it's pretty frustrating how republicans can just spew endless lies about city life with zero repercussions but the moment a dem disparages a pickup truck it's open season

Trump is invoking Section 740 of the D.C. Home Rule Act, which authorizes him to seize control of the entire DC police department for a maximum of 30 days.

This is insane stuff. D.C. is not in the grip of a crime wave. Crime has been falling for three years now. Violent crime is at a 30-year low.

Tom Cotton's home state, Arkansas, has Little Rock. Little Rock is the United States' 4th most violent city. It has a *much* higher crime rate than Washington, D.C. This is just the white supremacy talking.

"Crime in DC is at a 30-year low"

Doesn't matter. What matters is what the dippiest right-wing Fox viewer is prepared to believe, which is whatever is most politically expedient for their chosen avatar of racial grievance

I've lived in and around DC for most of the past 30 years. What Trump is describing bears no resemblance to the city in which I work and have lived.

“China beats you with trade. Russia beats you with war.”

Odd how Trump fluctuates between talking about Russian KIA losses, possibly inflating them wildly, describing the war as unsustainable for Moscow, and then later he characterizes Russia as an unbeatable horde.

Trump’s political genius is he has a media which goes out of its way to rescue him from scandal and it’s been true since they ran hacked emails whenever he was in trouble in 2016.

Crime rates in all three cities have gone down, and in Baltimore at astounding levels, in part by treating crime as a public health crisis, rather than a "need more cops" crisis. popular.info/p/the-secret...

Given what we've seen in Texas and, now, DC, I don't think it's an exaggeration to suggest that Democratic lawmakers need to set up a semi-permanent safe space from which to operate. A place free from federal control and harassment. Probably in Chicago. Possibly in New York.

Exclusive: Medical journal rejects Kennedy's call for retraction of vaccine study An influential U.S. medical journal is rejecting a call from Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to retract a large Danish study that found that aluminum ingredients in vaccines do not increase health risks for children, the journal's editor told Reuters.

A large-scale, government-funded study tracking 1.2M children over two decades found something Kennedy doesn't like, so he wants it retracted.

www.reuters.com/business/hea...

🚨NEW: This is what all networks should do!

MSNBC fact checks Trump live during his press conference.

The REAL crime stats are put on screen as he reads out his made up figures.

what are they actually getting from this? incoherent trade policy which has actually shrunk the manufacturing sector? some culture war bullshit?

Oh wow, that's great news for the Trump administration, which can now confidently release all the Epstein files now that they know for sure that their boss isn't named anywhere in them.

U.S. Government to Take Cut of Nvidia and AMD A.I. Chip Sales to China

This is either a massive new tax or, like the U.S. Steel arrangement, socialism.

Why are elite capitalists more worried about a NY mayoral candidate’s corner grocery proposal than this?!?!?

U.S. Government to Take Cut of Nvidia and AMD A.I. Chip Sales to China www.nytimes.com/2025/08/10/t...

NY’s @GovKathyHochul: “All of a sudden this happens when they refuse to release the Epstein files. No one’s buying this… Texas, knock it off, and we ll knock it off. But we’re not gonna sit on the sidelines.”

I've had plenty of complaints about Hochul but whew dropping Epstein's name on Fox News is absolutely 100% something Democrats should be doing as often as possible.

And that is why most of his party photos for ten years were with Donald Trump.

A deadly shooting at the CDC shook its scientists. Now they want answers from RFK Jr. CDC Director Susan Monarez convened an online all-hands meeting of the agency division that focuses on vaccines, and employees called out Kennedy’s rhetoric specifically.

Exclusive: CDC Director Susan Monarez met with its vaccine-focused center to talk about yesterday’s shooting. I listened to a recording. Scientists and officials are shaken & pointing fingers at RFK Jr. Many said his vilification and misinfo turned them into targets. www.msnbc.com/opinion/anal...

I just saw a kindergarten mom in tears on TikTok because her child’s classroom wasn’t filled with rugs and lamps and bins full of fun things...

It’s important to understand what a state-funded classroom looks like versus a teacher-funded classroom. Your beef is with the state, not the teacher.

The administration that’s restoring monuments to the Confederacy is rewarding Russia for territory it “earned” by invading Ukraine.

The president is a fascist and he's destroying America and its future and leaving a trail of bodies in his wake and he was able to get there because a bunch of corrupt billionaires bankrolled his campaign.

This is why none of you should exist.

Meet the 24-year-old Ottawa software engineer who runs a MAGA bot The bots were created to flood X with pro-MAGA messages, attracting attention from Donald Trump and Elon Musk.

A 24-year-old US-Indian man living in Ottawa, Canada, Saihajpreet Singh, exposed for developing a network of MAGA bots including DOGEai to influence US elections, politics, and public opinion to support Donald Trump, the US Republican Party, and Israel.

ottawacitizen.com/news/ottawa-...

Meet Donald Trump’s Super Racist Butler <p>Trump’s Mar-a-Lago butler seemed like a nice old man in a <i>New York Times </i>profile earlier this year. But his Facebook page reveals a racist, Hillary Clinton-hating monster.</p>

I’d argue that this from May 2016 — “Trump’s Butler Hates ‘Negroes,’ Wanted to ‘Carpet Bomb’ Ferguson, Called ‘Killery’ Clinton a ‘C**t’” — basically summed up where the coming decade would land

www.thedailybeast.com/trumps-butle...

What happens if you don’t do background checks or training for thousands of people and you give them all total authority?

ICE has been caught looting and destroying property at Pittsburgh restaurants. They even tried to break into the safes. They loaded food, supplies and equipment into vehicles

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Judge Henderson's 27-page opinion was pretty blunt: The founders all agreed Congress power is "at its zenith" when it comes to federal spending — and every administration has agreed, until now, that Congress could set the terms of public disclosure too. www.politico.com/news/2025/08...

Appeals court rules Trump clamp-down on spending data defies Congress’ authority An order issued Saturday evening by the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals panel gives the administration until Friday to restore the data online.

Appeals court rules Trump clamp-down on spending data defies Congress’ authority

An order issued Saturday evening by the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals panel gives the administration until Friday to restore the data online.

www.politico.com/news/2025/08...

"An unofficial adviser" really doing a lot of quiet sanewashing of "the fucking deranged lunatic who may be fucking the president and whose delusional bullshit steers his absolutely shot-to-hell brain functioning after her insane impulses"

An army official having to stay on background to defend a MOH recipient from the MAGA Rasputin really says it all on the state of civil-military relations

The governing party of the United States shut down Congress to avoid having to disclose evidence the President sexually abused children, and now they’re trying to rig the midterm election and arrest opposition elected officials who try to stop them.

They’re currently polling around 40%.

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