If we're playing the distraction game, whatever this is will be a distraction from the September 3 Epstein survivors' press conference. Including if he resigns due to poor health.
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If we're playing the distraction game, whatever this is will be a distraction from the September 3 Epstein survivors' press conference. Including if he resigns due to poor health.
*TRUMP TO MAKE ANNOUNCEMENT 2:00 PM ET TUESDAY: WHITE HOUSE
Somebody should create an app called Trump Death Watch that will immediately alert us the moment the news breaks, by playing an appropriate tune. Perhaps this one...
There is a news conference scheduled for 10:30 a.m. ET on Wednesday, September 3, at the House Triangle in Washington, D.C., for survivors of Jeffrey Epstein's sexual abuse. #Justice4Survivors #ReleaseAllTheEpsteinFiles
Just imagine: Joe Biden, Barack Obama, and the Clintons, in the front row of Trumpβs funeral. Or empty seats where they would be, if anyone else had died.
βͺI have a bottle of Prosecco chilling. It doesn't matter what time of day it happens, I'm going into the street, popping the cork, and pouring myself (and anyone nearby with a glass) a celebratory drink. Then I'll send a gift certificate for ice cream to Joe Biden.
βͺI have a bottle of Prosecco chilling. I don't care what time of day it happens, I'm going into the street, popping the cork, and pouring myself (and anyone nearby with a glass) a celebratory drink. Then I'll send a gift certificate for ice cream to Joe Biden.
I have a bottle of Prosecco chilling. I don't care what time of day it happens, I'm going into the street, popping the cork, and pouring myself (and anyone nearby with a glass) a celebratory drink. Then I'll send a gift certificate for ice cream to Joe Biden.
And the Democratic Party endorsed sex pest Cuomo in this election? REALLY? This is respect. Jeffries, Schumer, et al should take notes.
Jerry Nadler ends his remarkable career, conceding that his brand of politics on the Middle East is over. βI donβt know what to say at this point,β he said. βI canβt defend what Israel is doing.β www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/n...
Thank you, Congressman Nadler.
... by Jake Tapper
Oh stop it, both the media for this idiotic reductive narrative and Dem centrists for being such astonishing wimps. The voters of NYC β especially young ones β made their clear choice, so either move along or go sit down. You win nothing by being cautious and scared www.politico.com/news/2025/09...
We live in a nation that abhors a social contract. It is anathema to us. We do not want to owe basic courtesy or fellow feeling to ANYONE. Hence poverty, denial of health care, the nation as shooting gallery, the theft of the meagre belongings of homeless people, our neglect of education...
The Irish have a brainstorming session on the housing crisis there. Could be some ideas we could borrow here in the US. I'm very fond of the Buddhist monk suggestion myself. www.youtube.com/watch?v=7SFc...
Thank you for the time you put into this. If I may ask: if you had a chance to speak with the Administrator of HRSA, Tom Engel, what would you say? (Or would you just give him a copy of this thread?)
"The world is healing."
Thank you on this labor day!!
He was amazing. RIP Graham Greene.
"In 7 months, Trump and his Republican Reeks have harmed Americaβs reputation, lowered the value of the dollar, increased the price of goods, driven away foreign students and tourism, harmed farmers and manufacturers, and alienated our allies. "But, theyβve been fantastic for measles, baby!"
Remember effortless magnificence. www.thisiscolossal.com/2025/08/prin...
So proud!
what a surprise [files nails.gif]
If we had a functioning State Department, and a USAID program, this would be an all hands on deck moment. We could do so much good, and make so many new friends, or at least make their hatred for us weaker, if we could offer the help that's desperately needed. www.reuters.com/world/asia-p...
Platner on the Democratic Party, calling it back to its first loves, its core values. It shouldn't be competing for the favors of the oligarchs and plutocrats. It CERTAINLY shouldn't have endorsed sex pest CUOMO, when there were other, far superior, options within the party. Preach, brother.
Check out @anamariecox.bsky.social's profile of him. She's never struck me as someone who is easily impressed. But she seems absolutely smitten by him. newrepublic.com/article/1996...
Agreed
Ohh, to have such a Secretary of Labor again, who knows his way around not only statistics, but poetry as well.
