Left Wing Nut: Loves America, Democracy & Football. Empathy and compassion are virtues MAGA lacks.
564 followers 1,175 following 382 posts
view profile on Bluesky 
Khanna: It’s going to be a bombshell press conference tomorrow at 10:30 a.m. The American people will hear directly from survivors of the Epstein abuse. And they’re not just going to talk about Epstein’s and Maxwell’s abuse — they’re going to talk about rich and powerful men…
Stripping federal workers of their right to negotiate for fair treatment and join a union does nothing to make our Commonwealth or our country safer. Virginians deserve a Governor who will stand up for them — and up to this chaos.
At every turn, Winsome Earle-Sears has been in lockstep with Donald Trump — even as it hurts Virginians.
This is unbelievable. Reminder the Virginia Governors race is this year. Make sure to get out and vote for @abigailspanberger.com GOP campaigning in a government vehicle.
Judge Jeanine Extends Losing Streak As Grand Jury Refuses to Indict Woman Accused of Threatening Trump
The Man from Moscow. The entire world knows that Trump is a traitor except for 1/3 of the American population.
Epstein Survivors Press Conference Sept 3rd, 10:30 a.m. ET Tune in to support them.
There is a news conference scheduled for 10:30 a.m. ET on Wednesday, September 3, at the House Triangle in Washington, D.C., for survivors of Jeffrey Epstein's sexual abuse. #Justice4Survivors #ReleaseAllTheEpsteinFiles
When the waters of Hurricane Katrina began to rise many of the deputies guarding the inmates in Orleans Parish Prison abandoned their posts. Not before taking extra cautionary steps like handcuffing the prison cells shut. https://welcometohellworld.com/the-fascism-in-us-all/
While the U.S. spent a half a billion dollars painting a fence black on their side, Mexico invited artists to paint their side to express their artistic talent. 💗 The contrast between the two countries highlights each country’s priorities.
for the scientifically illiterate like the MOFOTUS a basic search on "COVID vaccine efficacy" in PubMed returns over 8000 papers, including studies in various conditions like pregancy, chronic disease, and co-infection. It's hard to dumb it down for an 8-yr-old pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34598660/
Just an astonishing, powerful op-ed that drives home what we are losing and what's already been lost. We are so incredibly fortunate to live with the advances modern medicine and health science. Destroying and stymieing it is just unforgivable. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...
Today, more than 400,000,000 million guns, 340,000,000 million people. In 2007, before Heller, 294 million guns, 301 million people. Both gun numbers are insane but getting worse every day.
It’s incredible and tragic how far we have fallen so fast.
And now for a Moment of Clarity...Buckle up, baby... youtu.be/fZpPc8ikV9E
“ILLEGALS” MY ASS! Green card holder Rami Othmane speaks out after being snatched off the street by ICE while driving to the grocery store. He’s a documented immigrant and the husband of Dr Wafaa Alrashid, chief of staff at a local hospital. He was locked in detention for 13 days.
According to federal data, 13 of the top 20 cities in homicide rates have Republican governors. None of those cities are Chicago. 8 of the top 10 states in homicide rates are led by Republicans. None of those states are Illinois. And yet Trump is sending troops here.
CARTOON OF THE DAY (From @mluckovichajc)
Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) came under fire on Saturday after she complained about the Trump administration's health moves, which she had earlier voted to affirm.
📌It was a huge week for Upper Midwest Democrats who once again won big at the polls, watched the political demise of a pair of Republican stalwarts, and looked on in horror as the Republican Party of Death put gruesome actions to their toxic words: “WE ARE ALL GOING TO DIE.”
Masked ICE aren’t about safety; they’re about fear and evading responsibility. Demand transparency and accountability by adding your name to this petition:
This is why this vile evil bitch was initially sentenced to a high security prison.
Stuart Stevens on National Guard deployment: "The murder rate of Jackson, Mississippi is 3 times that of D.C.... the whole thing is complete fraud"
This morning in DC (8/29, 7:20am), a community member witnessed masked thugs detain a man. They barely spoke to him, if at all. When he tried to pull away, they slammed him to the ground. Stay alert. Watch out for each other. We are strongest when we stand united. Submitted anonymously
A cult of personality. What could go wrong?
The thing that disturbs me most about DC isn't the military pageantry or even the bursts of federal violence. It's the emptiness. The strange, dead silence. People should not be afraid to come to America's capital, see the sights, and have dinner afterwards They didn't used to be. They are now.
“Are you Jonathan?" "Hoo?" "I'm looking for Jonathan." "Hoo?" "So it's gonna be like that, huh?"
That… is the entire point of the Federal Reserve.
NEWS: CVS, the largest pharmacy chain in the country, is currently not offering Covid vaccines in 16 states and DC — even to people who meet the new FDA criteria — because the CDC hasn't signed off and isn't expected to do so (if it does so) for at least three weeks.
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
The title of @hiltzikm.bsky.social review of We Want Them Infected. Pandemic disinformation agents were elevated and look where we are now. www.latimes.com/business/sto...
The new head of the CDC, Jim O’Neill, has no degree in science or medicine, and has pushed unproven treatments for COVID like ivermectin. This is so incredibly dangerous.
Did anyone really think a guy who dumped a dead bear cub in Central Park and made it look like a bicycle accident would be a superb guardian of the public health?
CDC director slaps down White House's attempt to purge her https://www.dailykos.com/story/2025/8/28/2340649/-CDC-director-slaps-down-White-House-s-attempt-to-purge-her?pm_campaign=blog&pm_medium=rss&pm_source=
research at the intersection of hybrid consolidation and disaster response is fairly new, and pretty complex. on the one hand, autocratic regimes can seize on natural disasters to further consolidate autocratic power and suppress opposition: theconversation.com/disaster-aut...
Republicans have time to pettily paint over a memorial for people killed in a mass shooting because they can’t hate gay people enough, but they can’t be bothered to stop school shootings because they don’t love children enough. www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...
AMERICA: “It’s a mental health issue.” REST OF THE WORLD: “We have those. But don’t have mass shootings.” AMERICA: “It’s video games.” WORLD: “We have those too. But don’t have mass shootings.” AMERICA B: “It’s cause they took Jesus out of the classroom.” WORLD: “God, you’re stupid.”
For a time, long ago, John Bolton was my boss at DOJ. If anyone had told me there would come a day where the GOP would be two to three standard deviations more conservative than him, I’d have suggested committing them.
What a terrible terrible tragedy today. For decades now the NRA, the gun lobby, and GOP leaders have urged that we have the right to own guns to keep ourselves safe. Other countries look at us like we are insane. The 400,000,000 plus guns in America do not make our society safer. Full stop. 🥵🥵🥵🥵🥵🥵🥵🥵
Onlookers said it was salami; jury said it was bologna
Our new explainer breaks down the history of birthright citizenship in the United States — and the consequences of ending it. bit.ly/44Tm6Mn
Public dollars for education should not go to private profits. The same with health care. Profiting off of pain and suffering should be illegal.
We have a hissy fit President.
Next month will mark the 20-year anniversary of the appointment of John Roberts as Chief Justice of the United States. In recognition of that milestone, on the blog @espinsegall.bsky.social laments the damage the Roberts Court has wrought with a top-10 list of its worst rulings.
Can't wait until a Dem president orders that all the guns be collected due to a national emergency, since that overrides all State's rights.
Sen. Warren on Trump's attempt to fire Fed Governor Lisa Cook: "The illegal attempt to fire Lisa Cook is the latest example of a desperate President searching for a scapegoat ... It's an authoritarian power grab that blatantly violates the Federal Reserve Act, and must be overturned in court."
BREAKING: Trump-appointed judge *dismisses* DOJ lawsuit against Maryland judges over their decision to automatically pause deportation cases for 48 hours He also calls Trump and his admin's attack on judges a "smear" that is "unprecedented and unfortunate storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Surely "for cause" means more than just someone alleging something without it being adjudicated by anyone?
I didn’t grow up in the wild, but I was raised by a family who used margarine containers as Tupperware.
This is not what adulthood looked like in the brochure.
Get a pet, it will enrich your life, they said My dog at 4:30 AM, 6:00 AM and 6:30 AM: Yo, wake up, it's enrichment time!
The White House calls it a war zone. Yesterday I toured the “front lines.” I saw a total of about 15 military types strolling around, talking to tourists, petting dogs. I guess the war on DC’s violence doesn’t extend to Sundays.
Lastly, DOJ emphasizes that Trump's pardon of Tarrio does not erase his guilt for seditious conspiracy, and notes that the other four convicted Proud Boys leaders' — whose sentences Trump commuted — are still technically in ongoing criminal cases. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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...
SCOTUS thought they could ride the tiger and get what they wanted ideologically. In exchange, they would give him everything he wanted except the Fed. Just leave the Fed alone and you can ignore all federal law. But it ended the same way it has for everyone who tried to ride the tiger since 2016.
Destroying Fed independence is almost the perfect example of latent opinion. Polls won’t tell you the effect on public opinion because most people don’t think about and/or understand monetary policy basics. But if you cause inflation or stagflation, future public opinion will be very disapproving.
On the left, my warning from September 2024 about what Trump 2.0 would look like. On the right, recent headlines. I wish I'd been wrong. But because Trump is following a classic authoritarian playbook, it’s up to state and local governments to push back on this tyranny while it’s still possible.
Not one painter in the group
BREAKING: National Guard troops in D.C. to begin carrying weapons tonight, including rifles, a Defense Department official said.
President Trump’s federal takeover of D.C.’s local police is unprecedented. “The last person who asserted the authority to use military personnel for routine law enforcement anywhere in the country for any reason was King George,” a legal scholar said.
Newsom triggered him again.....
