You guys see where this is going? Right?
You guys see where this is going? Right?
Diese Unternehmen finanzieren den ru Krieg! Sie zahlten 2024 20 MILLIARDEN Dollar Steuern in ru. Das ist der Sold für 1 Millionen Soldaten und beeinflusst nachhaltig den ru Angriffskrieg auf die 🇺🇦. Bild b4ukraine.org Vielleicht sollten die mal sanktioniert werden. /Ch
Jones: We have a presidential administration that has more outrage about the changing of the cracker barrel logo than they do about changing the policies that allow our children to be gunned down in school…
@nealkatyal.bsky.social: “You’ve got the president who's imposed the largest tax increase on American consumers since 1993 … and he did it without Congress saying one word. That is not our constitutional structure.”
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."
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Television legend Stephen Colbert has just signed a $13.5 million deal with Netflix for a 7-episode series.
Trump spent part of his Saturday night posting that he wants to sign new executive orders aimed at voter ID and mail-in ballots. That would be unconstitutional. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
Pritzker on Trump sending troops into cities: "He has other aims other than fighting crime... he would like to stop the elections in 2026 or frankly take control of those elections. He'll just claim there's some problem with an election and then he's got troops on the ground that can take control."
❗️The Russian offensive ended in practically nothing, — General Staff Russian troops did not gain full control over any major city.
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“…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.” My latest in @thebulwark.com www.thebulwark.com/p/honoring-a...
t.me/United24medi... "Jeder wurde 3x täglich geschlagen. Auf dem Hof standen immer 3 Aufseher mit Masken und schlugen uns ständig. Meine Rippen waren mehrfach gebrochen. Ein Bein wurde gebrochen." Die 1. Schilderungen von Mykolayenko, dem ehemaligen Bürgermeister von Kherson./Ch
If I were charged with a federal crime, I’d hire Pam Bondi’s brother as my lawyer. Because I don’t think this is a coincidence.
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Asshole
Welch: He claims that he's the law and order president. But we all know that's a lie because he's a convicted felon. He pardons convicted felons, he surrounds himself with obsequious people that kiss his all day, every day
Hungary was the only country not to support the joint EU statement condemning strikes on Kyiv—the list of countries backing the resolution does not include Hungary.
Between RFK decimating the CDC, normalizing Ashli Babbitt & the umpteenth school shooting... I'm losing the will to post. #ReleaseTheEPSTEIN_Files
Mike Johnson, after downplaying the murder rates in Louisiana cities and his own district, calls Chicago "one of the most dangerous places in the world" before saying: "I hope the National Guard does go to Chicago."
Republicans are trying to redraw congressional district lines to keep their grip on Congress in the midterms and beyond. Voters should pick their politicians, not the other way around. Get involved with the @democraticredistricting.com as they fight back: bit.ly/3HJ1ayW
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At this moment, it is known that 18 civilians — including 4 children — have been killed by the Russians in a missile strike with two cruise missiles on a residential building.
(Reuters) - Russian oil exports to India are set to rise in September despite an increase in U.S. tariffs on Indian imports to 50% www.reuters.com/business/ene...
📌 Russia or its proxies are flying reconnaissance drones over routes used by the United States and its allies to transport military supplies through eastern Germany. militarnyi.com/en/news/nyt-...
👀 The US Director of Intelligence has declassified a CIA agent who was working undercover in Russia. militarnyi.com/en/news/us-i...
"putin glaubt dass der Westen bereits schwächelt" sagt Dmytro Kuleba, ukrainischer Ex-Außenminister in diesem Interview. Und sieht aktuell keine Hoffnung, dass der Krieg bald endet./ Ki www.spiegel.de/ausland/dmyt...
Treasury Secretary Bessent's assertion that $300 billion in frozen Russian assets shouldn't be seized right now for leverage in negotiations is completely misguided. Russia has caused over $1 trillion in damages to Ukraine. Seizing the assets will strengthen the position in negotiations with Russia.
Russians killed a kid today. They killed a lot of people. But I can tell you about this kid. She was seventeen. She was a college student, brilliant and beautiful and an entire lifetime of potential. She took full advantage of the opportunities her mom struggled to earn. Russia killed her.
As we all know, the United States is the only country on the planet where these drugs exist. It definitely has to be the drugs that we alone use. Can’t be something else.
The authoritarian checklist open.substack.com/pub/donmoyni...
If you honestly believe the Russians hit the EU delegation in Kyiv by accident, I don't think you should be allowed to operate heavy machinery and I frankly question if letting you dress and bathe yourself is a violation of our collective duty of care.
i find this image so fascinating. it is both a literal example of authoritarianism but also a second-hand reproduction of the aesthetics of other authoritarian states. it's like a simulacra of authoritarianism whose purpose is to attempt to make the simulacra real.
“.. I don’t know of any case, at least in my lifetime, of the government taking equity in a company simply because it could.” @steverattner.bsky.social @nytopinion.nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2025/08/28/o...
I dare you to go to Annunciation School and tell our grieving community, in effect, guns don’t kill kids, antidepressants do. Just shut up. Stop peddling bullshit. You should be fired.
