Trump's gift to the reactionary centrists is the pogrom against trans people they've been baying for

Over 90 psych hospitals have violated EMTALA since 2010. The vast majority are for-profit Yet only a handful have faced sanctions. When they have, the penalties are trivial vs $$ billions these companies, like UHS & Acadia, raked in last yr Part 2 @propublica.org www.propublica.org/article/psyc...

A government shutdown is all but inevitable, and it looks like Trump will take the blame. “The flip side of rule-by-one is that the one ruler gets blamed for everything.” From @ddayen.bsky.social: trib.al/ZGcRJlP

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"Kirk’s corpse wasn’t even cold before the right started frantically scrambling around for the most cynical possible way his death could be exploited and monetized." prospect.org/politics/202...

Donald Trump's Department of Justice has removed a study showing that white supremacist and far-right violence “continues to outpace all other types of terrorism and domestic violent extremism” in the United States. www.404media.co/doj-deletes-...

Learn more today aboiut how Private Equity Killed The American Dream - @majorityreport.bsky.social interview today with @greenwell.bsky.social Megan Greenwell also check out Private Equity Stakeholder Project pestakeholder.org www.youtube.com/live/zFb9Cf7...

Utah Governor's Irresponsible Handling Of Charlie Kirk Case Video by the Majority Report @majorityreport.bsky.social youtu.be/ixLI-Nkexbw

Democratic Leaders Increasingly Isolated Over Their Fear Of Zohran Mamdani youtu.be/CA1G9twoYE0

they don't call it the fun half for nuthin' @emmavigeland.bsky.social @majorityreport.bsky.social

Trump's polling is bad, Dems are doing even worse.

If you’re mad about Dems avoiding talking about DC, you can blame the Democratic quants, as demonstrated in this memo from David Shor’s Blue Rose Research

One thing that's really reassuring about SCOTUS is how their actual, real, serious, genuine position on ethics is "we are not bound by any mortal law nor any code or creed, this is our world, you merely live in it."

sucks shit that the Abolish ICE guy was a do-nothing grifter now in Eroc Adams orbit because it has never been clearer or more imperative that we have to Abolish ICE and hold trials for what they've done

I am begging my fellow Dems to emerge from the reflexive “it’s a trap” position on these issues and realize that some things are very simple: the public doesn’t like the federal government turning the military against its own citizens.The public doesn’t like the armed occupation of a city.Period.

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1. My newest Anti-Trans Legal Risk Map is here. Risk has increased sharply for youth in many states as clinics shutter under Trump and state AGs refuse to enforce civil rights laws. For adults, some increases in risk. Nationwide risk remains extreme. Subscribe to support my journalism.

We need more Trekkies with good politics to run for office.

Iowa voters saying "You first" in response to Ernst's "we are all going to die" comment

🔥 @mizzwelch.bsky.social : “It’s the complete moral collapse of the 🇺🇸 government… the cabinet meeting with 3.5 hours of superficial praise is so cringeworthy… he redecorated the Oval Office like Marie Antoinette and built himself a ballroom because he has zero intention of leaving…”

Team Trump Probes Dissent at CDC as ‘F-CK RFK’ Sign Goes Up at Agency www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

Get ready for the era of fascist psychedelics. The twisted story of how an Elon Musk DOGE lieutenant took over the most prominent MDMA company in the US ... after an encounter at a sunrise rave at Burning Man. These bastards are even going to ruin drugs. www.theguardian.com/technology/n...

TODAY ON THE MAJORITY REPORT: CASUAL FRIDAY w/ Brendan James, Amanda Seales | MR Live youtube.com/live/isU2-8T...

Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner joined us to discuss his campaign and platform. @grahamformaine.bsky.social youtu.be/8cWA5aF1fXs

The US's Unceasing Assault On Puerto Rico | Alberto Medina youtu.be/ylCvha67EGE?...

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𝗧𝗢𝗗𝗔𝗬 𝗼𝗻 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗠𝗔𝗝𝗢𝗥𝗜𝗧𝗬 𝗥𝗘𝗣𝗢𝗥𝗧 w/ @emmavigeland.bsky.social • NATIONALIZE THE DEFENSE INDUSTRY w/ Julia Gledhill • GOP’S WAR ON VOTING RIGHTS w/ Ari Berman ‪@ariberman.bsky.social + ‪@mattbinder.bsky.social‬ & Brandon Sutton in the FUN HALF LIVE AT 12PM ET youtube.com/live/vEko-XI...