βSomething clearly is up with the 79-year-old president, and the official explanations donβt make sense. Thatβs not surprising given that Trump is a world historical liar surrounded by toadies who surrendered their shame long ago. But itβs past time for reporters to ask some questions.β
It would be poetic if the day we've all been waiting for turned out to be Labor Day. Another Plutocrat who won't be missed.
"Everyone's just trying to keep it together." Have been for decades. Americans have given enough, under the rule of the oligarchs over the last 45 years, to billionaires. It's time the rest of America, of all colors and classes, gets a ----ing break. A friend is watching Platner/Sanders right now!
"This is my pledge to you."
This is unfortunately true.
Thanks for the gift link, so I could.
Despicable.
8 former directors and acting directors of the CDC, who worked under Republican and Democratic administrations from Carter to Trump 1.0, condemning what RFK, Jr. is doing.
Revoking an entire nationalityβs visas is collective punishment and never acceptable β especially in this moment when millions of Palestinians lack equal rights, basic healthcare, and so much more at home, forcing them out of the US is unfathomably cruel. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/31/w...
Read this, read it again, breath the words into your lungs, and then go live them. This is our mission. www.thenation.com/article/acti...
Anyway, Iβm glad to know the president is still technically alive so he can watch this tomorrow www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...
Seriously. Why isn't the White House physician being interviewed on every news show β while tethered to a lie detector?
Source for those stats, please. Thank you.
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.
Holy sh!t, Henry! You are the person for whom Elizabeth Warren created the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. Which Trump, Inc. has also gutted, if not shut down, IIRC.
And they did it for an immoral imbecile. They couldn't have done it for a conservative with a PhD in economics or international relations β or the humanities, god forbid. They did it for a silver spoon nepo baby, rapist, pedophile who went bankrupt 6 times. What did they THINK would happen?
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Fully one third of Americans are forced to live on 2x the federal poverty level or less. Decade in, decade out. And because they use credit cards so desperately, they end up paying at least 25% more for everything they charge, than those who can pay cash, or pay off their cards monthly.
Thatβs likely true about who was in the working class. It also included German, Irish, and Polish immigrants, who were persona non grata then. They later found whiteness gave them status over their black working class brothers and sisters. But why start with a swipe at Bill K, who shared the quote?
βThere are those who would try to refuse the worker any effective power to bargain collectively, to earn a decent livelihood and to acquire security. It is those shortsighted ones who threaten this country with class dissensionβ¦β β Franklin Roosevelt, Sep. 6, 1936 www.thebulwark.com/p/labor-day-...
Thanks very much!
Oh, Andy Borowitz. What a gem you are.
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π―%. I've come to accept how morally depraved Donald Trump is. But I'll never get over how blindingly imbecilic he is. www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
The cultural symbol that is D.C.βs Sandwich Guy has made it to the Washington Spirit game today. (Read all about the new folk hero here: 51st.news/the-subrisin...)
These people are monstrous. They need to go NOW. Not in 2028. Not in 2026. They need to be shown the door NOW.
"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."
Artists are like alchemists. I'm blown away by the ability to do stuff like this.
Paging @radiofreetom.bsky.social . . . and I'm probably not the first to do so re: this video.
Done. Wrote them a love letter in the comments box.
There's room to add your own comments. I just wrote the Smithsonian a love letter, and asked them to stand against the vandals of the Trump administration. Tell the Smithsonian: Reject demands to whitewash history act.indivisible.org/sign/smithso...
That'd be great! Unlike in 1789, it would have to be led by African American, Native American, Hispanic American and other women of color. Because most Euro-American women seem to have succumbed to white patriarchy in a bad case of Stockholm Syndrome.
This administration needs to go. Not in 2028, or in 2026. In September 2025.
Norway cancels its $13.5 bn in contracts with American shipbuilders, moves the contracts to the UK. Why? Under Trump, the US is no longer a reliable ally. www.reuters.com/business/aer...
Putin expected to stay for FOUR DAYS. Was he even in Alaska for four HOURS? And the US . . . not even invited. How quickly the mighty have tumbled from our perch. I bet there will be "huge" repercussions of this meeting within the month, if not by the end of the week. And the $DJIA will notice.
