U.S. District Judge April Perry just temporarily blocked the National Guard in Chicago and ruled the Trump administration's deployment of troops violated the 10th & 14th amendments, as well as the nearly 150-year-old Posse Comitatus Act. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

I asked for the latest COVID vaccine this week at my VA clinic and they didn't have any. They said they are "out" but maybe more is on the way. The don't have an ETA.

Making them wear high-visibility vests over camo is such a good joke you couldn’t write it

"One of the more surreal knock-on effects of the gutting of USAID is that the U.S. government is now holding a massive fire sale for mosquito nets, water towers, printers, iPads, chairs, generators, defibrillators, textbooks, agricultural equipment, motorbikes, mobile health clinics, and more."

I was worried they were starting to get it. It doesn’t appear that will happen anytime soon though.

Off the rails.

Let’s all mass request the Information Assurance audit on the 2024 election results.

Two can play that game.

Trump was so unhappy with his own job numbers that he fired the official in charge of reporting them. Classic Trump — blame everyone but himself.

Meiselas: You had Lawrence Taylor, a registered sex offender who r*ped a 16-year-old, featured by Trump at the WH as he announced his initiative for kids...He's not hiding that he's ok hanging w sexual predators that target underage girls. How is what I just said not leading every freaking newscast?

For decades, a group of Argentinian women led an extraordinary campaign to find their stolen grandchildren.

Let them eat cake.

We are very far over the cliff here folks

ICE GOON forcefully grab activists filming outside the immigration court and forcefully knock her phone out of her hand.

Brought to you by sex offenders at the White House.

“Going forward why should anybody trust the numbers?” TRUMP: “You’re right. Why should anybody trust the numbers?” Authoritarians love when facts go away and distrust reigns. Firing the labor statistics commissioner for bad news was always inevitable.

Supreme Court announces the question they’ll consider when they rehear a major redistricting case in Louisiana next term: “Whether the State’s intentional creation of a second majority-minority congressional district violates the Fourteenth or Fifteenth Amendments to the U. S. Constitution.”

I think to cops that’s justified because the Capitol Police were trying to prevent a fascist dictatorship rather than impose one.

Jesus, you guys are trying to smear him with anything you can, huh.

He’s going to have to give her Mar-a-Lago by the time she’s done. nypost.com/2025/08/01/u...

I've long believed 2016 Russian operation in US was most successful intelligence operation in recent history. With disclosure that Durham investigation all predicated on disinformation, I double down on that opinion. Russia completely destroyed the United States. www.emptywheel.net/2025/08/01/h...

ICE took away his phone so he couldn’t communicate. ‘I can’t sign with my hands cuffed. They took my power,’ Javier Diaz Santana told the Los Angeles Times.

Donald Trump Jr. gave his take on the Sydney Sweeney ad, and somehow made it worse

Ghislaine Maxwell, convicted Epstein sex trafficker, has been moved to a luxury minimum-security prison. Why is Trump’s DOJ giving special treatment? Rick Wilson breaks down the political cover-up behind this shocking move. youtu.be/FcdasroszGk?...

Is this how we save America? We demand a hand recount of the 2024 election across the nation. substack.com/@thiswillhol...

Despite having less support than last year, the data is clear — the majority of Americans agree that people should be able to access safe, legal abortions.

Virginia Giuffre’s brother: "I think we were shocked by it, especially to use the term stolen, Because she's not an object. She's a person who was recruited at Mar-a-Lago, his property, a place where she was looking forward to having fun that summer. And it just makes us wonder, how much he knew."

And here I was thinking the way to solve hunger was food.

Jeffrey Epstein’s former girlfriend, Ghislaine Maxwell, has been moved from a federal prison in Florida to a prison camp in Texas as her criminal case generates renewed public attention.

Okay, *now you can start to worry about data being manipulated.

Federal judges decry political attacks from the White House.

Orange Monday. Acrylic on canvas. 🍊

“It brings into doubt the future data coming out of this administration” @timmiller.bsky.social & @sarahlongwell25.bsky.social discuss Trump firing the person in charge of labor statistics because the numbers were bad on @thebulwark.com ‘1984’ is upon us

Rampant mosquitoes swarming the tents. Leaks after summer rainstorms. Excessive heat. And hurricane season around the corner. This is life in "Alligator Alcatraz." @lauracmorel.bsky.social reports:

NEWS: The U.S. added just 73,000 jobs in July—far below expectations—while the unemployment rate rose to 4.2%. May and June payrolls were revised down by a collective 258K, painting a trouble picture for the economy.

This keeps happening.

One was beaten unconscious. Others were covered in bruises, struggling to walk or vomiting blood. Another said he’d been sexually assaulted. These are the stories of 16 former detainees who were deported to El Salvador’s mega prison.

Is this how we save America? We demand a hand recount of the 2024 election across the nation. substack.com/@thiswillhol...

They found the woman who shot this viral video—and the man in it. Juan Carlos lived in the U.S. for 19 years. The only thing that separated him from the rest of us was paperwork. He was a threat to no one.

Think about what the GOP is revealing with their attempt to suddenly change the Congressional maps: they know their agenda is so unpopular that they're going to lose unless something changes. Of course, what they should be changing is their policies, not the maps.

I remember when this happened.