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Look at this loathsome repulsive creature yelling at a reporter. In addition to the fact that he’s the worst president in US history, he’s one of the worst human beings on planet earth. His supporters have a very serious defect in their character.

9/11 victim Michael Massaroli’s son: "You do my dad's legacy & the legacy of all victims no honor using this tragedy to spread hate. I've had to spend 25 years seeing people use it to hate on our Muslim brothers & sisters, people who don't look like them."

What kind of person tries to make one of our Nation's greatest tragedies all about themself? #Pathetic

If anyone should be banned from attending the 9/11 memorial, it’s Giuliani.

Atlantic Industrial Coatings, the contractor that renovated the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, admits errors in its own work and flaws in the repair plan, NOT VANDALISM, caused the pool’s blue liner to peel and break loose. Atlantic is being paid $14.7 million. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/11/c...

In the 25 years since 9/11, the United States has spent $8 trillion+ on wars that have taken millions of lives in the name of fighting "terror." Can you imagine if we had instead invested those funds here on climate, health care, housing, and education?

We started a trade war with these people because the president, who has some sort of degenerative brain disease with visible bruises on his hand's injection site that the press doesn't talk about, was bored.

13-year anniversary of Subway getting really mad at us.

Biden checks his watch at a ceremony and Fox does nonstop segments on it for weeks. But Trump falls asleep repeatedly at the 9/11 ceremony and they won’t even show it. But national broadcast news networks won’t show it either because that would be impolite.

I hope folks realize this Bab al-Mandab situation will be much worse than the Strait of Hormuz if it’s not sorted out quickly. And it doesn’t currently look like it will be sorted out quickly.

Donald Trump and Joe Biden at 9/11 ceremonies today. Trump in DC. Biden in NYC. (REUTERS)

If you haven’t watched Jimmy Kimmel’s interview from last night, you should. The FCC and this administration are constantly trying to squash the resistance, but the resistance always finds a way around them. They can keep trying to silence people. It isn’t working. Tomorrow there will be more of us!

🚨 JUST IN: Iran-backed Houthis just SEIZED U.S.-made M-ATVs and MRAP armored vehicles after overrunning Mokha port on Yemen’s Red Sea coast

Too many people online seem to conflate left politics with being obnoxious and scathing and Mamdani is such a model for combining a principled ideological vision with civility and grace. You shake hands, you act like a grown up even whether others aren’t. You show up.

The truth finally comes out. The contractor behind the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool renovation says the peeling and blistering of the pool’s new blue liner was caused by mistakes made during the repair itself.

James Talarico calls out Ken Paxton for repeatedly refusing to debate him. Paxton is so corrupt — and such a coward! 👀 PLEASE WATCH AND SHARE.

Double tap this time.

BREAKING: U.S. diesel fuel prices just hit another record this morning — soaring past $6 a gallon.

as is always the case when he's sitting and not talking, Trump had a hard time staying awake during the 9/11 ceremony (Finn Gomez/Getty)

🚨BACKFIRE: James Talarico’s appearance on Jimmy Kimmel Live! has now surpassed 4.5 MILLION views on YouTube after Trump’s FCC pressured Kimmel not to air it on broadcast television.

After three years, today is my last day at Anthropic. They found me hiding in their bathroom's ceiling and kicked me out.

Genius. (Sound on 🔉) @nonewdatacenters.bsky.social

We were all talking and just wanted to say thank you for supporting the resistance and for keeping up the fight every day. Some days are tough and it can feel like we’re getting nowhere, but we are winning. So seriously, thank you!

Powerful message: "You do my dad's legacy and the legacy of all these victims no honor by using this tragedy to spread hate," he said. "I've had to grow up and spend the past 25 years seeing people use it to hate on our Muslim brothers and sisters, to hate on people who don't look like them."

25 years later and The Onion’s ParentCorner 9/11 explainer from immediately after the attack is a better understanding of the threat environment than the one produced by the U.S. government.

This is good

In an incredible move, Saddle Lake Cree Nation in Alberta, Canada has announced a gender-affirming care clinic for trans youth, asserting tribal sovereignty and defying the region's ban. It is one of the biggest cross-movement solidarity moments in Canada. Subscribe to support our journalism.

Neither Trump nor his wife are in attendance at this year’s ceremony, notwithstanding the AP photo editor’s bullshit.

"He said that I’m disrespecting Jesus. You want to know what actually disrespects Jesus? Kicking the sick off their healthcare to give tax cuts to billionaires. Bombing innocent schoolchildren in Iran, and sending our brave men and women off to die in another forever war." PLEASE WATCH AND SHARE!

Senate Republicans refused to convict Trump after Jan 6. Republican SCOTUS appointees gave him immunity. Republicans in Congress today stand idly by as he unleashes death and destruction across the globe. We are now at the whims of a mad king because GOP leaders have refused to constrain him.

I used to train law enforcement officers to spot violence before it starts. The reliable tell was never posture or hands. It was grievance… …the instant a man casts himself as the victim. He's not attacking anymore. He's “defending.” That's when it goes bad. Now…look at our president.

