Volkswagen Brazil was found guilty of subjecting workers to conditions “analogous” to slavery between 1974 and 1986 in the Amazon and ordered to publicly acknowledge the abuses and pay more than $30 million in damages.
Volkswagen Brazil was found guilty of subjecting workers to conditions “analogous” to slavery between 1974 and 1986 in the Amazon and ordered to publicly acknowledge the abuses and pay more than $30 million in damages.
Our country's founders put in place numerous checks on a potential future President if they were to act like an unhinged authoritarian, so they were ready for a monster like Trump. But what they did not predict was a compliant and subservient Congress that would let him do anything he wanted.
Trump is not “testing” the limits of executive power in trying to fire Fed gov. Cook. He is blasting through the plain letter of the law, violating the bipartisan consensus the central bank should be insulated against political pressure and putting at risk our econ open.substack.com/pub/contrari...
He’s going to either try to discredit the Epstein survivors, deploy troops into Chicago, or go to war with Venezuela. Or all three.
Find someone who looks at you the way this lady looks at the doctor who uses an AI stethoscope to incorrectly determine her heart is breaking.
This morning (9/1) at 8 AM feds pulled over a couple at 18th & Park NW. They smashed the window, dragged the husband out & arrested him. When a community member stopped to record they were grabbed & threatened w/ pepper spray by this piece of shit. @mayorbowser.bsky.social do you welcome this too?
Maybe because when you donate through Charles’s website and/or candidates slates alll the money goes direct to candidates via Act Blue, not to mysteriously overhead—very unlike some big PACs. This guy is a honest volunteer, period. Donating via his site magnifies your money.
11/ 🧊🚨✈️ EL SALVADOR ⛓️🇸🇻 👉 An Eastern 737 (Tail: N917XA – formerly JD Vance's campaign jet) on an ICE mission out of Louisiana has arrived in El Salvador 👀
🧊🧵✈️ MON 1 SEP 2025 – PART 2 👉 A GlobalX Airbus 321 (tail: N570TA) on an ICE mission out of Louisiana departs Honduras en route to Costa Rica 👀
Wow Asheville NC Workers over Billionaires: a band performed by the protesters for a very energetic rally!
Ah, yes. I remember when Michelle Obama ravaged the NIH and CDC, killed off vital vaccine research and denied inoculations to millions for reasons of pure BS. I remember this because I have Pundit Memory™️, an exciting new product that makes you able to both-sides and whatabout anything!
It is wild that the Washington Post -- which claims "Democracy Dies in Darkness" -- has remained completely silent for more than a day about Trump's latest attack on free and fair elections. Support pro-democracy independent media. Subscribe to Democracy Docket today. hubs.ly/Q03jcjqP0
Prominent Cardiologist on CNN Urges Americans to ‘Not Trust’ U.S. Health Dept Leadership on Vaccines
Sometimes, it's a good thing to remember that there are literal people who get paid good money (sometimes your tax money) to write posts that keep you distracted and enraged. Because when your attention is tied up, it's easier for others to get away with things.
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I did not know that.
NEW JERSEY: I know this goes without saying but Mikie Sherrill must win this November. I've been having some conversations with folks not born here recently, and there is rampant fear about what will happen here if she loses. Our work force will be decimated and lives will be lost.
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You may have had chicken pox and didn’t know it. I was covered from head to toe with the pox. My mother thought my brother had been spared until she found 3 tiny ones on his head.
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As someone who had polio, mumps, chicken pox and measles within a 3 year span, I have only one thing to say to anti-vaxxers.
I got measles bc of low titre levels FOUR DAYS POST PARTUM so my baby also got measles. I was in the hospital for nine days. I lost partial hearing. I missed my baby's first four months of life and didn't get to nurse them (bc the recovery also sucks). GET YR GD'D shots.
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*Thinks back to how my brief bout of homelessness happened shortly after my rent went up* Interesting *Also thinks about how the job I lost shortly after the rent hike didn't do cost of living increases* Very Interesting
Exactly. Keep the pressure on. Trump will not stick with anyone he thinks may be dragging him further down. That was the beginning of his distancing from Elon. Keep the pressure on. RFK must go.
Boston is the safest city in the United States. All this is gonna do is makes Bostonians less safe and less free. www.politico.com/news/2025/08...
Funeral held in Israel for hostage whose remains were recovered from Gaza
1. On Saturday, a judge ordered Pulse pride crosswalk protester released from jail. Police arrested him after he chalked the bottom of his shoe in rainbow colors and walked across it. Sunday, police arrested 3 more under the same charges. Subscribe to support my journalism.
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.
President Trump’s massive tax and spending plan cuts Medicaid by almost $1 trillion over the next decade, risking service cuts and closures that could force rural women to travel farther to safely have a baby.
This is the provision Ensign cited as the basis for the government's authority to summarily remove unaccompanied migrant children. I’d love to hear from immigration lawyers, but having briefly looked at it… it’s so frivolous it’d be laughable if it weren’t so cruel. (Am I wrong??)
Yet another GOP lawmaker was blasted by his own constituents for supporting President Trump’s agenda. This time, it was Barry Moore of Alabama, a U.S. representative and Senate candidate. He slipped out the back door as the audience chanted, “Shame!” trib.al/lVT3W8n
From my grandfather, who battled union busters in the 1940s From my parents, school teachers who fought for fair wages and benefits From my daughter, who works with unions to create climate friendly jobs And me, representing union members injured at work Enjoy your Labor Day You've earned it
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Read this Let’s give officer Patrick O’Hanlon the notoriety he’s seeking
Trump is turning US Park Police into lawless Gestapo www.thehandbasket.co/p/parks-offi...
I’m sorry, WHAT?
🚨This OK lawmaker was found guilty of running a vehicle with his daughter and an adult relative off of the road and INTO a ditch, causing injuries — and he is STILL in office?!? Of course, he has a history of both domestic violence and law enforcement.
Normally they've booked 40% of their fall soybean sales to China at this point. This year, they are at 0% booked, and no, that's not a typo. www.farmprogress.com/soybean/us-s...
New Mexico is overriding the federal government on the topic of COVID19 vaccines to ensure their residents can access them. States hold a tremendous amount of public health power. They should use it.
it shouldn't be easier to get a gun in America than the covid vaccine
Hearing that the whistleblower, Charles Borges, has now resigned. He was the SSA Chief Data Officer. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/u...
"...a self-described hacker, enlisted by the plaintiffs to decode the contents of a chip they recovered from the vehicle, found it while sipping a Venti-size hot chocolate at a South Florida Starbucks." This story is a wild ride. You couldn't pay me to buy a Tesla. wapo.st/46dCoQI 🎁🔗
UPDATE: NORTH CAROLINA carriers have posted their *approved* avg. 2026 #ACA rate filings. Overall, the weighted avg increase is 27.8%, but there's also something weird: Around 263,000 NC enrollees seem to be "missing" somewhere. acasignups.net/rate_changes...
NEW: Social Security’s chief data officer, Charles Borges, has resigned, three days after submitting a whistle-blower complaint that alleged members of DOGE had uploaded the confidential personal information of hundreds of millions of Americans to an insecure cloud server.
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NEW: Judge Boasberg has GRANTED our preservation order for Musk's phone records in our FOIA case against DOGE. The request was made by the other plaintiff in the case - First Amendment Coalition - as they propounded the FOIA. You can read the ruling here: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
REUTERS: “Trump's special representative, Steve Witkoff, violated diplomatic protocol in Moscow when he went to the Kremlin on August 6 for a meeting with Putin without a stenographer and a representative from the U.S. State Department.” ⬇️
Especially when it comes to Russia, Trump Regime makes sure there’s no record of their damage.
The mother of a 12-year-old girl who was injured in a shooting at Annunciation Catholic Church in South Minneapolis on Wednesday morning, was working in the intensive care unit of the hospital where her daughter was rushed.
Hi, immunologist here: (a scientist who studies immune & inflammatory processes) RFK Jr is talking absolute bullshit when he says he can “see in kids faces that they have inflammation” That’s NOT how immunology works. He is an anti-science profiteer. Start calling him such.
BREAKING: Big moment as CDC staff stage a mass walkout. They have lined the street outside its HQ to greet and salute the four top officials who have resigned in protest at RFK Jr’s attack on the agency’s science base. (🎥 AP)
CDC WRAPUP: A White House spokesman emailed me at 9:30 p.m. to say that Susan Monarez, the CDC director, has been fired. This came after days of back-and-forth in which RFK Jr. tried to force her out and she refused. 4 other top CDC officials have quit. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/27/h...
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I am a mental health professional. Americans do not have more mental illness capable of leading to violence than people in other modern civilized countries and societies. What they DO have, is far easier and unfettered access to guns - of all shapes, sizes, and capacities.
imagine being so maniacally racist that you side with the fire over the firefighter
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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.
If you love our children you’ll vote to stop this.
A 21 pt swing is...very big...and while I'm no Iowa expert, that would not seem to bode well for Jodi Ernst who is up in 2026.
A 20 point swing toward Democrats. Ready to run for office? @runforsomething.net will help. runforwhat.net
Jesus Christ. If your credit isn’t frozen at all three bureaus, I would strongly consider doing that now
To be clear, you’re not allowed to wear or display political stuff at AFRH regardless of party.
