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The Trump administration used Benny Johnson's claims that his house was "burned to the ground" and that "people were murdered in my front yard" to justify its federal takeover of DC. @kenbensinger.bsky.social found out that Johnson made it all up. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/30/b...
Concern over low birth rates was what the theocracy in Margaret Atwood’s Handmaid’s Tale used to come to power.
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“Babbitt, who left the Air National Guard as a senior airman, would likely not be eligible for so-called ‘full military honors,’…” taskandpurpose.com/news/ashli-b...
“Babbitt, who left the Air National Guard as a senior airman, would likely not be eligible for so-called ‘full military honors,…” taskandpurpose.com/news/ashli-b...
“Babbitt, who left the Air National Guard as a senior airman, would likely not be eligible for so-called ‘full military honors’… ” taskandpurpose.com/news/ashli-b...
When one side lifts Kyle Rittenhouse and Ashli Babbit to hero status, that's all you need to know about the moral decay taking place in this country.
I’ve seen a lot of fucked up shit in my day, but this might just take the cake.
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“Trump announced that he’ll unilaterally take back money already appropriated for foreign aid. This new so-called pocket rescission totals $4.9 billion.” So. This is the big one. If Vought floats this for foreign aid and it flies, science agencies are next.
We built a calculator that doesn't work, but don't worry, it's also a plagiarism machine that will tell you to kill yourself. It runs on the world's oceans and costs 10 trillion dollars.
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there is no question in my mind that rfk jr is the most dangerous person in this administration and that his eugenicist ideology threatens the lives of millions of people www.advocate.com/politics/dem...
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JUST IN: Judge Cobb has blocked the Trump administration’s effort to extend rapid-fire deportation procedures to immigrants who have been in the U.S. more than two years — warning that it is a flagrant deprivation of due process that could ensnare anyone. ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/show...
I had serious doubts about CDC Director Monarez’s willingness to stand up against RFK Jr.’s personal mission to destroy public health in America—I’m glad that I was wrong. If there are any adults left in the White House: we cannot let RFK Jr. burn what's left of CDC. FIRE HIM.
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.
Deaths and injuries as Russia launches ‘massive’ attack on Kyiv
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The Cabinet of Courtiers.
We are in very dark times. It’ll take an entire political/social movement, an overwhelming rebuke at the polls, and a new vision of governance to unstick this country from whatever this collapse is.
According to federal data, 13 of the top 20 cities in homicide rates have Republican governors. None of those cities are Chicago. 8 of the top 10 states in homicide rates are led by Republicans. None of those states are Illinois. And yet Trump is sending troops here.
Revisiting America’s Dark History of Internment open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...
Monarez is playing her weak hand perfectly, and should be a model for institutional resistance for the next four years: 1. Make them fire you 2. Don’t go along to get along 3. Don’t apologize, have confidence in your own integrity and the importance of your role 4. Always escalate the conflict
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Absolutely bonkers personalist regime stuff www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
@govpritzker.illinois.gov made the same point as @governorwalz.mn.gov Enough of the damn "Dems in disarray" written-on-autopilot coverage. Or "how does this change odds for 2028?" The country is under attack. That's the story.
Enough is enough. The health of the country is in danger. Read our resignation letters: insidemedicine.substack.com/p/breaking-n...
Hang onto this image of CDC's full list of underlying conditions tied to severe risk of COVID. If you're an adult aged 18-64, RFK Jr. is now making you show some proof of one of these underlying conditions in order to get a COVID vaccine.
Gupta: Here’s why this matters: 1. Because the FDA indications have changed, if I prescribe it to you, I’m opening myself up to a lawsuit. He directly signals that… 2. A pharmacist is no longer able to prescribe and administer a COVID-19 booster that doesn’t meet indications.
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⚡️Update: Russian ballistic missile attack kills 4, injures over 20, including children. The attack has killed four people in Kyiv, including a 14-year-old. Over 20 have been injured, with several children hospitalized.
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🚨Border Patrol arrested two firefighters who were actively fighting a wildfire at the time. When the other members of the crew asked for a chance to say goodbye, a Border Patrol agent told the crew member “you need to get the f*ck out of here. I’m going to make you leave.”
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Bill Kristol: "Gen. Ben Hodges noted, 'in the Army we called this Butt-snorkeling.'”
Check this shit out motherfucker *embargoes own country*
Making them wear high-visibility vests over camo is such a good joke you couldn’t write it
🚨 Japan Post just announced they will no longer deliver mail to the United States — joining Germany, Austria, Denmark, Italy, France, and Sweden. The world is literally cutting off America’s mailbox. 📬✂️
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Krasner: So, if what you have is a group of ICE agents, or even the military, coming into Philadelphia and committing crimes—assaults that are illegal, kidnapping, unlawful restraint, obstruction of the administration of justice—they can be prosecuted.
You made this monster, John Roberts
National Guard is now tasked with picking up garbage in DC
New: Military police on the streets of DC, and now, military prosecutors in the courtroom. Do not become numb to this. www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...
I was a spy catcher. Our numbers are dwindling under this administration: www.notus.org/trump-white-...
Trump's troops detain Black lawyer in D.C.—swarmed by 20 officers just for walking down block. Paul Bryant plans to press charges on those who assaulted him "in a way that I will not forget anytime soon." He is a West Point graduate—serving as Infantry Officer in Army before starting legal career.
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At just over 2 troops per 1000 inhabitants, the deployment to DC is larger per capita than the US deployment in Afghanistan except during the Obama surge 2009-13.
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If pundits would like to talk about violence, a terrorist recently shot up the CDC and another assassinated Democratic officials in Minnesota but they sort of let both stories disappear Not as threatening as motorbikes in DC I know but maybe we could circle back?
Thank you for amplifying; have donated. So many lives are being run through the meat grinder by this horrific administration.
The @washingtonpost tracked where Trump's forces are patrolling in Washington. Spoiler alert: They're not where the crime is.
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“People are going to die.” Trump’s former Surgeon General Dr. Jerome Adams rips RFK Jr. for canceling nearly $500 million in grants and contracts for mRNA vaccine development
Bannon: Have we put our own person, a MAGA Republican, into the BLS? Trump’s pick to head the BLS, E.J. Antoni: No, unfortunately, and I think that’s part of the reason why we continue to have all of these different data problems Yeah, no one is going to trust his numbers
Trump and his family have profited $3.4 billion since he first took office in 2017. -The New Yorker But hey, he “donates” his salary.
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And ask Acosta why he just got a streaming deal with Trump media and a job on the board at Newsmax just three months ago.
The Texas Observer has identified James “Jim” Joseph Rodden, assistant chief counsel for ICE as “GlomarResponder” who posts white supremacist and racist statements on X. Rodden represents the agency in immigration court hearings where judges decide whether an individual is removed from the country.
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1/ "Another officer says, “They’re starting to resist more now,” to which an officer replies: “We’re going to end up shooting some of them.”" www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Jeff, there’s a ton of WTAF right now. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/25/n...
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Head of FEMA Urban Search and Rescue branch resigns. He told colleagues that TX delay was tipping point after months of admin efforts to dismantle the agency. DHS Sec Noem took 72 hours after TX flooding to authorize the deployment of FEMA’s search and rescue network www.cnn.com/2025/07/21/p...
NASA & her beloved caretakers have issued the NASA VOYAGER DECLARATION, a letter of formal dissent as defined in NASA Procedural Requirement 7120.5F. They join NIH & EPA in voicing their clear objection to the illegal & immoral objectives of the Trump administration.
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Concentration camp www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...
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Trump's Commerce Secretary loves tariffs. His former investment firm, Cantor Fitzgerald, is letting clients essentially bet that the tariffs will be struck down in court, per a letter obtained by WIRED. Scoop w/ @lmatsakis.bsky.social: www.wired.com/story/cantor...
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Final CBO score of the "big beautiful bill" is out Largest Medicaid cuts ever - in fact, at least 4 times the size of the previous largest; $894-$990 bn cut Kicks 10 million off health insurance Largest SNAP cuts ever, $197 bn cut Still increases the deficit by $3.4 trillion from huge tax cuts
Sorry, no: Lawyers who defend stripping birthright citizenship from 150,000 infants a year deserve to have that held against them. Forever. We should shame every lawyer who defends this egregiously unconstitutional cruelty. They are a stain on the legal profession.
Lifetime appointment, at age 38. On the US Court of Appeals. 😭
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Next up: sue this administration! A disabled vet says he was wrongfully detained in last week’s Camarillo raid, despite being a U.S. citizen. • Reporting for his security job at Glass House Farms • Told them he was a citizen • No charges. No phone call. No lawyer. • No care after chemical exposure
Do you know who would know what is in the Epstein files? The lawyer who prosecuted the case. Oh, wait.👀
Oh, okay. Pam Bondi just fired the Epstein and Maxwell prosecutor, Maureen Comey. That'll kill the conspiracy theories.
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They were removing trolls on the YouTube channel; that’s why they had to turn on the “for subscribers only” for chat on YouTube.
Couldn’t see link on YouTube to rsvp for a copy of the materials.
🚨🚨🚨Not only was Kerr Co denied funding for a siren system by TX Republicans 8 times since 2016 guess how much they needed to do it? 75K That’s what the town 15 miles downriver built. 75K
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Our last secretary of defense didn’t inform the White House that he was going to the doctor and republicans had hearings about it. www.cnn.com/2025/07/08/p...