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apnews.com/article/euro... SAM MCNEIL, VALENTINA PETROVA, AP von der Leyen’s plane is the latest in series of suspected Russian electronic interference with GPS satellite nav. Countries bordering Russia— Finland, Latvia, Lithuania,Estonia warn of increased interference with flights, ships, drones
(NYT: free) In case you have missed, an opinion piece from nine previous directors or acting directors of the CDC. Damning description of the effect that RFK, Jr. is having on the CDC and Public Health now in the USA. A must-read to get the flavor. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...
apnews.com/article/labo... COREY WILLIAMS, AP ‘Crops did go to waste’
Something press pool could ask about
www.cnbc.com/2025/09/01/n... Spencer Kimball, CNBC NextEra Energy aims to secure power purchase agreement & restart Duane Arnold nuclear plant outside Cedar Rapids Similar restarts planned at Palisades nuclear plant, MI & Three Mile Island, PA Tech looks for nuclear power to support data centers
RIP Graham Greene. Every time he popped up on screen when I was a kid, my mom would excitedly point him out for being an actual Native on the screen. Able to be deadly serious and infinitely hilarious (even in smaller roles like Last of Us), he ate up the screen. Nʌki’wah brother.
NEW: Nadler will not seek re-election, citing the need for a new generation of leaders. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/n...
www.cnbc.com/2025/09/01/t... Kate Rogers, CNBC As Trump steps up immigration enforcement, key industries in Calif’s $4 trillion economy are under threat Agriculture, construction and hospitality could be hardest hit by a sharp drop in the immigrant workforce (Trump is weakening the country)
Go on. Take a wild guess who was president both times.
Mohamad Safa UN says it's genocide. HRC says it's genocide. PVA says it's genocide. ICJ says it's genocide. ICC says it's genocide. Anyone who knows anything about genocide says it's genocide. Everyone is lying except Israel who are committing genocide and ethnic cleansing.
We could have had it all, we could have been rolling in the deep, instead we're drowning in deceit. #VoteBlue #Impeach47
🚨Let’s hear it for Columbus, Ohio! 🚨
Trump Crime Family, eh? The Family that Crimes together
In case you are wondering what is going on today at WaPo and Democracy Docket.
We see the aging of our worst president continue every hour. It’s time to file a 25th Amendment motion.🇺🇸
I’m concerned that SCOTUS will use these lies to allow the tariffs to continue @nealkatyal.bsky.social
open.substack.com/pub/joycevan... Joyce Vance
Timely as hell.
"The same chilling logic that ruled Stalin’s courts"
open.substack.com/pub/thomhart... Thom Hartman “Show me the man, I’ll show you the crime”—has become admin’s sinister operating principle. It retrofits guilt to the target, not justice to evidence The sentiment is unmistakable: Arrest or investigate person first, cook up the criminal case later ⬇️
www.reuters.com/world/us/bon... Reuters "Bondi fires DOJ employee for gesturing at Nat'l Guard..." *Bondi gives rule of law the death penalty & Trump gives us the finger everyday...evidently freedom of speech is dead unless you're in the disrespectful and unfit trump admin
Trump caused this As parades and other events celebrating the contributions of workers in the U.S. are held Monday for the Labor Day holiday, experts say President Donald Trump's stepped-up immigration policies are impacting the nation's labor force. abc7.com/post/12-mill...
Please take a moment to honor the memory of the journalist Israel murdered today. Some people take a moment of silence. Others pray. I say the name of the martyr aloud. Islam Abed | إسلام عابد Martyred in her apartment today, along with her children and husband.💔💔💔💔💔😢🤬
Every single one of these republicans are complicit in every child who dies by gunfire.
www.usatoday.com/story/graphi... Jim Sergent, USA TODAY Map of states most affected enclosed
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/31/w... Ana Ionova 'Bolsonaro, wearing an ankle monitor, has been under house arrest for wks. He's awaiting a trial that is to start Tues..he is accused of plotting to stage a coup after losing the 2022 pres elections..Bolsonaro has signaled that he has considered fleeing'
open.substack.com/pub/reallyam... Really American
In 7 months, Trump has taken the world's most powerful nation and turned it into a train wreck, inviting both our allies and our adversaries to reshape the world based on our irrelevance.
