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“'Public safety depends on trust between law enforcement and the communities they serve — but Trump and (Stephen) Miller have shattered that trust and spread fear across America,' Gov. Newsom wrote": https://www.sfchronicle.com/politics/article/newsom-ice-masks-immigration-21053479.php “Masked […]

"America’s leadership class no longer leads. It hides ... The disappearance of America’s leadership class at a time like this means that the rest of us have to be leaders. You must be a leader": https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/sep/22/america-democray-leadership-robert-reich […]

JoJoFromJerz: "Donald Trump just blamed the left for hate speech, while delivering a hate speech at the memorial for a man who said there was no such thing as hate speech." #charliekirk #politics #trump #worstpresidentever

Mehdi Hasan: "With the exception of (his widow) Erika Kirk, this was clearly a political rally by MAGA, not a normal memorial. Did Kirk’s parents speak? His sister? Childhood friends? Or was it all just Trumps and Trump Administration figures making threats against their opponents?" #politics

"Donald Trump gave a speech at a memorial event for Charlie Kirk, and has been criticised over the contents of his address ... Trump spoke about topics including hating his opponents, as well his signature tariffs policy, and autism" […]

Jamie Dupree: "Don't forget the Jim Traficant Rule on this Homan story. If you don't declare bribe money on your taxes, you are guilty of tax evasion." #crime #politics #values

Sen. Chris Murphy: "Tom Homan, Trump's border czar, literally accepted a bag of cash—$50,000—and the investigation was dropped when Trump became president. There are two standards of justice now in this country. If you are a friend of the president, you can get away with anything." #crime […]

#healthcare and especially vaccine research are being harmed by #rfkjr, as this political cartoon by Bill Bramhall illustrates:

"The Trump administration is reshaping the Foreign Service into a smaller, weaker force in international relations." This is part of the #makerussiagreatagain plan of Putin and #putinspuppet: https://www.politico.com/news/2025/09/21/trump-embassies-ambassadors-00573848 #nationalsecurity […]

How bad is inflation in the United States? It is so bad that "The Bureau of Labor Statistics on Friday postponed the release of a key annual report central to future inflation data": https://www.axios.com/2025/09/19/bls-cpi-report-inflation #ignoranceisbliss #politics #economy

We are seeing "the brazen and increasingly effective efforts by Pres. Donald Trump and his administration to threaten the fortunes of the companies that own the news #media to dictate their coverage": https://www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/openforum/article/jimmy-kimmel-abc-tv-trump-21057608.php It […]

Sen. Elizabeth Warren spoke "about her vision for a progressive economic story and the lessons Democrats need to learn going forward": https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/22/opinion/elizabeth-warren-americas-story.html copy: @renewedresistance #politics #economy #personalfinance

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#bloomscrolling: These #flowers are from a #picture shared by Gina Jardines:

Tevin Juwan Brown: "Hard work always pays off, but not always with a reward. The habits built through the journey will be instrumental to your growth."

Celebrity contestant on Season 13 of The Masked Singer #batmansmidlifecrisis #hashtaggames

THIS: Imagine if this many people cared about school shootings

Who could have imagined that a guy who uses the moniker “Ka$h” would take over the FBI and shut down the bribery investigations of his buddies?

Claire McCaskill: "So Trump’s Department of Justice tries to indict a guy on a federal felony for throwing a sandwich, and the same Trump Department of Justice shuts down an investigation into one of their top officials for taking a big bag of cash ($50,000) on video in an undercover FBI […]

ABC’s suspension of Jimmy Kimmel Live! triggered a flood of Disney+ subscription cancellations, briefly overwhelming the cancellation webpage itself. open.substack.com/pub/beinglib...

David Frum: Biden thought the first four years of Pres. Trump was such an aberration that he did not do a clean up. After Watergate, there was a clean up. My previous post mentioned what is specifically needed. That list of #reforms was written three years before David Frum's podcast. This is […]

"Prof. Jack Goldsmith says laws and norms established after Nixon’s resignation had a great run, but the Trump presidency proves new reforms are needed": https://hls.harvard.edu/today/watergate-era-reforms-50-years-later/ Biden should have passed laws to "require the president to account […]

Rob Rogers: "Trump is on a mission to end all free speech that he doesn't agree with, including the comedy of late night talk show hosts. Heeeeere's authoritarianism!" And Rob drew this political cartoon:

“Show me the man and I’ll find the crime” https://joycevance.substack.com/p/show-me-the-man-and-ill-find-the/

