I keep saying this, but if there is a sharp rise in skepticism or negativity towards the military among liberals because of these occupations, it will be treated as a problem that Democratic leaders need to answer and apologize for, not a crisis that the military or US government needs to address.
It’s time to teach Susan Collins a lesson.
This is, I swear to Christ, the lead story at the Atlantic Monthly right now
People are melting down at a Tribune article about CHSD 230 considering adding Arabic to its language learning electives. I wasted time in the comments, which I normally avoid doing since it's useless and awful, but it led to possibly the funniest thing anybody's ever said to me about France.
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To have your life ripped from you all because you were doing one of the most basic necessities of life - getting lifesaving water. Think how inhumane that is.
Five children in Gaza among those killed by Israeli strike while fetching water
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.”
9 CDC Directors going back to 1977 speak out. What RFK Jr has done to our nation’s public health system "should alarm every American." It "is unlike anything we have ever seen at the agency, and unlike anything our country has ever experienced." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...
Sen. Roger Marshall on the CDC purge: "This is the same group of so-called experts that told the entire country we should live in fear of monkeypox, but failed to tell us that unless you're a homosexual man you don't have to worry about this at all, that monkeypox is a sexually transmitted disease."
Kennedy must be removed from office. He has already caused a catastrophe at HHS and the CDC. I strongly suspect that he is about to use data manipulated by unscrupulous and unqualified individuals to attempt to falsely show that vaccines are in some way a net harm. He simply must be stopped.
Hey Congress – make Alex Acosta's testimony public and televised. There's absolutely no ethical reason for it to be private and transcribed. Nefarious AF. We need to hear your questions. We want to see him squirm. We need to see him squirm. Yet another sign of a cover-up.
If he departs this mortal sphere as I type this, it will do nothing to undo all the evil that his now bruised hands have wrought, to erase every vile thing his presence has exposed as he ascended politically. johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/i-dont-wis...
Yes. Susan Collins refuses to meet the public or hold town hall meetings. She only meets privately with rich donors who contribute to her campaigns. She has lost touch with the people she represents. She married a lobbyist. What does that say about her.
A 42-year-old Texas man has been charged with murder after an 11-year-old boy was fatally shot following a “ding-dong ditch” prank at a Houston home over the weekend, police said.
Vance follows a coterie of online Nazis on X, has described Curtis Yarvin as a major intellectual influence, and openly attacks immigrants in blood and soil terms. The response of most of the political press? "Doesn't look like anything to me."
If you're 60, 69.1% of all job growth since your birth occurred under Democratic administrations. If you're 45, that number is 74.7%. If you're under 28, the number is 100%. Happy Labor Day.
Congress is back — and a laundry list of thorny issues threatens to complicate the funding fight.
✅’d again, bitch!
From @ennui365 👊💙
A landslide in the middle of a war & famine that was declared last year & has since spread across Sudan. About 25 million people need urgent food aid, according to the UN, while at least 14 million have been forced from their homes. Where is the int’l attention? www.nytimes.com/2025/09/02/w...
Concern over low birth rates was what the theocracy in Margaret Atwood’s Handmaid’s Tale used to come to power.
Fresh off an August recess, House lawmakers are prepping for action on the Epstein files. GOP Rep. Thomas Massie plans to formally file his discharge petition *this afternoon* to force a vote on his resolution compelling the DOJ to release the files.
This is the most compelling case I’ve seen yet that America is no longer a democracy but an authoritarian state. Not a *soon-to-be* authoritarian state—a *current* one.
What in the ever loving fuck is going on here
WTF is this!?! What more could be coming!?! Geez! Can I get one good night’s sleep, please?
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Who voted for war with Venezuela?
Why is the U.S. moving towards 🇻🇪 ? Was there something in the news that I missed? Is this tRump’s way of getting his hands on its crude oil reserves? 🇻🇪 does have the world’s largest crude oil reserves. Mi patria ❤️
I’ve seen a lot of fucked up shit in my day, but this might just take the cake.
Stephen Miller: Secretary Kennedy has been a crown jewel of this administration
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Question: Why did US put big tariffs on India despite major national interest in cultivating a strategic counterweight to China and trying to isolate Russia? Answer: Because the US president lied that he fixed India-Pakistan and India wouldn’t go along with the lie. (Seriously, that’s the answer)
So I wrote this…checks notes…yesterday. Hmmm.
The reported meeting is part of the House Oversight Committee’s broader investigation into the Jeffrey Epstein case.
Neil Young quits Facebook and Instagram over Meta's use of chatbots with children 'Meta's use of chatbots with children is unconscionable,' Young's team shared in a statement. www.cbc.ca/music/neil-y...
Old Soviet joke for today: A man walks into a newsstand every day, looks around, and leaves. After a long time of this, the owner says “Can I help you find something?” “I’m looking for the obituaries.” “The obituaries are in the back of the newspaper, comrade.” “Not the one I’m looking for.”
The Iranian-backed Houthis said an Israeli airstrike killed the prime minister of the rebel-controlled government in the Yemeni capital, Sanaa.
When a president decides to disregard the will of the American people, you’re right, that’s the mark of authoritarian rule. The White House has notified Congress that it plans to cancel $4.9 billion in foreign aid funding that lawmakers had already approved, doing so without their consent.
We make a damn good risotto though 😋❤️🇮🇹
Parents and guardians could find back-to-school shopping in 2025 more expensive than ever before. You can get more bang for your buck in the days before school starts in a number of ways.
Mike Johnson dismisses the unpopularity of the Big Beautiful Bill: "The individual provisions of that giant piece of legislation are wildly popular." CNN host John Berman immediately debunks that claim.
RFK Jr is not reforming the CDC, he's breaking it. “There will be outbreaks that we miss & health care that’s not done with the best information,” “It’s a dangerous time-. I’m very scared for the people of the country.” -Dr. Anne Schuchat, dir CDC until 2021. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/29/h...
The layoff of the American Experience team is such a stomach-dropper of a story. This is really tragic for people who want to understand our country better - the story-telling they do is unparalleled. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/27/a...
Is he dead yet?
Let’s all in unison send our thoughts and prayers 🙏 Lord, take away this scourge from us. We pray that his soul find a home in hell for perpetuity. Amen 🙏
Are they able to come do my yard next?
New in PN: Making Slavery Great Again "Without irony or shame — and to absolve their followers of any guilt or responsibility — Trump wants to whitewash America’s original sin."
As a Canadian, I’m embarrassed for Lance. I have no proof but the guy never seems to enjoy what he does. His dad, on the other hand, always has a spark in his eyes. Lance should just walk away before he becomes an even bigger embarrassment for 🇨🇦 and a bigger liability for the team.
Sin verguenza. These bullies should be ashamed of themselves. They see nothing wrong in tearing away kids who are desperately pleading for their parents to be set free. Shame on all of them.
Inhuman. “I don’t have any choice” is a lie.
Today’s update from Weirdo HQ.
Mike Johnson makes clear that when Congress returns next week he's going to work tirelessly to cover up the Epstein files
Corporations socialize their losses and privatize their gains.
So not only do churches NOT have to pay taxes, they're going to get YOUR tax dollars to boot. This seems like oh, I don't know, government establishing a religion in violation of the First Amendment?
Donald Trump’s recent executive order against flag-burning will not only encourage more of it, @davidcole-gtown.bsky.social argues, but “could also hand flag-burners a legal defense in the rare situation when they might otherwise be prosecuted”:
Disgraceful.
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We’ve got a similarly fake one in 🇨🇦, Pierre PoiLIEvre
I’ve become resigned to the fact that I’m going to burn in hell when I die. My list of people I pray would die soon grows longer each day. Oh well 🤷🏻♀️
Nuns from a convent outside Waco have repeatedly visited the women on Texas’s death row—and even made them affiliates of their order. Lawrence Wright reports on a powerful spiritual alliance.
Florida taxpayers may lose $218M on empty ‘Alligator Alcatraz' as judge orders shutdown #ice #dhs #desantis #florida #immigration www.nbcmiami.com/news/local/f...
Hey Republican, Professed Christians, If all you're going to offer in the face of this kind of repeated carnage are "thoughts and prayers", people will continue to die, and you will continue to be an accessory. johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/thoughts-a...
Rep. Ilhan Omar calls for gun reform after Minneapolis school shooting.
When a company with a market cap above $1 TRILLION doesn’t have new products, but new vaporware “master plans” all the time. ‼️ 🚩 Alert. $TSLA $TSLAQ #timestamp
I think 🇨🇦 should stop buying food from the U.S. If they’re not checking for 🦠 in their food, how soon before someone dies?
The CDC is gutting a program that monitors foodborne illnesses. The program will now only track infections caused by two pathogens, rather than eight. Hello? How does this “Make America Healthy Again”?
I haven’t laughed this hard since the last time some sycophant in this admin said something so hilariously stupid. One of the world’s foremost expert on public health?! 😂😂😂😂😂
🚨BREAKING: Missouri Gov. Mike Kehoe (R) reinforced GOP power grabs sweeping the country, calling a special legislative session Friday to redraw congressional districts and weaken the ability of voters to pass laws through ballot initiatives. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
Good.
Russia unleashed a barrage of nearly 600 drones and missiles at Ukraine overnight into Saturday, according to Ukrainian officials. It was the second large-scale aerial attack in three days.
there is no question in my mind that rfk jr is the most dangerous person in this administration and that his eugenicist ideology threatens the lives of millions of people www.advocate.com/politics/dem...
Welch: Am American president talks to other American citizens like that, and propagandists come on TV and normalize this behavior. And nothing about this is normal. Nothing
Tulsi Gabbard released the names of CIA OPERATIVES! “It could potentially put CIA cover procedures at risk. It could put relations with foreign governments at risk.” The Predator in Chief picks all the best people...right? Not! www.thedailybeast.com/intelligence...
This is a real photograph of Washington, DC this week, where the United States president has ordered military occupation in peacetime, and ordered the display of colossal portraits of himself. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
🚨50 shades of fucked up. No fear but much loathing these “people” in 2025.
In most of the U.S., formaldehyde contributes more to outdoor cancer risk than any other toxic air pollutant. Look up your address to see risks from the chemical on your block and where it comes from: (Published Dec. 2024)
The de minimis exemption, which allowed imported packages worth less than $800 to enter the U.S. without facing any duties, will end for all countries on August 29.
CDC Director Dr. Monarez was allegedly ordered to accept ACIP’s forthcoming recommendations for COVID19 vaccines regardless of what the evidence from scientific data shows.
Has daddy Putin approved this? He’s not going to be too happy with his little puppet.
The Trump administration has approved the sale of 3,350 Extended Range Attack Munition (ERAM) missiles to Ukraine, providing a potentially powerful tool to Kyiv as it continues to face a relentless assault by Russia.
Her stupidity in full display again. No one’s saying that prayers are not powerful. We are saying that the common answer to a mass shooting is ineffective in and of itself. Action should be taken to prevent these shootings from happening again. Thoughts and prayers alone ain’t gonna cut it.
SMITE!
More than 20 Louisiana residents have contracted vibrio vulnificus, which can cause illness when a person eats raw or undercooked seafood.
Three senior CDC leaders who resigned told The Post they were asked to participate in an unscientific vaccine recommendation process that they believe could harm the health of Americans.
There’s a reason Dr. King's historic 1963 rally was called “The March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom.” As he warned the nation, "We all too often have socialism for the rich and rugged free market capitalism for the poor." Real freedom requires economic freedom for all.
Wow!! Incredible news!! 👏👏
CDC director Susan Monarez declined to fire agency leaders or to accept all recommendations from a vaccine advisory panel made over by Mr. Kennedy, according to people with knowledge of the events. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/28/h...
Good. I have questions and the American people deserve answers.
CINDY MCCAIN: “The desperation is overwhelming.”
Trump's tariffs causes SSENSE to file for bankruptcy protection. Devastating to small designers, as SSENSE is an important retailer for them.
The Department of Homeland Security is reportedly barring states and organizations that receive government funds from helping undocumented immigrants. This will make it harder for the most vulnerable people to get help in the aftermath of disasters. It was always about cruelty.
NEW: More than two decades after victims and families of the 9/11 attacks began trying to hold the Saudi government responsible for aiding the Qaida terrorists who carried out the plot, a judge has ruled that a lawsuit against the kingdom can go to trial.
Have we shared this literary masterpiece with our allies? I, for one, would enjoy listening to what they have to say about the loser that chose to use such repugnant words.