Video of an ICE agent pulling a gun on a wife and mother, who is a US citizen born and raised in the area, near Bailey's Crossroads in Northern Virginia yesterday. Chillingly, they claimed she “almost ran them over” until she told them she had video proving that was a lie.

Q: Were you prepared for pushback you received, especially from Republicans, framing you as too extreme for Wisconsin? HONG: What's extreme is Rep. Tiffany has voted against interests of Wisconsinites over & over. What's extreme is that he's an election denier & continues to protect pedophiles

Again, there are fewer than 20 people in DC who could end the lawless authoritarianism immediately, & all of them are Republicans, & they still get free passes every day while everyone yells at The Democrats & fights internal Democratic Party factional battles in the face of fascism:

Mark Copelovitch@mcopelov.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Yes, we’re looking at you, Lisa Murkowski & Susan Collins & Thom Tillis, you absolute oath-violating cowards.

If the Dems don't tease Trump mercilessly over cowering in the catering cart, daily, they don't deserve to win. *This* can do him in. The psychic damage over his humiliating cowardice will crash him completely.

Trump committed sex crimes with his pal Jeffrey Epstein and there's a huge out in the open cover up to prevent people from finding out about it

Joyce White Vance@joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 3d ago

New Mexico says DOJ promised to share Epstein evidence when the fed’l investigation ended. Instead, the state says DOJ withheld it—making it harder to investigate what happened at Zorro Ranch. That’s not how this normally works. So why is it happening? joycevance.substack.com/p/zorro-ranc...

"You have to get 3 times as many shots because the president and his weirdo podcast bros think the combined shot that your older siblings got has bad vibes" would be a tough thing to have to tell a child

Matt Wuerker, Politico

The entire thing in Lord of the Rings is that if Sauron gets that ring back he becomes unstoppable but the movies open with him having the ring and some dude chops it off his hand so maybe everyone just got lazier about doing it that way

Internal National Park Service records shared with us: 2024 - $7 million allotted for White House grounds projects and upgrades 2026 - $323 million allotted for White House grounds projects and upgrades ===>

Scott MacFarlane@macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 4d ago

EXCLUSIVE: Trump turns National Parks into "piggy bank" Funding shifts from parks to White House vanity projects macfarlanenews.substack.com/p/trump-turn...

‘In July alone, more than 150 towns and counties passed temporary or permanent bans on data centers, many adopted in emergency meetings. That brings the nationwide total to more than 500.’ www.theinformation.com/articles/dat...

The corporate media will demand a Democrat disavow words of a supporter a thousand times more than they will demand a Republican be accountable for the actions of their president

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 5d ago

WELKER: Do you disavow those comments that America deserve 9/11? EL-SAYED: Of course. Of course it was a dumb statement. I think Hasan himself would say it was a dumb statement. I want to be held accountable for what I say and do.

Trump II has profound consequences that will last a century: -destruction of administrative state & civil service -extreme wealth concentration, tech oligarchy -climate rollbacks -end of rule of law w/o pushback incentivizes future backsliding -Iran Pundits hate this because it sounds shrill

Peter@notalawyer.bsky.social · 5d ago

also, describing a lack of legislative capacity as a point against authoritarian consolidation misses the point: the defining feature of Trump’s second term is consolidation of power in the *executive* - the lack of legislative authorization makes him more authoritarian, not less

I went looking for old anti-vaccine propaganda and expected an interesting historical curiosity. Instead I found arguments from 1802, 1885 and 1920 that would barely need rewriting to circulate online today. That raises a rather disconcerting question.

Let’s just resurrect the norm that the president should not do crimes and that the department of justice is not his personal law firm. Should be easy.

we have just watched an historically unprecedented event in “handing incredibly important government and technology jobs to unremarkable young men”

Jeffrey Vagle@jvagle.me · last wk.

Really? Because I keep seeing them in charge of everything from car dealerships to the White House, and they seem to doing just fine despite their obvious handicaps.

it may not always be where we want it to be but one party has a line and one party has none at all

El-Sayed: "Imagine if instead of paying that to your health insurance company, whose CEO makes $20m a year, you paid a little bit more in taxes for healthcare you wouldn't lose. I think all of us would a lot more interested in that system if we knew our healthcare would be free at point of care"

"GOP may be stuck with Rep. Max Miller in Ohio" This piece is written as if the GOP were a passive bystander. But Republican leaders could have told Miller to get out. The could have said they wouldn't endorse him, or fund the race. Instead they enabled him to stay. www.axios.com/2026/08/09/o...

