Everything I've seen about Democrats' version of Project 2029 is far too modest and weak-kneed. Democrats need to look at the precedents Trump is setting (and shattering) and figure out how a progressive can maximally wield the power that this administration is concentrating in the executive branch.
Doctor here. I’m going to double down: Please don’t tell me the drug smugglers are “terrorists”, drugs are a scourge, we have to fight them: Trump DGAF: THREAD 1. Under Big Beautiful Bill, 1.6 million Medicaid beneficiaries undergoing Substance Use Disorder (SUD) treatment will lose coverage.
Everyone has a second full time job being mad at the government now
If you're 60, 69.1% of all job growth since your birth occurred under Democratic administrations. If you're 45, that number is 74.7%. If you're under 28, the number is 100%. Happy Labor Day.
He’s providing them with valuable mulching experience though.
Pour one out for Judge Sparkle Sooknanan’s clerks this Labor Day weekend
Anna has had excellent coverage of this developing case in which the Trump administration tried to use the holiday weekend to secretly and illegally deport children.
I can’t find the lie in this.
I'm not an expert on Trump Golf videos; but people on Threads and Twitter are saying the video the WH released today showing Trump golfing at his DC club is actually video from June.
Well well well if it isn't my scheming eunuchs
This is how the Trump administration keeps kids “safe” The Cottonwood School of Civics and Science was located next to an ICE facility And the agents there used so much noxious munitions against protesters it became a safety hazard-so the school had to move Surreal newrepublic.com/post/199451/...
We won’t make it that long. Climate change.
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.
And now for something completely different… Anthonore Christensen, Danish, 1849–1926 Poppies, 1892 Oil on canvas 124 × 99 cm Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen
She was brought to the US as an 8yo, worked hard, studied, earned a scholarship, planned to become a nurse. ICE kidnapped her. Held her for 6 MONTHS in a detention facility with conditions so miserable that she finally agreed to voluntarily move to Honduras, which her family left at gunpoint.
Bumbling, preternaturally ignorant, power-drunk idiots stumbling around triggering mass suffering, chaos, and death, without caring or in many cases even realizing, knowing only that they’ll be rewarded for it and never face any repercussions
Horrifying and the average person has zero idea what we’re in for.
Yes, it’s upending the Earth. Mankind, you might say. The whole “two billion dead by 2035” revelation was rather upsetting. Hasn’t received any coverage, of course.
Utterly depraved.
Today’s mood. #cats #BlueskyCats #gato #CatsOfBluesky
been at the eric adams scavenger hunt all day. mostly we were in a crawlspace under a house in howard beach learning “how to out-hustle the rats.” not sure what this does for the campaign
Did you know there’s a special election THIS Tuesday in Iowa that could break the GOP super majority in the Iowa state senate? I had no idea. Just saw it on Tik Tok. Now…just out of curiosity, do you think the DNC should have rallied national Dems to support this election?
If you actually thought that the president was sending troops into the streets of major American cities and having random masked shitheads disappear delivery guys off scooters to distract from grocery prices being higher, I feel like you'd seem angrier about all that than Hakeem Jeffries does.
This is what I’m wondering. Is it possible to subvert from the inside?
I still don’t think we talk enough about the fact that Trump’s secret police has a larger budget than most countries’ militaries
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Correct me if I'm wrong, but if couchboy takes over before the midterms, it's considered his first term and he only gets 1 more. If he takes over after the midterms, then he's just the placeholder and gets two other terms, assuming he's elected and assuming there are still elections. So they wait.
In the first half of 2025. China installed 212 gigawatts of solar capacity. The U.S. installed 12 gigawatts.
The Pentagon confirms @kenklippenstein.bsky.social’s reporting that Trump is planning strikes in Mexico. open.substack.com/pub/kenklipp...
"Here legally, engaged in a sanctioned process to determine their eligibility for asylum, they have committed no crime. They are arrested anyway, and the lives they’ve risked to come to the United States are thrown into chaos."
I read somewhere, if marriage benefited women, it would have been taken away from us by now.
