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?"
If Trump had any real interest in addressing crime, his regime would work with law enforcement & Chicago leadership. Instead, he talks about “going in,” like he’s prepping a military invasion. This is nuts. This is dangerous. And it’s pitting states against states, echoing America’s deadliest war.
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."
So many rubes on here convinced themselves he was gonna announce he was dying.
Using one photo already on your phone, what is the announcement tomorrow at 2?
Probably announcing the medal of freedom for Giuliani. Let’s not be credulous rubes who fall into his trap.
Read the entire thread.
Yep. I remember being at a mass vaccination site at our airport shortly after Biden was inaugurated & feeling so grateful for the orderly, competent rollout of the vaccine.
Promises made. Promises kept.
🎯 And as I just commented elsewhere, everybody has memory holed the NOVEL part of “novel coronavirus”! Officials were doing the best they could in uncharted waters full of dead bodies.
🎯 It’s all manufactured AstroTurf BS. And shame on Schatz for seemingly forgetting the NOVEL part of Novel Coronavirus. People were dying in droves & officials were doing the best they could in uncharted waters. My kid was in HS then & suffered greatly from lockdowns but I don’t blame Dems.
Oh I’m prepared. Bring it on!
Rubio has denied Palestinian diplomats visas to attend the UN meeting claiming "terrorism"—but grants access to Israeli officials despite undeniable evidence of war crimes, genocide, famine, bombing Christians, & child sexual abuse & prisoner rape by IDF soldiers. This is what fascism looks like.
These fuckers trying to claim family reunification… thank goodness for the judge. They better not defy her orders.
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.
Barbarian gaslighters!
When he says they will be “announcing additions to the senior leadership in the weeks ahead”, it is likely that what he means is that the most knowledgeable leaders will be replaced with political appointees. If ever you wondered about contacting your reps, that time is now. RFK Jr. must go.
Oh my god - exquisite!
This is a great time to remind everyone that EOs aren’t laws, the federal government doesn’t manage voting in this way, and it’s all a scare tactic and any reporting that doesn’t provide that context is enabling potentially lawless activity.
You mean their service can get even worse?
Image caring more about stopping a memorial for people killed in a mass shooting than stopping mass shootings. #Priorities
Quasi rules. Janet Weiss is a beast.
Why don’t you send everyone proof of life first? (Either way, Chicago doesn’t want you here)
We have a winner!
Live your life so that people don’t consider rumors of your death a form of edging.
RFK Jr. taps his top deputy, Jim O’Neill, to be the new CDC director. Both men appear to wear skinny ties from Otaa. Otaa's ties are made in China from microfiber, a kind of plastic that, under the right conditions, can migrate to your balls.
When did Dexter renounce ties? She’s my rep & I’ve been on her about this since AIPAC bought the primary for her.
It’s easier to purchase an assault rifle in the U.S. than it is to get a COVID19 vaccine. But food dyes and wearable fitness monitors are going to fix everything.
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:
Attn @tinakotek.bsky.social - team up with @governor.ca.gov & Gov Ferguson!
I’m just making fun of RFK Jr & his insane BS.
Good, thank you. But honestly, this is not a “stunt.” Calling it that minimizes the damage of their fascist campaign that’s terrorizing immigrants.
Yeah his mitochondria are clearly all fucked up.
Or maybe it’s the guns. You know, those things used to murder your father & your uncle?
ICE agents in DC today appear to be focusing on the North Capitol Street corridor. One is wearing a Texas-themed hat and a “thin blue line” patch that says SEND ME. Again: Keep an eye out for an unmarked black Ford truck with the Texas plate NTV9211.
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Jesus Christ.
Gupta: Here’s why this matters: 1. Because the FDA indications have changed, if I prescribe it to you, I’m opening myself up to a lawsuit. He directly signals that… 2. A pharmacist is no longer able to prescribe and administer a COVID-19 booster that doesn’t meet indications.
It’s especially disappointing coming from her. She’s usually smarter than that, and she’s always been one of the Democrats’ best communicators. I’m not giving up on her, hopefully it was just a blip.
So many adults have to fail a child before he ends up 10 years old telling CNN about the mass shooting he lived through this morning
There can’t be any gun restrictions because we have to protect against federal government tyranny, and if kids get shot we just have to live with it. Also the President can send troops to cities because the federal government can do whatever it wants. These two ideas are consistent and reasonable.
Wow, Trey’s gone woke.
This poor baby. Gun violence is domestic terrorism, full stop.
Check this shit out motherfucker *embargoes own country*
Striking: New Quinnipiac poll finds 56% of voters nationally oppose Trump's sending of National Guard into DC. Only 41% support it. Independents oppose it by 61-34. Trump's overall approval on crime is cratering at 42-54. That sound you hear is a lot of dimwitted pundit narratives imploding.
They are sending soldiers into cities to prepare to intimidate people at the polls next year. They gerrymander because they can’t win on policy. They intimidate because even gerrymandering won’t work at this point.
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.
Did he just say Rhode Island is in the Pacific Northwest - “the most populous part of the country”?!
