Trump’s Fury at Dems Goes Nuclear as Crushing New Shutdown Poll Hits As Trump’s anger grows amid another poll slide, Democratic strategist Simon Rosenberg explains why Trump’s deep unpopularity should give you solace—even if beating him long term will be a brutal slog.

Trump's deranged threat to fire federal workers and his killing of NY-NJ project are backfiring: Both are now big issues in VA-NJ gov races!

And new CNBC poll shows indys blaming Trump/GOP over Dems by 58-21.

On the pod, @simonwdc.bsky.social explains all this well:
newrepublic.com/article/2019...

You may be living in an absolutely racist country when 13-year-old Black boys are tried and sentenced as adults, but white dudes who *are* adults are called "kids" by JD Vance to shield them from culpability.

DOJ Shut Down Probe Into Alleged Tom Homan Bribe: Report A bombshell new report claims Tom Homan was being investigated for allegedly accepting a $50,000 bribe before the Trump DOJ shut it down.

The FBI recorded Tom Homan, now the White House border czar, accepting $50,000 in cash after indicating he could help the agents — who were posing as business executives — win government contracts in a second Trump administration. www.mediaite.com/media/news/b...

Trump Justice Dept. Closed Investigation Into Tom Homan for Accepting Bag of Cash Mr. Homan came under scrutiny after he was said to be recorded last year taking $50,000 in cash from undercover F.B.I. agents.

Tom Homan, who was later named President Trump’s border chief, was recorded in September 2024 accepting a bag with $50,000 in cash in an undercover FBI investigation, according to people familiar with the case, which was later closed by Trump administration officials.

This is the playbook, folks.

If you're not paying attention now and doing something about it, then you're going to have to sit down the rest of your life because democracy is being taken away.

Do not be quiet in this moment.

We just want to say thank you to everyone who’s taken action! So far, three doxxing websites and one app have been successfully taken down.

Doxxing is illegal in the United States, and so are true threats. Several MAGA-affiliated individuals have already been arrested for making violent threats.

Shut Up, Said the Free Speech Absolutists America just learned something it should have already known: the MAGA “free speech” warriors, those self-styled defenders of the First Amendment, have one iron-clad rule.

open.substack.com/pub/therickw...

Now that Kirk's killer seems to be caught, maybe the news could spare a moment's attention for the right wing, from the commentariat up to the GOP and president, whose immediate reaction was not mourning, but to seize the opportunity to try to incite violence against groups they hate

Pretty clear that a lot of people jumped the gun on the motive behind Kirk’s assassination. The shooter:

1. Grew up in a Republican family
2. Donated to Donald Trump
3. Loved guns
4. Was steeped in Groyper culture

This isn’t a simple “raging leftist hated Kirk” scenario.

The years pass, but their heroism and loss on this terrible day 24 years ago does not. As always, I pause to pray for Terry Hatton of FDNY Rescue 1, Barbara Olson, and FDNY Chaplin Father Mychal Judge, OFM.

Whether it’s Republican politicians joking about the murder of Melissa Hortman or Democratic politicians expressing their condolences after the murder of Charlie Kirk, both parties have a extreme rhetoric problem.

‘War Is Here’: The Far-Right Responds to Charlie Kirk Shooting With Calls for Violence Prominent far-right figures and elected officials have called for vengeance following the death of conservative activist Charlie Kirk.

NEW:

"War is here"

With no suspect in custody and no known motive, far-right influencers, right-wing commentators, extremists, militia leaders, conspiracists, and Republican lawmakers all responded to the assassination of #CharlieKirk by blaming the left.

www.wired.com/story/far-ri...

Just last month the FBI forced out its top agent in Salt Lake City, a Pakistani American woman whom a former FBI agent describes as a “legendary case agent who was involved in some of the most significant national security cases of the last two decades.” www.msnbc.com/msnbc/amp/rc...

Minnesota shooting suspect had a list of dozens of potential Democratic targets, prosecutors say All of the politicians named in his writing were Democrats, including more than 45 state and federal officials in Minnesota, U.S. Attorney Joseph Thompson said.

I call on media to REFUSE the framing pushed by right wing chaos agents like Cernovitch & Rufo on this act of what appears to be political violence. The Democratic former Speaker of the Minnesota House was assasinated along with/her husband. The killers was hunting Dems. www.pbs.org/newshour/pol...

Shooting at Evergreen High School in Colorado leaves several students hurt; suspect among those injured Three students were critically wounded on Wednesday in a shooting at Evergreen High School in the Colorado foothills. The Jefferson County Sheriff's Office says one of those students is the shooting s...

“Three students were critically wounded on Wednesday in a shooting at Evergreen High School in the Colorado foothills. The Jefferson County Sheriff's Office says one of those students is the shooting suspect.”

www.cbsnews.com/colorado/new...

To everyone else, it’s time to fight back however you can.

• Get connected to the resistance: fiftyfifty.one

• Get trained on noncooperation:
nokings.org/rise

• Get bold by joining protests:
nokings.org

• Get engaged in politics:
pol-rev.com

• Get started:
Choosedemocracy.us

Unions came out strong in Boston's Labor Day parade today I was just visiting but it made this union member very proud!

The “Mini-Trump” attacking Lisa Cook had paperwork problems of his own Bill Pulte has weaponized his office to attack Trump's political enemies.

“[Bill] Pulte got his job in the administration about three years after his wife, Diana Pulte, donated $500,000 to a super PAC backing Trump. The donation was channeled through a Delaware shell company, ML Organization LLC, that Bill Pulte controlled.”

My exact thought today.

Striking: New Quinnipiac poll finds 56% of voters nationally oppose Trump's sending of National Guard into DC. Only 41% support it.

Independents oppose it by 61-34.

Trump's overall approval on crime is cratering at 42-54.

That sound you hear is a lot of dimwitted pundit narratives imploding.

The so-called family photo inside the White House. Standing from left to right: Von Der Leyen Starmer Stubb Zelensky Trump Macron Meloni Merz Rutte

European leaders dropping everything, last minute, to rally behind Zelensky in Washington is one of the Continent’s finest political moments this century.

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Another one.

BBC: “Al Jazeera’s entire team in Gaza city has been killed.”

Let me expand on points raised in this thread. A great bulk of the internal conduct of the federal govt is governed by admin procedures, norm or laws that have no criminal penalties attached to them. The use of IRS/tax payer info is a major exception to that. The law envisions various ways ...

Trump Official Caught in Bombshell January 6 Tape Urging Cop Murder Police bodycam footage reveals the Trump administration official calling on rioters to “kill” police officers defending the Capitol on January 6.

Trump Official Caught in Bombshell January 6 Tape Urging Cop Murder newrepublic.com/post/198895/... via @newrepublic.com

If it’s the Golden Age & everything is great & the economy is booming & Trump has ended all wars & slayed inflation & everyone is happy & drug prices are down & his approval is at 71% & everyone hates Dems, why would they need to do mid-decade gerrymandering to hold the House?

A strategy meeting to discuss messaging so the MAGA influencers and Fox can push out their propaganda to help pull off one of the biggest and obvious cover-ups in history. This isn’t a Dept of Justice, it’s a Dept of Coverups.

Why the Epstein case could go much deeper with Julie Brown Listen now | "It's always been a mystery how [Epstein] made his money."

Julie K. Brown was one of the first to investigate Jeffrey Epstein's crimes. On the Contrarian Pod, she joined Jen to expose the powerful men and the Palm Beach community who helped cover them up. 

This is a story of evil. We encourage you to listen to the interview in its entirety.