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👇🏽
Love sun, sand, and vacation with my besties. Assuming I will work forever due to a shopping addiction.
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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...
An upcoming news conference with victims of Jeffrey Epstein could be “explosive,” one of the congressmen pushing for full release of the files on Epstein predicts. Democratic Rep. Ro Khanna said the victims’ accounts will force lawmakers to vote on a bill requiring DOJ to release its files.
So the photos we get of the “golf outing” today is a pale and feeble looking one of him getting to a car at the WH and this one of him returning. Nothing from the course.
Oh, Andy Borowitz. What a gem you are.
FEMA employee on leave describes "culture of fear “ among agency employee
Missing in Tennessee... Please spread the word as you would want others to if she were your friend or family member.
He’s providing them with valuable mulching experience though.
so many of them are failing....
Oh yeah...something is definitely going on over there....
I guess he changed hats and won’t go anywhere near the press for 5 days for no particular reason. Also can’t get any video of him actually playing golf from the usual sources.
"The straw man being put forward is that it's either we have the military or we're going to get our throats cut at night in DC. Is there no middle ground? Do local law enforcement account for nothing? We've got the National Guard GARDENING right now in DC. Is that an efficient use of our resources?"
Look at this graph. The share of national income going to the richest 10 percent was lowest (and share to lower 90 percent highest) when union membership was at its highest. As unions have weakened, inequality has widened. This is why we must build back union power.
Pritzker: "We don't want troops on the streets of American cities. That's un-American and frankly the president ought to know better. This one doesn't seem to. He hasn't read any books. He doesn't seem to understand the Constitution or the laws."
DEVELOPING: Advocates are seeking a court order to block the Trump administration’s effort to deport hundreds of unaccompanied minor children to Guatemala. Judge abruptly moved 3 pm hearing up to 12:30 after she was notified that some children “are in the process of being removed" today.
God, I hope so!
KEILAR: Of 172 mass attacks between 2016 & 2020, 96% were non-trans men. Are you missing bigger picture? GORKA: No. When you look at shootings at Christian schools the data is different K: Of 32 school shootings since 2020, only 3 were trans shooters G: Forgive me if I don't go with CNN's stats
This “explicit” is a weird editorial choice. The constitution gives the president no power over this at all. It’s not ambiguous.
He won’t let the press anywhere near him. This is getting weirder and weirder.
Pritzker: "No one in the administration -- the president or anybody under him -- has called anyone in my administration or me. It's clear that in secret they're are planning this invasion with US troops."
Imagine being this hateful. Florida should spend more money on its education system and less on trying to marginalize those who are marginalized.
No matter what @MarshaBlackburn keeps saying, it’s not criminals they’re targeting. www.cnn.com/2025/08/30/u...
BREAKING: Congresswoman Maxine Waters just called for Trump’s cabinet to invoke “Article 25” of the Constitution to remove him from office. “Something's wrong with this president!" Who agrees?
My reporting uncovered the existence of DoJ training videos instructing FBI personnel on how to flag Trump’s name in the Epstein files. I’m suing to get the videos under FOIA. substack.com/@muellershew...
SPEAKER MIKE “HOOKED ON PORN” JOHNSON SAID I, GAVIN CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS NEWSOM BUILDER OF THE BEST MAPS, SHOULD FOCUS ON GOVERNING MY STATE. LETS NOT FORGET “MAGIC MIKE” SHUT DOWN THE HOUSE AND WENT ON EARLY RECESS BECAUSE HE WAS AFRAID OF THE VOTE ON RELEASING THE ESPTEIN FILES! - GCN
So, they are not the national security risk that was thrown at America to get the troops into our cities!
NEW figures show that 61,226 people are currently in ICE detention — the highest number ever in US history. According to ICE data, 70% of these people have no criminal conviction.
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He has literally said he is a "never Trumper guy" ! There are definitely plans & deals being made behind the President's back.
Wow: French President Emmanuel Macron just called out Trump at a major press conference with the German Chancellor 😳
Psaki: Comer was a little slow to move forward with the subpoenas, at least in my view. Moskowitz: That’s actually his regular speed. He’s just a little slow in general.
Live your life such that everyone doesn’t spend ten solid years planning the rager they’re going to throw when you die.
If you're arrested in Illinois protesting the planned ICE HQ in North Chicago, I can represent you pro bono. Email me at sheryl@weikallaw.com. As always, I will take as many cases as I can.
What if we established a tax-exempt Church of Democracy and sued the government for infringing on our religious freedoms when it does authoritarian stuff?
Good.
there is no question in my mind that rfk jr is the most dangerous person in this administration and that his eugenicist ideology threatens the lives of millions of people www.advocate.com/politics/dem...
BREAKING: Bernie Sanders has called for a special Senate committee hearing on the CDC crisis, demanding that RFK Jr. testify under oath about the disaster he’s created.
This part. Everyone should be taking notes from @ivehaditpodcast.bsky.social’s @mizzwelch.bsky.social
the mystery of Schrödinger's Psychopath has been solved
The Free State of Florida is now trying to ban *sidewalk chalking*
CARTOON OF THE DAY (From @mluckovichajc)
Well I certainly feel safer www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
Stephen Manning, this guy’s lawyer, is one of the best in the country. It’s very good news that he’s taken this case.
CHICAGO…
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National Guard keeping DC safe
Spot on!
