Troops in the streets and he thinks he’s going to get a Nobel, peace begins at home
Troops in the streets and he thinks he’s going to get a Nobel, peace begins at home
Trump hasn’t stood in front of cameras and ranted about a trans shooter in the home state of Tim Walz and then his plans changed and he stayed in DC (which he hates) for a 3-day weekend, but I see no one in the national media asking why.
Creative writing prompt: Make a simple press statement about a car accident sound suspicious on at least three different levels.
Remove RFK Jr for dereliction of duties. Immediately.
Jones: We have a presidential administration that has more outrage about the changing of the cracker barrel logo than they do about changing the policies that allow our children to be gunned down in school…
The US has *never *been 98% white, FFS. Or hetero, or Christian.
This makes no sense. The GOP state sen candidate that just got shellacked was as Trumpy as they come. The GOP isn’t going to nominate some centrist candidate, it will be someone with even less integrity than Ernst.
Compared to the GOP State Senate candidate that just lost a special election by 10 pts??? Don’t underestimate how pissed farmers are at Trump and GOP over tariffs.
you mean "we're all going to die" wasn't polling well?
oh come on www.nytimes.com/2025/08/29/u...
If Ashli Babbitt's parents really wanted to avenge her death they would, instead of pitifully whitewashing her legacy, be suing Fox News for filling their child's gullible head with dangerous nonsense that directly led to her death.
Clinical psychologist here – it’s the guns. And, if you want to improve people’s mental health, start with making sure they get all of their needs met: healthcare, housing, transportation, childcare, good wages, lower cost of living, healthy environment, elder care etc…
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JD Vance rehashed the same “mental health epidemic” justification for the horrific shooting in MN this week. Yes, America has an unmet mental health crisis. So do other countries. We have a mass shooting problem unlike any other country It’s the guns: www.thinkglobalhealth.org/article/glob...
Imagine thinking your "personal freedoms" are worth more than a child's life. Imagine fighting for emotionally unstable 20 something male civilians to have easy access to weapons designed to kill lots of ppl, really fast. Imagine enabling the next mass shooter, while calling yourself "Christian"
It’s outrageous that Sec. Kennedy is trying to fire the CDC Director — after only a few weeks on the job — for her commitment to public health & vaccines. The Sen. HELP Committee must hold a hearing with Kennedy & the CDC Director as soon as possible. Vaccines save lives. Period.
I had serious doubts about CDC Director Monarez’s willingness to stand up against RFK Jr.’s personal mission to destroy public health in America—I’m glad that I was wrong. If there are any adults left in the White House: we cannot let RFK Jr. burn what's left of CDC. FIRE HIM.
Mental health issues - every single one of them. Those poor children.
We are in very dark times. It’ll take an entire political/social movement, an overwhelming rebuke at the polls, and a new vision of governance to unstick this country from whatever this collapse is.
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
Dearest Martha, The National Guard stand solemn watch at the Krispy Kreme tonight. I cannot tell if they defend the people from the donuts, or the donuts from the people. Powdered sugar hangs in the air like cannon smoke. Jensen took a hot coffee to the face, he may never recover. Yours in glaze,
Republicans after a mass shooting: “IT’S NOT GUNS!! IT’S MENTAL HEALTH!!” Me: “Okay, lemme see your policy proposals for broadening access to mental health care.” Republicans: “Lol no.”
RULE ABOUT AMERICAN FLAGS: If you burn the fabric part, you're looking at jail. But it you use the pole part to assault a police officer, you get a presidential pardon, praise, and some cash.
Today in Annunciation Church in Minneapolis, school started at 8am. Mass began at 8:15am. A gunman opened fire at 8:30am. 20 people were shot and at least two are confirmed dead. This shouldn’t be normal.
The fact that children in America have to live in fear of mass shootings is far more important than Cracker Barrel's corporate logo decisions. But the White House only cares about tackling one of these issues.
Because they fired the Park Service maintenance employees that used to do this as waste fraud and abuse. He proves how stupid the MAGA cult is every single day.
First, they came for John Bolton And I did speak out Because even though I'm not a nutty right-wing warmonger with a ridiculous mustache, I am an American who is horrified by a simple-minded tyrant using our Justice Department to avenge his petty, personal grudges.
The Chicago Way
Pritzker: This is not about fighting crime. This is about the President and his complicit lackey, Stephen Miller, searching for ways to lay the groundwork to circumvent our democracy, militarize our cities, and end elections.
$26 MILLION in a year.
this is genuinely baffling to me. $80k a year to help a professional writer produce one 800-word column a week?
