Al Jazeera English (@aljazeera.com) reposted
The North Korean leader is set to attend a military parade alongside Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin.
Al Jazeera English (@aljazeera.com) reposted
The North Korean leader is set to attend a military parade alongside Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin.
Valerie Steel (@pagev2.bsky.social)
HaHa. It might take a minute 🤓😂
Valerie Steel (@pagev2.bsky.social)
“…and waited until 1945 to murder them”
Valerie Steel (@pagev2.bsky.social) reply parent
Looks like you may be in a certain Alfred Hitchcock movie.
Yashar Ali 🐘 (@yasharali.bsky.social) reposted
BREAKING Congressman Jerry Nadler will not be seeking re-election. This opens up a very prominent seat — Nadler represents a big chunk of Manhattan. Full Story: bit.ly/3JAv88W
Al Jazeera English (@aljazeera.com) reposted
Scenes of chaos play out in Gaza City as military closes in on panic-stricken residents facing forced displacement.
Ron Filipkowski (@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social) reposted
Portland, Maine crowd as Democratic US Senate candidate Graham Platner takes the stage today.
Jason (@gizmosspace.bsky.social) reposted
I love how music transcends not only every human but every species. That’s why I love all musicians because they share a message that resonates with every living being on this planet.
Valerie Steel (@pagev2.bsky.social) reply parent
Too bad the Stephen Colbert/Netflix deal appears to be false 😫
Valerie Steel (@pagev2.bsky.social) reply parent
Worried expressions on the faces of the 2 men on the stairs in the “current” picture? Wonder if his animosity towards India is a karam shot to JD since Mrs. Vance is of Indian heritage.
Christopher Webb (@cwebbonline.com) reposted
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
The Inglorious O-h-Gee (@hyperthermostatic.bsky.social) reposted reply parent
Leading scholars have said it is so and it fits the criteria of a genocide as laid out by international organizations. Man, this is weirder than that Mexican flag thing you were hung up on.
Valerie Steel (@pagev2.bsky.social)
🧵🧵🧵
Democracy Action Network (@democracyactionnet.bsky.social) reposted
Almost one hundred and forty-three years ago, on September 5, 1882, workers in New York City celebrated the first Labor Day holiday with a parade. The parade almost didn’t happen: there was no band...
Dane 🔜 DragonCon Comic and Pop Artist Alley A11 (@monkeyminion.com) reposted
I love the smell of consequences in the morning. Thank you, @dragoncon.org
Michele Hornish (@hornish.bsky.social) reposted
This is what happens when we allow extremism to percolate uncontested in Red States. A masked ICE agent smugly announcing he's "doing the Lord's work." These extremists act with impunity because they don't believe they'll be challenged – or ever held to account. I aim to prove them wrong.
Garrett M. Graff (@vermontgmg.bsky.social) reposted
Washington's speculation about Trump's health is at a fever pitch. We've seen multiple reasons this summer to ask questions — and the media doesn't seem to care. What's really going on? www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/it-s-time-...
𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 (@sundaedivine.bsky.social) reposted
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.
Bobby Kogan (@bbkogan.bsky.social) reposted
Enormous impoundment-related changes in Trump/Vought's Circular A-11 update from Friday, which is OMB's guidance to agencies They: -removed the definition of impoundment -said GAO's impoundment determinations don't matter -claimed pocket rescission authority -claimed profound deferral authority 🧵
Anna Bower (@annabower.bsky.social) reposted
Lots of people with questions about this The government said there were 76 putative class members (children) loaded on planes yesterday But the putative class covered by the judge’s order isn’t limited to kids that were loaded on planes for imminent deportation That’s why the ~600 estimate
Valerie Steel (@pagev2.bsky.social) reply parent
He’s trying to distance himself from RFK but still keep the ghoul in the cabinet. Doesn’t want to take the blame for the deaths that will surely come.
