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Look at this graph. The share of national income going to the richest 10 percent was lowest (and share to lower 90 percent highest) when union membership was at its highest. As unions have weakened, inequality has widened. This is why we must build back union power.
White men.
…nationwide ban on assault rifles.
Everyday is Opposite Day.
Disgraceful.
Don’t look away
ICYMI: For the first time in the Middle East, famine has been officially declared in war-torn Gaza under the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification, a system backed by the United Nations, on 22 August 2025.
How many of those days was he on vacation?
Starbucks CEO pay: $96 MILLION Starbucks worker pay: $15,000 Coca-Cola CEO pay: $28 MILLION Coca-Cola worker pay: $14,000 CEOs used to make like 20x the average worker. In 2024, the average CEO earned 632x more. The system is rigged.
Just in case you forgot…
This is a CHOICE. American CHOOSE to let kids die. WE DO NOT HAVE TO LIVE LIKE THIS.
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.
New in PN: Trump's flag burning executive order flames out "This is a blatant attempt to transform protected speech into criminal conduct, despite decades of SCOTUS precedent barring just that. And it was immediately challenged by a veteran who set fire to an American flag just across from the WH."
Virginia Giuffre to Name Henry Kissinger in Tell-all From Beyond the Grave After Publishers Win Six-month Raging Legal Battle Source: RadarOnline share.newsbreak.com/eq988h93
70 years ago, on this date, Emmett Till was kidnapped and brutally murdered by white men. His family, including his cousin who was with him at the time, is repeating the train ride he took from Chicago to Mississippi in 1955 to mark the anniversary
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.
Psaki: I felt a mixture of anger—a lot of anger—and emotional exhaustion about this today, as I’m sure many of you have, because we have been here so many times. And yet again, like clockwork, half the politicians in our country have little more to offer than thoughts and prayers.
FOUR
“I have the right to do anything I wanna do. I’m the President of the United States.” — Donald J. Trump, August 26, 2025 “L'État, c'est moi” — Louis XIV, April 13, 1655 open.substack.com/pub/charlies...
We choose this. There is still time for us to change.
This is for all the Christian lawmakers out there. If your only response to this mornings tragedy is “Thoughts and prayers.” Go FUCK yourself straight to hell.
Our leaders have failed us. They fail us over and over again.
Nowhere.
When the fuck will people wake up and realize this is a choice. We choose to let kids die. We choose to allow homelessness. We choose to allow hunger. Period.
When will we wake up?? How many dead kids is enough??
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.
JUST IN: Active shooter situation at Catholic school in Minneapolis
BREAKING: Abrego Garcia just renewed his bid for asylum. Keep fighting!
Brutal. A humiliation ritual.
The Fourth Estate will be shamed by history.
Make his friends famous too.
As the U.S. government takes a 10% stake in Intel, Forbes has learned the tech company partnered with sanctioned Chinese surveillance firms Uniview, Hikvision and Cloudwalk.
Epstein Files
Yesterday in the Oval Office Donald Trump said that some people in the US want him to be a dictator. I’m running for Congress to stop that from happening. Please chip in our average donation of $32 to help me get there: Katforillinois.com/donate
Trump and his MAGA movement have mastered the art of projection, accusing the left of doing what they themselves have done. But now, Trump has taken that to a new level, becoming the manifestation of an oppressive state that the right has always warned against. So why aren't more sounding the alarm?
youtube.com/watch?v=0rii... Trump doubles down on being a dictator!🤦♀️👇👇👇
Rachel Maddow reacts to Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker's speech…. "Shoot that right into my veins!": Maddow on IL Gov. Pritzker's speech
Pritzker: This is not about fighting crime. This is about the President and his complicit lackey, Stephen Miller, searching for ways to lay the groundwork to circumvent our democracy, militarize our cities, and end elections.
NOW: There is a hearing happening now for Mr. Abrego's Writ of Habeas Corpus. Here's what his lawyers are asking for: www.muellershewrote.com/p/new-mr-abr...
I’ve never been one to sit on the sidelines. I’m running for State Assembly. Let’s fight for the future we deserve. 🚀 ➡️ KluweOC.com/Donate #ChrisKluwe #CALeg #OrangeCounty
Sure. I bet Lindsey Graham has a girlfriend living in Canada too.
Not how it works. Not how any of this works.
Gross
KILMAR IN BALTIMORE: “Never lose hope. Promise me you’ll continue fight for freedom — not just for me, for everybody.” He was just taken into ICE custody.
Good point.
Let’s be clear: deporting Kilmar Abrego Garcia to Uganda makes no sense—it’s not his home country. Nothing about this process has been fair. ICE is targeting him with cruelty. This is the weaponization of government, not justice.
Kamala Harris nailed it. We warned everyone the stakes were too high to hand the guy built for Project 2025 another shot — but noooo. Ever have one of those mornings you just want to throw the window open and yell, FUCK YOU ALL? Yeah, that.