Reading an article titled "Why didn't Brazilian democracy die?" and a key part of the story is a Supreme Court that actually did its job
I'm still seeing news stories which suggest the US govt purchased a 10% stake in intel. But that's simply not true. They're pointing to money that was already appropriated as part of the CHIPs bill and other programs. Intel gave Trump 10% purely as a result of threats.
Who f'ing cares what these performative idiots get up to in their free time. Isn't it enough that they're dismantling democracy and public heath during their working hours?
“The fate of Ukraine matters for the fate of national sovereignty, European democracy, the global rule of law & peaceful co-existence. If Putin succeeds…it strengthens despotic types like Trump & intensifies the growing danger of autocracy around the world.” www.americaamerica.news/p/standing-b...
The prolonged public torturing of a single man because the state cannot admit to its errors is not something that occurs in a free country
I'm not sure who has to hear this, but it is NOT normal that the government sends the military into its own cities. In fact, in many countries, this has led to mass protests... 🙄
I don’t hear “Democrats” using these terms. Pelosi? Jeffries? Clyburn? Schiff? Swallwell? Waters? If you mean liberals then provide the alternative word that would be clearer. Or is it that you don’t think the concepts are real? Patriarchy is a thing. If there’s a better word, let’s hear it.
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.
Trying to consolidate power means you don’t already have that kind of power. Seems important to state outright.
Trump’s claim that he’s invading Democratic cities and militarily occupying them to “fight crime” is no different than Bush’s claim he was militarily occupying Iraq to “find WMD.” And much of the media is still mindlessly repeating the bullshit premise as if it’s real.
All private East Coast liberal arts schools, very much cut of the same cloth. There are plenty of U of Chicago, Stanford, Claremont College, Pepperdine’s out there that offer an alternative experience
Referring to yourself in the third person is weird. Saying you are always right is dishonest. Wearing a ball cap in the Oval Office is tacky. Using your left hand to cover up medical issues on your right hand is concerning. And has he stopped being able to tie a tie?
Louisiana has to build three new natural gas power plants to accommodate the "AI" data center that Meta just crammed through because said center will use *Three Times* as much electricity (and, thus, attendant resources) as the *Entire City Of New Orleans*, every year. Y'all this isn't sustainable.
He thinks he’s *so* clever. We see him for the lying scum he is.
And what words are you proposing we use instead?
And right after this interview with Trump’s former criminal defense attorney, Maxwell was the only sex offender in the US penal system to be transferred to a minimum security Club Fed and is fast-tracked on the pardon list. What a joke.
Democratic governors and leaders, fight while you can, as hard as you can. Trump and MAGA are going full fascist. They're coming after all of us, including you. You can't make "deals" with fascists. You have to FIGHT them. FIGHT, finally, please.
That was one of the most batshit press conferences of Trump's public life. He brandished a photo of Putin and promised to deploy the US military to occupy Chicago, New York, and San Francisco. A sane country would be moving toward impeachment and removal right now.
President Zelenskyy: When Russia raises the issue of security guarantees,I honestly don't know who is threatening them yet.They attacked us, they’re on our land.I don't quite understand what guarantees the aggressor needs.Guarantees of what?
Time to repost the economic stimulus per tax dollar again.
Democratic Governors, what more do you need to see? WAKE UP. FIGHT. www.axios.com/2025/08/20/n...
I read somewhere, if marriage benefited women, it would have been taken away from us by now.
Well, you know the streets of DC are truly dangerous if they're letting the president go out at night for a photo op.
Art of the deal.
Sometimes the sheer idiocy of this moment overwhelms me. The idea that our convicted felon POTUS who incited an attack on DC police then pardoned the attackers & who's the most corrupt official in US history is going on an "anti-crime" ride-along in a city w/falling crime rate is...(brain explodes)
Because nothing says “you should feel free to come visit Washington” like standing in front of dozens of armed soldiers next to a guy who thinks women shouldn’t be able to vote 🙃
An American President messing with free elections because the leader of Russia told him to, is what we call a Russian Agent.
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Dem Gov, Dem House, GOP Senate, Dem Supreme Court. The Dem Supreme Court saved us from the GOP gerrymandered maps of the 2010 census.
Nancy Mace: "In my time in Congress, I actually helped secure the largest infrastructure grant in state history, in South Carolina history. So I've worked very hard on the policies that matter to voters here." (Mace is taking credit for legislation she voted against!)
Again, there is no difference between how an active Russian agent would act and how the president of the United States acts.
BREAKING: Vladimir Putin is pushing to meet Zelensky in Moscow and Zelensky has obviously turned this down. Why would Zelensky meet Putin in the country that wants him killed? This is all a big joke to Putin. He has no plans on stopping. He has no plans for peace.
I want a presidential candidate who promises to construct Union memorials and statues all over the country. And yeah, North and South. Blanket Virginia with statues of Thomas, who actually chose the right side. Hell, put one of Sherman in the middle of Peachtree Park.
