Kilmar Abrego Garcia, who has become the face of President Donald Trump's immigration crackdown, is in a Virginia detention center facing deportation to the east African country of Uganda.
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Kilmar Abrego Garcia, who has become the face of President Donald Trump's immigration crackdown, is in a Virginia detention center facing deportation to the east African country of Uganda.
This photo does nothing to convince me he isn’t dead.
Meanwhile in Russia: Vladimir Solovyov and Margarita Simonyan discussed Trump's health and America's diminishing global standing. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ezOy...
Washington's speculation about Trump's health is at a fever pitch. We've seen multiple reasons this summer to ask questions — and the media doesn't seem to care. What's really going on? www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/it-s-time-...
Pope Leo XIV met with one of the most prominent advocates for greater LGBTQ+ inclusion in the Catholic Church. The Rev. James Martin said Leo told him that he intended to continue Pope Francis’ policy of LGBTQ+ acceptance in the church and encouraged him to keep up his advocacy.
Trump will not make a public appearance today either. His last televised appearance was as long as six days ago.
The 6.0-magnitude quake struck eastern Afghanistan just before midnight on Sunday, killing around 800 people in the remote Kunar province.
They should do it anyway for the environmental benefits.
There are few things Elon Musk knows less about than birth control. However, his “seed the world to save Western Civilization” fantasies know no bounds. It’s also worth noting that he’s retweeting this British racist for his “facts.” hopenothate.org.uk/2024/06/20/e...
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.
Yeah, he's dead.
Wikipedia editors trying to fend off the onslaught of AI crap have crowdsourced some telltale signs of LLM-generated writing; it might be handy for editors and proofreaders generally. Thanks to @ellenrykers.com for pointing me to it. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikiped...
If you are a person who regularly donates items for food banks, please also consider adding cake mix and icing for birthday cakes and period products. Both make life infinitely nicer for folks who need something nice.
“Such “circular” transactions — with the same party effectively acting as both buyer and seller — are common in crypto markets but rare in traditional finance, and often raise red flags.” Yeah those red flags are visible from orbit
MORE: Sparkle Sooknanan is still awake -- and she wants a fourth status report from DOJ. The judge orders the government to update her when all putative class members have been returned to ORR custody.
So the photos we get of the “golf outing” today is a pale and feeble looking one of him getting to a car at the WH and this one of him returning. Nothing from the course.
#GiftLink www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...
Here is a gift link. I know people have feelings about the times but this is free and reading this should make you very very mad and then you should do something:
US reportedly suspends visa approvals for nearly all Palestinian passport holders
NEW: 72 of the 76 Guatemalan children previously boarded onto planes have been returned to ORR custody, per DOJ, with the remaining 4 expected to be returned in the next 15 min. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
🎶There's a sad sort of clanging from the clock in the hall And the bells in the steeple, too And up in the nursery an absurd little bird Is popping out to say "cuckoo" (Cuckoo, cuckoo) Regretfully they tell us But firmly they compel us To say goodbye To you... So long, farewell Auf wiedersehen
Glad I had some left.
#GiftLink www.nytimes.com/2025/08/31/u...
Robert Mueller has Parkinson’s Disease, has developed difficulty speaking, and will not be able to comply with a request to testify before Congress about the Jeffrey Epstein investigations. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/31/u...
at their core, trans rights, abortion rights, and vaccine rights are actually all the same issue: they’re all about bodily autonomy, and the willingness to concede any of them puts the others at risk.
Jamie Oliver brilliantly debunks the lies and ridiculous statements that RFK JR. has stated on multiple occasions. Experts are saying that RFK JR’s statements could very well be related to the worm in his brain. He is extremely dangerous and unfit! #USDemocracy #Pinks youtube.com/shorts/JPzXG...
Reminder that the Federalist Society became the legal arm of the Heritage Foundation Trump not only put 3 Federalist traitors on the SC, every current Republican appointed member of the court is Federalist Society affiliated. That means they will be advancing their agenda for decades to come.
Dr Demetre Daskalakis is one of the big CDC officials who just resigned. He said RFK Jr never met with experts from his division, not even for briefings on measles, COVID, or RSV, in the seven months he has served. “He has never been briefed by any human from my center about anything.”
HISTORY IS BEING MADE TODAY Today, the largest civilian flotilla ever assembled has set sail from Spain, carrying hope and humanitarian aid to Gaza. People from 44 nations, united on dozens of boats, are defying the blockade with solidarity and courage. (From #GlobalSumudFlotilla on IG & Twitter)
FEDERAL AGENTS TAKE NOTE… It’s not just Chicago standing strong. Other blue cities and governors are ready to unite against Trump’s federal invasion. I’m not an attorney, but this point seems huge: if federal agents break state or city laws, they can prosecuted. And Trump cannot pardon them.
Here is today's forage fact. Giant pandas don't just eat one species unless they're in a poorly-managed zoo.
