That poor child.
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That poor child.
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For at least three years, more than 30 Wikipedia editors have been rewriting history to the point that events I lived through are nearly recognizable. Congress has finally taken note, but there’s no undoing the harm caused by keyboard warriors.
.@velshi.com “Head in the sand”? Please. Part of the problem is limp news coverage that turns every Dem wobble into a five-alarm fire while treating GOP extremism as background noise. That’s what depresses our base.
Put it in the Louvre
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Listen, @velshi.com, I don't hate you, or the work you're doing as a Journalist. A lot of times your shows have been very informative and I learned a lot. But to give "Schumer-Jeffries are the problem" any oxygen when we're facing actual Fascism from the White House isn't a good look.
Yes. Some of the worst terrorist attacks carried out by radicalized “allies” in the’60s and ‘70s considered countries or individuals who recognized Israel to be the enemy. It’s how you justify murdering Americans, Europeans, or anyone else in the world who isn’t committed to the “cause.”
It’s not. That’s where we get intelligence that’s prevented mass terror attacks in Europe and the U.S. We want Israeli technology, medical advances we don’t have, and it would also cost American jobs, just for a start — without the geopolitics. It’s not in our country’s interest.
This conference last May had over 1,000 carefully curated organizations planning “demonstrations” urging starry eyed listeners to be martyrs. The blocked expressway, airport, blocking traffic outside of hospitals, the WH, had everything to do with preventing Biden-Harris from winning an election.
It started in Berkeley in the ‘90s but no one paid attention. There were a small number of SJP/JVP folks holding the same signs you see today during the Second Intifada but not the carefully planned NON-grassroots movement that we’re seeing now.
That’s exactly what I’m looking at. It isn’t part of the calculus for most Democrats or Republicans and we’ll blithely ignore it, thinking it couldn’t happen here.
Not just the party, but the country. One of the scarier speakers made that clear. The target is America.
There is nothing new in the world except the history you do not know. - Harry S. Truman
Agree with nearly everything, having the same political stance and criticisms as you. I can’t agree with candidates whose Islamism serves a global agenda to normalize terrorism. Our allies learned that too late, Jews are fleeing their own countries, but it won’t stop there.
Except they weren’t. Hamas indiscriminately slaughtered Gazans working in Israel, Kibbutzniks who employ and work with them, Bedouin Muslims deeply attached to the land in an agrarian area. Yet you’ve only heard about Jews.
JB Pritzker uses the word "invasion" to describe what Trump has planned for my city, Chicago. And that's exactly what it would be – an autocratic government trying to crush our dissent because we oppose his corruption, cruelty and incompetence. It's what dictators do.
No, but Iran’s terrorist proxies have taken a good hit. The only war they’re winning is highly coordination propaganda.
If you’re craving something, you need it. When I need iron, I want meat and nothing else.
💯 They're a bunch of sociopathic pieces of shit. They celebrate Biden's cancer, the murder of the Jewish couple in DC, the deaths of anyone who served in the IDF who they claim are POWs even if they served decades ago, and talk about Hamas like it's a resistance movement rather than a terrorist org.
"We are watching and we are taking names." This is where Pritzker has leveled up over his fellow Dems, by promising a future of accountability and retribution for the destruction Trump and his minions are doing to the constitutional order and our individual freedoms. newrepublic.com/post/199800/...
If a child expresses thoughts of suicide online, parents could receive an alert from a third-party safety app. These alerts already protected countless children when they’re available. We must pass my bipartisan Sammy's Law to make it happen. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
Antisemitism in medical schools should be a bright red line for everyone. We need Democrats in Congress to take a stand. If you consider yourself pro-Palestinian, demand that your movement reject it. This kind of hate does nothing good for anyone. www.algemeiner.com/2025/08/26/f...
NEW: my office has received disturbing whistleblower reports that the Trump administration plans to separate 700 children from their families, lawyers, and support systems. Disappearing vulnerable children beyond the reach of American law and oversight is beyond depravity.
The Social Security Administration official who exposed that the Department of Government Efficiency had left millions of Americans’ personal data vulnerable says he has been forced to resign due to retaliation. Charles Borges, who served as the SSA’s chief data officer, told
🎥🎤 @rubin_allergy IG "Our food safety monitoring systems got worse."
