Reporters, I beg you, please stop using headlines with the form “Trump does X” when X is something the president clearly lacks any legal authority to do.
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Reporters, I beg you, please stop using headlines with the form “Trump does X” when X is something the president clearly lacks any legal authority to do.
This Day in Labor History: September 4, 1907. About 500 white working men in Bellingham, Washington rioted against the arrival of Punjabi laborers in their border town. Let's talk once again about how white workers chose their racial identity over their class identity!
Their “frustration” is irrelevant. Who cares? They know RFK Jr is dangerous, unfit, & is going to hurt a lot of people. But their fear of retribution from Trump is the deciding factor in all their inaction. They put their political survival over the lives and health of Americans.
Welcome to CBS News with Bari Weiss; I’m Bari Weiss. The top story tonight is that my maverick opinions are being silenced by the woke left
Nine grafs deep into the article and we find out: "Pentagon officials were still working Wednesday on what legal authority they would tell the public was used to back up the extraordinary strike in international waters."
Hilarious the Louisiana Gov and Senators are now asking Trump to federalize the Guard to take over New Orleans like supplicant subjects should. Let's remember. The Gov can do this any day of the week. That's what the Guard is. A state militia. Asking Trump to federalize them is some weird GOP kink.
Twitter is owned by a neo-Nazi, the LA Times, Washington Post, and Wall Street Journal are owned by pro-Trump billionaires, and CBS News will soon be run by a far-right Likud extremist. American media still has a liberal bias problem.
WARREN: Did you tell the head of the CDC that if she refused to sign off on your changes to the childhood vaccine schedule, that she had to resign? RFK Jr: No. I told her she had to resign because I asked her 'are you a trustworthy person?" and she said no WARREN: This is not what she has said
EPSTEIN'S SURVIVORS (BRAVE!) HELD A PRESS CONFERENCE YESTERDAY AND REPUBLICANS SENT THE WORLD'S DUMBEST FUCKWITS — LIKE JAMES "COMER FUDD" — OUT TO DEFEND DEAR LEADER. TOO BAD, CRYBABIES, THE EPSTEIN FILES AREN'T GOING AWAY. THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO MY POST. LINK IS HERE: bit.ly/4g6x4lL
RFK JR: It's going to have a it's going to it's going to be the biggest infusion of federal dollars into rural health care in American history. SANDERS: You know why? Because you're cutting $150 billion for rural hospitals. You're putting $50 billion back. That's not an infusion.
Hallucinations don’t come from the sources you train AI on. The problem is it is an LLM- a language learning model. It is trying to sound like human language but it doesn’t actually “know” what those words mean so occasionally it strings them together in a way that makes no sense or is inaccurate.
It doesn't matter what Ogles thinks 🙄
Powerful graphic: Chicago just saw its smallest summer murder total since 1965. The city is on track to see one of its lowest murder totals in decades, a trend in play all year that continued through the city's most violent season. Murders are way, way down after a spike. Look:
Dear Donald, If you want the courts to stop ruling against you, stop doing things that are patently illegal. Oh wait, I forgot I was taking to a 34-times convicted felon. One who was charged with 91 felony counts in four jurisdictions. Never mind.
Alabama keeping real quiet that it also has mail-in voting. www.sos.alabama.gov/alabama-vote...
If you have "a great governor who wants us to come in," why isn't that governor just ... calling out his own National Guard?
Everyone should.
here's today's post: "undead president desperate to change the subject from his dead pedo bestie" — Massie and Khanna want to force a vote to release the full Epstein files. thanks for reading, and please sign up for my daily newsletter to keep getting the good stuff —
Trump Is using U.S. Space Command as a political pawn. Trump does not like Colorado because Coloradans have rejected him three times in our free and fair elections. He seeks to blame, so he blames mail ballots instead of looking at his failing policies and then tries to punish the state.
