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Ossoff on RFK Jr: "Absolutely he should resign. And he never should've been confirmed to begin with... in any normal Senate, he never would've gotten so much as a hearing. This is someone who throughout his public life has embraced just about every piece of quackery & pseudoscience he's come across"
Ossoff: "It's been extraordinary to see the Speaker of the House reduced to lying in order to cover up sex crimes"
The entire federal government is being mobilized to destroy the American wind energy industry. Why? Because the toddler king didn't like seeing windmills from a golf course, so he decided he hates wind power and now that's the policy of the United States. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/03/c...
Rand Paul: "The reason we have trials & we don't automatically assume guilt is what if we make a mistake and they happen to be people fleeing the Venezuelan dictator? ... off our coast it isn't our policy just to blow people up ... even the worst people in our country, they still get a trial."
"Stay tuned for more details" -- Epstein survivor announces that survivors are creating their own list of Epstein-related abusers
The President is begging me to call him to bring in the National Guard. I’m not going to beg him for something we don’t want.
Thank you for pushing for the much needed change @aoc.bsky.social ! We must get $ influence/corruption out of U.S. politics as much (as possible). It dilutes the representation of the electorate. Corporate, foreign, & dark $ is influencing our leaders to take positions counter to our interests.
The bipartisan Restore Trust in Congress Act is a necessary step to ban Members of Congress and their families from engaging in insider trading. It is time to pass this bill and make it clear to the American people that their elected officials put them first.
The 100 lowest-paying US corporations spent $644B on stock buybacks from 2019 to 2024. Buybacks artificially boost share prices and inflate CEO pay. The typical worker at these companies earned $35k last year. Meanwhile, the average CEO was paid $17.2M See the problem?
They keep losing in court because everything they’re doing is illegal
It's time to lay down a marker: If (or when!) there's a crypto crash, there's no reason for a federal bailout. Would love to see Republican congressional reps go on the record on this now, before the President's private interests lead them to wilt under pressure later.
“Agency staff members had concluded that the F.D.A. should allow a wide range of age groups to receive the vaccines, citing high hospitalization rates among young children….Vinay Prasad, the agency official in charge of vaccines & gene therapies at the F.D.A., disagreed, overriding those scientists”
🚨BREAKING: Amid his threats to deploy the military against Chicago over objections from state and city leaders, President Donald Trump sent a fundraising email to his supporters Wednesday vowing to “liberate” the U.S.’ third-largest city. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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This isn't a legal justification, but even if it were, Rubio said the drugs were going to a country in the Caribbean, not to the US www.cbsnews.com/news/venezue...
🤔 Not one school shooter has ever been given the death penalty. The U.S. government is seeking the death penalty for Luigi Magione. One rich CEO is worth so much more in this country than any child.
And I would never want to get between Ted and a trip to Cancun when there’s an emergency in Texas
Senate Judiciary Republicans must schedule a hearing on Donald Trump’s threats to deploy the military to Chicago and other American cities.
Mood in Hungary "is palpably different" than a year ago, with people "more comfortable criticizing Orbán in public.…Public figures speak about the 'Orbán regime' instead of the 'Orbán government.'… "In response, the rhetoric from the regime…has become more threatening, violent, and openly fascist."
This is one of the worst discussions of free speech and authoritarianism I can imagine. Both sides ignoring or even justifying censorship of speech they don't like, condemning censorship of speech they like. I don't think it will affect adult AV, but it may well damn KOSA.
Over a dozen survivors of Jeffrey Epstein and his co-conspirator Ghislaine Maxwell gathered at the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday, pushing for a full release of the Epstein files. talkingpointsmemo.com/cafe/there-i...
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"What a precipitous and unforced abdication of global leadership and responsibility Trump has pulled off in the last seven months. What a sad and vivid representation of the world America made coming to an end."
A bipartisan set of House lawmakers has appealed to their colleagues to support a discharge petition that could force a House vote requiring the Department of Justice to release its Epstein files. https://to.pbs.org/41AGRdP
MASSIVE BREAKING: Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi just revealed that an attorney told them today that an Epstein bodyguard was an intermediary between Epstein and the CIA in 2009. Release the Epstein files now !
He’s in the files.
In case it still isn’t clear A vote for Cuomo is a vote for Trump 👇🏽 Per NYT, Trump is discussing giving jobs to Eric Adams & Curtis Sliwa to make Cuomo vs. Zohran a 1 on 1 race. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/03/n...
