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This would be the perfect time for the R reps to start saying no to Rapist Fuhrer.
Reminder that Bari Weiss is "a pseudo-liberal who launders billionaires’ money into a project painting universities and the 'radical left' as the greatest threats to democracy, weakening liberal resolve and providing cover for crackdowns by the fascist right." theracket.news/p/the-free-s...
In my view, Amy Coney Barrett kicking off her book tour by doing a sold-out event with Bari Weiss and publishing an exclusive excerpt in The Free Press should end the "Supreme Court justices are not motivated by ideology" discourse once and for all ballsandstrikes.org/legal-cultur...
Let's see if the ball-less and spineless MAGAt Republiscums cave once again to the bully.
This waste of human skin could not tell the truth if his next fix depended upon it.
You can help slow down ICE’s terror. Talk to local businesses about putting up signage to protect employees from ICE raids and show solidarity with immigrant communities: act.indivisible.org/signup/signs...
I know political memories are short, but damn! In July, Schiff joined Republicans to pass the industry-friendly crypto bill that allowed Trump to take in more crypto bribes.
“Have we truly lost all sense of sanity…that we treat this as normal?”—Gov. Pritzker No, we have not all lost our minds. This is a time for strong defiance of the hostile plans of a weak and desperate man determined to further fuel conflict in our beloved country. open.substack.com/pub/america/...
Mayor Bowser, "shared priorities" with this administration means having masked agents disappear our neighbors in the middle of the night. It means soldiers with assault rifles in our neighborhoods. It means arresting children. These are the priorities of a dictator. DC does not share them.
Oh, nothing to see here. Just corrupt self-dealing by the Secretsry of Commerce's family Lutnick Family Angling To Make Astronomical Sums Off Court Nixing Tariffs talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/lutni...
About this Florida vaccine story: When they were little - 1 yr and 3 1/2 - my two older boys, who’d had all their shots, got whooping cough. We asked their pediatrician what would’ve happened if they hadn’t been vaccinated. “Oh, they’d have died.”
Call #NJ07 Rep Tom Kean Jr (202-225-5361 / 908-547-3307) and demand he speak out & fight against this Trump plan to let AI make decisions about Medicare patients' treatments. The plan is to test this "prior authorization" scheme in NJ & five other states starting in January. Tell Tom: Hell no!
I think Andy Ogles should be eligible for involuntary commitment to the nut house.
Trump's paranoia takes center stage now - a component of malignant narcissism. He trusts nobody. He's being sabotaged with the discharge petition. His lawyers lose too many cases. Polls are lying. Numbers are wrong. Dem Governors are out to get him. Who else will be disloyal? Who already has?
Ole Andy needs to take a long walk on a short pier.
OMG that would almost, yes almost, make up for the last six months of crazy shit storm brought to you by Rapistfuhrer.
We’re back. Join our next nationwide day of defiance on October 18. Trump’s regime is abducting immigrants, deploying troops in our streets, rigging maps to silence voters, and defying the courts, but standing up to wannabe kings is part of our DNA. Let’s get to work: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i...
It's not normal for an American president to send troops to American cities in times of peace. Chicago, document what you see and be loud for America.
The state of America: Cyndi Lauper changes the lyrics to Girls Just Want to Have Fun to Girls Just Want Fundamental Rights.....
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.
So our military just bombed a boat in international waters and extrajudicially killed suspected drug traffickers without so much as a conversation, let alone a trial? Then posted it on social media? And we’re all supposed to just trust their account?
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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
I am organizing multiple workshops this week for Chicago activists and organizers as we prepare for a possible military occupation of our city. I am tired but moving fast.
In the coming days, we expect to see what's playing out in LA and DC happen in Chicago. These efforts are not about fighting crime or making communities safer. This is about Donald Trump testing his power and producing political drama to cover up his own corruption.
Yes. Chris Geidner breaks it down in this thread: bsky.app/profile/chri...