EPSTEIN EPSTEIN FILES 💥
This Weekend in Politics, Bulletin 193. Everything you need to know about what happened this weekend in politics. open.substack.com/pub/meidasto...
The second amendment guarantees the right to a militia to guard against federal tyranny. But if a president can use that force against its own state, against the wishes of that state, then it is no militia at all and a clear violation of the second amendment.
Nobody asked for Ghislaine Maxwell’s scripted statements. We want all the Epstein files.
Republicans hate kids.
Listen up. There’s one thing you need to know about Chicago. The Chicago Way
“I was r*ped sometimes 3 times a day on that island… and I was not the only girl on that island… Ghislaine must die in prison, because I’ve been in hell and back for the last 17 years.” Listen to the survivors.
Chicago is next. Let’s see how Governor JB Pritzker handles fascism at his front door 👇👇👇👇👇
Did you know that Missouri schools are not mandated to teach Sex Ed? Did you know that if a district decides to teach Sex Ed it must teach abstinence as the preferred method of birth control?
BREAKING: Florida Republicans stomp on the memory of the Pulse nightclub shooting victims by removing a rainbow crosswalk in the dead of night that was painted to honor them. This is a disgusting new low in the MAGA war on our LGBTQ communities.
UPDATE: Hours after Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s release in Tennessee, Fox News reports that the Trump administration may deport him to Uganda as early as next week.
The British white washed their genocide in Ireland by calling it famine. This is no different. Free Palestine.
NOW: The FBI is executing a search warrant on John Bolton’s home. www.newsweek.com/john-bolton-...
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
“This is racial gerrymandering at its worst.” Rep. Al Green told Mother Jones during the Texas House proceedings, where they passed a redistricting plan that could give the GOP five additional seats in the US House.
The timeline split when they killed Harambe. Convince me otherwise.
Ant wait for the retort from GCN. 😂
Illinois would like an invitation to this party.
www.tiktok.com/t/ZT6C3Fjh3/ Unforgivable, unspeakable, inexcusable sin and horror. Crime against humanity. A depravity I never thought I would see from a so-called “western democracy.” What Israel is doing disgusts me. What America is doing in support of it horrifies me.
"How bad slavery was" is worse. Much worse. Much worse than you think, much worse than you're taught, much worse than museums depict. Worse.
Republicans are doing everything they pretend to fear from government.
A United States Senate investigation has identified more than 500 credible reports of human rights abuses in US immigration detention since January, including alarming allegations of mistreatment of pregnant women and children.
This is kidnapping.
Wake the fuck up!! Courts won’t save us. States won’t save us. Only WE THE PEOPLE can save us.
Translation; We know we suck and our policy is garbage. We can’t steal enough votes so we’ll make impossible for half of you to vote.
Sundowning
Paradoxical.
*insert clown emoji here* 🤡
Drag that clown 🤡
"ICE" does not exist in any way that resembles what it was in its former life. This warrantless....non-identification bullshit...is the extension of the most evil, lawless...heartless son of a bitch in the United States of America.
Breaking: www.rawstory.com/masked-borde...
Who could’ve thought the NFL owning a piece of ESPN would be bad?!
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
A guy wore a Nazi shirt to a baseball game in DC.
Mr. Swan has stirred up controversy, however,what He is Saying about Chump and America, Rings True.......
Crowd at Audi Field chanting “Free D.C.” at the Spirit match. #freedc
There is some straight up frightening shit in the oceans.
Epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein Wholesale inflation up .9%. Epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein Strikes out with make-believe peace meeting. Epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein $60 million taxpayer money on golf outings. Epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein
Indiana Gov. Mike Braun targets interracial marriage rights in 2025!
Keep it alive.
Low energy from TRUMP. PATHETIC.
The GOP is a satellite arm of Putin.
US army rolling the red carpet to murderer’s plane. I will never forget this image.
I don’t even live in NYC and I want to vote for @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social
I am once again asking you to knock on doors to win a city we can afford. zohranfornyc.com/events
If this was your uncle, you’d ignore him.
"The secretary [Hegseth] is among Wilson’s supporters, and his involvement with Wilson’s denomination highlights how a fringe conservative evangelical Christian belief system that questions women’s right to vote is gaining more traction in the Republican Party." azmirror.com/2025/08/13/p...
Vladeck: There’s one video showing a DEA officer telling a D.C. resident he couldn’t drink alcohol on his porch—D.C. law says exactly the opposite. It also highlights how these officers aren’t even trained in the laws they’re purportedly enforcing.
Sources tell Rolling Stone that unless Mexico gives Trump what he wants, he is serious about attacking. And according to administration officials and others familiar with the Trump administration preparations, it’s not a bluff. More: rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
Trump refers to Obama officials as "Clapper and Comer and that whole group of criminals ... that is a criminal group of people, they are sick people and they are criminals and they should be taken care of."
"I don't usually call out the National Guard, but when I do it's because of the Epstein files."
