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Private corporations like Sonesta Hotels are putting profits over people when they contract with Trump’s immigration federal agencies to detain & imprison migrants in their hotels. I explain a powerful new lawsuit has been brought to make them pay for their complicity: youtu.be/O2c7RdJLm8M?...

I’ll be helping host the Blue Wave Nation virtual rally this Friday! Register and join us 💙🌊

The upshot of the Supreme Court's mail-in voting opinion is that the conservative justices think you are very stupid. They think Trump should be able to hijack the midterms, and do not think you can see that they are doing what they can to help.

Maryland’s Supreme Court is 5-2 GOP appointees. If it upholds the ruling, three state high courts will have blocked Dem redistricting ballot measures on dubious grounds, joining VA and CO. Meanwhile, GOP state courts let Republicans violate explicit constitutional text to gerrymander FL, OH, and MO

I think it’s obscene that the department of justice is currently threatening to demolish the Kennedy center I mean, it’s also relentlessly fucking funny, but

Gotta love the Ford family

I hope, among the many reforms ahead, we go back to requiring the government to write competently and seriously.

There's so much psychotic shit in this story about Max Miller, but this part of his origin story might be the weirdest

Elizabeth Warren asked SoftBank a simple question: is it a coincidence that a massive federal land deal showed up eight weeks after $50 million landed in Trump's library account? www.dworkinsubstack.com/p/what-four-...

Republicans spent millions of dollars running basically the only TV ads of the Wisconsin Democratic gubernatorial primary to back the candidate they believe will be easiest to beat, and now that candidate is leading the race. www.wispolitics.com/2026/sole-do...

Look at this graph. The share of national income going to the richest 10 percent was lowest (and share to lower 90 percent highest) when union membership was at its highest. As unions have weakened, inequality has widened. This is why we must build back union power.

Here's a really good interview w/ @realjaredhuffman.bsky.social about the threat of Christian Nationalism and why that's very different from Christianity as a whole. (Bonus points for the dig at Marie Gluesenkamp Perez for attending these right-wing Bible studies.) www.nytimes.com/2026/08/09/u...

MAGA’s latest vendetta can't erase Trump’s massive failures: analysis

“So… you’ve been absent for 52 days, missed 47 roll call votes, and no one knows if you’re still alive?”

Trump considers Minnesota a bigger threat than Iran. People, I keep telling you, it is fucking awesome here.

Sounds like another incredibly scandalous grand jury proceeding

Jeanine Pirro should be disbarred. It is absolutely indefensible and gross misconduct to rush through a criminal indictment for political reasons before an investigation has been completed, which resulted in false evidence being presented to a grand jury.

There are so many examples of overt white nationalism on the American right.

This is the first passage of Maggie and Swan's book. Consider the agency it sets up. Democrats. Partisanship. Why not focus on the "irony" that Maggie had done propaganda for the man for years? Why make this about Democrats, rather than her complicity?

The Trump administration has gone months without paying attorneys who represent unaccompanied immigrant children as part of a years-old, congressionally-funded effort. The latest in a series of temporary bridge contracts ends tomorrow, with no replacement in sight: www.huffpost.com/entry/unacco...

Baby turkeys in the yard.🪶 Southern Maine

This should shock you to your core. These letters don’t just represent the experiences of people in Delaney Hall. They represent the experiences of thousands of other immigrants in concentration camps across the country.

Sen. Murphy to Mullin: Now that you are on the job, will you commit to us that DHS will follow court orders if a ruling says ICE has done something illegal? Mullin refuses to answer. #momsky #sheshed

CARTOON OF THE DAY (From @dennisgoris.bsky.social )

Broad winged hawk and Red bellied woodpecker, Southern Maine. 🪶

(sigh) I'll be writing more extensively about this soon, but there's really 2 things that he's talking about here, one of which was a legitimate problem a few years back which was already cracked down on awhile ago; the other is a complete crock of shit. 1/

TODAY IN 2024: “Their deliberations led them to a unanimous conclusion, beyond a reasonable doubt: That the defendant, Donald J. Trump, is guilty of 34 counts of Falsifying Business Records in the First Degree, to conceal a scheme to corrupt the 2016 election.” manhattanda.org/d-a-bragg-de...

no single person benefited from the character limits on twitter more than donald trump

In which the president of the United States is interviewed by his daughter-in-law, a Fox contributor-turned RNC chair-turned Fox host.

In yet ANOTHER decision by a judge trying to unstick Alex Jones' abuse of the legal process to prevent us from paying the Sandy Hook families, Texas judge Maya Gamble said Alex Jones has conducted "outrageous discovery abuse, tampering with evidence, and continuous, callous disrespect" for the law.

Epstein survivor Maria Farmer: “Pam Bondi’s continued evasion of questions about her grave mishandling of the release of the Epstein files was not surprising — it’s a pattern of behavior. At every turn, Bondi has ignored and disregarded the will of Epstein survivors”

Rep. Ansari: "Today's ridiculous charade has made astonishingly clear that the [DOJ] has been weaponized by Donald Trump to ensure that the most massive cover-up in American history is carried out, and this is being enabled by Republicans in Congress."

Former "60 Minutes" correspondent Steve Kroft: “There is no smoking gun. But [Donald Trump’s] fingerprints and DNA are all over this. He’s been making threats against ‘60 Minutes’ and how he wanted it gone. And he finally got his wish.” Read more in @status.news: www.status.news/p/60-minutes...

Disgraceful. Absolutely disgraceful. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Trump's policies make rent, food, and medicine unaffordable while his donors record record profits. This economy works for the billionaires, not the rest of us. #WeCantAffordTrump

Every horrible thing that MAGA accused Kamala Harris of wanting to do if she had become President has now been done by the orange felon times 1,000 including getting the United States into a forever war with Iran. I’ll never regret voting for her.

virgnia foxx is one of those low key members who has been abjectly horrible her entire time in office. a total degenerate.

Food fight! 🪶

"ICE goons are walking around with a list of 20 million people to abduct in their pockets because of this Palantir database" There, FIFY.

US: “cd we please have some more?” Trump: no! We need you to pay more $$$ to gas/oil lobby

First one for me for 2026, Southern Maine 🪶

A sanctioned Iranian supertanker - with its tracker on - has sailed through the Strait of Hormuz into Iran without interference. (Fars) Looks like the US blockade is just hot air. Who would have guessed.

My father was a relentlessly self-degrading casino owner from Queens with high grade sociopathy and a penchant for buggery. He would womanize, he would tweet. He would make outrageous claims like he invented the phrase "prime the pump." Sometimes he would accuse popes of being weak on crime.

Guess he at least waited for TACO Tuesday to pass Swings from 'I don't care if peace negotiations continue' (www.the-independent.com/news/world/a...) to 'peace negotiations will resume in two days (of course there's a 2 in there somewhere). All of this within a wk So confidence inspiring, really 🙄

DOGE turbocharged the deficit, achieving no savings. The IRS reductions from funding and layoffs have likely resulted in about $861 bn in decreased revenue. The layoffs from actions like DOGE alone have likely resulted in $597.8 bn in decreased revenue over the 2026-2035.

#HealthcareNotTrumpsWar 9 out of 10 adults with health care coverage through Medicaid expansion are currently employed or meet work exemption criteria—yet work requirements imposed by Trump’s Big, Ugly Bill will cause five million people to lose health care coverage.

Suit alleges the billionaire’s AI company is illegally spewing toxic pollutants from its datacenters in the Memphis area

These are adjudged terrorists.

Wells Harbor, Maine, yesterday. 🪶