“They’re taking our jobs” was always a lie. Alabama proved it. Alabama tried a “tough” immigration law, and it backfired hard. Immigrants fled, crops rotted, and farms collapsed. Americans tried to step in but couldn’t last a day. They’re not taking your jobs; they’re doing the jobs you won’t do.
This. 👇👇👇 JB Pritzker: "Any rational person who has spent even the most minimal amount of time studying human history has to ask themselves one important question: Once they get the citizens of this nation comfortable with the current atrocities committed under the color of law, what comes next?”
Crying as I type . . . (with laughter)
Can we leave religion out of this please? Separation of church and state, like the constitution requires? We have enough trouble already with the rise of Christian nationalism in America. Maybe keep it to yourself 🤷🏼♀️ in the meantime fight fascism or step aside and let someone lead who wants to fight
It’s eugenics
You know the response from Gavin Newsom is going to be lit 🔥
He’s giving weekend at bernies vibes
Jake Tapper looking confused as usual. He’s wondering how to blame it on Biden’s age. He’s awful
Next they’ll be raking the forest floor
As if 😂😂😂 I don’t think ordering human beings off the streets by masked secret police squads and sent to concentration camps qualifies for a Peace Prize. He’ll get one after Hitler gets one posthumously. Seriously Newsweek, enough
“Do you guys feel bad about what you’re doing? Don’t you f*cking hate yourselves?”
This Labor Day, I urge you to join a Workers Over Billionaires protest. We must continue standing together to show Trump that we, the people, have the power – not his billionaire buddies and corporate cronies. bit.ly/4lMgKaR
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Pay attention. Your family’s safety is on the line.
Like a deadly virus, created in the lab of bad public policy at the Heritage Foundation, Project 2025 has been let loose on our nation with impacts we are all just beginning to comprehend. My latest on Substack: open.substack.com/pub/jimacost...
"Ashli Babbitt was a grown ass adult who made a series of conscious, ill-advised decisions to engage in treasonous behavior, and she got exactly what she deserved. She was a traitor. She was a threat to national security. There is no nuance needed here."
As long as guns are easily available to crazy people, mass killings directed at so-called soft targets will continue. This is a fact. Countries where it's more difficult for crazy people to obtain guns have less shootings. This is also a fact. Do with these facts as you will.
NEWSOM, to @karaswisher.bsky.social: “.. I just wanted to put a mirror up to the absurdity of all of this. .. I mean, it’s comical. .. embarrassing .. And I’m glad they’re melting down over it. Their situational unawareness is rather jaw-dropping, and we’ll keep at it.” nymag.com/intelligence...
Multiple CDC leaders have resigned in the wake of layoffs and a shooting at the agency’s headquarters this month.
NEW: More than two decades after victims and families of the 9/11 attacks began trying to hold the Saudi government responsible for aiding the Qaida terrorists who carried out the plot, a judge has ruled that a lawsuit against the kingdom can go to trial.
Welch: He claims that he's the law and order president. But we all know that's a lie because he's a convicted felon. He pardons convicted felons, he surrounds himself with obsequious people that kiss his all day, every day
Don’t look away
Federal agents detained two firefighters in Washington state... ...while the firefighters were in the middle of fighting one of the largest wildfires in the country. Under Trump’s regime, cruelty takes precedence over everything else.
Tesla said it didn’t have key data in a fatal crash. Then a hacker found it. The critical evidence was presented to a jury last month, which found the company partially liable for the 2019 crash in Key Largo, Florida. 🎁 wapo.st/46dCoQI
If you are a wealthy criminal defendant, it makes sense under this administration to hire the AG’s brother to represent you.
Newsom: “Just consider Speaker Johnson's state and district. Just look at the murder rate, that's nearly four times higher than California's in Louisiana.” Johnson: “He can name-drop me all he wants. He needs to go and govern his state and not be engaging in all of this.”
Actual post by Gavin Newsom, and it’s perfect lol
What a cursed sentence (gift link) “The A.I. companies selected to oversee the program would have a strong financial incentive to deny claims. Medicare plans to pay them a share of the savings generated from rejections.”
