More framing like this, please www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/u...
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More framing like this, please www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/u...
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In the morning, get your coffee or tea. Add your milk or cream or sweetener. That's a potion! Stir clockwise, focus on this ⬇️ and say out loud, "Karma come quickly. Let justice be served." 🔮🕯️🧙♀️ ... boom, your first spell.
Concern over low birth rates was what the theocracy in Margaret Atwood’s Handmaid’s Tale used to come to power.
...and don't forget the incredible power of consumer activism too!
Friendly reminder, if you haven't already done so, right now is a good time to cancel your Spotify subscription
Platner: No one cares that you pretend to be remorseful as you sell out to lobbyists. Symbolic opposition does not reopen hospitals. Weak condemnations do not bring back Roe V Wade. Maine deserves better than Susan Collins.
Netflix just gave Gavin Newsom 2 million for the redistricting fight and made a deal with Sesame Street. New episodes will air there and the backlog of old episodes will Be free to watch. Netflix picked a side. I will keep my subscription.
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And I so wish media would hone in on this. Once again, what this administration is willing to say to the cameras versus what they're willing to declare in court, are vastly different.
Question, for anyone, what prompted this? Fox News (I know 😐) is reporting that all of the children were set to be reunited with their parents or guardians, but I don't see the DOJ making any such statements in court filings.
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Hahaha....night night cray cray pop pop I'm guessing the intern was told to post a goodnight message and figured he'd do so before going out to the clubs
To be fair, only the hateful nutjobs remain on X ... and bots and trolls to keep the rage going 🤷
Sorry, calibrating
Americans once assumed their kids would be better off than they were. But business professor Scott Galloway says today's economic policies work to enrich Boomers and steal from younger generations.
HAPPENING NOW: Emergency hearing before Judge Sparkle Sooknanan is underway. I'm live posting for @lawfaremedia.org. Follow updates in the thread quoted below 🧵⬇️
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The President's obsession with rigged elections, voter ID, ending mail-in ballots, etc. couldn't be more obvious. Come the next Federal election, he's not supposed to be allowed to run again. He'll have militarized national guard & military in major cities by then. What do you think comes next?
Unpopular Opinion.... I'm tired of hearing the "both sides" and "they're all the same" argument. Look, you don't have to love Dems. But the other side is marching us into authoritarianism. Big difference.
A lot of businesses have tried to hold off on increasing their prices, hoping tariffs wouldn't last. So we'll probably see prices really go up in the next couple of months. Are we great yet?
Friendly reminder, if you haven't cancelled your Amazon Prime membership yet, now is a good time.
“ILLEGALS” MY ASS! Green card holder Rami Othmane speaks out after being snatched off the street by ICE while driving to the grocery store. He’s a documented immigrant and the husband of Dr Wafaa Alrashid, chief of staff at a local hospital. He was locked in detention for 13 days.
(showing my age) Psychedelic Furs were my first concert!
Meta is an unethical company run by Peter Thiel’s techno-fascist billionaire protégé—Mark Zuckerberg—and is part of the Trump regime’s surveillance state. It’s time to leave Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp—and while you’re at it, drop Amazon, Google, and OpenAI as well. Learn how in this thread:
"She did not die defending the Constitution. She died trying to overturn it. She was not protecting lives at a gate in Iraq; she was forcing her way through windows in the Capitol to stop the peaceful transfer of power." New from @markhertling.bsky.social:
JUST IN: Judge Cobb has blocked the Trump administration’s effort to extend rapid-fire deportation procedures to immigrants who have been in the U.S. more than two years — warning that it is a flagrant deprivation of due process that could ensnare anyone. ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/show...
Ignore the obvious that their 2024 numbers are lower than 2023 and consider this ... I'm betting we'll see a sudden increase in "reporting" from right-wing media of a "war on Christianity". This is how the MAGA base will be persuaded into going along with martial law.
At what point are we allowed to boycott having to pay Federal taxes?
Feeling disgusted by media this evening and their desire to push any narrative they can for ratings....and depressed there are SO MANY people who fall for it time and again. And we wonder how our society has become so gross.
This interview, which is also available to listen to as a podcast, provides a useful overview of some of the dangerous trends we’ve been seeing in recent months regarding federalization and militarization of state and local police functions.
They're already not allowing us to get booster shots. Wouldn't be surprised if they ban all vaccines.
He was already a legal resident before they took him the first time. Sorry to sound dumb, but why should he have to now seek asylum?
NEW: The Trump administration asked the Supreme Court to permit it to withhold foreign aid funding that groups say is being illegally impounded by the president — setting up a crucial high court clash over the power of the purse. w/ @joshgerstein.bsky.social www.politico.com/news/2025/08...
