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Pritzker: When did we become a country where it's okay for the 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?
And where are all of these available insane asylums?
Money laundering and bribes.
He looks awful.
Crime is literally lower than it has been in the entire life of every single non-senior-citizen American. If you are under age 65 you have never lived at a time with lower property crime rates, lower violent crime rates or lower homicide rates. Never.
She’s a criminal and a dangerous liar and should not be featured on tv. CBS is just crap anymore (except for Jane Pauley).
The Murdoch’s allow this propaganda. It makes them massive amounts of money.
The average American simply has no idea how quickly the infrastructure that keeps us safe and healthy is collapsing. These systems run in the background thanks to government employees who quietly do critical work. Those employees are being purged and systems are being destroyed.
She looks more and more pinched.
Look at Biden’s ankles! Slim and trim!
We won’t notice it at first Maybe an outbreak of cholera in southwest Kansas goes undetected Perhaps the number of flu related deaths ticks up just a bit each year But-ultimately, inexorably-the destruction of the CDC will lead to countless deaths All because of two men Trump and RFK, Jr
Happy Caturday from Gorbachova (Gorby)!
Her follow-up in the cemetery was the nail in the ⚰️!
More insane alternative history (fiction).
Once again, Border Patrol tells the press this was a targeted kidnapping, yet they took a man who is legally here & in the immigration process. This shows that it was not a targeted investigation as they claimed. Press must stop printing lies. apnews.com/article/immi...
She will be in federal prison someday, unless she flees to Russia.
Detainees report alleged uprising at ‘Alligator Alcatraz’: ‘A lot of people have bled’
A simple MRI scan in the U.S. can cost a patient more than $1000. This is about 85% and 130% higher than the cost of a similar procedure in Canada and the U.K.
And not engaging in what? Effectiveness?
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)
Thank God someone is stopping the dangerous... uh... violinists in Utah. Entered the US with proper papers at 10, later graduated with a fine arts degree from the University of Utah and stayed. Invasion! There's evidence he's been part of the vicious gang known as The Salt Lake Symphony Orchestra.
She’s a criminal!
Here is the growing list of countries choosing to pause mail deliveries to the U.S. because of Trump's tariff chaos. Did anyone vote in 2024 to become the new Hermit Kingdom? Austria Australia Denmark France Germany India Italy Japan New Zealand Singapore Spain South Korea Sweden Thailand
Public extortion.
What illnesses requires the number of IV bruises he has had now since last year? He’s a sick man.
The Social Security Administration's chief data officer has publicly blown the whistle, alleging DOGE put hundreds of millions of Social Security records at risk of compromise by uploading a critical government database of citizen's data to Amazon's cloud.
Do not follow Trumpism! It’s a dead end.
Gov. Pritzker: "There is no emergency that warrants the President of the U.S. federalizing the Illinois National Guard." "Trump is attempting to manufacture a crisis, politicize Americans who serve in uniform, and continue abusing his power to distract from the pain he is causing working families."
From what?
Because Obama.
The Coast Guard works for ICE now. Coast Guard planes previously used for search and rescue have done hundreds of secret ICE flights in recent weeks, including two I watched from a public parking lot near BWI. My exclusive for Rolling Stone: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
Just another form of extortion.
I think this is exactly right.
If this is from blood draws, why is he needing so many tests or infusions (if they are putting stuff into his vascular system)?
They are so terrified of the United States becoming a minority majority country.
Yep, using this quote for syllabus day #academicchatter
He is a monster.
The courts will decide.
He’s showing them how stupid they’ve been, too.
Why is the stock market so happy about America’s ruination?
Here’s what was NOT released today: - the proffer agreement between Maxwell and the DoJ - the agreement transferring Maxwell to club fed - communications showing who waived Maxwell’s sex offender status allowing her transfer and possible work assignments outside prison - the Epstein files
Trump has created a moral vacuum, which is just the way he likes it.
She participated in the rape and sexual abuse of minors.