JJ in DC (@jjindc.bsky.social) reposted
🧊🧵✈️ ICE AIR – MON 1 SEP 2025 🐰🐇 👉 Photos from the loading of Sunday's GlobalX flight (N630VA) from Alexandria LA to Guatemala City. Some young adults are present, but no clearly identifiable minors 👀 Follow this thread for updates ⤵️
Anton Gerashchenko (@antongerashchenko.bsky.social) reposted
This is nothing else but a hybrid war that Russia wages against Europe Let's name things as they really are:Russia has made an assassination attempt of the President of the European Commission Russia has been jamming GPS-signals over many Eastern Europe countries that are in its immediate vicinity
it's Candy Love (@candylovely.bsky.social) reposted
Meet Candon Dahle, Why isn't he not in jail for life? Bingham County Idaho THIS CHILD RAPIST was sentence to 180 days in jail for raping a 7 year old girl for 5 years, part of the plea deal was that he would not have to register as a sex offender. WOW: (white privilege )
Will Stancil (@whstancil.bsky.social) reposted
The reason you know Trump isn’t dead is that his underlings aren’t publicly shivving each other
Valerie Steel (@pagev2.bsky.social) reply parent
His wheelchair in the trunk?
Jon Cooper (@joncooper-us.bsky.social) reposted
This is so clearly wrong — and it helps explain why Trump’s approval numbers are in the toilet. Anyone who thinks this young woman deserved to be treated this way can go fuck themselves.
Liz Ahern 🌈🧜🏼♀️🇲🇽🍉 (@austinmermaid.bsky.social) reposted
Gavin Newsom’s perfect response to Mike Johnson-👇
Dr. Lucky Tran (@luckytran.com) reposted
New Mexico has issued a public health order that removes federal restrictions to COVID-19 vaccine access so that pharmacies in New Mexico can vaccinate people of all ages and risk profiles. Every state need to do this!
Anna Bower (@annabower.bsky.social) reposted
JUST IN: Judge Sooknanan ordered the government to file a status report by 4 pm to address whether the children have been deplaned. DOJ blew the deadline. Now she orders them to show cause why they didn’t file the report in time — and sets new 6:30 pm deadline.
Chris Geidner (@chrisgeidner.bsky.social) reposted
Anna has had excellent coverage of this developing case in which the Trump administration tried to use the holiday weekend to secretly and illegally deport children.
Julie Zebrak (@juliezebrak.bsky.social) reposted
DC area folks — this non-partisan rally in solidarity with survivors exploited by Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell is happening Wed morning if you want to support.
Valerie Steel (@pagev2.bsky.social) reply parent
Miraculous disappearance of cankles 😜
John Hawkinson (@johnhawkinson.bsky.social) reposted reply parent
Can we stop to talk about how remarkable the timing was? Compliant at 1am, Judge engaged at 2am, ex parte call to the Government at 2:30am (they did not answer), TRO at 4am? On a Sunday of a holiday weekend?!
Valerie Steel (@pagev2.bsky.social) reply parent
What exactly does allegedly helping a DV victim have to do with getting rear-ended later?
Valerie Steel (@pagev2.bsky.social) reply parent
sounds like being rear-ended had nothing to do with rendering aid to a victim of violence
Valerie Steel (@pagev2.bsky.social) reply parent
So, being rear-ended had absolutely nothing to do with rendering assistance to a victim of violence.
Valerie Steel (@pagev2.bsky.social) reply parent
I know you have. 😘
Josh Marshall (@joshtpm.bsky.social) reposted
This is worth sharing far and wide. Federal Employees and contractors oral history project. Im not involved in this. Just got the link, idea seems to be to create a record of the assault on the American Repuvlic after Jan 2025. www.fecohp.org
Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) reposted
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."
Liz (or Lizzie) Kim 김혜성 💫 (@liz.sheshed.rocks) reposted
Stephen Miller is melting down because he claims California ‘stole’ house seats by counting immigrants in the census. If immigrants were excluded, California, Texas, and Florida would all lose one seat! Red states benefit from undocumented immigrants! It’s not just California!
Ron Filipkowski (@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social) reposted
He’s providing them with valuable mulching experience though.
Valerie Steel (@pagev2.bsky.social) reply parent
The Pope should excommunicate all of them.
Anna Bower (@annabower.bsky.social) reposted
DEVELOPING: Advocates are seeking a court order to block the Trump administration’s effort to deport hundreds of unaccompanied minor children to Guatemala. Judge abruptly moved 3 pm hearing up to 12:30 after she was notified that some children “are in the process of being removed" today.
