This is very strange I don't know if it's real or not Adam Cochran on X He is an investigative journalist All over TikTok and Instagram
This is very strange I don't know if it's real or not Adam Cochran on X He is an investigative journalist All over TikTok and Instagram
If they'd take 10 minutes to figure out which party is pulling for or against them maybe they'd vote? Guess who benefits when they sit out? They're hung up on purity politics and feeling sorry for themselves. Also, BS that there are NO jobs or affordable homes. Not everyone gets to live coastal.
This weekend I found out that lots of 30 something year olds didn’t vote in the 2024 election. Why? Because they don’t trust either party. My advice? Just read both parties platform. Now, your protest of not voting has us on the edge of tyranny. Grow up! NOW! #Voices4Victory #Pinks #DemVoice1
He clearly can barely stand
He doesn't "think" that. He lies about everything. His tangled web leads to all kinds of nonsense claims/justificaitons/BS explanations. Stop divining meaning. Just accept that he's a serial liar, usually with selfish motivations. Beyond that let's stay in the world of reality.
ive got no idea what's going on with Trump's health. But the 'biden precedent' is just so glaring and hilarious. half of 2025 has been taken up with elite press shaming of how no one ever talked abt Biden's age which was actually their main topic in 2024. Ok. Set aside that his party literally ...
Agree. Basically if you have shared goals, maybe don't spend so much time shitting on each other?
The reason left-wing subcultures so often end up being extraordinarily unpleasant and dysfunctional is because they almost always devolve into people competing to perform the best and most stirring ritual recitation of the Consensus Correct Viewpoint on every single issue.
He obviously can't stand for more than a few minutes. He now sits during nearly all photo ops
Wow way to bury the lead: This is clearly Trump's fault. Just say it directly. And it's not just Canadian tourism. Numbers are down from all over because our man-child idiot in chief has pissed off the world. Come on CNN, stop pulling punches when covering Republicans/Trump
What’s wild to me: NOW, media outlets & medical organizations are “stunned” by the damage RFK Jr. is doing to CDC, other health agencies, & public health. Me & my colleagues have been screaming about him for years. Years. Even more so in the last year. We were called hyperbolic. 1/
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.
He lies about everything. Let's include that for the love of god in every post about whatever the fuck he said. His lies are a basis for his bullshit actions. Every. Single. Time.
I hope people realize how absolutely fucked this situation is. This isn’t normal. People are resigning all over the place because the government is mishandling our data, ruining our public health services, and generally making Americans less safe.
I have no sympathy for maga farmers, screw them I hope they go bust
And I like the guy but he he's not a head coach. He doesn't trust the eyeball test (remember when he wasn't starting Sugita?) and endlessly tinkers, such that there's no team chemistry
Dumbest take yet from this guy. Last week Flemming was solid. I guess he'd rather have Deyna give aways and long-balls to the end line than actually build an attack with any cohesion.
This nonsense is killing the chemistry and results in the garbage we just saw. Sit Deyna, Obaze, Hiatt, and Alidou. Start Flemming, Tordin, Dufour, and Mckenzie. Maybe Bixby too. For the love of god.
There is no party platform anymore. Just the whims of a madman and the agenda of his handlers.
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terrible defending
My favorite evergreen Molly Ivins quote: "I prefer someone who burns the flag and then wraps themselves up in the Constitution over someone who burns the Constitution and then wraps themselves up in the flag."
Trump’s Border Patrol raided a Washington wildfire camp, forcing firefighters to pause their work for hours. "Donald Trump, JD Vance, and Stephen Miller and their ilk are going to burn the country to the ground if that’s what it takes, so they can rule over the ashes," says Chris Hayes.
This explains the CDC resignations.
Brian, criticize me all you want, but get your facts straight. I publicly came out against Trump 7yrs ago, took a blowtorch to my career in doing so. I left the GOP about 6yrs ago. Trump is burning this country down. Dems must be more than “concerned” about that. We must be righteously pissed off.
Real scientists will leave the country. Research will move to Europe and China. Innovation will happen elsewhere as one more American industry succumbs to the poisonous effects of corruption. www.thebulwark.com/p/the-cdc-th...
According to federal data, 13 of the top 20 cities in homicide rates have Republican governors. None of those cities are Chicago. 8 of the top 10 states in homicide rates are led by Republicans. None of those states are Illinois. And yet Trump is sending troops here.
