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8 cops making over $100k each to arrest one man. But your food, water & air are killing you. Your daughter is carrying her rapist’s baby to term & will probably die when it becomes complicated & your veteran son in jail for being unhoused. But at least that Brown guy sitting on a bench is gone.🙄
Black women have every right to be furious. The irresponsible choices of white voters has for many of us, taken our livelihood with consequences for our homes, the education of our children, our ability to care for parents. It’s unconscionable. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/31/u...
Where is that schmuck Jake Tapper and why is he not breathlessly covering this.
Every time your electricity bill goes up for the next 10 years, it can be traced back to this Administration’s actions. They are making solar and wind power illegal to build in the United States. They are artificially restricting supply while demand is going up.
So is this going to devolve into a Weekend At Donnie’s presidency, with Stephen Miller as the puppeteer?
Opinion | Americans don’t need to go shooting things into their arms to be healthy by RFK Jr.
Trump needs to post an unhinged, hateful all caps screed as proof of life
Threatening the people who give out the Nobel Peace Prize
Vaccines have one of the highest reward to risk ratios of any medical intervention in human history. This sociopathic conspiracy theorist is literally killing people, causing the deaths by vaccine-preventable diseases of people who could have lived.
This notion that Republicans are coasting right now and the wind is beneath the sails of Donald Trump is just not true. Joni Ernst is not going to run for reelection in Iowa. There was a special election in Iowa earlier this week and the Democrats have now broken the Republican super majority.
Dr. Dmitri Daskalakis, who resigned from the CDC says that RFKJr said he believes that Avian flu should be allowed to "burn through" the chickens and then children and others, so we can propagate a "stronger species". RFKJr believes in eugenics. RFKJr needs to resign or be fired.
The CDC has learned its lesson. by Susan Collins
every time someone says “fuck you, make me” an angel gets its wings
“You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.” ~Ray Bradbury Keep reading, friends. 📚
Vaccines are safe and effective. RFK Jr. isn’t.
CDC erupts in chaos after ousted chief Susan Monarez refuses to resign
No, I’m not going to hold back. MAGA & Trump spent their day killing people, mostly children. They love the guns that killed children at a church school, and they hate the vaccines that save children’s lives. It’s way more than ENOUGH!!!
There aren't many stories that prompt gasps at our editors' daily budget meeting. But this was one.
Bringing shame upon yet another branch of service members
Essential deep dive into an under-the-radar, but important, election this fall in Maine.
Thank you, @schiff.senate.gov !
All together now: DUMP RFK Jr.
wtf is this nonsense? He thinks he can understand kid’s “mitochondrial challenges” 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.’s “words can be as lethal as the smallpox virus.” And his actions are more lethal still. He’s waging war on America. That’s an impeachable offense. He must be removed from office. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/27/h...
2/For this reason, we reject notification Dr. Monarez has received as legally deficient and she remains as CDC Director. We have notified the White House Counsel of our position."
1/Our client was notified tonight by White House staff in the personnel office that she was fired. As a presidential appointee, senate confirmed officer, only the president himself can fire her.
Vile.
Another successful cabinet meeting with Dear Leader
"Acosta took what was a prepared, 60-count federal indictment that could have landed Epstein in prison for the rest of this life many times over, and turned it into the sweetest plea bargain in the world." Rep. Raskin previews why congressional Democrats are so eager to hear from Alex Acosta.
Democrats just picked up a seat that was +11 pts for Trump in 2024 to break an Iowa supermajority. Trump wants to appear indomitable. But he's also a lame duck and those winds can shift quickly. www.the-downballot.com/p/iowa-democ...
NEW RESULT: Democrats have flipped a state Senate in Iowa. This was a seat Trump carried by 11%, but Democratic nominee Catherine Drey has just won it by 10.4%. This is the second legislative flip by Dems in Iowa this year. It also means the GOP loses its supermajority in Iowa’s senate.
Oh, so that’s the problem. He doesn’t know what capitalism is.
These guys should be home with their families.
“on Tuesday, for the second time this year, a Democrat appeared to flip a conservative-leaning district in the Iowa Senate…” www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/u...
Debra Shigley racked up 40% of the vote tonight for the Georgia State Senate. This is huge. The last race there had more than a 40-point margin favoring Republicans and she was the lone Dem in a 7-way race. Now headed to a runoff. Go Georgia!
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
Today I spoke with Kilmar Abrego Garcia. The courts & public outcry forced Trump to return him to MD, but Trump’s cronies keep lying about his case & are engaged in a malicious abuse of power to try to deport him to Uganda. As I told Kilmar, I won’t stop fighting for justice & due process for all:
The safety of the people of Illinois is always my top priority. There is no emergency that warrants the President of the United States federalizing the Illinois National Guard, deploying the National Guard from other states, or sending active duty military within our own borders.
