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Great news for everyone who wants to force the Justice Department to release the Epstein files!
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News source is better, but you need to include the entire article, not just screenshots of some opinions stated by Trump and Johnson from the article. Trump is calling it a hoax. Massie wants all the files released, not just the 1% they keep re-releasing. abcnews.go.com/amp/Politics...
I follow lots of news sources including some that let you know how biased the different news sources are. Truth social is very biased. So if the administration wants to release the Epstein files, why are they considering it a hostile act for any republican who sides with the release of the files?
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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"
I recommend you listen to the press conference today where about 100 of the victims are planning to speak. They want to be heard. Democrats and Republicans alike want the files released, regardless of who is guilty. The administration is trying to stop it to protect the guilty. Think about it.
So Toastmasters uses an um and ah counter at the meetings to raise each attendees awareness of their use of filler words. It’s a great way to improve your public speaking, but it will also drive you crazy listening to other public speakers who use filler words that you used to not notice. 😆
I wish every Dem near a microphone would say: 1. This is fascism 2. He is unfit 3. Anyone supporting him is supporting the destruction of the United States of America
The President saying “we’re going in” — about deploying the military to an American city just to terrorize its people — should be immediately impeachable. Full stop.
Pritzker says the press should be asking this question, too, and he's right.
BREAKING: Russia Tried To Assassinate The President of The EU And a German General This Weekend open.substack.com/pub/deanblun...
Genius! Taking the power back!
A victim of convicted sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein has revealed how a group of survivors is compiling a client list of their own.
The definition of insanity is releasing the same subset of the Epstein files again and again and thinking folks won’t notice.
🎯👇 Divide and conquer is their game and solidarity is the answer.
Will any in the lame-stream-media cover this? Or will just independent news channels?
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Ooh….methinks Susan Collins be in big trouble.
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Netflix is putting its money where its mouth is: 💰 $2M to back Newsom in the redistricting fight 📺 A deal for Sesame Street — new episodes and the full archive free to watch. That’s how you pick a side.
Get to DC if you are able to Sept. 6! Info: WeAreDC.net ❤️🩹 Please share on socials and push this out through other channels to any peeps who might like to march. @thekattalk.bsky.social
Loved him in Longmire! RIP. ❤️
BREAKING: Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson defies President Trump by leading a "no troops in Chicago!"
Because they aren’t doing enough. Yes, the Reps are much worse, but we really need help fighting them, and some of the Dems do something that appears to fight back, and then they just fade away again. We need fighters like Newsom, Pritzker, Wu, and Wes Moore in the House and Senate.
We really need new leadership badly. Dems and Reps alike are so corrupt now. Politics is a public servant position - to improve the lives of your constituents. Instead, you all use it to grow rich. You were elected by the people to serve the people. Stop pretending you are doing any good.
Friends, I urge you to join a Workers Over Billionaires protest this Labor Day. Let’s honor the roots of this holiday by standing together to protest the exploitation and oppression of our tinpot dictator. bit.ly/4lMgKaR
And the American people are paying it - to his administration!
She lies so effortlessly. It’s as easy as breathing for her.
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How can we best support them?
Blue state Governors need to order the arrest homan, noem, miller, bovino, all of them if they step foot on blue state ground. Take the game from them, do not play.
I have a special fondness for Piet Mondrian art. Thanks for sharing!
Wow! Your pictures are stunning!
Great movie. Watched it with my parents. Good memories. Now do “The Gods Must Be Crazy” - I have a story about that one.
😂 That number seems incredibly low…
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The only redeeming thing about him reemerging is that we weren’t subjected to his tweets, voice, image, or mannerisms for the prior day.
Love her!!!! ❤️
I wish the Libby app had a category for banned books.
California peeps we must get out in force!
@govpritzker.illinois.gov
Boycott them from yhis point on. Keep our money 💰 out of their stores and restaurants! Do them like Target and Walmart! www.cnn.com/2025/08/28/b...
But we will never forget the part she played in what is happening to our country. Pathetic treasonous trash. Good riddance!
Peter - thank you for all you do. You are a true American hero!
CHICAGO…
It is a record of shame. It should be documented and never forgotten, lest we repeat history.
Cry me a river. I pray he loses the appeal.
There's another nationwide peaceful protest on Labor Day. You can find one near you here: Mobilize.us #resist
Every day, but I really wish we'd see more capable leaders step up. The political landscape of today is constantly failing to understand the depths of information warfare going on. We need a vanguard of leaders willing to put up a fight and build solidarity against the interests of the wealthy few
RefuseFascism.org Please make a plan to join us in FLOODING THE STREETS of DC beginning November 5. Sustained, peaceful protests until the fascist is driven from office
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If you’re looking for something to do, print these ⬇️
Agreed. There is nothing manly about their behavior.
“Do you guys feel bad about what you’re doing? Don’t you f*cking hate yourselves?”
