Political news I want to share. 9-9-2026

EXCLUSIVE by Jim @DeFede: A state grand jury found $10 million in taxpayer money was “misappropriated” to Hope Florida and ultimately used for political purposes. Read the full story – https://t.co/bOiyLiUWX7
— CBS Miami (@CBSMiami) August 26, 2026

BOMBSHELL!!! Hope Florida grand jury report is worse than we could have imagined. We now know why our unelected Attorney General has been fighting to keep it sealed. More to come… https://t.co/yagJtCwQq3
— Nikki Fried (@NikkiFried) August 26, 2026

If I were to use my office to launder and steal $10 MILLION away from medically needy Florida children to fund my political campaigns, I WOULD BE IN PRISON and I would deserve it. @JamesUthmeierFL did it and @RonDeSantis appointed him attorney general. https://t.co/xVsQQ1Cqnz pic.twitter.com/QmCQc8cPii
— Senator Carlos Guillermo Smith (@CarlosGSmith) August 26, 2026

I have, day in and day out since Jan 2025, posted hundreds of examples of Trump’s blatant corruption this term hoping that enough people notice and care. Here is the latest. pic.twitter.com/FBzG2PLyVP
— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) August 27, 2026

WH To Target Nonprofit Status Of Top Liberal Groups

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EFFECTIVE IMMEDIATELY: Trump Tower is renamed to NATALIE TOWER! https://t.co/5wTAHjJzrX pic.twitter.com/jeWMSC8f4E
— JB Pritzker (@JBPritzker) August 27, 2026

Look. If you don't find it fucking hilarious watching a dying 80-year-old pedophile rapist wearing 4 pounds of bronzer drawing "Lake America" over Lake Ontario like it's some kind of genius geopolitical flex, while barely able to speak, I can't help you.🇨🇦 😂😂😂 pic.twitter.com/P3UN1UALrh
— Dean Blundell🇨🇦 (@ItsDeanBlundell) August 27, 2026

S – Superior
H – Huron
A – America
M- Michigan
E – Erie

Trump renamed Lake Ontario and accidentally turned the Great Lakes into an acronym for his presidency: SHAME.

Hahaha what a damn idiot. 🤣
— Alex Cole (@acnewsitics) August 27, 2026

No, President Trump. The American people don’t want to rename Lake Ontario Lake America.

They want affordable healthcare, childcare, housing, education & nutrition assistance — all of which you have massively cut in order to pay for your $1 trillion tax break to the top 1%. https://t.co/G6dmmW1ITg
— Sen. Bernie Sanders (@SenSanders) August 27, 2026

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FL Deputy Of The Year Accused Of Using Flock To Stalk Ex, Putting Gun In Her Mouth, Doing Nazi Salute, More

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Ben-Gvir Posts PSYCHO AI Concentration Camp Video

Israel bombed a bus full of kindigarnders during a ceasefire. They demanded all kites be destroyed, kids who have nothing to play with had the last real toy taken from them.

Ryan and Emily discuss Ben Gvir posting an unhinged AI video of Palestinians being sent into concentration camps.

The Majority Report clips on the DSA and progressives being fought against by the corporate wing of the party

The Majority Report clips about ICE

Political news I want to share. 9-4-2026

Philadelphia DA Says That One Day Trump’s Ballroom Will Be “Blown Up” With Pieces Turned Into Souvenirs

https://www.tumblr.com/reagan-was-a-horrible-president/826590874001604608/friends-when-the-supreme-court-doesnt-want-to

Trump immediately blames Joe Biden for the 13 deaths at Abbey Gate in Afghanistan. Trump forever forgets he caused the withdrawal problem by negotiating with the Taliban without the Afghan government involved. The withdrawal took longer than the timetable he created.#Trump #Afghanistan #AbbeyGate
— Bill Addis (@paidprotester.bsky.social) 2026-08-26T19:44:24.226Z

MAGA had a meltdown when 13 servicemembers were killed at Abbey Gate trying to evacuate after Trump surrendered to the Taliban. Now the Republicans think it's funny that 13 servicemembers have been killed in the GOP's latest Never Ending War in the Middle East. http://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-…
— The Sgt Joker (@thesgtjoker.bsky.social) 2026-05-21T17:09:39.363Z

Hey MAGA, remember when Donald Trump freed 5000 Taliban without even speaking to the Afghani government – then the Taliban took over the Afghani government? Then he struck a deal to get out of there and blamed Joe Biden for the Chaos he left behind, I do!
— Phineas (@phineasm.bsky.social) 2024-11-28T13:39:03.861Z

