James Hughes (@dystopian-fashion.bsky.social) reposted
Kathie (@candidkathie.bsky.social) reposted
Missing in Tennessee... Please spread the word as you would want others to if she were your friend or family member.
Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) reposted
WELKER: Do you have 100% confidence in Secretary Kennedy? LANKFORD: I believe he's who the president picked. He's challenging some of the assumption - what is it about autism? He seems to be following the science WELKER: The science has debunked links between autism & vaccines for more than 20 yrs
vehementsack.bsky.social (@vehementsack.bsky.social) reply parent
He died to distract from the Epstein files. #StableGenius
vehementsack.bsky.social (@vehementsack.bsky.social) reply parent
ishedeadyet.us
vehementsack.bsky.social (@vehementsack.bsky.social)
Love @governor.ca.gov going totally @theonion.com on Trump! 🤣🧅
Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) reposted
FOX: *plays clip of Gavin Newsom pointing out that crime is higher in Louisiana than in California* FOX: Your response? MIKE JOHNSON: He needs to go an govern his state and not be engaging in this
Hoodlum 🇺🇸 (@nothoodlum.bsky.social) reposted
The chairman of the Surry County Board of Elections claimed that someone at Dairy Queen had put drugs in his granddaughters’ ice cream. A video from the investigation revealed that he was the one who put the narcotics in it. After his arrest, he resigned. www.wral.com/news/local/s...
The Tennessee Holler (@thetnholler.bsky.social) reposted
Q: “Are you worried all this pushback could provoke Trump to follow-through with sending the National Guard?” MAYOR @brandon4chicago.bsky.social Johnson: “As a descendant of slaves, can you imagine if my ancestors had that same rationale?“
Olga Nesterova (@onestpress.onestnetwork.com) reposted
🫂
Senator Patty Murray (@murray.senate.gov) reposted
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.
Steven Beschloss (@stevenbeschloss.bsky.social) reposted
This is good, very, very good.
vehementsack.bsky.social (@vehementsack.bsky.social) reply parent
He made it that far?
Christopher Webb (@cwebbonline.com) reposted
Think New Mexico isn’t fighting for patients, they’re fighting for private equity. There’s a doctor shortage because Wall Street buys up community hospitals, guts staff, and turns ERs into cash cows. Patients wait 16 hours for care while profits soar. Private equity is strip-mining hospitals.
Anthony Michael Kreis (@anthonymkreis.bsky.social) reposted
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.
🫶🏻LaylaBella🫶🏻 (@laylabelle3.bsky.social) reposted
record-guy59.bsky.social (@record-guy59.bsky.social) reposted
We stand with Gavin Newsom, JB Pritzker and every other American willing to stand up to fascism and take back our country.
The Briefing with Jen Psaki (@briefingwithpsaki.bsky.social) reposted
"Anger can turn into activism... Activism can turn into pressure on elected officials and that pressure can turn into laws. It's not hopeless at all." Watch Jen Psaki's powerful remarks on turning anger over today's tragedy in Minneapolis into action against American gun problem.:
vehementsack.bsky.social (@vehementsack.bsky.social) reply parent
youtu.be/e7aZFDFWFcQ?...
vehementsack.bsky.social (@vehementsack.bsky.social) reply parent
Obey NIGHT MAN. RELAX. Can’t leave.
Robert Reich (@rbreich.bsky.social) reposted
Never before in our history has one man exercised such unbridled discretion affecting the lives of so many of us, while simultaneously preventing others — Congress, the courts, the American people — from having a say or even knowing what he’s going to do next. This is what dictatorship looks like.
Angry (@angrystaffer.bsky.social) reposted
Curious what the reasoning for this could possibly be. My first thought it that it was a Putin request
vehementsack.bsky.social (@vehementsack.bsky.social) reply parent
youtu.be/e7aZFDFWFcQ?...
vehementsack.bsky.social (@vehementsack.bsky.social) reply parent
And Dr. Strangelove which is a spoof of Failsafe.
vehementsack.bsky.social (@vehementsack.bsky.social) reply parent
Maybe watch Oppenheimer as well.
vehementsack.bsky.social (@vehementsack.bsky.social) reply parent
It seemed like a good idea at the time? 🤷♂️ Read the book. It’s quite good, in many respects. Funny and scary.
vehementsack.bsky.social (@vehementsack.bsky.social) reply parent
You can still get a flu shot, though, right? I got both at my local CVS. I just turned 65, so maybe that had something to do with it.