Every Social Security number in the country was in that database. Even John Roberts’.
Send em to Estacada, where they’ll be right at home.
How the fuck would Loser Lori know what Oregonians want since she never held a town hall with her constituents during her brief stint in Congress? Keep your head up Dear Leader’s ass where it belongs.
As a graphic designer who’s been through countless rebrands, all I can say is: I hope the agency worked a massive kill fee into their contract.
I guess Republican members of Congress & the 6 Republicans on the Supreme Court didn’t think about how all *their* data is in there, too.
Look in the mirror, old man.
To Donald Trump and his administration: If you hurt my people, nothing will stop me — not time or political circumstance — from making sure you face justice under our constitutional rule of law.
The asskissing is the only thing that’s transparent here.
First they came for the immigrants, and I did not speak out (because the message test performed at a low percentile rank compared to other messages in our testing bank for non college men who opt into online surveys through various consumer reward programs)
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They want to cut us off from the rest of the world. Soon we’ll be smuggling in books & foodstuffs like we’re North Korea or Iran.
I ordered a book from Amazon Italy a month ago that I wouldn’t be able to order today.
I ordered a book from Amazon Italy a month ago that I wouldn’t be able to order today because of these numbskulls.
Trump is trying to hide the back of his right hand from cameras but here you can see the nasty bruising on it
fascism /făsh'iz"am/ noun 1. A system of government marked by centralization of authority under a dictator, a capitalist economy subject to stringent governmental controls, violent suppression of the opposition, and typically a policy of belligerent nationalism and racism. (American Heritage)
As you watch the extraordinary spectacle of Trump's government attempting to deport Kilmar Abrego Garcia to Uganda, let's not lose sight of just how lawless and indefensible Trump's misconduct has been all throughout. Here's a thread recapping all of it. 1/
The prolonged public torturing of a single man because the state cannot admit to its errors is not something that occurs in a free country
EXCLUSIVE: The Trump administration will move to pull the COVID vaccine off the U.S. market “within months,” one of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s closest associates has told the Daily Beast.
Hahahaha
Y'all The ICE building in Portland is painting a line in front of their building But they don't even know how to spell government
Ya know what annoying as fuck combination of words will drive me from the Democratic party? “An historical” That’s it, I’m done.
Maybe it’s as if all the bullshit arguments put forth by gun humpers over the last 30 years were just that - bullshit.
* (winning Democratic candidate to inspire enthusiasm, I should say)
These losers all seem to have forgotten that the last Democratic presidential candidate to inspire actual enthusiasm (Obama) did so because of his unapologetic opposition to the Iraq war, a stance considered political suicide at the time.
Republicans had a choice: expose child s*x traffickers or protect Trump. They chose Trump. They chose traffickers. They are the party of child s*x trafficking.
I’m sure the South Carolina National Guard will be in hand to help the state’s resid— Hang on, I’m being handed something
I made a promise to the women of Illinois — as governor, I will ensure your medical decisions will be your own. Now, we continue fulfilling that promise. Public colleges will now provide contraception and medication abortion at on-campus pharmacies and student health centers.
This rules. Thank you.
Not sure who he’s trying to appeal to here, aside from donors outside of the 5 boroughs. Because the majority of New Yorkers ride the subway.
TBF I hear electeds in Oregon use these terms sometimes, but also who gives a shit? Having to consider new terminology is no excuse for going full fascist.
And what’s he hiding under that ridiculous fucking hat?
This could be about President Clinton (though I doubt it bc he’s probably guilty AF, too - see how easy it is to not be in a cult, MAGA?).
Just like the people “protecting women’s sports” are the same people throwing dildos at WNBA players.
I am American and I don’t get it either. They just need to always be angry about something.
this iconic advertising copywriter named Kathy Hepinstall Parks died over the weekend and I wanted to share something from her website I thought Bluesky would like
Virginia Giuffre’s lawyer Sigrid McCawley reacts to the Maxwell transcripts, saying Maxwell “repeatedly and brazenly lied” to the government and is trying to “recreate history.” Full statement
Ghislaine Maxwell’s Inappropriate Meter is famously beyond reproach.
What was released today was not the Epstein files; it was spin to try and clear Trump’s name. Release the REAL Epstein files !
this is little more than a vendetta being pursued by the federal government against a man it unlawfully removed from the country and was forced to bring back
#oregon surely we can turn that one R seat blue, no? @tinakotek.bsky.social wanna improve your reelection chances?
ICE, DC Police, Park Police, DHS, and HSI brutally arrested a man who refused to provide identification after being stopped for eating in public. Goons attempted to stop community members from recording his injuries during the incident.
She wouldn’t characterize anything she & Epstein did as “inappropriate” either.
I see. So they rewarded her with better living conditions.
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
It’s a hoax but Clinton & Summers are in it. Ok.
And cake.
Really doing wonders to make DC feel “safer.”
Coming soon to a city near you. In Trump’s America. 🇺🇸 😕
Orlando wasn’t having what DeSantis did. They recolored the Pulse Memorial crosswalk.
AI will be let loose on 55 million visas & havoc will ensue.