Michael McDonald (@electproject.bsky.social) reposted
A lot of MAGA just lost their retirement savings
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view profile on Bluesky Michael McDonald (@electproject.bsky.social) reposted
A lot of MAGA just lost their retirement savings
Dr Emma L Briant 🇬🇧 in 🇺🇸 (@emmalbriant.bsky.social) reposted
US sliding towards 1930s-style autocracy, warns Ray Dalio Billionaire hedge fund boss says other investors are too scared of Trump to speak out www.ft.com/content/b86b...
TizzyWoman (@tizzywoman.bsky.social) reposted
#MorningVibe The right side of history is never the one that violates human rights. The USA was added to the CIVICUS Monitor Watchlist, a tool publicizing the status of freedoms & threats to civil liberties worldwide. 🔗 tinyurl.com/34w2j4en 🗣️ slcook52 (IG)
Paul Eric Scannell (@pauleric70.bsky.social) reposted
The Smithsonian Museum just removed Harriet Tubman’s Hymnal book from its display! Trump is trying to erase black history period! 😡
Marko Silberhand (@markosilberhand.bsky.social) reposted
. THIS is one of the biggest problems of our time . . . ⬇️ ⬇️ ⬇️ .
Jonathan Cohn (@jonathancohn.bsky.social) reposted
Record-breaking levels of corruption
StrictlyChristo 🦋🇺🇦🌻❌👑 (@strictlychristo.bsky.social) reposted
This is so anti-military and anti-veteran. This is not what the National Guard was intended for.
#VeryAsian Eric (@ektaka.bsky.social) reposted
Trump is costing the American taxpayers a million dollars a day deploying the National Guard for gardening and janitorial work on the D.C. streets. How about releasing the actual gardeners and janitors from ICE detention and letting the National Guard go back to their civilian jobs?
Bryan 🌐 🇺🇦 Slava Ukraine (@papootx.bsky.social) reposted
Texas AG Partizan Attack On Beto Ken Paxton threatens to arrest Beto O'Rourke for fighting the illegal gerrymander of five congressional seats. Speech is no longer Free in Texas! open.substack.com/pub/betoorou...
Raider (@iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social) reposted
RUSSIA backs Hungary Hungary backs heritage foundation Heritage Foundation pushes project 2025. Which part don't you get?
Christopher Webb (@cwebbonline.com) reposted
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. 🤔
Dr. Vin Gupta (@vinguptamd.bsky.social) reposted
Since the best in healthcare no longer serve at the top of the Federal Government, we are bringing them directly to you at Meidas Health. Don’t miss Episode 14 with the President of the @ameracadpeds.bsky.social Jam packed with useful information! @meidastouch.com
Jay Dee (@oceansfourlife.bsky.social) reply parent
Myself and a lot of other people around the world will never understand how he was elected a second time.
John Sipher (@johnsipher.bsky.social) reposted
“I’ve never met anyone else remotely like him…He is and was profoundly stupid, completely lacking in intellectual curiosity.” www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
The Bulwark (@thebulwark.com) reposted
The tenth chapter of The Autobiography of Mother Jones—a 1925 collection of sketches from the life and career of labor organizer and urban reformer Mary G. Harris “Mother” Jones—offers this account of the “March of the Mill Children.”
The Intercept (@theintercept.com) reposted
Advocates for immigrants and low-wage workers said the companies owe it to their drivers to speak out.
Marc Elias (@marcelias.bsky.social) reposted
As we begin a new month, my law firm is litigation 51 voting and election cases in 25 states. 6 in Arizona 6 in Georgia 4 in Florida 4 in North Carolina 8 involve redistricting
Andrea Junker (@strandjunker.com) reposted
On this Labor Day, let us remember that it wasn’t the CEOs and billionaires who saved us during COVID-19. It was the janitors, nurses, cleaning crews, grocery and food workers with their hard, often invisible labor.
