Smiles and Clasped Hands as Xi, Putin and Modi Try to Signal Unity www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/w...
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Smiles and Clasped Hands as Xi, Putin and Modi Try to Signal Unity www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/w...
Party like it’s the first week of school?
I wish that woman would stop interrupting Michael Steel just as he was warming to a rant.
NEW: DOJ says the Guatemalan children should be back in the custody of the Office of Refugee Resettlement by 10:30 p.m. ET. It counts 76 children who had been boarded onto planes at the time the court blocked their removal. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Hey Sen. James Lankford, stop your Orwellian doublespeak. We're not "jumping to conclusions" – RFKjr is a dark tetrad. He knows nothing about human healthcare. He's systematically trying to cull the American public. Remove him from office. Immediately.
John Roberts in tight spot, Trump’s Taxes (tariffs) obviously illegal & unconstitutional (he does not care about that), but one hand his king wants his absolute power on raising & spending taxes AND other hand people bribing Supreme Court may not be in on insider trading & mad about hit to economy.
Donald Trump has invented a new kind of fascism, all the nasty, authoritarianism of the old fascism, but this time the trains *don't* run on time.
O'Keefe to Noem: "At least 20 people who signed this letter were current FEMA employees & they've been placed on administrative leave. Is it now the policy of DHS that anytime an employee puts their name on something criticizing you or POTUS, they should anticipate being put on leave or fired?"
“.. with the exception of the pandemic, Black women have never seen such staggering losses in employment.” @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2025/08/31/u...
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.”
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.
Trump's dodging the cameras as much as he's been dodging the Epstein files
California stepping up.
As the DoJ tells the court that it will not remove unaccompanied minors to Guatemala, we can only hope they’re telling the truth.
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.
There is no way to apply for asylum other than turning up on our shore and asking for it. Starmers position here is abhorrent, illegal and fascistic.
NEW: DOJ says the Guatemalan children have been removed from the planes and are "in the process" of being returned to custody of the Office of Refugee Resettlement. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
The police version of the crash, as relayed by a local Manchester reporter, is unsurprisingly quite different from what Giuliani's spokesman says. The whole thing is even more murky now, however. manchester.inklink.news/rudy-giulian...
Exactly. It doesn't give him implicit authority, either.
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I waited hours for this cloud to come near the lake #lightning strike reflection.
Only one in 127 jobs in the U.S. pays $500,000 or more, representing about 0.8% of roles, according to an analysis from ADP.
This is the second judge in a week that has brought up the fact that the government can't be trusted with clear instructions - likely because the government ignored Judge Boasberg's order to turn the planes around last March saying "verbal orders from judges don't count."
🚨 “The people united will never be divided!” Happening in OUR nation’s capital today. 1/2
Good Samaritan or DUI?
There’s a special place in hell for morons who get millions of people killed.
He didn’t go golfing. I’m guessing Walter Reed or a zombie’s appearance at the dictators ball in China.
He won’t let the press anywhere near him. This is getting weirder and weirder.
Shameless
Look at this graph. The share of national income going to the richest 10 percent was lowest (and share to lower 90 percent highest) when union membership was at its highest. As unions have weakened, inequality has widened. This is why we must build back union power.
I can’t tell you how many people have sent this to me. At first I laughed because I think it’s almost an endorsement if this guy is against it, but he does influence school lunches and what a lost opportunity. We live in a world where ketchup is a vegetable And beans are not a healthy protein.
Has anyone said whether Rudy was driving or whether he had been drinking? www.cbsnews.com/news/rudy-gi...
"The lunatics are running the asylum."
Thanks to the appeals court ruling on tariffs, today is De-Liberation Day.
Vertebrae
Trump Administration Live Updates: Judge Temporarily Blocks Removal of Guatemalan Children www.nytimes.com/live/2025/08...
@altairforce.altgov.info @alt18f.bsky.social @genmhayden.bsky.social @datagoodies.bsky.social @theatlantic.com @doctrineman.bsky.social We can feel it from over here 🇬🇧 🙏🏼
After CDC Director Susan Monarez was fired for resisting vaccine policy changes, @jeremyfaust.bsky.social reminds us that public health must come before ideology. #USANotRFK
Coming for our kids.
The US brought in nearly $30 Billion in tariffs in July, triple the amount collected in previous years That's not good news Tariffs are taxes on Americans That $30B was collected from you and me when we bought food, clothes, electronics...
Gaslight much lately? RFK Jr. fires thousands of employees, undermines trust, installs anti-vax leaders, then tells staff "Reform strengthens you". That’s not leadership, it’s a Judas kiss with a smile. #publichealth #USAnotRFK www.wrdw.com/2025/08/30/r...
From William Smith: The cosmological constant is a constant, right? But growing evidence suggests this might not be the case after all. Today’s authors further investigate the DESI analysis pushing our understanding of dark energy. 🔭✨☄️ astrobites.org/2025/08/30/t...
This “Katrina” anniversary weekend, here’s a program I did for BBC radio on the tenth anniversary. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
Closely following the Mediterranean diet lowered the risk of dementia by at least 35% in people with two copies of the APOE4 gene, a major risk factor for Alzheimer’s, according to a new study.
www.nbcnews.com/politics/nat... Tulsi Gabbard blindsided CIA leaders last week when she disclosed the name of an undercover CIA officer on a list of people she stripped of security clearances.
RFK Jr must be fired. He’s too deranged and full of himself to leave voluntarily. So it’s vital to convince Trump that keeping Kennedy around drains his own political power and thus his personal wealth by so visibly endangering the health of everyone in the U.S. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Trump at his golf club today. He hid from the public for days and won’t let the press pool near him.