Reposting this in light of news Acosta will be questioned by House Committee. There are lots of questions that need answering. www.nbcnews.com/think/amp/nc...
It's actually pretty easy (and free) to freeze your credit. I did it shortly after Trump took office.
The Fulton Co., GA elections board, by law, is made up of two nominees from each of "the major parties," plus a chair appointed by the county commissioners. But the commissioners are refusing to confirm the Gop nominees, bc they're election deniers. georgiarecorder.com/2025/08/20/f...
NEW VIDEO: Donald Trump is weaponizing the Department of Justice to target Democrats. Rep. Rob Menendez joins me to discuss Trump’s threat to the immigrant community, the federal takeover of Washington, D.C., and the GOP’s refusal to do their job. www.youtube.com/watch?v=-9Gq...
Gotcha! Fox Host Takes The Bait Over 'Gavin Newsom's Bible'
The right wing has wanted militarized policing in blue cities — places they do not live but want to control — for most of the time I’ve covered politics. This isn’t just about Trump but a decades-long project coming to fruition.
"Here is what I think: Trump is illegally deploying the military in blue cities to set the stage to interfere with the 2026 elections." @marcelias.bsky.social
Intimidation may be part of it but it's really about implementing a police state to suppress the populace when they discover that there's no more voting and no more democratic process and they don't control who's in charge of the country
Armed soldiers in the streets was a big reason why the founders gave King George III the boot...
But then there’s still Vance, Johnson and the rest of this horrid regime who will likely be worse. We need plans of action.
The GOP doesn’t believe her for a second, or they’d have already revealed the entire Epstein File. This is continued gaslighting until cognitive dissonance sets in.
Jeffrey Epstein's co-conspirator appears to be trying to con GOP lawmakers with the same strategy she used to victimize multiple young girls, according to one expert.
"True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made.” —FDR, 1944
Hey look. It’s the worst economy since the last time Trump was in office. Probably just a coincidence
“Freedom is a fragile thing and it's never more than one generation away from extinction. It is not ours by way of inheritance; it must be fought for and defended constantly by each generation.” — Ronald Reagan, Inaugural Address as CA Governor, Jan. 5, 1967. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
IF YOU LIVE IN MARYLAND and want Gov. Wes Moore to take action on Avelo’s presence in the Bay State, you can sign this petition. Local organizers are working on this and they want to make it clear where Marylanders stand. Just FYI. actionnetwork.org/petitions/go...
Here’s what appears to be a little girl shackled at the wrists and ankles boarding an ICE flight on Avelo Airlines yesterday. Seattle (Boeing Field) to Mesa, AZ, an ICE detention hub. Not one of those men helped her up the stairs. Courtesy @lalabote.bsky.social
The husband, who is a former employee of Homeland Security, advises Green Card holders NOT to leave the country. He says however much money you will lose by changing travel plans, it's better than the treatment his wife got.
John Shin, a well known and respected violinist from South Korea, who received Bachelor's and Master's degrees at the University of Utah for violin performance, was detained by ICE. John Shin has been a violinist and teaches students in Utah. He is being detained in Colorado.
Article: kutv.com/news/local/u...
Large Free DC protest against the Trumpist occupation at 14th & U. We're being cheered by a metric crapton of cars and passers-by. Cops stationed at the end of every block nearby but keeping their distance so far. Things like this give me hope that the American people will not surrender to fascism.
March and protest in DC tonight against military occupation and ICE attacks. #FreeDC
“Jimenez Rosa, a legal permanent resident and mother of four U.S. citizens, was detained over what her lawyer believes was a decades-old, personal-use marijuana charge, which is no longer a crime in Massachusetts today… “I was just like, ‘Girls, we might never see your mother again in this country’”
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.
Hispanic Voters Are Turning Against Donald Trump: Polls
A person who is used to covering for and enabling pedophiles would say this
Everything from Trump the Trump Regime is predictable and awful.
This was about rewriting history. This is not justice. This is erasure. The cleansing of Donald Trump’s name. The rebranding of the most notorious child trafficker in U.S. history as some misunderstood figure. And in the process, the real victims—the survivors—are silenced, forgotten, smeared."
That may be more awful.
More destruction of education.
Socialism. Communism would mean owning the entire means of production.
Mississippi get VPN
Cops are great
Governor Wes Moore tells Donald Trump to stop talking about Maryland unless he's willing to come to our communities and stand with us. FEMA denied disaster aid for western Maryland after severe flooding in May caused an estimated $33.7 million in damages.
These guys go on all day about cultural marxism but are actually nationalizing private enterprises.