The Trump cabal and Republicans have every confidence that newly registered voters will enthusiastically vote red???!
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The Trump cabal and Republicans have every confidence that newly registered voters will enthusiastically vote red???!
Nongovernmental groups like the League of Women Voters are now barred from registering new voters at naturalization ceremonies, the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services has announced. n.pr/4g7YKqg
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.
"I can think of no finer writer to have beside me while Italy explodes, while Britain burns, while the world ends." (Salman Rushdie) #books #amreading
"It breaks my heart to report that 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 anybody living here." JB Pritzker
when you're deciding which couch to fuck
Let’s not patronize their lucrative enterprises or any of the commercial outlets that support them. Vote for candidates like Mamdani; send the billionaire PACs a clear message: f-off! Vote to reform the tax code. End Citizens United. Educate folks about the dangers of the disparity of wealth.
. THIS is one of the biggest problems of our time . . . ⬇️ ⬇️ ⬇️ .
So if you are a MAGAt voter, you voted for this. Proud?
Little kids with brain cancer. That’s who Donald Trump and RFK Jr. are screwing over by cutting health care.
Things feel uncertain right now, Illinois. I want you all to know we’re doing everything we can to protect your rights. Make sure you know how to stand up for yourself and others at illinoisimmigrationinfo.org.
Wow! How refreshing (and necessary) this would be!
Greg Sargent: "So perhaps it’s time for news organizations to state unabashedly and affirmatively that they are not in the business of amplifying Trump officials’ lies and smears, and any official who feels entitled to such amplification can go stuff it." newrepublic.com/article/1998...
How the Japanese Practice of “Forest Bathing”—Or Just Hanging Out in the Woods—Can Lower Stress Levels and Fight Disease
Framed exactly right. This is an OCCUPATION; we should respond accordingly.
Democratic officials of a certain age: Follow Rep. Nadler’s example. He is a legend. And now he’s doing what’s right for the nation and the party, leaving at the top of his game, letting younger members lead.
Just a thought, but perhaps Democrats should look at the government they might be forced to shut down not as turf to defend but as territory occupied by a proto-fascist regime. nymag.com/intelligence...
Trump will do all he can to “fix” the 2026 and 2028 elections to secure MAGA victories by every method he can muster, however blatantly illegal and unconstitutional, whatever the courts might say. If every eligible voter shows up, we can overwhelm his schemes. Otherwise, our way of life is doomed.
Israeli reservists soldiers declared they will not report for duty because of plans to take over Gaza city. Over 365 reservists say the assault puts the lives of Israeli hostages at risk while also killing,maiming and starving Gazan civilians . Israel mobilizing over 60,000 .
“At the rate at which journalists are being killed in Gaza by the IDF, soon there will be no one left to keep the world informed. This is not only a war on Gaza, it is a war on journalism itself,” said Thibat Bruttin, director general of RSF. (Reporters Without Borders.) www.cnn.com/2025/08/31/m...
Epstein Survivors Press Conference Sept 3rd, 10:30 a.m. ET Tune in to support them.
this now brings us up to six (!) grand jury refusals to charge (that we know about), plus two cases filed as part of the dc surge dismissed on the us attorney's office's request
Under Dr. Oz, Medicare is launching a pilot program that will use AI to determine whether patients would be covered for certain procedures. Companies running the program will be paid a share of the savings from rejecting claims. Who in their right mind voted for this? No one.
More than 85 scientists say that a recent U.S. Department of Energy report is full of errors and misrepresents climate science.
The Justice Department had once argued that Ghislaine Maxwell should be sentenced to at least 30 years in prison. Now its second-ranking official—and Donald Trump’s former lawyer—is aligned with a woman whose crimes the department had called “monstrous.”
Seemingly all aimed at eliminating those (journalists, first responders, medical personnel and aide workers) who could bear witnesses to these crimes against humanity.
Just utterly out of words to describe what we’re seeing. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
This is not reporting. This is propaganda.
We have yet to see what our hyper-activist, reactionary, anti-constitutional SCOTUS will do.
NEW SUBSTACK: TRUMP CHECKED! For years Trump has wielded executive power like a hammer—bludgeoning democratic norms, ripping apart families, and trampling constitutional rights. But now, at last, the judiciary is rising to remind him: you cannot rule by decree when the Constitution stands above you
This sums it up.