Between RFK decimating the CDC, normalizing Ashli Babbitt & the umpteenth school shooting... I'm losing the will to post. #ReleaseTheEPSTEIN_Files
Fafo
Is this part of the Curtis Yarvin plan that the tech bros and white Christian Nationalists have in mind? Using human beings for biofuel if they are considered to be unnecessary? Read up on Yarvin if you want to look through the dark window into how these people think about human beings in general.
As if there was ever going to be any other outcome. It’s for the jurors and whitenesses protection.
Least surprising thing today. Trump knew this was going to be the legal outcome. I don’t think this will satisfy MAGA
I remember when Kent State happened. The national guard shot and killed peaceful protesters. Enough
You just gotta LOVE MAD MAGAZINE!!!
Good on her 🔥
🚨 Everyone 🚨 Sound 🚨 Up
Can’t stand to listen to his voice. He’s replaced nails on a chalkboard and every other horrible sound you can think of and climbed his dusty ass to the top of the leaderboard in the worst sound in the universe
Maybe a decorative allium
More harm is done to children in church than anywhere else. Statistics don’t lie. Republicans are attacking science to keep people sick and uneducated. The world is passing us by as we experience real time brain drain. All to provide corporations with low pay workers. What a legacy for our children
Rough hands, sloppy seat, leg swinging at over the place. Poor horse. Anyway WTAF is she doing in Argentina? How much did this pretend cowgirl cost the taxpayers for her vacation with her boyfriend.
Thanking Oprah for this sleeze. I said what I said.
Share!!!!!
Every single one of them needs to be doxed. No justice no peace ✌️
The same people who obsessed over a tan suit, a private email server, and an autopen are strangely indifferent to the possibility that their president raped children.
Why hundreds of lawyers are banding together against Emil Bove’s judicial nomination The nominee for a lifetime federal judgeship has demonstrated a total disregard for the high ethical standards to which most federal prosecutors hold themselves.
It’s a repulsive act of cowards
This is disgusting. Even in the era of no shame, it’s shameful. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/17/u...
Leavitt: "I think our Office of Management and Budget director was saying this process should be more bipartisan." (Vought literally said budgeting should be entirely partisan.)
Yesterday, Maurene Comey, who prosecuted the Epstein case, was summarily fired from SDNY. Her letter to colleagues pulls no punches. "Fear is the tool of a tyrant, wielded to suppress independent thought." h/t @msnbc.com
The churches who are not loudly fighting against the fascism and the disappearing and the corruption have ceded all of their moral authority.
Firing the prosecutor who went after Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell doesn’t bury the scandal — it shines a brighter light on the cover-up. It’s not damage control; it’s an alarm bell.
California is proud to help Texas in this moment of crisis. Tragedy tests us — how we come together to help communities recover defines us.
Hope you enjoy your family time, @jd-vance-1.bsky.social. The families you’re tearing apart certainly won’t.
Round of applause for Donald Trump and Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy on handing China the future and abandoning the Central Valley — again! But sorry to disappoint: We're not letting that happen.
Never before in U.S. history has one man exercised such unbridled discretion affecting the lives of so many, while simultaneously preventing others — Congress, the courts, the American people — from having a say or even knowing what he’s going to do next. This is dictatorship.
I'd just like to point out how weird it is that places with hundreds or even thousands of reporters — the NYT, WaPo, CBS, NBC, AP, etc. — are all getting pummeled on every major story by the dozen computerboys at Wired. To fumble the bag this consistently is, at some point, cowardice and a choice.
Crockett: It seems like blue states are constantly putting red states on life support yet we got these little red states that ain’t contributing nothing.
Raskin: At the very least, the judiciary committee should be demanding the release of the Epstein files Van Drew: I fundamentally disagree with you on everything Raskin: Please elaborate, I would love to hear it Van Drew: I don’t want to hold up the hearing
Chef: so perfect!!!
When you’re definitely not guilty.
He already got what he wanted?
Republicans are the party of death
That asshole ordered that a MILLION POUNDS of food be destroyed, rather than disturbed to people in need. A MILLION POUNDS! Do not EVER let his minions claim they are Christians.