Vladimir Putin and Kim Jong Un attended the event, highlighting China's growing geopolitical influence. This is Russia, China and North Korea showing Trump how utterly he's screwed the pooch, making US look weak and dumb And they want nothing to do with lardass ground.news/article/xi-j...
Thread, on how LA and MS are sending NatGuard troops to DC even as homicide rates are higher in many of their own cities, and even as Trump guts federal funding for any and all programs that reduce crime but don't use a gun. Social control, not safety. Over and over and over and over.
Reading about "The Founders Museum," an AI-generated digital hall of Presidents commissioned by the White House from PragerU, in which dead Presidents recite Ben Shapiro quotes
The loop the Democrats didn’t fully close on their “weird” talking point is that great wealth and unaccountable power corrupts the minds and souls of the people who desire and possess them—they become ever weirder and unhinged because they are so detached from the concerns of us normies.
A week ago after hearing a string of sirens I text from a friend asking if we knew what was going on at our kids' school. The rest of what took place you likely know by now If you’d like to help this community, we ask you give to Annunciation Hope & Healing Fund: www.ccf-mn.org/support-annu... Thx
On Trump’s orders, Missouri Republicans plan to gerrymander a Black lawmaker out of office. If successful, the new map would give Republicans 90 percent of seats in a state Trump carried with 58 percent of the vote in 2024.
There was a time when US soft power was the fuel of the global climate movement Now it’s all China, all the time
In the aftermath of Emmett Till's lynching, white supremacists called for federal troops to invade and occupy Chicago. "If the federal government intervenes in the interests of law enforcement anywhere, it should start in Chicago, crime capital extraordinary." h/t @larryglickman.bsky.social
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The president is sending the military to control American cities and if you're a reporter who's framing that illegal power grab as "pushing the boundaries of constitutionality" or "acting boldly to fight crime" or whatever, please go find another line of work where you won't get us all killed.
What a tool. 🙄
trump has repeatedly voted by mail over the years while suing to keep others from doing the same
The tolerance for lies is killing our country. Trump just called Chicago “the most dangerous city in the world, by far.” But its homicide rate isn’t even in the U.S. Top 20. Will major media call out the lie – and call it “a lie” – or will they talk about his “tenuous relationship with the truth”?
The Trump admin is now moving to effectively double the number of immigration judges by citing flimsy legal authority to deputize hundreds of totally inexperienced military lawyers to take these jobs. Notably, immigration law is infamously complex, often described as second only to tax law.
important to reiterate from time to time: "artificial intelligence" does not exist. there is no sentient artificial being. no threepio. no demerzel. no terminator. what the tech publicists call "a.i." is just big, crappy databases and mindless and often incorrect autocorrect.
here's today's post: "bring out your dead!" — the press continues to ignore Dear Leader’s obvious decline. thanks for reading, and please sign up for my daily newsletter so you never miss a post —
I'm just going to keep noting that the owner and operator of Twitter -- the social media that too many politicians and pundits use to determine what's "normal" -- keeps on pushing the white supremacist Great Replacement Theory that has been the motivation for multiple mass shootings in this country.
Trump’s mysterious disappearance from public raises new questions about Joe Biden’s advanced age
Stop the presses!!! Heavens to murgatroid! Are you saying Benny Johnson lied about something!?!? Say it ain’t so.
22 year old man whose previous experience is a grocer. The header of counter terrorism. MAGA is Affirmative Action for Mediocre White Men
"WEAK LOSER" DONALD TRUMP (CRAPPY HAIR!) IS A BROKEN-INSIDE MANCHILD. (SAD!) HIS TYRANT FATHER (KKK!) DESTROYED HIM AND NOW WE ALL MUST SUFFER AS A RESULT. YOUR FAVORITE WRITER (ME!) EXPLAINS THIS IN A GREAT POST THAT MANY ARE SAYING IS THE GREATEST POST EVER. READ IT HERE: bit.ly/3HD7AQd
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Giuliani played a key role in attempt to overturn Trump’s loss in the 2020 election by promoting false claims of fraud.
