"Any institution that cultivates individual or independent thinking is under assault. And we're going to do everything in our power to stop folks from selling out." www.politico.com/news/2025/08...
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"Any institution that cultivates individual or independent thinking is under assault. And we're going to do everything in our power to stop folks from selling out." www.politico.com/news/2025/08...
If he's incapacitated and someone is pretending to be him, yes.
"Immigration activist Dominick Skinner is using an ingenious combination of A.I. and people power to digitally rip agents’ masks off and expose their faces to the world... All of this is legal, though ICE is furious." wegotthiscovered.com/news/i-do-be...
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."
Did he even write those?
"Kelley was recently convicted of plotting an assassination of the law enforcement officers & investigators who were involved with his initial arrest in 2022." I wonder what % of those jailed for Jan 6 have been & will be sent back to jail? Seems like a violent bunch. upolitics.com/news/edward-...
Impeach RFK Jr. It's time, before he kills more people. www.rawstory.com/impeachment-...
Pay attention. Your family’s safety is on the line.
The new ICE song by Jesse Welles nails it. ICE isn’t recruiting heroes, it’s recruiting the bitter, the rejected, the ones desperate for a badge to cover their failures. Losers with power become the most dangerous kind. (c/o Caroline Codsi)
Since when do we honor insurrectionists? Since Trump I guess, who set them in motion.
"Remarkable failure" is bringing these ridiculous charges in the first place.🙄 If someone threw a Subway sandwich at me, I'd thank them and take it home and enjoy it. But I'm not a hysterical snowflake. www.rawstory.com/sean-dunn-sa...
These guys should be home with their families.
Watching this makes me ever more certain that the plan of the “originalist” movement is to repeal all constitutional amendments since the Civil War. That includes taking away most rights from Black people and women. youtu.be/U86_a_cgEkw
We have another fighter- governor of the state of Washington, Bob Ferguson. "If Pam Bondi really believed that Washington was in conflict with controlling federal law, she would make some effort to explain that. She did not, because she cannot."
I can tell you a fact about this. I lost my sister to suicide. When someone is “forward thinking” they are not suicidal. This young woman had survived, won her day in court, moved across the world, became a mother and wrote a book. Suicide my ass.
Stephen Miller a lackey? I don't think so. If anything, Trump is the lackey IMO. Trump provides the distraction and entertainment while Miller runs the show.
"What the president is doing, through the secretary of defense is creating official military units to, quite frankly... watch the American people. And that's the thing that is absolutely abhorrent. It reminds me so much of what happened in Germany in the 1930s." www.alternet.org/general-trum...
I spoke to Ali Velshi on his MSNBC show today about how the Democratic base does NOT have an identity crisis. We have a leadership crisis. Yes we do have some great Democratic fighters but they are the exception. We need more fighters given the stakes!
Threatening to traffic Kilmar Abrego Garcia to Uganda if he doesn't plead guilty is extortion, not justice. If the corrupt and incompetent Pamela Jo Bondi had evidence of a crime, she would have the DOJ prosecute instead of making threats. apnews.com/article/abre...
They gaslit you all throughout the election.
Best idea I have heard in an age. Hakeem is failing to meet the moment. We need someone to stand against Trump, and we all know Jasmine is up to that.
"The president’s defenders have to frame Newsom’s mimicry as though he means to emulate Trump rather than mock him. Newsom is like the court jester pointing out how stupidly the king is acting. The inability of Trumpists to see it makes it even funnier." www.rawstory.com/clearly-trig...
A "me" society over a "we" society, as I just heard someone discuss on MSNBC.
It's almost as if they don't care for the teachings of Christ. Always the Commandments over the Beatitudes.
A 45% decrease over 40 years according to research. Fewer insects means fewer birds, crops, etc. Insects are the platform on which everything else rests.
Garcia: What we got was complete bullshit. We demanded the full Epstein files, and that’s not what was sent over. The White House cover-up clearly continues. What they sent us was 33,000 pages of documents that have already been in the public domain.
Fight smarter, not harder. 👍 www.cnn.com/2025/08/23/e...
Being made fun of seems to be Trump's weakest spot. I think his whole anti-Obama crusade started when Obama made a joke about him at the White House Correspondents' Dinner.
This is so important… Sharon has been tracking license plates on cars driven by ICE agents, and she’s finding they don’t match the vehicles. In other words, ICE is using secret, illegal tactics—just like we suspected. REMINDER: the DMV is not a federal agency. @governor.ca.gov 🧵
Fascinating interview comparing today's media with media in the Jim Crow era, and how the newspapers helped entrench Jim Crow. newrepublic.com/article/1994...
