I enjoyed this. And what an infectious laugh. ❤️ "Reporter left speechless after witnessing Japan's new $70 million Maglev train in action at 310 mph"
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I enjoyed this. And what an infectious laugh. ❤️ "Reporter left speechless after witnessing Japan's new $70 million Maglev train in action at 310 mph"
Hmmm.... That's the kind of parade the orange guy would have loved
Abolish the electoral college altogether!
Hello everyone! I am working on a story for The Guardian about how Chicagoans are preparing for the possible arrival of federal troops, following President Trump's statements on the matter. Right now, I'm looking for residents, community organizers, business owners, and other folks to talk to!
BREAKING: Gov. JB Pritzker says the Trump administration has sent the Texas National Guard to Great Lakes Naval Base outside Chicago, awaiting orders to deploy to Chicago. Trump administration officials will target Mexican Independence Day (Sept. 16) celebrations. @wttw.bsky.social
Eliminate the salary cap on social security contributions
Tax mega churches to help cover the cost of social services
"I refuse to fall into the pundit trap that demands we sacrifice vital constitutional rights if it's being done in the fake guise of fighting crime." Gov. JB Pritzker
State elected officials were banned from raising money during the 40-day legislative session until a 2021 law changed that. An @ajc analysis shows they have helped top Georgia politicians rake in $15.5M over the last 4 sessions. #gapol ajc.com/politics/202...
Things feel uncertain right now, Illinois. I want you all to know we’re doing everything we can to protect your rights. Make sure you know how to stand up for yourself and others at illinoisimmigrationinfo.org.
The tolerance for lies is killing our country. Trump just called Chicago “the most dangerous city in the world, by far.” But its homicide rate isn’t even in the U.S. Top 20. Will major media call out the lie – and call it “a lie” – or will they talk about his “tenuous relationship with the truth”?
Too many women already have to travel hours just to get maternity care. Congressional Republicans’ Medicaid cuts will force even more hospitals to close their doors. We should be strengthening access to care, not making it harder for moms and babies. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
The U.S. military is not a civilian law enforcement agency. This is dangerous. John Hutson, Steven Lepper, and Andrew Turley @thebulwark.com: www.thebulwark.com/p/dangerous-...
If only they would actually follow them instead of displaying them on government property.
Idiocracy
Graham Greene is best known for his landmark role as Kicking Bird in the 1990 film “Dances with Wolves,” which earned him an Oscar nomination. https://to.pbs.org/4g5duGu
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has approved sending up to 600 military lawyers to the Justice Department to serve as temporary immigration judges, according to a new memo.
President Donald Trump floated "getting rid of" the Federal Emergency Management Agency, but the 12-person review council he appointed to propose changes to FEMA seems more focused on reforms than total dismantlement.
Maryland's top election official said he is concerned about a Justice Department demand for state elections data including sensitive information for more than 4 million state voters. marylandmatters.org/2025/08/29/s...
PANTHEON: “.. Real consumption rose by 0.3% in July, .. but the trend still looks much weaker than last year. .. July’s pick-up also appears to have been driven by households bringing forward purchases of imported goods before prices respond fully to the current set of tariffs ..”
Letter from 9 former CDC directors: “What HHS Sec. RFK Jr. has done to the CDC and to our nation’s public health system is unlike anything our country has ever experienced. Congress must exercise its oversight authority over HHS” to protect the welfare of Americans. open.substack.com/pub/drnoc/p/...
This Labor Day (and all other days): Thank the workers who serve you. Appreciate the workers who care for you. Respect the workers who pick up your trash. Salute the workers who get you your mail. Honor the workers who teach your children. Pay all workers a living wage.
Further www.wsj.com/finance/curr...
Germany and France have announced a joint European early-warning missile defense system, JEWEL, which integrates space-based sensors from the Odin’s Eye project with advanced ground-based radars.
RFK Jr: “If you’ve ever compared an unvaccinated kid to a vaccinated kid… you see the bright eyes, the engagement, the social interactions, the curiosity. And you compare them to the child who even had one or two vaccines, and they’re completely different.“ This man is an existential threat.
