If you want to see where MAGA is headed, look no further than this week’s National Conservatism summit.
If you want to see where MAGA is headed, look no further than this week’s National Conservatism summit.
Let me tell you a story about one of these hardcore criminals who was born into a very wealthy family. Despite his life of obscene privilege, he relished being a scam artist his entire life. Conning people made him feel powerful…something he would later parlay into politics…
🚨BREAKING: President Donald Trump is preparing to deploy National Guard troops in the state over the governor’s repeated objections. Pritzker also warned Trump will soon launch large-scale immigration raids in Chicago. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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
Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha... HARD pass. #TheLongWalk
KASIE HUNT: Over the summer you said, “There’s no vaccine that’s safe and effective”. Do you still believe that? RFK JR: “I never said that.” KASIE HUNT: “Play the clip.” RFK JR (clip): “There’s no vaccine that is safe and effective.” (March 2024) ht: @cwebbonline.com
He had a stroke
"The GOP is signing on to mass murder of children based on the novel theories of a man who has no party ties except a single Trump endorsement. It is a measure of the party’s utter hollowness, brokenness, and evil that even in this case, it can barely find the resources to demur."
What comes aprés Trump? I have some thoughts. The biggest is that JD Vance has Malenkov written all over him . . . www.thebulwark.com/p/the-death-...
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"The AIDS epidemic was a society-altering catastrophe, one that inspired legions of future doctors—gay and straight alike—to pursue careers in infectious disease. Today they make up a disproportionate share of the specialty’s senior ranks."
BREAKING: Judge Breyer orders an injunction in LA, finding Trump's deployment of the National Guard to assist with law enforcement violates the Posse Comitatus Act, equating Trump's move to a "national police force with the president as its chief." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
If you have kids now, in 20 years when they are looking to buy a home, the median will likely be roughly $750k, if historical patterns hold. No wonder 81% of Americans think it will be harder for the next generation to buy a home.
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Is Stephen fucking Miller running our country right now? 👀 open.substack.com/pub/jojofrom...
More framing like this, please www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/u...
Platner: No one cares that you pretend to be remorseful as you sell out to lobbyists. Symbolic opposition does not reopen hospitals. Weak condemnations do not bring back Roe V Wade. Maine deserves better than Susan Collins.
This is really good turnout but portland is the brightest blue place in the state.
“LIKE A BROKEN RECORD” Now that the @nytimes is reporting Modi and Trump had a falling out over Trump’s lie that he deserves credit for the India-Pakistan ceasefire, we re-submit to you this clip of an Indian anchor calling him out months ago — even as 🇺🇸 media wouldn’t.
They voted for this, they own it.
Great day for this story to drop
One thing they’ve been very successful at is making it so when sober experts put their careers and reputations on the line to issue grave warnings, it gets mostly a shrug.
Trump on the cover of French magazine Le Point. Translation: “Man from Moscow” Le Point is a major French weekly news magazine. It is considered a center-right / conservative-leaning publication.
We are living in “1984” in real time.
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Today's a good day to learn Colbert found a new job. Hope it's a good one for everybody! #HappyLaborDay
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LOL something’s up.
It was never about criminals. The Administration are all criminals so do you think they would go after their own kind?
Once more for those in back: They were never going to be able to implement a mass deportation program without prioritizing people like this. Criminals and gang members are too hard to find and apprehend. Regular folks who show up to work, church, and their scheduled immigration appointments are not.
To be clear: 1. We’ve taken in roughly $150 billion in tariffs - nowhere near a single trillion, much less trillions. 2. Tariffs single-handedly saving our military — which has been the strongest in the world for decades — is the dumbest shit I’ve read today.
NEW: The trump administration attempted to remove 600 terrified unaccompanied minors to Guatemala in the middle of the night on a holiday weekend. Judge Sooknanan stopped it. My latest: www.muellershewrote.com/p/the-sookna...
The United States is slipping from its place as a world leader. You can thank Trump for that.
Jesus fucking christ. The Trump administration tried to send a bunch of children to Guatemala at 3 am and justified it by saying that the kids just wanted to return to their parents in Guatemala, but the kids actually told the court that they are afraid of being sent back to Guatemala.
Pete Hegseth in December on military training: “We’re bringing a war-fighting ethos back to the Pentagon. Everything else that distracts from lethality shouldn’t be happening.”
Pour one out for Judge Sparkle Sooknanan’s clerks this Labor Day weekend
Look at this graph. The share of national income going to the richest 10 percent was lowest (and share to lower 90 percent highest) when union membership was at its highest. As unions have weakened, inequality has widened. This is why we must build back union power.
Thousands of farm animals & livestock are going unattended. They aren’t being milked. They aren’t being fed. I feel a great deal more for those animals than for the farmers who voted for this shit. They KNEW who their workers were & where they came from. But they voted to hurt them anyway.
JD Vance: “I don’t believe Trump” will improve the lives of his voters. { ht: @patriottakes.bsky.social }
Sadly, this onion headline will never get old
@nealkatyal.bsky.social: “You’ve got the president who's imposed the largest tax increase on American consumers since 1993 … and he did it without Congress saying one word. That is not our constitutional structure.”
Some personal news: My Son is officially canceling his second coming until y’all are actually ready to listen to Him.
Perfectly stated
Anne Applebaum: European leaders "understand the stakes of the war, but also the profound change in Washington. And none of them will say this publicly, and I understand why...But they’re horrified by the Alaska meeting and by domestic politics inside the United States." youtu.be/F8yzpfxOm6o?...
