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Just prepping for Threads to meltdown Update: Well, that didn't take as long as I thought. If we were mutuals on Threads, I'd love to reconnect here! Political Science PhD Candidate focused on American voting behavior as it relates to gender.
It’s deeply pathetic that Senate Democrats are continuing to advance bipartisan funding bills while Trump unconstitutionally seizes the right to impound funds, and implements a police state.
Murphy is absolutely right on this one.
The politically ambitious Connecticut Democrat is walking away from bipartisan government funding negotiations as his party clamors for a seat at the table.
A Democratic Party with any spirit would stage a press conference every single day to present Donald Trump with one sarcastic award after another.
The Dennis Hastert Award for Enabling Pedophilia The Richard Nixon Memorial Trophy for Lawlessness The Blue Ribbon for Setting a Record Federal Deficit
Trump: Since 1978 the Kennedy Center honors have been amongst the most prestigious awards. I wanted one, never able to get one. I would have taken it. I waited and waited and waited and I said to hell with it, I'll become chairman. I will give myself an honor. Next year we'll honor trump, okay?
Authoritarian regimes are notorious for making people think what they perceive to be reality is not actually real. Sometimes this is called creating "unreality" sometimes "gas-lighting." It doesn't matter which label is used, the goal is the same: make people doubt what they see with their own eyes.
Trump was obviously somewhere on the spectrum of enabler, accomplice, or participant
And yet despite clear evidence, our oligarch-owned media is constantly trying to declare he's cleared his name
Just like they did with Russiagate! Because they like Trump & want him to win! (©️ @mtsw.bsky.social)
“A .. CNN review of Trump’s ties to Jeffrey Epstein—backed by records, photos, videos, interviews & messages—shows a long, close relationship until at least the mid-2000s .. with Epstein saying Trump was his ‘closest friend for 10 years’ in 2019.”
A timeline of Trump’s interactions with Epstein and Maxwell reveals a long pattern of social proximity and one that stands in sharp contrast to Trump’s public downplaying of their friendship.
it was always obvious DOGE was decorative "innovative efficiency" cover for the brutal dismantling of corporate oversight and the social safety net, but the press spent first six months of the year propping it up as a good-faith effort
“.. DOGE increasingly looks like a giant joke as the initiative winds up saving essentially zero dollars for US taxpayers .”
The American press and public really need to figure out how to simply dismiss Trump's pretextual claims for authoritarian attacks and then resist the attack itself, not debate the claim. We have spent months asking "but is the Ivy League really antisemitic?" and now "but is DC really crime-ridden?"
I know I’m not telling anyone anything new here, but this is a massive “Show me who you really are” moment for America’s mainstream media institutions: Faced with a naked authoritarian power grab, the Washington Post has decided to look for ways to normalize rather than oppose the regime.
The Washington Post editorial board: 1+1=5
Congrats to the Washington Post for becoming the mouthpiece of the regime, under the Bezos editorial policy of protecting "personal liberties"
Because the definition of good government has changed dramatically since 2016.
www.politico.com/news/2025/08...
Common Cause softened its stance on redistricting after previously equating Gavin Newsom with Texas Republicans.
"Sarah Shaw and her son were detained at the border after dropping off Shaw’s two eldest children at Vancouver International Airport, according to the news release. The two were driving back home to Everett."
Her son is 6. This must be terrifying for him.
A Washington state employee and her son were detained by ICE at the Canadian border, according to a news release from the Washington Federation of State Employees.
