Portland, Maine crowd as Democratic US Senate candidate Graham Platner takes the stage today.
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Portland, Maine crowd as Democratic US Senate candidate Graham Platner takes the stage today.
Breaking Labor Day news (for MAGA): Donald Trump inherited nearly half a billion dollars. After bankrupting six companies, he got his first non-family job at age 71. And was fired four years later by 81,282,896 of his employers for defrauding them. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
#Pinks #ProudBlue All the reasons red states are terrible and will continue to be until they are no longer red. hartmannreport.com/p/why-are-re...
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Today is the first day of public trading for Trump’s crypto scam.
How the death of a delivery driver ignited Indonesia ->BBC | More info from EcoSearch
wow
C’mon guy, get in front of a microphone www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv...
It's not the opposition that turns the blind eye. It's an entire political party that's gouged its own eyes out.
Imagine being out there to destroy your entire family's legacy. RFK Jr. has destroyed the Kennedy name.
Screw him. Please stop trying to find some underlying intelligence from that crack head
The Voting Rights Act was designed to protect individual voting rights against state interference. The Supreme Court majority has eviscerated it in favor of deference to state suppression. Now the GOP wants to use that to destroy representative democracy. www.brennancenter.org/our-work/res...
Way to go, America.
I was today’s years old thatI learned that Albert Einstein taught at an NCBU, Lincoln University, and received an honorary degree from the first Degree granting HBCU in 1946, and spoke out about racism. I know he was brilliant, but learning this touched my fucking soul ❤️
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.
MAGA got everything they wanted out of Cracker Barrel and they still want to punish the company anyway. Just about the most predictable outcome you could imagine.
"Author Fran Lebowitz said in 2018: “You do not know anyone as stupid as Donald Trump. You just don’t.”" www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
As a result of gun laws..
Fatality.
Victor Frankenstein was both a nepobaby and a terrible father, like that one South African billionaire dickhead that we have all had the misfortune of knowing.
Indeed.
Folks just hate cooking at home
Number of Cracker Barrel restaurants in Washington state: Zero. It's not the reason I love living here, but it sure helps.
The oldest fossil evidence shows that humans originated in Africa about 200,000 years ago and would have had dark pigmented skin to protect them from intense UV rays. So if you're a believer in "God," and believe man was created in his image... then it stands to reason that God is a Black man.
Look at this graph. The share of national income going to the richest 10 percent was lowest (and share to lower 90 percent highest) when union membership was at its highest. As unions have weakened, inequality has widened. This is why we must build back union power.
The Trump administration has moved to end temporary protected status for immigrants from Honduras and other countries. Among them are health care workers tending to older and disabled people.
Hydrangea closeup
If that Trump Truth Social account posts an apology to someone, admits making a mistake, or accepts responsibility for something, then we will know something is definitely up.
Why is the Draft Dodger-in-Chief trying to drag us into a war with Venezuela? The claim is that drug cartels are so out of control they’ve been designated an international terrorist organization, so we need to send warships. But we’re denying Venezuelan’s asylum claims who fled for their lives. 🤔
This article is from 3 months before the 2024 general election
When I moved here in 1991, I was amazed to realize you really didn’t need air conditioning. There were like 4 days of 90 degrees total all summer. And then slowly, that changed. I say: give it another 20 years, Seattle will have weather like San Diego
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ABC News is still calling RFK Jr. a “vaccine skeptic.” The dude was one of the most prominent anti-vaccine activists for decades. There’s video of him in 2023 saying that there’s no vaccine which is safe and effective. You can call him an anti-vaccine activist!
"We're going to need a story about this accident. Say he was helping a woman. That should work. Also, is he wearing pants? Make sure he's wearing pants."
youtube.com/shorts/81UQf... The People v MAGA. It’s about getting our democracy back and shutting down authoritarianism, fascism and oligarchy. Adversity makes strange bedfellows. It’s what we need so we can argue our policy stances again in a democratic framework. #TakeBackOurDemocracy
Republicans: “Stop making everything about race.” Really? White people enslaved Black people for generations, stole Native land, lynched and segregated us, burned down Black communities that thrived, and treated Mexican land & labor like property to be taken. America already made it about race.
