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Some have to feed us. Some have to tell us to get to sleep.
#JOLTS
This is making me laugh - shale producers are going to be lobbying hard for expanded solar production, perhaps even on Federal lands
Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/03/u...
Good
“.. governors of the three states said that the C.D.C. had become ‘a political tool that increasingly peddles ideology instead of science, ideology that will lead to severe health consequences.’” @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2025/09/03/u...
Since the ruling was against Trump, he's going to wait until the last day to file.
Yeah, so the tariffs have another month and a half to run before the Trump admin even has to file an appeal. Which also means that they'll probably be active when the Christmas importing season is in full swing.
Oh. SnarkLite™️. Does it come in a convenient 1 oz bottle? Is the Costco size a quart, or do you have to buy a whole gallon at a time?
Reuters: MOST TRUMP TARIFFS ARE NOT LEGAL, U.S. APPEALS COURT RULES
Effective at what?
ICE related? (assuming that "construction quits" is the number of people leaving construction jobs)
The court very kindly extended the tariffs by at least a month.
“.. Quite a hot mic moment on CCTV in Beijing today as Putin and Xi, both 72 years old, are caught casually talking about living to 150 and maybe forever thanks to organ transplants. (As picked up by Bloomberg.)” (via @yarotrof.bsky.social)
Nobody is “grooming” your kids to be gay or trans but people ARE grooming them to be Nazis.
Schumer is out of his fucking mind. www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...
Because they don't want to have to merge in Denver?
Four Chinese carmakers enter Australian top 10 for first time, while Tesla sales slump
We have the near final results: —Democrats won in Florida's SD15 by 45% (72.5/27.5). Harris had won this district by 23%. —Democrats won Florida's HD40 by 50% (75/25). (Harris had won this district by 35%.) (Presidential results courtesy of the always indispensable @the-downballot.com.)
He must be talking about WWII. But, relative to the rest of the war, the US did little in China proper.
This is *really* unfortunate.
Wow. He hasn’t even tried to explain himself after my post, as far as I’ve seen
I’m supposed to believe the most litigious woman-hating POS on the planet doesn’t want to press charges? That’s….VERY interesting. Has anyone learned anything about the 19 year old woman Rudy is protecting?
the current shinkansen go around 200mph and sometimes u can stand in a train station as one goes by without stopping and it is just incredible how fast it is moving even though they probably even slow down a bit to go thru the station
came across this gem from a 1942 San Francisco Examiner...
"It didn't make sense to put Space Force headquarters in any state other than Colorado when the only priority should be quick and effective communication in a nuclear crisis and there was already an infrastructure."
Lawyer caught using AI-generated false citations in court case penalised in Australian first
The Everglades Concentration Camp costs 3x one of these trains.
Gold hits $3,600 for the first time in history 📈🥳🫂
2. ".. suppliers adding surcharges ranging between 2.6 percent to 50 percent" ".. sugar — and everything made with it — is about to get significantly more expensive." "Plans to bring production back into U.S. are impacted by higher material costs, making it more difficult to justify the return."
Today's ISM survey commentary is fun: "Tariffs continue to wreak havoc" "There is absolutely no activity in the transportation equipment industry. This is 100 percent attributable to current tariff policy. "We are also in stagflation: Prices are up due to material tariffs, but volume is way off.”
New York's LGBTQ film festival to provide free virtual screenings to Arizonans The Arizona Queer Film Access Initiative will allow Arizonans to access free LGBTQ films after a long-running Phoenix festival was canceled last month. For @nbcnews.com: www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-...
#Mythology
Let the September Dump begin 📉📉
And even if they do SCOTUS expansion, these idiots will "compromise" and expand to 13 seats, Then a single additional "conservative" justice brings the balance to 7-6.