Pay attention, Canada. If Alberta is successful in this book banning, this will spread. Look around you, b/c this is how it starts. We're on the same ledge the US was on. And we either start fighting this right-wing rise now, or we follow the Americans over the edge. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
THIS…is the mindset. THIS…is the attitude. THIS…is the fire in the gut….that we are going to ALL have to adopt. I have. Have you? We can’t have people sit this one out…and still prevail.
Constituent: You need to take your head out of Trump’s ass.
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.
Where’s Schumer & Jeffries? No time for vacation, they should be publicly talking about Trumps lawlessness! Everyday!
Outside the CDC, people are chanting “USA, not RFK.” They are fed up with having one unqualified person dictate the nation’s health. #USANotRFK
. Jan. 6 rioter Ashli Babbitt offered full military funeral . . . ... SHAME ! America, never forget Brian Sicknick and #January6th ! 💔
Think of everything we do at the airport - 24 years after 9/11 & Shoe Bomber - to prevent further death The US has NEVER had a deadlier disaster than COVID 1.2 million dead Americans And they intend to take our freedom to be vaccinated CALL YOUR 2 SEN & 1 REP TODAY 202-224-3121 #RestoreVaccines
Say what you want, Gavin Newsom is bringing it 👇👇👇👇👇
“When I call Kennedy a ‘dangerous crank,’ I'm not saying that as an insult or as hyperbole, but honestly as the most economical way of describing the man's views,” says @chrislhayes.bsky.social on RFK Jr.
If Ashli Babbitt's parents really wanted to avenge her death they would, instead of pitifully whitewashing her legacy, be suing Fox News for filling their child's gullible head with dangerous nonsense that directly led to her death.
Just because he won't listen doesn't mean we shouldn't say it. Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. should be fired immediately.
Newsom: This cannot be normalized. And yes so I'm highlighting some just just blatant hypocrisy. Yes, we are putting a mirror up to the lunacy that is trump's tweets and his grift.
Just in case you forgot…
Thoughts and prayers and lowered flags don’t cut it. It’s time for Congress to do more to stop senseless mass shootings.
If someone tells you there's nothing we can do about gun violence beyond thoughts and prayers, remind them: —Gun laws in other countries have prevented mass shootings —More guns don't make us safer —A majority of Americans want gun reform We don't have to live like this.
Gavin Newsom is calling out Trump's hypocrisy in deploying troops to reduce crime. If he really wanted to make an impact, why not send it to states like Mississippi, the murder state in America?
Newsom: Perhaps the president could deploy the National Guard in every corner of Mississippi. Murder rate is out of control there. And the governor may want to make that phone call.
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Even members of his own party has had enough of this Orange 🍊 idiot from Russia!
62 years ago today, Martin Luther King Jr.’s March on Washington marked a watershed moment in the civil rights movement and the fight to secure full equality under the law for all Americans. It's on all of us to uphold that promise and continue Dr. King’s work.
This interview, which is also available to listen to as a podcast, provides a useful overview of some of the dangerous trends we’ve been seeing in recent months regarding federalization and militarization of state and local police functions.
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I think a lot of people see it but aren’t in an effective position to help. We do what we can. Most of the ones who are in a position to fix it are failing us. We appreciate the few who are really trying to push back. We need more folks who are in a position to help to see it and push back too.
On #WomensEqualityDay, we honor the women who fought for the 19th amendment and every step towards equality since. While the GOP wage war on women’s rights, Illinois Dems will always fight to protect them. ✅ Protected abortion access ✅ Advanced equal pay ✅ Strengthened reproductive care
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Whoohoo!!!!
2/2 Conservatives shouldn’t be using cell phones, modern cars, rockets, cable tv, Roku, tablets, headphones, cds, Spotify, social media, etc. They can go back to the dark ages if they want, but we shouldn’t be impacted by them.
1/2 Yes, because conservatism fights progress, and we need to be capitalizing on new knowledge, not burying it. Since conservatives want to take us back at least a few decades, they should put their money where their pie hole is and give up using any technology developed in the last 70 years.
Term limits! Age limits! Politics is intended to be a public service position, not a way to get rich. Get elected, do your part, get modest compensation for it, and the satisfaction of knowing you are shaping a better world for others, and leave or mentor.
Past the age of 65, they can be consultants - sharing their wisdom but not making the decisions. The decisions need to be made by those facing a longer term consequence of those decisions.
Push back by Blue State Governor's is exactly what we need.
@nytimes.com @latimes.com @washingtonpost.com @miamiherald.com @bostonglobe.com @denverpost.com @chicagotribune.com @baltimoresun.bsky.social @wsj.com @usatoday.com @huffpost.com @pghguild.com @newsobserver.com STOP BEING PART OF THE FASCISM
I know you, Chicago — and I know you’re up to the difficult time we have ahead, thanks to this President.