I can guarantee they aren't conducting meaningful background checks. Very angry, bitter, bigoted and ignorant people desperate for approval, are given a job with a uniform, weapons, unlimited power and legal protections. What could possibly go wrong...
For example, when rich people let kids do things independently at a young age, that’s “free range parenting” but when poor people do it, that’s considered neglect. When rich people order pizza at the country club, that’s fun, but when poor people give their kids pizza for dinner, that’s unhealthy.
Nigel Farage looks uncomfortable as Jamie Raskin uses his opening statement to absolutely demolish him
The biggest scandal in US public life *ought* to be that we are the richest country in history & yet our infrastructure sucks, our transportation choices suck, our cities suck, our healthcare sucks, our public administration sucks, & in dozens of little ways, our daily lives suck.
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So, he definitely HAS been offered a Trump job in exchange for quitting the mayoral race.
Call me cynical, but at some point, and in some way, Massie will eventually bend the knee as they all do eventually.If it's fully released, he'll find some way to provide cover for Trump's guilt. Or, this could all be performative for him to cover his own ass if he knows there won't be the votes.
Wow, Florida at it again… planning to become the first state to end all vaccine mandates, even for schoolkids. Don’t let the facts of decades of preventing outbreaks and protecting public health get in the way.
As a survivor, I can't think of a more fitting metaphor than a rapist creating loud noises with planes as a survivor tries to tell her story. I mean... just wow. Nevertheless, she persisted.
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Jamie Raskin, who I’ve never heard of before but now has my regard. Talking about farage. Good words.
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The single best thing Democrats in the Senate and House could do to increase their chances of retaking the majority is to replace Schumer and Jefferies before the midterms
Terrific piece by @mehdirhasan.bsky.social for @theguardian.com. The country desperately needs congressional Democrats to get their shit together, and it needs to happen sooner rather than later.
Now the national guard knows what it’s like to be the Bible Trump held upside down for a photo op during the BLM protests
So, we basically these, but with guns for some reason.
National Guardsmen now stationed outside our DC building confirmed that the only thing they can do if they witness a crime is call 911. The have no more authority than my office mate to intervene. Despite the handcuffs, they can't make arrests. They are very expensive mall cops.
Not to mention Donny still shitting himself, only 150 times worse. 🤢🤢🤢🤢
As a governor who cares about the well-being of my people, I can’t live in a fantasy land where I pretend Trump is not tearing this country apart for personal greed and power.
Not disrupt, intimidate.
What an embarrassing stunt by the White House
Fox refuses to cover what the Epstein victims are saying publicly for the first time, but they are covering military jets flying over them during their press conference.
A woman. Cannot. Address the president. Without fear. Of inordinate. Violent. Reprisal. We live in an insane timeline of monsters.
Reporter: What is your message to President Trump? Epstein Survivor: Listen, I don't want to send a direct message to him. I'm already scared enough. Just pass the vote. Listen to us. This is not a hoax. It’s not going to go away
Yep. And the US has learned from them to just say "christian persecution" and laws are passed and upheld by SCOTUS that enable discrimination against marginalized people. We might be closer to genocide than what most realize.
COMMENTARY: If this was happening in another nation, we'd call it by name. It's authoritarianism.
The ad campaign criticizing the use of masks by federal agents working in Washington, D.C. has expanded to 115 bus stops, per organizers
If you think the U of MN shouldn't be recruiting for Border Patrol tomorrow, email today! upres@umn.edu career@umn.edu career.umn.edu/events/2025/...
Speaking of Fraud and Immigrants, Illegal or otherwise, There's Chump's wife,Melanoma ?
Has any leader done so much damage to his country in such little time?
The poor folks who have to launder his clothing, bedsheets, towels etc are truly saints, and I hope they have A LOT of Vick's Vaporub. A little dab under the nose should mask his nasty stench. Okay, maybe more than just a dab for his cesspool of stank.
100 VICTIMS is astounding. Even more astounding, that's less than 10% of Epstein and Maxwell's victims.
COVID-19 spread remains high across the U.S. as our summer surge continues into early fall. As a new school year gets underway, young children remain vulnerable: emergency department visits for COVID-19 were higher for children under 12 than any other age group in late August. bit.ly/41y1HdG
Tbf, it's always 5:00pm somewhere.
Massie on Trump's involvement: "I actually don’t think he’s done anything criminal." Bobert, Greene and Mace are also co-sponsors.Sorry, but this is performative bullshit from the dregs of MAGA.I'll believe the women, but these assholes can fuck the right off.
That Pritzker press conference was... surreal, and I think marks a significant moment of escalation in the constitutional omni-crisis. This was the governor of a state saying plainly the Union itself is being torn apart and his state is being militarily invaded by an authoritarian regime.
Looking at the image this is your typical go fast boat with multiple outboard engines. It's absolute lunacy to waste a smart bomb on this kind of target. The munitions probably cost more than the equipment it just destroyed, let alone the fact they're just killing poor people.
The Coast Guard is well prepared with how to handle these boats - obviously sometimes the boat refuses to stop and the Coast Guard will launch a helicopter with a sniper to take out the engines.
A lot of drugs are transported in "go fast" boats, which are basic boats with massive engines, multiple fuel drums, and drug cargo. They're typically manned by poor people from the country who are paid well should they successfully get the boat to the destination (Mexico or the US itself)
When the US boards a vessel, the vessel then becomes an extension of the US and subject to US laws. They can confiscate drugs and imprison the people on board, who must be indicted by the time the Coast Guard gets back to land. This is a routine action, example: www.news.uscg.mil/Press-Releas...
