Follow the money on this scam. Miles and miles of prime oceanfront real estate between SD and LA. I’m surprised it took him this long to cook up something on it.
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Follow the money on this scam. Miles and miles of prime oceanfront real estate between SD and LA. I’m surprised it took him this long to cook up something on it.
So Hegseth’s missiles were fired at a boat: ✅ they had no idea where it was going ✅ they had no idea who was on it ✅ they had no established authority to act ✅ but definitely wanted to murder whoever was on it Everyone involved should rot in prison forever
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Nine grafs deep into the article and we find out: "Pentagon officials were still working Wednesday on what legal authority they would tell the public was used to back up the extraordinary strike in international waters."
Who wants to tell Florida’s surgeon general the founding fathers disagree with him and in fact, mandated soldiers to receive the vaccine they used at the time for smallpox. pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
So I’m supposed to look my students in the eye this semester and tell them that hard work, diligence, even adherence to basic journalistic principles is the right way in this field
How to record ICE: 1) Record from a safe distance. DO NOT INTERVENE. 2) Put the DATE, TIME, & LOCATION on the video. 3) Ask for NAMES & BIRTHDAYS 4) CONTEXT, how many people were taken? What happened? How? 5) If possible, document vehicles used and agents, even if masked. @eltragon.bsky.social
🚨THIS IS GETTING SERIOUS: Governor JB Pritzker is asking Chicago residents to film whatever they see happening in their neighborhoods and their streets and share it. “Authoritarians thrive on your silence. Be loud for America.”
Just listened to an interview with The New York Times' Sheryl Gay Stolberg. Someone who attended prep school with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. recalled watching him place metal cutlery under the dining hall table and holding a lighter to them. This was so the boy clearing the table would burn his hands.
Political party discovers that higher tax rates lead to higher tax revenues.
A few syntactical infelicities in my post—cut and pasted too fast. But you get the gist of it. Sigh.
Smart parents vaccinate their children. Stupid parents bury their children.
If the infections didn’t spread even to people who are vaccinated but w other health problems, or to kill or harm children, I would almost be ready to say, “Let it rip, they’ll be sorry.” But there is too much danger from collateral damage. What an awful world. #vaccines #covid
because polio is freedom
So I guess this means that the US could blow up a civilian boat in Canadian waters and say “because fentanyl”. What’s scary is that my last sentence doesn’t seem crazy.
The most beautiful statement I have heard for at least the last 6 months...was this morning, when one of Epstein's survivors said the group will be creating their OWN list of powerful people who do REALLY BAD things.🔥 You could hear all of the guilty...and terrified sphincter's slamming shut.
All kidding about this nonsense answer aside: The regime is asserting the power to murder without trial a boat full of people suspected of drug trafficking, who easily could have been intercepted and arrested instead. That is unconscionable and horrifying even assuming everyone aboard was guilty.
Stand up to the bully. Do not surrender in advance: Judge rules Trump administration cannot withhold funding from Harvard www.washingtonpost.com/education/20...
I have been here too long and seen too much. Alas.
🧵 Jess Michaels, a survivor of 27 years, just spoke with unshakable courage before the world: for herself, for Virginia Giuffre, & for every survivor silenced for too long. Her voice broke through decades of denial. The survivors will be silent no longer.
Emory University to "promptly and carefully to discontinue current DEI offices and programs"
And so the capitulation at Emory continues.
The staff, faculty, and students will care. Believe me. As for the BOT and the upper administration? Hah.
which, of course, we will not get anyways. so just a cowardly gesture. #emory
Long story - Fenves is now the "chancellor" (to deal with Ga Gov, Congress, Trump). The BOT put the former Chief Justice of the GA Supreme Court in as interim president. We are not sure whether this is will be good or awful. Our provost search is "paused" indefinitely. #emory
Lots of anger from faculty, staff, & students about this. We have been bracing ourselves (essentially) for a coup by the Board of Trustees under the interim president. Believe me. #emory
Add Emory to the educational institutions caving to Fascism.
As an #Emory faculty member (who LOVES her students & colleagues) I can guarantee that they always will. All the best to your son--we have so many great students here & faculty who are disgusted by this too. Here's a bit more history, bc I have been here a LONG time. www.npr.org/2013/02/23/1...