The Social Security Administration's chief data officer has publicly blown the whistle, alleging DOGE put hundreds of millions of Social Security records at risk of compromise by uploading a critical government database of citizen's data to Amazon's cloud.

BBC: "We're just reporting what the Israeli Defence Forces have said..." Exactly.

Fox News grouping mass shootings by events that are serious and events that "we can just move on past" is such a marker of how much of a failed state we are.

It’s always worth reading @jonathanbernstein.bsky.social I’d say today’s post is an urgent read. open.substack.com/pub/goodpoli...

TODAY: Graham Graff, publisher of Doomsday Scenario discussing his piece "America Tips Into Fascism" + Mark Hancock, President of Canada's largest union, the Canadian Union of Public Employees discussing the collective agreement between Air Canada and flight attendants youtube.com/live/-O4bw6s...

Trump lays out how his invasions of major Democratic cities in order to tackle "crime" is actually just the GOP midterm strategy.

Does anyone know what happened between May and August this year?

Netanyahu himself is now pushing the argument that Israel is being unfairly blamed for a starvation death because the boy also had a piece of his skull blown out by an Israeli shelling

TODAY: News Day! Trump’s Fresh Assault On The Fed; Pritzker Resists Fascist Chicago Takeover | MR Live youtube.com/live/BtRfFN5...

This is a live streamed Holocaust and I’m tired of the gaslighting, lies, and obfuscation that aim to enable and manufacture consent for Israel’s genocide of Palestinians. @emmavigeland.bsky.social @mattlech.bsky.social @majorityreport.bsky.social

🚨 Per @daveweigel.bsky.social the DNC has rejected a proposal for the Democratic Party to endorse an arms embargo for Israel

Really good one today by @thirdpartyinternet.bsky.social about watching Girls for the first time in 2025, the oppressive wildfire smoke, homelessness, our addiction to our phones, and the inability of art to capture the realism of the present anymore. www.welcometohellworld.com/the-very-mom...

Dispatch From Gaza’s Nasser Hospital | Dr. Tarek Loubani | TMR youtu.be/X5Y3kOoAZWU?...

Remember: this is a “state” where a white Republican can kill a black Democrat and get away with murder. www.texastribune.org/2024/05/16/d...

“I am unapologetically fascist. I despise democracy,” Van Dyke posted on X in June. (Though his previous account was banned by Twitter, he was able to create a new one, which is verified with a blue check.) “We need less democracy, not more.”

EXCLUSIVE: Jason Lee Van Dyke — one-time leader of the Proud Boys, sender of racist tweets, and attorney for white supremacists — is making taxpayer money to represent people of color. County officials say there’s no rule against it. via @stevanzetti.bsky.social thebarbedwire.com/2025/08/22/c...

Big get for @majorityreport.bsky.social Emma V. just interviewed Graham Platner who is launching his senatorial run with blistering critiques of Sen. Susan Collins dismissing her moderate image as a charade & linking her to what he says is a corrupt American political system rigged for the wealthy.

More from Wednesday when I talked to @majorityreport.bsky.social‘s @emmavigeland.bsky.social about how this admin has unilaterally rescinded the NLRA by gutting the NLRB and other agencies that protect workers’ rights. #union #workers #riseup #dol

ON TODAY'S SHOW: • Elizabeth Pancotti explains how Trump is making the back-to-school season more expensive. • Graham Platner, who is running for US Senate in Maine to defeat Susan Collins. youtube.com/live/gDncNEB...

Celebrating Michael Brooks On His Birthday | MR Live youtube.com/live/yW5xEHt...

Sam and Emma spoke with Palestinian-Canadian emergency room physician, Dr. Tarek Loubani, who is currently volunteering at Nasser hospital in Gaza. It’s a harrowing interview but we must bear witness to the terror our tax dollars are funding. youtube.com/live/gdfgY4E...

Everyone should try to listen to the interview with Dr. Tarek Loubani, from Gaza’s Nasser Hospital, on today’s @majorityreport.bsky.social