Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick has proposed doing a deal with universities that own patents in return for funding.
Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick has proposed doing a deal with universities that own patents in return for funding.
Every AI chat has a hidden water cost. One ChatGPT conversation? About half a water bottle. Here’s how to calculate the true footprint of your prompts:
Scientists say the planned decommissioning of a valuable research vessel is part of a series of actions by the Trump administration that take aim at climate science.
they own Geisinger now so watch out PA
One year after getting a median rate increase of around 10%, the same insurers are looking, in 2026, to increase rates by a median 10% more.
The head of the Chinese Communist Party's International Department has mysteriously disappeared. Western officials would not cheer Liu Jianchao’s downfall
really, what a shame. They are having returned to them the acts they pulled on Joe Biden. Karma
White House insiders are reportedly furious over the spotlight on Donald Trump's health as concerns about his well-being intensify.
JUNIOR AS EXECUTIONER In fact, most Medicaid adults under 65 who aren't on disability are working, with around 64% of them working full-time or part-time. Of the remaining 36%, most are not working for reasons of illness, caregiving, or schooling. (See comment) www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
This Labor Day (and all other days): Thank the workers who serve you. Appreciate the workers who care for you. Respect the workers who pick up your trash. Salute the workers who get you your mail. Honor the workers who teach your children. Pay all workers a living wage.
Your Labor Day reminder that Trump doesn't actually care about working people. Take it from me, a former Secretary of Labor: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ARL5VvYJUe8
some people assume their wa is the only way. as life goes on nearly everyone will have experiences that prove otherwise
America’s vicious cycle: Corporations crush workers to protect their bottom lines, then use their profits to lobby for policies that allow them to keep crushing workers. Labor Day is the perfect time to remind ourselves it doesn’t have to be this way. https://youtu.be/JSralhrpK44?feature=shared
My statement on @nadler.house.gov’s decision not to seek re-election next year.
LABOR DAY 2025 Mary (Mother Jones) Harris "The first thing is to raise hell,” says I. “That’s always the first thing to do when you’re faced with an injustice and you feel powerless. That’s what I do in my fight for the working class." Mother Jones
Convicted Felon Donald Trump orders federal funds for disaster relief blocked for undocumented immigrants. My latest video on this disgusting lack of humanity & why we can’t let this be our legacy. youtu.be/KV6K42Ldy-I?...
Concern over low birth rates was what the theocracy in Margaret Atwood’s Handmaid’s Tale used to come to power.
we could use a lot of good luck
This is nothing else but a hybrid war that Russia wages against Europe Let's name things as they really are:Russia has made an assassination attempt of the President of the European Commission Russia has been jamming GPS-signals over many Eastern Europe countries that are in its immediate vicinity
never should have been elected and he always seemed and spoke much older than Biden did, but was given a pass just like his tax returns, his yearly health report by a moron physician, his grades in school, and his business achievements ( how many bankruptcies? )
Can the media STOP referring to Jeffrey Epstein as a “financier”? The money he made came from SEX TRAFFICKING MINORS, RAPING CHILDREN, and BLACKMAIL. He was NOT a financier. I’ve seen at least five stories from three outlets refer to him this way in the past week. This is the latest from the Times:
I always think of U. Utah Phillips and his powerful song "All Used Up" on Labor Day: poetrydispatch.wordpress.com/2008/07/01/u...
www.postandcourier.com/health/mrna-... As the US backs away from supporting these cancer trials China will be stepping in and advancing these technologies without us. RFK and trump are going to allow us to die when many could have been saved. 🫤
The government is lying to it can dump 76 Guatemalan kids.
Suggesting that China - who is the main enabler of Russia’s genocidal war - should be part of a ‘peacekeeping’ mission to Ukraine, is beyond stupid. The level of incompetence in the American administration is staggering. You don’t ask the rapist to protect the victim. Unless you’re Trump.
9 CDC Directors going back to 1977 speak out. What RFK Jr has done to our nation’s public health system "should alarm every American." It "is unlike anything we have ever seen at the agency, and unlike anything our country has ever experienced." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...
Yesterday, after enjoining DOJ/DHS from removing dozens of unaccompanied Guatemalan minors, Judge Sooknanan ordered DOJ to file 4 status reports *later that same day*—with a 5th still due this morning—to prove it complied. (“Presumption of regularity” is gone for this DOJ.) ... 1/2
Trump *never* stays in DC on a long weekend (or almost any weekend.) Why did he stay there on this one? Shouldn't he be at Bedminster or Mar-a-lago?
Trump's Ego is a National Security Risk: India Was the Economic Alternative to China. Trump Ended That. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/b...
Telling it like it is 🔥 "Once again, we are seeing the federal government retaliate against our civil servants for whistleblowing—which is both illegal and a deep betrayal of the most dedicated among us." www.newsweek.com/fema-staff-l...
