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Awesome - turn it up, sing along! 😂

The Crack-Up at the Heritage Foundation Is a Warning Sign for MAGA World By defending a controversial Tucker Carlson interview, think tank president Kevin Roberts unleashed a flood of discontent in the conservative establishment.

The Heritage Foundation, the racists behind the MAGA anti-woke crusade, is falling apart.

www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

Hey, MTG, I’ll see your recent “enlightenment” that fills you with disgust for the GOP and raise you a - then do something g about it, your speaker can be voted out for a minimal 3 votes…surely someone of your newly found clarity can pull this off & place the House on the path to righteousness, no?

#TaxTheRich #EatTheRich

#CLASSWAR ⚔️❣️⚔️❣️⚔️

Sending good health vibes and speedy recovery to you both. Love my cows, bull and donkey - they are all cuddle bugs - especially if I have some extra cattle cubes in my hand! 😉

Walmart and McDonald’s are among the top employers of workers who rely on food stamps.

McDonald's CEO raked in $18.2M last year — over 1,000x the company's median employee pay.

Walmart's CEO pocketed $27.4M — 930x the company's median employee pay.

See the problem?

Poverty is the parent of revolution - Aristotle

Pic of the day

#photography

If nothing else, the last nine months should have made it clear that elections matter. But what’s remarkable about America is that we have the power, as citizens, to change this country by voting. Go to IWillVote.com.

AKA: The “because I said so” analysis and response.

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#ITS

I was about to say that is probably the ugliest cat I had ever seen and sheesh! Let it have some privacy! After adjusting to perspective, it’s a while lot less than what I had imagined…

THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK On Tuesday, the sickly, orange king, and his pathetic army of anti-American, knuckle-dragging cowards were positively pounded at the polls ...

Here’s a stone-cold fact:

📌Democrats throughly kicked Trump and his fawning Republicans’ collective asses Tuesday. It was a complete rebuke of all the tiny, hateful things they stand for, and a victory for all that is good and right.

You did this.

WE DID THIS.

And we will NOT submit.

We are business leaders, lawyers, doctors, educators, nonprofit executives and leaders from the faith community.
We are Democrats and Republicans.
We are very different and diverse people, but we are all #UnitedForChicago.
We all love our city, and we are committed to making ICE leave Chicago!

Pay attention, folks. Keep documenting.

I want to shout out to good ol boy, Sid Miller, TX Ag Comm - nothing gets by him. (Who wants to inform him to place his finger on the pulse of a patient, not the corpse?) Anyone? TX is so fucking circling the drain. THERE BETTER NOT BE A SINGLE UNCONTESTED RACE IN ANY ELECTION IN TEXAS. PERIOD.

Watched this again for Halloween and I still am fascinated by it. There's something tantalizingly out of reach for me in wanting to write about this, about it's barely disguised version of Trump as the first victim, as a secret key film to view the collapse of American empire through.

TFG - I can’t wait for the people to hit the point that they demand his head on a platter - sort of shocked that we haven’t reached that threshold yet, but I understand everybody has their own pace.

Judge Warns Of 'Lawlessness' In Trump's DC Police Takeover In dismissing a gun case due to an illegal search, the judge declared that “lawlessness cannot come from the government.”

This morning a judge in D.C. Court unleashed a withering critique of Trump's DC police takeover, tossing a case built on "without a doubt the most illegal search" he'd ever seen.

"Lawlessness cannot come from the government," the judge warned.
www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/judge-...

Trump Took Over The D.C. Police. Now These People Face Years In Federal Prison. Defendants are looking at felony charges and years in prison for what attorneys say could have been minor disorderly conduct cases in city court.

At least 13 people are charged with "assaulting" or "impeding" a federal agent in Trump's DC takeover.

In several cases, what look like routine police scuffles have turned into federal cases carrying up to 8 yrs prison.

The cases are "horseshit," an attorney said.
www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

They Spent Years Covering L.A.'s Taco Scene. When ICE Raids Began, They Were Ready. "It's very personal to me," Memo Torres told HuffPost. "L.A. is home. So you attack my home, you’re attacking my people."

I got to talk with @lataco.bsky.social's @eltragon.bsky.social about his tireless documentation of immigration raids in LA, and how his knowledge of the city's street food scene makes him a better immigration reporter

Firefighter arrested by US border agents was on track for legal status, lawyers say Lawyers say arrest of man fighting Bear Gulch fire in Oregon was illegal and demand immediate release from detention

This firefighter arrived in the US at age 4, has been here for 19 years, was on track to legal status, and was on a crew trying to contain a major blaze (in Washington state, vs Oregon, fwiw.)

h/t @joshuajfriedman.com

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

No, Native-Born Employment Has Not Soared Native-born employment hasn’t soared—Population controls and a Jan 2025 adjustment inflated counts. Watch the native-born unemployment rate.

Relatedly, here's a recent piece from @jedkolko.bsky.social calling the so-called native-born jobs boom a "statistical illusion" created by the way the data is collected.
washingtonmonthly.com/2025/09/01/n...

The greatest shadow docket headline you’ll ever see

Another Jeanine Pirro felony case just crumbled.

Prosecutors claimed DC resident Scott Pichon assaulted guardsmen by spitting at them, but moved to withdraw the charge “after reviewing the evidence.”

Judge: “The way this is supposed to work is the U.S. Attorney’s Office does its due diligence.”

More regime consolidation of the media. Orbanism.

Democrats Urge Trump Administration To Stop ICE Arrests Of Pregnant Women It appears ICE is not following its own directives when it comes to the treatment of pregnant and postpartum women in detention centers, according to a letter shared exclusively with HuffPost.

It appears ICE is not following its own directives when it comes to the treatment of pregnant and postpartum women in detention centers, according to a letter shared exclusively with HuffPost.

Another day, another Jeanine Pirro case going to shit.

Prosecutors are seeking to drop felony charges they filed against two other D.C. residents accused of assaulting a federal agent. Cases went nowhere.

Judges are clearly exasperated by this stuff:
www.huffpost.com/entry/jeanin...