Thank you all @annettebeebe.bsky.social @habsmtlcanadiens.bsky.social @raykwong.bsky.social @atoth99.bsky.social @sarahgies.bsky.social @sassy0210.bsky.social @abbarsha.bsky.social @demladyalways.bsky.social @mblue.bsky.social @oneveteransoath.substack.com Protesting today💜
@democrats-judiciary.house.gov @judiciarydems.senate.gov
PM Carney is polling at 68% federally which is unheard of four months in. What’s more unheard of is he’s polling at 59 percent approval in Blue Alberta! Dean Blundell lays out the facts and explains why here! A great article! #MarkCarneyOurPM #USDemocracy #Pinks open.substack.com/pub/deanblun...
Beef prices have hit record highs this Labor Day Weekend — in part thanks to Trump's tariffs. Remember when Trump said he would bring down the cost of groceries? https://youtu.be/9EXi6xyOXSk?feature=shared
THEY FEED US They are the hardest-working people Thank them don't arrest them #LaborDay "Un feliz Dia del Trabajo" Means Happy Labor Day
* Trump Family Amasses $6 Billion Fortune After Crypto Launch @wsj.com
Just an astonishing, powerful op-ed that drives home what we are losing and what's already been lost. We are so incredibly fortunate to live with the advances modern medicine and health science. Destroying and stymieing it is just unforgivable. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...
Someone out there is real interested in Democrats fighting each other, even when we don't want or need to.
Trump wants to erase Black history stating it’s too “woke,” not enough energy is spent on American "Success" and "Brightness.” Our nation is great because of Black geniuses. There are so many inventions by Black people. Often never receiving proper recognition for their valuable contributions.
"To pretend that her death deserves the same recognition as that young soldier at the gate is obscene. It is a betrayal of the oath she once swore and a desecration of the sacrifice made by so many who kept faith with theirs."
From Mary K. in Forsyth, Montana! 🔥 Keep sending us your Labor Day protest pics to shout@thedangerousones.com.
Not today, Satan‼️ Got this garbage in the mail a few days ago. Republicans trying to trick California voters into voting NO on Prop 50. Suddenly they care about “democracy”? Please. Vote YES on Prop 50. Don’t let the cheaters write the rules.
Netflix co-founder, Reed Hastings, has given $2 million dollars to help California redraw its House maps in the latest indication of the campaign’s outsize stakes. This is to counter Texas’ GOP gerrymandering with a new map designed to oust California Republicans. Let’s do this!! 🔥
I opened a new account on X just to see what's going on but I'm not engaging🤪
⚠️WOKE CONTENT⚠️ 🧵Did you know that Government boarding schools were implemented as a "legal" means to forcibly remove Indigenous children from their families? This was genocide on a cultural level. The children(cont) #ProudBlue #ResistanceRoots #USDemocracy www.history.com/articles/gov...
I'm going to this Labor Day rally in downtown San Diego, are any of you planning to go?
Professional physicians are standing in solidarity with the workers at CDC and in opposition to RFKJr and his chicanery. www.emergencyphysicians.org/press-releas...
CAIR Presses Congress to Confront Gaza Catastrophe After Senators Blocked From Entry
Lawyers for the children say they're still on planes in El Paso. SOOKNANAN: "I have the government attempting to remove minor children from the country in the wee hours of the morning on a holiday weekend. That's surprising." www.politico.com/news/2025/08...
BREAKING: A federal judge has *blocked* the Trump administration from abruptly deporting 600 unaccompanied Guatemalan children — perhaps within a matter of hours — granting an emergency restraining order after advocates called the plan illegal + dangerous. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Biden warns of “dark days” under Trump in Chicago speech
Missouri Gov. Mike Kehoe (R) reinforced GOP power grabs sweeping the country, calling a special legislative session Friday to redraw congressional districts and weaken the ability of voters to pass laws through ballot initiatives. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
Americans once assumed their kids would be better off than they were. But business professor Scott Galloway says today's economic policies work to enrich Boomers and steal from younger generations.