The files ARE the list
The files ARE the list
ICE detained Muhammad Zahid Chaudhry, a Pakistan-born US Army veteran and husband of former congressional candidate Melissa Chaudhry, during his citizenship interview in Tukwila. He’s now being held at the Northwest Detention Center in Tacoma. The story is developing at The Stranger.
"I was the hunted and now I'm the hunter." —Donald Trump: June 18, 2025 "Trump's enemies list is now the court docket," warns Michael Cohen. www.rawstory.com/michael-cohe...
Keep going! Slava Ukraini!
He likes me! He really, really likes me! 😄
"What does that say to everybody else? If you speak against me, I'm coming to your home. If you speak against me, you may end up in jail. If you speak against me, you're going to incur millions of dollars in legal fees, so keep your mouth shut." www.alternet.org/trump-reveng...
Masked raids are tools of fear, not freedom. Despite what this administration wants you to believe, they are not about “safety.” They are about letting ICE agents hide from accountability while carrying out inhumane acts.
This 👇🏾 “Why do they need masks? They’re federal officials, they’re paid by the taxpayers. They should be doing their jobs in a way that’s lawful and constitutional, and that’s part of the job.” DC Mayor Bowser questions why so many federal officers in the capital continue to cover their faces.
Pretty sure most of them climb at night. Then there are 3 other seasons than summer.
They’re lighting democracy on fire.
Once the redistricting wars are over and every state has defined itself as solidly red or blue, is that when the civil war starts?
JUST IN: A federal judge has ruled Alina Habba’s appointment as Special Attorney for the District of New Jersey is unlawful. Judge Brann: “I conclude that she is not [lawfully performing the functions and duties of U.S. Attorney].” Her actions since July 1 may be void.
Right after Texas Republicans pass their super-gerrymander bill, some are going, "Oh, wait." 😄 www.rawstory.com/texas-redist...
How easy would it be for Trump to expand this to include other benefits and benefit programs such as Social Security, Medicare, SNAP, VA benefits, etc? www.benzinga.com/news/legal/2...
Slavery was good for the economy and ensured blacks had plenty of work. Am I doing it right? Bright enough?
🇺🇸 National Guard soldier speaks out: “I swore an oath to defend our constitution… seeking refuge is not an act of violence. Locking people up for it is.”
Ghislaine Maxwell has more freedom in Texas than Nicole Collier.
"Aside from the D.C. “takeover,” Trump is developing a National Guard “strike force” to confront and quell protests, demonstrations, and civil dissent... [and to] act as Trump’s personal militia to crush constitutionally protected speech, in Democratic-run cities." www.alternet.org/alternet-exc...
Now Trump is trying convince us that being invited to Moscow is a huge win for him.🙄
America has fallen.
Fox News Reporter Jacqui Heinrich: The way that it felt in the room was not good. It did not seem like things went well. And it seemed like Putin came in and steam rolled, got right into what he wanted to say and got his photo next to the president and then left
International embarrassment.
Trump wants to replace PBS with Prager U, known for pushing rewritten history. Propaganda disguised as education. Straight out of the authoritarian's handbook.
Newsom: "He doesn't play by a different set of rules. He doesn't believe in the rules. As a consequence, we need to disabuse ourselves of the way things have been done. It's not enough to just hold hands, have a candlelight vigil, talk about way the world should be...we have got to meet fire w/fire"
He spends $200 MILLION of your💰on a ballroom and his family doesn’t deny making billions off his presidency. As you cheer for him caging brown ice cream men & kids, he invades DC to cover a child sex trafficking ring and trashes the constitution to cling to power. He laughs.
Trump says he’s deploying the military to Washington, D.C. because of a "crime emergency", but armies don’t do policing. They have no training in any aspect of policing. [It's also illegal] Armies are really good, however, at facing down large crowds of protesters. www.rawstory.com/raw-investig...
I don't think Trump thinks. I don't know what goes on in his noggin, but it ain't thinking.
Not great!
This former model, with no background in history, has been put in charge of curating what is "appropriate" at the National Museum of African American History.
Authoritarian cosplay. Also a diversion from the Epstein files.
NEW: Governor Newsom will be holding a press conference and rally at 11:30 AM PT tomorrow in Los Angeles regarding redistricting. The announcement is chef's kiss.
She's also the only child rapist in history to be moved to a minimum security camp with potential work release one week after meeting with the Deputy Attorney General.