My son, a junior at Emory, just said (not without disgust), Emory always caves.
Compliance with fascism won’t save your endowment tax rate Emory. Shameful shameful day.
I'm so sad how many places—including Emory—are ending DEI initiatives, rather than standing by them, or even emphasizing that many of these programs are intended to help *anyone* who needs it. 😞 #DiversityIsntABadWord
Actually, the rest of that section also screams "SCOTUS is losing legitimacy in the eyes of the District Courts"
Absolutely egregious. Am disappointed, but not shocked. Don't worry, tho, #Emory will continue to market itself as a diverse campus (which it IS!! its students, staff, & faculty are GREAT) that cherishes its connections to the city of MLK, John Lewis, & Jimmy Carter... @emorycollege.bsky.social
Légion d'honneur <3
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Gift link - worried about what comes next. Not following the science. wapo.st/45L7wqH
New York Attorney General Letitia James has filed a lawsuit against the anti-immigration group VDARE, saying that the couple who ran the group used donations to fund a medieval-style castle in West Virginia and then moved into it.
Super facinating - also the more general statement of how important it was for women to keep things clean to keep their family healthy/alive. Makes me wonder how much of the (in today’s safer world) pressure moms feel to have a spotless home can be traced back to when it truly was important.
I am starting to suspect that newspaper is not on the up and up.
What’s to stop AOC from walking down the hall with a drill and a screwdriver and hanging it?
MASSIVE BREAKING: Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi just revealed that an attorney told them today that an Epstein bodyguard was an intermediary between Epstein and the CIA in 2009. Release the Epstein files now !
The entire press conference w the victims/survivors, family, and Lawyers. #Epstein #ReleaseTheFiles www.youtube.com/watch?v=xUvB...
meme authoritarianism in action!
Dogs are getting vaccinated less and rabies rates are rising, in part because 37% of Americans think vaccines will give their dogs... pawtism. www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...
“They just see us as little toy soldiers to put on the street to show some muscle.” Alex, a National Guard recruiter who requested anonymity to speak freely, told Mother Jones that the DC mission has deterred potential recruits and pushed soldiers to their breaking points.
Inquisitr: A Missouri veteran says he “100 percent” regrets voting for Trump after his British-born wife, a longtime green card holder, was detained by federal agents and now faces deportation. Stay pissed & vote blue! 💙 #ProudBlue #Pinks #TrumpIsUnfitForOffice
National Guardsmen now stationed outside our DC building confirmed that the only thing they can do if they witness a crime is call 911. The have no more authority than my office mate to intervene. Despite the handcuffs, they can't make arrests. They are very expensive mall cops.
Won't take nearly that long
BART has great lighting for engagement photos FYI
The wealthiest people in America are white men. Imagine how many crimes have been overlooked for them to get to that point? Black men, in the same fields, would have been stopped and jailed loooong before they reached that status. But, yeah, slavery ISN'T so bad. Racism doesn't exist.
So after the Epstein survivors themselves said this matter wasn't a hoax and told their stories, the President told them they were lying. That's the headline every reputable media outlet should be running.
Also, we know for a fact that Leonidas didn't say "Molon labe". It's already doubtful because the earlier source for it comes centuries after it supposedly happened, but mostly we know it didn't happen because it's Roman-era standard Greek rather than the archaic Tsakonian Leonidas would've used.
Florida already had a skyrocketing rate of non-medical exemptions for childhood vaccination, leading to MMR coverage in kindergartners well below recommended herd immunity levels. And now they won't even need exemptions.
"Valued users! We understand that over the past 250-odd years, you have come to rely on the services provided by the U.S. of A. ... Well, 250 years of free is enough." @petridishes.bsky.social on the end of America's free-trial period:
Trump is considering given Eric Adams & Curtis Sliwa jobs in the administration in exchange for them dropping out to help Andrew Cuomo. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/03/n...
The declarations, and the motion for a primary injunction, can be found here. It's clear that the Trump admin sought to replicate what happened with the flights to CECOT — hoping to get the planes off the ground before a judge could stop them. But they were too slow, this time.