Jeanine Pirro knowingly spread lies on TV to support Trump’s 2020 election fraud claims. She now heads the office prosecuting his manufactured crisis in DC. Blind loyalty to the president at the expense of public safety is not in the job description of any DOJ employee.
Making them wear high-visibility vests over camo is such a good joke you couldn’t write it
A notorious Pennsylvania election denier is now a top official for "election integrity" at the Department of Homeland Security www.inquirer.com/politics/ele...
This should make me angry. Instead, I'm utterly depressed 😥 We have an entire administration made up of Narcissists with an insatiable appetite to inflict pain, and a percentage of our population who really believes it helps them.
JUST IN: The Trump administration seeks to dismiss the lawsuit by Enrique Tarrio and other Proud Boys leaders over their Jan. 6 prosecutions. There's simply no evidence the evidence against them was fabricated or knowingly false, DOJ says. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Am I the only one ridiculously excited (and feeling hopeful again) to see Democrat Governors raising their voices and bringing some fire to this fight against fascism?!
Pritzker: This is not about fighting crime. This is about the President and his complicit lackey, Stephen Miller, searching for ways to lay the groundwork to circumvent our democracy, militarize our cities, and end elections.
North Korea isn’t the only dictatorship where Dear Leader hangs giant banners of his own fat face on public buildings.
South Korean President Lee Jae Myung: “I look forward to your meeting with the chairman Kim Jong-un and construction of a Trump Tower in North Korea and playing golf at that place.”
HAPPENING NOW: Judge Xinis is leaning toward issuing another restraining order to block Kilmar Abrego Garcia's immediate deportation to Uganda at least through this week — she wants an evidentiary hearing on Friday.
One of the most important lines from the hearing. Note: The Trump admin never disputed that it did that, and there's now a public paper trail confirming it, in exhibits to Abrego's criminal case.
NEW: Kilmar Abrego Garcia files habeas petition over his recent detention and impending deportation. The case is assigned to Judge Paula Xinis, who is the presiding judge in Abrego's other civil suit in Maryland. Many of the filings are currently sealed on PACER.
So many great ideas out there of spreading the message! South County Democratic Club of San Luis Obispo County, CA. www.facebook.com/share/v/18rg...
On Monday, Kilmar Abrego Garcia has a mandatory check-in at ICE's Baltimore field office. His family and advocates plan to hold a vigil and rally outside opposing the government's threats to whisk him to Uganda if he doesn't forfeit his right to a trial. www.allrisenews.com/p/kilmar-abr...
A WIRED review of a now deleted Twitter account that used the screen name “Dr. Erwin J. Antoni III” shows it posted conspiratorial content about the 2020 election, Covid-19, and Jeffrey Epstein.
Arrested for filming it. And look how excited they all are to get some *action*. 🇺🇸 Watch fascism work.
🚨BREAKING: Hours after Texas passed its new map, my law firm has challenged it in federal court. In addition to violating the VRA, HB 4 violates the 14th Amendment because it unjustifiably considers race and partisanship as part of a voluntary, mid-cycle redistricting. @redistrictfdn.bsky.social
Proud to join Denmark Foreign Affairs Minister @lars-loekke.bsky.social and Ambassador Sørensen to sign a new partnership between California and Denmark. Our message to the rest of the world is clear: California is a stable, reliable partner — no matter who's in the White House.
What this administration has done to this man is beyond infuriating. Worried that they'll still nab him and deport him again
NEWS: Federal judge finds that Alina Habba is NOT lawfully performing functions and duties of U.S. Attorney in New Jersey. Judge Matthew Brann disqualifies Habba from prosecution of two criminal defendants who challenged her appointment
JUST IN: A federal judge has barred the Trump admin and FL from bringing new detainees into “Alligator Alcatraz” and to dismantle some aspects of the facility as current detainees are moved out. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Absolutely disgraceful and despicable. If you are a partner at Paul Weiss or Kirkland & Ellis you should be ashamed of yourself -- that is, if you had any shame left.
JUST IN: Judge Berman agrees that effort by DOJ to unseal Epstein grand jury files is a “diversion” when DOJ could just release a trove of far more comprehensive documents without court involvement. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
JUST IN: A federal judge in Illinois has thrown out the Trump administration's lawsuit against the state that claims IL's workforce privacy law conflicts with federal immigration enforcement. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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JUST IN: The right-wing news channel Newsmax has agreed to pay $67 million to Dominion Voting Systems over its coverage of the 2020 presidential election. A trial had been scheduled for October. n.pr/3UuKeyZ
"Witnesses — including the Post reporter — asked the officers to identify themselves numerous times. All but one, who was wearing the ICE badge, refused. “Oh, are you guys the cops?” one agent, who was wearing a mask, responded. “Then shut the f--- up.” www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...
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GenX here. I feel the same. Politics just seemed so boring for us. We weren't paying attention until suddenly, boom, the Tea Party.
