Did she write about the time she said "No Supreme Court Justice" should be nominated in the last year of a lame-duck presidency? And then she preceded to accept her nomination in the last month of a presidency? What a hypocrite!!
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Did she write about the time she said "No Supreme Court Justice" should be nominated in the last year of a lame-duck presidency? And then she preceded to accept her nomination in the last month of a presidency? What a hypocrite!!
A 1941 WPA road gang of migrant workers in New Mexico, many of whom were simultaneously working as farm laborers. Trump would have deported all of them.
Uh, he had it right, Live Free AND Die. At least that's what we always said about a state with absolutely no gov't services, w/ barely a school system. Things are much better now, but 40 yrs ago, people from NH had many choice things to say about the state.
Are you serious, Martha, the Act passed to identify such young men with mental health issues would stop this? Come on! What we need is an Act that helps us identify such young men with mental health issues so we can stop this!! Let's get real. Enough of these acts that do exactly what is needed.
Making the military an absolutely miserable experience for our volunteer soldiers is an interesting choice, Russia loves it!
For $10,000! They can rat you out to the authorities. I was propagandized as a kid and told the Soviet Union is horrible because your family will betray you, but clearly they left out the part about $10,000. The Soviets were ahead of their time. I'm glad this policy has come to the USA finally.
Hahaha. Shameless liars. These people would be laughed out of a real country.
Force bipartisan reps to pass legislation that is 100% bulletproof from a bought-off Supreme Court. Constitutional amendments to cut off the testes of our new Democratic Party overlord. No more democracy by custom. We are not mature enough for a system of customs.
Stuart Stevens, currently to the left of most democratic leaders on the Hill
These new laws might be destroying your lives, but aren't they great?
Some kind of bad social media voodoo alchemy.
The fact that they can do any damage at all says more about society than it does them. Can't imagine a single source like Rogan being treated like a fount of wisdom 30 or 40 yrs ago. They would've been laughed at.
“Separating Truth from Lies in The Ghislaine Maxwell-Todd Blanche Transcripts” Journalist Vicki Ward has reminded us of Epstein and Maxwell’s numerous victims and called out her lies. She knows Maxwell, her history, her network, and her lies better than anyone. www.youtube.com/watch?v=wadP...
They show absolutely no compunction in limiting Biden on student loans and the Chevron ruling while giving Trump free rein. When Barrett declared that a President should never have the right to appoint a Justice in their last yr in office, she changed her stance on that quick later. Hypocrite.
He reminds me of Ed Grimley if he tried to dress up as Jiminy Glick.
Nancy Mace says, "I have to up my game!"
Who pays the bill? When does it come due? Trump only wants to extend his craziness while he profits from more & more grift. He doesn't care about the economy. He's like the people selling CDOs in 2006, they didnt care about their institutions. Someone else has to clean up the mess.
If I were a Russian spy agency, I would be cheering all of this on... Oh wait!
Walz: "It boggles my damn mind that in the midst of a military takeover of our cities, the flaunting of the rule of law, that the press finds the need to talk about, 'Oh, there's a division in the Dem Party.' There's a division in my damn house & we're still married and things are good. That's life"
Through a spectacularly ham-handed series of moves, the Trump administration has ensured that Epstein conspiracy theories will never really end.
When people call this communist, it's wrong. It is clientilist. It is monopolist. It the hallmark of vertically integrated countries where there are only a few lines of distribution and they own everything. In other words, this is the hallmark of oligarchy, not communism.
And the word acolyte derives from the same base of this word. So a John is essentially an acolyte.
Boycott SteaknShake.
Nick Clegg's insight on Silicon Valley: "I couldn’t, and still can’t, understand this deeply unattractive combination of machismo and self-pity...If you’re accustomed to privilege, equality feels like oppression." www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Virginia Giuffre’s lawyer Sigrid McCawley reacts to the Maxwell transcripts, saying Maxwell “repeatedly and brazenly lied” to the government and is trying to “recreate history.” Full statement
It's not even an academic term but a necessary medical term. It's use began as people who had transitioned were showing up to hospitals pregnant and they were not receiving medical care because of their gender and their outward appearance.