Mehdi Hasan (@mehdirhasan.bsky.social) reposted
If you needed any more reasons to hate Kyrsten Sinema:
praying mantis (@gentlem.bsky.social) reposted
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/e... #vonderLeyen
Morgan J Freeman (@mjfree.bsky.social) reposted
Why is Trump honoring J6 rioter Ashli Babbitt and not Capital Police Officer Brian Sicknick — both lost their lives: Babbitt attacking The Capitol. Sicknick protecting The Capitol. Can anyone explain?
Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) reposted
FOX: *plays clip of Gavin Newsom pointing out that crime is higher in Louisiana than in California* FOX: Your response? MIKE JOHNSON: He needs to go an govern his state and not be engaging in this
Jay Dee (@oceansfourlife.bsky.social) reply parent
🤣🤣
Andrew Daw (@andrewdaw.bsky.social) reposted reply parent
He didnt win every single swing state in the same election that he barely “won” the popular vote Are we supposed to believe that ALL 88 counties that “flipped” allegiance went to a single party for the first time since 1934? Hell no He lost The data proves it Pass it on♻️ bsky.app/profile/andr...
Jay Dee (@oceansfourlife.bsky.social) reply parent
Wasn’t that Vought’s plan all along? Make them uncomfortable? Guess he didn’t think about the fallout. HE is now vulnerable too.
Angry (@angrystaffer.bsky.social) reposted
I hope people realize how absolutely fucked this situation is. This isn’t normal. People are resigning all over the place because the government is mishandling our data, ruining our public health services, and generally making Americans less safe.
WIRED (@wired.com) reposted
Plus: China’s Salt Typhoon hackers target 600 companies in 80 countries, Tulsi Gabbard purges CIA agents, hackers knock out Iranian ship communications, and more. www.wired.com/story/doge-s...
Ron Filipkowski (@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social) reposted
DOGE wasn’t a cost-cutting venture. It was a data mining operation for private interests. Trump opened the gates to the castle from inside for invaders with bad and greedy intent to plunder and exploit.
Jay Dee (@oceansfourlife.bsky.social) reply parent
😭 Send the pic to you know who. Maybe the letter writer as well.
Anton Gerashchenko (@antongerashchenko.bsky.social) reposted
This is Anhelina, two years old, celebrating her birthday. Anhelina and her mom, 24-year-old Nadiia, were killed by Russia in #Kyiv on August 28.
Physicians for a Healthy Democracy (@physiciandemocracy.medsky.social) reposted
abcnews.go.com/Health/covid...
David Corn (@davidcorn.bsky.social) reposted
Thank you, Trump voters.
Joey Blue (@jp262.bsky.social) reposted
Court: You are breaking the law! Donald: Oh yeah? What are you going to do about it? Court: Nothing. Just letting you know. Carry on and have a great holiday weekend!
Greg Greene (he/him/his) (@greene.haus) reposted
“Our job is lethality and readiness and warfighting.” – Pete Hegseth, U.S. secretary of defense 🥴
Jay Dee (@oceansfourlife.bsky.social) reply parent
Yeah, no bright students are coming here. Hell our scientists and researchers are leaving for other Countries.
🌎 🌳💧🧬 ✨ 🪐 (@curiousearth.bsky.social) reposted reply parent
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Jay Dee (@oceansfourlife.bsky.social) reply parent
They are turning their heads away from the insanity. Thats how privileged Americans have become. No one knows how to fight for their country and freedom anymore.
Jay Dee (@oceansfourlife.bsky.social) reply parent
Yes. Absolutely.
Christopher Webb (@cwebbonline.com) reposted
National Guardner? National Park Service workers laid off, and now the National Guard is doing landscaping in DC. Felon Trump really turned soldiers into gardeners.
Anonymous (@youranoncentral.bsky.social) reposted
Trump regime operatives exposed in plot to undermine Denmark and overthrow the government in Greenland. Regime operatives attempted to disrupt democracy through misinformation and disruption operations aimed at recruiting traitors and collaborators to help sway public consensus towards the US.
John Light (@johnalight.bsky.social) reposted
The New York Post claims Trump has begun to use Russ Vought's "pocket rescissions" gambit to override Congress' power of the purse. nypost.com/2025/08/28/u...