A lawyer on the ground on Sunday morning saw just how close things were, and how the flights were only stopped because a federal judge moved at light speed to halt the Trump admin's illegal operation. She saw the plane begin to taxi to take off, only to turn around at the last second and come back.
🚨NEW: Declarations filed in the lawsuit against the rushed attempt to deport 600 Guatemalan children reveals the chaotic way the Trump admin carried out the operation. Children were taken out of bed after midnight to be rushed onto planes. One girl "was so scared she vomited."
Today’s news confirms it: Cuomo is Trump’s choice for Mayor. The White House is considering jobs for Adams and Sliwa to clear the field. New Yorkers are sick of corrupt politics and backroom deals. No matter who’s running, we will deliver a better future on November 4.
Florida has long been a place where older Americans have gone for the end of their lives...but not in this very literal sort of way.
Luckily for Florida, it's not a destination for large numbers of elderly people who are especially vulnerable to respiratory diseases for which we have safe and effective vaccines.
My department is hiring an office admin position. Full-time, union job, good benefits, great staff colleagues (and me, YMMV), great faculty, great students.
Yes. Cramming an unsafe number of ppl on your drug boat leaves little room for, you know, drugs.
Like "Look at Our War Crimes: A PowerPoint from the US Dept of State presented by Marco Rubio."
Haley Robson was visibly shaking as she told the story of being one of the many survivors of Jeffrey Epstein, a wealthy financier arrested for molesting girls and trafficking them.
Sitting governor subskeets the entire US political media establishment
Congressman who?
Ohio State Bans Land Acknowledgments The new policy is one of several in response to a state law that aims to eliminate any mention of diversity, equity and inclusion at public universities. https://bit.ly/3HRi26H #AcademicSky #HigherEd #EDUSky
Shockingly, it turns out that when CBS handed $16 million over to Trump's "presidential library," it didn't placate him in the least. Kristi Noem has now used precisely the same scam, a phony accusation of deceptive editing, that Trump used to extort CBS last time! newrepublic.com/article/1998...
No wonder Trump is so intent on keeping the files from being released.👀
'The decline is not due to government retreat—public spending on R&D will remain historically high, with the chancellor pledging £86 billion over the next four years. The challenge lies in private investment, which has fallen by more than 6 per cent since 2021.' 2/2
'Figures released by the Office for National Statistics in August reveal a troubling trend: UK spending on R&D fell by 2 per cent in real terms in 2023. This was the second successive year of decline, amounting to a £2.8 billion drop between 2021 and 2023, largely owing to inflation.' 1/2
JUST IN: Federal suit filed in Chicago over transfer of Guatemalan kids to Guatemala is assigned to Judge Martha Pecold, a Trump appointee.
They might as well be skywriting “He’s guilty AF” while they’re at it
Remember this news? The city council was planning to hold this vote for mid-August, but they then postponed it, in part due to pressure they were facing. But the vote is now coming up again: It's scheduled for September 11, next Thursday.
Other declarations directly contradict the government’s claims that it is merely reunifying children with parents who requested their return to Guatemala
![Plaintiff Children's parents were similarly blindsided by the government's actions to suddenly remove their children from the United States. As M.Y.A.T.C.'s father explained: On or around August 15, 2025, my wife and I received a strange phone call. The person told us in Spanish that the U.S. government is going to soon deport [M.Y.A.T.C.]. as part a large group of Guatemalan children from the United States. The person asked us in Spanish whether we would be able to 8 Case 1:25-cv-02942-TJK Document 20-1 Filed 09/03/25 Page 15 of 50 receive [M.Y.A.T.C.] back. We told the person that [M.Y.A.T.C.] was going to school in the United States and that she has an attorney there. We were very surprised to receive this call. I was alarmed and extremely worried about my daughter after receiving this call. My wife and I told our daughter [M.Y.A.T.C.] about this call, and she became very worried and scared. We do not know why we received this call. We never asked for [M.Y.A.T.C.] to be sent back to Guatemala. Ex. D, Declaration of Rudy Anibal Tiul Cucul (](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:t4x2ruk2qmob2b2cx55h4v7r/bafkreibu7rjxwmhevbqj3ifrzvtbmczlh7zolqljidui6k4oqum3psaoli@jpeg "Click to view full size")
New declaration filed in the case brought by unaccompanied migrant children appears to confirm that at least one of the planes carrying minors took off shortly before or during Judge Sooknanan’s hearing on whether to block the flights
Q: "Trump said that this Epstein issue is a hoax. Can we get your reactions?" Epstein survivor Haley Robson: "Mr. President Donald J. Trump, I am a registered Republican...I cordially invite you to the Capitol to meet me in person so you can understand this is not a hoax."
