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1/ I worked at DoD. I literally cannot imagine lawyers coming up with a legal basis for lethal strike of suspected Venezuelan drug boat. Hard to see how this would not be "murder" or war crime under international law that DoD considers applicable. Read expert analysis by @bcfinucane.bsky.socialā¤µļø
Colorado's Republican voters don't seem to believe President Trump's claim that mail in voting is rigged. 90%+ choose to vote by mail instead of in person. @marshallglasses.bsky.social reports for @nexton9news.bsky.social. #copolitics
Your reminders: Trump ended the National Cryptocurrency Enforcement Team which investigated crypto-related crimes like fraud and money laundering. Trump also fired the ethics watchdog overseeing corruption in the executive branch. This is just another Trump family scam.
the DOJ atty (& 2x Harvard grad) who suggested Harvard showed "wanton indifference to antisemitism" once wrote a paper from the perspective of Hitler & expressed admiration for Mein Kampf stunning reporting from @hilaryburns.bsky.social @talkopan.bsky.social www.bostonglobe.com/2025/09/02/m...
BREAKING: Judge Breyer rules that President Trump's deployment of the military to Los Angeles violated the Posse Comitatus Act, says Trump is using military as a "national police force with the president as its chief." Injunction granted. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Trump announces he will severely devalue the Presidential Medal of Freedom
You are talking about white, straight, male, right wing religious people who started seeing their supremacy erode with Brown v. Board in 1954. Trump promised to get it back for them, so they anointed him their Savior. They donāt care about the fraud or evil he does so long as they get power back.
A womanās right to vote, inviolable for 105 years, right? Reminder, 2016 Republican Convention Speaker Abby Johnson, supported Household Voting w/the one household vote belonging to men. The same Christian Nationalist agenda is supported by Hegseth. But hey, like Roe, that wonāt ever change, right?
It should never stop shocking us that we live in a country in which the president is so flippant about being called a dictator.
If you all havenāt listened to or read anything from Charlie Sykes, itās high time you do. @sykescharlie.bsky.social
Open dictator talk. No kings.
Federal agents violently detained a food delivery driver as he emerged from a D.C. coffee shop Saturday morning. The incident captured on video showed the officers throwing him to the ground and beating him before sweeping him away in an unmarked vehicle. wapo.st/45Egtkc
The Golden Age
"People rallied with the doctors, calling for medical professionals to be allowed inside..." www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news...
The United States could have great things like this. But we like to spend our money on kidnapping people and trafficking them to concentration camps instead. #Priorities
A lot of companies want the EPA in charge of setting national climate regulations because it helps shield them from lawsuits and creates a predictable environment in which to make investments.
By appearing to summarize his belief that Ukraine, not Russia, was the aggressor in their war, Donald Trump made clear that "he does not understand the largest war in Europe, what started it, or why it continues," Tom Nichols argues.
Latest news! North Carolina Reps. joined together to propose a bipartisan resolution for continued Red Wolf repopulation and recovery effort support, including building wildlife corridors. With only 18 known Red Wolves left in the wild, every step forward is vital. Read more: š bit.ly/4mDSqZC
Blumenthal: "My stomach turned when I heard the president of the United States characterize Vladimir Putin as his fabulously good friend. Vladimir Putin is a war criminal."
More bad news! A federal appeals court has cleared the Trump administration to push forward with plans to gut the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, overturning a lower courtās attempt to halt mass layoffs.
Imagine if theyād had sandwiches. š„Ŗ
The US is being left behind -- in a clean, digital, electric world it is erecting walls & tariffs, cutting itself off from the world, constricting its own power supply, and tying itself to fossil fuel combustion & autocratic fossil fuel regimes. This is what you get when you elect reactionaries.
Trump provides a red carpet to a war criminal who has barbarously murdered civilians. But then he also attacked the 2016 election to help Trump win.
The party of small government is now the party of big brother.
Itās important to see Trumpās occupation of Washington, D.C., as a trial run for a possible military occupation of the United States. Be warned. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/the-trial-run
Trump is reportedly creating a loyalty scorecard that rates how hard corporations work to support his agenda. His regime is apparently planning to consult the ratings when considering corporate requests. This is how things work in a dictatorship.
Putin has to keep Trump on side to have a chance of winning the war. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
I'm joined by constitutional law scholar, @stevevladeck.bsky.social, for a deep dive on the historical background & critical legal issues surrounding Trumpās federalization of DC, as well as the current trial in CA over Trumpās deployment of federal troops to LA in June. youtu.be/9oHEGtjTX80?...
Details on President Trump's plan to get unhoused people off Washington D.C. streets are sparse. A legal advocate for the vulnerable population worries that means the focus will be on criminalization.
āTrumpās handling of the most lawless day in recent Washington history stands in sharp contrast to his announcement that he needed to use the full force of the federal government to crack down on āviolent gangs and bloodthirsty criminalsā in the nationās capital.ā www.nytimes.com/2025/08/12/u...