Why is the Draft Dodger-in-Chief trying to drag us into a war with Venezuela? The claim is that drug cartels are so out of control they’ve been designated an international terrorist organization, so we need to send warships. But we’re denying Venezuelan’s asylum claims who fled for their lives. 🤔
Hu? 'Lift’s approach would intravenously transplant healthy neutrophils, cultured in a lab from stem cells from “super donors” who have the best potential immune responses.' www.ft.com/content/c51f...
Margaret Atwood is 🔥 #abpoli #Alberta
Remember the Goolsbee Rule, also called the “pathological irony of crisis”: If you lose credibility, your statements begin to mean the opposite of what you say.
ABC News is still calling RFK Jr. a “vaccine skeptic.” The dude was one of the most prominent anti-vaccine activists for decades. There’s video of him in 2023 saying that there’s no vaccine which is safe and effective. You can call him an anti-vaccine activist!
wow
So few words, so many lies.
A couple people in D.C. spent the night in custody Friday after writing messages in chalk on a flagpole outside Union Station. The National Guard apparently witnesses the vandalism in progress. (Which is maybe not surprising as one of the people was in a banana costume.)
Want to understand Russian policy? Ignore what they say to us in the West, listen to what they say among themselves:
Brilliant
The real lesson here is you should always have closed captioning on
UPDATE: Drew Ensign just filed a notice of appearance in the case, so I suspect we'll get that status update momentarily.
NEW: Judge Sooknanan now orders the govt to explain why it has failed to meet her 4 p.m. ET deadline to give a status update on the Guatemalan children who are supposed to be removed from planes and returned to Office of Refugee Resettlement custody.
Meanwhile in Russia: Zakhar Prilepin explained that regardless of any ceasefire, Russia will eventually resume its efforts to take all of Ukraine. He scoffed at Trump's peacekeeping proposals and emphasized that Russia will never be friends with America. www.youtube.com/watch?v=TKrS...
Corona is spreading again. It was discovered in Al-Aqsa Hospital and is now spreading among residents and displaced people. Its symptoms are fever, nausea, and diarrhea. Now I feel these symptoms and I have taken the necessary measures to prevent transmitting it to the family😴😪🍉 gofund.me/fd70f08a
Beauty retailers starting to communicate to customers what we all knew was coming
Israel has killed 63 people—including 32 aid seekers—in Gaza so far today.
![Drop Site News Drop Site % @DropSiteNews At least 63 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli attacks across Gaza since dawn, including 32 aid seekers. Below: a father carries the body of his child killed in a strike on their home in Al-Maghazi camp in the middle of Gaza Strip. [photo of three men, one carrying the body of a small child with a yellow bow in her hair]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:gvda6fem6r7selm4gzjjww4a/bafkreifmhjzai5fmbcuejbxr73xupxz465iml37u4dhubwaw4ivkux5daa@jpeg "Click to view full size")
I was doing something super heroic and cool before I got in a car accident, please do not look into this any further
Tech people are insane
A Silicon Valley billionaire just declared Burning Man “demonic.” This is a heavy concept to drop on people who are currently tripping balls at the annual festival in Nevada’s Black Rock Desert. Get ready for “Satanic Panic,” Silicon Valley style. www.thenerdreich.com/demonic-sili...
"Across three different courts, 15 judges have weighed Trump’s tariff maneuvers—and 11 of them, appointed by presidents of both parties, have found he acted without legal support" share.google/Y4ohBxL7PPfG...
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!
Judge Sooknanan: And I tried to reach the government. I have been up since then..and didn't reach anyone from the government until later this morning. And the imminence that the plaintiff claimed proved true, because, in fact, those planes *were* loaded. One actually took off and was returned.
Judge Sooknanan: "These children are going to be deplaned. They're going to be returned to ORR custody. And no attempts will be made to remove them from ORR custody and remove them to Guatemala, in light of my order, while these preliminary emergency proceedings are pending."
Remember, kids: A real big goal of "AI" is to entirely sever capital from labor, and no, there will be no universal basic income, you can all just starve and die, thanks www.axios.com/2025/08/26/a...
BREAKING: At least 78 Palestinians, including 32 aid seekers, have been killed in Israeli attacks across Gaza since dawn on Sunday, medical sources have told Al Jazeera. 🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/7i3qdp
It appears the Trump admin may again be lying to a federal judge.
Must be Gruden’s favorite golf outfit since he wore it last week at Trump’s club in Virginia.
Replacing reason with superstition is a feature of religion and totalitarianism. Thank you for coming to my TED talk on the madness of RFK, Jr. and MAHA.
An important thread. Trump tried to illegally deport dozens of children by loading them onto airplanes bound for Guatemala at 2 am on Sunday of Labor Day weekend.
tiktok taking down their live feature in indonesia while the protests are happening shows they understand the ability that app had to show people what was really happening in gaza and they intend not to let it happen again
He put chalk on his shoes then walked on the Pulse Memorial crosswalk. Police arrested him. But the court said they had no cause and he was released. The man arrested is now considering suing the state of Florida citing first amendment right violations.
"Simply put, at the current trajectory, we're going to hit a wall, and soon," he fretted. “There just isn’t enough revenue and there never can be enough revenue. The world just doesn’t have the ability to pay for this much AI."
