He's probably invading Brazil to go liberate fellow coup plotter and brother traitor Bolsonaro...
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He's probably invading Brazil to go liberate fellow coup plotter and brother traitor Bolsonaro...
A federal judge ruled that President Donald Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth violated federal law by using the US military to help carry out law enforcement activities in and around Los Angeles this summer. https://cnn.it/45MKT5a
#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...
That ugly contractor grade patio used to be the Rose Garden.
Somebody is throwing things out of a window of the White House wtaf
What are we even doing?
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...
25th Amendment needs to be invoked immediately. He's senile and dangerous.
What in the ever loving fuck is going on here
Once again, Border Patrol tells the press this was a targeted kidnapping, yet they took a man who is legally here & in the immigration process. This shows that it was not a targeted investigation as they claimed. Press must stop printing lies. apnews.com/article/immi...
I miss the old brand #CDC
i find this image so fascinating. it is both a literal example of authoritarianism but also a second-hand reproduction of the aesthetics of other authoritarian states. it's like a simulacra of authoritarianism whose purpose is to attempt to make the simulacra real.
This.
A metaphor for where we are as a country: obsessed with deporting immigrants, no matter what the resulting damage to American society.
Terminated a program to prevent drownings in children....
Agree! I loved the blue book exams. Would bring a fountain pen and a little jar of extra ink and just crush those things. So much better than a match with a list of 50 different names and obscure facts.
The Ig Nobel Prizes are awarded in September and I'm really, really hoping they step up here.
20 countries have now stopped shipping all valuable mail parcels to the United States. It’s a result of the White House’s large and chaotic taxes on Americans who buy products made with any input from overseas (‘tariffs’). If you listen closely, you can hear small businesses dying.
Most countries on the planet have stopped allowing their postal services to ship items to the United States, and services like DHL have done the same, because our government can't even tell them what the import duties would be. Mainstream press isn't reporting this and innumerable other shitshows.
Pritzker makes a crucial point here: Members of the National Guard have full-time jobs outside of their service and responsibilities. By frivolously calling them up, Trump is upending their lives just to weaponize them against their own neighbors and fellow Americans. It's appalling.
Donald Trump has vowed to deport millions and jail his enemies. To carry out that agenda, his administration will exploit America’s digital surveillance machine. Here are steps you can take to evade it.
He's as good as on a plane right now. They have absolute disgust for rule of law and due processes, reinforced by the lack of any penalty whatsoever for violating the judge's orders last time.
On Inauguration Day, I listed 12 tripwires of tyranny that would indicate we were in a MAGA dictatorship. Things like “Investigators being investigated” and “A powerless Congress.” We’ve hit 5 of those tripwires and are close on 5 others. Check out the list in my free Stop the Presses newsletter.
An excellent summary of one week on the path to dictatorship from Bill Kristol
And while the right wing story was constantly changing, the police report and the story from the teenagers both remained consistent. The teenagers say that big balls was harassing and trying to pick up the 15-year-old girl, and when he wouldn't leave her alone the boy jumped in to defend her.
And this.
Bolton’s home raided, Gen. Kruse fired, Epstein coverup proceeds, seizure of 10% of Intel another step towards state capitalism. Just one day in the somewhat chaotic but directionally purposeful march towards…despotism. Does anyone think they’re doing all this so they can hand over power in 2028?
The Trump regime is waging war on all of human civilization and on the planet we all share and have a sacred duty to preserve and protect. The only right answer to such self-destructive insanity is: NO!!!!!!!!!! www.nytimes.com/2025/08/22/c...
"Figures from a classified Israeli military intelligence database indicate five out of six Palestinians killed by Israeli forces in Gaza have been civilians, an extreme rate of slaughter rarely matched in recent decades of warfare." www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...
BREAKING NEWS: Deputies in Evansville, Indiana sent a protester to the hospital tonight (8/20/25) during a Town Hall with the Indiana lieutenant governor Micah Beckwith.
This is the best product listing copy I’ve ever read
Slavery and American exceptionalism: substack.com/@johnfdicker...
So Vladimir Putin and Benjamin Netanyahu are likely teamed up with Peter Thiel’s techno-fascist billionaire mafia in an attempt to overthrow U.S. democracy and replace it with a white supremacist oligarchy—all of which is orchestrated by blackmailing Trump with Epstein. Does that sound about right?
