“We do not surrender our citizenship or the sovereignty of our cities and States because of crime rates.” open.substack.com/pub/sherrily...
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“We do not surrender our citizenship or the sovereignty of our cities and States because of crime rates.” open.substack.com/pub/sherrily...
MICHIGAN POLL WORKERS!!!! DROP US A LINE!!!!!!
Hello everyone! I am working on a story for The Guardian about how Chicagoans are preparing for the possible arrival of federal troops, following President Trump's statements on the matter. Right now, I'm looking for residents, community organizers, business owners, and other folks to talk to!
@govjayinslee.bsky.social thanks for making time for a very informative & interesting convo with @petedominick.bsky.social , appreciate your work very much www.youtube.com/live/Kid9I2n...
As a Texan whose family members lost their home in the recent flooding & are still struggling to clear debris & begin to rebuild, I’d like Gov Abbott to explain why our National Guard paid by our Texas taxpayers are being sent to Chicago instead of helping residents here???
Governor Pritzker also correctly noted that Trump is cherry-picking blue states and cities and ignoring red states with higher violent crime rates
So tired of beating my head against the wall with these “leaders”
Pritzker: "I refuse to pretend that any of this is normal ... I refuse to fall into the pundit trap that demands we sacrifice vital constitutional rights if it's being done in the fake guise of fighting crime."
Yarn lovers are facing higher prices, delays, and supply issues as new U.S. import rules take effect. With parcels under $800 now taxed and many postal services halting deliveries, several beloved European yarn brands have already paused shipping to the U.S. 😿 Read it: 👉 archive.is/lxp1v
Pritzker is doing two things here that are smart. One, he's describing this forcefully and unapologetically and in his own terms, not adopting the Admin/media frame. Two, he's making clear that he will blame the Admin for any violence or disorder sparked by their invasion of his state.
KASIE HUNT: Over the summer you said, “There’s no vaccine that’s safe and effective”. Do you still believe that? RFK JR: “I never said that.” KASIE HUNT: “Play the clip.” RFK JR (clip): “There’s no vaccine that is safe and effective.” (March 2024) ht: @cwebbonline.com
Pritzker on Trump's plan for Chicago: "Unidentifiable agents in unmarked vehicles with masks are planning to raid Latino communities and say they're targeting violent criminals."
Pritzker is giving quite a barn burner of a speech as he blasts this regime for its authoritarianism, with regard to the military occupation of Chicago. He is also reminding the media to stop normalizing this insanity.
Listening to @govjayinslee.bsky.social talk to @petedominick.bsky.social about threat to democracy by FOTUS & this administration, solar power, climate & more. www.youtube.com/live/Kid9I2n...
Glad to see Gov Pritzer already on air with a presser to address FOTUS’ nonsense from his earlier announcement. More of this please!
you can see that there is still a major discoloration on Trump's right hand
Wait, did he just say he's seen AI-generated things since he "was a baby?"
This is the racist lies clip to which the above post is referring:
NARRATOR: The president does not, in fact, have any "right" to deploy armed forces on the streets of American cities in times of peace
The Roberts Court has issued many horrific decisions, but the justices have also acted horrifically off the Bench. Top Ten Worst Moments of the Roberts Court Off the Bench: www.dorfonlaw.org/2025/09/mour...
This country is doing everything to kids EXCEPT protecting them from gun violence.
Yep. News orgs should state unabashedly that they are not in the business of amplifying Trump officials’ lies, and any official who feels entitled to such amplification can go stuff it. Let Noem shriek into the MAGA disinformation abyss all she likes. Just say no to this sleazy scam already.
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Teens calling Idaho's suicide hotline are being told they can't proceed with the conversation without parental consent. Many of the callers are then hanging up. Idaho approved a strict parental consent law last year. idahocapitalsun.com/2025/08/29/i...
CHICAGO - REPORTING ICE Let's keep printing, folding, & distributing @meganpiont.bsky.social's zine: How to Report ICE If you're unfamiliar with folding zines (I was!), there's even an instructions doc in the file ⬇️
You’ve had some takes, but this 👆🏼??? 🙄 Trolling extraordinaire, no doubt
“Representative Jerrold Nadler, a New York Democrat who has been one of Congress’s leading liberal voices for three decades, will not seek re-election next year, heeding a call for generational change roiling his party”
I’d watch her in anything. She’s the only reason I watched all of She Hulk: Attorney At Law. It’s an…interesting role for her
100% this 👇🏼
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There’s only one acceptable use for candy corn @angryblacklady.bsky.social & that’s as a road for my Halloween village. Satan’s teeth indeed!!! 🤢😂
always telling on themselves. MEANWHILE scores of marginalized people get the shit kicked out of them DAILY and are in fact NOT fascists. How does this work?