PP gaslit and lied Entire video: vt.tiktok.com/ZSAmJpY58/
See you at a Labor Day rally and march in Chicago to protest Trump's threat of a military occupation.
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...
"The top story of the moment is the one story that our most influential newsrooms won’t touch: That the United State has become an authoritarian state." — Dan Froomkin @froomkin.bsky.social presswatchers.org/2025/08/we-h...
Graham Platner: "Susan Collins has been in the Senate for almost 30 years... People know that she's a self-interested politician who has tried to play this charade for many years about how she tries to be a moderate... Everybody sees this for what it is."
Undermining the Fed to get lower rates now is like ripping the batteries out of your smoke alarm because it’s beeping. It’s quiet for a bit. Then your house burns down. Credibility anchors expectations; expectations anchor inflation.
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Someday I am going to write a book about how America managed to create a strain of Christianity that is completely antithetical to, well, Christianity.
3. unter der unvorstellbaren Gewalt der ruzzen. Sie erleiden täglich Verlust und Verzweiflung, die sich noch lange bemerkbar machen werden und versuchen trotzdem schon innenpolitische Debatten über alle diese Themen zu führen. Bewundernswert! Und definitiv nicht genug gewürdigt.
open.spotify.com/episode/3hZM... 1. Tolle Folge der @russlandwatcher.de mit @denistrubetskoy.bsky.social Ich kann ihm nur von ganzem Herzen zustimmen: die Widerstandskraft des 🇺🇦 Volkes wird im Ausland oft nicht genug gewürdigt! Ich finde sie unglaublich. Eine ganze Gesellschaft hat ihr altes Leben
Paul Heslop, Head of UNDP’s Mine Action in Ukraine, says over 1 million mines have been laid. “We are witnessing a level of complexity and scale that we have simply never seen before.” - he noted. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
In the Kursk region, Russian aviation is bombing Russian villages. Apparently, they’re “liberating” something there too.
Chilling footage has emerged from the M-14 highway between Kherson and Mykolaiv, where Putin’s terrorists are deliberately targeting civilian vehicles with drones.
Vladyslav, a soldier from Donetsk, survived a slit throat after Russians dumped him in a pit with other captives. Cutting his ropes with glass and bandaging his neck, he crawled for five days to Ukrainian positions. suspilne.media/dnipro/10991...
🧵 Russia: Bastrykin withdrew his application for Supreme Court chairman. Prosecutor General Igor Krasnov is now the frontrunner. He had to take an exam on August 21 to qualify. Instead he was suddenly awarded the title of Honored Lawyer of Russia, exempting him from the exam.
Russian Orthodox Church priest (FSB) says: Nearly 1 million witches connected with demons are destroying Russia. These witches do in fact know whether a missing soldier is dead or alive, but learning the truth has a price: you'll be cursed, possessed by demons, and go to hell.
OH GREAT NOW THE SWAMP IS WOKE www.iflscience.com/deep-in-virg...
It appears this Aakash Singh worked for Sen. Tillis and is a 2017 law grad. He needs to be infamous.
Dear journalists: The President has not fired Lisa Cook. The President is *trying* to illegally fire her. Your words shape people’s reality. Please be accurate in your reporting.
Going to be wild to have Clarence Thomas and other members of the court write that even the appearance of impropriety is sufficient to allow the President to remove Federal Reserve members from office, and then head off to Harlan Crow’s yacht
Russians continue to use donkeys to transport ammunition and supplies due to a shortage of vehicles.
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It's summer!
"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."
www.pravda.com.ua/rus/news/202... So sehen Menschen aus, die in ru Gefängnissen gequält werden. Heute kam der frühere Bürgermeister von Kherson Volodymyr Mykolayenko frei. Deshalb müssen wir dafür kämpfen, dass die 🇺🇦 ein freies, unabhängiges Land bleibt und alle UkrainerInnen freie Menschen.
"I had a blindfold over my face for a day and a half. My hands were bound with tape. They [Russians] treated us like cattle. Now it is a holiday with a new meaning since 2022. Because we have come to understand what independence really is - that it is won with blood..."
Referring to yourself in the third person is weird. Saying you are always right is dishonest. Wearing a ball cap in the Oval Office is tacky. Using your left hand to cover up medical issues on your right hand is concerning. And has he stopped being able to tie a tie?
Where we’re at: Trump in the Oval Office just now: “A lot of people are saying maybe we need a dictator. … I’m not a dictator.”
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Two Texas Dems thought they’d prank their trooper escorts by taking them to a gay bar. Joke’s on them—patrons recognized the troopers from Grindr. Turns out the GOP’s culture warriors were already regulars in the scene they condemn.
What can go wrong? Everything. Deliberate attempt by Stephen Miller to incite violence to invoke Insurrection Act and declare martial law. www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...
