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Rudy Can’t Fail Card cheat Giuliani says he crashed while trying to save a young Janie Jones from a hateful lover’s rock. But it’s more like likely he had brew for breakfast instead of koka-kola when he was lost in the supermarket on the way to his brand new Cadillac. by Maureen Dowd
I’m back there in the 687th row, 3rd from the right.
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There are a lot worse ways to spend Labor Day than watching the Mekons movie. www.mekonsmovie.com/Revenge_of_t...
Trump/RFK are decapitating our public health system, a pillar of American greatness. So Dem Govs should scour every corner of the law for creative new ways to defend their people from this madness. Dems should polarize this debate to the max. Thoughts on this here: newrepublic.com/article/1998...
Key phrase: POLARIZE THIS DEBATE TO THE MAX
Let’s see. Who should I trust? My own doctor, 1,000’s of scientists, & researchers. Or someone who thought using heroin for 12 years was one of the best things he could have done, swam in a sewage polluted creek with his grandkids, had a brain worm, has no actual medical training. Tough call.
Absolutely disgusting. DOGE is a LIE and Alligator Alcatraz is one of the largest waste, fraud, and abuse (of all different kinds) perpetrated by the Trump administration. www.factcheck.org/2025/07/a-de...
Washington's speculation about Trump's health is at a fever pitch. We've seen multiple reasons this summer to ask questions — and the media doesn't seem to care. What's really going on? www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/it-s-time-...
1/ Honestly this is as good an illustration about how staying primarily on X warps people. @schatz.bsky.social is among our most social media literate Senators. And I have no doubt some of his constituents voice this to him (tho' Hawaii bars...notoriously open air!). But...
2/ ...I'm even more sure he hears this relentlessly from folks on X, and colleagues who marinate in Fox. Being on X warps what you think the prevailing view is. It's like going to a sports bar favored by one team. This place is also an often annoying bubble, but the team isn't the Nazis.
Wages of unionized workers are 13% higher than their nonunion counterparts. But unions also set a higher pay standard that all workers enjoy. In high-union-density states, median household income is $12,000 higher than in low-union-density states. This is why unions are vital.
Trump going to sleep earlier, which I think is a little noteworthy
The fight for working people is personal to me. I come from a union family, I carried a union card. This Labor Day—and every day—the Democratic Party is standing up for union jobs and against these sweeping Republican attacks on working men and women.
"Solidarity Forever" at the Workers Over Billionaires rally on the steps of Wisconsin's Capitol on this beautiful #LaborDay
If this is as good as they can make him look…
Not that Gavin Newsom needs my trolling advice, but this is a perfect time for Lee Atwater-style digs about the rumor mill. When reporters ask about Trump, saying stuff like, "Well, I don't want to speak ill of an invalid." Or "Gosh, I don't want to be quoted in his obit." No one deserves it more!
It's Labor Day, and the president is the most unlawful union-buster in history. Both opposition party leaders in Congress failed to mention this, or any of his crimes (see below), on social media today. When do we conclude these guys are failing to meet the moment? prospect.org/labor/2025-0...
Trump has no public events scheduled today.
This is also routine rhetoric in Silicon Valley — even by immigrant founders! — about America and nobody says shit. Journalists refuse to even *mention* it, let alone ask questions or hold anyone accountable.
Just an astonishing, powerful op-ed that drives home what we are losing and what's already been lost. We are so incredibly fortunate to live with the advances modern medicine and health science. Destroying and stymieing it is just unforgivable. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...
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
you thought I was stupid, but in reality, you thinking that I was stupid means that the stupid one is actually you
CNN: “250+ news outlets from over 70 countries will simultaneously black out their front pages and website homepages, and interrupt their broadcasting to condemn the murder of journalists by the Israeli army in the Gaza Strip.” www.cnn.com/2025/08/31/m...
A Texas County Cuts Over 100 Polling Sites as Trump Attacks Mail-In Voting Nationally talkingpointsmemo.com/news/a-texas...
Mr Jeffries & Mr Schumer: it's a class war on Labor Day. Maybe now is the time for something stronger than Hallmark greetings.
Stay to the end when these union-busting lawyers try to play it cool fielding questions from the union members who stormed the call. prospect.org/justice/2025...
“We are not in the habit of advising you lightly that you should challenge laws,” one lawyer said on the webinar. But “if you are a bit more risk tolerant, and you want to continue” holding anti-union meetings, “that is a choice that you can make.” prospect.org/justice/2025...
Graduate student worker unions have thrived over the last decade, but either an inert NLRB that can't certify elections or an active one that bans grad student unions is a threat to this growth. What will the states do in response? James Baratta reports. prospect.org/labor/2025-0...
Labor & immigration beats have long been seen as separate beats in newsrooms. Why? Labor reporters are largely white & dont speak foreign languages, while immigration reporters are heavily Latino & speak Spanish. Let's tear down these absurd walls in newsrooms. paydayreport.com/tearing-down...
Don’t ignore that the bbc asked a racist question here
52 of 53 Republican senators voted to confirm him.
New in PN: "By the time you read this, the White House may have put out a Labor Day statement. It will no doubt offer an effusive tribute to Trump, who in his infinite beneficence has delivered workers a utopia of prosperity. But back on Earth, he's the most anti-labor president in modern history."
Wake up call for Price of Eggs Jeffries and Taco Tariff Schumer: "Georgetown University labor historian Joe McCartin terms this 'by far the largest single action of union busting in American history.'" That's a class war. You need to decide which side you're on.
We've got more for you on Labor Day. More than 82 percent of civilian federal workers have had their right to collectively bargain stripped in the largest act of union busting in US history. Unions are a voice from below, and their autonomy poses a threat to autocrats, Harold Meyerson writes:
Haymarket Martyrs' Monument, Forest Home Cemetery, Forest Park, Illinois.
Breaking news: It's a beautiful weekend in Chicago. So for this weekend, the city has safely hosted: 🚴♀️ Bike the Drive where hundreds pedal down a temporarily closed Lake Shore Drive 🏠The ARC music festival (Chicago is the home of house music) ⚾A White Sox game 🍒Farmers markets & food fests 1/
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Russia jammed the GPS on the top EU leader’s plane. The pilots navigated using paper maps to land the plane. www.cnn.com/2025/09/01/w...
AP: “Florida could be on the hook for $218 million… Alligator Alcatraz may soon be completely empty as a judge upheld her decision late Wednesday ordering operations to wind down indefinitely…” apnews.com/article/flor...
Rudy Giuliani was seriously injured in a car accident. I hope he gets the same expert medical care that he would wish for a disabled transgender immigrant.
In America we've set up a cool system where, when you get *super* rich, you actually pay *lower* taxes.
CHICAGO…
Ahead of J’Ouvert and the West Indian Day Parade, it was an honor to receive the endorsement of my friend and colleague Assemblywoman Monique Chandler-Waterman. And I can think of no better way to celebrate than with a walking tour of Little Caribbean.
The extent to which ICE is ignoring all civil rights and due process is astounding — and indicative of a culture where they’ve been told they can do literally no wrong. Agency and admin leaders must face sanctions and legal consequences.
Donald Trump’s rumored death raises new questions about Joe Biden’s health
*Court rules that Trump's policies are illegal but allows them to stand anyway* is the best summary of America in 2025 I know.
How many of the liberals complaining about the National Guard occupying American cities even know what the M in M17 stands for
These are my patients. Kids dying of brain cancer. Kids and families desperate for treatment and hoping to find a cure through experimental therapies. Trump is dismantling science and children with brain tumor are the victims. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/28/w...
Every time your electricity bill goes up for the next 10 years, it can be traced back to this Administration’s actions. They are making solar and wind power illegal to build in the United States. They are artificially restricting supply while demand is going up.
The U.S. is one of the world's biggest human rights violators under Trump. Well done, maga.
Normally they've booked 40% of their fall soybean sales to China at this point. This year, they are at 0% booked, and no, that's not a typo. www.farmprogress.com/soybean/us-s...
Trump wants great relationships with the dictators and warmongers of the world and has contempt for liberal democracies. www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
Netanyahu is restricting aid trucks into Gaza—the best way to get food to starving people there—so Jordan is delivering some with air drops. The Jordanians said @merkley.senate.gov & I could join one of those flights to see the devastation, but Israel denied authorization for our scheduled flight.
jerry would have tried to date them (ba dum dum)
Like he dated the NYU student who interviewed him in the infamous, "The Outing."
one thing seinfeld never showed, to my memory, is the gang dodging thousands of impossibly young columbia students on the sidewalk moving into their dorms
🐔 Rep Chuck Fleischmann (R) tells the Chattanooga Times Free Press he will “never” do a town hall www.timesfreepress.com/news/2025/au...
going back to the founders it would have been recognized as an act of gratitude and patriotism to dedicate one's life to service of their adopted country, but Vance rejects the fundamental ideal of America in favor of crude blood-and-soil Nazism that he learned on the internet five years ago
Rebekah Del Rio, Mulholland Dr (2001). (RIP btw.) www.youtube.com/watch?v=vI8c...
