Covering up the Epstein files. Giving tax breaks for YACHTS. Trying to rewrite January 6. That’s what Republicans are up to. Not lowering costs. Not prioritizing public health. Not focused on you.
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Covering up the Epstein files. Giving tax breaks for YACHTS. Trying to rewrite January 6. That’s what Republicans are up to. Not lowering costs. Not prioritizing public health. Not focused on you.
Lutnick Family Angling To Make Astronomical Sums Off Court Nixing Tariffs talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/lutni...
I can't even screenshot it--the entire letter is worth a full read. And I will say it again--our state public health agencies really need to step up now & fight against RFKJ's harmful extremist policies: open.substack.com/pub/simonwdc...
Pay attention. Your family’s safety is on the line.
“This is about the President of the United States and his complicit lackey, Stephen Miller, searching for ways to lay the groundwork to circumvent our democracy, militarize our cities, and end elections.” – Gov. J.B. Pritzker
It was a good system because it allowed for the most creative and often quite rapid commercialization of research. That means new companies, jobs, products, markets and tax revenue down the line. Proven cheaper and faster than gov run systems and more efficient than industry.
Is it another hoax? Start of school has led to a spate of hoax active shooter calls: 2 at Villanova, U. Tenn, Chattanooga; U of S. Carolina and many high schools around the country, but it isn't making national news. I hope it is a hoax, but I also hope people knock this off.
Pritzker: To the members of the press who are assembled here today and listening across the country, I am asking for your courage to tell it like it is. This is not a time to pretend here that there are two sides to this story.
Krishnamoorthi on the FBI raiding Bolton's house: "It looks like it's also an attempt to distract from the other big news of the day, which is the first production of the Epstein files that is required by subpoena from the Oversight Committee and they want to change the conversation."
Failed casino.
Watch out for that tree!
Nothing less than "KKKracker Barrel" will do.
Goebbels has spoken on behalf of the Fuhrer.
An idea:
Boston Mayor Michelle Wu: “Silence in the face of oppression is not an option. The U.S. Attorney General asked for a response by today. So here it is…Stop attacking our cities to hide your administration's failures.”
"Newsom’s threat to retaliate in kind is not a divisive attack on good governance. It is, instead, the only hope for democracy. Bipartisanship right now is appeasement. Democrats cannot and should not hide behind neutrality and fairness as MAGA incinerates the remaining tatters of our republic."
that summit could've been an email
Newsom: "He doesn't play by a different set of rules. He doesn't believe in the rules. As a consequence, we need to disabuse ourselves of the way things have been done. It's not enough to just hold hands, have a candlelight vigil, talk about way the world should be...we have got to meet fire w/fire"
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Question is - and I’m being totally serious - why aren’t they saying anything
In agency after agency, the U.S. government is losing its capacity to measure how American society is functioning, making it much harder to gauge the nature and scale of the problems we are facing and the effectiveness of policies. (Published April)
Violent crime in DC is at a 30-year low but crime at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave is at an all-time high.
the intensity of my anger at those who would criminalize the homeless — a population literally created by the greed and callousness of the ruling class — is very hard to contain. it was you who dismantled the safety net. if you don’t like the results, put it back
New York politics > Texas politics
@genefortexas.bsky.social: "We're buying time for Texans to wake up... To not only deal with TX but deal w/ this in every other state. If ppl who lie, cheat, and steal are allowed to win the day, that is the end of our country... Get off your ass! This is our last shot at saving the American dream."
First of all, it's a Post headline evincing a world view of stupidity and elderly right wing outrage. Second, we probably can thank younger Americans for seeing Vegas for what it is and avoiding it. Smarter in every way.
We should have the House right now. Let me say it again: we should have the House. This ain’t just a Texas problem, it’s a national problem. They’re stealing seats to keep power, and that’s how we ended up with Speaker Johnson instead of Speaker Jeffries. They can’t win fair, so they cheat.
Republicans know nothing about governing, public service or how anything functions, except maybe bribery and influence peddling. They seem to get that pretty well.
This is what is happening right now.
“A hunger strike at a South Florida immigration detention center state officials have named “Alligator Alcatraz” has entered its tenth day, as detainees protest what they call inhumane and dangerous living conditions.”
