"Cantor Fitzgerald, a financial services company led by the sons of US commerce secretary Howard Lutnick, is creating a way for investors to bet that President Donald Trump’s signature tariffs will be struck down in court."
We don't have a POTUS in the White House now. What we have is a FFOTUS (First Felon of the United States). #NoKings
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"Cantor Fitzgerald, a financial services company led by the sons of US commerce secretary Howard Lutnick, is creating a way for investors to bet that President Donald Trump’s signature tariffs will be struck down in court."
Between Trump being 1/2 dead all weekend, Giuliani’s car crash, Clinton traveling with a defibrillator, this, I’m reminded that we’re NOT actually collectively psychologically (& logistically) prepared for the RATE at which the earliest round of boomers are going to start dropping.
Trump Goes to Hell: my latest piece for Lincoln Square. It's not quite a novella in length, but it's a long read and a fun trip to the Bad Place. www.lincolnsquare.media/p/trump-goes...
Terminal incoherence
"So that you will learn by experience that I do not tolerate interference, I will now detonate the nuclear warheads in the two missile silos. Let this action be a lesson that need not be repeated." AI has always haunted our nightmares. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
This week, the Trump Administration (1) offered a military funeral with honors to Ashli Babbitt, a J6 rioter, and (2) hung a portrait of Robert E. Lee at the Pentagon. Makes sense. They both served the same cause: assault on the constitutional government of the United States.
oh come on www.nytimes.com/2025/08/29/u...
Art depicting “Sandwich Guy” now at the scene of the alleged misdemeanor.
BREAKING: Appeals court rejects Trump’s authority to impose sweeping tariffs under IEEPA. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
I made a spreadsheet of all the federal cases filed as part of Trump's DC crackdown. It's not going great
Pure fucking evil. Everyone involved in this shit needs to be held accountable.
I would read a whole series of reports like this on each individual federal goon. They all deserve a profile.
This is gonna be a big week for the Epstein survivors. Tell Congress to demand answers now!
Tulsi Gabbard is *very obviously* a foreign intelligence asset and I hope we all live long enough to see her tried and convicted for it.
"We're going to need a story about this accident. Say he was helping a woman. That should work. Also, is he wearing pants? Make sure he's wearing pants."
Damn.😙
Illinois is currently exploring the possibility of purchasing Covid-19 vaccines in bulk straight from manufacturers to make sure everyone will still have access.
Pritzker: "No one in the administration -- the president or anybody under him -- has called anyone in my administration or me. It's clear that in secret they're are planning this invasion with US troops."
Performative public lying is a hallmark of far right authoritarian parties
She was arrested on the morning of Feb. 20 at her home in Charlotte while caring for her three younger siblings — the youngest of whom has autism — while her mother was at work.
There's going to be a lot of dumb political noise following this decision, so it's worth being clear about the key finding. It does not ban tariffs. It simply says that you have to convince Congress.
Not just a criminal. She was a traitor and an insurrectionist!
She was a criminal and now they are giving her the honors of an American hero at the same time that the Republicans in the House refuse to hang a plaque honoring the hundreds of Capitol Police that defended them. Just disgusting. thehill.com/policy/defen...
I don't see any real way to argue with this.
Maybe someone should ask Patel why he was tweeting about his workouts instead of focusing on counterterrorism operations four days before a domestic terrorist attack? www.thebulwark.com/p/the-cdc-th...
These thugs are wearing masks because they KNOW that what they are doing is lawlessness! And so they want to hide their identity for fear of being prosecuted for their crimes at a later date.
Hey D.C. friends! If you see billboards or posters in the District from @ofthebraveusa.bsky.social demanding federal agents take off their mask, be sure to take a picture and share it!
This afternoon Sarah and Sonny and I taped a show about The Death of Stalin. It was about the many parallels between that moment and ours. I’m just sayin’.
Also, when engaging in resistance using a sandwich, do not take any bites from it first, because DNA. And remember that your condiments can be used against you in a court of law.
From the WH pool this morning: Trump left for an “unannounced location” at 9:27 a.m. His motorcade then drove to his golf club in Virginia, arriving at 10:02 a.m. “There was one person in a car who gave the motorcade the middle finger as it drove by,” the pool report states.