Prominent far-right influencers have been attempting to rehabilitate Hitler's reputation. That's not an exaggeration; it's easily documented. I wrote about why they are doing this, what they hope to gain, and what it means for America.
AOC: If anybody says “this isn’t fair, I'm gonna have to divest all my stocks if I run for congress” maybe you should stay home.
They're right. RFK Jr. is a serious threat to public health and our lives. He is undermining vaccines, boosting dangerous conspiracy theories, and decimating lifesaving research. Resign or be fired. He needs to go.
Pritzker: "When did we become a country where it's ok for the US president to insist on national television that a state should call him to beg for anything? Especially something we don't want. Have we truly lost all sense of sanity in this nation that we treat this as normal?"
White House officials are on Capitol Hill to instruct Republicans on how to “sell” the Big Ugly Bill to their constituents. What's to sell It raises the cost of living, guts healthcare, and it gives tax cuts to billionaires. The reality is Republicans are selling out Americans.
This is not heroic; it’s criminal. Make no mistake: denying people due process who are not enemies of the United States through extra-judicial executions is repugnant to everything this country is supposed to stand for like the rule of law.
"This is an encroachment on everything we signed up for, and it feels like a violation." Buddy, let me tell you about the Iraq War and what it was like dodging snipers and roadside bombs for nonexistent "weapons of mass destruction." Republicans have treated the military this way for decades.
The current populist trend is a response to ineptitude. Establishment (Big Donor $) Dems & Repubs went through decades of gaming the electorate. They would rile their bases up and do nothing. This led to disenfranchisement. We need to get $ out of politics and re-establish our representation.
At long last, the crack scienticians at PragerU have recreated the Duff Beer Hall of Presidents
Trump could’ve intercepted the boat, seized the drugs and imprisoned everyone Instead he approved this Venezuela strike and killed all persons aboard The extrajudicial killing of 11 men and potentially provoking a war with President Maduro is an odd way to campaign for a Nobel Peace Prize
Establishment Donor $ (Dark $ ?) Democrats. Many of the same group of Dems that voted for much of Trump's cabinet. Most of them should be replaced from leadership roles, and some should retire as soon as strategically favorable. We need an opposition party. Jeffries is a big disappointment.
FWIW, the Heritage Foundation has a journalism fellowship named after the Guardabassi family. The male head of that family was one of Mussolini's emissaries in the US in the 1930s, and his wife "Countess Guardabassi" was one of the leading funders of US antisemites and neo-Nazis in the 1950s-60s.
Have I mentioned lately that Heritage has a journalism fellowship named after the Guardabassi family, the male head of which was one of Mussolini's emissaries in the US in the 1930s, while his wife was a leading funder of US antisemites & neo-Nazis in the 1950s-60s. bsky.app/profile/seth...
Here's a ray of sunshine in a very dark world Germany has already exceeded its goal of shutting down 8 GW of coal plants - 3 years earlier than expected Amazing what a little sun and wind can do 😎 www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
@cnn.com Platforming Shapiro, is a garbage move 🤮 .
That Pritzker press conference was... surreal, and I think marks a significant moment of escalation in the constitutional omni-crisis. This was the governor of a state saying plainly the Union itself is being torn apart and his state is being militarily invaded by an authoritarian regime.
"Why should I care about U.S. Space Command being transferred to Alabama? I hate the military-industrial complex. We spend too much money on defense. Why does it matter which rich people get richer off it?" There are a number of reasons you should care, but you really only need one. (thread)
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Now, the U.S. Space Command will not be fully operational for years because the Redstone Arsenal in Huntsville, Alabama lacks the existing infrastructure already available in Colorado. But Alabama is a GOP-dominant state. So, Trump is catering to his base over national security. Yet again.
This is why Pres. Biden chose to headquarter U.S. Space Command in Colorado in 2023. Because all the pertinent Space Force facilities were already there. Peterson, Schriever, Cheyenne Mountain, and Buckley military bases, the whole of USSPACECOM. Sure, it saved money, but it was common sense.
I used to read books like Lord of the Rings or watch movies like Star Wars and think the villains were unbelievable. And of course, now watching the tech oligarchs (who could not spend all their money if they tried) destroy civilization for power, I’m like, guess I was wrong. People are that awful.
This is the video, first shared by Washingtonian Problems, which President Trump said "is probably AI". I'd be very surprised if the video were AI-generated. All the details, including the White House, the US flag flying at half mast, the surrounding buildings and the shadows, appear genuine.
