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Can humanity get a break?
Trump claims he saved the Olympics and implies these cities also need the National Guard: Chicago, Los Angeles, New York, and Baltimore.
Stephen Miller is REALLY bad at pretending to be Trump. Like this doesn’t even almost sound like a Trump tweet
Leaving aside the typical histrionics, this seems to be Trump beginning to distance himself from Kennedy (who’s “ripping apart” CDC), and inviting mainstream physicians and scientists to defend the vaccines, so Trump can then say, I got them to explain it better and vaccines are OK.
Rs, before the Trump cult took hold, frequently railed (rightly so) against communist and fascist regimes that nationalized industry, indulged in crony capitalism, and substituted propaganda for free speech. (The five-year plan is working!) How times have changed. open.substack.com/pub/contrari...
IDF report said to find Israel made ‘every possible mistake’ in recent Gaza offensive https://www.timesofisrael.com/idf-report-said-to-find-israel-made-every-possible-mistake-in-recent-gaza-offensive/
There you have it. The Economic Policy Uncertainty Index (www.policyuncertainty.com) just hit an all-time high, surpassing its previous high from May 2020 - the teeth of the #COVID pandemic. Consequences: worse investment climate, higher risk premia, (likely) higher interest rates...
To be clear: 1. We’ve taken in roughly $150 billion in tariffs - nowhere near a single trillion, much less trillions. 2. Tariffs single-handedly saving our military — which has been the strongest in the world for decades — is the dumbest shit I’ve read today.
Well, now at least the trains are running on time. JFC
President Trump said late Saturday that he would issue an executive order to require voter identification for all U.S. elections, a continuation of his efforts to overhaul the nation’s election laws, which he has long attacked and falsely blamed for his 2020 election loss.
This isn’t politics. It’s not left or right. It’s not conservative or liberal. Cutting funding to treat children with brain cancer is hate and greed.
Some view it as hyperbole; others don't even know what the words mean. But it's all textbook. Textbook history, textbook political science, textbook psychology, textbook social psychology. Elementary stuff, not obscure. And it's happening in real time, right before our eyes.
One thing that's particularly maddening about what's happening today—beyond that it's happening—is that when people talk about how we are moving toward authoritarianism, toward fascism, by a collection of narcissistic sociopaths, many Americans' eyes glaze over.
REP. BUDDY CARTER: What eroded confidence in the CDC was the covid vaccine BEDINGFIELD: Who was president in 2020?
52 of 53 Republican senators voted to confirm him.
Not a very long path from "Why wouldn't you want the regime to deploy federal troops in your city when it reduces carjackings?" to "Why would you be opposed to the erection of internment camps for deviants when it reduces crime?" And a good chunk of mainstream media will just follow along.
Watching him, Lankford clearly knows how bad Kennedy is. He doesn't subscribe to the conspiracy theories. But he's trying to contort himself into a political shape that lunatic MAGA voters will accept, which requires him to pretend RFK is pursuing valid science and not speaking directly ill of him.
The President is now calling for RICO charges against a 95-year-old Holocaust survivor. For those unfamiliar, Soros conspiracies are an antisemitic dog whistle, invoking the age-old myth that wealthy Jewish people are scheming behind the scenes to control the world. #Trump
Pritzker: "We don't want troops on the streets of American cities. That's un-American and frankly the president ought to know better. This one doesn't seem to. He hasn't read any books. He doesn't seem to understand the Constitution or the laws."
Pritzker on Trump sending troops into cities: "He has other aims other than fighting crime... he would like to stop the elections in 2026 or frankly take control of those elections. He'll just claim there's some problem with an election and then he's got troops on the ground that can take control."
This is why every single democrat and independent MUST VOTE. Shame them into it if we have to.
One of the most dedicated MAGAs I know lives in Maine. And he’s a vet. And a former officer. A good one. Well, he was. So don’t get all carried away patting yourselves on the back up there.
Who?
Trump wants you to forget Epstein. Or at least, trust the lady whose been convicted of the crime. My latest adamkinzinger.substack.com/p/maxwell-th...