Oh also I was told that anyone who had a conflict could go to a workshop that is similar but not the same Great, early career people who happen to be Jews can have second class access I just want any of these people to imagine saying this about Chrismas
NASA scheduled a major workshop for early career researchers during the most important week of the Jewish calendar, during two of the most important days of that week and expects me to accept that this was “difficult scheduling conflicts” That’s what casual antisemitism sounds like
NEW: Massie tells CNN that there is significant pressure from the White House to BLOCK the release of the Epstein files.
It's so weird how Greenwald and Nate Silver and the like—who aren't even here—keep insisting that Bluesky is pro-DNC, when I've yet to see anyone here ever say anything nice about the DNC at all. Also, evaporating? Lol. Bluesky now sends WAY more traffic to @techdirt.com than Twitter *ever* did.
That was a rhetorical question, unless there is a real answer.
Huh? Why does the Men chart look like it's been moved 2 years to the right?
It's the opening scene of "Murder at 1600".
If the "construction" story is true, then it shouldn't have been anything. Chucking construction waste out an effectively 3rd story window is just not safe. And if this was the method, there'd be a lot more. Something went on in that room. Could even just be horseplay amongst the workers.
Irony here is that literally nobody actually in fucking public health said that, it was just clout-seeking morons on twitter who went crazy about it
Sea Level xkcd.com/3135/
![Comic. [Two people on shore looking at body of water] PERSON 1: Hey, where’s that big island we were looking at this morning? PERSON 2 with short hair: Oh, it’s underwater. The ocean’s depth here goes up and down by like ten feet every day. PERSON 1: What? PERSON 2: It’s because the planet has a big moon orbiting near the surface. It causes weird gravity effects. PERSON 1: *What???* [caption] People here are used to them, but tides are one of the weirdest and most sci-fi elements of life on Earth.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreidj2tdqhkgoamiqf5reqt7kvbpt26x3cgjxsp4rtwwb46qumcltdq@jpeg "Click to view full size")
BREAKING: Mayor Muriel Bowser ALLOWS federal law enforcement INDEFINITELY in DC. Gift article: wapo.st/3VyXMcY
Lauren Boebert in 2023: “Colorado is the one and only home the Space Command has ever known and it will remain that way!”
“.. A social source in Florida recently told PEOPLE that the president and first lady Melania Trump are renovating the White House in order to make it feel more like their Florida beach club home, Mar-a-Lago.” @people.com people.com/trumps-renov...
Yesterday the president demanded that evidence about Covid vaccines be shown to the public. Today @apoorvanyt.bsky.social & I run through some of the studies made public over the past 4+ years that show that the vaccines work. Gift link: nyti.ms/46k17Tq
And he's subtly in front of his wife.
Retired Master Sergeant here… “Alex, I’ll take things that GIs have never said for $1000.”
Are the vehicles registered in the state? Federal vehicles, being used for federal purposes may not need registration to operate, but what if not for federal purposes?
Who's vehicles are they using? And are those vehicles legal under state law for the purpose they are being used for? If borrowing Army equipment, is that borrowing legal? And don't forget weight restrictions on roads, as Army vehicles tend to be heavy.
Use the full, and wide, force of the bureaucratic state. Loitering. Littering. Set up a toll booth right outside the base. Follow them with police cars blaring their sirens. Traffic infractions. How hard is it to keep an Army vehicle between the lines? Do frequent license and insurance checks.
BREAKING: Gov. JB Pritzker says the Trump administration has sent the Texas National Guard to Great Lakes Naval Base outside Chicago, awaiting orders to deploy to Chicago. Trump administration officials will target Mexican Independence Day (Sept. 16) celebrations. @wttw.bsky.social
Nongovernmental groups like the League of Women Voters are now barred from registering new voters at naturalization ceremonies, the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services has announced. n.pr/4g7YKqg
this now brings us up to six (!) grand jury refusals to charge (that we know about), plus two cases filed as part of the dc surge dismissed on the us attorney's office's request
Meanwhile in New York someone has dressed up as Trump in a hospital gown with an IV infusion of bleach. *Chef's kiss 😘👌
The wrongful termination lawsuit will be very interesting.
