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My understanding of Trump’s fetish for wrestling and MMA are rooted in Django Unchained’s scene forcing two black men into a fight to the death. He likes to watch but has zero desire to participate in any real combat. It’s porn to him.
A Maine ballot measure in November would place a barrage of news restrictions on mail voting. In 2024, 61 percent of Mainers over 65 who voted did so by mail.
One of my pet peeves. NYT and others keep calling him a vaccine skeptic not a vaccine opponent.
This.
CNN platforming Seb Gorka Martha Raddatz at ABC Interviewing Gov Wes Moore & being unhinged. Wes Moore needs to ask why she’s defending a rapist. Ask if her questions were written by Stephen Miller. Wes needs to pushback on a bought off press. I don’t get the constant defense mode. Offense only.
This “explicit” is a weird editorial choice. The constitution gives the president no power over this at all. It’s not ambiguous.
And I am the world's foremost astrophysicist ballerina who invented the piano, aspirin, and appetizers.
#Cats
According to my calculations we have 34 more months. Thank You For Your Attention In This Matter.
Because Trump protects fellow pedophiles
An Israeli Official Was Arrested in Vegas For Trying to Have Sex With a Child: Why Was He Allowed to Flee to Israel? How come Trump, Republicans, Democrats & corporate media aren't covering the scandal of the summer? open.substack.com/pub/thelefth...
Heroes without capes 💪 “There's only one way to get into the cage, so my whole thing was I can control that I was in front of the entrance and that's when I just said, you know, I may die here, but they will not take one of these kids” www.wcpo.com/politics/imm...
I'm still waiting for the relentless onslaught of media demands for a press conference and calls to resign.
“Let’s begin by saying that we are living through a very dangerous time.” So opens “A Talk to Teachers,” which James Baldwin delivered to a group of educators in October, 1963.
Pritzker: "No one in the administration -- the president or anybody under him -- has called anyone in my administration or me. It's clear that in secret they're are planning this invasion with US troops."
Reminder: Most mass shootings are carried out by cisgender men.
New Mexico has issued a public health order that removes federal restrictions to COVID-19 vaccine access so that pharmacies in New Mexico can vaccinate people of all ages and risk profiles. Every state need to do this!
This is worth sharing far and wide. Federal Employees and contractors oral history project. Im not involved in this. Just got the link, idea seems to be to create a record of the assault on the American Repuvlic after Jan 2025. www.fecohp.org
An examination of more than 1,200 federal judges and state supreme court justices turned up dozens of judges who chose not to recuse when facing potential appearances of impropriety involving familial financial connections. (Published July 2024)
U.S. Park Police officers are pursuing vehicles when D.C. police would not. They have initiated at least 10 car chases in the past three weeks as part of President Trump’s surge in federal law enforcement in D.C., court records show.
Just how much has DOGE exaggerated its numbers? Now we have receipts DOGE was supposed to save $1-2 TRILLION. Likely saved only about $1.4 billion instead. (A billion is 1/1000th of a trillion btw) www.politico.com/news/2025/08...
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NEW: The trump administration attempted to remove 600 terrified unaccompanied minors to Guatemala in the middle of the night on a holiday weekend. Judge Sooknanan stopped it. My latest: www.muellershewrote.com/p/the-sookna...
That's still 100% good in my book 💕
A good rescue friend needs assistance securing a vehicle for personal and rescue use! Please share and donate if you can, you will be helping a lot of cats if you do!!
Meadow closures start Sept. 1 in Rocky Mountain National Park trib.al/bsiPiPx
We are so fucked.
HOLY S*** Folks, if you're in the US & you're not calling your members of Congress to insist they protect us from this whack-a-doodle, then I am officially Very Pissed Off at you. It's all-hands-on-deck time; this means *everyone.*
Trump cut tens of billions of aid to dying communities, cancelled billions of funding for scientific research, rescinded tens of millions of grant dollars for scholarship, and fired tens of thousands of dedicated employees, but are willing to simply burn cash in a fascist show of strength.
California sets aside penalties for high refinery profits reut.rs/4oQbW74
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...
BREAKING: Epstein estate agrees to hand over documents to Congress, including the "birthday book," according to ranking member @robertgarcia.bsky.social.
8. To conclude, Trump is not doing anything for the American people, while he is causing great damage to the US at home and abroad. That should be the essence of objective news reporting. Objective media must point out that Trump is hurting the US & its citizens. /9
7. Trump pursues a policy of blatant male white supremacism, opposing meritocracy. He also favors the very rich & his friends. This is a disastrous anti-meritocratic way of running anything, which will swiftly reduce the competence of all state administrations. /8
It is so tiresome to hear all these commentators saying that Trump's actions are "unprecedented" or that we are in "unchartered" waters. They say so to avoid criticize the president, who deserves all the criticism he can get. /1
Science: Trump supporters are assholes.