In order to get a weather forecasting job with the National Weather Service, applicants now have to name at least two Trump Executive Orders and state how they plan to help support them. Which is ridiculous and shame on every MIC that allows that nonsense in their WFO!
The Washington Post covered the story on the left, but ignored the story on the right. Luckily, Democracy Docket has you covered. Support independent pro-democracy media. Subscribe today. hubs.ly/Q03jcjqP0
Advocates for immigrants and low-wage workers said the companies owe it to their drivers to speak out.
Crime is literally lower than it has been in the entire life of every single non-senior-citizen American. If you are under age 65 you have never lived at a time with lower property crime rates, lower violent crime rates or lower homicide rates. Never.
I didn’t really need more evidence that RFK Jr is nuts and delusional.
The National Guardners
Well now you know how the NY Times would airbrush Dr Mengele
This morning (9/1) at 8 AM feds pulled over a couple at 18th & Park NW. They smashed the window, dragged the husband out & arrested him. When a community member stopped to record they were grabbed & threatened w/ pepper spray by this piece of shit. @mayorbowser.bsky.social do you welcome this too?
This is also routine rhetoric in Silicon Valley — even by immigrant founders! — about America and nobody says shit. Journalists refuse to even *mention* it, let alone ask questions or hold anyone accountable.
⚡️ Update: EU confirms von der Leyen’s plane hit by GPS jamming, Russian involvement suspected. "We can confirm there was GPS jamming," European Commission spokesperson Arianna Podesta told the media, adding that Bulgaria suspects Russia to be behind the “blatant interference.”
Musk now supporting the deportation of anyone who isn’t white. *Do not* use the term “remigration”. It’s an attempt to normalise Nazi hate.
Didn't she post previously about getting off watching ICE apprehension videos?
Federal agents in DC have been starting dangerous car cases for small stuff like tinted windows. The chases violate DC police policy. Out of 10 cases, six ended in a crash. One car had a minor in back. www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...
This wins the internet today.
Rudy Giuliani has been released from hospital after doctors realized he just looks like that
Still no word from the Washington Post about Trump's latest attack on democracy. But, it is now offering advice to Trump about how to effectuate his tariff plan. Support pro-democracy independent media. Subscribe to Democracy Docket today. hubs.ly/Q03jcjqP0
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Remember when Hillary coughed and the media were practically writing her obituary?
An important thread. Trump tried to illegally deport dozens of children by loading them onto airplanes bound for Guatemala at 2 am on Sunday of Labor Day weekend.
NEW: The trump administration attempted to remove 600 terrified unaccompanied minors to Guatemala in the middle of the night on a holiday weekend. Judge Sooknanan stopped it. My latest: www.muellershewrote.com/p/the-sookna...
New Mexico has issued a public health order that removes federal restrictions to COVID-19 vaccine access so that pharmacies in New Mexico can vaccinate people of all ages and risk profiles. Every state need to do this!
🚨BREAKING: President Donald Trump said in a weekend social media post he plans to issue an executive order to impose voter ID requirements. And he reiterated his desire to ban mail voting. The president lacks the authority to take either step. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
Are Guard soldiers not paid by their state?
NY Times vs Democracy Docket. Why does the Times use the word "explicit" when Trump has ZERO authority?👀 Support pro-democracy independent media. Subscribe to Democracy Docket today. hubs.ly/Q03jcjqP0
NEW: A week or so ago, one federal agent kept popping up in videos from Trump's violent DC crackdown—so @jsweetli.bsky.social and I investigated. Turns out he's a 26-year-old US Parks Police officer, a lesser known law enforcement unit currently championed by Interior Sec. Doug Burnum. Our report:
Donald Trump is once again threatening to issue an executive order targeting voting. This is an effort to subvert the Constitution and the 2026 election, which grants states and Congress but not the president power to regulate federal elections. If he does this, we will sue and we will win (again).
