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Let's break this down. I'm a merchant Captain for former USAF officer. The US Navy destroyed a civilian vessel in international waters without attempting to seize/board the vessel and without being engaged in combat. This is "manifestly unlawful". The US Navy has a DUTY to refuse illegal orders.
There is no curse in Elvish, Entish, or the tongues of Men for this treachery.
HUGE. The 5th Circuit joins many other federal courts in holding that Trump’s invocation of the Alien Enemies Act was unlawful. The judges emphasize that the law is fundamentally about *war* and about military actions; not illegal immigration or drug trafficking.
Protest numbers swelled up as crowds began marching towards the regime's Georgian Dream headquarters to stand firm against mass arrests and the Tsulukiani Commission report. (🎥 Nini Gabritchidze/Civil.ge) #GeorgiaProtests #3E
The year is 2300. The environment is in total devastation. The Resource Wars are raging and never-ending. The myriad of complications from overpopulation have pushed humanity to the brink. The Republicans blame Biden.
Over 1,000 current and former HHS staff call for RFK Jr's resignation. His actions place the health and lives of all Americans at risk. Join us. Read the letter. Call your representatives. Good health is neither partisan nor ideological. www.savehhs.org
Thank you King George 🙄
The GENIUS Act barred stablecoin issuers from paying interest. But in allowing cryptocurrency exchanges to offer rewards, it set off a high-stakes clash with the US banking industry. www.wired.com/story/genius...
It’s corruption, plain and simple.
Oh joy. The Gestapo gets steroids.
🚨 ICE can spy on devices 🚨 Everyone please practice online hygiene! Don’t open unknown emails or files. Run a VPN. ICE can see anything they want if you get infected with spyware called Graphite. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Weeks after a gunman opened fire on the CDC, House GOP 2026 budget proposes a ban on federally-funded research aimed at developing policies to prevent gun violence. The research resumed in 2020 after a two-decade freeze.
COMMENTARY: If this was happening in another nation, we'd call it by name. It's authoritarianism.
Jeffrey Epstein survivors say they haven't had any contact with the DOJ
A 3-judge panel of the 5th Circuit held late Tuesday that the Alien Enemies Act did not apply to Venezuelan migrants the Trump administration says are members of the Tren de Aragua gang, which they claim is invading the US. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/03/u...
Gavin Newsom explains why California and other blue states carry the nation's economy and how Democrats have created 90+% of the jobs in America since the 1980s. Why aren't the Democrats better at messaging? This is good stuff.
Uh huh. Hey, I've got a game. I'm going to say a number, and you tell me if it rings any bells. $787 MILLION
What the study said was both FOX and MSNBC leave you less informed than more neutral sources like PBS do. That study was 13 years ago. www.businessinsider.com/study-watchi...
Ghost jobs are a real danger for people living paycheck to paycheck. Someone teetering on the edge of poverty may spend precious hours, transportation money, and emotional energy applying to positions that don’t exist or are already filled.
Sen. Mark Warner, D-Va., the vice chair of the Intelligence Committee, says he was denied a meeting with career intelligence workers because Laura Loomer objected.
So our military just bombed a boat in international waters and extrajudicially killed suspected drug traffickers without so much as a conversation, let alone a trial? Then posted it on social media? And we’re all supposed to just trust their account?
Wes Moore is NOT playing: I am the Commander in Chief of the National Guard. I will not authorize the Maryland National Guard to be activated. THIS is how you fight back.
Trump and Bondi fired actually experienced immigration judges. Now, claiming they don't have enough immigration judges, they're asking military lawyers from DOD to come over on detail and serve as temporary judges. Blatant way to further militarize immigration enforcement. apnews.com/article/pent...
Pritzker: "Any rational person who has spent even the most minimal amount of time studying human history has to ask themselves one important question: once they get the citizens of this nation comfortable with the current atrocities committed under the color of law, what comes next?"
The president is sending the military to control American cities and if you're a reporter who's framing that illegal power grab as "pushing the boundaries of constitutionality" or "acting boldly to fight crime" or whatever, please go find another line of work where you won't get us all killed.
“Weather forecasting has gotten bizarrely politicized because underneath the weather is the climate. Meteorologists I have talked to now feel that they could be attacked if they mention climate change and its connection to major weather.”
Pritzker: "I refuse to pretend that any of this is normal ... 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."
FOX BUSINESS: “My goodness. $5 BILLION. Eye-popping numbers… crypto-friendly legislation coming from the president who is in turn cashing in on crypto. A conflict of interest.” Even Fox sees how insanely corrupt Trump’s crypto grift is. (H/T @ab21.bsky.social )
Mass arrests in Georgia are pushing protestors towards the edge "We have nothing left to lose, so everything begins now!" #3E (📸 @True_Georgian )
🚨BREAKING: Federal court STRIKES DOWN down new South Dakota law imposing a nine-month deadline to file ballot measures declaring it unconstitutional under the First Amendment. Congrats to Dakotans for Health and their legal team! www.democracydocket.com/cases/south-...