"Republicans Arenāt Gunning for 5 House Seats. Theyāre Aiming to Steal 42" Texas is just the start, writes Peter Rothpletz for Zeteo. The MAGA rightās newest scheme involves a three-pronged strategy to lock Democrats out of political power, perhaps forever. Read/share/subscribe:
If you werenāt sure whether Trump was in Putinās pocket before now, this should convince you.
Is SCOTUS stealthily setting up the destruction of yet another part of the Voting Rights Act? I explain why this move by SCOTUS is a scary signal that the uber-conservative 6 just might strike down the critically important Sec. 2 of the VRA, which protects minority voters. youtu.be/LWwNMmbx_jA?...
š„ Rep. @jamestalarico.bsky.social to Will Cain : "Do you know how many Republicans joined Dems in Congress to ban gerrymandering? All the Democrats voted for it. 0 Republicans voted for it. Spare me your both sides rhetoric."
Donald Trumpās pick to head the Bureau of Labor Statistics lacks the qualifications of his predecessor, @brianklaas.bsky.social argues. But what he ālacks in credentials and expertise he makes up for in his MAGA worldviewā:
NEW: Governor Newsom will be holding a press conference and rally at 11:30 AM PT tomorrow in Los Angeles regarding redistricting. The announcement is chef's kiss.
"It just gets tiresome to say the same things over and over again, thatās part of it. Part of it also is he exhausts people, and thatās what narcissists do."
Brilliant satire but kind of sad it's the cutting edge of the resistance.
Hereās @mehdirhasan.bsky.social asking the question weāve been asking for a week The Sunday shows ignored it, and Hegseth just stood next to Trump for an hour and nobody asked
worst reboot of the Abbey Road cover, ever
"The demonstrations scheduled for this Saturday, August 16th are branded as 'Fight the Trump Takeover'..." www.nbcnews.com/politics/202...
seems fine
"The nice Christians donāt get the airtime," said @johnfugelsang.bsky.social, guest on this week's episode of The State of Belief. "Villains make for better TV than nice people." religionnews.com/2025/08/09/s...
(NBC News) - President Donald Trump's pick to run the Bureau of Labor Statistics was among the crowd outside the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, with the White House saying he was a "bystander" who wandered over after seeing coverage on the news. @ryanjreilly.com www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...
So hang onā¦. Trump is going to offer to open up FUKKIN ALASKA TO THE RUSSIANS?? Wow. Letās see republicans defend this
David Roberts Someone once said, āFascism is a counterrevolution against a revolution that never happened.ā What fascists do is try to convince this reactionary base that theyāre in danger, that theyāre under dire threat from the liberals and the queers and the professors.
Weāre not getting there. We are there. www.nbcnews.com/politics/whi...
8/13/2025- The Summit www.timesfreepress.com/news/2025/au...
Coffee prices are skyrocketing thanks to Trumpās reckless trade wars. Up 25.9% With 50% tariffs on Brazil, our biggest coffee supplier, taking effect last week, your morning joe will only get more expensive.
BREAKING: Investigators have uncovered evidence that Russia is at least in part responsible for a recent hack of the computer system that manages federal court documents, including highly sensitive records, the NYT report Iām sure Trump will get real tough with Putin on Friday.
Yeah JD, we remember. We will never forget your boss was best friends with the guy who ran a literal child sex trafficking ring. And then that guy was "silenced" forever. And now we will just not talk about anything else until they... #ReleaseThe_EPSTEIN_Files
NEWS: Donald Trump is on the verge of a federal takeover of Washington, D.C. and is telling all homeless residents to leave immediately. I am in D.C. and I will cover this live and on the ground. open.substack.com/pub/aaronpar...
"More [white] babies, y'all" white supremacy got Kristi Noem a little carried away.
First, it was Modi and Lula. š®š³ š§š· Now, Carney and Scheinbaum. šØš¦ š²š½ Trying to gang up amid tariff resistance. @politico.com www.politico.com/news/2025/08...
In February, Senator Cassidy explained his decision to vote for RFK Jr. in a speech on the Senate floor. Listen to it today, in light of of Kennedyās gutting of vaccine research: It is a master-class in rationalization, self-delusion, and political cowardice. open.substack.com/pub/charlies...
The president of the United States repeatedly refusing to rule out a pardon for a convicted child sex trafficker should be a much bigger story in the news.
NEW: India has halted plans to buy new U.S. weapons after Trump imposed 50% tariffs on all Indian goods, according to Reuters. A planned visit by its defense minister to Washington has been cancelled. Under Trump, the U.S. is alienating our allies and partners, playing right into Chinaās hands.
I agree with much of what's in this post but nonetheless it kind of irritates me. It is long past time to stop talking about this in abstract, neutral terms, as though simple truth vs. falsehood is the relevant distinction. That just elides the real problem ...
Wolff: We can chart a continued friendship between these two men through flight manifests, photographs, phone calls This relationship that Trump claims ended in 2000 actually demonstrably continued until at least 2005. Itās that period in which most of the allegations against Epstein took place.
