The Trump administration used Benny Johnson's claims that his house was "burned to the ground" and that "people were murdered in my front yard" to justify its federal takeover of DC. @kenbensinger.bsky.social found out that Johnson made it all up. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/30/b...
My statement on @nadler.house.gov’s decision not to seek re-election next year.
Finally, a Labor Day reminder Justice Brandeis warned a century ago, "We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both." 1 million seconds is 11 days. 1 billion seconds is 32 years. Abolish billionaires. Save democracy.
RELEASE THE EPSTEIN FILES!!! Watch this:
I kept saying on the Woodworking tour that a lot of people think trans people were invented in a lab at Yale in 2015, and while that was a joke, the year keeps popping up. (Not coincidentally, that's when various right-wing groups zeroed in on us as a new anti-queer wedge post-Obergefell.)
A lot of Americans don’t realize how deeply Latin America impacts them. This administration’s choices will damage the entire continent for decades. Deporting children without knowing where their parents are isn’t just policy—it’s cruelty. Six hundred children left with lifelong trauma. #pinks
FUCK YEAH SCIENCE arstechnica.com/science/2025...
One thing that's particularly maddening about what's happening today—beyond that it's happening—is that when people talk about how we are moving toward authoritarianism, toward fascism, by a collection of narcissistic sociopaths, many Americans' eyes glaze over.
FEDERAL AGENTS TAKE NOTE… It’s not just Chicago standing strong. Other blue cities and governors are ready to unite against Trump’s federal invasion. I’m not an attorney, but this point seems huge: if federal agents break state or city laws, they can prosecuted. And Trump cannot pardon them.
This is exactly why State AG's need to be gathering all the evidence they can against Bondi, Noem, Patel, RFK Jr., and other top federal officials for their crimes against the people, and assisting Trump in his crimes. Trump pardon or not, they can all be convicted on State level charges.
Some view it as hyperbole; others don't even know what the words mean. But it's all textbook. Textbook history, textbook political science, textbook psychology, textbook social psychology. Elementary stuff, not obscure. And it's happening in real time, right before our eyes.
Republicans Keep Getting Booed at Their Own Town Halls
"'Mark my words, it’s only going to get worse,' [Conway] added." www.yahoo.com/news/george-...
Joe Biden looks like a robust man as compared to lard ass mccankles with his mouth wide open. Where’s the media on covering this festering pile of goo?
Conflating bad character and lack of a moral compass with mental illness is wrong and dangerous for people with mental health issues. I think RFK Jr. is an evil man. He’s a predator, he’s power-hungry, he lacks empathy. Maybe he’s a psychopath. His work is leading to people’s deaths.
Crime is so out of control in D.C. that BLOTUS called up the National Guard to be gardeners and janitors. I guess the real reason is that all the actual gardeners and janitors have been arrested and thrown in ICE detention centers? Talk about waste, fraud and abuse!
MAGA Republicans continue to get burned in their town halls for lying about the Big Brutal Bill being good for Americans. Watch Rep. Ashley Hinson (R-IA) get called out on “higher wages and lower taxes.” The People: “Higher wages? Stop lying!” America is taking back its power and rising! 🔥🔥🔥
No candidate interviewing for medical school who, upon expressing RFK jr's views, would ever be accepted. They'd be laughed right out of the room. And yet this man runs the HHS – including the CDC, NIH, ACF, CMS, HRSA, and SAMHSA? WTAF?! Remove RFK jr for dereliction of duty. Immediately.
“…we could have four Democrats in the House of Representatives all because the Republicans are going to help us do it.” This is our moment—our chance—to bring real change to South Carolina. Let’s rise up together and make it happen! www.pruitt4congress.com
Take action and call your reps & senators. This is why prices have gone up for fresh fruits & vegetables - we've lost so many of the only people willing to do this work. And no one is stepping in to take those jobs.
"As the nation heads into the most intense months of the Atlantic hurricane season, employees worry that the agency is not prepared to face another catastrophe." New from @mollytaft.com www.wired.com/story/fema-f...
