This is, of course, false. The United States exported $83 billion in goods and services to India last year alone.
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This is, of course, false. The United States exported $83 billion in goods and services to India last year alone.
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-...
and they were wearing masks outside.
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In a WIN for reproductive rights, Governor Pritzker has signed bill HB 3709 into law. This new law will require all public universities to offer both contraception & abortion meds if the schools have an on campus pharmacy. This law is intended to make these meds more accessible. #Pinks
Just read a post from her saying Velshi's team reached out to discuss having her on the show. Hope it works out and she becomes a regular guest. We need to hear more about what they are doing.
Okay, so I just saw a post from her saying your team reached out to discuss it further. Glad to see that. Hope it works out and she becomes a regular guest. We need to hear more about what they are doing.
For everyone screaming at Velshi, he or his team did see my full thread. They are interested in discussing further. Please stop calling him out on my behalf. I will let you know if this becomes anything. I really really hope it does.
I don’t know how to fix this. Because this is pretty much, Word for Word exactly what Ken is doing at the DNC. Like this is his plan this is what he’s been talking about every single time he opens his mouth. I don’t know how to get people to know that democrats.org/news/dnc-and...
@peggyflanagan.bsky.social is the current MN LT Gov, and, on Wed, Aug 20, I had the pleasure to speak with her. In her daughters words, the work of an LG is to “go on field trips and help people” and, really, that’s what it boils down to, and being in the Senate isn’t all that different. 1/
interesting that you replied to this post but not to what Ms. Elm has posted. Why is that, I wonder? Are you going to take up her offer of having her on to talk about these things? That should be the least that you should do for balance, ya know.
Read this entire thread. It's a response w/receipts to Velshi's piece on MSNBC criticizing Democratic leadership for not doing anything.
POPE LEO: “Let us plead God to stop the pandemic of arms, large and small, which infects our world.” He prays for the victims in Minneapolis, and “the countless children killed and injured every day around the world”
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💯%. 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 plane Ursula von der Leyen @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu was on was forced to land in Bulgaria due to suspected Russian GPS interference -FT There are reports that the pilots even had to use paper maps due to GPS jamming as they made the emergency landing.
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Long the envy of the world for its capabilities and expertise, the CDC finds itself no longer able to advocate for what its scientists believe the best available research shows. @citizencohn.bsky.social on the CDC purge: www.thebulwark.com/p/kennedy-rf...
9 CDC Directors going back to 1977 speak out. What RFK Jr has done to our nation’s public health system "should alarm every American." It "is unlike anything we have ever seen at the agency, and unlike anything our country has ever experienced." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...
Giuffre's statement read at Ghislaine Maxwell's sentencing. Maxwell is a fucking MONSTER. She is definitely a pedophile and enjoyed sexually torturing girls as young as 12. She is a disgusting predator who cannot be rehabilitated and there is no doubt she will rape again. #ReleaseTheEpsteinFiles
Ah yes the word of a convicted perjurer whats not to believe
He is Trumps DEFENSE ATTORNEY!! What would anyone expect. Deputy Attorneys General don’t do jail house immunity granted interviews- this whole thing is a farce
He was so blatantly feeding her the answers. Asking what any lawyer would know are leading questions. If this is what we received, you have to wonder what was said before the recording or if anything was cut out. After all, they don't exactly have a great track record with supposed "raw footage."
To read the 337-page transcript of Ghislaine Maxwell’s interview with the Deputy Attorney General, Todd Blanche, is to be horrified, even enraged, by Maxwell’s brazen airbrushing of her conduct, and by Blanche’s placid acceptance of her rendition of events.
"To those on the C.D.C. staff who continue to perform their jobs heroically in the face of the excruciating circumstances, we offer our sincere thanks and appreciation."
A Labor Day classic: www.thebulwark.com/p/labor-day-...
NATIONWIDE PROTESTS today, September 1st. Find a Protest near you by clicking this link findaprotest.info
*Trump* may not be canny enough to be *planning* to weaponize the government in a methodical way, but "there are people behind the scenes...and they know what they're doing." @radiofreetom.bsky.social talks Trump's abuses of power and more with @timmiller.bsky.social:
That’s not all New Mexico is doing: bsky.app/profile/char...
This is the way
September is Suicide Prevention Awareness Month. Throughout the month, we will be calling attention to the heartbreaking gun suicide crisis, which accounts for nearly six out of every ten gun deaths in the U.S. #SPAM
oh, that must be why they tried to do it in the middle of the night on a holiday weekend. We've already seen this played out when they illegally shipped people off to the El Salvador gulag in the middle of the night.
and lie about the group and what they're doing to discredit it.
It's total bullshit. www.mediaite.com/media/news/p...
