Fighting Idiocracy

Hey Senate Dems, mike johnson said last week he WOULD NOT promise a vote on tax credits!!! Do you know what a bill the passes the senate but doesn't pass the house is called? It's called NOTHING! The republicans wont even hang the January 6th plaque (which is already law) They played you.

BREAKING: Trump posted your FIRED pointing to Jerome Powell. What an imbecile. If he did THIS rates will rise because of a lack in confidence in the independence of the FED.

#ICE let a toddler sit in a hot car for almost an hour while detaining his father. The mother was devastated and the child was traumatized. We must not let these #kidnappings stand! #luce #nokings #fascism

the president just said the military should start shooting american civilians if they want to

Republicans and union-busting brands will post “Happy #LaborDay,” knowing damn well that they were the types of people Labor fought against to bring us: - minimum wages - overtime pay - 8 hr workday and a 40 hr week - end to child labor - workplace safety Support unions.

This is the consequences when we chose the wrong direction.

I am grieving the barbarism that is going to unfurl from all this. People are going to die. Livelihoods gone. All to feed a corrupt kleptocracy. I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this.

If Trump suspends habeas corpus, he could detain political opponents, activists, protesters, journalists, and even disloyal Republicans indefinitely without charges or trial. Any action could be framed as insurrection to justify mass arrests. Pay attention. www.propublica.org/article/trum...

If you think a just-fertilized ovary is entitled to life but are indifferent to what happens to a kidnapped 4-year-old with cancer, sent to a dangerous country without meds, you don’t give a fuck about the lives of children. You are just in a cult that fetishizes being against abortions.

Nothing says “land of the free” like interrogating citizens over their podcast playlists at the border. www.usermag.co/p/hasan-pike...

initial reports made this sound like a minor failed attempt

Chasten and I are relieved that Governor Shapiro and his family are safe. While we wait to learn more, this much is clear: the targeting of a public official and his family - especially a prominent Jewish official on a major Jewish holiday - is unconscionable and has no place in our country.

Who lost their jobs at the FDA? The people who determine if a costly drug is ready to be a generic The people who test food and drugs for contaminants and deadly bacteria in several labs were let go The people talking to overseas drug safety regulators to get ahead of foodborne illness & deaths

Andry did the right thing: - Never committed a crime. - Fled his home when persecuted for being LGBTQ & refusing to give in to an authoritarian regime. - Sought asylum through a legal pathway. - Found us to represent him in court. So, why did the Trump admin forcibly remove him? He had tattoos.

Hey, I've got an aces idea! Let's dismantle the FBI, put a Kremlin asset in charge of the DNI, and then bomb Iran! What could possibly go wrong?

A closer look at the hell-hole Trump is sending immigrants to. CECOT—El Salvador’s infamous mega-prison built for mass incarceration. The U.S. is snatching immigrants and sending them there—no trial, no proof, just suspected gang ties. Something needs to be done about this human rights violation!

Yep

He fired the black chairman of the joint chiefs for being woke and hired his brother.

thinking of one of abraham lincoln's great quotes this morning: "As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy. Whatever differs from this, to the extent of the difference, is no democracy."

Don't be afraid to call things by what they are. MAGA is a terrorist organization, ICE is a secret police force conducting Ethnic Cleansing, Elon Musk is an oligarch, and Trump is a foreign backed coup d'état figurehead. This is not an administration, this is a regime, and your country is occupied.

So far, for the sake of optics, and getting people used to the concept of kidnapping and disappearing people, they've restricted themselves to non-citizens. But they're clearly going after people who have committed no crimes, who are here legally.

Our national shame knows few bounds these days.

After the Atlantic published the texts this morning, Tulsi Gabbard is confronted today on why she lied in her testimony to the Senate yesterday. She says she misremembered.

Hegseth: The DOD will be merit based and colorblind. You will be judged on how good you are at your job. Full stop.

So…lock them up?

They are breaking Social Security, because they do not like Social Security.

The real story isn’t that the Trumpians let a journalist into a group chat, it is that they are plotting against Europe.

Goldberg said the level of detail in the targeting package that he received via Signal was down to the *names of individuals* to be killed. That’s the good stuff that includes all kinds of sources and methods and never should have been outside a SCIF. I’d be in prison if I fucked up that bad.

Goldberg indicates Hegseth lied when he denied texting war plans

When the Obama Presidential Center opens next year, we’ll be highlighting the advocates and everyday Americans from across the country whose stories helped make the Affordable Care Act a reality. Take a listen to some of those stories:

Fact: They didn’t fear what breaking the Dept of Education would do to their kids. Their kids are in fancy private schools. They are dismantling the Dept of Ed so our kids have no choice but to be undereducated and work for their kids.

Emmanuel Macron with the chiefs of staff of 34 allied free nations. The US is not invited.

NEWS: The USAID official put on leave for disseminating two memos about Rubio's failure to push through life-saving foreign aid was in the process of writing a THIRD memo when fired. We obtained it. It's far more alarming than the first two. www.thebulwark.com/p/what-a-wee...

Someone, no idea who, may be leaking information to Russia on weapons shipments to Ukraine.

It just dawned on me that the relationship between Donald Trump and Elon Musk is suspiciously close—and closed—in the same way the relationship between Trump and Putin is. Then I remembered the WSJ report revealing Musk speaks with Putin regularly. Then I understood everything.

Trump and Musk are doing a $350 billion pump and dump with your tax money. Trump’s “Crypto Reserve” is a money laundering scheme and you are being robbed blind.

PubMed has been down since yesterday. It's the largest database of biomedical literature in the world with 37M citations. If this is a result of Trump's NIH funding freeze, it's extremely bad news for scientific community not just in the US but across the world.

Of course Speaker Mike Johnson is living in the $3.7 million DC home of an election-denying, policy-driving “evangelical pastor who has attacked the separation of church and state as ‘a delusional lie’ and called multinational institutions ‘demonic’”… www.propublica.org/article/mike...

The Blue Report is amazing. The most clicked on articles are right here theblue.report

Pritzker: If we don’t want to repeat history, then for god’s sake, in this moment, we better be strong enough to learn from it.

Blumenthal: "What world is he living in? It is not only contrary to the facts and the truth but utterly despicable. A disgusting betrayal of a country that has bled and fought and died for freedom ... the president's surrender is pathetic and weak."

I thought they were all self-made rugged individualists who didn’t rely on socialism.

Imagine if a woman brought her kid to a press conference.

This says it all