Triggered #Dems are blocking #history. When did #Biden end the #COVID emergency? 5 11 23. When most #democrat voters were vaxxed! Not that #republican #necropolitics were any better. Trump adopted anti-mask/anti-vax politics bc the first wave of COVID *decimated* Democrat constituencies. R instincts went rabidly anti-mask/anti-vax fast and wet-dreamy. Dems? Masked up and vaxxed! Uh oh, more dead Republicans by 2024! Both parties embraced death, one won. Biden isn't any less ghoulish than #Trump.
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Via Angry Staffer:
Kamala will still get the post-DNC boost, too.
We’re trending in the right direction, but again: polls don’t vote.
Don’t get complacent. Check your registration. Vote. Bring friends.
Dave Wasserman:
New CookPolitical: w/ BSG and GS Strategy Group, our latest battleground polls show #Harris erasing #Trump's leads.
AZ: Harris 48%-46%
GA: Tied 48%-48%
MI: Harris 49%-46%
NV: Trump 48%-45%
NC: Harris 48%-47%
PA: Harris 49%-48%
WI: Harris 49%-46%
“But the men Vought was talking to actually worked for a British journalism nonprofit and were secretly recording him the entire time.” #Project2025 #Trump
Trump has sold thousands of pardons, each worth up to two million dollars. Trevor Milton, a fraudster who deceived numerous investors, will not be required to repay them because he purchased a pardon from Trump. If Epstein was alive Trump would sell him a pardon. https://medium.com/@carmitage/the-pardon-for-pay-president-2c1d01767923 #uspol #trump
#Trump admin renews #SCOTUS appeal to keep full #SNAP payments frozen
The request is the latest in a flurry of legal activity over how a program that helps buy groceries for 42 million Americans should proceed during the historic US govt #shutdown. Lower courts have ruled that the govt must keep FULL payments flowing, & SCOTUS asked the admin to respond after an appeals court ruled against it again late Sunday.
#law #Plutocracy #hunger #poverty #WealthGap #FoodStamps
https://apnews.com/article/snap-food-benefits-trump-government-shutdown-c633d646f08f395e7d157d1145eaf727?utm_source=onesignal&utm_medium=push&utm_campaign=2025-11-10-Breaking+News
Pitiful. Four Seasons anyone?
Aug. 20, 2024, 2:00 p.m. ET
Michael Gold:
Donald #Trump is scheduled to give a speech focused on crime and public safety at the Livingston County Sheriff’s Office in Howell, Mich., this afternoon.
A few dozen people are gathered here, and Trump will be speaking in front of a few SUVs and two signs reading “Make America Safe Again.”
More than 1,000 veterans and military family members have signed an open letter in support of Tim #Walz, saying they're "appalled" at #Trump and #JDVance's "politically motivated attacks" accusing him of lying about his decades of military service.
"Given Donald Trump's long record of expressing disdain for service members, veterans, and their families, it's unsurprising that his running mate has stooped to such lows." https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2024/08/13/veterans-defend-tim-walz-military-service/74780851007/
Putin: We will liberate Ukraine.
Trump: We will liberate Los Angeles.
Steve Herman:
In an address at Fort Bragg in North Carolina, #Trump tells troops that Los Angeles is a trash heap which "we will liberate."
Via Emptywheel:
#Trump puts the guys negotiating real estate deals with the Saudis on his transition team, even if only in an honorary position.
Andrew Feinberg:
INBOX:
Trump has announced his transition team co-chairs, ex-SBA administrator Linda McMahon and Cantor Fitzgerald boss Howard Lutnick.
#JDVance, DonaldJTrumpJr
and EricTrump are "honorary chairs" as well.
#Trump repeats false claim that 'nobody was killed' during Capitol #Insurrection he incited
During a campaign event today in Howell, Michigan, Trump repeated the #lie that no one died on #Jan6, 2021, during the Capitol #siege by his supporters.
Trump attempted to compare the #Jan6 insurrection w/the racial justice protests that took place across the country in the wake of George Floyd's death in 2020.
#FactCheck #TrumpLies
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/live-blog/election-2024-dnc-live-updates-rcna165227
"There are efforts around the country to subvert the integrity of the ballot, many of them coming from a collection of conservative activists and Republican-aligned operatives pushing West’s candidacy.
"Republicans and their allies have worked to get West on the ballot in Arizona, Wisconsin, Virginia, North Carolina, Nebraska, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Maine."
I’m usually very supportive of protests but I must admit that I find this annoying when we’re trying to keep a narcissistic crackpot and his coterie of fascist grifters out of power.
Not counter-protesting Jan 6 proved to be one of the smartest decisions in recent memory and I’d like to see more of that.
