Saturday @katmabu.bsky.social on Alien Super Show on @meidastouch.com 👽🚨

This morning, I was hit in the face by a baton. I’m going to have a pretty gnarly bruise but we need to remember why this is happening: Trump and ICE are rounding up our neighbors, treating them as subhuman, and shipping them off to labor camps in foreign countries. It has to end.

Cops led us into the street as the new “protest zone” and then beat us repeatedly. Got hit in the face with a baton. Leaving to pick up my friends who were arrested. Stay safe out there.

"If I had to enact it, I do," Trump said. "If people were being killed, and courts were holding us up, or governors or mayors were holding us up, sure I’d do that." Undermining states’ rights and the judiciary in one fell swoop. Pure, unadulterated authoritarianism. abcnews.go.com/amp/Politics...

Donald Trump is bringing pain to his own people and trying to make a fool of the Dems. We’re gonna need more than a strongly worded letter to win this fight.

If we want to fight Trump and win, let's look to those who already have. E. Jean Carroll joins the LP Podcast this week, episode dropping tomorrow. Watch here: https://youtu.be/VBOcmIZucBk

We would like to thank Kristi Noem for bringing cameras with her everywhere and collecting evidence for her future trial at The Hague.

DRAIN THE SWAMP

Pritzker: "In any other country, if federal agents fired upon journalists & protesters when unprovoked what would we call it? If officials marched down streets harassing civilians & demanding their papers, what would we say? I don't think we'd have trouble calling it what it is: authoritarianism"

Utilities, groceries, health care premiums all going sky high, and he’s blabbering on like he’s Louis XIV in Versailles.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has reported 1,514 measles cases as of Sept. 24, the highest number of annual cases since the United States declared measles eliminated in 2000. Gift link. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Mike Johnson: "The WIC program, the nutrition program -- women, infants, and children -- that program won't be funded. FEMA won't be funded."

There is endless questioning of victims and very little to no explanation needed from perpetrators. We still live with the stigma of blame being put on survivors.

Oregon AG Dan Rayfield: "California, DC, Memphis, potentially Illinois, now Oregon - this normalization that you can use the US military in our cities. That is un-American & every place that it happens, you will see Democratic attorneys general standing up, drawing a line in the sand & saying, 'No'"

So 2 tyrants-in-office call a press conference and take NO questions from the press: imagine if President Biden had done this.

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Trump just ordered the military into Portland, and he’s giving them the green light to use lethal force on American citizens. Authoritarianism is an abstract concept but Trump is making its impacts real and tangible. Let’s be real about it: This is the beginning of dictatorship in America.

Andy McCarthy: "The indictment almost fails as an indictment in that it doesn't give you notice of what Comey has actually done. But factually there's nothing there. So this smacks of wanting to put Comey through the process, which is what lawfare is."

Amid an ongoing wave of conspiracy theories and bogus claims about Jan 6, I’ll note this from our reporting: Rioters made all kinds of claims and defenses in court … and jurors convicted 100% of the defendants who went to trial 100%

The Trump administration cut funding to a federal program designed to tackle the dangers posed by guns in domestic abuse situations. As domestic violence scramble, they fear a loss of progress in programming and are searching for an alternative.

MIKE JOHNSON: We have to ensure that the rule of law applies to everyone TAPPER: Does the rule of law apply to people who stormed the Capitol on January 6? JOHNSON: Apparently there were 274 FBI agents in the crowd TAPPER: They were sent there to do crowd control. It wasn't a false flag operation

Inaugural edition of Folsom Street Fair, San Francisco c 1984 📸 by Robert Pruzan (scans from Drummer magazine c 1984 v 9 no 79)

Republicans: “Political violence is the left’s fault!” Also Republicans: “January 6 was legitimate political discourse.” Pick a lane.

It is absolutely insane to me that we're having a debate over whether or not the rightwing deploys violent rhetoric within days of a Fox News personality calling for homeless people to be killed by lethal injection. There is no excuse for this obliviousness. It's unacceptable.

“There is a nearly fourfold difference between the rate of COVID deaths in the best-performing U.S. state and the worst-performing U.S. states. And the biggest difference was vaccination.” open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...

90% of offenders are male. 90% of perpetrators of physical abuse in intimate relationships are male. 92% of suspects in female homicides are male. Men commit around 90% of all homicides, regardless of a victim’s gender. It’s a male problem.

President “Grab ‘em by the pussy” and Vice President “I don’t give a shit.”

“They’re taking our jobs” was always a lie. Alabama proved it. Alabama tried a “tough” immigration law, and it backfired hard. Immigrants fled, crops rotted, and farms collapsed. Americans tried to step in but couldn’t last a day. They’re not taking your jobs; they’re doing the jobs you won’t do.

Got a flu shot and a Covid shot. Vaccines save lives. They do not cause autism. They save your life when you get them and other people’s when you get them. I have no idea how else one should put this information.

Envy Month Icon, Day 6: The Great Gatsby everyone's favorite high school reading (well, it's better than The Grapes of Wrath) is about people destroying themselves by chasing someone else's life shows envy is the emptiest luxury of all. (plus Nick was gay for Jay but your teacher didn't mention it)

As if we didn’t know the felon would take more unearned credit (and away from President Biden):

We all know that White bigots love to harp on “Black-on-Black crime” while never mentioning “White-on-White crime,” using it as a tool to paint Black communities as inherently violent. The reality is that crime is not exclusive to any one group 👇🏾

TAPPER: Hepatitis A, whooping cough, & chickenpox cases are rising in Florida. Before you made this decision to lift vaccine mandates, did your dept do any analysis of how many new cases there will be? LADAPO: Absolutely not T: You didn't even do a projection? L: It's an issue of right & wrong

@gavinnewsom.bsky.social: "Let's go. This is it. We need to wake up. We cannot survive if he rigs not just Texas, but he goes to Indiana, goes to Missouri, goes to Ohio, goes to Florida. We have to have other governors of like mind, and there are many, to now do something, not just say something."

I’m on board but not after confusion over the emergency passport. This is a dark farce.

RADDATZ: The president went in to that meeting saying he wanted a ceasefire and there would be consequences if they didn't agree on a ceasefire in that meeting, and they didn't agree to a ceasefire. Where are the consequences? RUBIO: That's not the aim RADDATZ: The president said that was the aim

A 10-year-old British girl has made chess history by becoming the youngest female player to ever beat a grandmaster. cnn.it/4705B2t

BREAKING: Trump GOES NUCLEAR As EVERYONE MOCKS HIM YouTube video by Pondering Politics August 17, 2025 🚨Hey MAGAts, are you tired of Trump's losing yet? www.youtube.com/watch?v=OT4J...

@gavinnewsom.bsky.social does 5 additional congressional seats give the democrats enough of a cushion to offset all the years of GOP cheating and gerrymandering? I’m likely not the only Californian Who is tired of being cheated out of my voice in Congress by the Guardians Of the Pedo.

NEW VIDEO: N.J. Congresswoman LaMonica McIver was targeted by the Trump administration for simply doing her job. She sits down with me to discuss the weaponization of government, the importance of oversight at immigration facilities, and her unbelievable first year in Congress. youtu.be/w2Bp4_JoacM

Calling it a day. More tomorrow. Goodnight.😴

Less than a year into his second term, Donald Trump and his appointees in the Department of Justice have already filed charges or launched investigations against a dozen of his political opponents, including NJ Gov. Phil Murphy (D), Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), and President Barack Obama (D).