I'm still waiting for Trump to invade Tulsa, Oklahoma; which has a far higher violent crime rate than Chicago or Washington. But he won't because blacks.
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I'm still waiting for Trump to invade Tulsa, Oklahoma; which has a far higher violent crime rate than Chicago or Washington. But he won't because blacks.
In the coming days, we expect to see what's playing out in LA and DC happen in Chicago. These efforts are not about fighting crime or making communities safer. This is about Donald Trump testing his power and producing political drama to cover up his own corruption.
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
This is also a form of technological racism (Signet - tigray - tigré)
It's time for the media to figure out Trump will stab you in the back anyway, even if you kiss his, uh, rings.
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
I know it’s all bad faith bs BUT I keep thinking about how the whole “reason” we apparently can’t pass any effective gun control legislation to prevent mass shootings is the idea that we need an armed populace in case the federal government decides to invade our cities and towns. Like??????????
holy shit that is a murder
"Yeah, but they were *fill in the blank*." - drug smugglers - threatening homeless people - violent immigrants - dirty crime-ridden blue cities - Democrats - former members of his own administration This is the pretext that will make everyone a target, even his own supporters ultimately.
This is a MAGA snuff content, call it what it is.
Drug trafficking is not a capital crime; it doesn’t carry a death sentence. I genuinely cannot think of anything under U.S. law that would permit premeditated government assassination of people suspected of drug trafficking.
"Let's Call the 'GREAT' Gaza Post-War Plan Exactly What It Is: Ethnic Cleansing" The ridiculous and leaked 'Riviera' proposal offers Palestinians just $5,000 to leave & includes projects like the 'Elon Musk Smart Manufacturing Zone,' writes Palestinian lawyer Diana Buttu for Zeteo.
Right, because the President is well known for keeping his word when making deals.
Who's killing the journalists in Gaza?
A reminder that Trump called Baltimore a 'hellhole' today to no controversy or scandalous headlines. Imagine a Democratic president calling a red state or red city a hellhole. Just imagine. Oh, the double standards.
"The straw man being put forward is that it's either we have the military or we're going to get our throats cut at night in DC. Is there no middle ground? Do local law enforcement account for nothing? We've got the National Guard GARDENING right now in DC. Is that an efficient use of our resources?"
Supermarkets have sections for gluten-free, vegan/vegetarian and so on. Restaurants increasingly flag these things on menus, too. For the ~50% of America that pre-diabetic of diabetic, however, good luck trying to easily identify which foods and meals won’t spike blood sugar.
Hire a Black woman. We tend to be very good at what we do because we simply are not allowed to be bad at it.
He's saying what they all in the administration want to say.
film flubs: in the movie spartacus (1960), several different characters identify themselves as spartacus. this scene was mistakenly left in the final cut of the film
If you had told me in 2012 that Mitt Romney’s presidential campaign manager would be posting like this 13 years later i would not have believed you
This should be a bigger story. A government official had the YouTube channel of a private citizen shut down bc he didn’t like what that citizen was saying. This administration’s version of free speech is a joke.
Unemployment for Black Americans has surged to 7.2%, the highest level since October 2021, when the job market was still recovering from the pandemic. The drop in employment is a warning sign. @wsj.com www.wsj.com/economy/jobs...
Judge Sooknanan and her team have been working for almost 22 hours straight now. I imagine they will stay up till the last child has been returned (2 more hrs?). That puts them at 24 hours straight defending the rule of law & protecting the children. #DOJ #ICE
How do you write an alibi, while pretending it's not an alibi, but it's obviously an alibi?
He really is running the government like his businesses - stiffing his contractors.
Sounds like you should talk to this guy.
Not to belabor the point but: I am not the weird one for being this mad at the Democratic Party and its leaders. Look at polls of your average rank and file Dem voters and how they feel about the party now. It is YOU who are out of touch if you’re asking why people are being mean to Dem politicians
Seen on my run in Rock Creek Park today. Parking lot near Beach and Tilden. Paper taped on over a Harris 2024 sign.
This week brought wins on all fronts: Catelin Drey flipped a Trump district in Iowa and broke the GOP’s supermajority in the state senate. A federal judge protected Kilmar Abrego Garcia from deportation. And yes, even ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ is about to be empty. Not bad for one week.
You weren't wrong the first time.
