Digest this. The White House deems bringing justice against pedophiles a "hostile act."
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Digest this. The White House deems bringing justice against pedophiles a "hostile act."
Such a great moment and it gets a careful listener to question why she’d be scared of our current White House occupier, and successfully puts the central ask back front and center, just release all of the files, all in one powerful statement.
Reporter: What is your message to President Trump? Epstein Survivor: Listen, I don't want to send a direct message to him. I'm already scared enough. Just pass the vote. Listen to us. This is not a hoax. It’s not going to go away
Oh my.
'Lift the curtain on these files!' Epstein survivor shakes in fear demanding transparency
An Epstein victim says she's afraid of Trump and his gang. Think about why that is.
Couldn’t agree more. It was very emotional, and powerful. I feel for those women. They deserve justice.
my god the press conference by Epstein survivors was just so fucking powerful they really are American heroes
As a governor who cares about the well-being of my people, I can’t live in a fantasy land where I pretend Trump is not tearing this country apart for personal greed and power.
Big news: California, Oregon and Washington State just announced a joint "West Coast Health Alliance" to counter Trump/RFK destruction of our public health system. As I argued last week (see below), this is becoming a new frontier in Dem Gov resistance to Trump.
Epstein Survivor Blasts Trump On-Camera For ‘Hoax’ Rants: ‘We Are Human Beings!’
The @nytimes.com ran a whole story about the murder of Venezuelan civilians on a ship as if it were a military matter and we were at war with Venezuela. It was a crime. The story never mentioned that Trump ordered a criminal act and the Navy followed an illegal order. This is a major event.
“following rumors of his death donald trump held a press conference announcing extrajudicial killings of civilians and plans for a military invasion of an american city” is a perfectly factual headline that could be used to describe what we saw yesterday
If the U.S. military isn't going to release details on the justification for killing 11 civilians in a civilian boat who weren't posing a threat to anyone, then we have to conclude the "justification" is: the U.S. military is willing to kill civilians to give Trump social media content.
Epstein Survivors Suggest They’ll Do What Trump and Republicans Won’t
'Comer coverup': GOP chairman accused of doing Trump's 'dirty work' on Epstein case
The ad campaign criticizing the use of masks by federal agents working in Washington, D.C. has expanded to 115 bus stops, per organizers
Trump threatening members of Congress not to sign the Epstein files discharge petition saying it would be a “hostile act” against him is definitely something an innocent person would do. And scheduling a military flyover in the middle of the survivor press conference is also totally normal behavior.
Pritzker: "Any rational person who has spent even the most minimal amount of time studying human history has to ask themselves one important question: once they get the citizens of this nation comfortable with the current atrocities committed under the color of law, what comes next?"
Pritzker: "It breaks my heart to report that we have been told ICE will try to disrupt community picnics and peaceful parades. Let's be clear -- the terror and cruelty is the point, not the safety of anybody living here."
I'm aware that the President likes to go on television and beg me to call him to ask for troops. I find it strange, as Chicago doesn't want troops. I also have experience asking him for assistance – just to have the rug pulled up from underneath me when execution meets reality.
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Today’s court ruling is what we’ve been warning about for months: Trump is unlawfully using the military to terrorize Americans, including kids and hardworking immigrants — many of whom have contributed to this country and are part of American families.
The law is clear, whether you like it or not: Members of Congress have the right to conduct oversight of ICE facilities. No law gives Trump the power to target his chosen political enemies, like @replamonica.bsky.social, simply for doing their jobs and their duties.
Pritzker: "I refuse to pretend that any of this is normal ... I refuse to fall into the pundit trap that demands we sacrifice vital constitutional rights if it's being done in the fake guise of fighting crime."
REP. @yassaminansari.bsky.social on the bipartisan demand for the Epstein files: “This is the most corrupt administration in 🇺🇸 history, and this story shows it more than anything.”
