A DOGE whistleblower revealed that employees uploaded a Social Security database—containing full names, dates of birth, and addresses of hundreds of millions of Americans— to a cloud server without “independent security or oversight," creating “enormous vulnerabilities" to hackers. trib.al/FDTWG43
"It isn’t that many more Americans wouldn’t like to belong to unions if they could —they don’t have the chance. That decline in union membership is no accident." By @paulwaldman.bsky.social in PN: www.publicnotice.co/p/trump-labo...
The White House posts that the US has now taken in $8 Trillion in tariff revenue so far. Preposterous insane lies on an hourly basis.
This is, of course, false. The United States exported $83 billion in goods and services to India last year alone.
Evil has a name Russia is committing the genocide of #Ukrainians. Russia strikes our cities, kills peaceful people, kills children. It steals hundreds and thousands of Ukrainian children, tortures captured Ukrainian soldiers and civilians, consistently breaks the laws of war, murders,rapes,steals⤵️
So broken. They are so desperate for credit for being "unbiased" and oblivious to the fact that no matter how much they both-sides things, they will never get the approval they crave from the far right. Result is a continuing debasement of the media by the media itself.
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."
Pritzker on Trump's authoritarian takeover: "The playbook is the same. It's thwart the media. It's create mayhem that requires military interdiction. These are things that happen throughout history and Donald Trump is just following that playbook."
"Newsom is saying two things. First, we’re not going to let Republicans play by different rules anymore. And second, we are going to use our power however we can, no matter what The New York Times editorial board says about it." trib.al/SpzgHnV
It seems to me one of the best arguments to the court is that if this is truly a national emergency, the president’s own party controls Congress but has done nothing to address it with legislation, so how can it possibly be an emergency?
The mother of a 15-year-old boy who was detained at gunpoint by federal immigration agents is seeking $1m in damages and accusing the Trump administration of false imprisonment and “unconstitutional racial profiling”. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
There's going to be a lot of dumb political noise following this decision, so it's worth being clear about the key finding. It does not ban tariffs. It simply says that you have to convince Congress.
Can we get a statement like this from every Democrat in the country?
www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...
you mean "we're all going to die" wasn't polling well?
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...
Every Republican senator voted to confirm RFK Jr. as health secretary except for Mitch McConnell, who is retiring and thus was under no re-election pressure. The entire Republican Party has embraced anti-vax policies. It is pro-polio, pro-measles, pro-Covid. It's a death cult.
Buying anything from overseas is about to get more expensive, more logistically complicated, slower, and overall more annoying. Film photography community, retro games community, people into skincare already seeing chaos on eBay. eBay sellers locking US buyers out. www.404media.co/trump-tariff...
“.. democracy often erodes slowly at first .. But with each concession, autocrats become bolder.. and reversal becomes harder. Responses that, early on, can feel pragmatic—waiting it out, remaining silent, cutting a deal—only embolden ..” @dziblatt.bsky.social www.foreignaffairs.com/germany/hitl...
She appears unaware or what her own government decided yesterday. Most of the country can NO LONGER get the vaccine. It isn’t about individual choice.
The grifting and corruption is infinite at this point. Follow the money, right @hcrichardson.bsky.social ?
CDC employees standing up and walking out in light of the mass shootings, firings, and *waves hands in the air* everything else. #USAnotRFK Lets gooooo
This both heart warming and a deep tragedy
The chorus is growing louder. Call your Senators and Rep and demand they #FireKennedy.
Thank you @murray.senate.gov for joining the chorus demanding RFK be fired. www.murray.senate.gov/senator-murr... Now we need action! @sanders.senate.gov @vanhollen.senate.gov @alsobrooks.senate.gov @markwarner.bsky.social
Chinese officials "were saying, it's very interesting to watch President Trump because we've had a long-term strategy to basically try to weaken and divide America's alliances....President Trump is just doing it for us." Jake Sullivan joins @timmiller.bsky.social on the latest Bulwark Podcast:
Yes, it should. However, that would require an effective mainstream media in America — which we don’t currently have.
Enough is enough. The health of the country is in danger. Read our resignation letters: insidemedicine.substack.com/p/breaking-n...
đź’¬ "Russia is a terrorist state, and we call on all states and international organizations to clearly recognize this status," a statement by Ukraine MFA reads.
Chicagoans will rally and march on Labor Day starting at 11 a.m. at the Haymarket Memorial to protest Trump's threat of a military occupation of the city. It's time to speak out. Join us.
What did Putin think of the Alaska summit? Well, he just sent drones and missiles to hit an apartment building, a shopping mall and the headquarters of the European Union in Kyiv. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/28/w...
