"I’ve been saying all along that Donald Trump and his MAGA enablers would try every stunt possible to distract from the massive press conference happening tomorrow morning at 10:30 a.m. ET."

~ Ben Meiselas

#Epstein #Trump #GhislaineMaxwell #pedophiles #CoverUp
/4

https://www.meidasplus.com/p/exclusive-rep-ro-khanna-previews

"And sure enough, just hours before survivors are set to speak, MAGA operatives like Anna Paulina Luna and James Comer tried their latest scam, dumping the same 33,000 pages of old Epstein documents, 97% of which are already public, and pretending it’s 'everything.' They really think the American people are that stupid. Spoiler alert: we’re not."

#Epstein #Trump #GhislaineMaxwell #pedophiles #CoverUp
/5

"It will get worse for Trump, no matter what. On Wednesday, September 3, at 10:30 a.m. Eastern, Reps. Massie and Khanna will hold a press conference with ten Epstein victims on the steps of the Capitol. Massie says the press conference will be 'explosive.'”

~ Robert B. Hubbell

#Epstein #Trump #GhislaineMaxwell #pedophiles #CoverUp
/6

https://roberthubbell.substack.com/p/be-loud-for-america

"Releasing the Epstein Files is only a 'hostile act' towards the president if the president is a hostile pedophile. Just saying."

~ Brandon Frankel

#Epstein #Trump #GhislaineMaxwell #pedophiles #CoverUp
/7

https://www.threads.com/@brandontour/post/DOJFR56kTm_

"It’s extraordinary that Trump has put his government in a place where it is now openly defending sex traffickers and pedophiles and refusing to prosecute the crimes these records point to."

~ Simon Rosenberg

#Epstein #Trump #GhislaineMaxwell #pedophiles #CoverUp
/8

https://www.hopiumchronicles.com/p/on-trumps-escalating-madness-epstein

"Trump says 'troops to Illinois' just hours after a federal court said that’s literally illegal. This is straight-up authoritarianism."

~ The Other 98%

#Trump #WashingtonDC #Chicago #elections #voting #fascism #military
/2

https://www.threads.com/@other98/post/DOHQzLhEmNT

"Trump's intention to send military troops is about escalating conflict, creating a spectacle and distracting from his other problems—not about fighting crime."

~ Steven Beschloss

#Trump #WashingtonDC #Chicago #fascism #military #Epstein #economy
/3

https://www.americaamerica.news/p/snapshot-a-hostile-plan-to-invade

''No major country has suffered a greater reversal of speech rights than the United States over the past year. The federal government is using economic coercion and weaponizing the legal system to restrict viewpoints in private and public universities, law firms, museums, media and corporations."

~ Katherine Stewart

#Trump #FreeSpeech #fascism #coercion #threats #bullying
/2

https://writekaths.substack.com/p/speech-for-us-not-you

"One of the most insidious things about the current iteration of authoritarianism is that it has coopted and perverted the language of liberal democracy. When it speaks about individual rights, it is really just pushing for ever greater power over individuals. When it speaks about 'speech rights,' it aims to suppress those with whom it disagrees, even by force of law."

#Trump #FreeSpeech #fascism #coercion #threats #bullying
/3

"The Trump family notched as much as $5 billion in paper wealth on Monday after its flagship crypto venture opened trading of a new digital currency."

~ Angus Berwick

#Trump #Republicans #crypto #cryptocurrency #corruption #EconomicElites #MonetizingPresidency
/1

https://www.wsj.com/finance/currencies/trump-family-amasses-6-billion-fortune-after-crypto-launch-567faec5

@Nonilex

So

Going forward #Hegseth and #Trump will just assume that *any* cigarette boat (google it...) with four big Evinrude outboards and a bunch of men on board are running drugs

Where was this boat first sighted, and destroyed?

Off Venezuela?

Destination: Miami or Texas?

If this took place in International Waters and there was no evidence that the destination was the United States, what jurisdiction does Hegseth and Trump have to conduct extra-judicial murder in International Waters?

