Trump announces he will severely devalue the Presidential Medal of Freedom
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Trump announces he will severely devalue the Presidential Medal of Freedom
Hell no! It’s probably to announce more National Guard invasions, or an attack on Venezuela or some major shit like that. Bcos of the press conference re Epstein with the women he abused when they were children.
Pretty amazing point in history: we have an administration in place that we distrust so thoroughly that we assume we might not be told if the head of state were to die.
All kidding aside, it is so *insane* & *shocking* & *dangerous* that Corporate Media has collectively decided to completely bury objective fact that the President is uninformed, confused, and physically & mentally deteriorating.
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Which is why he’s the perfect candidate for an award from the Felon-in-Chief.
Philly DA goes off: "Republicans are actually TERRIBLE at public safety"
Update on the Veterans protest at Union Station
Not today, Satan‼️ Got this garbage in the mail a few days ago. Republicans trying to trick California voters into voting NO on Prop 50. Suddenly they care about “democracy”? Please. Vote YES on Prop 50. Don’t let the cheaters write the rules.
"To pretend that her death deserves the same recognition as that young soldier at the gate is obscene. It is a betrayal of the oath she once swore and a desecration of the sacrifice made by so many who kept faith with theirs."
The simplest way to explain the barbarians breaking down the gates of civilization analogy for modern times.
💯%. I've come to accept how morally depraved Donald Trump is. But I'll never get over how blindingly imbecilic he is. www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
Graham Platner, an oyster farmer from Maine, announced a bid for the seat of incumbent GOP Sen. Susan Collins. His goal? To “claw back wealth that was created by the labor and the consumption of working class Americans who have not shared in the riches they helped build.”
New Mexico has issued a public health order that removes federal restrictions to COVID-19 vaccine access so that pharmacies in New Mexico can vaccinate people of all ages and risk profiles. Every state need to do this!
"The straw man being put forward is that it's either we have the military or we're going to get our throats cut at night in DC. Is there no middle ground? Do local law enforcement account for nothing? We've got the National Guard GARDENING right now in DC. Is that an efficient use of our resources?"
Krasner: So, if what you have is a group of ICE agents, or even the military, coming into Philadelphia and committing crimes—assaults that are illegal, kidnapping, unlawful restraint, obstruction of the administration of justice—they can be prosecuted.
Why Isn't Donald Trump's Declining Health Being Covered by Corporate Media? Where are the op-eds & news programs calling for Trump's resignation due to his declining health, impaired abilities, & march towards fascism? Oh, yeah, "both sides" corporate journalism. open.substack.com/pub/thelefth...
The United States, just months before its 250th birthday as the world’s leading democracy, has tipped over the edge into authoritarianism and fascism.
@jollygoodginger.bsky.social is in DC with other vets right now standing up for democracy. He's playing General Milleys speech on repeat for them today 💜 #LoveTheVets!
Again, doesn’t this bloated cankled moron have some actual country-running stuff to blither about?
"Here’s the truth we cannot escape: If Ashli Babbitt is honored, then few things are sacred. If loyalty to the Constitution and an attempt to overthrow it are treated as equal, we lose the very meaning of service." www.thebulwark.com/p/honoring-a...
Release the Epstein files!!!!
Pritzker: "We don't want troops on the streets of American cities. That's un-American and frankly the president ought to know better. This one doesn't seem to. He hasn't read any books. He doesn't seem to understand the Constitution or the laws."
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."
Joseph Stiglitz is an American Nobel Prize-winning economist and public policy analyst - Says Trump has no clue about economy.
It’s likely CA GOP is responsible for mailers sent to Californians falsely claiming League of Women Voters opposes Prop 50, re redistricting. LWV’s statement below, they are taking a neutral position. Please spread the word. Stop the GOP disinformation. Vote for Prop 50 #Prop50 lwvc.org/prop50/
🚨 BREAKING NEWS 🚨 Trump confirmed alive. Nation lowers flags to half-staff.
Not just one country either - I’m pretty disappointed over here in Australia! 😂
CHICAGO…
If you aren’t completely loyal to the regime or dare to voice dissent, you risk being removed. Time and again, anyone who stands up is pushed out. Most recently, the Environmental Protection Agency dismissed eight employees after they
I mean, cults tend to be pretty weird. But this cult is SO weird!
I wonder why Trump imposed secondary tariffs only on India for buying Russian oil while not caring about all the other countries who buy Russian oil?
Surely this can’t be real? Cracks in the fucking patio? This can’t possibly be what the president of the USA thinks is worth posting about. Can it?
Angelina left with dignity, her best friend by her side and with love from around the world. What a legacy for a little street dog in Thailand ♥️
“The CDC you knew is over,” Dr. Demetre Daskalakis told me today. “Unless someone takes radical action, there is nothing there that can be salvaged.” www.advocate.com/politics/dem...