Mike Fanone: "There's no justification for using federal law enforcement and National Guardsmen as political pawns...It's imperative that officers conduct themselves professionally—and that starts with showing their faces." @ofthebraveusa.bsky.social abcnews.go.com/Politics/liv...
They have no respect for any human being, adult or child, who has been deemed dispensable by Trump. It's all about race. Trump's gestapo agents have to share his same beliefs to do this work. Shame on the Hispanics among them. They'll find out soon enough.
70 years ago today, Emmett Till was lynched by white supremacists. Here in Illinois, we promise to never hide from our history — no matter how painful the chapter. We honor his memory and his brave mother, Mamie Till-Mobley, by continuing the fight for civil rights and justice.
Between RFK decimating the CDC, normalizing Ashli Babbitt & the umpteenth school shooting... I'm losing the will to post. #ReleaseTheEPSTEIN_Files
Did anyone really think a guy who dumped a dead bear cub in Central Park and made it look like a bicycle accident would be a superb guardian of the public health?
When Laura Ingraham was a student at Dartmouth, she attended a meeting of the Gay Student Union and wrote down the names of the attendees, which she then published in the student newspaper. This was a time when it was very dangerous to be outed as gay. She is a dispicable, vile person.
Thou shalt not listen to a damn thing that RFK Jr. says.
Hi, immunologist here: (a scientist who studies immune & inflammatory processes) RFK Jr is talking absolute bullshit when he says he can “see in kids faces that they have inflammation” That’s NOT how immunology works. He is an anti-science profiteer. Start calling him such.
I do not understand why government officials resign when asked to do something bad. The resignations will no longer be treated by the public like a scandal. It’ll be out of the news within 24 hours. People should stay and force the White House to fire them. Do not make it easy.
Trump may not always win, but he does always cheat. Not "sometimes" -- ALWAYS. He cheated in 2016, 2020, 2024 and his entire life -- at EVERYTHING. It's critical to think ahead to his next move and thwart him. He's not smart. But he is evil and too many people ignore that truth.
This Thiel lieutenant / eugenics freak thinks billionaires should have their own lawless artificial island countries ("seasteading"), there should be markets for selling human organs, and the FDA should allow drugs to be sold without evidence they're effective. www.citizen.org/article/jim-...
On the new acting CDC director. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
🔥 @mizzwelch.bsky.social : “It’s the complete moral collapse of the 🇺🇸 government… the cabinet meeting with 3.5 hours of superficial praise is so cringeworthy… he redecorated the Oval Office like Marie Antoinette and built himself a ballroom because he has zero intention of leaving…”
So.... 1)The state of Florida spent >$200 million to build the facility it calls "Alligator Alcatraz" 2) It opened in early July, christened by Trump. 3) Now it is closing, due to a judge's order. 4) It will cost $20 million to dismantle the center, which was used for about 2 months.
Colorado, please call your terrible governor and tell him to stop supporting a sociopath who's trying to kill thousands of us by denying us COVID shots and SSRIs. Constituent Services Help Line: (303) 866-2885 Governor's Office, Front Desk: (303) 866-2471
If I were charged with a federal crime, I’d hire Pam Bondi’s brother as my lawyer. Because I don’t think this is a coincidence.
Just in case you forgot…
Watch. If you claim one of these to get a vaccine, they’ll use it later as a preexisting condition to crank up your health premium or kick you off your plan.
Welch: He claims that he's the law and order president. But we all know that's a lie because he's a convicted felon. He pardons convicted felons, he surrounds himself with obsequious people that kiss his all day, every day
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The reason Democrats are afraid they'll be smeared as Soft On Crime if they try to actually stand up against Trump's illegal occupations is because the entire media establishment has stated that they'll smear Democrats as Soft On Crime if they actually stand up against Trump's illegal occupations.
PAY ATTENTION.
A group in San Diego is patrolling neighborhoods to identify potential ICE presence. They keep watch for vehicles that may belong to federal agencies, and use livestreams, radios, and social media to keep communities informed.
It has been wild to see what were always the two most paranoid pro-Second Amendment scenarios—the government snatching people away and sending occupying armies into communities—literally happen this year, to the delight of conservatives
If you are under 65 it is going to get much harder to get a COVID vaccine now. Kennedy is fucking insane. "Depending on the panel’s advice, Americans under age 65 could be expected to provide documentation of a serious medical problem before they can get a shot." apnews.com/article/vacc...
One of the CIA’s senior-most Russia experts was due to take up a prestigious assignment in Europe approved by CIA Director John Ratcliffe. Instead, her security clearance was summarily revoked.
Several FEMA employees have been placed on administrative leave just a day after signing a public letter accusing the Trump administration of politically motivated firings and “uninformed cost-cutting.”
