Stay angry, make noise, drink coffee 1/20/25 The fight has begun
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A Florida court detained a US Citizen for being an "illegal immigrant." He showed the court proof of citizenship. The court agreed—& held him anyway. I criticized the ruling online & a Florida judge responded by trying to strip me of my law license. I fought back www.qasimrashid.com/p/a-florida-...
Right there with you. And I’m furious at our leadership
the thing about Zohran is he is really fucking good at politics and everyone on the Dem side behaving like he’s a liability has lost their minds I don’t care how you define It, he has It
My statement on @nadler.house.gov’s decision not to seek re-election next year.
Mamdani on Nadler: Just read that last sentence. Perfect.
And Hazel.
I have sometimes been accused of being prejudicial. One day, I will share my most prejudicial view: luxury Italian fabrics, often pushed by MTM clothiers, are ugly. Good fabrics are more often traditional English fabrics that don't feel particularly luxurious (e.g. silky, lightweight, modern, etc).
Who voted for war with Venezuela?
My Republican State Representative, Jeff Farnan, voted to sign away earned sick time after it passed by nearly 58%. He doesn’t care about the will of Missouri voters.
REP. BUDDY CARTER: What eroded confidence in the CDC was the covid vaccine BEDINGFIELD: Who was president in 2020?
This is an actual congressman. People heard the words that came out when this man opened his mouth and said, yes, this minor character from a Faulkner novel is indeed the best person we could find to represent our interests in the national government.
News in this piece: 1) JB Pritzker's health officials are exploring the possibility of buying Covid vaccines in bulk to distribute to constituents 2) Mass Gov Maura Healey is leading a coalition of mostly blue states that could coordinate purchasing of pediatric vaccines Read all about this here:
This is the kinda stuff right wing media said when Michelle Obama oversaw a school nutrition program fyi. Glenn Beck transcript is from 2010.
Heckuva job, Donald
States already have some form of voter ID requirement in place. So Trump’s latest post is just political theater. He says he’ll issue an executive order requiring voter identification for all U.S. elections. On Truth Social he declared: “Voter I.D. Must Be Part of Every Single Vote. NO
A plan for Gaza circulating within the Trump administration calls to “voluntarily relocate” Palestinians, establish U.S. control, and turn the area into a “gleaming tourism resort and high-tech manufacturing and technology hub.” (Washington Post)
Thread... Israel has assassinated Yemen’s Prime Minister Ahmad al-Rahawi. Yemen is a sovereign state. A UN member state. If roles were reversed & Yemen assassinated Netanyahu—or any nation assassinated a European head of state—that entire nation would have already been razed to the ground. 1/3
Pritzker: "No one in the administration -- the president or anybody under him -- has called anyone in my administration or me. It's clear that in secret they're are planning this invasion with US troops."
And when they say *they* are protecting the country from the people who want to destroy it, they are engaging in pure psychological projection.
“Since Mr Trump singled out India with an unexpectedly draconian double dose of tariffs earlier this month, he has reportedly phoned the Indian prime minister on four occasions to seek a compromise. Each time, the Indian leader refused to pick up.” (The Telegraph)
Trump’s plan to rename the Department of Defense as the Department of War shows (once again) that his self-characterization as the “pro-peace” candidate was complete bullshit. www.wsj.com/politics/nat...
Damn. I coulda made bank!
If you're on Medicare, Trump's gonna let AI decide if you get care or not.
FFS www.nytimes.com/2025/08/29/u...
The Trump Administration celebrates the long tradition of violent domestic insurrection against the United States. Next up, a massive statue of All-American Patriot Timothy McVeigh!
Did he just get back from living on a deserted island with a ball named Wilson?
A federal grand jury has declined to indict another person arrested as part of President Trump's D.C. crime surge. This was the only case we know of in which the National Guard participated in an arrest. After the grand jury declined to return an indictment, DOJ moved to dismiss the case.
Because of a recent Wired hit piece, that has now been debunked, misinformation spread like a wildfire and several people decided to unsubscribe from my Substack. This is what the author wanted, despite publishing a false article. Please consider subscribing to support my work today:
DNC Chair @kenmartin.bsky.social killed the resolution stop arms to Israel claiming, "The party is deeply divided, we need dialogue." The party is not deeply divided & there's nothing left to debate. 92% of Democratic voters want to stop arming Israel. Party leadership should listen or step aside.
I wonder why Bill Pulte didn’t send this case over to DOJ with a criminal referral along with his selective targeting of Adam Schiff and Lisa Cook? apnews.com/article/paxt...
