It took 20 years to go from Dan Rather to Bari Weiss.

DOJ has sued 8 states for refusing to turn over their full, unreacted voter files. My team has now filed motions to defend voters in 7 of those cases in ME, MI, MN, NH, NY, OR and PA. I suggest that DOJ monitor the docket in the remaining one in CA.

"Fascism—ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power". -Franklin D. Roosevelt, 32nd POTUS 🌊

Aye, is America GREAT yet???

This October 18th!!! Get your signs ready and come stand with us as we say #NoKings #NoDictators #HoldTheLine #ReleaseTheEpsteinTrumpFiles #NoTaxationWithoutRepresentation

The next time Mike Johnson lies that he hasn’t seen the latest Trump screwup that the rest of the nation is discussing, the TV anchor should just quietly say “that’s ok, not everyone follows politics.”

Galls me when old, male centrists sneer at Thunberg, accuse her of "attention seeking". Damn right she's attention seeking. She's drawing attention to starvation, genocide. All her critics reveal is their secret guilt at their own, shameful inertia. History will judge them for saying, doing nothing.

"U.S. Rep. Sheri Biggs of South Carolina, a lieutenant colonel in the Air National Guard, said she also supported Hegseth’s efforts to change military culture." What is wrong with these MAGA women? and she thinks she's going to still have a job?

“[t]wice in the past few months, federal immigration officers have raided…private construction sites…without a warrant, and detained Leo simply for being at work. Both times, Leo told the officers he was a citizen and showed them his REAL ID... But the officers still wouldn’t let him go.”

“I fear President Trump believes the American people are so divided that today they will not stand up, fight for, and defend our most precious constitutional values so long as they are lulled into thinking their own personal interests are not affected. “Is he correct?”

Did you know that the Maine State Police have NEVER, EVER had a questionable suspect death or case of excessive force? Even after we all saw the video footage? Yes, it's waaaaay past time that these incidents be investigated by an independent council instead of by the state police.

Trump-Hegseth address to America’s top Generals & Admirals was insulting & demeaning. Excruciating to watch. I come from a military family. The military respects competence. They know what is right, what America is, what the threats are and are not.- and what they have devoted their lives to.

Hey hey! Ho Ho! Chuck Schumer has got to go! Hey hey! Ho ho! Chuck Schumer has got to go!

Soooooo true.. What the Democrats need least: a new think tank financed by billionaires

What a fucking tool this guy is.

“I’ve not heard of anything this egregious — a donor calling up and saying I need help and getting it,” one disaster relief expert said, “while others may be getting denied assistance or otherwise waiting in line for help that may or may not come.”

"reports have suggested that he intended to talk to the generals and admirals about “soldier ethos.” Now Trump says he intends to go to the meeting himself and give the military leaders a pep talk." Because the US military needs 'soldier ethos' training by a draft dodger and a drunk guardsman?

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🚨 IMPORTANT THREAD 🚨 People are protesting the Broadview ICE facility tonight. This will likely be an extremely high-risk action. I caution you to consider your risk level before attending. I will not attend. Attendance risks your safety, but also the safety of Broadview residents + detainees. 1/6

Generals who’ve dedicated their lives to the military are going to love being lectured about “warrior ethos” by talk-show Hegseth. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

Yesterday people asked why Nexstar and Sinclair caved. The answer is simple: those who tracked which companies were advertising with them made a huge impact. Thanks to those calls, companies began pulling their ad budgets over the Kimmel blackout.

Any of my Maine peeps know WTF this is about? If they were sending my husband over to do free construction for Saudi Arabian princes I'd be bloody f'n pissed. ... ok.. I'm f'n pissed anyway.

You've probably seen it. This is for everyone else...

Trump is ordering the military to use “full force” against an American city, while the Supreme Court declares him the Sun King and Congress hides under a pile of coats. The checks and balances only work when the institutions aren’t run by utter cowards and the complicit

We are fighting for the freedom to have time to build, to create, to love, and to live lives not of just survival, but of fulfillment and joy.

Five corporations control 90% of the US media market. Airlines merged from 12 major carriers in 1980 to 4 today. Four giants control 80% of meat processing. A handful of companies control the pharmaceutical industry. The evidence of corporate concentration is everywhere.

Soybeans are (were) Tennessee’s #1 cash crop 🧑‍🌾 😕 Trump is crushing our farmers. Why don’t @GovBillLee @RepChrisTodd @rustygrills @MarshaBlackburn @SenatorHagerty @RepOgles @RepTimBurchett Sexton etc. care?

War-ravaged Portland

TIL about Wounded Knee...

41 years ago today, President Reagan vetoed sanctions against apartheid state South Africa; because it did not bother him.

Worth the read. Letter from William J. Burns a career diplomat and public servant who served 35 years and both GOP and Democrat administrations. ...brought tears to my eyes. And I'm not the crying kind. A Letter to America’s Discarded Public Servants: You Deserved Better

Okay, I just found out Maru, my favourite internet cat, died on September 6. It's official, folks. This year can die in a fire.

We Live In A Society Not An Economy….

CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1965: 20-1 CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1990: 75-1 CEO-to-worker pay ratio today: 280-to-1 Trickle-down economics was always a sham. Nothing has ever trickled down.

🗳️ Did You Know? #Maine voters have the RIGHT to request an absentee ballot for ANY reason - no excuse needed! Whether you're traveling, working, caring for family, or simply prefer voting from home, you can vote by absentee.

💯 No matter what you think of Comey the man… Comey the FBI director did NOTHING remotely illegal. Save the unpopular Comey Canary in the coal mine…because if YOU’VE ever uttered or posted something even remotely critical of Trump, you SERIOUSLY could be next.

The Hegseth Mystery Meeting is giving this

Comey: My heart is broken for the Department of Justice. But I have great confidence in the federal judicial system and I'm innocent, so let's have a trial.

Journalist: Trump said you have no cards, what has changed? Zelenskyy: Trump realized that putin will not bring him success. The American people do not trust putin.

America is bailing out Argentina, while Argentine farmers sell soybeans to China instead of American farmers, thereby bankrupting them, which is why America also have to bail out American farmers. If this is considered winning, I fear what losing looks like.

Susan Collins response to this has been to confirm hundreds of MAGA nominees; to refrain from scheduling a single oversight hearing or issue a single subpoena in 8+ months; and to vote with Trump 96% of the time. tinyurl.com/3xp8fzxu #MEpolitics

The richest man on earth owns X. The second richest man on earth is about to be a major owner of TikTok. The third richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. The fourth richest man owns The Washington Post. See the problem here?

#MorningVibe But at night, when all the world’s asleep The questions run so deep For such a simple man Won’t you please (oh, won’t you tell me) Please tell me what we’ve learned? (Can you hear me?) Songwriters: R Davies / R Hodgson