Impossible to have a functioning democracy when the President and his administration lie about everything. The administration's "analysis is riddled with errors, misrepresentations and cherry-picked data to fit the president’s political agenda." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/02/c...
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.
The serial criminal is the guy in the White House.
Been saying this for months. Messaging is not a buffet. Every time Dem leadership gets gulled into trotting out happy-clappy bipartisan talk because consultants said it polled well, people very reasonably conclude all that talk about Trump threatening democracy must just be disingenuous rhetoric.
The president is sending the military to control American cities and if you're a reporter who's framing that illegal power grab as "pushing the boundaries of constitutionality" or "acting boldly to fight crime" or whatever, please go find another line of work where you won't get us all killed.
Yup.
Trump made health concerns worse with his appearance today. His brain is pudding. He isn't just stupid, he can't maintain a thought.
I am not going to support the confirmation of a federal prosecutor who wants to rewrite the basic history of January 6th and who believes the overturning of Roe v. Wade was the right decision. Serrano is far out of step with Washington state values.
We’re back in session after Speaker Johnson let us out early at the end of July, feeling the pressure from our subpoenas for the Epstein files. Today, @oversightdemocrats.house.gov sat down with survivors who endured horrific abuse. What we heard was beyond disturbing. (1/2)
I'm aware that the President likes to go on television and beg me to call him to ask for troops. I find it strange, as Chicago doesn't want troops. I also have experience asking him for assistance – just to have the rug pulled up from underneath me when execution meets reality.
Give me a break. If Trump really cared about law and order, he’d reinstate the millions he cut from crime prevention programs—instead of threatening our cities with military deployments that exploit our troops and undermine readiness.
Drug trafficking is not a capital crime; it doesn’t carry a death sentence. I genuinely cannot think of anything under U.S. law that would permit premeditated government assassination of people suspected of drug trafficking.
Please someone persuade me that Trump hasn’t completely lost his mind and that we aren’t hurtling deep into mad king territory.
Donald Trump is using the military as a weapon against the American people. Trump is not a king. He cannot just take over cities because he wants to be a dictator. We will not back down in this fight against fascism.
Please share: My name is David Costello. I am a lifelong Mainer and Democrat running against Susan Collins. I too am concerned. I am concerned with endless decisions Susan Collins has made. We need to turn a page, retire Susan and take back the US Senate. Please watch and share:
Congrats to everyone who called those of us who opposed the post-9/11 increase in militarization and executive power “histrionic” Now your little President can bomb speed boats with impunity
A tremendous amount of people, many of them ostensibly on the "left," convinced themselves--again--in 2024 that Trump was the peace candidate despite all the evidence from his first term and from his campaign.
Donald Trump has recognized the basic truth that a critical mass of Americans will cheer the more brutal you are to people they see as criminals.
Welllllll... *I* think it's a violation of international law, but "identified terrorist organizations get no quarter" has been around for about 40 years. In this case, blowing up a boat without warning (unlike the Yemen case, where arrest was impossible) is a hard sell.
Here you go: bsky.app/profile/adam...
Reporter: there's a school shooting problem in america Trump: sure but there are thousands of schools where there are no shootings
If Joe Biden had a now near constant hand bruise--likely from some sort of regular IV--gave the press a flimsy excuse of it being "aspirin therapy" and from "shaking too many hands," and regular tried to hide it with makeup, I'm not sure the news media would be covering anything else.
Is anyone in the WHPC going to take him to task for his inciteful disinformation.
My dad is literally being prosecuted in the UK for his activism with the International Jewish Anti-Zionist Network, which my grandmother helped found. I am a multi-generational anti-Zionist Jew and you’re just an antisemite but thanks for playing.
"We stand with Governor Cook and with the institutional safeguards that have long underpinned American economic strength,” they said in the letter. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Idk man, i kinda think the next Dem president needs to absolutely break the Republican governments of Texas and Florida in particular bc this shit shoulsnt be viewed as anything other than a hostile act against Dem states from the Republican governors of those states that cannot go unanswered
"It breaks my heart to report that we have been told ICE will try and disrupt community picnics and peaceful parades. Let's be clear, the terror and cruelty is the point, not the safety of anybody living here." JB Pritzker
Everyone should watch this and stop pretending this guy isn’t a grave threat to everyone’s health.
POTUS seems big mad that he’s not getting his Reichstag fire no matter how much he provokes. It’d be funny if he wasn’t paying our soldiers to go out and hurt our own people. (But don’t worry- there will be zero medical care for the wounded and zero mental healthcare for the soldiers!)
"When did we become a country where it's okay 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?" Gov. JB Pritzker
Illinois Gov. Pritzker ahead of Trump National Guard deployment: "To Chicagoans... Look out for your communities and your neighbours. Know your rights. Film things that you see happening... Authoritarians thrive on your silence. Be loud for America."
This is literal fascism.
This guy gets it. This is the way.
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
for fuck's sake he is invading our cities. why the fuck do you keep talking about finding common ground?! he wants to kill us!
OCTOBER 18, 2025...No Kings Day.
