Patrick is, of course, lying. Look at Chicago's very successful Deep Tunnel project. Zero Musk involvement.
American Democracy is being attacked from within. If criticizing Israel for its genocide In Gaza is "antisemitic," what does that say about semitism? Russia's imperialist instincts must be crushed.
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Patrick is, of course, lying. Look at Chicago's very successful Deep Tunnel project. Zero Musk involvement.
Childhood vaccination rates are declining in the U.S. Medical experts say hesitancy is likely to increase as a result of misinformation pouring from the Trump administration — and turmoil at the federal agency responsible for setting vaccine policy. ohiocapitaljournal.com/briefs/as-cd...
What a summer it’s been! How did we spend it? Try and find out in the latest Bellingcat Open Source Challenge! challenge.bellingcat.com
As a U.S. federal judge blocked the deportation of unaccompanied Guatemalan children, the government of Guatemala says in a statement it suggested the U.S. return its children to their home country.
“ I never got a break. I would’ve done anything for a pause button.” The construction industry has a suicide crisis, @jillmwebb.bsky.social reports. Advocates are leading mental health discussions during “toolbox talks,” which are usually for addressing typical construction site safety practices.
A plane carrying Ursula von der Leyen, the president of the EU's executive arm, suffered from jamming of GPS navigation while flying over Bulgaria. The authorities believe that Russia was behind the operation, European officials said on Monday.
Funding cuts to Afghanistan obstruct earthquake response reut.rs/4p2ICKE
UK experienced its hottest summer on record in 2025, Met Office says
For many Gen Z and millennial Americans, concerns about finances and the economy can feel ever present. NPR wants to know how economic barriers are affecting you and your political views.
Democratic mayors and governors need to start planning to ensure everyone who wants to vote can vote -safely
Trump’s unprecedented weaponization of National Guard troops in recent months raises alarming concerns that the administration might be laying the groundwork to interfere with elections in key cities next year and in 2028.
Empowering students with 3D printing technology can transform Ukraine's future, fostering innovation and resilience. Let's build a generation of creators! #futurism
Graham Platner, an oyster farmer from Maine, announced a bid for the seat of incumbent GOP Sen. Susan Collins. His goal? To “claw back wealth that was created by the labor and the consumption of working class Americans who have not shared in the riches they helped build.”
Empowering students with 3D printing can revolutionize Ukraine's rebuilding efforts, fostering innovation and self-sufficiency. Let's invest in a brighter future! #futurism
Vessels expected to reach Gaza in mid-September in third attempt by sea to end war that has killed 63,000 Palestinians.
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Donald Trump has reportedly gone out of his way to avoid paying national guard troops sent in to Washington, D.C., resulting in outrage from veterans.
⚡️Ukrainian forces liberate village near Kupiansk in Kharkiv Oblast. The positions previously allowed Russian troops to control the road leading into Kupiansk, approximately 104 kilometers (65 miles) east of Kharkiv, the regional capital.
Dozens of immigration courts across the country have become epicenters of the Trump administration's efforts to increase the rate of immigration arrests.
Ports across the country were planning to become economic hubs for the growing offshore wind industry. The Trump administration is cancelling grants to build the infrastructure for it.
Residents are finding all sorts of ways to fight ICE: They're recording and reporting. They're wheatpasting and sharing know-your-rights materials. And they're stepping up to care for each other, from delivering groceries to walking kids to school. 51st.news/dc-residents...
More than 1,000 people currently imprisoned in Louisiana were convicted by split juries — ruled unconstitutional in 2020. Yet the state Supreme Court has declined to grant new trials, and lawmakers have repeatedly denied a reexamination of their cases. With @veritenews.org
A Texas Republican lawmaker suggested in 2022 that a way to deal with immigrants is to “shoot, shovel and shut up.” The comments could strengthen the legal challenge to the state’s gerrymander by demonstrating racial discrimination against Latinos. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
Pope Leo XIV denounced the “pandemic of arms, large and small,” as he prayed publicly for the victims of the shooting during a Catholic school Mass in the United States.
One disabled Marine veteran has not had a primary care doctor assigned to him since his previous doctor left in the winter, his wife said. The VA “was never like this before. There’s a lack of staff, empty rooms, locked doors.”
