Tldr: cops lie almost every fucking time

Look, Donald Trump may have had a lengthy, well documented friendship with America’s most famous pedophile, and he may have spent decades giving quotes like “if there’s one thing I love, its beautiful girls—young ones, too,” but I just need 4-5 more drops of damning evidence to buy these accusations

It’s enraging the extent to which the corporate media is not relentlessly covering and showing this brutality.

Why is it that every disappeared US citizen is not front page news? At the very least we should have a little box with a count of the number of citizens who have been taken away and are not locatable and a link to a story with photos & min-bios, just as we used to do with military casually figures.

A really good read here

Quite a world when a federal judge has to call in a federal official to specifically tell him he can't use tear gas on children in Halloween costumes

Over the past week, the president said the DOJ should pay him a quarter billion dollars, bulldozed half the White House to build himself a gaudy ballroom, bragged about murdering civilians in international waters, pardoned some more criminals, directed federal prosecutors to indict his opponents ...

Democrats should be drawing up legislation right now, this very minute, to bar Trump from helping himself to $230 million in taxpayer funds from DOJ. Challenge Republicans to hold a vote on it. Push this so hard in the media that every GOP Senate and House candidate is pressed to comment on it.

the symbolism of “Trump destroying the White House for a overpriced luxury vanity project, during a government shut down, days after a historically-large mass demonstration against his regime called “No Kings”’ would be rightly viewed as laying it on a little thick if it was in a work of fiction

Employers pay fed taxes on your behalf. The money doesn't magically appear. It's yours. They send it for you. Gov can tell local companies to put fed taxes in escrow (or whatever) and make Trump come sue for it. Get creative! But try something. Don't throw your hands up and say oh well.

California is the 4th largest economy in the world. It’s time it and other blue states used their economic clout to fight Trump’s agenda. The latest from @clarajeffery.bsky.social:

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".

These fucking scumbags, man

*taps sign*

The White House Press Secretary, the official spokesperson for the Trump administration, told reporters in an official briefing that the president wants to invade "every Democrat-run city" with troops. Any media still pretending that this is about "crime" is making a conscious choice to lie to you.

REMINDER: LA's "budget crisis" is entirely created by the LAPD. They cost taxpayers millions in lawsuit settlement payments because LAPD can't stop breaking the law.

Wild when New York Times reporters are or are not allowed to opine. If you think antivax lunatic RFK Jr. "makes good points" about COVID and vaccination, you can say so. If you think the Trump administration's egregious rights violations are bad, you keep that out of the paper, don't be biased.

I will have zero sympathy for these condescending assholes in 2027 when they wake up and realize Dems controlling Congress isn't gonna save them. Like, if you're an optimist and you spend 2025-26 talking to the realists/pessimists like this, you can positively go fuck yourself lmfao

This is evil -- the kind of evil you read about in history books, the kind of evil you would never mistake for a single second if you saw it in another country. When you ask, of historical evils, "how could they let that happen?" That's us. We're letting this happen.

A major obstacle for folks attempting to defend democracy is that a perfectly accurate description of what Trump is attempting sounds like hysterical conspiracy theorizing to a lot of people. We default to “c’mon, that can’t happen here”—which is exactly why it can.

Institution after institution, created, constructed, designed, funded, maintained, for generations for this exact moment and the cowards at the top, all of whom know damn well what they've got on their hands, did nothing and hoped someone else would bell the cat.

i gave my life to christ in the cracker barrel parking lot and all i got was this shirt

This might be the funniest fucking thing I have ever seen someone say on this app, truly. Every day cops help citizens with uhhhhhhhhhhh domestic abuse! Lmfao oh my god

Bro goes to an establishment that has a jar of dog treats on the bar and says "this is a place only for humans, because I said so." If you don't like dogs simply choose to spend your time at places that don't encourage people to bring dogs, crazy concept

The White House is mobilizing red state military forces to occupy a Democratic stronghold and let me tell you: No one has ever pretended something isn't happening harder than Democratic leaders are pretending this isn't happening right now.

