Your Labor Day reminder that if the minimum wage increased at the rate of inflation & productivity since 1960 it'd be $28 today—not $7.25. Meaning—billionaires & corps have stolen at least $21/hour from working Americans for 60 years. We don't suffer a lack of resources—but from an excess of greed.
Invasion of Venezuela.
Secret service
Trump having a tantrum.
Hmmmmmm
Ooh boy, this is so weird.
So a press conference at 2:00 tomorrow to announce the invasion of Venezuela after the morning Epstein Survivor press conference.
Brian Goldstone: A Labor Day reminder: today there isn't a single city, county, or state in the U.S. where a full-time minimum-wage worker can afford a modest 2-bedroom apartment. Millions of people with jobs—even multiple jobs—aren't safe from homelessness in America.
At least 10 gun industry businesses, including Glock, Smith & Wesson, Remington and Mossberg, secretly handed over names, addresses and other data to lobbyists, who used the details to rally firearm owners to elect pro-gun politicians. By @coreygjohnson.bsky.social (Published Oct. 2024)
Pretty amazing point in history: we have an administration in place that we distrust so thoroughly that we assume we might not be told if the head of state were to die.
Sometimes it just hits me that we have KNOWN Russian assets in Congress And in the Cabinet And in the Oval office RIP USA
Hel’ll be announcing our new alliance with Russia.
Trump makes the cover of the new issue of Le Point, as a consensus builds across Europe that he was recruited by the Soviet intelligence services in the 80s and continues to be under the influence of their Russian successors.
via @macfarlanenews.bsky.social National Guard issues update on its deployment in Washington DC Including… : “Guardsmen have cleaned more than 3.2 miles of roadways, collected more than 500 bags of trash, and disposed of three truckloads of plant waste”
Jackson’s a good man. Interesting back story- grew up dirt poor in The County. No running water, no electricity. Smart survivor. Great speaker.
A Chinese-owned mining company has been accused of covering up the extent of a disastrous toxic spill in Zambia that polluted a major river that millions rely on with cyanide and arsenic. https://to.pbs.org/4mHnt79
A Labor Day reminder: today there isn't a single city, metro area, or state in the U.S. where a full-time minimum-wage worker can afford a modest 2-bedroom apartment. Millions of people with jobs—even multiple jobs—aren't safe from homelessness in this country.
Wowsa.
Some of most revolutionary people on the planet are artists and musicians. Music is absolutely getting me through. I listen with new ears to these songs. Last night, the community here created this playlist. It’s EXCELLENT. Thank you, everyone 💕🦋🔥🎸🎤🎵 open.spotify.com/playlist/3C8...
"I put the little boys with their fingers off and hands crushed and maimed on a platform. I...made the statement that Philadelphia’s mansions were built on the broken bones...of these children....They did not care that these children were to be the future citizens of the nation."
Man, I feel this. 🙏🏽😭
90% of all pediatric flu deaths in the US are unvaccinated
“At least”
A man who was being held in a Manhattan police precinct station house on Friday was found unconscious and was rushed to Bellevue Hospital, where he was later pronounced dead, according to a city official. He is at least the fourth detainee in city custody to die in a little over a week.
WTH?
Ukrainian intelligence says Russia’s top tank maker depends on more than 260 Western-made machines that require foreign parts and updates — exposing a major gap in sanctions. www.kyivpost.com/post/59254
In 7 months, Trump has taken the world's most powerful nation and turned it into a train wreck, inviting both our allies and our adversaries to reshape the world based on our irrelevance.
A Labor Day classic: www.thebulwark.com/p/labor-day-...
So, Platt respects the intelligence of his audience, uses complex sentences to level a sophisticated and targeted attack on Susan Collins, and speaks both to the anger of his constituents and suggests a better way. Pay Attention Democrats. @housedemocrats.bsky.social @senatedemocrats.bsky.social
Did you know that Frances Perkins, FDR’s Secretary of Labor and the first female cabinet member, is responsible for the 40-hour work week, Workman’s Compensation, and Social Security? She was the brains and the push behind FDR.
area man incapable of separating the Roma vs the Romanians
I’m sorry, WHAT?
