It’s not just that the President of the United States posted a video of eleven people being murdered in international waters it’s that the President of the United States ordered the murder of eleven people in international waters so he could post a video of it.
As measles surged, "the Trump administration’s actions sowed fear and confusion among CDC scientists that kept them from performing the agency’s most critical function — emergency response — when it mattered most, an investigation from KFF Health News shows." -- kffhealthnews.org/news/article...
Part of what’s driving Trump’s attack on the federal government is that his administration is full of neo-nazis who think federal employees are basically all unqualified black women in make-work jobs (eg HUD, Education) or ((communists)) (eg DOJ, State). They actively want to harm such employees
His trans daughter is on another magazine cover today
I don't want to hear Democrats tell us that they're not going to do Republican bullshit around labor. I want them to tell us about how they're going to expand workers' rights in their state, and what their plan is if the Supreme Court scorches the National Labor Relations Act tomorrow.
The case filed to protect unaccompanied Guatemalan children appears to have been reassigned from Biden-appointed U.S. District Judge Sooknanan to Trump-appointed Judge Timothy Kelly, for reasons not currently specified on the docket. www.courtlistener.com/docket/71240...
The mayor of Baltimore drastically slashed crime despite close proximity to Virginia with its lax gun laws and it was a blip in the news cycle and then a return to the only way to stop crime is law and order. We are a cruel, punitive country with a national press that loves facism.
This here looks like fuckery
we could have 500 murders a year in baltimore and sending the nation guard in still would be wrong any rebuke of the national guard that relies on low crime stats posits that if crime were high, that a military takeover would somehow be acceptable. it is facism, fullstop.
So this is just murder
“Jones alleges she met Epstein when she was 14 in the early 2000s and was paid to give him a massage, during which he fondled her after she undressed. ‘A lot of these powerful ppl think they’re in the clear, and they’re probably still doing it now,’ she said Tuesday.” www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...
The media's basic assumption that crimes only count if they happen in secret has been Trump's saving grace throughout his two terms. He keeps blabbing about them -- here, he's posting a video of a targeted assassination of civilians -- but because he's so brazen they assume it's no big deal.
He's the Wrong Guy For This Moment To Fight Fascism, just as much as Trump Was The Wrong Guy To Deal With Covid. He's like as if we had Charles Lindbergh as President instead of FDR during World War II. He needs to be primaried, and he needs to go.
He's the Wrong Guy For This Moment To Fight Fascism, just as much as Trump Was The Wrong Guy To Deal With Covid. He's like I said if we had Charles Lindbergh as President instead of FDR during World War II.
Someone please primary this empty suit.
I don't know. But I hope so. His district is literally Brooklyn. Who knows?
Is sending up fighter jets to respond to a press conference by your dead best friend's sex trafficking victims considered weird or not weird these days. I've lost track.
I agree: "The party with absolutely no power controls everything! You leave us no choice but to Trump harder!" Murc's Law: The widespread assumption that only Democrats have any agency or causal influence over American politics.
Will JDV be blamed when Trump's policies fail & send the country down the shitter? "Trumpism cannot fail: it can only be failed! We must do Trumpism, but this time the gloves come off!"
They'll still vote GOP
nobody does more brutal fashion reviews than the irish
average Dem strategist: we must focus on bipartisan policies that undercut Republican attacks average Dem voter: having studied the denazification of Germany, we must raze the RNC and leave JD Vance clutching a single wool blanket in a cell after we strip him of everything
they’re all this guy
And celebrating over 4 years of sobriety!
That guy is a disingenuous poop-face.
The plummeting U.S. public support for Israeli policy is mostly about Gaza but I bet as more Americans tumble to Trump and his goons using "antisemitism" as an all-purpose slur and shakedown tool, it's going to curdle into something worse.
Weird, putting tariffs on construction materials and throwing day laborers in concentration camps should have solved the supply problem by now
Platner: Our taxpayer dollars can build schools and hospitals in America, not bombs to destroy them in Gaza.
Selfish, sociopathic pricks vs normal people?
"A low-trust society is defined as one in which interpersonal trust is relatively low, and shared ethical values are lacking. Conversely, a high-trust society is one where interpersonal trust is relatively high, and where ethical values are strongly shared." The GOP is run by frightened hillbillies
Too simple to say High Trust vs Liw Trust?