Jay Dee (@oceansfourlife.bsky.social) reply parent
I absolutely blame the six members of SCOTUS for this mess, Inaction by Congress and blind voters. Power and greed certainly ruined this Country and it will ruin mankind all over the world. We are no longer the beacon of light and hope in the world.
Jamie Schler (@lifesafeast.bsky.social) reposted
“This is a reality TV show with sick and cruel content and the volume knob set to 11.” Wow! Possibly the most powerful political opinion piece I’ve ever read. From @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social Read it now. www.americaamerica.news/p/its-villai...
Randi Mayem Singer (@rmayemsinger.bsky.social) reposted
I don't want to live in a country where 10-year-olds are on the news talking about how their friends saved them by lying on top of them during a shooter incident... and got shot. Thanks, GOPNRA.
Republicans Against Trumpism (@rpsagainsttrump.bsky.social) reposted
Dr. Demetre Daskalakis, who resigned from the CDC, revealed that RFK Jr. has NEVER been briefed by CDC experts on measles, flu, or Covid: “No one from my center has ever briefed him on any of those topics…He’s getting his information from somewhere”
Jacob T. Levy (@jacobtlevy.bsky.social) reposted
That about sums it all up.
Mrs. Betty Bowers (@mrsbettybowers.bsky.social) reposted
Little kids are having to use their bodies to shield friends from gunfire while armed soldiers are busy picking up trash.
Mrs. Betty Bowers (@mrsbettybowers.bsky.social) reposted
If Ashli Babbitt's parents really wanted to avenge her death they would, instead of pitifully whitewashing her legacy, be suing Fox News for filling their child's gullible head with dangerous nonsense that directly led to her death.
Mark Jacob (@markjacob.bsky.social) reposted
If I were charged with a federal crime, I’d hire Pam Bondi’s brother as my lawyer. Because I don’t think this is a coincidence.
CajunBlueAZ ⚜️🇺🇸 🇺🇦 (@cajunblue.bsky.social) reposted
📌 Scientists are not in the business of advancing missions antithetical to public health. ✊🏼
The Tennessee Holler (@thetnholler.bsky.social) reposted
“A dangerous crank — what on Earth are you on about??!” @chrislhayes.bsky.social goes in on RFK Jr. for claiming he can diagnose kids just by looking at them.
Jay Dee (@oceansfourlife.bsky.social) reply parent
BUT WE NEED A NEW BALLROOM!!! 😭😭
Mockingbird, MPH, CHES (@amockingbird.bsky.social) reposted
Four million dollars. They’re cutting a program to test treatments for children with brain cancer to save four million dollars a year.
All In with Chris Hayes (@allinwithchris.bsky.social) reposted
Trump’s Border Patrol raided a Washington wildfire camp, forcing firefighters to pause their work for hours. "Donald Trump, JD Vance, and Stephen Miller and their ilk are going to burn the country to the ground if that’s what it takes, so they can rule over the ashes," says Chris Hayes.
Jay Dee (@oceansfourlife.bsky.social) reply parent
This. I have been fearing this for months.
Mike Brock 🇺🇸 (@brockm.bsky.social) reposted
We are going to experience the collapse of the U.S. dollar, aren't we? These motherfuckers want to tank the dollar so they can be crypto feudal lords. Americans should be CRAZY alarmed about this.
Khashoggi's Ghost (@urocklive1.bsky.social) reposted
"The job-fair attendees I spoke with said the defend-the-homeland message and Donald Trump’s presidency were big draws. 'I want to stand up for my beliefs and protect America from foreign invaders. I’d like to be there for others who can’t defend themselves. God is pushing me down this path.'”
Social Media Lab (@socialmedialab.ca) reposted
"The Pentagon is putting back up a portrait of Gen. Robert E. Lee at the military academy, as the Trump administration seeks to restore honors for American figures who fought to preserve slavery." www.nytimes.com/2025/08/28/u...
