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šØBREAKING: Missouri Republicans took the first major step in Gov. Mike Kehoeās (R) extreme special session, as the House Special Committee on Redistricting voted 10ā4 to advance a new congressional gerrymander that would dismantle Kansas Cityās Democratic-leaning 5th District.
"In 1900, 31% of all deaths were children under the age of 5. Today, it's 0.7%. Vaccines, medications, and modern science are the reason why. Trust the science, it's been proven to work safely and effectively time and time again." Vaccines work. Anti-Vaxxers are just wrong. And deeply immoral.
This economic stagnation should worry everyone. 1 and 4 companies has a hiring freeze right now. Hiring managers are anticipating a recession. And instead of doing anything to fix it, Trump fired the person who counts the jobs.
It's insane to me how most of the world has stopped shipping mail and packages to the United States and the media has barely covered it. This is what I mean by boiled frogs. Everyone has become accustomed to the once unthinkable.
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"You're a charlatan. That's what you are." -- Cantwell to RFK Jr
Vance follows a coterie of online Nazis on X, has described Curtis Yarvin as a major intellectual influence, and openly attacks immigrants in blood and soil terms. The response of most of the political press? "Doesn't look like anything to me."
Surrender DonOLD!
Hours after trying to assassinate the EU Commission president, Russia tried to assassinate Germanyās military's inspector general, Carsten Breue, the highest-ranking general in the Bundeswehr. His plane was also jammed once over the Baltic Sea and once over Lithuania.
Unafraid to speak truth to power, President of the American Academy of Pediatrics Dr. Susan Kressly joins @vinguptamd.bsky.social on Meidas Health for a powerful discussion on truth, conviction, and her deep commitment to ensuring optimal childhood health for the nation amid chaos at the CDC.
Judge Sooknanan got the call at 1:00 am that Trumpās regime was trying to send children to Guatemala and has been up since then holding Trump regime lawyers to account. Reminds me of Hillary Clintonās 3:00 am āsomething is happening in the worldā political ad. We need a woman in the Oval.
Guessing no one is shocked because racist gonna notsee.
Univision reporting that a protest happened at Alligator Alcatraz in which remaining detainees were beat up by guards. Here you can hear the detainees describe the conditions on a phone call with Univision, with alarms blaring in the background š
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.
The U.S. is one of the world's biggest human rights violators under Trump. Well done, maga.
Over 300 MILLION American citizen's files stolen by DOGE. Why can't 1 person with access steal the EPSTEIN Files? #LEAKtheEPSTEIN_Files
Today in As the World Burns
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Q: āAre you worried all this pushback could provoke Trump to follow-through with sending the National Guard?ā MAYOR @brandon4chicago.bsky.social Johnson: āAs a descendant of slaves, can you imagine if my ancestors had that same rationale?ā
NPR: āA whistleblower says a former senior DOGE official now at the Social Security Administration copied the Social Security numbers, names & birthdays of over 300 million Americans to a private section of the agency's cloud lacking adequate security...ā www.npr.org/2025/08/26/n...
āIn a scientific sense, this is a total loss.ā US Supreme Court allows NIH to cut $2 billion in research grants www.nature.com/articles/d41...
For decades, Republicans screamed that the ābig, badā government was coming for you. Now, it actually is, but theyāre the ones in charge.
www.thedailybeast.com/donald-trump...
This is what autocrats say and do. Some threats he intends to carry out, others are just meant to intimidate to produce a change in behavior caused by fear. Every day we move closer to autocracy. Who will be fearless & fight, who will ignore it and hide, & who will bend the knee?
"Trump wants to strip those exceptions away. Under his plan, the VA would only allow abortions when a doctor certifies that a veteranās life is at risk should the pregnancy be carried to term. Not health. Not rape. Not incest."
As a principled free market libertarian, I support Trumpās march towards state capitalism.
Democrats should make more hay out of the fact that Republican states have the worst quality of life in the developed world. The state of Mississippi, Texas' Permain Basin, SC's "Corridor of Shame" - this is what Republican party rule gets you.
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So odd how intrusive into our personal lives the āparty of small governmentā turns out to be! Itās almost as if maybe they didnāt mean what they were promising all those yearsā¦.
I prefer truth. Retake our government!!!
From "highly CONFLICTED" to "Highly Respected" in just weeks ā and all it took was for him to give away 10% of his company
Hereās what appears to be a little girl shackled at the wrists and ankles boarding an ICE flight on Avelo Airlines yesterday. Seattle (Boeing Field) to Mesa, AZ, an ICE detention hub. Not one of those men helped her up the stairs. Courtesy @lalabote.bsky.social
Justice Jackson is basically reporting live from inside a garbage fire www.ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/nih-c...