DOJ lawyer in case accusing Harvard of antisemitism once wrote a paper from Hitler's perspective for a class at Harvard. The assignment was to write from the perspective of a controversial figure, but his choice of Hitler so unnerved the instructor that he was asked to redo the assignment.
So, I was just listening to Amicus and @dahlialithwick.bsky.social and her guest (Liza Goitein) were discussing this. Goitein was saying, basically, that this can't happen based on the premise.
If he’s using 12406, the statue says he can call into federal service members of the National Guard “in any state.” So I think their argument would be that you can use 12406 to federalize the guard in any state and send them to another w/o raising state sovereignty issues (bc they’re federalized)
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If it’s under Title 32 authority, the Texas guard remains under state control. That would mean that one state is deploying armed forces into the territory of a non-consenting state. And that’d clearly be a violation of the principle that states are co-equal, territorially limited sovereigns.
The Trump admin dumped half a dozen men with serious criminal records in the Kingdom of Eswatini, where they are being jailed indefinitely despite all having finished serving criminal sentences in the United States. It’s a disturbing situation.
“The great underreported story of our time is Russian compromise of the Republican Party…It's like Churchill's party became the pro-Nazi party.” @stuartpstevens.bsky.social talks Russia and the Republican Party with @timmiller.bsky.social on The Bulwark Podcast:
KASIE HUNT: Over the summer you said, “There’s no vaccine that’s safe and effective”. Do you still believe that? RFK JR: “I never said that.” KASIE HUNT: “Play the clip.” RFK JR (clip): “There’s no vaccine that is safe and effective.” (March 2024) ht: @cwebbonline.com
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I feel like in the 1980’s/90’s this would be a major plot point in a Tom Clancy novel, and the operation would be carried out as an off-book, illegal black op, with various characters trying to cover it up lest they face congressional hearings. Now the President just announces it.
Nory Sontay Ramos was a thriving high school student in L.A. until she and her mom were deported by the Trump administration in July. For @msnbc.com, we visited her in Guatemala as she tries to graduate remotely while hiding from the same gang they fled years ago. www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/n...
I know this sounds crazy, but shouldn’t the Secretary of Energy know something about energy?
Treating foreign policy like instagram content is deeply unserious It is also incredibly dangerous It leaves Americans — and Ukrainians, and all the treaty allies who have signed up to help us when needed — in pretty deep sh*t My latest: www.greatpower.us/p/half-baked...
Oof. The Dems need to stop pretending, based on some imaginary focus group, that there’s some common ground with Trump. The key is to fight everywhere. You should go study Neville Chamberlain’s attempt at “common ground.” It didn’t end well for his historical reputation. Or the world.
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Here's the video Trump just posted to Truth Social, with the claim that 11 people aboard the boat were killed. There is zero evidence of self-defense here. Looks like a massacre of civilians at sea. Even if they had drugs aboard, that's not a capital offense.
The media's basic assumption that crimes only count if they happen in secret has been Trump's saving grace throughout his two terms. He keeps blabbing about them -- here, he's posting a video of a targeted assassination of civilians -- but because he's so brazen they assume it's no big deal.
BREAKING: DC Circuit, 2-1, reinstates Biden appointee Rebecca Slaughter to FTC despite Trump attempt to fire her without cited cause. Majority: Millett (Obama), Pillard (Obama). Dissent: Rao (Trump) www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
Ghislaine Maxwell was the enabler of a sex-trafficking operation that preyed upon more than 1,000 underage girls. She is one of the world’s worst sex traffickers. Yet the Trump Administration has relocated Maxwell to a minimum-security prison with the amenities of a country club. Despicable.
I don’t know how this is possible. Texas cannot control guard sent to Illinois without violating Illinois sovereignty. It must be federally controlled units, otherwise instead of a Posee Comitatus problem, we have a major constitutional crisis.
Two things can be — and are — true here: Bowser is not the champion DC needs in this moment, and The Washington Post has become a Trump rag. A newspaper that actually cared about the city in its name would not publish such an inflammatory, bullshit headline.
Pritzker should also be prepared to block roads and cut off water and electricity from buildings occupied by invading troops.