💯%. I've come to accept how morally depraved Donald Trump is. But I'll never get over how blindingly imbecilic he is. www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
Fifty-one of the 85 Federalist papers were written by a guy born in Nevis.
When is Bibi’s criminal trial going to start? Israel needs to fast track that …
French President Emmanuel Macron’s decision to recognize a Palestinian state, prompting similar moves from other Western nations, angered Israel and its U.S. ally by putting a two-state solution back at the heart of diplomatic efforts to end the devastating war in Gaza.
www.rawstory.com/trump-infuri... lmao they’re activating them for 29 days over and over so they don’t get full active duty pay
He’s providing them with valuable mulching experience though.
Seen on my run in Rock Creek Park today. Parking lot near Beach and Tilden. Paper taped on over a Harris 2024 sign.
And I thought that is a good thing. Isn’t it?! 🤔
My favorite sentence in the New York Times explainer on Mamdani and socialism.
Corporations socialize their losses and privatize their gains.
Maybe Red state governors are sending their national guard to DC because they’d be safer there picking up trash than patrolling their own murder capitals.
RFK Jr. taps his top deputy, Jim O’Neill, to be the new CDC director. Both men appear to wear skinny ties from Otaa. Otaa's ties are made in China from microfiber, a kind of plastic that, under the right conditions, can migrate to your balls.
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.
BREAKING: Lawyers on Thursday night asked the full DC Circuit for en banc rehearing of the Trump administration's appeal of Chief Judge Boasberg's "probable cause" order in the criminal contempt proceedings over the March 15 Alien Enemies Act flights. Background: www.lawdork.com/p/dc-circuit...
JUST IN: Judge Cobb has blocked the Trump administration’s effort to extend rapid-fire deportation procedures to immigrants who have been in the U.S. more than two years — warning that it is a flagrant deprivation of due process that could ensnare anyone. ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/show...
BREAKING: Judge Sooknanan has now expanded her restraining order as she attempts to block ongoing efforts to remove hundreds of Guatemalan children, which their lawyers say are currently underway. www.politico.com/news/2025/08...
I'm still waiting for the relentless onslaught of media demands for a press conference and calls to resign.
As the DoJ tells the court that it will not remove unaccompanied minors to Guatemala, we can only hope they’re telling the truth.
Judge Sooknanan: As I said at the start of this hearing, I got a call at 2:36 am [last night] because the government chose the wee hours of the morning on the Sunday of Labor Day weekend to execute a plan to move these children. That's why we're here.
NEW: The trump administration attempted to remove 600 terrified unaccompanied minors to Guatemala in the middle of the night on a holiday weekend. Judge Sooknanan stopped it. My latest: www.muellershewrote.com/p/the-sookna...
remember folks, we cant have gun restrictions because if we do the federal government will occupy our streets, imprison people without due process, ship dissidents to foreign gulags and things of that nature
Which scares the hell out of me. This country is asleep at the wheel and we’re rolling toward a cliff. Maybe one day, they will all wake up, but by then, it’ll all be too late … I’m losing hope for this country …
One thing that's particularly maddening about what's happening today—beyond that it's happening—is that when people talk about how we are moving toward authoritarianism, toward fascism, by a collection of narcissistic sociopaths, many Americans' eyes glaze over.
He was sentenced to 63 months in prison. One of the longer sentences. www.justice.gov/usao-dc/pr/t...
In the 21st century, how could you order up ethnic cleansing and genocide without a little crypto and AI and real-estate speculation sprinkled on top? { gift link } wapo.st/4g2eATo
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the sun would no longer rise without tariffs
Here's another incident where this regime defied court orders to NOT deport these children (read thread):
There’s NO longer the rule of law in this country; it’s what a mercurial dictator pontificates! This regime IS an AFFRONT TO THE US CONSTITUTION, which this country was founded on. Just like the American civil war had split family relations & friendships, so will the decimation of this country!
The problem with this poll is, this ISN’T ABOUT POLITICAL VIEWS! THIS IS ABOUT DEMOCRACY VS FASCISM! Trump has REPEATEDLY made it clear that he wants to be a dictator! He had no intention of abiding to the US Constitution! And that’s been confirmed DAILY in the past 8 months!
Sharing this finding: Harris voters are the only group of people remotely likely to say it's OK to cut off friends/family for political views. I don't think they're *wrong* — again, it's a question of identity. But we're very different from most of America. www.theargumentmag.com/p/when-ameri...
