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Johnson: "He has defunded our education system. He has defunded our transportation system. He's firing black women across this country. He's defunding our healthcare system. This president is absolutely out of control... Chicago is going to stand firm in protecting humanity."

Sen. Ruben Gallego: "Mike Johnson is holding Congress out of session for two reasons: number one, so that way there are no negotiations; and number two, to cover for all the pedophiles on Epstein's list...They're covering for pedophiles and dropping your healthcare coverage."

President Donald Trump called for jailing Chicago's mayor and the governor of Illinois, both Democrats, as his administration prepared to deploy military troops to the streets of the third-largest US city reut.rs/4mSYMEc 1/6

Yep.

Donald Trump Truth Social Post: Chicago Mayor should be in jail for failing to protect Ice Officers! Governor Pritzker also.

I will not back down.

Trump is now calling for the arrest of elected representatives checking his power.

What else is left on the path to full-blown authoritarianism?

IMF and BoE warn AI boom risks ‘abrupt’ stock market correction Kristalina Georgieva and UK financial stability watchdog say valuations are closing in on dotcom bubble levels

The consensus of macroeconomists globally is that the techbros and Trump are driving the markets towards a Crédit Mobilier-type meltdown in which they will profit massively, but the financial system will be devastated. www.ft.com/content/fe47...

As justices confront harassment, death threats and an assassination attempt, Barrett declares "I'm not afraid" In an interview with CBS News, Justice Amy Coney Barrett said of the Supreme Court's emergency orders in the Trump cases, "This isn't the final decision."

As you read this puff piece about how brave and steadfast Amy Coney Barrett is, keep in mind that the house of South Carolina circuit court judge Diane Goodstein exploded over the weekend and some of her family members barely escaped with their lives. She had recently ruled against the admin.

Spot on.

🎯👇

From her lifetime of pioneering work with chimpanzees to her
tireless advocacy for the environment...

Jane Goodall was a one-of-a-kind treasure to the world!

I was lucky enough to be able to thank her personally when our paths crossed not long ago.

Thanks again, Ms. Goodall. You will be missed. ♥️

Those Democrats are sooo unreasonable

Talarico: if you read the new testament, Jesus doesn't spend most of his time preaching or teaching or even praying. He spends most of his time healing the sick.

Right now, we have politicians in congress with Christ follower in their Twitter bio, but they are kicking the sick off their health care

The Government Has Been Shut Down for Months Today is the day we stop pretending that it’s not.

@ddayen.bsky.social is 100% right: the government has been shut down for months.

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Tuesday’s rapture of evangelicals has already been going on for a decade

(next to an image of Jimmy Kimmel) CANCEL FASCISM REINSTATE KIMMEL

We’re fighting back with our voices and our wallets — because no wannabe king can match the power we wield when millions of us take action together: indivisible.org/government-c... #BoycottDisneyABC

Fucking cowards

Toadies, lickspittles and ass-kissers—all of them

Kash Patel just called all of those women liars who courageously came forward to speak about being trafficked to the rich and powerful

Like everyone else in this Trump nightmare, Patel is a lying toady covering for that turd who’s squatting in the WH

September 15, 2025 Six years ago, on September 15, 2019, after about a six-week hiatus during the summer, I wrote a Facebook post that started:

September 15, 2025

Six years of Letters from an American. I could not be more grateful to be part of this wonderful community.

Church decides to give coveted real estate away rather than sell “I was completely blown away," says the rector of a growing but "homeless" Utah congregation after members of a shrinking Utah church voted unanimously to give his flock their chapel.

“I was completely blown away," says the rector of a growing but "homeless" Utah congregation after members of a shrinking Utah church voted unanimously to give his flock their chapel.

I've followed the F-35 story for almost two decades.

This is a humiliating setback that would have been impossible to imagine—back before an ignorant prez and a vengeful MAGA began humiliating what had been the closest and most reliable (previous) US allies.

Loved that book. Rereading it now and it’s still masterfully funny and insightful.

Or maybe round them up and gas them. In chambers. More efficient

And these malignant turds wonder why we call them Nazis

🚨 Canadians name U.S. as top threat, citing Trump’s provocations and sovereignty clash, fracturing decades of trust.
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