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In the most important court decision on a day full of them, the most conservative federal appeals court became the first to address the substance of President Trump’s invocation of the Alien Enemies Act and found it to be unlawful. talkingpointsmemo.com/morning-memo...
The President saying “we’re going in” — about deploying the military to an American city just to terrorize its people — should be immediately impeachable. Full stop.
A victim of convicted sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein has revealed how a group of survivors is compiling a client list of their own.
Governor Pritzker naming Indiana, Mississippi and Louisiana as where the guns come from is the true shit. In California we have strict gun laws but guns are pouring in from Nevada with literally no gun laws.
Um, I was told that tariffs would bring the American manufacturing back
For the record: the Venezuelan strike was a war crime and murder. The military occupation of Washington DC is unjustifiable. The secret police grabbing people off the street is kidnapping. Our country has become a terrorist state. Don’t get numb to it. Fight in whatever capacity you can.
you'd think the governor of illinois basically going "we're being invaded by an authoritarian" would be something you'd see real easy on the front page of most everything an hour later
That Pritzker presser? Unreal. A sitting governor saying, flat out, the Union is coming apart and his state is being invaded by an authoritarian regime. This is a whole new level of crisis.
“That’s not the solution… We don’t need a band-aid to cover up the problem, We need a solution.” A resident of Chicago’s most violent neighborhood tells CNN she is against Trump’s invasion.
In the State of Georgia, it is now easier to buy a gun than it is to get a COVID booster vaccine. Pretty crazy stuff.
Pritzker says the press should be asking this question, too, and he's right.
"It breaks my heart to report that we have been told ICE will try and disrupt community picnics and peaceful parades. Let's be clear, the terror and cruelty is the point, not the safety of anybody living here." JB Pritzker
The largest SNAP cuts in history went into effect yesterday, eliminating or drastically cutting food assistance for millions of Americans. And it’s all to pay for more tax cuts that primarily benefit the super-rich. Trickle-down economics isn't just a hoax — it's cruel.
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
"Husband wins Ohio lottery scratch-off, plans to cover wife's cancer treatment" The United States is one of the wealthiest countries in the world and should provide universal healthcare. No one should have to win the lottery to afford cancer treatment. www.freep.com/story/money/...
Pritzker: "When did we become a country where it's ok for the US president to insist on national television that a state should call him to beg for anything? Especially something we don't want. Have we truly lost all sense of sanity in this nation that we treat this as normal?"
People do not join the National Guard to be civilian peacekeepers. We saw how this played out at Kent State in 1970 when unarmed students were killed and now it’s happening again.
Pritzker: "He has no idea what's he's talking about. There is no emergency that warrants deployment of troops. He is insulting the people of Chicago by calling our home a hellhole, and anyone that takes his word at face value is insulting Chicagoans too."
Pritzker: "It breaks my heart to report that we have been told ICE will try to disrupt community picnics and peaceful parades. Let's be clear -- the terror and cruelty is the point, not the safety of anybody living here."
Pritzker: "I refuse to pretend that any of this is normal ... I refuse to fall into the pundit trap that demands we sacrifice vital constitutional rights if it's being done in the fake guise of fighting crime."
Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson: “This president doesn’t care about gun violence. He just wants his own secret police force that would do publicty stunts whenever his poll numbers are sinking. That’s what this is about.”
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?"
Pritzker: When did we become a country where it's okay for the president to insist on national television that a state should call him to beg for anything, especially something we don't want? Have we truly lost all sense of sanity in this nation that we treat this as normal?
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."
BREAKING: The Pentagon has authorized up to 600 military lawyers to serve as temporary immigration judges. This is a blatant expansion of military power into a civilian judicial process, a dangerous erosion of the separation between the two. Every day, we inch closer to fascism.
“Rather than defending civil liberties and civil protections, you’re turned inward to potentially hinder [them].” In June, we sat down with a veteran and military law expert to discuss “being used against your neighbor” as a soldier.
SPOTTED: Mobile billboards driving around D.C. demanding federal agents take their masks off — because public servants should face the public. Go follow @ofthebraveusa.bsky.social!
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.
Space Command in Alabama will be as successful as a billionaire druggie trying to colonize Mars.
Moving Space Command away from NORAD is stupid. Colorado already has the existing ecosystem to support both the command and the operations. Thank you for coming to my TED talk.
A federal judge ruled what we all knew: Trump illegally deployed nearly 5,000 Marines and National Guard soldiers in Southern California turning our military into his personal police force. This brazen power grab violated federal law meant to keep troops out of domestic law enforcement.
My statement on today’s ruling that Trump’s deployment of thousands of Marines and National Guard troops to Los Angeles is illegal.
A judge ruled that Trump's deployment of National Guard troops in LA was illegal. As retired General Greg Smith told us back in June, politicians co-opting the military puts the roots of our democracy in "extreme danger."
Epstein Survivors Press Conference Sept 3rd, 10:30 a.m. ET Tune in to support them.
This is not reporting. This is propaganda.
Bluesky has been critical to Democracy Docket's growth and reach. Nate Silver is an idiot.
Are you young, highly educated and driven, and want to contribute to our stagnant economy with its aging population and low productivity? Well out you go
Powerhouse Dem bows out of midterms citing need for 'generational change' www.rawstory.com/jerrold-nadl...
“Symbolic opposition does not reopen hospitals. Weak condemnation does not bring back Roe v. Wade.” Whew
I didn’t really need more evidence that RFK Jr is nuts and delusional.