Mueller, She Wrote (@muellershewrote.com) reposted
NEW: Yesterday, I posted that I was unable to get the COVID vaccine at my VA clinic, and many of you assured me that the new one would be available soon and that I was overreacting. I was not overreacting. I am no longer eligible for the vaccine. apnews.com/article/vacc...
vehementsack.bsky.social (@vehementsack.bsky.social) reply parent
One should also read “Poisoner in Chief” which, among other things, describes how we welcomed the Nazi scientists in to help us with rocketry and drugs because we were afraid of Russia. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poisone...
vehementsack.bsky.social (@vehementsack.bsky.social) reply parent
Adam Sandler was the original pick, but couldn’t due to contractual obligations. Would have been sweet.
vehementsack.bsky.social (@vehementsack.bsky.social) reply parent
They is us.
eliko thalia (@museinrevolt.bsky.social) reposted
I'm gonna watch Inglourious Basterds tonight
Politico (@politico.com) reposted
Kilmar Abrego Garcia has filed a new bid to stay in the U.S. The Salvadoran man who was illegally deported in March has reasserted his claim for asylum.
poolside424.bsky.social (@poolside424.bsky.social) reposted reply parent
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vehementsack.bsky.social (@vehementsack.bsky.social) reply parent
And greedy.
vehementsack.bsky.social (@vehementsack.bsky.social) reply parent
youtu.be/mHliXVifhEM?...
Stephen James (@stephen5150.bsky.social) reposted
WEDNESDAY SHOUT 2 @dmcbackup.bsky.social @gdad1x7.bsky.social @chillprov1.bsky.social @demladyalways.bsky.social @blondeandcraxy1.bsky.social @krushent.bsky.social @claynobles.bsky.social @kygrannyof12.bsky.social @lauriesue.bsky.social @sassysister27.bsky.social @fivetimessix.bsky.social
vehementsack.bsky.social (@vehementsack.bsky.social) reply parent
youtu.be/mHliXVifhEM?...
vehementsack.bsky.social (@vehementsack.bsky.social) reply parent
Has he looked in his mirror recently?
vehementsack.bsky.social (@vehementsack.bsky.social) reply parent
Gonna put that on your sub stack?
Mueller, She Wrote (@muellershewrote.com) reposted
NEW: A federal grand jury has REFUSED to indict sandwich guy! I imagine the DoJ will keep trying. They have two weeks, at which point they’ll have to drop the charges or reduce it to a misdemeanor. 🥪 www.nbcnews.com/politics/pol...
vehementsack.bsky.social (@vehementsack.bsky.social) reply parent
Sez Big Oil Man.
vehementsack.bsky.social (@vehementsack.bsky.social) reply parent
Sloan Ashton (@ashton7sloan.bsky.social) reposted
Two children were killed and seventeen people were injured in a shooting at Annunciation Catholic School. A Cracker Barrel logo change received far more scrutiny and attention than any fight against the epidemic of gun violence in this country. Our priorities remain idiotic.
Krassensteins (@krassenstein.bsky.social) reposted
BREAKING: Abrego Garcia just renewed his bid for asylum. Keep fighting!
vehementsack.bsky.social (@vehementsack.bsky.social) reply parent
They don’t care. They’ll take your money.
Acyn (@acyn.bsky.social) reposted
Frey: And don't just say, this is about thoughts and prayers right now. These kids were literally praying. It was the first week of school. They were in a church.
Hart Cunningham (@hpsc24.bsky.social) reposted
8/25/25💡Nobody’s Girl: A Memoir of Surviving Abuse and Fighting for Justice, a 400-page account by Virginia Giuffre localstories247.com/epstein-vict...
Blue Wave (@votebiue.bsky.social) reposted
For all the dog lovers. This is a classic. Worth seeing again.
Mrs. Betty Bowers (@mrsbettybowers.bsky.social) reposted
My current favorite bit of right-wing Christian hypocrisy is Ken Paxton, a man whose wife is divorcing him for adultery, forcing Texas schools to unconstitutionally post "Thou Shalt Not Commit Adultery." www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston...
vehementsack.bsky.social (@vehementsack.bsky.social) reply parent
Hmmm… THEhillOpiNION.
Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) reposted
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."
vehementsack.bsky.social (@vehementsack.bsky.social) reply parent
He will burn the Earth to save his own ass.
vehementsack.bsky.social (@vehementsack.bsky.social)
FREE THE EPSTEIN FILES!
Marc Elias (@marcelias.bsky.social) reposted
Tyrants govern through fear. Dictators take their power from the acquiescence of the good people who don't speak out. It is our obligation as citizens to set aside fear and take a step forward not a step back.
George Takei (@georgetakei.bsky.social) reposted
I’ve heard military law experts advise, if you are given an illegal command as a soldier, do not blindly obey. Call your attorney. Obeying an illegal command can result in a court martial.
The Tennessee Holler (@thetnholler.bsky.social) reposted
With a straight face.
