Trump: "Portland, I mean -- every time I look at that place it's burning down. There are fires all over the place. When a store -- there are very few of them left -- but when a store owner rebuilds a store they build it out of plywood. They don't put up storefronts anymore. They just put wood up."

And yes, they're trying to intimidate us but Pritzker's right -- everyone needs to be out in numbers at these events.

It’s very much Not Great to have GOP leadership describe a planned non violent march as being in service a the “terrorist wing”

Take heart open.substack.com/pub/chrissat...

That got dark quickly.

Trump: "We took the freedom of speech away because that's been through the courts and the courts said you have freedom of speech, but what has happened is when they burn a flag it agitates and irritates crowds."

💯Today’s must-read

They are not Trump's enemies. They are critics and opponents. He sees them as enemies, because that's how autocrats perceive their critics. NYT should not repeat and normalize authoritarian discourse. How Trump Is Using the Justice Department to Target His Enemies www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Stalinism and Stephen Miller (video) open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...

Gavin Newsom with the receipts!

Trump’s efforts to militarize ICE & send federalized Nat'l Guard troops onto American streets, firing government employees during the shutdown, it's all part of Project 2025, which he disavowed all knowledge of during the campaign because it was so unpopular. joycevance.substack.com/p/project-20...

Tim Walz: "My god, we've got the White House threatening investigations and jail time because an escalator stopped? Walk up the damn stairs!"

Surreal moment for America. Needless to say, if the normal police ever pulled something like this — pulling every single person out of an apartment building and handcuffing them to run warrant checks — they would be sued into oblivion. Yet ICE is going to get away with it entirely.

Raskin: "It's not lost on anyone that shutting the government down allows them not swear in our new colleague, Ms Grijalva from Arizona, who would be the 218th signature to discharge the Epstein files and to put a vote on that on the House floor."

This didn’t happen under Biden because he believed government should actually function on behalf of the people, not actively work against them in order to benefit the wealthy.

Do we say a man is sane when he calls in the military to fight a war when there is no war? If such a man is not sane, do we have a solution to stop the madness if he’s in the White House?

"A GOP-affiliated PAC is sending PA voters a mailer warning that the state Supreme Court 'gerrymandered our congressional districts to help Democrats win.' The issue? The pictured map was not drawn by the Court; it was drawn by legislative Republicans and thrown as an unconstitutional gerrymander."

When the President uses federal law enforcement for his personal revenge, it puts all of us in danger.

The University of Arizona confirmed Thursday that fall 2025 enrollment of first-year students dropped by 19%, mostly due to declines in out-of-state and international students.

Thug at the UN open.substack.com/pub/anntelna...

More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

NEW: In extraordinary shift, President Trump says Ukraine can take back all territory lost over Russia's invasion.

Good for the NYT. (Bad for America and the world. But well and clearly presented by NYT.)

Be Loud — For America open.substack.com/pub/contrari...

Trump: “Smart people don’t like me”

The President of the United States is threatening to go to war with an American city. This is not a joke. This is not normal. Donald Trump isn't a strongman, he's a scared man. Illinois won’t be intimidated by a wannabe dictator.

Here's info on the next big NO KINGS event in Philly. www.mobilize.us/indivisiblep...

House Republicans dumped mostly public docs from the Epstein files to try to divert attention away from Trump We at @democracydefendersfund.org are fighting to uncover the most important Trump Epstein files I discussed our litigation efforts on @briefingwithpsaki.bsky.social

Under His 👁️

Apologies! You have reached the end of your free trial period of America

I don’t know what did or didn’t happen to Trump, but what I do know is the country has the right to know the truth.

We’ve devolved from a government of laws and rules to a vibe government, where the president just kind of gets to tell everyone what to do because he’s the president and everyone knows you gotta listen to the president

9 CDC Directors going back to 1977 speak out. What RFK Jr has done to our nation’s public health system "should alarm every American." It "is unlike anything we have ever seen at the agency, and unlike anything our country has ever experienced." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...

This song was written 27 years ago. Sadly, it's still relevant. www.youtube.com/watch?v=vzVg...

Stalin could only have dreamed of having such toadies.

Pritzker: To the members of the press who are assembled here today and listening across the country, I am asking for your courage to tell it like it is. This is not a time to pretend here that there are two sides to this story.

Bad: Using the National Guard in DC to "fight crime" Really bad: Threatening to use them in other (blue) cities Really really bad: Sending units from red states only Superbad: Specialized units within the National Guard to deal with "public order issues" (All within the last 2 weeks, too)

@rokhanna.bsky.social: “Only 3% of the documents given to the [House] Oversight Committee are new. The rest are already in the public domain. Less than 1% of files have been released. DOJ is stonewalling.” khanna.house.gov/media/press-...

Putin is murdering children every day. But Trump wants to hang out with him at the World Cup. bsky.app/profile/atru...

Do you know how insane and infuriating it is to live in a country where one party claims, with media and public support, the mantle of being the ‘tough on crime’ party while its leader openly calls for convicted criminals to be released from prison ‘or else’?

can’t believe the host of the Kennedy Center Honors is wasting his valuable time like this

NEW: In March, the Trump administration announced a massive purge of workers at the nation's health agencies. We asked them how many workers were laid off, pushed out or left. They refused to give us numbers. So we conducted our own analysis... 🧵 projects.propublica.org/federal-heal...

Outside Dupont north metro

Masked agents of the state are removing random people off the streets into unmarked cars while saying “liberals ruined the country.” I never want to hear anyone who supports MAGA claim to believe in freedom ever again.

USA Today's Rex Huppke is one of very few reporters covering 47's blatant cognitive failures:

Aside from everything else, Asher attributes much of the big recent decline in crime to local spending — made possible by federal aid. A little-noticed benefit of Bidenomics — and an extra reason to worry about Trump-era cuts 3/

Every newspaper should be doing this: www.inquirer.com/politics/nat...

NEWS: Trump extends China tariff deadline for another 90 days

The law specifies a census every ten years, not whenever you feel like it could help your party.