"The GOP is signing on to mass murder of children based on the novel theories of a man who has no party ties except a single Trump endorsement. It is a measure of the party’s utter hollowness, brokenness, and evil that even in this case, it can barely find the resources to demur."
RIP Graham Greene. You were fire no matter the role you played and you were fire as a caring human being.
Since returning to office, Trump has: -Stripped 1 million federal workers of collective bargaining rights -Reversed Biden's minimum wage hike for federal contractors -Gutted OSHA and frozen enforcement of a regulation protecting miners from lung disease "Pro-worker" president.
Pritzker: "We've gathered information from unauthorized, patriotic officials inside the government and from-sourced reporters about Donald Trump's plan, which is to deploy armed military personnel to the streets of Chicago."
Pritzker: "When did we become a country where it's ok for the US 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?"
Pritzker on Trump's plan for Chicago: "Unidentifiable agents in unmarked vehicles with masks are planning to raid Latino communities and say they're targeting violent criminals."
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Outdated laws from the 1700s and 1800s give the president tremendous power to use the military at home. It’s past time for Congress to repeal the Alien Enemies Act, close loopholes in the Posse Comitatus Act, and reform the Insurrection Act. bit.ly/4oxXJLN
It is wild that the Washington Post -- which claims "Democracy Dies in Darkness" -- has remained completely silent for more than a day about Trump's latest attack on free and fair elections. Support pro-democracy independent media. Subscribe to Democracy Docket today. hubs.ly/Q03jcjqP0
Today we celebrate the strength and resilience of working people everywhere. Nearly 300,000 federal employees have lost their jobs this year not because of necessity, but because of a political agenda. And while people’s lives were destroyed in the name of “saving money,”
Delighted.
If you enjoy… Weekends Safe working conditions Retirement benefits Paid vacations Breaks at work Sick leave Paid holidays … then you’re part of the labor movement. Happy Labor Day.
California stepping up.
One should know their rights.
This is just sad. We’ve posted about this before. Now here is what is going down. The rainbow crosswalk at the Pulse memorial in Orlando (created to honor the 49 lives lost in the 2016 shooting) has now become the target of state enforcement.
He won’t let the press anywhere near him. This is getting weirder and weirder.
MAGA politicians couldn't tell the truth if their life depended on it. Even as adept as politicians are to give a circuitous answer to a simple question, these spineless, testicle less dips certainly fail every test on how to deal with a insane bully.
I was suspended for a day when I wrote Stephen Miller should eff off and d!e.
Thank you to Kevin “Kal” Kallaugher for his spot on editorial cartoons.
Trump wants you to forget Epstein. Or at least, trust the lady whose been convicted of the crime. My latest adamkinzinger.substack.com/p/maxwell-th...
The new ICE song by Jesse Welles nails it. ICE isn’t recruiting heroes, it’s recruiting the bitter, the rejected, the ones desperate for a badge to cover their failures. Losers with power become the most dangerous kind. (c/o Caroline Codsi)
I think the Air Force is as fucked up as Worm Brain.
ROTFLMFAO May I’m Concerned lose her seat.
NEW: In his criminal case in Tennessee, Kilmar Abrego Garcia's lawyers seek an order stopping the Trump administration's nonstop prejudicial statements against their client. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
"Literally no one thinks prayer is a substitute for action." Then why is prayer, literally, *always* the substitute for action, you willfully obtuse asshole?
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As long as guns are easily available to crazy people, mass killings directed at so-called soft targets will continue. This is a fact. Countries where it's more difficult for crazy people to obtain guns have less shootings. This is also a fact. Do with these facts as you will.
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This interview, which is also available to listen to as a podcast, provides a useful overview of some of the dangerous trends we’ve been seeing in recent months regarding federalization and militarization of state and local police functions.
Top Qualification to be a Pedofuhrer appointee: agile enough to kiss Pedofuhrer's ring and diapered ass at the same time. Unfortunately for the American people, there are some sad, disgusting specimens with this ability.
