Brilliant
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I don’t normally ask to hear from the president but it’d be nice to see if he can still complete a sentence
This might be a hot take, but at this point I’ve come to the conclusion that Schumer and Jeffries failure to serve as effective opposition party leaders is basically a skill issue. They are genuinely incapable of creatively or strategically responding to MAGA’s political revolution.
not just that he has no constitutional authority, there isn't even any particular legal or institutional mechanism by which the president can make anyone treat this as anything other than a weird advisory opinion.
We’ve got the tools. The only question: Why wait? ⏳ Gen Z + millennials aren’t sitting on the sidelines—they’re running now. 👉 runforwhat.net
Trump admin & its voters in a nutshell. Hopefully after measles & bird flu wipe most of them out, rest of us can rebuild. The collateral damage and casualties will be enormous though. Post trump, the people who participated in this must be imprisoned en masse for their crimes against humanity
Lol
Goddammit now I want to make a pizza from scratch today...
Fetterman is so pathetic. Just an absolute loser.
RADDATZ: You talk about what can be done. After shootings in Buffalo & Uvalde, Congress passed a bipartisan Safer Communities Act. It provided hundreds of millions for schools to expand mental health services. You didn't vote for it. Why? TOM EMMER: I don't remember the reasons I didn't vote for it
Well, he won't. Now what?
ABC is still traumatized by the lawsuit they stupidly settled.
We talk a lot about “organizational culture” at US border and migration agencies. Yes, it sounds like jargon. But look at this exchange between a CBP official and the husband of a permanent resident mother of 4. This is a rotten culture, reinforced by leadership. www.masslive.com/news/2025/08...
The best part is as soon as he pressed it into squares, I knew what he was making having made it before. Yummy!!!! 😁
I'm trying hard to hold onto this fact nowadays...
OMG looks delicious
Question: Why did US put big tariffs on India despite major national interest in cultivating a strategic counterweight to China and trying to isolate Russia? Answer: Because the US president lied that he fixed India-Pakistan and India wouldn’t go along with the lie. (Seriously, that’s the answer)
Yup, read that last night (after the tariffs appeal ruling) and got a good chuckle from this and a few other passages 😁
Meanwhile, White House staff prepares for President Vance
That looks amazing; you should be proud!
look, think of it this way: he’s probably not dead, but he is in bad enough shape that we will almost certainly get to run this back a number of times over the next 3.5 years and maybe one of them it’ll actually happen
Mine too! Like, 9.999999999% of the time, she's at my call. Come to think of it, I might need to tighten that up a bit 🤔
So has there been public proof of life yet, or....?
This is gold
Congrats!
Ashli Babbitt was a domestic terrorist who was shot while committing a violent crime that demonstrated a clear intention to do bodily harm to the people on the other side of those doors. The officer ended the threat she represented...as they were required to do by lethal force if necessary. It was
As you should be. I can't wait until the day you can piss on Trump's grave.
Ashli Babbit was rightfully put down like the insurrectionist traitor she was.
Anyone who assaults a police officer in DC will be charged with a felony. Especially if they do so during our forthcoming military funeral for Ashli Babbitt. by Jeanine Pirro
They're openly calling to lock up every trans person by force. We need every ally to speak out forcefully against this because trans folks cannot do this on our own.
Do it
Ha hahahahahahahahaha
The felon-in-chief said “a lot of people want a dictator.” His chief advisor called the Democratic Party “terrorists.” They sent military to occupy our cities under phony pretexts. Nobody declares “now it’s Fascism.” It’s here. In the White House & on the streets.
Never in my life will in comprehend why the Access Hollywood tape wasn’t the end for him. Almost 10 years of being deeply embarrassed for this country every day.
At least four major scientists out at the CDC today. Kennedy's assault on our public health just keeps escalating..... insidemedicine.substack.com/p/breaking-n...
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.
The republicans mean this...every gesture, every word. They intend the end of American democracy. This is not a drill.
Military control is here.
"A Prince, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people." —The Declaration of Independence
This is literally dictator shit
remember folks, we cant have gun restrictions because if we do the federal government will occupy our streets, imprison people without due process, ship dissidents to foreign gulags and things of that nature
It’s almost as if appointing an anti-vax lunatic with zero qualifications to oversee America’s health was a numbskull idea and everybody with a functioning brain knew it.
In a functional government, this would be a five alarm fire where Congress calls in Kennedy and asks him what the fuck is going on
I’m trying hard not to doom and I remain long term optimistic about the politics and about our ability to rebuild. but it is hard not to notice that every function of the federal government intended to prevent death is currently on fire, except for the ones that are ashes already.
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.
This is insanity. This is the sign of a government that has lost its mind.
Trump’s America. An utter disgrace.
I wish we had a Supreme Court that defended the US Constitution like they swore an oath to do.
So, we have Gavin Newsom, JB Pritzker, Wes Moore, Kathy Hochul, Bob Ferguson all telling the orange felon to send the national guard at his own risk, lawsuits will be filed immediately. We need the rest of the Democratic governors to do the same thing. #USDemocracy
wtf is this nonsense? He thinks he can understand kid’s “mitochondrial challenges” just by looking at them? This is an insane person.
John Roberts needs to end up in a gulag for his betrayal of this country. A firing squad is also acceptable.