BREAKING: @marcelias.bsky.social's law firm is seeking a preliminary injunction to prevent Texas' map (which violates the Voting Rights Act) from going into effect once signed into law by Abbott
THANK YOU FOR WATCHING THE LYING LIARS & NEWS STINKERS OF FOX "NEWS" SO WE DON'T HAVE TO! IT IS VERY MUCH APPRECIATED BY THOSE OF US WHO VALUE HONESTY, INTEGRITY & DECENCY WHILE ALLOWING US TO CONSUME ACTUAL FACTS WITHOUT THEIR BRAINWASHING TECHNIQUES & ABILITY TO TRIGGER BOUTS OF VIOLENT NAUSEA. 🤮
Remember that most of the people in the National Guard want nothing to do with this and are, in fact, probably pretty pissed off that their governor ripped them away from their normal lives to do security theater miles away from home.
1) ABC/NBC should lose license or pay hefty fees because their reporting is mean to him. 2) MD should maybe lose bridge repair funds because Wes Moore was mean to him. 3) The feds should investigate Chris Christie for Bridgegate because he was mean to him.
Lukashenko congratulated Ukraine on Independence Day, speaking of “peaceful coexistence” and close ties between the nations, and saying Belarus is open to dialogue—despite the current realities of regional politics.
Ukrainian forces continue to capture Russian troops, with soldiers of the 79th Brigade taking five more Russian prisoners near Pokrovsk.
Ukrainian Defense Forces carried out a successful counterattack in Donetsk region, clearing Russian troops from three villages—Mykhailivka, Zelenyi Hai, and Volodymyrivka, according to Commander-in-Chief Syrskyi.
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Fucking liar, Orcs only hit civilian targets committing WAR CRIMES.
I promised Texas would be sued. And I don't bluff. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
Chief Justice “Calvinball” Roberts has earned this ignominious place in American history, thanks to the incomparable Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson:
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If a president wanted to become effectively a dictator, he’d likely: 1. Purge govt of non loyalists 2. Weaponize law against opponents 3. Use military to police opposition strongholds 4. Threaten media, schools, businesses w penalties to get them to heel 5. Change election rules in his favor.
Uncooperative Federalism is here! open.substack.com/pub/cmarmita...
“Totalitarianism in power invariably replaces all first-rate talents, regardless of their sympathies, with those crackpots and fools whose lack of intelligence and creativity is still the best guarantee of their loyalty.” ― Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism
Morgen ist außerdem der Stadtgeburtstag von Kharkiv. Die zweitgrößte Stadt der Ukraine, nur 30 km von Mordor entfernt und täglich gnadenlos terrorisiert, leuchtet und blüht zu diesem Anlass und lässt sich weder brechen noch unterkriegen./ Ki
🚨BREAKING: Federal court STRIKES DOWN Alabama's state Senate map for violating VRA sec 2 by diluting Black voting power in Montgomery. Alabama must now draw a new compliant map. Status conference is set for Aug. 28 to facilitate remedial proceedings. www.democracydocket.com/cases/alabam...
“.. perverting the justice system to serve their political interests .. Americans long had reason to trust that federal officials would not target people for investigations without evidence. .. “.. that assumption is disappearing.” @nytopinion.nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2025/08/22/o...
From "highly CONFLICTED" to "Highly Respected" in just weeks — and all it took was for him to give away 10% of his company
"A nation that destroys its soils destroys itself. Forests are the lungs of our land, purifying the air and giving fresh strength to our people." ~ Franklin D. Roosevelt #trees #art #nature #landscape #bluesky #photo #photography
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Rangappa: Do you believe that Ghislaine Maxwell is guilty? Ferguson: Yes Rangappa: She denied her guilt the interview. Ferguson: Most criminals lie, newsflash. That's, like, not shocking. Rangappa: Then why on Earth would you believe anything she said?
Virginia Giuffre’s lawyer Sigrid McCawley reacts to the Maxwell transcripts, saying Maxwell “repeatedly and brazenly lied” to the government and is trying to “recreate history.” Full statement
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“.. the first to use the presidency to be a gadfly, flitting around and sticking his vindictive nose where it doesn’t belong .. It’s going to take a long time to fix all the horrible overreaches of this president.” - Dowd @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2025/08/23/o...
Donald Trump says he is going to deploy the National Guard to Chicago. This is what weak men do to pretend they’re strong. Stay safe, stand with your community, and most importantly, know your rights:
Hi is right. Obviously this won't / can't happen w/o Dems in control. But Dems should make clear that it *will* happen if they have a chance. (To underscore: Per-capita, people of DC pay *more* federal tax than people in any state, incl NY CA. And have zero representation. Or a governor!
The president of the United States is trying to steal congressional seats so I don’t give a fuck about the Cracker Barrel logo discussion. Good night and have a pleasant tomorrow.
Some call us shortsighted if we focus on retaking Congress in the midterms rather than on what comes next. No! That’s like calling shortsighted those on the Titanic who focused on avoiding the iceberg rather than on the rest of the voyage. There’s no “rest of the voyage” if we hit the damn iceberg!
Visualization of Russia’s massive night attack: at least 4 "Kinzhal" missiles on Rivne region, 2 "Zircons" from occupied Crimea, up to 12 "Kalibrs," Kh-101s from Tu-95MS/Tu-160 bombers, and ~350 Shahed attack drones.