Oh

Right

None whatsoever

And as always there will be no consequence for this crime

The work of Mexican-born, New York-based artist/cartoonist Felipe Galindo (Feggo) is on a list of objectionable art, published by the White House.
https://blog.cartoonmovement.com/2025/08/censorship-alert-white-house-condemns-cartoon.html?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email
#Trump #Immigration #FreeSpeech #ThinOrangeSkin

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cartoon of a US border wall painted on the horizontal with red and white alternating stripes a section of the wall has been cut out and lies on the ground a man is climbing up the section of the wall with the cut out and, over that section, the Land of Promise can be seen in the distance with a dark blue sky filled with fireworks that look like the star field of the US flag

Trump Says America’s Oil Industry Is Cleaner Than Other Countries’. New Data Shows Massive Emissions From Texas Wells.
---

The oil industry touts Texas as a success story in controlling climate-warming methane emissions. The state’s regulator, however, grants nearly every request to burn or vent gas into the atmosphere.
https://www.propublica.org/article/texas-methane-oil-emissions-climate?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #Texas #Oil #Gas #Data #Climate #Environment #Trump

#PeteHegseth: #Venezuela mission won't stop "with just this strike"

#Defense Sec Hegseth suggested in a Wednesday interview that the #US strike on an alleged drug vessel that ofcls said hailed from Venezuela would not be the last as US assets amass off the country's shores.

Tuesday's operation marked a sharp escalation in already boiling tensions between the US govt & the regime of Venezuelan President #Maduro.

#geopolitics #law #InternationalLaw #Trump #WarMongering
https://www.axios.com/2025/09/03/hegseth-venezuela-boat-strike-maduro

🚨🚨 #Pentagon authorizes up to 600 #MilitaryLawyers to serve as temporary #ImmigrationJudges

#Defense Secretary #PeteHegseth has approved sending up to 600 #military lawyers to the #DOJ to serve as temporary #immigration #judges, acc/to a memo reviewed by The AP.

#Trump #law #judiciary #Constitution #SeparationOfPowers
https://apnews.com/article/pentagon-immigration-judges-trump-pete-hegseth-b07950833591270b926ad86ede8b961f?utm_source=onesignal&utm_medium=push&utm_campaign=2025-09-02-Breaking+News

The #military will begin sending groups of 150 attorneys — both military & civilians — to the #DOJ “as soon as practicable” & the military services should have the first round of people identified by next week, acc/to the memo, dated Aug. 27.

The effort comes as the #Trump admin cracks down on #immigration across the country, ramping up #arrests & #deportations. Immigration courts also already are dealing with a massive backlog of ~3.5M cases that has ballooned in recent years.

#law #judiciary

Unlike courts in the #judicial branch, where the Senate confirms #judges to life tenure to ensure their #independence, #immigration courts are part of the #ExecutiveBranch. They are run by the #DOJ’s Executive Office for Immigration Review (#EOIR). Still, while #ImmigrationJudges are department employees, they are supposed to act as neutral arbiters.

#Trump #law #ImmigrationLaw #judiciary #Pentagon #MilitaryLawyers #military #MilitaryState

Not coincidentally, last Thursday, the #DOJ published a rule change on the website of the Federal Register relaxing criteria for who can serve as a temporary #immigration judge. It eliminated a requirement that such judges have substantial experience in #ImmigrationLaw, or that they must already be serving as administrative law judges (#ALJ) at other agencies.

https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2025-08-28/pdf/2025-16573.pdf

#Trump #law #judiciary #Pentagon #MilitaryLawyers #military #ImmigrationJudges #judges #MilitaryState

The #DOJ may now designate “any lawyer” as a temporary immigration judge for 6 months — a period that can be renewed indefinitely. The #Trump admin claimed that the change promoted increased “flexibility,” while rejecting critics who raised doubts about whether it would increase the risk of biased judges.

#law #judiciary #Pentagon #MilitaryLawyers #ImmigrationJudges #military #DOJ #immigration #judges #MilitaryState

It’s also important to remember that shortly after taking office, #Defense Secy #PeteHegseth fired the top #JAG officers of the #Army & #AirForce. The position at the #Navy was already vacant. Hegseth has long expressed hostility toward #MilitaryLawyers.

He has called them “jagoffs,” & complained they unduly restricted rules of engagement on the battlefield. He also questioned whether it made sense to obey the #GenevaConventions, a core ethos of JAG lawyers.

