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More framing like this, please www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/u...
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Yes! I agree! It's hard to imagine that Vance could keep the cult going. Of course, I will never ever understand how Trump kept it going, so I'm afraid to trust my gut on that.
Even then, I suppose they'd rush him to a secluded location and claim it was a fainting spell and now he's doing fine.
It's getting where I think that if Trump dies in office, the only way we'll find out about it is if it happens in the middle of a press conference.
I've got a question: How far in advance is Trump's schedule usually posted? Has anything been cancelled, or was it already clear for this past week? Or do they not post until the day of? Are there things coming up that we should watch for?
Oh I absolutely know that's true. That's partly why it scares me how much my heart lifts at the thought. I can't seem to tamp down that pure joy.
A debut from my 2023 Morris reading, Kween, by Vichet Chum, is about a Cambodian American teen dealing with some big issues and trying to find her voice as a performance poet. Read my review: www.sonderbooks.com/Teens/kween....
Could we, at least, have a Dave for a few days?
Trump is so *obviously* mentally and physically unwell, and has been for a long time. But his whole first presidency, I was thinking he wouldn't make it through 4 years. I don't believe in gloating over your enemy's troubles, so it's starting to just plain scare me how much my hopes are rising.
Wow. www.sonderbooks.com passed 600,000 hits in August. I'm a bit stunned. Thank you for reading my stuff!
Just so you know, everything that is being pushed out from the Whitehouse is just a ploy to distract us from the Epstein victims testifying on Capitol Hill on Wednesday. Thank you Rep Ro Khanna (D-CA) and Rep Thomas Massie (R-KY) for making this happen. The victims deserve justice! 💥🔥💥
Chicago this Labor Day… Thousands fighting for what #WorkersDeserve
Central Coast Farm workers wish you a happy #LaborDay Campesinos de la Costa Central les desean un feliz Día del Trabajo. #WeFeedYou #SoyEsencial
They’re always the bigger people!
Hey Congress – make Alex Acosta's testimony public and televised. There's absolutely no ethical reason for it to be private and transcribed. Nefarious AF. We need to hear your questions. We want to see him squirm. We need to see him squirm. Yet another sign of a cover-up.
Don't get my hopes up like that!
Release The E-Files
Not seeing the white house resident a few days is one thing. Posting fake (old) photos of him is quite another and absolutely looks suspicious. #WhereisTrump
Pope Leo XIV met with one of the most prominent advocates for greater LGBTQ+ inclusion in the Catholic Church. The Rev. James Martin said Leo told him that he intended to continue Pope Francis’ policy of LGBTQ+ acceptance in the church and encouraged him to keep up his advocacy.
@therickwilson.bsky.social Sending Clots and Prayers! 😅
Guess whose ankles aren’t swollen?
Excellent!
Happy Monday, and happy Labor Day! Anyone who posts a joke here today has just as much chance of winning the $1.1 billion powerball tonight as I do, which leads to my own joke… If you spell "Absolutely Nothing" backwards you get "Gnihton Yletulosba", which means absolutely nothing. Mind. Blown.🤯
I grew up during a time when the press would have demanded that the White House release the President's medical records and ask why no one has seen him for four days.
Breaking news: It's a beautiful weekend in Chicago. So for this weekend, the city has safely hosted: 🚴♀️ Bike the Drive where hundreds pedal down a temporarily closed Lake Shore Drive 🏠The ARC music festival (Chicago is the home of house music) ⚾A White Sox game 🍒Farmers markets & food fests 1/
The Constitution provides Congress the power to override a Presidential veto. They aren’t co equal on law passing. Congress is the superlative body.
I've held out pretty well... until now.
I'm going on record. You don't cover up dead. He's not dead. However, he's sick as shit. That you can cover up for a bit. But just a bit. Mostly I hope he feels like absolute shit and is very scared of death. That I can work with.
www.tiktok.com/t/ZT6GvjPcr/ How in the HELL does any government lawfully deport 600 unaccompanied minors? Who does that? Who the fuck are we? What are we? What have we become?
Assuming he's sick, l just pray he follows the medical advice of "one of the world's foremost voices, advocates and experts on public health," RFK Jr.
I'm no doctor but I hope it's unpleasant and RFK Jr is his primary care.
We now know that Trump, or probably more correctly, the White House posted a photo today showing Trump playing golf which we now know was taken over a week ago. What do you reckon is going on?
The thing about those 600 minors being deported is none of them were in the Epstein files like Trump is.
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Where is the mainsteam media? Anyone out there? Can you hear me???
I’m not an ornithologist. Can anyone identify the bird in this photo?
Remember the Goolsbee Rule, also called the “pathological irony of crisis”: If you lose credibility, your statements begin to mean the opposite of what you say.
💯%. I've come to accept how morally depraved Donald Trump is. But I'll never get over how blindingly imbecilic he is. www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
Oh, Andy Borowitz. What a gem you are.
Trump, Bill Clinton, and George W Bush were all born the same year. They're all old.
Here's a picture of a wee coo to lighten ye heart.
Can the media STOP referring to Jeffrey Epstein as a “financier”? The money he made came from SEX TRAFFICKING MINORS, RAPING CHILDREN, and BLACKMAIL. He was NOT a financier. I’ve seen at least five stories from three outlets refer to him this way in the past week. This is the latest from the Times:
If that Trump Truth Social account posts an apology to someone, admits making a mistake, or accepts responsibility for something, then we will know something is definitely up.
You mean the Party that was up Joe Biden’s ass about his age and health isn’t being transparent now? Shocked
The trouble with Trump disappearing and clumsy attempts to present fake photos is how it gets our hopes up. "May his days be few; may another take his place of leadership."
the white house has released some photos as signs of life, but some were time stamped from months ago his truth social (his proprietary version of twitter) posts dont sound like his normal cadence. folks suspect a ghost writer afaik he’s alive. this photo seems to be from the last couple if days
The problem with speculation about whether Trump is alive is I've seen a whole bunch of those movies and even if he's not somebody is just going to remove the stake or get blood in the coffin or do a Satanic thing with a bunch of hippies in an abandoned church and we're right back where we started.
This is a photo taken last weekend. Where is Trump? MAGA WHERE IS HE?Trump needs to be replaced by JD immediately as he obviously is not capable of being in charge!! MSM do your job! Melanie is not Mrs Wilson. She cannot run the country.
It really does. All of these photos we've gotten have either been AI generated, photoshopped, or old photos. Why are we playing "Where in the World is Donald Trump?"
I live in DC and Trump is lying about NO crimes. This is the list of crimes 8/30/25. They are protecting monuments and museums where crimes are NOT committed. Do not believe anything this administration says. showcrime.com/washington-d...
Once more for those in back: They were never going to be able to implement a mass deportation program without prioritizing people like this. Criminals and gang members are too hard to find and apprehend. Regular folks who show up to work, church, and their scheduled immigration appointments are not.
Nobody actually saw Trump golfing today.
Like you, I have no idea where the f*ck Trump is. But I find myself gratefully glad about all the places he ISN'T.
That's where he's wrong! Trump is bleeding supporters as evidenced in slumping approval ratings. If the South wants to Rise Again we will gladly show them the door.
The perfect Dem messaging campaign couldn’t do one-tenth as much damage to Trump as a TikTok meme where thousands of people gleefully scoured every aspect of the admin for signs of current or impending deadness. People scouring Biden videos for signs of senility is literally what elected Trump
First, per Google there are NO PALM TREES at his golf course in Virginia! Second, this is nothing but trying to distract us from what’s IMPORTANT! Don’t fall for it! #ReleaseTheEpsteinFiles
I agree, he's the one holding the cult together. But, I do think, that because they've already cemented authoritarian party rule there's no doubt they'll just keep that train rolling with rigged elections. The problem isn't removing Trump, it's retaking power from an authoritarian party somehow.
#ProudBlue A censored Human Rights Report = a gift to dictators. The State Dept cut the truth out of its annual report. That’s not “streamlining”—that’s shielding abusers. If you can’t name atrocities, you’re complicit in them.
Good point @deby0922.bsky.social
RFK Jr. likes to claim that thimerosal in childhood vaccines causes autism spectrum disorder (ASD). So I wonder if he’d like to explain how the rates of ASD diagnoses in the U.S. have kept going up when thimerosal was removed from all childhood vaccines in 2001?
BREAKING: Judge Sooknanan has now expanded her restraining order as she attempts to block ongoing efforts to remove hundreds of Guatemalan children, which their lawyers say are currently underway. www.politico.com/news/2025/08...
NEW: Judge Sooknanan acted quickly to block as many as 600 Guatemalan children from being deported by the Trump administration without due process. A judge in Illinois took a similar step for 4 children whose lawyers sued Saturday. w/ @joshgerstein www.politico.com/news/2025/08...
#ProudBlue #Resist #ChildTrafficing The government is trafficking unaccompanied children today! Read the entire thread which concludes this is happening now, & the hearing has been moved up to 12:30 - let’s hope they don’t get away with this travesty!
A book I reviewed in 2020, Go to Sleep (I Miss You): Cartoons from the Fog of New Parenthood, by Lucy Knisley, is just as funny today. Read my review: www.sonderbooks.com/Nonfiction/g...
I have been saying this for something like 15 years and I am so tired, folks: the tactics. Of the right. Don't work. For the left. Because their politics are divisive and anti-community. Ours aren't. They win when politics is toxic and vicious. We win by building solidarity.
What’s happening is a lot of people who thought a little fascism just meant clearing out some undesirables and making the trains run on time are realizing that actually yes they too will be effected and it’s making them slightly nervous.
Sure, maybe ten years ago it was, for some, a considerable accusation to make – but not any more. Not for a long while. You'd have to be willfully ignoring so damn many things not to see it now. It sure AF looks like we have a pedofile sexual predator for a president. Release the Epstein files.
#gratitude
A federal judge has ordered Florida to shut down "Alligator Alcatraz," after the state spent a staggering $218M to build the now-vacant detention camp. Closing it will run taxpayers another $20M. An utterly cruel and costly waste.
#ResistanceUnited #ProudBLUE #DV1 ☕ Weekend Classroom rules should apply to adults as well, but too often: - They do not listen to opposing views. - They treat their opponents with hostility. - They make poor decisions. Oops! Children are watching. 👦🏽👱♀️👧
The Rev took attendance…
While Felon47 slams the door on refugees, Canada opens ours. Compassion isn’t a liability, it’s a responsibility! Canada welcomes and embraces immigrants & protects refugees. That’s not weakness, that’s strength. Diversity is our backbone. 🌍❤️🇨🇦 #SheShed #TheDefendersOfDemocracy
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I've started a 48-Hour Book Challenge! Here's my starting line post: sonderbooks.com/blog/?p=45669
Never in my life will in comprehend why the Access Hollywood tape wasn’t the end for him. Almost 10 years of being deeply embarrassed for this country every day.
AMERICA: “It’s a mental health issue.” REST OF THE WORLD: “We have those. But don’t have mass shootings.” AMERICA: “It’s video games.” WORLD: “We have those too. But don’t have mass shootings.” AMERICA B: “It’s cause they took Jesus out of the classroom.” WORLD: “God, you’re stupid.”
In Drown Me with Dreams, by Gabi Burton, read by Dami Olukoya, Saoirse is known to be a siren who can control people with her voice. She's on the other side of a magical barrier from the one she loves. Can she ever get back without starting a war? Read my review: www.sonderbooks.com/Teens/drown_...
Is it just me? Or does anyone else feel a whole lot less safe where there are groups of armed, masked men in camo gear patrolling?
Are We There Yet? The First Road Trip Across America, by Stacy McAnulty, ill. by Elizabeth Baddeley, is a light-hearted nonfiction picture book about the first people who, along with their dog, drove across America in a car - with many misadventures along the way. www.sonderbooks.com/Childrens_No...
Making them wear high-visibility vests over camo is such a good joke you couldn’t write it
These guys should be home with their families.
Krasner: So, if what you have is a group of ICE agents, or even the military, coming into Philadelphia and committing crimes—assaults that are illegal, kidnapping, unlawful restraint, obstruction of the administration of justice—they can be prosecuted.
The ghoulish fixation on preexisting conditions and starving children in Gaza is bizarre. In all modern conflicts the death toll is measured in excess deaths. This is something I wrote about Congo's civil war almost 20 years ago:
This isn't about who will win the 2028 election. It's about if we'll have the 2028 election.
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