The President wouldn't last five minutes as an air traffic controller, and after everything they've been through - and the way this administration has treated them from Day One - he has no business shitting on them now.

BREAKING: Trump has just issued pardons to dozens of conservatives who tried to overturn the 2020 election results, including: Mark Meadows, Kenneth Chesebro, Jeffrey Clark, Rudy Giuliani, Sidney Powell, John Eastman, Boris Epshteyn, and more — per pardon attorney Ed Martin.

To my trans friends: I see you. The regime cannot change who you are. You determine who you are. No Supreme Court ruling can change your identity. You are beautiful, beloved, and trans. No regime can take away the truth.

Under Schumer's leadership, eight Democrats (Cortez Masto, Durbin, Fetterman, Hassan, Kaine, King, Rosen, & Shaheen) joined the Republicans in moving forward a bill to reopen the government without ACA subsidies—Dems' stated key aim—or any other real concessions from the status before the shutdown.

Sanders: Let’s be clear… If this vote succeeds, over 20 million Americans are going to see at least a doubling in their premiums… if resolution is passed tonight, we are on a path way to throw 15 million Americans off of medicaid and the affordable care act, 15 million.

Dear Democratic Senators: if you vote for this selling out of the ACA it will be the end of your careers. Depend upon it. You are there to defend this country against Trump and the fascists, not collude with them. If you become Quislings, you will forever REMAIN Quislings

Take stock of everything that is failing us right now. When the moment comes, don’t seek to restore + improve those institutions. We should replace them.

It’s heartbreaking. /

Chaos erupted in Little Village. /

My article on Lazarus and the Trump Regime:

The public-facing side of American conservative politics more or less amounts to crashing out constantly about a bunch of shit that either you or the weird liars you listen to uncritically have made up. The non-public part, from what we've seen of the chat logs and such, is somehow much worse.

Even if the Republican controlled federal government had allowed the $6 billion contingency reserve to be used to fund SNAP benefits it wouldn’t have been enough to completely fund SNAP Let that sink in, The Trump administration made a conscious choice to starve millions of Americans.

Given what Miller’s threat to arrest Pritzker for seditious conspiracy, I ask again:

Brian Schatz: "This is not about money. There is enough money to bail out Argentina with $20b. There is enough money to purchase a brand new aircraft for $173m for Noem. There is enough money to renovate the WH ballroom. What there isn't enough money for under this Republican government is you."

After adding new data to our spreadsheet, our central estimate of turnout for the No Kings Day protests yesterday has risen to 5.5 million, with an upper bound of 8.7 www.gelliottmorris.com/p/second-no-...

Just found out today that I’ve been accepted for ordination in the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)!

ICE agents surrounded, seized, and zip-tied a U.S. citizen who had just finished working a double shift because she didn’t “look” American to them. She had her U.S. passport on her when she was detained, yet she was interrogated for an hour. trib.al/hDC7Vgv

On Saturday, we wear yellow. ❌👑

a russ vought special

ICE secretly kidnap autistic boy during bathroom break—never notify parents. Mother reported him missing a week ago—turns out ICE had him detained the whole time. He was helping sell fruit and asked to go to the restroom—by the time she was done helping a customer he was gone. Houston, Texas

When this is all over, we’re going to need a plaque OR SOMETHING to memorialize good folks like this neighbor.

Less than a year into the Trump admin and the National Governors Association, founded over 115 years ago, is on the brink of collapse.

I do not regret to inform you that we are going to win

ICE is pepper spraying CPD (Chicago police)

Trump during the campaign: I never even heard of Project 2025, don’t know anything about it, don’t know who is involved. Trump today:

Laura Ingraham dated Dinesh D'Souza and they both deserved it.

Oklahoma is 50th in education because Walters uses kids’ education as his play toy to score his next hit on Fox. He couldn’t care less about kids.

The union representing the musicians from Jimmy Kimmel’s band releases a statement calling the FCC’s pressure on Disney “state censorship.”

To review: an apparent right wing civil war between white Christian nationalist Groypers and white Christian nationalist college campus activists results in the murder of a leader of the latter; and that will now spark a 1930s-style putsch against liberals by the fascists who run the country.

The Nazi extermination programs didn’t begin with Jews. It began in September 1939 with the involuntary euthanasia of people with disabilities and the mentally ill under the Aktion T4 program. That’s how they developed their techniques of mass extermination.

Racist court. Racist president.

At any other point in my life, this would already be a huge story, and if somehow it wasn’t, tips like these would get reporters scrambling to write the definitive feature story about it. I guess we’ll see…

This. 👇👇👇 JB 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?”

it is always worth remembering that vance made a conscious decision to be a person of low character. he has eagerly contorted himself into evil for the sake of what amounts to a whiff of power.

I think postmodern fascism is going to be the ideology of the 21st century. Killing for the sake of killing, because everybody vaguely remembers that killing is what important people, and we all want to be important. Acting out a cargo cult of the 20th century, without reason or meaning.

Here's what the third day of elementary school looked like in Mount Pleasant, Washington DC.

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"Chicago is next" If there isn't a full on uprising over this chasing the military out, we will have de facto martial law.

We are seeing in realtime that many US-born US citizens have been raised to believe that the US should be a white Christian Nationalist monarchy They are actively not committed to democracy And not enough people are talking about the significance of this as a feature of today’s political situation

We are outraged and deeply distressed that armed federal agents came onto our campus—making arrests on the very ground where, in 1942, Japanese American families were forced to board buses bound for concentration camps. It was a deliberate act of provocation and intimidation.

Trans people: can we have rights? GOP: no because you're mentally ill freaks and we want you to die Centrists: No because I don't want my kids to be trans, and because you asked us we're voting GOP Democrats: No because asking us is purity politics and that makes fascism your fault, how dare you

This right here. My blood boils just thinking about it.

This is how everyone should treat this masked thugs!! ‘This is cowboy country and we don’t get down with that bullshit!…You got two options you can get the fuck off my property or we can get down.’ Bravo, sir‼️💥🔥💥

US army rolling the red carpet to murderer’s plane. I will never forget this image.

OPINION: A recent CNN interview highlighted Wilson's misogyny in wanting to repeal the 19th Amendment, his racism in saying “mutual affection” existed between some masters and slaves, and his homophobia in seeking to repeal same-sex marriage rights. religionnews.com/2025/08/13/h...

I'm Jewish and I think about antisemitism all the time. I can't tell you how fucking weird it is that Homeland Security posting literal neo-Nazi propaganda generates less discussion about the threat to Jews than a mayoral candidate who believes Palestinians are human beings.