If you’re a convicted felon and your character witness is your dear old friend, the convicted child sex trafficker and enabler of your other dear old friend, the most notorious raper of children in modern history, you’re definitely a total piece of shit.
This is all bad
Powell: "GDP growth has slowed notably in the first half of this year, to a pace of 1.2%, roughly half the 2.5% pace in 2024. The declining growth has largely reflected a slowdown in consumer spending ... higher tariffs have begun to push up prices in some categories of goods."
The funniest thing about the Newsom stuff is, I don’t think a lot of these MAGAs realize he’s making fun of them and of Trump. They seem to think he’s “copying” Trump or something. Total lack of awareness of satire.
The Boston media revels in hate. They are the most toxic media anywhere in the USA. They make the NY media look like doves. They hated Belichick because he treated them the way they deserved to be treated. Would not surprise me 1 bit to see him have a much better relationship w/ NC media.
anything about him and seems not to include anyone who could truly provide some insight or background. OK, I'll point one more thing out. When Belichick arrived in Boston, he was a lot more gregarious & humorous w/ the media. That last 1 1/2 yrs until they started clamoring for Kraft to fire him 4/5
no mention of Belichick turning down the Congressional Medal of Honor bestowed by Trump in 2020. Many celebrities, w/ bonafide lefty credentials, accepted the medal. Belichick did not. He was out on Trump by 2020. So was Kraft. In a similar way, the article interviews people who barely know (3/4)
because "he's a Trumper." This comes from the Patriots support of Trump in 2016 (Kraft, Brady, Belichick, the whole enterprise, despite the fact a few of them are Democrats). Trump has been on the Patriots sidelines for over a decade prior to 2016. These were personal endorsements. But there's 2/3
A pretty unfortunate article, rambling really. Belichick is in the headline but it's mostly about the state of college athletics. Also, so much context is missing, which is understandable unless you were half following the Patriots. Just one example: so much political animus toward Belichick 1/2
What are they going to do? Arrest her and bring her to jail?
They've never stopped doing what they did from the start in the 70s. I remember this song from 15 years ago ("Don't tase me bro!"): www.youtube.com/watch?v=cKxh...
Steven Miller sounds very tough to me. He's really crashing down hard on these 90 year old white people. They must be very afraid of what they are hearing from him. Listen, he means business. If I were 90 and awake (he did order them to bed!) I'd be shaking in fear.
I have two: 1. "You, don't sing, just keep quiet." Nun at Catholic school as we rehearsed a song. 2. "Damn your bassinet."
What about the guy wearing a brownshirt to his left? Or is that a suit? Maybe. It looks like sludge.
@melissagiragrant.com writes: “𝘞𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘐𝘊𝘌 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘰𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳 𝘧𝘦𝘥𝘦𝘳𝘢𝘭 𝘭𝘢𝘸 𝘦𝘯𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘤𝘦𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘢𝘨𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘴 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘯𝘰𝘸 𝘥𝘰𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘦𝘦𝘵𝘴 𝘴𝘩𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘥 𝘣𝘦 𝘶𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘰𝘥 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘮𝘶𝘤𝘩 𝘭𝘰𝘯𝘨𝘦𝘳 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘹𝘵 […] “𝘍𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘣𝘦𝘨𝘪𝘯𝘯𝘪𝘯𝘨, 𝘷𝘪𝘰𝘭𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦 𝘢𝘨𝘢𝘪𝘯𝘴𝘵 𝘛𝘳𝘶𝘮𝘱’𝘴 𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘤𝘦𝘪𝘷𝘦𝘥 𝘦𝘯𝘦𝘮𝘪𝘦𝘴 𝘩𝘢𝘴 𝘣𝘦𝘦𝘯 𝘪𝘯𝘷𝘪𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘳𝘦𝘸𝘢𝘳𝘥𝘦𝘥. 𝘕𝘰𝘸 𝘪𝘵 𝘪𝘴 𝘫𝘶𝘴𝘵 𝘣𝘦𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘪𝘯𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘵𝘶𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘻𝘦𝘥.”
My question: if there's no mail ballots & all voting must be done on election day, then when are the armed soldiers outside the voting precincts going to vote?