"The mainstream press is still in self-flagellation mode over how they purportedly 'ignored' Biden’s decline. (In reality, they never stopped talking about.) But this soul-searching is apparently only backward looking and exclusive to Democratic presidents." — @playtyperguy.com
These are genius! Vey very clever. So glad your grandfather agreed to share his talent with us. JD Sheep gave me a much-needed laugh 😂
I can't believe how good he is starting to look already. One of the kindest and most gentle dogs we've ever had.
🚨The worst of the worst criminals are going after kids with backpacks and leaving their scooters in the road. 📌 WAKE THE HELL UP AMERICA. We are running out of time. 🚨
Thanks for everything you do! What’s your take on the apparent influence operation in Greenland? Is it significant or just more Trump bullshit?
If this oleaginous haircut thinks local crime rates merit a federal military intervention, then he should be leading the armored column down to his home state of Louisiana, which is one of the worst in the nation.
This isn’t normal, but then again, nothing they do ever is. And yes, this is fucked up, but so is almost everything else coming out of this administration. So here’s what’s going on. Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced that the United States will not grant visas to Palestinian officials,
When a president decides to disregard the will of the American people, you’re right, that’s the mark of authoritarian rule. The White House has notified Congress that it plans to cancel $4.9 billion in foreign aid funding that lawmakers had already approved, doing so without their consent.
Slice their skin. Burn their hands. Zap them. Gas them. Shoot their legs. Just SOME of the ways I heard Trump and his team talk about torturing migrants --real human beings. Not made up. Not "just a joke." The President is a cruel and sick person.
Kellogg was sidelined specifically because he’s a better negotiator. They aren’t actually trying to end this war.
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...
Susan Collins rolling out her familiar playbook of pointing out to Maine voters heading into an election year clear abuses of power by Trump, solely to create an illusion of independence, while doing absolutely nothing about it.
I hope people realize how absolutely fucked this situation is. This isn’t normal. People are resigning all over the place because the government is mishandling our data, ruining our public health services, and generally making Americans less safe.
Like I said. They aren’t embarrassed by history, it’s their playbook.
GOV. @gavinnewsom.bsky.social : “Facts are stubborn things… Mississippi, Tennessee, Arkansas…. Alabama is a top 3 murder state. Where is the President? — He isn’t focused on crime & violence. It’s about an expression of authoritarianism.” (H/T @acyn.bsky.social )
Hi, immunologist here: (a scientist who studies immune & inflammatory processes) RFK Jr is talking absolute bullshit when he says he can “see in kids faces that they have inflammation” That’s NOT how immunology works. He is an anti-science profiteer. Start calling him such.
"'We’re back to a very pandemic-feeling city. There are fewer people going to work, fewer people walking around, fewer cars, reservations are down, events have been canceled.'" Thank Trump.
The clearest and most powerful analysis I’ve read of the harms being perpetrated by Kennedy and this dangerous administration.
I'm tired of this theater where Donald Trump asks Republicans to do something, they seem to push bank and then cave. The only two factions of the current GOP are proud MAGA and scared MAGA. Anyone who thinks Republicans are acting in good faith is delusional.
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...
We are in very dark times. It’ll take an entire political/social movement, an overwhelming rebuke at the polls, and a new vision of governance to unstick this country from whatever this collapse is.
Garcia: We wanted the birthday book. We wanted Alex Acosta. Republicans refused. We told them that if they chose not to subpoena or bring in Acosta or the book, then we were going to try every single thing we could—forcing votes to get these documents. And so Comer kind of agreed to our demands.
Curious what the reasoning for this could possibly be. My first thought it that it was a Putin request
CHAOS ERUPTS AT CDC CDC Director Susan Monarez has been ousted after RFK Jr. demanded she change her policy on the COVID vaccine. Top officials from the Vaccine Unit, Zoonotic Division, and the Chief Medical Officer are resigning, per reports. Horrifying news for public health.
Trump brought a bulldozer to American clean energy, and our competitors are picking up the pieces. A shameful surrender of U.S. leadership that will only raise energy costs for American families and put China in the driver's seat.
Vaccines do not cause autism.
remember folks, we cant have gun restrictions because if we do the federal government will occupy our streets, imprison people without due process, ship dissidents to foreign gulags and things of that nature
Never before in our history has one man exercised such unbridled discretion affecting the lives of so many of us, while simultaneously preventing others — Congress, the courts, the American people — from having a say or even knowing what he’s going to do next. This is what dictatorship looks like.
