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.
Speaking my mind to preserve, win back, and expand our rights. Just got my X handle going again when I jumped to bluer skies.
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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.
Trump on the cover of French magazine Le Point. Translation: “Man from Moscow” Le Point is a major French weekly news magazine. It is considered a center-right / conservative-leaning publication.
Wages of unionized workers are 13% higher than their nonunion counterparts. But unions also set a higher pay standard that all workers enjoy. In high-union-density states, median household income is $12,000 higher than in low-union-density states. This is why unions are vital.
They’re coming for your birth control ladies. You better be paying attention & getting loud! @azagmayes.bsky.social please get ahead of this project 2025 craziness. #ProudBlue #OneV1 #Pinks
At first i thought it wasn’t loading 🤣 Yeah, the whole Rudy accident is suspicious at best and Trump is doing a North Korea/Cuba is he dying? Is he dead yet? One can only hope.
If you enjoy… Weekends Safe working conditions Retirement benefits Paid vacations Breaks at work Sick leave Paid holidays … then you’re part of the labor movement. Happy Labor Day.
The history we learn is a narrative.It’s informed by where and when we live.I didn’t know about the Tulsa Massacre until 15 or so years ago.But growing up and teaching in the Princeton area,I learned a lot about Einstein.We always should strive to learn more, especially when maga wants the opposite.
senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, former chief economist to Senator Rob Portman (R-OH) & director of budget and spending policy for Marco Rubio’s 2016 presidential campaign👇🏽
9 CDC Directors going back to 1977 speak out. What RFK Jr has done to our nation’s public health system "should alarm every American." It "is unlike anything we have ever seen at the agency, and unlike anything our country has ever experienced." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...
He was very civil rights minded. He stood up for Miriam Anderson in Princeton. He gave to all religions, various civil rights organizations. Having been persecuted by the Nazis, he understood where hated led.
Every state needs to do this!
Read this 🧵!
Medicare for all, paid leave, universal childcare. Busting up big corporations and tackling Wall Street’s greed. Getting big money out of politics. Supporting unions and fighting for higher wages. If Dems want to win back working people, this is the agenda they must support.
UPDATE: Judge blocks mass transfer of estimated 600 immigrant children from US to Guatemala amid dispute over whether parents have sought their return. DOJ lawyer calls suit 'outrageous' interference, but judge suggests holiday timing of flights is suspicious www.politico.com/news/2025/08...
@jollygoodginger.bsky.social is in DC with other vets right now standing up for democracy. He's playing General Milleys speech on repeat for them today 💜 #LoveTheVets!
Terminal incoherence
Question: Why did US put big tariffs on India despite major national interest in cultivating a strategic counterweight to China and trying to isolate Russia? Answer: Because the US president lied that he fixed India-Pakistan and India wouldn’t go along with the lie. (Seriously, that’s the answer)
Did you feel hope?
Illinois Gov. Pritzker vows to pursue Trump officials who participate in an illegal National Guard deployment to Chicago: "If you hurt my people, nothing will stop me - not time or political circumstance - from making sure that you face justice under our constitutional rule of law."
WTAF! One more piece of evidence that MAGA and Trump are all good with sex trafficking.
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He should make a very public plea for asylum to Canada for his whole family. Shame this regime!
Those states include, not just Indiana, but Alabama, Arkansas, Iowa, Nebraska, Idaho, Louisiana, Nevada, Florida, Texas, Wyoming. It’s not just blue states to be targeted, so better buckle up red states. Did you think he’d stop with Democrats? We tried to tell you… www.wthr.com/article/news...
At 2:00 a.m., Texas Republicans passed their gerrymandered congressional map. At 8:00 a.m., with the support of the National Redistricting Foundation, my law firm sued. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
It isn't until the 26th paragraph that there is mention that what Trump is doing is being challenged as illegal. And it accepts Trump's stated rationale to act. Here is what I think: Trump is illegally deploying the military in blue cities to set the stage to interfere with the 2026 elections.