Had D POTUS rung up $37T debat, started a trade war, knocked job growth down from the 200,000s to 10,000's , tried to fire fed gov, fired experts who had the temerity to contradict him and his cultists with facts, and sounded loony (birds and windmills!) we'd be in impeachment or 25thA territory
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On #LaborDay, we recognize the workers who make so much of our everyday lives possible. And every day, we should have American workers' back by supporting their organized efforts to secure higher wages, good benefits, and safe & dignified workplaces.
As we begin a new month, my law firm is litigation 51 voting and election cases in 25 states. 6 in Arizona 6 in Georgia 4 in Florida 4 in North Carolina 8 involve redistricting
Janet Yellen was the first woman to lead the Federal Reserve, as well as the United States Treasury. She warns “There will be a cost to every American that could be profound if” if Trump is allowed” to interfere with the Fed. www.msnbc.com/ali-velshi/w...
Nothing says strong alpha male like hysteria over chalk rainbows on the pavement.
A reminder on this Labor Day: Slavery still exists in the form of incarcerated labor. It’s long overdue to end forced labor in prisons.
job losses for the farms and skilled trades and the immigrant workers that filled them and higher prices for all of us as well as reduced choice as nations refuse to send goods
more crap from the richest man in the world who wants to control women by forced pregnancy….this is getting ever closer to a Lysistrata moment
You guys see where this is going? Right?
Good morning with good news: Japan, world's 4th largest economy, cut its fossil fuel generated electricity from 73.1% in June 2018 to 54.8% in June 2025. That's 18.3 points drop or 2.6 points/year! It could be near zero FF by 2045. Gas fell from 38.1% to 27.4% Coal fell from 30% to 20% #energysky
MO Gov Mike Kehoe is calling a special session to gerrymander the 5th District which encompasses Kansas City. He is specifically violating Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, which bans any voting practice that denies or weakens the power of a racial minority to elect its preferred candidates.
oh but Joe
Very good, serious piece…
This is, of course, false. The United States exported $83 billion in goods and services to India last year alone.
trump can issue as many executive orders as he wants, perhaps coverage should reflect the fact that a lot of these have the legal force of a child's wishlist for santa
We are suing Texas in two cases -- one voting, one redistricting.
If they enact a new illegal congressional map, Missouri will be sued.
Thank you Dr. Gupta! Folks, please do your family & yourself a favor, and listen to Dr. Gupta provide clear, actionable vaccine advice. Bookmark immunize.org
There is no origin story of the police without the story of the reorganization of human society by the birth, expansion, and dominance of the system of capitalism.
Wages of unionized workers are 13% higher than their nonunion counterparts. But unions also set a higher pay standard that all workers enjoy. In high-union-density states, median household income is $12,000 higher than in low-union-density states. This is why unions are vital.
Remember that we can always find power, solidarity, and hope in the labor movement. [Artwork by Ricardo Levins Morales]
"We deserve what was guaranteed to us," Cindy Sexton, president of the Teacher’s Association of Baltimore County, told Truthout.
OPINION by @velshi.com: “For decades, we’ve been told that prosperity trickles down. But it hasn’t, it’s been sucked upward.” READ MORE: www.msnbc.com/top-stories/...
and an increasing number work second or third jobs to make end begin to meet
Did you know in 1890 manufacturing employees worked on average 100 hours a week? It would be decades before the eight-hour workday became real. It took labor activists and labor unions to turn the cry for change into policy and practice. www.americaamerica.news/p/a-labor-da...
Happy Labor Day to the union workers who built America’s middle class.
Beef prices have hit record highs this Labor Day Weekend — in part thanks to Trump's tariffs. Remember when Trump said he would bring down the cost of groceries? https://youtu.be/9EXi6xyOXSk?feature=shared
My days of trying to learn Spanish. Still a work in progress.
How the success of a Black Little League team in 1955 South Carolina sparked one of the biggest crises in youth baseball history and led to the creation of an all-white rival league across the South:
Norway said it had chosen Britain as its strategic partner for the acquisition of new frigates in its biggest ever military investment, in a deal worth some 10 billion pounds ($13.51 billion) to boost the Nordic country’s maritime defense. https://cnn.it/4fYdYhq
The Philippines has seen a spike in 10 to 14-year-olds giving birth. It comes amid fierce debate over sex education in the deeply Catholic country. https://cnn.it/45UL1OL
he is not in charge of elections the states are
this man is really out of control He wants the land, the citizens of the US do not.
The entire population of Gaza would be relocated and the United States would take control of the Palestinian territory under a plan being considered by the Trump administration, the Washington Post reported. www.thehindu.com/news/interna...
Greta Thunberg, the 22 year old climate activist, is bracing herself for a potential stint in a terror cell as Israel readies severe detention plans.
as ugly a building as his dumpster truck is a truck
A survey by the Financial Times found that economists based in the US and Europe believe the president’s attacks on the US central bank have caused long-term damage to the institution as well as to the economy on.ft.com/47V6KZz
Tennis star gives boy his cap after snatching video at US Open goes viral
Donald Trump is facing accusations of a cover-up from online critics after he posted photos of himself golfing over the weekend, amidst ongoing rumors about his health.