The twenty most targeted books by book burners. Be sure you've read them all. www.theguardian.com/books/2025/a...
A federal judge temporarily blocked Trump’s attempt to take control of D.C.’s police, halting the administration from carrying out a directive from Attorney General Pam Bondi that sought to replace MPD’s police chief with a federal official.
the actual communication problem democrats have is this: their most prominent national figures filter everything through focus grouped lines and are incapable of plain speech
Yeah. It’s very much “if you didn’t run your mouth so much, your man wouldn’t be forced to beat you” vibes.
We’re 7 months in, and “Pentagon plans military deployment in Chicago” is a headline in the Washington Post. And because it’s city number three, we’re already numbing to it. If you read this about any other democracy in the world, you’d conclude that it was well on the road to a dictatorship.
Stern words from the conservative WSJ editorial board: “The real offender here is a President who seems to think he can use the powers of his office to run vendettas. We said this was one of the risks of a second Trump term, and it’s turning out to be worse than we imagined.”
Excellent thread. I cannot believe it’s 2025 and highly paid pundits are still claiming that conservatives are babies who the rest of us must coddle.
Excellent breakdown. Thank you. I recently suffered through a public lecture that doubled down on this weird, infantilizing insistence that conservatives are but simple cave people who have no choice but to choose evil and ignore all evidence if their choices coincidentally hurt people they hate.
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People spend so much time on here signalling what they think of Newsom, pro or con or mixed, and like...the primary is three years away. If it happens. Marshal your energy.
As the parent of a daughter finishing her PhD in Public Health with a focus in Epidemiology, I find this truly frightening. We never imagined when she began this journey that it would become so political.”
Trump’s tweets now just seem like boring less funny versions of Newsom’s imitations The cover band is better than the original band
Ossoff: "There is at some point is going to be a reckoning for all of this. These folks who are working at these private prison companies who are on Kristi Noem's staff right now, they are at some point going to have to testify under oath about what is happening in the facilities they're running."
An utter disgrace to the country and the profession.
I've clung to grim belief that 1968 would be darkest year I'd see in US. Horrific assassinations. Real (not show) military occupation in DC. Tet and MyLai. 'Police Riot' in Chicago. Nixon/Agnew. Not so certain any more. Back then 2 parties still functioned. A prez could resign for "good of nation"
WATCH: Laura Loomer, a self-described "Islamophobe" with very close ties to Donald Trump, successfully pressured the U.S. State Department to halt medical visas for severely injured Palestinian children from Gaza. @chrislhayes.bsky.social
Black women are being used as test subjects for the limits of abuse of power. I want people to not ignore this since this always happens and then when the abuse arrives at people's doorstep, they're surprised. CALL IT OUT NOW.
‘In the Chinese culture, money is often given to others in a gesture of friendship and gratitude’ Uh, but not inside a bag of potato chips www.thecity.nyc/2025/08/20/w...
Fuckin A.
California didn't start the redistricting fight. But we're going to win it.
Yet another damaging and dangerous blurring of the line and the law to give this kind of political derision in the presence of troops. Secretary of Defense should be preventing it, instead is encouraging it.
Watch this. Apparently, police followed Rep Collier into the bathroom and threatened her with a FELONY for being on a press call with Senator Corey Booker and Governor Newsom.
DC has almost as many White as Black residents and they are all "part of" the city. But in the Trump/MAGA worldview, cities are definitionally for Black people, whatever the data may say
Nancy Mace: "In my time in Congress, I actually helped secure the largest infrastructure grant in state history, in South Carolina history. So I've worked very hard on the policies that matter to voters here." (Mace is taking credit for legislation she voted against!)
In the Texas GOP’s proposed congressional gerrymander, one district loses more than 14% of its Latino voters while also gaining heavily Republican, majority-white precincts from surrounding areas, all but guaranteeing a partisan flip.
The US capital is being flooded with military troops at the direct order of the president and media is barely talking about, because the president didn't say "I am doing authoritarianism" but "the military is here to fight crime"
I want a president who thinks slavery was a big deal.
There’s probably no connection between Trump’s post suggesting slavery wasn’t that bad, his restoration of monuments honoring Confederates, and renaming of military bases to honor traitors who believed that it was simply a property right being taken from them without just cause.
ICYMI: www.mediamatters.org/justice-civi...
New in PN: Gavin Newsom's moment "Newsom and other Dems joining this battle are right to fight. And by fighting, they are demonstrating just how weak Trump is. When you bend the knee, MAGA looks invincible. As soon as you stand up, though, the orange god starts to look like a fetid bag of wind."
As a former Texas State Rep, let me be clear: LOCKING Rep. Nicole Collier inside the chamber is beyond outrageous. Forcing elected officials to sign “permission slips” & take police escorts to leave? That’s not procedure. That’s some old Jim Crow playbook.