But they get extra points for watching porn at work. That's Ryan Walters for you.
His rightward swing is whacked out. He'll never make friends there. I can appreciate his obsession with one issue though because so few really ever talk about the importance of anti-trust issues, when it's a major factor in all our lives.
Insurers though don't get their money out of thin air. They get it from us or our employers. The fact that they charge $59 in Germany but $499 in the US is out of whack
So why is it $59 in Germany?
If I am a Hollywood producer casting actors to play Nazis, the first thing I ask after reading this article is: Is the photo of the guy made by an AI composite or is he a real human being?
How is it possible that this Times writer Helen Rumbelow believes that a novelist like Sally Rooney is channeling themselves when creating characters? This is a mistake young readers are disabused from believing! It's embarrassing. www.thetimes.com/life-style/c...
Wow, Bari Weiss is going to be furious when…sorry I can’t keep up the bit
Bring in a port-a-potty, IV lines for fluids, one of those bowls for use as a sink to brush your teeth and wash your hair. Refuse to take a bath and let the natural body aromas flow freely as you sit very close to colleagues across the aisle.
This is CNN, a channel I really enjoy when I'm in the US. I wonder if American journalists are aware of how completely insane they look to the rest of the world. How utterly detached their narrative is from everyone else's. edition.cnn.com/2025/08/19/p...
The whole confederacy is getting in on it.
Why in the world is Putin discussing American voting machines, processes, ballots at all? I don't give much credibility to conspiracy theories of Russian hacking of machines, but now Trump -- as usual -- is telling on himself.
I usually dont give much credibility to conspiracy theories about Russian hacking of American voting machines. But now they're telling me that Trump and Putin discussed American voting machines and processes, and Im wondering WHY? www.nytimes.com/live/2025/08...
If pundits would like to talk about violence, a terrorist recently shot up the CDC and another assassinated Democratic officials in Minnesota but they sort of let both stories disappear Not as threatening as motorbikes in DC I know but maybe we could circle back?
If you're a judge who is Muslim & has affiliated w/ prisoner advocacy orgs: congress votes against your deserved candidacy for the Federal courts (including 2 Dems) If you're a man who beats on a fallen cop and screams, "Kill the cop!": you are appointed Deputy Director of the FBI
Throwing a sandwich at a cop: felony. Beating a cop unconscious with a flag pole: tourist behavior.
CNN totally normalizing this.
This is a bulletproof tweet impervious to charges that Newsom is a lunatic. No one in the media would ever call this style of writing crazy.
Trump's BLS pick EJ Antoni has said that Social Security, America's greatest anti-poverty program, is a "Ponzi scheme" that needs to be sunset. Reminder that BLS data is what determines annual cost-of-living adjustments for Social Security benefits. This is a five-alarm fire.
Doesn't seem like a good business plan to effectively ban possible new customers.
On Monday, a 15-year-old boy with disabilities was detained by the United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement outside a Los Angeles Unified School District high school. This is likely just one example of what's to come. Blog from me at @motherjones.com. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
AI slop and the destruction of knowledge irisvanrooijcogsci.com/2025/08/12/a...
You guys will never forget a dirty war you all started.
No action, eh? The most consequential Senator we have is no action? CFPB? SEC anti-monopolists? The people who passed Biden's bills for the middle & lower class were Warren's cadre. Look up Lina Khan, the people at the CFPB.
Agree. These are current friends I talk to, so we ARE friends. We've all come around. I look more at policies than camps & because I was Bernie '16 & Warren '20, I have respect for both. Thought Warren was done dirty by that horrid accusation of lying in Jacobin, but I am over it.
I hate to pick a fight too but I will. I have several friends who belong to DSA & we've been through it on Warren many times. In my experience, they don't like Warren. & it doesn't even stem from her policies. The animus comes from a certain article in Jacobin which caused a Warren camp eruption.
She's basically everyone's mentor. She has mentored so many people behind the scenes, from Porter, to Pressley, Lina Khan and Corrdray, there a ton of Warren people around.
Where is Margot MacComber when you need her?
