After learning that Donald Trump is alive, flags in New York are flown at half-staff.
After learning that Donald Trump is alive, flags in New York are flown at half-staff.
Trump did this
Keep their voices alive.
Congrats Louisiana on being ranked the worst state for 2025. I'm sure Mike Johnson fighting Gavin Newsom harder than he ever fights for any of you will fix that.
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
Shame on all the politicians of both parties who continue to fund this genocide. Shame on all the so-called journalists who have refused to report on this genocide, or call it what it is, and have used whitewashed terms to protect Netanyahu and the Israeli government. 3/4
Okay. I just came back to this and you aren’t calling these efforts resegregation yet, you absolutely should be
NEW: A week or so ago, one federal agent kept popping up in videos from Trump's violent DC crackdown—so @jsweetli.bsky.social and I investigated. Turns out he's a 26-year-old US Parks Police officer, a lesser known law enforcement unit currently championed by Interior Sec. Doug Burnum. Our report:
Just saw a video of Bill Maher calling Mamdani a “straight up communist” and I continue to be struck by the depiction of policies associated with the New Deal Order as far-left extremism, which goes along with a refusal to depict Trump’s unprecedented authoritarian actions as far-right extremism.
Imagine saying with a straight face that Democrats are the ones defending rapists, pedophiles, and child molesters.
"I look forward to watching the videos of soldiers entering Chicago" An American government official actually said this.
Anna has had excellent coverage of this developing case in which the Trump administration tried to use the holiday weekend to secretly and illegally deport children.
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.
Trump's contribution to our politics was exposing that conservatives don't care about any of the principles they've said are sacrosanct for 100 years, and all they wanted was to be openly evil instead of circuitously evil. The Democrats who win will be the ones who understand this and act like it
“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.
In the heartbreaking event that someone you know has been detained by a federal immigration agent, you'll need to know what steps to take to locate them and hopefully, get some money on their books, and hopefully be able to advocate for them. lataco.com/what-to-do-i...
Gotta be waterproof
"In this moment, scientists, legal experts, and advocates must speak up to defend climate science, push back on disinformation, and preserve tools for accountability." Read UCS's Delta Merner's new blog.
I hate to be the bearer of bad news but … www.reddit.com/r/NoFilterNe...
Project 2025… the blueprint to eradicate democracy.
#OTD in 1967, Thurgood Marshall was confirmed as the first Black Supreme Court justice. His work as a civil rights lawyer, including in Brown v. Board of Education, reshaped America’s path toward equality. #TheMarchContinues
Lol I’ve been thinking of Trump as Burns and Mike Johnson as Smithers, but this works too
I'm still not clear on how any of this is legal. It's almost like USAID was the authoritarian guinea pig. The administration used its attacks on the agency to stress test the institutions that are meant to prevent an authoritarian president. www.politico.com/news/2025/08...
It’s easier to purchase an assault rifle in the U.S. than it is to get a COVID19 vaccine. But food dyes and wearable fitness monitors are going to fix everything.
Erazo also noted that tear gas was used at a time when parents were taking their kids to school and innocent bystanders were on their way to work. Details: lataco.com/westlake-hom... by @shoton35mm.bsky.social
Inhuman. “I don’t have any choice” is a lie.
NEW: Last week, oil literally rained down on a Black town in rural Louisiana where 60% of folks live in poverty. The company isn’t taking responsibility & the federal + state governments are saying residents have to clean it up themselves. capitalbnews.org/louisiana-oi...
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 a deadly virus, created in the lab of bad public policy at the Heritage Foundation, Project 2025 has been let loose on our nation with impacts we are all just beginning to comprehend. My latest on Substack: open.substack.com/pub/jimacost...
🧊🖕🪖 TERRORIZING KIDS 😲 Schoolkids in DC ride free on Metro, and a lot of them use this benefit to commute to school. They're talking about the soldiers they're seeing at the stations, and the rumor is that if you so much as eat a snack on the train, they will grab you and deport you. ✊ FREE DC!
70 years ago today, Emmett Till was murdered in Mississippi at just 14 years old. Today, we continue to see efforts to erase Black history and more than ever, we must honor Emmett’s legacy with action and ensure his story is never forgotten.
