I am completely awestruck by the ease with which Mike Johnson lies on a daily basis. I'll never understand how such a transparently fraudulent "man of faith" can live with themselves. Life is too short to be that phony.

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We are not releasing the files, but Trump's employees (including one who had to quit when it was discovered he gave a sweetheart deal to Epstein as prosecutor) vouch for him, so that should be good enough for you.

Warren: "Observe the cruelty of what they're doing. I was a Special Ed teacher long before I ever got into this job... They need extra opportunities so they will also have a chance to succeed. Donald Trump wants to just take that away & Republicans are willing to just stand by and watch him do that"

pretty worrying how predictive Peacemaker turned out to be.

Racial profiling. All day every day. www.newsweek.com/us-citizen-s...

No matter how much attention this gets, it’s not enough. These are high seas lynchings—extrajudicial executions—repugnant to rule of law, ruin our reputation globally, fuel our own internal legal/moral/ethical spiral, put us in league w vile terrorists: we are become hostis humani generis.

i am all in favor of running candidates who aren't perfectly polished Ivy league mannequins - people with a few rough edges - but there should be a line, and I think "no Nazi tattoos" is a pretty good line

play a little game with me every time you see "reporting" on another looming major media merger, check and see if they can be bothered to mention (AT ALL) how this sort of consolidation is almost uniformly disastrous for labor or consumers

POTUS lives in a house, not a palace. No fancy hats or costumes, no sashes or uniforms. He's not the fount of honor. He's a citizen holding a temporary office, not sovereignty personified. Our civic ceremonies are modest and practical, not extravagant. There's real substance behind these things.

Notably a state prosecution, not a federal one for threatening to kill a member of Congress.

“.. They are the asylum seekers, the rule followers. They go into the federal building holding papers .. hoping for a measure of due process. Some leave the courthouse with a hearing date set months or years from now. Others disappear into ICE’s prison system.” @nymag.com nymag.com/intelligence...

Just read the article and saw the photos and all I have to say is that there has to be a reckoning for this.

Idaho and Utah are on parallel paths to destruction. Utah just banned fluoridation of water and has many of these nutjobs in positions of power while also being ground zero for multi-level marketing. It’s a recipe for disaster.

Our Republican Trump government lies to us. These assholes lie about EVERYTHING!!!

everything about Trump would be too hacky and on the nose for fiction

Here’s what I said to our teenager and some other young folks who were around at the match: there’s a difference between a demonstration and a protest, and you need both because people are at different places in their engagement with a movement, and there are different kinds of power.

The president of the United States has a revenge committee. America has become an authoritarian state.

the year is 2030. the white house remains half demolished because president trump refused to pay construction workers and musk gutted government spending. two thieves sneak into the white house using a truck mounted ladder and steal the constitution

The Big Cities Health Coalition, which serves over 60 million or 1 in 5 people in the US, has issued a statement condemning the federal government's moves to limit vaccine access and spread disinformation. The cities are working together to ensure people get vaccinated.

"The point is to reclaim and redefine what counts as 'normal' in America – to replace a repressive norm of white Christian patriarchal dominance with a promise that this should be a country where the expected norm is an acceptance of pluralism and diversity in all spheres of life."

The Speaker of the House: “Trump isn’t a King yet, but he should be if you want the government to function!”

Americans have been dragged, tackled, beaten, tased and shot by immigration agents. They’ve had their necks kneeled on. They’ve been held outside in the rain while in their underwear. At least three citizens were pregnant when agents detained them. By @nicolefoy.bsky.social

Is it good when the president talks like Palpatine?

Seems like a reasonable request

He murdered a Colombian citizen in violation of domestic and international law. He’s now promising to illegally impose tariffs on Colombia because its president had the temerity to publicly criticize him for murdering one of that country’s citizens. Yes, we are the baddies.

This. This. More of this! He shut Johnson up when Johnson was making stuff up—“let me stop you there.” And then hit him with facts, called him out on misrepresentation, made him squirm in his smarmy dishonesty. This can be done. DO IT MORE!

Johnson's power to keep unilaterally extending pretend "district work periods" for as long as he doesn't want the House to meet isn't some longstanding traditional power of the Speaker. It's a new thing he's abusing in a novel way.

Not a single mention of this across the Sunday shows as far as I could tell

We have always been at war with Eastasia

Literally all of this is false. 7 million people turned out, probably the largest single-day protest in American history. And at least in DC, what I saw was a hugely representative crowd, mostly with (often very clever) homemade signs.

Again, absolutely nothing about this statement is true.

Q: Do you feel Israel was justified with striking when it did? TRUMP: Striking where? Q: In Gaza. Today. And overnight. TRUMP: I'd have to get back to you on that

China's regulators are doing this because there have been multiple cases where Tesla's have gotten into an accident and rescue workers / owners have been unable to open the doors.

seems that RFK is clearing the path for his CDC to do tuskegee syphillis experiments as a matter of course. in other news, RFK is a genuine monster who relishes in the pain and suffering of those he feels he has control or dominion over

So we can agree, finally, that opposing authoritarianism directly, on its own terms, for what it is, is politically powerful? I'd say this IS the "kitchen-table" issue, given that people sat around their kitchen tables to make signs, and then showed up in public in truly historic numbers.

Oh wow

Trump's mechanism to pay the troops during the shutdown is by far the most illegal budgetary action he's taken as POTUS, potentially setting the stage to break everything. It's also needless because Congress would easily pass a troop pay bill if Johnson were willing to gavel in. Long thread.

The premise here appears to be “He can’t be a king as long as I can think of additional abuses of power he hasn’t yet committed,” which is not how this works.

No Kings in Los Angeles: Patriotic Angelenos showed up, y'all — BIG TIME. 🙌💪👏✊️🇺🇸👇

everyone: we don’t want kings rightwing media: this is a confusing protest line, no one is claiming trump is a king the entire trump administration:

“There was an elite conspiracy to abuse children” is so horrific a reality that I think the media has had a hard time grasping it.

It's not being run off some sophisticated surveillance and intelligence operation where they track individual boats or have any indication of who's on them and what they're doing. They're just picking random small boats they spot at sea. Fishermen. Migrants. Not even from Venezuela. Doesn't matter.

The United States has fought several big wars over countries doing to us what we just did to Colombia.

'Vessels can go wherever they damn well please in international waters and we'll go to war with you if you attack ours' has been the most fundamental and consistent American foreign policy position for a quarter of a millennium.

Trump supporters: I will show my loyalty to God-Emperor Trump by buying his hats, t-shirts, vests, shot glasses, bitcoins, fragrances, bathrobes, and lawn furniture. Obama supporters: I still have a chipped "Hope" coffee mug. Sam Haselby: Trump and Obama have equivalent cults of personality.

As I wrote then, this move was an unconstitutional taking. www.techdirt.com/2025/08/26/w...

Roman Surovtsev is like many others who were detained at their regularly scheduled ICE check-ins. What makes his case different is that his wife has marshalled a team of lawyers on his behalf.