open.substack.com/pub/davidpep... David Pepper
open.substack.com/pub/cfow/p/c... Frank Brodhead Israel's savagery to..Gaza, reported by journalists around the world, damages Israel’s prestige & influence..Israel responded to this by killing journalists >200 media workers – more than were killed in WW 1, WW 2 & Vietnam have been assassinated
open.substack.com/pub/heatherc... 9/5/82 workers in NYC celebrated 1st Labor Day with a parade..parade almost didn’t happen: with no band, no one wanted to march without music..Jewelers Union of Newark Two showed up with musicians..marchers, numbering 10,000-20,000 paraded thru lower Manhattan
Pedophile
Wait! I thought Trump was supposed to be “ending homelessness.” HUD just announced a nationwide audit of Section 8 “citizen status.” Mixed-status families could lose rental assistance, even when kids are U.S. citizens. Families including children could be thrown into eviction & face homelessness.
Media‼️ Please note‼️
WOULD TRUMP HAVE SAID WOMEN FIRST? Titanic passenger, millionaire Benjamin Guggenheim in 1910. Refusing to enter a lifeboat, he asked a steward to inform his family "that I played the game straight to the end and that no woman was left on board this ship because Ben Guggenheim was a cọward".
MO’s R- Gov Kehoe, is bringing lawmakers back to capitol this wk to TX-style, gerrymander (Trump trafficking children) Nat'l Law Imm Center with Young Center for Immigrant Children’s Rights.."reported fed'l agencies & officials plan to remove 100s of Guatemalan unaccompanied minors to Guatemala”
open.substack.com/pub/joycevan... Joyce Vance "Trump continues to pursue imperial presidency During a cabinet meeting on 8/26 Trump said, “I have the right to do anything I want to do,” in response to a ques about deploying Nat'l Guard" -(Thank you John Roberts) ⬇️
You’re absolutely right
TRUMP SCREWS OVER OUR MILITARY YET AGAIN.
O'Keefe to Noem: "At least 20 people who signed this letter were current FEMA employees & they've been placed on administrative leave. Is it now the policy of DHS that anytime an employee puts their name on something criticizing you or POTUS, they should anticipate being put on leave or fired?"
RADDATZ: You talk about what can be done. After shootings in Buffalo & Uvalde, Congress passed a bipartisan Safer Communities Act. It provided hundreds of millions for schools to expand mental health services. You didn't vote for it. Why? TOM EMMER: I don't remember the reasons I didn't vote for it
open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa... JONATHAN COHN, The Bulwark
I worried his ineptitude would reveal not our strength, but expose our weakness. Yay for us! 🙄 news.sky.com/story/how-tr...
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/30/o... Maureen Dowd -GIFTED-
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/30/o... Yotam Vilk GIFTED
www.reuters.com/world/us/bon... Reuters "Bondi fires DOJ employee for gesturing at Nat'l Guard..." *Bondi gives rule of law the death penalty & Trump gives us the finger everyday...evidently freedom of speech is dead unless you're in the disrespectful and unfit trump admin
Johnson has repeatedly been given access to high-level Trump officials, invited to many events, including sitting on DOJ panel a few mos ago & occupying the coveted new media seat on an important day for WH “Clearly we’re dealing with an admin far more focused on narratives than truth"
Johnson has been fired..for plagiarism & suspended from another for publishing..an unfounded conspiracy theory about Obama later retracted. He's been accused of repeatedly propagating false election info &..produced videos secretly funded, via a seemingly legitimate media firm, by Kremlin ops ⬇️
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/30/b... Ken Bensinger Benny Johnson, podcaster, was invited by the WH to sit in the new media area at the admin’s press briefing Johnson has a large following on YouTube, a popular daily podcast and a large X acct, stands out for his checkered journalistic record. ⬇️
www.reuters.com/world/us/tru... Reuters
news.yahoo.com/news/article...