I’m still waiting for a Republican business owner or farmer to get arrested for illegally employing migrant workers. When are we going to get perp walk videos of them being hauled off to vans in cuffs by masked agents?
I refuse to believe we are going to relitigate slavery. SLAVERY. It’s too much.
If you want to put back statues and memorials and names of Confederate traitors while tearing down museum exhibitions on slavery because they don't show the greatness of the nation... the nation whose history you're celebrating is whiteness. The kind of nationalist you are is a white nationalist.
When Yamtits says “you don’t take on a nation 10 times your size” he means when Russia INVADED Ukraine, they should’ve laid down and let the Russians have their way. It’s not something you would expect the leader of the free world to say. It’s what you would expect a dictator to say. Or a rapist.
Again: this is not about what this country can or can’t afford. It’s about priorities.
Remember that time Biden "joked" about canceling elections? Oh, Biden would never--that was Trump. But if Biden did it, Republicans would have called for his immediate removal. BEYOND HYPOCRISY. CORRUPT TO THE CORE. HAVE A GREAT DAY. kthxbye.
Rep. Nicole Collier files a state court application for a writ of habeas corpus concerning her detention in the Texas State Capitol. www.courthousenews.com/wp-content/u...
The United States could have great things like this. But we like to spend our money on kidnapping people and trafficking them to concentration camps instead. #Priorities
I don't know who needs to hear this, but an economy controlled by a handful of oligarchs isn't a "free market."
Reminder that Putin has never said he wants a trilateral meeting, had never said he would respect Ukrainian sovereignty, and has never said he wants to end the war. Not to be a downer, but the discussion of security guarantees is premature.
Reminder that Trump unleashing federal troops across D.C. isn't meant to address any actual concerns about crime. It's a show of force. It’s important to see this and L.A. as trial runs for a possible military occupation elsewhere in the United States.
Not the flex she thinks that is🤷♀️. I hope the NYT reporter responded - “why, thank you!”
OBVIOUS follow-up Q: Isn’t the constant blatant lying a big impediment on judgement day for both of you????
You know, Union Station, Georgetown, 14th Street.
“Progress” is not what got them to drop everything, including Merloni leaving her vacation, to scramble and fly to DC immediately. bsky.app/profile/atru...
Democrats spend far too much time thinking and talking about how to attack Trump & his party. No one attack ever works in politics. What does work is a commitment to sustained aggression. Attack, attack, attack. How Newsom is attacking is much less important than the fact that he is attacking.
So many good points from @paulwaldman.bsky.social: "Brandon Scott talking about how he actually brought down crime in Baltimore is more effective than the blathering of some “strategist” whose answer to everything is that Democrats should act like Republicans."
Actual question: It has been only 72 hours since the disastrous puppeteer/puppet show in Anchorage. Has there yet been a background story on how, and by whom, this emergency intervention of *eight* big-time world leaders was pulled together, over a weekend?
Who cares about the logo or the name. I care about the content and a commitment to independent journalism
Bill Barr—the AG when Epstein died—was in the hot seat today. But let me remind you: DOJ owes us the Epstein files beginning tomorrow. All of them. Client list included. (1/2)
tfw you order the Versailles foam sticky starter pack for your college dorm room
truly unreal. he's the guy who buys a lap dance and thinks the stripper and he had a deep connection
Amid ‘accusations of corruption, incompetence and grandstanding.’ He’ll fit right in the Trump admin.
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.
A NYT comment: “Humans ate organic, whole foods for millennia. They got plenty of exercise, lived without plastics. Until the mid-1800s, life expectancy at birth was 39. Food may be good medicine, but it’s not a panacea. Medical advances—like vaccines—have doubled the human lifespan, not superfoods”
I am a bit of a broken record on this, but are local DAs going to let this continue indefinitely? The ICE agents didn't have any kind of warrant, didn't identify themselves, and then recklessly started firing. Let them argue federal immunity.
This is a desecration of a public shrine and I am furious.
If pundits would like to talk about violence, a terrorist recently shot up the CDC and another assassinated Democratic officials in Minnesota but they sort of let both stories disappear Not as threatening as motorbikes in DC I know but maybe we could circle back?
The last sentence!
The White House is mobilizing red state military forces to occupy a Democratic stronghold and let me tell you: No one has ever pretended something isn't happening harder than Democratic leaders are pretending this isn't happening right now.
How is that Putin can play Trump like a marionette, but every law firm partner and university president folds like a deck of cards to that fool?
Tom Nichols: “It should also be unacceptable to the United States to play the part of some kind of land broker where we trade away other people’s lives and territories like poker chips to a dictator and a mass murder. It’s crazy.” @radiofreetom.bsky.social
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