The country may give them permission to board the vessel OR they may choose to say they cannot confirm the vessel is theirs. In the second instance, the US vessel will still be allowed to board the other vessel, the registered country is basically washing their hands of it.
That's not how it works - international waters is no man's land and the boats are extensions of the country they're registered to. The coast guard identifies suspect boats and communicates to the country of registry to determine if they are truly their vessel (obviously the marking might be fake)
the presence or non-presence of drugs on that boat has nothing to do with the fact that was unconstitutional, criminal murder YES AND WHERE ON THAT BOAT COULD HAVE BEEN ANY SIGNIFICANT AMOUNT OF DRUGS???
AND not in American territorial waters. No jurisdiction No proof of a crime. Just giving himself a little cruelty half boner before the Epstein victims make him soft forever.
Don't feel like doing a repost that puts the murder video on the timeline yet again but do feel like repeating the point that the president just straight-up assassinated 11 people for supposedly doing something that wouldn't be a death-penalty crime if they were caught and convicted
Democrats just MASSIVELY overperformed in 2 Florida special elections. House 40: Harris +35 → RaShon Young +50 (75–25). Senate 15: Harris +23 → Lavon Bracy Davis +45 (73–27). That’s 15- and 22-point swings toward Democrats.
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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
So much talent. Badass!!
The next Democratic president should declare that the National Emergencies Act and Article II of the Constitution allow him to: •admit D.C. and Puerto Rico as states •abolish ICE •grant citizenship to any immigrant •disband the 5th Circuit •expand the Supreme Court Seriously: Why the hell not?
We'll never know.
It’s not just that the President of the United States posted a video of eleven people being murdered in international waters it’s that the President of the United States ordered the murder of eleven people in international waters so he could post a video of it.
This is a war crime.
Here's the video Trump just posted to Truth Social, with the claim that 11 people aboard the boat were killed. There is zero evidence of self-defense here. Looks like a massacre of civilians at sea. Even if they had drugs aboard, that's not a capital offense.
Pritzker: "Any rational person who has spent even the most minimal amount of time studying human history has to ask themselves one important question: once they get the citizens of this nation comfortable with the current atrocities committed under the color of law, what comes next?"
I'll be watching CSPAN👇👇 U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is scheduled to appear before the Senate Finance Committee on Thursday, Sept. 4, at 10 a.m. ET. Hope they ream that motherfucker.
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.
Call me cynical, but I believe these documents, if released, will be heavily redacted with Fat Donny's name and other powerful MAGAs removed, but Dems and non MAGA Rs names will remain. Possibly, some even added to make it extra juicy to satisfy the cult.This is our reality.
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?
Any member of ICE/NG/US military who violates state or city laws and ordinances should immediately be arrested and charged. Take this fight to them.
A Latino community festival was canceled here where I live due to fears of ICE terrorism.
Pritzker and Johnson's full speeches should be played everywhere on an endless loop until everyone finally understands what is really happening. It's not about the crime!
Um, the fact that they're doing this and getting away with it means we are already in full-on fascism.
The data and science may be manipulated, but the scientific community who researched, authored and have possession of that data cannot and will not be silenced. History will affirm the misdeeds. Kennedy’s collateral damage will be significant.
This is spot on.
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Some new street art spotted in DC 🤣
www.politico.com/news/2025/08... Think I’ll keep my Netflix subscription since it’s supporting Democracy! #CaliforniaRedistricting
Better yet-- activate them as Governor, which means they CAN'T be Federalized. Then, use them to defend Baltimore from any outside, hostile force. That IS why they exist.
Wes Moore is NOT playing: I am the Commander in Chief of the National Guard. I will not authorize the Maryland National Guard to be activated. THIS is how you fight back.
And the pussy judge gave 12 days for Trump to respond…why?!? If it’s illegal, it’s illegal. Order the immediate halt and withdrawal. Many, many people can have their rights violated in 12 days
NEWS: A federal judge has ruled that Trump’s deployment of military forces to Los Angeles violated the Posse Comitatus Act, a law that prohibits the use of the armed forces as a domestic police force.
MAGA Host’s Wife To Die Thanks to RFK Jr., But He Blames Biden
I am 76 & I have had most of these vaccinations at one time or another. Also vaccinations against Covid, Tetanus, plus Cholera & Yellow Fever when travelling in foreign countries. These prevented me catching horrible diseases & dying a gruesome death. They did not harm me, they protected me!
. THIS is one of the biggest problems of our time . . . ⬇️ ⬇️ ⬇️ .
Man, I feel this. 🙏🏽😭
Countless Americans protested peacefully across the country yesterday. Like we’ve done in the past, we spent a lot of time gathering images to prove there were “Workers Over Billionaires” events in all 50 states and DC. Especially since corporate media coverage was abysmal.
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.
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Hunter Biden painting “controversy” seems pretty tame, huh? Conspiracy theories and insanity.
Intel Corp., whose new largest shareholder is the US government, isn’t renewing a partnership with North Carolina Central University’s law school that sought to increase the company’s pipeline of recruits from diverse groups
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One of my Supreme Court reform takes is they should be completely barred from taking any outside income (incl. publishing deals) and it should be particularly frowned upon, normatively, to be writing books. Memoirs are for writing after you retire, not five years into a lifetime appointment.
Netflix just gave Gavin Newsom 2 million for the redistricting fight and made a deal with Sesame Street. New episodes will air there and the backlog of old episodes will Be free to watch. Netflix picked a side. I will keep my subscription.
"That is why I am infuriated that the Air Force plans to grant military funeral honors to Ashli Babbitt. She did not die defending the Constitution. She died trying to overturn it." Yes, there is a difference.
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