There's a lot going on, and a lot to argue about. But we should all be able to agree that the shocking levels of incompetence shown in the leadership of our federal government is both historically unmatched, and it hurts all of us.
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There's a lot going on, and a lot to argue about. But we should all be able to agree that the shocking levels of incompetence shown in the leadership of our federal government is both historically unmatched, and it hurts all of us.
When President Trump used 32 U.S.C. § 502(f)(2) in 2020, that was to have out-of-state National Guard troops sent to D.C.—which has no sovereignty of its own. Sending the un-federalized TX National Guard into IL without the latter’s consent raises *serious* Article IV problems that 2020 … didn’t.
See through it.
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 SHUT IT DOWN unless DC is funded, the troops are withdrawn from our cities, elections are protected, the Epstein files are released in full...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.
Sen. Mark Warner, D-Va., the vice chair of the Intelligence Committee, says he was denied a meeting with career intelligence workers because Laura Loomer objected.
Bragging that a person can talk (kind of) isn’t the flex you think it is.
The president is sending the military to control American cities and if you're a reporter who's framing that illegal power grab as "pushing the boundaries of constitutionality" or "acting boldly to fight crime" or whatever, please go find another line of work where you won't get us all killed.
Bathroom sign at Mar-a-Lago.
To be a political reporter in 2025, you have to be gullible enough to believe that a convicted felon who launched a violent coup attempt is worried about crime. Or you just have to be willing to pretend you’re that gullible. Either way, we deserve better.
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I know this sounds crazy, but shouldn’t the Secretary of Energy know something about energy?
🚨🚨 ATTN: 🚨🚨 @jbpritzker.bsky.social @gavinnewsom.bsky.social A piece written and posted by Sherrilyn Ifill, which you should read and present to your colleagues. Thank you to @sifill.bsky.social for these truths to which every Democrat should be taking heed. open.substack.com/pub/sherrily...
BREAKING: Appeals court REJECTS Trump’s attempt to fire Democratic FTC Commissioner Rebecca Slaughter. The judges ruled “the government has no likelihood of success on appeal,” representing a major setback for Trump’s attempt to purge independent agencies.
Pritzker: "We've gathered information from unauthorized, patriotic officials inside the government and from-sourced reporters about Donald Trump's plan, which is to deploy armed military personnel to the streets of Chicago."
And I share it!
Under Dr. Oz, Medicare is launching a pilot program that will use AI to determine whether patients would be covered for certain procedures. Companies running the program will be paid a share of the savings from rejecting claims. Who in their right mind voted for this? No one.
First batch of Epstein docs could drop as early as tonight
No Kings 2 is on October 18. Sincerely hope the"where are the protest" people are organizing.
THIS 👇
Two things can be — and are — true here: Bowser is not the champion DC needs in this moment, and The Washington Post has become a Trump rag. A newspaper that actually cared about the city in its name would not publish such an inflammatory, bullshit headline.
This!
I’m not sharing this to scare people—though it’s fucking terrifying. I’m sharing it because we all need to be on guard. We won’t be getting reliable data from the CDC anymore. Worse, the guidance could be harmful. RFK Jr. has no medical training, no scientific background…
Holy crap, NYT let Charles Munger Jr. write an op-ed opposing the California redistricting without disclosing that he's FUNDING the opposition to the California redistricting. I have 4 mailers he paid for in my house right now and that's just the beginning. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/02/o...
Robert is Correct......
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How far the Washington Post has fallen.
Warfighters demonstrating leafality.
#BREAKING: Judge Breyer has held that the Trump admin. *violated* the Posse Comitatus Act in its military deployments in and around Los Angeles, and has enjoined further use of those troops for law enforcement tasks. The order is stayed through 12 PDT on 9/12: georgetown.app.box.com/file/1973361...
Another classic! Thank you.
Apologies! You have reached the end of your free trial period of America
No idea what this Oval Office announcement is. Could be resigning Could be apologizing because Stephen Miller molted all over the Residence and someone caught staff dumping the exuviae out of the window Could be clarifying that tariff revenue is really eleventy three trillion
. THIS is one of the biggest problems of our time . . . ⬇️ ⬇️ ⬇️ .
An ‘ultracrepidarian’ (19th century) is one who loves to give their opinion, at length, on matters they know nothing about.
Back when Donald was a failure in real estate, he was famous for not paying his contractors. He would come up with fictional fault in their work as an excuse not to pay them. Now, this unscrupulous cretin is short-changing the National Guard. www.rawstory.com/trump-infuri...
It’s hard to focus on the growing existential threats abroad when your own government is intent on killing you.
"Preview of things to come..." -Gavin Newsome
Countries on track to eliminate cervical cancer: -Australia by 2028 -Sweden by 2027 -Rwanda by 2030 -UK by 2040 -Indonesia by 2030 -Bhutan 2030 -El Salvador by 2030 -Canada by 2040 How? HPV vaccine. Same one RFK Jr is trying to ban. You will note USA is not on this list.