Not sure but why does someone who is “too broke to buy food” need a spokesperson?
Texas AG Partizan Attack On Beto Ken Paxton threatens to arrest Beto O'Rourke for fighting the illegal gerrymander of five congressional seats. Speech is no longer Free in Texas! open.substack.com/pub/betoorou...
Federal judge blocks mass deportation of Guatemalan children
#ResistanceRoots “Extremism thrives amid ignorance and anger, intimidation and cowardice.” — Hillary Clinton
💥Florida Senate District 15💥 SPECIAL ELECTION! TUES 9/2 Get your vote on for: LaVon Bracy Davis! Every vote matters! Let’s do this! #ProudBlue #OneV1 #ResistanceUnited
My body is tired, but my spirit is willing! Still walking because transit can’t wait. Still walking for our families. Still walking for a government that works for the US! #walkfortransit #day3
Emmer does remember why he did not vote for the Safer Communities Act because the $261,530 he received from Gun Rights advocates is clouding his memory. He chose money over children. #DemVoice1 #ProudBlue #Pinks
In Utah, judges consistently let rapists off without prison time. Candon Dean Dahle raped a little girl for 5 years when she was 7-12 years old. The judge decided to suspend a prison sentence & instead sentence Dahle to probation. Utah judges & lawmakers protect predators. #Pinks
This is absolutely horrific & shameful. bsky.app/profile/doom...
Is he foretelling his demise?
Probation?!?
“I look forward to watching the videos of soldiers entering Chicago.” Our Founders would be sickened by today’s Republican Party. Anyone who believes in freedom and supports the Constitution should be sickened by today’s Republican Party.👇
There’s a special place in hell for morons who get millions of people killed.
This is absolutely the most important federal government resignation in history, done in opposition to the Trump-Kennedy health care policy that will result in the death and disability of vulnerable children and adults ... www.axios.com/2025/08/28/k...
Why are some idiots so afraid of BOOKS?!? What are they hiding? Why do the not want an educated population?!?
This video is waaay too long, given what it’s documenting—books to be removed from all Edmonton Public Schools. Alberta, please don’t go the way of the U.S. and start banning books. 🎬@non_toxic_masculinity
"They're takin' our jobs!" has NEVER been true. It's a lie to make US-born people resent immigrants and get them to support harsh, cruel, anti-immigrant measures. No US-born citizens are rushing to fill the jobs undocumented people were doing.
Quality candidates With charisma That's just part of what 2026 needs to turn Congress blue 💙 Stand up for inclusion, equality and budgets that support science, education, healthcare NOT Billionaires Feed families NOT greedy the top earners politizoom.com/will-cracks-...
Mental health check — if you take your medical advice from RFK, Jr. and want Dr. Fauci jailed you should be banned from buying a gun.
"hell is empty and all the devils are here"
Public safety in California is on the rise. Last year, California had the second-lowest homicide rate since at least 1966, decreasing by nearly 12% overall since 2023. We're going to drive that progress forward up and down the state.
Thou shalt not end vaccines. God will not save you from plague. The Middle Ages should’ve made that very clear.
Laugh crying.
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James Stroud, who is one of at least 21 FEMA employees, put on leave after signing a letter criticizing Trump’s disaster preparedness, discusses the culture of fear within the agency. “One thing that is underreported is the day to day agony and humiliation we’ve been suffering this whole time.”
Once again I ask, what’s it going to take?
'Embarrassing': Trump's 'atrocious' plan to profit from Ukraine war stuns former diplomat
Karma…
Typical. The fools who voted for that evil monster are finally catching on… wait till NG members start deserting in droves…
Trump limits National Guard assignments to 29 days at a time to keep the called up service members from getting healthcare and housing benefits while on duty. And the NG troops are catching on. Stereotypical Trump. Don't give those losers and suckers an extra dime. www.rawstory.com/trump-infuri...
Thanks Noel....of course you are right....just keep it going. I can not stand that lying POS. He makes me nauseous. Thanks again Roby.
