If the Supreme Court lets Trump get rid of birthright citizenship (and I wouldn’t be surprised at all if they did) he will have effectively undone one of the Amendments 360,000 Union soldiers died for with the stroke of a pen. I beseech Democrats to act like that is what’s at stake here.

I just want Democrats to behave as though they genuinely think Trump will destroy the Republic if they don’t do anything. That’s it. I just want them to act as though they give a shit about this country at its roots and trunk rather than quibble over how the leaves look.

Resign

He thinks rural people who vote Republican are all drooling imbeciles and he’s probably right.

Kavanaugh stops

Pritzker: "For Donald Trump and the MAGAs in Congress, this is not about fighting crime or public safety ... this is about consolidating power in Donald Trump's hands. What he plans to do with that power now or during the 2026 elections should worry all of us."

Pritzker: "People of Illinois, we need your help. Get our your cell phones, record and narrate what you see. Put it on social media. Peacefully ask for badge numbers and identification. Speak up for your neighbors. We need to let the world know that this is happening and that we won't stand for it."

You can see the rusty cogs clanking around in there.

I would like the next President to be under the age of 65.

Gov JB Pritzker on DHS agents going into Chicago: "It’s a show of intimidation, instilling fear in our communities and hurting our businesses. We cannot normalize militarizing American cities and suburbs. Make sure you know your rights and stay alert."

JD Vance made jokes about this woman's husband being dead.

Again: I do not see any way the Ds, the party of multiracial democracy, can avoid what will likely be a divisive and difficult conversation — among themselves — about what the next D president is going to do about ICE, especially when ICE is being run by people like this

Stephen Miller having any involvement with deadly strikes on Caribbean boats adds to the suspicion that US forces might have killed migrants, not drug traffickers. Blowing up rather than interdicting and arresting traffickers would still be both illegal and bad strategy. But if migrants even worse.

"It concerns me that the President is oatmeal brained" well I'm sorry YOU don't have faith in the SAINTLY AND DIVINELY CORRECT PEOPLE who voted this in. I guess -I- just respect Democracy and this Republic a little more than you do, huh

What is stopping Trump from immediately holding up whatever funds you get allocated for ACA subsidies? Can a single Democratic House Rep or Senator explain to me why exactly we trust Donald Trump not to go back on his word? Is there an institution that will stop him? Is he a trustworthy fella?

so the thing about this is that is most evil is that if you're looking to optimize a quota, you start with the people who follow the rules. because they're the easiest to find

Again, Dems could make this their shutdown demand: that government funding be accompanied by laws constraining ICE and requiring it not use Latino ethnicity as a criterion for detention. "You can't jail someone for being Latino." But instead, they're vaguely fighting for "healthcare subsidies."

Charlie Kirk’s shooter turned themselves in while the director of the FBI was Tweeting from a NYC restaurant toilet about how they caught the wrong person. It had nothing to do with “great work being done.”

"And they are adamantly opposed to recognizing bad faith, so they let themselves be used, over and over, in an endless attempt to find reasonable common ground with political forces bent on division."

"It remains unclear who signed off on the legal justification for the strikes. " @mikeblack114.bsky.social

🚨This is a big deal: suburban chicago police launch an investigation into an ICE attack on local CBS news journalists.

It’s kinda cool how you can instantly tell what somebody’s media diet is based on how they pronounce Kamala’s name. If someone pronounces it “Kuh-MAH-la” you can safely assume they’re an idiot and/or crazy person.

Whose side are you on? The masked secret police or the immigrant family? There are no neutrals here. You’ll either be for freedom or a thug for Homan.

holy shit they did the meme

My father is a military man. Aloof and constantly in and out of my life. We’re not very close. He was deployed for my entire first year on Earth. My newborn son started fussing in his crib while he was sleeping. I put my hand on his chest and said, “it’s okay, dad’s here,” and he calmed down.

