“He’s 70 years old!” CHICAGO — 🇺🇸 citizen gets cracked ribs and internal bleeding as Trump’s lawless thugs terrorize a neighborhood.

"What began as a modest workplace amenity for public servants has metastasized into a taxpayer-funded citadel of privilege." Commentary: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

Check check check check check.

Reagan said what he said.

We had breakfast at a wonderful restaurant in Buellton, California and this was on the counter where you pay the bill. Trump’s economy is destroying American businesses 😡

ICE increased weapons spending by 700% — including purchases of chemical weapons and guided missile warheads. ICE was always going to be Trump’s private military to deploy domestically against Americans. Pay attention.

Brian Schatz: "This is not about money. There is enough money to bail out Argentina with $20b. There is enough money to purchase a brand new aircraft for $173m for Noem. There is enough money to renovate the WH ballroom. What there isn't enough money for under this Republican government is you."

"researchers have estimated that the end of enhanced tax credits will lead to 7.3 mill people losing their ACA coverage in 2026, of whom 4.8 mill would become uninsured. The loss of the additional subsidies are projected to increase how much...enrollees must pay...from an avg of $888 to $1,904/year"

Trump’s “message”: I am a king and I douse you all in shit. I say go ahead and amplify it.

worst of the worst?

It’s amazing how he manages not to know any piece of information that would be challenging for him to defend.

No worries, still getting paid though! Way to go finding new ways to rip off the American people!

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Jeffries: "It's perplexing to us that Rs refuse to spend a dime to protect the healthcare of the American people, but somehow the Trump admin found $40b to bail out a right-wing wannabe dictator in Argentina in ways that are also going to continue to hurt our soybean farmers in Iowa & the Midwest"

Americans, you deserve so much better than this. Let’s make sure Saturday is just the beginning. We will overwhelm this regime with dignity and a fierce, non-violent “NO!” #NoKings ✋🏼

In other words, speak against us and we’ll ruin you. And they say we hate America.

Topics Mike Johnson thinks are serious: - Super Bowl halftime entertainer - getting a Nobel Prize for Trump - terrifying naked bike riders Topics he thinks are not serious: - Epstein Files - domestic violence - being able to keep the govt open - the neutering of Congress

Omigod

So, China is buying soy beans from Argentina instead of America but we are giving Argentina billions of dollars? Also, Argentinians have free healthcare but Americans do not and our government is now shut down because it doesn’t have enough money to give Americans even a discount on healthcare?

Amazing

Pope Leo quotes Hannah Arendt: “The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction and the distinction between true and false no longer exist." www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news...

Their complaints that Dems oppose the “rural hospital fund” are so hilarious. Kind of like: “I’m going to burn down your house and give you a chocolate chip cookie instead.” “That sounds terrible.” “What you don’t like chocolate chip cookies!?”

I’m sure this is fine. abcnews.go.com/US/dominion-...

"...including while she was praying with her eyes closed and hands lifted, wearing a clerical collar and stole." religionnews.com/2025/10/07/i...

The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

Everyone can set aside partisanship, psychologizing, pathologizing, whatever, and—I would hope—still see that it’s incredibly dangerous for a political leader to be this disconnected from the real conditions in the country.

“Every time we have been attacked with pepper bullets or tear gas or pepper spray that I have been present, it has felt like it came from anger that we were there, and not from any determined safety need or protocol,” said Rev. Kardon. “They are unhinged.”

Trump said that he wants a shutdown so that he can get rid of programs the Democrats like and fire Democrats working for the government on three separate occasions today:

This will be devastating

In light of where our democracy stands now - I’ve been thinking a lot about this random group of people thrown together to make a terrible and heroic choice for their country. The last paragraph of this letter from HCR hit hard.

Shocking. Insecure little creeps.

Listen to the victims, not their r*pist! #BlueCrew #BlueCircleFamily🌈🦋 #BluePetPatrol💙🐾 #ProudBlue #TrumpIsUnfitForOffice #trumpLiesMatter #ReleaseTheEpsteinFiles

OT reading for 8/24 (Isa 58). DHS won't be quoting it. If you remove the yoke from among you, the pointing of the finger, the speaking of evil, if you offer your food to the hungry and satisfy the needs of the afflicted, then your light shall rise in the darkness & your gloom be like the noonday.

I’ll take a homeless person yelling at my kids over a vice president lying to them while he robs them of their future.

Black women are being used as test subjects for the limits of abuse of power. I want people to not ignore this since this always happens and then when the abuse arrives at people's doorstep, they're surprised. CALL IT OUT NOW.

U.S. Army vet George Retes was tear-gassed, dragged from his car, and held by ICE for 3 days; no lawyer, no calls, no reason. He’s a citizen. #AbolishICE #StateViolence #ICEWatch #HumanRights #Fascism #4R

Release the unredacted tRumpstein files!

“I’m going to protect the women whether they like it or not”

Good god. Riley dodged a bullet.

She not only helped, she made it possible - he would not have had the success he did without her. She used her female-ness, her non threatening appearance, to gain trust with these young women. At least some of them would have had their guards up if he was the one making the approach.

A reminder that after years of speaking out against Epstein and giving other survivors the courage to come forward, Epstein victim Virginia Giuffre died by suicide in April at the age of 41. Let's not forget that there are real human tragedies behind everything we're discussing.

open.substack.com/pub/contrari... If someone who witnessed what Lewis had, someone who had risked his life repeatedly, could maintain faith in a multi-generational, multi-ethnic pro-democracy coalition, what right do any of us have to throw up our hands in frustration and walk away from the fight?