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Loving the chaos, passion and beauty of Italy's opening ceremony -- Italy personified! #Olympics

And he talks about his mental instability, witness his comment at the Prayer Breakfast about his needy ego. #25th

Yes. My theory of the moment is Miller/Vance thought their view that immigrants threaten social solidarity would be widely shared. But ICE raids are driving native-born Americans to show solidarity with immigrants quite courageously. Now Miller is trying to disrupt that alliance with state violence.

George Conway in 2019 wrote about Trump's malignant narcissism (article link).
Today it's even worse: a psychopathic malignant narcissist *in cognitive decline* is a formula for disaster. There is no restraint, no judgment, and no grounding in reality.
25th Amendment is overdue.
#TrumpDementia

This is what’s so stupefying about Congressional leaders: Republicans, Schumer, Durbin, Jeffries.

My brothers and sisters. You are leading the U.S. Congress at a moment of INDESCRIBABLE world historic import.

Your faces and names will be plastered all over history books. How do you think you

If you live in the Cities, an easy way to help immigrant families in hiding is: laundry! Laundromats are ICE magnets, so people without washers need help.

The People’s Laundry will drop off laundry to your door to wash and dry and pick up a few days later:

thepeopleslaundrympls.com/volunteer/

Time for the 25th.

Contract detention officer pleads guilty to sexually abusing Nicaraguan detainee at ICE facility in Basile A former ICE detention officer pleaded guilty Monday to the sexual abuse of a Nicaraguan detainee at the South Louisiana ICE Processing Center in Basile, according to court documents obtained by WBRZ.

In Louisiana, an ICE officer named David Courvelle has pleaded guilty on charges related to his monthslong sexual abuse of a Nicaraguan woman held in a detention center. www.wbrz.com/news/contrac...

Everything Is Russiagate truly lol

Puts an interesting spin on Trump's relationship with Putin, since Russia is a consumer of Venezuelan oil.

The president unilaterally decided to attack a sovereign nation and kidnap its leader, and now he says he's just going to run that county himself for a while too.

Call your representatives now and demand they impeach him.

Trump has always wanted to be, and has seen himself as, a “wartime president.” He likes the idea of that visual on his TV. He’s been very open about this. Sadly, a lot of our political press chose to pretend otherwise.

"What they are doing is writing term sheets for a new power arrangement that benefits Trump, Putin, their donors, and their oligarch circles — and leaves the rest of us to live with the consequences."

They are bribing the greedy Trump to sell out Ukraine for a profit.

“There’s plenty of room beneath the vehicle, Admiral."

Not really surprising, but good to have it out there.

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Calling your rep can work.

I know some might be tired of me repeating this, but it bears mentioning again and again....

Trump is not leaving office.

They are going to go for martial law if it looks likely that the GOP will lose the House.

You just have to listen to them.

Listening to the gorgeous performance of Eric Lu at the Chopin competition final reminded me of hearing recordings of the splendid Walter Gieseking many years ago. Just the incomparable delicacy.

Machado has voiced support for U.S. sanctions against Venezuela and other efforts to topple the government; she aims to privatize the country’s state oil industry and has praised right-wing Latin American leaders, including Argentina’s Javier Milei and El Salvador’s Nayib Bukele.

We are changing our antifa secret handshake to slap-slap-fistbump-fistbump. Then you snap your fingers once, eat everyone's pets, and make everyone within 50' instantly become trans. Pass it along.

I stole your meme but I’m leaving you this.

In the 🇺🇲, it's GUNS FIRST!

#ONEV1
#Pinks 🌸
#Voices4Victory

They’re going to rebrand it as the Centers for Disease Creation

Carry-on has made deboarding awful.

They know that they’re a minority.

They can’t win a fair election.

Trump Administration Live Updates: D.C. Files Lawsuit Challenging Administration’s Police Takeover

Bondi oversteps trying to prove her bonafides.
Trump Administration Live Updates: D.C. Files Lawsuit Challenging Administration’s Police Takeover www.nytimes.com/live/2025/08...

Most North American cities that have a “Vision Zero” declaration have not actually done the work. Vision Zero works, but it’s not going to happen if we’re too afraid to inconvenience a single motorist.

He's living in a sci-fi fantasy world.

All that -- and the ATTITUDE.