Valerie Steel (@pagev2.bsky.social)
@bubbie50.bsky.social You were just talking about The Wobblies…
Coach Finstock (@coachfinstock.bsky.social) reposted
Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) reposted
Pritzker on Trump sending troops into cities: "He has other aims other than fighting crime... he would like to stop the elections in 2026 or frankly take control of those elections. He'll just claim there's some problem with an election and then he's got troops on the ground that can take control."
mrwilkening.bsky.social (@mrwilkening.bsky.social) reposted
Can't recommend the print edition of The Onion enough...
David Darmofal (@daviddarmofal.bsky.social) reposted
A different meaning to thermostatic politics: Ohio Republican Rep. Roy Klopfenstein (R., Haviland) wants to allow utilities in Ohio to remotely set Ohioans' thermostats in their houses.
Ron Filipkowski (@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social) reposted reply parent
It seems to me one of the best arguments to the court is that if this is truly a national emergency, the president’s own party controls Congress but has done nothing to address it with legislation, so how can it possibly be an emergency?
Joy-Ann Reid (@joyannreid.bsky.social) reposted
Because we are among the world's biggest human rights violators now. And allied with not one but two ajudicated war criminals. Well done, maga. You ended the empire.
Seth Cotlar (@sethcotlar.bsky.social) reposted
I’ve polled 40 students at my liberal arts college in the Pacific Northwest. 60% report that they avoid AI chat bots like the plague. 75% report having a generally or strongly negative opinion about how AI will impact the future.
Garrett M. Graff (@vermontgmg.bsky.social) reposted
If you don’t believe that Trump’s authoritarianism can be defeated, look at how scared MAGA is of chalk:
Valerie Steel (@pagev2.bsky.social) reply parent
Either that or he’s going to spontaneously combust
Indivisible ❌👑 (@indivisible.org) reposted
CW: Sexual assault Women are being kidnapped and assaulted by men who impersonate ICE agents. This is one of many reasons why we can’t have a masked, unaccountable secret police force roaming the streets. Urge your elected officials to take action today: www.bluestatedefianc...
Leigh Harrison Helberg (@leighhelberg.bsky.social) reposted
We are failing our children.
Sherrilyn Ifill (@sifill.bsky.social) reposted
An(other) actual psychopath.
Valerie Steel (@pagev2.bsky.social)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=gblj... Freddie Mercury said, "Do what you want with my music, just don't make it boring.“
John Paul (@johnpaulhi.bsky.social) reposted
Perfectly stated
Aaron Parnas (@aaronparnas.bsky.social) reposted
I will be there and you should come too. We cannot let the Epstein story die.
Mrs. Betty Bowers (@mrsbettybowers.bsky.social) reposted
Image caring more about stopping a memorial for people killed in a mass shooting than stopping mass shootings. #Priorities
Jenny Cohn (@jennycohn.bsky.social) reposted
Leonard Leo ally Tim Busch has called SCOTUS the “Leo Court,” explaining that Trump “radically changed” the direction of SCOTUS by appointing (anti-abortion) justices “shepherded” by Leo, who he says is “one of the big supporters of the Napa Institute” (founded by Busch). 1/
Anonymous (@youranoncentral.bsky.social) reposted
A fortuneteller tells Trump: “You will die on the biggest and most celebrated national holiday.” Trump replies: “How do you know?”
Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) reposted
New in PN: Making Slavery Great Again "Without irony or shame — and to absolve their followers of any guilt or responsibility — Trump wants to whitewash America’s original sin."
Valerie Steel (@pagev2.bsky.social) reply parent
He got hooked up to a helium tank
Al Jazeera English (@aljazeera.com) reposted
BREAKING: Yemen’s Houthis have confirmed that an Israeli air strike killed the prime minister of the group’s government in the capital Sanaa aje.io/9b4j4f
Hart Cunningham (@hpsc24.bsky.social) reposted
😢Police in Georgia threaten to shoot Black American in the head
The Tennessee Holler (@thetnholler.bsky.social) reposted
The Dems are saved! 🙃🤦🏻♂️ Somebody help this man. A party’s need for new leadership has never been more obvious.
Al Jazeera English (@aljazeera.com) reposted
BREAKING: At least 50 Palestinians, including 10 aid seekers, have been killed in Israeli attacks across Gaza since dawn, sources in the besieged enclave’s hospitals say. 🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/x0kczn
NPR (@npr.org) reposted
Raiding retirement savings. Pondering job changes or even marriage. People who buy their own health insurance are strategizing ahead of major price hikes in 2026. Open enrollment starts Nov. 1.
