Ukraine needs to name its military bases after Vladimir Putin and his generals. by Pete Hegseth
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Ukraine needs to name its military bases after Vladimir Putin and his generals. by Pete Hegseth
Financial collapse, disease, and war. Failure by design. We all see it. Traitor Trump, his enablers, and puppet masters. War on America. Justice failed & ties our hands.
Trump/RFK are decapitating our public health system, a pillar of American greatness. So Dem Govs should scour every corner of the law for creative new ways to defend their people from this madness. Dems should polarize this debate to the max. Thoughts on this here: newrepublic.com/article/1998...
💬 “He wants to restore the old Soviet Union. And that includes part of my country,” says German Chancellor Friedrich Merz.
Ben Meiselas reports on Donald Trump’s Cabinet getting instant repudiation from the Appeals Court after they sent letters begging the Court not to humiliate them with an adverse ruling. youtu.be/QtQ0PLgxR8g?...
People really just need to laugh in their faces when they say nonsense like this.
This “explicit” is a weird editorial choice. The constitution gives the president no power over this at all. It’s not ambiguous.
"Here’s the truth we cannot escape: If Ashli Babbitt is honored, then few things are sacred. If loyalty to the Constitution and an attempt to overthrow it are treated as equal, we lose the very meaning of service." www.thebulwark.com/p/honoring-a...
From the WH pool this morning: Trump left for an “unannounced location” at 9:27 a.m. His motorcade then drove to his golf club in Virginia, arriving at 10:02 a.m. “There was one person in a car who gave the motorcade the middle finger as it drove by,” the pool report states.
He won’t let the press anywhere near him. This is getting weirder and weirder.
Also, RELEASE THE EPSTEIN FILES.
Donald Trump is once again threatening to issue an executive order targeting voting. This is an effort to subvert the Constitution and the 2026 election, which grants states and Congress but not the president power to regulate federal elections. If he does this, we will sue and we will win (again).
Jesse Watters: “You weren’t ever on Jeffrey Epstein’s jet, were you?” RFK Jr: “I was on Jeffrey Epstein’s jet two times.” Release the freaking Epstein Files. Believe the survivors and their families. We want accountability.
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JB Pritzker uses the word "invasion" to describe what Trump has planned for my city, Chicago. And that's exactly what it would be – an autocratic government trying to crush our dissent because we oppose his corruption, cruelty and incompetence. It's what dictators do.
ALL HAIL OUR GLORIOUS SAVIOR MISTER TRUMP
here's today's post: "Chicago cordially invites the Mad King to go fuck himself" — Chicago will not comply with Donny’s police state fascism. thanks for reading, and please sign up for my daily newsletter so you never miss a post —
The clown show never stops. bsky.app/profile/atru...
Pritzker on Trump sending troops into cities: "He has other aims other than fighting crime... he would like to stop the elections in 2026 or frankly take control of those elections. He'll just claim there's some problem with an election and then he's got troops on the ground that can take control."
Lori Chavez DeRemer: "Consumer confidence is up." (Consumer confidence is actually way down since Trump's second inauguration.)
This is the type of person Trump pardoned. He proudly asserts that they should have injured a US Capitol Police Officer worse than they did on January 6th (@sergeantaqgo.bsky.social) had to medically retire). But MAGA supports law enforcement? Seriously? Then show me by condemning this guy.
CHICAGO…
A scientist who resigned from the CDC this week warned that RFK Jr. has shown signs he believes in eugenics.
Baw-wid-da-ba...
The NRA buys off Congress. No action on guns. The oil industry buys off Congress. No action on climate. Insurance companies buy off Congress. No action on health care. The list goes on and on. Money in politics is the root of our dysfunction.
“A 14% price increase” When Trump & @MarshaBlackburn tell you there has been no inflation, they’re lying
Garcia: We finally got word from the Epstein estate. They're going to be providing the actual Epstein book… the estate is actually going to actually now get us that book and a bunch of other documents that they have that's actually not been reported yet.
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Also, the important thing about this is RELEASE THE EPSTEIN FILES.
Also, the important thing about this is RELEASE THE EPSTEIN FILES.
Reuters: MOST TRUMP TARIFFS ARE NOT LEGAL, U.S. APPEALS COURT RULES
The important thing about this is RELEASE THE EPSTEIN FILES.
The important thing about this is RELEASE THE EPSTEIN FILES.
Between RFK decimating the CDC, normalizing Ashli Babbitt & the umpteenth school shooting... I'm losing the will to post. #ReleaseTheEPSTEIN_Files
JFC
This is not (merely) the ranting of a fevered extremist. This is the man who has the ear of the President of the United States. And we are seeing the consequences rolled out on a daily basis. open.substack.com/pub/charlies...