Trump declares intention to issue an Executive Order mandating Voter ID for all votes, restricts mail-in voting to exceptions, and insists on paper ballots only.
The thing about a lot of these never Trump Republicans is that, unlike a lot of institutionalist Dems who think the fever will break and we can all return to comity or whatever, these guys saw the rot up close and know the only appropriate response is to tear them out of government root and branch.
What in the ever loving fuck is going on here
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Oh no! The leopard is eating my face. Stupid.
I applaud whoever decided (probably Miller himself) to have Stephen Miller act increasingly as “spokesman” for this Administration’s policies. He is so fundamentally repellent that I suspect even loyal MAGA adherents get the heebie-jeebies when they listen to him,& ask themselves, “Am I w/this guy?”
New in PN: Alert the media — the WH is lying about Trump's health "Something's clearly up & the official explanations don’t make sense. That’s not a shock given that Trump is a liar surrounded by toadies who surrendered their shame long ago. But it’s past time for reporters to ask some questions."
Missouri “Representative” Ann Wagner posted this and quickly deleted it. Luckily my friend found it for her! We won’t forget. Ann wants to pick her voters.
Here’s the problem with banning guns under the 2A. If we do, then only government agencies can have them. But look at what’s happening today. Do we really want only Law Enforcement to have the guns? It’s a dilemma. But in the meantime, where are all those 2A gun nuts now, when fascists rule? Silent.
He’s insane.
RFK Jr: We need to stop trusting the experts... Trusting the experts is not a feature of science or democracy, it's a feature of religion and totalitarianism.
I hope people realize how absolutely fucked this situation is. This isn’t normal. People are resigning all over the place because the government is mishandling our data, ruining our public health services, and generally making Americans less safe.
Someone needs to explain to that puritanical pixie, Mike Johnson, what common denominators are. For example, in child molestations, a common denominator is that it is often done by Christian clergy, from Catholic priests to Baptist youth pastors.
"Her patient had signs of what could be a cancer or could be an unusual infection — diagnoses that would require completely different treatment. Ordinarily, she would confirm an infection after sending a sample to the CDC for testing ...the CDC no longer has the capacity to do that"
Excellent question.
there is no question in my mind that rfk jr is the most dangerous person in this administration and that his eugenicist ideology threatens the lives of millions of people www.advocate.com/politics/dem...
GOP: We are the pro-life party! So—free pre-natal care? GOP: No Extend child tax credit? GOP: No Paid family leave? GOP: No Universal pre-K? GOP: No Gun reform to stop school shootings? GOP: No So...HOW Exactly are you pro-life?🤔 GOP: We force 11-yr-old rape victims to give birth
(Free article) Minnesota Sen. Tina Smith to RFK Jr.: "I dare you to go to Annunciation School and tell our grieving community that, in effect, guns don’t kill kids, antidepressants do. Just shut up. Stop peddling bulls--t.”
WATCH — @jessicatarlov.bsky.social : “If a Democratic president were doing any of these things you would be losing your mind.” 🎯
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‘His inexperience shines through’: Steve Witkoff struggles to manage Russia as Trump peace envoy Witkoff’s solo approach has led to repeated miscues with Russia, leaving Trump’s pledge to quickly end the war between Russia and Ukraine adrift.
BERMAN: When might you call for the National Guard in Shreveport? The FBI stats show there's more violent crime there than DC JOHNSON: There's a lot of good work that's been done. We have a Democrat DA there who has not been prosecuting crime as some other more aggressive DAs have. Soros funded him
Where’s DOGE now??? 🤔😒
The shooter was posting about shooting up the church for a month and the FBI was too busy doing Trump’s dirty work to flag it. Now I know for sure if that happened under a Democrat that failure is all we’d be talking about right now.
Every Republican senator voted to confirm RFK Jr. as health secretary except for Mitch McConnell, who is retiring and thus was under no re-election pressure. The entire Republican Party has embraced anti-vax policies. It is pro-polio, pro-measles, pro-Covid. It's a death cult.
"Ashli Babbitt was a grown ass adult who made a series of conscious, ill-advised decisions to engage in treasonous behavior, and she got exactly what she deserved. She was a traitor. She was a threat to national security. There is no nuance needed here."
