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“So…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. Perhaps other journalists should stand with them as they do so.”
Protect themselves from the people they are supposed to be protecting??? God, Americans are sooo fucking stupid.
Clear eyed post by @andreapitzer.bsky.social on how the public is largely being kept from connecting the dots on what is happening— and how we can help. Fully agree with supporting independent news like @marisakabas.bsky.social , @chrisgeidner.bsky.social , and @boltsmag.org !
Trump said he will direct federal troops into Chicago and Baltimore. The local leaders don't want it. The people living there don't want it. Aspiring dictator Trump is the only person who wants this military takeover. This isn't about safety - it's about control.
The media will tell you Los Angeles is a filthy city filled with criminals but nothing is further from the truth. California is the land of sunshine filled with hard working diverse people who want to live their American dreams.
😂😂😂whatever pootin.
The twisted world Epstein created for his victims is something we could never understand. Jess Michaels, a survivor of his abuse, bravely describes how he recruited his victims on the LP Podcast: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFqeOt_rNFM
A House majority isn't backing down until we get the full Epstein File, not some watered-down, sanitized and redacted counterfeit doctored by Pam Bondi and Kash Patel. Release the real File and let the American people decide.
Kristi Noem's Non-Stop Slander Invites Congress to Ask Melania about Her Close Ties to Jeffrey Epstein www.emptywheel.net/2025/09/02/k...
"It’s surreal to witness the nascent elements of a similar authoritarian takeover in Washington DC, the capitol of supposedly the world’s leading democracy. It may not yet be at the stage of an actual coup, but the groundwork is being laid." bylinetimes.com/2025/08/29/d...
Why doesn’t the media care?
Trump Teases Tariff Rebate Checks, Ties Idea to Donations Another sketchy fundraising email from the Trump campaign meidasnews.com/news/trump-t...
A Democratic super PAC is launching a $700,000 digital ad blitz slamming Susan Collins for opposing a bipartisan bill that would ban members of Congress from trading stocks. This ad accuses Collins of “the worst kind of greed… using insider information to trade stocks.” Please WATCH and SHARE. 👀
Crime Festers in Republican States While Their Troops Patrol DC While TN’s Republican gov, Bill Lee, dispatched his National Guard troops to DC, Memphis, is one of the most dangerous cities in the country, with a murder rate about twice as high as DC www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/u...
RFK jr's cult beliefs in no way supersedes anyone's right to prevent death or disease in their self or their family. Full Stop.
This asshole think we are stupid? It’s about the 💰 period. Say what you want to assuage your guilt or whatever helps you sleep at night but don’t fucking lie you billionaire grub.
Half of US voters believe Israel is committing genocide and six in 10 oppose further military aid, polls suggest.
The United States is the only place on earth where poor people shun unions, free healthcare, and free education because the rich tell them to.
The guy Musk is responding to (and has allowed back on to his platform and boosted to 100k followers) is part of an extreme Neofascist splinter party. Musk is actively trying to cause violent unrest but he’s so rich UK politicians fear to call him out on it
Birmingham Alabama - a large yellow billboard appeared. It reads What’s the big secret fellas? And features a red portrait of Trump with Epstein.
ICYMI, new one from me:
At a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing in July, Sen. Tim Kaine (D-VA) asked Deputy Secretary of State for Management and Resources Michael Rigas about burning food that was meant for aid.
J.B. Pritzker is 100% right. Please listen to him, pay attention, and join us in speaking out against authoritarianism and to protect free and fair elections.
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...
Polish 'Millionaire' Accused of Snatching Hat From Boy at U.S. Open Piotr Szczerek is a CEO who is accused of being the man who was seen in a viral video. www.mensjournal.com/sports/polis...
Wait! I thought Trump was supposed to be “ending homelessness.” HUD just announced a nationwide audit of Section 8 “citizen status.” Mixed-status families could lose rental assistance, even when kids are U.S. citizens. Families including children could be thrown into eviction & face homelessness.
Transcript: Trump Lets Slip Dark Truth About His Plot to Rig Midterms newrepublic.com/article/1992... via @newrepublic.com
DHS and DC Police detaining a peaceful, unarmed man sitting on a bench at DC's Malcolm X Park.
Ewwwww.
Wisconsin meatpackers face labour shortage after Trump orders migrants home on.ft.com/41yyf7s
Just…wow…some truly heinous shit going on re: Trump response. And Obama response was about as lazy as you can get. Like having a 4th grader write one. Copying n pasting a couple lines from a few speeches.