A detailed recounting of he farce that is Netanyahu's "peace negotiations": like this week, when Netanyahu put out a proposal Hamas, and when they accepted it, then repudiated his own proposal. www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
This “explicit” is a weird editorial choice. The constitution gives the president no power over this at all. It’s not ambiguous.
BREAKING: A judge blocks the Trump administration from removing a group of Guatemalan children after some were loaded on planes at a Texas airport.
That Trump and Trumpism are fascist doesn’t explain the sheer vandalism of unleashing mass murdering mayhem via RFK to replace medical/scientific institutions of immense value and prestige with medieval peasant superstitions. That is a criminal madness facilitated by but above and beyond fascism.
The air headed bloviations that stream from Kristi Noem's mouth know no limitation. And no one ever challenges her.
NEWSOM, to @karaswisher.bsky.social: “.. I just wanted to put a mirror up to the absurdity of all of this. .. I mean, it’s comical. .. embarrassing .. And I’m glad they’re melting down over it. Their situational unawareness is rather jaw-dropping, and we’ll keep at it.” nymag.com/intelligence...
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All according to plan
Leonard Leo ally Tim Busch has called SCOTUS the “Leo Court,” explaining that Trump “radically changed” the direction of SCOTUS by appointing (anti-abortion) justices “shepherded” by Leo, who he says is “one of the big supporters of the Napa Institute” (founded by Busch). 1/
Meanwhile, in China
Australian ban on fish-shaped plastic soy sauce dispensers a world first
ICE detain man who is legally in U.S.—son of a decorated military veteran. "As a granddaughter of a Master Sergeant veteran," she said. "I never believed my home would be at risk in the country my family fought for." He is living in U.S. legally—and has never commit a crime. Dallas, Texas.
"His mother told NBC4 that the agent told her son they had confused him with someone else, but to “look at the bright side: you’re gonna have an exciting story to tell your friends when you go back to school”." WTF www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
🔥🔥🔥In a matter of seconds TEN ICE agents grab a man after his court hearing. There is no warrant. There is no reason. There is no due process. Their names are on a list when they arrive at Jacob J Javits immigration court. Disappeared. Leaving only pain.
We have a decades of scholarship on how pro-democracy forces win in competitive authoritarian systems: they form a united opposition that brings together people with otherwise profound political disagreements.
1) it will be difficult — but not impossible — for the opposition to win elections; and 2) if the government overtly steals an election, it can be toppled via widespread popular mobilization *if* the security services split or abandon the regime.
🧵 Authoritarianism, Democratization, and Coalition Politics. The consensus around here is, more or less, that the United States is currently a consolidating authoritarian regime controlled by a mix of reactionary populists and fascists.
Your voice matters! And I want to hear it. Time is running out for 9th-12th graders to apply to our Congressional Youth Advisory Council! Apply TODAY at the link below. 📣
Over 300 MILLION American citizen's files stolen by DOGE. Why can't 1 person with access steal the EPSTEIN Files? #LEAKtheEPSTEIN_Files
Exclusive: The Justice Department gave some senior career attorneys a choice: They could either quit or go to a new Sanctuary Cities Enforcement working group. Six months later, all of those attorneys have left DOJ. “The assignment was a sham,” one said.
The president’s global trade war has a bad day in court.
An Arizona court rejected a right-wing lawsuit seeking to make mail-in ballot signature verification harder. The ruling will help prevent wrongful ballot rejections for the nearly 90% of Arizonans who vote by mail.
In @nytopinion.nytimes.com “Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the secretary of health and human services, is endangering the health of the American people now and into the future. He must resign,” Senator Bernie Sanders writes in a guest essay.