GOP - “There’s nothing in the rules that says a dog can’t play basketball!” California:
BREAKING: A federal judge in Miami gave the state of Florida 60 days to clear out the immigrant detention facility called Alligator Alcatraz — handing environmentalists and the Miccosukee Tribe of Indians a win.
One of the biggest blunders (when well-intentioned) and betrayals (when not) in Democratic rhetoric over the years is their impenetrable insistence that what voters respond to is somebody who begins by finding common ground with their opponent, no matter who that opponent is or what that ground is.
"Massachusetts has collected about $1.8 billion from a voter-approved surtax on the state's highest earners through the first nine months of the fiscal year." It's going to be used for education and transportation. See? Equitable taxation benefits everyone. www.wgbh.org/news/politic...
Gorgeous!
New— Nazis with giant swastika flags marched in downtown Indianapolis on Saturday with two police escorts. They shouted “white power” and said to the woman who took this video (reshared here with her permission) “fuck you, n***** bitch.” Police did not intervene. I cannot find local news coverage.
For years, the FDA quietly allowed substandard foreign manufacturers to ship drugs to the U.S. from factories the agency had officially banned. We compiled a list of the drugs and their makers 👇
Here's a map that does a different visualization of state populations. The most recent population I can find of LA County: 9.757 million (2024)
As DC was taken over by Trump’s secret police, where were congressional Democrats? They weren’t in DC and some weren’t even in the US. Instead of fighting back against the authoritarian takeover here at home, 22 House “Democrats” were being spoon-fed lies about Gaza on a trip paid for by AIPAC.
“Putin would eat you for lunch.” Today, exactly that happened.
Goodemorning Gonzobongos! I just want yu to kno I woulde nevar cavort abowt with war crimbinals, nosireebob.
How about that? A victory for people who actually read.
The Flooding Will Come “No Matter What” The complex, contradictory and heartbreaking process of American climate migration is underway. (Published April 2024)
Temperature anomalies (departure from average) around our planet for the last month (left), 3 months (center), and 12 months (right)... note the band of warmth across the Northern Hemisphere midlatitudes. Data from doi.org/10.24381/cds...
The moon, clouds, and a ship on the lake
The situation at the immigration detention center known as “Alligator Alcatraz” has gotten so bad that detainees have been on a hunger strike for over ten straight days.
The IRS's free Direct File tool is now "gone," according to Trump's IRS chief. This comes after tax prep companies like Intuit, the maker of TurboTax, lobbied the for years to block it. Intuit donated $1M to Trump’s inauguration. See how this works?
It’s much easier when Trump was funneling his female waitresses to Epstein’s “massage” club. It’s why trump rolled on Epstein. That, and “allegedly” Epstein wanted to “recruit” Ivanka.
Trump’s tariffs could be one of the biggest contributors to economic inequality in American history. The money raised by them will allow Trump to achieve his aim of slashing taxes for the wealthy. Meanwhile the cost of the tariffs will be paid by working people through increased prices.
A university scientist who discovered alarming levels of toxic chemicals in a lake in southeastern Louisiana was abruptly removed from her research position this week without explanation
Kamala also said she didn't expect this many people to be hoe ass bitches and bend the knee so fast. And she's staying away from the bullshit.
I grieve every day for our children and grandchildren…we are living through hell and handing them the ashes
jonathan capehart, subbing for an msnbc host, just used the last minutes of the show to explain his departure from the washington post, specifically citing management's insistence on an optimistic vision of america while a corrupt president flouts the law and deploys troops to march american streets
She’s one woman. She can’t hold up a country. She worked hard for the American people and deserves to live her life now.
Kamala Harris to Stephen Colbert: “For now, I don’t wanna go back in the system. I think it’s broken. I always believed that as fragile as our democracy is, our systems would be strong enough to defend our most fundamental principles and I think right now, they’re not as strong as they need to be.”
On March 15, President Donald Trump’s administration sent more than 230 Venezuelan immigrants to a prison in El Salvador. Last week, the men were released as suddenly as they’d been taken away. Now, their stories will begin to be told. Starting here 👇
Forget about what year it is. What century is it? nashvillebanner.com/2025/07/20/d...
LULAC reports that ICE is losing children… again. Part 1/2 /
The United Nations’ highest court issued a legal opinion stating that nations are obligated to take action against climate change, warning that neglecting this responsibility could breach international law.