An evil man will burn his own nation to the ground to rule over the ashes. - Sun Tzu
Check it out. Get on board. @dncstaffunion.bsky.social @housedemocrats.bsky.social @democrats.senate.gov The times they are a changin’.
Exactly. Keep the pressure on. Trump will not stick with anyone he thinks may be dragging him further down. That was the beginning of his distancing from Elon. Keep the pressure on. RFK must go.
Below the radar, the second Trump administration has taken extraordinary steps to expand the rights of gun owners and manufacturers. He doesn't care about crime, nor does he care about kids. Trump 2.0 shows every sign of doing anything the NRA wants. trib.al/JOEX4xp
Starting today, 2.4M Americans, including kids, lose SNAP food benefits. Stores like Freshly’s Market in Mississippi that serve low-income communities expect a 35–45% drop in sales. Children will go hungry & employees at Freshly's lose jobs. Welcome to trickle-down starvation.
In order to get a weather forecasting job with the National Weather Service, applicants now have to name at least two Trump Executive Orders and state how they plan to help support them. Which is ridiculous and shame on every MIC that allows that nonsense in their WFO!
“I believe that a politician that is willing to sell anyone out will eventually sell everyone out.” — Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner at the Fighting Oligarchy rally — with Bernie Sanders — in Portland
last act of Citizen Kane vibes
Hours after trying to assassinate the EU Commission president, Russia tried to assassinate Germany’s military's inspector general, Carsten Breue, the highest-ranking general in the Bundeswehr. His plane was also jammed once over the Baltic Sea and once over Lithuania.
Genocide by prospectus. A plan circulating in the White House to develop the “Gaza Riviera” as a string of high-tech megacities has been dismissed as an “insane” attempt to provide cover for the large-scale ethnic cleansing of the Palestinian territory’s population.
One of the greatest documentaries of all time. As important and moving today as it was when it was released decades ago,
The Democratic Party establishment has proven its loyalty not to Democrats, but to its own ironclad control. trib.al/kOnJNws
Unprecedented corruption - 1500x what Hunter Biden made from his paintings and going directly to the president.
WTF. Like dystopian sci fi come to life.
Trying to keep Rudy quiet.
Brennan Center experts Sean Morales-Doyle and Lawrence Norden forecast how the Trump administration will undermine confidence in our elections in the months leading up to the 2026 midterms: bit.ly/4fRIqtA
Photo passed along from a federal employee from inside the Dept of Labor building, where a giant Orwellian image of Trump's face is now draped outside. Big Brother is watching.
Graham Platner, an oyster farmer from Maine, wants to “claw back wealth that was created by the labor and the consumption of working-class Americans who have not shared in the riches they helped build.”
Russia is a terrorist state, and that's the team Trump wants to play on.
What these Schatz posts say to me is that Dem elected officials like him seem incapable of perceiving the right as a *political movement.* The response to Covid mitigation and the Floyd protests was not a spontaneous reaction...it was a right wing backlash organized by a reactionary movement.
I’m not an ornithologist. Can anyone identify the bird in this photo?
“1948 U.N. Genocide Convention, adopted in the wake of the mass murder of Jews by Nazi Germany, defines genocide as crimes committed "with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such". It requires all countries to act to prevent & stop genocide.”
Foreigners from everywhere in the former British Empire.
So Susan Collins, Jim.
Statement from Trump about his good friend Rudy Giuliani who was injured in a serious car crash on Saturday:
Just visited the ruins of the Smallpox Hospital on Roosevelt Island. I was looking for a sign announcing that RFK Jr. will begin renovations soon because, you know: Make Smallpox Great Again.
Whether or not these people are actual foreign agents is almost irrelevant. Their actions are observationally equivalent to & indistinguishable from the actions actual foreign agents would be taking. The consequences of our total Article I constitutional crisis, right here:
This Labor Day, the Trump administration will advance plans to eliminate federal minimum wage protections for millions of child care and home care providers.
