More messaging like this please
05.10.2025 21:14 β π 20699 π 8126 π¬ 567 π 303@ruphusvanderbilt.bsky.social
More messaging like this please
05.10.2025 21:14 β π 20699 π 8126 π¬ 567 π 303Referring to the abuse visited upon over a thousand girls as a βred herringβ is nasty work, you asshole.
05.10.2025 18:42 β π 14201 π 4569 π¬ 1026 π 248Elizabeth Warren: "The president said 'I am going to impose a lot more pain on my fellow American citizens. I'm going to impose a lot more pain on people in NY who need to use those tunnels so I can get my way politically.' To me, that is a place to stop & say, then we're ready to fight about this"
02.10.2025 01:15 β π 18990 π 5677 π¬ 547 π 225MADELEINE DEAN: The president is unhinged. He's unwell
JOHNSON: A lot of folks on your side are too
D: Oh my god, please. That performance in front of the generals?
J: I didn't see it
D: It's so dangerous! Our allies are looking elsewhere. Our enemies are laughing. You have a POTUS who's unwell.
"Johnson said he was left tied up outside the building for nearly three hours.
'I asked [agents] why they were holding me if I was an American citizen, and they said I had to wait until they looked me up. I asked if they had a warrant and I asked for a lawyer. They never brought one.'"
How is this sustainable?
01.10.2025 02:43 β π 11302 π 3877 π¬ 621 π 208βTo us, masks are associated with cowardly desperados and the despised Ku Klux Klan. In all our history we have never tolerated an armed masked secret police.β
- Judge William Young, September 30, 2025
The government is officially shut down. Make no mistake: Republicans control the House, the Senate, and the White House. This is THEIR shutdown. They had every tool to govern and chose chaos instead. The American people are the ones paying the price.
01.10.2025 04:09 β π 6106 π 1788 π¬ 181 π 57A post on X (formerly Twitter) from user *Walter Bloomberg (@DeItaone) with a profile picture of a man in a dark shirt against a light background. The post reads: βADP REPORT: NUMBER OF JOBS CREATED IN AUGUST WAS REVISED TO -3,000 FROM 54,000.β The timestamp shows 5:20 AM on October 1, 2025, with 50K views.
This is very, very bad.
01.10.2025 12:50 β π 17757 π 5996 π¬ 871 π 433@wyden.senate.gov this week tried to pass new laws that would extend the privacy protections government officials enjoy to the entire public, but Ted Cruz scuttled the effort by lying about how the updates would have stopped sex offender registries from existing
01.10.2025 12:58 β π 538 π 218 π¬ 39 π 14Another violent attack by an ICE officer on a civilian at 26 Federal Plazaβthis time on a journalist, who had to be carried out on stretcher.
Another attack on the First Amendment, our neighbors, and our democracy.
Trump demands release of hostages in front of the UN, as his regime captures and disappears 1800 detainees.
23.09.2025 19:14 β π 346 π 116 π¬ 11 π 3Itβs likely that this happened to them, in which case, again, this should be much bigger news. We canβt just disappear thousands of people without notifying anyone
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers canβt find them and theyβve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...
23.09.2025 17:39 β π 31554 π 19103 π¬ 1200 π 1752In 2020, FCC Chairman Brendan Carr called political satire one of "the oldest and most important forms of free speech."
He might have forgotten his words, but we haven't.
Walz: This is North Korea style stuff. And it's being done because this is a weak, thin skinned man who's failing as a president. All of the things he promised are not happening.
It's a it's our most cherished freedom to point out very clearly, this is a terrible president
Chairman of the Supervisory Board of the Moscow Exchange Sergey Shvetsov said that Russia will have to live with a military budget for another 5-8 years.
According to him, even after the war ends, Russia will replenish its stockpiles and rearm. No plans for peace.
βWith an autocrat, you cannot give an inch,β Colbert said. βIf ABC thinks that this is going to satisfy the regime, they are woefully naive.β
@politico.com
www.politico.com/news/2025/09...
1. Just so weβre clear, this is the clip that got Jimmy Kimmelβs show shelved by ABC.
If Iβm missing any other clips please let me know.
Tim Walz: "I'll tell you what doesn't make people feel safe -- a tank next to Chipotle. It's stupid and it's for the cameras ... where are the 'don't tread on me' people?"
17.09.2025 01:26 β π 34858 π 8354 π¬ 794 π 391You have GOT TO SEE THIS. When asked by the Senate Judiciary Committee about white supremacist Dylan Roof and his horrific antisemitic mass murder, Kash Patel, the head of the FBI, had no clue who that was saying: βIβm sorry, Dylan Ruth?β
Patel is completely in over his head and it shows.
NEWS: Gov. Kathy Hochul has endorsed Zohran Mamdani for NYC mayor
"Weβve had our disagreements. But in our conversations, I heard a leader who shares my commitment to a New York where children can grow up safe in their neighborhoods and where opportunity is within reach for every family."
A brick barracks for prisoners at Auschwitz II-Birkenau camp. Inside, there were 60 brick partitions, each with three levels of bunks, creating in total 180 bunks. Usually, four people slept on each bunk, but when the camp was overcrowded, this number increased.
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Video: instagraom.com/sofimatte
The 400 richest Americans are now worth a record $6.6 trillion, after getting $1.2 trillion richer over the past year alone.
Meanwhile, the rest of the country is getting squeezed by tariffs and high prices for groceries, utilities, and health care.
The system is broken.
JUST IN: 'The Late Show with Stephen Colbert' wins the Emmy for Best Talk Series
15.09.2025 02:43 β π 19602 π 3439 π¬ 487 π 241TOMORROW: James Talarico is on a mission to turn Texas blue with his unique take on what it means to be a Democrat. Catch it on our YouTube tomorrow: https://www.youtube.com/@TheLincolnProject
15.09.2025 13:01 β π 1058 π 217 π¬ 26 π 11Some personal news:
I've been fired from the Washington Post in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk shooting.
Thread incoming.
substack.com/@karenattiah...
This is not some kumbaya βgo highβ shit. Itβs me telling you when Iβve had a gun pointed at meβliterally, not figurativelyβit wasnβt the time to posture. Fascismβs guns are at the ready. Think before you spout off. Winning the struggle against fascism is what matters.
10.09.2025 19:05 β π 1885 π 245 π¬ 50 π 11Rufo calling for mass arrests, Blake Masters & Cernovich calling for RICO against Dem & left funders, and a whole lot of everyday people begging for martial law, or, even worse, "gloves off." 99.9% of whom are just spouting off, but today if anything teaches us the damage that one .1% fool can do.
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