Pardoning the confederacy was the dumbest thing any president has ever done.
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Pardoning the confederacy was the dumbest thing any president has ever done.
That Pritzker press conference was... surreal, and I think marks a significant moment of escalation in the constitutional omni-crisis. This was the governor of a state saying plainly the Union itself is being torn apart and his state is being militarily invaded by an authoritarian regime.
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?"
I used to read books like Lord of the Rings or watch movies like Star Wars and think the villains were unbelievable. And of course, now watching the tech oligarchs (who could not spend all their money if they tried) destroy civilization for power, I’m like, guess I was wrong. People are that awful.
BREAKING: James Talarico just gave one of the best speeches we've seen this year. Every American needs to see this.
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.
9 CDC Directors going back to 1977 speak out. What RFK Jr has done to our nation’s public health system "should alarm every American." It "is unlike anything we have ever seen at the agency, and unlike anything our country has ever experienced." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...
"She did not die defending the Constitution. She died trying to overturn it. She was not protecting lives at a gate in Iraq; she was forcing her way through windows in the Capitol to stop the peaceful transfer of power." New from @markhertling.bsky.social:
California’s homelessness growth rate last year was lower than 40 other states, including Texas and Florida. The work doesn’t stop here. With our new SAFE Task Force, we’re going to bring it down even further to ensure that everyone has a safe place to call home.
Republicans are trying to redraw congressional district lines to keep their grip on Congress in the midterms and beyond. Voters should pick their politicians, not the other way around. Get involved with the @democraticredistricting.com as they fight back: bit.ly/3HJ1ayW
Children murdered because they went to school. Seniors shots because they went to mass. Public servants assassinated because they chose to serve. When will it be enough for us to decide that we deserve better? To acknowledge that we, quite literally, cannot live like this?
Here's some good news: Catelin Drey won a special election this week to flip a seat blue in the Iowa Senate and break Republicans' supermajority.
Pay attention. Your family’s safety is on the line.
Multiple CDC leaders have resigned in the wake of layoffs and a shooting at the agency’s headquarters this month.
In the last week alone, top officials at the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the Federal Reserve and the US Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) have been shown the door amid clashes with Trump and other top officials. | Analysis Read more: https://cnn.it/4oYbXG0
As we all know, the United States is the only country on the planet where these drugs exist. It definitely has to be the drugs that we alone use. Can’t be something else.
Between RFK decimating the CDC, normalizing Ashli Babbitt & the umpteenth school shooting... I'm losing the will to post. #ReleaseTheEPSTEIN_Files
What a horrific morning. Give your kids and your neighbors a hug today.
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This is the only thing I feel existential fear about as a parent. There's nothing I can do to protect my son from a shooting. It seems silly to think it could happen to us. But this is just shows how it COULD happen to anyone, anywhere, at anytime. My heart breaks for the parents who lost their kids
Frey: And don't just say, this is about thoughts and prayers right now. These kids were literally praying. It was the first week of school. They were in a church.
School just started, and we are already mourning two children killed and dozens more injured as they prayed during mass. It doesn’t have to be this way. Congress must act to keep our kids safe.
Frey: I think the impetus has to be on all of us to recognize that we've got more guns in this country than we have people, and it's on all of us to recognize the truth and the reality that we can't just say that this shouldn't happen again, and then allow it to happen again and again
Indonesia launches measles vaccination campaign after 17 die in outbreak borneobulletin.com.bn/indonesia-la...
These are the five phases of the dictator’s dilemma. It’s really worth understanding this dynamic because it is an inescapable trap. Historically, for people like Trump, it is inevitable. While it’s impossible to know what will happen at Phase 5, we can predict & prepare for it.
Americans need to understand what’s happening tonight at the CDC. This was an agency held together over the last 7 months by scientists with decades of experience in public health, who hung on despite a relentless assault on science-based policy by RFK and Trump. 1/
In a functional government, this would be a five alarm fire where Congress calls in Kennedy and asks him what the fuck is going on
Ignorance isn’t harmless...it's a public health hazard. Missouri’s kindergarten vaccination rate has dropped to 90%...below the 95% herd immunity threshold. We’re not just vulnerable...we’re sweating. Dumb f*&^ing people. www.columbiamissourian.com/news/state_n...