@radiofreetom.bsky.social explained it better than anyone; this is from a thread he posted after the 2024 election. For us, it has nothing to do with politics and everything to do with character. ⬇️
These are public employees who decided to leave rather than accept jobs where they actually did nothing. Remember that the next time they tell you that government employees are lazy and inefficient.
You could try to be more cartoonishly evil than this but it’d be difficult.
Then he should be president! Who ever is willing to enforce the LAW on lawbreakers (e.g. traitors like ICE agents, Trump & ALL his minions) and FULLY restore the US Constitution as the law of this land — he/she is the only one worthy of being the next president!
"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/...
trump finally appearing on a balcony on sunday like first of all my doctor said i may have set the world record for health
Joe Biden outliving him would be objectively hilarious.
Stuart Stevens, currently to the left of most democratic leaders on the Hill
Current situation with COVID19 vaccines at CVS. ACIP is meeting September 18-19 so it will likely become available at pharmacies w/o a prescription then, unless ACIP pulls the rug out. Prescription requirement related to state laws requiring ACIP approval for pharmacist administration.
The Alabama (!) people chanting "who pays the tariffs? who pays the tariffs" and then turning to "shame! shame!" when their rep turns tail and leaves is a keeper.
They're deporting all the landscapers so they have to pressgang the National Guard into taking care of lawns.
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.
No more niceties from Dems! It's time to play hardball and stop every MAGA maggot that is a threat to our democracy. They want fascism, an affront to our US Constitution. We need to defend our country and the US Constitution! As US citizens, we ALL took this pledge!
Our country is being destroyed. But hey, look at these eight Maine Coon kittens.
Trump did this
He was abducted because he is brown. Racial profiling. He should sue.
“ILLEGALS” MY ASS! Green card holder Rami Othmane speaks out after being snatched off the street by ICE while driving to the grocery store. He’s a documented immigrant and the husband of Dr Wafaa Alrashid, chief of staff at a local hospital. He was locked in detention for 13 days.
Trump’s looking deeply unwell and ducking the spotlight. Biden’s on the beach looking like a grandfather. Newsom looks like a leader. 🔥 Trump’s weakness is undeniable.
MAGA: "Go woke, go br—oh, never mind. . ."
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🔥🔥🔥In a matter of seconds TEN ICE agents grab a man after his court hearing. There is no warrant. There is no reason. There is no due process. Their names are on a list when they arrive at Jacob J Javits immigration court. Disappeared. Leaving only pain.
mRNA vaccines are safe, have been in development for decades, & have far broader applications than older vaccine technologies. New vaccine technologies evolve when scientists have tools & knowledge to make something more elegant or complex that wasn’t possible before. 5/
Promise tariffs ⟶ faff around ⟶ announce tariffs ⟶ pause tariffs ⟶ promise deals ⟶ court rules tariffs illegal ⟶ appeal ⟶ court order stayed ⟶ make no deals ⟶ 90 days expires ⟶ delay tariffs again ⟶ announce tariffs again ⟶ appeals court rules tariffs illegal again ⟶ you are here
She confirmed RFK Jr! She’s responsible for the lives that will be lost because of that crazy brain-dead maniac she enabled to be HHS Sec! It was well established that he is a anti-vaxxer and she still confirmed him! May she be SHAMED for the rest of her life!
And I am the world's foremost astrophysicist ballerina who invented the piano, aspirin, and appetizers.
For what it’s worth
Almond Butter- went straight to being euthanized unless this Disney gal can get a foster- NY NJ CT ME RI NH NE VT PA VA DE DC MD - pls help save her! This poor baby! Did nothing wrong! 9days ago arrived- listed 4biting her leash! Pls repost her! #fucktrump #disney REPOST
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At 3 pm Wed., a woman was stabbed just off a busy intersection on H Street, NE. National Guard members were dining al fresco at a taqueria DIRECTLY across the street, yet the suspect got away. "So safe," a local texted us. Our postcard from an Occupied D.C.: www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
We were warned by Washington, Lincoln and others. Now we must oppose this authoritarian regime, firmly voice our commitment to the Constitution and rule of law—and assert what it means to be American. www.americaamerica.news/p/its-villai...
Opinion | Americans don’t need to go shooting things into their arms to be healthy by RFK Jr.