'Nothing short of chilling': Ex-Trump operative warns of 'set-up of the century'
There’s literally no chance in hell he’s going to make four years. 🔥
The US Administration is now deleting its internal communications, in brazen violation of the Federal Records Act, in order to conceal its other illegal acts. Those entrusted to enforce our Congress’s laws sit, simply watching this happen, flaccid and impotent.
Some European states are worried after a Ukraine-Russia ceasefire Moscow might turn its firepower on them, so are building hundreds of miles of defensive wall Prof Natasha Lindstaedt
Here’s a video from @meidastouch.com that Diddy Rump surely doesn’t want you to see. So, let’s pass it around, shall we? #TrumpEpsteinCoverup
Trump proposes to rescind AIDS funds. Congress rejects the proposal. So Trump and his henchman Russ Vought just refuse to spend the money and try to hide that decision from Congress and the public. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/21/h...
Normally, the Department of Justice rewards witnesses for turning on co-defendants, co-conspiracists, and accomplices. Ghislaine Maxwell is probably the first witness rewarded for *absolving* them. Because she is part of a coverup, not a prosecution.
So Kilmar Abrego Garcia walks free from federal custody. Funny how the system manages to move quickly when it wants to, but grinds to a halt when it’s about justice. The bigger story will be when he turns around and sues the Feds for what they put him through.
I bet she didn't see Epstein do anything inappropriate either. Epstein's former girlfriend told Justice Department she did not see Trump act in 'inappropriate way' www.msn.com/en-us/news/p... #SheShed
Now, THIS I love. Making the best of a bad situation. R E S P E C T
Again I didn’t start out thinking Trump was hiding something truly horrific vis a vis Epstein, but literally every single thing he’s done…
He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.
BREAKING: The transcripts and audio of DOJ's interviews with Ghislaine Maxwell have just been released. www.justice.gov/maxwell-inte...
The thing about John Bolton is Donald Trump is all over the Epstein files.
I honestly and truly believed that growing old would take a lot longer.
In The Situation, @benjaminwittes.lawfaremedia.org discusses the ongoing politicization of the Justice Department and what a future administration could do to rebuild the department. www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-...
JUST IN: Judge Berman agrees that effort by DOJ to unseal Epstein grand jury files is a “diversion” when DOJ could just release a trove of far more comprehensive documents without court involvement. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
BREAKING NEWS: Federal judge in Miami orders Alligator Alcatraz, the concentration camp in the middle of the Everglades, to be dismantled within 60 days and blocks any new detainees from being brought into the facility. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Breaking news: A federal judge is giving Florida 60 days to clear out the immigrant detention facility called Alligator Alcatraz. The ruling forbids state officials from moving any other migrants there.
I am so damn proud to be a California Democrat today. Who’s with me? Vote YES on Prop 50. Let’s win this 🔥
Newsom: We got here because the President is struggling. We got here because the President is one of the most unpopular presidents in U.S. history. We got here because he recognizes that he will lose the election.
You heard me.👇🏼🖕🏾🖕🏼I don’t stutter.
Breaking News: A federal judge ruled that the Trump loyalist Alina Habba, New Jersey’s acting U.S. attorney, does not have legal authority.
I walk the streets of Downtown Atlanta every damn day. For years. I don’t recognize this fictional hellhole the vice president has created. Whatever lies it takes I guess. Right, @jd-vance-1.bsky.social?
The reason politicians want you to live in fear of everything, is so when they want you to buy something, you will, and then they want you to die for something, you’ll sign up, and when they take power and control from you, you’ll say that it’s just for the best. They aren’t scared. They’re abusers.
Well, you know the streets of DC are truly dangerous if they're letting the president go out at night for a photo op.
Do you know how insane and infuriating it is to live in a country where one party claims, with media and public support, the mantle of being the ‘tough on crime’ party while its leader openly calls for convicted criminals to be released from prison ‘or else’?
You cannot talk about slavery honestly unless you also talk about slave wages
Every time he puts our allies on hold, you can hear Putin laughing in the background.
“If she is not released, I am going to take harsh measures!!! Extra exclamation points just don't have that same feel as CAPS LOCK.
NEWS: Federal judge finds that Alina Habba is NOT lawfully performing functions and duties of U.S. Attorney in New Jersey. Judge Matthew Brann disqualifies Habba from prosecution of two criminal defendants who challenged her appointment
If Trump wants the DC streets cleared, he should just hold another military parade
"Only Nancy Pelosi had the power to call up the National Guard in DC."
I live in DC - the National Guard just hang out around the monuments; tourists take selfies with them like they’re statues, there are Humvees parked next to food trucks, and they’re guarding the Capitol like it’s the last beer in the fridge at a frat house. 🤷♀️
Here's a fact for you all. Prior to 2017 there was not a single documented case of any individual travelling by small boats across the English Channel to caim asylum in the UK. Not ONE. This current 'boats' crisis has been largely caused by Brexit. But for some reason NOBODY is saying that.