The Danes want answers on alleged covert influence ops in Greenland aimed at sowing division between Nuuk and Copenhagen. Which is how the United States got started in Texas and the Southwest, Cuba and Puerto Rico, the Panama Canal … @vivianho.bsky.social and Bill Booth report wapo.st/4fVOYY0
She was brought to the US as an 8yo, worked hard, studied, earned a scholarship, planned to become a nurse. ICE kidnapped her. Held her for 6 MONTHS in a detention facility with conditions so miserable that she finally agreed to voluntarily move to Honduras, which her family left at gunpoint.
A compromised president who serves his master Putin. MAGA www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
Few doctors have wreaked as much medical havoc as Bill Cassidy, the senator who overcame his initial, well-founded concerns to pave the way for RFK’s HHS confirmation
Economic policy expert Aya Ibrahim says President Trump wants control over the Federal Reserve so he can slash interest rates and "run the economy as hot as possible," without much care for the impact on average people. https://www.democracynow.org/2025/8/27/federal_reserve
NEWS: Trump installs czar at DHS to oversee U.S. “election integrity” It’s not just gerrymandering, folks. The White House is gearing up to use broader federal powers to shape the 2026 election in its favor.
I'm tired of this theater where Donald Trump asks Republicans to do something, they seem to push bank and then cave. The only two factions of the current GOP are proud MAGA and scared MAGA. Anyone who thinks Republicans are acting in good faith is delusional.
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Abbe Lowell and I represent CDC Director #SusanMonarez. Contrary to govt statements, Dr. Monarez has neither resigned nor yet been fired. She will not resign. We have issued the following statement:
Trump to the USA: There is no rule of law.
it’s hard to overstate: -how beneficial vaccines are -how massively overwhelming the evidence is showing no link between vaccines and autism -how impossible it is that RFK will somehow “find the cause” (at all, let alone in his first year) -how much RFKjr want to get rid of childhood vaccines
History: Trump tanked the US economy, destroyed our health care system, banned COVID vaccines, kidnapped and deported innocent people, and made sure the world hates the USA. MAGA: But did he bring back the Cracker Barrel Logo? History: He did. MAGA: Winning, (cough, cough) baby
I’m back from vacation and it appears conservatives have still abandoned all their principles.
Pretending not to hear the whole room chanting “shame” at her is the most Susan Collins things ever
COLLINS: Why it is only blue states or cities that the administration is targeting? BURGUM: When you look at the top 20 or 25 largest cities in this country, virtually all of those are the ones that have crime issues and are run by a particular party
We will not be silent Pete Hegseth youtu.be/Kj1UQuJjrXI?... @hcrichardson.bsky.social
Trump’s America is starting to look a lot like Mao’s China.
It's beyond outrageous what Trump has done to Kilmar Abrego Garcia. And it's all because he became the most prominent illustration of how the amoral, sadistic, lawless, mendacious, and authoritarian thugs who today control our federal government seek to destroy our constitutional order. ...
Hope dies eternal Trump and his demons do not listen to reason or laws Stop expecting them to
Meiselas: Stop both-sidesing it, media. Stop trying to sow division within the Democratic Party when we literally have military invasions into American cities, aided and abetted by red state governors, who, again, are the takers who wouldn't exist without the blue states
"On Inauguration Day, I listed 12 tripwires of tyranny ... Seven months into Trump’s term, we’re already there with five of the tripwires," writes @markjacob.bsky.social in COURIER's Stop the Presses.
Parents are taking over dorm-room furnishing—and, in the process, robbing their kids of an opportunity to practice independence. Meagan Francis on the era of peak dorm decor:
I wrote about the manifestly illegal attempt to fire Lisa Cook 1/ paulkrugman.substack.com/p/in-the-mat...
Lisa Cook Says She Will Not Step Down From the Fed Board Ms. Cook said that she would not resign from the Board of Governors, hours after President Trump announced he was firing her.. @cosmicmeta.ai #Fed https://u2m.io/t0vLerra
How the Republican Party defines transparency: 1. Hide Epstein Files 2. Hide 47th's tax returns 3. Hide 47th's health records 4. Mask ICE Terrorist
He’s wrong about everything, and thinks he’s right about everything. Hard to tell which is worse. The war will end when Russia decides no longer to fight. The US could make that happen with a few simple policies. Instead the Trump administration offers ridiculous analysis and pathetic excuses.
Me, April 24: 16 House Dems Ask Law Firms that Capitulated to Trump If They've Thought about Their Bribery Exposure Brian Beutler four months later: Why can't Dems pressure law firms that capitulated? [Note: The Dem effort--and this wasn't the end of it or coverage of it--had a postitive effect]
One big question here is how Bill Pulte has gotten access to individual mortgage records — and if that itself is a legal violation Via Adam Levitin: www.creditslips.org/creditslips/...