Jay Dee (@oceansfourlife.bsky.social) reply parent
I have no idea why that made me smile with all the crap going on in this Country. But it did.
Rex Huppke (@rexhuppke.bsky.social) reposted
I have a column on this going up in the morning, but I'm telling you folks, there's an immediate need for people to light up lawmakers' phones and clang pots and pans and protest and do whatever the hell can be done to get RFK Jr. booted, or at least constrained. This is a five-alarm fire.
Susan Rinkunas (@susanrinkunas.com) reposted
I got an NYT push alert about Taylor Swift getting engaged, but not about the United States spying on Greenland
Jan Kirsch, M.D., M.P.H. (@drjanicekirsch.bsky.social) reposted
LYING LEAVITT OF THE LARGE CROSS Leavitt says Monarez was fired because she wasn't aligned with "Trump's Mission. If she wasn’t, it’s unclear why that wouldn’t have been determined in April when he nominated her, or any time after. www.yahoo.com/news/article...
gostin.bsky.social (@gostin.bsky.social) reposted
With Jim O'Neill appointed as Interim CDC director, we're seeing a pattern First, RFK fires eminent scientists Then he appoints loyalists without credentials He then takes the advice of loyalists Finally he says, "you see, I have restored trust in science." RFK did the same thing with ACIP
Brandon Friedman (@brandonfriedman.bsky.social) reposted
Robert E. Lee killed more U.S. troops in battle than Adolph Hitler and Osama bin Laden combined
Julie Zebrak (@juliezebrak.bsky.social) reposted
Thanks, Republicans. A network of hospitals and cancer centers dedicated to early phase trials of novel treatments will no longer receive federal funding. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/28/w...
🫶🏻LaylaBella🫶🏻 (@laylabelle3.bsky.social) reposted
Acyn (@acyn.bsky.social) reposted
Newsom: Perhaps the president could deploy the National Guard in every corner of Mississippi. Murder rate is out of control there. And the governor may want to make that phone call.
The Tennessee Holler (@thetnholler.bsky.social) reposted
Don’t look away
Acyn (@acyn.bsky.social) reposted
Welch: He claims that he's the law and order president. But we all know that's a lie because he's a convicted felon. He pardons convicted felons, he surrounds himself with obsequious people that kiss his all day, every day
Mark Hamill (@markhamillofficial.bsky.social) reposted
Between RFK decimating the CDC, normalizing Ashli Babbitt & the umpteenth school shooting... I'm losing the will to post. #ReleaseTheEPSTEIN_Files
Jay Dee (@oceansfourlife.bsky.social) reply parent
Yes. We must have a new ballroom, we must not lasted gold all over the White House. Maybe this Christmas you get one doll instead of two. So tired of people keeping their head in the sand because “I want to enjoy the life I have left … I don’t want to know what is going on”.
Mark Jacob (@markjacob.bsky.social) reposted
We're witnessing the creation of the second Confederacy, and this time the president is on their side.
Don Moynihan (@donmoyn.bsky.social) reposted reply parent
Full resignation letter from Demetre C. Daskalakis, a CDC leader, does not hold back. "The recent shooting at CDC is not why I am resigning. My grandfather, who I am named after, stood up to fascist forces in Greece and lost his life doing so. I am resigning to make him and his legacy proud."
Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) (@hcrichardson.bsky.social) reposted
Important.
Jay Dee (@oceansfourlife.bsky.social) reply parent
Bingo. Greed wins again. Power and greed, the downfall of mankind.
Jay Dee (@oceansfourlife.bsky.social) reply parent
Horrible. Older Americans out and the conscious effort for newborns.
Grant Stern (@grantstern.bsky.social) reposted reply parent
Over 100 Immigration Judges have quit or been fired - yes, fired! - since Inauguration Day, only seven months and eight days ago. The DOJ hires and fires Immigration Judges because it is an Administrative Court run by the Executive Branch. 2/
BlueCrew community 💙💙 (@libertyovergov.bsky.social) reposted
@governor.ca.gov: “This is a real and serious moment. Every Republican should be ashamed about this. He is weak. He’s weakness masquerading as strength. And that makes him more dangerous.” #BlueCrew #Resist #ResistTrump #TrumpIsUnfitForOffice
Caitlin Kelly (@caitlinkelly.bsky.social) reposted
Not great! Not great at all! www.wired.com/story/center...