As many as 100 survivors of Jeffrey Epstein and other victims of sexual abuse are expected to attend a rally Wednesday in Washington, D.C. as a bipartisan Congressional effort gains steam to force the U.S. Department of Justice to make public its controversial files on the disgraced sex trafficker.
Here's a ray of sunshine in a very dark world Germany has already exceeded its goal of shutting down 8 GW of coal plants - 3 years earlier than expected Amazing what a little sun and wind can do 😎 www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
See through it.
The largest SNAP cuts in history went into effect yesterday, eliminating or drastically cutting food assistance for millions of Americans. And it’s all to pay for more tax cuts that primarily benefit the super-rich. Trickle-down economics isn't just a hoax — it's cruel.
Pritzker: "It breaks my heart to report that we have been told ICE will try to disrupt community picnics and peaceful parades. Let's be clear -- the terror and cruelty is the point, not the safety of anybody living here."
Senate Democrats: DO NOT FUND the government when the current continuing resolution expires at the end of the month. SHUT IT DOWN unless DC is funded, the troops are withdrawn from our cities, elections are protected, the Epstein files are released in full... SHUT IT DOWN.
Pritzker: Any rational person who has spent even the most minimal amount of time studying human history has to ask themselves one important question: Once they get the citizens of this nation comfortable with the current atrocities committed under the color of law, what comes next
Pritzker: When did we become a country where it's okay for the president to insist on national television that a state should call him to beg for anything, especially something we don't want? Have we truly lost all sense of sanity in this nation that we treat this as normal?
I know, I know, but: The president of the US saying, literally, "we're going in" in reference to sending the military to an American city for no reason beyond terrorizing the local population should be the most immediately impeachable shit imaginable
Pritzker: "When did we become a country where it's ok for the US president to insist on national television that a state should call him to beg for anything? Especially something we don't want. Have we truly lost all sense of sanity in this nation that we treat this as normal?"
Trump has done one thing very well. He is a grand uniter. Of the rest of the world. Against the United States.
“The Ivalice Chronicles” updates the small things in the 28-year-old game but sticks to the original’s script. That’s by design, says its director.
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.
The party of small government wants to control everything your kids can learn. HHS is threatening to withdraw funds if schools don't remove any references to gender ideology. Fuck, what funds? Lol. www.msnbc.com/top-stories/...
After its flagship crypto venture opened trading of a new digital currency Monday, the Trump family notched as much as $6 billion in paper wealth.
FOX: Is it fair to say that Chicago is gonna see a crackdown whether they want it or not? ICE OFFICIAL MADISON SHEAHAN: Look, we're gonna be going in to the toughest cities in America
Meanwhile www.npr.org/2025/09/02/n...
Platner "is not a conventional politician," Sanders tells Rolling Stone. More: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
NEWS A federal judge BLOCKS the Trump admin from using the military in California for civilian law enforcement in violation of the Posse Comitatus Act. Ruling storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us... Background www.allrisenews.com/p/general-sc...
Bernie Sanders tells Rolling Stone he’s backing Graham Platner, Maine’s oysterman Senate candidate, to “send a message.” The message: “Ordinary people can step up, you can take on the powers that be. You can win.” Dispatch from @andrewperez.bsky.social: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
the June immigration protests. The judge said Trump had essentially turned soldiers into a domestic police force, violating the Posse Comitatus Act the law that bars presidents from using the military to enforce laws against civilians inside the United States.
A Democratic super PAC is launching a $700,000 digital ad blitz slamming Susan Collins for opposing a bipartisan bill that would ban members of Congress from trading stocks. This ad accuses Collins of “the worst kind of greed… using insider information to trade stocks.” Please WATCH and SHARE. 👀
very direct evidence that video game piracy is important in the preservation of video games
Platner: No one cares that you pretend to be remorseful as you sell out to lobbyists. Symbolic opposition does not reopen hospitals. Weak condemnations do not bring back Roe V Wade. Maine deserves better than Susan Collins.
“I think we need a grassroots movement in this country which transforms the Democratic Party into a party of the working class that is prepared to fight for the issues relevant to the working class,” Sanders says. “And that’s what Graham Platner is about.” More: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
. THIS is one of the biggest problems of our time . . . ⬇️ ⬇️ ⬇️ .
Some new street art spotted in DC 🤣
Book grift. I think she's wrong on two accts: 1. It's the will of the majority of Americans to have Roe, and 2. It's not the courts job to "respect the choices of the American People" in the direct democratic sense she implies. It's to interpret and apply the US Constitution and Federal Law.
Portland, Maine crowd as Democratic US Senate candidate Graham Platner takes the stage today.
78 YEAR-OLD REP. NADLER TO RETIRE: “Watching the Biden thing really said something about the necessity for generational change in the party, and I think I want to respect that.” www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/n...
