I am having my Friday martini. And I am happy. This was a VERY bad week in a major way, though positive in other ways. This weekend: work AND self-care. Take care of your health, peeps. You’re needed.
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I am having my Friday martini. And I am happy. This was a VERY bad week in a major way, though positive in other ways. This weekend: work AND self-care. Take care of your health, peeps. You’re needed.
Listening to a podcast where a well known tech world wannabe fascist calls journalism "nonconsensual invasion of privacy for profit" and thinks that's clever and my goodness does that reveal a lot of how completely brain wormed a bunch of these guys are once they faced a tiny bit of criticism.
@govpritzker.illinois.gov made the same point as @governorwalz.mn.gov Enough of the damn "Dems in disarray" written-on-autopilot coverage. Or "how does this change odds for 2028?" The country is under attack. That's the story.
I admit I don't follow this world too much -- I pay attention to the main fascists not the pseudo intellectual fascists. But here's Curtis Yarvin, who JD Vance is reportedly a "disciple" of, arguing for the institution of slavery. He tries to dress it up in bullshit, but its slavery.
remember folks, we cant have gun restrictions because if we do the federal government will occupy our streets, imprison people without due process, ship dissidents to foreign gulags and things of that nature
Voting should be easier than buying guns.
All hail Chairman Trump! 🇨🇳
If you’re trying to make it harder for people to vote, stop pretending to give a shit about democracy. Every American - regardless of their political views - deserves to have their voice heard.
What's gone unsaid in all this talk about homeless people in DC is that so many in the Capital are veterans who are now having the military aimed back at them for the crime of being poor.
If you want to put back statues and memorials and names of Confederate traitors while tearing down museum exhibitions on slavery because they don't show the greatness of the nation... the nation whose history you're celebrating is whiteness. The kind of nationalist you are is a white nationalist.
Remember that part of Putin's objective is to weaken the United States itself so public humiliation of our leader on the world stage and to our allies is essential to his strategy.
No, just a worried parent of a biology major
Devastating to all the young recent grads who were told to study STEM. Not much in the way of entry level jobs. Grad school sure seems like a bad bet now too.
👇👇
So let’s see…the Trump admin is sending innocent people to be tortured in foreign gulags, bringing back in homocidal maniacs, and transferring convicted sex traffickers into minimum security prisons. Do I have that right? nypost.com/2025/08/01/u...
There’s your new ad, Dems.
When Trump said he would protect women, he meant women who are convicted sex traffickers.
I think everyone should be talking about lot more about how it’s clear the Epstein stuff is a palace coup with JD Vance trying to take over and how Trump had better be careful because they’re trying to fool him. This message should get to him a lot.
A Nazi owns Twitter, right wing billionaires own the Wall Street Journal and the LA Times, and CBS is run by a right wing nepo baby who just fired one of the network’s biggest stars for criticizing Donald Trump. Here’s why America has a left-wing media bias problem.
One of the things about JD Vance is that he is completely 100% aware that what he is doing is evil and has made a deliberate, conscious choice to do evil to get power. He’s not self-deluded or dumb. He hasn’t drunk Kool-Aid. He’s decided to do evil for power.
The Supreme Court should preserve the status quo until legal questions are resolved and explain the disposition of cases for the public. They are abdicating basic principles of equity and failing to fulfill their institutional role. They aren’t pretending to try. There isn’t even the veneer of law.
Police who keep their identities secret are, quite literally, secret police. I don’t know why this is even controversial. You don’t get to yank people off the streets while hiding your face and identity and still retain the respectability of an accountable, democratic police force.
House and Senate Ds fought like hell. There was nothing else to do. They left it all on the field. They need more #'s. Sweep the R's who perpetrated this horror on America out in 2026. Nothing else in politics matters.
This is not in the bill. Just a total lie.
Just want to point out that no version of events, including the one admitted to by Sean Combs, shows Sean Combs as anything but a violent abusive narcissistic druggie. Or, in modern terms, a celebrity.
People freaking out about having a socialist in the NYC mayoral residence but OK with having a fascist in the White House.
They’re planning on building a detention center for migrants in the middle of the fetid swamps of Florida. If you think this is something new, the first internment camp they sent me and my family to in 1942 was a barbed wire prison called Rohwer. It was located in the swamps of Arkansas.
There is no press outlet of any size, in any medium, that would offer this kind of coverage to a Democratic president, no matter the circumstances. There is a massive, explicit agitprop operation on the right, devoted to the power of the conservative faction, & there is no analogue on the left.
I'm sorry but the largest protest of my lifetime is not the 7th or 8th biggest news story in the country behind "what does Gen Z want from Instagram?" This shit is humiliating. Rearrange your layout to meet this moment. Omitting the thing happening in every American city is malpractice.
Portland, Oregon SHOWED UP to say #NoKings in America! 💪
Mark this for the history books: “We’re talking about the president exercising his authority, and the president is of course limited to his authority. That’s the difference between a constitutional government and King George,” said Judge Charles Breyer.
