Thus, giving Trump unlimited impoundment power would be extraordinarily dangerous - Congress and the courts must step in. (Excuse any typos in this thread, I had surgery this morning and am a bit foggy). thedispatch.com/article/trum...
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Thus, giving Trump unlimited impoundment power would be extraordinarily dangerous - Congress and the courts must step in. (Excuse any typos in this thread, I had surgery this morning and am a bit foggy). thedispatch.com/article/trum...
Here's the response from Paul Bryant, the Black veteran and lawyer whom the govt arrested in part bc he had a legal weapon in DC, to USG attempt to get him detained. It leans heavily into the lack of Body Cam proving he shoulder checked some Guardsmen. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Steven Colbert and his wife appeared in the crowd at the Alcaraz match, and the arena went wild when his face hit the screen. People clearly adore him—and honestly, seeing that joy gave me a surge of hope.
Huh.
Oh, it gets worse: www.bbc.com/news/article...
they even published on it a year before and Democrats in power didn't take it seriously - it sounded too far fetched, as in "why would you want to cut NOAA?"
www.myprivacy.blog/denmark-make...
Thank you on this labor day!!
Why Nazis can’t integrate into mainstream society. Liberal democracies like Australia and beyond, are built on principles of equality, diversity, human rights, and the rule of law. It encompasses a broad spectrum of cultures & ideas coexisting peacefully blakandblack.com/2025/09/02/a...
"The enemies of a free society—the enemies of limited government and the rule of law, the opponents of political liberty and human equality—don’t sugarcoat what they’re doing. There’s surely no reason we should sugarcoat what we’re seeing."
Central Coast Farm workers wish you a happy #LaborDay Campesinos de la Costa Central les desean un feliz Día del Trabajo. #WeFeedYou #SoyEsencial
Happy Labor Day, folks! Unions built the middle class, and it’s more important than ever that we stand together in support of workers and workers’ rights. Thank you to the people of Charlotte for welcoming me and @gabbygiffords.bsky.social at the parade this morning.
They are so much better at imitating him than his staff
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.
So grateful they knew how to read them
Join us in celebrating the people who labor in the fields to put food on our tables. Únase en celebrar a la gente que trabajan en los campos para poner comida en nuestras mesas. #WeFeedYou #LaborDay
Yes, it is genocide - World’s leading body of genocide scholars, the Intl Assn of Genocide Scholars. The IAGS has previously recognised genocides in Bosnia-Herzegovina, Rwanda, Armenia, and Myanmar. genocidescholars.org/wp-content/u...
A Labor Day reminder: today there isn't a single city, metro area, or state in the U.S. where a full-time minimum-wage worker can afford a modest 2-bedroom apartment. Millions of people with jobs—even multiple jobs—aren't safe from homelessness in this country.
The problem isn’t refugees on boats. The problem is oligarchs hoarding obscene amounts of wealth while most people fight to stay afloat. Wages aren't tied to inflation, so the working class keeps falling behind no matter how hard they work.
Swelling is consistent in the whole face though, could be from any number of things
If you're 60, 69.1% of all job growth since your birth occurred under Democratic administrations. If you're 45, that number is 74.7%. If you're under 28, the number is 100%. Happy Labor Day.
This is nothing else but a hybrid war that Russia wages against Europe Let's name things as they really are:Russia has made an assassination attempt of the President of the European Commission Russia has been jamming GPS-signals over many Eastern Europe countries that are in its immediate vicinity
senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, former chief economist to Senator Rob Portman (R-OH) & director of budget and spending policy for Marco Rubio’s 2016 presidential campaign👇🏽
9 CDC Directors going back to 1977 speak out. What RFK Jr has done to our nation’s public health system "should alarm every American." It "is unlike anything we have ever seen at the agency, and unlike anything our country has ever experienced." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...
MO Gov Mike Kehoe is calling a special session to gerrymander the 5th District which encompasses Kansas City. He is specifically violating Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, which bans any voting practice that denies or weakens the power of a racial minority to elect its preferred candidates.
You guys see where this is going? Right?
Hope Judge Sparkle gets some sleep♥️
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Miller or Vought typing on the President's socials
he will not stop until he gets his empire, or dies and someone takes over for him...and continues on
Putin spoke at the Shanghai Cooperation Organization Summit. He blamed the West for the "Ukrainian crisis" and said that "the root causes of the crisis" must be removed in order for peace to come. Looks like Putin has made his choice: he's going to continue the war.
absolutely, we would not be here if it hadn't been for a long decline in our media ecosystem that enable manipulation and lies...it's astonishing to meet people who have only watched one news channel and have a skewed view of reality
Make no mistake, everything that’s happening in the United States is being significantly enabled by the right wing oligarch capture of media. Every other country needs to do everything possible to keep that from happening where they are. Including protecting the CBC from Poilievre here in Canada.