Wages of unionized workers are 13% higher than their nonunion counterparts. But unions also set a higher pay standard that all workers enjoy. In high-union-density states, median household income is $12,000 higher than in low-union-density states. This is why unions are vital.
Marsha Blackburn wants the National Guard in Memphis. www.actionnews5.com/2025/09/01/s...
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."
"Even in a long line of anti-labor GOP presidents, Trump stands out. And while he may not succeed in completely destroying collective bargaining in America, he’s poised to strike terrible blows against organized labor." — @paulwaldman.bsky.social
Unemployment for Black Americans has surged to 7.2%, the highest level since October 2021, when the job market was still recovering from the pandemic. The drop in employment is a warning sign. @wsj.com www.wsj.com/economy/jobs...
🚨🚨🚨If you live anywhere in the greater Chicago area…ICE will start using Great Lakes Naval Station as a command center for their “enforcement” operations across Chicago on Sept 5. The base isn’t in the city or Cook County. It’s north, in Lake County. Expect raids across entire the metropolitan area.
We want to give a big shout-out to Palm Beach Gardens, New York City, Boston, Los Angeles, Houston, Albuquerque, Cleveland, and Greensboro! Thank you for showing up today and making your voices heard! 💚✊
A shout-out to Portland, Little Rock, Ocean City, San Diego, Indianapolis, Salem, Denver, Asheville, and Pittsburgh!
Our government tried to send a planeful of unaccompanied minors to Guatemala without due process. Fortunately a judge was able to block it before they took off. What fucking monsters the United States has become. Trafficking innocent children. www-cbsnews-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/www.cbsn...
After Taco pulled Kamala's Secret Service detail, Gavin Newsom orders the California Highway Patrol to take over her personal security. The courts and legislature have failed us. Blue governors are stepping up and getting creative. We need heroes. deadline.com/2025/08/kama...
Netflix is putting its money where its mouth is: 💰 $2M to back Newsom in the redistricting fight 📺 A deal for Sesame Street — new episodes and the full archive free to watch. That’s how you pick a side.
The problem isn’t refugees on boats. The problem is oligarchs hoarding obscene amounts of wealth while most people fight to stay afloat. Wages aren't tied to inflation, so the working class keeps falling behind no matter how hard they work.
Probably jammed a lot of other planes as well. But nonetheless, I would consider this as assassination attempt.
ABC News is still calling RFK Jr. a “vaccine skeptic.” The dude was one of the most prominent anti-vaccine activists for decades. There’s video of him in 2023 saying that there’s no vaccine which is safe and effective. You can call him an anti-vaccine activist!
NEW: Nadler will not seek re-election, citing the need for a new generation of leaders. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/n...
Platner: I believe that input from working people is far more important than input from someone who simply has money. I believe that we shouldn’t be settling for crumbs while billionaires eat the cookie we baked.
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If the CDC was going to publish these guidelines its scientists had an obligation to review the evidence behind them. But HHS officials rebuffed repeated requests. “The answer was no—they declined to share any of the materials that they were using to support that decision…CDC has never seen it.”
MO Gov Mike Kehoe is calling a special session to gerrymander the 5th District which encompasses Kansas City. He is specifically violating Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, which bans any voting practice that denies or weakens the power of a racial minority to elect its preferred candidates.
Honestly, the hour-long run and march of people shouting “Free DC” up 14th Street today is the energy I needed this morning. I love you, DC.
Kressly: I expect in the next couple of weeks, this is going to get worse. You’re going to hear from the same administrative people who have gutted the expertise needed to promote child health — pushing false narratives like, “we need to look at the link between vaccines and autism.” That is a lie.
You guys see where this is going? Right?
They're both lying to you.
California stepping up.
I stand with Chicago. I stand with Mayor Johnson. 🚨 NEW: Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson just signed an executive order to resist Trump’s federal invasion and occupation of the city. Details in 🧵
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...
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."
this should become a thing, putting up signs like this for every arrest & disappearance in public spaces. it would likely break into lower info, less politically engaged demos and local social media groups
That is the proper counter point. Hard science needs defending more than ever! Don't let them undermine proper, peer-reviewed studies!
This is Parker, she was shot in the head in Los Angeles for protesting ICE kidnappings and ethnic cleansing. She recovered and is now back to protesting because in times of fascism nobody can afford to do nothing. “We need everybody” “I call for revolution, it starts here” #3E
Remove RFK Jr for dereliction of duties. Immediately.
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!
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."
FYI www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
FEMA employee on leave describes "culture of fear “ among agency employee
In Ohio, Republicans seem to not be able to give a general answer to a simple question. I hope the one is joking with the Jurassic Park answer.... Education, science, and facts matter.
This Administration doesn't care about the laws. They don't care about due process. All they care about is power and exerting control over cities they don't like. Los Angeles will not stand for it.