Doomers: The 2026 election doesn't matter, Republicans are just going to rig the whole thing anyway Various red state republican incumbents: I'm just going to quit now because if I run in 2026 I'm going to get absolutely killed
Vance and tRUmp are not Americans.
Wow.
Republican Sen. Bill Cassidy, a physician, voted to confirm anti-vaxxer RFK Jr. as health secretary because Cassidy thinks his re-election is more important than whether children die of measles or are crippled by polio.
I dare you to go to Annunciation School and tell our grieving community, in effect, guns don’t kill kids, antidepressants do. Just shut up. Stop peddling bullshit. You should be fired.
RFK Jr is driving this country towards an almost certain public health disaster. If Democrats can’t stop it, at the very least they can get it on the record now that they wanted him gone and the GOP wanted him kept in. Underline how they own the disasters to come. It’s Politics 101.
“Kennedy would be less hazardous if he decided to do cardiac surgery. Then he would kill people only one at a time rather than his current ability to kill by the thousands. Why is it that killing a single person is seen as murder but killing masses is excused if you are a politician?” Dr Bill Foege
This makes me question the president’s health more than the size of his ankles
Setting aside all of the obvious here, what does Vance know that we don't, such that he's comfortable talking about Trump's death to the media?
Little kids are having to use their bodies to shield friends from gunfire while armed soldiers are busy picking up trash.
#MAGALogic Imagine thinking this makes anyone safer.
Stellar reporting. Delete your account.
Mass shootings are an American nightmare. But RFK Jr will kill more Americans than all the mass shooters combined. And Senator Bill Cassidy M.D. let it happen. It’s the greatest case of medical malpractice in history.
But, sure…keep taking tax money out of my paycheck and setting it on fire. It’s almost (almost!) like they just want to damage the US in any way possible…you know…like our foreign adversaries would want. Also, we’re paying $1M/day for battle ready groundskeepers in DC.
And at only $1M/day for accommodations! Sure. Keep taking taxes out of my check! (And it’s almost (almost!) like they just want to damage the US in any way possible…you know…like our foreign adversaries would want).
Rage against the Regime should also be considered.
Can We Please Talk About the Racism of Trump's Attack on Lisa Cook? This is excellent from @paulwaldman.bsky.social Also ties into what I see as Trump's "genius," his ability to personify how the politics of strategic racism are inseparable from corruption.
1. The president is an obvious bigot 2. His administration is pursuing a panoply of racist and sexist policies 3. Lisa Cook is the first Black woman on the Fed board and has done research on economic effects of racism How are we not talking about this? paulwaldman.substack.com/p/can-we-ple...
Newsom: This cannot be normalized. And yes so I'm highlighting some just just blatant hypocrisy. Yes, we are putting a mirror up to the lunacy that is trump's tweets and his grift.
Breaking: BILL CASSIDY is calling for CDC's vaccine advisers meeting to be postponed. "If the meeting proceeds, any recommendations made should be rejected as lacking legitimacy given the seriousness of the allegations and the current turmoil in CDC leadership."
Fuck ICE.
In a functional government, this would be a five alarm fire where Congress calls in Kennedy and asks him what the fuck is going on
Striking: New Quinnipiac poll finds 56% of voters nationally oppose Trump's sending of National Guard into DC. Only 41% support it. Independents oppose it by 61-34. Trump's overall approval on crime is cratering at 42-54. That sound you hear is a lot of dimwitted pundit narratives imploding.
remember folks, we cant have gun restrictions because if we do the federal government will occupy our streets, imprison people without due process, ship dissidents to foreign gulags and things of that nature
National Guard soldiers called into service for President Trump's law enforcement surge in D.C. have been assigned to spread mulch at federal monuments. Normally the Park Service does that, but the administration laid off the workers. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
Iowa tonight is exactly why Republicans are redrawing their maps.
How In the actual fuck does one “drive out the homelessness”?
498,000!
War is still raging in Ukraine. Measles outbreak. US cities under siege. Gas, coffee, grocery prices are all up. No tax on tips. Value of the US dollar down. Radioactive shrimp? Millions thrown off health insurance while the plague makes a comeback... And still no Epstein files.
Gov. Pritzker is one of 23 Dem governors who must defy this despot deploying the military: “This is exactly the type of overreach our country's founders warned against, and it's the reason that they established a federal system with a separation of powers….” www.americaamerica.news/p/snapshot-y...
“Transparent”
I know you, Chicago — and I know you’re up to the difficult time we have ahead, thanks to this President.