Quit platforming these people.
But they never provide their own "stats". They just disagree with what everyone says. CNN (and others) shouldn't platform people who say stuff like this.
But they never provide their own "stats". They just disagree with what everyone says. CNN (and others) shouldn't platform people who say stuff like this.
This thread seems relevant here. It would be great if more mainstream outlets emphasized how wasteful, cruel, and inefficient the Trump admin is being with our public funds. bsky.app/profile/seth...
American free market capitalism is under attack from Trump. Not because he's a socialist or a communist. But because he's a gangster. www.newsweek.com/donald-trump...
New Mexico is overriding the federal government on the topic of COVID19 vaccines to ensure their residents can access them. States hold a tremendous amount of public health power. They should use it.
Which should be available year-round, not seasonally 🙄
Netanyahu is restricting aid trucks into Gaza—the best way to get food to starving people there—so Jordan is delivering some with air drops. The Jordanians said @merkley.senate.gov & I could join one of those flights to see the devastation, but Israel denied authorization for our scheduled flight.
This “explicit” is a weird editorial choice. The constitution gives the president no power over this at all. It’s not ambiguous.
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“Teaching a child not to step on a caterpillar is as valuable to the child as it is to the caterpillar.” - Henry Miller
they are really trying to cross the Footloose Event Horizon, the line beyond which authority becomes a joke
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Mahmoud Abbas’s spokesman calls on countries to exert pressure on Washington before next month’s UN annual meetings.
It’s long past time you all stopped using “Congress” when you mean “Republicans”. Not a single Democrat voted for this hot mess of an appointment. This endless grind to maintain a non-partisan tone, despite the partisanship of our fascist reality, is willfully blind, & a betrayal of your country.
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Once again, Border Patrol tells the press this was a targeted kidnapping, yet they took a man who is legally here & in the immigration process. This shows that it was not a targeted investigation as they claimed. Press must stop printing lies. apnews.com/article/immi...
Question: Why did US put big tariffs on India despite major national interest in cultivating a strategic counterweight to China and trying to isolate Russia? Answer: Because the US president lied that he fixed India-Pakistan and India wouldn’t go along with the lie. (Seriously, that’s the answer)
there is no question in my mind that rfk jr is the most dangerous person in this administration and that his eugenicist ideology threatens the lives of millions of people www.advocate.com/politics/dem...
The NRA buys off Congress. No action on guns. The oil industry buys off Congress. No action on climate. Insurance companies buy off Congress. No action on health care. The list goes on and on. Money in politics is the root of our dysfunction.
“You have to let us break the law or we will be embarrassed” is not a good legal argument
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Or Nancy Mace
Trump’s Pentagon is ordering the reinstallation of a portrait of Confederate General Robert E. Lee that was taken down at the U.S. Military Academy three years ago. The painting is 20 feet tall and depicts a slave guiding Lee’s horse in the background.
And after saddling us with Hegseth?
This isn't just a political claim, it's an empirical one. If "the problem is not guns" then we shouldn't see any correlation between gun ownership and oh wait platform.vox.com/wp-content/u...
"The mainstream press is still in self-flagellation mode over how they purportedly 'ignored' Biden’s decline. (In reality, they never stopped talking about.) But this soul-searching is apparently only backward looking and exclusive to Democratic presidents." — @playtyperguy.com
I miss the old brand #CDC
I'm not the only one to make this point, but there will need to be the equivalent of Nuremberg Trials when this is all over (however long that takes). If there are no consequences for fascists, we'll keep having fascism.
Trump told Mike Johnson he won’t be spending $4.9B in congressionally approved foreign aid. He's cutting the budget without going through legislative branch. He's doing it by using a pocket rescission, informing them near end of fiscal year, so Congress can't act on it in the 45-day timeframe.