Trump threatening members of Congress not to sign the Epstein files discharge petition saying it would be a “hostile act” against him is definitely something an innocent person would do. And scheduling a military flyover in the middle of the survivor press conference is also totally normal behavior.
Rep. Stansbury: “What we heard today is a cover-up. A cover-up potentially involving foreign countries and foreign actors. As you will find out in coming days and weeks, this goes all the way to the top. Because there’s happen to be a very powerful person who doesn’t want these stories out.”
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.
Today, we met and heard the stories of the victims of Jeffrey Epstein. What they revealed is not only the trauma of hundreds of young women, but a cover-up of epic proportions involving the wealthy, the well-connected, and even our own government. We will follow every thread until there is justice.
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?"
Surely, the decision to hold a military spectacle at that time is just coincidence.
Over the long weekend, the Trump administration quietly tried to deport 76 unaccompanied children to Guatemala – ignoring laws protecting such minors from speedy deportations. Thankfully, a federal judge blocked the effort. The cruelty of this regime knows no bounds.
Not a lot of people know this, but it’s actually Peak Performance for a President when the country is constantly spectating if you’re dead and/or a pedophile.
I am 76 & I have had most of these vaccinations at one time or another. Also vaccinations against Covid, Tetanus, plus Cholera & Yellow Fever when travelling in foreign countries. These prevented me catching horrible diseases & dying a gruesome death. They did not harm me, they protected me!
Schrödinger was on to something.
“NEVER FELT BETTER IN MY LIFE.”
Learn to decipher the codespeak.
It costs $1,000,000 per day…to not pay them?
This “explicit” is a weird editorial choice. The constitution gives the president no power over this at all. It’s not ambiguous.
Actually, Frankenstein is a doctor success at the Venice film festival
I miss the old brand #CDC
If you are okay with this, if you think this is justified, if you think people living on the street have brought this upon themselves, if you think this is good leadership, you may be able to fool yourself that you care about others but you don’t fool me
there is no question in my mind that rfk jr is the most dangerous person in this administration and that his eugenicist ideology threatens the lives of millions of people www.advocate.com/politics/dem...
Here he goes.
Vaccines are safe and effective. RFK Jr. isn’t.
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
This imagery is the kind of thing you see in video games to let you know you’re in a totalitarian city or country.
Trump’s America is starting to look a lot like Mao’s China.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Trump extends control over Washington by taking management of Union Station away from Amtrak.
the richest man in the world buying a presidential election, getting run out of the administration for being a weird diva, then pivoting to jerking it to anime cartoons full time is somehow more Roman than anything that ever happened in Rome
Who did this?
For the 2nd day in a row Trump attempts to condition the 🇺🇸 people that they’d “rather have a dictator” (while pretending he isn’t) Again: He’s saying it. Are you listening?
Trump: "A lot of people are saying maybe we'd like a dictator."
Pritzker: This is not about fighting crime. This is about the President and his complicit lackey, Stephen Miller, searching for ways to lay the groundwork to circumvent our democracy, militarize our cities, and end elections.
"Any book worth banning is a book worth reading." Isaac Asimov
Japan Post just announced they will no longer deliver mail to the United States, joining Germany, Austria, Denmark, Italy, France, and Sweden.
Just generally it’s completely fucking insane for DHS to announce the deportation of one individual who hasn’t committed any crimes
do NOT bother her, she is doing her GUNPLA
If a president wanted to become effectively a dictator, he’d likely: 1. Purge govt of non loyalists 2. Weaponize law against opponents 3. Use military to police opposition strongholds 4. Threaten media, schools, businesses w penalties to get them to heel 5. Change election rules in his favor.
Otherwise known as communism.
this is little more than a vendetta being pursued by the federal government against a man it unlawfully removed from the country and was forced to bring back
well she did not consider pedophilia inappropriate so what does this even mean
I deeply resent having to defend John Bolton but “the president sends his goons on a fishing expedition to raid anyone who criticizes him” is in fact very alarming
Investigating the president’s critics
Here, fixed it.
Exclusive video from Texas Rep. Nicole Collier on the House floor.
This is full-on authoritarianism. Free Nicole Collier. #txlege
its impossible to describe the level of freak out we’d be in right now if a democratic president had troops on their hands and knees rolling out a red carpet for putin, this entire country would be going nuclear right now all driven by conservative media
Neither the public, the media, not the courts have to accept Trump’s declaration at face value. We should be probing the veracity of it in every forum & making him justify it in detail. That’s active citizenship.
Say what you will about Gavin Newsom, but he’s a fighter, whether that’s against Trump, trans children, or his own constituents with nowhere to live.
Trump to Zelenskyy: "During the war you can't have elections? So let me just see -- three and a half years from me, if we happen to be in a way with somebody, no more elections. That's good."
Release the Epstein Files.
The @washingtonpost tracked where Trump's forces are patrolling in Washington. Spoiler alert: They're not where the crime is.
If you’re under any illusions about what an authoritarian personality cult the GOP has become, they’re not hiding it:
Keep in mind that EVERYTHING he says or does going forward is to distract from the EPSTEIN files. E-V-E-R-Y-T-H-I-N-G.
