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How it’s done in Australia vs. US media: The article on Bovino never even mentioned all the illegal shit Bovino has done like using secret & illegal coverup teams & getting high ranking agents out of violent crimes. This is why you all have no idea who is in your streets.
This piece by Andreas Malm & Maxy Guez brilliantly captures both how mind-bogglingly difficult, but also courageous, the Colombian pledge not to permit new exploration of fossil fuels actually is.
Being pro-drowning of children seems like a real are-we-the-baddies moment www.npr.org/sections/sho...
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This is, of course, false. The United States exported $83 billion in goods and services to India last year alone.
“Peter Thiel’s AI Palantir Is Supercharging Trump’s Lawfare” In May, Trump’s FHFA Director Bill Pulte announced a “partnership” w/ Palantir to “establish an ‘AI-powered Crime Detection Unit (CDU).’” The CDU promptly began “work at the Federal National Mortgage Association (Fannie Mae)” 8/29/25…1/
Americans Astronomers watching watching US politics Betelgeuse 🤝 “It could happen at any time”
We have berries? I thought the US got most their berries from Mexico
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.
U.S. politicians' responses to mass shootings are "always performative," says @cameronkasky.bsky.social. "This administration... is so defined by tragedy, cruelty, and violence that something like children being shot dead while they are praying is not going to be a topic next week."
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Science is real
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!
“On Wednesday, as helicopters were still dousing the flames of the 9,000-acre Bear Gulch fire, federal officials drove up in SUVs, checked IDs, then escorted 44 of those firefighters off the premises, arresting two of them” www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...
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not just that he has no constitutional authority, there isn't even any particular legal or institutional mechanism by which the president can make anyone treat this as anything other than a weird advisory opinion.
Great to see the US climate scientists that Trump fired, fight back by setting up a parallel infrastructure website - climate.us - a crowdsourced nonprofit that aims to rebuild an independent version of the Government climate website that was closed down. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
saving this post from today for my social media class ☠️
Congrats again, everyone
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Talk to Putin, then fire your Russia expert. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
The CDC is gutting a program that monitors foodborne illnesses. The program will now only track infections caused by two pathogens, rather than eight. Hello? How does this “Make America Healthy Again”?
It is less a mass deportation regime as it is a mass kidnapping and indefinite detention regime
A key aspect of fascism is the declaration of some people as not people.
Garcia: We finally got word from the Epstein estate. They're going to be providing the actual Epstein book… the estate is actually going to actually now get us that book and a bunch of other documents that they have that's actually not been reported yet.
Sand batteries are literally just silos of sand that retain heat exceptionally well -- so well that they can be tied to heat exchange systems to serve as proxy *electrical* batteries. Finland's new model can store enough power (100 MWh) to heat an entire town for a week. newatlas.com/energy/large...
NEW: Mississippi asked the Supreme Court to determine whether voters and advocacy groups can continue filing lawsuits under Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act. The state argued that such lawsuits can only be brought by the Justice Department.
Portugal’s President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa: Trump is "objectively, a Soviet or Russian asset. He functions as an asset." In March, British Conservative Party MP Graham Stuart raised that Trump had been groomed by the Kremlin’s security services over a period of decades.
Kansas City: COVID-19 outbreak forces metro school to close until next week fox4kc.com/news/covid-1...
What a cursed sentence (gift link) “The A.I. companies selected to oversee the program would have a strong financial incentive to deny claims. Medicare plans to pay them a share of the savings generated from rejections.”
All those vacations have prepared him to do what Trump does as President… golf and take no responsibility for anything awful.
Between RFK decimating the CDC, normalizing Ashli Babbitt & the umpteenth school shooting... I'm losing the will to post. #ReleaseTheEPSTEIN_Files
It was among the deadliest of multiple Israeli strikes that have hit both hospitals and journalists over the course of the 22-month war. The assault came as Israel plans to widen its offensive to heavily populated areas in a vow to destroy Hamas. religionnews.com/2025/08/27/i...
10,000 Population of an entire town In prisons without trial (AKA Hostages) Why MSM doesn’t talk about it?