Remember when Trump released 5000 Taliban and one of them is now President of Afghanistan?
— Robert Ellingsworth (@by1959.bsky.social) 2024-08-26T18:04:49.026Z

(Bloomberg) – US allies are privately warning that the Strait of Hormuz is still likely mined, casting doubt on President Donald Trump’s claim that the US Navy has completely removed and detonated explosives laid by Iran.@bloomberg.com http://www.bloomberg.com/news/article…
— Carl Quintanilla (@carlquintanilla.bsky.social) 2026-08-26T17:51:44.932Z

West Point professor says he was pushed out for objecting to climate directive gothamist.com/news/west-po…
— Gothamist (@gothamist.com) 2026-08-26T20:35:31.321584Z

Education Dept Posts Clip Comparing Trump To Hitler

Mehdi Hasan to MAGA pastor Doug Wilson on Donald Trump:

"Your leader, your hero, the guy you're a fan of is the most unchristian man who's ever come anywhere near public office– thrice married, adulterer who slept with a porn star, ran casinos, lies in every breath, curses,… pic.twitter.com/AuI0FaWfZ5
— Reggie B. (@reggiebblue) August 30, 2026

Pete Hegseth's pastor Doug Wilson says he would have fought the Confederacy during the civil war.

Mehdi: Had 3.5 million people enslaved. You would have fought for that side?

Wilson: Yeah, I would.

Mehdi Hasan: They were fighting for slavery. You would have been fighting for… pic.twitter.com/735AXkrLkc
— Reggie B. (@reggiebblue) August 30, 2026

DOJ Sues Kansas City Over “Secret Gender Transitions”

NEW: On the list of 2,198 "filthy, dirty, vulgar books" flagged by Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick is one of the seminal books about the Holocaust: "Night"

Books on the list don't belong in schools, he said.

But "Night" is on the state's required reading list: https://t.co/VoSQO0AsOq
— Lawrence Mower (@lmower3) August 26, 2026

There is no such thing as “conservative-based” science. If you’re not doing evidence-based science, you are making up fairy tales.
— Dr. Lucky Tran (@luckytran.com) 2026-08-25T23:48:00.803Z

Heidi Overton is a far-right, anti-abortion extremist who has no business leading the FDA.The American people deserve someone who will put science and facts FIRST, not another Trump sycophant who will make it their mission to attack medication abortion.I will vote NO.
— Senator Patty Murray (@murray.senate.gov) 2026-08-19T16:31:22.654Z

Pro-life group offers to pay legal fees for activists who defy New Jersey's new abortion law
— New York Post (@nypost.com) 2026-08-26T17:51:57.770903Z

The Trump administration plans to end a federal requirement that states have public input on data center construction.

This would stop local residents from raising concerns or learning about data centers in their neighborhoods. pic.twitter.com/UDkt99oTYZ
— Headquarters (@HQNewsNow) August 26, 2026

The brother of a woman killed in a car crash this year says the lack of empathy toward her family has been shocking.
— HuffPost (@huffpost.com) 2026-08-26T15:18:57.887Z

Breaking News: A judge sided with Texas over Minnesota over the extradition of an ICE agent who was charged in an on-duty shooting.
— The New York Times (@nytimes.com) 2026-08-26T20:17:26.375444Z

For anyone who wants to read the full reporting, here's a gift link: https://t.co/XulS9LPjrS
— NYTimes Communications (@NYTimesPR) August 30, 2026

Far-right Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir has shared a disturbing concentration camp video depicting Palestinians being placed into a machine on a conveyor belt, entering overweight and emerging thin, distressed and crying. #StopTheGame
— Jeff Rudd 🇮🇪 🇨🇦 🇵🇸 (@jeffrudd.bsky.social) 2026-09-02T06:43:14.345Z

Israel's National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir has deleted his video depicting kidnapped Palestinians being sent into an industrialized slaughterhouse. pic.twitter.com/4xUCnyqqae
— gato fumante (@KweenInYellow) August 31, 2026

"First they came for hand cranks, and I said nothing. Then they integrated starter/alternators and I said nothing. Then they put remote start on keyfobs and I said nothing." – Sean Duffy https://t.co/obr27gOZbs
— Sean Casten (@SeanCasten) August 31, 2026