A Tarrant County resident who has worked as an election judge criticized the county’s move to cut more than 100 polling sites. “You’re not saving money,” she said. “You’re sacrificing democracy to save a buck.” With @fortworthreport.bsky.social @texastribune.org
During a town hall Wednesday in Worth County, Iowans urged Hinson to “stop lying” after she claimed that the president’s key legislation had ushered in “higher wages” and an improved cost of living. “Higher wages?” shouted one woman incredulously. “For who? For you?” trib.al/KPLYXyQ
The Justice Department had once argued that Ghislaine Maxwell should be sentenced to at least 30 years in prison. Now its second-ranking official—and Donald Trump’s former lawyer—is aligned with a woman whose crimes the department had called “monstrous.”
Epidemiologist Erin McCanlies spent much of the past two decades studying the environmental causes of autism. Under the leadership of Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who has promised to find a cause for the condition, her entire division was cut.
Buford Pusser, the Tennessee sheriff who inspired the Hollywood movie “Walking Tall,” has been implicated in his wife’s murder
Talk to Putin, then fire your Russia expert. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
You thought AI was a cool technological development, but ... have you heard about heating up sand?
BOOM! Only 52 away from 3,000! Help us get there now: actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...
The month of August 2025 may go down as the worst in the history of the US Health and Human Services Department. It’s against this chaos that Democrats are demanding that Robert F. Kennedy Jr. be removed from his post as the nation’s top public health official.
m.youtube.com/watch?v=hMdg...
This firefighter arrived in the US at age 4, has been here for 19 years, was on track to legal status, and was on a crew trying to contain a major blaze (in Washington state, vs Oregon, fwiw.) h/t @joshuajfriedman.com www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
The Nobel Prize and a Testy Phone Call: How the Trump-Modi Relationship Unraveled "President Trump’s repeated claims about having 'solved' the India-Pakistan war infuriated Prime Minister Narendra Modi of India. And that was only the beginning." 🎁 Gift article www.nytimes.com/2025/08/30/u...
The Voting Rights Act is the crown jewel of the civil rights movement. Experts unpack its origins, its impact, and the challenges it faces today in our latest Brennan Center Live episode. Listen: bit.ly/469k7nI
She explains how a ruling in support of the members’ removal would be “an unprecedented rebalancing of power from the legislative to the executive branch.” Manners is represented on the brief by the Brennan Center and Friedman Kaplan Seiler Adelman & Robbins LLP. 2/
BREAKING: Historian Jane Manners filed a brief in Boyle v. Trump, challenging President Trump’s dismissal of three members of the Consumer Product Safety Commission. 1/ bit.ly/4mKYlN8
Stephen Manning, this guy’s lawyer, is one of the best in the country. It’s very good news that he’s taken this case.
"That Mr. Trump is bent on making himself dictator is no longer in doubt. That he is well on his way to doing so should not be. If democracy in America is to be saved, its defenders must pour all their thought and energy into devising creative ways to frustrate his ambitions." 🎁🔗
This is good! I’m at an ice cream shop on Aiken, SC and two elderly white women are talking. Both church-goers. One said she’s always been a Republican but she’s very upset at how Republicans in Congress aren’t standing up to Trump.
Let’s raise some cash for these outstanding candidates in Virginia. Much appreciated, let’s keep VA Blue and give them a democratic Governor. secure.actblue.com/donate/vaval...
lol, this appellate judge just smacking Alan Dershowitz around like a little cat toy. www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
What a shame. "WGBH … has laid off the 13 people who worked on the history series 'American Experience' and announced that no new documentaries will be produced for the show until further notice." (gift link) www.nytimes.com/2025/08/27/a...
Martin O’Malley, former Social Security Administrator, says the DOGE bro upload of SSA to cloud is the biggest data theft in history and could maybe lead to need to mass issue new SSA#s. 🤯 www.msnbc.com/the-last-wor...
This morning in DC (8/29, 7:20am), a community member witnessed masked thugs detain a man. They barely spoke to him, if at all. When he tried to pull away, they slammed him to the ground. Stay alert. Watch out for each other. We are strongest when we stand united. Submitted anonymously
Joshua J. Friedman 