WOW. @marcelias.bsky.social goes off on the failures of legacy media: "We have an absolute collapse and failure by the institutions that have promised us that democracy would not die in darkness, that in fact, they stand for the proposition that democracy will die in plain sight of daylight."
The Independent has identified Eric Lendrum as the DHS PR officer responsible for a relentless flood of social media posts on DHS pages using Nazis memes, slogans and images. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
“Kennedy would be less hazardous if he decided to do cardiac surgery. Then he would kill people only one at a time,” writes former CDC Director William Foege. www.statnews.com/2025/08/18/r...
So red states are illegally sending troops into blue cities to enforce the fascist agenda of their leader and, um, we don't see that as a bit, I don't know, extraordinary? Worrisome even?Could it be that's because what remains of our media is buying into the idea it has to do with "fighting crime?"
"The better way to understand Anchorage is not as the start of something new, but as the culmination of a longer process. As the U.S. dismantles its foreign-policy tools, as this administration fires the people who know how to use them, our ability to act with any agility will diminish"
Imagine if they’d had sandwiches. 🥪
Show some love to @standupalaska.bsky.social for welcoming Trump and Putin to Alaska.
D.C. fights back. oag.dc.gov/sites/defaul...
Throwing a sandwich at a cop: felony. Beating a cop unconscious with a flag pole: tourist behavior.
Trump 2028 isn’t a joke. Donald Trump doesn’t believe the rules apply to him, and he’ll do anything in his power to hijack a 3rd term. Wake up, America. You will not have a country if Trump rigs this election.
Newsom: "We're doing this in reaction to a president that called the governor of the state of Texas and said 'find me 5 seats' ... we cannot unilaterally disarm ... other blue states need to stand up"
Newsom: "We're asking the voters for their consent to do mid-term redistricting"
Donald Trump, you have poked the bear — and we will punch back.
We're putting the maps on the ballot and we're giving the power to the people.
We're here because Donald Trump is trying to rig the system. He doesn't play by a different set of rules — he doesn't believe in the rules.
On November 4th in California, you will have the power to stand up to Donald Trump. You will have the power to stand up for people. We're going to give the people of this state the power to stand up for democracy.
We’re very excited to announce our joint endorsement between Perry Meade for Congress and Chris Kluwe for State Assembly. Together we will fight back against MAGA Republicans and deliver an affordable future for all in Orange County!
Awesome piece of news! Thank you for stepping up once more to service our nation, Sherrod! www.cleveland.com/news/2025/08...
Authoritarian regimes that capture capitol cities remain in power far longer than those that don't. #FreeDC
RFK Jr is demanding the Annals of Internal Medicine, a prestigious medical journal, retract a vaccine study he doesn't like. The rise of US medical fascism is accelerating. www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-...
Also that gay men with AIDS “should be tatooed … on the buttocks, to prevent the victimization of other homosexuals.”
WindBorne Systems is one of several companies launching balloons, drones, buoys, and other devices to provide critical data to the beleaguered agency’s National Weather Service, but they can’t fill all the gaps. www.wired.com/story/privat...
“Are you abandoning your jobs?” 🔥 🔥 TEXAS DEM REP. ANN JOHNSON: “Yeah no — abandoning your job is going to Cancun in the middle of a deadly freeze…” A+ answer from Rep. Johnson here. @texasdemocrats.bsky.social
Important thread. If they can deny due process to some people, they can deny it to us all. Which means we will have no way to prove our innocence or take legal action if captured.
Phang: Good for Pritzker, good for Hochul, good for Newsom—good for these other Democratic governors who are saying, “You know what? F off.” We’re not going to let people in these other states—people who are under attack and trying to do the right thing for their constituents—go without support
The scale of Trump's pay-for-access scheme outlined by the @nytimes.com is mindblowing. Crypto contributions resulting in business deals with the Trump family crypto businesses, oil companies buying influence and later reaping benefits from friendly policies, and a $1 million pardon.
First Donald Trump cleared the field for Mike Rogers. Now the same far-right oil baron billionaire backing the Texas gerrymandering scheme just gave five MILLION to his SuperPAC. Michigan voters will decide who wins this race. Not the highest bidder.
‘Talk about affordability’: Warren boosts Mamdani as model for Democratic victory.
Support the Texas Dems here: riggedredistricting.com Watch the full interview with @jamestalarico.bsky.social and subscribe to support independent media: youtu.be/N5FO81TQ48A
@markjacob.bsky.social paints a pretty grim picture here. He's right: things are grim. But all of us who care about truth & democracy are not helpless. Reporters must be fearless about telling the truth & the rest of us must vigorously support media outlets doing that important work.