Congressional Republicans have totally turned their back on the Constitution and the founding fathers they claim to care so much about. If Trump wants it, they give it to him regardless of the law. Shameful.
If only it had been a ham sandwich instead of an Italian!
fox arguing feelings not facts
Yellen not at all pulling her punches in this op-ed for the FT www.ft.com/content/d2ea...
“Trump’s pretense to ownership of public goods and public spaces isn’t some quirk to be ignored or waited out — “there goes our Donald!” — but a direct expression of his autocratic ambitions and despotic cast of mind.”
Yes Chef!
Duh
Taking over the world’s most important central bank is, uh, a pretty effective diversion
ah the days of the twitter files seem so long ago
His disaster? That's a strange way to frame it
She was always a calculating phony
"There has just never been a president in recent American history who has gone out of his way to free more criminals and accommodate more crimes than Donald Trump," says @chrislhayes.bsky.social.
Americans paid a record $30B (or $360B annualized) in tariffs this month, as the costs of Trump's trade war continue to escalate. Tariff revenues are now up more than 230% from this time last year and still rising.
"The business of this president is not fundamentally like that of his predecessors. The business of this president is subverting our free government. And yesterday was another day at the office for carrying out that business." www.thebulwark.com/p/dictator-f...
🔥🔥🔥 NEW SUBSTACK: Donald J. Trump’s ego is the most expensive line item in the federal budget. It costs more than roads, more than schools, more than climate preparedness. It costs us stability, credibility, and security. Pls read and share ⬇️ open.substack.com/pub/mjfree/p...
Get a room dude
Trump is forcing this, not Pritzker. The same Trump who pardoned those who assaulted cops on J6. He's a tyrant. He's the embodiment of everything our founders fought against. But his deluded followers think they're the patriots
This CNN piece is a deranged both-sides nightmare, openly admitting that Trump is trying to rule as a "strongman" with a "monarchical sense of power" but then suggesting it's a difficult political conundrum for Democrats, because people's "lived experience" of crime. www.cnn.com/2025/08/26/p...
read trump's new executive order on domestic military dplymt + vigilante "portal." one of the reasons i am happy to be an independent journalist is so I can say that this is crazy, fascist, brownshirts shit without getting pulled into a meeting with PR for "opening us up to criticism from the right"
Vice President J.D. Vance wanted Americans to know that Russian President Vladimir Putin is soft spoken and that he cares about the Russian people. He's a former KGB agent who bombs children's hospitals. I've included an old clip from Fox from the start of the war in Ukraine.
Watch that the MSM says about this. Treating it as real signals corporate overlords
You'd rather post clever witty pieces making light of real protest and fear than write about the authoritarian takeover happening right fucking now with a deranged President threatening to take over perceived opposition cities with the US military. For the love of god and country, wake the fuck up.
You are living through the unthinkable: the president of the United States using the military to seize domestic power. The greatest crisis of executive power in American history, at the hands of the worst, most corrupt, and most unfit president in American history.
Walz says Harris "would have been a fantastic president... we wouldn't wake up every day to a bunch of shit on TV. We would wake up to an adult w/ compassion & dignity doing the work, not a manchild crying about whatever is wrong with him. May his fat ankles find something today. Petty as hell."
Pritzker: To the members of the press who are assembled here today and listening across the country, I am asking for your courage to tell it like it is. This is not a time to pretend here that there are two sides to this story.
The way the Trump administration has tried to make an example of a very ordinary person, Kilmar Abrego Garcia, basically for embarrassing them politically, is unprecedented and terrifying.
Think of all the freedom we will have when there are armed soldiers on every corner of the land!
CNBC: So we should expect the US government to be taking more equity stakes in businesses around the country? KEVIN HASSETT: It's possible, yeah. That's absolutely right.
The fact that this administration is hell bent on punishing Kilmar Abrego Garcia while rewarding Ghislane Maxwell tells you all you need to know about their violent racism and misogyny.
Wait a minute! I know what's going on. He's sending the army in to deal with these out of control carp! God bless you President Turnip!
He can no longer stand for any length of time, can he?