A tale of two vibes.
See, here's the rub I have with all that's going on: It's terrible. It's awful. But it's all so staggeringly, fucking stupid.
This is a real AP photo
Imagine if they’d had sandwiches. 🥪
August 15 Press Briefing with @Karoline Leavitt
> @governor.ca.gov
ANCHORAGE…
Trump tear gassed people in DC on the Fourth of July and our elites shrugged
This guy's a vet and a lawyer who threw a sandwich and offered to turn himself in, so they sent a paramilitary platoon with a camera crew. They have FBI and U.S. Marshal badges; apparently those agencies do no real work beyond camera stunts, harassing minorities, and filling concentration camps.
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Subway sandwich guy has been released on his own recognizance. His attorney argued the felony charge was excessive, and the judge agreed. Oh, and he’s a USAF veteran. www.wusa9.com/article/news...
Good morning Bluesky !
If they won in a landslide victory, why do they have to gerrymander the midterms?
“We won’t go back.” ‘View from the entrance to the Rohwer Internment Camp where my family and I were sent. Circa 1943.’
NEW: Gavin Newsom makes major announcement
it's wild to post this when a more realistic version of it actually happened and it was conservatives who refused the treatment
She's also the only child rapist in history to be moved to a minimum security camp with potential work release one week after meeting with the Deputy Attorney General.
The philosophical justification for what’s happening in DC is basically this Reddit post
![r/Lollapalooza 3 yr. ago DaL 028 Join [deleted] I'm excited for Limp Bizkit, but I'm a little worried about Antifa... Question I'm sick and tired of seeing these thugs terrorize big events and am worried that they will try to interrupt Limp Bizkit's set. My gf (F19) and I (M31) are going to our first Lollapalooza and are concerned about the growing threat around the city](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:of56nmyuqzvjta7qlf7gwht6/bafkreigd4ytwxolisa7hyct6pyoprf6vqdzvyevq44rtyv4zjeurlw3uii@jpeg "Click to view full size")
it's crazy how we just take for granted now that the president is a deranged racist
"“I ain’t ever bought no prostitutes. I ain’t never raped nobody. I ain’t never paid anybody off. None of that stuff,” said G, a resident from one of the photographed tents. “He’s much more of a criminal than I am”" streetsensemedia.org/article/home...
BREAKING: EXCLUSIVE: Senator Whitehouse asked the BOP for Ghislaine Maxwells sex offender waiver, custody level, transfer code, and security point score. I have them. She's also been granted the ability to leave the facility for work assignments. My latest: www.muellershewrote.com/p/exclusive-...
good to see the NYT is at least matching the headline accuracy of TMZ today
Another attempt to distract from the real crimes.
To quote the late, great Carrie Fisher, things are getting worse faster than we can lower our standards.
Calling out the (tiny) DC National Guard is one of the *only* things President Trump can do to DC without new legislation. Today’s “One First” goes deep into the history of the federal government’s relationship with the nation’s capital—and the significance of the 1973 Home Rule Act—to explain why:
I hate this man so much
Two things can be true: 1) The President has legal authority over the D.C. police and the D.C. National Guard that he doesn't have *anywhere else* in the country; & 2) Even if this doesn't set a legal precedent, it sets an ominous *political* precedent for pretextually overriding local government.
Someone forgot to take down this webpage: www.justice.gov/usao-dc/pr/v...
Patient, sobbing: But Doctor, I AM Pagliacci! ChatGPT: Apologies. I didn't realise when recommending Pagliacci's epic show to cure your depression that you were the genius himself. I'm impressed! With regards to your initial question, I can recommend seeing the Great Clown Pagliacci.
Nope, still not distracted. Release the Epstein files.
LEFT: Where our government incarcerates a person who has a tattoo in honor of a family member. RIGHT: Where our government incarcerates a person who has facilitated and/or engaged in the sexual assault of over a thousand children.
You just gotta LOVE MAD MAGAZINE!!!
He LOST. YOU win. (You knew he wanted YOU to pay his lawyers and his legal bills, right?)
Hmm, what do ‘central camps’ and ‘final plan’ remind you of? 🤷🏽♂️👇🏽
unironically, this is the song of the summer. it's been in my head for three days straight.
💯.
I thought he didn’t believe in DEI hires.
Imagine getting fired because math hurt a man’s feelings. We’re being governed by a walking Yelp review.
How many little kids right now meant to grow up to become scientists, academics, artists, may never get the same inspiration we did just by turning on TV for free, because we used to agreed as a society that was worthwhile to offer everyone
"Ghislaine Maxwell, the convicted sex trafficker and longtime associate of Jeffrey Epstein, has quietly been moved from a federal prison in Florida to one in Texas..."
the entire republican party is currently involved in a cover up involving the worlds most notorious underage sex trafficking ring
scrub harder, lady macbeth
worth noting she was 15 at the time. the fuck is a girl that young doing working in a spa? and why was he so mad she left? even his lame ass cover story is damning as hell.
john.in.chicago 
Frank Amari 