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Pritzker: "When did we become a country where it's ok for the US president to insist on national television that a state should call him to beg for anything? Especially something we don't want. Have we truly lost all sense of sanity in this nation that we treat this as normal?"
I don’t know if you all remember, but Sharice Davids was reelected in Kansas even after the GOP gerrymandered her district…
You guys see where this is going? Right?
This is why NO institution should pay him a bribe. No university , no corporation , no individual, NEVER. He is not a King! #DoNotObeyInAdvance #NoKingsInAmerica #25thAmendmentNow
Donald Trump can't win the 2026 midterms fair and square - so he's trying to cheat by calling up his cronies in red states and asking for seats. California: YOU have the power to stop him. Vote YES on Prop 50 to defend fair elections and STOP Trump's election rigging.
If you know California voters, tell them that if Trump rigs the next election and Republicans keep Congress, they will most certainly not certify the election in 2028 if they don't like the result. No one is saying gerrymandering is good, but unilaterally disarming could be the end of our democracy.
This is what Trumpism does. It drives our allies, enemies and adversaries closer together.
Right?! Just from the level of eye contact.
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. 🤔
Rep Emmer you can go 🖕yourself. Blaming Gov Walz for the shooting is horseshit. Every single school/mass shooting is the fault of the GOP. #ProudBlue #Pinks #OneV1
Hello! 👋🏻
Why do I want to laugh and cry at the same time?
Love, love, love him!
I wondered the same. I’m in Texas and actually closer to Mexico and wondered if we could go there for the shot.
Yeah, they would be totally flipping out if this was President Biden.
I bought 4! Three of them are ones that my daughter needs for her English class this semester, but I’m looking forward to reading them myself.
I have watched this several times already. Please have a little joy in your day.
If what we hope will happen ever happens, we'll watch as many, many people in the world of politics, overnight, go on to pretend they were always against what preceded it. This era has been a highly effective acid test for character. Take notes now, so that you don't forget in the future.
I would join.
What if we established a tax-exempt Church of Democracy and sued the government for infringing on our religious freedoms when it does authoritarian stuff?
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t... So, at 15:38 Paulina says the quiet part out loud: “I definitely think he's angling for a 2028 run against the president,” WTF From The MeidasTouch Podcast: Trump Surfaces and Looks Awful on Disaster Saturday, Aug 30, 2025 podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
How pretty!
she said that “black” with a hard r
Like a deadly virus, created in the lab of bad public policy at the Heritage Foundation, Project 2025 has been let loose on our nation with impacts we are all just beginning to comprehend. My latest on Substack: open.substack.com/pub/jimacost...
The party of “freedom”
THIS 👉🏾 What price are you willing to pay? “You’re letting masked men snatch girls’ parents off the streets.”
I had serious doubts about CDC Director Monarez’s willingness to stand up against RFK Jr.’s personal mission to destroy public health in America—I’m glad that I was wrong. If there are any adults left in the White House: we cannot let RFK Jr. burn what's left of CDC. FIRE HIM.
The ongoing National Guard mission in Washington, DC, as part of President Donald Trump’s crime crackdown in the city, is costing roughly $1 million a day, experts estimated to CNN.
My hot take: the new Cracker Barrel logo isn't great. the old one sucked. their food isn't great. also, who gives a shit?
Honestly, this shit is tacky af. As a taxpayer, I hope it was that cheap and I hope we can get it taken down in a couple of years. ( 3.3 to be exact.)
This doesn’t surprise me at all. We’ve been hearing for years how China is getting serious about manufacturing solar panels. And all the while our politicians have allowed the appropriately-named fossil fuel industry to hold us in the past for their short-term enrichment.
The President of the United States sat in the Oval Office and said "a lot of people are saying maybe we'd like a dictator" and that is not even a top story.
Truth Art! #arresttrump #art
My heart breaks into 10,000 pieces once again.
Stephen Miller is completely full of shit, and he knows it. He's selling hatred of cities to people who do not live in cities and are scared of them.
Waste not, want not.
“This is about the President of the United States and his complicit lackey, Stephen Miller, searching for ways to lay the groundwork to circumvent our democracy, militarize our cities, and end elections.” – Gov. J.B. Pritzker
Meiselas: Stop both-sidesing it, media. Stop trying to sow division within the Democratic Party when we literally have military invasions into American cities, aided and abetted by red state governors, who, again, are the takers who wouldn't exist without the blue states
Wow! I was surprised at how late in the process the landing gear went down.
The second amendment guarantees the right to a militia to guard against federal tyranny. But if a president can use that force against its own state, against the wishes of that state, then it is no militia at all and a clear violation of the second amendment.
Epstein survivor Sarah Ransome on Ghislaine Maxwell: “I have spent the last 17 years in my own prison for what she, Jeffrey, and all the co-conspirators did to me. I was raped three times a day. Ghislaine must die in prison.”
They want us fighting so we never notice who is stealing from us all. Don’t get lost in the circus.