Okay, here's what I know and don't know* about the planes that were supposed to take children to Guatemala today. *None of this flight tracking would be necessary if ICE Air didn't keep its operation secret and if Drew Ensign didn't talk to the court in riddles. 1/
I saw this yesterday driving to Costco and though it was one of the best stickers I've ever seen.
Illinois is currently exploring the possibility of purchasing Covid-19 vaccines in bulk straight from manufacturers to make sure everyone will still have access.
This is Parker, she was shot in the head in Los Angeles for protesting ICE kidnappings and ethnic cleansing. She recovered and is now back to protesting because in times of fascism nobody can afford to do nothing. “We need everybody” “I call for revolution, it starts here” #3E
He can’t even keep his lies straight.
"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?"
Agree, with some by Leavitt, her writing has a different cadence than Miller's
abc11.com/post/hurrica...
I just verified this. It is true. Leases have been signed until March 1st of next year. FEMA simply broke the leases to evict them.
Alex Acosta set to face Congress over sweetheart deal that allowed Epstein to plead guilty to minor state charges www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...
Pritzker on Trump's authoritarian takeover: "The playbook is the same. It's thwart the media. It's create mayhem that requires military interdiction. These are things that happen throughout history and Donald Trump is just following that playbook."
www.tiktok.com/t/ZT6GvjPcr/ How in the HELL does any government lawfully deport 600 unaccompanied minors? Who does that? Who the fuck are we? What are we? What have we become?
Shackled humans is what this country was built from, it never healed the wound, never dealt with the crimes fully and openly.
Just saw a clip on ABC news that showed a small Guatemalan child being led to a plane for deportation with her ankles shackled. This country has lost its soul.
If we don’t stand up for these victims, who will ?
O'Keefe to Noem: "At least 20 people who signed this letter were current FEMA employees & they've been placed on administrative leave. Is it now the policy of DHS that anytime an employee puts their name on something criticizing you or POTUS, they should anticipate being put on leave or fired?"
📣 REPOSTING this from the other day because it's a BFD: acasignups.net/25/08/29/new...
They loaded up those planes with children - some as young as 10. I don’t believe they had a safe place to go in Guatemala. And the government did not care. This admin is the least compassionate of any in my lifetime.
POPE LEO: “Let us plead God to stop the pandemic of arms, large and small, which infects our world.” He prays for the victims in Minneapolis, and “the countless children killed and injured every day around the world”
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
Oregon legislators are discussing the transportation funding bill in a work session following about two hours of public testimony. Rep. Drazan (R) acknowledged that people rely on transit to get to doctor’s appts but suggested they could use OHP taxi/rideshare reimbursement instead.
Oh wow
Meanwhile, did you see? A federal judge on Friday allowed the Trump admin and the Oklahoma AG to use his court to subvert democracy through a sham lawsuit manufactured to get rid of a pro-immigrant state law they don’t like without needing to go through the trouble of actually repealing the law.
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.
This is 100% not his posts
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."
Why is the Draft Dodger-in-Chief trying to drag us into a war with Venezuela? The claim is that drug cartels are so out of control they’ve been designated an international terrorist organization, so we need to send warships. But we’re denying Venezuelan’s asylum claims who fled for their lives. 🤔
In addition to being morally abhorrent, this plan relies on trendy magical technology. It’s one step away from relocating Gazans to the blockchain. Gift link: wapo.st/4g2eATo
Nine years ago exactly, an interesting series of events happened in Uzbekistan concerning their dictator...
"These people want us to give in to despair. They want us to give up. They want us to look at their scoreboard of victories and determine that the game is unwinnable. So I’m playing a different game, one that is not about winning or losing, but helping or not helping." #AltGov #AltFam #AltCitizen
this should become a thing, putting up signs like this for every arrest & disappearance in public spaces. it would likely break into lower info, less politically engaged demos and local social media groups
It’s all part of the plan👇
Remember the Goolsbee Rule, also called the “pathological irony of crisis”: If you lose credibility, your statements begin to mean the opposite of what you say.