Cracking up at the mental picture of Duffy sitting in a car for 30 minutes, frustration increasing, until someone finally tells him to press the brake pedal first. https://t.co/FMXHbCm5TV
— Doug Farrar ✍ (@NFL_DougFarrar) August 31, 2026

NBC News Crew BEATEN LIVE By Israeli Settlers

I have had this ready to post for several days. But due to how hard it is to watch and the way the settlers openly abuse the Palestinians with the Israeli government’s blatant permission I was not sure if the viewers wanted to see it. But we have to show how things are going and Israel is doing a genocide by trying to kill and drive the Palestinians from the West Bank and has decided to take all of Gaza now. The Palestinians that survive after the killing of so many of them and the milisous shooting of children for target practice, the killing of medical personnel, and the starving of the people along with now Israel cutting off all sources of water will be forcibly removed / deported. Any that refuse to leave will be killed. One of the Israeli ministers posted AI videos of Palestinians in a concentration camp that implied they were abused. This is what the entire program was for: to retake all of Gaza and the West Bank for Israel like they did all other Palestinian land so there could never be a two state solution and no Palestinians left in what Israel illegally calls their country. They are illegally taking over parts of Lebanon. Their goal has always been the greater Israeli. And the only reason they are getting away with these atrocities and horrors is because the US is protecting them from the retailation of those that Israel abuses and attacks. Biden was too blinded by the past and his age to force Israelis to stop and wouldn’t even cut off the largest 2,000 pound bombs dropped on tent cities. tRump’s military protected Israel rather than US military bases resulting in the deaths and injuries of US military personnel. Plus a large part of the US Congress is deeply in the pocket of the Israeli lobby called AIPAC. The corporate democrats are so beholden to the large sums of money that they are helping AIPAC try to destroy the campaigns of progressive and DSA democrats even if it means not gaining control of the Congress. Corporate Israel supporting Democrats would rather stay a minority party if it means keeping the huge sums of money given to Israel with no strings flowing. Hugs

Political news I want to share. 8-31-2026

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https://www.tumblr.com/reagan-was-a-horrible-president/826500269179371520

https://www.tumblr.com/tomorrowusa/826487198251679744/russia-is-now-worried-about-ukraine-striking

Trump Shares Long List Of Grievances With Republicans

https://www.tumblr.com/tomorrowusa/826301205180514305/russia-losing-6000-more-troops-in-ukraine-each

https://www.tumblr.com/truth-has-a-liberal-bias/826400618264543232

https://www.tumblr.com/tomorrowusa/826221953054539776/how-the-iran-war-has-made-the-us-more-vulnerable

https://www.tumblr.com/tomorrowusa/826114098582503424/troops-fighting-against-iran-and-alleged-drug

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How Israeli Settlers Use Outposts To Force Palestinians Off Their Land

Horrified School District Pleads Police to Stop Using Electric Shock Torture Gloves on Students

https://futurism.com/science-energy/school-district-police-electric-shock-torture-gloves

“I can’t even imagine walking down the hallway and seeing a peer of mine being electrocuted in a place that is supposed to be a safe space for students.”

By Joe Wilkins

Published Aug 22, 2026 1:03 PM EDT

Nikos Frazier/Omaha World-Herald via Getty Images

Police in Omaha, Nebraska are catching a ton of flak after revealing that they deployed electric shock gloves on two separate students during the 2025-2026 school year. One of the students was enrolled in a special education program.

After the news broke, Omaha Superintendent Matthew Ray pleaded with the city police department to stop using the electrocution gloves against students. Though Omaha police refer to the gloves as their “safest use-of-force option” for subduing suspects, they agreed not to deploy the devices in schools anymore, according to the Associated Press.

Still, questions remain as to how much the district knew about the devices before they were deployed. Though Ray says he only learned about the gloves last week, local station KETV reported that police had informed school administrators about the devices as far back as 2023.

The district’s request comes as outraged parents and students speak out against the extremely controversial devices, which are being procured by local and federal law enforcement agencies at an alarming clip.

“I can’t even imagine walking down the hallway and seeing a peer of mine being electrocuted in a place that is supposed to be a safe space for students,” Nora Wessel, a senior at Omaha Central High School, said at a recent school board meeting, per the AP. “Yet, this is now a very real possibility. These are adults we are supposed to be able to trust, but these weapons create a barrier for our students to turn to resource officers when needed.”

As recently as 2022, the company behind the devices — ominously named “Compliant Technologies” — marketed the shock gloves as a “weapon” in its publicity material. Within the past few years, they’ve shifted, calling them “conductive distraction and de-escalation” devices.