The six reliably pro-Trump justices are "racking up a rap sheet of constitutional abuses of staggering import." ICYMI Philip Allen Lacovara on the coming judgment of history:
I am surprised the headlines aren't also blaming Biden, Harris, Obama and the Pope. All the newspapers have fallen. It doesn't matter if "they still have good beat reporters in the field" if editorial is going to murder truth and stories get slanted until they're upside down.
Start your morning with two minutes of the testimony of Samuel Garcia, an average American who drove 3 hours to speak truth to power to the Texas legislature. Let’s decide that we are all Samuel Garcia. Get in their faces and make them listen. Mr. Garcia is a great American.
Motherfucking wind farms…
Haight and Pierce once upon a time. The Black family that owned two buildings and the laundromat since the great migration and union jobs in the 1940s decided they could sell in 1999 and move back to Arkansas and live really well. Hope that's still working.
Me, 2019: "Epstein gambled on the differential between his power and voice in the world and theirs and for the most part he won, because the game was rigged by dozens of people around him... Monsters rule over us, on behalf of monsters." lithub.com/in-patriarch...
Disaster Management Group is one contractor behind the nation’s largest detention camp, to be built at Fort Bliss. It’s run by Nathan Albers, who previously co-owned a company that pleaded guilty to a scheme to hire and conceal undocumented workers.
Peter Thiel, if you wrote this script today. It'd be misdirection. The plot is really to get ransome from the billionaire oligarch.
Shout this!
this shouldn't just prompt a resignation, it's almost like negligent homicide if any of those people died
A State Department employee shared with PBS News an image from inside the department. The image includes a piece of paper taped to a mirror with the words, "Colleagues, if you remain: RESIST FASCISM. Remember the oath you vowed to uphold."
“If ICE was a military, it would have the 16th biggest budget in the world. You wanna talk about America First? Think about all the things we could do in this country, like giving a [hurricane] warning system to these folks in rural Texas, instead of plucking brown people out of their homes.”
🚨🚨🚨 IT GETS WORSE 😳 "Kristi Noem didn’t authorize FEMA’s deployment of Urban Search and Rescue teams until Monday, more than 72 hours after the flooding began, multiple sources told CNN." Story: www.cnn.com/2025/07/09/p...
Remember the childhood action song - The Duke of York? He had 10,000 men. He marched them up the hill and he marched them down again. I keep thinking of that. And "Someone left a cake out in the rain" too.
Yes. And more. So far the resistance is more performative than effective. What's next?
Rep Raskin, with respect: show less respect to these fascists who are sharpening their knives and getting ready for more violence against us, and against you. High moral ground and strongly worded responses are not stopping them.
Not terrible to laugh at a time like this. What else do we have?
The only emergencies they manage are the ones they create. That's how they interpret their charge in the MAGA upside down universe.
What factories in major urban areas, exactly? Machine shops, food processing (maybe), service work of some kind, city or transportation or sanitation, medical, academia, construction and law enforcement. Laptop class, indeed.
“Community groups have long tried to address homelessness in the LA park. Workers with a St. John’s Community Health street medicine clinic that was serving homeless people said agents pointed guns at them & instructed them to stop their work & leave.”
Any Major Dude.
SSA emailed Americans claiming Social Security recipients “no longer pay tax.” That’s a lie. Trump’s admin is spamming seniors with political misinformation using official channels.
Crockett: How is it that you can explain that we still are running up the credit card and we have nothing to show for it except for the fact that we won't have food on the tables and we won’t have health care.
Their production designer now thinks black cars are so Pinochet/Stasi. White! White delivery vans are the new summer look for storm trooper transportation! Wether heading to the beach to knock some heads or the avocado orchard to make 'em eat dirt. White matches the zip ties.
It is so clearly a sub tropical prison camp of exactly the type that were known as POW death camps in the Pacific in WW2. Inhumane. Criminal. Immoral.
Zohran Mamdani says, "I don't think we should have billionaires because frankly it is so much money in a moment of such inequality"
If this is what the revolution looks like, we ride at dawn!
Mamdani: "I've already had to start get used to the fact that the president will talk about how I look, how I sound, where I'm from, ultimately bc he wants to distract from what I'm fighting for. I'm fighting for the the very working people he ran a campaign to empower that he has since betrayed."
By "we" he means the Trump Org just made a deal with China to produce their gold phone. So he's all good now for China deals.