Virginia Giuffre isn’t here to tell her story anymore, but she wrote a memoir and it’s coming out in October. She deserves to be heard and remembered. #BookSky Details here: www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/712958...
The paint on the Mexico side of the wall is so much prettier
🔥 CHICAGO MAYOR BRANDON JOHNSON: "We're not gonna surrender our humanity to this tyrant… Chicago has a long history of standing up against tyranny-- resisting those who wish to undermine the interests of working people. We're not gonna back down.”
An accurate understanding of the Republican Party is a liability in US politics & media. Has been for decades.
holy shit
Just walking around the hellscape that is my Chicago neighborhood this morning
Must be nice to have no oligarchs on your supreme court.
By "normal standards," you mean the law?
Wes Moore on the deployment of the National Guard: "It is not sustainable...It's not scalable...It is unconstitutional. It's a direct violation of the tenth amendment. For a party that talks about states' rights, it's amazing how much of a big government approach they take."
Who would’ve thought Americans wouldn’t want to live in a military state? Oh that’s right, all Americans. Another negative impact of the military crackdown in DC small businesses are struggling to make sales. Restaurant reservations have dropped by nearly 30% compared with last year, and some owners
The justification for the occupation of DC is that a DOGE employee was carjacked. What does this look like?
President Trump’s federal takeover of D.C.’s local police is unprecedented. “The last person who asserted the authority to use military personnel for routine law enforcement anywhere in the country for any reason was King George,” a legal scholar said.
This is the free speech in action that Trump ran on. Nearly all of today's Republicans are unpatriotic un-Amercan reactionary authoritarians. Otherwise they'd be in the streets protesting this crap. Instead? Crickets
Arrested for filming it. And look how excited they all are to get some *action*. 🇺🇸 Watch fascism work.
To put all this much shorter: the right's vaccine denialism is not the left's fault. They didn't arrive at that skepticism because of something the left did. They SAY that, of course, because they blame the left for everything, but liberals don't have to take them at their word! They lie a lot!
Excellent thread. I'll just add that there's a long history of blaming liberals for reactionary political dynamics that were cultivated by coordinated political campaigns by the far right. There is no law of nature that produces "backlash politics." It's politics (and propaganda) that produces it.
Can we finally start calling them reactionaries? They haven't been conservative my entire life. And I'm old
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Donald Trump is attempting to manufacture a crisis, politicize Americans who serve in uniform, and continue abusing his power to distract from the pain he's causing families. We'll continue to follow the law, stand up for the sovereignty of our state, and protect Illinoisans.
Governor Pritzker calling out Donald Trump for the tyrant he is
“Papers, please”
He's been sitting during lots of photo ops over the last six months, with others standing around him. Seems like more than the last time around. Related?
We either have the rule of law, or we don’t. You cannot be for the Constitution while supporting the actions of ICE. There is no in between. Watch the full clip here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iXv6Vxmg4RI
Gee I wonder if there's a story in there somewhere the NYT might want to address directly?
In Trump news today: * The FBI raids the home of anvocal Trump critic. * Spy chief whose report contradicted Trump is fired. * After taking control of DC, Trump now plans to send troops into the streets of Chicago and New York.
SEN. @ossoff.senate.gov on fascism in 🇺🇸 : “There is not safety in keeping your head down… People who oppose public policy decisions but are too afraid of retribution from their government to speak their mind should send a chill down all of our spines.”
Your feed is a mix of good news from around the state to the sky is falling Trump autocracy is upon us. Which is it? (hint, the later is a big f'ing deal).
Somebody ask him if he has this power why he didn't use it on J6?
There is simply no reason to report in a headline the claims of a convicted sex trafficker with every reason to lie
"Bolton revealed important facts that otherwise would have remained hidden and he did so at great personal risk. Which is why everyone on the side of liberalism and the rule of law ought to take Bolton’s side today. Solidarity." www.thebulwark.com/p/about-cour...
She said the same thing about Epstein
Release the Trumpstein files
I don't see any men
fucking ghouls
Here’s 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
When there was positive economic data under Biden, the New York Times told us to worry, with headlines like: “Why a Strong U.S. Economy Is Making Stock Investors Jittery” and “Inflation Has Been Easing Fast, but Wild Cards Lie Ahead” But when there is worrisome data under Trump, NYT reassures us:
Tremendous crossover move right here:
