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Here's the response from Paul Bryant, the Black veteran and lawyer whom the govt arrested in part bc he had a legal weapon in DC, to USG attempt to get him detained. It leans heavily into the lack of Body Cam proving he shoulder checked some Guardsmen. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
This should be getting far more attention from the media, and it should be investigated as a hate crime. A 14-year-old Black teen was targeted, beaten, and dehumanized with racial slurs by white teens while people stood around cheering. 1/4
how do i explain to my kids two women being married?? how explain sun go away at night but come back next day? how explain magic rectangle show people talk??? HOW
To be clear: Trump’s tariffs + Trump’s trillions transfer amount to the biggest tax INCREASE on regular folks ever… yet @MarshaBlackburn calls it “the biggest tax CUT ever” — because for rich people it is, and they are all she cares about. She hopes we don’t understand this.
He's looking great!
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No WAY!!!
If you're 60, 69.1% of all job growth since your birth occurred under Democratic administrations. If you're 45, that number is 74.7%. If you're under 28, the number is 100%. Happy Labor Day.
This is, of course, false. The United States exported $83 billion in goods and services to India last year alone.
Maybe it would be Helpful if We Added a Course of Common Sense to our Education Curriculum right along w/ Civics?
9 CDC Directors going back to 1977 speak out. What RFK Jr has done to our nation’s public health system "should alarm every American." It "is unlike anything we have ever seen at the agency, and unlike anything our country has ever experienced." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...
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. 🤔
FYI www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
"All said and done, cable news and fearmongering politicians have more to do with how people “feel” about crime than do big city mayors who work on the issue every day in earnest." -- The Outpost by Frank Wrinn open.substack.com/pub/theoutpo...
Can the media STOP referring to Jeffrey Epstein as a “financier”? The money he made came from SEX TRAFFICKING MINORS, RAPING CHILDREN, and BLACKMAIL. He was NOT a financier. I’ve seen at least five stories from three outlets refer to him this way in the past week. This is the latest from the Times:
Sooknanan then says that she had an opportunity during the break to read some of the declarations filed by the named plaintiffs. She wants to read from them because they underscore the conflicting information she's received from the government about the children they want to remove.
This is the second judge in a week that has brought up the fact that the government can't be trusted with clear instructions - likely because the government ignored Judge Boasberg's order to turn the planes around last March saying "verbal orders from judges don't count."
California stepping up.
"Nobody wants to be a cop [in DC]. They were abused. They were spit on." "When you when you say they were abused and spit on, I'm assuming you're talking about January 6th, correct?" "All you guys want to do was bring up J6 about the answer to everything."
If you are a federal worker who focuses on #Autism and your work has been affected by RFK Jr., I’d love to talk with you. We can speak on background. My signal is emgarcia.85
Pritzker: "We don't want troops on the streets of American cities. That's un-American and frankly the president ought to know better. This one doesn't seem to. He hasn't read any books. He doesn't seem to understand the Constitution or the laws."
He’s providing them with valuable mulching experience though.
Bill Cassidy is a physician who is being humiliated daily by Robert F. Kennedy. Kennedy has exposed Cassidy’s craven prioritization of his own power over the health and safety of his constituents and of the United States of America. Kennedy has exposed Cassidy’s powerlessness to stop him.
Pritzker: "No one in the administration -- the president or anybody under him -- has called anyone in my administration or me. It's clear that in secret they're are planning this invasion with US troops."
The entire fascist plot relies on us being terrified and sad. This is why they’re constantly trying to scare everyone with theatrics. They want you to see him as unstoppable and not as a 79-year-old with severe health problems who will die soon.
Jill Stein and Cornel West both disgust me — such goddamn, self-serving hypocrites.
Yeah, man, totalitarianism is when people listen to experts. Good talk, always a pleasure to hear from you.
Hey folks, just pubbed this piece on the absurdity and mendacity of the slavery apologists now running the country: open.substack.com/pub/aaronrup...
