UNCs reputation as a basketball school is not in jeopardy.
UNCs reputation as a basketball school is not in jeopardy.
I’m disturbed that I like what this is saying…but I know WHO is saying it, so I know it’s trash.
“Annoy” = “makes me feel guilty”
Oh stop it, both the media for this idiotic reductive narrative and Dem centrists for being such astonishing wimps. The voters of NYC — especially young ones — made their clear choice, so either move along or go sit down. You win nothing by being cautious and scared www.politico.com/news/2025/09...
Spot-on!
Pritzker: "National Guard troops, any kind of troops, on the streets of American city don't belong unless there is an insurrection, unless there is truly an emergency. There is not."
Heather Honey, a high-profile denier of Donald Trump’s loss in the 2020 election, has been appointed to a senior position in the Department of Homeland Security in which she’ll help oversee election security.
Let's give a shout out to the men & women who labor in the fields to put food on our tables. #WeFeedYou #LaborDay. Mandemosle un saludo a los hombres y mujeres que trabajan en el campo para poner comida en nuestras mesas. Thank you Ignacio Gomez for letting us use this art
NEW -- Exactly 10 days after taking the oath early this year, Donald Trump nearly drowned dozens, potentially hundreds, of his own citizens in California’s Central Valley. Why? Because he is one of the most ignorant people you will ever meet. www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
That Trump and Trumpism are fascist doesn’t explain the sheer vandalism of unleashing mass murdering mayhem via RFK to replace medical/scientific institutions of immense value and prestige with medieval peasant superstitions. That is a criminal madness facilitated by but above and beyond fascism.
“…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.” My latest in @thebulwark.com www.thebulwark.com/p/honoring-a...
The thing about Robert E Lee is he should have been executed in front of the gutted husk of a torched Virginia plantation mansion, and that should have been his official portrait, and we should have put it on our money.
People are often surprised to learn that Lee was an officer who never made it past colonel. The purported promotion to general was awarded by a treasonous cabal calling itself the "confederate states of america" which was put down by force by the Union army, which also had superior generals.
6/ The reason you see hacks like RFK Jr. pushing back on the experts is not because they've been in charge and screwed up. They've never been in charge and that's not their role. He'd just prefer to say and do whatever without criticism or analysis from people who know what they're talking about.
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.
Ok I am hyperventilating now
I take this as evidence that he doesn't remember any of the other school shootings.
Awww Jeezus. I was just having a nice Friday evening.
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 average American simply has no idea how quickly the infrastructure that keeps us safe and healthy is collapsing. These systems run in the background thanks to government employees who quietly do critical work. Those employees are being purged and systems are being destroyed.
I’ve seen a lot of fucked up shit in my day, but this might just take the cake.
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
In the Beautiful New World of Tomorrow, there is only one qualification needed: loyalty to Dear Leader!
Everything that keeps people alive is woke when your entire goal is to kill off as many as possible.
One step from the poor being walking Soylent Green, Darth.
Hello, everyone. Today, thanks to @sbg1.bsky.social and @newyorker.com, I learned a new word. The word is: "butt-snorkeler."
Ashley Babbit dishonored her service by committing insurrection against her country. While her death is absolutely tragic and I wish it hadn’t happened, the Air Force giving her honors is in itself a dishonor.
According to federal data, 13 of the top 20 cities in homicide rates have Republican governors. None of those cities are Chicago. 8 of the top 10 states in homicide rates are led by Republicans. None of those states are Illinois. And yet Trump is sending troops here.
Curious what the reasoning for this could possibly be. My first thought it that it was a Putin request
RKF Jr. is a dangerous man who is determined to abuse his authority to act on truly terrifying conspiracy theories and disinformation—leaving us unprepared for the next deadly pandemic and snuffing out potential cures while he’s at it. My full statement.
Anyone else notice a pattern in the government officials Trump is firing?
three guesses which party this guy is in
Next step: indict sandwich man for tax fraud and attempt to deport him to Uganda.
"'People don’t want to reach this conclusion: This is authoritarianism."
"The top story of the moment is the one story that our most influential newsrooms won’t touch: That the United State has become an authoritarian state." — Dan Froomkin @froomkin.bsky.social presswatchers.org/2025/08/we-h...
Making them wear high-visibility vests over camo is such a good joke you couldn’t write it
Today’s Executive Order creating a *nationwide* military “quick reaction force” and setting up an online portal to permit random fascist vigilantes to join soldiers is one of the scariest things I’ve seen in U.S. politics in my adult life. Why is it not getting more attention?
Tbh, his base doesn’t have any clearer an idea of whom to hate or why.
“This is about the President of the United States and his complicit lackey, Stephen Miller, searching for ways to lay the groundwork to circumvent our democracy, militarize our cities, and end elections.” – Gov. J.B. Pritzker
Please tell me it is not possible for someone to be this stupid.
This guy has got it.