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
It’s not just about dehumanizing the target—it’s about disarming the observer. ...Putin’s critics—laid it out plainly: behind the thuggish repression, there’s no grand ideology. There’s only theft. Power is just a means to steal more, protect the stolen, and destroy anyone who threatens the racket.
The Trump regime—...They’ve read the Putin playbook, dog-eared the best parts, and now they’re running it in real time. And the cruelty? That’s not a flaw in the system. That is the system. Because cruelty serves a dual purpose: it distracts and it paralyzes...
Powerful. Read it all. thehobbledehoy.com/tag/oliver-k... History is watching. And this time, it’s our names on the line What’s happening in this country isn’t just cruel—it’s methodical, strategic, and deeply familiar to anyone who’s studied or survived under regimes built on repression and rot.
C’mon folks 19 states are facing occupation, let’s make sure this toolkit makes it around BlueSky 🤗 WE are the resistance!
This is the provision Ensign cited as the basis for the government's authority to summarily remove unaccompanied migrant children. I’d love to hear from immigration lawyers, but having briefly looked at it… it’s so frivolous it’d be laughable if it weren’t so cruel. (Am I wrong??)
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@jollygoodginger.bsky.social is in DC with other vets right now standing up for democracy. He's playing General Milleys speech on repeat for them today 💜 #LoveTheVets!
How about just prosecuting the people actually committing the fraud and keeping them in jail after they are convicted and not commuting their sentences-or electing them senator-looking at you Rick Scott.
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...
MAHA & MAGA see the entire public-health establishment as the enemy. Still furious over COVID restrictions, they feel purging anybody who had anything to do with the pandemic response is as essential as purging anybody who prosecuted Jan 6th rioters or investigated Trump's relationship with Russia.
NEW: A week or so ago, one federal agent kept popping up in videos from Trump's violent DC crackdown—so @jsweetli.bsky.social and I investigated. Turns out he's a 26-year-old US Parks Police officer, a lesser known law enforcement unit currently championed by Interior Sec. Doug Burnum. Our report:
There's only one way to stop the rumors about Donald Trump's health: a press conference. Why won't he talk to the press, and why isn't the media doggedly demanding it?
Did Trump post a week-old golfing pic as if it were today? That would really thicken the plot, huh?
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We have a decades of scholarship on how pro-democracy forces win in competitive authoritarian systems: they form a united opposition that brings together people with otherwise profound political disagreements.
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This is the second judge in a week that has brought up the fact that the government can't be trusted with clear instructions - likely because the government ignored Judge Boasberg's order to turn the planes around last March saying "verbal orders from judges don't count."
advocating for racial equality is advocating for diversity, equity, and inclusion.
Here’s part of the test for Oklahoma teachers that Praeger U wrote. This test—for *public school teachers*—combines middle school civics with religious Right (esp. anti-trans) ideology. And Praeger U is so proud of it that it took out a full-page NYT ad.
An examination of more than 1,200 federal judges and state supreme court justices turned up dozens of judges who chose not to recuse when facing potential appearances of impropriety involving familial financial connections. (Published July 2024)
Not only is our new acting director of the CDC NOT a scientist, but he also has deep ties to Peter Thiel and Silicon Valley’s techno-utopia movement. One epidemiologist compared Jim O’Neill’s appointment to “making Elon Musk head of the FAA.”
Lorelei Cloud was born 3 years before Native Americans living on tribal lands in Colorado were guaranteed the right to vote. She is now vice chair of the Southern Ute Tribe. “I don’t want future generations to have to deal with any of what we’ve had to.”
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and are they releasing old pictures of trump on the course now?
so a picture of somebody else hitting a ball while Trump sits in the cart. No picture of Trump hitting the ball?
An important thread. Trump tried to illegally deport dozens of children by loading them onto airplanes bound for Guatemala at 2 am on Sunday of Labor Day weekend.
How about writing a story about how Republicans called Obama a dictator for E.O.'s that weren't close to anything Trump is doing. You know, be consistent in calling out Republicans like you do Democrats. I can dream....
a continuation of his *unconstitutional* efforts. It's not a debate. Stop normalizing what he's doing. That makes you complicit!
When QAnon emerged publicly in August 2018, the media was totally blindsided. Most had either no knowledge, or had actively ignored it. There's no excuse now. The president is sharing insane prophecy cult memes, and it needs to be covered. It's not normal.
exactly.
HAPPENING NOW: Judge Sparkle Sooknanan holds an emergency hearing as the Trump admin is reportedly trying—imminently—to deport hundreds of Guatemalan children without required process or access to representation. www.courtlistener.com/docket/71240...
Bingo! I've been saying this since that first picture of him surfaced yesterday in which he looked horrible. I saw another picture of them saying he got out of the car and went into the clubhouse. Nothing after that though. Where's the pictures/video of him out on the course actually playing?
has anybody actually seen him playing golf the last 2 days? Going to a golf course is meaningless if he doesn't play golf. Riding in a cart doesn't count either. Maybe they're just trying to tamp down the talk by shipping him off to a course, if he's not playing, it's a problem.
