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

Why do I feel such dread and gloom.? anyone else?

“To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.” ― Theodore Roosevelt

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s latest firing of a top Navy official injected a fresh wave of fear into the Pentagon over the cost of speaking up and who might be next.

how sad.

He just said it. 100% unironically and unmistakably. “We took the freedom of speech away.”

President Donald Trump's "One Big Beautiful Bill" has cleared the way for 48,000 acres of previously off-limits Utah public land to be available for coal leasing. https://ow.ly/jn9X50X8Vbs

Nice to see Sen. Gallego and Kelly going to bat for Adelita Grijalva, as they and everyone else should be. Speaker Johnson is stalling her swearing-in because her vote would help finally reveal the Epstein files. #USDemocracy #Voices4Victory

NEW: Under Trump, the Department of Education has been bringing in activists hostile to public schools. It could mean a new era of private and religious schools boosted by tax dollars — and the end of public schools as we know them.

an aster feeding frenzy!!🌸🌸🌱🌱🌱

Imagine that. www.wsj.com/health/pharm...

"Donald Trump seems to view federal funds like a personal presidential piggy bank," writes Stephen Collinson | Analysis Read more: https://cnn.it/48PJqNh

Democrats and a federal union argue that Trump administration language posted on federal agency websites and some emails blaming a shutdown on the "Radical Left Democrats" violates a 1939 federal law.

Amazon is putting prescription drugs in vending machines

The Trump regime continues its quest to violate every conceivable right of trans people. Aly Gibbs brings you this story of the DoJ's invasion of trans people's privacy.

Newly elected Congressmember Adelita Grijalva says she will provide the final vote needed for a petition that could force the release of the Jeffrey Epstein files. Is that why Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson has refused to swear her in for the last two weeks?

Trump approves mining road, delivers $70 million windfall to MAGA billionaire open.substack.com/pub/populari...

Of all the many, many questions Pamela Jo Bondi refused to answer today, the most incendiary was about whether she's seen photos of Donald Trump with unclothed underage girls. It is so damning that she couldn't just say, "No."

Um, ICE just coldly shot an unarmed PRIEST in the head w a pepper ball when he (and everyone around him) clearly posed no threat. For the crime of … complaining about government policy. Core 1A speech. With cameras rolling, they’re sniping priests for sport.

My recent conversation w @hcrichardson.bsky.social has more views than many of the videos on Bari Weiss's The Fress Press. I am independent, with no support, a janky setup, & started my channel recently. Can someone give me $150 million, please? youtube.com/watch?v=3nTVzhv5jkI&feature=youtu.be

By all means, indict Jack Smith on bullshit allegations and give him the trial that SCOTUS denied him. Poke the bear, Donnie. See what happens.

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Stephen Miller just said the quiet part out loud claiming that Trump has plenary authority when it comes to deploying troops. (Plenary means full authority.) After making the statement, he froze completely, like a deer in headlights. The video is worth watching.

This strikes me as pretty bad

RAJU: You swore in 2 GOP members during pro forma session. Why not swear in Grijalva? Does it have to do w/her signature on Epstein petition? JOHNSON: It has nothing to do with that. We'll swear her in when everybody is back R: Why not now? J: Uh - we'll schedule it, I guess, as soon as she wants

last blooms of the season 🌱🌱🌱🪴

Another tragic accident.

Guys, every person you see on Fox News in a mask is just Robert O'Neill, retired Navy Seal and occasional Fox News contributor. He's the former Antifa, former Gazan, former gang member. His eyes are very unique.

Question: what would the consequences be for red states if California and Illinois withdrew from the Governors Association?

This.

Buried in the polls, with every American screaming for the Epstein files, the walls are closing in on Tangerine Palpatine. Sending troops to every city you can in a desperate attempt to make martial law happen is not strength. It’s the last gasp of a dying regime.

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) issued a grim warning about America's health care system during an interview with CNN's Kaitlan Collins on Monday.

“Roberts will go down in history as the most destructive chief justice.”

MORE: You can find live video of press coverage of this situation, in which media confirms that rubber bullets are being fired at peaceful protesters who are not trespassing. It's merely unfettered fascist violence being unloaded on Americans for the crime of exercising their First Amendment rights.

So what was that insurrection plan called ? my mind is a sieve.

because they were part of the insurrection. that's why

Senate Republicans announced the FBI, as part of special counsel Jack Smith’s January 6 investigation, used court orders in 2023 to obtain the phone records of nine GOP lawmakers, a move the senators called “political weaponization.”

trump is outraging both sides. yeah, Tubs WHO briefed you the liars in the WH? he wants a civil war.

Love this. Superbly done. Please send this far and wide. @donwinslow.bsky.social

this.

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:

After layoffs, it's unclear how many people are policing civil rights violations inside the Department of Homeland Security, even as the Trump administration ramps up ICE detention.

JUST IN: Hundreds of ex-DOJ staffers demand oversight ahead of Pam Bondi hearing, amid widespread questions about the department's decisions to target Trump's political foes such as former FBI director James Comey.

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government’s claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed. trib.al/9Sxu9IN

It seems clear—I think to everyone, now—that a false and illegal invocation of the Insurrection Act is coming before the end of the year. Media outlets should be telling us how they will prepare for this potential Treason. State governments should be telling us. Activists should be developing plans.

Alabama, just elect a football! 🤣 www.al.com/politics/202...

Developing: Trump considering $10 billion bailout for farmers he singularly drove into poverty by taking away their biggest customers and markets. No hyperbole here. He started the fire and now he’s giving them a cup of water to put it out. And of course, he expects them to thank him for it.