In practice, the shock gloves seem like little more than re-branded tasers, although they’re much more “discreet,” as Omaha Police Chief Todd Schmaderer told Government Technology in a statement.

The devices might be inconspicuous, but that doesn’t automatically make them humane. Or, on a purely practical level, effective tools for solving crime, as experts argue.

Speaking to Mother Jones about the gloves, senior policy analyst at the Center for Victims of Torture Yumna Rizvi referred to the devices as “inherently abusive equipment that facilitates torture,” adding that they have “no legitimate law enforcement purpose.”

Joe Wilkins

Correspondent

I’m a tech and labor correspondent for Futurism, where my beat includes the role of emerging technologies in governance, surveillance, and labor.

Watch Spider-Man punch a racist & anti-LGBTQ+ MAGA protestor in the face

https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2026/08/watch-spider-man-punch-a-anti-lgbtq-protestor-in-the-face/

The MAGA protestor held a sign with the n-word on it before a man dressed as Spider-Man punched him.

Daniel Villarreal (he/him)August 25, 2026, 11:30 am EDT

Jake Lang — a racist and anti-LGBTQ+ Republican former candidate for Florida’s U.S. Senate seat who was jailed for allegedly assaulting Capitol Police officers during the January 6, 2021, riots — held a hate rally outside of City Hall in Minneapolis, Minnesota, during which he held up a sign that said, “Jake Lang loves Black people but hates [n-words].” Before he left, a counterprotester dressed as Spider-Man punched him in the face, and the punch was clearly captured on video. Lang was arrested soon after.

Lang’s rally was reportedly in response to 37-year-old white woman Shiloh Hendrix being found guilty of disorderly conduct after calling an autistic 8-year-old Black boy the racial slur at a playground in the Minnesotan city of Rochester. Lang appeared at City Hall on Saturday around 11:50 am in the back of a truck, protected by guards and Minneapolis Police and followed by an additional SUV, Newsweek reported.

The rally devolved into violence as counterprotestors attacked Lang and his crew, forcing them to flee City Hall after barely being there for six minutes. Shortly after their escape, police arrested Lang and charged him with inciting a riot; police also impounded the truck and SUV that Lang brought to City Hall.

Police also arrested the man in the Spider-Man costume, later identified as William Nicholas Love, along with 10 others. A GoFundMe crowdfunding campaign for Love’s legal defense has nearly raised all of its $70,000 goal as of Tuesday morning. He has been charged with assault. Meanwhile, Lang remains in jail without bond.

For future history books:Spider-Man punches Republican Christian nationalist racist Trump-pardoned Jan 6er pos Jake Lang.

— Cynthia (@cynthia13.bsky.social) 2026-08-25T10:28:37.605Z

Spider-man fought off and vanquished Jake Lang at his protest today. Afterwards Spider-Man was arrested and Jake Lang was seen running for his life.

— RN Mayhem (@mayhem1994.bsky.social) 2026-08-23T01:37:09.763Z

Despite Lang’s racist display, last January, a Black transgender woman helped rescue him from an angry mob of 100 anti-racist counterprotestors in Minneapolis.

In that incident, Lang had promised to lead a march through the Cedar-Riverside neighborhood (which has Minneapolis’ highest concentration of Somali-American residents) before burning a Quran on the steps of City Hall. But he reportedly didn’t get to do either because the counter-protestors — who outnumbered the 10 attendees at Lang’s event — cornered him outside City Hall before attacking him and chasing him away.

The anti-racist counterprotestors threw objects and water balloons at Lang before a 30-year-old Black Minneapolis resident named Isaiah Blackwell helped Lang escape.

Trump pardoned Lang after he had served four years in prison for attacking a U.S. Capitol police officer during the January 6, 2021, riots.

During a Pride Month protest last June, in front of an audience of two people, Lang struggled to burn a rainbow flag.

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Daniel Villarreal is a longtime, award-winning journalist and editor who has written for NBC News, Newsweek, Vox, Slate, Vice News, The Seattle Stranger, The Dallas Voice and numerous other LGBTQ+ publications. He has spoken at SXSW, Creating Change, Netroots Nation, GaymerX, and is a graduate of GLAAD’s Voices of Color program and of the Poynter Institute’s 2024 Power of Diverse Voices seminar. He is also the founder of QueerBomb Dallas, an annual non-corporate Pride event; CinéWilde, the nation’s longest running monthly LGBTQ film series. He is available for interviews and educational talks.