Remember Trump's military parade on his birthday? These are the people he wanted to impress. He's not mad they're meeting — he's mad they're meeting without him.
Remember Trump's military parade on his birthday? These are the people he wanted to impress. He's not mad they're meeting — he's mad they're meeting without him.
A federal judge Friday said she would set an expedited briefing schedule for Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook’s challenge to President Donald Trump’s attempted firing of her earlier in the week ohiocapitaljournal.com/2025/09/02/r...
We require vaccines because they keep all kids, schools, and communities safe. Florida has seen spikes in infectious diseases like measles, diseases we had virtually eliminated before Ladapo took office. This decision is reckless and makes Floridians less safe. www.sun-sentinel.com/2025/09/03/f...
Republicans can “rebrand” the Big Ugly Bill all they want—but it still kicks 15 million Americans off healthcare, rips food assistance away from millions more, and adds $4 trillion to our national debt. All while giving another massive handout to billionaires. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/03/u...
They're right. RFK Jr. is a serious threat to public health and our lives. He is undermining vaccines, boosting dangerous conspiracy theories, and decimating lifesaving research. Resign or be fired. He needs to go.
Trump says Republicans who disagree with him are "insurgents" who should be "taken out"
Republicans in Congress could reign in Trump's illegal and chaotic tariffs and help bring prices back down for Americans. But they won't. Why? "Too many...are afraid of Trump," says @debbiedingell.house.gov www.mlive.com/politics/202...
Called Newhouse. Told him, as a survivor, I demand he be one of the 2 Republican votes needed to pass the bill regarding the release of the Epstein files. The kid on the line was quiet for a long time. Then said he'd pass along the message. Call your Republican electeds. They need 2 more.
No wonder Trump is so intent on keeping the files from being released.👀
Donated to Jared Golden too. Golden loves Trump’s tariffs.
Florida surgeon general says state will eliminate all vaccine mandates
Tillis: "Here's a fun fact about me: I am a terrible judge of character. Really, really bad. You say something and I'll believe it. It truly baffles me how I got all this advice and consent responsibility but dammit if I didn't blow it again. Oopsies."
Solar is no longer “alternative energy.” It is the energy of the future. America risks remaining a petro-state, clinging to the past, instead of becoming an electro-state, embracing the future.
BREAKING: Sens. DURBIN, WHITEHOUSE, SCHIFF urge firing of insurrectionist JARED WISE, a senior advisor to failed nominee Ed Martin at the Justice Department.
Moskowitz: Do you think the Epstein list should come out? Farage: I have no opinion on it. Raskin: It’s been reported that he’s called for it to be released Moskowitz: I have it here. Do you agree with yourself?
U.S. Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith blocked President Joe Biden’s nomination of Scott Colom to a federal court two years ago. Now, the local Mississippi district attorney is running as a against her for U.S. Senate. buff.ly/96mYBYp
The brave survivors of Epstein and his associates’ heinous crimes deserve justice. The Trump Administration must release the Epstein files to the American people now.
From @mynameisjanice.bsky.social www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...
The guy who named a law school after Paul Pressler and owes his current job to Matt Gaetz is really upset that we might release information about Jeffrey Epstein. I'll say this for Mike Johnson: his values are consistent.
House Democrats just defeated this attempt by Republicans to censure Rep. McIver and remover her from the House Committee on Homeland Security. Final vote:
You are the surgeon general. Of a state.
![[highlight] “Who am I to tell you [/highlight] what your child should put in their body?” Dr. Ladapo, a vocal denigrator of vaccines, said to applause during an event on Wednesday in Valrico, Fla., near Tampa. “Your body is a gift from God.”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:u45hqzk7counfbwyg5edhmvi/bafkreiggotc6ca2acrhyf4odmzc6hxktu2gcgp7hnxh3mnq4ip3xgks3fe@jpeg "Click to view full size")
Florida already had a skyrocketing rate of non-medical exemptions for childhood vaccination, leading to MMR coverage in kindergartners well below recommended herd immunity levels. And now they won't even need exemptions.
the two americas
But I was repeatedly and loudly reassured that both sides are the same (and nothing ever changes.)
