Attorney, Husband, Father defender of organized labor.
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As Trump attacks unions and occupies our city, weāre called to remember how we got here. Labor Day would not exist without the workers who fought and died at the Haymarket Massacre and the Pullman Strike in Chicago. Itās not a coincidence heās targeting Chicago:
Weekends. The 40-hour work week. Sick days. That didn't just happen. Organized labor did that. And today, we celebrate how far we've come. And how far we've yet to go to build an economy ā and a country ā that works for working people.
Mike Johnson refuses to put up a plaque honoring Capitol Policeās sacrifice on Jan. 6. Yet, Ashley Babbitās family gets a $5M settlement & a full military honors funeral for her being part of a riotous mob trying to break into the House chamber. This countryās so fuct thanks to GOP enablers.
DOL is trying to take away minimum wage and overtime from millions of workers. Just thought Iād mention that.
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.
Medicare for all, paid leave, universal childcare. Busting up big corporations and tackling Wall Streetās greed. Getting big money out of politics. Supporting unions and fighting for higher wages. If Dems want to win back working people, this is the agenda they must support.
We wonāt notice it at first Maybe an outbreak of cholera in southwest Kansas goes undetected Perhaps the number of flu related deaths ticks up just a bit each year But-ultimately, inexorably-the destruction of the CDC will lead to countless deaths All because of two men Trump and RFK, Jr
Corporate agriculture gets bailed out while YOU pay more for everything.
There's only one way to stop the rumors about Donald Trump's health: a press conference. Why won't he talk to the press, and why isn't the media doggedly demanding it?
"If you donāt want to tear it down and start from scratch, youāre part of the problem. If you *do* want to tear it down and start from scratch, congratulations, youāre hired." Not much more to it than that.
RFK Jr: āIf youāve ever compared an unvaccinated kid to a vaccinated kidā¦ you see the bright eyes, the engagement, the social interactions, the curiosity. And you compare them to the child who even had one or two vaccines, and theyāre completely different.ā This man is an existential threat.
"The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops has called for universal background checks, a federal gun-trafficking statute, extreme-risk protection orders, limits on high-capacity magazines, raising the purchase age, and banning assault weapons."
If itās the human and not the gun we have to accept that white American males are the worst humans on the planet. If thatās a fact why let them have guns?
Trumpās plan to rename the Department of Defense as the Department of War shows (once again) that his self-characterization as the āpro-peaceā candidate was complete bullshit. www.wsj.com/politics/nat...
It was always a stupid idea and anyone with an ounce of sense knew it was.
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Welch: As someone who lives in a red state, let me just tell you what MAGA supermajorities get you. We're 50th in education. The worst in the whole country for women to live. We're poorer, worst health care. And if you look at the bottom ten states, they are all MAGA supermajorities.
Maybe ICE shouldnāt have lowered their standards for new recruits.
ā.. Kennedy was acting bizarre, saying he can tell as he walks past children if they are dealing with āmitochondrial challengesā .. Can he mysteriously divine illnesses just by looking? āOur health secretary is a certified quack.ā @nytopinion.nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2025/08/30/o...
Those giant American style pick up trucks are the new midlife crisis indicator
Notice that this dangerous mother RFK Jr doesn't say he means a decrease
āā¦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.ā My latest in @thebulwark.com www.thebulwark.com/p/honoring-a...
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...
Welch: Am American president talks to other American citizens like that, and propagandists come on TV and normalize this behavior. And nothing about this is normal. Nothing
Corporations socialize their losses and privatize their gains.
SARAH PALIN: "There are going to be death panels!" RFK JR: "Technically, it's just me."
So not only do churches NOT have to pay taxes, they're going to get YOUR tax dollars to boot. This seems like oh, I don't know, government establishing a religion in violation of the First Amendment?
Absolute blasphemy. This is not prayer. It is shameless sacrilege and God will punish these white-bodied satanic spawn for all their unforgivable evil.
Kirk watched āidiocracyā and thought it was a training film for conservatives.
Excellent question.
The next days and months and years will demand from all of us great courage ā and solidarity. Be prepared.
WE ARE NOT SAFE UNDER TRUMP A clown cabinet of unqualified knee-benders has exposed our country to extreme danger, including another 9/11 NEW SUBSTACK WITH RECEIPTS HERE:
Baltimore was awarded $62M in the trial against a ghost gun dealer, for flooding the city with untraceable guns. The funds will support community violence intervention groups. @daniel-webster.bsky.social, the Centerās Distinguished Scholar, provided expert witness testimony in the trial.
