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Given what we have seen in recent months re: the Epstein files, there are only three possible scenarios: 1. Donald Trump is a pedophile 2. He is covering for his pedophile friends 3. All of the above. None of these scenarios should be acceptable to any American with even a shred of integrity.
MASSIVE BREAKING: Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi just revealed that an attorney told them today that an Epstein bodyguard was an intermediary between Epstein and the CIA in 2009. Release the Epstein files now !
Historians, correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't the entire reason states are allowed to maintain a "well-regulated militia" (i.e., a National Guard) under the Second Amendment because of the fear of tyranny of the federal government, which controls a standing federal army?
What comes next?
Dangerously, President Trump and HHS Sec. Kennedy are wreaking havoc on our already broken and dysfunctional healthcare system. You don’t make America healthy again by throwing 15 million people off of their health care and undermining science. Secretary Kennedy must resign.
This administration deals in death.
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Meiselas: Xi Jinping and Modi and Putin and all these world leaders are gathering in China, and they're laughing. You know when Donald Trump says the world was laughing at us — the world was not laughing at us before. The world is quite literally laughing at us right now.
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This isn’t politics. It’s not left or right. It’s not conservative or liberal. Cutting funding to treat children with brain cancer is hate and greed.
Look at this graph. The share of national income going to the richest 10 percent was lowest (and share to lower 90 percent highest) when union membership was at its highest. As unions have weakened, inequality has widened. This is why we must build back union power.
Who is @ spiritual streetfighter?
I hope people realize how absolutely fucked this situation is. This isn’t normal. People are resigning all over the place because the government is mishandling our data, ruining our public health services, and generally making Americans less safe.
Mass shooters since 2018 who were transgender — 4. Mass shooters since 2018 who were not transgender — 4,193. Hope that helps.
That… is the entire point of the Federal Reserve.
Don’t look away
The ubiquitous right wing talk about getting swooped up by gubmint "black helicopters" was always a form of aspirational projection masquerading as anti-government libertarianism.
Yall see what’s going on here right?? The red states are tryna get as many seats as they can to amend the constitution so leader can run for another term. Nice try where’s the Epstein files
And wait, didn’t trump tell them to stop counting?
Ah yes, the famous Biden census of 2020… when Donald Trump was President.
He’s wanted to declare martial law from day one. Bypass all checks and rule as a tyrant. Many have speculated how he’d do it. Now his gambit is clear. DC was a test. He’s using manufactured crime stats to send troops into blue states & cities. This is not a drill. Democracy is at defcon 1.
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.
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...
Neil deGrass Tyson: "How sad it must be believing that scientists, historians, scholars, economists, journalists devoted their entire lives to deceiving you, but a reality-TV star proven in court to be a lying felon is your beacon of truth & honesty"
I’ve confirmed with a person in the neighborhood where the truck crashed that the two men were *not* “El Salvadoran gang members” as the ICE thug so confidently asserted. They’re from Guatemala and Honduras, and one of them has lived here for 15 years and has multiple children.
Holy shit. This legit gave me chills. Texas State Rep. Ann Johnson clapped back at GOP members amid Wednesday's redistricting vote. WHITE WOMEN, this is the model. We have more power than others. We are the last to be silenced. We have a responsibility to SPEAK so others are HEARD.
SEN. @ossoff.senate.gov on fascism in 🇺🇸 : “There is not safety in keeping your head down… People who oppose public policy decisions but are too afraid of retribution from their government to speak their mind should send a chill down all of our spines.”
Bill Maher calls it a “slow-moving coup” and predicts Trump will use the army he’s amassing in D.C. to maintain power even if the Democrats win.
It’s probably just a coincidence that Bolton’s home was raided on the day some of the Epstein files are due to finally be released to Congress. Is this that lawfare I keep hearing about?
Think about what the GOP is revealing with their attempt to suddenly change the Congressional maps: they know their agenda is so unpopular that they're going to lose unless something changes. Of course, what they should be changing is their policies, not the maps.
Loving your kids and your dog doesn’t erase the moral failure of supporting Trump. 🐾💙 Decency matters. Morality matters. Truth matters. ✊ – @radiofreetom.bsky.social #BlueCrew #ProudBlue #Resist #TruthWarriors #TrumpIsUnfitForOffice #trumpLiesMatter #ImpeachTrumpNOW
Hey look. It’s the worst economy since the last time Trump was in office. Probably just a coincidence
Georgians? Are you listening?
Remember this? Read it again. Slowly. "We are in the process of a second America Revolution, which will remain BLOODLESS if the left allows it to be" That is 💯 a threat. This is THEIR American Revolution. We are in the fight for our lives. Understand that. Because we got shit to do
WATCH: Laura Loomer, a self-described "Islamophobe" with very close ties to Donald Trump, successfully pressured the U.S. State Department to halt medical visas for severely injured Palestinian children from Gaza. @chrislhayes.bsky.social
Trump’s circus is the distraction. Rockbridge is plotting the next 20 years of right-wing power. JD Vance’s SECRET BILLIONAIRE CLUB is funding media, rigging courts, and stacking governments. Trump is just the puppet. Rockbridge is the machine.
94% of teachers have had to dip into their own pockets to buy school supplies. An estimated 1 in 6 have second jobs during the school year to make ends meet. The average Wall Street employee got a record $244,700 bonus last year. Something has gone terribly wrong.