Bonta: They tried to rely on this supposed exception to the Posse Comitatus Act. And Judge Breyer, during the trial, rightfully asked: “I haven’t seen that in the Constitution. Can you point it out?” Of course, it could not be pointed out by the witness, because it doesn’t exist.
In Florida, vaccine mandates for child day care facilities and public schools include shots for measles, chickenpox, hepatitis B, Diphtheria-tetanus-acellular pertussis (DTaP), polio and other diseases, according to the state Health Department’s website.
You have a baby too young to vaccinate, and your older kid is exposed to Freedom Measles or Populist Polio in their classroom. You don’t have kids,but you may be impacted if you have cancer. Herd immunity is the point. The silent majority needs to get loud; make this a political liability for Ron.
If the American people's representatives are irrelevant, our democracy is dead. Trump and Vought are treating the bills that our Congress has passed as suggestions and telling Americans, 'You're On Your Own.' We must take action against the Administration's harmful agenda.
Toyota’s doing this with help from the Japanese government while ours tries to tank cleaner cars and the environment.
Hell yeah, Democrats Fighting Back!
FOX: Are you for any green energy personally? ZELDIN: Uh, well, I am for whatever President Trump is advocating for.
More than 10 survivors today, some Republicans, spoke out today. Minutes later, Trump repeats this horrible lie that even some of his supporters don’t believe.
BARTIROMO: It could be that the pardoning of Dr. Anthony Fauci is not legitimate? COMER: Exactly. That's correct.
SCARBOROUGH: We do Republicans keep promising to release these files and then keep releasing the same things and making fools of their followers? REP. ROBERT GARCIA: Because there is a massive White House coverup going on right now
Massie: "The Speaker of the House just offered a fig leaf to my colleagues. They're gonna vote on a non-binding resolution today that does absolutely nothing ... they're allowing the DOJ to curate all of the information that the DOJ is giving them ... the perpetrators are being protected"
Nigel Farage looks uncomfortable as Jamie Raskin uses his opening statement to absolutely demolish him
House Democrats say restoring health care cuts a non-negotiable on government funding bit.ly/47JuEHF
RFK Jr. must resign.
BREAKING: Florida will work to eliminate all child vaccine mandates in the state, officials say.
Sick of the whining coming from those who spend all their time bashing Democrats instead of fighting back against the Republikkklans? Here's a great collection of receipts you can use
This is extremely dangerous. & @kamalaharris.com warned us about this authoritarianism. www.politico.com/live-updates...
Let’s hope Thune means it. I doubt he does. www.politico.com/live-updates...
Trump spends oodles of $$ for an absurd military flyover to silence victims of Epstein’s and Maxwell’s awful crimes as he protects the perpetrators of those crimes.
Totally insane and wildly dangerous. Children will die, and Florida will export communicable diseases to the rest of the country and the world.
He’s also had a heart attack and stents installed.
Raskin: "When private comments made by federal employees are scrutinized for anti-Trump bias and they can lose their jobs because of it, then we've entered the realm not just of Vladimir Putin but Joseph Stalin."
She also refused to settle for the peanuts other states were willing to settle for in that case—she held out and got a much bigger payout.
Florida counts quick! And they've just tallied up two more sizable overperformances for Dems: • In #SD15: +22 vs. 2024 presidential results • In #HD40: +15 Dems now averaging +15.7 vs. 2024 across 38 qualifying special elections. Complete Big Board: docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
Holy smokes!
If they liked him more, they could have voted for him. He was on all state ballots. That’s the only thing that mattered.
Given that she’s the former attorney general who prosecuted the biggest banks for mortgage fraud and won, yes.
"We have been told ICE will try and disrupt community picnics and peaceful parades. Let's be clear: the terror and cruelty is the point, not the safety of anyone living here."
Pritzker: When did we become a country where it's okay for the president to insist on national television that a state should call him to beg for anything, especially something we don't want? Have we truly lost all sense of sanity in this nation that we treat this as normal?
NEW: Following today’s federal court’s decision blocking the Trump Admin’s illegal use of the military in LA for law enforcement activities, @CAGovernor Gavin Newsom JUST filed a preliminary injunction asking the court to stop the extension of these soldiers’ deployment in LA
Nothing about this is correct. He got the hard delegates he won. If he’d won more primaries/caucuses, he’d had more hard delegates than she did. Superdelegates didn’t give Clinton the win. Nothing changes that reality. Have a nice day.