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🚗 Black cars amplify city heat Parked cars intensify the urban heat island effect. In Lisbon, a black car heated nearby air by up to 3.8 °C more than the asphalt beneath it. Light colours and shading cut the effect. 🔗 www.zmescience.com/ecology/clim... #SciComm #Cars 🧪
Have I told you today that I love Jupiter? (Image from the incredible JunoCam) 🧪
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Happy to announce that my short experimental film «VOID.exe» (USA, 2025) has been awarded at the Florida Shorts Film Festival.
#Ukraine #UkrainianView
Dnipro city is under very heavy missile attack (on top of the kamikaze drones). The world still does too little to stop russia. #Ukraine #UkrainianView
Washington Post vs Democracy Docket covering the latest on the GOP's redistricting power grab in Missouri. Who do you trust to give you pro-democracy news, information and analysis? Support DD and subscribe today: hubs.ly/Q03jcjqP0
Republican Rep. Barry Moore was heckled so badly at his Alabama town hall that he literally left out the back door in the middle of the event. Moore didn't offer concluding remarks or even bid good night to the rowdy crowd as they chanted "Shame!" during his exit. www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...
“.. Kennedy was acting bizarre, saying he can tell as he walks past children if they are dealing with “mitochondrial challenges” .. Can he mysteriously divine illnesses just by looking? “Our health secretary is a certified quack.” @nytopinion.nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2025/08/30/o...
I see and I hear and I speak no evil; I carry no malice within my breast; yet quite without wishing a man to the Devil one may be permitted to hope for the best. -“An Ethical Grook” by Piet Hein
These are National Guard folks who were pulled from their civilian jobs. And now they're going to quit the Guard, and we'll have a weaker military.
“…I am infuriated that the Air Force plans to grant military funeral honors to Ashli Babbitt. She did not die defending the Constitution. She died trying to overturn it.” My latest in @thebulwark.com www.thebulwark.com/p/honoring-a...
Netflix co-founder and Democratic megadonor Reed Hastings has given $2 million to help California redraw its House maps. www.politico.com/news/2025/08...
#FlorenceAndTheMachine #EverybodyScream #FATM #musicmatters #musicislife #musicsaveslives #Musicisforever #musicistherapy #gaza #freegaza #Palestine #FreePalestine 🇵🇸 #Ukraine 🇺🇦 🔄
I can't believe you'd want someone who looks like *this* to resign.
The only other Secretaries of Health and Human Services to ever resign were Tom Price (Trump, 2017) and Alex Azar (Trump, 2021). Price used unauthorized military aircraft and Azar expressed concerns that Trump's actions and rhetoric had tarnished the administration's legacy during Covid. Ironic.
#EndGunViolenceNOW☠️
listen he cannot officially be declared un-dead until his caddie casually drops a ball on the green after he shanks one into the woods sorry I don't make the rules here
We’ve been lied to our whole lives. The maps we grew up with shrink Africa down, making it look so much smaller than it really is. The truth: Africa is massive. You can fit the United States, China, India, Japan, and most of Europe inside it—and still have room left over.
“A 14% price increase” When Trump & @MarshaBlackburn tell you there has been no inflation, they’re lying
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“A respected network of hospitals and cancer centers is halting enrollment in clinical trials for children with brain cancer after the federal government said it would no longer provide funding to the group.” This is on Trump. Gift link here: www.nytimes.com/2025/08/28/w...
Cartoon by @dennisgoris.bsky.social.
Reminds me of this classic: youtu.be/r5AZwkz8zLU?...
"And it's embolism for the win!"
In Russia, they'd play Swan Lake on TV. What will they play here in the US? "Ding dong, the witch is dead..." "Blue skies, nothing but blue skies..." "Just One Victory" (Todd Rundgren)
Honestly love that the vibe here on a late Friday night going into the last weekend of summer is “gosh I really hope he’s dead, we’re gonna throw one hell of a party”
BREAKING: A U.S. appeals court has ruled that most of Trump’s “reciprocal” tariffs...imposed under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act...are illegal...arguing that the president overstepped authority reserved for Congress. Tariffs stay in place during appeal.
Citizens United. Presidential immunity.
There's going to be a lot of dumb political noise following this decision, so it's worth being clear about the key finding. It does not ban tariffs. It simply says that you have to convince Congress.
Headed to Moscow? If you know, you know.
NEW — I wrote about the resignation of SSA's chief data officer just says after he blew the whistle on a major data vulnerability, including the full text of his blistering email and how his allegations confirm those made by a previous whistleblower and a former employee back in March:
so many people are going to die because not enough people were willing to believe that RFK jr would actually try to do exactly what he has said for decades that he wanted to do
Trust us, Americans are already embarrassed to tears.