I am an American. In my country, law enforcement would show their faces, respect private property, not threaten peopleās families, and follow the law. @hcrichardson.bsky.social
On the left: Nate Cavanagh, a 28-year-old DOGE staffer and college dropout. On the right: Mohammad Halimi, a 53-year-old exiled Afghan scholar. This is the story of how DOGE targeted Halimi on social media. Then the Taliban took his family. š§µ
"To establish an authoritarian gov't, you need to capture the Justice Dept, the intelligence community, and the Defense Dept, and this is why loyalists were put in as the heads of all of these...institutions so that they will do the things like we're seeing right now." @radiofreetom.bsky.social
Luttig is communicating vastly more clearly and honestly about Roberts and Scotus than most Democratic officials are. Itās absolutely flabbergasting.
International Paper shutting down Savannah, Riceboro mills, impacting 1,100 jobs www.wjcl.com/article/inte...
Meanwhile in Russia: state TV is openly mocking Trump by describing their bombing of a U.S.-owned Flex electronics factory as "destroying Western investments." Remember when Scott Bessent said that U.S. investments in Ukraine would serve as an "implicit" security guarantee?
Idiotic moves. Putin puppet
We are not safe
Hey look. Itās the worst economy since the last time Trump was in office. Probably just a coincidence
"The actions add up to an unprecedented attempt by a sitting president to interfere in a critical election before itās even held, moves that have raised alarms among those concerned about the future of U.S. democracy..." apnews.com/article/trum...
RIP Grandchildren
Watch this. Apparently, police followed Rep Collier into the bathroom and threatened her with a FELONY for being on a press call with Senator Corey Booker and Governor Newsom.
This is nazi logic. The Nazis would redistribute the confiscated property of Jews to the German populace as an incentive to support their mass deportation to concentration camps.
The numbers are in. The new maps republicans just passed in Texas reduce Hispanic Texans to one-third of a white person and Black Texans to one-fifth of a white person.
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āProgressā is not what got them to drop everything, including Merloni leaving her vacation, to scramble and fly to DC immediately. bsky.app/profile/atru...
After my college students learn about this, they are horrified. I then run a thought experiment with them: Why are you just learning about the extent of sexual violence in slavery now? Why didn't you learn about it in high school? In middle school? 1/4
Home Depot is raising its prices because of *checks notes* tariffs. Weird.
š§šāļø NOT FOOLING ANYONE š¤Ø FIRST Avelo painted their planes white in order to šhide their shameš over flying humans around in chains for ICE. NOW Signature Aviation in Seattle is šcovering their logoš on the equipment servicing those same planes. š
āThe Senatorās staff has received or identified 41 credible reports that individuals have been physically and/or sexually abused while in DHS custody. Detainees have reported being beaten by detention facility staff and placed in solitary confinement after reporting their abuse.ā
Thank you for bringing the links up. I had posted about it and figured resisters knew what was happening, but I guess it hasn't gotten around. Have you seen the Common Coalition report? It is more detailed than the 'she won' Substack article. thecommoncoalition.com/wp-content/u...
Sing now of the heros of the people
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The Trump administration is considering giving Russia access to Alaskaās rare earth minerals as an incentive to end the war in Ukraine. Full disclosure: I was just joking when I said he might sell Alaska to Putin. Some idiot on GOP Twitter is going to defend this, too.
ICYMI, the eye-popper in today's PPI: a 39% rise in wholesale fresh vegetable prices. It's the largest month-on-month increase ever recorded in the summer (data to 1947), and one of the ten largest ever, regardless of season. With the estimable @alexjamesfitz.com www.axios.com/2025/08/14/i...
Another day, another example of the Republican budget bill's impacts on healthcare in America. We must reverse these Medicaid cuts before too many lose insurance. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/08/14/b...
Saw a helluva lot of Army vehicles on a stopped train in Kelso WA this morning. Engines looked like they were facing south.
Saw a helluva lot of Army vehicles loaded on a stopped train headed somewhere in Kelso WA this morning. Headed to Portland? Seattle? California? Who will Trump attack next?
Donald Trump hires only the *best* homicidal insurrectionists to work at... ...wait, this canāt be right... the Department of Justice???
The woman petitioning SCOTUS to overturn marriage equality in the name of the sanctity of marriage is on her fourth husband.
Seems Mike Johnson has been using campaign funds to pay his rent in DC, which is a major legal no no. www.rawstory.com/mike-johnson...
š Mr. Howell needs to be made famous. Maybe he was not listening, but we are. šØ NO! Being forced to march in 110 degrees for 2 hours in Eloy, AZ, by prison guards is NOT okay.