Border Patrol arrests 2 firefighters for being in the country illegally as they battled Washington’s biggest wildfire www.cnn.com/2025/08/28/u...
A cult of shitty loser personality, at that.
Ashli Babbitt died doing what she loved—being a domestic terrorist.
The thing about Medicaid and rural hospitals closing is that once the Medicaid payments are gone the services vanish. There is no considerable pool of money sitting around to override that, your state is not sitting on a pile of cash to fix the problem.
"Saul" shared this from where he's harvesting romaine lettuce. The crew has 26 workers. One group harvest the lettuce, the next group bags it and the last group puts it in the boxes. He's been doing this work for more than 5 years and enjoys the physical challenge. #WeFeedYou
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
According to Gun Violence Archive, out of 4,600 mass shootings in the United States since 2014: 👉 0.13% involved transgender people 👉 100% involved firearms
She was brought to the US as an 8yo, worked hard, studied, earned a scholarship, planned to become a nurse. ICE kidnapped her. Held her for 6 MONTHS in a detention facility with conditions so miserable that she finally agreed to voluntarily move to Honduras, which her family left at gunpoint.
On the same day the FDA restricted access to COVID vaccines, the CDC director was sacked and top CDC scientists are resigning. And it’s barely been two weeks since an antivax conspiracy theorist fired 180 bullets at CDC headquarters. None of this is making America healthier. What a disaster.
When Republicans villainize a mass shooter, they are giving away their game: They are saying the shooter should never have had a gun, which Republicans made sure they could buy. Being trans doesn't shoot people, but owning an assault rifle does.
Something is wrong with a system where 76% of workers say they’re worried to make ends meet, while greedy corporate CEOs make 285x what the median worker does. Working people don’t have to accept this. A union contract is how we fight back.
The political appointment, first reported by Democracy Docket, shows how self-styled election investigators who have thrown themselves into election conspiracy theories since 2020 are now being celebrated by a presidential administration that indulges their false claims.
How did a functional, if flawed, democratic machinery hand absolute power over to Hitler, someone whom the conservative political class regarded as a chaotic clown with a violent following?
Brandi Bradley constantly insults and harasses *her own constituents* on her official FB page. She is a hateful MAGA acolyte who has no business being a state rep. And yes, she definitely hates other women.
This is sick freak shit to say and it's alright to point that out
Schools Theaters Concerts Malls Churches Synagogues Mosques Parks Nightclubs Offices Festivals Stores Military Bases Bars Post Offices Yoga Studios Super Bowl parades Nowhere is safe from the scourge of gun violence in America. You can't tell me we must simply accept it.
“In a scientific sense, this is a total loss.” US Supreme Court allows NIH to cut $2 billion in research grants www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Too much? 🤷🏼♂️
Thank you for your (trash) service! Seriously though, I feel bad for those National Guard folks who should be at home with their families instead of having to help the dumbest president of all time set up his sleazy autocracy.
To deploy troops against American cities is the act of a monarch, not a president.
Wow. On NPR, @gbrumfiel.bsky.social reports a Social Security official “copied the Social Security numbers, names and birthdays of over 300 million Americans to a private section of the agency's cloud.” The source is a whistleblower, who is named: Charles Borges, SSN chief data officer.
I detest that in just one week this story is gone from the media cycle. An Israeli citizen & report of Netanyahu was charged & arrested for attempting to rape a 14-year-old child. He was bailed out & flew back to Israel, despite an Aug 27 court date. WHY??? www.qasimrashid.com/p/netanyahu-...
Government so small it’s literally just one dude.
Ah yes, there’s that fine, manly specimen with the OBVIOUSLY superior genes. 😒
Let’s all take a moment to reflect on how this just absolute alpha male sprayed on his hair for TV
this stuff is such a disgrace. a free citizen of a free country should be ashamed to engage in it.
For folks not in DC: - There are full-on police checkpoints most nights - Gangs of 30+ federal agents roam DC - National Guard folks w/ guns patrolling a Harris Teeter - Every day, multiple friends see ICE kidnapping ppl - Daycares are scared to have kids go on walks due to ICE
Just casually laying the groundwork for violent repression of the opposition
NOBODY SAYS THAT
RE Lisa Cook. It’s just so hard to tell why Trump is targeting these people. I guess we will never know what they had in common. A mystery for all time.