This is his true opinion of his boss, who is clearly not healthy, and now he claims to be ready to be President if Trump has a "terrible tragedy"... 🤔
JD Vance: “Trump is a really bad candidate and frankly, I think, a really bad person.” { ht: @patriottakes.bsky.social }
🚨 “Who’s streets? OUR STREETS!” Now in D.C. - People are taking their streets back! ✊🏼 Power to the People — These are more than words, it is action!
Dear Americans, welcome to the thrilling game of ‘Did this dictator die or just disappear for a day?’ We’ve been playing it with Putin and Lukashenko for decades. Enjoy the suspense.
JD may be plotting behind his back, along with others very close to Trump knowing how sick he is.
OMG, this is fantastic! 🤣🤣🤣
trump “they call me the president of europe. it’s an honor.” White House press corps: crickets 🦗 🤦🏼♀️ my latest report for @meidastouch.com youtu.be/R6W1h9X3eOM?...
Well...that's a shame.😂
This is just so embarrassing.
That is good news & since it's been with the family & not on Pam's desk I feel more confident about it's accuracy.
The damage this man has done is incalculable.
Little kids are having to use their bodies to shield friends from gunfire while armed soldiers are busy picking up trash.
Excellent question.
"Literally no one thinks prayer is a substitute for action." Then why is prayer, literally, *always* the substitute for action, you willfully obtuse asshole?
I think the President should be concerned about what is going on behind his back....they are all plotting against him.
Awww....I just love this for him!
If the problem is mental health, why would you pass a budget that guts Medicaid that specifically helps mental health issues for disabled people?
NEW: A federal judge ordered an Arkansas school district to take down Ten Commandments displays in its classrooms following our lawsuit.
Mike Johnson makes clear that when Congress returns next week he's going to work tirelessly to cover up the Epstein files
Thou shalt not listen to a damn thing that RFK Jr. says.
I wonder why Bill Pulte didn’t send this case over to DOJ with a criminal referral along with his selective targeting of Adam Schiff and Lisa Cook? apnews.com/article/paxt...
Just answer the question Mike, when are you asking for the National Guard? And if the DA is not prosecuting, then those people are on the streets, so get the National Guard there to arrest them and disappear them into your concentration camps.
If Biden had said this....
So...he admits he has a crime problem in his state. Why isn't the National Guard there? Seriously...answer the question Mike.
Multiple CDC leaders have resigned in the wake of layoffs and a shooting at the agency’s headquarters this month.
“Kennedy would be less hazardous if he decided to do cardiac surgery. Then he would kill people only one at a time rather than his current ability to kill by the thousands. Why is it that killing a single person is seen as murder but killing masses is excused if you are a politician?” Dr Bill Foege
Wait...the polls on individual provisions are great, but he can't trust polling numbers because they can be manipulated? Did I not hear him correctly?
Anti-ICE Superman mural vandalized in Chicago, but artist came back and repainted it with Krypto pissing on ICE. Subscribe to my rumble to help the cause: rumble.com/v6y7a1c-minn...
Pushing out top officials. Firing hundreds of lifelong public health experts. Trying to slash the CDC’s budget by billions. How is this “Making America Healthy Again”?
I absolutely love the FEARLESS Dr. Peter Hotez!!!!!
70 years ago, on this date, Emmett Till was kidnapped and brutally murdered by white men. His family, including his cousin who was with him at the time, is repeating the train ride he took from Chicago to Mississippi in 1955 to mark the anniversary
That is a great point...finger crossed...
He actually is doing exactly that.
Sounds like he is planning something....
Everyone at the CDC is getting fired or resigning. RFK Jr. wants to ban all vaccines. His idiocy will get millions of people killed.
She is dead on, it's a simple question...if a Democratic President did this would it be okay? Seriously, its that simple.
THESE CHILDREN WERE LITERALLY PRAYING IN CHURCH WHEN THEY WERE SHOT!!!! What is wrong with you?
Karoline Leavitt: "I saw the comments of Ms. Psaki and frankly I think they're incredibly insensitive and disrespectful to the tens of millions of Americans of faith across this country who believe in the power of prayer, who believe that prayer works."
I don't think he has any intention of having a ballot anywhere in the country. He simply won't leave.
GOV. @gavinnewsom.bsky.social : “Facts are stubborn things… Mississippi, Tennessee, Arkansas…. Alabama is a top 3 murder state. Where is the President? — He isn’t focused on crime & violence. It’s about an expression of authoritarianism.” (H/T @acyn.bsky.social )
Thousands of Mike Johnson's own constituents are at risk of losing Medicaid coverage following the passage of a budget bill he pushed for. And it’s all so he could help bankroll more tax cuts for corporations and the super-rich. Don’t let him forget.
Meiselas: It seems that the outcome that Republicans want is whatever the worst possible outcome could be. More disease, more deaths, more murders, a horrible economy. And let’s literally pick the worst people for each possible position at every level.
“A dangerous crank — what on Earth are you on about??!” @chrislhayes.bsky.social goes in on RFK Jr. for claiming he can diagnose kids just by looking at them.
This is going to take generations to correct.
BREAKING: Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey JUST CALLED FOR a statewide and federal ban on assault weapons. Who’s with him?
His own family warned us of him from the beginning! It's disgusting that their words weren't heeded.
Daskalakis: I very specifically use the term pregnant people, and very specifically added my pronouns at the end of my resignation letter to make the point that I am defying this terrible strategy of trying to erase people
🔥 @mizzwelch.bsky.social : “It’s the complete moral collapse of the 🇺🇸 government… the cabinet meeting with 3.5 hours of superficial praise is so cringeworthy… he redecorated the Oval Office like Marie Antoinette and built himself a ballroom because he has zero intention of leaving…”