Indeed, also it's summertime... I'm definitely posting less.
The fact that this went through without a peep by comparison to Judge Mangi who was pilloried for a very distant connection to a group seeking leniency for incarcerated people... this says it all when it comes to how the media & our institutions treat Democrats and Republicans.
Ah, an intellectual battle between a stochastic parrot incapable of true thought, designed in a laboratory to satisfy the whims of the far-right, and Grok.
Lucca missed his only chance to go to Yale. Needed to change his name to Luke Ruggles.
Yes!
It’s a golden age for Cassandras.
Wow
Especially since Adams promised to help ICE kidnap families similar to the murdered cop's family. Quid pro quo for Adams to cover up his corruption.
Politico, doing the work of the fascists.
This is the kind of stuff that you see in countries that eventually have the IMF move in and take over their finances. After selling off all the public utilities and public lands.
“.. At no point in the unfolding Epstein scandal has Trump focused on the young victims of these heinous criminals. .. The president has shown no concern for anything other than protecting himself.” @rexhuppke.bsky.social @usatoday.com www.usatoday.com/story/opinio...
Agree that pro coaches for 5 yr olds is way too much! Too much for 8 yr olds too. The difference between the two. #1 travel: 2 practices weekly 6 months, 3 months of local games, maybe winter league of 8 games $200-800. #2 Club: 3 practices week, 9 month season, longish travel, $3000-6000.
Masto is responsible for Bove. We clearly see a part of the Democratic Party is never ready to fight. Booker--I've long criticized him for ties to Wall Street--has shown an independent streak from the right of the party. He is very far from progressive however. I wish he'd jump to the left both feet
Booker is right: We need to fight the fascists at every turn. Klobuchar is the receipt for the moral hazard of the mythical middle. Morning Joe's crew, of course, sided with her Democrats Clash on Senate Floor Over Policing Bills and How to Take On Trump www.nytimes.com/2025/07/29/u...
Some distinction needs to be made in the comments between Travel Soccer & Club Soccer. Travel soccer tends to be volunteer/non-professional. By travel they mean local towns in your area. A better name would be town teams. Club soccer $$$ & coached by paid pros. This distinction needs to be made.
Can you describe any of the new habits? I'm living with two teens, one on the way to university, and I teach 18-22s. I am trying to think of new habits formed, but I have to say, despite a lot of time spent adjacent to young people, I can't describe these habits.
Do people read Haaretz? This article could not be written by someone who reads Haaretz every day. The plans are made clear daily. The idea that there is a line crossed that must trigger action now, after everything that already happened, when the plans have been made clear long ago?
It highlights the fact that people KNEW this was going to happen, the plan was made explicit & was talked about every day in Haaretz but people conveniently ignored the plan. The same craven thinking will sweep the suffering under the rug when a lot more food supplies come.
Just pardon Ghislaine Maxwell and get it over with already.
Lots of flags came down in my area after J6. Then they went back up.
Can you explain more? I listened to the clip. What does this mean?
My syllabus will add this: "As the climate changes in this class, we'll showcase a diversity of opinion, respect each other w/ equity, engender inclusion trans every boundary, think in non-binary terms, intersect w/ critical theories as we race to the production of radical new knowledge."
Ban those books!
Congrats, Oklahoma Republicans! You now rank dead last in education under this guy’s leadership. This dude wants to put ‘Trump Bibles’ in all schools along with copies of the Ten Commandments in classrooms. Can someone remind me which of the commandments says: Thou shalt watch porn at work. THX
#Epstein #GhislaineMaxwell #SarahRansome Epstein survivor Sarah Ransome reveals Ghislaine Maxwell's role
I can't believe he's going to pardon Maxwell.
Pardon coming. "What do you think of Rader the BTK Serial Killer?" "Don't know him, never met him, but the possibility of pardoning him is not on my mind right now."
Skydance—the company that just bribed Trump for the Paramount merger—is owned by David Ellison. David Ellison is the son of Larry Ellison, the second richest person in the world and founder of Oracle. Larry Ellison is part of the anti-democracy, surveillance state camp with Peter Thiel & Palantir.