Americans soon to learn about our country's history through a Trump lens. I don't know about you, but I'm looking forward to learning about the airplanes of the Revolutionary War! www.politico.com/news/2025/08...
I think we all know the answer to that question.
This won't be the South rising again, as they seem to think and wish for. This will be something very different, and they won't like it. This is the rich rising, and their thugs' boots will be equally on their necks. www.newsletter.samuel-warde.com/p/warning-in...
Below are the 30 U.S. cities with at least 100,000 residents that had the highest number of crimes against people, per 100,000, according to the latest FBI data report. Goodness, Washington, D.C., forgot to be included! JD Vance & Jim Jordon's Ohio makes a stellar showing. Heck of a job on crime!
Trump is nominating E.J. Antoni to lead the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Antoni currently serves as chief economist at the right-leaning Heritage Foundation, the authors of #Project2025. So, yeah, the numbers will be shameless lies and propaganda. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/11/b...
Lake suggests they should be sent to Alligator Alcatraz or deported to their home counties where they would face persecution or imprisonment after having worked for the U.S. government. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
BREAKING: EXCLUSIVE: Senator Whitehouse asked the BOP for Ghislaine Maxwells sex offender waiver, custody level, transfer code, and security point score. I have them. She's also been granted the ability to leave the facility for work assignments. My latest: www.muellershewrote.com/p/exclusive-...
Bowser: "I think I speak for all Americans -- we don't believe it's legal to use the American military against American citizens on American soil."
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Trump listed some of the cities he intends to take over next: Chicago, LA, NYC, Baltimore, Oakland... Not Memphis, St. Louis, New Orleans, Cleveland, and other red cities with higher crime rates.
Trump listed some of the cities he intends to take over next: Chicago, LA, NYC, Baltimore, Oakland... Not Memphis, St. Louis, New Orleans, Cleveland, and other red cities with higher crime rates.
Wow — REPUBLICAN Rep. Thomas Massie points out the hypocrisy of Republicans crying foul about Texas Dems leaving to stop Trump from stealing 5 seats in Congress as Speaker Johnson and the GOP flee Washington to help Trump cover up the Epstein files.
Did Trump get an orange sharpie?
Did Trump get an orange sharpie?
Perez: The governor's coordinating the Texas department of public safety with the FBI, the president—this is really the type of coordination that could have been used when Texans needed it during the recent floods.
Incompetence or intentional? What's up next for deletion, the #EpsteinFiles?
A $200 million ballroom, and now this. He doesn’t ever plan on leaving.
Trump is turning the White House into the Bawdy House.
And what about those massive flagpoles- "the largest you’ll ever see" according to Trump.
Just another cog in the ponderous Trump corruption machine.
Shameful. How much hate can one man contain? 😔
The next part of the plan to steal the midterms and/or the 2028 election - an attempt to do a mid-decade census to take seats and electoral votes away from blue states. I knew this was coming.
The number of Americans receiving unemployment benefits for at least a week rose to the highest level since late 2021, according to Labor Department data.
"The Republicans are doing more than changing the rules of democracy. They are creating the conditions for criminalizing it." www.alternet.org/alternet-exc...
Mitigating some of the damage Elon's DOGE did, at a cost of $millions and the lives of at least 135 Texans, including children. newrepublic.com/post/198835/...
POP, Party Of Pedophiles
"The thing we were all warning about for the last few years is not coming. It is here. We are in it. This is what it's like. We do now live in a country that has an authoritarian leader in charge... We have a consolidating dictatorship in our country." www.mediaite.com/media/tv/msn...
When Republicans go low, the Democrats need to go for ruination. It's time.
Someone go get grandpa- he's walking around on the roof again. 🤭 www.buzzfeed.com/mjs538/trump...
"Trump created Trump Model Management directly inspired by Epstein’s company... Lying on an application is visa fraud. Introducing underage girls to men for the purposes of the men having sex with/raping them is child sex trafficking." www.wonkette.com/p/welcome-to...
Dems taking the high road got us here. When Republicans go low, Democrats need to go for ruination. Fight for us, as if this country depends on it, because it does. As if our lives depend on it, because many do. 💙✊
One of Epstein's victims calls out Bondi's DOJ for protecting the powerful men in the files. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
"Hegseth and team DHS urged the military officials to prepare to get involved in a years-long war on America’s streets, in 'L.A.-type’ operations' that the memo says are a 'priority for POTUS'." www.wonkette.com/p/pete-hegse...