Seems Trump might be trying an end-run in which Texas mobilizes its National Guard. That would be Texas invading Illinois, which as you can imagine is unconstitutional. One wonders about potential remedies, such as IL seizing assets of TX corporations like X, xAI, and SpaceX. Just a thought. 🤔
I know, I know, but: The president of the US saying, literally, "we're going in" in reference to sending the military to an American city for no reason beyond terrorizing the local population should be the most immediately impeachable shit imaginable
BREAKING: Gov. JB Pritzker says the Trump administration has sent the Texas National Guard to Great Lakes Naval Base outside Chicago, awaiting orders to deploy to Chicago. Trump administration officials will target Mexican Independence Day (Sept. 16) celebrations. @wttw.bsky.social
Pritzker again exhorts the news media to tell the truth about what's happening: "I refuse to pretend that any of this is normal."
Today, we are moving to open the files. We are calling our Representatives. We're asking them to: ✅ support the release of the undredacted Epstein files ✅ support the impeachment of this criminal President ☎️ Congressional switchboard: (202) 224-3121 Call now!
DALIO: ".. The great excesses that are now projected as a result of the new budget will likely cause a debt-induced heart attack in the relatively near future. .. I’d say three years, give or take a year or two.” @financialtimes.com www.ft.com/content/b86b...
Platner: No one cares that you pretend to be remorseful as you sell out to lobbyists. Symbolic opposition does not reopen hospitals. Weak condemnations do not bring back Roe V Wade. Maine deserves better than Susan Collins.
While the U.S. spent a half a billion dollars painting a fence black on their side, Mexico invited artists to paint their side to express their artistic talent. 💗 The contrast between the two countries highlights each country’s priorities.
He is not ok and the decision to not report it as such is a choice: www.publicnotice.co/p/trump-heal...
danielle smith, one of david seymour’s buddies and current leader of Alberta, just banned ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ in Alberta schools, and this is the reply from Atwood. #nzpol
The “Putin wants peace” crowd, especially the “poor persecuted Russia just has some reasonable security requests” variety, really need to reckon with . Peace-seekers don’t go after the bureaucrats and diplomats.
At least while alienating all of our allies, Trump has been instrumental in bringing others closer together.
China isn’t the reason to build solar—it’s the reason we can’t afford to wait. While US nuclear flatlines, China’s solar has already rocketed past it. The lesson isn’t to copy them—it’s that the transition is happening at breakneck speed. Delay now means falling behind forever. ⚡☀️ #EnergyTransition
NEW: All but 1 of the Guatemalan children have been returned to HHS's Office of Refugee Resettlement, DOJ tells Judge Sooknanan, and the fourth will be returned in approx. 3 hrs. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
He’s providing them with valuable mulching experience though.
No candidate interviewing for medical school who, upon expressing RFK jr's views, would ever be accepted. They'd be laughed right out of the room. And yet this man runs the HHS – including the CDC, NIH, ACF, CMS, HRSA, and SAMHSA? WTAF?! Remove RFK jr for dereliction of duty. Immediately.
MORE: Judge Sooknanan order DOJ to file yet another status report. She sets 10:45 pm deadline for Ensign to address whether all of the children have been returned to ORR custody.
Oh, it’s different. Mamdani is a phenomenon. neither DeBlasio nor Adams were. Mamdani is where dems need to be - not ideologically - but tactically. No one endorsed Adams because he was a flawed candidate but Schumer endorsed DeBlasio.
My suggestion focused largely on Schumer, Jeffries and Gillibrand. It was not an indictment of the party. It was hyper specific.
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ABC News is still calling RFK Jr. a “vaccine skeptic.” The dude was one of the most prominent anti-vaccine activists for decades. There’s video of him in 2023 saying that there’s no vaccine which is safe and effective. You can call him an anti-vaccine activist!
Hi. I’m the executive director of the organization that had the honor of hosting the FEMA Katrina Declaration and I can confirm this is a lie. NICE TRY, KRISTI! @standupforscience.bsky.social @atrupar.com
NEW: Donald Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” will hand out $67 BILLION to companies next year to "incentivize" research these companies did YEARS ago. That means next year, the federal government will spend five times more on these handouts than what it spends annually on child care.
The default speed limit in DC is 25MPH unless otherwise posted. The streets here are heavily residential and cannot accommodate high speed chases. The federales are out of control and will get people killed.
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.
Some view it as hyperbole; others don't even know what the words mean. But it's all textbook. Textbook history, textbook political science, textbook psychology, textbook social psychology. Elementary stuff, not obscure. And it's happening in real time, right before our eyes.
Has anyone said whether Rudy was driving or whether he had been drinking? www.cbsnews.com/news/rudy-gi...