"State terror isn’t coming, it’s here. The kidnapping of our immigrant neighbors, the brutal treatment of protesting Spokanites, the Trumped up charges–all of it is meant to scare us..." Dr. Joan Braune and Dr. Judy Roher wrote in an analysis. rangemedia.co/state-... 🧵/1
DO NOT PUT CHILDREN ON TV TALKING ABOUT A SHOOTING THEY JUST LIVED THROUGH The media who do this are heartless bastards
Never before in our history has one man exercised such unbridled discretion affecting the lives of so many of us, while simultaneously preventing others — Congress, the courts, the American people — from having a say or even knowing what he’s going to do next. This is what dictatorship looks like.
After refusing to change vaccine policy, CDC Director Susan Monarez was reportedly ousted by RFK Jr—prompting several top officials to resign and plunging the agency into turmoil, though her lawyers say she has not formally resigned nor been fired.
CHAOS ERUPTS AT CDC CDC Director Susan Monarez has been ousted after RFK Jr. demanded she change her policy on the COVID vaccine. Top officials from the Vaccine Unit, Zoonotic Division, and the Chief Medical Officer are resigning, per reports. Horrifying news for public health.
This is very bad news. Louisiana won't even defend its own map in SCOTUS. It abandoned its own Black voters. Those of us committed to defending the VRA are now entirely on our own. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
This is what to expect if you live in a red state. Don't have a family if you do.
Octavia Butler predicted our dystopian present. What can a futurist learn from her chilling accuracy?
Shout out to all our “small government” Republican friends
I don’t need a self driving car. I need a vehicle that runs between major areas and can transport large numbers of people at once to reduce environmental impact…wait it’s a train. I’m describing trains. Build more goddamned TRAINS, America.
"The top story of the moment is the one story that our most influential newsrooms won’t touch: That the United State has become an authoritarian state." — Dan Froomkin @froomkin.bsky.social presswatchers.org/2025/08/we-h...
The President of the United States sat in the Oval Office and said "a lot of people are saying maybe we'd like a dictator" and that is not even a top story.
Look, I know I’m new here. But if I’ve learned anything about Boston, it’s that Trump sending an invading army here will not go well for him.
It’s continues to be despicable how the media has spent a decade normalizing the orange felon so much so that they are reporting on his authoritarian militarization of Washington DC as if it were a routine military exercise. They deliberately failed democracy for clickbait.
President Says He Is Removing Lisa Cook From Federal Reserve Board but he cannot do so, and this is an illegal move www.nytimes.com/live/2025/08...
Jesus Christ. If your credit isn’t frozen at all three bureaus, I would strongly consider doing that now
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They are sending soldiers into cities to prepare to intimidate people at the polls next year. They gerrymander because they can’t win on policy. They intimidate because even gerrymandering won’t work at this point.
Over a quarter of all homes sold in the first three months of 2025 were bought by real estate investors. If we want to make housing affordable again, we must get Wall Street out of our homes. https://youtu.be/q9TOGxDJ0TE?feature=shared
When you’ve lost Ammon Bundy…
Ammon Bundy on why he left the militia movement
Yes. Collapsing all fed law enforcement into one undifferentiated, untrained, masked force. "Agents said they worried the changes would transform the FBI from an investigative agency focused on national security into something more akin to a federal police force..." www.nytimes.com/2025/08/21/u...
Starting in September, Gov. Greg Abbott and GOP lawmakers will make it even harder in Texas to prevent school shootings, suicides, and murders by domestic abusers www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
This is the new tacky AF ‘Rose Garden at the White House.
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@rokhanna.bsky.social: “Only 3% of the documents given to the [House] Oversight Committee are new. The rest are already in the public domain. Less than 1% of files have been released. DOJ is stonewalling.” khanna.house.gov/media/press-...
Smarmy is the word that comes to my mind when I see TB
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Mass resident here I agree with all of this.
NEW: The government has offered Mr. Abrego deportation to Costa Rica if he pleads guilty, and threatened deportation Uganda if he does not. According to his lawyers in a new filing, that violates his 5th Amendment due process rights. My latest: www.muellershewrote.com/p/the-govern...
It’s my opinion that humanitarian and musical genius Dolly Parton (as well as Chef José Andrés) deserves the Nobel Peace Prize. tucson.com/life-enterta...
The American people deserve more and we will continue to fight for it! It’s up to all of us to stand up for our country and for ourselves. We can do this #together!! #50501movement #resist #reclaim
Smashing the like button here. Also , “you talk so softly “ I think I’m speaking at a normal volume 🤷🏻♀️
Pam Bondi swore this would never happen.
The President of the United States is a gangster shaking down anyone who won’t pay up
My name is Captain Dylan Blaha, and this message is for members of the National Guard across the USA. I've served in the Illinois Army National Guard for over 12 years, including a deployment to Afghanistan and three years on active duty in Europe. What's going on right now is not normal.
Bluesky is now unavailable in Mississippi due to the state's law requiring age (& implicitly identity) verification on all social media. The supreme court recently declined to put a hold on the law but said it likely violates 1A. I sure love our Bill of Rights, ty founding fathers!
Monkeys falling from trees and baking barnacles: how heat is driving animals to extinction www.theguardian.com/environment/...
I’ll have to check it out thanks
I support all schools teaching Robert Fulgrums book All I needed to Know I learned in Kindergarten.
That ship sailed.
Former National Guard Vice Chief Major General Randy E. Manner says deploying the Guard to D.C. will ruin how the average American views the military.
It’s ok I’m a mass resident and the driving is atrocious. Use your fecking blinkah people.
Yep!
"Massachusetts has collected about $1.8 billion from a voter-approved surtax on the state's highest earners through the first nine months of the fiscal year." It's going to be used for education and transportation. See? Equitable taxation benefits everyone. www.wgbh.org/news/politic...
What real leadership looks like. Thank you, President Barack Obama, for standing strong with California, defending our rights, and fighting for the people of this nation.
AG Bondi on mayors and governors in blue states: “If they don’t comply with us…We’re going to…cut off their federal funding. We are going to send in law enforcement…just like we’re doing here in Washington, D.C.”
Boston isn’t having any of this. Read the full letter from the City of Boston in response to the U.S. Department of Justice on Boston.gov: content.boston.gov/sites/defaul....
Most of the time
With local public media stations on the brink of collapse followingTrump’s successful push to strip federal funding, the Public Media Bridge Fund hopes to raise $100 million over the next two years to keep local newsrooms alive.
Yes yes it would be
Former PM of Australia 🇦🇺: “I’ve been with Trump and Putin. Trump is in awe of Putin… it’s like the 12 Year-old boy that goes to high school and meets the captain of the football team. ‘My hero’.”
Texas state Rep. Nicole Collier is suing over "illegal confinement" after Republicans locked her in the state Capitol for refusing police surveillance
Texas GOP kidnapped Rep. Collier. Texas GOP kidnapped Rep. Collier Texas GOP kidnapped Rep. Collier.
National Guard Troops in Washington Stick to Tourist Areas ... of course it is a show, they are doing nothing about crime which is already low www.nytimes.com/2025/08/19/u...
The federal officer who arrested Newark Mayor Ras Baraka outside an immigration detention center in May suggested that he was following the direction of the DOJ's No. 2 official, Todd Blanche, according to bodycam footage.
Six Republican-led states sending National Guard troops to D.C. under the guise of a fake crisis. Texas Republicans using police to impose a rigged map on Texans and steal an election. Congressional Republicans funneling taxpayer dollars into kidnappings and concentration camps. This is fascism.
Trump expands crusade against 'woke' from the Smithsonian to museums across the country
Bingo.
Every tech update now is like: "Great news, the word processor you've relied on for twenty years has learned to juggle! Is it good at it? No! Does it help in any way? Of course not! Has it made it insufferable to use? Oh, absolutely."
WATCH: Texas Rep. Collier says the high road has crumbled
Whoah that sounds amazing.
Live soon — @mayorwu.boston.gov joins with community leaders to respond to recent letter from the U.S. Department of Justice.
I'm up against the biggest of big money. If you can, please consider making a contribution to help build the statewide grassroots movement we need. secure.actblue.com/donate/platn...
My name is Graham Platner and I’m running for US Senate to defeat Susan Collins and topple the oligarchy that’s destroying our country. I’m a veteran, oysterman, and working class Mainer who’s seen this state become unlivable for working people. And that makes me deeply angry.
Thank you for an incredible outpouring of support. I'll be speaking on Zoom TONIGHT at 7PM Eastern about our movement to defeat Susan Collins and her billionaire backers. I hope to see you there. RSVP at www.grahamforsenate.com/zoom
Best thing this New Englander has heard all day 👏👏👏
Excellent!
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