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If you rename the Department of Defense the Department of War, then bomb fishing boats in the Caribbean, and shoot an unarmed priest in the head with a pepper bullet, you should automatically be barred from receiving the Nobel Peace Prize for the rest of your life.

Shapiro: I filed that amicus brief last night to make it very clear that the Pennsylvania National Guard is under my command. The way the President has chosen to deploy the Guard in other states—and, in at least one case, deploy the Guard from one state into another—is extremely dangerous.

People compare the United States' fascism today to Germany's fascism in the 1930s, but it's actually far more shameless and stupid.

The face of Evil.

Day #262 Bring the Epstein Files out into the open. I invoke the 1st amendment. Freedom of speech. I do not promote violence. I do not promote hatred. I promote honesty, transparency and a shared humanity in difference.

It wasn't an Einstein visa It was an Epstein visa

The Trumps: law breaking immigrants

CHICAGO — Outside an elementary school during dismissal… horrifying. What have we become?

Only one political party is actually expressing any empathy and concern on the way this shutdown is immediately impacting tens of millions of patients nationwide. The tragic irony is most of these patients live in states that support the current party in power. That party remains silent.

I’m glad he stopped messing around and just said it. There is no other way to describe what the House Republicans are doing. By refusing to allow the Epstein Files to be released, they’re protecting a dead pedophile and his living accomplices. www.mediaite.com/media/tv/hak...

Damn, The Las Vegas Sun newspaper, @lasvegassun.bsky.social, is calling it like it is:

I knew Fox News was theater. I just didn't realize it was a repertory theater that recycles actors for different roles. You'd think a company that had to pay $787,000,000 for deceiving its viewers would be a little more careful about blatantly continuing the practice.

BREAKING: Letitia James has just been indicted by the DOJ. OLD NEWS: Donald Trump is intimidated by strong women, especially women of color.

At least SOME countries recognize the value of NATURE and all its offerings.

Television legend Stephen Colbert has just signed a $13.5 million deal with Netflix for a 7-episode series.

I wonder how many more weeks or months when the impacts of this bonehead decision starts affecting everyday people? www.usatoday.com/story/money/...

Has this man not been through enough. Leave him alone. www.rawstory.com/kilmar-abreg...

CHICAGO…

stealin' from xhitter time!😁 of course congress is gettin' involved with The War On Truth

🇺🇸 National Guard soldier speaks out: “I swore an oath to defend our constitution… seeking refuge is not an act of violence. Locking people up for it is.”

The fact that Mississippi, Louisiana, and South Carolina are sending troops to occupy DC is all very neo-Confederate.

Hey Canada. I wanted to tell you how sorry I am that Pierre Poilievre won a seat in Parliament last night. Love, Me in S. Florida.

Museums, well known for having exhibits about the future

If I got kicked out of, say, being the CEO of a major company by the workers holding a collective public vote, my sense of shame would personally not let me force my way back. Anyways totally unrelated I wish Pierre Poilievre well in his return to politics

🚨BREAKING: A new lawsuit filed Tuesday aims to stop New Hampshire, already one of the most difficult states in which to vote by mail, from enforcing even more extreme restrictions. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Guess brain worms are contagious

Netanyahu is slowly, but surely, cementing Israel’s status as a pariah nation.

brennancenter BREAKING: Eight former New York judges, including the former Chief Judge and Chief Administrative Judge, filed a friend-of-the-court brief in United States v. New York. Allowing ICE to make warrantless civil arrests at courthouses undermines the proper functioning of state courts.

“My budget has become double for food shopping”

Bombshell allegations 🤯 #ryanwalters #oklahoma #allegations #podcast #comedy @jackob1.bsky.social @milesofgray.bsky.social

‘How bad slavery was’. WTAF!!!

Democratic lawmakers are briefing their constituents on the cause of Colorado's fiscal challenge and the policy solutions they will debate later this week. "The federal government has just put us in hock to the highest level since World War II," Rep. Bob Marshall said. By @sarawilson.bsky.social

"You cannot 𝘣𝘦𝘭𝘪𝘦𝘷𝘦 a word he says - and you can't 𝘪𝘨𝘯𝘰𝘳𝘦 a word he says." As European leaders gather for an emergency White House meeting, does it expose the continent’s ‘deep frailty’?

Is it just me, or does anyone else find it frighteningly surreal that the terrible atrocities, injustices and war crimes of faraway lands that we studied in history books when we were kids are now being committed, promoted and even celebrated by our own U.S. government, on a daily basis?

ah, you see, history and tradition does not apply to a settled, 90-year-old arrangement

Guarantee that the Roberts court will walk away from Humphrey’s Executor because “Today’s FTC is simply not the one that was reviewed by the Supreme Court in 1935.”

Stare decesis is for losers and shitlibs

Hey, did you know that the NLRB has operated in violation of the Constitution for 90 years? It's right there in this original Constitution we found in 2025.

Good morning. ☕

i say let these degenerates have their little ku klux klavern www.nytimes.com/2025/08/19/r...

Margaret Cho on Dean Cain joining ICE: “I know you & you're not white. You have never been white & no matter how many white activities you participate in, you're never going to be white. No matter how racist or how wrong you act, you're always ‘Wong’ never white. Dumbass.” 🔥 #ProudBlue