#Trump #law #immigration #military

“This would be #unlawful,” added Rachel VanLandingham, a professor at Southwestern Law School in Los Angeles who was an #AirForce #JAG.

In particular, VanLandingham said, turning #MilitaryLawyers into #ImmigrationJudges would likely violate the #PosseComitatusAct, a federal #law that bars US troops from participating in #civilian #LawEnforcement or “executing the laws,” unless otherwise authorized to do so by the #Constitution or #Congress.

#Trump #military #immigration
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/09/trump-administration-military-lawyers-jags-immigration-court-judges/

Trump has no knowledge.

When Trump says that US Oil Industry Is ‘Cleaner Than Other Countries’, it means that is what he thinks his audience at that particular moment, in that room, likes to hear.

It does not mean that he knows anything about US Oil's emissions, let alone those of other countries.

@Nonilex
#Trump #ConMan #AlwaysLies #NoKnowledge

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This is a black and white graphic. It features a solid black silhouette of a head, facing right, with a distinctive hairstyle often associated with Donald Trump. The interior of the silhouette is filled with white text. The quote, attributed to Voltaire, reads: "THOSE WHO CAN MAKE YOU BELIEVE ABSURDITIES CAN MAKE YOU COMMIT ATROCITIES" The attribution "Voltaire" is written in smaller, stylized script below the main quote. There is also a small artist's signature and the year "RASSO 2019" in the bottom-right corner of the silhouette. The entire image is set against a plain white background.

#Trump Says US #Oil Industry Is ‘Cleaner Than Other Countries’. New Data Shows Massive #Emissions From #Texas Wells.

…Texas regulators tout their efforts to curtail oil field emissions by requiring drillers to obtain permits to release or burn #gas from their wells.

#law #regulations #EnvironmentalLaw #FossilFuels #pollution #climate #ClimateCrisis
https://www.propublica.org/article/texas-methane-oil-emissions-climate

Did YOU have economic good news to crow about over the Labor Day weekend?
No?
Well, Trump did:
"Trump did get some excellent economic news today, though it applies only to him and his family. The Trumps collectively made about $5 billion on Monday after their new crypto venture, World Liberty Financial, opened trading of a new digital currency. The staggering payday makes Trump’s crypto business his most valuable asset, eclipsing his real estate holdings. He has now made more personal profit while in office than any other president in history — by far."
--Dan Rather
https://steady.substack.com/p/pain-in-the-aisle
#USPolitics #Grifting #Crypto #Trump #Corruption

"I believe there is growing evidence, that the White House is covering up the fact that Donald Trump has been dealing with TIA strokes.

AND that he likely had a more significant ischemic stroke this week."

~ Adam Cochran quoted by Greg Dworkin

#Trump #health #media
/1

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/9/3/2341488/-Abbreviated-Pundit-Roundup-Health-and-wellness-but-whose

@Barbramon1 #Trump "justice" in a nutshell.

Heather Cox Richardson talks about what the Trump administration tried to pull off early Sunday morning "in the middle of the night on a holiday weekend":

"In the early hours of Sunday morning, in the middle of a three-day holiday weekend, the Trump administration attempted to take children out of government custody and ship them alone to their country of origin, Guatemala."

#Trump #immigrants #children #cruelty #fascism
/1

https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/september-2-2025

Joyce Vance notes that Trump's increasing threats to place Democratic-voting cities under military control is also about trying to intimidate voters in 2026:

"It’s important to see the potential tie-ins between activating the military based on claims that states can’t handle their own law enforcement and the upcoming elections."

~ Joyce Vance

#Trump #WashingtonDC #Chicago #elections #voting #fascism #military
/1

https://joycevance.substack.com/p/can-federal-troops-be-stationed-at

#epstein #NancyMace #taco #trump

This administration is crumbling .

'We need the Epstein files to be out': Central witness in Epstein case speaks publicly for 1st time

https://abcnews.go.com/US/epstein-files-central-witness-epstein-case-speaks-publicly/story?id=125196336

Trump still insisted Wednesday that it was an "Epstein hoax."

