My biggest shock of our trip to Vegas recently was learning that those casinos are some of the greenest buildings on earth. They are roughly 99% solar powered and reclaim roughly 98% of all water. Why? Nothing to do with environmental issues at all. Simply because it is more profitable.
Watched the Coen's THE HUDSUCKER PROXY (1994) for the upteenth time. Every moment of this movie is perfection. "Y'know... For kids." #FilmSky tubitv.com/movies/10000...
. "Heads we win and tails you lose." .
the next Knives Out movie should be loosely based on the murder at Burning Man
Are we sure that wouldnāt just read as ripping off recent headlines?
Weird that whoever wrote the post about the CDC from the president's account didn't confirm that he fired the CDC director, and in fact conspicuously avoided the question.
Our society unfortunately incentivizes people to write things like this because itās more āprovocative,ā gets more clicks, etc. This is one of the fundamental problems with how information is disseminated in the digital age. Truth is uninteresting. Nonsense is oddly compelling to a lot of people.
Everything we take for granted at work ā weekends, sick leave, safer conditions, even the end of child labor ā exists because of unions.
Populist right-wing parties are now leading polls in Europeās 3 biggest economies ā the first time ever. š«š· France: Marine Le Penās National Rally (Jordan Bardella) polling at 36%, leading first-round projections. - people are retards
not looking forward to watching a cavalcade of nyt journalists fall over themselves to justify invading venezuela
Don't start what you can't finish.
today's Giuliani news feels like when you're watching season 5 of a TV series after they've already added so many new characters & plot lines that you can hardly keep up, & then for some inexplicable reason, the writers bring back some random character from season 1 and you're like WTF?!?
The thing is, if he were dead or incapacitated theyād be trying to push so many pardons and other shit through with his signature on it before they let the cat out of the bag.
some things never change š„²
Not that itās relevant but I once got interested in the question of what happens when the leader of a country becomes too ill to govern. If they are replaced thatās a sign of a functioning government, but if serious illness is covered up thatās a sign, I thought, of a personality cult.
Oligarchy is a big word but I think more people are coming to realize that nearly all of the people who have amassed the most power, the most wealth, and the most influence do not give a shit about the health of humanity, democracy, the environment, or public health.
What to do if you get arrested at a protest.
Surprised RFK jr didnāt recruit herā¦
Depressing to have to explain this week that yes, Elizabeth Holmes is a pure sociopath who did the crimes. Her 13 year spree of knowing fraud &medical harm was only stopped by dangerous+difficult work of whistleblowers & journalists. Obviously we're failing to deal with her even worse successors.
In 2019, Zac Brettler mysteriously plunged into the Thames from the balcony of a luxury flat in London. Roughly a year later, the prime suspect in Brettlerās case was found dead in the same apartment.
The US has only had one president born after 1946. (Obama, 1961). This country has *never* had a president who wasnāt alive at same the same time as people who were or had been enslaved.
When GOP controls govt, it supports govt ownership stakes in big U.S. corps. For now, the shares are non-voting shares. Could change in future. Basically it is setting firm-specific, higher corporate tax rates. Now, targeting highly govt dependent firms. www.politico.com/news/2025/08...
Just to clarify: Lil Nas X was incarcerated for several days, given a $75,000 bail, and is being forced to undergo drug and alcohol treatment for drugs he was proven not to be on. āTrust the systemā
This is 100% going to be a movie. Also Burning Man attendee who claims she didnāt know she was pregnant and then gave birth there to a nearly 4lb baby? Hello? www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
My statement on @nadler.house.govās decision not to seek re-election next year.
When Susan Collins was sworn in for the job she still has as U.S. Senator, the World Wide Web was less than five and a half years old. Netflix hadnāt been founded yet. And Maxwell Frost, the youngest Member of Congress, wouldnāt be born for another two weeks.
Maybe other countries newspapers should start asking questions about why US citizens keep speculating that their āleaderā is dying and force a statement out of the White House, eh?
For those LGBTQ people who are unable to spend Labor Day holiday with family due to rejection, please know you are worthy of unconditional love and acceptance.
One of the fascinating, if not often completely unhinged, parts of government is continuity thereof should something terrible happen. Apropos of nothing, when the President dies, there is an official line of succession such that there's never not a Commander in Chief.
The WH can hide Trump over a long weekend, and will be able to keep the plates spinning a few more days. OR Trump will appear on camera and do one of his hour long rambles. Either way, the speculation will end soon enough. You can't hide a president for long in 2025. Especially not this president.