Bullshit. Fear mongering is as worthless as denial.
My thread resulted from the first few pages of this book, which were an eye opener then, and the first half of the book has keep them wide open. bsky.app/profile/phid...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=oiDN...
βIf you look back with clear eyes, then, the story of America isnβt so much a burst of idealism that casts its light into the present day as it is a primal sinβa betrayal that echoes down the ages. We purchase unity at the price of justice, and more specifically the value of racial equality.β p. 101
β(Black military service, I will argue, is more or less responsible for the creation of modern America.)β Page 95
NEW: Many of the unaccompanied minors who Trump is trying to traffic to Guatemala today are in foster care - some of which seem to be Christian facilities. These 10 represent a putative class of nearly 600 children nationwide. Our government is trafficking children.
DEVELOPING: Advocates are seeking a court order to block the Trump administrationβs 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 βare in the process of being removed" today.
I disagree. Their coffee is great. Itβs their politics and exploitation of their workers for the benefit of their multimillionaire CEO, that sucks. Itβs like Eric Clapton: great guitarist, terrible racist.
This is one of the best books Iβve ever read, in both readability and content. 90 pages into it β not quite halfway β Iβve marked a passage on all but nine pages so far. It can serve as a fog light for us in these dark, murky times.
I bought a convection range about a year ago, both for safety and for reduced carbon emissions. Works like a charm β and itβs not as expensive as whatever model they got for a Michelin restaurant! (It was around $1000; there were less expensive models.)
A Republican governor who says no to Donald Trump. Whatever is the world coming to?
A Republican who says no to Donald Trump. Whatever is the world coming to?
Cruelty. Unqualified cruelty.
10 years ago. Wow. The day after it was released, I was in DC with Citizens Climate Lobby, advocating for climate change action along with 1000+ people who were devoting their lives to making a better world for their children and grandchildren.
Pope Leo pleads for end to 'pandemic of arms' after Minnesota shooting reut.rs/46fNC7i
A friend is going to meet me for coffee. Iβm already at the shop, enjoying perfect weather outdoors. Just dropped off a couple of books at a nearby little free library. After coffee, Iβm going to Loweβs to pick up a litter picker that I ordered, so I can pick litter in my littered neighborhood.
Now make the homeowner a black guy, and you have part of the history of African-Americans in the USA.
βTrump and MAGA are remaking our nation into a nightmare akin to the vision of our slave-owning foundersβ is BENIGN in your reading? You must have a different working definition of the word than I do. Or maybe you didnβt read the entire thread?
Wouldnβt it be great if America had a revelation about child sexual abuse among our elite, in the way that Ireland had such a revelation about the abuse of children by the Catholic Church? In Ireland, the revelation sparked a revolution.
Like adding a missing vitamin to our diet, Americans would benefit from a daily dose of international headlines β some, but not all, about us. It would be good for us to see ourselves as others see us. It would also be wise for us to learn that we are not the center of everyoneβs universe.
WOW, must see TV!
You are in luck: since he never said this, you donβt have to agree with Nietzsche.
And some that he never said, that are attributed to him. Kind of like Lincoln, and Einstein, and Mark Twainβ¦
Good news, then: he never said this.
Well done, @govmlg.bsky.social
CHICAGO MAYOR ISSUES EXECUTIVE ORDER PROTECTING CHICAGO AGAINST THREATENED FEDERAL ACTION - I HAVE THE FULL EO FOR YOU Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson just announced an Executive Order hardening the City of Chicago against an anticipated federal incursion and military presence.
I never puckered so much in such a short period of time.
Also, read this book if youβre feeling isolated or powerless. Itβs all about the web of connections that makes a community. That makes a person.
Where is DOGE when we actually need them?
This is the type of person Trump pardoned. He proudly asserts that they should have injured a US Capitol Police Officer worse than they did on January 6th (@sergeantaqgo.bsky.social) had to medically retire). But MAGA supports law enforcement? Seriously? Then show me by condemning this guy.
Winter is coming.
WTF??? Snap out of it! Will SOMEbody say NO to these alpha males???
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