This “explicit” is a weird editorial choice. The constitution gives the president no power over this at all. It’s not ambiguous.
BREAKING: James Talarico just gave one of the best speeches we've seen this year. Every American needs to see this.
Absolutely sickening —
MAJOR LABOR DAY PROTESTS PLANNED FOR MONDAY!! Watch for details! Also the calls are 🤌! Pass it on.
Rep. Gomez introduced a bill after DHS deployed a drone over the city during anti-immigration protest. The legislation prevents federal agencies from using drones to surveil people exercising their constitutional rights—Ban Military Drones Spying on Civilians Act. mynewsla.com/business/202...
It takes real grit to walk out of one's workplace to join a protest. Here's a photo gallery of today's rally outside CDC headquarters. Well done! Heroes all! 👏 Support #science, not quackery! #USAnotRFK apnews.com/photo-galler...
Trump keeps mailing Gavin hats that say “Trump 2028!” If you think he’s joking about a 3rd term, you’re sadly mistaken. He is never planning on leaving the White House. Not hyperbole~ Trump also plans to intimidate voters at the polls with his private police force. 1/2 youtu.be/ps1xS4Sl5bQ?...
By law, Kari Lake must have the explicit backing of an advisory panel set up by Congress to help insulate the international broadcaster and its sister networks from political pressure. belib.org/erAjf4K
Between RFK decimating the CDC, normalizing Ashli Babbitt & the umpteenth school shooting... I'm losing the will to post. #ReleaseTheEPSTEIN_Files
Tonight Chris Hayes said: @allinwithchris.bsky.social Quote Donald Trump, JDVance 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. Unquote 🎯🎯🎯
CDC staff gather to honor ‘the people who protect America’ after leaders who resigned were escorted out of agency. Amid abrupt changes that have left the CDC leaderless, agency staff had been planning a show of respect called a “clap out” Thursday afternoon for the officials who resigned.
Hello, everyone. Today, thanks to @sbg1.bsky.social and @newyorker.com, I learned a new word. The word is: "butt-snorkeler."
🧵 Dr. Demetre Daskalakis devoted his life to science & saving lives. His resignation is a warning: the regime & RFK Jr. have turned CDC into a propaganda mill. Immunization schedules rewritten in secret. Junk science pushed to please a base, not protect people. @acyn.bsky.social
Border Patrol interfered with firefighters fighting the Bear Gulch fire on the Olympic Peninsula in WA which is only 13% contained. Detained a few FIREFIGHTERS. This is outrageous and must be stopped @murray.senate.gov @governorferguson.bsky.social
🧵 As of July 1, the CDC gutted its FoodNet program, slashing surveillance from 8 major foodborne pathogens down to just 2: salmonella a& E. coli. No more federal tracking for campylobacter, cyclospora, listeria, shigella, vibrio, or yersinia.
Awesome. Too bad we have the most anti-labor guy in the White House ever. He’s even crossed a picket line before and screwed over labor unions for years.
Who will be the last parent to have to bury their kid before we build common sense solutions to gun violence? I asked that question 2.5 years ago @msnbc.com after the horrific MSU shooting. Now, here we are again. My Christian faith teaches me to pray. It also teaches me to act.
Today’s West LA Freeway Brigade messages were NO TROOPS IN OUR STREETS and AX ICE We had a lot of good engagement (along with some double finger flip offs). Always fun… even when we get the finger! 😹 @indivisiblewestsidela.com #VisibilityBrigade www.VisibilityBrigade.com
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🚨Now in D.C. 🚨 “Hey hey, ho ho, millionaires have got to go!”
🚨🚨🚨Shelton, WA, firefighters stopped by ICE. Representatives from 3 indigenous tribes were included in this shake down. Additional information on the following post. 1/2
Disgusting.
New in PN: Trump's flag burning executive order flames out "This is a blatant attempt to transform protected speech into criminal conduct, despite decades of SCOTUS precedent barring just that. And it was immediately challenged by a veteran who set fire to an American flag just across from the WH."