But it's always like this. Democrats try to do the right thing. They fall short, like humans do. Everyone teams up to shit on them. Republicans don't even bother pretending. They lie, they smear, they destroy lives, they get people killed, & they face NO RESPONSIBILITY FOR IT.
But the entire Dem professional establishment was desperately *trying* to do the right thing & be responsible. Contrast: immediately upon the arrival of the virus, the right started spreading insane conspiracy theories, attacking public health officials, & refusing to act in solidarity.
A pre-dog-walk 🧵 on the pandemic. To me, the lesson of the pandemic is a very familiar one, although as far as I can tell, no one is talking about it or learning it (which is also familiar). It's about the contrast between America's two political parties.
Shame on the courts for going along with the pernicious fiction that American national security required stripping employees of union protections
The thing that often blows by is not only is crime the lowest its been for any non-senior citizen's life, it has been roughly that safe for *fifteen years*. We have had fifteen years of steady, low crime while the irrational freakout over crime has relentlessly grown to a fevered, disordered pitch.
TBF, kinda surprised it took Trump this long…
After banning visas for Palestinian children seeking medical care, the Trump administration is now banning any Palestinian passport holders from entering the United States. Extraordinary bigotry being converted into US policy. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/31/w...
A Labor Day reminder: today there isn't a single city, metro area, or state in the U.S. where a full-time minimum-wage worker can afford a modest 2-bedroom apartment. Millions of people with jobs—even multiple jobs—aren't safe from homelessness in this country.
Well now you know how the NY Times would airbrush Dr Mengele
Baltimore is pissed ✊ #SummerOfDiscontentTour
A lot of the health stuff the regime is doing is fueled by RFK's eugenicist mindset, but I bet a good bit of it is fueled by the elimination of standards which litigants can cite in lawsuits. bsky.app/profile/kare...
We’re only a few years removed from creatjng a vaccine to protect against a deadly airborne virus in a matter of months. Now, we have a scion fail son running the CDC into the ground not because it failed, but because its success conflicts with RFK Jr’s eugenicist ideology.
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Ha! Screwing over the ones they'll need to do the coup with
Whether or not these people are actual foreign agents is almost irrelevant. Their actions are observationally equivalent to & indistinguishable from the actions actual foreign agents would be taking. The consequences of our total Article I constitutional crisis, right here:
Anna has had excellent coverage of this developing case in which the Trump administration tried to use the holiday weekend to secretly and illegally deport children.
I wrote about the humility of expertise and the arrogance of ignorance, the profound laziness that attends believing that you can find knowledge by ignoring the accumulation of inherited human knowledge, and the ways lazy arrogance fuels narratives of fascism. www.the-reframe.com/your-ignoran...
So... Lebensraum?
Id heard that Cantor Fitzgerald, the Wall Street firm formerly run by Commerce Secy Lutnick and now run by his sons is one of the big buyers of these refund rights. Turns out it’s already public back in July when they were buying them at 20 to 30 cents on the dollar. www.wired.com/story/cantor...
Lebensraum
So...Lebensraum
He even *looks* like a Total Douchebag.
Trump's contribution to our politics was exposing that conservatives don't care about any of the principles they've said are sacrosanct for 100 years, and all they wanted was to be openly evil instead of circuitously evil. The Democrats who win will be the ones who understand this and act like it
Related, but still Obligatory: "Totalitarianism in power invariably replaces all first-rate talents, regardless of their sympathies, with those crackpots and fools whose lack of intelligence and creativity is still the best guarantee of their loyalty." Hannah Arendt
Begging the media (this time @npr.org) to stop asking TechBro AI CEOs who are literally selling "education" products about the value of AI in education. This is embarassing as hell, NPR. Anyone who thinks AI has a meaningful place in education is a fucking rube. www.npr.org/2025/08/29/n...
If you say 'heteronormative' or 'unhoused person' or 'food insecurity' you're basically talking gibberish and nobody can understand you but if you say you can see inflammation in children at the airport and that vaccines lower IQ or that germs are a myth you get to fire all the scientists.
Pritzker on Trump sending troops into cities: "He has other aims other than fighting crime... he would like to stop the elections in 2026 or frankly take control of those elections. He'll just claim there's some problem with an election and then he's got troops on the ground that can take control."
