I am a New Abolitionist. We should
Abolish presidential immunity
Abolish the pardon power
Abolish the Electoral College
Abolish gerrymandering
Abolish the filibuster
Abolish ICE
Abolish private prisons
Abolish lifetime appointments to SCOTUS
Abolish βspending money=speechβ
Abolish political graft
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Kansas Dem Sen. nominee Adam Hamilton on trans rights:
βI donβt think we should take a small group of people and bully them, pick on them, and hurt them. I understand one thing really clearly when it comes to transgender people, and that is Jesus told me I was to love my neighbor as I love myselfβ
A letter from Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent to Sen. Elizabeth Warren, who is the ranking Democrat on the Senate Banking Committee, and a member of the Senate Finance Committee:
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It's already illegal. Congress banned it near-unanimously in 2022. That law allows the ban to be lifted only if Russia withdraws from Ukraine. He's simply breaking the law that's already on the books.
Republican US Rep Brian Fitzgerald tweets that he will introduce a bill to block purchases of Russian oil. Don Bacon (R-Neb) tweets that he will co-sponsor. Obviously this wonβt happen during campaigning recess (and Trump could veto anyway) but interesting push-back on Trump.
π§΅Lauren Boebert had sex with three of her staffers. Two of them were women. Her sex partners were Clarisse Navarro, Jeffrey Small and Raven Finnegan. Navarro's husband Jace Ratzlaff: "I assumed this would eventually surface. Iβll have no further comment on this topic.β
When I first introduced my bill to ban stock trading in Congress 5 years ago, only a handful joined us.
Since then, weβve built a movement of bipartisan reformers committed to ending the corruption once and for all.
The time is now Speaker Johnson.
Put the bill on the floor.
My initial thought was, thatβs a dumb take. Iowa won a rivalry game thatβs always tighter than the spread suggests. Theyβre not falling out of the top 25. Then I saw heβs from Nebraska. Keep wishing, Husker.
Thousands of immigrants did the hard, dirty work of clearing rubble and toxic dust and debris from Ground Zero. Many were undocumented laborers sent to work every day with no special PPE, and got cancer as a result. Now some of those same people are living in fear of ICE.
www.npr.org/2026/09/11/n...
Kimmel should bring Colbert on as an up-and-coming comedian to do a stand-up routine and then invite him to do an interview Γ la Carson. @jimmykimmel.com
macabre = βmuh-KAHBβ
Worcestershire = βWOOSS-ter-sheerβ
omnipotent = βahm-NI-puh-tuntβ
reticent = βRET-uh-suntβ
epitome = βih-PIT-uh-meeβ
myriad = "MEER-ee-ud"
Never make fun of someone if they mispronounce a word.
It means they learned it by reading.
Dolly Parton is credited in at least 37 research papers on the COVID vaccine, including the first phase I trial results published in the New England Journal of Medicine in 2020.
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I've become radicalized on ICE, and I'm an immigration hawk. But "defund ICE" isn't a plan. (Me, I'd create a service, perhaps one that handles immigration, and also naturalization, and I'd call it the "Immigration and Naturalization Service")
Similar to the calls to defund ICE. Reform is needed but do we want to also eliminate investigating/prosecuting transnational criminal organizations, illegal cross-border trade, human trafficking, narcotics smuggling, cybercrime, intellectual property theft, & financial crimes? All fall under ICE.
There have reportedly been multiple attempts by sailors to jump overboard the USS Abraham Lincoln as poor conditions and mental stress reach a breaking point.
The crew is in its ninth month at sea, and has spent 250 days consecutively without making land, a record
An initiative on the ballot in Washington state in November would require all athletes seeking to play girl's sports from kindergarten to high school to undergo "genetic screening, a testosterone-levels test, or an examination of their reproductive anatomy" before they can play
Six congressmen bought between $83,000 to $245,000 in SpaceX stock just before its IPO:
-Jared Moskowitz
-Gil Cisneros
-Dan Meuser
-John McGuire
-William Timmons
-John James
Five serve on committees whose work impacts SpaceX's business.
We must ban members of Congress from trading stock.
But perhaps more interesting is Fox' Iowa poll: www.foxnews.com/politics/fox...
Josh Turek (D) leads Ashley Hinson (R) 50/46 for Senate
Rob Sand (D) leads Zach Lahn (R) 53/44 for governor
(A NYT/Siena poll this morning had Sand up 1 and Hinson up 2.)
The day before Trump paused tariffs and sent the S&P 500 up 9.5%, his investment accounts bought 327 stocks worth $12.8 million.
It was one of the biggest one-day market rallies in history.
The trades were disclosed over a year late.
The penalty was $200.
Parking tickets cost more than that.
before the last day of the term begins, I want to say
1. I love you and see you my trans siblings
2. Spending money is not speech
3. After the presidential immunity decision, nothing is unthinkable but cβmon this is a tap in putt
The notion of three coequal branches of government is hogwash. Congress is supreme. The president is supposed to execute the laws enacted by Congress. Courts are not the sole arbiters of what is constitutional. Supreme Court reform is crucial to preserving the Constitution.
Maybe we plan on big celebrations in 2033 for the end of the Revolutionary War and 2038 for ratification of the Constitution. Not as sexy as the 1776 stuff but we deserve a party we all can enjoy.
And as you watch the Trump regime's sloppy, lame, politicized "celebrations" that have been thrown together at the last minute with duct tape, please understand Congress created a nonpartisan commission for 250 plans in 2016!
I went to one of its first meetings, at DC's DAR hall, SEVEN YEARS AGO.
1. To put it mildly, the Democrats have had a complicated relationship with the white working class at least since passage of the 1964 Civil Rights Act. But things are going to be simple in the run up to November's midterm elections.
Try and care about trans people and gay people and people of color and women and immigrants and the disabled and the poor and the homeless as much as you care about the White House being desecrated.
RBADVISERS: β.. Extreme IPO Issuance is one of the classic signs of a bubble. The fact that today itβs BIG IPOs instead of lots of little ones really makes no difference.β
The week ending May 28, 1988, Aussie psych-rockers The Church earned US #OneHitWonder honors when their shimmering, melancholic college radio classic βUnder The Milky Wayβ entered the US #Billboard#Top40 at #37. It spent 5 weeks on the chart, peaking at #24. #TheChurch#OneHitWondered#MusicSky
Eric Levitz: Trump could have presided over a very strong economy. All he had to do was...nothing: Inflation was trending downward, the AI boom was raising growth. Instead, he engineered a global trade war and energy shock, while shrinking America's labor force. www.vox.com/politics/489...
* It's a majority Black city π‘
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It's time for Freedom Summer 2026