Fantasy with furry characters? I go to Redwall, whole series of books, take your pick!
“Frayed collar workers in gold plated times.” 30 years ago I issued a stark warning about the health of America’s working class. Watch and tell me what you think. https://youtu.be/8rW1kkAV-gw?feature=shared
Presidents Xi, Putin and PM Modi would never be palling around today if it wasn’t for the extraordinary foolishness shown by the president of the United States.
#WomensRights ✊🏾 #ONEV1 #Pinks 🌸 #Voices4Victory
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Hey Congress – make Alex Acosta's testimony public and televised. There's absolutely no ethical reason for it to be private and transcribed. Nefarious AF. We need to hear your questions. We want to see him squirm. We need to see him squirm. Yet another sign of a cover-up.
All kidding aside, it is so *insane* & *shocking* & *dangerous* that Corporate Media has collectively decided to completely bury objective fact that the President is uninformed, confused, and physically & mentally deteriorating.
This is so anti-military and anti-veteran. This is not what the National Guard was intended for.
“Get it all on record now. Get the films. Get the witnesses. Because somewhere down the road of history some bastard will get up and say that this never happened.” Dwight D. Eisenhower
Fascism + Idiocracy = Trumpism
#MorningVibe The right side of history is never the one that violates human rights. The USA was added to the CIVICUS Monitor Watchlist, a tool publicizing the status of freedoms & threats to civil liberties worldwide. 🔗 tinyurl.com/34w2j4en 🗣️ slcook52 (IG)
Today's a good day to learn Colbert found a new job. Hope it's a good one for everybody! #HappyLaborDay
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Then you *absolutely* made the most of it! Healing yourself is important!
American astronomers warn that making deep cuts to science funds risks ceding the field to China.
22 year old man whose previous experience is a grocer. The header of counter terrorism. MAGA is Affirmative Action for Mediocre White Men
Netflix is putting its money where its mouth is: 💰 $2M to back Newsom in the redistricting fight 📺 A deal for Sesame Street — new episodes and the full archive free to watch. That’s how you pick a side.
The United States is the only place on earth where poor people shun unions, free healthcare, and free education because the rich tell them to.
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.
Alarm after FBI arrests US army veteran for ‘conspiracy’ over protest against Ice
Man, I feel this. 🙏🏽😭
Fuck that bastard back to hell where he came from!!
The scariest fucking clown of all time is ready to sit on your chairs! Perfect for a child’s bedroom!!
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Also had jaw surgery? It’s petty, but it was pointed it out, and I can’t unsee it. He now has this weird square Neanderthal jaw, and it’s a striking difference. I just thought he was all puffed up post rehab (good on ya), but then I went on a deep dive, and yup his face looks different now. 😕
RIP Graham Greene. Every time he popped up on screen when I was a kid, my mom would excitedly point him out for being an actual Native on the screen. Able to be deadly serious and infinitely hilarious (even in smaller roles like Last of Us), he ate up the screen. Nʌki’wah brother.
Ditto.
I get that Trump makes us vulnerable. But an incapacitated president who can’t issue orders in a moment of crisis makes us VULNERABLE. There’s a difference.
I have no idea one way or the other, but if the president was gravely ill & dying, this is exactly how it would play out. Any president, not just him. We wouldn’t want hostile foreign powers to know we were vulnerable. Especially when the leaders of said hostile foreign powers are all together.
Thank you on this labor day!!
Concern over low birth rates was what the theocracy in Margaret Atwood’s Handmaid’s Tale used to come to power.
Lora Webb Nichols’s photographs of boom and bust in her small Wyoming town might be the largest photographic record of the era and region.
With fascism, you're either a collaborator or part of the resistance.
Some new street art spotted in DC 🤣
Meiselas: Xi Jinping and Modi and Putin and all these world leaders are gathering in China, and they're laughing. You know when Donald Trump says the world was laughing at us — the world was not laughing at us before. The world is quite literally laughing at us right now.
Republicans: “Stop making everything about race.” Really? White people enslaved Black people for generations, stole Native land, lynched and segregated us, burned down Black communities that thrived, and treated Mexican land & labor like property to be taken. America already made it about race.
He wears the hat when he’s too sick to do his hair.
Weekends. The 40-hour work week. Sick days. That didn't just happen. Organized labor did that. And today, we celebrate how far we've come. And how far we've yet to go to build an economy – and a country – that works for working people.
This judge accomplished what no judge prior has been able to get: compliance by the Trump administration in under 24 hours… … if you believe they didn’t lie. And I happen to think this judge has threatened them enough that they wouldn’t risk it. More please.
All of them?
🤣 perfect! For those who haven’t seen the bit this references… like a Horse in a Hospital youtu.be/JhkZMxgPxXU?...
happy labor day
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We do not fully grasp how damaging the SCOTUS’ presidential immunity decision was. What we know is it was a disaster and the huge damage it has caused is being compounded daily. That is because the result is a collaboration between corrupt justices, a supine Congress and a demented President.
How the idiot thinks it’s going. How it’s actually going.
Netflix just gave Gavin Newsom 2 million for the redistricting fight and made a deal with Sesame Street. New episodes will air there and the backlog of old episodes will Be free to watch. Netflix picked a side. I will keep my subscription.
Praise be, amen.
When unions are strong, our communities and our country are strong. Every person in our nation has benefited from the labor movement. This Labor Day, we celebrate the workers and unions who have fought for fair wages, safe workplaces, and sick leave for all of us.
The National Guardners