Mike Johnson makes clear that when Congress returns next week he's going to work tirelessly to cover up the Epstein files
Why do these twits never talk about the financial cost we all pay for guns. Metal detectors? Guards? Extra training? Hardened classrooms? Extra cops? All those things we have to pay for and that doesn't consider the time and emotional cost of living in fear of gun violence.
āWhen I call Kennedy a ādangerous crank,ā I'm not saying that as an insult or as hyperbole, but honestly as the most economical way of describing the man's views,ā says @chrislhayes.bsky.social on RFK Jr.
Hello, everyone. Today, thanks to @sbg1.bsky.social and @newyorker.com, I learned a new word. The word is: "butt-snorkeler."
If Ashli Babbitt's parents really wanted to avenge her death they would, instead of pitifully whitewashing her legacy, be suing Fox News for filling their child's gullible head with dangerous nonsense that directly led to her death.
As I speak across Missouri's 2nd Congressional District and the St. Louis area I keep hearing our fellow Americans expressing doubt and fear of what lies ahead. We have to push away defeatism. Itās nothing more than surrendering in advance. I refuse. You should too. Check out my new post!
Sec. Kennedyās warped political agenda is corrupting our protection against disease. His destructive discharges of CDC leaders are yet another attempt to replace science with zealotry.
Join our AAUP NC movement. Build solidarity with knowledge workers across North Carolina. aaup.org/join #highered
If I were charged with a federal crime, Iād hire Pam Bondiās brother as my lawyer. Because I donāt think this is a coincidence.
As always Missouri leads in a race to the bottom so we can brag about being a "low tax" state and "business friendly".
Welch: Everybody's missing the point here. The point is, he's doing this on purpose. He's priming the public to get accustomed to having the military in the streets
This Ivy League educated ass hat needs to read some history of the 19th and early 20th century US and he'd know what happens when you don't have and independent central bank. Sure let's let a 6 time bankrupt make monetary policy for the greatest economy in the world.
"Literally no one thinks prayer is a substitute for action." Then why is prayer, literally, *always* the substitute for action, you willfully obtuse 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
Between RFK decimating the CDC, normalizing Ashli Babbitt & the umpteenth school shooting... I'm losing the will to post. #ReleaseTheEPSTEIN_Files
If RFK jr would stand up at ANY medical conference and spouts his pseudoscience-cult BS, he would be laughed off stage. Where TF are these same physicians now? Every single doctor in the country must take a stand against this guy.
Trumpās vow to āmake train travel great againā mirrors Bidenās plan, which devoted $66B from his infrastructure bill to Amtrak projects like the Frederick Douglass Tunnel and East River Tunnel. www.rawstory.com/sean-duffy-t...
These photos are simply insane
BREAKING: Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey JUST CALLED FOR a statewide and federal ban on assault weapons. Whoās with him?
Little kids are having to use their bodies to shield friends from gunfire while armed soldiers are busy picking up trash.
Should being in MAGA disqualify someone from owning an assault rifle? Of course. So should being a Democrat. Because no private--non-military, non-law enforcement--person should be able to own an assault rifle.
Sounds like that damn autopen to me.
"The White House has terminated Monarez from her position with the C.D.C.ā The White House is an inanimate building. It doesn't have the capacity to "terminate" anyone or anything. And as a legal matter, only the President has the authority to remove Monarez. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/27/h...
Trump just hung a giant portrait of himself over the Department of Labor building, claiming he puts "American Workers First." Take it from a former Secretary of Labor: Donald Trump doesn't give a shit about working people. https://youtu.be/ARL5VvYJUe8?feature=shared
Like I needed another reason to love NYC.
You know what else might be involved...guns, guns might play a role in all these senseless killings.
Every country has angry people and mentally tormented people. The U.S. isnāt special. The difference is in the US these people can buy guns like theyāre buying fishing rods. This will never change.
Experts have studied this for decades, but RFK and his band of liars claim they found an aggregation of causes in a few months. What a disgrace to the nation.
It's possible ... hear me out, here ā¦. It may well be that these people lie their asses off whenever they exhale
Frey: "We need an assault weapons ban nationwide. We need to have a high capacity magazine ban. And if the federal govt and states aren't gonna act, give us the ability to protect our constituents. Give mayors & council members the ability to protect in Mpls 435,000 residents that call Mpls home."