If you have to speak fluent English to serve in the US government, how the hell is Markwayne Mullin DHS Secretary?

watching THE PHANTOM MENACE with my kids and i somehow forgot just how bad those trade federation aliens are…oof

Trump's face droops while he attends the 9/11 ceremony this morning at the Pentagon (Finn Gomez/Getty)

Things are going to get considerably worse with Bab al-Mandab combined with the destruction of the Saudi pipeline. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/11/w...

Something a little lighter for a moment.

Hello, I made a post comparing Ken Paxton’s face to the fictional character Sloth from Goonies. I have since removed the post as this was mean to Sloth, who had a heart of gold. God apologizes for this miscue.

NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani and former Mayor Rudy Giuliani shake hands at the 9/11 ceremony. Giuliani talked big behind a screen, calling for Mamdani to not attend the ceremony, but when he got face-to-face with the mayor, he backed down.

Let me tell you a story about how top-end menswear retail transformed over the last hundred years. 🧵

bang up work from the Michael Whatley campaign!

UPDATE: NASHVILLE Airport will officially be renamed after Dolly Parton 🎉 ✈️ ew.com/nashville-ai...

Well, fuck. And Diesel is already over $6 a gallon. Trump reportedly declined to help the Saudis clear the strait, too. Gonna get real stupid if the Saudis aren’t able to dislodge the Houthis.

I post this every year on 9/11. Never forget. bsky.app/profile/ronf...

NEW: The Environmental Protection Agency is finalizing a rule that’ll drastically weaken restrictions on “stripper wells,” which tend to be old, poorly maintained and prone to leaking methane, the highly potent greenhouse gas.

While Trump wants everyone to focus on his fake cash giveaways, this is the single most consequential story of the moment. Iran-backed Houthis just took effective control of the Bab al-Mandeb strait, one of the world’s most important shipping chokepoints.

If the money Trump claims to pay is tied to an election result, it isn’t a “cash payment” or “dividend” or “rebate” or “stimulus.” It is a bribe. Plain and simple. Calling it anything else accepts a false premise and helps Trump and Republicans cover up how corrupt it truly is.

New in PN: The muted response to Trump 9/11 fantasy is a media failure "The words coming out of his mouth reveal a man completely deluded and awash in fictions of his own making. And as long as he’s surrounded by people who will let him live in that world, we’re all stuck in here with him."

"The mainstream media, is, unsurprisingly, not covering itself in glory as it struggles to avoid saying that either the president’s brain has completely left the station or that he’s a mendacious liar who knows no bounds, or both."

🚨BREAKING: The Department of Justice (DOJ) told a federal judge Friday it’s appealing a scorching court order against President Donald Trump’s attempt to sue himself to create an almost $2 billion fund for his political allies. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

25 years ago, in the face of unimaginable loss, Americans came together with prevailing unity, courage, and resilience. On this solemn anniversary, we honor the lives lost, salute our heroic first responders, and remember that our nation is strongest when we stand together.

If you saw this happening in another country, what would you call it?

Don't let this fly under the radar: Trump has reportedly made between $1.5M to $4.4M from his oil stockholdings since the start of his Iran War. As gas prices skyrocket, he is personally profiting from your pain at the pump. https://www.cnbc.com/2026/09/09/trump-oil-gas-holdings-iran-war.html

Police have arrested a man in the case of Tasia Fortune, the Black woman found hanging from a tree in Jackson, Mississippi

Dr. Jill Biden, Former President Joe Biden, Laura Bush, and Former President George W. Bush at the 25th anniversary commemoration of the September 11, 2001 attacks at the National September 11 Memorial and Museum in New York on September 11, 2026. Hiroko Masuike/Pool via REUTERS

NASA releases insane new image of the mighty hexagonal storm on Saturn's North Pole.

When the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) rejected a Florida county’s mail ballot envelope design, it inadvertently offered a test case for just how disruptive President Donald Trump’s efforts to restrict mail voting could be this November. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

The Heavenly Twins. 💕 Postcard from my collection, no date.

Trump’s claim that his $5k payoff isn’t a quid pro quo for voting Republican is undercut by the fact he’s not pushing to do it now, when Republicans already control Congress

Twenty-five years later, September 11th is still asking something of us. The distance we've traveled from 2001 is not a reason for despair. It's the assignment. New column, on the anniversary. (Link below)

Today I'm honoring 9/11 Day by turning remembrance into action. 25 years later,,, we remember those we lost and honor the heroes who stepped up by continuing to do GOOD. If you a NYC school teacher,,, drop yo wish list and imma hook up the first 25. Join me and @911day and #UNITEFORGOOD.

Earlier this week, Judd reported on a new Elon Musk scam. Musk is spending millions of dollars pushing Americans to VoteSafe, which advertises itself as a voter registration site but is actually a digital surveillance machine. Judd joins us tonight to explain: joycevance.substack.com/p/five-quest...