BERMAN: When might you call for the National Guard in Shreveport? The FBI stats show there's more violent crime there than DC JOHNSON: There's a lot of good work that's been done. We have a Democrat DA there who has not been prosecuting crime as some other more aggressive DAs have. Soros funded him
"Schumer should accept defeat here. He should stop trying to recruit anyone to run against Platner. He should give everyone in the Democratic coalition a fair and unspoiled test of left-populist appeal." Agreed, @brianbeutler.bsky.social www.offmessage.net/p/graham-pla...
Mike Johnson makes clear that when Congress returns next week he's going to work tirelessly to cover up the Epstein files
BERMAN: End EV credit- underwater. Boost Medicaid work requirements- underwater. Increase border wall spending- underwater. Increase detention center spending- underwater. End solar, wind incentives- underwater. Reduce SNAP benefits- underwater JOHNSON: I'm not buying it. Polls can be manipulated
These children were probably praying when they were shot to death at catholic school. Don’t give us your fucking thoughts and prayers. Trump got rid of the Office of Gun Violence Prevention. Trump gutted the resources that were in place to keep our communities safe.
Fuck these Nazi scum www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2025...
Pirro’s strategy played better in a Fox News greenroom than in a D.C. courtroom. www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/fai...
YELLEN: “.. Trump’s attempted sacking of Cook should be met with outrage, not with shrugs. .. And the financial community must raise its voice against a direct assault on the credibility of the dollar itself.” @financialtimes.com www.ft.com/content/d2ea...
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Editors at @nytimes.com politics might consider taking the elementary step of asking themselves whether they *might* be getting it wrong in declaring Trump in control on this issue. Just try to pose it as a question that goes against the grain of conventional wisdom, merely as an exercise.
Remember when I told Virginia Foxx the truth about pro-lifers not really being pro-life? She got all offended. Is she that angry about the two children that were shot to death in their classroom today? Will she do something about it? You know the answer.
Cc: @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social
I am begging my fellow Dems to emerge from the reflexive “it’s a trap” position on these issues and realize that some things are very simple: the public doesn’t like the federal government turning the military against its own citizens.The public doesn’t like the armed occupation of a city.Period.
Chief of staff to Gov JB Pritzker -->
The Minneapolis shooter was apparently a fan of several mass murderers who were motivated by the same "Great Replacement Theory" that has pretty much taken over the Republican Party.
Republicans keep telling us not to "politicize" these shootings, but that's only because they understand that these shootings were entirely motivated by the political arguments they themselves have been making and entirely facilitated by the political campaign against gun control that they have led.
Quinnipiac poll: 67% of voters disapprove of the way the Trump admin is handling the Epstein files. 19% approve. 73% think the Justice Department is not being transparent in the way it's handling the Epstein investigation.
As Republicans inevitably blame mental health and not the guns for yet another school shooting - kindly remind them that 205 of them voted AGAINST a bill to expand school-based mental health services.
ICE officials are using artificial intelligence to generate leads for immigration raids, which have sometimes sent agents to the wrong house. www.reuters.com/legal/govern...
Most federal prosecutors can indict a ham sandwich. Trump's DOJ is so incompetent it can't indict the guy who threw one. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/27/u...
i like when these guys just say things like "union station has fallen into disrepair" which is plainly false to anyone with eyes apnews.com/article/trum...
Normally, I save this sort of thing for my paying subscribers. But the details in the 8-K that Intel filed earlier today over its $8.9 billion deal with the government are worth sharing with a wider audience. www.linkedin.com/pulse/intels...
Not just “we will stop you.” “We will prosecute you.” Right on.
I am sounding the alarm on the real crisis we face today. Donald Trump’s overreach is what our founders warned against – it is unprecedented, unwarranted, and un-American. There’s no emergency here that calls for military intervention.
literally a cartoon image of a “criminal”
Japan Post just announced they will no longer deliver mail to the United States, joining Germany, Austria, Denmark, Italy, France, and Sweden.
Trump posts a letter stating that he is removing Fed Governor Lisa Cook
If you’re a convicted felon and your character witness is your dear old friend, the convicted child sex trafficker and enabler of your other dear old friend, the most notorious raper of children in modern history, you’re definitely a total piece of shit.
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.
this is little more than a vendetta being pursued by the federal government against a man it unlawfully removed from the country and was forced to bring back
Indivisibles in DC are protesting Trump’s militarization of their city.
“without food, we would have gone bankrupt by now” lol amazing
People in the Midwest and northeast are in for a huge surprise this winter. Thank god for mild CA weather
They're going to spike everyone's energy prices. Your energy prices are going up and it's Trump's fault. Plain as day.