Jay Dee (@oceansfourlife.bsky.social) reply parent
I am glad I am old. I look at our young ones and just want to cry. Their future will be so, so very different than ours. 😢
jen 🌻 (@bunnibytz.bsky.social) reposted
via @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social Trump admin authorizes itself to appoint ANY government attorney as a temporary immigration judge—even if they have zero relevant experience. Currently, only former immigration judges or DOJ attorneys with 10+ yrs of experience can be temporary immigration judges.
Michael McFaul (@mcfaulmike.bsky.social) reposted
Communist regimes: Own companies Control their central banks Use tariffs to insulate their economies Use armies, false charges, home raids & arrests to intimidate the opposition Idolize their leaders with posters & praise Sound familiar?
The Contrarian (@contrariannews.org) reposted
A president has no legal authority to remove a Federal Reserve governor, yet Trump is moving to oust Lisa Cook. Michael Franklin reports on how the attack echoes a larger pattern of overreach.
RAOK (@evolvingempathy.bsky.social) reposted
www.rawstory.com/immigration-... This is Miller's sadistic plan Cosplay Barbie is just a rubber stamp 👿👇🏼
Marc Elias (@marcelias.bsky.social) reposted
Republicans are trying to force the Fulton County Board of Commissioners into installing two far-right activists – Julie Adams and Jason Frazier – on Georgia’s largest county’s elections board. atlanta.capitalbnews.org/fulton-commi...
Senseidai2547 (@senseidai.bsky.social) reposted
Convicted Felon Donald Trump is filled with pure hate. Where are the alleged "family values" and "devout Christian" Republicans? Oh, I know-worrying about getting re-elected. /1 #DemVoice1 #ProudBlue #Pinks #TrumpIsACriminal #RepublicansAreDestroyingAmerica www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2025...
CherylBlueWave: LFG AZ! (@cherylbluewave.bsky.social) reposted
Two Children are Dead, and Seventeen Others Have Been Injured #ProudBlue tinyurl.com/u29xpd48
Mueller, She Wrote (@muellershewrote.com) reposted
Don't get it twisted. Trump is having the National Guard pick up trash to debase them. He hates the military. He is incapable of understanding anyone who would make sacrifices for the greater good. He thinks they are suckers and losers, and he's treating them as such.
AltSSA (@altssa.altgov.info) reposted
This is honestly hard to read. So many of us tried so hard to stop DOGE. 🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬
David Rothkopf (@djrothkopf.bsky.social) reposted
A core paradox of this administration is that while they seek control of everything their record proves they are actually not capable of running anything.
RAOK (@evolvingempathy.bsky.social) reposted
Unfortunately for our country a lot of these treasonous low life Jan 6th thugs that were pardoned by Trump are now getting paid ridiculous amounts of money working for ICE 🧐👇🏼🤨
Nicholas Grossman (@nicholasgrossman.bsky.social) reposted
If China is America's strategic adversary, India is the natural partner as a counterweight in Asia. Picking a big trade fight with India is self-defeatingly stupid. Especially since one reason is India not going along with Trump's lie that he personally stopped India and Pakistan from a major war.
Tim O’Brien (@timobrien.bsky.social) reposted
Bill Dudley wasn’t worried about Trump imperiling the Fed. Now he is: “The threat to the Fed’s independence — along with the risk of uncontained inflation, much higher long-term borrowing costs and a significantly weaker dollar — isn’t going away.” www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
Steve Alkire (@sea008.bsky.social) reposted
What we're facing is the greatest fear of those who designed the Constitution- an autocratic tyrant who disregards the rule of law. Having arguably seized all three branches of government, the safeguards of the Constitution appear to be failing.