Tomorrow morning. Listen to the victims and survivors www.youtube.com/watch?v=94EF...
As many as 100 survivors of Jeffrey Epstein and other victims of sexual abuse are expected to attend a rally Wednesday in Washington, D.C. as a bipartisan Congressional effort gains steam to force the U.S. Department of Justice to make public its controversial files on the disgraced sex trafficker.
BREAKING EXCLUSIVE: Not only will Reps. Ro Khanna and Thomas Massie be at tomorrow’s press conference with the Epstein survivors — but Marjorie Taylor Greene will be there as well.
Hmmm. Why would trump want troops around through Election Day? The loser is beyond obvious. Thank you for continuing to push back, Governor Newsom.
We are filing a request for a preliminary injunction to block the extension of soldiers’ deployment in Los Angeles through Election Day. There was never a need — and there is certainly no need now — for troops to be deployed against their own communities.
Newsom v. Trump: a federal court granted our injunction, blocking Trump’s illegal use of the military for domestic law enforcement. The ruling is clear: Trump is breaking the law by trying to create a national police force with himself as its chief.
DRUDGE: Judge Rules LA Troop Deployment Violated Law
NEW: @CAGovernor Gavin Newsom just called President Trump’s militarization of Los Angeles “illegal” and “authoritarian,” saying today’s court ruling “sided with democracy and the Constitution. No president is a king”
Today, we saw a major ruling that is a major setback for Trump’s authoritarian agenda – and great news for democracy. Let's break it down:
My eyes can’t roll any farther back into my head. If I hear one more democrat spout off about working together with the right wing or that there is common ground to be found with fascists my head is going to explode.
Illinois Gov. Pritzker ahead of Trump National Guard deployment: "To Chicagoans... Look out for your communities and your neighbours. Know your rights. Film things that you see happening... Authoritarians thrive on your silence. Be loud for America."
What we’re witnessing in this country is textbook authoritarianism. Trump thrives on targeting those who are least able to defend themselves, exerting control and cruelty to tighten his grip on power. To think it ends here is naive. We cannot let this go on any further.
BREAKING: We secured a court order requiring the State Dept to preserve & account for Signal messages of senior national security officials, including Sec. Marco Rubio. This is an important step to force accountability for an admin that’s shown alarming disregard for transparency required by law.
That Pritzker press conference was... surreal, and I think marks a significant moment of escalation in the constitutional omni-crisis. This was the governor of a state saying plainly the Union itself is being torn apart and his state is being militarily invaded by an authoritarian regime.
Here's the video Trump just posted to Truth Social, with the claim that 11 people aboard the boat were killed. There is zero evidence of self-defense here. Looks like a massacre of civilians at sea. Even if they had drugs aboard, that's not a capital offense.
Pritzker: "He has no idea what's he's talking about. There is no emergency that warrants deployment of troops. He is insulting the people of Chicago by calling our home a hellhole, and anyone that takes his word at face value is insulting Chicagoans too."
This. I’m with you on this all the way.
Senate Democrats: DO NOT FUND the government when the current continuing resolution expires at the end of the month. SHUT IT DOWN unless DC is funded, the troops are withdrawn from our cities, elections are protected, the Epstein files are released in full... SHUT IT DOWN.
Nice to see Pritzker act like the problem with an armed invasion of Chicago violating people’s rights based on lies is that it’s armed invasion of Chicago violently violating people’s rights based on lies, rather than saying the problem with an armed invasion is a gallon of milk costs 25 cents more.
I stand with you, Governor Pritzker.
Pritzker: When did we become a country where it's okay for the president to insist on national television that a state should call him to beg for anything, especially something we don't want? Have we truly lost all sense of sanity in this nation that we treat this as normal?
Pritzker: "We have reason to believe that the Trump administration has already begun staging the Texas National Guard for deployment in Illinois."
Truly shameful.