And a whole hospital, at that.
God, how satisfying would it be to just sock him in the mouth while he’s going on and on with his demented nonsense?
"The US, months before its 250th bday as the world’s leading democracy, has tipped into authoritarianism & fascism. In the end... it did happen here.The moment when & where America crossed that invisible line will be debated by future historians. ...the line itself has been crossed."
God forbid Americans see democracies (Brazil, S. Korea…) holding presidents accountable for illegal activities. They might get ideas.
He’s a syphilitic old piece of shit and every word out of his fat orange mouth is garbage.
What is the penalty for beating a Capitol policeman with a flag? Oh wait, never mind, you get a REWARD for that.
WTF 🤬 This is happening in Washington, DC
KILMAR IN BALTIMORE: “Never lose hope. Promise me you’ll continue fight for freedom — not just for me, for everybody.” He was just taken into ICE custody.
All of this is performative cruelty directed solely to avoid admitting they fucked up when they illegally sent him to cecot in March.
The sheer amount of time, money, and resources this government has spent to torture one random guy is astounding.
I’ve been to many museums, and I have to say that I found this museum to be the most impactful, most informative one. I always recommend it to friends and family traveling to D.C.
I keep saying this but it remains true: Dems have not learned the central lesson of Reconstruction, that multiracial democracy cannot survive when those working to overthrow the rule of law & fair elections are allowed to operate with impunity.
The Islamic Republic of Iran is leading a brutal crackdown against Iranians in the aftermath of the 12-day war, initiated by Israel, and the U.S. attacks on nuclear facilities. Scores of political prisoners will be executed unless there is an international outcry.
You know he definitely sat there and nodded to himself, like “wow, how profound,” after writing that.
There were 9.7 deaths for every 1,000 births in Mississippi in 2024, the highest rate in more than a decade, according to a news release from the state health department. More than 3,500 babies in Mississippi have died before the age of 1 since 2014.
I must have missed all the Law and Order SVU episodes where they didn't interview the victims and just asked the criminals what happened.
How many National Guard will be deployed before we see the Epstein files?
Ben “has stage 4B metastatic colorectal cancer… For millions like Ben, federal research funding delivers - transforming dead ends into second chances. Yesterday, the Supreme Court decided Ben doesn’t deserve that chance.” www.tealandorangereport.com/p/when-we-fa...
DC police are now harrasssing people on metro bus stops. This is Fascism.
🧊😲✈️ CHILD IN CHAINS‼️ 👉 Thursday August 21, 2025 at Boeing Field in Seattle, we spotted this apparent girl in chains being directed up the steps of an Avelo Airlines 737 (tail: N805VL) on the live web cam feed from the airport 👀 (clip courtesy lalabote.bsky.social)
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'Hegseth fires general whose agency’s intel assessment of damage from Iran strikes angered Trump' apnews.com/article/pent... #DIA
Trump is in the Epstein files.
So let me get this straight, these guys refused to wear masks during Covid, but NOW they’re okay with it? GTFOH TAKE OFF YOUR MASKS, COWARDS.
On the left: Nate Cavanagh, a 28-year-old DOGE staffer and college dropout. On the right: Mohammad Halimi, a 53-year-old exiled Afghan scholar. This is the story of how DOGE targeted Halimi on social media. Then the Taliban took his family. 🧵
DC is occupied w troops from red states. Regime raiding critics home while threatening prosecutions of others. Sen Ds could respond by trying to rein in funding for these govt functions in upcoming funding fight. Nah. They are responding w/ talks of bipartisanship, focus on kitchen table issues.
That was my thought too, as soon as I saw the bilateral lower leg swelling.
Donald Trump isn't going to leave willingly or peacefully. Republicans are gearing up for martial law. You all aren't paying attention.
He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.
61 years ago today Mrs. Fannie Lou Hamer one of the most courageous activists of the Civil Rights Movement posed the question that echoes today with every migrant round-up by masked officers, as federal troops converge on D.C.,as institutions are threatened: “IS THIS AMERICA?” youtu.be/DFC1nc3IXBM
Absolutely incredible video of a woman standing up to ICE. This is resistance 1/2