Hasn't Trump voted by mail-in ballot previously? And is he saying all the mail-in ballots that were votes for him should be contested? Is he also saying the last election was not valid? I'm all for a do-over.
Hi. I’m the executive director of the organization that had the honor of hosting the FEMA Katrina Declaration and I can confirm this is a lie. NICE TRY, KRISTI! @standupforscience.bsky.social @atrupar.com
Right now in Michigan, we’re in the middle of a budget showdown. The Republican Speaker of the House slipped a provision into the budget that would kneecap our Attorney General – and make it near-impossible for us to take the Trump Administration to court.
#CollectiveCourage: Hundreds of economists from across the country have signed an open letter calling on Congress to uphold Federal Reserve independence. If you’re an economist, you can still sign on: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1oGrUv-_CoeulsLZDt_lyNTPbm9wYCAfiTLm7KMiwgzA/edit?tab=t.0
I know that's all really frightening. You may have already watched this video on YouTube with @hcrichardson.bsky.social and Gil Duran. If you haven't seen this, it's very informative. www.youtube.com/watch?v=FWjR...
TOTAL U.S. HOUSEHOLD DEBT CLIMBS TO RECORD $18.39 TRILLION LAST QUARTER
On August 30, 2024, MSNBC hosted a panel of “undecided voters”, focused on focused on Kamala Harris & mixed-race Americans in NC. 1 of the “undecided voters”, was the Republican House candidate who ran against Rep. Alma Adams during the same election cycle. www.mediaite.com/news/i-didnt...
This thread. Ali Velshi and every MS Now* producer should be shamed into oblivion. *Still not over this rebrand. Never will be.
If Nazis say the same thing you say, and vote the same way you do, and hate the same people you hate? Then congratulations. You're a Nazi.
Still no word from the Washington Post about Trump's latest attack on democracy. But, it is now offering advice to Trump about how to effectuate his tariff plan. Support pro-democracy independent media. Subscribe to Democracy Docket today. hubs.ly/Q03jcjqP0
Cantor Fitzgerald. Run by a certain Commerce Secretary's sons. What an amazing coincidence
I’ve heard wall streeters are buying up the tariff refund rights from importers as speculative investments.
Go ahead, make my day Mr. Trump We @democracydefendersfund.org immediately sued you & got an injunction on your 1st voting EO We will do the same here if you try it again The Constitution gives this authority to the states & Congress, not you! www.nytimes.com/2025/08/31/u...
Anna has had excellent coverage of this developing case in which the Trump administration tried to use the holiday weekend to secretly and illegally deport children.
As rumors fly that Trump has suffered a stroke, I was reminded that the motherfucker has always been a loathsome piece of shit. To make more money with a different tenant, Trump threw 74-year-old widow, Mary Filan, who had recently suffered a stroke out of her Queens apartment.
Am I alone in thinking that if the writers have brought back Giuliani, Trump must be in really bad shape? I’m just saying this feels a lot like a jump the shark moment.
F*ck him
Smells fishy
Remove the dams in the Columbia River Basin. Restore the river. Restore salmon populations (saving Orcas and otters in the process). Of course Trump reneged on the agreement. Go around him @governorferguson.bsky.social @murray.senate.gov
And a huge thank you to @annabower.bsky.social , @kyledcheney.bsky.social , @joshuajfriedman.com and other reporters who chronicled today’s hearing live, so we could track the malfeasance in real time. Here is Bower’s full report www.lawfaremedia.org/article/emer...
What a — excusez mon français, s’il te plait — a government shitshow of unfathomable proportions
⚡️ There will be strikes deep into Russia. Forces and means are already prepared, — Zelensky The President also reported that Russian troops suffered the greatest losses precisely in the Donetsk region, while failing to implement any of their strategic objectives.
Mental health check — if you take your medical advice from RFK, Jr. and want Dr. Fauci jailed you should be banned from buying a gun.
Of course not - but they could have been sent to Texas to help with flood recovery or our west to help with firefighting!
This is incredible. The DoJ has burned all credibility with the courts.
If you ever doubted @mtsw.bsky.social theory about the media, you'll love the headlines associated with the Benny took Russian money story. Even this one! Can't possibly say they took the money because they're grifters, gotta say they were duped. Fucking pathetic.
When I said above the future…I mean immediate! Please join us in the resistance now…While there’s still some time.