Trump heard: “Maybe we’d like a dictator...” He didn’t hear the rest of that: “…removed from the White House and taken into custody for violating our Constitution.”
Wow. When I first read about this I assumed this was an anonymous letter. But turns out they had the courage to sign their names to it knowing the consequences of a highly vindictive Trump. Lots of respect.
Trump Says Cracker Barrel Should Go Back to Old Logo politicalwire.com/2025/08/26/t...
I feel like this should have at least 3 sirens.
Trump’s immigration raids are destroying our agricultural workforce — inflating costs, creating worker shortages, and destroying communities. On California Farmworker Day, we honor the hardworking men and women who power our economy. We will not stop defending your rights.
Krasner: So, if what you have is a group of ICE agents, or even the military, coming into Philadelphia and committing crimes—assaults that are illegal, kidnapping, unlawful restraint, obstruction of the administration of justice—they can be prosecuted.
If the media wanted to, they could take down this administration. They don't want to because they’re making too much money propping up this administration.
Stalin could only have dreamed of having such toadies.
This is how you stand up to bullies and aspiring tyrants.
Pritzker Torches Trump’s Power Grab: “Do Not Come To Chicago” This is what courage looks like:
He'll likely try this, but I think the real danger comes after the 2026 midterms. Sure, they'll try to sway them with gerrymandering and "emergencies" that shut down polling places in key Democratic areas. But if Dems make real gains the current GOP majority can cry fraud and refuse to seat them.
At some point Trump is going to call for the removal from congress of dozens of Democrats, all of them accused of mortgage fraud, and Corporate Media will obsess over details of the accusations rather than just calling it a partisan purge and fascist consolidation of power. Stop taking the bait.
To Donald Trump and his administration: If you hurt my people, nothing will stop me — not time or political circumstance — from making sure you face justice under our constitutional rule of law.
I can't tell if they're racing to get ahead of the Epstein Files, or racing to get ahead of a tariff-driven economic crash, or racing to get ahead of Trump's health issues, or all of the above.
BREAKING: Trump has FIRED Federal Reserve Gov. Lisa Cook — the first time in U.S. history a president has removed a sitting Fed governor. This unprecedented power grab shatters long-standing protections meant to keep the Fed independent from partisan politics.
He didn't just invoke MLK's "arc of the moral universe" line. He added that the arc won't bend itself and people need to step up to make that change happen. Absolutely right. Pitch perfect.
J.B. Pritzker got it exactly right, Donald Trump is sending the military to blue cities because he wants to undermine free and fair elections in 2026. Trump believes that military deployments in blue cities is his path to keeping power and Republican victory.
What I'm looking for in the 2028 primary is someone who will put Stephen Miller and Kristi Noem in jail, and so far, that's Pritzker
Not just “we will stop you.” “We will prosecute you.” Right on.
Illinois Gov. Pritzker vows to pursue Trump officials who participate in an illegal National Guard deployment to Chicago: "If you hurt my people, nothing will stop me - not time or political circumstance - from making sure that you face justice under our constitutional rule of law."
I am sounding the alarm on the real crisis we face today. Donald Trump’s overreach is what our founders warned against – it is unprecedented, unwarranted, and un-American. There’s no emergency here that calls for military intervention.
Yeah…uh…no. To all of that nonsense.
Pritzker: This is not about fighting crime. This is about the President and his complicit lackey, Stephen Miller, searching for ways to lay the groundwork to circumvent our democracy, militarize our cities, and end elections.
Pritzker gets it.
Pritzker: Trump looked at the cameras and asked for me personally to say, Mr. President, can you do us the honor of protecting our city? Instead, I say, Mr. President, do not come to Chicago. Your remarks about this effort have betrayed a continuing slip in your mental faculties
This is an effective message from the governor, especially with both senators and the mayor of Chicago standing behind him in a unified show of defiance. DC, of course, doesn't have most of those officials, which is why the lack of congressional pushback there matters so much these days.
Gov. Pritzker: “Earlier today in the Oval Office, Donald Trump…asked for me personally to say, ‘Mr. President, can you do us the honor of protecting our city?’ Instead, I say, ‘Mr. President, do not come to Chicago. You are neither wanted here nor needed here.’”
Pritzker: To the members of the press who are assembled here today and listening across the country, I am asking for your courage to tell it like it is. This is not a time to pretend here that there are two sides to this story.
Let’s be clear: deporting Kilmar Abrego Garcia to Uganda makes no sense—it’s not his home country. Nothing about this process has been fair. ICE is targeting him with cruelty. This is the weaponization of government, not justice.