While Trump goes backward on clean energy development, California pushes forward in building an affordable, clean energy future. I signed a new executive order to maintain our progress in adding clean electricity to our power grid while protecting thousands of good-paying jobs.
Garcia: This is a great ruling by the court. Of course, Donald Trump is already overreacting, saying this is going to somehow be the destruction of the United States. I'm not sure if he's aware he's trying to do that all on his own.
This is terrific news, but she could also simply stand up to Trump in the meantime.
This notion that Republicans are coasting right now and the wind is beneath the sails of Donald Trump is just not true. Joni Ernst is not going to run for reelection in Iowa. There was a special election in Iowa earlier this week and the Democrats have now broken the Republican super majority.
It’s easier to purchase an assault rifle in the U.S. than it is to get a COVID19 vaccine. But food dyes and wearable fitness monitors are going to fix everything.
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Pulling firefighters away from an active fire is hardly going after the real criminals.
me after the tariffs are struck down as illegal
“Do you guys feel bad about what you’re doing? Don’t you f*cking hate yourselves?”
And Officer Brian Sicknick?
The Trump administration canceled the Secret Service protection for Vice President Kamala Harris. Why would they do such a reckless thing? Republicans are psychotically consumed by revenge. These extremists are unfit to govern and dangerous to the American way of life.
Let's re-open Spandau Prison.
Trump will be giving military funeral honors to Ashli Babbitt, the J6 insurrectionist who stormed the Capitol with a violent mob. He is also giving her family $5 million in taxpayer dollars. Fallen Capital Police officer Brian Sicknick, who lost his life trying to protect the Capitol, gets NOTHING!
BREAKING: Appellate court invalidates Trump’s tariffs, Republicans run from re-election following recent special election losses, an uprising at Alligator Alcatraz was met with tear gas and baton beatings, and more. The news you missed: open.substack.com/pub/aaronpar...
Trump and Dr. Oz want AI to decide which Medicare patients get care—and they're giving AI companies a profit-incentive to deny coverage. Everything about this is sick and wrong. Tell Congress to intervene NOW:
This crime at Social Security might amount to the biggest data theft in human history. Committed by a government against its own citizens. I don’t think anyone has begun to grasp the sheer scale of corruption and institutional destruction that has occurred in the last few months. Era-defining.
No, President Trump. Forcing seniors with traditional Medicare to get prior approval from AI companies before they can receive the health care they need won’t make America healthy again. It will make AI companies even richer by denying care to seniors. DON’T CUT MEDICARE.
J.Crew is under fire for using AI for their ad campaign. I work in the fashion industry, and this is happening more than people realize. My issue with AI-generated ads isn’t the tech, it’s the possibility of outright theft of intellectual property and likeness.
Grateful.
BOOM. The federal appeals court rules Trump's tariffs illegal, because they are. There's no national emergency, and so the power to tariff a country rests with Congress. Trump admin has lost at every stage of the process, but stay tuned for the Supremes to chime in.
BREAKING: Federal Circuit, 7-4, rejects Trump’s tariffs under the IEEPA, affirming the lower court’s decision against Trump. www.cafc.uscourts.gov/opinions-ord...
By a 7-4 vote, the full Federal Circuit has *affirmed* a lower-court ruling holding that many of President Trump’s tariffs exceed his statutory authority. The ruling won’t go into effect until October 14, though—which gives the Trump administration plenty of time to seek intervention from #SCOTUS:
Trump putting an election denier in charge of elections is like hiring a bank robber to guard the vault. We see you, Donnie.
What is the value of you simply repeating (and thereby amplifying) these peoples' statements? You know they're absurd, I know they're absurd, but there are folks who will take this shit at face value. At least provide a rebuttal, or let @grok supply one.
One of the world’s foremost experts? Get the fuck out of here, Doogie Himmler.
A brief public service announcement: Do not give up hope that we can overcome this. That’s how Trump and his regime wins.
russian bombers are on their way to the Ukrainian night. It’s almost 1 am here. All I want is for everyone to wake up in the morning.
BREAKING: A federal appeals court has ruled (rightly) that His Magasty's tariffs are illegal. Which is really cool until it gets to the Supreme Corpse, and they gently lick all the pus off his balls.
Really. What, then, is the point of having courts?