Is that your employer's copy of Copilot? If so, then the responsibility for the generated emails gets really murky. After all, the business offered an internal service to you, and you took it up. Therefore, it's the business that is generating and the sending the emails. ("you" is a generic you)
It is striking the extent to which a certain segment of politicians are now pretending that American history ended in the mid-1800s.
Trump has been secretly coveting the Golden Mic award for decades now, So Putin gave him ten. Secretly, of course.
Wouldbe Trump assassin is having himself a moment in his docket.
Seriously? You know that the Supreme Court is just going to remand it down to the Small Claims Court in Marfa, Texas for evidentiary hearings.
"continental" Europeans. Looks like he thinks the entire northern Mid-West aren't "real" Americans.
The full review is even dumber than this paragraph makes it seem, because in the next paragraph the reviewer acknowledges that Del Toro's take is more faithful to the novel, but then gripes about how it still clashes with most people's understanding of the characters they got instead from movies.
Cybersecurity experts who spoke to TPM described the situation with Kristi Noem's poorly hidden secret Facebook as "sloppy," "inadvisable," and a problem for "basic operational security." talkingpointsmemo.com/news/dhs-sec...
The dream world? You wouldn't know it, it's in Canada.
I feel like in the 1980’s/90’s this would be a major plot point in a Tom Clancy novel, and the operation would be carried out as an off-book, illegal black op, with various characters trying to cover it up lest they face congressional hearings. Now the President just announces it.
So Texas is going to invade Illinois
Literally indistinguishable from the manifesto of neo-fascist group Patriot Front
The U.S. Secretary of Energy does not know that electricity is energy. I'm glad we've gotten rid of DEI programs and are now giving America the leadership it deserves.
Father Ted creator Graham Linehan arrested over posts on transgender issues
Why do you have an unburied landmine in your back yard?
Not officially confirmed but Nelvana, one of Canada's most storied animation studios, appears to have quietly closed down on Friday, yet another casualty of Corus Entertainment's struggle to survive.
Tesla's China-made EV sales drop on year in August, but jump on month reut.rs/3UT9yPp
www.myprivacy.blog/denmark-make...
I'm sure adding ads to Prime hasn't helped. And having a single 15 second ad at the midpoint of a movie to announce that this movie is being presented with minimal commercial interruptions" is just the icing on the cake.
Exclusive: US regulators cancel bank exams as Trump rollback gathers pace reut.rs/423lH8a
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You've met Pepsi, right?
There are a number of copies of Hand to Mouth on the Internet Archive, but they are set to Borrow Unavailable, so you can see up to the dedication (or so). And a bunch of media appearances from 2014-ish.
A1 above the fold in the @nytimes.com. The message is getting through. Keep pushing everyone. We can save the #CDC, save the #NIH from the clutches of #RussellVought #StephenMiller and #DonaldTrump. Keep the pressure up on your members of Congress and the media (letters to editors, op-eds).
Is it my imagination, or has this been an evergreen skeet for a week or so?
(Bloomberg) - Tesla Inc.'s entry into India has delivered underwhelming results .. @bloomberg.com $TSLA @alexwinter.com www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Meanwhile, conservative, red state Trump supporters, evangelicals, Baptists, sheriffs, police, border security are arrested for child, rape, trafficking, pornography every day in USA
Perfect encapsulation of the Trump administration: The guy suing Harvard for alleged antisemitism is a straight-up Hitler-admiring Nazi. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/09/02/m...
#BREAKING: Judge Breyer has held that the Trump admin. *violated* the Posse Comitatus Act in its military deployments in and around Los Angeles, and has enjoined further use of those troops for law enforcement tasks. The order is stayed through 12 PDT on 9/12: georgetown.app.box.com/file/1973361...
Fifty Shades of Gary
Let me guess. Sell off federal land for "home" building. Eminent Domain swaths of cities (blue ones, of course), sell the land to Trump enterprises then onsell it for "home" building.
To rent or to buy, that is the question. The purest Carpathian wood is getting expensive, what with tariffs and all.