The US brought in nearly $30 Billion in tariffs in July, triple the amount collected in previous years That's not good news Tariffs are taxes on Americans That $30B was collected from you and me when we bought food, clothes, electronics...
Our health care is already dysfunctional, expensive, & Trump admin will throw an est 15 million people off insurance through a cut >$1 trillion to Medicaid & Affordable Care Act..cuts expected to result in decline & closing in services at 100s of nursing homes, hosps & community health centers"
Kennedy & Trump tell us-they want to Make America Healthy Again..a great slogan..problem is since coming into office Trump/Kennedy have done the opposite reality is RFK,JR has built a career & profited on sowing mistrust in vaccs..he's using his auth to wage war on science, public health & truth ⬇️
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/30/o... Sen Bernie Sanders "Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the sec of Health & Human Services, is endangering the health of the American people now & into the future. He must resign. ⬇️
Every solar panel installed, every wind turbine wired, every EV charger connected, that’s a job with wages, healthcare, a pension that stands for dignity for the American worker. You don’t kill that kind of progress: you build on it.” (Trump loves dirty energies, he'll make us breathe them again)
..business manager of the Massachusetts IBEW Local 103, added cuts to renewable energy projects in US were not just cuts to funding. “[Y]ou’re pulling paychecks from working families, you’re pulling apprentices out of training facilities, you’re pulling opportunity straight out of our communities. ⬇️
Reversing shift to renewable energy attacks attempts to address crisis of climate & boosts fossil fuel industry on which some of Trump’s donors depend, it undermines independence of workers..Trump claims relying on fossil fuels will jump-start economy, but higher electricity costs fuel inflation ⬇️
open.substack.com/pub/heatherc... "Transportation Department cancelled $679 million in funding for offshore wind projects, and the Department of Energy announced it is withdrawing a $716 million loan guarantee to complete infrastructure for an offshore wind project in New Jersey- ⬇️
Another GOP coward
The designation of a censor/ombudsman followed Trump’s ridiculous lawsuit about how a 60 Minutes interview with Kamala Harris was edited. That’s the lawsuit CBS’s parent company, Paramount, agreed to pay Trump $16 million to resolve"
open.substack.com/pub/joycevan... 1984: Lessons Learned Live with Princeton Professor Kim Scheppele JOYCE VANCE AND KIM LANE SCHEPPELE "The promise to install a “bias monitor” was a condition for CBS to receive approval for its merger with Sky Dance. The deal was finalized in early August ⬇️
Take a minute to STOP this planned slaughter of black bears in Florida. PLEASE ✍🏼 Despite overwhelming opposition, the #Florida Fish Wildlife Conservation Commission (@MyFWC) has voted to reinstate black bear hunting for the 1st time in a decade😓 THIS is violence. www.change.org/p/stop-the-b...
Grown men and little girls with #pedophiles #futureFelon #sexoffender
Television legend Stephen Colbert has just signed a $13.5 million deal with Netflix for a 7-episode series.
Midair Distraction Here’s a Carolina Chickadee (Poecile carolinensis) caught mid-flight. Its head is turned slightly, as if noticing something ... 1/2 #photo #photography #photographer #photographylovers #wildlife #nature #bird #birds #birding #birdwatching #birdphotography #CarolinaChickadee
apnews.com/article/voic... MICHAEL KUNZELMAN, AP Agency that oversees Voice of America & other govt-funded internat'l broadcasters eliminating jobs for >500 employees official said Kari Lake announced job cuts Fri, 1 day after fed judge blocked her from removing Michael Abramowitz VOA director
Every time your electricity bill goes up for the next 10 years, it can be traced back to this Administration’s actions. They are making solar and wind power illegal to build in the United States. They are artificially restricting supply while demand is going up.
