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Pro-Democracy, pro-human rights, no human is illegal, yogi, reader, animals, resister, I want co-conspirators here 💙🇺🇸🦋🌈
ICYMI — “A large store in Tennessee that exclusively sells Trump merchandise is closing due to a lack of shoppers… The store is located along I-40 near Knoxville…” Shop employee: “We’re not busy anymore.” 🤷🏼 www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
Remember their names folks! 2027 is four months away.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2d agodefinitely a choice for all these titans of crypto to kiss Trump's ass and trash Dems while on camera on the White House
Byron Donalds: "The reason why so many families have been struggling is because of Democrat policy" (Republicans have had total control of the federal government for nearly two years, and have had total control of Florida for even longer)
Ossoff: "I would address the president's few remaining supporters to contrast his promises with the results you've been delivered and to vote accordingly."
Poor Todd, there's always a Truth and there's always the tape. 📼 ICYMI: Yesterday Attorney General Todd Blanche went on TV and said Trump never calls him up and tells him who to prosecute. Never has, never will. We brought the receipts again. 🧾
S&P 500 CEOs saw a 21% pay raise last year, while the median worker got just 3%. The only group to land raises anywhere near those CEO level gains were workers who unionized and fought for a strong contract. They weaponize their capital against us. We use our labor to strike back
They didn’t have one before the war started. Weren’t in any position to have one for many years when Trump tore up the Obama deal. But Netanyahu wanted us to go to war with Iran, as he has for decades, & claimed Iran was “weeks away”, just as he has for decades. So here we are.
BTC: For all those people who say Iran’s been a problem for 47 years, that’s the talking point— Lauren Wright: That’s true, it’s not a talking point! BTC: So if that was true during the campaign when he promised no new wars, what changed from November 2024 to now?
Why wouldn't a gop senate candidate answer a basic question like this? Why would anyone vote for someone who refuses to say how he will help our state?! Stop voting for R's. 🤯🤦🏻♀️ #VoteRoyCooper
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 6d agoQ: On the economy - what do you plan to do to make North Carolina more affordable? MICHAEL WHATLEY: *walks away* NARRATOR: He wouldn't take Qs on that even though we sent Whatley Qs more than 24 hours ago looking for specific plans. We have not been given a response beyond 2 paragraphs on his site
Oh look— Snopes fact-checked Scott Jennings, confirms he used “heavily edited… missing key context” footage to (defame) Hasan and say he wanted to bring back lynching Black people: www.snopes.com/news/2026/08... Hasan is looking into legal action. (@CNN @abbydphillip continue to have Jennings on)
Dr. Vin Gupta: There is no proven link between the childhood vaccine schedule and the development of autism. There are other much more plausible and proven risks that we just don’t talk about because they are so focused on their hypothesis that’s been debunked.…
"It’s not just the USS Lincoln that should return home. All the troops deployed to Trump’s misbegotten and mismanaged war should return. And their commanders and nominal “leaders”—from Trump to Pete Hegseth to Daryl Caudle to Hung Cao—should be held accountable." www.thebulwark.com/p/the-troops...
The Troops Deserve Better than Hegseth
The president, the secretary of defense, and the top Navy officials are blithely ignoring the suffering of the sailors at sea.
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Translation: “are they millionaires?” “No” “Then I don’t care. Next question.”
The whole story about Ken Paxton, the stolen Mont Blanc pen, and a courthouse videotape, is just one wonderful detail after another. Here you go:
Team Talarico@teamtalaricohq.bsky.social · last wk.NEW AD: 14 years ago today, Ken Paxton stole someone's $1,000 pen. Today, Ken Paxton’s pen victim is endorsing James Talarico.
Enten: "Even a majority of Republicans -- 52% -- that loyal Republican base who has been through thick and thin with Donald John Trump, even they have turned against the president on gas prices ... these are just atrocious numbers"
It's not some baroque or hyperbolic meta-argument about latent white supremacism in Western culture or capitalism or whatever. Musk literally believes white people are biologically superior to non-white people, simple as. It's dumb, it's wrong, it's evil, but it's not some complicated subterfuge.
“Trump expected to spend at least $900 million on White House construction projects fueled in part by taxpayer dollars without the approval of Congress…” Again: these *projects* are all excuses for him to launder and steal our money. thehill.com/homenews/adm...
This piece was originally written for Democracy Docket members. Since then it has gone viral, so we put it on the website. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/my-o...
My open letter to David Ellison
You argued that the American people have misjudged you — that they are wrong about what is in your heart and mind. I want to be clear: I don't care what you think or feel. What I care about is your ac...
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1. Mitch McConnell suffered a fall on June 14 and has not been in the Senate for two months. But he's continued to get paid his salary of 174K/year. Since he entered the Senate in 1985, McConnell has voted against creating or expanding medical leave — paid and unpaid — at least 23 times.
CNBC: Do you regret voting for RFK Jr? BILL CASSIDY: If you want to tell me that somebody didn't tell me the truth, and I should've seen in the future they were not gonna tell the truth, you can say, 'Bill you should've seen into the future'
If Trump was captain of the Titanic he not only would’ve taken the first lifeboat but he also would have announced to the passengers that everything was fine right before leaving.
i've been covering national security for decades, on and off. i've never heard of anything like this. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
USS Abraham Lincoln sailors tried to jump overboard amid extended deployment – reports
Aircraft carrier’s crew in ninth month at sea and has spent record 250 days consecutively without making land
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"Last month, Trump used a planeload of reporters as an unwitting decoy during a real assassination threat, subpoenaed the reporters who reported something was amiss, then stood up at a black-tie dinner and told those same reporters how lucky they are he tolerates them at all" — @lizdye.bsky.social
Trump uses reporters as human shield, gets feted as guest of honor
Steepest of learning curves.
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A federal judge stepped in today to protect the midterm elections from something the Trump administration is trying to do. The details matter. A lot: joycevance.substack.com/p/judge-decl...
Judge Declines To Let Trump Go Postal
Believe them when they tell you who you are.
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