Welch: Everybody's missing the point here. The point is, he's doing this on purpose. He's priming the public to get accustomed to having the military in the streets
Republicans could affect gun violence in America. They just don’t care.
GOP: We are the pro-life party! So—free pre-natal care? GOP: No Extend child tax credit? GOP: No Paid family leave? GOP: No Universal pre-K? GOP: No Gun reform to stop school shootings? GOP: No So...HOW Exactly are you pro-life?🤔 GOP: We force 11-yr-old rape victims to give birth
💯% right. Melania is an actual illegal alien. She came in on a falsified Einstein visa (more like an Epstein visa AMIRITE), then illegally chain migrated her parents, and then had anchor baby Barron. Deport them now! All of tRump's demon spawn, except for Tiffany, are anchor babies. Fact.
"Marc Elias’s Democracy Docket has quietly become a pro-democracy media force, expanding its newsroom to 20 staffers as it surpasses 50,000 paid subscribers." Story here: www.status.news/p/democracy-...
1. Cuomo colluded with his MAGA backed super PAC (against the law). 2. Follow the money - Cuomo is MAGA and corrupt. 3. If you are in NYC - canvass for Mamdani (knock on 622,000 doors in honor of Cuomo’s lost funds). 4. Mamdani says Habibi in the video 🥰 i love it when he is himself!
In TX, an attorney gets nice nasty in city hall giving a lesson about the 1st Amendment. Let’s get into some good trouble.
MAGA fought for Robin Westman to have easy access to guns designed to kill many ppl very fast They beat up on a minority they already hate to distract from guns being the #1 killer of US children Trans ppl = everywhere Easy AR-15 access = here 98% of mass killings are carried out by straight men
They’re going after SNAP benefits, hollowing out Medicare/medicaid, reducing eligibility coverage, decimating the HHS, taking away funding for public schools… Add it all up…it’s pretty clear which groups they’re going after.
Meiselas: It seems that the outcome that Republicans want is whatever the worst possible outcome could be. More disease, more deaths, more murders, a horrible economy. And let’s literally pick the worst people for each possible position at every level.
California voters: Vote YES on Prop 50 on Nov. 4th! Tell trump N O!!! 💙🇺🇸💙
New: In 7 months, Kennedy has broken the CDC, perhaps irreparably. For all he’s done with mass firings, gutting expertise, and attacking vaccines, Wednesday’s loss of its most senior and competent leaders—truly the CDC’s backbone—is the most consequential attack yet. www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/c...
NPR: “A whistleblower says a former senior DOGE official now at the Social Security Administration copied the Social Security numbers, names & birthdays of over 300 million Americans to a private section of the agency's cloud lacking adequate security...” www.npr.org/2025/08/26/n...
A glimpse into Trump's make-believe world of "giant water valves" in Northern California…
Looks like the GOP’s supermajority in Iowa is broken tonight, as Democrat Catelin Drey beats MAGA Chris Prosch by more than 10 points . Previously, a Republican won this seat by ten points. Look out, MAGA! Nobody likes your terrible “governance”!
We are closing in on 3,000. Even though Congressional offices are closed, their inboxes aren't. Help us push back on Trump's DC takeover here: actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...
NEW RESULT: Democrats have flipped a state Senate in Iowa. This was a seat Trump carried by 11%, but Democratic nominee Catherine Drey has just won it by 10.4%. This is the second legislative flip by Dems in Iowa this year. It also means the GOP loses its supermajority in Iowa’s senate.
There are two political conversations underway. There's the inside-the-DC bubble with lots of fretting by Dem strategists accompained by pessimistic reporting from the savvy media then, there are the results playing out across the country the results matter way more than the punditry
Woodbury County, the Iowa county in which district that flipped tonight is entirely located, split roughly evenly in the 2008 & 2012 presidential races. Then, huge swing: Trump won it by 17% in 2016 & 23% in 2024. The district, about half of county, swung 21% to Dems today compared to last year.
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Big win in Iowa. Congratulations to Catelin and all of our partners and allies who were part of this effort. We need to continue to do the work to win up and down the ballot this November and in 2026.