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NEW: Mercenary spyware is coming to the US. ICE just quietly unsuspended their contract with spyware maker #Paragon. Remember them? Caught earlier this year being used to hack Italian journalists. This is bad, let's talk about how we got here 1/ jackpoulson.substack.com/p/exclusive-...
#Milwaukee: Bridge Brigade MKE Thursday, September 4 4 - 5:30 PM Lincoln Overpass Between 4th & 5th St More info >> www.wisconsinresist.org/events/milwa... #WiResists
@dennisgoris.bsky.social By Dennis Goris.
Giuliani's involvement in the attempts to overturn the election deserve a prison sentence, not a Presidential medal
Thanks, Susan!
The funny thing is Smart Fortwo are so short you can back up to the curb in them and park perpendicular to the curb. They were designed that way intentionally. American municipalities balked at the idea though and most will ticket you for doing it.
Being a tomato dumper is hard work. This crew of 28 pickers harvests thousands of 24lb buckets a day. That makes for a lot of work for the two dumpers. #WeFeedYou #LaborDay
We appear to be getting ready to something monumentally stupid. Right on brand for this administration.
Complete waste of money but at least they're not out tackling hard working folks, or threatening civilians with guns
The Minocqua Brewing Company Super PAC Just Filed A Class Action Lawsuit to Unmask ICE in Wisconsin kirkbangstad.substac... #wiunion #wipolitics #WiReists
Thanks, I might try that!
Thanks, ICU! Staying up till midnight is usually the hard part but last night it just would not post for some reason.
I tried copy and pasting the names into an email, to keep in drafts there, but BlueSky doesn't seem happy with something when I paste them back in for a new post. I don't know what's hiding in the code beneath the sheets when I do that but it just wouldn't work. I'll try it again tonight.
Very nice, Mark! Strong day for the whole group!
29.3% of his time in office spent on the golf course so far. Yeah, he's a champion of the working class.
This is also routine rhetoric in Silicon Valley — even by immigrant founders! — about America and nobody says shit. Journalists refuse to even *mention* it, let alone ask questions or hold anyone accountable.
Central Coast Farm workers wish you a happy #LaborDay Campesinos de la Costa Central les desean un feliz Día del Trabajo. #WeFeedYou #SoyEsencial
No, they don’t jive. At all.
Paxton's fraud falls under the legal doctrine of "But That's Different"
By 20230? With the location still unknown? Interesting but unlikely I'd think (unless they pitch it to Elon as whites only or something)
Yes, it was carefully hidden in the New England Journal of Medicine. Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine (www.nejm.org/doi/pdf/10.1... ) 1/2
Excellent, Paula!
Just to visualize that summit in China
Please, please read this and share it with everyone. (Gift link) www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...
There's labor market tightening, which might result in wage boosts and be mildly inflationary, and then there's labor market destruction, causing businesses to fail, setting off a domino effect of negative economic consequences. Sure feels like we raced past the former and into the latter.
Whoever is writing this on behalf of.. United States, I guess, doesn’t understand the main issue here - you are now explaining yourself after messing up the relations with India after DJT demanded Modi to nominate him for a Nobel peace prize for “solving the war between India and Pakistan”. SAD.
Perfecto, Connie!!! Hole in one!
Thanks, Mark!
Very nice, Mark!
That makes the US gas market the only growing market - because of low clean energy and fast elec demand growth. But even in 2025, the US gas market share is down- hit by higher gas prices, which meant a switch to coal generation..
Our joyful defiance undermines them because it exposes just how weak they are. They could be doing literally anything else with our tax dollars…
Still got this book next to my desk - thinking some more people might benefit from occasionally flipping through its pages...
Thanks, Mark!
Health scares are no fun. The sense of powerlessness is awful. Time for both of you to rest and heal.
Thanks and you're welcome! I wish they'd add better tools for groups. Even just drafts, so there could be a template to work from. Someday they will.
I use it nearly every day and have for decades. Fantastic utility
Good that they could work it out relatively quickly. I hope he's stable in a treatment regimen quickly too!
Womp, womp
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They'll have a column Monday about how this is Biden's fault
Good thing that Trump now has MAGA unemployment stats. So all is fine.
Have to ask the author about that.
Oh no! Traumatic for the both of you, I'm sure. I hope they can find the problem and set him off towards a good outcome. Get well soon Aiden!
James Stroud, who is one of at least 21 FEMA employees, put on leave after signing a letter criticizing Trump’s disaster preparedness, discusses the culture of fear within the agency. “One thing that is underreported is the day to day agony and humiliation we’ve been suffering this whole time.”
Nice one, Hilary!
It won't surprise me. Not with this lot.
They’re forming a CDC workgroup to decide which line on this graph looks better and their answer may surprise you
I’m serious. This REALLY infuriates me. @nbcnews.com @cbsnews.com @cnn.com Do your job. You failed to lift this up in 2024. If farmers are hurting, explain why and who is to blame. And remind Americans that we paid BILLIONS for Trump’s first tariff blunder. It’s so irresponsible to ignore this.
So much good news! FTN 309: Colours of the Moon. WASH. Solar in Africa. Childhood leukaemia. African Greys 🦜❤️. fixthenews.com/p/ftn-309-co...
Pretty sure the cutters view that as a feature, not a bug (which makes it all the more tragic)
Definitely no Donald then, as was rumored to be a possibility? It was hard to imagine him being that stupid but he's proved us wrong before.
I'm guessing pre-stuffed ballot boxes will be distributed by the White House ahead of time?
A plot twist made for Hollywood
Thanks, Mark!
This should be a bigger story. A government official had the YouTube channel of a private citizen shut down bc he didn’t like what that citizen was saying. This administration’s version of free speech is a joke.
New Mexico has issued a public health order that removes federal restrictions to COVID-19 vaccine access so that pharmacies in New Mexico can vaccinate people of all ages and risk profiles. Every state need to do this!
When you hear that "crime is down" in DC, it is (in no small part) because people aren't out living like they used to. Military occupation suppresses everything.
It's all maddening (as I know you know :)
We have very little functioning media left. They've abandoned not only what they learned in J school, but basic common sense. Crime plummeted in 2020 as people stayed home too, a lesson clearly lost on them.
Holy moly, Connie! Fantastic!
And another one! Nice, Paula!
Nice one, Naïna! Lots of 3s today so far
RFK Jr cut half a billion dollars in research funding for mRNA vaccines. He & Marty Makary claim mRNA vaccines are “risky” so they’ll shift to “traditional, older” vaccine tech that’s “safer.” Guess what? We used to immunize people by blowing powdered smallpox scabs up their noses. 1/
Don’t print lies in the newspapers. Don’t keep platforming the lying liars to performatively lie on your teevee shows. End the interviews immediately if you’ve messed up by inviting them anyway & they once again performatively lie in public. What is journalism, anyway?
All universities should be embedding social media fact-checking/evaluation into their curriculum. theconversation.com/college-stud... #civics #education #academics
This is the interim CDC Director. He is accusing pre-Trump CDC staff of “manipulating health data to support a political narrative”. This man and his boss Kennedy are the ones who are manipulating data for a political narrative. This is an existential threat to the United States of America.
Very nice, Bryant!
Very nice, ICU!
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I'll be in Albuquerque in 4 weeks. Giddyap!
👏 Applause to the New Mexico DOH for issuing this order to ensure access to #COVID vaccines and prevent unnecessary barriers to vaccination. I suspect many other states will follow suit. No responsible government is going to risk the lives to appease a small but loud group of antivaxxers.
None of this removes his name from Epstein's files
This guy is clearly a dim bulb. He's confronted me once before. I've tried to be polite and laugh it off both times but if it happens again I'm probably not going to be very polite.
Lol, no, but I'll keep that in my pocket for future use. I'd forgotten about that!
Lol, true!
I just got home and looked. Too Secret Drum Corp have their own YouTube channel!
There is going to be a very, very large bailout extended to US farmers. Foreign demand has dried up as a result of the tariffs. Under Trump 1.0, the bailout cost US taxpayers $28 billion. This time is likely to be larger. It's yet another tax on consumers. Totally avoidable if not for the tariffs.
Right. Same thing as 2020 [see below].Through 2 debates and a session on Economics in Chicago during the 2024 campaign I never heard a reporter bring up the cost of the 2020 tariffs & the bailout to farmers WE paid for to cover Trump’s tariff folly. I’m sick of it. www.forbes.com/sites/stuart...
They probably have content on YouTube too. Called the Top Secret Corps I think, from Scotland
@bassoonysu.bsky.social You might like this one. Wasn't sure if you're on TT so I posted it here
Phenomenal precision from this Scottish drum line!
Thanks. Weirdly the same guy has done it before, in the same store. He's clearly not a bright guy but I have zero patience for the idiocy of people like that.
Just got confronted for wearing a mask, in a store, by another customer. He said it was dangerous for me to be breathing "so much carbon monoxide". He then explained he's had it six or seven times to which I replied. "Well, I'm very happy for you to get it again". Big fan of Kennedy's no doubt.
It's fortunate that they were able to get you in right away. Getting any kind of appointment now seemed to take months
That stinks. Sure hope you can turn the corner on all this soon
For what it’s worth
What are we even doing?
The new Pulte-Trump crackdown on mortgage occupancy fraud is nothing if not selective.
I thought this was going to be more of a happy ending story, but it's not. It's now that these monkeys are out of quarantine, the company that has been taking care of them is now allowed to ship them across the country to other labs or use for research here. 😭😭😭 wjla.com/news/local/m...
AI startup aims to use AI to fix AI's 95% corporate failure rate (and VCs are excited by the pitch, of course)
"The new visa fee, set to go into effect on October 1, adds an additional hurdle for travelers from non-visa waiver countries like Mexico, Argentina, India, Brazil and China. The extra charge raises the total visa cost to $442, one of the highest visitor fees in the world"
lol, she needs a reviews blog!
I never remember to look at that. Interesting! Wouldn't have expected mine to score like this after getting a 4. WordleBot Skill 99/99 Luck 63/99
ICE hiding in plain sight: "A public records request with the Phoenix-Mesa Gateway Airport Authority for lease agreements with ICE or the U.S. Department of Homeland Security does not reveal any records. That is because ICE subleases the space from a company called Strategic Equity Investors."
It's sabotage
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...