four without?
I'm a Democrat and I'm perfectly fine with influencers being paid - most of them don't make it a secret who is paying them, but it seems to be a scandal every time it's brought up (it was in Trump's 1st term as well) Agree-GOP didn't bat an eye over Benny Johnson, Dave Rubin, etc paid by Russia
I used to be good at standardized tests back in the day, but I'm honestly completely clueless about how to complete this analogy. I just guessed & selected option 3. Anybody know how I would even start this? I don't even know what I'm looking at here?
In a national poll, 9 out of 10 American flags prefer Governor Gavin Christopher Newsom.
CHICAGO…
Dale says Trump repeatedly spreads audacious, easily debunked lies, often recycling exaggerated stats, baseless claims, or fictional stories despite months or years of debunking. www.rawstory.com/donald-trump...
JD Vance on Donald Trump: “I’m a Never Trump guy. I never liked him. I don’t think he’s the person. I don’t think he cares about folks. I think that he’s noxious and is leading the white working class to a very dark place.” { ht: @marcofoster.bsky.social }
When all POTUS wants to do is participate in petty cultural things, work to some how, some way, obtain the Nobel Peace Prize Award, receive Kudos from his unqualified Cabinet, and play golf; the POTUS therefore must Claim the works Achieved by his predecessor and the opposition party.
@nealkatyal.bsky.social: “You’ve got the president who's imposed the largest tax increase on American consumers since 1993 … and he did it without Congress saying one word. That is not our constitutional structure.”
What if we established a tax-exempt Church of Democracy and sued the government for infringing on our religious freedoms when it does authoritarian stuff?
Mike Johnson makes clear that when Congress returns next week he's going to work tirelessly to cover up the Epstein files
Harris did better in NC, GA, and WI and was roughly the same in NV (tiny increase), and PA & MI (tiny decreases). The difference was that Trump did better in all 7 swing states. Dem turnout in blue states like CA, NY, NJ, MD, IL, etc. was down, which accounted for the overall Dem decrease
Kamala's voting record in the Senate was to the left of Sanders & Warren and moderates/sane Republicans viewed her that way (Socialist!) due to how she was portrayed in the media. Harris 2024 got the same or more votes than Biden 2020 in all the swing states save AZ. Trump just did better in all 7
The writing is on the wall. "I will not seek reelection to the Wisconsin Supreme Court because I believe the best path for me to rebuild the conservative movement and fight for liberty is not as a minority member of the Court," The Felon screwed them. www.jsonline.com/story/news/p...
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FOX: *plays clip of Gavin Newsom pointing out that crime is higher in Louisiana than in California* FOX: Your response? MIKE JOHNSON: He needs to go an govern his state and not be engaging in this
Not another fcking word from Republicans about how school shootings are a “mental health problem.” Y’all don’t want to fund ANY healthcare LET ALONE subsidize mental health benefits. Pretending to care about mental health problems in order to shield your guns from scrutiny is SO GROSS.
TBC: President Biden passed an authorization to get car manufacturing back here. Trump's Tariffs completely counteracted that legislation. There almost surely won't be MORE manufacturing here & there's already LESS in some sectors.
I think this debate is really welcome. Two things I haven't seen. First, there is a VERY high likelihood of multiple predictable catastrophes: financial, health, extreme weather, supply chain. What happens when those catastrophes hit? In both 2008 and 2020, the GOP needed Dems to bail them out.
We've been getting thoughts & prayers for mass shooting victims for 20 years now & Republicans have fought tooth & nail against every action to stop mass shootings in that time.
and don't forget this from a few months back:
Exactly right
But Hunter Biden!
David-Trump & the GOP drive the media narrative almost every day. Last year, under 30% thought the US was headed in the right direction economically, but over 70% said they were doing well personally. The reason is that the media was hyper-focused almost entirely on the bad news & ignored the good.
It's still unbelievable how so many people were either just too stupid, blind, or in complete denial of how much good Biden did for this country to pull us out of the pandemic that they would choose this shitshow criminal liar of a POTUS and his completely inept administration.
Decades of US diplomatic efforts being unwound. @reuters.com 🇮🇳 www.reuters.com/world/china/...
COVID vaccines were approved today but it's a Pyrrhic victory for vaccines. With the CDC stripped of leadership & capacity, we have no recourse for the outbreaks of preventable diseases that are coming. The CDC's death will kill people. open.substack.com/pub/rasmusse...
For those of you who don’t like to open links or don’t have instagram. I downloaded the video for you. If you haven’t heard about this guy before don’t scroll past it, his name is Jesse Welles. I promise you won’t be disappointed. #jessewelles #wellesmusic #thekaelosproject #kaelos #wordshaveweight
Schools Theaters Concerts Malls Churches Synagogues Mosques Parks Nightclubs Offices Festivals Stores Military Bases Bars Post Offices Yoga Studios Super Bowl parades Nowhere is safe from the scourge of gun violence in America. You can't tell me we must simply accept it.
I had serious doubts about CDC Director Monarez’s willingness to stand up against RFK Jr.’s personal mission to destroy public health in America—I’m glad that I was wrong. If there are any adults left in the White House: we cannot let RFK Jr. burn what's left of CDC. FIRE HIM.
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Trump taking credit for Biden’s work.
It's Friyay eve, friends!! If you're attending any music festivals. Here are some fun chant ideas! If you have any fun chants, share that shit below. Don't be gatekeeping em! Have a day, y'all! #SheShed
The GOP has built up a huge media infrastructure since the 70s - newspapers then syndicated radio, then TV networks (Fox, Sinclair, NewsMax, Breitbart, RSBN, etc), and now internet & podcasts. And most of the mainstream media has bent the knee to Trump & rarely asks any tough questions.