Ah, yes. I remember when Michelle Obama ravaged the NIH and CDC, killed off vital vaccine research and denied inoculations to millions for reasons of pure BS. I remember this because I have Pundit Memoryā¢ļø, an exciting new product that makes you able to both-sides and whatabout anything!
God knows Iāve been wrong about this before, but Iām thinkingāhopingāin tandem with the horrors RFK Jr. is wreaking, that at least a few more people are perhaps beginning to consider that their government isnāt always honest with them about threats to their health. #COVID
Wild how RFK Jr is clearly hellbent on **taking vaccine decisions away** from parents who DO want their kids vaccinated... I assume the "parents' rights" groups will be lining up to support our parental rights, too, right? Because it's about parents' right to choose, right? Right?
Congrats on your regime propaganda, ABC News.
For the sake of sanity, can we as a society please stop having the kneejerk reaction of wanting to create a live-action version of a successful project that was originally animated? The fact that it was originally animated & successful is proof that animation is actually a great storytelling medium.
Only a 30-second standing O here.
I watch Face the Nation every week and when she was on today and said this, my jaw nearly hit the floor. Credit to the moderator for making her repeat it, because I couldn't believe what I heard either.
Sometimes I think about how the current president incited a deadly attack on the U.S. Capitol & went on to pardon all the folks who tried to kill cops & lawmakers while attempting to overturn a free & fair election on his behalf. But yeah, who could fairly opine on whether democracyās under threat
Posting for no particular reason: President Wilson was incapacitated by strokes in 1919 and his people did a good job covering it up. He never recovered but āgovernedā through 1921 lib.arizona.edu/hsl/material...
Beef prices have hit record highs this Labor Day Weekend ā in part thanks to Trump's tariffs. Remember when Trump said he would bring down the cost of groceries? https://youtu.be/9EXi6xyOXSk?feature=shared
Why is this the framing? Shouldnāt the angle be why are ICE officers wearing masks and doesnāt the public have the right to know who is acting on behalf of the government?
If youāve ever compared unvaccinated kids to vaccinated kids, youāve seen the former are more likely to die.
Concern over low birth rates was what the theocracy in Margaret Atwoodās Handmaidās Tale used to come to power.
Itās now 6:15 p.m. EST Has he given a presidential message via tv or video for labor day yet? Tweets donāt count We need to SEE him speak (with him holding todayās WashPo) Heās a vegetable, even more so than he was before
Trump recently ordered the Department of the Interior to halt work on a huge wind farm. 1,000 union workers had already completed 80% of the project. Now they're fired. He made sure the oil and gas billionaires got their tax breaks, though. Happy Labor Day, I guess.
My "I was assisting a victim of domestic violence shortly before being rear ended in a completely unrelated incident" t shirt is raising far more questions than it answers
It's kind of funny that RFK Jr. wants to "protect" us from vaccines while also wanting to install someone in the CDC whose entire ethos is let drugs onto the market and if people who take it and start dying start complaining pull the drug.
honestly insane how reporters have kept going "well but crime down so isn't this a good thing" about the take over of DC, dawg the reason why crime has collapsed is the same reason why restaurants are in freefall, because no one is outside because of all the goddamn goons
Whatās the Problem Bunky?
This āblue states closed schools too longā narrative is becoming increasingly entrenched in the Polite Center but itās arguable at best. Republican states had far more deaths during COVID and their students have roughly comparable learning loss.
Usha's husband is bad at impressions.
We are a sicker America today due to this perverted shit weasel. š¢
Wait is that an actual post from the pumpkin spice palpatine account? Because as a former copy editor, I can tell you he has never used nested quotations correctly before and I canāt imagine he suddenly gained that ability. š©š©š©
With someone this predictable and this OLD, any abrupt change in behavior, like not talking to the press or sitting for interviews, tells us something is wrong.
I agree. However, a coma would work quite nicely. Still alive, but the cabinet is still full of incompetence. Even if he were gone, no one in succession is strong enough to go against Putin and Xi. The slash and burning in the last 8 months has made us completely vulnerable and unstable.
My daughter was one of dozens of students arrested at Columbia and then suspended from her PhD program for two years in response--a clear project of the Palestine exception. Jessie runs it all down here. Paywall but you can see a preview at least. zeteo.com/p/columbia-u...