Meet Candon Dahle, Why isn't he not in jail for life? Bingham County Idaho THIS CHILD RAPIST was sentence to 180 days in jail for raping a 7 year old girl for 5 years, part of the plea deal was that he would not have to register as a sex offender. WOW: (white privilege )
BREAKING: Bernie Sanders wants RFK Jr. under oath. He’s demanding a special Senate hearing on the CDC disaster RFK Jr. helped create. Go Bernie!
“.. with the exception of the pandemic, Black women have never seen such staggering losses in employment.” @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2025/08/31/u...
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.”
I think their real issue w/ mail-in voting is how well we are able to track our ballots. We get a notice when they're on the way to us, when they've been picked up after we put them in a ballot box, when they arrive for counting, and when they've been counted. That screws up GOPs cheating plans.
www.npr.org/sections/goa... sad feels
Id heard that Cantor Fitzgerald, the Wall Street firm formerly run by Commerce Secy Lutnick and now run by his sons is one of the big buyers of these refund rights. Turns out it’s already public back in July when they were buying them at 20 to 30 cents on the dollar. www.wired.com/story/cantor...
REP. BUDDY CARTER: What eroded confidence in the CDC was the covid vaccine BEDINGFIELD: Who was president in 2020?
NEW: Donald Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” will hand out $67 BILLION to companies next year to "incentivize" research these companies did YEARS ago. That means next year, the federal government will spend five times more on these handouts than what it spends annually on child care.
"Nobody wants to be a cop [in DC]. They were abused. They were spit on." "When you when you say they were abused and spit on, I'm assuming you're talking about January 6th, correct?" "All you guys want to do was bring up J6 about the answer to everything."
RADDATZ: One of the things they are trying to do in DC with the National Guard is have them back up local law enforcement WES MOORE: They are picking up trash
wow
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."
@tinakotek.bsky.social and @governorferguson.bsky.social and @governor.ca.gov we need this in California, Oregon and Washington
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!
Good thing you narrowly escaped Clinton. Things are much better with your “moral” vote, right? bsky.app/profile/chad...
The fact these gopers (party of gropers) don't want national guard sent to their states is telling
"Everyday People" by Sly & The Family Stone is a powerful anthem of unity, highlighting that despite differences, all people are equal and should coexist peacefully. Its messages challenged prejudice and celebrated inclusivity, as the band was one of the first major integrated rock groups.
I have been wondering if this is part of why they are set on killing so many of us with returning diseases and pollution. Not only to make us desperate as workers, also to have less of us, so oligarchs have more...
That flash point foretells an America becoming more polarized the hotter things get, more sharply divided between its rural and urban communities and more hateful and more dangerous."
"The intensifying economic and environmental pressures of the warming climate are now beginning to drive new wedges into old divisions.
There’s a persistent myth that new solar farms don’t really help tackle climate change because panels are “made with coal” and “never pay back” their carbon debt. This is simply false. - UN: solar ~8x cleaner than gas, ~19x than coal per kWh - panels repay CO2 in 4 months; save 57x over life
It was probably always inevitable that the rise of a dictator in the US would be greeted with a shrug by many Americans and Europeans alike. But it doesn’t make it any less shocking to see. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
RECENT SCOTUS RULINGS ARE A REMINDER OF HOW IMPORTANT JUDGES ARE. 📣 #Pennsylvania has 3 Dem State Supreme Court Justices up for retention this fall. Help keep them on the bench! There's also seats up in #WI & #NC next year. Donate today! secure.actblue.com/donate/state...
I think that's avoidance based on dissociation
Russia kills children from a distance with missiles and drones. Those who fall under its control, it steals — erasing their Ukrainian identity. Russia forges their names, their documents, their entire lives. Children are forced to forget who they are. (Bring Kids Back UA)
Has the same thought, should have changed it to be LGBTQ+
US Non-Profits 'In the Tank' for Exxon, Chevron over #Venezuela Oil. As US sends warships to the region it's important to note that lobbyists and think tanks that get big bucks have been fanning the flames right here in DC. www.seasonsofcrime.com/p/us-non-pro...
This is my fucking question. Assuming that shit is going into the treasury, without checking, without making sure he's not at least wetting his beak? That would be REALLY STUPID. Of course, we the people, we can't just pop over and take a look in the coffers. SO MAYBE CONGRESS SHOULD DO THAT.
The US brought in nearly $30 Billion in tariffs in July, triple the amount collected in previous years That's not good news Tariffs are taxes on Americans That $30B was collected from you and me when we bought food, clothes, electronics...