Forbes gets the headline right. 🏆 www.forbes.com/sites/maryro...

It is our solemn duty not just to remember what happened 25 years ago but to acknowledge and repudiate the brutality it summoned in America. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/a-quarter-century-since-911

A trans man in the UK has been banned in the workplace restrooms after he was forced to use the women's restrooms to comply with the new EHRC guidance. The women complained because he is visibly male and so they told him he can't use any bathroom.

I paid $5.50/gal for 93 octane. $50 to fill the tank. It's all that idiot Trump's fault.

Think about what Fox hosts are now defending: A president who says that he will borrow $1.2 trillion more dollars to give everyone a check, which future generations will have to pay back, but only if his political party wins the next election. If they don’t win, you get nothing.

Playing in our faces

Rep. Robert Garcia: JD Vance hasn’t faced enough scrutiny for reportedly holding secret Situation Room meetings about a possible Ghislaine Maxwell pardon. The public and Epstein survivors deserve answers.

Like I said yesterday, the situation in the region is getting worse every day not better. Trump threatened multiple times to stop the Houthis if they attempted to do this. The Saudis asked for help. Now not only Hormuz but the Red Sea is a choke point. We will all pay for it.

It’s not “disputed.” He’s delusional.

SCOTUS needs an amicus brief on this as they consider whether to transfer control of our elections into his hands 🙄

Every 9/11 I re-watch the news broadcast from that morning as it happened in 2001. I remember being on my knees trying to hold up the second tower with my hands on the TV screen as it fell.

Literally

Promoting an illegal war in the Middle East by fear mongering over weapons of mass destruction on the 9/11 anniversary is a little on the nose

Trump's attacks on our civil liberties didn't come out of nowhere. The groundwork for his Orwellian surveillance state was laid by the post-9/11 PATRIOT Act. Only one Senator at the time had the foresight to see what it would unleash.

I’ve worked with several treasury secretaries and closely watched others, and I can honestly say that Scott Bessent is the worst I’ve ever witnessed. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/bessent-and-his-boss-have-lost-all

should have spent more time worrying about the killer robots, who knew?

One of the biggest questions Democracy Docket is asked: What can I do to help? Our answer: A brand-new bulletin board community page with a list of ways you can volunteer, attend rallies, do phone banking, write petitions, and more. newsletters.democracydocket.com/fixed-you-as...

@thebulwark.com did a supercut of all the prior times Trump said he was going to give Americans a $5000 check or whatever. It is glorious

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Wishing all Minnesotans who celebrate a happy, healthy, and peaceful Rosh Hashanah. Shana Tovah!

He’s a worthless, corrupt, traitorous POS who lusts after young girls. Any idea who I’m referring to?

Fair Q Answer: laws don’t apply to the rich/Trump’s donors — for them he has literally abolished prisons

Trump fell asleep at the Pentagon's 9/11 ceremony. Then he woke up and used the anniversary to sell you a war Iran had nothing to do with. Meanwhile the Houthis just seized the entire Yemeni Red Sea coast as the war spirals. Here's your update:

Raskin: “You don’t see any MAGA hats anywhere in the country anymore. The support for the Republicans is melting away.” Trump “pulled the plug on Medicaid” and ACA tax credits, leaving rural hospitals and three maternity clinics in one Michigan district shut down.

Just thinking about stuff. From a negative in my collection, no date/info.

The Saudis are some of Trump's biggest business partners and investors. He will always stand with them.

At least we can be sure Talarico’s furniture is safe to sit on.

If you HAVE to be a nasty bigot, at least be consistent with your hateful bullshit.

nice of Melania to try to match her husband's face droop (Finn Gomez/Getty)

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NEW: A 9/11 widow blasts Saudi Arabia during the reading of the names at the NYC ceremony for 9/11's 25th anniversary

The real problem isn’t just Trump or his sycophantic enablers in Congress or right-wing media, or the grifters & scammers on social media. It’s his supporters. They’ve lost the ability to care about truth or recognize it. The ability to discern right from wrong. Competence from buffoonery.

Strange how this keeps happening.

Oh hey look, another Trump LIE everyone knew was a LIE is confirmed to be a LIE. (But not before he tried to destroy a man’s life over it 🤷🏼)

PERSPECTIVE: The 9/11 attacks showed we were vulnerable. DHS was the wrong response, writes journalist and historian Garrett M. Graff. 🔗 politi.co/3TrPV3A

Felon Trump has now resorted to begging and bribing, promising to give $5000 if Republicans keep the House & the Senate. Trump’s history of bullshit money offers to fraudulently induce voters to stay on his side & why it’s just a sign of his reeking desperation: youtu.be/Cq6huEr9MH0?...

"It is indeed provocative, though not in the way the Times meant, for POTUS to either be lying about his role responding to the deadliest attack on US soil or so addled he thinks he was pulling away chunks of cement & narrowly escaping death from a tumbling building that then never actually tumbled"

One year ago today