70 years ago, on this date, Emmett Till was kidnapped and brutally murdered by white men. His family, including his cousin who was with him at the time, is repeating the train ride he took from Chicago to Mississippi in 1955 to mark the anniversary
Seems like the kind of thing federal agents could handle if they weren’t busy tracking down America’s most wanted DoorDash delivery drivers in DC.
In the first year of Trump’s first term, his HHS Secretary had to resign in September because he spent too much money on private jets. I’d imagine that destroying the CDC might cost more?
Republicans are trying to redraw congressional district lines to keep their grip on Congress in the midterms and beyond. Voters should pick their politicians, not the other way around. Get involved with the @democraticredistricting.com as they fight back: bit.ly/3HJ1ayW
We do not have to live this way in America. As a mother and a grandmother, we must demand better - for our kids, our communities and our country.
Firing RFK Jr would unburden a lot of overworked mitochondria in this country
Massive walkout underway at CDC. RFK jr. must resign so that we can be safe.
This interview, which is also available to listen to as a podcast, provides a useful overview of some of the dangerous trends we’ve been seeing in recent months regarding federalization and militarization of state and local police functions.
its been like a week since we found out meta was encouraging sexual discussions between its chatbot and children and now we learn openai encouraged and helped plan suicide and no one is doing anything about it
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Viceroy licking my shoes
We do not need pointless takes on the world's most over-covered wedding from the FT of all publications. As long as you're broadening your coverage, though, maybe you could cover the ICE Nazis arresting wildfire firefighters or literally anything that matters? www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
War crimes
Unquestionably a war crime. I know we all have fatigue about this, but we have to keep saying it where we can until enough people get it.
if i were on this deployment i would be pissed. these people have actual jobs! and here they are, walking around picking upt rash.
Jeanine Pirro seems to have pissed off this judge "We don't just charge people criminally and then say, 'Oops, my bad,'" [Judge Faruqui] said. "I'm at a loss how the U.S. Attorney's Office thought this was an appropriate charge in any court, let alone the federal court." www.npr.org/2025/08/26/g...
Of course www.wsj.com/business/ene...
*UPS is laying off employees and/or offering buyouts due to tariffs (less shipments coming here), and people are ordering less because we’re all struggling. We are about to CRASH CRASH. Buckle up! *Source - my brother works for UPS and told me plus I just Googled it to confirm.
350,000 attended Tel Aviv rally tonight, calling for a ceasefire and a hostage deal. www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_ent...
Look, we have a new statement of principles for the Republican Party.
The prolonged public torturing of a single man because the state cannot admit to its errors is not something that occurs in a free country
For folks not in DC: - There are full-on police checkpoints most nights - Gangs of 30+ federal agents roam DC - National Guard folks w/ guns patrolling a Harris Teeter - Every day, multiple friends see ICE kidnapping ppl - Daycares are scared to have kids go on walks due to ICE
NEW: Trump's SCOTUS appointees each shared alarming views in allowing NIH grant cuts. Justices Gorsuch, Kavanaugh, and Barrett each wrote something in the shadow docket case — disturbing opinions in light of broader attacks on the rule of law. Today, at Law Dork:
Constituent: You talked about abuses in the medicare and medicaid system and I found interesting that the president pardoned someone that defrauded the medicaid system for $1.3 billion
With Trump now targeting cashless bail, revisit RNS' story on the bail system, its toll on marginalized communities and the U.S. cities phasing it out. religionnews.com/2018/05/16/r...
this stuff is such a disgrace. a free citizen of a free country should be ashamed to engage in it.
The last person to find out about Taylor and Travis
I appreciated the chance to sit down with the Cowlitz Chaplaincy and learn more about their unique perspective on what law enforcement, victims, and their loved ones need on their darkest days. Chaplains are unsung heroes and I’m so grateful for their selfless service.
A new expression of concern was published on this randomized clinical trial of cinnamon for diabetes. The study itself has been cited, according to Google, 1,700 times. I first complained about it in 2023, so let me tell you the story of one of the most problematic papers I've come across 1/n
China Evergrande, the once mighty real estate developer, was removed from the Hong Kong Stock Exchange, leaving behind a giant pile of debt and desperate creditors.
Letter: Have the U.S. and the U.K. upheld the promises made to Ukraine in 1994? Why should Ukraine trust the U.S. now after we have so thoroughly failed to honor the 1994 Budapest security agreement?
