CNN: “4 US citizens, a father and his 3 children, were among 5 people killed Sunday by an Israeli air strike on southern Lebanon…” www.cnn.com/2025/09/21/m...

Russian State TV: “Let’s give Trump a Nobel Prize from us…our Trumpushka is being mistreated… you’re wrong not to love our Trump… 🇺🇸 is moving away from its fundamental principles…” They praise him for getting Kimmel fired, sending the military to our cities, etc rooting for our democracy to crumble

TEXAS — “AG Ken Paxton sold himself to voters as a ‘family values’ conservative Christian to fight abortion access, trans rights… Now a divorce & rumored extramarital affair with a Christian influencer is causing fissures among Evangelical voters…” www.houstonchronicle.com/politics/tex...

Erika Kirk: "That young man… I forgive him. The answer to hate is not hate. The answer we know from the gospel is love and always love.”

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They want you mad at trans people and immigrants so you don’t think about them shifting wealth from the bottom to the top with every move they make. And Trump’s trillions transfer is accelerating the process.

So unifying

All headlines just from today 🇺🇸

the funny thing about the constant misappropriation of MLK is that the guy left a massive body of writing specifically aimed at explaining his views of those of the movement he represented to the broad public. it is extremely easy to know what the guy thought on a variety of subjects and yet

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“I call them the water drugs.”

Trump names the Ellisons & Murdochs among the American right-wing billionaires who will now help him control TikTok

🤔 @MarshaBlackburn: Trump is “draining the swamp” — she wants to make us “#1”? We are #1, Marsha! In: medical bankruptcies, disenfranchised black folks, rural hospital closures… bottom in infant/maternal mortality, poverty, violent crime, per pupil💰… She’ll make it worse

Financial Times: “The dollar is having its worst year in decades” www.ft.com/content/ac9e...

What @senschumer and others don’t seem to get is the thing about clinging to power too long is it becomes most of what people will remember you for. Great way to tarnish your own legacy.

SCHUMER: “I hope and pray Trump will sit down with us.” BASH: “And if he doesn’t Dems will vote no?” @schumer.senate.gov : *suddenly seems to lose his hearing* He “hopes and prays”, y’all. 🤔 Hard to watch.

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🧑‍🌾 NEBRASKA REPUBLICAN Rep. Don Bacon: “We have a company that makes combines moving their entire operation to Europe BECAUSE OF TRUMP’S TARIFFS. Hundreds of jobs. Our farmers are really struggling.” Hey @GovBillLee @MarshaBlackburn @CSexton25 @RepChrisTodd @rustygrills you up?

Rep. @jasmineforus.bsky.social Crockett points out only 2 of the 58 Dems who voted “NO” on the Charlie Kirk resolution were white: @sethmoulton.bsky.social (Massachusetts) & @quigley.house.gov (Illinois)

Per NYT, the “BAG OF CASH” $50,000 cash payment Homan took from undercover FBI agents was inside a bag from Cava. Trump’s DOJ made the investigation go away. A wildly corrupt regime. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/20/u...

“A DESPERATE SITUATION” 🧑‍🌾 Trump’s trade war is crushing Tennessee soybean farmers, as China — their largest customer — buys NOTHING from them. Why don’t @GovBillLee @MarshaBlackburn @RepChrisTodd @rustygrills @CSexton25 @RepFaison @AndyOgles care? tennesseelookout.com/2025/09/15/t...

Interesting — @marshablackburn acknowledging Memphis city councilwoman @jerrigreen4tn , an opponent running for Governor as a Dem. (Green responds by saying occupation isn’t a solution and pointing out Marsha does no town halls or actual public appearances in Memphis)

🇦🇺 AUSTRALIAN DOCS IN GAZA: “70-80% of our patients are kids and pregnant women… It’s a nightmare… bombing after bombing… We’re making this video because we could die at any moment… Can someone please stop this terror and horror?” Full: www.tiktok.com/t/ZTMRReCVY/

PSA: Thinking this is wrong doesn’t make you a “radical” — thinking it isn’t does.

“Should coverage you don’t like be grounds for losing a broadcast license?” TRUMP: “When a network is dishonest, certainly.” (He means when they accurately cover his own dishonesty)

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Rolling Stone - “Trump’s most authoritarian week yet”: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol... Politico - “Trump urges Bondi to prosecute his rivals”: www.politico.com/news/2025/09... It’s happening fast.

Megyn kelly saying the quiet part out loud again

California - Gov. @gavinnewsom.bsky.social : “Unmarked cars. People in masks. People disappearing… immigrants have rights, and we have the right to push back, and that’s what we’re doing.”

TIM DILLON: "It's happened in other countries...Hungary and Viktor Orbán...Putin. Nobody wants to live in a country where a late night comedian is subject to removal because he says something that the President of the United States doesn't like." (H/T @homeofthebrave)

Sometimes “Cancel Culture” is the only way to fight back against un-American government censorship

WATCH: “The difference is it wasn’t the president canceling them.” As @abbydphillip joins kmele (and Ezra Klein) in saying “liberals” should “actively acknowledge” where “cancel culture” went wrong — @ashleyallison.bsky.social explains why what’s happening now is not the same.

“The FBI recorded Tom Homan, White House border czar, accepting $50,000 in cash after indicating he could help agents posing as business executives win government contracts in a 2nd Trump administration… Trump’s DOJ shut down the investigation…” www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/t...

Leavitt explains how TikTok will now be “majority owned by Americans” (aka run by Trump-loyal billionaires)

The secretary of lying thinks we are all morons and acts like we didn’t all see Brendan Carr with our own eyes

🇺🇸 Our health care system is expensive and broken. #MedicareForAll

NBC: “The federal investigation has yet to find a link between the alleged shooter and left-wing groups on which Trump and his administration have pledged to crack down after the killing…” www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...

HUFF POST: “Trump’s promised “golden age” of high tariffs has spiked inflation to levels higher than during his predecessor Biden’s final year, increasing prices on everything from electricity to coffee.” www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

GUARDIAN: “~15 of every 16 Palestinians the Israeli military has killed since its renewed offensive in Gaza began in March have been civilians, data collected by the independent violence-tracking organisation Acled indicates.” www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

NASHVILLE — @meharrymedicalcollege , a private HBCU medical school, responds after a vicious racial slur was written at the school: “This abhorrent act will not shake who we are.” www.wsmv.com/2025/09/20/n...

Candace Owens: “Pam Bondi, who is a complete loser and a tool, is trying to use Charlie Kirk’s assassination to lay the ground work for hate speech laws in 🇺🇸— the very thing Charlie was fighting against. They all just got right to work.” (H/T @ofthebraveusa.bsky.social )

PHOENIX: “A week after the fatal shooting of Charlie Kirk, a man allegedly threatened to shoot up a gay bar to "send a message" to the far-left… told police he wanted to be a "martyr" for Kirk… alluded to harming the transgender community…” people.com/charlie-kirk...

Counterpoint: When you lie 100% of the time and only *97%* of the coverage is bad (allegedly), you’re actually doing pretty good! P.S. - Anyone who has watched the media both-sides us into the abyss knows that number is absurd.

While 🇺🇸 farms go under…

WGA WRITERS protest abc & disney : “Writers against fascism — this isn’t just about Kimmel, it’s about our ability to say what we want and not be punished by the state… a chilling effect… you don’t capitulate to bullies…” (from @moreperfectunion.bsky.social )

KRISTOF: “Trump claimed no one has died from its cuts to humanitarian aid, wants to cancel $4.9 billion more… Yet here in desperate villages in Uganda not only are aid cuts killing children daily, that death toll is accelerating.” How is this pro-life? www.nytimes.com/2025/09/20/o...

Amazing thread 🧵 from Politico global security reporter Dave Brown ✈️ x.com/dave_brown24...