The Upside Down

Missouri Officials Seize Control of St. Louis Police, in Latest Bid to Shutter Local Reforms - Bolts The takeover returns St. Louis to a Civil War-era arrangement of state control. A local official calls the move "a clear gesture of white men wanting to control urban areas."

While you were doing laundry….it was already happening elsewhere.

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Mass shooting at a Target in Texas, is the US Military headed down there too?

Heritage Foundation president on Trump's first 100 days NPR's Juana Summers talks with Kevin Roberts — president of the Heritage Foundation, the conservative think tank behind Project 2025 — about the Trump administration's recent actions.

This can’t be right.

“But if the economy tips into a recession, Roberts suggested that Trump would still have the support he needs.

"I think you're going to see the economy actually take off and be very positive the rest of the year." www.npr.org/2025/04/30/n...

😎🪴🌵

Trump's DOJ just cleared the way for healthcare monopoly UnitedHealth to buy the second-largest provider of home healthcare in America.

The approval came after UnitedHealth hired Ballard Partners, Pam Bondi's former employer, to lobby on its behalf.

"Drain the swamp."

Brett Meiselas: The tone is set from the top. And now, we have a president of the United States infecting the population.

There has never been a more divisive, more corrupt individual in the presidency...trickle-down economics may not work, but trickle-down assholery? That’s absolutely a thing.

Stop what you're doing and listen to this warning from @marcelias.bsky.social about the real reason for Trump's National Guard deployment in DC.

Didn't deploy the National Guard when a violent mob attacked police, broke into the Capitol, & vandalized it, but don't worry, he is deploying them when crime is at a 30-year low.

Don't let this distract you from the Epstein list and the criminal trial starting in SF against this administration.

(BARRON’S) - About 10 million Americans will lose their health insurance as a result of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, according to an analysis released Monday by the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office.

@barrons.com
www.barrons.com/articles/big...

Tapper: What do you make of Abbott’s argument that you’re fleeing like chickens…

Crockett: The only weakling is the Governor himself. It’s not Texans that asked him to do this—it is the criminal in the White House that begged for him to do this.

“A constitutionally enumerated power of Congress is to regulate trade with foreign nations. Congress, in its absent minded way, has now become a spectator of government.”
—George Will

Crockett: "They have already decided the only way they can win, b/c they have failed policies, is by making sure they can cheat their way, & while they're cheating, the only way they can do that is while they violate the Constitution as well as the Voting Rights Act & make sure it's people of color"

They knew his kind was out there! Someone the Enemies of Our Nation could easily Corrupt and use. 🤔🧐🤨

BREAKING: Large protests against Trump erupt in Washington DC, after he sends in the National Guard because of some Trumped up claim that Washington DC has a major violent crime emergency.

Yeah, we won’t be trusting any info put out by the “Heritage” Bureau of Labor Statistics Department.

The President of the United States did NOT try to stop people from assaulting police officers, invading the Capitol, moving towards assassination of the Congress/VP, and trying to overthrow an election.

He would like to stop homeless, brown, & black people from... existing.

#AssaultOnDC

Marc Maron
@marcmaron.bsky.social

Crockett: We're talking about them going after Clyburn in South Carolina, Andre Carson in Indiana, Reverend Cleaver in Missouri. Emilia Sykes in Ohio, three of the four black representatives that we currently have in the state of Texas. 

So don't tell me this isn't about race…

Good trouble:

Save the date! The next 50501 protest!

www.fiftyfifty.one

#pinks

Chicago! Protest against ICE tomorrow.

📍 101 Ida B. Wells
⏰ 9 - 10am

call to protest in DC to resist Trump's military occupation

CALL TO ACTION: If you are in the DC area, drop everything you are doing and go join others at 5pm EST in Dupont Circle to protest Trump’s illegal military occupation and efforts to federalize DC police. #3E #freeDC

The rally in D.C. to protest the Trump regime’s attempted takeover of the city has begun.

Follow @freedcproject.bsky.social and learn more at bit.ly/free-dc-our-home.

People are showing up in D.C. !! Get to D.C. now! #3E #FreeDC #USprotests #DCprotests

“Trump Must Go Now”

Equal Districts Press Conferene · Mobilize The Ohio Equal Districts Campaign will launch its initiative with a press conference on August 14, 2025, at the Ohio Statehouse. The campaign will urge the Legislature to hold public hearings as part ...

#HANDSOFF
#OURFUTURE
#OHIO
Columbus Ohio
Equal Districts Press Conference
Saturday, August 16
10 – 11am EDT
Ohio Statehouse
1 Capitol Sq
Columbus, OH 43215
www.mobilize.us/mobilize/eve...

Karen Bass: "You don't deploy the armed forces because of people's feelings."

Chinese ICE Detainee Dies by Suicide at Pennsylvania Detention Center A Chinese ICE detainee died by suicide at Pennsylvania’s Moshannon Valley detention center in Pennsylvania, a private jail run by GEO Group.

Chinese ICE Detainee Dies by Suicide at Pennsylvania Detention Center!

The death, the first in the Northeast in ICE custody this year, came at the largest immigration jail in the region!

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