Katherine McNamara

Trump has made it abundantly clear that any person who dares to tell the truth in any government agency will be fired.

It is also clear when you take a look at his appointees that all are willing and eager to lie for him constantly and effortlessly without remorse or regret.

“Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer praised President Trump’s decision to fire the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) after the Friday release of the July jobs report.”

thehill.com/business/543...

Wut?

Trump redeploys nuclear submarines after ex-Russia leader’s menacing tweet Order suggests president might be ready to launch nuclear strike against Russia as tensions rise over Ukraine war

Something every global leader has avoided since Hiroshima and Nagasaki, but the monster in America may very well provoke is nuclear war.

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

The Supreme Court knocked down one of the two pillars of the Voting Rights Act in 2013 in the Shelby County case. It has now gone out of its way to consider whether it should knock down the other, by rescheduling arguments in a case it could have resolved in June under existing precedent.

if i were a pro-trump financial type i might view the destruction of reliable government data with the kind of anger and apprehension that might lead me to reevaluate my politics, but then if i’m a financial guy throwing my weight behind strongman rule, i’m already too stupid to breathe

Alabama state contractor arrested after the hot-car death of a toddler she was caring for, police say | CNN A woman has been arrested in Alabama in connection with the death of 3-year-old Ke’Torrius “K.J.” Starkes Jr., who died last week after a state-contracted worker left him unattended in a car for sever...

An Alabama state-contracted worker has been arrested in connection with the death of 3-year-old Ke’Torrius “K.J.” Starkes Jr., who died last week after he was left unattended in a car for several hours in the sweltering summer heat.

It’s a fucking joke & stain on the network forever that CNN spent a month of programming in the middle of all this autocratic insanity selling books about Biden. When the history of this era is written, that will deserve a chapter. Write what you want, but don’t hijack a network.

Former FBI agent Mike Feinberg:

“When I last looked at the issue…there were not a ton of vacancies at the Club Fed category of prisons.”

“The fact that she’s getting some sort of preferential treatment to presumably jump the line..makes the hairs on the back of one’s neck stick up a little bit.”

NY Times and Democracy Docket cover the same hearing. Notice the difference in framing.

This is why -- right now-- we need independent, pro-democracy media.

BAVOVNA in Ryazan 🔥

the palate cleanser in the five course pardon meal

Court allows Trump to end union bargaining for federal workers A federal appeals court on Friday lifted a judge's order blocking U.S. President Donald Trump's administration from stripping hundreds of thousands of federal workers of the ability to engage in union bargaining with U.S. agencies.

Court allows Trump to end union bargaining for federal workers reut.rs/4l4OkbJ

McMorrow: Don’t piss on my leg and tell me it’s raining. Nothing is working right now. Our automakers are gearing up for the worst…

And just as a reminder: all of this was man-made. Trump chose to do this. And it’s just a mess on the ground right now

This is reminiscent of how Citizens United unfolded

Wow

Florida’s New Attorney General, a DeSantis Appointee, Is Making Waves

To the #BrokenTimes, opening a concentration camp & bigotry at "forceful" and "making waves." This is the result of a worldview that is purely political, never moral.
Florida’s New Attorney General, a DeSantis Appointee, Is Making Waves www.nytimes.com/2025/07/28/u...

Making waves is an interesting choice of words to describe a contemptible man tracking, harassing, and sending innocent people to a concentration camp.

This photo, provided by an American contractor on condition of anonymity shows Palestinians crammed behind gates and fencing before entering a food distribution site operated by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation in May 2025. Photo credit to AP.

“There is no moral difference between telling people they can have a shower so you can gas them in gas chambers and telling people they can have food so you can shoot them at aid sites. A holocaust is happening right before our eyes and the world is silent.”

- Mohamad Safa, PVA rep. to the UN.

Press release: "Congressional Candidate for VA-05 Mike Pruitt Receives 20 Endorsements in Week One"

Press release: "Congressional Candidate for VA-05 Mike Pruitt Receives 20 Endorsements in Week One"

"Less than a week after announcing his candidacy to represent [VA05], Navy veteran, civil rights attorney, and Scottsville Supervisor on the Albemarle County Board of Supervisors @votemikepruitt received a wave of key endorsements from 20 local leaders." bluevirginia.us/2025/07/demo...

Remember — you have more power than you think.

You don’t have to take on the negative energy around you. You can change it.

op: ryanleak (via IG)

Your reminder that Elon Musk gleefully condemned millions of poverty stricken children to starvation and death during his time running DOGE as part of the Trump administration.

Dismantling USAID will kill more people than a hundred bomb strikes.

Climate: Solar And Wind Power’s ‘Unstoppable’ Global Growth In this week's Current Climate newsletter, U.N. reports say clean energy hits a global tipping point; NYC congestion pricing is working; danger for the Endangerment Finding

In this week's Current Climate newsletter, U.N. reports say clean energy hits a global tipping point; NYC congestion pricing is working; danger for the Endangerment Finding

An Egyptian dude figured out that if you partially filled a plastic bottle with rice and other grains and threw it into the ocean from Egypt at the correct place given currents the bottles would wash ashore in Gaza within 96 hours so ordinary Egyptians are doing it and... it's worked?

Emmett Till memorial shot up with bullets

People with guns proudly posing in front of the Emmett Till memorial shot up with bullets

A bulletproof Emmett Till memorial. Riddled with bullet dents.

All I think about when I hear people say that it’s bad taste to dance on Hulk Hogan’s grave is that Emmett Till’s monument had to be replaced with a 500lb steel bulletproof monument because white people simply won’t stop riddling it with bullets. So now it just has tons of dents. From bullets.

YouTube video by Degenerate Art by Andrea Pitzer The Lost & The Returned | Keeping Your Neighbors from Disappearing | Andrea Pitzer | Next Comes What

"I’m telling you about all this because people are being targeted right now. People are disappearing before our eyes."

If, absolutely nothing else, it should make all of us appreciate Katharine Graham even more. And Ben Bradlee and others, beyond W&B. She didn't even waffle when the f*cking AG John Mitchell threatened that she was "gonna get her tit caught in a big, fat [w]ringer..."

WaPo: from hero to zero.

Newsom on redistricting: The game has changed. They don’t even want to play by the same set of rules.

*firetruck drives by with siren*

Newsom: It is a five alarm fire for democracy.

When any of us lose due process rights, we all do. All the government needs to do is say we’re one of “them” and they don’t have to prove it. And cruel and unusual punishment is also against the constitution - for anyone.