Pure fucking evil. Everyone involved in this shit needs to be held accountable.
The Republican Congress is going to try to rewrite the history of RFK Jr.’s confirmation as HHS Secretary. “We didn’t know” “Nobody told us” “He promised he wouldn’t…” This thread will be about the warnings from thousands of scientists and HCW who loudly and publicly opposed his confirmation.
As the VC cash fails to bring about any meaningful returns, desperation from tech companies manifests as them deciding to just spend more and more energy. They'll hit physical constraints eventually - but not before they cause massive electricity price increases + more pollution
This painting is classic Lost Cause revisionism; it was commissioned after Truman ordered desegregation of the military. Army Secretary Gordon Gray was a nepobaby (daddy was chair of RJ Reynolds) who led the dubious "Gray Board" that yanked Oppenheimer's clearance. Real piece of work all around.
Part of countering authoritarianism is ultimately education. Education that eradicates and rewrites the cognitive systems exploited by authoritarian power structures and institutions retooled to serve power not reality or the people. Education and unlearning may seem like opposites, they are not.
It's cool. He's not completely Hitler yet.
New hotness: AI parental figures
Veterans = former service members
I literally voted for both Biden and Harris even though they were crappy on this issue (especially Harris). And the reason I'm telling you three years in advance that I'm not voting for transphobic candidates is so people have the opportunity to nominate non-transphobes.
This. And when we have another pandemic - not if, but when - we will have to resort to treating it with herbs and supplements.
Guaranteed none them signed up for this. This will not go well for Trump in the long term.
RFK Jr. is what unhealthy people think a healthy person looks and sounds like.
New, from me: America is no longer a functioning democracy. It is a competitive authoritarian system, hurtling rapidly toward authoritarianism. This was a hard piece to write but we can't move forward if we don’t acknowledge where we are. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-author...
Do we have yet another version of the N word now?
I'm thankful Don took the time to make this case in such a methodical fashion. I found it very convincing.
They will eventually get to "Universal Basic Income is good" around five minutes before the sea swallows the land and the sun collides with the earth
It's a cult of personality where his followers *like* that he lies/cheats/steals. When it emerges that he in fact raped children, they will excuse that too. The Dear Leader is infallible. It will be interesting to see what happens after he dies. I think MAGA will go on but there will be a vacuum.
Now that the President of the United States has sent the military to take over American cities and oppress civilians, I thought it would be fun to check in with the men who claimed to be terrified about this happening a decade ago when the president was Black. skepchick.org/2025/08/chec...
Elon Musk has a folder containing every SSN in the US. He keeps it on the same drive as his porn.
Wow. On NPR, @gbrumfiel.bsky.social reports a Social Security official “copied the Social Security numbers, names and birthdays of over 300 million Americans to a private section of the agency's cloud.” The source is a whistleblower, who is named: Charles Borges, SSN chief data officer.
NEW RESULT: Democrats have flipped a state Senate in Iowa. This was a seat Trump carried by 11%, but Democratic nominee Catherine Drey has just won it by 10.4%. This is the second legislative flip by Dems in Iowa this year. It also means the GOP loses its supermajority in Iowa’s senate.
Look, I am not a designer or a UX guy, but these are terrible. They. Are. Terrible. Apple has lost it. They used to be the best at this, and now they have literally no idea what they are doing or why they are doing it.
HUGE FLIP: Democrat Catelin Drey wins deep-red state Senate seat in Iowa, breaking the GOP's supermajority. Drey won by 11 points in a district Donald Trump carried by 11 points last year. It's another massive overperformance. The Iowa GOP should be very worried for the midterms. Our full writeup:
You need Sean Connery to come back from the grave and give you the speech from The Untouchables about they put one of us in the hospital, we put one of them in the morgue. Time to play hardball.
Did you whimper after this attempt?
"Should we use curse words this time?" "Nah, too harsh. Gotta be diplomatic."
Double strikes like this are a tactic. The first strike kills a bunch of civilians. The second strike kills a bunch of aid workers responding to the first strike.
"My detractors may say I'm a sex pest. Well I AM a pest. I'm a pest for growth. A pest for change. A pest for unity."
Because putting statistics on the Blockchain makes the numbers better.
Everyone in that room would fellate Trump if they could. And Trump will likely stab them all in the back eventually. And they all know that. Proximity to power is all that matters to them.
Not exactly the brag he thinks it is. No one else will work for him.
Attempting to rig elections on his behalf. Turning the military on citizens. Toying with the idea of declaring martial law. Attacking political enemies and punishing those who speak out against his regime. If this were happening in another country, what would you call it?
Good leaders tend to value competence over loyalty. Bad leaders, well, you know the rest.
Trump surrounds himself with mediocre sycophants because his father never loved him.
Brown nosed mediocre sycophants all, surrounding their beloved Dear Leader
So much of the grievance politics of the far right is basically "I remember things being nicer when I was a child and now they're different" and then projecting that anxiety onto your enemies.
Charles Borges, Social Security Administration’s chief data officer and whistleblower, said that DOGE team members uploaded a database with the personal information of hundreds of millions of Americans to a vulnerable cloud server. Free 🎁 www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/u...
".. unless Pulte somehow had particular knowledge about issues with Cook's application, which is unlikely, then one has conclude that Pulte handed Fannie and Freddie a list of political enemies and asked for their loan files for review."
Constituent: You need to take your head out of Trump’s ass.
MAGAs really don't seem to mind having their hypocrisy pointed out to them. Wish there was a way to get that accusation to get under their skin somehow.
Wouldn't be surprised if he calls her "low IQ." That's one of his N-words.
DOJ tried and failed three times to indict a woman for allegedly assaulting an ICE officer during an arrest of two purported gang members. So they were forced to reduce her charge to a misdemeanor. www.courtlistener.com/recap/og-loo...
Cowards
well deserved @jamellebouie.net
Guaranteed he's just saying what his consultants and pollsters are telling him to maximize his probability of getting the presidency. They all think transphobia sells.
I sure do love that whenever a trans person says anything negative about Newsom that a horde of people who are locking in Newsom as the 2028 Dem nominee pop up to scold you. Very fun!
Sounds like a good argument for #UBI .
Our Dear Leader
I can not stress to you how globally humiliating this statement by Trump is for the United States. His complete lack of understanding of, not just the basics of this issue but the extreme political ramifications of it, is a problem. This will not be shrugged off.
That's why these protections must be codified in law so that no one President, Congress or Supreme Court can just reverse it in less than a year.
Who is the target audience here? People like me who were there and know it's bullshit?
Donald Trump’s cruelty knows no bounds. Kilmar Abrego Garcia has a fundamental right to defend himself—a right guaranteed by our Constitution. But this administration is hellbent on stripping him of that right. It’s authoritarian and sick to the core.
This DOES NOT and CANNOT criminalize flag burning. Flag burning is constitutionally protected speech. If you actually read the "order" all it does is tell Pam Bondi to be sure to prosecute any cases that fall into an exception to the ruling. It's toothless and performative (Links/deets follow! 🧵)
I really wanted to believe @washingtonpost.com would remain true to its values. Unfollowing.
The prolonged public torturing of a single man because the state cannot admit to its errors is not something that occurs in a free country
The transformation of the Washington Post editorial page appears to be complete.
Odd, since he objectively hates the United States.
Whiplash
South Korean President Lee Jae Myung: “I look forward to your meeting with the chairman Kim Jong-un and construction of a Trump Tower in North Korea and playing golf at that place.”
Life comes at you fast
Look everybody! A billionaire has a thought experiment involving a choice that 99.99999% of the population doesn't have. You go ahead and fellate Trump, chief. See how that goes.
"The Rule of Law in the US Just Took Its Last Breath" With the raid on Bolton's home, and the new investigations against top Democrats, we should be prepared for a new two-tiered system of laws. Rules for everyone else - but not for Trump. Another must-read for Zeteo from @kimwehle.bsky.social
Machine Gun Tactical Pants Jesus approves!
Words/phrases Democrats should never use: * bipartisan * my Republican friends * real, valid, legitimate, serious, important (to describe issue raised by Republicans) * yea (when voting on Republican bills) * distraction (to describe bad thing Republicans did) * woke (in derogatory sense)
I'd like to believe this would've never happened to Tupac.
we see very clearly in public polling that people in california and D.C. hate the deployments and that americans broadly disapprove of them, but here we have an assertion that the smart strategy is to avoid any discussion of the situation in favor of a pivot to, you guessed it, kitchen table issues.
The worst part of this is that she was using a direct quote to back it up. Seriously or literally or something something.