That reminds me of when Stacey King was proud that he and Michael Jordan scored 70 points in a game. (MJ scored 69 and SK scored 1.) 😂
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The State of Illinois at this time has received no requests or outreach from the federal government asking if we need assistance, and we have made no requests for federal intervention.
Maxwell lying? Not shocking — she’s been doing it forever. What is shocking? The DOJ giving her tangible rewards for those lies… with more on the way.
Absolutely will not be using this, nor will my sons
He looks like that meme cat that looks like Ron Perlman.
What lovely eyes!
Beautiful!
All Folks Had To Do Was Vote For The Super Qualified Black Lady… With A Degree In Economics
Evinrude: I am gonna GET that fly! The Floof: Oh please make her go away. Happy #caturday
BREAKING: Trump is preparing to deploy National Guard troops to Chicago. The fact that anyone could support such a move, tells me that much of Maga supports fascism
In American history, no president has ever been more corrupt and less ethical. Trump is a transactional psychopath, FULL STOP.
I’m quite a fan in general of peace signs, so that’s my vote.
Oh, they will. The Texas GOP looks at Houston as a blue city that they take every opportunity to oppress.
Here’s what was NOT released today: - the proffer agreement between Maxwell and the DoJ - the agreement transferring Maxwell to club fed - communications showing who waived Maxwell’s sex offender status allowing her transfer and possible work assignments outside prison - the Epstein files
I remember that quite clearly. Funny how that works.
You, you mean, he lied???
OMG BAAAAHAHA
Some Texas Democratic women have torn up their permission slips and will now be hosting a “slumber party for Democracy” on the House floor.
No one can convince me these masked “federal agents” aren’t white supremacists having a field day.
Just seeing the sights!
Texas in 2025.
If you are suffering as a customer during a strike, that is because management is intentionally passing on the suffering to you, which means you have common cause with the workers. This is so whether the management is of an airline, a hospital, or a retail establishment.
As a former Texas State Rep, let me be clear: LOCKING Rep. Nicole Collier inside the chamber is beyond outrageous. Forcing elected officials to sign “permission slips” & take police escorts to leave? That’s not procedure. That’s some old Jim Crow playbook.
Important www.nytimes.com/2025/08/18/o...
A message for the most “transparent Administration” in history: Release the Epstein files.
Masked men jumped a San Bernardino family in unmarked cars, opened fire, and shattered their truck windows—all while the family was just coming home from work. The feds later admitted it was CBP, but the family says the agents never showed warrants or IDs.
Nick and I have similar opinions about today!
[writing the constitution] Benjamin Franklin: Write down "no dumb fucks as president" Alexander Hamilton: Stop saying that Benjamin Franklin: I'm tellin' you. You're gonna regret not writing that down
If I wanna sit, I make it fit! #caturday
Jasmine Crockett delivers passionate call for Texans to come together
New episode just dropped
Literally ethnic cleansing.
Found the welfare queen! www.nytimes.com/2025/08/15/t...
"Hell is empty and all the devils are here." William Shakespeare
Huh. I don’t know the answer to your question. I absolutely think that minors should be protected. But I hate that it also protects the people who were harming those children.
I’m sorry, I don’t understand your question?
The White House's memes about imprisonment, deportation, and death by alligator are designed to radicalize and desensitize. “What you have is this desire to get people to buy into the fun of sadism,” says Jason Stanley, an author who’s leaving the US because of “concerns over fascism.”
Throwing a sandwich at a cop: felony. Beating a cop unconscious with a flag pole: tourist behavior.
Hey. I’m truly interested in your opinion-I’m thinking of buying these for their hearing aid function, but have heard not-great reviews. Thoughts?
Oh no! 😳 Not sandwiches!
Newsom: If California, one of the most un-Trumped states in America, is not successful, it’s at our peril. We may not get this back. I’m telling you, we may not. He is rigging this next midterm election before one vote is cast. He tried to wreck our democracy after the last vote was cast last time.
New in PN: The slide toward "competitive authoritarianism" "Orbán subverted Hungary’s democracy with gerrymandering and by creating a nationwide right-wing media network. He put loyalists in the public prosecutor’s office, ensuring the judicial system would go after his enemies. Sound familiar?"
His name must be all over that list.
Ohio parents of kids with disabilities are receiving letters from the school board demanding they pay “extra” for their disabled children. This is ableism and discrimination at its finest. They weren’t even given adequate warning. Just 17 days to pay up.
The moment he named his platform “Truth Social” we were headed this way.
I can’t overstate how dangerous this is. ‘White House reviewing Smithsonian exhibits to make sure they align with Trump’s vision’ Translation: Donald Trump and his administration are continuing their assault on Black history, and on any history that doesn’t center and glorify the white man…
A late night message from Gavin Newsom
I hope your community is never occupied like LA or DC. But if it is, you’ll quickly find that people don’t take kindly to having their city under federal control. And folks are just getting started. 📌 Protesters gathered near a checkpoint in the U Street corridor in Northwest Washington.