RADDATZ: One of the things they are trying to do in DC with the National Guard is have them back up local law enforcement WES MOORE: They are picking up trash
not just that he has no constitutional authority, there isn't even any particular legal or institutional mechanism by which the president can make anyone treat this as anything other than a weird advisory opinion.
This “explicit” is a weird editorial choice. The constitution gives the president no power over this at all. It’s not ambiguous.
T-R-A-I-T-O-R www.nbcnews.com/politics/nat...
You would think that documenting these effects - on farms, in meat-packing plants, in the garment industry, and restaurants would be a popular beat for reporters in MSM.
Media should hound him at least half as much as they hounded Biden. But they won’t.
An(other) actual psychopath.
NEW: WhatsApp caught & fixed a sophisticated zero click attack... Now they've published an advisory about it. Say attackers combined the exploit with an Apple vulnerability to hack a specific group of targets (i.e. this wasn't pointed at everybody) Quick thoughts 1/
average Dem strategist: we must focus on bipartisan policies that undercut Republican attacks average Dem voter: having studied the denazification of Germany, we must raze the RNC and leave JD Vance clutching a single wool blanket in a cell after we strip him of everything
CHICAGO…
turns out acting isn't his only kryptonite
This firefighter arrived in the US at age 4, has been here for 19 years, was on track to legal status, and was on a crew trying to contain a major blaze (in Washington state, vs Oregon, fwiw.) h/t @joshuajfriedman.com www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
The Free State of Florida is now trying to ban *sidewalk chalking*
The Trump administration has already cut 1 in 4 National Park Service jobs—and more could follow. What does that mean for wildlife, for history, for the places we all share? 🎧 This week on Reveal:
You could try to be more cartoonishly evil than this but it’d be difficult.
Who makes/sells the merch they put their logos on and resell
Republican Rep. Barry Moore was heckled so badly at his Alabama town hall that he literally left out the back door in the middle of the event. Moore didn't offer concluding remarks or even bid good night to the rowdy crowd as they chanted "Shame!" during his exit. www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...
This is the ballgame:
Everyone dunking on him because his dad was governor but ~actually~ when he was that age, his dad was merely secretary of state and then lieutenant governor after a legal career that had made him a multi-millionaire.
My reporting uncovered the existence of DoJ training videos instructing FBI personnel on how to flag Trump’s name in the Epstein files. I’m suing to get the videos under FOIA. substack.com/@muellershew...
“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.
Question: Why did US put big tariffs on India despite major national interest in cultivating a strategic counterweight to China and trying to isolate Russia? Answer: Because the US president lied that he fixed India-Pakistan and India wouldn’t go along with the lie. (Seriously, that’s the answer)
“A 14% price increase” When Trump & @MarshaBlackburn tell you there has been no inflation, they’re lying
Republicans: “It’s not the guns it’s mental health” Us: “Okay so can you fund mental health care?” Republicans: “No, that’s socialism!” Us: “Socialism like the government seizing 10% of Intel?” Republicans: “No that’s different! Somehow.”
Assuming harris voters arent most of america
Someone tell IU
It is less a mass deportation regime as it is a mass kidnapping and indefinite detention regime
Ok i had to google "source their blanks" sigh...feeling slow
JUST IN: Judge Cobb has blocked the Trump administration’s effort to extend rapid-fire deportation procedures to immigrants who have been in the U.S. more than two years — warning that it is a flagrant deprivation of due process that could ensnare anyone. ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/show...
The thing about conservatives who say they’d never end a family relationship over politics is that, like every other thing they say, they’re lying.
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The Republican Party simply does not believe in representative democracy anymore. It’s turned its back on a bedrock principle of our country in favor of grabbing power by theft.
Sure sounds like he’s joking about murder and mass graves, doesn’t it? That Texas State Senate is a real laff riot.
YouTube caves to Trumpworld. OAN, booted for peddling misinformation, is now back on its lineup. Watch the full episode of Power Lines: youtu.be/CxH8o3h-8p0?... Or listen via a podcast app: link.chtbl.com/PowerLines_S...