Wrote about Eric Schmitt's speech, his definition of "American" and the multiple ways in which this ahistorical nativism is fraught. www.pbump.net/o/america-20...
Epstein survivor Mariana Lacerda: “I don't want to send a direct message to [Trump]. I'm already scared enough. Just pass the vote. Listen to us: This is not a hoax.”
Most colleges don't have a campuswide AI policy, leaving the crafting of such statements up to individual faculty members.
A military flyover arranged by President Donald Trump interrupted a press conference with survivors of sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
I just want to say, with all the 3D printing technology out there now, polio crutches & leg braces are going to be off the chain!
Genuine question, not that it would justify it, but would a small open speedboat stuffed with eleven people be plausibly smuggling drugs all the way from Venezuela directly to the United States, that's a long way, or more likely heading to another closer country? Or... could it have been migrants?
"I thought they were going to make me board the plane like they did with the other kids from the shelter, but they asked me for my name and told me I was not on the list." A terrifying declaration from an unaccompanied child nearly removed to Guatemala straight out of Schindler's List.
Rep. Yvette Clarke (D) has just moved to censure Republican Rep. Cory Mills, who just had a domestic violence investigation into him closed (likely with Trump’s help)
Mobilisation du 10 septembre: "Je souhaite que tous les citoyens soient dans la rue", assure Iliès Djaouti, étudiant Les appels à la mobilisation le 10 septembre continuent, à quelques jours de la date fatidique du mouvement "Bloquons tout". Dans le même temps, la préoccupation des services de...
BREAKING: North Carolina’s GOP-led election board and Trump's DOJ announce a deal that would disenfranchise tens of thousands of eligible voters in state elections if they don’t provide additional identifying information. More to come.
I refused to pet an uncle's dog because he refused to get him vaccinated. The dog tried to bother raccoons and feral cats almost daily. It took a nearby family finding out their dog's sudden weird behavior was rabies, for him to finally take the dog to the vet.
The term "homeland" was introduced at the Nuremberg rally (the Nazi coming-out party in 1934). Given its creepy and tribal connotations, it largely disappeared after WWII ... until the neocons revived it with the creation of the Department of Homeland Security. They're playing games with us.
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great point Harmeet, just the one q: who won the Battle of Thermopylae?
Don’t forget to submit your application to this NOFO by tomorrow! Although, we think it’s pretty ironic to focus on equality (oooh, they used the “e” word), liberty and government by consent when it’s all being actively dismantled. (2/2) www.neh.gov/program/redi...
Advisers to Trump have discussed the possibility of giving Mayor Eric Adams a position in the administration as a way to clear the field in November’s mayoral election and damage the chances of the Democratic front-runner, Zohran Mamdani, according to three people with knowledge of the discussions.
MOSKOWITZ: I'm sorry to hear you're leaving the hearing early FARAGE: I have other things to do MOSKOWITZ: You meeting with the president FARAGE: I can't remember MOSKOWITZ: You're leaving to have lunch with the president FARAGE: Hah hah hah hah!
Just back from a big #immigration win by @aclum.bsky.social: Judge Talwani rules that a Special Immigrant Juvenile, arrested on July 4, can't be held in mandatory detention under the Laken Riley Act, if, as here, no charges were brought. She orders he must be given a bond hearing within one week.
“It's so hard to begin to heal knowing that there are people out there who know more about my abuse than I do.” Previously unidentified victim, Marina Lascera, wants Epstein files released to help her remember what happened. www.youtube.com/watch?v=8_BX...