"Mayor to Mayor: a conversation between Bernie Sanders and Zohran Mamdani": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qe1VXVABW3o Highlight: the answer to the question: "What gives you hope?" #politics #NYC copy: @renewedresistance

"Canada recognized a Palestinian state on Sunday despite opposition from the U.S, with the hope it paves the way for peace based on two states living side by side ... Britain and Australia* also announced that they were doing the same on Sunday" […]

Ron Filipkowski: "(Almost) Everything Trump does is intended to enrich himself and his wealthy cronies while incrementally seizing power from Congress in a variety of areas to wield himself as an authoritarian while Republicans in Congress (with few exceptions, remain silent)." I added those […]

For many years, pollution prevented people from swimming in major rivers in Paris and in Chicago. Money was spent to clean those rivers to such an extent that people are now safely swimming in both rivers: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/21/chicago-river-swim #environment #politics

"Bad things happen, and yet the sun still comes up the next day, and it's up to you to carry on living your life and keep your setbacks in perspective. These horrible and sad things happen to everyone; the mark of a man is not just how he survives it all but also what wisdom he gained from the […]

It was foolish of Matthew Dowd to do so much to re-elect George W. Bush as president, @RememberUsAlways. It was also foolish of Matthew Dowd to think he is in the same class as Jimmy Kimmel and to whine about people who came to Kimmel's defense but who did not make a similar fight about Dowd […]

America's long term inability to prevent Israel terrorising Palestine is leading to them losing influence over Middle East. This isn't entirely Trump's fault but he is singularly unable to change it […]

The information in my previous message was from the article "Watergate-era reforms 50 years later" dated June 8, 2022, by Prof. Jack Goldsmith. The failure of Pres. Biden to support and pass those reforms resulted in the abuses of power we experience today from Pres. Trump. Link […]

The need for new reforms became very apparent during the presidency of Donald Trump. What progress have Pres. Biden and Congress made in shoring up the system since they took office 18 months ago? Goldsmith: Practically none. The Biden administration — both the White House and the Justice […]

"Here’s What Longevity Experts Eat For Breakfast To Add Years To Their Lives": https://www.huffpost.com/entry/heres-what-longevity-experts-eat-for-breakfast-to-add-years-to-their-lives-goog_l_68cc1098e4b08c5f603af406?origin=home-life-unit Spoiler: food.

"Matthew Dowd, an analyst who was fired by MSNBC over his comments about Charlie Kirk, slammed his old network over its coverage of ABC suspending Jimmy Kimmel’s show, claiming that his former colleagues didn’t give his ouster the same energy." Silencing famous Jimmy Kimmel got more attention […]

"100 First Lines From Great Books (From The Last 100 Years)": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eb_8emTGpKU

btuckertime: "Look, Tom Homan has never had a trial and has never been proven guilty. So let's all take a step back and do what he would do: send him to a secret prison in El Salvador until we can figure this out." #humor #politics #immigration #justice

MSNBC - In an undercover operation last year, the FBI recorded Tom Homan, now the White House border czar, accepting $50,000 in cash after indicating he could help win government contracts in a second Trump administration […]

You, @CubeRootOfTrue, wrote: "I liked it when Trump fired the Labor Statistics guy because the numbers were bad, hired a new guy, and the new numbers were even worse." Bill Maher joked: "The newest jobs report said our nation created only 22,000 jobs in August. Everybody is worried about their […]

Ryan Grim: "For the first time ever, the Congressional Progressive Caucus, which represents nearly half of the Democratic caucus in the House, has voted to endorse blocking weapons shipments to #israel multiple sources tell me. The CPC, by a majority vote, has endorsed Delia Ramirez’ Block The […]

#freespeech is under attack in the United States. Action suppressing the opinions of Stephen Colbert was followed by action suppressing the opinions of Jimmy Kimmel which was followed by action suppressing the opinions of Caitlin Clark. She had a lighter penalty than those two comedians, but […]

Jon Favreau: Trump "is publicly ordering prosecutions that he admits are politically motivated. He tried to steal both an election and highly classified state secrets, he was held accountable for breaking the law. If you say things the president and his party don't like, you could lose your job […]

Glenn Thrush: "People need to pay attention to what is going on with Trump and the Department of Justice — the President of the United States is demanding his attorney general prosecute enemies solely because he says they are guilty.” #injustice #revenge #politics

Instead of wearing an FBI patch, Kash Patel found an even more appropriate patch to wear in this political cartoon by Clay Bennett: