"irreparable harm"? What's that???
Words. At Salon: https://www.salon.com/writer/paul_rosenberg & Random Lengths News: https://www.randomlengthsnews.com/archives/author/paul-rosenberg Election take: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:xy5et7tjp2m5vcse6ky23v2x/post/3lajp4jwy2s2n
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"irreparable harm"? What's that???
His thinking is nothing if not convoluted, so.... ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Let's be loud, assert our rights, and HAVE FUN.
Iraq WMDs, anyone? Yes, Trump's trying to destroy US democracy, but Team Bush kicked it all off with their no-holds-barred lies & lawlessness. Who can forget "A History of The Iraq War Told Entirely In Lies"? web.archive.org/web/20040214...
Looking forward to it! ❤️
really appreciate that JB Pritzker's response to Ted Cruz saying 'you're fat' was like 'and you're a sorry excuse for a public servant, so.'
He's just not that bright.
As a native of the Second City, I have notes on this joke: 1. In a city known for pizza, you went for Dominos? Tailor your jokes for the local crowd. 2. Getting “between him and his open doors” makes no physical sense. Where are you standing, where is he standing, where’s the door? Tighten it up.
Tariffs are not only a regressive tax on consumers, they are a tax on American manufacturers and small businesses. Let that sink in.
There’s a “stranger danger” reference on the new Sabrina Carpenter album, by the way.
This is your periodic reminder that the leader of the Republican party is a rapist.
Ron deSantis is an accelerationist.
I’d like to think that Republicans would take what the Jeffrey Epstein survivors are telling them more seriously if they were still children instead of fully grown women, but then I remembered Republicans let school kids get slaughtered on a regular basis because they are monsters.
District court judge identifies flagrant illegality of Trump administration’s shakedown of Harvard www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2025/09/dist...
To prove that the boat US military forces illegally blew up off Venezuela was crewed by 11 drug traffickers (who were all killed), will the Trump regime provide the quality of evidence the IDF does when it bombs another hospital or cluster of journalists in Gaza?
A friend suggests every mention should call them the TrumpStein files. Spread the word, a portmanteau with a stinger.
Incidentally, I'm fairly convinced that you can't understand the choices that the Amish and various flavors of plain Mennonites made, in terms of remaining separate to varying degrees, without taking into account the pressure to assimilate by surrounding English society, founding fathers included.
TL;DR, Franklin's beef with the Pennsylvania Dutch wasn't purely linguistic or cultural, it's because he didn't think Germans were white and thought we were tainting Pennsylvania with our swarthyness. founders.archives.gov/documents/Fr...
Bernie Sanders and AOC tour red and blue states to packed, fired-up houses and these dipshits think what the Dems need is Paul Tsongas.
Fuck "moderate" Democrats and fuck Politico www.politico.com/news/2025/09...
Ha Ha eat shit ya drunken clown
Trump has always admired Duterte and has always wanted to murder drug dealers. He is now doing that, and Vance's answer to the question about authorities means they don't even care and view themselves as above the law.
When I talk about the need for detrumpification, it includes stuff like this.
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Blue City, Black Mayor, Red State. It’s The Orange 🤡 ’s trifecta.
He's not in jail, so I guess he deserves it, amirite?
They say in time you get the face you deserve.
The plot to kill Dan Rather once and for all continues, I see.
This guy is just basically a much more effective unabomber.
MAGA is basically an ongoing “worst human being on the planet” contest.
May also be applied to higher ed and US democracy
When I heard the jets flying over I instantly thought this is a Trump move meant to intimidate & distract survivors. They held steady, paused, & restarted so not a word was missed. ✅ The flyover timing is just another indication of guilt by the decomposing dictator & predator-in-chief. #Epstein
It seems like an odd choice for Trump to pay tribute to Epstein with an official military flyover. But pedos stick together, I suppose. #EpsteinFlyover
I see the centrist trolling of Graham Platner has begun in earnest, and do I know anything about him other than the few speaches and bios I just read. Can I say if he will be another Fetterman? No. Is he better than Collins? Of course. Can he win? Yes. That should end the debate.