A group of 85 climate experts has compiled more than 400-pages reviewing the Trump administration’s latest climate report. They found the DOE’s report had been authored by five fringe experts who cherry-picked cases and misrepresented evidence to support their flimsy findings. trib.al/eFcoDg0
Let us be clear: there is no emergency in Chicago that warrants the President of the United States deploying the military. I joined Senators Duckworth and Durbin and 10 Members of Congress from IL to demand that Trump & the Pentagon suspend plans for the deployment of military personnel to Chicago.
Bcc Chicago.
it's annoying for the longtime haters that his plagiarism, fabulism, and generally disgusting personality have obscured just how terrible and stupid all his BuzzFeed work was
Trump probably thinks stagflation is an Epstein 70's bachelor party
180 shots fired, 150 broken windows. Tumultuous firings and resignations at the CDC. The installation of a techno-optimist with a history of pushing unproven medical treatments. The month of August 2025 may go down as the worst in the history of the US Health and Human Services Department.
"There is nothing more vicious than an old lawyer who does not have a case."
Great lead headline right now, @nytimes.com.
My statement on @nadler.house.gov’s decision not to seek re-election next year.
We’ve spent more time talking about nonexistent crime in 🇺🇸 cities in the last month, even as we’ve totally erased actual political violence from the National Conversation™️. Hard to overstate how disheartening & deeply unserious this has been.
Add in that the MN shooter might have been preventable if FBI and DHS hadn't refocused their domestic terrorism policing, and FBI didn't even MENTION the terrorist attack at CDC.
NOW: Judge Breyer finds President Trump violated the Posse Comitatus Act with deployment in LA. Enjoins further use: Ruling: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
That account Musk is retweeting has boasted about being an “Aryan” white supremacist and has a habit of quoting Hitler. www.dailydot.com/debug/captiv...
Uncertainty acts like a tax on growth. Firms delay capex and hiring; households save, not spend. Policy whiplash raises hurdle rates and widens possible outcomes. That’s why today’s uncertainty is an economic problem, not just a vibe problem.
If only we could pinpoint the cause of increasing economic pessimism since the 1980s. Surely it can't be Americans constantly electing politicians who promise to make the economy worse for everyone except the ultra-wealthy.
The indictment was handed down 2 days after career prosecutor Richard Barker, the acting US atty for eastern Washington state, resigned. In a social post, Barker wrote “I am grateful that I never had to sign an indictment or file a brief that I didn’t believe in.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
"The reporters know these lies are lies. But they, and the news outlets that employ them, prize access — in this case access to Israeli and U.S. officials — above truth." Hey, just like at home! chrishedges.substack.com/p/the-betray...
“Prasad’s comments still appeared on anti-vaccine social media accounts, suggesting Prasad was directing his removal demand only at a critic and not anti-vaccine influencers. In the past, Prasad has complained about censorship by social media companies.” Yeah, cause he is an antivaxxer and a fraud.
Los Angeles, CA Music Festival 9/1/25
Concern over low birth rates was what the theocracy in Margaret Atwood’s Handmaid’s Tale used to come to power.
As Americans observe Labor Day, workers across the country are taking to the streets to protest President Donald Trump and other billionaires who, they say, are taking power away from the working class.
when they stop being funded by billionaires
If everything is an emergency, then nothing is an emergency.
She is a hostage though. Mayors don't have tenure nor a union.
This is the way
This should be the lead story in all major national news outlets. Public health people prefer to stay out of the limelight unless there is no other choice. I can’t overstate how bad things have to be for 9 former CDC directors to band together and pen an op-ed in the NYT warning the entire country.
Old Man Yells at Himself
News outlets should send their medical correspondents (the ones who are actual doctors) to the White House on Tuesday - and every day after that - to ask him questions about his health, hand bruising, if he’s getting lasix infusion, etc etc
Anyway, I’m glad to know the president is still technically alive so he can watch this tomorrow www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...
Maybe Susan Collins has finally worn out her welcome...
adam s cochran has performed OSINT epstein jail video analysis everyone should see! xcancel.com/adamscochran...
This is very strange I don't know if it's real or not Adam Cochran on X He is an investigative journalist All over TikTok and Instagram
Remembering when the NYT went on a weeks-long bender covering a decades-old real estate deal the Clintons were involved in, in which they *lost money*.
Only a 30-second standing O here.
Trump (who is dead) just saw on the news that Rudy Giuliani is still alive. In other news, Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss are getting a Presidential Medal of Freedom. thehill.com/homenews/adm...
Kressly: I expect in the next couple of weeks, this is going to get worse. You’re going to hear from the same administrative people who have gutted the expertise needed to promote child health — pushing false narratives like, “we need to look at the link between vaccines and autism.” That is a lie.
Bluesky is now among and often *the* highest referer to @motherjones.com. That’s traffic that has been additive. Only Twitter has dipped btw, the rest as fairly steady state (and instagram impressions and video views on all platforms up enormously.)