NEW: Trumpās team appears to be considering pardoning Binance founder CZ. He pleaded guilty in 2023 to money laundering violations that allowed terrorist groups to move $. Since then, Binance has done a $2B deal that benefited Trumpās crypto firm. A pardon could allow more deals +access to the US
Multiple times this year Iāve had coffee with fellow immigrants who grew up in corrupt third world countries and the shared sentiment has been that Americans donāt understand how bad things are going to get.
The six reliably pro-Trump justices are "racking up a rap sheet of constitutional abuses of staggering import."
You should be very concerned.
The dissent by Judge Pillard studiously and calmly dismembers the two Trump judgesā arguments. Itās long, but worth reading. This is what it looks like when Trump judges are more loyal to Trump than to law and duty, all to protect MAGA DOJ.
Well, well, well. With Emil Bove safely through his sham Senate confirmation proceedings, the two Trump judges just lifted the three-months-long administrative stay that had kept any evidence of Boveās contempt of court bottled up. š§µ
New in PN: Trump's Confederacy rises again "The straightforward explanation for Trumpās Confederacy fetish is that heās a virulent racist who wouldāve enslaved people himself. If you think thatās hyperbolic, just listen to the man."
Secret police? The FBI has zero authority to arrest state legislators on civil warrants with no crime charged: www.nytimes.com/2025/08/05/u...
BILL BURR: āThereās nothing wrong with being a billionaire, but if someoneās working 40 hours/week and canāt make rent youāre not paying them enoughā¦ maybe you should just be worth $900 Million. How do you take an 8 figure bonus and none of your employees have dental insurance?ā
pro soccer player Jerce Reyes Barrios followed all the rules when he came to the US. His lawyer told took his asylum case bc it seemed like a "slam dunk. Then US officials sent him to CECOT, where he was told he'd spend the rest of his life w/@mattshuham.bsky.social www.huffpost.com/entry/pro-so...
NEWS --> An internal Homeland Security memo suggests Trump's use of military for domestic enforcement is about to get worse. It details top-level talks between Defense Department and DHS on what this should look like. Experts say it's alarming. We obtained the memo: newrepublic.com/article/1987...
Feelin' great yet everyone?
New: Lawmakers only budgeted $40 million of the nearly $800 million that districts say is needed to fix and maintain schools to keep them safe and operating. Gov. Mike Dunleavy then vetoed more than a third of that. By @emilyschwing.bsky.socialā¬
The 17 experts who were ousted from an HHS vaccine committee have published a commentary on Wednesday in the New England Journal of Medicine, saying that Robert Kennedy, Jr., and his self-picked panel are abandoning rigorous scientific review and open deliberation. www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....
Well, the Supreme Court is complicit so I would not be holding my breath at this point.
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Completely not occupying reality. Solar and wind are still economical without the subsidies and you basically cannot scale our grid without them. Just completely delusional.
This is yet another example of Trump working hard to raises prices as a matter of policy.
Some utter nonsense, really just drivel, the conclusion of which is edgy racism - this is the essence of Curtis Yarvin, the purest distillation of who he is as a person.
NEW: We interviewed nine Venezuelan men who were sent to CECOT by the Trump administration. Some said their feelings about what happened were still raw. All of the men said they were abused physically and mentally during their imprisonment.
The price of 1 lb of ground beef is now higher than the federal minimum hourly wageā¦
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Theyāre pushing back because it would also ban the administration from trading stocks. Theyād be fine with limiting Congress, but their own insider trading must continue
Don't miss CNBC anchor Joe Kernen calling CO2 pollution "absurd" because "we exhale it"
It's because American elites are the most wretched, miserable, servile, pathetic trash that was ever shat into civilization.
NEW MUST READ: Republicans and their allies are laying the groundwork for weakening the crucial federal law that blocked many of their attempts to purge voter registration rolls on the eve of the 2024 election. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
"The six justices who make up the pro-Trump voting bloc enjoy life tenure and absolute immunity from liability for the harm that they cause. Equipped with those protections, they just seem not to care how history will judge them." It will do so anyway.
a Trump guy could shoot someone on the floor of the senate and get confirmed at this point in any reasonable world Bove should have been voted down by a supermajority and should be impeached immediately for lying under oath
When Preston Brooks caned Charles Sumner nearly to death on the Senate floor, he was met by cheering crowds when he returned home to South Carolina. So yeah. We're basically back at the same point.
NEW The White House is blocking the NIH from awarding new research grants for the rest of the fiscal year Chokes off billions in research funding Gift link www.wsj.com/politics/pol... with @nidhisubs.bsky.social
Americans' social safety net hasn't been in this much peril in many decades. The stakes couldn't be higher in the 2026 midterms. fortune.com/2025/07/28/w...