There is a whole class of pseudo-leftists who have decided that what radicalizes people is experiencing the mildest discomfort. They are just telling on themselves.
The #BestOf the @karenhunter.bsky.social show continues with Journalist Ali Velshi's Town Hall interview! #KarenRebels
“They’re not doing it to improve public safety,” he continued. “It’s designed to humiliate political opponents.” www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/u...
@espinsegall.bsky.social Thanks for making time for convo with @petedominick.bsky.social , appreciate the real talk, much needed in these times www.youtube.com/live/jvJr_Vx...
Yep. Looking at pics from this year, compared to 2 years ago, big difference
Always. I just scrolled through a lot of photos to see if maybe this was an older photo. Did not see a single one in which you could not see tufts of hair, especially at back of hat
🤷🏻♀️ Head shaved for brain surgery?? Who knows
Where’s his hair?
After banning visas for Palestinian children seeking medical care, the Trump administration is now banning any Palestinian passport holders from entering the United States. Extraordinary bigotry being converted into US policy. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/31/w...
You know who benefited from the Biden-in-decline stories? The same billionaires who were angry at Biden for empowering the NLRB and having mildly anti-trust policies. The media outlets that the billionaires owned and influenced were more than happy to play along. And here we are.
I don't want to be all "but her emails" about this but with each passing day the friendly fire that took down Joe Biden feels more and more like the world's biggest self-own.
When unions are strong, our communities and our country are strong. Every person in our nation has benefited from the labor movement. This Labor Day, we celebrate the workers and unions who have fought for fair wages, safe workplaces, and sick leave for all of us.
#TXLEGE: 11 key laws go into effect today. Instead of preparing Texans for real crises, lawmakers prioritized bills that go against our Texas values. Here's a breakdown of some of the bills that have passed. 🧵
Trump and his family have made over $3.4 BILLION while in office. We’ve never seen profiteering at this scale – not even close. While costs rise for Americans, Trump is using the White House to rake in as much money for himself as possible.
It astonishes me how parents are perfectly able to understand "the kid brought something home from school and now we're all sick" except for COVID for some reason
I will always stop to watch this clip for the eleventythousandth time whenever it appears. Prince is just beyond here. & watching Dhani Harrison’s face as he watches Prince play his dad’s song 🤯🥰
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“Peter Thiel’s AI Palantir Is Supercharging Trump’s Lawfare” In May, Trump’s FHFA Director Bill Pulte announced a “partnership” w/ Palantir to “establish an ‘AI-powered Crime Detection Unit (CDU).’” The CDU promptly began “work at the Federal National Mortgage Association (Fannie Mae)” 8/29/25…1/
If you have not been, now is a really good time to start tracing your multi-size patterns instead of cutting them out. This is a resource we'll never have again.
If You Live In These Areas Of The U.S., You Need To Be Extra Careful With COVID Right Now - HuffPost apple.news/ApIUU6yxMS_a...
I’ve heard from Democrats + public health people who interpret Trump’s post today as bad for RFK Jr People in Trump’s orbit and in admin tell me nothing has changed: RFK Jr retains full support. (Per our article, which ran online yesterday and on front page of WaPo this morning)
Seeing much debate over Trump’s latest remarks on covid and RFK Jr Some relevant reporting Yesterday: Steve Bannon told WaPo (left) that he wanted Trump to post asap on TruthSocial, and his admin to push on vaccine data Today: Trump posts a TruthSocial (right), demanding more covid vaccine data
#LyingLiarsLie
You do, my daughter’s favorite
Photographer Eric Meola Talks About His Springsteen Fandom and How He Ended Up Shooting The "Born to Run" Cover "I remember thinking to myself, 'I've got to photograph this guy no matter what.' " by Caryn Rose www.radio-nowhere.com/photographer...
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@petedominick.bsky.social ICYMI
Two of the biggest stories right now are Trump’s cuts to Medicaid and the ACA, and his assault on public health infrastructure (CDC, NIH, etc) Here’s how Democrats can tie those strands together — and hold Republicans accountable Via @lauren-egan.bsky.social www.thebulwark.com/p/democrats-...
That shithead Polish CEO who stole a cap off a kid at the US Open has posted a groveling apology on Facebook. (The previous outrageously obnoxious statements that so many people believed and shared were bullshit, surprise surprise.) (translation by Facebook)
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...
We did! But only as of a few weeks ago when I watched it at 3 AM when I couldn’t sleep
Live your life in such a way that, upon realizing that you are probably p seriously ill, millions of people are not torn between hoping you die as soon as a body can possibly shuffle off its mortal coil and hoping that you survive long enough to go to prison and die there.
“Maybe”???? People actually still question this ?? Is, always has been.