Impoundment is here. Will anything happen? Seems like no.
Despite a letter signed by over 900 DOJ employees and 3 whistleblowers, the dumb ass senate just confirmed Stephen Miller Sr. to a lifetime judgeship!!! F&%$ all of you corrupt assholes!! Emil Bove šš½
Bravo to this wonderful woman who is stepping up and using her voice. Letās all be brave like her, shall we?
Adam Kinzinger has a message: We donāt have to storm beaches to save democracyājust care enough not to check out. This isnāt the end of America, unless we let it be.
šØ Rep. Swalwell, āAre you familiar with disinformation?ā This is EXACTLY what I need to see from people in office.
over 30 years ago, I warned that America was becoming a two-tiered society composed of a few winners and a larger group left behind, whose anger and disillusionment could be easily manipulated. I took a lot of heat for this speech. https://youtu.be/Bnd0eSuxu84?feature=shared
Again, can we stop literally burying the leade that this foreign aid would have ended up in the hands of WOMEN in AFRICA. THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION WOULD LITERALLY RATHER SET FIRE TO MILLION OF DOLLAR THAN DO A DAMN THING THAT WOULD IMPROVE THE LIVES OF BLACK WOMEN ANYWHERE. Pass it on.
Did not think we could top Hulk Hogan dying today but this is pretty close. š¤ We feel your pain Scotland and would much rather it was Kamala Harris who was visiting yāall instead. š
It happened this morning. Thanks for checking in though.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has hired David Geier, an independent researcher, to investigate supposed wrongdoing in a CDC database. But Geierās previous work with that database suggests that he canāt assess it responsibly, Tom Bartlett reports.
As they try to whitewash the reputation of Trumpās hail mary Ghislaine Maxwellā¦
@adamkinzinger.substack.com always tells it like it is: youtu.be/NLvNJYUdWW4?...
25 July 1925 | A German Jewish girl, Rosa Cohen, was born in Dinslaken. In August 1942 she was deported to #Auschwitz. She did not survive.
Iām not a Republican, period, but I have gotten invitations to her telephone town halls in the past. However, they would come in at the last minute, through phone numbers I didnāt recognize so I didnāt answer, and I didnāt see the voicemail until after the thing was over. Clever, huh?
This is @MarshaBlackburnās idea of a *town hall* Hiding behind your phone doesnāt count Marsha. Also: your Trump trillions transfer has already cost us after school programs in McNairy & Marshall counties and infrastructure in Knox. While exploding the debt by trillions.
šØNEW: We uncovered multiple photos of Jeffrey Epstein at Donald Trumpās wedding. Photos of the pair together earlier that year at an event. And video of Epstein Stein and Trump at the 1999 Victoriaās Secret Fashion Show. www.cnn.com/2025/07/22/p...
wrote this last month!
"Her businesses, known for donating meals to homeless shelters, supporting local police, providing funding for high school baseball teams... āShe gives back to the community, creates jobs for young people, pays taxes. Why would you want to remove someone like that?ā www.12news.com/article/news...
Every woman in this country needs to read this!
They just passed a bill that raised the debt ceiling an additional $5 trillion to $41.1 trillion. bsky.app/profile/acyn...
Disgusting. The party that claims to be āpro-lifeā appears to believe that LGBtQ+ lives arenāt worth as much as theirs.
21 July 1895 | A German Jewish woman, Grete Liebreich, was born in Wattenscheid. In February 1943 she was deported to #Auschwitz. She did not survive.
Former Sports Illustrated model Stacey Williams says Donald Trump groped her at Trump Tower in front of Jeffrey Epstein: āI was dating Jeffery, he was always talking about Donald, he was his bestieā¦Trumpās hands were all over me. They were on my breast, on my buttā¦ā
@raskin.house.gov on why Biden didn't release the Epstein files: "The DOJ under Biden brought the prosecution against Maxwell, so obviously Biden wasn't trying to suppress anything. The GOP stories make no sense. They say Biden & Obama made this stuff up about Trump but then they never released it?"
The bizarre post came as the president seeks to move on from the Epstein controversy tearing apart his base.
"Unlike January 2021 ā when the Big Lie scheme failed ā by 2029 Trump and his cohorts will have new tools to carry out a coup, including a massive federal police force with a proven willingness to engage in systemic illegality at Trump's behest."
From Trumpās deposition in the E. Jean Carroll case
@jamestalarico.bsky.social: "The reason I'm a Democrat is because I want to change things. These systems don't work for people... We can't fall into the trap of defending broken institutions, broken systems, or the status quo. We've got to be the party of change, which is our historical heritage."
Scientists have released the closest images ever taken near the sun, captured by NASAās Parker Solar Probe flying 3.8 million miles above the solar surface. See more images of solar eruptions on the sun: wapo.st/3Irm3P3
"The rubber meets the road when you pass a multi-trillion dollar budget and you throw working class, middle families under the bus." Senator Ossoff lists some of the consequences of the Big Ugly Bill that are haunting Georgia Republicans who voted for it.