Let's see--what else links Volkswagen and forced-labor camps? wapo.st/40v10l0 (GIFT LINK)
Read Julie K. Brown’s book Perversion of Justice: The Jeffrey Epstein Story She single-handedly kept the case alive despite all the GQP cronies trying to kill it.
Behaviores Report: 100% goode!
The sun cast incredible crespuscular rays during last night's saffron hued sunset. Bay Ridge, Brooklyn
#BookSky
I’m so sorry.
I'm reading a lot of posts saying things like "I'm not political", or "I'm not interested in politics". You may not be interested in politics, but, trust me, politics is interested in YOU. We can't avoid politics, and the sooner everyone realizes that, the better off we'll be.
If women submitting to men was a natural way of being, they would not have needed laws, religion & violence to get them to do it.
Because they are entirely powerless and don’t want to admit that democracy has crumbled. If it’s revealed he cheated, then it’s a coup. But it’s not like we can forcibly remove him. Democrats are trying to preserve the country, but there’s not going to be a country if this continues.
What ?!
I just left the Everglades Immigrant Interment Camp. No, I’m not using their ridiculous name. It was a very tough to witness humans in those cages. Every Floridian should be ashamed that our taxpayer money is being used for this.
Welcome to the resistance
DAILY DEMS DOING THE WORK, MAKING NOISE, AND FIGHTING BACK Day 166 It is literally 8 PM. This is the latest I’ve ever started this. I am so excited that tomorrow’s my day off. Here are some of our fighters! 🧵
1/Court grants TRO in big ICE case in LA "What the federal government would have this Court believe-in the face of a mountain of evidence... is that none of this is actually happening." Reference is to "roving patrols indiscriminately rounding up numerous individuals without reasonable suspicion."
“We’re physically seeing the impacts of a changing climate on these communities. … And the fact that we don’t have a government framework for dealing with these issues is not just an Alaska problem, it’s a national problem.” By @emilyschwing.bsky.social
We shouldn't need a Black Women’s Equal Pay Day, but here we are. Still underpaid. Still undervalued. 66 cents on the dollar means we lose thousands every year, for doing the same job. Over a lifetime? That’s hundreds of thousands gone. Pay Black women. Period.
These people are out of control. www.nbcsandiego.com/news/local/i...
To celebrate my 40th birthday i’m raising $$$ for Sister Song and collecting goods for The Free Black Women’s Library. Thank you in advance to everyone who can contribute or share this post
quick reminder: tomorrow is the factory reset and we start back in 2009. don't mess it up this time, folks
America has left a giant soft power vacuum. We knew who would fill it. www.themoscowtimes.com/2025/07/08/r...
Grok understood the basic fact that humans seem incapable of grasping - "politically incorrect" means "bigoted" it doesn't mean anything else at all. it has no other connotations. it just means bigotry.
JUST IN: Judge Gallagher says either El Salvador is lying to the UN or the administration is lying to her about the people deported to CECOT. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
a whole lot of people need to get off twitter but many of them should stay off the internet entirely rather than coming here
Here’s the bottom line for what’s going on with Grok - if the owner of the website is putting his thumb on the scale hard enough for the chatbot to turn into Goebbels, you should be deeply concerned about what he’s doing to the algorithm that you can’t so easily see, and what it’s doing to you
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My 4-day workweek bill is making moves! Imagine more time to live instead of just work. NY can lead the way for dignity, rest, joy, and prosperity! Let's go! 🔥💪🏾 Thanks to @newsweek.com for talking with me about it!
The Trump administration acknowledges in court that sending Abrego Garcia to El Salvador was a “one-off mistake,” which contradicts the White House’s position and also the fact that two others were erroneously sent to El Salvador and ordered back. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
I knew we were cooked as a society when everyone just sorta decided they were sick of dealing with Covid and everyone just decided to pretend like it wasn't a thing anymore.
Are we boycotting Home Depot yet? I think it’s time for Tesla treatment.
We have had 6 days of rain off and on.. now it's been reported that Alligator Alcatraz has flooded so l can't imagine what those poor people are going through 😢
Exhibit A