Of note: they tell you how much it costs for the government to run the free filing system, but they don’t tell you how much it would cost to have a private corporation do it. (Hint: it would cost taxpayers more to have a private corporation do it.)
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Texas is a majority-minority state, yet Republicans drew maps that make white votes carry 2-3 times more political power than Black or Hispanic votes. That’s what gerrymandering does: it cracks and packs communities of color so their growing numbers translate into less representation.
Honestly, we need a new Constitutional Convention. And it needs to include protections for the catastrophic failure we’re witnessing in real time. Read this🧵
“Get out of here, you Nazi f*cks!” Makes my heart sing.
Trump pledged to release all the Epstein Files. The American people want him to, even the MAGA base. But he won’t do it. I wonder why… #ReleaseAllTheEpsteinFiles
Let’s be clear about what’s really going on over at Target. They’re playing us. The current CEO, will “step down,” but he’s moving up to exec chair of the Board of Directors. That’s rewarding his failure. The new CEO, is the current COO & has been w/Target for 20 years. Nothing’s really changing.
You know what's crazy? There have been no op-eds or editorial statements in major newspapers this year calling on Trump to resign. None calling for his impeachment. None asking if he's medically fit to be in office. Not one in any major newspaper all year.
They aren’t trying to erase history because they’re embarrassed by it. They’re trying to erase history because it’s their current playbook.
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.
The woman yelling that they’re the gestapo, in Spanish, is everything! The people for the win!
I’m guessing those “harsh measures” are military troops in the state capital. 🤬 #VoterIntimidation
NEWS: Federal judge finds that Alina Habba is NOT lawfully performing functions and duties of U.S. Attorney in New Jersey. Judge Matthew Brann disqualifies Habba from prosecution of two criminal defendants who challenged her appointment
They’re whitewashing our history in books and museums …recruiting Nazis into ICE. …deploying the military into our cities. …shielding the pedophiles and predators in their ranks. …stealing your data, social security & Medicaid. Because some of you couldn’t handle pronouns.
The evil that it takes to bald-faced lie like that! Holy f*ck! And it doesn’t even occur to her that her politics are so wrong she has to lie about it!
Different constitutions in different countries. Ukraine’s says no elections during war, but the US’s doesn’t stop elections for any reason.
105 years ago today the Women’s Suffrage movement achieved its goal with the passing of the 19th amendment. Today, Trump and his Cabinet flirt with the very people and ideas that would have Women’s right to vote destroyed.
I love Zelensky! You can still hear that comedian snark.
Trump’s adoration is reserved for dictators, not defenders of freedom.
www.aclu.org/shutdownICE
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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.
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Vermont’s Republican Governor Phil Scott has REJECTED Trump's second request to send National Guard troops to Washington, D.C.
1/2. The phrase "land swap" is being used to mean "Ukraine concedes land illegally occupied by Russia and also concedes territory that is not even occupied." That is not a swap.
What would Lincoln do 🤔
What’s your why? I want to preserve our Constitution. I want a government that functions for and not against its people. I want all to be equal in their rights to their bodies and before the law. I want science and statistics to be restored. I want our museums/libraries to be free to do good works.
It’s an act of bravery and of resistance to dine out. Please do.
Outside Dupont north metro
Yeah, this is a highly unusual all-hands-on-deck meeting that wouldn’t be happening if Alaska was productive. 5 European leaders, the head of NATO and the head of the EU don’t just drop everything and fly to DC. H/T: @radiofreetom.bsky.social
Massive protests have broken out in Israel calling for Neyanyahu to step down, a deal to return the hostages, and to end the Gaza genocide. 300,000 protested in Tel Aviv, 2.5 million gathered around the country. #3E #FreePalestine
Pritzker is also wonderful at pushing back and he’s not anti-trans.