I’m gonna say armed troops from red states descending on a blue city is just a few inches — or maybe one exchange of gunfire — short of a civil war’s opening stages.

DHS is completely irredeemable and incompatible with a civilized society

Infuriating to watch elite journalists embrace MAGA narratives. It isn’t about crime. It was never about crime. We know this because they said so. Taking over blue cities was the plan from the start. So stop pretending that they’re sincere. www.mediaite.com/media/tv/mag...

Millions have been with more national days of action coming. Head to mobilize.us and enter your area under Filters with dates. Here's one that just formed since the Texas gerrymander mess, with over 50 organized around the country. Big one planned for Labor Day, too. bsky.app/profile/pine...

the thing everyone is going to have to accept is that the post-trump period, whenever it comes, will not and cannot be a project of national unity, it must be a project of partisan project of renewal, in the same way that reconstruction and the new deal were partisan projects of renewal.

This is not true. The major issue is that Democratic leadership likes their job the way it is, know how to be successful in the current system, and are temperamentally not risk-takers. Don’t bring this u**party or “controlled whatever” or “both sides are the same” garbage. They’re not the same.

Another horrific series of press rights abuses tonight at hands of LAPD. Initial reports are 4 journalists injured (several bleeding), 3 cameras broken, 5 put in zip ties. All in defiance of state law, a judge's order, and chief's signed order. LAPD can't police itself. Maybe the judge will.

whichever Democratic politician you’re currently describing as a vile bigot would not have done anything like this

this work saved millions of lives in 2021, won the Nobel Prize in 2023, and is cancelled in 2025

I don't think enough good things can be said about the people who worked hard to build the political pressure for his and everyone else's release, including senator van hollen. otoh there is no bottom to my contempt for the people who were urging the opposite course of action

lol at this response to a “man on the street” interview with protestors at the Tesla diner

Trump: ‘We Could Argue All Day About Who Is Or Isn’t A Child Rapist’

Trump has actually been remarkably successful in implementing his agenda and at the six month mark he's hit a low point in Gallup approval ratings. That's because the agenda is fundamentally unpopular! Something we tried desperately hard to communicate in 2024.

If we get through this we're going to need Nuremburg style trials for these fascists. There's no way around it, it needs to happen.

Because a budget process that’s just “Blue states get nothing while providing the overriding share of national revenues” is not only a violation of fair play, it’s massively and structurally destabilizing to the country.

Once again, one of the main reasons Trump says & does whatever he wants is because every single societal institution - most especially, the national media - keeps normalizing his lawless authoritarianism & using language that communicates to the public that it's all normal & legal.

Don't. Print. Lies. In. The. Newspapers 🤷‍♂️🤦‍♂️😡 It's not a "trade agreement", bc POTUS can't make "trade agreements" on his own, & every media outlet should stop being lazy by using "deal" or "agreement" & instead do journalism & explain to readers that all of this is wildly illegal & not how it works.

warning lights flashing like the control board at chernobyl at this point

Been banging the drum on this one since he showed up trying to get his DOGE kids access to all those separate silos of data on American citizens and feeding it into AI! No one paid attention. This is it right here. It's always been about "making lists" for ICE and now they got the cash too.

This is genuinely the news every day

A worker was killed. Dozens detained. Dr. Jonathan Caravello, A CSU faculty member and US citizen, was brutalized & disappeared by ICE for observing. Trump’s ICE thugs are escalating terror in our communities. Release them ALL. seiuca.org/press-releas...

This is bat shit fucking insane. Nazis. Fucking Nazis. Holy shit

Our staff is on the ground supporting families. Many workers-including US citizens, were held by federal authorities at the farm for 8 hours or more. US citizen workers report only being released after they were forced to delete photos and videos of the raid from their phones. 4/

Watching movies in which heroes stand up for the little guy, do the unpopular brave thing simply because it is right, help those in need, are kind to people different from them, and grinding my teeth in frenzied rage at this political bias that is personally attacking me, a massive piece of shit.