“Each data center is essentially made up of three components: the chips, which become obsolete in just a few years; the systems connecting the chips, which need to be replaced every decade or so; and the building itself, which should last for quite a while.” futurism.com/data-centers...
The amount of steroids they're injecting him with has to be WILD!
Sober friend remains the MVP
J.B. Pritzker is 100% right. Please listen to him, pay attention, and join us in speaking out against authoritarianism and to protect free and fair elections.
Yes www.nytimes.com/2025/08/25/c...
The USS Lake Erie, a guided missile cruiser, has passed through the Panama Canal into the Caribbean to join other US warships and a submarine off Venezuela.
Pritzker: "National Guard troops, any kind of troops, on the streets of American city don't belong unless there is an insurrection, unless there is truly an emergency. There is not."
Pritzker out here giving a master class in countering the right wing propaganda machine’s efforts to justify further federal invasions and occupations of American cities: he’s effectively reframing the discussion (beyond debates re: crime rates) to one of rising authoritarianism & federal overreach.
The Trump plan for Gaza includes the relocation of the entire population - 2 million people - a US “trusteeship” and the creation of a tourism and tech hub. Landowners get digital tokens worth $5,000 and rent subsidies. Investors are promised 4x return on $100 billion.
Start packing your bags now for your upcoming "Trump Touristic Riviera and Islands" trip -- in Gaza.
DoorDash spent years misleading its delivery workers out of their hard-earned pay. We held them accountable and secured $16.75 million to go back to its workers. Eligible DoorDash delivery workers in New York should file a claim by November 21, 2025.
DC PD using some sort of facial scanning software on people they illegally stop during the federal occupation of Washington DC
One week ago, thousands of New Yorkers tried something new. They heard about it last minute. They didn’t know where it would take them or who they would meet. It was free, earnest, even educational. It was the #ZcavengerHunt and it was a thing of beauty.
Norway signs £10bn deal for anti-submarine warships built in UK
If we have to become an authoritarian state, can we at least get eco-cities, bullet trains, and renewable energy?
Mark Zaid, an attorney who is representing Eisenstat and several other people on the list, said the revocation of the security clearances “literally has no rhyme or reason” and carried echoes of the McCarthy era. www.nbcnews.com/politics/nat...
GORKA: Instead of blaming an inanimate object, which is the weapon, how about addressing the human being instead? KEILAR: DHS cut funding in July to the Minnesota Dept of Safety and the Hennepin Country Sheriff's Office in July that is the kind of funding used to assess mass violence threats
Get ready for a WILD ride across the US this week! Extreme jet stream means extreme heat in the West, and very early cold in the East! 105+ in the Pacific NW, 30s in the Great Lakes and Upper Midwest, and a real taste of Autumn in the East. 1/
Is there any good reporting on how state park systems are doing under the Trump regime? They’re the only public services I can think of where the US beats Germany, and I assume they’re going to shit like everything else over there, but I’d love to be wrong.
Some important “What to expect when we’re electing” messaging from the Brennan Center. Election fraud lies are integrated into the administration’s strategies of election interference going into 2026. What we need to be aware of… and what we can do:
Cool cool cool.
Amid growing pressure from the United States, including the imposition of 50% tariffs on Indian goods due to purchases of Russian oil, Modi and Xi discussed strengthening trade and economic ties and the need for strategic autonomy from external influence.
O’Neill has zero qualifications to run the CDC. He is in place to pull the last straw out from an organization that was once one of the greatest public health institutions in the world. If he follows through with his changes to senior leadership, the CDC will become RFK Jr.’s snake oil emporium.
This is the interim CDC Director. He is accusing pre-Trump CDC staff of “manipulating health data to support a political narrative”. This man and his boss Kennedy are the ones who are manipulating data for a political narrative. This is an existential threat to the United States of America.
To pick one of many possible examples: the Nazis basically went “those world class nuclear physicists are nerdy eggheads and way too Jewy, not like manly Aryans” while Hitler had people researching the occult. The 20th century equivalent of thinking Putin’s military will easily win because pushups.
Most people are more comfortable thinking of big historical evil as hypercompetent supervillains, rather than banal often stupid assholery at scale. The latter can be very damaging though.
Americans don’t want self-driving cars, so Stellantis won’t be making them
Since I’ve lived in DC, two pedestrians have been killed on my block. High speed chases endanger all of us here in DC and MUST STOP: “Ten car chases. Six crashes. Park Police have new rules in Trump’s D.C.” www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...
Feel like it's worth periodically reiterating that "conservative" is not a protected class. Being a minority puts you in a protected class. Hating minorities just makes you a dick. There is no moral or legal requirement for any organization to have some minimum number of dicks.
BREAKING: A federal judge has *blocked* the Trump administration from abruptly deporting 600 unaccompanied Guatemalan children — perhaps within a matter of hours — granting an emergency restraining order after advocates called the plan illegal + dangerous. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
The plan is completely illegal; it’s openly in violation of black letter law. Nevertheless, the Trump admin is trying to claim that the budget bill effectively amended the law; even though it was a budget bill, and cannot by definition amend the law.
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