Voters of Tomorrow has committed to spending $3M to put organizers on college campus in flippable Congressional seats. But we're still $3380 away from our August fundraising goal. Can you chip in to help us turn Congress blue? secure.actblue.com/donate/votho...
#StephenMillerIsANazi
I hate that Trump has made me so mean. 🤣
That is how you do it!! Way to lead Chicago!!
CHICAGO…
The White House says Trump’s visible bruises are nothing to worry about. Dr. Jonathan Reiner tells me that “is not a plausible explanation.” Why is the press silent on Trump’s obvious health issues? My latest for @status.news www.status.news/p/trump-heal...
This part. Everyone should be taking notes from @ivehaditpodcast.bsky.social’s @mizzwelch.bsky.social
Morning Bluesky. Tesla had its seventh straight monthly decline in European sales in July, dropping 40% to 8,837. Chinese rival BYD surged past Tesla with 225% sales increase, to 13,503.
I’m so grateful that I have tenure and the academic freedom to call it like I see it. “Dr. Kathleen Bachynski, a professor of public health at Muhlenberg College, described Kennedy’s comments as “absolute gibberish” and slammed the HHS secretary as a “dangerous buffoon” who is “threatening us all.”
NEW: In Chicago, a Teamsters local is striking in part to protect against federal immigration authorities. “It brings a lot of fear to our workplace." If they win, they’ll be the first Teamsters local in the country to adopt this language. @sarahlazare.bsky.social in @prospect.org:
🚨America Occupied: Malcolm Nance EXPOSES the Plan LIVE from D.C., Malcolm is embedded with Jolly Good Ginger and fighting back against Trump’s troop surge! 💥 ▶️ PRESS PLAY: youtu.be/q_rynwYBHsw?...
Malcolm Nance has BRILLIANT advice about how we can oppose the federal occupation of American cities! Please watch and PASS IT ON!!!
ABC: “A federal appeals court has ruled that most of Trump's sweeping global tariffsare unlawful, potentially dealing a significant blow to the president's effort to reshape the country's trade policy unilaterally…” abcnews.go.com/US/trumps-gl...
And that explains why the U.N. is moving out of the U.S.
Oh zip it you nazi thumb.
UPDATE: NORTH CAROLINA carriers have posted their *approved* avg. 2026 #ACA rate filings. Overall, the weighted avg increase is 27.8%, but there's also something weird: Around 263,000 NC enrollees seem to be "missing" somewhere. acasignups.net/rate_changes...
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That’s what they are going with? It will embarrass us in front of the world?? Sorry ding-dong, that horse left the barn 11/5/2024. Fucking nit-wit.
You have the right to be yourself at your public school, no matter what lawmakers say. Learn more at aclu.org/lgbtqstudentskyr
An SSA source tells me chief data officer Charles Borges sent out his involuntary resignation email to select offices within the agency a short while ago, but then a few minutes later the email disappeared from the inboxes of those who received it with no explanation.
#RumpIgnoresSupplySide 😆 bsky.app/profile/rcsm...
I mean, this isn’t wrong. Yes, RFK Jr should be fired (he never should have been nominated or confirmed in the first place); but Trump will never do the right thing, and we all know it. Congress, however, can stop this madness. And they all know it is madness. Every last one of them. #IMPEACH
Good lord, if we had 1/1,000th the courage of other countries in the world, we could transform our nation by our commitment to civil/ human rights, access to quality health care, income equality and judicial fairness. Shit, I’d settle for just a little EMPATHY, FFS!
BREAKING: Social Security Administration chief data officer and whistle-blower Charles Borges has resigned after bombshell report that SSA put highly-sensitive data at risk. He sent out an email to colleagues moments ago. Here is the text of his email shared with me:
Exhibit A:
MAGA Republicans are sniveling cowards. Watch Rep. Barry Moore (R-AL) run out the back door at his town hall when confronted by his constituents asking why ICE detainees aren't getting due process. Their lies and lawlessness are being rejected even in red states like Alabama. #OnYourSide
They’re traumatizing kids.
HAPPENING NOW: Hello from the media room in DC district court, where Judge Jia Cobb is set to hear argument on Lisa Cook's motion for a temporary restraining order to block her removal from the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve. I'm here for @lawfaremedia.org. Follow along ⬇️🧵
This Labor Day, we’re not just honoring workers—we’re demanding the essentials for a better life: fair pay, affordable healthcare, fully funded public schools and a democracy where every voice is heard and every vote counts. Join us to stand up for what #WorkersDeserve!
Republicans coming to Chicago to separate families. #RepublicanFamilyValues www.youtube.com/watch?v=-CxG...