In the wake of new federal guidelines limiting the groups for whom new COVID-19 vaccines are approved, the New Mexico Department of Health plans to take action to remove "barriers to the administration of the COVID-19 vaccine."
Ha. Haha. Haaa. I get it.
Why do you appreciate unions? I’ll start: Weekends off Paid vacations Work breaks Sick leave Paid holidays No child labor Safer working conditions Health care and retirement benefits
❗️It is obvious that the US leader is a Soviet or Russian agent. Objectively speaking, the new American leadership has strategically facilitated the Russian Federation — Portuguese President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa
Without congressionally approved funding, public media stations say communities will be left with aging infrastructure amid growing risks from extreme weather.
“A delayed advisory panel meeting and shifting vaccine policies under Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. are making it difficult for people to get updated Covid shots.” www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...
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.
In recent public remarks about deploying the National Guard to Chicago, Donald Trump said: “I have the right to do ANYTHING I want to do. I’m the president of the United States.” Not even a King has that right. Certainly no president. Who knew a non-drinker could be so drunk with power?
He’s on another QAnon posting spree tonight.
If Missouri Republicans mid-cycle redistrict and break the law, they will be sued. That is a promise and I don't bluff. Just ask Texas. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
He will keep getting worse until he’s dead or in jail.
The Nobel Prize and a Testy Phone Call: How the Trump-Modi Relationship Unraveled www.nytimes.com/2025/08/30/u...
colleagues in an email Friday that he was submitting what he called an “involuntary resignation.” He explained that ever since his whistleblower complaint became public, the agency’s actions against him amounted to retaliation that ultimately drove him out of his position.
The Social Security Administration official who exposed that the Department of Government Efficiency had left millions of Americans’ personal data vulnerable says he has been forced to resign due to retaliation. Charles Borges, who served as the SSA’s chief data officer, told
The Deere layoffs this week. The Caterpillar warning about tariffs. Just the beginning. @bloomberg.com $CAT $DE @scottlincicome.bsky.social www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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A months-long investigation estimates that the profits from the Trump family’s ventures in private clubs, hotels, golf courses, crypto currencies, NFTs, and other businesses has raised President Trump’s net worth by billions of dollars.
An appeals court just ruled that Trump’s tariffs are unlawful & unconstitutional. Raising taxes & foreign commerce are up to Congress, NOT the Executive branch. Tell SCOTUS they must uphold this ruling! Text PAMVNI to 50409 Please share widely! 💙 resist.bot/petitions/PA...
"RFK Jr: We need to stop trusting the experts... Trusting the experts is not a feature of science or democracy...it's a feature of religion and totalitarianism." Were he not a Kennedy...and wealthy...he'd likely be living his life out in a mental institution. Diagnosis: Dumb-Fuckery.
More and more farms all over the country are collapsing and failing because of labor shortages. This is going to hit our shelves very soon. Not high prices. Absence of food.
oh come on www.nytimes.com/2025/08/29/u...
JB is amazing at having great ideas and getting stuff done. Who knows what may come of this, but he's out there fighting all the time. Very proud he's my governor. Other elected Dems should take notice...
Most can’t imagine how harmful this is. I was a data scientist for governments. It will put a target on you as an individual. Its bad.
When will Congress start doing its taxpayer-funded job?
American federalism goes to work. As RFK Jr. heads down the road of more measles, more COVID-19 and more flu, public health states must develop our own strategies to stay safe.
If something is too good to be true than either it is not good or not true or both Steve Clark
Unbelievably bad. “The CDC you knew is over. Unless someone takes radical action, there is nothing there that can be salvaged.” www.advocate.com/politics/dem...
BREAKING: Maryland Gov. Wes Moore just announced he refuses to authorize National Guard deployment in Maryland. 🧵
“Rise up. Roll up. Resist.” DC flag redesign underway.
🚨 Trump’s FCC targeted Disney a week after shareholders voted to reject an anti-DEI proposal. Investors voted 99-1 percent to defeat an anti-LGBTQ+ proposal in March.
Good news on tariffs.
Our country is being destroyed. But hey, look at these eight Maine Coon kittens.
Some of the names have changed since I wrote this last November, but the central reality is, sadly, upon us. snyder.substack.com/p/decapitati...
Th Pentagon Pizza Index is at DEFCON 1. www.pizzint.watch
“Fire RFK Jr. Now.” www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Trump Administration Poised to Cut SSI Benefits for Nearly 400,000 Low-Income Disabled and Older People | Center on Budget and Policy Priorities share.google/WPYgdvvYFIco...
Of all the “honestly I never expected” things — Congress absolutely rolling over and abdicating its power to the White House — any White House — is one of the most shockingly unnecessary. It will not be remembered well in history, by either side, ironically. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/29/u...
@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.”
NEWS: Walgreens just got taken over by private equity. Private equity has a record of running companies into the ground. Walgreens could be the latest victim: closing more stores, service plummeting, workers losing their jobs, and eventually bankruptcy.
The past 12 hours gave all of us a sense of just how huge the nationwide celebration will be when he finally does kick the bucket. 🎉🥳🎊
CHICAGO…
From CEO of Thiel Foundation to head of CDC, Not a single biology course needed.
good mornin #sInGeRsOnGwRiTeR #cOuNtRy #OrGiNaL #folk #song
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#AndriyParubiy Saturday, August 30th, 2025 “Prominent Ukrainian politician Andriy Parubiy shot dead in Lviv” From #BBC: www.bbc.com/news/article...