This how we end.
Missouri voters overwhelmingly approved earned sick time last November. Governor Mike Kehoe and Missouri Republicans signed away that right. Corporations won. Working Missourians lost.  This is an actual email forwarded to me from an employee of a company removing earned sick time.
The President of Portugal said that Trump is a Russian asset “He functions as an asset,” Rebelo de Sousa calmly explained his reasoning.
Portugal’s President Rebelo de Sousa: “The top leader of the world’s foremost superpower is, objectively, a Soviet or Russian asset. He operates as an asset.”
Real scientists will leave the country. Research will move to Europe and China. Innovation will happen elsewhere as one more American industry succumbs to the poisonous effects of corruption. www.thebulwark.com/p/the-cdc-th...
Does it matter? MAGAs control the levers of power. We’re not going to be able to vote them out at the ballot box because they won’t allow a loss. We’re going to have to dig them out.
I love how someone called the new White House gold aesthetic as "Saddamcore".
BREAKING: Big moment as CDC staff stage a mass walkout. They have lined the street outside its HQ to greet and salute the four top officials who have resigned in protest at RFK Jr’s attack on the agency’s science base. (🎥 AP)
New rule. A parent may only propose removing a book from the school library only after reading it in its entirety and delivering a book report to the librarian. Until then no discussion shall be entered into.
We’re done. No recovery. Not until it all comes down.
A cult of personality. What could go wrong?
No words. This is… a) …laughable b) …dangerous c) …damaging
🚨 We need to pay attention to what’s happening at the CDC. This isn’t bureaucratic drama — it’s a political takeover of our public health agency. The fallout will hit vaccines, outbreaks, and crisis response. Our health is on the line. We can’t look away.
Will Tucker Carlson take credit for the deaths of two children in Minneapolis today, or is he too modest to admit he contributed to this evil?
“Dr. Monarez has neither resigned nor received notification from the White House that she has been fired, and as a person of integrity and devoted to science, she will not resign,” lawyers Mark Zaid and Abbe David Lowell said in a statement.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention director Susan Monarez will not resign from her post, her lawyers said in a statement Wednesday evening.
The director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and several top officials are departing in a massive shake-up at the embattled agency. Susan Monarez, the CDC director, was fired just shy of a month into her role. At least four other officials have also submitted their resignations.
According to federal data, 13 of the top 20 cities in homicide rates have Republican governors. None of those cities are Chicago. 8 of the top 10 states in homicide rates are led by Republicans. None of those states are Illinois. And yet Trump is sending troops here.
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
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:
here's today's post: "suck-ups and flunkies agree: Dear Leader is the bestest fuckwit ever" — scenes from a batshit cabinet meeting. thanks for reading, and please sign up for my daily newsletter so you never miss a post —
Fucking nuts
Every day, another piece of nauseating news hits my gut in a way I thought I’d become immune to, reminding me that the decline towards fascism takes place through the actions, not just of the fascists themselves, but of weak humans who choose short term self-preservation over courage and conviction.
The White House said late Wednesday that it had fired Susan Monarez, the new CDC director, after a tense confrontation in which Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. tried to remove her from her position and she refused to resign.
ICE took 2 firefighters OFF THE FUCKING FIRE LINE!?
this is a scene straight out of a war zone. the president has declared war on his own country.
Europe Has Found Its Formula for Managing Trump www.nytimes.com/2025/08/27/o...
This is painful to watch. Felon Trump has the National Guard picking up trash in D.C. Because there isn’t enough crime to keep them busy?
It’s bad enough to flatter the boss as a requirement for employment. But it’s even worse to sell out your fellow Oregonians along the way.
"As for Trump’s open flirting with a third-term run in 2028? Just trolling, said Rufo: 'I wouldn’t worry about it.'" Maybe that's because he's not *worried* about it. www.thebulwark.com/p/how-chris-...
🚨Adolf Hitler rose from political outcast to absolute ruler by exploiting fear, division, and public despair. As democratic institutions bowed to his will, freedom vanished. His rise is more than history—it’s a warning of how tyranny takes hold in plain sight. open.substack.com/pub/theintel...