The Trump military -- "losers and suckers," as he's called them -- is now assigned the task of picking up trash like Stephen Miller always wanted minorities to do, and conducting military funeral rites and flyovers for Trump's pedophile confidant, Jeffery Epstein.
Covering up the Epstein files is an outrage. Transferring Ghislaine Maxwell to a low security prison camp is a step beyond. But nobody could have predicted Trump ordering a military flyover in Epstein's honor.
$2 million book advances to Supreme Court justices do not have an obvious commercial logic www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2025/09/silv...
In his mind, democracy itself is the enemy.
This summer, Israeli bulldozers rolled through the West Bank city of Hebron with ruthless efficiency, targeting Palestine’s only surviving national seed bank. What happened in Hebron fits the legal definition of ecocide — the deliberate destruction of ecosystems to undermine human survival.
This really captures the absurdity and violence of what is happening.
Florida children may not age at all!
can't believe this was 9 months ago and nate's still at it
looks like some backwards pre-warp civilization where the crew shouldn't oughtta go, so of course they do!
Obviously this got my attention but I'm just not seeing Star Trek here.
She was a former green, so most progressives in state didn't object. But observing from California I was horrified, seeing how far right she'd already shifted in the House & the rhetoric she used to justify it.
"Week after week, month after month, they embarrass themselves, undermine their colleagues and demoralize their voters. Theirs is a record of cowardice and capitulation."
"One of the defendants expressed disbelief. “It was just a tree. [I]t was as if someone had been murdered.” Yet, the outcry wasn’t merely grief for a squandered natural wonder but a reflection of the deep-rooted symbolic power trees hold in our cultural memory." daily.jstor.org/an-untimely-...
Trump spends oodles of $$ for an absurd military flyover to silence victims of Epstein’s and Maxwell’s awful crimes as he protects the perpetrators of those crimes.
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A federal court is allowing the EPA administrator to cancel a $20 billion program, created in law via the IRA, to distribute climate change grants. The court says these are contracts not grants, and so only the Court of Federal Claims can review. Unconstitutional violations via technicality!
Hate when 'The Internet' stokes baseless conspiracy theories about a president's health
Lordy, his son-in-law owns the 666 building on 5th Avenue! Can't get much more anti-Christy than that!
Has it not occurred to Peter Thiel that yes, the anti-Christ is here, and HE VOTED FOR HIM?
There are peaceful protests being organized for 10/18. It felt amazing being among the 250K+ New Yorkers at the last No Kings march. Being among others made me feel less isolated. Please consider going and grabbing a friend and going.
Telling Catholics and Jews they have no place in the Republican Party–or the United States—is a pretty bold strategy. I encourage them to lead with that.
Trump's been engaged with the Russian mob since the first wave of sales in Trump Tower, per Craig Unger's reporting. And they, in turn have become KGB, then FSB tools. So a significant part of this story is foreign sabotage in a long-game at a much deeper level than one-off election interference.
And that the current SCOTUS is doing comparable damage to democracy as the Taney Court. Among the lowlights of the Roberts Court that will be remembered like Dred Scott: Citizens United, Shelby County, Dobbs, and so many more including a bunch on the shadow docket without an explanation.
Math is woke! Trust your gut!
Schumer isn't just a BAD Senate leader. Stunts like this show him to be maliciously bad.
Schumer wants a 77 year old to challenge Collins. Right sure, because more Democratic octogenarians in the Senate is what rank and file Democrats want to see.
The discourse: newsthump.com/2025/09/03/p...
If they all came forward together, they'd outnumber House GOP members by about 5-to-1. Party of Law & Order... SVU!
mamdani had his fourth meeting with jeffries, and jeffries continues to withhold an endorsement in a race against a corrupt cop, a fascist, and a sex criminal who intentionally handed the state senate to republicans and gerrymandered against the democrats.
Narcissistic injury & annihilation fantasy just like Donald Trump. SAD!