I do congratulate Rush Limbaugh on over 4 years of sobriety though.
every day i see hundreds of comments of people spinning elaborate scenarios to explain how trump can control everything and all opposition is futile. a) i think a lot of you need to log off and stop following professional doomsayers. b) i think a lot of you are cowards
Yeah, man, totalitarianism is when people listen to experts. Good talk, always a pleasure to hear from you.
"We stand here in the wealthiest city, in the wealthiest country, in the history of the world, as we stand here by Wall Street, where last year. They had more than $40 billion in bonuses. We ask ourselves, how is it that one in four New Yorkers are still living in poverty?"
The gall to let a source dissemble like this. There’s nothing stopping four day work weeks now. Europeans with strong labor unions are getting them. Tech companies pushing AI are cutting staff instead. It’s all part of the con.
The average American simply has no idea how quickly the infrastructure that keeps us safe and healthy is collapsing. These systems run in the background thanks to government employees who quietly do critical work. Those employees are being purged and systems are being destroyed.
One disabled Marine veteran has not had a primary care doctor assigned to him since his previous doctor left in the winter, his wife said. The VA “was never like this before. There’s a lack of staff, empty rooms, locked doors.”
“They knocked out one of my teeth. They messed up my knees. They messed up my ribs.” Now free, the Venezuelan men the Trump administration sent to El Salvador want the world to know what they lived through.
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
Whee! fortune.com/2025/08/28/t...
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.
I miss the old brand #CDC
Another shooting in the US this week, still no gun control. Some cartoons from my archive that, sadly, just keep on being relevant. #USA #shooting #guns #gunviolence
Zohran Mamdani is the happiest politician in America, his whole campaign is about how New York is awesome and can be even awesomer. Meanwhile, there has never been a politician in history who talked as much about what a shithole he thinks America is as Donald Trump does.
DOGE wasn’t a cost-cutting venture. It was a data mining operation for private interests. Trump opened the gates to the castle from inside for invaders with bad and greedy intent to plunder and exploit.
One thing Sensible Centrists refuse to acknowledge - and this was true during covid when people were also saying this stuff explicitly - is these people are eugnenicists who welcome a good plague to get rid of the old, botched, and bungled
Somewhere between the abuser logic of "Look What You Made Me Do!" and Murc's law of "only Democrats having agency". Either way it can be that spoiled, rotten, entitled brats they accuse everyone else of being.
The Supreme Court might rebuff Trump on tariffs and Lisa Cook. If that happens, we'll see a lot of naive articles with headlines like "The Supreme Court Finds Its Backbone." But SCOTUS will allow Trump to do everything else he wants to do. Moves that upset the plutocracy will be the exception.
Old Soviet joke for today: A man walks into a newsstand every day, looks around, and leaves. After a long time of this, the owner says “Can I help you find something?” “I’m looking for the obituaries.” “The obituaries are in the back of the newspaper, comrade.” “Not the one I’m looking for.”
Trump is a crook
Who's cutting onions in here?
“Do you guys feel bad about what you’re doing? Don’t you f*cking hate yourselves?”
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:
The conflict of interest and corruption at EPA are its new general modus operandi. Not sure whether a “For Sale” sign or a “Sold” sign should hang on the building. More gangster government.
This sort of despicable, misogynistic, borderline revenge porn behavior undermines the very values on which Zuckerberg first-- *touches earpiece* Hold on, I'm getting some new information.
Good.
This is illegal. www.gao.gov/blog/what-po...
it was an explicit, top-down propaganda campaign to erode and eventually end our freedom of speech and it worked
The thing about Ashli Babbitt that I kept saying is that, for most of history, most countries would have strung up a bunch of the J6 folks in the capitol steps as a sign. And for good reason. This is what happens when you don’t.
RFK Jr. is destroying the CDC. He’s barking mad, and he’s gutting the health institutions Americans rely on to stay healthy and safe. He’s firing lifelong experts in their fields and forging policy based on poppycock. He has to be impeached. Now. My column: www.usatoday.com/story/opinio...
I pray there's a hell
Happy Labor Harder Day, courtesy the GOP houserepublicanpricehike.com
Holy shit did Trump get those accents from Home Depot and have them painted gold lmao
Apologies: link @daedsider.bsky.social
“Once you understand that a driving principle of American politics is there is no such thing as a compassionate solution that's cheap enough or a cruel solution that's too expensive, a lot of things click into place.” Red Durkin
Also Obligatory, and all hail @shutupmikeginn.bsky.social