“Trump’s ability to trigger racist impulses of millions of Republicans and rally white nationalists takes…no special political skill. Rather, it’s a reminder of how deep these impulses go in the national psyche & how easily a racist demagogue can incite them.” www.americaamerica.news/p/the-trump-...
He needs to get inside an embassy that will protect him.
We’ve got armored personnel carriers roaming the streets of DC, “investigations” of political enemies, masked secret police brutalizing immigrants and U.S. citizens, SCOTUS rubber-stamping unconstitutional orders, GOP reps gerrymandering at the president’s order. America is an authoritarian state.
The national emergency is Donald Trump’s Trump.
Because of Obama. Trump’s jealousy is pathological.
Quid pro quo.
He just looks sicker and sicker each week. He’s not well mentally or physically.
Ridiculous. Dangerous. Trump wants to test out murdering citizens.
A collapse of our economy is coming because of Trump.
THIS‼️🤭🤭🤭
Or a child.
Professionals are not running these concentration camps, racist ideologues are.
every single democrat should be saying this
“More than 80 years ago, the base was an official U.S. Army facility that was used as a temporary internment camp, holding nationals from Japan, Germany and Italy.” Shame on every Republican who voted for this. #DemVoice1 #ProudBlue #Pinks
Quite novel? How about quite immoral?
What a putz!
Exhibit A on how unhip the Trump administration is.
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/20/o...
DC residents are showing the way to counter Trump’s abuse of power. They are just warming up.
Can someone arrange an accident?
Trump and Republicans are gutting the VA. Thousands of doctors and caregivers fired. 7 million Veterans left hanging. The people who served this country are now paying the price for his cruelty. #DefendVeteransBenefits
Every unlikable weirdo is drawn into Trump’s circle.
Why do she and Kristi Noem have such bad skin?
A lot of very rich Americans are dual citizens. Indeed, carrying more than one passport is a status thing.
He is a sick fuck of a man.
I think you are 100% correct. Trump 2.0 is not sustainable, especially when the economy starts tumbling and citizens are kidnapped and disappeared for political resistance.
What a lie! Sounds like a Trumpism.
www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...
Utilities should be public assets.
Really, it’s a sign of his mental decline. People with dementia suffer peculiar hoarding-like disorders. They think the crapified is beautiful.
I can’t wait to see Kristi Noem sentenced to prison.
www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
What he’s arguing is a lie.
It reminds me of the collection of junk that an Alzheimer’s relative accrued over the course of her illness.
She’s political toast.
The speaker’s desk would make a good chamber pot.
He’s lying. But the European leaders know that.
329 million Americans. Just a small percentage of them can counter the brown shirts on the streets.
Put Grandpa back up on the roof, and if he wants to fly, let him!
His EOs are an abuse of power and unconstitutional.
These idiot white-supremacists have always been part of the national mix, as @hcrichardson.bsky.social has written about eloquently. But the rest of us have fought against them, and beaten them. We have to do that again. They are what America can sink to. We are what America hopes for.
A useful WaPo map of where Trump Storm Troops are actually operating in DC. www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202... If you know DC, what this map tell you is: They're making the gaudy show of strength in areas where it matters least and will do least good. Except for sheer spectacle.
When hasn’t he?
Overpaid goon squad.
So the Trump administration *did* intervene to make sure that an Israeli pedophile fled American law enforcement. Protecting people who molest children appears to be the only thing this administration really cares about--other than pretending Donald wasn't totally shellacked by Putin in Alaska.
Getting kickbacks from private prisons is the icing on the cruelty cake.
Our country is being driven off a cliff by the madman our fellow citizens elected. What a nightmare.
STOP conceding that Trump can legitimately expand grab by deploying baseless claims of “emergency.” There was NO EMERGENCY to justify tariffs. There was NO “INVASION” to justify this migrant crackdown. And there is NO “EMERGENCY” that justifies military takeover of local law enforcement in D.C.
Ginning up the lies.
What happens when you have no standards at all for whom you hire and provide minimal training to the Proud Boy types now earning six figures for unconstitutional behavior.
Important.
Incest.
Which proves he stopped thinking and learning before Alaska became a state.
@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."
Keep it up!