🔴 Death toll in Kyiv rises to 19 after Russia’s strike. Zelenskyy: missiles hit a Turkish plant, Azerbaijan’s Embassy, EU office, British Council, and homes. “This is Putin’s answer… pressure with sanctions, tariffs, political action is needed.”
Trump badly underwater on crime and economy. 37% approval overall. Americans tell him to keep his tiny little hands off the Smithsonian. KEEP POUNDING AWAY, folks poll.qu.edu/poll-release...
Whew! Sen. Susan Collins should be “very concerned” She showed up as the main guest at a ribbon-cutting in Searsport, Maine. It backfired. The crowd was not happy to have her: “Shame. Shame. Shame.”
Voters disapprove of National Guard to DC by 56-41. Trump keeps losing every big argument with the American people. He’s underwater on everything that matters.
Today’s episode of The Ezra Klein Show. Trump Is Building His Own Paramilitary Force The journalist @radleybalko.bsky.social‬ explains the mechanisms Trump is using to create a personal army. open.spotify.com/episode/3OTs... youtu.be/UcTZ_en5FTM?...
Interesting that this happens on the same day Chuck Grassley posts that Trump’s tariffs are hurting Iowa farmers.
Brutal. A humiliation ritual.
US accused of conducting hostile campaign designed to destabilize Denmark, a close democratic ally amp.dw.com/en/denmark-s...
The US Attorney who declined to prosecute an Israeli government official arrested last month for underage solicitation has a colorful collection of deep-pocketed donors from past political campaigns, including one who fled a fraud case by going to... Israel. prospect.org/justice/2025...
If this is how deranged he is and they are 217 days in, what is the madness 1,242 days from now? www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/u...
Special shout-out to Witkoff for repeatedly mispronouncing “Nobel” as “noble,” showing his deep appreciation for the prize.
My current favorite bit of right-wing Christian hypocrisy is Ken Paxton, a man whose wife is divorcing him for adultery, forcing Texas schools to unconstitutionally post "Thou Shalt Not Commit Adultery." www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston...
It's really kind of beautiful how his flunkies do these little maneuvers and then he explicitly blows them up less than an hour later. 13:49 *BESSENT: PUBLIC TRUST GIVES FEDERAL RESERVE ITS CREDIBILITY 14:44 *TRUMP: WILL HAVE MAJORITY SHORTLY ON FED
Remember, children: Socialism is forgiving student loans. Capitalism is the government nationalizing large corporations.
Drudge is beating BIG media on an important story....
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Despite backsliding in the US, global investment in renewable energy stayed strong in the first half of 2025. This is the energy of the future, and the GOP is letting the rest of the world develop it.
We are very far off the cliff here folks. 🇺🇸
"For those people out there who ... say, 'Well, I just don't like those people either' ... You could be next. ... This is not about any one individual, this is about our rights as Americans, and our right to have a justice system where choices about prosecuting are made without fear or favor."
Trump is teaching the world how to be less dependent on the US, less involved with the US, and in so doing is strengthening virtually everyone else at our expense. But above all, he is strengthening the Chinese. Putin should charge Xi a royalty for whatever he has invested in putting Trump in office
"It's going to be dangerous if the financial markets perceive that Donald Trump, of all people, the most erratic man on the planet, is in charge of monetary policy."
(Bloomberg) -- Long-dated US Treasuries fell as President Donald Trump intensified efforts to oust Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook, deepening concerns his attacks on the central bank’s independence and lobbying for lower interest rates will fan inflation. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Breaking News: DOGE put the personal information of hundreds of millions of Americans at risk by uploading Social Security data to a vulnerable cloud server, a whistle-blower complaint said.
A careful study of every populist episode since 1900 finds catastrophic consequences, which play out slowly. On average, incomes fall behind by nearly 15% over 15 years. For the U.S., this is a cost of about $13k per person per year. Over a lifetime, that's million bucks.
Constituent: You talked about abuses in the medicare and medicaid system and I found interesting that the president pardoned someone that defrauded the medicaid system for $1.3 billion
The Federal Reserve Board of Governors has been around for 111 years. In that time it has had more than 100 members (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal...). No president has ever fired (or claimed to have fired) one before.
Pritzker: To the members of the press who are assembled here today and listening across the country, I am asking for your courage to tell it like it is. This is not a time to pretend here that there are two sides to this story.