A Trump administration proposal to reverse a landmark finding that climate change is dangerous to the public relies heavily on a report from the Department of Energy that dozens of scientists say is flawed. The Associated Press surveyed scientists for their views. Here are some key takeaways:
The Senators who voted to confirm him are fully complicit.
Start with Citizens United.
Ppl should read Justice JP Stevens dissent in Citizens (read by him from the bench which was unusual and underscored his outrage). EVERYTHING he predicted came true.
The Murdoch propaganda machine keeps cranking out the lies. Matt Gatez is so proud of you, Pam. A cell is reserved for you. Your family must be so proud of the crook you have become.
Première des huit maisons de la villa Seurat construites il y a un siècle pour des artistes, près du parc Montsouris, son esthétique n’a pas vieilli.
Years and years of this debunked Republican economic lie, and it still gets press. But much worse are the ignorant voters who believe it!
Such a mystery (NOT)! The victims have no voice.
EXACTLY - BRING IT ALL BACK OUT JACK SMITH - LOVE IT!!!
I really hope this becomes the black eye it deserves to be www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
The Trump administration is pressuring states to hand over sensitive information about voters. The Brennan Center is tracking the DOJ’s requests and how states respond. bit.ly/3JFbKaB
EXACTLY RIGHT! AND… anyone who thinks the so called respected press isn’t complicit in this shit show is just not paying attention. Let’s all understand: this NYT is NOT the paper that refused to bend a knee and then went on to publish the Pentagon Papers. It’s the Sulzberger Sneaker Show.
Americans are begging for Democratic leadership to get off the mat and back into the fight. If you’re a political leader in this country and are not prepared to fight with both hands, not prepared to make “good trouble”, then perhaps you should step aside and make space for those who will. #Velshi.
Some of the names have changed since I wrote this last November, but the central reality is, sadly, upon us. snyder.substack.com/p/decapitati...
Trump and the GOP are hellbent on killing our kids. Whether it’s no gun control or defunding pediatric brain cancer research/trials. Our kids deserve better than Trump and his feckless Republicans.
Update: @status.news has no paywall on weekends.
Corporate America’s playbook: 1) Exploit workers to maximize profits 2) Use profits to buy Congress 3) Use Congress to pass union-busting laws 4) Use these laws to further exploit workers 5) Repeat Let's break the cycle and keep building back a powerful labor movement.
The month of August 2025 may go down as the worst in the history of the US Health and Human Services Department. It’s against this chaos that Democrats are demanding that Robert F. Kennedy Jr. be removed from his post as the nation’s top public health official.
She was a traitor then, is a traitor now and she will always be in the future.
People resign because of isolation and pressure. So keep applying pressure and make him a liability to Trump.
Fire RFK Jr NOW
Image caring more about stopping a memorial for people killed in a mass shooting than stopping mass shootings. #Priorities
Please help me welcome to Bluesky @drdebhoury.bsky.social - brave, brilliant, and principled. abcnews.go.com/Politics/vid...
You heard the lady! zohranfornyc.com/events
"It took her nearly two decades to find a permanent academic position. She found occasional work as a visiting professor, filling in for someone on leave for a year or two. She earned grants to fund her research... but she was often living on unemployment benefits" www.nytimes.com/2025/08/29/s...
Look forward to Stephen Miller's criminal trial and then life in prison for crimes against humanity
I mean. They're based in DC. Where people are afraid to go out to eat with this terrorist in chief with his ICEstapo. And this is their take?
OMFG. Had to slam off #NPR as it launches into a segment on "the entertainer in chief." Real people are getting disappeared, real people are dying without USAID, we're all at risk with a nutcase dismantling public health, National Guardsmen are picking up trash. Etc. Etc. And this is your take?
Utterly depraved.
Wow, the conservative WSJ editorial board weighs in on Bolton search: “The real offender here is a President who seems to think he can use the powers of his office to run vendettas. We said this was one of the risks of a second Trump term, and it’s turning out to be worse than we imagined.”
trump has zero interest in small businesses because he can not extort enough from them to be worth his attention
To make the stakes clear, potential Dem Presidential candidates should say that if SCOTUS allows this they will fire any Trump Fed appointees in 2028. Because that is the logical endpoint.