📹 WATCH: A millionaire Polish businessman is facing a global backlash after being identified as the tennis fan who snatched a player’s cap from a child at the US Open
Weeks before an assailant opened fire on a Catholic church in Minneapolis, the Trump administration cut funding to a program in Minnesota aimed at preventing acts of mass violence, documents show.
A different meaning to thermostatic politics: Ohio Republican Rep. Roy Klopfenstein (R., Haviland) wants to allow utilities in Ohio to remotely set Ohioans' thermostats in their houses.
It seems to me one of the best arguments to the court is that if this is truly a national emergency, the president’s own party controls Congress but has done nothing to address it with legislation, so how can it possibly be an emergency?
he certainly threatens mine
Senator Bernie Sanders says Kennedy’s policies threaten Americans’ health and future.
Absurd and outrageous map would lead to a 7-1 GOP margin in a state that is often split about 60-40 GOP by creating an absurd district 5 that spans about two thirds of the way across the state, 200 miles from West to East Oppose this.
REP. BUDDY CARTER: What eroded confidence in the CDC was the covid vaccine BEDINGFIELD: Who was president in 2020?
Tribal leaders and environmental advocates warn salmon populations will go extinct without remediation efforts.
As Trump’s health declines, he seems completely preoccupied with his likelihood of reaching Heaven. Guess what, Donny? It’s too late for you. On the bright side, you’ll spend eternity with your best friend, Jeffrey Epstein.
It took cops three hours to finally go into the Pulse nightclub the night of the shooting. If you wander near a crosswalk in Florida with a piece of chalk right now you'll have four cops on you in under five seconds.🤷♂️
In erasing the memorial for the pulse nighclub, DeSantis isn't just saying queer people shouldn't be memorialized. He's saying his administration supports the murder of queer people. 1
DHS Secretary Kristi Noem waived the Endangered Species Act and several other statutes to permit the plan.
Resistance doesn’t require grand gestures, @elienyc.bsky.social reminds us. But what you do now is what you would have done in history’s darkest hours. "So who do you want to be?" Trump wants to strip us of our humanity– making every act of kindness an act of defiance. "Do something." #Velshi
Trump's goals for the Fed are 'very dangerous,' warns Fmr. Fed Chair & Treasury Sec. Janet Yellen. The financial system is “like the plumbing in your house,” says Yellen. “You don’t think about it most of the time. It’s important that it works,” but you're very “aware of it when it’s broken” #Velshi
“What independence means is that the technocrats at the Central Bank use economic reasoning, data” to achieve economic goals, says Fmr. Fed Chair & Treasury Sec. Janet Yellen. ‘Americans need to worry’ about political interference. It’s “a recipe for runaway inflation.” #Velshi
More name changes afoot… Department of Defense = Department of War Department of Education = Department of Keeping You Stupid Center for Disease Control = Center for Crackpot Conspiracies Department of Agriculture = Department of Subsidies for Farmers going broke from tariffs
Third stop on this picture perfect Sunday was New Jerusalem Church of God Apostolate in Jamaica, a wonderful congregation under the leadership of Bishop Altamont George Blackwood. I'm so grateful for their hospitality and the opportunity to share the vision of our campaign.
He starts randomly jabbering on about getting into heaven. Mysterious bruising on his hand. He disappears from the public eye for days. Even a child would suspect something was up. Everyone but Congress and mainstream media.
Their proposal? A special panel (similar to the one created after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks) that would award them damages for what they claim were “unfair prosecutions.” The very people who fueled a violent insurrection now want the government to cut them a check.
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.
It took a federal judge to step in and block the deportation, blasting the midnight raid tactics as a betrayal of due process and human dignity. Maybe Border Patrol should focus on fighting fires. After all, the military is busy in D.C. spreading mulch.
Targeting firefighters while they work. Dragging children from their beds in the dead of night. MAGA will go to any length. We’ve said it before, eventually the monster comes for us all!
talk to your shady governor who is fixing the state to keep the GOP in power forever….No one is likely to rescue Texans if they don’t care to themselves
Texas residents fear health risks as Trump EPA delays tougher mercury and chemical emission rules.
The poster boy for Trump’s unpopular federal funding freeze is a deeply unlikable and outspoken guy, one who looks and talks like the stock villain in a TV drama about politics and who has a confirmation to a powerful role pending before the Senate. Democrats need to beat him like a piñata
There you have it. The Economic Policy Uncertainty Index (www.policyuncertainty.com) just hit an all-time high, surpassing its previous high from May 2020 - the teeth of the #COVID pandemic. Consequences: worse investment climate, higher risk premia, (likely) higher interest rates...
Why is our government deporting children? They are *children*. Are we going to say these are hardened criminals who threaten national security, ffs?