Yep
I read this book a few years go. 'How Civil Wars Start' by Barbara Walter details what's led to civil wars throughout the world in the last 100 years or so. Trump has us well on our way to that now.
Ahem! Survey says... (not so much!)
Just thinking about Operation Jade Helm (a low interference national military operation in rural Texas in 2015) and the absolute OUTRAGE about it from the right. (And how that outrage was fueled by Russians) www.texastribune.org/2018/05/03/h...
Given the rising insanity of Trump’s lies, I expect he’ll soon announce that since he’s been president we’ve put 100 astronauts on the moon, life expectancy has grown so much it can’t be measured with clocks now known to science, and he’s been asked to be the next queen of England.
This review gets: 5, count'em 5 🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄
Nearly all of Del Toro's movies choose to empathise with the horrific figures of his stories-it's why people love his work lol they're very rarely built to be scary Even if you take the fact that this reviewer didn't engage with the novel this is very silly
See through it.
Simple idea for Democrats: Never do anything that would "delight Trump" www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
lol now doesn't THAT fucking figure
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But so many of them voted for him again and again...expecting a different result.
Be loud for America www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2025/09/be-l...
Massie files Epstein discharge petition - Live Updates - POLITICO share.google/brQDOPJ5WgCb...
Source: www.salon.com/2022/10/30/p... 2/2
Half-true. There IS a lot of incoherence & contradiction. Against a backdrop of disinformation--the persistent belief that crime is worse every for ~30 years while crime has dropped dramatically. But there's ALSO an emerging coherent understanding that non-police spending is more effective. 1/2
One thing to keep in mind re coverage of 'crime' is a fair number of journalists at mainstream institutions, especially those that live in the burbs, likely agree with Trump's urban occupations. They're in the "yes, *but*…" category, but they have bought into the mindset.
And pour a box of cereal on your head to demonstrate you mean it!
True of the elites, not the people. Democracy has ALWAYS been the cry of the people vs. the elites. For the elites it's just lip-service for most.
He wanted to call out the National Guard on January 6th... TO PROTECT THE RIOTERS
Which is why EVERY Democrat needs to do this ALL THE TIME. Don't give them anything else to cover.
Read the 🧵. It's an invasion by the regime targeting brown folks in Chicago under the guise, as you heard the decomposing dictator, of "crime fighting." He's the self-appointed Batsh*t Batman.
I like this bold new idea of confronting politicians with footage of what they actually said.
DC, your mayor just *gave up* to the decomposing dictator. "Bowser issued an executive order Tuesday requiring local coordination with federal law enforcement “to the maximum extent allowable by law within the District.” The order gives no expiration date." 🧾 is.gd/xfVY5e
This offer still stands. Mainstream media should use my suggested headline and lead paragraph.
The great @sifill.bsky.social shreds the media for falling for Trump's narratives -- in this case, that these occupations have anything to do with crime. open.substack.com/pub/sherrily...
Pols say "this is not normal" all the time, as an ejaculation, but almost never lay it out like this. Every Dem should be doing this all the time: MAKE the press deal with the destruction of democracy—norms as well as laws—as an ongoing story, an integral part of almost EVERY story they're covering
Pritzker says the press should be asking this question, too, and he's right.
shit or get off, as they say in the trade!
See? This shit is why I'm not going to let up on Newsom or other transphobic Democrats: they might otherwise go the Labour route and plunge the country into full on transphobia as policy.
Dare you to find a more fitting metaphor for America right now.
Also twitter is obviously dying or these people wouldn't be complaining constantly
Yes. Six days ago they implemented a regulation claiming to give Bondi the authority to make any government lawyer a temporary immigration judge. Whether that’s legal remains to be seen. There will 100% be challenges, as a removal order issued by an unlawfully appointed judge shouldn’t be valid.
Greg Sargent: "So perhaps it’s time for news organizations to state unabashedly and affirmatively that they are not in the business of amplifying Trump officials’ lies and smears, and any official who feels entitled to such amplification can go stuff it." newrepublic.com/article/1998...
It’s essential to have accountability in a democracy