Scott Horton (@robertscotthorton.bsky.social) reposted
The mother of a 15-year-old boy who was detained at gunpoint by federal immigration agents is seeking $1m in damages and accusing the Trump administration of false imprisonment and “unconstitutional racial profiling”. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
altNOAA 🇺🇸 (@altnoaa.bsky.social) reposted
Jonathan Nez is a candidate for the Democratic nomination for Arizona's 2nd Congressional District in the 2026 elections. Trumpers want to know if he's here illegally. He's Navajo.
🌹Weegie 🍀 (@onefussyone.bsky.social) reposted
Loomer is well known to be a person Trump relies upon for information he then uses to make critical personnel decisions. Heaven help us.
Raider (@iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social) reposted
Crime Spree in DC - Yes, this is a real event. No, it’s not sarcasm. Lmao. Your taxpayer dollars are at work.
The Guardian (@theguardian.com) reposted
‘I held on to what’s important’: Kim Novak on Hitchcock, Trump and her Venice lifetime achievement award
Costa Samaras (@costasamaras.com) reposted
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.
Robert Reich (@rbreich.bsky.social) reposted
The CDC is gutting a program that monitors foodborne illnesses. The program will now only track infections caused by two pathogens, rather than eight. Hello? How does this “Make America Healthy Again”?
Valerie Steel (@pagev2.bsky.social)
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i... The Guardian US reviewed figures from Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Customs and Border Protection since Trump’s inauguration
Jen Bendery (@jbendery.bsky.social) reposted
Unbelievably bad. “The CDC you knew is over. Unless someone takes radical action, there is nothing there that can be salvaged.” www.advocate.com/politics/dem...
Dan Emerson (@danemers.bsky.social) reposted
Mass shooters since 2018 who were transgender — 4. Mass shooters since 2018 who were not transgender — 4,193. Hope that helps.
CajunBlueAZ ⚜️🇺🇸 🇺🇦 (@cajunblue.bsky.social) reposted
🚨The worst of the worst criminals are going after kids with backpacks and leaving their scooters in the road. 📌 WAKE THE HELL UP AMERICA. We are running out of time. 🚨
Sherrilyn Ifill (@sifill.bsky.social) reposted
And that explains why the U.N. is moving out of the U.S.
Kyle Cheney (@kyledcheney.bsky.social) reposted
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...
Mike Masnick (@mmasnick.bsky.social) reposted
Wrote about Comer/Mace attempting to doxx and intimidate Wikipedia editors in an effort to force their own viewpoint onto Wikipedia.
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.
The Downballot (@the-downballot.com) reposted reply parent
MO Republicans also want to pass an amendment to the state constitution to make it harder to pass *future* amendments. The highlighted proposal below would essentially gerrymander the ballot initiative process, requiring progressive proposals to win majorities in deep-red districts.
WeRateDogs (@weratedogs.com) reposted
Here are the Top 5 Dogs of the week!
Valerie Steel (@pagev2.bsky.social) reply parent
Crying
WeRateDogs (@weratedogs.com) reposted
A group of 6 LCC K9 comfort dogs arrived in Minneapolis yesterday in the wake of the latest mass shooting. The organization deploys comfort dogs following tragic events. The dogs wore their "please pet me vests," offering love and comfort to those processing this heartbreaking tragedy. 15/10 for all
Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) (@hcrichardson.bsky.social) reposted
August 29, 2025
Valerie Steel (@pagev2.bsky.social) reply parent
I’m a believer
Jason Koebler (@jasonkoebler.bsky.social) reposted
Trump take LEGO www.404media.co/lego-stops-s...
Marc Elias (@marcelias.bsky.social) reposted
A Texas Republican lawmaker who last week blocked Democrats’ effort to filibuster the state’s gerrymander made disturbing comments at a 2022 legislative hearing — suggesting a way to deal with immigrants might be: “shoot, shovel and shut up.” www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
Indivisible ❌👑 (@indivisible.org) reposted
ICE’s unchecked power has turned into lawless overreach—abductions by masked agents, denial of due process, secret police tactics. Democratic leaders can stop this, but only if we demand it: bit.ly/45Umbi3
Mueller, She Wrote (@muellershewrote.com) reposted
So not only do churches NOT have to pay taxes, they're going to get YOUR tax dollars to boot. This seems like oh, I don't know, government establishing a religion in violation of the First Amendment?