In which a top US Border Patrol official, incredibly, tells my tall and Anglo colleague @chipmitchell1.bsky.social that he's not the type they're looking for as they go about downtown Chicago arresting people based on "how they look" chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

I have been haunted by this statement all day www.kgw.com/article/news...

A bunch of people dismissed the bomb threats to polling locations by the Russians during the last US election as "more Russiagate" but this seems to be a pattern of theirs

not like i'm some important predictor of the future, i'm a shitposter, but i sort of thought there might be a climbdown here when i read that neither the pentagon nor the national guard had any fucking idea what he was talking about

i don’t think he was supposed to post this. this is a company lobbying for medical cannabis, specifically for medicare coverage of it, and i think they made a whole commercial for an audience of one. “YOU will…” “cementing YOUR legacy,” millions will thank you… this was just for trump

We’re going to unify the country against these guys.

The entire history of the right wing in this country is about an insecure minority trying to subjugate a majority that disagrees with them. It's the reason they hate democracy. Draw a line from antebellum Southerners to today's billionaires. They own everything but they pretend they're under siege

“Am I watching things on television that are different from what’s happening?” What a remarkable statement from the single most powerful individual in the world. Fascinating look into a person’s mind.

Can somebody explain why this fucking party can’t seem to muster up an unkind word for a corrupt mayor that made a deal with Trump to keep him out of prison? What the hell are we doing?

To state the obvious, Jake Tapper would be solemnly calling for Biden’s impeachment if he admitted he had no idea what the fuck was going on and was misled by his advisors who Truman Show his ass.

The United States Executive Branch is nothing but a bunch of cynical evil idiot fascist losers trying to convince what amounts to a senile elderly Mussolini to do whatever they want him to do. I’d be surprised if Trump even knows where he is when he isn’t experiencing the emotion of envy or rage.

Democrats blowing out the midterms isn’t just important for political opposition to Trump via Congress. It’s also important to provide the American media, culture, and business proof positive that pandering to MAGA means pandering to a smaller market share.

Remember how DOGE crippled American cybersecurity for decades because a drug-addled lunatic had the most money in the world and self-radicalized on a social media platform he impulsively bought during a drug-induced manic episode?

Remember how DOGE consigned millions of people across the world to a slow suffering death because the richest man on Earth believed in dipshit Internet conspiracies and wanted everyone to think he was cool?

NEW: Donald Trump desperately wants to rewrite the history of Jan. 6 to downplay the violence of his supporters that day. A House Republican-led panel appears poised to help pursue that goal, just as Trump labels the attack a “hoax.” w/ Hailey Fuchs www.politico.com/news/2025/09...

JUST IN: A judge concludes the Trump administration sent a man to Mexico to sidestep protections against torture. He has no criminal history and had legal protection from being sent to his native El Salvador — where it appears Mexico is sending him. www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

Most people who write about politics, right or left, have internalized the concept of the Trump supporter as the authentic american Volk and so many of their conclusions proceed from that bsky.app/profile/qjur...

The entire Republican Party, now trying to convince the country that J6 was an FBI false flag operation. These people are evil, just straight up evil, and the only way for the country to survive will be for these people to be kicked out of power and the ones who committed crimes put in jail.

It’s wild to me how Trump can explicitly pressure the DOJ on social media and our media figures are asking Republicans “did Trump pressure the DOJ” instead of “why did Trump pressure the DOJ.” If they try to say “I don’t think he pressured the DOJ” call them stupid evil liars wtf are we doing?

It seems like a really clear national security risk of the president can be easily fooled by AI slop *of himself* or close relatives. That feels like 25th amendment territory, not that his sycophantic cabinet would ever consider it.

Many of them, including Dem leadership, are convinced they can ride this out and he’ll just go away. Its infuriating to think about it

The Trump Administration has begun shooting registered Democrats in front of the White House for “anti-Trump rhetoric.” Maybe instead he should try “shooting” for lower grocery prices.