Prince, Muppets Tonight (1997).
As Carl Schmitt explained in his fascist handbook, a crisis must be created where none exists in order to collapse democratic institutions and hasten the transition towards totalitarian dictatorship
Very helpful and less than 15 minutes
One more tout today (for the west coasters) of this provocative new piece I wrote for Public Notice: open.substack.com/pub/aaronrup...
Do establishment Democrats know how they look when they (rightly) condemn the firearm caused mass murder of children in America—but then arm war criminals like Netanyahu to mass murder children in Palestine? We must remember—the children are ours. All over the globe. #Palestine #Minnesota
Omg www.tiktok.com/t/ZT6GN2aVT/
I stand with Chicago. I stand with Mayor Johnson. 🚨 NEW: Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson just signed an executive order to resist Trump’s federal invasion and occupation of the city. Details in 🧵
Spotted @peoplesbooktakoma.com !!! Thanks for sharing @jaredfrank.bsky.social
It's stunning how much he's transformed into his mother, actually.
Talk to Putin, then fire your Russia expert. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
People will die from lack of access to healthcare due to cuts and increases to premiums, people will have permanent PTSD from witnessing the cruelty and abuse towards immigrants and the continued mass shootings. People will suffer because of this Administration. Elections have consequences for ALL.💔
Trump is widely loathed here in Chicago. We will resist.
This is horrible. May more Mainers support Graham Platner. www.youtube.com/watch?v=53bZ...
🚨Maine clinics say they'll have to cut services after court rules Trump administration can deny Medicaid funding! abcnews.go.com/US/maine-cli...
Trump is speaking very loudly, but maybe his stick isn't quite as big as he imagines. billmckibben.substack.com/p/trumps-big...
they had an apple cannon
Say this every day until they are gone.
We won’t notice it at first Maybe an outbreak of cholera in southwest Kansas goes undetected Perhaps the number of flu related deaths ticks up just a bit each year But-ultimately, inexorably-the destruction of the CDC will lead to countless deaths All because of two men Trump and RFK, Jr
I can
This is The Way
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One thing about never-Trump Republicans, during Trump II particularly: They understand that the world they knew is dead. They have no investment in either reviving the former GOP (because they understand it's impossible) or maintaining the pre-2016 Democratic Party (because it's not their party).
Remember when Biden was working on National Plan to End Parkinson's bill, and was consulting with experts, and NYT ran this hit piece?
I really wish I didn’t think of @radiofreetom.bsky.social every time these idiots utter these words. But boy was Tom right.
I’m surprised he also doesn’t demand a Best Actor Oscar for “The Apprentice”.
It’s wild that people who voted for this man are capable of tying their shoes, much like holding down jobs and paying taxes. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/30/u...
NEWS: Walgreens just got taken over by private equity. Private equity has a record of running companies into the ground. Walgreens could be the latest victim: closing more stores, service plummeting, workers losing their jobs, and eventually bankruptcy.
Monopolies are horrible for consumers, and pharmaceutical monopolies are horrible for a nation's health, especially when that health is already being assaulted by a criminal, insane federal administrator.
www.boston.com/news/busines...
If I’ve learned anything, I’ve learned that evangelicalism is like a ghost limb; sometimes you wake up in the middle of the night with the sensation it is still there, even long after the amputation. 30 Years Ex-evangelical open.substack.com/pub/dianabut...
From Public Notice ... "Without irony or shame — and to absolve their followers of any guilt or responsibility — Trump wants to whitewash America’s original sin."
Welcome to the many, many people who have found this campaign in the last week. 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. 2,900 volunteers. $1 million raised. In just over a week. Join us.
Pro-Union then...pro-union now.
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.
Daily Reminder: Social Security is OUR money!
You know what we really need besides a non-dictator as President? Healthcare for ALL!
Subjective of course, but I think it's easy to forget right-wing censorship via Fox News, Sinclair, & online communities is a lens through which much of the country experiences the world, including film, culture. Also: corporate media concentration, fear of Bud Light = more conservative censorship
As an aesthetic goal, cutting to the chase has many rewards. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/30/o...
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