#TrumpStein #Epstein #Trump #MAGA #press

what happens in Vegas...
is Extremely Upsetting
to Mr. Bankrupts Casinos

🗑️

#vegas #trump #TrumpHealth

"Federal appeals court says Trump unlawfully invoked the Alien Enemies Act for deportations":
https://madison365.com/federal-appeals-court-says-trump-unlawfully-invoked-the-alien-enemies-act-for-deportations/
#Trump #WorstPresidentEver #politics copy: @renewedresistance

Even my dog is tired of this shit.
#republicans
#trump
#dogs
#dogsagainsttrump
#dogsofnastodon
#artemisagainstassholes

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A Belgian Shepard passed out on the floor

"Prediction market platforms Kalshi and Polymarket opened betting markets on President Donald Trump being “out as president” as social media platforms erupted over the long weekend with rumors that he had died. The competing platforms, which both list Donald Trump Jr. as an adviser, launched their markets after the typically omnipresent Trump vanished from public view, with press photographers reduced to capturing grainy, distant shots that call to mind Bigfoot sightings. Recent appearances had shown Trump with swollen ankles and bruised hands, and online sleuths seized on holiday road closures around Walter Reed Medical Center and recent press appearances by Vice President Vance stating his readiness to assume the presidency as further evidence of Trump’s demise.

Before these direct bets, there had been a spike in activity in existing markets that would have served as proxy bets for Trump’s death. A Polymarket bet on “First leader out of power in 2025?” showed Trump’s odds climbing from around 5% prior to the weekend to as high as 8.6%. On Kalshi, “JD Vance out as Vice President of the United States this year?” (a market that would resolve to “yes” if Vance assumed the presidency) spiked from around 6% to above 15% — its highest since the market’s July creation. Other bets on Trump’s resignation or removal via the 25th Amendment also spiked."

https://www.citationneeded.news/trump-death-bets/

#USA #Trump #PredictionMarkets #Kalshi #Polymarket

#GiftArticle

A federal judge’s scathing opinion explains why Trump’s deployment of #troops to #California was more than just an overreach.

The #Trump administration broke the #law. Its officials knew they were breaking the law. And they’ll likely try to do so again.

#MilitaryState #PosseComitatusAct #authoritarianism #tyranny #AmericanAutocracy #LosAngeles #Gestapo #NationalGuard #Marines #USTroops #resist
https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/archive/2025/09/trump-national-guard-law-california/684084/?gift=guxsrl_dAdXUP9zqbQPWxZRivk8VNFDTyCxMzZBFw8k

"Biden had a bad debate performance and for the next two months, we had 20 front page stories a day calling him a demented danger to America and demanding that he resign immediately.

Trump, for the first time in his life, is hiding from the media and all you hear from the same exact people is crickets."

~ Greg Fish

#Trump #health #media
/1

https://www.threads.com/@_neutronfish/post/DOFKczwjxir

"If Trump is healthy, the obvious solution is for him to appear before the press to answer questions, as was his daily habit, rather than releasing photos that prove nothing other than the fact that he has a motorcade at his disposal and owns a golf cart."

~ Robert B. Hubbell

#Trump #health #media
/2

https://roberthubbell.substack.com/p/we-have-the-momentum-heading-into?

"The President plans to make a special announcement today at 2pm. So it may well be that Dr. Barbabella is right, that he 'remain[s] in excellent health.' It may well be that this whole thing was a charade, designed to distract us from the Epstein imbroglio; the survivors are coming to Congress when it re-opens tomorrow, after all, and there’s no way POTUS can put a positive spin on what they are about to say."

~ Greg Olear

#Trump #health #media
/3

https://gregolear.substack.com/p/dying-words

"It may well be that he really was just golfing, and this death watch is much ado about nothing.

But we would be wise to carefully consider all of this. Actuarial tables are actuarial tables, and facts are facts."

#Trump #health #media
/4

"The President is almost 80 years old, he’s morbidly obese, his diet is shit, his ankles are swollen, his hand is bruised, he’s under enormous strain because of the Epstein stuff and the Gavin Newsom trolling and the pressure of the job, he stinks to high heaven because he can’t control his bowels, he almost died of covid, and he’s showing signs of dementia."

#Trump #health #media
/5

"Even if he shows up at the presser today in tip-top shape, odds are, we’re going to have President Vance at some point before January 20, 2029."

#Trump #health #media
/6