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thehill.com/homenews/sta... ASHLEIGH FIELDS Alligator Alcatraz conversion may cost FL $218M AP: FL Emergency Management may lose most of $218M spent making airport a detention center Detainees report health hazards including bathrooms flooded with feces, limited legal resources & lack of food
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“As country stares at gov't funding deadline 9/30, clearly neither Trump nor Repubs have any plan to avoid a painful, unnecessary shutdown” Senate Rs’ chief funding negotiator, Susan Collins (R-ME) said “any effort to rescind appropriated funds without congress approval is clear violation of law”
thehill.com/business/bud... Trump tosses grenade into GOP-Dem shutdown battle with pocket rescissions -ARIS FOLLEY Trump’s effort to cancel funding previously approved by Congress through “pocket rescissions”-setting up a land mine for Congress as it races to avert a gov't shutdown by 9/30 ⬇️
Trump's America. The month before a shooter opened fire on children gathered in a Minnesota church this week, the Trump administration cut funding in the state for efforts to identify potential mass shooters and head off their violence. cnn.it/4p0NBeK
Today, this chapter of the Weimar Republic’s history should be revisited. At a moment in which democracy is backsliding in places as varied as Hungary, India, Turkey, and the United States, it is a reminder that democracy often erodes slowly at first, via the gradual surrender of those entrusted..
We're very pleased to announce Bellingcat and @texasobserver.org won this award- congratulations to @tristanl.ee and @stevanzetti.bsky.social for their hard work on this series of reporting. The winners of the category 'general excellence in an online newsroom' will be announced in September.
Trump's speeches on homelessness drip with fear and disgust. His policies are worse. Thousands of federal staffers working on mental health-related issues have been purged by Trump’s government.
“We’ve got billions of dollars in investment & a project on the finish line to deliver affordable, American-made, renewable energy right off the coast of CT..We’re notifying the court now that Trump’s irrational stop to Revolution Wind will jack up energy bills, hurt workers & weaken our grid.”
..administration has sharply increased its attacks on the wind industry, going so far as to order the halt of construction at Revolution Wind, a $6.2 billion wind farm off the coast of Rhode Island that was nearly finished. ⬇️
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/29/c... Brad Plumer Transportation Depart Fri said it was terminating or withdrawing $679 million in fed funding for 12 projects around the country of offshore wind power, the latest of the Trump admins escalating attacks against the wind industry.. ⬇️
To pretend that her death deserves the same recognition as the young soldier at the gate is obscene. It is a betrayal of the oath she once swore and a desecration of the sacrifice made by so many who kept faith with theirs."
She wasn't protecting lives at a gate in Iraq; she was forcing her way through the Capitol to stop the peaceful transfer of power, one of the most sacred traditions of our Republic. ⬇️
www.thebulwark.com/p/honoring-a... Lt. Gen. Mark Hertling (Ret.) "I am infuriated that the Air Force plans to grant military funeral honors to Ashli Babbitt. She didn't die defending the Constitution. She died trying to overturn it. ⬇️
The European Commission is devising a scheme to transfer almost €200 billion in Russian immobilized assets (seized & frozen) to rebuild Ukraine at the end of the war.👏👏
👇🇪🇺🇷🇺🇺🇦"EU moves closer to using Russian assets to rebuild Ukraine" #EuropeanUnion #RussianAssets #RebuildingUkraine #UkraineWar
..the outing last wk of an undercover intel officer, is enough to lead to an indictment of an admin official. Tulsi Gabbard released name of sr undercover CIA officer when she posted list of 37 current/former officials whom she stripped of sec clearances..she said she was acting on Trump’s orders"
Instead, Trump and his cronies are simply declaring emergencies and then announcing policies they claim will address those emergencies. When their policies backfire or raise opposition, they claim they are being sabotaged by the deep state or that statistics are wrong ⬇️
open.substack.com/pub/heatherc... "Trump & his ilk have spent yrs carping about how poorly gov't is working & how much better they would be doing if they were the ones in charge. Voters gave them what they asked for, now they appear to be unwilling or unable to do the actual work of governing.. ⬇️
Virginia Giuffre should have turned 42 this year. Instead, her life was stolen by predators who preyed on her as a child & as a teen. She was brave, resilient, & gave other survivors hope. We honor her spirit, her fight, & demand justice for every victim of trafficking. social.demcast.com/s/Wzmy6DzN
www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/mis...