"What's your source" is a question a lot of you need to start asking before you share things.
aka the "questions answered by my shirt" rule
Friends, I urge you to join a Workers Over Billionaires protest this Labor Day. Letās honor the roots of this holiday by standing together to protest the exploitation and oppression of our tinpot dictator. bit.ly/4lMgKaR
Australia: "The federal government will start charging for freedom of information requests, in a major change to the fundamental accountability and transparency tool used widely by politicians and journalists." #auspol Source: www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
This is extremely problematic for several reasons: ā For one, the Commission has apparently - once again - deleted a document after I made a request for it. If they get away with suppressing document, there can be no meaningful transparency. ā Claiming something isn't a document because...
In the EU, chat groups on messaging apps Signal and WhatsApp have become a key venue for diplomacy. For instance, the EU foreign ministers share updates via a dedicated Signal group run by EU High Representative Kaja Kallas. Check out our story: www.ftm.eu/articles/eu-...
This morning, we published a story saying that European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen auto-deletes all her text messages on the Signal app, including those with an EU leader, president Emmanuel Macron of France. Here is why this is a massive problem for public accountability. š§µ
First, it has to be said that text messaging has become a primary channel of communications for leaders across the globe. Remember when US vice-president JD Vance and others discussed a US air strike on the Houthi rebels in Yemen on Signal, but accidentally invited a journalist to the group.
And no one says a word about weird white men named Scooter, Mitt, and Newt.
I mean. Do we have a press?
Everyone else may have moved on but weāve been still tracking more than 450 lawsuits aimed against the Trump Admin actions. Support our work. @mcuban.bsky.social www.courtwatch.news/p/lawsuits-r...
Meiselas: Xi Jinping and Modi and Putin and all these world leaders are gathering in China, and they're laughing. You know when Donald Trump says the world was laughing at us ā the world was not laughing at us before. The world is quite literally laughing at us right now.
As another part of the Trump administration's mass deportation push, immigration enforcement officials have conducted arrests outside courtrooms as people show up for hearings. Here's part of our conversation with a photojournalist who documented arrests at federal facilities in Manhattan.
Every single time
For all the Jake Tapper jokes, it is pretty unusual when someone writes a book on a topic to not be booked to opine as an āexpertā when almost the exact same situation is very relevant again. Jesus, Woodward and Bernstein are still dragged out to comment on every presidential scandal.
Wall Street was closed for Labor Day, but Monday was a big day for the crypto market with the launch of the Trump family's digital token. The launch reportedly means a windfall of billions of dollars for the family. The White House has often denied any conflict of interest for the president.
Was it Starlink?
SUSPICIOUS TIMING - The assassination attempt of European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen occurred on the same day as the Russia, China, India friendship meeting. Putin is known for timing his assassinations around significant events.
CNN confirms that the pilots landed the plane using paper maps. www.cnn.com/2025/09/01/w...
Good question, feckless answer
The article shouldāve been titled: āAmericaās Worst Idea: The Sequel.ā
Congressman Jerry Nadler would more than likely have been reelected to an 18th full term in Congress. He's long had the support and confidence of NYC voters. Instead, he's passing the torch and doing his part to center and strengthen the next generation of Democratic leadership. (thread)
Over Labor Day weekend, the Trump administration attempted to remove Guatemalan children who had come to the U.S. alone and were living in shelters or with foster care families in the U.S. https://to.pbs.org/4gcaHeI
It makes me emotional to see Judge Sooknanan showing that she values each individual childās life at a moment when this administration is doing exactly the opposite
Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social was curious; so he asked Ben Smith ā co-founder of Semafor, and former media columnist at the New York Times ā if Smith thought democracy is under threat in the U.S. Good question.
Iāve had an ongoing conversation with @paulandstorm.bsky.social (among others) about how hard it is to write a song that has to be a hit āin-universe.ā That is, it has to be so good the characters/listeners react in the way the story needs them to. K-pop Demon Hunters does it 8 times.
āThis was a necessary decision,ā said Chairman Paul Bulcke. āNestlĆ©ās values and governance are strong foundations of our company.ā https://to.pbs.org/4fYqNbu
Tens of thousands of anti-government protesters marched again in Serbia on Monday with shielded riot police guarding the Belgrade headquarters of Serbiaās President Aleksandar Vucic, who has threatened a major crackdown against those protesting his populist rule. https://to.pbs.org/41wvWll
The whole response is good, but the opening /closing statements are really great.
And then they compare w/Jan6 release (earlier they cite Munchel, the precedent for those cases).
Here's the response from Paul Bryant, the Black veteran and lawyer whom the govt arrested in part bc he had a legal weapon in DC, to USG attempt to get him detained. It leans heavily into the lack of Body Cam proving he shoulder checked some Guardsmen. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
