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The thing is @semaforben.bsky.social truly believes that modern politics is merely entertainment fodder. That’s what he learned back at politico with his buddies Maggie Haberman and GlennThrush. It’s why he hired Benny Johnson at Buzzfeed and stuck with him when the plagiarism first surfaced.
Declaring an emergency isn’t solving the emergency, it exasperating it.
No lie detected.
Heavy is the head that wears the Interstate tollway plaza, gas station trucker’s cap.
Elon Musk is a Nazi sympathizer with a breeding cult and it says a lot that the mainstream media works so hard to cover this up
New this week: Chicago likely has had fewer shootings through August year than any year since the mid-1960s. Gun violence remains a problem there, but I wrote about the city's encouraging trends and the data challenge of historically contextualizing this year. jasher.substack.com/p/contextual...
Keep voting for Republicans Ohio.
Military veterans in Ohio could suffer from the cuts to Medicaid in the federal budget bill signed by President Trump in July, and a fading level of safety-net supports for veterans could have consequences when it comes to recruiting new service members. ohiocapitaljournal.com/2025/09/02/o...
Important announcement: Today is Tuesday
The great thing about destroying agencies and expertise in our American government is that it justifies declaring never ending National Emergencies. Create the emergency, declare the emergency. Do jack-shit about it.
The biggest mistake liberals make on media issues is assuming the mainstream media gives a single fuck. They don’t care. They’re rich and they’re white and they’re protected. None of this affects them. They don’t give a shit. If you understand this fact then the tone of the coverage makes sense.
FFS - IT’S THE F#CKING GUNS YOU IDIOTS. YOU LOVE GUNS MORE THAN CHILDREN!
Susan Collins should actually be *concerned*. I'm not sure if Maine wants this, but I've been waiting to hear someone tell everyone who Collins is for more than a decade.
You’re paying an unneeded tariff tax on Indian products because President Art of the Deal couldn’t convince India’s leader to nominate him for a Nobel Peace Prize. You’re paying double for morning coffee because he’s mad Brazil won’t let an insurrectionist go free.
Just remembering when slack jaw POTUS was a red alert situation.
Hey GOP: You are killing the economy with your policies you dumba**es. Who do you think is going to pay your rent and buy your goods after you wreck the economy? The Middle Class literally supports you and your yachting lifestyle and you are crushing us. Wake TF up.
Uh…wouldn’t working to prevent one be in your job description?
* BESSENT: WE MAY DECLARE NATIONAL HOUSING EMERGENCY IN THE FALL @bloomberg.com
Ideally, your proof of life photo ops don’t come off as proof of sick.
it's beginning to feel a lot like 1929 www.axios.com/2025/09/02/a...
TRUMPHAUSEN BY PROXY: Trump Is Inventing Fake Emergencies to Gain Real-World Power. Today, the structure of law granting exceptional emergency powers is a grave threat to democracy and an avenue toward authoritarian rule. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
(FT) - Hedge fund billionaire Ray Dalio has warned Donald Trump’s America is drifting into 1930s-style autocratic politics — and said other investors are too scared of the president to speak up. @financialtimes.com www.ft.com/content/b86b...
I can’t stress how dead DC is right now. Walking down U Street before and after a movie on Labor Day weekend, and it’s about as close to a ghost town as it was during COVID.
Commentary by Teri Carter Where are the officials — in Kentucky and all over the country — that we elected to represent OUR interests? kentuckylantern.com/2025/09/02/t...
RFK jr wants to throw millions of Americans into his anti-science cult volcano. We give him our collective middle finger instead.
Reasonable point.
International relations impacted by a narcissist’s need for an ego stroke.
NYT reports TRUMP & MODI had a falling out because Modi wouldn’t back Trump’s lie that he brokered the India-Pakistan ceasefire — a lie 🇺🇸 media has let him get away with with even as India’s media has openly mocked him for it. Video: x.com/thetnholler/...
Used to be reporters wouldn’t speculate along with us about intense rumors regarding the President’s health. They’d do this thing…I think they called it “reporting?”
My guess is he’s going to inform us that we’re all fired from America.
Michelle Obama: Eat an apple! Eat some vegetables! Get some exercise! RFK Jr: Autistic people sit in the corner drooling because of vaccines! Let's ban all vaccines, bring measles back and have the survival of the fittest! American Media: Michelle Obama and RFK Jr. had the exact same agenda!
You just hope that this won't in any way dampen the unparalleled effervescence and swashbuckling, glint-in-the-eye panache that Bill Belichick has always brought to his duties
Where you see only one set of zig-zagging footsteps is where you jumped on my back and covered my eyes — shit coulda put us both in the ER, dumbass
I am so angry at the moment so I will try to be rational. CVS is restricting COVID 19 vaccine in my state and 16 others because of the mess created at the CDC by Kennedy. The man is going to kill Americans because he is a lunatic! People, get out and VOTE BLUE stop this insanity!
In 1986, Ronald Reagan said, “The nine most terrifying words in the English language are ‘I’m from the government and I’m here to help’,” and he and every Republican after him worked to make that true. Now they’re even invading cities.
Anyone noticed how sick the depraved US president is looking since he met with Putin?
Barrett makes no sense when she says that the Court got ahead of Americans' positions, since the majority of Americans support abortion rights. www.cnn.com/2025/09/02/p...
It's really funny to have a president whose late in life desires seem to be 1) finding a way to get to heaven and 2) getting to use a nuclear bomb
Sometimes it just hits me that we have KNOWN Russian assets in Congress And in the Cabinet And in the Oval office RIP USA
The United States is the only place on earth where poor people shun unions, free healthcare, and free education because the rich tell them to.