If Department of Homeland Security (DHS) officials can brief an election-denier group on how states are now using its databases to verify voters’ citizenship, then they can brief Congress, a trio of Democratic senators wrote to DHS Sec. Kristi Noem Tuesday. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
The thing about the Epstein disgustingness that strikes me hardest is that hundreds of rich old men raped underage girls and the only person currently in jail for that vile behavior is a woman.
Yesterday’s announcement of the official call to action begins now. It is just after 6 am in California. We wait to see how many farmworkers join the #StrikeForDignity They asked for just three days, “They will not fire you”. They can say this bc they know no one can do what they do.
Firing the prosecutor of Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell doesn’t make the problem go away. It intensifies awareness of a coverup.
NEW: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. wants to overhaul an obscure but vital program that underpins the nation’s childhood immunization system. Depending on what he does, the results could be catastrophic. By @sheinvestigates.bsky.social
Do you know who would know what is in the Epstein files? The lawyer who prosecuted the case. Oh, wait.👀
Gavin Newsom just threatened to gerrymander 5 to 7 CA seats in retaliation to Texas. That's what I'm talking about.
MAGA will cheer the Feds pulling funding from California’s High Speed Rail—because hating California is the whole point. But this is the opposite of making America great. I’ve taken trains in China and Japan. They’re in the 21st century. We’re still tinkering with toy train sets.
Mike Pence has the courage! "Release all of the files regarding Jeffrey Epstein's investigation and prosecution. ... Anyone who participated or was associated with this despicable man ought to be held up to public scrutiny." www.cbsnews.com/video/mike-p...
#JasmineCrockett: “Clearly you’ve got something to hide Mr. President… We know that he had this ongoing relationship with #Epstein, they were basically like besties... We know that this is someone who has been found liable of sexual abuse by a jury of his peers… I know he’s got something to hide.”
Even if what’s happening is, at least in part, meant as a distraction, I’m starting to think the story has legs. Why not just release the Epstein file if there’s no there there? open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...
Hey Jake Tapper, fodder for your next book!👇
Coldplay's Chris Martin accidentally exposes astronomer CEO Andy Byron having an affair with his HR chief Kristin Cabot.
apnews.com/press-releas...: Shareholders of 30 Companies Worth $13 Trillion Vote Overwhelmingly to Defeat Anti-DEI Proposals
Right? Hey @jaketapper.bsky.social , you writing a book about this cognitive decline in the current position of president? Or is the right wing propaganda machine paying you mightily for your silence? Maybe just go work for Murdoch. You’re already in his pocket amirite
Welp
It’s eugenics
Celebrating mediocrity 🤷🏼♀️
Loomer is a vile piece of shit. So sorry there are less places she’s willing to go spread her vile views
Call it what it is, ethnic cleansing
ICYMI: The mind-boggling list of hundreds of #bannedbooks in Tennessee now includes Calvin and Hobbes by cartoonist Bill Watterson, They Called Us Enemy by @georgetakei.bsky.social, and The Complete Book of Cats by Rosie Pilbeam. More at: pen.org/magic-tree-h... #Caturday #Censorship
Imagine leading FEMA and not believing in emergency management. You’d think, as a former governor, she’d know what was going on. But I guess this is what you get when the president’s cabinet is full of unqualified conspiracy theorists. The American people deserve better.
I’ll never understand how she gets elected. She’s as mean as they come
Where does the line between enforcing U.S. law & utter inhumanity lie? We don’t need to carefully parse its precise placement in order to understand that what this administration is doing has crossed it, is utterly reprehensible, and will be condemned by history open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...
That there’s a police state.
Stephen Miller: "What would LA look like without illegal aliens? You would be able to see a doctor in the ER right away, no wait time, no problem. You kids would go to a public school that had more money than they know what to do with. Classrooms would be half the size."
A State Department employee shared with PBS News an image from inside the department. The image includes a piece of paper taped to a mirror with the words, "Colleagues, if you remain: RESIST FASCISM. Remember the oath you vowed to uphold."
BREAKING: Judge rules that during its large-scale enforcement operation in LA, DHS/ICE has been arresting people without probable cause -- based on factors like accent and line of work. She orders the agencies to stop. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...