Jokes aside, if Biden was AWOL for four days and had nothing on his sked for a holiday weekend: -CNN would permanently show a running clock on the last time Biden was seen in public -Alex Thompson would publish multiple stories a day on Axios -Chris Cillizza would crank out 56 "But His Age" stories
Love these—-brilliant👍🏻
these people are the weakest fuckin weaklings in all US history
BERNIE: “Secretary Kennedy is putting Americans’ lives in danger, and he must resign.” www.nytimes.com/2025/08/30/o...
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Republicans keep saying the $1 trillion in Medicaid cuts are only cutting “waste fraud and abuse”… and yet not a single arrest. Funny how that works!
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The CDC — Centers for Disease Control and Prevention — has now been reduced to the CD, because apparently we’ve had to cut the control and prevention parts. Pls read, comment, subscribe... johnfugelsang.substack.com/p/the-measle...
"Her patient had signs of what could be a cancer or could be an unusual infection — diagnoses that would require completely different treatment. Ordinarily, she would confirm an infection after sending a sample to the CDC for testing ...the CDC no longer has the capacity to do that"
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Epidemiologist Erin McCanlies spent much of the past two decades studying the environmental causes of autism. Under the leadership of Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who has promised to find a cause for the condition, her entire division was cut.
1. I need your help. Donald Trump and the Republicans have repealed the federal subsidies that made health insurance affordable to me here in Connecticut. As a consequence, I face a dire choice in the coming months: pay unsustainable monthly premiums or go without.
"The enemies of a free society—the enemies of limited government and the rule of law, the opponents of political liberty and human equality—don’t sugarcoat what they’re doing. There’s surely no reason we should sugarcoat what we’re seeing."
The Post is complicit with Fascism.
One more for this morning.👇 Washington Post vs. Democracy Docket. Support DD and subscribe today: hubs.ly/Q03jcjqP0
Because they are complicit.
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Every time your electricity bill goes up for the next 10 years, it can be traced back to this Administration’s actions. They are making solar and wind power illegal to build in the United States. They are artificially restricting supply while demand is going up.
Good.
Them: “Cities are all rotting hellscapes!” Cities:
someone should put together a "kennedy death count" for everyone who dies of a preventable disease and just plaster it everywhere www.statnews.com/2025/08/28/c...
And that explains why the U.N. is moving out of the U.S.
In this Ohio diner, cancer research is what astrologers do for people born in late June and July. But they do know this: President Trump's landslide 49% of the vote gives him a clear mandate to defund America's scientists.
Turns out when you treat teachers well, invest in students, and focus on improving schools, you get real results. Illinois now ranks third in the nation for our education system for a reason.
Missouri “Representative” Ann Wagner posted this and quickly deleted it. Luckily my friend found it for her! We won’t forget. Ann wants to pick her voters.
Corporations socialize their losses and privatize their gains.
BREAKING: James Talarico just gave one of the best speeches we've seen this year. Every American needs to see this.
Once upon a time and regardless of administration, US diplomacy was by far the world’s most professional. In my 30 years dealing with diplomats no one came close to the Americans, whether or not I agreed or liked what they said. This, however, is Burkino Faso level.
Throughout the Federal Reserve’s 111-year history, its top policymakers have mostly been white men. Now some recent progress diversifying the ranks of the world’s most powerful bank is being undone. | Analysis
Hearing that the whistleblower, Charles Borges, has now resigned. He was the SSA Chief Data Officer. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/u...
Pritzker’s health department in Illinois is currently exploring the possibility of purchasing Covid vaccines in bulk straight from manufacturers, and a coalition of mostly-blue states led by MA Governor Maura Healey is planning to coordinate on the purchase and distribution of pediatric vaccines.
Imagine if the Surgeon General said, “Don’t ask me, I smoke.”
Like a toddler pulling the batteries out of someone else’s toy.
“I truly believe we CAN build a system represents working people.” ICYMI — @grahamformaine.bsky.social Platner is a marine and oyster farmer running to replace @SenatorCollins, who should be “concerned” His site: www.grahamforsenate.com
Zelensky dismissed EU proposals for a 40–100 km buffer zone, saying modern warfare makes such concepts meaningless since heavy weapons and drones already strike at long range. He added that if Russia wants more distance, it can retreat deeper into occupied territories.
Pick a side. YOU cant have both.
“SCIENCE OR TRUMP? The question of whether to follow the data or follow the president is especially acute for those charged with keeping Americans safe — from foreign threats, economic crises, diseases…” www.cnn.com/2025/08/29/p...
Marc Elias’ Democracy Docket has quietly become a pro-democracy media force, expanding its newsroom to 20 staffers as it surpasses 50,000 paid subscribers. Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/democracy-...
“The interview has resonated deeply across the internet.” newrepublic.com/post/199737/... If you haven’t see the interview where Friedland exposes Torres yet, here are some highlights: www.instagram.com/reel/DN5_ePk...
Don’t look away
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CDC leaders on why the left: “I resigned because I could not be part of the weaponization of public health and CDC… we should always be questioning - but you shouldn’t have a preconceived idea before you have the data.”
Lisa Cook should also sue Lutnick for defamation
Wishing everyone, but especially Lisa Cook, a lovely day www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...
Normal campaign event.
Wow.
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On the new acting CDC director. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Postal services around the world prepare to stop sending packages to US. As deadline nears to impose new charges on parcels valued at $800 or below, postal services, including in France, UK, Germany, India, Australia and Japan, say most US-bound packages will not be be accepted u.afp.com/SAX5
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