It's clear that rightwing agitators are flocking to Portland to distort what's happening, pick fights, and create incidents so the Trump Administration can escalate their punitive plans. As this piece by the Star Tribune lays bare, those plans include turning the US military against Americans.

Illegal order? Anyone know?

Let's be clear: no one should be taking medical advice from the man who told Americans to inject bleach. To moms worried about the Tylenol they took while pregnant: you deserve better than being RFK Jr's scapegoat. And to the autism community: you are loved exactly as you are.

Bored Trump Spends Night Channel Surfing For New Shows To Cancel https://theonion.com/bored-trump-spends-night-channel-surfing-for-new-shows-to-cancel/

telling people that violence is coming their way from a very specific group, and they have to fight back before it wipes them out is just straight-up inciting violence... there's hardly even a rhetorical fig leaf here bsky.app/profile/pale...

two of the four major networks are already right wing propaganda now. Ultimately they'll start merging the bigger tech companies with telecoms and media, since we eliminated all regulatory oversight, media ownership limits, and antitrust reform of any kind

The nexus is violent white men but everyone is supposed to pretend this is not the case.

About this Florida vaccine story: When they were little - 1 yr and 3 1/2 - my two older boys, who’d had all their shots, got whooping cough. We asked their pediatrician what would’ve happened if they hadn’t been vaccinated. “Oh, they’d have died.”

Ken Dilanian @DilanianMSNBC Worth remembering that Kash Patel fired the highly regarded head of the FBI field office in Salt Lake City a few weeks ago for reasons that are not clear. www.msnbc.com/opinion/anal...

*points to first amendment*

BOSTON (AP) — Judge reverses Trump administration's cuts of billions of dollars to Harvard University.

Just an astonishing, powerful op-ed that drives home what we are losing and what's already been lost. We are so incredibly fortunate to live with the advances modern medicine and health science. Destroying and stymieing it is just unforgivable. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...

“They Will Attack Every Organized Worker in America” A powerful warning from the head of the largest federal employees union. Trump’s attacking federal workers and their unions now. But it’s only a matter of time before the most anti-labor president in history attacks every union—and every worker.

Exactly. Keep the pressure on. Trump will not stick with anyone he thinks may be dragging him further down. That was the beginning of his distancing from Elon. Keep the pressure on. RFK must go.

Don’t mean to make everything about the Supreme Court, but: There’s an undecided petition AT THIS VERY MOMENT, sitting on the shadow docket, asking the nine to allow ICE to racially profile people who look Latino, speak Spanish, are day laborers, or else work in low-wage service jobs. This one:

🚨The CDC is collapsing under RFK Jr., who has weaponized vaccine lies into policy. America’s frontline of science lies shattered, its headquarters still scarred by bullets from an anti-vaccine terrorist attack fueled by falsehoods Kennedy has long amplified. open.substack.com/pub/theintel...

There is only one political party responsible for gun violence in America. The political party that has done nothing to solve it. The political party that has blocked any efforts to solve it. The Republican Party.

This is how you react, every single time. Blame every single Republican politician in the goddamn country. They're all complicit and counting on you to listen to them bleat about decency while they allow this and every other kind of gun violence to proceed unhindered.

The media's inability to state, plainly, that Trump is racist and his administration's policies and the MAGA movement are racist is just weird. Like we all know. They know. Hell, they're proud of it. So, fuck it, say they're racists. They don't care and it'll clarify shit for everyone else.

Trump's attacks on mail-in voting are less about literally eradicating the practice by next fall than they are about constructing an alternative reality in which aggrieved Republicans attribute every loss to voter fraud, thus justifying their efforts to stamp it out by any means necessary

Every day there's a new corruption story. Anyone one of these could bring a Democratic president down. But because we normalize Trump's corruption, we don't even notice some. Like this one: the Trump family is getting into the drone manufacturing business. Hear me out.

so long, little sebastian

Giving me the whiplash 🤤

ah yes the long simmering "can a U.S. president invade the United States to enforce racism through a campaign of kidnapping, murder, and terror" debate, gotta hear both sides

I wonder if the goons signing up for those fat ICE bonuses realize how eagerly Stephen Miller awaits one of them getting popped so he can move onto phase two of his master plan.

Like ballrooms and golf 🙄

Dear Democrats There is a MASSIVE difference between pretending crime doesn't exist and RIGHTFULLY SHARING THAT WE HAVE HAD one of THE LARGEST DECLINES IN VIOLENT CRIME EVER Crime is always important, but it is FAR from a National Emergency, and to go along with this nonsense is DANGEROUS

I got robbed at gunpoint last year in my neighbor just blocks from my house and the beat cops I had to spend the next ~2 hours with decided since I’m white they could share their putrid politics with me. It was enlightening: 🧵 1/

It’s what most Republicans want too.

Governor Abbott just said he’s got “bullets in his belt” that he’s ready to use against Texas Democrats. As a prosecutor, I’ve had criminals threaten my life. I never thought I’d see the day that the Governor of Texas threatens my life. Governor Abbott, retract your statement.

extremely noticeable that I have seen exactly zero black DC residents asked to write about how they feel about Trump's occupation and/or DC's crime.

😢😩

Andrew, follow up question about confidentiality agreements

75% of the National Guard troops deployed to Los Angeles said they will not re-enlist due to the deployment davisvanguard.org/2025/07/trum...

The Trump administration has announced that the US will rewrite past climate reports, in a clear attempt to erase scientific history and undermine the consensus on human-caused climate change.

The guy Trump picked to lead the office that’s now investigating Jack Smith: — said Niki Haley is ineligible to be president — has neo-Nazi ties — was Andrew Tate’s lawyer — 2x Claremont fellow — wrote for Gateway Pundit — called for Pence to be hanged — called for secession after 2020 election

"the fact they haven't committed a crime is proof they're criminals"

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So, as I suspected, the police response to the shootings of Democratic elected officials in Minnesota was actually a complete disaster www.startribune.com/new-details-...

Here's how it works: 1) Habba resigns as interim US attorney, ahead of a Friday deadline 2) Trump withdraws Habba's nomination to take the job permanently 3) AG Bondi appoints Habba First Assistant US attorney 4) Habba automatically becomes acting US attoreny bc of the vacancy.

Personally, I feel like even the Republicans want trump taken down, but they don't want to be to blame for it.

Name a dictator who has allowed his population to be well-armed. I’ll wait.

Louisville Public Media has now raised: $444,000. In a little more than one day. Dunno, I’m pretty speechless. And I guess I’ll still be employed here for awhile. Can’t thank everybody enough who donated!

I'm sorry, nine HUNDRED former DOJ lawyers all signed this letter opposing Emil Bove's nomination to be an appellate federal judge? 900?!

Time to start paying attention to Florida attorney general James Uthmeier, the brains behind Alligator Auschwitz. He's only 37 and is a Florida version of Stephen Miller. He's the future of MAGA. My new piece on his sudden rise and what it means: newrepublic.com/article/1978...

✊🏽 CALLING ALL DEMOCRACY DEFENDERS ✊🏿 On July 17 at 4:30 PM, we’re hitting Broadway St. in Louisville to make #GoodTrouble in honor of John Lewis. 📍 Broadway & 6th 🗓️ Wed, July 17 🕓 4:30-7PM ✊🏽 Bring signs and friends Let’s show up. Speak out. Make necessary trouble. #GoodTrouble #IndivisbleLouKY

very proud to have pitched this headline lol

Literally lining up to receive a paste to give children with extreme malnutrition.