Why would the party and its voters (they actually decided the nominee, not superdelegates) want the independent? It makes no sense. You like him. I don’t. He uses the party and trashes it.
Really wish the media would speak with the same clarity as judges - absent a rebellion on U.S. soil, the President cannot deploy the National Guard to act as a police force under his control. I know the rule of law is not click bait, but it undergirds the functioning of society.
Not a great long-term political move by Republicans. CO is safely Democratic. Huntsville’s trending in a Democratic direction. @kamalaharris.com got the most votes of any Democratic POTUS candidate in Madison County, AL’s history. Moving more well-educated voters there will only exacerbate this.
I applaud the court for today’s important ruling. The White House tried to invade the second largest city in the country. That’s illegal. Los Angeles will not buckle and we will not break. We will not be divided and we will not be defeated.
Donald Trump and House Republicans gutted Medicaid and are destroying the Affordable Care Act. You deserve better.
JUST IN: US appeals court allows Trump's EPA to nix climate grants reut.rs/4lZnsKK
US factory construction continues steadily declining as CHIPS & IRA projects either complete or cancel—in official data released today, overall US manufacturing construction activity is down 7% compared to last year & electronics/electrical manufacturing construction is down 14%
We are winning special elections & are leading the generic ballot. Discontent doesn’t mean voters won’t vote for us. He knows there are limits to what Dem leadership can do & there isn’t a magic trick besides voting to get rid of Trump. He needs to stop misleading people there is one.
Red states use the specter of "crime" to overpolice cities like Memphis and Jackson and St Louis, using state-controlled police in diverse cities. So they are just ripping sovereignty away from Black and Brown people, just like the federal government is.
Intel Corp., whose new largest shareholder is the US government, isn’t renewing a partnership with North Carolina Central University’s law school that sought to increase the company’s pipeline of recruits from diverse groups
HUGE: "Nevertheless, at Defendants’ orders and contrary to Congress’s explicit instruction, federal troops executed the laws. ... In short, Defendants violated the Posse Comitatus Act." Working link here: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
I don’t know how to fix this. Because this is pretty much, Word for Word exactly what Ken is doing at the DNC. Like this is his plan this is what he’s been talking about every single time he opens his mouth. I don’t know how to get people to know that democrats.org/news/dnc-and...
I’ve had this saved for about a month. Most places have some kind of group to act quickly for people kidnapped by ICE. Find your local group, save their number, if you see someone being arrested try to get the person’s name.
Enthusiasm grows when voters see a party fighting and winning. (And Democrats are doing both- fighting back on redistricting attacks and special election wins). Constant gloom, both sides coverage, and magnified Dem drama don’t inspire turnout — they smother it.
Down-ballot Democrats barely exist in MSNBC coverage. Meanwhile Fox elevates every random GOP backbencher into a national figure. That’s a huge imbalance.
Every Dem family fight gets magnified into “the party in disarray,” while GOP fractures are brushed aside. It divides us when we need to project strength.
MSNBC has made Trump the center of the universe, giving him endless oxygen while Democratic wins barely get a mention. That doesn’t build confidence, it feeds despair.
The modal political reporter today reports on the Democratic Party like it's in the same competitive position as Democrats were in the Fourth Party System. The modal political reporter today has also never heard of the Fourth Party System.
Kressly: I expect in the next couple of weeks, this is going to get worse. You’re going to hear from the same administrative people who have gutted the expertise needed to promote child health — pushing false narratives like, “we need to look at the link between vaccines and autism.” That is a lie.
Some Presidential Medal of Freedom recipients: JFK: Marian Anderson, Ralph Bunche LBJ: Pope John XXIII, Aaron Copland Carter: Martin Luther King, Jr., Jonas Salk Clinton: Arthur Ashe, Thurgood Marshall Obama: Billie Jean King, Harvey Milk Trump: Rush Limbaugh, Jim Jordan, Rudy Giuliani
“What [RFK Jr.] has done to the CDC … is unlike anything we have ever seen at the agency, and unlike anything our country has ever experienced,” a group of nine former CDC directors write.