BDE. May his memory be a blessing.
Give yourself a little grace. Time is a fluid construct, or can be. Just before we married, my dad gave me all the cards he’d bought but hadn’t sent — more than a year’s worth! I kind of loved that.
We noticed: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Joe’s looking good. From his daughter Ashley’s IG. 👇
I'm a Black Male, and I hate the DSA. Just want that on the record. And...as I recall...MORE people turn out for the General Election than for the Primary. So are we sure that all the polling for the General is reflecting the right pool of voters? Just askin'.
If she’d stayed in, she’d have done well in the PNW, but I think that would have been the ceiling.
Yeah, it was. Don’t touch.
Neither can I and she’s my Senator.
That had serious creepy Grandma vibes!
Now, she’s hanging on Mamdani’s coattails. She’s free to join Bernie as an Independent any time.
We don’t.
So am I.
That was a Hail Mary. No one claiming “Today would be a good day for Executive Overreach” suggested legislative underpinning other than the HEA. Congress amended that eight times before failing to reauthorize it. The HEROES Act from the Bush administration was more than a long shot.
If he didn’t know DSA was wingnut territory he’s been asleep at the wheel.
National DSA is old style socialism. He should have split LONG ago because every one of his ideas is a Dem idea. Some have worked, some not. GOP trashed them all. But DSA is wingnut land as he is now finding out. He'll be elected most likely. Let's see if he can govern.
I have a little more faith in our district and circuit court judges.
The UN rights office issued a report that Iran has executed at least 840 people since the beginning of 2025. The number, they say, “might be worse.” I must have missed the breaking news. Missed the protests. Missed the celebrity outrage. Why the silence now? 🤔
Under a Dem President, I wouldn’t count on mass pardons, but SCOTUS will grant cert. to challenge almost anything. We’d still have some 7-2 or 9-0 decisions, but not many.
I was thinking of deputizing his cult civilians, e.g. the Proud Boys or anyone else. How many of them rely upon TS for their news?
You knew it was coming, Malcolm.
Good point, and a lot cheerier than mine. Trump can invoke the Insurrection Act whenever it’s convenient. I suspect the ‘28 general election might be highly convenient.
He thinks he can challenge Jeffries? 😂. Well, AOC thought she could challenge Pelosi. If he floods supporters with as much content as she has, people will forget how much of it was inane by the next election, assuming they noticed at the time.
I hope so. Credit to the incompetent, they excel at using social media and fundraising.
You’re right. As much as I’d love to watch him fail spectacularly, there’s a downside. The DSA has recruited people to run at every level across the country. Once they hold any position, they’re hard to oust. but that wouldn’t happen before DSA candidates running at every level, and they are
Well damn. Thank you, Jen. 👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽
How many times do the dipshit socialists of America need to be pushed away before they stop huffing their own farts and grow the fuck up l?
One of them. I find that “u”s are usually the giveaway.
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/...
Reup: One thing many are missing abt Social Security whistleblower complaint is this: DOGE--including Big Balls, who has ties to criminal hackers--put ALL American Social Security data on an insecure AWS site AFTER SCOTUS GOPers intervened and let them do that. www.emptywheel.net/2025/08/26/a...
Ken, you’re letting the tail wag the dog. Nix a task force of “stakeholders” and use your original resolution.
Good for them. It’s an inane statement. The problem is distribution. The UN is impeding that by refusing protection while claiming Hamas steals 89% of their aid. Its insistence on UNWRA is financial, not humanitarian.
I’d be pissed, too.
Let’s remake the world starting with this country. There’s no need for the DNC platform to include a resolution chastising any other, after withdrawing your own.
When did populism not lead to nativism, racism, antisemitism, Islamophobia, xenophobia, and isolationism? We’ve done this before.
Look to Ireland, the UK and Commonwealth, Europe, and Canada as cautionary tales. Jews are fleeing their own countries or making preparations. There are more of us here, Sailor Michael, but we are getting thrashed.
Warren and Sanders did help get us here by encouraging and indulging leftists. As a consequence, we lost the WH, House, and Senate.