Trump’s bill a ‘death warrant’ say parents of sick rural kids whose treatment is tied up in Medicaid red tape
============= Mon SEPT 1, 2025 Labor Day Plans ============= Graham Platner, US Senate candidate from Sullivan, Maine will be at the Ellsworth We Rise for Workers Labor Day Rally & March, then speaking at the Fighting Oligarchy Rally in Portland later. @grahamformaine.bsky.social #Maine #MEpolitics
He was clearly not well long before this and during Trump1.
Americans are begging for Democratic leadership to get off the mat and back into the fight. If you’re a political leader in this country and are not prepared to fight with both hands, not prepared to make “good trouble”, then perhaps you should step aside and make space for those who will. #Velshi.
This is definitely Trump. And it is Trump today.
Id heard that Cantor Fitzgerald, the Wall Street firm formerly run by Commerce Secy Lutnick and now run by his sons is one of the big buyers of these refund rights. Turns out it’s already public back in July when they were buying them at 20 to 30 cents on the dollar. www.wired.com/story/cantor...
Can the media STOP referring to Jeffrey Epstein as a “financier”? The money he made came from SEX TRAFFICKING MINORS, RAPING CHILDREN, and BLACKMAIL. He was NOT a financier. I’ve seen at least five stories from three outlets refer to him this way in the past week. This is the latest from the Times:
This war crime has been brought to you by the Boston Consulting Group in conjunction with the Trump Organization
Isn’t this what the 2nd A was made for? I guess those Proud Boys and Oathkeepers will step up to defend the city from the NG. Oops. No. Those guys are the Bounty hunters with Ice.
Remember, kids: A real big goal of "AI" is to entirely sever capital from labor, and no, there will be no universal basic income, you can all just starve and die, thanks www.axios.com/2025/08/26/a...
It's curious how Rupert Murdoch and son's repeated secretive meetings with JD Vance, like this one in Montana, get huge coverage in London tabloids, but aren't reported or talked about at all in US media. Why is that? www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
Got big crime in DC at the White House.
And is the girl who hit him the same one that tried to carjack big balls? The plot is all coming together.
Okay. I just came back to this and you aren’t calling these efforts resegregation yet, you absolutely should be
Hmmm Interesting context and timeline…
Trump's claim of the power of impoundment is essentially an effort to strip away the budget powers from Congress. it thus fundamentally upends the Constitution's separation of powers. thedispatch.com/article/trum...
Calling Steve Witkoff "low-information" and a "master of disaster" is very charitable. There are far more plausible explanations for his dealing with Putin without interpreters and notetakers, and that is purest corruption. His whole career, after all, was built managing money for Russian mobsters.
I do. @nytimes.com
The best Twitter riposte of the day goes to former Swedish prime minister Carl Bildt
A proposal to censor info about lawmakers is being sold as a safety measure. But it won’t protect them from anything but investigative journalism. Contact your senator to tell them to protect their safety — and everyone else’s — without sacrificing transparency and accountability.
Le Monde: one week after the Anchorage summit, the full scope of the wins achieved by Putin and his team are more readily apparent, as is the spinelessness of Trump and the witlessness of Witkoff. www.lemonde.fr/internationa...
As the DoJ tells the court that it will not remove unaccompanied minors to Guatemala, we can only hope they’re telling the truth.
It has taken decades, but Mainers have finally understood that Susan Collins is on nobody’s side but her own.
Someone tried to run him off the road. Remember Silkwood? Mob hits? Giuliani knows everything Trump needs to hide.
Vance crime scene.
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This is by design, as black women power the Democratic Party. Retribution.
This is America God damn it
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.
What, are you grooming this kid?
“The Irish solar industry growth is accelerating at an unprecedented pace, positioning Ireland as a European leader in renewable energy transformation.” FUCK YEAH IRELAND LET’S GOOOOO
wow