From federal agents tackling food delivery drivers, to random checkpoints across D.C., to MAGA governors sending in their guardsmen, Trump's occupation has metastasized into a fascist spectacle. Jen Rubin on the danger and the farce:
If Democratic politicians do not fight this because it's a "distraction," it will simply happen. They need to get in front of every mic and say that we will not allow Trump to destroy American history. He wants a culture war? GIVE HIM ONE. There are no distractions. Have every fight.
“Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. ... History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.” ―Orwell, 1984
"I don't want to hurt you, stop fighting back, you're hurting yourself" is literally the language of an abuser. One of the most banally horrifying things about this administration is that there is no subtext, no dog whistles, no need for interpretive work. It's all just explicit racism and cruelty.
A true Reconstruction will be necessary once we get through this.
The White House is set to allocate 75% of refugee admissions to white South Africans. The only way to understand this is through the lens that American segregation, South African apartheid, and Nazism are interconnected—white supremacists learn and evolve, and now they occupy the U.S. government.
Trump complains that the National Museum of African American History discusses "how bad Slavery was."
Well, the "---k you" part at the end is probably correct.
Breaking: Trump thinks we've done enoigh remembering about how bad slavery was If you've doubted his racism and inhumanity - you can stop doubting now
‘Hallmarks of authoritarianism’: Trump banks on loyalists as he wages war on truth
Leaked audio recordings broadcast Friday reveal remarks by Israel's former chief of military intelligence about the price he believed Palestinians should pay for Hamas' Oct. 7, 2023, attack.
The only remaining problems with getting to peace in Ukraine are: the war is going on, the sides are divided on getting a ceasefire, Russia wants land Ukraine won’t give up, Ukraine wants security guarantees Russia won’t accept, the US leader doesn’t understand any of the issues involved…
this is where Stubb was sitting when Trump couldn't see him btw
Holy shit.
Trump struggled to walk in a straight line as he went to greet Putin
Pew poll: Trump job approval 38% approve 60% disapprove Aug. 4-10, U.S. adults
Armed Trump administration agents wearing masks just showed up outside of Gavin Newsom’s press conference. This is what rising fascism looks like.
This administration is making Baghdad Bob look like the gold standard for reliability... It's just straight up North Korean or Putinesque farce at this point.
When this is all over and after the Restoration, Trump will have an entire wing in the Museum of American History...
Trump’s State Dept plans to burn $9.7M in U.S.-funded birth control, destroying supplies meant for women in refugee camps and war zones. Experts warn it could cause 362K unintended pregnancies and 110K unsafe abortions across Africa. Jennifer Weiss-Wolf breaks down the consequences.
Trump and the billionaires understand how to seize and hold power. And there's only one way to defeat them as they seek to do so. (Hint: It's up to us. No one is going to ride in to our rescue.) My latest. open.substack.com/pub/davidrot...
New Analysis Finds Trump Family Has Raked in $3.4 Billion Off the Presidency www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
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The White House might soon double in size — but don’t worry, Trump hasn’t even asked the planning commission for permission. Federal law? Pfft, that’s just a suggestion, right? www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...
Our colleagues at ProPublica, together with a talented team of video journalists in Venezuela, put together a powerful video of the nightmare three men and their families went through after Trump call them gang members and sent them to a foreign prison. www.propublica.org/article/vene...
The whole point is to be attention grabbing which causes vehicles to slow down around intersections. That is literally the entire point.
We need a word for someone who is beyond perverse, sadistic, sociopathic. Blocking mRNA vaccine research means that you or someone you love will die of something you could have avoided or survived. He is intentionally killing people.
This is going to end up with Trump pardoning the only person serving time for trafficking minors. Everyone will go free (or be permanently quieted.)
Had to find a facility where the cameras didn't work.
Even if they don't get manipulated (which seems very unlikely) BLS can no longer be trusted. He just destroyed the credibility of the any numbers going forward.
Okay, *now you can start to worry about data being manipulated.