Trump has the National Guard picking up garbage for a reason. The goal is to normalize the military occupying all corners of society. Masking it in banality to make you think a military dictatorship is friendly. Those same troops would shoot ya & sweep your brains off the street if ordered to do so.
About a dozen current/former *pro-enforcement* ICE agents tell Reuters the Trump Admin's arrest quotas are leading to detention of thousands of non-criminals, green card holders, and even citizens. Share this. Every Republican should lose in 2026 bcuz of this.👇 www.yahoo.com/news/article...
We have a president who rejects any checks on his power, and who is trying to normalize the view that dictatorship isn’t so bad. An emperor president surrounded by a sycophantic cabinet is dangerous. Today's Morning Shots from @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social and @eggerdc.bsky.social:
Brutal. A humiliation ritual.
Undermining the Fed to get lower rates now is like ripping the batteries out of your smoke alarm because it’s beeping. It’s quiet for a bit. Then your house burns down. Credibility anchors expectations; expectations anchor inflation.
Turns out some of the “we want small government” people kiiiinda wanted the government to be just one guy.
It’s always so easy to laugh at this, but it’s not funny. For 3hrs today, grown men & women all took turns getting down on their knees, fellating their dear leader. In front of the cameras. It’s sad. It’s gross. It’s North Korea. It shouldn’t happen here.
Moore: "The thing that gets me most about this is how deeply disrespectful this is to members of the National Guard who signed up for this job as I did when I deployed overseas & led paratroopers in combat where we signed up w/the expectation the commander in chief was actually taking it seriously"
The President of the United States sat in the Oval Office and said "a lot of people are saying maybe we'd like a dictator" and that is not even a top story.
They are sending soldiers into cities to prepare to intimidate people at the polls next year. They gerrymander because they can’t win on policy. They intimidate because even gerrymandering won’t work at this point.
Trump’s D.C. occupation: $1.1M per day Housing every homeless person in D.C.: $169K per day This isn’t about what America can afford. It’s about what America chooses to value.
It’s hard to imagine anyone would let him even try to find their vagina. Which is probably why he hates women so much 😂
After watching that embarrassing, sycophantic, sing-Trump’s-praises cabinet meeting, I understand how North Korea got the way it is.
I genuinely think part of the current political dynamic is that a lot of Dems -- especially your typical educated, affluent city-dwellers -- simply can't believe what's going on. Even though it's right there on the TV, right there in the streets, it's hard to shake the feeling of unreality.
Do the president and the cabinet not have, like, things to do? It’s just hours everyday now of him saying stuff like “I personally signed the Khitomer Accords” while department heads nod.
I don’t think the Nobel committee gives out peace prizes to deranged despots who want to call their defense departments the Department of War—and who intend to arrogantly ignore the role of Congress to approve such a name change.
Stuart Stevens on National Guard deployment: "The murder rate of Jackson, Mississippi is 3 times that of D.C.... the whole thing is complete fraud"
I know you, Chicago — and I know you’re up to the difficult time we have ahead, thanks to this President.
Gov JB Pritzker (D-IL) “This isn’t a time to pretend there are two sides to this story. This is not a time to fall back into the reflexive crouch that I so often see, where the authoritarian creep by this administration is ignored in favor of some horse race piece on who will be helped politically”
I was in the news business for only 4 decades, so maybe I don't know much. But it seems like the transformation of the U.S. into a police state would be worth a headline and a few paragraphs.
We are very far off the cliff here folks. 🇺🇸
Aside from anything else, it is a national emergency that the president of the United States has lost his mind.
Take this clip and a camera onto the streets of Dublin or Edinburgh and you'd quickly assemble a feature-length documentary of the most withering insults known to man.
So the guy who wants the Nobel Peace Prize and claims to end wars wants to call the DoD the War Department? Mmmkay.
Breaking news: About 150 FEMA employees sent a letter to members of Congress, arguing that the agency’s direction and current leaders’ inexperience harms the agency’s mission and could result in a disaster on the level of Hurricane Katrina.
I don’t know if this qualifies as spilling the 🫖 But release the damn Epstein files already.
Constituent: You talked about abuses in the medicare and medicaid system and I found interesting that the president pardoned someone that defrauded the medicaid system for $1.3 billion
This perfectly describes both the Trump presidency and the Republican Congress. The only true thing he said today.
"Mr. President, do not come to Chicago. You're neither wanted here, nor needed here. Your remarks about this effort over the last several weeks have betrayed a continuing slip in your mental faculties – and are not fit for the auspicious office that you occupy." Governor JB Pritzker
Pritzker: To the members of the press who are assembled here today and listening across the country, I am asking for your courage to tell it like it is. This is not a time to pretend here that there are two sides to this story.
I don’t want to hear a single word about Democrats and socialism ever again. EVER.
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