Claim: 10 cars rammed ICE
Truth: No cars rammed ICE

Claim: She boxed ICE in
Truth: ICE boxed her in

Claim: She shot a rifle at ICE
Truth: She did not have a rifle

Claim: ICE returned fire
Truth: Only ICE fired

Claim: She drove herself to the hospital
Truth: Paramedics found her

Having a lot of trouble summoning sympathy for folks who now pretend they thought Trump was only going to go after violent criminal immigrants. It was alway obvious that wasn’t true. You just mean you didn’t think he’d go after white people.

Narrator: He owned the libs, only to then get owned by tariffs.

once again I am asking people to correctly answer the question "who was President in 2020"

The US government is torturing children. Just say that.

Ha! The poorest 25% of workers LOSE money under this bill while the richest Americans get a $270,000 tax cut.

They can rebrand all they want. The facts are the facts. They screwed working people to help their billionaire and corporate donors.

Yes, it was carefully hidden in the New England Journal of Medicine.

Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine (www.nejm.org/doi/pdf/10.1... )

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Happy Labor Day. Here's a prayer posted by a friend on Twitter.

Opinion | The Corporate Logo That Broke the Internet How to bend political reality in two easy steps.

In @nytopinion.nytimes.com

The Cracker Barrel and Sydney Sweeney controversies “perfectly represent the way in which right-wing media both mobilizes its base and bends political reality,” our columnist David French writes.

Trump wasn't seen yesterday by the White House press pool. He wasn't seen today. He has no public events scheduled this weekend. Trump hasn't been seen in public since Weds, and it's unclear if he'll be seen in public until Tues.

That's pretty damn weird.

3/ "Why do WE make it easy to kill innocent children? As citizens, parents, and members of the society that sees kids mowed down in school on a regular basis, WE should enact gun ownership reforms to curb the number of massacres."

/ENDS

2/ Just be honest and say this: "We don't know why it happens but we do know that God mourns with us. The real question isn't if or why God allows children to die. The question is why does MAN allow it? Why do we allow weapons to be fielded without accountability, without checks and balances, etc.

1/ Speaking as a pulpit jockey and a sem prof ... friends, DO NOT DO THIS. Do not make the mistake Jeffress made. IT IS OK to say "We don't know."

Too many of modern evangelical ills are rooted in the narcissism of certainty.

In marathon meeting, Trump enjoys a playbook more familiar abroad For more than three televised hours, Cabinet members heaped praise on Trump in a fashion that analysts say resembled assemblies in authoritarian states.

The meeting stood in stark contrast to how previous presidents have managed their Cabinets… It bore similarities, however, to other countries where leaders have sought to exert strong, personal control, scholars said, including in Russia and Turkey. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Opinion | When Mamdani says it, it’s socialism. When Trump does it, it’s genius. The Trump GOP: Mamdani must be stopped. Also the Trump GOP: Government wants a piece of the action.

Jim Geraghty: Instead of having the government take greater control of private companies the way Mamdani wants, the administration is having the government take greater control of private companies the way Trump wants. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

Get Ready for the End of Fed Independence Markets haven’t yet grappled with the implications of the president having control over the central bank.

In the central bank’s 111-year history, no president has tried to remove a governor. As investment bank Evercore ISI said in a note to clients Tuesday: “Asset markets are not properly priced for what increasingly seems likely to be a rupture in Fed independence.” www.wsj.com/economy/cent...

"There has just never been a president in recent American history who has gone out of his way to free more criminals and accommodate more crimes than Donald Trump," says @chrislhayes.bsky.social.

Trump Suggests Americans Open to a ‘Dictator’ Trump added that he wouldn’t describe himself as a dictator.

On Monday, President Trump said that he thinks Americans may like a “dictator,” though he wouldn’t describe himself as one.
PRRI finds that 52% of Americans agree with the statement, “President Trump is a dangerous dictator whose power should be limited before he destroys American democracy.”

Has anyone seen a fiscal pricing on the invasion of DC (per day/week) or Chicago????

If Obama or Biden had said this, it would be rightfully understood as them arrogating dictatorial authority to themselves, it would be the only thing anyone in the media or opposition would talk about for a year, and it would probably end their presidency. For Trump, it’s literally just Tuesday.

Putting the military on the street will lower crime. It does in North Korea, did in Nazi Germany, and in the book 1984.

The question isn’t will it lower crime. The question is do we want to be a nation governed like this. Until 6 minutes ago the GOP believed in LOCAL control.

An image of George Washington is superimposed on a faint image of George Washington's letter to the Touro Synagogue. In large readable type his a brief quotation from the letter: "To bigotry no sanction… To persecution no assistance…" The link in my post is to the letter itself. And in less than 350 words it lays out religious freedom in America.

Oh my, @radiofreetom.bsky.social took a minute to larn me somethin'! I didn't know that letter and all Americans should know it, especially now.
Religious freedom was all laid out for us back when our nation began.
tourosynagogue.org/history/geor...

A view along the Reflecting Pool, with practically no visitors.

Slideshow of today in Washington DC, and how it looks when a terrorizing government scares people away.

By me, no paywall: fallows.substack.com/p/a-summer-a...

BREAKING: BlueSky is blocking access to Mississippi.

This is the No. 1 platform for @mississippifreepress.org.

We ditched X for BlueSky early this year.

And now, at 3 pm on a Friday, poof.

I don't know what we'll do next.

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This fun fact of the day is brought to you by the state of Mississippi.

I’m sad to read all the nasty comments. Why not have some empathy for the challenge of caring for a severely disabled child? Or simply rejoice that someone encountered something that changed their mind?

Trump was elected. Creating a different kind of government will require minds to be changed.

Opinion | I’m a Proud Conservative. My Disabled Son Needs Medicaid to Live. The uncertainty around the future of Medicaid is paralyzing for families like mine.

In @nytopinion.bsky.social “My son’s life depends on government assistance,” writes Rachel Roth Aldhizer. “Recent cuts to Medicaid at both the federal and state levels mean millions of families like mine could soon be at a loss for how to care for our disabled loved ones.”