Martin’s resolution passed unanimously. Another resolution failed unanimously, as did two amendments. That isn’t a divide, nor does it call for a task force. Use Martin’s resolution or leave it out and limit the platform to this country.
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Protect Lauren Underwood at all costs. I love her so much. 💙 youtu.be/smKC04aNlYA?...
we have a rule at our house that if it is past 9pm and you are having feelings, the only thing you are allowed to do is have a snack and go to bed, so anyway, I will be having a snack and going to bed!!
Can’t see the blocked post, but suspect this person wants to “contextualize” why terrorism is justified.
Constituent: You talked about abuses in the medicare and medicaid system and I found interesting that the president pardoned someone that defrauded the medicaid system for $1.3 billion
Precisely how have they been “suffering”?
To Donald Trump and his administration: If you hurt my people, nothing will stop me — not time or political circumstance — from making sure you face justice under our constitutional rule of law.
You clearly don't understand the difference between an act of Congress and a president bypassing Congress to extorting a company. Jesus tapdancing Christ Sit all the way down and STFU.
The DNC didn't "steal" anything from Bernie Sanders. Bernie Sanders stole DNC data though. And then he lost the primary anyway, in a landslide. Because he was a bad candidate who ran a bad campaign. Isn't that what YOU guys claim anytime a Democrat loses? Well, you can't have it both ways.
AIPAC functioned as a bipartisan lobby for 60 years without endorsing or funding anyone until 2022. Unlike the NRA that catapulted Bernie to Congress, or the BNC, Justice Dems, Our Revolution, or the Sanders Institute, all vehicles for dark money.
This one threw me.
The first to show up in a quick search for you, since he holds a chair in this area.
He’s an idiot who’s always had a hard on for AIPAC, long before it endorsed or funded anyone. That would be 2022, long after Bernie founded Our Revolution, the Sanders Institute, and “grassroots” vehicles for dark money existed.
Trying to hang on for another Senatorial run.
Democrats soundly rejected him twice.
AIPAC was a lobby for 60 years, endorsing and funding no one until 2022. Our Revolution, The Sanders Institute, Justice Democrats and other “progressive” 501(c)4s are dark money, and created to fund Bernie and his acolytes.
I'm urging a court to block ICE from making courthouse arrests. These arrests push immigrants into the shadows, drive families apart, and risk people's safety. I won't stand by as New Yorkers are stripped of their rights and courts are used for intimidation.
Pritzker: Trump looked at the cameras and asked for me personally to say, Mr. President, can you do us the honor of protecting our city? Instead, I say, Mr. President, do not come to Chicago. Your remarks about this effort have betrayed a continuing slip in your mental faculties
#They didn't blink back then & #they aren't blinking now... 🕊
I didn’t bookmark but it looks like one is Israeli born Professor Ghil'ad Zuckermann (University of Adelaide), who specializes in revitalizing Aboriginal languages. A Native American replied to the article saying that Israelis also helped with language retention techniques here.
Exactly.
I’d say they don’t like the consequences of sitting out an election.
More so if you know the linguists helping Aboriginal people reviving their language are Israeli.
This right here, these are not serious people and I don't even consider them Democrats. These are entitled brats that had everything handed to them and were never told no or faced any consequences of their actions. Blocking them is the only solution.
Social media is not real life. Go to his district and say that nonsense—people there would curse you out quick
Got to say that Jewish folks are pretty fed up, too. Not knocking myself out for anyone campaigning on my demise.
With good reason.
Well said. Other histories are also being erased, but glorifying a lost cause when chattel slavery still defines our present goes beyond the pale.
Would that be our government investing in a company that won’t “benefit American taxpayers” at all? Isn’t there a name for government ownership of private companies? 🤔
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Virginia Senator Scott Surovell says it’s offensive that his state makes people “get on their hands and knees and beg the governor” for their voting rights. He's championed automatic rights restoration for people released from prison.
Nonsense. As much as I like Crockett, Jeffries is far more experienced and has his pulse on the big tent. He’s done everything possible with the Democratic minority he wouldn’t have if voters dripping privilege hadn’t sat out an election.
Thank you!
It’s a war because that isn’t the legal definition of genocide. I’m tired, King Beauregard.
Could we add Warren and Markey to that list?
Same. I miss you, but it isn’t healthy here.