Folks, listen to Barbara Jordans speech explaining her vote on the Nixon Impeachment (it’s on YouTube). It will send shivers up your spine and put a rod up your ass!
Between Kilmar Abrego Garcia and the DOJ official who tried to extort a plea out of him with threats of trafficking him to Uganda, there is someone who committed a crime. But that someone isn't Kilmar Abrego Garcia.
Walz says Harris "would have been a fantastic president... we wouldn't wake up every day to a bunch of shit on TV. We would wake up to an adult w/ compassion & dignity doing the work, not a manchild crying about whatever is wrong with him. May his fat ankles find something today. Petty as hell."
Walz: "It boggles my damn mind that in the midst of a military takeover of our cities, the flaunting of the rule of law, that the press finds the need to talk about, 'Oh, there's a division in the Dem Party.' There's a division in my damn house & we're still married and things are good. That's life"
Tim Walz: "Think of how easy it would be to be a damn Republican. 'Oh, what should I wear today? This stupid frickin' red hat. What should I say today? I don't know, just make sure it's cruel. Who do we listen to? That guy -- the felon in the White House.'"
Tim Walz: "I always get in trouble for it and I'll continue to say it, I don't think we do any favors when we don't name it -- these are fascist policies."
Reeling Walz in was spectacular political malpractice.
BREAKING: VETERAN'S BEGIN A SIT-IN IN WASHINGTON DC AND WON'T STOP UNTIL THE MILITARY LEAVES TOWN
A large poster of Donald Trump is now hanging from the Department of Labor building in D.C.
JFC, if this isn’t Stalin/Hitler/Caligula all rolled up into one!
One of my favorite photos from history. If you want to know why Black political districts are such a big deal, here's Lyndon Johnson, in one of his last political acts, embracing Barbara Jordan, campaigning for Congress. The VRA districts helped build political power. Via University of North Texas.
tim walz getting close to embracing mtsw Thought
The transformation of the Washington Post editorial page appears to be complete.
My dream job is being hired to work for Bret Stephens and he doesn't know how much I hate him
The corruption of the US Supreme Court has arguably been the most serious single contributor to the US's transformation into autocracy
A Teamsters local in Illinois whose workforce is 90% Latino is striking with the specific demand that the company turn away federal immigration authorities unless those authorities present a signed judicial warrant. Our friends at @workdaymagazine.bsky.social have the story:
Anybody see Sean O’Brien?
This.
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.
"When JD Vance says 'wars all end with negotiation,' what he’s really saying is that America should push Ukraine to cut a deal with Vladimir Putin. He’s soft-selling a Russian military dismantling and the concomitant genocide of Ukraine.
Perhaps Vance never heard of Nazi Germany’s and Japan’s UNCONDITIONAL surrender! What an asshat! Do better Yale.
But we're not talking about power to fight, but about a bully pulpit, which would be available to either Schumer or Jeffries, but they decline to use it. Jeffries rambled on yesterday about Trump avoiding Epstein, but said ZERO about southern occupation of northern cities and Trump's fascism/racism.
NEW: Donald Trump’s FBI raid on John Bolton’s home is part of a broader pattern of using DOJ to target critics rather than uphold the rule of law. In their latest MSNBC op-ed, DDA's Norm Eisen and Andrew Warren sound the alarm:
Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the Maryland resident whose wrongful deportation fueled protests, was again detained by U.S. immigration officials Monday and could be deported again, his lawyer said.
This man is being subjected to a real-life version of Kafka’s “The Trial” as punishment for being the embarrassing object of the regime’s own malicious and chaotic incompetence. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/08...
Truth Art! #arresttrump #art
It's mind boggling to me that President Biden was deemed too old & incompetent to be president, but Trump, who believes planes were used in the Revolutionary War & windmills cause cancer, is good to go. #ProudBlue #Pinks #TrumpIsUnfitForOffice
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Here folks can read about Kushner’s crimes. Just f-ing revolting that this low life should have been confirmed as Ambassador to France! www.huffpost.com/entry/charle...