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'"

One thing I've learned from the Internet is that a lie needs 0% proof to be believed, but the truth requires thousands of pages of proof and still won't be believed.

New in PN: You cannot trust the federal government "The FBI has proven it can’t be trusted to provide narrative-free evidence to the public. This is par for the course for the rest of the govt under Trump, which can’t be trusted at all because everything in it exists only to serve Dear Leader."

Jesus Christ, how are you so unbelievably bad at this? A deeply unpopular president is recklessly destroying our government, wrecking our democracy, covering up pedophilia and now threatening to use military force against our own citizens but you're tsk-tsking about protecting healthcare?

Reining in presidents means tightening vague laws Trump exploits. He declares emergencies, deploys troops, bullies the Fed, levies tariffs, and deports to third countries. Supreme Court shadow rulings enable it.

Winston Churchill, Sept 2, 1939: "All I hear is that Hitler and Stalin want to march into Warsaw. The one thing I'm sure of is that they're not marching into Liverpool."

It’s got to be so wild trying to teach law school classes now: “Um, yea, so there’s no such thing as ‘precedent’ or ‘law’ anymore — the law is just whatever John Roberts thinks helps Donald Trump the most right now.”

Dr. Trump’s orders

It's impossible to overstate how problematic it is for the White House to demand payouts or company stakes in the course of approving deals, hand-selecting acquirers, demanding corporate compliance or anything else.

Is it Christian to publicly call for the murder of all homeless people? That's what Brian Kilmeade did on Fox a week ago. He still has his job.

OPINION: As Trump and his goons strip Americans of our constitutional rights, the silence of the nation's leadership class is deafening.

It's like they made a clone of Goebbels but somehow the volume got stuck on "screeching banshee"

Seems wrong to characterize the Kimmel affair, as I’ve seen some people do, as “corporate censorship.” The but-for condition was a direct threat by the FCC chair; that’s state censorship.

Jimmy Kimmel’s suspension wasn’t “cancel culture.” It was government coercion. Brendan Carr told Benny Johnson, “we can do this the easy way or the hard way,” and affiliates panicked. Regulatory threats can’t be the answer to speech we don’t like. If we let this stand, no voice is safe.

For a month Trump said he was personally paying for the ballroom. Now we learn he’s been shaking down corporations to pay for it who want something from the govt. Another corrupt scam between Trump and CEOs that he lied about. I doubt he pays a penny.

@crow.house.gov speaking out. Thank you!

For comedians around the world, the laughs often end as democracy fades

"President Trump is expected to fire the U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia after his office was unable to find incriminating evidence of mortgage fraud against New York AG Letitia James. Every red light is blinking at once." www.thebulwark.com/p/the-dog-th...

I would love to be part of the conversation on MSNBC related to the Kimmel story and it's chilling effects on first amendment, but unfortunately I was terminated by MSNBC for stating that "hateful thoughts lead to hateful words which lead to hateful actions".

Dr. Susan Monarez: “I could have stayed silent, agreed to the demands, and no one would have known. What the public would have seen were scientists dismissed without cause and vaccine protections quietly eroded…I would have lost the one thing that cannot be replaced: My integrity.”

Honoring Charlie Kirk's memory by ruining the lives of anyone who accurately quotes Charlie Kirk

So many people feel overwhelmed while scrolling and there’s a reason for that. Bots are a large part of the problem. We’ve been breaking down how to spot them. After tracking bot groups that push narratives and attacks, we found some common traits:

here's today's post: "Brian Kilmeade has his own ‘final solution‘ for the homeless" — also: Kash Patel sucks at his job, and Stephen Miller just plain sucks. thanks for reading, and please sign up for my daily newsletter so you never miss a post —

Kash Patel’s FBI puts two pounds of methamphetamine in the incinerator at an animal shelter, sending 14 people to the hospital, and exposing some 75 cats and dogs to the narcotic. www.bbc.com/news/article...

News just broke that the Venezuelan boat that Trump struck was not, in fact, headed to the U.S. with drugs. But this story is disturbing for other reasons, and you need to know why. It's another sign of Trump's growing lawlessness. And it's bad counter-narcotics strategy.

My main observation from the last few hours of monitoring US social media is that Democrats are universally denouncing political violence and calling for calm while MAGA are escalating language and openly lusting for retribution against broad categories of people they identity as their enemies.

Yes, we are living in a constitutional crisis. Yes we are. And we’ve been living in a constitutional crisis for the past 7 months. And it’s only going to get worse. And maybe the courts might help somewhat, but the only thing that will truly save us is…us. The American people.

what a humiliating way for don jr. to find out his dad sends birthday cards.

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

With revisions, here's private sector job creation prior to the April tariff announcements Jan +79k Feb +107k March +114k April +133k and after May +69k June -27k July +77k August +38k

Who gets fired this time?

Joseph Schnitt, acting deputy chief of the DOJ’s Office of Enforcement Operations, was secretly recorded saying DOJ will hide names of Republicans in the Epstein files and only release names of Dems. This guy is not an ordinary "staffer." He's got a huge position. www.huffpost.com/entry/james-...

🚨MAJOR BREAKING: DOJ Deputy Chief Joseph Schnitt was caught on a hidden camera saying the government will “redact every Republican” from the Epstein files and leave only the Democrats. He also revealed that Ghislaine Maxwell was transferred to a minimum security “to keep her mouth shut.”

Everyone’s asking: Why change “Defense” to “War”? The real answer isn’t about China or Russia. It’s about breaking America’s resistance.👇 www.jackhopkinsnow.com

Big news: California, Oregon and Washington State just announced a joint "West Coast Health Alliance" to counter Trump/RFK destruction of our public health system. As I argued last week (see below), this is becoming a new frontier in Dem Gov resistance to Trump.

@nealkatyal.bsky.social: “You’ve got the president who's imposed the largest tax increase on American consumers since 1993 … and he did it without Congress saying one word. That is not our constitutional structure.”

August 29, 2025

What did Putin think of the Alaska summit? Well, he just sent drones and missiles to hit an apartment building, a shopping mall and the headquarters of the European Union in Kyiv. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/28/w...

Are vaccines safe? Let's ask this guy who sounds like a dying refrigerator compressor

Enough is enough. The health of the country is in danger. Read our resignation letters: insidemedicine.substack.com/p/breaking-n...

The precise moment when and where in recent weeks America crossed that invisible line from democracy into authoritarianism can and will be debated by future historians, but it’s clear that the line itself has been crossed. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/america-ti...

holy shit

Brett Meiselas: People are looking for real fighters—authentic fighters. Somebody who can harness the anger that so many of us are feeling about these freaks who have taken over our government. The person who can harness that anger—that’s who will be the next nominee in 2028 for the Democrats

Our default assumption has to be that the FBI raid of John Bolton’s house is an act of retribution. If they find classified documents and charge him with a felony, it does remind that Trump should have been convicted for the same.

TL;DR: 5 justices say Trump doesn't have to immediately restore the funding, but 5 *also* signal that the underlying directives are unlawful. That sends a fairly strong (if mixed) message that Trump will lose these cases *eventually,* but only once they're brought in the Court of Federal Claims.

Acadia National Park #acadia #acadianationalpark #maine #barharbor #mainevacation

Mount Battie, Camden, Maine #mountbattie #camdenhillsstatepark #maine #mainevacation

An entire continent has to send their leaders somewhere to babysit our president. Real good stuff.

Boothbay Harbor, Maine #boothbay #maine #mainevacation