I think all they’ve really managed to do this week is encourage more people to turn out for the No Kings protests. Being underwater on every issue before July is pretty impressive.
These are the people that make America great 🇲🇽🇺🇸
The court has ruled. Donald Trump you must relinquish your authority of the National Guard back to me and back to California.
Karen Bass: "On Saturday night, the president tweeted that 'because of the great work of the National Guard, the protests & the violence was curtailed.' The National Guard wasn't even here. They didn't even arrive until the next day. That's why it's very hard to not see this as a stunt or test case"
heads up Portland that 🧊 is reportedly knocking door to door around MLK. Stay safe and spread the word
Here is another map that deliberately makes the protest area larger (via the red circle) simply so it can be seen by the naked eye:
Trump’s actions and his inactions would be the precise conduct of someone whose goal was to destroy our country. We need to face what that means.
It's been really demoralizng how much the press mindlessly repeats the lie that the National Guard was sent to quell violence. It was sent to start violence. People know this, so just say it.
Stephen Miller represents everything vile about this administration and drawing more attention to him will (a) make it harder for the administration to pretend this isn't creepy white nationalism in action and (b) likely make Trump jealous to the point he shitcans him like Elon. Win-win.
BREAKING: Miller reportedly engineered the raids that sparked the protests that have engulfed the city in recent days—likely because he wanted a pretext to send in federal troops. https://trib.al/oM1280f
This is on all the Senators who turned a blind eye and voted to confirm. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/09/h...
Important thing to beat people over the head with: Trump has turned American cities into warzones and for fucking what? Prices are way up, jobs will be way down, the dollar is worth less, and now the highway is blocked off by cops. Maybe the Great Mythical Immigrant wasn’t the problem after all.
This isn’t just a California issue. This is a test balloon for authoritarian federalism. Autocracy comes slowly and then all at once—usually at a time when you are already overwhelmed.
www.nytimes.com/live/2025/06...
If you burn down a forest, you don't miss out on lumber for just that season. You have to replant all the trees, nurture them, and wait for them to grow. The science and research budget cuts happening now are wanton, senseless arson. Recovery, if it ever happens, will take generations.
And the expensive golden dome
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While Stephen Miller publishes the faces of the judges that struck down Trump’s unlawful tariffs, his own goons in ICE refuse to show theirs out of fear of being publicly identified. If our judges are brave enough to face MAGA threats with their faces showing, ICE should not hide behind masks.
🚨🚨 BREAKING NEWS: We won our tariff lawsuit!
Guys, it's the oligarchs. If you want to blame someone for 2024, blame the oligarchs. Anyone telling you to blame someone else is part of the oligarchy. Dark money has been to blame since citizens united.
I cannot stress enough how much of a Def Con 1 moment this is. Federal judges fear that the President of the United States will stand down security for judges in retaliation for adverse decisions. This is such a huge story.
The orange felon’s vendetta against Harvard in just one photo.
Agree! Feels like we’ve crossed the Rubicon a few times already
I wish journalists would stop framing political news as wins or losses for politicians or political parties. It’s an abrogation of our mission. Why do we keep doing this? Is the spending bill a win or loss for the American people? Who does it help? Who does it hurt? Is it sound policy? Fiscally?
The man with the nuclear codes walked into a wall. 😬
President Biden knows that when you get knocked down, you get back up and fight. I join the nation in sending strength to President Biden and his family and hope for a full recovery. We’re with you in this fight, Joe.
This one is largely on Democrats. They could easily make Stephen Miller the face of the administration — emphasizing how out of control Trump is and how far right the actual policies are, prompting the media to follow their lead — but they’re largely giving him a pass. It’s bizarre.
🚨HIT THE PHONES TO SAVE MEDICAID - PLEASE AMPLIFY & ACT 🚨 TODAY the House will be marking up deeply unpopular massive Medicaid cuts. MANY GOP on the committee are in tight districts. Calls and pressure ARE effective here. Call today. Type your zip to get a script ⬇️ OcasioCortez.com/savemedicaid
JUST NOW: Leader Jeffries, Senator Coons, and Senator Booker sat on the Capitol steps, watched the sunrise, and talked about the budget fight. This is what we need—bringing people in and speaking plain truth. @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social @coons.senate.gov @booker.senate.gov
Heartbreaking. She was so courageous
Every American should be deeply troubled by this massive escalation, and @democrats-judiciary.house.gov are standing strong for judicial independence. This is an unmistakable descent further into authoritarian chaos.
Say. This.
Pete Hegseth is clearly ill-equipped to handle the role of Secretary of Defense. His repeated failure to follow basic operational security procedures jeopardizes the safety and security of our armed forces. He should resign.
Many things have contributed to this terrible moment but perhaps chief among them is the historic cowardice of Thune, Johnson, and other Congressional Rs who have the power to stop the madness and refuse to use it on behalf of the American people. It is a Great Betrayal. bsky.app/profile/mona...