#DNC2024 #HarrisWalz2024 #trump #Election2024
https://www.politico.com/news/2024/08/18/dnc-protests-gaza-kamala-harris-00174497
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Via @lolgop:
It is continually stunning that we discuss tan suits more than we discuss how the Republican Party's nominee for president seems to currently be an employee of the country that produced most of the 9/11 hijackers.
Al Letson asks Jason Stanley if the US is living through a coup under Trump. Stanley replies:
"Let’s look at what’s happening with the boats that they’re blowing up and now in the Pacific, first in the Caribbean, now in the Pacific, they’re just simply assassinating people for no reason whatsoever. It’s completely illegal. In fact, what it now means is that Trump could just kill anyone anywhere just by saying they’re a terrorist."
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/11/jason-stanley-fascism-trump-history/
POST-ELECTION ECONOMIC NEWS:
ADP's latest private-sector jobs report was released this morning, and the numbers help explain why voters are so worried about the economy and why they went so heavily Democratic last night.
Job growth has collapsed under Trump's tariffs.
For those of you who believe the democrat-peddled 👉FICTION👈 that #trump is responsible for the emergence of an American #PoliceState, a free ebook and white paper. Check the COIN hashtag at the tumblr link for ALOT more.
https://auntieimperial.tumblr.com/post/48201197473
Via Emptywheel:
I hope someone (and McBath would be perfect) mentions how the GOP response to Trump being shot by an assault rifle is to suggest Trump's failed assassination is more important than all the children actually killed by #GunViolence, which #Trump said to just get over.
Greg Bluestein:
Georgia’s Lucy McBath lands prime speaking role on DNC’s final night
Only a snapshot, ignore polls but enjoy the good press.
VOTE. #DoSomething
NYT—Kamala #Harris has overtaken Donald #Trump across the seven states likeliest to decide the presidency, erasing a five-point lead Trump had in May, New York Times/Siena College battleground polls show.
“Abba have demanded that #Trump stop using their music after he played several of their songs & used footage of the group at a campaign rally alongside messages urging supports to donate..
The Republican presidential candidate played hits including Money, Money, Money, The Winner Takes It All and Dancing Queen at his event in St Cloud, Minnesota, the US state with the highest Swedish population, on Tuesday, the newspaper Svenska Dagbladet reported.”
"#Fux, your biography is now just your vote on the coup. You are the only one who betrayed, who surrendered, who encouraged #Trump to impose more #tariffs, who extended for a few more years the political instability that has already done so much harm to the country, who strengthened the fascists within the Brazilian right."
#FuxLied
https://web.archive.org/web/20250911010257/https://www1.folha.uol.com.br/colunas/celso-rocha-de-barros/2025/09/fux-mentiu.shtml
Department of #Energy officials to meet with White House to tamp down Trump’s idiotic idea of explosive nuclear testing
Top energy & #nuclear officials in the #Trump administration are planning to meet with the White House & #NationalSecurity Council in the coming days to dissuade Trump from resuming testing of the nation’s #NuclearWeapons, sources told CNN.
Rep #EricSwalwell (D-CA), one of Trump’s most vocal critics in the #House, said Thurs that he was being targeted by the #Trump admin after news reports that he had been referred to the #DON for a potential #criminal investigation.
An accusation that Swalwell had committed #mortgage & #tax #fraud was made on Wednesday by #BillPulte, director of the #FHFA. Pulte, a Trump crony, has made similar allegations against Trump’s other perceived enemies.
#law #RevengePolitics
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/14/us/politics/trump-mortgage-fraud-eric-swalwell.html?smid=url-share
“I Lost Everything”: Venezuelans Were Rounded Up in a Dramatic Midnight Raid but Never Charged With a Crime
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Authorities said Tren de Aragua “terrorists” had taken over the building. A ProPublica investigation found little evidence to back up the government’s claims. For the first time, the Venezuelans arrested in a Chicago raid are telling their stories.
https://www.propublica.org/article/chicago-venezuela-immigration-ice-fbi-raids-no-criminal-charges?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #Chicago #ICE #Immigration #FBI #Venezuela #Immigrants #Trump
#Illinois Gov #JBPritzker says he’s worried how #Trump might respond to the growing controversy over his ties to #Epstein.
“My great fear, of course, is that with the release of that information, which I think will be devastating for Trump, he’s going to do everything in his power to distract. What does that mean? I mean, he might take us to #war with #Venezuela just to get a distraction in the news & take it out of the headlines.”
[we’re all worried about that JB]
https://apnews.com/article/pritzker-trump-reaction-epstein-files-distraction-280eb69c80aee902b3ed6d712c79f332