I know US media finds it inappropriate, but "we haven't even discussed the specifics" of security guarantees gives the game away. Supposedly pursuing peace for 8 months, and haven't even talked about a key feature? Either total incompetence, or not really after peace, and should be covered as such.
so a generalized decree of martial law without pretext
“But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.”
It's high time for us to consider that we Americans owe our Constitution and democratic heritage far more than our fortunes and sacred honor.
the president of the united states has exclusive access to the most up to date and far reaching intel in the world and he is asking his social media followers what is going on
the fuck
It’s never been about “crime”; it’s about getting the American public used to seeing a military occupation in their (blue) cities, and getting the US Military used to being used for political purposes.
Thousands of ICE agents are doing a lot more damage to our social fabric than millions of undocumented immigrants.
For the love of God, no! It is not a political horse race, it is an authoritarian attack on our democracy.
Bingo!
May the monsters who do this rot in hell for all eternity.
And they get away with holding their base in utter contempt because people will go to enormous lengths to hide from themselves the fact that they’ve been conned.
The last time troops policed America was in the 1770s. We fought a revolution against that king, and wrote into the Constitution the Second, Third, Fourth, and Fifth Amendments to prevent it from ever happening again. Pass it along…
They didn't attempt a violent coup because of the left. They aren't destroying US science & academia because of the left. They're not embracing open racism & nazi ideology because of the left. They are adults, making choices, doing things of their own volition, and they bear the responsibility.
Another possible explanation: millions of dumb, selfish people were deliberately lied to by a billionaire-funded right-wing propaganda apparatus with the explicit goal of enraging them & hurting the Dem administration. Dumb, selfish people believed lies. Doesn't that ring a little more true?
The heartbreak, the desolation.
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.
Just another criminal he wants to release, evidence be damned.
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Slava Ukraini—May you be forever free 🙏🏼
HAPPY INDEPENDENCE DAY, UKRAINE 🇺🇦
The range war is the crux of the war, so this makes it as clear as can be that the U.S. is squarely on Putin’s side against Ukraine
A person who is used to covering for and enabling pedophiles would say this
Donald Trump is attempting to manufacture a crisis, politicize Americans who serve in uniform, and continue abusing his power to distract from the pain he's causing families. We'll continue to follow the law, stand up for the sovereignty of our state, and protect Illinoisans.
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“Freedom is a fragile thing and it's never more than one generation away from extinction. It is not ours by way of inheritance; it must be fought for and defended constantly by each generation.” — Ronald Reagan, Inaugural Address as CA Governor, Jan. 5, 1967. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
The Trump administration wants to create circumstances in which it is completely reasonable and justifiable to put a bullet in a federal agent for the purpose of waving the bloody shirt as a pretext for further crackdowns.
"Mr Trump, then 50, was reported to have flown Ms De Georgiou and Ms Maxwell, to Florida for a weekend and arranged for Ms De Georgiou to stay in an apartment he owned in New York. They met after he began dating the model Melania Knauss, now the first lady, but before they married."
That was one of the most batshit press conferences of Trump's public life. He brandished a photo of Putin and promised to deploy the US military to occupy Chicago, New York, and San Francisco. A sane country would be moving toward impeachment and removal right now.
well she did not consider pedophilia inappropriate so what does this even mean
For years, MAGA partisans have employed various tactics to prevent the imminent pain of cognitive dissonance. Now Newsom is forcing them to see what Trump looks like without the distorting force field created by Trump’s showmanship: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
We all know whose side he's on.
100% agree with "assume he will not give up power voluntarily" – that's just plain good praxis IMO But the crackdown signals weakness to me, not strength
A lawless and illegitimate regime and its minions are not entitled to the protection of the rule of law.
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...
Shocker: Lying liar lies www.politico.com/news/2025/08...
Egypt: “Eddie Got Yellow Pants Today”. I got it from my Dad, so we’re talking 1930’s grade school.
Another read is not that SCOTUS is shy about confronting Trump but that they're basically on board with his project but would be embarrassed about the legal arguments they'd have to make if they upheld his actions on the merits, so they find procedural means to let him get his way.
Illinois is launching a first-of-its-kind legal hotline for LGBTQ+ individuals — Illinois Pride Connect. As the only state in the nation that will provide free legal advice to protect the LGBTQ+ community, we'll help fight ignorance with information and cruelty with compassion.
Sometimes the sheer idiocy of this moment overwhelms me. The idea that our convicted felon POTUS who incited an attack on DC police then pardoned the attackers & who's the most corrupt official in US history is going on an "anti-crime" ride-along in a city w/falling crime rate is...(brain explodes)
Stephen Miller frantically trying to figure out how to erase it rn
Lololol! Can you IMAGINE the sort of loser who would look at this and say “yeah, I want to be part of THAT team!”? 😂🤣😂 x.com/RonFilipkows...
ding ding ding!!