What would The Simpsons say about this? Wykyk 😉
Life comes at you fast
Trump: On war criminal Putin: “I’ve always had a fantastic relationship with him” On sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell: “I wish her well” On pedophile Epstein: “He’s a lot of fun to be with” On J6: “It was a day of love” To everyone who has enabled this evildoer, a pox on you and your houses.
It’s really wild that Fox is calling Newsom’s tweets immature and unbecoming of a leader when he’s literally just mocking the way Trump tweets. 🤣🤣🤣
This!
A group of House and Senate Democrats — led by Rep. Jamie Raskin — have introduced a joint resolution that would put an end to Trump's control of DC's police. "His efforts in D.C. ... are part of a broader plan to militarize and federalize the streets of cities … whose citizens voted against him."
BRENNAN: Well that February meeting in front of cameras where Zelenskyy was dressed down-- RUBIO: Do you know how many meetings we've had since then? BRENNAN: I was just up in Alaska watching the one with Vladimir Putin where a red carpet rolled out. It was very different
Crow: "Putin doesn't care about a B2 bomber flyover ... what he cares about is 3 things: economic pressure in form of sanctions, being a pariah state, and military defeat ... this admin continues to be unwilling to do anything to assert pressure in any of those 3 areas."
Not sure that helps the US case, lol.
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Zelensky be like “not this time homey” www.yahoo.com/news/article...
Better get the info while you still can: www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...
@gavinnewsom.bsky.social: "He's a wartime president. He's the head of a war party. War on women. War on voting rights. War on Hispanics. A war on this state. War on institutions. Now he wants war on history."
Any reasonable person who wants to help the community would 💯 agree with this man. I hope the officers go home and think about it and return the next day wanting to know the community they police.
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The pretexts for these paramilitary takeovers don’t matter They’re lies Don’t buy into their narrative They’re normalizing military takeovers That should be the opposing narrative, not crime rates which let them steer the conversation WE should steer it What they’re doing is unacceptable Period
What a Nazi sh*thead!
Tell me what democracy looks like? THIS is what democracy looks like! Stand up, fight back!
So this.
🚨Holy Shit‼️Arnold Schwarzenegger is not happy about the Trump/Putin meeting in Alaska. He says Trump stood there like a wet noodle, like a fanboy. This wasn’t a show of strength this was Putin owning Trump’s ass over and over again. So Low-T, So Beta! #ReleaseTheEpsteinFiles
FFS!
Oh. So Putin ate him for lunch?
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Remember when Kamala said Putin would eat Trump for lunch? I was thinking about that today for no particular reason.
US troops rolling down the red carpet for Putin, basically bowing down to Russia.
🇺🇦 Re-upping this one in the name of decency and democracy. Slava Ukraini!
Because Trump would’ve said, good luck, Putin. Ffs!
When even Fox notices Trump’s on his knees for Putin…
Blumenthal: "My stomach turned when I heard the president of the United States characterize Vladimir Putin as his fabulously good friend. Vladimir Putin is a war criminal."
NEWS: Trump’s DOJ caves, agrees to dramatically scale back its attempted takeover of the DC police after Judge Reyes signaled it violated the Home Rule Act. DC Police Chief Pamela Smith will remain in charge.
The body language alone speaks VOLUMES. #SlavaUkraine 🇺🇦
Newsom can't be President because he's an asshole with bad politics but he can absolutely goad the current President into doing dumb and loud shit and there is no greater need in the moment than a loathsome fuck to anger and annoy the other loathsome fuck
Jack White responds to Newsom’s IG post that used “Seven Nation Army”: "Fans of this song and also democracy, notice that I'm ok with this track being used in this manner. Not so much when trump and his gestapo try to use one of my songs. Keep hitting him back Gavin!"
On today's episode of you get what you voted for FAFO. Trump voter shocked he was stopped snd questioned by boarder patrol. Now they regret thier vote and feel bad for thier vote. I can't feel bad for them. We warned u guys. U didn't listen. U helped create this mess, blame yourself 🤷♀️ #FAFO