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Rep. Richard Hudson (R-N.C.) told a closed-door meeting of House Republicans to stop hosting town halls in the midst of backlash from voters. Most appear to have taken that to heart: By mid-August, only 16 of the 219 House Republicans had held at least one in-person town hall event.
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It's official. The books that I wrote arrived. I am an author y'all. I AM AN AUTHOR. A childhood dream I never thought could happen is happening!!!!!! 🥹 In 15 days, #TheDoubleTax is coming to a doorstep, bookstore, and library near you. Please pre-order by 9/16: annagifty.com! #booksky #blacksky
senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, former chief economist to Senator Rob Portman (R-OH) & director of budget and spending policy for Marco Rubio’s 2016 presidential campaign👇🏽
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If we will never be a Socialist [sic] or Communist [sic] Country [sic], then why are you giving billions of dollars to farmers to make up for losses from your stupid tariffs (SOCIALISM) and having the US government own part of Intel (COMMUNISM)?
Dan Wakefield, future creator of NBC's JAMES AT 15, wrote a piece on the NYC civil defense drills for the 8/60 ESQUIRE. NYU English professor Leonard R. Marelli wrote a letter to the editor that was published in the Oct. edition. Prof. Marelli, evidently, couldn't resist a name-check of E.B. White.
an illustration i've made for the "Dark Fairies" zine! 🦋
I had a question come up and it's a good one, so I thought I would do a quick thread: We often see silent movie footage that is battered, decayed and smeary but what did these films look like to their original audience. And the answer is... it depends!
@laugh-about-it.bsky.social
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!
"The lunatics are running the asylum."
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...
This part. Everyone should be taking notes from @ivehaditpodcast.bsky.social’s @mizzwelch.bsky.social
CARTOON OF THE DAY (From @mluckovichajc)
Did you hear about the Pentagon official who allegedly had some kind of messy affair with an astrologer? (No, that's not the setup for a joke, that's an actual news story.) I just realized today that it's this bigoted guy we wrote about five years ago. www.thebulwark.com/p/a-terrible...
good mornin #sInGeRsOnGwRiTeR #cOuNtRy #OrGiNaL #folk #song
Nature is healing
Gotta hand it to the artist.
MAGA: "Go woke, go br—oh, never mind. . ."
My reporting uncovered the existence of DoJ training videos instructing FBI personnel on how to flag Trump’s name in the Epstein files. I’m suing to get the videos under FOIA. substack.com/@muellershew...
Sure, maybe ten years ago it was, for some, a considerable accusation to make – but not any more. Not for a long while. You'd have to be willfully ignoring so damn many things not to see it now. It sure AF looks like we have a pedofile sexual predator for a president. Release the Epstein files.
Comedian Rita Brent previews Gloria Gaynor’s upcoming Kennedy Center performance
Well that’s a happy post that made me smile, TY
Welp, that’s just a blissful wonderment of happiness
The voiceover is like a bedtime story 🛏️ 🤣 Zingerman's Bakehouse Ann Arbor, Michigan
Image caring more about stopping a memorial for people killed in a mass shooting than stopping mass shootings. #Priorities
@nealkatyal.bsky.social: “You’ve got the president who's imposed the largest tax increase on American consumers since 1993 … and he did it without Congress saying one word. That is not our constitutional structure.”
Who voted for war with Venezuela?
In Which Nadine Amuses a Dragon and Makes Autumn Happen
CHICAGO…
Earth to Eve @earthtoeve.bsky.social
This is never going away, is it?
Because you needed a cute red panda video... 😊 #bluesky #nature #animals
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Heeey, all of Bluesky is turning into Gerry-flappers!
Ashli Babbitt died doing what she loved—being a domestic terrorist.
Hi, immunologist here: (a scientist who studies immune & inflammatory processes) RFK Jr is talking absolute bullshit when he says he can “see in kids faces that they have inflammation” That’s NOT how immunology works. He is an anti-science profiteer. Start calling him such.
Everyone at the CDC is getting fired or resigning. RFK Jr. wants to ban all vaccines. His idiocy will get millions of people killed.
This interview, which is also available to listen to as a podcast, provides a useful overview of some of the dangerous trends we’ve been seeing in recent months regarding federalization and militarization of state and local police functions.
Why would I be shocked that any of this is happening when my parents lived through being told to cross the STREET for white people? We know who yall are.
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"Rainy City Cars" - my oil painting, 12"x16"
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Trump's "Big Ugly Bill" provides massive tax cuts for the richest 1%, $117B to the wealthiest people in 2026 alone. The rest of us wind up worse off! Organize & fight back!
Daily smile for today... 😊 #bluesky #animals #nature
There are no words that will heal the pain of this community.
AMERICA: “It’s a mental health issue.” REST OF THE WORLD: “We have those. But don’t have mass shootings.” AMERICA: “It’s video games.” WORLD: “We have those too. But don’t have mass shootings.” AMERICA B: “It’s cause they took Jesus out of the classroom.” WORLD: “God, you’re stupid.”
IMO many Americans don't even buy guns for personal protection or to defend themselves against a tyrannical government. They simply have a shopping addiction
CHAOS ERUPTS AT CDC CDC Director Susan Monarez has been ousted after RFK Jr. demanded she change her policy on the COVID vaccine. Top officials from the Vaccine Unit, Zoonotic Division, and the Chief Medical Officer are resigning, per reports. Horrifying news for public health.
Drones. Warning of a missile attack. Midnight. I’m showing you Ukrainian art. Maybe I just need something beautiful. Ruslan Kutniak, Village Grail, 2017
Garden of the Assylum, Vincent Van Gogh 1889
It’s all about power. If they replace the heads of military with yes men, they have power and control. And ensuring it just before the mid terms. By the time most realize what has happened and what continues happening, it will be too late.
Correct Bernie! RepubliKKKans Haven't believed in Science FOREVER......
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We have become an authoritarian state, and our top newsrooms are in denial.
Anastasia Trusova, It’s Warm (acrylic on canvas, 2023)
Got to see these little guys making their way into the ocean this morning! 🐢 #seaturtles #conservation #beach #nature #miamibeach
Where the Karakoram Highway connects Pakistan with China over the Khunjerab Pass at 4700m above sea level, one of the highest paved roads in the world.
Friday Finnish!!! Aukusti Uotila 1858-1886 Finnish golden age painter. He died of tuberculosis only at 27 and lived many of his years in France. Nuottakota (Boat House) 1884 Oil on canvas 47 cm x 37,5 cm Finnish National Gallery Ateneum, Helsinki Finland
Jon asks why the GOP's "one is too many" logic applies only to immigrants and not mass shootings
FWIW, "yours for the restoration of the Republic" was a common salutation American fascists gave to each other in the 1950s and 1960s. This is from a 1952 letter by Ohio white supremacist terrorist Peter Xavier. The rest of the rhetoric here might be familiar too.
Grab some popcorn and watch history being made 🍿 In 10 minutes and 9 seconds, Ludmila's hat trick tonight is the FASTEST in NWSL history!
From 2019-2024, Lowe's spent $46.6 BILLION on stock buybacks. That's enough to give each of its 273k employees a $28k bonus for the next six years. Instead, it paid its CEO 659x what it paid median employees. And we STILL think corporate tax breaks will magically trickle down?
Perfection
A couple of interesting things about the Ghislaine Maxwell/Todd Blanche audio recording: it's not one continuous recording. It's broken up into 7 parts on day one, and 4 parts on day two. Further, Todd Blanche says he spoke to Maxwell off the record for several minutes before the recording. 1/
The developers of this project stand to be totally screwed and left holding the bag to the tune of $5B A reminder that the approval for the ocean area lease was granted during Trump's first reign. See below for who the real winners are....
A half dozen armed goons brutally attacked a man FOR EATING IN PUBLIC?
Justice Jackson is basically reporting live from inside a garbage fire www.ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/nih-c...
Trump and Republicans are determined to have black lung and black coal reign in America again. This is a private Danish company, and hope they sue the fuck out of Trump. This project was 80% completed & slated to provide the energy for hundreds of thousands of homes, plus jobs.
I remember that quite clearly. Funny how that works.
Florida's book ban law FINALLY deemed unconstitutional in a court of law. www.metroweekly.com/2025/08/flor...
Otherwise known as communism.
From "highly CONFLICTED" to "Highly Respected" in just weeks — and all it took was for him to give away 10% of his company
NEW: Indigenous activists opposed to Nevada’s Thacker Pass lithium mine have for years been surveilled by law enforcement agencies and the company behind the mine, records show. “They treat us like we’re domestic terrorists,” an organizer said.
If you aren’t uncomfortable learning our country’s history, you are learning propaganda.
About 45 minutes after high tide. Hurricane Erin is still ripping it up! Magnificent!😍 #OceanDevotion
We may luck out and it’ll be today.
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Kitten discovered he has beautiful feet... 😊 #cat #catday #bluesky