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Exactly. It doesn't give him implicit authority, either.
I'm reading John Fugelsang's remarkable new book, Separation of Church and Hate, and came across this passage (pic below). Can I suggest substituting "Trump" for "Rome" and keep the ... well ... faith that America has better days ahead. @johnfugelsang.bsky.social
Chicago cordially invites the Mad King to go fuck himself www.jefftiedrich.com/p/chicago-co...
as a DC resident I cannot overemphasize how much less safe I feel
AMEN!
The world continues to take a pass on American manufacturing bids. Thx trump.
The University of #Michigan, despite recent events, may have one of the most Black-athlete (and coach) represented #college #football teams in the country, so I'll take it
Being so racist that you don't want Black QBs or coaches where some of the most successful players in the history of your sport #football are Black (including, you know the last two Super Bowl QBs, Mahomes and Jalen Hurts [though Hurts is a better human] is...
Empowered by the Republican Terrorist Party: the GQP
Incredible scenes in Genoa, Italy as 50,000 people join a procession to bid farewell to the boats joining the Global Sumud Flotilla to Gaza. Over 50 boats from 44 countries, loaded with 100s of tons of food aid, have set sail to Gaza to attempt to break the Israeli siege. (📸 Hidden Palestine)
Pritzker: "National Guard troops, any kind of troops, on the streets of American city don't belong unless there is an insurrection, unless there is truly an emergency. There is not."
www.yahoo.com/news/article... Tesla is a company built on lies. It's time for Tesla to burn out fade away.
For those keeping score at home, the Navy has sent 3 destroyers, a guided-missile cruiser, a nuclear-powered fast attack submarine and an amphibious ready group with a Marine Expeditionary Unit to the southern Caribbean. New @taskandpurpose.com taskandpurpose.com/news/navy-sh...
The Constitution gives him *no* authority, explicit or otherwise.
No “explicit” authority? - Suggests that he does have implicit authority: NOPE! “Dubious” authority? - Suggests that he may have some but it’s not clear or unlikely: NOPE! There’s none. Say none or zero or no. Why mislead people as a News organization when you can simply report the direct truth?
The Sulzbergers making sure the New York Times always reports dictatorial orders without mentioning the lack of legal power to make them. Because majoritarian democracy is not what they want either. bsky.app/profile/nyti...
He says a lot of 💩 You repeat his 💩 and call it news Your paper is now 💩
“Trump said.”
Voters respond to flashy headlines and sound bites, crime is worse in Red states but Democrats are still playing like it’s 2008, afraid they will upset swing voters with the truth. trump rewired the arena. He proved that repetition and spectacle matter more than facts. Fight like Gavin Newsom.
And they share responsibility for those deaths.
Bro, this is the exact same post from a week ago. HFS sir. Get it together.
UPDATE: 28 down, 72 to go! YOU ARE TOO AWESOME!
🚨SPECIAL ELECTION - FLORIDA STATE SENATE DISTRICT 15🚨 Democrat: LaVon Bracy Davis Election Date: 🗓️THIS TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 2ND🗓️ Area: Orlando area Note: After the hateful garbage DeSantis pulled outside of the Pulse nightclub, we need Orlando to show up to this election in force.
The clown show never stops. bsky.app/profile/atru...
Horror author Stephen King wrote: "Trans is not the problem. He had a gun. That's the problem.”
One week ago, thousands of New Yorkers tried something new. They heard about it last minute. They didn’t know where it would take them or who they would meet. It was free, earnest, even educational. It was the #ZcavengerHunt and it was a thing of beauty.
The US brought in nearly $30 Billion in tariffs in July, triple the amount collected in previous years That's not good news Tariffs are taxes on Americans That $30B was collected from you and me when we bought food, clothes, electronics...
It's unfortunate that the U.S. Supreme Court doesn't fully understand or appreciate the nuances of your constitution and its principles.
“*Slaughtering Smart Folks* “[Such "educated" uneducated] will be happy for their paychecks, not knowing of any higher ideals than greed & accumulation. They will not know of their manipulation," culturewarclasswar.wordpress.com/2020/04/03/c... #TruthWarriors 💙📚 🧵🧵 CW 1/89 x.com/sillymickel/...
A Watchful Eye 