This is a plan for ethnic cleansing. It’s morally horrific and absolutely insane
www.tiktok.com/t/ZT6g417dj/ Since our party doesn’t bother to tell us when there are key races we could help win. GA Special election runoff in September. Let’s get some help to this Dem!
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I think it’s pretty clear by now that you couldn’t get a Palestinian to accept a pager or cell phone from the US or Israel, and for good reason. A pre-wired, traceable and personally identifiable “AI-powered” “smart” apartment? Golly, I doubt people will want one.
substack.com/@democraticw... The 🤡 is now going after hospital records asking for all the info on any child that has undergone gender affirming care‼️ Are our children property of the US government!? Many hospitals are refusing and fighting this. Please share and get this information out.
Ooooo, this was a really good article. If you're able to watch (I'm at work sadly) then it'll be well worth your time.
Residents are finding all sorts of ways to fight ICE: They're recording and reporting. They're wheatpasting and sharing know-your-rights materials. And they're stepping up to care for each other, from delivering groceries to walking kids to school. 51st.news/dc-residents...
Pritzker: "National Guard troops, any kind of troops, on the streets of American city don't belong unless there is an insurrection, unless there is truly an emergency. There is not."
Its absolutely WILD that anybody is selling this armed occupation as a solution to crime because they would have to be doing this in perpetuity, in every city in the country, which just means Americans being forced to live in fear and isolation to avoid being a casualty of police AND US troops?
Agree Mr. Reich ! Chump's Regime Is Only about Him,RepubliKKKans And Their Wealthy Donors......
“We are up against an ideology that has given up not only on the premise and promise of liberal democracy but on the livability of our shared world… The forces we are up against have made peace with mass death. They are treasonous to this world and its human and non-human inhabitants.” A must read:
This toolkit is excellent. It has resources and action items. Great examples of how to interact with the Nat. Guard.
Trump is militarizing our streets to cover up his failing legitimacy: the tanking economy, the Epstein files, and his wildly unpopular ICE kidnappings. Read our Resistance Toolkit now at bit.ly/resistancetoolkit, and share it widely. LFG rebel alliance! #WeKeepUsSafe
The regime is no longer hiding the coup…
Fascism is here, and it’s going to take all of us to stop it. • Get connected to the resistance: fiftyfifty.one • Get trained on non-cooperation: nokings.org/rise • Get bold by joining protests: maydaystrong.org • Get politically activated: pol-rev.com • Get started: Choosedemocracy.us
Some important “What to expect when we’re electing” messaging from the Brennan Center. Election fraud lies are integrated into the administration’s strategies of election interference going into 2026. What we need to be aware of… and what we can do:
www.tiktok.com/t/ZT6sFTpTc/ Certain words are causing Shadow Banning so check out this wonderful Music Festival that took place in Los Angeles a couple weeks ago. Portland Music Festival, New York Music Festival.. also venues. Code to avoid algorithms. Please share!
Brennan Center experts Sean Morales-Doyle and Lawrence Norden forecast how the Trump administration will undermine confidence in our elections in the months leading up to the 2026 midterms: bit.ly/4fRIqtA
After this administration hangs a portrait of Robert E. Lee at West Point, perhaps they could put up a nice one of Al Capone at the FBI. Or Mary Mallon at HHS.
trump can issue as many executive orders as he wants, perhaps coverage should reflect the fact that a lot of these have the legal force of a child's wishlist for santa
they are experts at complaining about problems that don't exist.
"Here’s the truth we cannot escape: If Ashli Babbitt is honored, then few things are sacred. If loyalty to the Constitution and an attempt to overthrow it are treated as equal, we lose the very meaning of service." www.thebulwark.com/p/honoring-a...
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."
Cost of Trump's D.C. Occupation: $1.1M per day. Cost to operate public housing for D.C.'s entire homeless population: $169,226 per day. It's not about what this country can or can’t afford. It’s about priorities.
That Trump and Trumpism are fascist doesn’t explain the sheer vandalism of unleashing mass murdering mayhem via RFK to replace medical/scientific institutions of immense value and prestige with medieval peasant superstitions. That is a criminal madness facilitated by but above and beyond fascism.
No matter what @MarshaBlackburn keeps saying, it’s not criminals they’re targeting. www.cnn.com/2025/08/30/u...
Jill Stein and Cornel West both disgust me — such goddamn, self-serving hypocrites.
Civic education and especially the press in this country aren't great, but the big problem here is that the people acting like the president isn't a public servant tasked with faithfully executing the law, but instead The Country's Boss, includes the GOP majorities in Congress and the Supreme Court.
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