Ithaca Falls today. Each waterfall in the area is more beautiful than the next. Goodness. #Exploring #NewYork
"I don't know if you can hear it, but there is a massive crowd chanting, 'Let her out,' in the rotunda."
Just incredible footage of the absolute professionals who make the second-best bagels in the entire world 😂 bsky.app/profile/mcop...
I wrote about the ways different concentration camp systems have ended and how to stop the massive expansion of detention happening in the U.S. right now.
A week and a half ago, a shooter emptied hundreds of bullets into a federal building
This is one of the most disgusting things I've ever seen www.jpost.com/opinion/arti...
Sounds like these red state governors should get their own houses in order before sending their National Guard troops to DC.
And certain TX politicians are calling her “a hero” rather than going down there and raising hell to get her out. Unserious.
Hard confirm that Trump-ordered redraw is more illegal racial discrimination. New analysis fr UCLA Voting Rights Project shows TX map dilutes Black & Hispanic vote in CD9 and CD35. Evidence this map violates the 1965 VRA vote dilution provision: @lspmatt.bsky.social vrp.ucla.edu/vrp-texas-di...
Oh no, I was just playing on words that SpaceX would be the new NASA
read this, and go protect trans people, i am begging you aninjusticemag.com/a-story-of-t...
It’s insane Trump has a fucking ugly campaign cap display in the WH but it’s profoundly unAmerican that he’s displaying 3rd term dictatorship hats.
This is the third small earthquake felt in Western Washington since June.
Typically charges get dropped, but that's not the point. The point is to disable political opposition. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
Social workers.... www.houstonchronicle.com/politics/tex...
actually this is very much like most states! the full-time state legislature is very much the exception! only 10 such states: AK, CA, HI, IL, MA, MI, NY, OH, PA, WI are the only states with full-time legislatures, most only meet once a year or every other year! ballotpedia.org/States_with_...
Per NBC’s Ryan Chandler: Rep Nicole Collier is locked inside of the Texas House chamber because she refuses to sign a “permission slip” to leave the floor with a DPS escort.
It is only when we give up hope, that we lose. Or to quote Victor Frankl: “For the world is in a bad state, but everything will become still worse unless each of us does his best.”
Anti-vaccine myths surged on social media ahead of the CDC shooting. “On X, for example, verified accounts with hundreds of thousands of followers openly claimed in recent weeks that Covid vaccines act like ‘chemical lobotomies,’ which is false.” www.nbcnews.com/tech/interne...
Of every 1,000 children born in Kenya, 32 don’t make it to their first birthdays. A new stumbled onto a straightforward solution: Giving $1,000 to poor families lowered infant mortality rates by nearly half, and deaths in children under 5 by 45 percent. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/18/h...
thinking of bringing back “the teacher reads you a chapter of a book and you can put your head down as a treat” in my YA-Lit-for-future teachers class because reading SHOULD be a treat; we should start a not-so-secret campaign in college english classes and also other classes why not
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Sounds like socialism
Video tweeted by News 4 San Antonio at 10:27 pm(EDT). One hour ago. It shows the doors of the House chamber and pans over to a crowd clapping rhythmically and chanting: Let Her Out! Let Her Out! Let Her Out! source: x.com/News4SA/stat...
Zelensky explains he is open to holding an election in Ukraine after the war (Ukraine law precludes voting during war), then Trump quips about canceling US elections in 2028. www.c-span.org/clip/white-h...
Resourceful Man Able To Cobble Together Bad Mood From Handful Of Minor Annoyances theonion.com/resourc...
Vice Chair Murray's Statement on partial restoration of spending transparency website after court orders Trump, Vought to stop breaking the law to hide their tracks:
The Trump administration spent months illegally hiding how your taxpayer dollars are spent. After the courts stepped in, they at least partially restored the website. Congress needs to know how the administration is spending your money to exercise oversight.
Anyway, happy Monday! The Dean is shutting down my department - Religion & Culture, the only 1 of is kind in the country & home to the innovative Major in Humanities for Public Service. There is no immediate budgetary or political pressure for this decision
Three active-duty Marines who were part of the mob that stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, were retained. But the Air Force will not allow transgender servicemembers to have hearings before it discharges them. www.military.com/daily-news/2...