“I heard the same message from Pope Leo that I heard from Pope Francis, which is the desire to welcome all people, including LGBTQ people,” the Rev. James Martin, S.J., told the AP. “It was wonderful. It was very consoling and very encouraging and, frankly, a lot of fun.” https://to.pbs.org/46hrN7l
He demands that Pfizer and other companies show their vaccine data (which he calls drugs) to the CDC to show them how good they are. What does this tell us? That the outrage against RFK Jr. is having an effect and we need to push even harder to force this wedge.
Trump on RFK Jr., the CDC, and vaccines (a translation). He seems to be saying that he was shown data about COVID19 vaccines being safe and effective, but that the pharma companies didn’t show those amazing data to anyone else, like RFK Jr. He thinks this is why there is a “mess” at CDC.
Thousands gathered Monday for the 46th annual L.A. Coalition Labor Day Parade, picnic and rally to celebrate worker solidarity. abc7.com/post/rallies... #SolidaritySeason #WorkersOverBillionaires #WorkersLaborDay #WorkersDeserve #LaborDayWeekend #LaborDay
We really need more people to tell RFK Jr to shut up.
Prominent Cardiologist on CNN Urges Americans to ‘Not Trust’ U.S. Health Dept Leadership on Vaccines
After Donald Trump nominated RFK Jr to be his Secretary of Health and Human Services, 75 Nobel Laureates and more than 17,000 doctors publicly urged the U.S. Senate to oppose Kennedy's confirmation. EVERY REPUBLICAN U.S. SENATOR EXCEPT FOR MITCH MCCONNELL ignored all the warnings and confirmed him.
18K US Doctors Signed Quickly! Remove RFK Jr because he endangers lives. More are signing every minute!
Dean knew it.
(whispers) North Carolina is a women’s soccer school…
There are about 100 other ways to write this headline with facts, context & clarity. "pushing boundaries' ain't it. Here's a suggestion: The Trump Kennedy alliance results in the severe covid vaccine restrictions & more debuncked autism conspiracy theories. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/29/u...
This is exactly right! The Right’s core claim is that they represent an authentic, “real" America that is constantly being victimized, made to suffer under the yoke of leftist/liberal overreach, and therefore rightfully aggrieved. And too many Democrats/liberals look at that and go: “I agree.”
The Boston Labor Day march has made it to City Hall Plaza
happy labor day, workers of the world
This morning at the start of the Boston Labor Day parade
Labor Day LIVE: "Workers Over Billionaires": Nationwide Protests Erupt as Union Leaders Rally Across Chicago www.youtube.com/live/LYiIfjC...
How to sell propaganda successfully: 54% of AMERICANS ages 16-74 read BELOW a 6th grade level. 11-year-olds in adult bodies are gullible and happy to hear their financial woes were all caused by "illegals" with brown skin. Propaganda machine rewarded with government jobs, over 30 of them.
China didn’t take it. America gave it away.
Hopefully between insurers (they'd rather pay for your shot than pay for your hospitalization) and state governments setting the guidelines, this won't be so bad, at least in blue states.
I've never seen such a disconnect between Dem elected/staff/consultants and actual Dem voters. The latter understand what's going on. The former are awash in right-wing brainrot, hence @schatz.bsky.social blaming COVID mitigation and BLM marches for the GOP's wanton destruction of public health.
![@EsotericCD It was in this moment that many of us hanging on to a thin sliver of trust in our institutions irrevocably lost faith in them. One of the most poisonous blows to public trust in living memory - worse than the effect of the Iraq War in many ways. RFK Jr is a direct result of this. Quote Steve Guest @SteveGuest · Aug 31 Politico 5 years ago: [screenshot of article falsely claiming public health officials lied about COVID measures then abandoned them for BLM protests] Views](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ddvus7otnqtlh7fdooxm6qat/bafkreihsypwydo5rcis7mc54cwct6h33l5co477nvh7g7hs7na2fz4jl3q@jpeg "Click to view full size")
Already bad when people in your country try to get you rounded up and kicked out. A foreigner doing it, and stoking the sentiment, including with bigoted lies at scale, because his wealth and media control enables it, is insane. It’s already caused considerable harm, and appears to be getting worse.
Hannah Arendt: If “given irrefutable proof of their falsehood, they would take refuge in cynicism; instead of deserting the leaders who had lied to them, they would protest that they had known all along that the statement was a lie and would admire the leaders for their superior tactical cleverness”
who is the administrator of DOGE who is the administrator of DOGE who is the administrator of DOGE who is the administrator of DOGE who is the administrator of DOGE who is the administrator of DOGE who is the administrator of DOGE WHO IS THE ADMINISTRATOR OF DOGE???????
Mark is right, although I confess I am a hypocrite here, for I wholly support the "remigration" of Elon Musk and Peter Thiel. They have failed to assimilate to our cultural norms and instead have tried to impose their foreign backwards ways upon us, and so must be removed to protect our heritage.
The mental fitness of elderly Presidents has been such an important issue for the media lately, so I expect wall-to-wall coverage of how President Trump has once again thrown a fit about one of his own signature policies, showing no awareness of how it arose or who executed it.
He obviously knows where he’s going.
⚘Carina 