It's all pro wrasslin' to this scammer. "In round 2 I'm going to throw you against the turnbuckle while the ref is distracted, but you come back with a roundhouse, and we end with a back flop"
Here’s a joke circulating in Germany: What borders on stupidity? Mexico and Canada.
I want to make a quip about "pro family" policy, here, but perhaps there is no need.
Considering how subsidized the retail grocery labor force is (esp W*lmart, but they are not alone)you already shop at a government store, buying government milk and cheese and tariffed avocados and coffee, comrade.
Like so many elections around the country, today is about organized money vs. organized people. I believe people will win.
Three weeks is still 50% better than the US private insurance system average of 6 weeks, and we haven't deported all the immigrant doctors and specialists, yet.
Anyone else in the world would be fired for spending their time on social media and using the excuse it was "work related". Ted Cruz is grading on one helluva curve.
Somebody doesn't know what the fuck they're doing.
I am for all that except the last line. They are not resting. If we do, we fall further behind.
We live in a rogue and dangerous country. Do what you need to do to maintain your internal peace. Hold the core of your spirit. Pray for peace. Commit yourself to justice. And just rest.
Listen to that crowd..
TOP in @punchbowlnews.bsky.social AM: As senators return home for the weekend, GOP leaders are quietly ramping up pressure to pass a reconciliation bill by July 4. Behind the scenes: Byrd Bath reviews, Trump-aligned campaign hires and mounting internal tensions. punchbowl.news/article/sena...
By "assault" they must mean requests to show IDs and warrants.
2/2 and that pretty much sums up the center and center left strategy: keep expecting justice, rules and morality to prevail over those that ignore all of it and will just kill you first. Dude, If you have the bazooka, use the bazooka.
Sadly, this is roughly how we do it - bass ackwards. If you remember this scene, Indy has not thought it through and the Nazis force him to put down his weapon and be taken prisoner, too. The only thing that saves him and Karen Allen in the end is Yaweh spares them and dissolves the Nazis 1/2
Call your Representatives and Senators. Tell them to assert their Art. 1, Section 8 constitutional power. No war with Iran. 202-225-3121
Quick, rush him some more government contracts and tax breaks so he can rebuild and do it again!
Couch blocked.
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Fucker Tiresome is paid for by Putin, who needs Iran for drones and other support. I doubt this is about disarray so much as the money. Hawks have mil contracts. Am 1sters want stable oil and markets. It is as predictable as the sunset fighting the night.
SCOTUS decision upholding the ban of gender affirming care for trans kids (but allowing cis minors to get the exact same treatment) is one of the most poorly reasoned decisions I've ever read. Roberts unbelievably says that trans youth lacks the "maturity" to get this care and may regret it - while
Seriously though, Tucker Tiresome is Putin's lapdog and Russia needs Iran right now. He's on the side that pays him. Every journalist should be asking hard questions, and they're not. Same reasons. Different masters.
Highest quality pole, indeed. They're putting them in the wrong place.
Farm fresh TACO, back on the menu.
Satire is the new new journalism. But I didn't think NK would be a credible source.
When the Trump assassination attempts happened, Democrats were among the first to call out the political violence. But now, that seems to only run one way. That’s how badly Trump has damaged the soul of the Republican Party. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...
They whisked him away on a pretext before he demonstrated even more dementia and incompetence.
This is true.
This is well stated. Mike Lee will forever be associated in my mind with his unbelievably cruel and stupid tweets about the Hortman assassination. He is a disgrace to the Senate and Utah.
Cue tantrum.
Utah Senator Mike Lee is a worthless piece of Nazi shit. 💩 🌮 🍊🖕
The most consequential Speaker in state history.
Donald Trump does NOT want you to share this footage of his pathetically tiny birthday parade crowd.
ABC HEADLINE: “Massive” Parade NBC VIDEO: actually nah Guess firing terry moran for him wasn’t enough, abc ? 🤔
Not surprising, but WTF. Right wing death squads ring a bell, people?
No Kings in Northampton, MA ,pop circa 30k. Congressperson Jim McGovern, a state rep, lindsey Sabadosa and state Senator Jo Comerford also spoke. People are angry, united and ready.
More scenes from the “big insurrection” in Los Angeles
Try "millions of people" - cover some news.