There are some things that really really make me mad, and the whole 'thoughts and prayers' or 'it's too soon to talk about gun control six months after a shooting' is among them. I feel for the parents.
Pete keeps it going! šŖ
Ashley Babbit dishonored her service by committing insurrection against her country. While her death is absolutely tragic and I wish it hadnāt happened, the Air Force giving her honors is in itself a dishonor.
Why do we allow people this mentally ill to buy even *one* gun?
He is incompetent. Canāt string 5 coherent words together. Lives in a fantasy world where gas is under 2 bucks. Makes his cabinet worship him. Is obviously unwell physically and mentally. Heās a felon and a rapist. And there is no intervention. Itās just another day that ends in HOLY SCHITT.
Dr. Demetre, in his resignation from the CDC, said this: āI have never experienced such radical non-transparency, nor have I seen such unskilled manipulation of data to achieve a political end rather than the good of the American peopleā. It is an outrage that RFK Jr. remains as head of HHS.
wtf is this nonsense? He thinks he can understand kidās āmitochondrial challengesā just by looking at them? This is an insane person.
Dr. William Foege, 89, who helped end smallpox in the 1970s, recently wrote: RFK Jr.ās āwords can be as lethal as the smallpox virus.ā And his actions are more lethal still. Heās waging war on America. Thatās an impeachable offense. He must be removed from office. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/27/h...
š§µ Tonight, BlueOval SK workers won a majority of votes in an NLRB election to unionize their plant in Glendale, Kentucky, securing a hard-fought victory. This is a major step forward for workers who stood up against intense company opposition and chose to join the UAW. uaw.org/uaw-statemen...
And Jimmy Carter had to sell his peanut farm. This administration is a crime organization masquerading as a governmentā¼ļø
DJT: āI have the right to do anything I want to do. Iām the President of the United States.ā This would have been considered a pretty shocking statement under any other circumstances.
Trump has bought $100 million in bonds since taking office. His portfolio is poised to get a boost if the Fed cuts rates.
So when you are mugged and fight back you are equally at fault as the guy twice your size that punched you in the face when you wouldn't give him your wallet?
Doesn't it seem wrong to use workers that are obligated by law to perform work for which they are paid substandard wages to replace regular employees who have been laid off.
Clearly, incomplete landscaping at national monuments counts as an emergency that requires mobilization of multiple statesā national guard units
AMERICA: āItās a mental health issue.ā REST OF THE WORLD: āWe have those. But donāt have mass shootings.ā AMERICA: āItās video games.ā WORLD: āWe have those too. But donāt have mass shootings.ā AMERICA B: āItās cause they took Jesus out of the classroom.ā WORLD: āGod, youāre stupid.ā
1. The president is cheating. His tariffs are pushing up the price of everything, which means inflation remains high, which means interest rates remain high. But instead of rethinking a ruinous national sales tax, which is what tariffs are, heās bullying those who set interest rates.
We all want a beautiful National Mall. But every American should be outraged that Trump is wasting $1 million a day on the National Guard to pick up trash when he could rehire the Park Service staff he fired.
Shuler: Every year, we think about a word that captures the state of the unions at that momentāstrong, rising, whatever it may be. But this year, thereās only one possible answer: The state of the unionsāthe state of working people in this countryāis under attack.
In the 60s Hoffa bragged that the Teamsters could shut down the country with their dominance of the freight industry and the powers that be at the time were scared shitless. Now we allow ourselves to be held hostage by oligarchs.
Sounds like a 1983 suit to me. Arrested for exercising a known Constitutional right based on Supreme Court precedent waives limited immunity for acting under color of law.
The end of the republic?
I bet he was called before the grand jury and torpedoed the case so he wouldn't have to testify in open court.
That federal agent who got hit by the sandwich has to be really grateful that he doesnāt have to testify now.
The only explanation for the absurd Dear Leader-style over-the-top lavishing of praise on Trump by his cabinet is a collective awareness that he is nuts. Any decent human in his position would demand they stop. But he is indecent in every respect.
"The oft-mentioned tyranny being opposed by gun owners is really just the sense that the wrong people are encroaching on the privileges and prerogatives of whiteness." From 2020:
"We're living in a world where the director of the FBI wrote a children's book about Donald Trump as a poor persecuted king, and that was enough to get him the job of the FBI director." What *is* left? @sbg1.bsky.social joins @timmiller.bsky.social on today's Bulwark Podcast: