And I don't see it acknowledged. Reporting seems to treat it as coincidence! Willfully blind at best.
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And I don't see it acknowledged. Reporting seems to treat it as coincidence! Willfully blind at best.
RIP Graham Greene. Every time he popped up on screen when I was a kid, my mom would excitedly point him out for being an actual Native on the screen. Able to be deadly serious and infinitely hilarious (even in smaller roles like Last of Us), he ate up the screen. Nʌki’wah brother.
"The mystery is inherent to the poetic enterprise, which is: How do I say what can't be said?" Damn, Dave Duchovny, I agree with every word of this.
Some new street art spotted in DC 🤣
NEW: This weekend in Trump's effort to make fascism happen. The Trump administration tried to illegally send children to Guatemala as troops walked aimlessly around Dupont Circle. This evening, at Law Dork:
🚨🚨🚨If you live anywhere in the greater Chicago area…ICE will start using Great Lakes Naval Station as a command center for their “enforcement” operations across Chicago on Sept 5. The base isn’t in the city or Cook County. It’s north, in Lake County. Expect raids across entire the metropolitan area.
Very-very final wake-up call for Europe.
Friends, comrades: if you’ve seen or written a good explanation of how the NYT has failed/done harm on — Palestine — trans issues Do me a favor and link to it here? Note: not an invitation to defend the NYT, the request is clear!
Good morning! Happy Monday! It takes our efforts to get here, we have not reached the top, our labors shall power us, the light will show through, as the clouds part. Happy Labor Day to all the US! #BlueSkyMonday #MountainMonday #photography #hiking #sky #EastCoastKin #NewHampshire
Biggest flotilla yet on its way to Gaza + the most prominent Genocide scholars association declaring Israel’s actions to be genocide + the UNGA starting soon + record number of Israeli schoolchildren + so many other things happening. = we are allowed to hold on to hope. Hope is a discipline.
🇩🇪🇺🇦 In the German city of Friedland, a 16-year-old Ukrainian girl, Liana, was killed - the girl was pushed by a 31-year-old Iraqi citizen under a train moving at a speed of about 100 km/h.
Horrifying.
I have a daughter who lives in the U.K. We sometimes get boxes. Until last Wednesday, she could take the box to Royal Mail, and we’d get it a few days later. The only cost was postage. Now she has to use a private shipper, and, on top of the postage, we paid a $34 import fee. That is a tax.
As alloys draw strength from their variety, not purity, so does the USA
This is my shocked face.
Happy Labor Day! Today, we celebrate workers and the power of the labor movement in securing fair wages, safe workplaces, and better lives for people across the country. 🛠️💪 #UnionStrong
Trump will not make a public appearance today either. His last televised appearance was as long as six days ago.
🤨 New laws in Russia could tighten Moscow’s grip on daily life, expand surveillance, and revive Soviet-style repression, critics say.
The sad thing is that it looks like he’s trying to be anti racist.
In Kharkiv, children began the school year in underground classrooms. Windowless shelters built for survival. No child should ever have to attend such a school, but we have no choice.
hard same, but hire Mollie first
hammer them on child marriage, pedocon shit dismiss their concerns over The Trans (sports) Question with utter contempt
Only a matter of time, really. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
It’s useful for pattern matching and if you want to interact with your computer in English; an astrophysicist I know uses it for that. After setting parameters to eliminate the stupid cheerleading tone. But GenAI— useless.
I wondered how that started. Assholes.
I don't get how people don't realize that a technology that replaces junior and entry level positions in a field destroys that field. There's no skipping steps. You have to be a junior before you can be a senior, and if you don't have senior people, you don't have a field.
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Been thinking about this for a few days, it’s why the solution to propaganda isn’t factchecking it’s community, and for the people creating propaganda it’s tackling them head on and not prevaricating or acquiescing to any of their points.
Kyiv mourns its smallest angel Yesterday the city says goodbye to 2-year-old Anhelina and her mother, Nadiia, killed in the Russian attack on August 28. A child who never had the chance to grow up. A mother who will never again hold her daughter.👇
Fellas, it is moving increadible slow, can we change it?🥺
Musk now supporting the deportation of anyone who isn’t white. *Do not* use the term “remigration”. It’s an attempt to normalise Nazi hate.
A plane carrying European Commission President Ursula Von der Leyen was hit by radar jamming over Bulgaria in a suspected Russian operation, a spokesperson said Monday. The plane landed safely in Plovdiv airport, the spokesperson added.
this is fucking grim
EU says von der Leyen's plane GPS system was jammed, Russian interference suspected reut.rs/3HNtAYD
An upcoming news conference with victims of Jeffrey Epstein could be “explosive,” one of the congressmen pushing for full release of the files on Epstein predicts. Democratic Rep. Ro Khanna said the victims’ accounts will force lawmakers to vote on a bill requiring DOJ to release its files.
Ok but hear me out, what if we taxed the fuck out of really rich people
Van Hollen is taking huge professional and personal risks trying to break the institutional omertà in the American political establishment with on bearing witness to Gaza and relaying its reality to the American people, and actions like this should be praised.
I've been confused about this for a while myself, although charge stations at truck stops are becoming more of a thing, which makes sense because the amenities are already there
Funny how I’ve seen 1000 articles bemoaning the horror of young men’s prospects since I was young, yet never once have I seen a piece on how young women view the job market/economy Even when they’re the ones going to uni, holding down dom labor + traditional jobs You’d think one might like to know
And UBI.
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...
"hey, remember how, all through Joe Biden’s presidency, the worthless scribblers of the corporate-controlled press treated Joe as if he were old and icky and probably already dead? for fuck’s sake, they even turned his shoes into a major scandal." www.jefftiedrich.com/p/chicago-co...
From layoffs to billion-dollar budget cuts and ideological battles over history itself, the National Park Service is facing one of the most turbulent moments in its 109-year history. This week on @revealnews.org:
RFK Jr. is a national threat to the health and safety of America. This heroin-addicted psychopath is all about eliminating vaccine studies and spreading lies about science-backed facts. We're going to die if he stays head of the Health Department. He must be removed along with Cankles Caligula.
This is worth sharing far and wide. Federal Employees and contractors oral history project. Im not involved in this. Just got the link, idea seems to be to create a record of the assault on the American Repuvlic after Jan 2025. www.fecohp.org
Wars, invasions, and centuries of Polish and Russian imperialism erode Belarusian culture to the point of almost non-existence. Yet, it miraculously survived, and it was people from the villages who preserved it. A window into the past: daryazorka.substack.com/p/how-life-i...
It’s complete bullshit.
Israel is on the brink of launching another major offensive, this time in famine-stricken Gaza City. Here’s a closer look at why the war continues with no end in sight.
At the UN Security Council, as PM Yulia Svyrydenko showed the body of a child killed in a Russian strike, Russian representatives stared into their phones. A stark reminder: for Moscow, human life means nothing, cynicism is their official policy.
⚡️ Trump administration to fire most of Voice of America's staff. VOA was established during World War 2 in an effort to counter Nazi propaganda.
💡❗️ ISW: Russia is likely to intensify its strikes on Ukraine in the coming weeks to use up its stockpiles of missiles and drones and worsen the condition of Ukraine's energy infrastructure ahead of the coming winter.
From an emergency management perspective, it's not just that FEMA is fucked. It's that all the hazard agencies & sister systems are also fucked. To rebuild *all* of this -- or create something new -- in the future is the task of the century, I think. And to do so in the midst of the climate crisis.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025... No no no no!! This firm is hellbent on replacing democracy with corpocracy, happily helping the Trump administration identify brown people to incarcerate ic concentration camps with no due process. Happy to help the Israeli genocide. #NoPalantirNHS #NoPalantir
The Secretary of HHS does not accept that germs cause illness. The logical conclusion of that is the worst pseudoscience of all: eugenics. He believes that it is not germs that cause illness, but personal failure (or if you're Chinese or Jewish he thinks bioweapons were designed to avoid you).
I once asked a friend who was the treasurer of a large investment bank and now the chief operating officer of a large hedge fund whether hedge funds are a net good for society. He told me that they benefit no one but the people that are running them. I think the same of conservative politicians.
A Trump administration proposal to reverse a landmark finding that climate change is dangerous to the public relies heavily on a report from the Department of Energy that dozens of scientists say is flawed. The Associated Press surveyed scientists for their views. Here are some key takeaways:
Trump will not face justice for being a serial rapist. He will not face justice for fomenting an insurrection. He will not face justice for abusing this country in a thousand ways we know about and ten thousand we don’t. We will never see that justice but we must tirelessly rebuild.
Just saying: In the midst of a climate crisis, any government that champions "maximising oil and gas extraction" is not leading; it is legislating for collapse. Oil and gas expansion should be treated as the moral outrage that it is.
MORE ⬇🧵(1/6) Russia launched another large-scale combined drone and missile strike against Ukraine on the night of August 29 to 30 — the third combined strike with over 500 drones and missiles since the August 15 US-Russia summit in Alaska. isw.pub/UkrWar083025
SHARPTON: “I don’t endorse candidates, but I do take attendance.” 👀 Rev Al noted Cuomo & Adams were absent from the “March on Wall St” to protest Trump’s assault on DEI and attempts to control Democratic-led cities led by Black mayors… But @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social was there.
If you had told me in 2012 that Mitt Romney’s presidential campaign manager would be posting like this 13 years later i would not have believed you
The Nazis looted and burned cutting edge research on gays, lesbians, and trans persons in the service of culling the “genetically unfit.” Nothing in this era’s playbook is new.
HAMILTON COUNTY: “@hamcoschools learned of a student suicide a week before the board voted 6-5 to end the federally funded in-school therapy…” Republicans axed the Centerstone contract because they helped 🏳️🌈 kids. Ugly stuff. Hate over kids’ safety. www.timesfreepress.com/news/2025/au...
Omg. This thread. This is what you do with Nazis:
Because we are among the world's biggest human rights violators now. And allied with not one but two ajudicated war criminals. Well done, maga. You ended the empire.
I keep seeing people saying Vance will be worse if Trump dies, resigns, is removed, etc. They're right in one respect. Trump is a chaos agent driven by megalomania, while Vance is a conniving, meticulous, patient snake. But he also has all the charisma of a damp gym towel. 1/
“The Court should not enjoin a democratically enacted law on which so many students depend without careful deliberation informed by arguments on both sides of the issues,” Public Justice argued to a federal judge. The judge blocked the law on Friday without even considering the group’s arguments.
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.”
🚨This OK lawmaker was found guilty of running a vehicle with his daughter and an adult relative off of the road and INTO a ditch, causing injuries — and he is STILL in office?!? Of course, he has a history of both domestic violence and law enforcement.
🚨🔥🔥🔥🚨 Truth to power! 1/2
This is a must-read article.
www.npr.org/sections/sho... It's been a week of turmoil at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. For employees at the public health agency headquartered in Atlanta, the first inkling that something was amiss came on Monday when a planned all-staff meeting was cancelled...
Trump & Kennedy, instead of attacking diseases are attacking the scientists who keep us safe, exactly what anyone who watched Trump’s performance during Covid, is familiar with Kennedy’s anti-science views, or read Project 2025 could have anticipated. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/29/h...
The Trump administration announced that it plans to dismiss nearly all remaining employees at Voice of America, escalating tensions with a federal judge who had previously blocked efforts to overhaul the government-funded broadcaster.
Literally take that check and immediately donate it to someone that does. Or a particular cause you care about. Boom -that is your govt spending the money how YOU want it spent.
Free school lunches also have the benefit that eliminating means testing simplifies administration. "Okay kids everyone line up for lunch" is by far the simplest way to do food for a large group of children in a short timeframe.
There’s a growing case for UBI coming from the (shrinking, but still extant) sliver of the right that sincerely cares about fiscal policy. The basic outline is “eliminate most targeted safety net programs, cut a check, institute national health insurance, bam. More lightweight government.”
One of the first times I ever converted my father (silent gen!) on a policy position was when he complained about this exact thing, and I said the government would waste less money by cutting everyone over 65 a flat check. Means testing is a huge money sink!
It’s good that the courts are making clear that Trump’s destructive tariffs are illegal. These tariffs are crushing small businesses and costing regular people thousands of dollars for no good reason. Democrats will keep pushing to end these tariffs & restore economic sanity.
Total f&%kery is going on with the 3-year running average of the global sea-surface temperature as temperatures continue to trend significantly above "accelerating warming." Zen kōan: What is the sound of one planet dying?
This is what I mean when I talk about how Google is actively deciding to bake energy-intensive text generation into the basic infrastructure of the internet. They are *choosing* to make the digital world absurdly, eye-wateringly more energy hungry whether you request it or not. And it'll get worse
The cruelty, the white nationalist ideology, the unprecedented self-sabotage, the outrageous ridiculousness: The defining characteristics of this government and the inhuman, destructive policies it is pursuing, all captured perfectly here. America is now ruled by cruel, authoritarian clowns.
I never use WhatsApp anymore; it’s not trustworthy! I agree that Signal is the best option for messaging apps.
“Fire RFK Jr. now.” After a month of shocking removals, resignations, and a shooting at the CDC, Democrats are demanding that the secretary go. Meanwhile, the White House is defending Kennedy as its "crown jewel" admin leader.
A federal judge on Friday temporarily blocked the Trump administration from carrying out speedy deportations of undocumented migrants detained in the interior of the United States.
What the…?
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Republicans keep saying the $1 trillion in Medicaid cuts are only cutting “waste fraud and abuse”… and yet not a single arrest. Funny how that works!
NEW: For decades, protecting the voting rights of people with disabilities was a bipartisan priority. Now, as the GOP restricts voting access through the lens of “election integrity,” those long-standing protections are already beginning to erode. From: @yuniorarivas.bsky.social
👏 Scientists breathe new life into climate website after shutdown under Trump www.theguardian.com/environment/...
✈️🚫🇺🇦 European countries are discussing a no-fly zone that would allow Ukraine to resume commercial aviation routes, - The Telegraph The scheme could be phased in, starting in the west and gradually covering more airspace until the entire country is safe enough for commercial air travel.
On why the media is suddenly covering Epstein: sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/mafia-stat...
New $250 visa fee risks deepening US travel slump… www.reuters.com/world/us/new...
Inequality in human exposure to future climate extremes ... hitting low-income countries hardest, mostly due to rapid pop growth, not just climate change As event severity rises, exposure inequality lessens, but compound hot-dry events still create massive risks... www.nature.com/articles/s41...
I mean, Vance did blurt yesterday that he is ready to replace Trump. Then hurried to add "but is in excellent health, excellent health."
"Colorado joined the lawsuit and had 10 of 11 grants retained. 💪 Wyoming, Utah, Kansas, Nebraska and Oklahoma collectively lost 55 grants" 🤣 coloradosun.com/2025/08/28/t... Blue States WINNING!!!