Unquestionably the most dangerous and corrupt attack on the independence of US economic data in American history. Trump is firing the head of the BLS, a longtime civil servant confirmed 86-8 by the Senate, simply because the job numbers came in below his expectations today
the entire republican party is currently involved in a cover up involving the worlds most notorious underage sex trafficking ring
Breaking Bloomberg: The FBI redacted Trump's name in the Epstein files. "An FBI [Freedom of Information Act] team redacted Trump's name—and the names of other prominent public figures—from the documents, according to three people familiar with the matter." www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...
Smithsonian removes Trump from impeachment exhibit in American history museum www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen... How low can we go? Show some guts and integrity damn it!
Of course they did.👇
Trump’s interference in the sciences shares features with the science-damaging policies of Stalin and Hitler, says David Wootton, a historian of science at the University of York. But in the English-speaking world, it has no precedent, he told me: “This is an unparalleled destruction from within.”
If you think I've forgotten about the hurricane satellites, think again. The Navy is permanently unplugging them this week, on the brink of the busiest stretch of the season. There's so much more to this story, and I have the latest scoop. ⬇️
oh my fucking god
anntelnaes.substack.com/p/gazans-are...
It's a nice shade of blue. That's all I've got.
It’s taken like two fulls days for them to get behind springing Epstein’s *only known, confirmed and convicted accomplice in sexually abusing middle school girls*
🚨NEW: Further stories of the horrors inflicted on people the Trump admin imprisoned in El Salvador without trial are emerging. Three men describes how they were punished by guards — stripped naked, beaten for six days straight as men and women watching laughed and mocked them.
Gift link, if anyone needs it. www.wsj.com/politics/jus...
You can gild 💩, but it's still 💩. Dime store dictator wants to be Saddam Hussein. It's completely antithetical to the American aesthetic...George Washington in his plain suit as citizen president.
The immensity of this reporting cannot be overstated. @propublica.org made an archive of reported, fact-checked info on each of the individuals sent to prison in El Salvador. Trump admin knew that only *six* had been convicted of violent offenses.
Deliberate starvation as a weapon of war. www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...
Even if/when it is ever a document with inked signatures, what would it even mean for a president who is currently ignoring so many free trade agreements. He himself has made his "deals" meaningless because there is no credibility. He may violate it the next day... Trump's word has no meaning.
The Trump regime is now building concentration camps in multiple states. One is being built in Texas at Fort Bliss, an Army base. They also intend to build camps at New Jersey and Indiana military bases as well.
Nicknames were much more fluid (and descriptive) and usually only used when it made sense. They would most likely have said the Bostons throttled the Cincinnatis... Official names would have been more like the Boston National League Base Ball Club and the Cincinnati National League Base Ball Club...
Yes, they were named after the Boston Braves because they shared Braves Field in Boston, but the Boston Braves name came from Tammany Hall and the "Tammany Braves."
Sock color was your distinctive uniform feature as most uniforms were white or gray... Original Cincy Red Stockings folded in 1870, George and Harry Wright and other players founded Boston team with same name 1871. Cincy rebooted it's team in 1876 and joined NL, also referencing back to 1869 team.
Washington Redskins were the Boston Redskins, named after Boston Braves, which were not names after Native Americans but Tammany Hall "Braves". So his championing of corrupt government is strangely on point, completely unknown to him.
If he really wants original teams, he's gotta go to the New York and Brooklyn teams in the 1840s. Which is also not Cleveland.
OK. Deeper dive since nothing in his post is correct. There were no "6 original" teams. He's crosswired the NHL. Cleveland one of 8 original AL teams in 1901, but AA teams in 1880s, NL dates to 1876, NA in 1871. Everything in his post is wrong and just ignorant.
Within the first 7 months, Trump has managed to add trillions to the deficit, eviscerate agencies, rattle the economy, shake our strongest alliances, build concentration camps for his deportation program, and strip popular social programs like Medicaid from millions.
Trump is closing all four climate observatory stations in Alaska, Hawaii, American Samoa, and Antartica. Because you can't have high CO2 levels if you don't *measure* CO2 levels. roll_safe.gif
SEN. DURBIN: “.. My office was told that these personnel were instructed to ‘flag’ any records in which President Trump was mentioned.” @cnbc.com #Epstein www.cnbc.com/2025/07/18/t...