Trump is using crime as a pretext for military occupations of cities as part of his plot to become a dictator. Which means we ought to be talking less about crime and more about his plot to become a dictator.
In my opinion the only reason they did this was to provide proof of life. He was so late because they had to work extra hard to ready him for the speech, and it was probably touch and go as to whether he could do it. It does nothing to dispel speculation that something is very wrong with him.
🚨 SAVE THE DATE: OCTOBER 18. Millions of Americans took to the streets in June to drown out Trump’s birthday parade. As Trump’s regime escalates his authoritarian power grab, we’re gathering again on 10/18 for a nationwide day of peaceful protests to say NO KINGS: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i...
Trump is now more than 35 minutes late
Trump is over 20 minutes late to his Oval Office address. Are they unable to reanimate him? lol
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...
Has MSM moved on? We will not Still waiting - #ReleaseTheEpsteinFiles Thanks to Democrats, there will finally be a chance for survivor's voices to be heard Follow Independent Media on Sept. 3 when they hold a News Conference youtu.be/Wexfuh93RVo?... #StoptheEpsteinTrumpCoverUp
Trump will do all he can to “fix” the 2026 and 2028 elections to secure MAGA victories by every method he can muster, however blatantly illegal and unconstitutional, whatever the courts might say. If every eligible voter shows up, we can overwhelm his schemes. Otherwise, our way of life is doomed.
SPOTTED: Mobile billboards driving around D.C. demanding federal agents take their masks off — because public servants should face the public. Go follow @ofthebraveusa.bsky.social!
Today, Congress is back in session. Priority #1: The Epstein files must be made public. The victims deserve justice, and Americans deserve the truth.
Things feel uncertain right now, Illinois. I want you all to know we’re doing everything we can to protect your rights. Make sure you know how to stand up for yourself and others at illinoisimmigrationinfo.org.
The next Democratic president should declare that the National Emergencies Act and Article II of the Constitution allow him to: •admit D.C. and Puerto Rico as states •abolish ICE •grant citizenship to any immigrant •disband the 5th Circuit •expand the Supreme Court Seriously: Why the hell not?
BREAKING: A federal judge blocks the Trump administration from using military troops in immigration raids or law enforcement operations in California, ruling the President's deployment of National Guard troops in Los Angeles earlier this year violated a federal law.
Judge Breyer cites the statements made by President Trump and DoD Secretary Hegseth about deploying the National Guard around the country in blue cities as grounds for finding that it's necessary to issue an injunction blocking the Trump admin from continuing to violate the law.
Trump admin blatantly violated the unambiguous US law and very well established civilian-military principle of posse comitatus—can’t use military for domestic law enforcement—and it’s good to see a judge say so without hedging. Wrong even if the govt weren’t lying about the reason, which it is.
This Labor Day, we took to the streets all across the nation, in defiance of the Trump regime, in rejection of the billionaire takeover, and in solidarity with one another. This movement is not slowing down. Every day, we are building people power from the bottom up—mobilizing to fight, and to win.
NEWS: A federal judge has ruled that Trump’s deployment of military forces to Los Angeles violated the Posse Comitatus Act, a law that prohibits the use of the armed forces as a domestic police force.
MAGA has no idea of the size of the storm coming for them in 2026.
DC MUSIC FESTIVAL HAPPENING NOW 9/1
@50501movement.bsky.social #WorkersOverBillionaires #LaborDay #AFSCMEStrong #Resist Thousands march across the Burnside and Morrison bridges in Portland.
Thousands of San Francisco protesters found this in Dolores Park at the end of today's #LaborDay rally and march. #Resist #StandUpFightBack #Democracy #Constitution #WorkersOverBillionaires @indivisible.org @indivisiblesf.bsky.social @50501movement.bsky.social @50501ca.bsky.social
Way to rise up San Diego Labor Day ✊
Breaking news: It's a beautiful weekend in Chicago. So for this weekend, the city has safely hosted: 🚴♀️ Bike the Drive where hundreds pedal down a temporarily closed Lake Shore Drive 🏠The ARC music festival (Chicago is the home of house music) ⚾A White Sox game 🍒Farmers markets & food fests 1/
More than 6000 Mainers cheer gubernatorial candidate Troy Jackson as he declares, “Now is the time to take on Big Pharma and rein in corporate greed… We have to break the status quo. It’s not working for us!” Jackson is #FightingOligarchy with Bernie Sanders in Portland, Maine.
