Hakeem “Yea on HR719” Jeffries? Has he done anything remotely becoming of a leader this Congress? Anything not strictly performative.*

And no one at the briefing asked: “Then how come they only seemed to target detainees?”

Bucket of water pulled back from the ocean.

If the tariffs are doing so great and bringing in so much, then they can be used to avoid the government shutdown and this bogus “national emergency” under which they are being enacted can be ended, right? Right?

Reminder that Mikro Johnson and his ilk pushed a redefinition of a legislative day back in April and expiring in a few days. The reason: a resolution was introduced to dissolve the bogus “emergency” under which these tariffs are being enacted.

We need to boycott the WH press pool until they bring in people who will actually push against and call out this nonsense. It’s not like this current corps of journalists is doing more than platforming the dementia-addled ramblings and fantasies.

Remember when there was still a slice of competence in the government and they made an economy that was the envy of the G7 by investing in infrastructure projects without Trumplflation and cooking the books? You should — it was just a year ago.

this shit would be a bit much for news anchors in Pyongyang

Highly normal. Nothing to see here, folks.

Nixon wasn’t enabled by decades of prep work by a significant percentage of the electorate and complicit leigslative and judiciary branches.

Negative — far too much credit to him and not those that have been playing the divisive long game since c.1980.

𒉆𒆷 𒀭𒋛𒋾𒁕 𒂦𒃻 𒀊𒍪 𒄷𒁍𒊒

Nothing suspect about these numbers at all. Why stop at 3.8%, though? If you’re going to make numbers up, then I say go wild.

Let’s be fair to those dealing with mental health issues. A country with a remotely functional government and involved, educated electorate would never have even put up with iver 40 years of a concerted effort to undermine everything or let it take the top office.

We know we know, but too many people don’t realize how much the world doesn’t believe we know and thinks we support this — and the media is complicit by not showing the protests.

Let's be clear: no one should be taking medical advice from the man who told Americans to inject bleach. To moms worried about the Tylenol they took while pregnant: you deserve better than being RFK Jr's scapegoat. And to the autism community: you are loved exactly as you are.

Let’s be clear, they brought him back because of their clear breach of contract and hopes of averting further negative pressure on their value for the merger. What have they done to address Sinclair’s plan to preempt his return with news?

I wish someone would interrupt and say, “sir, this is a Wendy’s” or something equally inappropriate to laugh him off the podium.

in point of fact, FDR’s open line of communication with black leaders like A. Philip Randolph absolutely strained his relationships with southern lawmakers and he did it anyway under the view that he was president for the whole country

Please listen to real doctors who have performed real scientific studies and not discredited grifters and brainworm addled lunatics who have their grandkids swim in toxic waste.

As a low support ND person, I am absolutely disgusted by these eugenicist grifters. Do they actually consider themselves to be the exemplars of genetic superiority? Because while you shouldn’t judge a book by its cover, JFC they are more deluded and divorced from reality than I already thought.

Also, is this RFK Jr finally admitting that actual doctors and scientists were right and it has nothing to do with vaccines?

… but don’t worry — if you buy Dr Oz’s reduced folate (B9) supplement you will be fine! Act now!* Operators are standing by!* *Please do not — they are all quacks, grifters, sycophants, and many of them are vile racist mysogynists.

the sycophancy for trump aside, very hard to overstate the arrogance of this majority in dispensing with a precedent that has served this country and both of its political parties well for nearly a century.

I never had any expectation of retirement. Before I got this job offer - just in time for my severance to end - I was ready to sell the house, pay off the car (to live in), and living bankrupt in a friend’s driveway. Still no guarantee that that can hasn’t been kicked just a little down the road.

These idiots won’t listen to actual medical professionals, but will give themselves horse dewormer enemas, vote for him as many times as they are able, and believe baseless crap like this.

Didn’t watch, but saw a clip of the pyrotechnics segment and honestly it looked like a typical megachurch Sunday with Jerry Falwell. A lot more empty seats, though.

my question for ahmari: the federal reserve is subject to democratic control — congress can, whenever it chooses, alter the terms of fed independence. how and why is the unilateral authority of the president, exercised outside of rule if law, more democratic than congress’s legitimate authority?

Today’s memorial service is peak “a condom could have prevented this” energy.

My first time seeing this transcription of Propagandhi’s “The Only Good Fascist is a Very Dead Fascist”. It varies slightly from the 1996 version I’m familiar with.

Their rush to martyrize and deify that opprobius, despicable, malignant person is beyond comprehension when you try to filter it through anything beyond self-identification.

rewatching NETWORK for a project 👀 and it is absolutely shocking how prescient this film is. it’s like paddy chayefsky was granted a vision of america in 2025 and he furiously tried to turn what he saw into something intelligible to viewers in the 1970s

Only for a semester, and then the statues will be dropped out because they can’t cut it (and the patina… can’t be having any of that).

Watch how fast many of them can suddenly wear N95s all day without issue. I don’t know if that’s a carved out exception, but I’m sure they’ll try to push that narrative.

The 400 richest Americans are now worth a record $6.6 trillion. The entire bottom 50% of America is worth just $4.2 trillion. Our problem isn't a lack of resources. Our problem is ever-expanding inequality.

When you look at it and there are 2 leaders sitting in front of it? Depending on who’s visiting there might be one leader. Does he fancy himself one?

What Jerome Powell was saying when he announced the rate cut is that we’ve never had anyone stupidly try to Thelma&Louise the economy off a cliff before and the best they can do is hope that putting a single nail in its path will help, but probably not.

And yet this is treated as if it’s completely normal.

@hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social : was voting to recognize that vile person as a “courageous patriot” your idea of being a leader? May as well rename the chamber the House of Reprehensibles so that at least you can be honest about something for once.

“Tonight we’re all Jimmy Kimmel.” “With an autocrat, you can’t give an inch. And if ABC thinks this is going to satisfy the regime. They are woefully naïve.”

they hate your freedom to challenge them and want to end it www.semafor.com/article/09/1...

October 10th is “Columbus Day” and now October 14th is going to be a Rememberence Day by unanimous vote? Japan has “Golden Week” in May, and I guess they wabted to get started on a “Toilet Week” in the US?

The government and big pharma will be paying us! Innumerate

Or…and hear me out now…they could just bring him back

This mf’er is a hugely unpopular lame duck and people and institutions with actual power are out here acting, for eight months straight, like he’s some goddam immortal emperor. Fuck that noise.

Add an amendment with gun control reforms and strict penalties for politicians abusing their office to threaten political opponents.

Again, the cowardice is stunning