Good. And that repeated pro-Trump panel draw is fishy as hell, statistically.
BREAKING: Lawyers on Thursday night asked the full DC Circuit for en banc rehearing of the Trump administration's appeal of Chief Judge Boasberg's "probable cause" order in the criminal contempt proceedings over the March 15 Alien Enemies Act flights. Background: www.lawdork.com/p/dc-circuit...
Well, here are the anticipated pocket rescissions: a back-door path to impoundment. GAO, the Congressional watchdog, has said these are illegal. But GOP Congressional leadership likely to favor Trump over the law. (Good headline for headline critics amongst us). www.nytimes.com/2025/08/29/u...
Define “fairer”, Governor. 🤔 This video is as good an ad for California’s #YesOnProp50 campaign as you’ll see.
naturally
No, she only says no when they have the votes to pass. She's not personally ever going to stop shit. She's a little lapcat for conmen.
🚨BREAKING: Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) signed Republicans’ gerrymander into law Friday, officially moving the redistricting battleground from the state capitol to the federal courthouse. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
I’ll be real with you: not even a Cybertruck owner deserves this
🔥 @mizzwelch.bsky.social : “It’s the complete moral collapse of the 🇺🇸 government… the cabinet meeting with 3.5 hours of superficial praise is so cringeworthy… he redecorated the Oval Office like Marie Antoinette and built himself a ballroom because he has zero intention of leaving…”
"Ashli Babbitt was a grown ass adult who made a series of conscious, ill-advised decisions to engage in treasonous behavior, and she got exactly what she deserved. She was a traitor. She was a threat to national security. There is no nuance needed here."
Managers in US investment companies (those guys who play with money in our 401Ks) are Trump supporters. There’s a point where the erosion in the economy will become to great to ignore. Then boom. We’ll be back to a 1920s style crash.
Same, for the love of Pete. Saaaaaaaame
WHOOPSIE DOODLE
White House declares $4.9B in foreign aid unilaterally canceled in end-run around Congress' funding power.
Here is my main opinion on AI, in every capacity: What is the point of technology? Is it to make our lives better and easier, or is it to make a very small percentage of people richer? The latter is what AI is doing. The people actually doing the coding are making themselves redundant.
The world’s richest man behaves like a gross teenage dweeb www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...
FFS www.nytimes.com/2025/08/29/u...
Mike Johnson dismisses the unpopularity of the Big Beautiful Bill: "The individual provisions of that giant piece of legislation are wildly popular." CNN host John Berman immediately debunks that claim.
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.
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”
As long as guns are easily available to crazy people, mass killings directed at so-called soft targets will continue. This is a fact. Countries where it's more difficult for crazy people to obtain guns have less shootings. This is also a fact. Do with these facts as you will.
Welch: Everybody's missing the point here. The point is, he's doing this on purpose. He's priming the public to get accustomed to having the military in the streets
(AHEM...) This seems like a good time to remind folks that you can help support WHOEVER the Iowa Democratic nominee for U.S. Senate ends up being by donating here. And no, the $ doesn't go to the DSCC...it goes to the actual nominee after the primary. secure.actblue.com/donate/senat...
People are often surprised to learn that Lee was an officer who never made it past colonel. The purported promotion to general was awarded by a treasonous cabal calling itself the "confederate states of america" which was put down by force by the Union army, which also had superior generals.
Mike Johnson makes clear that when Congress returns next week he's going to work tirelessly to cover up the Epstein files
This story has it all: aquaculture, Black Flag, Bernie Sanders, Star Trek as policy, John Hodgman, male tears, and a candidate citing Luthen’s monologue from Andor. Meet Graham Platner, the Maine oysterman trying to crack the senate. @grahamformaine.bsky.social newrepublic.com/article/1996...
What a cursed sentence (gift link) “The A.I. companies selected to oversee the program would have a strong financial incentive to deny claims. Medicare plans to pay them a share of the savings generated from rejections.”