Labor Day, San Diego. @50501movement.bsky.social @50501sd.bsky.social @maddow.msnbc.com #workersoverbillionaires #sandiego #photography #streetphotography #laborday
Labor Day in ATL, here at the King Center marching for WORKERS over Billionaires! When we stand together we are strong 💪 Solidarity forever ✊ #workersoverbillionaires #laborday
Until Trump speaks publicly, I’m going to assume he’s incapable.
Omg Governor Newsom has mastered Trump's tweets! Canada + California = unstoppable.
Portland, OR Rush Hour Resistance/I-5 Overpass Challenge action on the Blumenauer Bicycle and Pedestrian bridge. Fri, August 29. #WorkersOverBillionaires 🇺🇸 "Help Save Our Democracy" 🇺🇸
How I spent my Labor Day morning: with a good ol' fashioned protest against the broligarchy! Even in this hot weather, Walnut Creek showed UP! ✊️👏🔥 #WorkersOverBillionaires #protest #laborday #bayarea @50501movement.bsky.social
At Trump Tower in NYC today to Fight the TACO #labordayprotest #maydaystrong @50501movement.bsky.social @indivisible.org #newyorkstrong
Austin Labor Day: really catchy music and great energy! Really love the vibe!
>>@StephenM wishes you a Happy Labor Day!
@50501movement.bsky.social 150 protesters lined both sides of Rockville Pike in Rockville, MD to send the message loud and strong: #Resist #LaborDay
Trump could die today but MAGA will still be here. The fight to save our Republic doesn’t end until maga is destroyed.
It’s still early, but pretty good turnout so far for Bernie Sanders and Graham Platner’s (running against Susan Collins) rally here in Maine today.
@maddow.msnbc.com @50501movement.bsky.social Huge groups all over MD especially in Montgomery County From overpasses all along to 270 to every neighborhood in Rockville, Silver Spring, Olney, Bethesda & more We stand as one shoulder to shoulder here & across US & say #WorkersOverBillionaires
August 30, 2025 ORANGE COUNTY CA Aliso Viejo at the Commons Every Saturday from 11am - 12:30pm! #OCmusicfestival #lamusicfestival #musicfestival #OrangeCountyCA #IrvineCA @ocindivisible.bsky.social
Illinois is now the number one state in the Midwest to work in. This ranking reflects our work in making Illinois the best state in the nation to do business, raise a family, and thrive.
Pritzker: "We don't want troops on the streets of American cities. That's un-American and frankly the president ought to know better. This one doesn't seem to. He hasn't read any books. He doesn't seem to understand the Constitution or the laws."
@50501movement.bsky.social #Resist #protest #nokings Denver’s 1st of the day march was about a block long.
Scenes from the Ellsworth, ME Labor Day #Protest @50501movement.bsky.social 1/2
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.
CHICAGO IS IN THE STREETS! #LaborDay #DefendHigherEd #WorkersOverBillionaires
Drone footage from United We Stand Labor Day Protest in Saline! Such a beautiful day to gather with beautiful people standing up for Democracy! 🇺🇸 @indivisible.org @maddow.msnbc.com @salinesummit.bsky.social @distillsocial.bsky.social
I’m back there in the 687th row, 3rd from the right.
Hollywood & Coral Springs FLORIDUH Groups (Thousands of participants) join together on LABOR DAY to do the GOOD Fight🔥💙
Leesburg VA Labor Day rally in support of unions.
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