Are taxpayers going to have to pay the insurrectionists by the amount of feces they wiped in the Capitol on January 6th? More poops means a bigger payday for the insurrectionists? Do you get paid more if you did a Number 2 than a Number 1?
If Republican politicians want to get serious about fair voting maps, they should join me in banning gerrymandering nationwide. Let’s have a vote in the Senate. People deserve to know where their representatives stand.
I’ve a problem with people w/ a platform saying performative action that doesn’t do anything is what is important. People not obsessed with politics believe that elected officials have all the power, even when they’re in the minority. They deny their own agency for this mess. Your take helps them.
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again and again: Cities are not test grounds for the president to enact egregious, unconstitutional, uncalled for military takeovers. The Trump Administration’s stunts and performance have no place in our cities.
.@velshi.com “Head in the sand”? Please. Part of the problem is limp news coverage that turns every Dem wobble into a five-alarm fire while treating GOP extremism as background noise. That’s what depresses our base.
You had one shot at him not being president. It involved voting for Harris, and also not spending months before that comparing voting for Harris to eating a slug.
“Dems criticizing Trump isn’t making him stop being president for some reason”
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
As a doctor, I am disturbed by what RFK Jr. is doing to America’s public health system. It is time for medical associations, Republican doctors, and all who believe in science to step up and speak out about the lack of science behind these moves.
Trump says Chicago is an undesirable ‘hellhole,’ but tourists and transplants keep coming - @thetriibe.com
“VA Democrats, who now hold a 51-49 margin in the House of Delegates, have a chance of winning a supermajority in the elections this fall…” @kenmartin.bsky.social www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...
It’s been said before, and bears repeating: our federal system is going to be key to saving what can be saved.
A US appeals court ruled that most of Donald Trump's tariffs are illegal, undercutting the Republican president's use of the levies as a key international economic policy tool. The case is widely is expected to be appealed to the Supreme Court reut.rs/47l6pz9
This is happening because of Trump’s weakness as a leader.
Holy Moly. This seems like a good time to remind folks that you can chip in *directly* to Dem-backed WI Supreme Court candidate Judge Chris Taylor here! secure.actblue.com/donate/state...
What Maxwell Taylor said when putting up Robert E. Lee’s portrait that Trump, Vance, & Hegseth are putting up again. Taylor said this lie in 1952. Before Brown v. Board, the lynching of Emmett Till, the Montgomery bus boycott, & the Civil Rights & Voting Rights Acts. www.nytimes.com/1952/01/20/a...
"The Constitution is clear: it is Congress—not the President—that holds the power of the purse." Read Ranking Member @congressmanboyle.bsky.social's statement and a new explainer on Trump's illegal "pocket rescission." 🧵
This week, Democrats flipped a Trump +20 Iowa Senate seat. Republicans see the writing on the wall, and that's why they're scrambling to gerrymander wherever they can.
*their sights*
Trump’s Pentagon is reinstalling a 20-foot portrait of Robert E. Lee — with a slave guiding his horse in the background — at West Point. Trump and Hegseth are honoring traitors who fought against America to keep people enslaved. There’s nothing “patriotic” about this.
🚨Merkley Blasts Trump Administration for Invoking Illegal Maneuver to Claw Back Bipartisan, Congressionally Appropriated Foreign Aid www.budget.senate.gov/ranking-memb...
New polling on gerrymandering % who'd support their state redrawing House districts to favor Democrats if Texas redistricts to favor Republicans, on Aug 22-24 | Aug 1-4 U.S. adult citizens 31% | 24% Democrats 53% | 40% Independents 26% | 19% Republicans 16% | 13% today.yougov.com/politics/art...
What a cursed sentence (gift link) “The A.I. companies selected to oversee the program would have a strong financial incentive to deny claims. Medicare plans to pay them a share of the savings generated from rejections.”
Major update: As of this morning, CVS says it's decided it can offer the vax in 13 of the 16 states IF you get a prescription. Still a big new barrier for many people, but a change from its "no vaccines at all in these states" position yesterday. The three remaining absolute-nos are MA, NV and NM.