Sam, a Georgia father...said he noticed higher prices “across the board” when shopping for appliances and other items his kids need to go back to college...“The consequences of the election, for many people, are becoming clearer and clearer.” #TrumpFlation #MomSky
Today I spoke with Kilmar Abrego Garcia. The courts & public outcry forced Trump to return him to MD, but Trump’s cronies keep lying about his case & are engaged in a malicious abuse of power to try to deport him to Uganda. As I told Kilmar, I won’t stop fighting for justice & due process for all:
Journalists everywhere need to stand in solidarity on this killing spree and resulting news blackout. See below in this thread for some actions and stay tuned here https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/israel-hits-gaza-hospital-killing-least-20-people-including-five-journalists-2025-08-25/
Few charts show our current American weakness like this one. The minute Trump came into office, Putin knew he had the green light to do whatever he wanted and kill as many innocent civilians as he wanted.
I don’t want to hear a single word about Democrats and socialism ever again. EVER.
“What we are seeing is not merely a “slide toward authoritarianism.” It’s a march toward despotism. And it’s a march whose pace is accelerating.” www.thebulwark.com/p/despotism-...
Tim Walz: "I always get in trouble for it and I'll continue to say it, I don't think we do any favors when we don't name it -- these are fascist policies."
Trump’s Brutalization Of Abrego Garcia Now Involves Uganda talkingpointsmemo.com/morning-memo...
America’s health secretary has implied his department’s cuts are limited to mRNA vaccines for respiratory infections. But this does not appear to be true
Vance can’t be this ignorant, can he? WWII was not ended with a negotiation. Germany and Japan were dictatorial and genicidal regimes that had to be crushed by the military might of the US and Russia. FDR did not sit down and negotiate with Hitler.
Slideshow of today in Washington DC, and how it looks when a terrorizing government scares people away. By me, no paywall: fallows.substack.com/p/a-summer-a...
Wes Moore confirms that he's considering retaliating against Republican gerrymandering by redrawing the maps in Maryland to eliminate the state's one Republican seat
notable that both Eric Adams and Andrew Cuomo have resorted to Maria Bartiromo's show as their polling languishes
No imagination, no new ideas. Totally unprepared for what's happening. Even more unprepared for what's coming.
Let's not suffer from a failure of imagination here. As this "administration" shows on a daily basis, anything is possible.
Another huge market is lost because of Trump.
Here in Michigan, gross ACA premiums are going up by around 17% on average statewide starting January 1st,, ranging from 4 - 25% by carrier. acasignups.net/rate_changes...
Stop talking about crime. This is an occupation. Call it an occupation. Trump is pursuing a tyrannical military occupation of the District of Columbia, using a fake emergency as an excuse.
Virginia Giuffre’s family denounces “DAG Todd Blanche’s bizarre interview” of Ghislaine Maxwell in a statement. www.allrisenews.com/p/maxwell-tr...
kudos to @eddiekimx.bsky.social who, whilst dealing with the lingering effects of pepper spray, walked to the office, changed his shirt and sat down to report this morning's events
"Conway streamed the search from in front of the house …. "'This is very serious ….' Conway said. 'But you have to show these people that you’re not afraid. And the way you show them … is by showing up and speaking your piece and pointing out the absurdity.'" www.cnn.com/2025/08/22/p...
If Trump pardons convicted child rapist Gislane Maxwell, they will absolutely officially be the pedophile defender party. The fact that this is even being considered is sickening. She also has been moved to a nice min security prison, a club Fed, ALREADY
Congrats, MAGA! You're complicit in covering up one of the most vile child sex-trafficking rings in history. Jeffrey Epstein thanks you for your service! Catch up on all of today's news here: www.meidasplus.com/p/today-in-p...
"[Maxwell’s] like listening to Ted Bundy talk about his victims. Literally what’s the point," Epstein survivor Marijke Chartouni texted me. Let's not forget prosecutors charged Maxwell with perjury & cited her "willingness to lie brazenly under oath about her conduct" in court docs.
Bolton’s home raided, Gen. Kruse fired, Epstein coverup proceeds, seizure of 10% of Intel another step towards state capitalism. Just one day in the somewhat chaotic but directionally purposeful march towards…despotism. Does anyone think they’re doing all this so they can hand over power in 2028?
Pure extortion.
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Watching JD Vance lie about the Biden and Trump Justice Departments and FBI investigations in @kristenwelker.bsky.social makes it clear that every word out of his mouth, including a and the, is a lie.
Always read @gregsargent.bsky.social. ALWAYS
Correct. It’s insane that anyone is standing for this. We need people in the streets, campus protests, a general strike. Democrats should be holding rallies and press events constantly. The apathy in the face of all this is astounding.
Terrorist state.
Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the wrongly deported man held for months in the US after being returned from El Salvador, has been released. https://cnn.it/3Vd4hC6