Linda Lombard (@heavensgone.bsky.social) reposted
Book by #VirginiaGiuffre, who accused the #DukeOfYork and the late disgraced financier #JeffreyEpstein of sexual assault, will be published Ms Giuffre had finished working on the book, titled #Nobody'sGirl, before she took her own life in Australia in April, age of 41 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Just Jack (@just-jack-1.bsky.social) reposted
Words cannot adequately describe what a colossal disappointment our mainstream media has been during our slow descent into authoritarianism.
jael holzman (@jael.bsky.social) reposted
new lines being drawn in the democratic presidential primary by men not named gavin newsom
Mrs. Betty Bowers (@mrsbettybowers.bsky.social) reposted
Kilmar Abrego Garcia is what happens when you have an incompetent administration, constantly making mistakes, that is too insecure/dishonest to admit to any error.
Mueller, She Wrote (@muellershewrote.com) reposted
NOW: There is a hearing happening now for Mr. Abrego's Writ of Habeas Corpus. Here's what his lawyers are asking for: www.muellershewrote.com/p/new-mr-abr...
Mrs. Betty Bowers (@mrsbettybowers.bsky.social) reposted
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.
vehementsack.bsky.social (@vehementsack.bsky.social) reply parent
Hence: “Methinks thou doth protest too much!”
vehementsack.bsky.social (@vehementsack.bsky.social) reply parent
“Paint it where the sun don’t shine!”
vehementsack.bsky.social (@vehementsack.bsky.social) reply parent
Let’s see. The fence is running East/West in the Northern Hemisphere. The sun will shine almost exclusively on the Mexican side. Derp.
Dovewoman 💙 🇺🇦 💙 (@dovewoman.bsky.social) reposted
Judge to require that Kilmar Abrego Garcia remain in the US while he challenges deportation to Uganda. www.cnn.com/2025/08/25/p...
KOJAMF🤘🖤🤘 (@kojamf.bsky.social) reposted
🤘🙂☕ stevenwilhelm555 Steven
Paul Leigh -Some Rascal on the Internet (@pleightx.bsky.social) reposted
I'm confused. Which is it, White House?
Christopher Webb (@cwebbonline.com) reposted
$ Billions spent on the wall. They paint it black so it’s too hot to touch, but on the American side, and now this. That wall is more propaganda than a barrier. If you saw this anywhere else, you’d call it a gate or a fence.
AW Sylwester (@aw-sylwester.bsky.social) reposted reply parent
vehementsack.bsky.social (@vehementsack.bsky.social) reply parent
#OvenMitts
Roger ZenAF (@rogerzenaf.bsky.social) reposted
In solidarity with Kevin Sorbo and Scott Baio stating they are refusing any acting jobs in California, I hereby refuse to play defense for the Colorado Avalanche in the upcoming season! I will also not be pitching for the Rockies this year... HOLD THE LINE, BOYS!👍
The Tennessee Holler (@thetnholler.bsky.social) reposted
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.
Adam Kinzinger (@adamkinzinger.substack.com) reposted
The Second Amendment wasn’t written for executive orders and barbed wire around the Capitol—it was written to ensure a well-regulated militia that answers to the people and their states. Today, that balance is being pulled apart. My latest: adamkinzinger.substack.com/p/who-really...
Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) reposted
Schiff on the release of the Ghislaine Maxwell transcript: "I don't think it will satisfy anyone. They go and they do this interview without the presence of a prosecutor who actually knows the facts, because they fired her. James Comey's daughter ... it all stinks to high heaven."
Jonathan Calder (@lordbonkers.bsky.social) reposted
With the US becoming an uncomfortable home for academic researchers, we should be welcoming them not pricing them out our coming here.
vehementsack.bsky.social (@vehementsack.bsky.social) reply parent
Two words: Oven mitts.
Alex Marten 🇧🇷🇺🇸🇺🇦🇸🇾 (@amarten.bsky.social) reposted reply parent
We are really, really, screwed: www.nytimes.com/2025/08/21/o...
Thom Hartmann (@hartmannreport.com) reposted
The last time troops policed America was in the 1770s. We fought a revolution against that king, and wrote into the Constitution the Second, Third, Fourth, and Fifth Amendments to prevent it from ever happening again. Pass it along…
Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) reposted
Schiff on the Bolton raid: "They're essentially going after any critic, any opposition in an effort to intimidate them. That's what this is about. It's not about Bolton per se. It's about anyone else that like Bolton might stand up to the president."
Christopher Webb (@cwebbonline.com) reposted
F*ck‼️ Fort Bliss Army base used for a WWII Japanese internment is now the nation's largest ICE detention center.
God (@thegodpodcast.com) reposted
The craziest thing about Trump sending armed troops to occupy 19 states is that he’s doing it to distract from being in the Epstein Files and everyone knows it.
Mueller, She Wrote (@muellershewrote.com) reposted
I have no children and therefore no grandchildren, but I need to be able to look at myself in the mirror and sleep at night.
Mista Kotta 💙 🇺🇦 🇨🇦 🇺🇲 (@mistakotta.bsky.social) reposted
I must have missed all the Law and Order SVU episodes where they didn't interview the victims and just asked the criminals what happened.