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It took @gofundme.com 14 days to take down my AI Datacenter fundraiser, because, duh, it was ridiculous. The real question is how long will it take YOU to realize that the government is committing BILLIONS of YOUR dollars and being asked for TRILLIONs more for the same preposterous thing?
"Some might view the recent court ruling, which will likely reunify the Salt Lake City area, as a partisan victory for Democrats. But something more important will happen: by restoring representation for Utah’s largest city, Utah’s interests will be better represented in Washington, D.C."
Only a few members of the Northwestern Band of the Shoshone Nation survived an 1863 attack that was the deadliest massacre of indigenous people in U.S. history. Today, their descendants are working to reclaim and restore the land — and they hope their work will also help the Great Salt Lake.
The genocide deniers are in overdrive right now, thanks to the Famine classification for Gaza City and the International Association of Genocide Scholars' recent statement classifying Israel's actions in Gaza as such. This excuse in particular is just dumb.
So you will get an automated message from OpenAI that your child is in danger? What could go wrong.
The GOP is a death cult
key to remember in all this revisionism that the world did discover a successful pandemic defense approach that avoided most of the harms. it was "Zero Covid until you can roll out vaccines," simple as bsky.app/profile/grud...
i wonder who they’re laughing about
FOX BUSINESS: “My goodness. $5 BILLION. Eye-popping numbers… crypto-friendly legislation coming from the president who is in turn cashing in on crypto. A conflict of interest.” Even Fox sees how insanely corrupt Trump’s crypto grift is. (H/T @ab21.bsky.social )
You cannot trust any reports and numbers coming from this regime
Smart birds
actual lockdown would have eliminated so many viruses, covid infections and deaths. essential workers could have been provided quarantine housing, masks should have been obvious and air filtration systems could have been installed everywhere over the past 4 years. kids could have gathered socially
The millionaire CEO who stole a hat from a child at the US Open is, ultimately, indicative of the whole ruling class. This is what we’re up against, a small number of people and a system that will gladly and unapologetically steal from children and from all of us. www.jphilll.com/p/who-steals...
So, terrorist Russia, in its escalation, is suspected of GPS jamming the plane carrying the EU chief.
Turkish stocks fall after court ousts Istanbul opposition leadership in a potentially landmark ruling that could hobble challengers to President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. on.ft.com/3JJpgKv via @financialtimes.com
Every news agency should be hounding the regime over this outrageous appointment. I’m sure that they won’t, but they should.
the new editor of vogue is chloe malle her parents are famous actress candice bergen and french director louis malle candice bergen is the daughter of famous vaudeville performer edgar bergen american meritocracy, undefeated
Jennifer Berkshire: Is Public Education Over? - A thoughtful and disturbing piece. dianeravitch.net/2025/09/02/j... via @dianeravitch #EducationMatters
BREAKING: Trump, Hegseth violated the Posse Comitatus Act with their troop deployment to Los Angeles, Judge Charles Breyer rules after trial. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Maria Bartiromo to Energy Secretary Chris Wright: "You've got all these projects which are not necessarily projects that you can rely on. I mean, is the wind blowing? Is the sun shining? And yet hundreds of millions of dollars were going at these projects."
Critical thread here. Congress has stepped up but they need to do more—they need to check the Executive Branch from running roughshod over their constitutional power of appropriation. They need to stop America from stagnating in the intellectual backwaters of a dictatorship
Holy crap, NYT let Charles Munger Jr. write an op-ed opposing the California redistricting without disclosing that he's FUNDING the opposition to the California redistricting. I have 4 mailers he paid for in my house right now and that's just the beginning. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/02/o...
The argument is: We're all meant to sacrifice a bit, so that tariffs can help rebuild American manufacturing. Let's ask American manufacturers whether they're helping.
Benny Johnson was caught plagiarizing Yahoo Answers when he was at Buzzfeed. But the most indicting fact about him is that while he always was a dipshit, mainstream DC was ~enamored~ with him. I once did a Senate Press Sec Assoc panel with him and no one was interested in my thoughts on reporting.
In an additional twist, Politico reports that some of the facilities housing the children may be resisting turning them over to ICE. It obtained a memo–dated Sunday and signed after Sooknanan’s order–from the acting director of the Office of Refugee Resettlement that chastised its contractors:
What does DREAM stand for? In #NYC, it's "Don’t Re-Elect Eric or Andrew for Mayor." The effort, supported by a pro-Mamdani independent spending group, says it’s needed to beat back the gamut of super PAC spending boosting Adams + Cuomo. Its organizer calls it the "ultimate hater campaign." Huh.
www.sltrib.com/news/environ...
I knew it was something.
exactly.
Concern over low birth rates was what the theocracy in Margaret Atwood’s Handmaid’s Tale used to come to power.
everyone get some rest so we can have energy for tomorrow’s horrors
Jesus theintercept.com/2025/08/25/p...
Was not particularly impressed with Weapons.
A Native Studies prof said the alternate title was Boogaloos with Buffalos
Right ? It was so bad in ways that weren’t necessary. The Revenant too.
Headline written like, "Children upset at flight delay." #Satire apnews.com/article/immi...
“Travel to 🇺🇸 down… Trump’s tariffs, immigration crackdown etc. alienated travelers… 🇺🇸 the only country among 184 studied where foreign visitor spending would fall in 2025...” The Trump effect. World Cup & Olympics are disasters waiting to happen. apnews.com/article/inte...
Aren't some measure of the Epstein fils supposed to come out on Wednesday ?
Looking at this collection of words and wondering how this company still exists.
This is what every retail chain does to employees. Hire them "Full time" then never give them enough hours to get health or other benefits.
This is so anti-military and anti-veteran. This is not what the National Guard was intended for.
i swear to god if he launches another memecoin
Is it a thing ? We came out the west exit of the theater by one of the Japanese restaurants and whoa, stinky. Also driving down highland to 21st.
Sugarhouse smells like a gas leak
Gotta imagine that Tony Simone and Erik Bottcher are both thinking about this seat now. If Brad Hoylman-Sigal had held out a little while longer, he probably woulda been a frontrunner for this, but he jumped ship to run for Manhattan Borough Prez this year. Talk about rough timing.
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Labor Day is more than BBQs. It is about unions, fairness, and the power of workers standing together. Democrats have always been part of that fight. Join us tonight at the Workers Over Billionaires Rally at the Utah Capitol. ✊ #LaborDay #UnionStrong #WorkersOverBillionaires
Seriously?!
NEW: This morning, DOJ's Drew Ensign confirmed that the last of 76 children the Trump administration tried to put on planes & send to Guatemala in the middle of the holiday weekend are back in the custody of the Office of Refugee Resettlement, the result of a well-timed lawsuit & fast-moving judge.
If someone fears the clear danger that Trump poses to the country, but they’d rather vote for that if it means that Black people get put back in their place? That person’s a fascist.
I'm sure this won't have any effect on the economy. Howard Lutnick says all the fired government experts can take those jobs.
Also, they were OK sending their kids to school under the belief the kids couldn’t get sick, but they were also OK with making unvaccinated teachers & staff risk their lives so kids wouldn’t have to stay at home.
An Aside - Dances With Wolves was a regretfully bad movie
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.
“‘I have no musical talent at all,’ he said. ‘I can’t sing, I can’t play instruments, and I have no musical background at all’”
Have a teenager in your life? In many places, you can pre-register a 16 or 17 year olds to vote when they turn 18. This is true in Florida. Check the rules with your local board of elections. More Labor Day homework: pre-register your teens to vote. 🗳️ registertovoteflorida.gov/home #registertovote
‘Kyiv on Monday said Russia was linked to the weekend assassination of a pro-Western Ukrainian politician after the arrest of a suspect alleged to have carried out the shooting disguised as a courier.’ www.cbsnews.com/news/ukraine...
I've been wondering about Iodine with so many folks now buying fancy culinary salts with out it.
Yes. There is a well documented history of Helen Keller and how she learned. Her descendants are also active in advocacy and fundraising for vision research and education. See a great historical video here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLqy...
Department of Defense partnership ?
I don't know about the UK. Very often in the US the amount of calories from 'Ultra processed' food is often based on income, fresh food availability and the leisure time to prepare it. Families where adults are working 2 & 3 jobs in areas with fewer grocery stores & poor transportation have risks
Just learned that the Cherokee Nation implemented an AI policy last month. Very cool! www.cherokee.org/media/fo4pcq...
Let’s get down to business
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I am so not an urge-a-podcast-on-you person, which is why it’s taken me until the end of Season 1 to urge on you Podyssey — Alex Andreou’s brilliantly entertaining illumination of ancient Greek myths and tales. His voice is so mellifluous it’s its own enchantment. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a...
I went to a game years ago and found the super slow spectacle and it audience hilarious and had a giggle fit at the ridiculousness as i saw it.
There are 'influencers' making big money telling pregnant women to absolutely avoid folic acid at all costs and that 'seed oils' are super bad for you. Everything in the info sphere is a mess
The thing that often blows by is not only is crime the lowest its been for any non-senior citizen's life, it has been roughly that safe for *fifteen years*. We have had fifteen years of steady, low crime while the irrational freakout over crime has relentlessly grown to a fevered, disordered pitch.
Crime is literally lower than it has been in the entire life of every single non-senior-citizen American. If you are under age 65 you have never lived at a time with lower property crime rates, lower violent crime rates or lower homicide rates. Never.
And 'seed oils'
See my other posts.This graphic was misleading & i found a better announcement. I did walk over and see the gathering as it was breaking up.
OK, good.
Trump’s treatment of Appalachia’s coal miners exemplifies his approach to labor in general: Kneecap unions whenever possible, prop up industry profits at all costs, and if a few workers die in the process, pretend it never happened. inthesetimes.com/article/trum...
FRESH: Salt Lake City photographer Samuel Hart uses precise lighting to create cinematic images. ow.ly/hMAv50WP69l
...Crime rates comparable to Washington’s, according to F.B.I. statistics. Kansas City, St. Louis and Springfield, Mo.; Birmingham, Ala.; Cleveland, Dayton and Toledo, Ohio; Tulsa, Okla.; Memphis and Nashville; Houston; Little Rock, Ark.; Salt Lake City; and Shreveport, La.,
“Salt Lake City-based Farmland Reserve — an investment branch of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints — is among the Central Valley’s top 20 largest agricultural land owners.” www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/open...
Gonna keep reposting this @timdickinson.bsky.social / me item: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
fact check: this isn't the banner, this is his disembodied spirit floating around DC a la enter the void
"They're imposing Sharia Law" is so 2010
This is the provision Ensign cited as the basis for the government's authority to summarily remove unaccompanied migrant children. I’d love to hear from immigration lawyers, but having briefly looked at it… it’s so frivolous it’d be laughable if it weren’t so cruel. (Am I wrong??)
The ethos behind Kennedy’s Make America Healthy Again movement blames individual people for their chronic diseases and links Medicaid users’ value to their economic productivity.
Remembering when the NYT went on a weeks-long bender covering a decades-old real estate deal the Clintons were involved in, in which they *lost money*.
The one fact that is often overlooked is that the shutdowns were never there to stop the spread of the virus. They were there to slow it down so it wouldn't completely overwhelm the hospitals. As bad as it got, it would have been worse had they not slowed the spread.
... it's their targets who must apologize. They're never held responsible for the lies. Never held responsible for getting so many people killed. Never held responsible for anything. It's just the people who care, who try, that we hold responsible, that we shit on & demonize. Never the gibbons.
But the entire Dem professional establishment was desperately *trying* to do the right thing & be responsible. Contrast: immediately upon the arrival of the virus, the right started spreading insane conspiracy theories, attacking public health officials, & refusing to act in solidarity.
But it's always like this. Democrats try to do the right thing. They fall short, like humans do. Everyone teams up to shit on them. Republicans don't even bother pretending. They lie, they smear, they destroy lives, they get people killed, & they face NO RESPONSIBILITY FOR IT.
Thi was my first thought LOL
porn mirrors a lot of stuff and as far as tech goes it can be at the vanguard of a lot of it, it unironically deserves legitimate coverage
perfect symbol for entirely transactional trump regime--complete void of compassion or anything remotely resembling decency when money to be made. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...
Elon Musk continues to be the bigoted shit-stain he always was. Just because he goes "quiet" for a while, doesn't mean he has had a change of heart, it just means his stockholders are begging him to shut up and stop undermining their retirement investments... but even then, the pus must ooze!
It’s ugly, but it needs to be made clear, that Elon Musk is a white supremacist and he will continue to use his ridiculously over-compensated wealth to bankroll any political party in predominantly white countries that promote white primacy. He is the living ghost of apartheids past.
On this Labor Day, be sure to read the N&O's Josh Shaffer's story on the Wolfpack's Clyde "The Glide" Austin and his family's desire to bring him home after his death (free link) www.newsobserver.com/news/local/a...
Turns out this was a misleading graphic in a way. on a different graphic the fee is optional and the orgs they are supporting are listed. THAT said I would have had people bring non perishable food for the homeless people that camp in the park a hundred feet in any direction of this event.
NYTimes: Crime Festers in Republican States While Their Troops Patrol Washington "Republican governors did not want to answer why they were willing to send their National Guard troops to Washington while not inviting the same attention to their cities." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/u...
Remember when people used the term "false equivalency"?
Jenny Cohn 