Life comes at you fast
You know you’re a winner when you leave Putin looking like this.
Planting trees in neighborhoods have a host of health and social benefits. They even reduce crime! www.motherjones.com/environment/...
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The Trump regime is nearly half-way through Project 2025 is just a little over 6-months. We have to stop this somehow. Call your elected officials. The Heritage Foundation is full of psychopaths and sycophants. www.project2025.observer/en
New episode just dropped
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"
Newsom on ICE action outside his presser: "It's pretty sick & pathetic. It's everything you know about Trump's America & the authoritarian tendencies of the president. Wake up, America. You will not have a country if he rigs this election. You will a president running for a third term. Mark my word"
ready to deploy into U.S. cities facing protests. This raises serious concerns about the erosion of the long-standing separation between civilian law enforcement and the military.
More of this!
This is A+ trolling
What a banal way of describing the march toward fascism.
The party of small government is currently advocating for federal troops and members of the military to patrol the streets and detain citizens. And the GOP fluffers on social media are just… fine with that?
GOP: the second amendment protects us from tyranny Also GOP: YAY! Federal troops are being sent to control DC! GOP: we support the free market! Also GOP: it’s fine that NVIDIA and AMD are being illegally forced to pay 15% to the government to sell their products in China.
#ProudBlue If you don’t think this isn’t going to happen everywhere around our nation, you aren’t paying attention. Instead of fixing the homeless issue, they are going to start rounding people up. This is nazi authoritarian behavior. We need to fight this with everything we have!
Fantastic. Let’s release *all* the files and expose everyone in them, regardless of political party. This isn’t a left vs right issue, it’s a basic human decency issue.
Nope, still not distracted. Release the Epstein files.
Use to be when we heard this kind of stuff, it was quickly followed up w/ action being taken abt it but not these days. This will be a story 4 abt 2 days then will vanish & then we'll never really see any consequences. It's the results of Trump mania. Flood the zone so much w/ ugly
@marcelias.bsky.social: "I want everyone to pay attention... Trump is laying the groundwork to steal the 2026 election."
Please pay attention.
Why are people surprised. Remember we told you about Project 25? We said he would do this.
We should ban cars on Halloween every year and expand from there
I feel this should be a bigger story, right?
Yep
DOCTORS W/O BORDERS: “‘This is not aid. This is orchestrated killing’ draws on medical data, patient testimonies — what has been branded “aid distribution” (secured by 🇺🇸 armed contractors) is institutionalised starvation & dehumanisation.” www.msf.org/not-aid-orch...
Head of NASA Sean Duffy intends to destroy a satellite that collects key data on carbon dioxide and plant health, by causing it to burn up in the atmosphere. The U.S. Dept of Agriculture and private agriculture firms use the data to forecast crop yield, drought conditions and more.
Russia launched a website with a catalogue of abducted Ukrainian children feat. their photos, ages and other criteria
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s decision to cancel nearly half a billion dollars in federal funding for mRNA vaccine development is the "most dangerous public health decision" ever, epidemiologist Michael Osterholm said.
If you watch one thing today, make it this. These workers are risking their lives to build our cities and getting paid like their time, safety, and dignity don’t matter. They deserve fair pay. They deserve respect.
A $200 million ballroom, and now this. He doesn’t ever plan on leaving.
Remember when they said Obama would ruin the White House with Escalades on the South Lawn? Those people are really quiet about Trump turning this shit into a gaudy casino
🚨 White supremacism is not “normal.” Believing that some humans were born to work in fields while others (white ppl) are not is gross. White nationalism cannot be normalized!
This move is the latest in a series of reckless decisions by Secretary Kennedy, including the dismissal of key scientists, the rollback of vaccine recommendations, and a failure to respond effectively to the ongoing measles outbreak.
Dude got all warred up to apprehend a couple guys with backpacks trying to make a day’s pay for hard work. His family must be proud.
“Both of them.”
The Trump regime has removed sections 9 and 10 of the constitution from its website, which include Habeas Corpus, congressional appropriations, and other states rifhts constitution.congress.gov/constitution/
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Thank you for sharing…
Go, a college student, has a dependent visa (her mother, an Episcopal minister, is here on a religious worker visa), which doesn't expire until Dec. But when she tried to renew it early, ICE nabbed her and sent her halfway across the US to a detention center. www.wthr.com/article/news...
Imagine living a life of such depravity that the only way you can avoid prison is to become President and corrupt the entire legal system.
So, This Is How a Free Press Dies in America? open.substack.com/pub/dissenti...
Tariffs aren’t bringing billions “into” the country, it’s just moving American money from Americans into the US coffers.
Off the rails.
Joyce Vance is hosting a rereading of 1984 on her Substack account.
This isn’t jail...it’s an Abu Ghraib remake. A double-amputee detainee in solitary? That’s not security...it’s sadism. Georgia’s system just proved how low America can sink when cruelty goes official. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt announced the construction of a massive $200 million, 90,000-square-foot Ballroom at the White House. Is this what you voted for, MAGA?
I was promised efficiency. Paying people to do absolutely nothing because you can’t figure out how to fire them is the exact opposite.
This is why the Republicans want to get rid of public education. They want to send the poor kids straight into the labor force...