I always pay attention to what stories People Magazine and other consumer media outlets cover. That's how you can tell that something has broken through the usual political and news bubbles. This horrific Chicago story has broken through. people.com/ice-agents-o...

Cartoon by @mluckovich.bsky.social.

We've had fuckups in the White House before, but never a president who seemed so deliberately intent on being a fuckup. It's been said before, but if these people were actual agents of an enemy power seeking to divide, dismantle and destroy the USA they wouldn't be doing anything different.

so the US government just forced a tech company to delete an app it doesn’t like, which is totally normal stuff www.404media.co/iceblock-own...

ICE is running around Chicago harassing people for not being white. Just a year ago, that was illegal in the United States and now it’s commonplace. That’s not making America great again.

Mr Speaker, your dishonor will remain.

Bull. Shit. No one was dancing in the streets or celebrating a man getting shot in another senseless act of gun violence. That's just ridiculous. Maga wants to turn his death into a movement, when it's just one of hundreds of gun shootings, most of which are ignored as soon as they happen.

Me, to @chrislhayes.bsky.social on @allinwithchris.bsky.social on @msnbc.com last night: "[Lindsey Halligan] has no more authority than you or I or my two corgis to present an indictment to a grand jury in the Eastern District of Virginia."

Quote of the day.

Yes, this 👇 is spot on. 🤔🙄😉

She called it. The media blew it by letting a serial liar off the hook

While the felon president and his Fox cabinet pillory Latin American cartels, Russell Vought's Trump GOP cartel pillages America. bsky.app/profile/murr...

For my September royalties on #FridayLimericks: Mistakes Were Made, I’ve chosen Give an Hour. Our active and veteran military members are watching their service and intelligence demeaned, and I want to do my small part to help. (1/3)

This is so indefensibly insane: Speaker Johnson is refusing to seat Congresswoman-elect Adelita Grijalva because she'll be the 218th vote to release the Epstein files. Johnson swore in Rep Walkinshaw (VA) w/in 24 hours. Johnson is abandoning his job to instead protect a convicted child sex predator

He knows it. They know it. They've always known it. Amongst themselves, they joke about it. They tell stories about it. They swap advice on how to deal with it. But most importantly, to everyone else, they lie about it.

Release the Epstein files

What's lil Mike trying to hide?

Meanwhile, Triple SecDef and Cheeto Mussolini are more concerned with going to war against Americans

FACT CHECK: Donald Trump’s trade war is crushing soybean farmers. Full stop. Republicans like Bessent down to TN’s Rep. Rusty Grills sound delusional blaming Biden. That math ain’t mathin’! Soybean sales to China under Biden last year: $13B Soybean sales to China under Trump this year: $0

It's now official - and continues to trend - that more Americans blame Trump for the shutdown, than Dems. What's more - more Americans also blame Trump for consistently embarrassing America on the global stage. In addition, more Americans blame Trump for protecting pedophiles. (more)

They voted for the guy who is doing exactly what he told them he was going to do. I suspect many of them voted Republican on autopilot because actually paying attention, listening, and considering the consequences was just a little too much trouble for them to bother with.

The Trump Admin is using government websites and the emails of civil servants to promote blatantly partisan propaganda about the government shutdown. This is an intolerable abuse of power and a form of bureaucratic identity theft from federal workers.

A week is a long lllloooonnnnggg time in politics …🎪🤡🎪

Any bailout will mostly go to Big Farma anyway, but the little guys can always sell for pennies on the dollar. Just as as it happened before and just like Project 2025 laid out.

I'm not who I love, who I ignore, the color of their skin, those are all things we have no control over. They're human traits. We all have the same makeup inside,veins, heart pumping sickness, health. I judge you by how you treat all human beings regardless of physical differences.

He bailed out Argentina… He’s building a ballroom, a ballroom! He’s laying off or firing federal workers to simply avoid extending Americans health credits. Think about that!

There can be no resolution to the shutdown as long as Republicans lie and continue to give Trump the power of the purse. You can't negotiate with people who aren't good-faith actors. It's a Republican shutdown.

Powerful

He has nerve enough to call her low-IQ when he demonstrates impeccable logic and math skills like these.

The GOP have ceded all control over the government to Trump and Democrats are expected to negotiate with them knowing no matter what compromises they make, Trump will either ignore or do the opposite of what they've agreed on if he wants. How could anyone bargain in good faith with such a grifter?

True Story… 🇦🇷

The strength and power of despotism consists wholly in the fear of resistance. --Thomas Paine 🔥 🔥 🔥

Critical reminder for Republicans on how it worked out for the world's most documented liar after forcing the longest government shutdown in U.S. history while vowing that he would "not cave". He caved. And got NOTHING. 🌮 ICYMI: TACO = Trump Always Chickens Out

Something bad is bound to happen. Miller and Trump are counting on it. When it does, no matter what happens, why it happened or whose fault it was, they will spin it into a reason to massively deploy troops and crack down on the enemy. Hint, that's us. www.rawstory.com/adam-kinzing...

I guess the Hatch Act is irrelevant now in addition to the emoluments clause or Congress being in charge of tariffs and taxes.

We’ve been warning about the propaganda. For more proof of how aggressively the Trump administration is pushing its propaganda machine, just look at the government websites.

Why is the Texas Bearded Weasel so worried about the NY mayor race he's spreading lies about one of the candidates? Doesn't he have a boring podcast to plan or a crisis to flee from?

MADELEINE DEAN: The president is unhinged. He's unwell JOHNSON: A lot of folks on your side are too D: Oh my god, please. That performance in front of the generals? J: I didn't see it D: It's so dangerous! Our allies are looking elsewhere. Our enemies are laughing. You have a POTUS who's unwell.