Unsurprisingly, media continues to normalize the Trump march into authoritarianism while holding Democrats to a higher standard.
And now 3 Republican states are sending National Guard! Just how awful are the Epstein files?!
Mobilizing and arming the National Guard in DC ... because crime is a 30 year low 🤨 It's obvious he's trying to antagonize. He's dying for an excuse to declare martial law. The question is how to respond without giving him what he wants.
This account @jmdc88.bsky.social is placing me on multiple block lists. No idea who they are or why they're doing this. Can anyone check this account? Maybe screenshot? What is their deal?
Thank you for stating that so eloquently. The harsh reality is the 🍊 has loyalists at every level. The ones who refused to bend the knee have, or are, being purged.
This is depressing and horrifying. Have they even snagged any "violent gang members" like was promised?
JUST IN: Blistering ruling by Judge Ho on ICE arrests in immigration court. He says the Trump administration has turned attendance at immigration court proceedings into a game of "detention roulette" that violates due process. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Beautiful!
I have no words 😭🤬💔
NEW: An investigation by ProPublica and @texastribune.org found more than 60 instances of nepotism, self-dealing and conflicts of interest among 27 private schools that likely would have violated state laws had the schools been public. By Lexi Churchill and @emsimani.bsky.social
500 personal care attendants represented by 1199SEIU have been laid off due to changes in their immigration status, including many CHNV parolees. www.wgbh.org/news/local/2...
I wish we were able to boycott paying federal taxes right now.
The Trump admin can cut potentially billions of dollars in foreign aid approved by Congress, a US appeals court ruled. The 2-1 decision didn't reach the core Q of whether the refusal to spend appropriated funds is constitutional, instead finding grantees lacked valid grounds to sue buff.ly/fzJDYFo
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Hey, as a librarian I need to tell you: Our funding depends on usage. So go ahead and check out that book even if you don't think you'll finish it. No one will know. Check out that DVD even though you might not like it. Get ambitious in your quest for knowledge.
Weirdly this doesn't mention that the woman Trump put in charge of reviewing the Smithsonian is his Florida criminal defense attorney who didn't like some of the museum's exhibits when she visited after the inauguration so she convinced Trump to sign an executive order putting her in charge
Ghislaine Maxwell, serving 20 yrs for sex trafficking minors, has been given permission to leave minimum security campus for work assignments, per @muellershewrote.com www.muellershewrote.com/p/exclusive-...
Oh 👀 wow.... This is wild. That area of the state has always been redder than red, for as long as I can remember. Can it be - dare we believe - that some of the MAGA base really are starting to see the lies?
It does appear to be another testing ground., doesn't it? I hope news networks will be broadcasting how he wasn't able to call in the National Guard back on J6.
Is he slow walking us into Martial Law? Even crazier are the legions of social media influencers, podcasters, right-wing media who will all start generating the same talking point to convince the MAGA base that this is good. The cult mentality is real and it's our downfall.
Testing ground? A glimpse at our near future.
2/2) And coupled with the invasive surveillance, we will comply or a simple post like this will get us rounded up and taken to a concentration camp.
1/2) They're trying to crash the economy on purpose to privatize anything and everything they can. This will establish the Oligarchy ruling class and force us to pay even more just for the bare essentials to survive.
Where are the hard-working Americans who screamed, “They’re stealing our jobs”? You’re getting your wish. Immigrant workers aren’t showing up, and farm owners are hiring.
It seems lately there are a lot of posts referring to the current administration as being a regime; comparisons to dictators and Hitler. Then "and that didn't end well" kind of statements. Like we're just going to sit back, watch authoritarianism happen, and just wait for the ending?
You don't have to be into witchcraft 🪄 to do this, but every time you stir your coffee or tea ☕, stir clockwise, focus on this administration and say, while stirring, "Karma come quickly. Let justice be served". Stop stirring. Take a sip and let your energy ⚡sit with that for a bit.
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Just read Zeke Faux's "Number Go Up" and that really comes through - there are really only three kinds of people deeply involved in crypto: 1. Scammers 2. Morons 3. Scammers who are also morons
Well, I guess on the bright side, Republicans wouldn't be trying to rig the next election if they didn't think we wouldn't have one.
Giving jobs to Jan. 6 supporters like Ed Martin and Jared Wise is shameful. DOJ cannot claim to support law enforcement when its own officials encouraged rioters to “kill” officers guarding the Capitol that day.
Sounds wonderful 😊 I just recently had a conversation with friends about the fact that we're not born with empathy and compassion. These are learned emotions. Some people struggle to learn these. Everyone wearing a certain red hat absolutely failed the lesson.
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Oh yikes
VOA director Michael Abramowitz, who is leading the legal effort to protect the agency from Trump cuts, says he's been terminated from his role.
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Well, I guess I can block right back?