People have to know it's not true in order to do research. If hardly any of the media out there is saying it was a Biden initiative, hardly anybody will know to look into it further.
and don't forget this from a few months back:
It's possible ... hear me out, here …. It may well be that these people lie their asses off whenever they exhale
Louisiana GOP Officials ask US Supreme Court to gut Voting Rights Act and ban use of race in redistricting. If they succeed, next GOP will ask Supreme Court to end the Civil Rights Act ban on racial discrimination. GOP has gone full white hoods as they seek to impose a new American apartheid
Ashley Babbit dishonored her service by committing insurrection against her country. While her death is absolutely tragic and I wish it hadn’t happened, the Air Force giving her honors is in itself a dishonor.
More health care resistors please. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/27/h...
We don’t need to accept this life for our kids. It’s our choice to subject children to this horror. Talking with @chrislhayes on @MSNBC and then with @andersoncooper on @CNN later on the path forward.
FEMA employees were just placed on leave after criticizing the Trump regime in open letter. Their letter was meant to "sound the alarm" about inexperienced appointees and drastic cuts to agency programs. Like all tyrants in history, Trump wants to squelch dissent.
#Pinks #ProudBlue
They are sending soldiers into cities to prepare to intimidate people at the polls next year. They gerrymander because they can’t win on policy. They intimidate because even gerrymandering won’t work at this point.
Don't get it twisted. Trump is having the National Guard pick up trash to debase them. He hates the military. He is incapable of understanding anyone who would make sacrifices for the greater good. He thinks they are suckers and losers, and he's treating them as such.
It used to be a great place to look for jobs, but when I've opened up LinkedIn this year, I've found it filled with WAY too many political posts. Before this year, I don't remember seeing ANY political posts and I'm not sure why it changed.
one that annoys me is that what these people think is cutting edge new political thinking is just warmed over slaveholder ideology
Undermining the Fed to get lower rates now is like ripping the batteries out of your smoke alarm because it’s beeping. It’s quiet for a bit. Then your house burns down. Credibility anchors expectations; expectations anchor inflation.
Wish I could attend, but I'm on the East Coast.
Hi Seattle! Come see my talk on the history of human-computer interaction. I'll explain U.S. gov funding of science has led to many of the innovations that power our economy & shape our lives — and call out the short-sightedness & hypocrisy of efforts to defund science in this field & so many others
RULE ABOUT AMERICAN FLAGS: If you burn the fabric part, you're looking at jail. But it you use the pole part to assault a police officer, you get a presidential pardon, praise, and some cash.
It’s always so easy to laugh at this, but it’s not funny. For 3hrs today, grown men & women all took turns getting down on their knees, fellating their dear leader. In front of the cameras. It’s sad. It’s gross. It’s North Korea. It shouldn’t happen here.
She Won, Part VIII: North Carolina—93 of 100 Counties Used Untested, Uncertified Equipment in 2024 open.substack.com/pub/thiswill...
This happened in Trump's 1st term as well, and we still re-elected him in 2024.
just as ignorant
Now we do not have to imagine what the world would look like if America started treating its most reliable allies like enemies. Remember this moment. (Gift article. Please read.)
FUCK YEAH SCIENCE arstechnica.com/science/2025...
I'm old enough to remember when we ran influence operations against the Soviet Union and then Russia... Team Trump put a stop to that and is now doing it against our allies. Looking good, by the way. 😍
Denmark, Jack Smith, and Union Station. What the fuck bro.
The only thing more disgraceful than having groveling cabinet members so willing to debase themselves in this shameless way is having such a damaged, insecure, and needy president that they know desperately needs to hear this BS.
www.rawstory.com/jeanine-pirr...
The old saying "A good prosecutor could indict a ham sandwich" is true - because the Trump prosecutors aren't any good.
Dear Democrats - Now that you’re coming back to work next week here are your talking points: - inflation - Epstein - The physical and mental health of the president Keep it simple and relentless.
yep - all the MAGA influencers on Twitter are dutifully regurgitating this call.
Trump's Big Ugly Bill could cause hundreds of local radio stations to close in rural areas. It's yet another way he's badly screwing his own voters. On the pod, Dem rural organizer @lynleethorne.bsky.social is so good in explaining why these stations are a lifeline: newrepublic.com/article/1996...
My neighbors, many of you are not going to realize how bad tRump's awful budget bill from 2025 is for some time yet. But eventually, you'll feel the horrific effects. But by then, many of you won't remember the cause. It was this guy 👇
This was an amazing discussion about media, democracy, and community. Heather Cox Richardson Leigh McGowan (Politics Girl) Joanne Carducci (JoJoFromJerz) Dana Goldberg substack.com/@muellershew...
He did this in his 1st term as well
Iowa is why republicans are redrawing maps. It's that simple.
I hope the guy who threw the sandwich counter-sues for legal fees & harassment.
Yup, when drunken Jeanine Pirro is the prosecutor, Grand Juries just laugh at her.
HAPPENING NOW: Kilmar Abrego Garcia's lawyers say in court he has filed a motion to reopen his immigration proceedings, set aside his deportation order and seek asylum. Judge Xinis says that process is totally distinct from her purview.
The old saying was that a good prosecutor could indict a ham sandwich. But, I guess not the person tossing the sandwich... Prosecutors Fail to Secure Indictment Against Man Who Threw Sandwich at Federal Agent www.nytimes.com/2025/08/27/u...
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