I am so deeply tired of a president using Christianity to justify his cruelty who wouldn’t know a Biblical lesson if it slapped him in the face.
Dem politicians who are doing something and saying something to oppose Trump’s attacks on American democracy are quickly rising in the estimation of voters. Those calling those efforts a “distraction” or providing cover for Trump are quickly squandering their political capital.
Don’t forget Europe!!
Really feel like we all have to talk more explicitly and repeatedly about Stephen Miller as the actual Shadow President because that is what he is, he is almost certainly running the vast majority of day-to-day stuff and is responsible for much of the worst of it
Put up or shut up time for the Supreme Court
The President of the United States fears only those who do not fear him.
Americans are entitled to and should demand better than this from the President of the United States.
This is how you do it. The "Mutual Academic Defense Compact". The moral imperative may be to fight... but the strategic imperative is to not fight alone: www.gazettenet.com/UMass-Amhers...
Let’s be clear. When the President defies the Supreme Court, it is the role of Congress to remove him from office. Full stop.
I am disappointed that today I’m paying taxes to fund government efforts to stop preventing disease and starvation overseas rather than paying taxes to support government efforts to prevent disease and starvation overseas.
These are not detainments—they are kidnappings. These are not deportations—they are human trafficking. These are not detention centers—they are concentration camps. Language matters. This is fascism.
Harvard has set an example for other higher-ed institutions - rejecting an unlawful and ham-handed attempt to stifle academic freedom, while taking steps to make sure students can benefit from an environment of intellectual inquiry, rigorous debate and mutual respect. Let’s hope others follow suit.
I'll say it again: in a country where due process is individually denied and then broadly eroded and eventually eliminated, being a citizen will not protect you from the terror of this administration.
🏆 @rollingstone.com wins the Headline of the Day Award This is how it’s done. At least someone understands the assignment. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
There are some things obviously I won't and can't say publicly, but I will certainly say this much: anyone in the Trump administration involved in sending innocent people to prisons in El Salvador should be sentenced to an American prison for the rest of their natural lives. I'm serious about this.
Your regular reminder that almost everything Trump is getting away with is not because of presidential strength, but because of congressional weakness and judicial deference. The constitutional tools are already there to fix this, but those who can fix it are refusing to do so.
A helpful guide to the current state of US trade policy:
Thank you!! I was wondering what happened to Casanova!!
Not for nothing, but how, exactly, is it legal to send people for *punishment* in a foreign prison (esp with no due process)? Were the funds being used for it appropriated for this purpose? I feel this has just become a thing no one questions
It has been 18 days since we learned that those involved in Signalgate recklessly endangered the lives of American pilots. The fact that there has been no Congressional investigation is an abomination. This should outrage every single Member of Congress.
If the US government requires passports for you to practice your rights such as voting then passports should be provided for free to all and within a reasonable timeframe by said government.
Are you a woman who changed your name when you got married? Congress is considering a bill that could make it much harder for you to vote. Call your rep—this is not a drill. indivisible.org/resource/cal...
The DNC was like the beginning of a disaster movie: SO many brilliant women warned everybody what's to come. Now we're in the middle of the f-ing movie... somewhere between Jurassic Park, The Day After Tomorrow, & Schindler's List. & ALL Americans had to do to prevent this... was trust women. 👇🏼
Trying to suppress women’s votes.
We wouldn’t be here if SCOTUS had allowed the January 6th trial to go forward as scheduled.
Citizens cannot, by legal definition, be "deported." What she's describing is kidnapping and forced imprisonment without cause. She and many, many others in this administration should face prison one day. bsky.app/profile/ones...
If you changed your name when you got married, the SAVE act will obstruct your right to vote. You will need to make sure you have official copy (not photocopy) of your birth certificate, marriage certificate, or passport. This is about keeping women and others “in our place.” #HandsOffHerVote
Rep. Don Bacon (R-NE) has a bill to return tariff authority to Congress. If it were to pass, the purposeless tariffs would end. Speaker Johnson is blocking it. Call your member of Congress, R or D, & urge a discharge petition on the bill, which forces a vote. U.S. Capitol switchboard: 202-224-3121.
Great video! It was an amazing day. So much energy!!
I am so proud of Portland. I am so proud of America. The BEST protest I have ever been to in my lifetime 🔥🇺🇸 #HandsOff2025
The fact that everything around us is burning to the ground & some people still have no clue that they voted for the arsonist or are complicit in the arson is absolutely mind boggling. People are ok with it so long as the black woman isn’t their President 🤯. America, we have a problem!
1,187 Hands Off! protests across EVERY state this Saturday. 117 in CA. 61 in NY. 55 in MI 51 in OH. 42 in TX 17 in MT. 14 in AK 5 in HI! And in Ottawa. Guadalajara. Amsterdam. Berlin. London. Lisbon. Lyon. Saturday is gonna be historic. Are you showing up? What's your sign gonna say?