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#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
“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
#Trump to propose opening #California Coast to #oil #drilling for the first time in roughly 4 decades, acc/to 3 people.
The move would set up a confrontation with Gov #GavinNewsom, a #Democrat who has fought #OffshoreDrilling & who has emerged as one of Trump’s chief political antagonists. Newsom is in Brazil for the #UN #climate summit, where he is drawing a contrast between himself & Trump, who denigrates efforts to fight #GlobalWarming.
#law #ClimateChange
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/11/climate/offshore-drilling-california-trump-newsom.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
This first excerpt in the thread is long. My apologies for that. What J. Filipovic has to say here seems so important that it's hard to choose short pieces to share:
"The Trump administration is a regime of restoring male power. That includes being a pedophile protection racket covering for men who sexually abuse girls."
~ Jill Filipovic
#Trump #DirtyDonald #Epstein #GhislaineMaxwell #VirginiaGiuffre #MaleEntitlement #MaleDomination #SexualAbuse #misogyny
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1-yr-old pepper-sprayed by federal agent in #Chicago
Video shows federal agents spraying chemical irritants from a moving vehicle at a line of cars waiting to leave a Cicero Sam’s Club Saturday morning. The action obviously violates a judge’s restriction on use of force.
#Trump #law #immigration #judiciary #UseOfForce #PoliceBrutality #Constitution #CivilRights #HumanRights #AbuseOfPower #fascism #MafiaState #TheCrueltyIsThePoint #ICE #CBP #Gestapo #WhiteSupremacy
https://chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/2025/11/09/1-year-old-pepper-sprayed-by-federal-agent-in-cicero
“The group White Dudes for #Harris rolled out a new $10 million ad campaign on Thursday, with the first ad of the effort targeting white men in Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.
The over one-minute-long spot addresses #Trump’s grip on the white male vote but works to appeal to voters in the bloc who are disillusioned with him and his campaign.”
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4888155-white-dudes-harris-ad-campaign/
Racists be racist, gotta appeal to fellow racists.
Via Rupar:
beyond parody -- #Trump begins his event in #NorthCarolina by vowing to restore Confederate names to renamed military facilities
#Trump admin to fire worker for TV interview about #SNAP
The employee warned that the #shutdown could have negative impacts on the millions of Americans who rely on the #FederalGovernment to put #food on the table.
#censorship #authoritarianism #dictatorship #law #labor #Constitution #FirstAmendment #FreeSpeech
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/11/13/usda-worker-snap-benefits-interview/
The #Trump admin has developed plans for a shift in #homelessness #policy that would slash support for long-term housing programs…& critics say it could place as many as 170k formerly #homeless people at risk of returning to the streets.
Pivoting from #housing #aid, the approach would shift billions to short-term programs that impose work rules, help #police dismantle #encampments, & require [force] the #unhoused to accept treatment for mental health or addiction.
#law
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/us/politics/trump-homeless-funding.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
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Via Rupar:
#NancyMace on Fox News says she's voting for #Trump because "as a woman, I want to vote for someone who will protect women like me who are survivors of rape" (Trump is an adjudicated rapist)
Venezuelan #military preparing #guerrilla response in case of #US attack
#Venezuela is deploying #weapons, including decades-old Russian-made equipment, & is planning to mount a guerrilla-style resistance or sow chaos in the event of a US air or ground attack, according to sources with knowledge of the efforts & planning documents seen by Reuters.
#Trump #law #WarPowers #Congress #SeparationOfPowers #InternationalLaw #LawOfArmedConflict #authoritarianism #autocracy
https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/venezuelan-military-preparing-guerrilla-response-case-us-attack-2025-11-11/?utm_source=braze&utm_medium=notifications&utm_campaign=2025_engagement
Via Katie Phang:
If you're disheartened at today's delay in #Trump's sentencing, let's be clear at whose doorstep lies the blame:
The conservative majority of the #SCOTUS and its terrible decision on presidential immunity.
➡️Consider the possibility of at least TWO new SCOTUS appointments for the next President of the United States.
When you go to vote in November, think about who you want to be making those appointments.
#Trump using Dolly Parton's "Jolene" today in Michigan.
Don't fuck with Dolly Parton.
Period.
Lawyers on line 1...