GOP may be stuck with Rep. Max Miller in Ohio

Time may have run out for the GOP to replace the embattled congressman.

axios.com

“The Trump administration will keep pushing to act outside the law. Every person in the other branches who decides to ignore that reality, well established at this point, is choosing to empower that lawlessness.” open.substack.com/pub/chrisgei...

Three examples of how Trump's lawlessness is spreading — and how the other branches are failing

Todd Blanche is confirmed as attorney general, Stephen Miller is backing a new birthright citizenship executive order, and Judge Emily Marks won't dismiss the SPLC indictment.

open.substack.com

"I support subjugating women and exterminating LGBT people. Also Black people shouldn't be allowed to vote. BUT! Does it have to be so messy?" —Ross Douthat, I guess

Rich people never leave if you raise their taxes for the extremely obvious reason they don’t live where they live because of affordability

If the Dem party was really just a fabrication of the ruling oligarchs to give people something to rally behind but were actually in on the long con, how would it look different?

Ezra Levin ❌👑@ezralevin.bsky.social · last yr.

Here are the 16 Dems. I don't know what to tell you, folks. It's bad. Alsobrooks Blunt Rochester Booker Cortez Masto Fetterman Gallego Gillibrand Hassan Heinrich Lujan Ossoff Padilla Rosen Schiff Slotkin Warner

Here are the 16 Dems. I don't know what to tell you, folks. It's bad. Alsobrooks Blunt Rochester Booker Cortez Masto Fetterman Gallego Gillibrand Hassan Heinrich Lujan Ossoff Padilla Rosen Schiff Slotkin Warner

Ezra Levin ❌👑@ezralevin.bsky.social · last yr.

Unbelievable. With Dem support, the senate passes an industry-friendly crypto bill that does nothing about Trump's crypto corruption. Ignore these Dems' speeches. Watch their votes. They're telling you they don't get it. And then they spam you to say Trump is bad so please donate more money.

"The world's richest man, a trillionaire who paid people to vote for the president and encouraged people to hurt refugees and burn their homes, also caused hundreds of thousands of children to die because he thought it would be cool and funny."

Jim Henson didn’t muppeteer a tiny green frog that was singing and playing the banjo, with rubber gloves while totally submerged underwater in a airtight aluminum tank just so you could tell me that AI is “inevitable”.

Gwen C. Katz@gwenckatz.bsky.social · 2mo ago

The Wachowski sisters didn't use 120 cameras to film one shot just so you could tell me that AI is "inevitable."

Adul El-Sayed was born and raised in Michigan and holds a PhD from Oxford (that's in England, not in Mississippi), where he was a Rhodes Scholar. He's a leading US public health expert. You, Tuberville, are motivated by just one thing: racism. It permeates your innermost self and defines you.

Stop making me choose between kidney beans and kidney cancer.

Abdul El-Sayed on capitalism: “I’m capitalist who just knows about capitalism. I have a bad habit of reading, I’m so sorry.”

from Heather Long: Bleak July jobs report: -23,000 jobs lost in July -264,000 people leave labor force -Wage growth falls to 3.2% = lowest in 5 years (and totally wiped out by inflation right now) ***Lowest labor force participation rate since February 2021*** @byheatherlong.bsky.social

Just 3 weeks ago, JD Vance tried to use the Marine Two helicopter to send his 9-year-old son to a golf lesson. The helicopter costs between $16K-$25K per hour to operate and is paid for by American taxpayers. He has also used it for multiple recent “house hunting” trips in the DC suburbs.

Vance’s security detail ‘fed up’ with hastily arranged personal and family travel requests

Secret Service sources said the Vance family asks included getting their young son to a golf lesson on a military helicopter.

ms.now

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last wk.

JD Vance: "If you are committing fraud against the American people, all of us in public leadership should be trying to stop it and throw you in prison for enriching yourself off the American taxpayer"