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Vance acknowledges the fascism criticism is reaching him, saying the DC takeover works better with invited federal help. Troops still patrol the capital as Trump teases Chicago. Optics and local consent now frame a rollout critics label authoritarian.
I spent two days with Platner and, as you’ll read, was as impressed by his theory of power as I was by his policies. I think it’s FAR more important than the “how do you talk to Trump voters” question.
This story has it all: aquaculture, Black Flag, Bernie Sanders, Star Trek as policy, John Hodgman, male tears, and a candidate citing Luthen’s monologue from Andor. Meet Graham Platner, the Maine oysterman trying to crack the senate. @grahamformaine.bsky.social newrepublic.com/article/1996...
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Outside the CDC, people are chanting “USA, not RFK.” They are fed up with having one unqualified person dictate the nation’s health. #USANotRFK
@peneisewell58 lands on the @NFL Top 100 list at No. 13! #Lions
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Governor Gavin Newsom is deploying the California Highway Patrol across major cities as President Donald Trump threatened to send the National Guard to places like San Francisco and neighboring Oakland
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The U.S. government is hiding Rümeysa Öztürk records. Its rationale is insulting. “If the government was really concerned about protecting privacy, it wouldn’t have abducted and detained Öztürk for writing an op-ed,” writes @laurenleharper.bsky.social.
Concur.
I think this fabulous human is spot on. It is the truth, we either do something now or we will be living in a nazi stranglehold. As well as our grandchildren, great-grandchildren, and our great-grandchildrens children. Who wants that shit for anyone? #SheShed
See: presswatchers.org/2025/08/we-h...
“Get out and vote! Just this time. You won't have to do it anymore! Four more years, you know what? It'll be fixed, it'll be fine, you won't have to vote anymore." Shitler, July 2024 For those halfwits in the back, it was never hyperbole. 🤬🤬🤬 www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
NEW: Internal records show how Texas Rep. Wesley Hunt has worked to get Elon Musk access to state and local officials ahead of a formal bidding process for a Houston flood project. Both stand to benefit should Musk be selected. By @lmcgaughy.bsky.social and @chengyilun.bsky.social
every day there is a new example of democracy eroding from the top. that is generally how it goes bsky.app/profile/gell...
over the last week, several political scientists i trust have declared trump a dictator and that america is not a full functioning democracy anymore. see here: goodpoliticsbadpolitics.substack.com/p/where-we-a... donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-author... i think making a list clarifies this:
Happening now: Thousands march on Wall Street!
Two firefighters who were fighting the Bear Gulch wildfire in the state of Washington were arrested by ICE agents on Wednesday.
John Bolton, fresh off his FBI harassment, goes on TV to say that Taco is chickening out in Ukraine. He's eyeing a “settlement that really, they could have written in the Kremlin.” Bolton is also surprised we are still in NATO. We probably won't be for long. www.politico.eu/article/dona...
The recently selected chair of a North Carolina county Board of Elections was charged for allegedly drugging ice cream from Dairy Queen with MDMA and Cocaine and giving them to his two grandchildren
In a functional government, this would be a five alarm fire where Congress calls in Kennedy and asks him what the fuck is going on
At least four major scientists out at the CDC today. Kennedy's assault on our public health just keeps escalating..... insidemedicine.substack.com/p/breaking-n...
My story is at the top of the @wired.com homepage, read my scoop about the Democrats secret paid influencer efforts! www.wired.com/story/dark-m...
Not stopping until we get justice for the victims of Epstein - and the truth about who’s responsible.
Abbe Lowell and I represent CDC Director #SusanMonarez. Contrary to govt statements, Dr. Monarez has neither resigned nor yet been fired. She will not resign. We have issued the following statement:
Epstein Files Release ALL of the Epstein files! YOU OLD PEDO #CrackerBarrel
Well played.
Krasner: So, if what you have is a group of ICE agents, or even the military, coming into Philadelphia and committing crimes—assaults that are illegal, kidnapping, unlawful restraint, obstruction of the administration of justice—they can be prosecuted.
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My requirements for any Democrat running for president are simple: 1. Undo/reverse every single anti-trans policy the Trump administration has implemented. 2. Pledge not to further restrict trans people's rights. 3. Support the passage of the Equality Act and make it a priority.
"A dozen offshore millwrights [were] stranded at sea...after the Trump administration ordered an immediate stop on Rhode Island’s first large-scale offshore wind project." "They are just some of an estimated 1,000 unionized workers whose jobs remained in limbo..." Sounds expensive to the economy 🤔
This is just laughable. Seriously, how embarrassing.