If burning your country's flag will result in prison, then your flag deserves to be burned.
The President of the United States sat in the Oval Office and said "a lot of people are saying maybe we'd like a dictator" and that is not even a top story.
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.
It’s continues to be despicable how the media has spent a decade normalizing the orange felon so much so that they are reporting on his authoritarian militarization of Washington DC as if it were a routine military exercise. They deliberately failed democracy for clickbait.
This is what happens when you order delivery in DC right now.
🚨 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. 📬✂️
This administration doesn't want Abrego Garcia to go free in part due to vindictiveness against the man himself and the courts protecting his rights, but even more because his freedom would underline the unjust, arbitrary nature of the detention project and reveal it a power grab that can be undone.
Does anyone know what happened between May and August this year?
Maybe we shouldn’t let someone who doesn’t believe in germs and who thinks it’s okay to eat roadkill and swim in contaminated ponds be in charge of our national food safety.
Is it radical to say that a sitting President should be *****immediately***** impeached for identifying as a Dictator? 🫠
note how Trump on a daily basis is trying to normalize the idea that he's a dictator
You are living through the unthinkable: the president of the United States using the military to seize domestic power. The greatest crisis of executive power in American history, at the hands of the worst, most corrupt, and most unfit president in American history.
It appears this Aakash Singh worked for Sen. Tillis and is a 2017 law grad. He needs to be infamous.
Looking forward to hearing about how this is "all a distraction from kitchen table issues"
Stephen Miller has always been the dude who is unhinged by the fact that other people are allowed to disagree with him, even women and black people
TEN MORE SATIRICAL STUNTS GAVIN NEWSOM CAN TRY 10. Hold hourlong press conference where he incoherently slurs self-serving nonsense like “Everybody thinks I’d be a great dictator” 9. Very calmly insist that the California wildfires were a hoax to make him look bad
Pretty sure this is going to win in the Best Deepthroat category at next year’s AVN Awards
If you don't think he's testing every day to see how far he can go with authoritarianism, YOU ARE WRONG! BETTER SPEAK UP, WHILE YOU STILL CAN.
Disgusting
No amount of appearing reasonable and trying to avoid provoking them will stop them from escalating against you. The only thing you'll do is inspire revulsion in everyone else: if you won't even stand up for yourself how can you stand up for anyone else
J.B. Pritzker got it exactly right, Donald Trump is sending the military to blue cities because he wants to undermine free and fair elections in 2026. Trump believes that military deployments in blue cities is his path to keeping power and Republican victory.
SCOTUS thought they could ride the tiger and get what they wanted ideologically. In exchange, they would give him everything he wanted except the Fed. Just leave the Fed alone and you can ignore all federal law. But it ended the same way it has for everyone who tried to ride the tiger since 2016.
Constituent: You talked about abuses in the medicare and medicaid system and I found interesting that the president pardoned someone that defrauded the medicaid system for $1.3 billion
The prolonged public torturing of a single man because the state cannot admit to its errors is not something that occurs in a free country
Reading an article titled "Why didn't Brazilian democracy die?" and a key part of the story is a Supreme Court that actually did its job
"Mr. President, do not come to Chicago. You're neither wanted here, nor needed here. Your remarks about this effort over the last several weeks have betrayed a continuing slip in your mental faculties – and are not fit for the auspicious office that you occupy." Governor JB Pritzker
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"
If any previous President tried to fire a member of the Fed he would have been impeached and removed from office in 72 hours.
Pritzker: To the members of the press who are assembled here today and listening across the country, I am asking for your courage to tell it like it is. This is not a time to pretend here that there are two sides to this story.
TRUMP: *Signs order to put congressional Democrats in front of a firing squad" NYT: President Trump took the extraordinary step of moving to reduce number of Democratic votes in a legally dubious maneuver that could undermine the independence of the Congress.
Increasingly of the mind that the "distraction" rhetoric comes from a deeply-rooted belief that what we're witnessing is merely a form of dictatorial cosplay. The problem which is apparently invisible for some reason is that even assuming this were true, laughing it off is unacceptable.
A man, near the White House, who describes himself as a "retired disabled combat veteran," after burning an American flag tells bystanders "I am being detained because I expressed my First Amendment rights."
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."
We're going to deport you to a random country if you don't take a plea deal for a crime you said you didn't do, doesn't sound like justice to me.
The PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA is planning to use the US military to invade US cities that vote Democratic because, in addition to raping children, two things that animate him most are rectifying narcissistic injury and hating Black people. Call your reps 202-224-3121 #RemoveTrump
The scavenger hunt is using NYC mayoral history to paint Mamdani as firmly within the mainstream of that history. On age. On DSA membership. On public transportation policy. It's such a smart way to launch the general election campaign.
Dems should swap out Hakeem Jeffries with Jasmine Crockett. They need that kind of fire.
But let's definitely cancel medical research because stupid people really wanted racism and horse dewormer.
Hakeem Jeffries voice: This enthusiasm for the Democratic nominee is just a distraction.
Don't take the truth for granite!! 😁
Massively underrated song
Hakeem Jeffries, standing in front of a wall: “These so-called ‘military death squads’ and ‘Trump Tribunals’ are just a distraction from