Maintaining the NIH budget is only good if it goes to actual science. Bhattacharya's buddy Kulldorf laid out a 12-point roadmap to replace the NIH with a pseudoscience engine, and divert the budget to their cronies. They seem to be following it, and may be expanding the idea to NSF etc too. 🧵:
Well, yes
Quick question what is the one thing that COMPUTEors are good at You could not fuck up worse then this
"To be frank, the fanciful ideas put forward by self-described free thinkers are more in keeping with popular movies than the realities of working with pathogens." Clear, powerful editorial by The Lancet Microbe on the origins of COVID "through mundane contact with infected wildlife" 🧪
This is how we do it. Refuse to be intimidated.
Susan is “concerned “ 🤣😆😝 #Maine #GrahamPlatner #Vote
OMFG how much of our taxpayer money is going to these god-awful Kristi Noem commercials on TV threatening "illegals" 🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬
Nine former CDC directors basically said RFK Jr is a threat to public health.
“You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.” ~Ray Bradbury Keep reading, friends. 📚
Well isn’t this lovely. Opera star sings Habanera (from Carmen) in the airport (?) What a terrific voice. #opera I don’t care if they’re staged, we need more profl free public #music and #art.
I hate that these creeps hang out here in Arlington. We’re a blue county - go away!
It’s #shitler Orange face shit stained bottom and what spews from his mouth is simply “over flow”
🚨Let’s hear it for Columbus, Ohio! 🚨
Bravery in action. THIS is what we need. 👏👏
Wages of unionized workers are 13% higher than their nonunion counterparts. But unions also set a higher pay standard that all workers enjoy. In high-union-density states, median household income is $12,000 higher than in low-union-density states. This is why unions are vital.
who has how many followers now?
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If you're anti-vaccine, you're anti-science, and you're anti-life. GTF out of the way. You're taking away people's right to protect themselves from death, disease, and sequelae. Your voice has no place in public discourse.
Platner: No one cares that you pretend to be remorseful as you sell out to lobbyists. Symbolic opposition does not reopen hospitals. Weak condemnations do not bring back Roe V Wade. Maine deserves better than Susan Collins.
Platner: Our taxpayer dollars can build schools and hospitals in America, not bombs to destroy them in Gaza.
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.
My high school friend’s dad is one of the nine. Here’s a gift link. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...
By William Foege, William Roper, David Satcher, Jeffrey Koplan, Richard Besser, Tom Frieden, Anne Schuchat, Rochelle P. Walensky and Mandy K. Cohen 👇🏻
Russia tried to assassinate the President of European Commission Ursula von der Leyen by jamming her plane while landing. So far Europe has ignored the issue as to not give Russia the attention it wants and to quietly prevent themselves from reacting to this significant escalation by the Kremlin.
Hours after trying to assassinate the EU Commission president, Russia tried to assassinate Germany’s 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.
I’m not sure you can actually call another country weak if yours got taken over by a genocidal game show host. Threats to humanity are threats to humanity no matter their effectiveness.
Somebody is throwing things out of a window of the White House wtaf
Christ.
Hey, Trump actually said something nice about Canada… “Thank you very much, Canada, we appreciate it.” Wait, scratch that, it was wrong and moronic as usual.
BREAKING: Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson defies President Trump by leading a "no troops in Chicago!"
NEW: This morning, DOJ's Drew Ensign confirmed that the last of 76 children the Trump administration tried to put on planes & send to Guatemala in the middle of the holiday weekend are back in the custody of the Office of Refugee Resettlement, the result of a well-timed lawsuit & fast-moving judge.
National Guard Kept On 29-Day Orders So Expenses Aren't Covered
True story... 😞
💯%. 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-...
Sinema: Even awfuler than ever. Taxes, Psychedelics, Crypto: Kyrsten Sinema Sees Opportunity Under Trump www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
Can the media STOP referring to Jeffrey Epstein as a “financier”? The money he made came from SEX TRAFFICKING MINORS, RAPING CHILDREN, and BLACKMAIL. He was NOT a financier. I’ve seen at least five stories from three outlets refer to him this way in the past week. This is the latest from the Times:
I'm going on record. You don't cover up dead. He's not dead. However, he's sick as shit. That you can cover up for a bit. But just a bit. Mostly I hope he feels like absolute shit and is very scared of death. That I can work with.
This Labor Day, never forget: the sitting President said we have "too many non-working holidays." Happy Labor Day, workers.✊
So the photos we get of the “golf outing” today is a pale and feeble looking one of him getting to a car at the WH and this one of him returning. Nothing from the course.
🚨BREAKING: President Donald Trump said in a weekend social media post he plans to issue an executive order to impose voter ID requirements. And he reiterated his desire to ban mail voting. The president lacks the authority to take either step. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, former chief economist to Senator Rob Portman (R-OH) & director of budget and spending policy for Marco Rubio’s 2016 presidential campaign👇🏽
I called this segregationist way back in February: www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
He didn't even thank me for my attention to this matter. Is not him.
I wasn’t super convinced that something was seriously wrong with Trump until he tweeted this
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Folks. Please read this. It’s just one page of simple declarations from a 10 year kid from Guatemala who doesn’t want to be sent back there. The US government is trying to do so, on a holiday weekend, and was going to just *do it* until folks started pushing back. 10. Years. Old. WTAFF?
Too much? 🤷🏼♂️
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Rudy Giuliani suffered severe injuries in a car accident last night, according to his spokesperson