A sponge blender would be a cheap investment but seeing the makeup he’s done for years that probably won’t happen
That’s not “chronic venous insufficiency” he’s in heart failure and has probably damaged his kidneys due to the meds for offloading that fluid. I’ve seen this too many times to count
You won’t regret it. It’s the best investment I’ve ever made. Electricity costs are about to skyrocket.
The whole Maxwell interview feels staged, especially with how aggressively it’s being pushed. Something doesn’t add up, if Clinton and Trump are supposedly innocent and no list exists, then why not release the full unredacted files?
Continuing from the last post, let’s be blunt. None of it makes sense. No one should be taking the word of someone convicted of sex trafficking minors. She’s lounging in a “vacation prison” after everything she did.
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?
Tomorrow in the New York Times: Was Ghislaine Maxwell Credible When She Said That Donald Trump Never Did Anything Wrong? We Asked Woody Allen
In fact, executing a search warrant on the home and office of a target of the investigation is not the "very early stages" of a complex white collar investigation. Unless you're a total dipshit.
All of this, ALL OF IT, is to distract from the Epstein files. All of it.
Donald Trump is wandering around The People’s House gift shop. Because checking on how well his Chinese hats are selling seems like a priority. 🙄
This isn’t about John Bolton, so whatever you think about him is irrelevant. It is about every person who dares to publicly criticize Trump. It is about intimidating and silencing all of us, and it will work with some. There are going to be many more Boltons in the coming months.
they desperately want footage of soldiers shooting americans
incredible that three overpaid consultants in a trench coat can get media play by urging democrats not to use words that literally no one in mainstream politics uses
A woman who criticized Ghislaine Maxwell’s transfer to their facility in an interview has been transferred out to another facility which houses violent offenders. Trump’s DOJ is now punishing people who criticize his sex offender friends. www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...
This is getting very bad: *FBI raids top Trump critic's home *Trump loyalist gins up "mortgage fraud" pretexts for DOJ probes of Schiff, Letitia James, Lisa Cook *Bannon says ICE will monitor 2026 voting *DHS memo vows LA operations "for years to come" New from me: newrepublic.com/article/1994...
The FBI is raiding John Bolton's house, apparently at Kash Patel's personal direction, the NY Post is reporting:
I’ve noticed this, too, and the silver lining is that if Dems ever reclaim power they can (as a stopgap before expanding the court) be guided by whichever past shadow docket decision “allows” what they want to do. If Roberts et al say no, White House counsel can say 🖕
Newsom: We can’t do things the way we’ve done. Let’s disabuse ourselves of that. The Democratic Party needs to assert itself. We need to be strong again. Strength matters. People want conviction. They want character. They want a sense of intention and purpose…
Yayyyyyyyy!!!! A federal judge has blocked the transfer of any additional immigrant detainees to a detention site in the Florida Everglades and ordered much of the facility to be torn down.
The guy who seems to have elevated the cat-eating story into the mainstream is the open neo-Nazi Geoff Martin, a/k/a captive dreamer, who is followed by JD Vance, tweets almost nothing but dangerous nativist incitement and Nazi garbage, and whose role in MAGA politics the media has carefully ignored
This is very similar to what Jesus says about the poor in the New Testament….
So she’s never visited the museum. That’s literally what you exit to
RFK Jr., Hegseth and Duffy are doing performative public workouts instead of their actual jobs and, what's even more pathetic, they are not remotely good at working out.
Here’s the source of this amazing story.
NEWS: The California Supreme Court has rejected a Republican appeal to block Democratic mid-decade redistricting efforts. California Democrats are now full steam ahead to pass their own maps. All the news you missed overnight: open.substack.com/pub/aaronpar...
See ya in hell, Jimmy!
An ice cold natty boh, table full of blue crabs, and a warm night. Heaven I can feel my lips burning from the Old Bay
Elon Musk has been ordered by a federal judge to face a lawsuit by voters accusing Musk of defrauding them into signing a petition to support the U.S. Constitution for a chance to win his $1 million-a-day giveaway.
The people who say we talk too much about slavery are the same ones who insist that we need public monuments and statues of men who are famous solely for waging a war of treason in defense of slavery. Statues that were created explicitly to deny any sense of "hope and progress" after the Civil War.
If you aren't following @jessicatarlov.bsky.social you should. Let's get her to 100k followers today.
You know South Park and Newsom are working because Trump hasn’t posted about them once
anyway i think i know who wrote this because there is a certain wapo editorial board member whose whole take is that the conditions for democracy are fulfilled when there are regular elections, and that it is possible to have democracy without political liberalism. (i think this is stupid, btw)