Monday-ass feeling Tuesday
One thing they’ve been very successful at is making it so when sober experts put their careers and reputations on the line to issue grave warnings, it gets mostly a shrug.
India, China and Russia are about to forge a global trade alliance that may even supplant the U.S. dollar as the principal trade currency. That would be disastrous for us. The thing is we might (maybe) beat the GOP in 26, but so much damage will be done
. THIS is one of the biggest problems of our time . . . ⬇️ ⬇️ ⬇️ .
Tomorrow, I will be wearing white pants AFTER Labor Day. Come at me, purists! I double dog dare you.
A friend took this at a rally today and I barked laughing.
You wouldn’t have so many speculative Trump’s health posts if we had a functioning media. Or one as fascinated by Trump’s health as they were by Biden’s.
There's a simple test. Put RFKJr in a room with 100 unlabeled kids. Have him sort the vaccinated from the unvaccinated based on vibes or whatever he's claiming, and see how he does. He should welcome this chance to prove he's right in a scientific way.
Damn.
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I imagine there is a substantial awarding fee. One hopes Rudy has enough cash after his settlement.
Oh yah. That summer just zoomed by there. Yup.
I just assume the White House window tosser is Laura Loomer purging more staff.
Feeling nostalgic for when my overwhelming sense of doom on Labor Day was merely because school was about to start.
They want to control all power in the U.S. and don’t give a single fuck about law, safety or what came before. Hope this helps.
Pour one out for my white patent leather loafers and belt. Rest well you kings of summer patios, you princes of parquet dance floors
No point compromising with criminals who see compromise as permission to commit more crimes flip.it/OeWTPM
Every policy of the trump administration is designed to destroy America
Poor sweethearts. Awwww.
Two current and nine former ICE officials told Reuters the agency is grappling with burnout and frustration among personnel as agents struggle to keep pace with the administration’s aggressive enforcement agenda. www.yahoo.com/news/article...
Today in Stupidity. (One in a series.)
The party that wants to make healthcare unaffordable for most Americans is aghast at the lack of concern for the President’s health.
Americans can only hope the alleged health incident impacted the tariff implementation parts of his brain.
#timing
America has truly lost the plot if we're actually debating whether college should be for everyone. Why would you ration education? (Unless you wanted workers to be nothing but workers.)
Trump and Hagseth too busy firing experienced military personnel to notice.
Make America Weak Again.
Seeing Charles Blow describe his experience writing for the NYT in similar terms to Paul Krugman really brings home how much the entire NYT is a heavily curated monoculture focused on manipulating, directing & controlling upper middle-class public culture in the US. It's why it's such a bore, too.
The most suspicious thing is he hasn’t snuck a social media post past staff to defend himself and his health.
When I was an Amazon driver, holidays weren’t really holidays. Nobody gets paid holidays. If the holiday falls on a day that you’re regularly scheduled, you have to make up that day to get your regular weekly hours. Would it kill the company to give everyone real paid holidays? Happy Labor Day.
"Maybe he's dead" is now our version of a holiday.
Men should have to apply to buy an acoustic guitar the same way you apply to buy a gun
Kamala Harris would not be secretly trying to deport innocent children to Guatemala if she was our president instead right now.
“.. Memphis, after all, has long been one of the most dangerous cities in the country, with a murder rate about twice as high as the nation’s capital ..” @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/u...
If you think I'm being a crass insensitive smartass about this now, wait until you see how I am if he actually does die.
Frankly, I wouldn’t want to carry a bag of soiled adult diapers down two floors of the White House either.
Ok... so we're at the "throwing bags out the windows" phase of the administration
KOH: “Trump Stripped 1 million workers’ bargaining rights while plastering his face on the Labor Dept… Closed miner health clinics… Cut $2.4 Billion from youth & senior job programs… This is the real story of Trump & Labor.” #LaborDay
I wish that the GOP was like a clan of vampires and when the head vampire dies they all die.
#MiddleClass
I'm just gonna flip on some corporate media really quick... ABC: ads CNN: ads Back to CNN: Trump's Chicago "immigration enforcement" MSNBC: Protests in Chicago Back to ABC: A "federal judge getting in the way of Trump's immigration crackdown" Back to CNN: Weekend travel Nothing about Trump MIA
Drop some FACIAL HAIR.
Remember when obituaries would lead with the deceased's name?
A lot of folks were wondering, “Hey, who is the Official Juice Partner of the WWE, anyway?”
God, they just LOVE democracy. 🙄🤦🏼♂️😡
If you’ve lived your life correctly, being of service to citizens and your country, you get concern for your health, not anticipation of the end.
The problem isn’t refugees on boats. The problem is oligarchs hoarding obscene amounts of wealth while most people fight to stay afloat. Wages aren't tied to inflation, so the working class keeps falling behind no matter how hard they work.
Just the simple truth:
Uh huh. Right. That’s why that little kid was holding it.
The CEO of a Polish paving company, Piotr Szczerek, said in a statement Monday morning he thought the player had offered him the hat for his sons.
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.
He’s going to show up with sanitary napkins on his cankles.
1970s-style time travel with everyone's favourite resident of Festive Road. The first series of Mr Benn (first broadcast on BBC One from 25 Feb - 1 April 1971) has recently appeared on YouTube www.youtube.com/watch?v=ctHB...
My dive into right wing piss pants baby culture Why are conservatives such cowards? www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...