I know this is a lie because it came from trump
Gorgeous Swiss chard! We haven’t had enough rain for mosquitoes to be much of a problem this summer
😆 my daughter wishes they grew on trees
Today’s harvest from raised bed & container garden: veggies, watermelon, flowers 🌱 #FlowerReport #CoastalSouthTexas
Appeasing a dictator doesn’t work, as Chamberlain’s failures in the leadup to World War II show us. Yet as Trump floats ceding Ukrainian territory to Putin, we need to remember the lessons of history. #Velshi
Recently had to replace washer, got reasonably priced top loader Whirlpool. I like that the agitator is easily removable for bed linens etc. Has a good variety of settings, including pre soak & extra rinse
I would read a whole series of reports like this on each individual federal goon. They all deserve a profile.
Y’all make me smile so much 🥰
Pritzker out here giving a master class in countering the right wing propaganda machine’s efforts to justify further federal invasions and occupations of American cities: he’s effectively reframing the discussion (beyond debates re: crime rates) to one of rising authoritarianism & federal overreach.
www.msnbc.com/ali-velshi/w...
“I don’t come from a defeated people..” @elienyc.bsky.social talking to @velshi.com about the need to stay focused on fighting for democracy, about how to not become so defeated we give up. Today’s @velshimsnbc.bsky.social is an absolute must see #Velshi
LOVE that Neneh Cherry album
52nd Street by Billy Joel
News in this piece: 1) JB Pritzker's health officials are exploring the possibility of buying Covid vaccines in bulk to distribute to constituents 2) Mass Gov Maura Healey is leading a coalition of mostly blue states that could coordinate purchasing of pediatric vaccines Read all about this here:
This whole thing is great but the highlighted bit made me laugh out loud. 😂 Marlon on Snoop:
Trombone Shorty releases new album from New Orleans, a tribute to the city's soul, marking the 20th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina.
@theweekendmsnbc.bsky.social there’s a whistle/siren noise underlying your audio this morning
trump can issue as many executive orders as he wants, perhaps coverage should reflect the fact that a lot of these have the legal force of a child's wishlist for santa
not just that he has no constitutional authority, there isn't even any particular legal or institutional mechanism by which the president can make anyone treat this as anything other than a weird advisory opinion.
‘It happened so fast’: the shocking reality of indoor heat deaths in Arizona #Climate
What's dangerous about these accumulated choices to cover the end of constitutional rule of law as a debate between reasonable sides is that it reflects a deep truth about constitutionalism: that the rules of the game are established purely by convention & the alignment of mutual expectation.
Please join me @velshimsnbc.bsky.social 10a-1p w/ @mallorymcmorrow.bsky.social Marquez Claxton @davidpepperoh.bsky.social @stevebenen.com @elienyc.bsky.social Vivian Salama @daveholmes.bsky.social @lizzwinstead.bsky.social @deanobeidallah.bsky.social @cmgreer.bsky.social Janet Yellen
really nothing better than Patti Smith getting to fan girl on Detective Goren. They let her keep a chair from the interrogation room & she has one of Goren's business cards. www.youtube.com/watch?v=q0kd...
The problem: Mortgages signed by the Paxtons contained inaccurate statements declaring that each of those three houses was their primary residence, enabling the now-estranged couple to improperly lock in low interest rates, according to an Associated Press review of public records.
Jones: We have a presidential administration that has more outrage about the changing of the cracker barrel logo than they do about changing the policies that allow our children to be gunned down in school…
You can’t make this shit up
I really hope this becomes the black eye it deserves to be www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Tracking/reporting hummingbirds #TheOutpost 🪶👨🌾🌿🌱🌻 Hummingbird species of the world, 2025 hummingbird fall migration map, 2025 fall migration sighting reports Link: www.hummingbirdcentral.com
Great essay by @carynrose.bsky.social about visiting Kent State. jukeboxgraduate.com/visiting-ken...
Thank you & your staff very much for today’s show. Much needed clear & honest commentary.
Have you gotten your Medicare Part D plan 2026 notice yet? Your premium will be increasing thanks to Trump Administration scaling back subsidies instituted by President Biden's Inflation Reduction Act (IRA). Medicare Supplements/Medigap plans already INCREASING. medicareadvocacy.org/scale-back-o...
Let's not forget that the Trump death stuff began to flare because of JD Vance. He scheduled an interview on Thursday to brag about his nearly one pregnancy of experience (200 whole days as VP!) that qualified him to be the youngest president in American history.
👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼 @velshi.com on fire this morning, mincing no words, calling out the members of Dem LEADERSHIP who are not meeting the fight for democracy that we all need to be, while highlighting the members of the party who are meeting the moment. #Velshi