I was on with Nicolle Wallace and got to break news! We discussed the ongoing redistricting wars and a lot more. www.youtube.com/watch?v=h68Y...
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
He lost his mind years ago. But this community note😂😂😂
Missiouri Republican Rep. MarkAlford to his angry constituents: "If you didn't want to hear my lies, why did you come here?"
On Wednesday the Trump administration announced it plans to nix the landmark 2001 Roadless Area Conservation Rule. It would open nearly 45 million acres of wild, unfragmented national forests to road construction, logging, and other development.
Ashley Babbit dishonored her service by committing insurrection against her country. While her death is absolutely tragic and I wish it hadn’t happened, the Air Force giving her honors is in itself a dishonor.
AMERICA: “It’s a mental health issue.” REST OF THE WORLD: “We have those. But don’t have mass shootings.” AMERICA: “It’s video games.” WORLD: “We have those too. But don’t have mass shootings.” AMERICA B: “It’s cause they took Jesus out of the classroom.” WORLD: “God, you’re stupid.”
I have been saying for months that Stephen Miller is Joseph Goebbels. Fornicate them both.
📌This is what a hero looks like. This is Dr. Susan Monarez, who just announced she WILL NOT resign her post as C.D.C. Director underneath the anti-vax monster, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. She is standing up for the health and well-being of hundreds of millions of Americans, and we MUST stand up for her.
Revisiting America’s Dark History of Internment open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...
My son came home from his second day of school this year to see news coverage of the Minnesota school shooting. His reply was so simple and so out of reach. "They should just make a law that people can't have guns, why can't they just do that?" - Jack, age 11 We have failed our children so deeply.
The antics of golden retriever 😂
Schools Theaters Concerts Malls Churches Synagogues Mosques Parks Nightclubs Offices Festivals Stores Military Bases Bars Post Offices Yoga Studios Super Bowl parades Nowhere is safe from the scourge of gun violence in America. You can't tell me we must simply accept it.
NEW: Yesterday, I posted that I was unable to get the COVID vaccine at my VA clinic, and many of you assured me that the new one would be available soon and that I was overreacting. I was not overreacting. I am no longer eligible for the vaccine. apnews.com/article/vacc...
Lying wanker just throwing their cretinous minions bogus and untruthful lies.
BREAKING: Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey after Annunciation Catholic School shooting: “Don’t just say this is about thoughts and prayers right now. These kids were literally praying!” Stop paying for a f-cking minute and demand action by people and not just God.
I don’t do Starbucks for numerous reasons. The pay gap disparity being one of many reasons they don’t get my money.
Frey: And don't just say, this is about thoughts and prayers right now. These kids were literally praying. It was the first week of school. They were in a church.
Never before in our history has one man exercised such unbridled discretion affecting the lives of so many of us, while simultaneously preventing others — Congress, the courts, the American people — from having a say or even knowing what he’s going to do next. This is what dictatorship looks like.
This will be tough, but the fight is in her and she has my full support to do all she can.
According to SCOTUS one can burn the US flag.
It’s spreading.
The lawyer for Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the man wrongly deported by the Trump administration to an El Salvadoran prison and then returned months later, says his client is now facing deportation again.
Epstein survivor Sarah Ransome on Ghislaine Maxwell: “I have spent the last 17 years in my own prison for what she, Jeffrey, and all the co-conspirators did to me. I was raped three times a day. Ghislaine must die in prison.”
Yes. Collapsing all fed law enforcement into one undifferentiated, untrained, masked force. "Agents said they worried the changes would transform the FBI from an investigative agency focused on national security into something more akin to a federal police force..." www.nytimes.com/2025/08/21/u...
This is so important… Sharon has been tracking license plates on cars driven by ICE agents, and she’s finding they don’t match the vehicles. In other words, ICE is using secret, illegal tactics—just like we suspected. REMINDER: the DMV is not a federal agency. @governor.ca.gov 🧵
KATIE JOHNSON’S OWN WORDS youtube.com/shorts/TlGsI...
Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD 