Puritans made it illegal to be Catholic in Boston until 1780. Those Catholics who are, like Mr. Thiel and VP Vance, attracted to the Christian Right might note that sooner or later, the advocates of Gilead will come for the Catholics. bit.ly/42f8ZU4 @bostonhistory.bsky.social @maddow.msnbc.com

The comment I heard last week while leading a tour really set me back. A woman from Oregon told me that most people on the west coast thought that American history started with the Mississippi River. bit.ly/4mx5O1p @rbreich.bsky.social @maddow.msnbc.com @fortpointer.bsky.social

Jeffries: "One thing to understand for people doing the bidding of the Trump admin or engaging in the pay to play schemes of the Trump admin is that the statute of limitations is 5 years. Donald Trump and this toxic administration will be long gone but there will still be accountability to be had."

I stand with PBS. I stand with NPR. I stand with Stephen Colbert. I stand with Jimmy Kimmel. I stand with the First Amendment. PERIOD.* *Also #ReleaseTheEPSTEIN_Files

House Judiciary Committee Rejects Request to Subpoena Banks in Epstein Case

I read the excerpts from Kamala Harris’s new book "107 Days" with astonishment. What she said about the administration assuming it was “Joe and Jill’s” decision about whether to run again took my breath away. Here’s why. bit.ly/3KaVVZy @kamalaharris.com @rbreich.bsky.social @maddow.msnbc.com

Trump is grooming the US Army and the National Guard to obey regardless if his orders break the law or violate the Constitution.

One question that never gets asked is: what exactly does a CEO do to earn that kind of money? Can any person contribute enough to be worth an eight- or nine-figure salary? And what happens to him if he doesn’t succeed? Here are four examples: bit.ly/3UYqaFq @Apple #compensation

My first thought, too.

“.. I don’t know of any case, at least in my lifetime, of the government taking equity in a company simply because it could.” @steverattner.bsky.social @nytopinion.nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2025/08/28/o...

RFK Jr. will kill Americans, sure as death. You have the GOP to thank you for that.

The Trump administration continues to ease up on food safety standards even as it fights a concerning new outbreak of a flesh-eating parasite. www.levernews.com/usda-moves-t...

Not surprisingly, the US Supreme Court rules to allow the rapist trump to withhold money from NIH and continue to destroy US science. This is so stupid, so bad, I'm at a loss for words beyond stupid and bad. 🧪⚒️ #TeamFish

The Colorado Attorney General responds to Trump’s demand to free Tina Peters with a big middle finger.

People debate if it’s time to leave the United States before it becomes a full-blown Fascist country. Historical guidelines say it's Right Now. But the real question is where to go. Would Canada take back descendants of the citizens it deported in 1755? bit.ly/45rbULj #Deportation #NovaScotia

Trump wants us to forget his Epstein files cover-up so badly that he’s invading Washington D.C.

POTUS 47 has been in office for 6 months. He and his handlers have achieved nearly 50% of Project 2025’s goals. That's the right wing plan for replacing the federal government with an authoritarian regime. bit.ly/3HcGcYZ @hcrichardson.bsky.social @lincolnproject.us @politico.com @atrupar.com

Republicans thought they were getting people who would expose the Deep State pedophiles with Trump, Bongino and Patel. Instead, they got their protectors. Maxwell just got rewarded with a nicer prison, and in exchange, the pedophiles stay concealed. Hell of a legacy, fellas.

If he builds his golden ballroom, how soon can it be torn down? Indeed, let’s remember many of these heinous acts can be overturned. None of this despicable demolition of our government and values is unchangeable. But it requires ending his lawless regime & returning power to responsible leaders.

'they paved paradise and put up a parking lot'

The White House landscape now matches our national political one.

Schiff: "On the good news side, Trump just got a third Air Force 1. He's building a $200m ballroom at the White House. So his personal economy is doing really well. But for average Americans, their prices are going up, their job prospects are going down ... "

"It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no God." --U.S. founding father Thomas Jefferson

Presidents don’t own the country. It doesn’t belong to them. It’s ours. Never forget this basic fact. It’s ours. Never normalize dictatorial power grabs. They’re NOT normal.

"The issue of government has always been whether individual men and women will have to serve some system of government and economics, or whether a system of government and economics exists to serve individual men and women."  —FDR, 1932

A State Department employee shared with PBS News an image from inside the department. The image includes a piece of paper taped to a mirror with the words, "Colleagues, if you remain: RESIST FASCISM. Remember the oath you vowed to uphold."

Just a reminder that if Pam Bondi resigns, the next attorney general will *also* not release any list because the AG doesn’t hold the power, Trump does. And it’s clearly *him* who wants this to go away. Don’t delude yourself into thinking the buck stop with anyone other than Trump.

Do you have any idea how persnickety Catholics are about the Sunday obligation? Do you know what it takes for a bishop to say "yeah never mind?" THIS is religious persecution. Not saying "happy holidays." Sending your jackbooted thugs to kidnap people from Mass is religious persecution.

Kristi Noem didn’t approve FEMA rescue teams for over 72 hours after the Texas floods, following a rule she imposed that required her personal sign-off on any operation over $100K. This is inexcusable. She should resign.

4/ A new tax break for coal companies! So the tax incentives for wind and solar are GONE, and the coal industry is getting NEW tax incentives. It's official policy now to to not just deny global warming exists - but to actively make it WORSE.

The people who voted for Trump wanted a king. Now they have one. Let's see how they like being serfs.

With the holiday weekend approaching, can you tell poison ivy from Virginia creeper, from Black Swallow-wort? Do you know what to avoid and why? Here's a quick tutorial: bit.ly/40miwYh

I’m still waiting for CNN to devote multiple programming days to Trump’s obvious cognitive decline and dangerous mental instability.

If you think your vote will count in the midterms, read this and find out what happened to the 2024 ballots: substack.com/home/post/p-...

ICE agents detain people coming out from hearings at immigration court who have upcoming scheduled hearings. ICE agents unilaterally grabs them and drags them away. When people abiding by the law get arrested, and the government openly defies the law, it’s fascism.

Can someone please ask Karoline Leavitt why the Director of White House Personnel refuses to say what country he is from and refuses to complete paperwork for a background check? Can you also ask if “Sergio Gor” is the name on his birth certificate. Seems kinda important.

Some saw the Rafi Devers trade as a baseball decision while others analyzed a financial arrangement, and still more focused on the personality clash. I see it as a huge failure of business communications. bit.ly/45nxHE5

The Second American Civil War has begun with a military parade and four American citizens shot. Two were murdered, two are "recovering." They are casualties of #47's incendiary rhetoric and MAGA's dedication to a tyrant.

Listening to Walz, and even though I've known and been warning for years now that this is where we were headed, political-violence-wise, I'm still just in shock. This whole week needs to be a wake-up call for all of us. We're in the fight of our lives here.

Today is Flag Dag. Boston has building with a strong connection to the American flag. The Youth's Companion Building is where the Pledge of Allegiance was written by magazine editor Frank Bellamy: bit.ly/3TkCkHH

These are the people banning books.

Lmao.

Possible to start to tell a unified story: "Trump is personally too old, crazy, and confused to run things, so at any given time the question is which co-president is in charge. At first it was Musk, & we got the crazy chaotic DOGE era. Then Navarro: a trade war that crashed markets. Now Miller..."

Wow, Turner REALLY tried here.

Saturday is Flag Dag and I want to call attention to a Boston building that has a strong and unique connection to the American flag. Technically called the Youth’s Companion Building, this structure is also known as the Pledge of Allegiance Building because it was written there. bit.ly/3TkCkHH

Trump and Hegseth are actively and overly turning the US military into a partisan political force in violation of the Constitution, and Republicans in Congress will say nothing as another pillar of the Republic comes crashing down.