"At every step along the way, I rationalized, compartmentalized, and found excuses to stay tethered to the party, even as I grew to believe it was undermining the foundations of our constitutional republic. ... www.thebulwark.com/p/my-last-da...

There’s nothing more patriotic than voting – and our democracy is stronger when more Americans participate. Today is the last day to register to vote before the November 4th election, so head to pa.gov/vote to check your registration and ensure you can make your voice heard.

Dear @nytimes.com, one of the largest peaceful protests in this country's history, and it winds up on page 22 in the Sunday paper? Gave you the benefit of the doubt yesterday, figured maybe you'd cover it today, but no. What's going on there? What kind of reporting is this?

"We do ultimately depend on the common sense and common courage of the people. “No Kings” is an expression of protest. But it is also an affirmation of responsibility. We the people ordained and established our free government. It’s up to us to keep it." www.thebulwark.com/p/its-gettin...

After the Missouri GOP passed a new gerrymander at the expense of Black voters, over 2,400 Missourians gathered together to collect 106,000 signatures to veto the measure. However, the state is doing everything in its power to stop them. https://bit.ly/47fy2rH

“It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.” — Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere’s Fan (1892) Born on this day: the master of charm himself.

This new Pentagon press policy is not good for our press or our military. And I’m saying that as a former soldier who knows the importance of a free press. www.thebulwark.com/p/locking-do...

"So why am I surprisingly cheerful this morning? It’s because of the kids, the Pope, and the protesters." www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-guil...

On October 18th, millions of brave Americans will stand up and peacefully protest against the authoritarian disease metastasizing under Donald Trump. No Thrones. No Crowns. No Kings. @gtconway.bsky.social

This is the way to do it.

Pope Leo quotes Hannah Arendt: “The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction and the distinction between true and false no longer exist." www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news...

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His slip of the tongue reveals who’s really in charge. trib.al/mIvP0yE “Illinois governor says we’re provoking actions that are unlawful,” Miller said on CNN. “If I put federal law enforcement and National Guard into a nice sleepy Southern town, is anyone gonna riot?”

I'm sorry but it's just wild we are in the middle of a government shutdown and the House Republicans are REFUSING TO SHOW UP FOR WORK so they can protect billionaire pedophiles and billionaire tax breaks.

Wake up, America.

> @barchart.com

In lawsuit, American Federation of Govt Employees, which represents 100,000s of federal government employees, has asked a judge to order the US Education Dept to stop sending politically-laced employee “out-of-office” messages from furloughed agency workers storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Shameful.

BREAKING: A federal judge blocked President Trump’s call-up of the National Guard for a deployment in Portland, saying his actions were based on false claims and undermined Oregon’s sovereignty.

What IS clear is that this is the biggest metaphor for Trump’s presidency. It makes his gilded ballroom seem like nothing. He doesn’t just want the appearance of a monarchy. He wants the whole shebang.

NEW: ProPublica obtained records from the Department of Agriculture that detail the millions of pounds of food, down to the number of eggs, that never reached food banks because of the Trump administration’s cuts to an aid program.

Meiselas: I think this is a serious oversight issue. $17 trillion is apparently missing right now, and we’re in a government shutdown. Trump keeps saying he’s got $17 trillion. Where did it go? Garcia: If there is $17 trillion somewhere, the government doesn’t know about it.

This, 💯%. And it's not merely messaging—it's just simple, discernible fact. The best messaging is messaging that reminds people of what is true and known to be true. The entire 2024 presidential campaign should have been about this.

PM of Albania having a good laugh with President of Azerbaijan and Macron about Trump repeatedly claiming that he ended the war between their two countries which were not at war with each other.

On Monday, RFK posted a rambling video on the HHS X account showing a series of graphs and directly stating that vaccines have had minimal impact on human health and saving lives. Today, in response, we brought our own graphs. We will not let his dangerous nonsense go unanswered.

Priorities.

Only Trump would cite “national security” as his legal basis to impose tariffs on kitchen cabinets and bathroom vanities.

Bloomberg News has obtained more than 18,000 emails from Jeffrey Epstein’s personal Yahoo account. Here, my colleagues summarize correspondence between Mitch Webber — then a research assistant to Alan Dershowitz, now a partner at Paul, Weiss — and Epstein:

And do tell what became of the money...

Gupta: It is safe. That’s what the best-quality research shows. And how irresponsible, using the podium of the WH to put this out there when you’re not even offering an alternative. That is dangerous. An untreated fever is dangerous. Untreated pain in pregnancy is dangerous.

The American people, including a majority of her own party, support transparency and accountability. But this week Susan Collins cast the deciding vote to block the Epstein files from being released. I’m running against her for US Senate because the people of Maine deserve better.

Gee whiz, they lied about something? What a surprise.

NEW: The Supreme Court, in another unexplained order, has for now allowed Trump to oust a Democratic FTC commissioner, posing a serious threat to the independence of federal agencies.

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Out of his mind.

I'm a little surprised O'Keefe's people can still do this hidden camera thing so successfully. If you work for the government and are on the dating apps you have to know this is happening constantly

He didn’t just tell her to be quiet and listen. He called her “darling” and said when she says things it is “fake news”. He’s redefining misogyny every day with his disrespect.

“‘They’re blowing right through separation of church & state,’ said Heidi Beirich, co-founder of the Global Project Against Hate & Extremism. ‘They have no respect for other faiths. And in fact, that includes a lot of Christians who don’t agree w/ this far-right version of Christianity.’” 9/7/25 …1/

TAPPER: Is President Trump planning to go to war in Chicago? HOMAN: It's being taken out of context (Trump's post literally said "Chicago about to find out why it's called the Department of WAR")

"Yet, somehow, this all pales in comparison to the shellacking Kennedy has taken from his own family over the past several days."

I wish somebody would ask him to specifically list the "seven" or however many wars he claims to have ended and then hand him a map and ask him to show us on it where the wars were.

SCOOP: Sources at the House Oversight Committee confirm documents posted by Rep. Anna Paulina Luna are the same ~33,000 pages of Epstein documents they received — 97% already public — and part of a broader plan to block transparency.

NEWS: A federal judge has ruled that Trump’s deployment of military forces to Los Angeles violated the Posse Comitatus Act, a law that prohibits the use of the armed forces as a domestic police force.

Because he is penny wise and pound foolish. Okay, maybe just foolish.

This, from @erininthemorning.com's latest piece about Gavin Newsom helps explain why Newsom-loving libs' "erm, then enjoy Trump again!!!" stuff doesn't work on trans people who've been paying attention. www.erininthemorning.com/p/why-transg...

When you cross misogyny, racism and dementia this is what you get.

😱 Over 21 days of talking with #ChatGPT, an otherwise perfectly sane man became convinced that he was a real-life superhero. We analyzed the conversation. Chatbots Can Go Into a #Delusional Spiral. Here’s How It Happens. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/08/t...

centuries of fairy tales & folklore about not trusting glittering, deceptive entities that flatter our vanity and look at us. eating the fae food, mesmerized by the mirror, etc. clown behavior.