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NYT reports TRUMP & MODI had a falling out because Modi wouldnāt back Trumpās lie that he brokered the India-Pakistan ceasefire ā a lie šŗšø media has let him get away with with even as Indiaās media has openly mocked him for it. Video: x.com/thetnholler/...
The next US Senator from Maine, Graham Platner.
This post aged well and itās so tragic that it did.
The problem isnāt refugees on boats. The problem is oligarchs hoarding obscene amounts of wealth while most people fight to stay afloat. Wages aren't tied to inflation, so the working class keeps falling behind no matter how hard they work.
Crime is literally lower than it has been in the entire life of every single non-senior-citizen American. If you are under age 65 you have never lived at a time with lower property crime rates, lower violent crime rates or lower homicide rates. Never.
I feel like the insistence that voters are just really upset about crime, given this reality, is instructive for the notion that they just really care about high prices
Presidents Xi, Putin and PM Modi would never be palling around today if it wasnāt for the extraordinary foolishness shown by the president of the United States.
Local news: If you watch it through, it sounds like the police are referring to this as a āfight.ā This wasnāt a fight. It was a race-based attack. On August 16, 2025, a 14 YO Black teen from Platteville, Wisconsin, was attacked by white teens at a party in the town of Pulaski, Iowa County. 3/4
This should be getting far more attention from the media, and it should be investigated as a hate crime. A 14-year-old Black teen was targeted, beaten, and dehumanized with racial slurs by white teens while people stood around cheering. 1/4
Shi**y "Christian" attacks Bible for calling him a shi**y Christian.
"Computer science isn't political!", they said. "I'm just going to develop AI products for startup cash and to draw cute girls", they said. "You're over reacting and making everything political", they said. We need ethics training in engineering.
I think the thing that gets me is that I did have ethics classes in university. Itās just that the classes always turned into the women, nonbinary, and other marginalized people giving a shit and the cis dude bros not understanding why it was that important.
For sure. I just donāt know if they'll be successful in that endeavor for very long. He is known for loving to talk and be in front of cameras, a much different equation vs presidents who didn't court the attention of the press on a daily basis.
Somebody is throwing things out of a window of the White House wtaf
Wild times.
I just saw an article that said a CEO that stole a hat from a kid at a tennis event was the most hated man in America. I feel like that's forgeting someone.
And ask them why POTUS would take away treatments that saved his life. #FireRFKjr
Do you have Trump supporters in your life? Remind them of this.
I desperately want to email this to a certain journalist
šÆ%. I've come to accept how morally depraved Donald Trump is. But I'll never get over how blindingly imbecilic he is. www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
Black women are losing more jobs than anyone else in Trump's shitty economy. By design.
If they're waiting for midterms, they'd have to prop him up for a year and two months. That's looking increasingly impossible by the day.
Trump leaves the White House this morning (Andrew Caballero/Getty)
Schatz seems to forget that Trump was in office when COVID lockdowns began and that the mismanagement was entirely due to the GOP catering to horse dewormer-peddling anti-vaxers
Weird, putting tariffs on construction materials and throwing day laborers in concentration camps should have solved the supply problem by now
Anyway, Iām glad to know the president is still technically alive so he can watch this tomorrow www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...
āPeter Thielās AI Palantir Is Supercharging Trumpās Lawfareā In May, Trumpās FHFA Director Bill Pulte announced a āpartnershipā w/ Palantir to āestablish an āAI-powered Crime Detection Unit (CDU).āā The CDU promptly began āwork at the Federal National Mortgage Association (Fannie Mae)ā 8/29/25ā¦1/
Just an astonishing, powerful op-ed that drives home what we are losing and what's already been lost. We are so incredibly fortunate to live with the advances modern medicine and health science. Destroying and stymieing it is just unforgivable. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...
BREAKING: Looks like Rudy Giuliani was NOT helping a DV victim at the time of the accident. Article states troopers & firefighters, already on the scene for a separate domestic violence incident across the interstate, witnessed the crash and rendered aid. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
So, the woman whom Giuliani was helping was on the southbound side of Interstate 93. But the car in which he was injured was on the northbound side. And this all happened in the dark of night. www.concordmonitor.com/2025/08/31/r... www.nytimes.com/2025/08/31/u...
That monstrosity must be stopped. And Iām referring to both the data center as well as Trumpā¦ This dumb shit is why theyāre pushing strip-mining of our national parks. These data centers will consume all energy and freshwater on Earth.
AXIOS: ā(Trumpās) tariff policy will cost midsize businesses $82.3 billion, according to a new report from the JPMorganChase Instituteā¦ā www.axios.com/sponsored/mi...
This should be the lead story in all major national news outlets. Public health people prefer to stay out of the limelight unless there is no other choice. I canāt overstate how bad things have to be for 9 former CDC directors to band together and pen an op-ed in the NYT warning the entire country.
Did you know in 1890 manufacturing employees worked on average 100 hours a week? It would be decades before the eight-hour workday became real. It took labor activists and labor unions to turn the cry for change into policy and practice. www.americaamerica.news/p/a-labor-da...
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9 CDC Directors going back to 1977 speak out. What RFK Jr has done to our nationās public health system "should alarm every American." It "is unlike anything we have ever seen at the agency, and unlike anything our country has ever experienced." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...
Sinema: Even awfuler than ever. Taxes, Psychedelics, Crypto: Kyrsten Sinema Sees Opportunity Under Trump www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
WWII began on 1 Sept 1939 when Nazis invaded Poland. Ukraine paid a high price: 5-7 million lives. History warns unpunished evil returns. World appeasement of Hitler fueled genocide. Today, hesitation to confront Putin enables aggression. Dictators cannot be appeased.
This is nothing else but a hybrid war that Russia wages against Europe Let's name things as they really are:Russia has made an assassination attempt of the President of the European Commission Russia has been jamming GPS-signals over many Eastern Europe countries that are in its immediate vicinity
Letās not forget for one second, that RFKJr. maintained an over two decade relationship with Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell, and lied through his teeth about it. And in these ties that bind, are the roots of the RFKJr. - Trump relationship. Heās filth!
Ok but hear me out, what if we taxed the fuck out of really rich people
Americans rely on public transportation to go to work or school. But @malcolmkenyatta.bsky.social is walking from Philly to Harrisburg to protest PA State Republicans slashing SEPTA funds (Philly's mass transportation) and ā¬ļø fares. We need to elect Dems to the PA senate so we can stop this nonsense.
Australia could generate 137,000 tons of lithium-ion battery waste each year by 2035. This represents a recycling industry that could be valued between $603 million and $3.1 billion each year.
Can't afford to care for your kids; can't afford to care for your parents; can't afford to care for yourselfāAmerica makes it hard to care for each other, yet we have unlimited opportunity to be selfish or cruel. Demand a system with less friction and bullshitāit's "unrealistic" or "impractical."
I hope you understand that private industries have, for years, worked to limit scientific credibility. They don't want to be accountable if they cause cancer, if they poison you by dumping in your neighborhood's water.
I hope you understand that if you show up at a hospital with an infection no one has ever seen before that the US had somewhere you could call. That place would answer, offer testing you canāt get anywhere else and come visit you to solve if necessary.
Hey you know when I pointed out that there are a lot of toxic online spaces where vulnerable people mix with evil people and some of those vulnerable people are largely being groomed and exploited by the evil people, but everyone outside those online spaces assumes they're the same group?
Pretty amazing point in history: we have an administration in place that we distrust so thoroughly that we assume we might not be told if the head of state were to die.
Oh, Andy Borowitz. What a gem you are.
ā”ļø Suspected Russian jamming hits von der Leyen's plane over Bulgaria, FT reports. Suspected Russian interference forced European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen's plane to land in Bulgaria using paper maps, the Financial Times reported.
If all the documents were released, all the records, all the interviews, if every shred of paper written on the Epstein sex trafficking operation were released tomorrow, there would still be horrific things weāll never know. Think about that.
I guess we shouldn't be surprised that the lawyer for the convicted insurrectionists is sleazy StL lawyer Mike McCloskey, who aimed a gun at peaceful protestors when they came into his neighborhood in 2020 and later launched an unsuccessful campaign for the Senate.
Allison, 20, has been detained for six months at the Stewart Detention Center in Lumpkin, Georgia. She had nearly given up her legal fight due to health issues and unsanitary conditions at the facility.
New: I looked at 90 porn sites to test the new age-verification law rewriting the web. The ones following the rules, and scanning visitors' faces, are crumbling, while the lawbreakers are doubling or tripling their traffic. One of many unintended consequences for an experimental tech wapo.st/47QuttW
Joe Biden is out buying ice cream while everyone is asking whether Trump is dead.
As rumors fly that Trump has suffered a stroke, I was reminded that the motherfucker has always been a loathsome piece of shit. To make more money with a different tenant, Trump threw 74-year-old widow, Mary Filan, who had recently suffered a stroke out of her Queens apartment.
Who had rabies on the rise, on their 2025 bingo card? JFC, IF you get your animals NO other vaccine, get the rabies vax. I can't believe I have to say this.š
The LGML case came very close to being JGG redux. But just before the hearing began, the judge decided not to wait. She entered a TRO barring removal of all the children. That made all the difference: DHS already had the kids loaded on planes. One plane even took off (then turned around).
My favorite sentence in the New York Times explainer on Mamdani and socialism.
Trump/RFK are decapitating our public health system, a pillar of American greatness. So Dem Govs should scour every corner of the law for creative new ways to defend their people from this madness. Dems should polarize this debate to the max. Thoughts on this here: newrepublic.com/article/1998...
Netherlands AI activist is UNMASKING ICE! apple.news/ArcFyh_yIRg6...
Trump at his golf club today. He hid from the public for days and wonāt let the press pool near him.
Media should hound him at least half as much as they hounded Biden. But they wonāt.
Pritzker on Trump sending troops into cities: "He has other aims other than fighting crime... he would like to stop the elections in 2026 or frankly take control of those elections. He'll just claim there's some problem with an election and then he's got troops on the ground that can take control."
Maybe we should measure the economy by the fact that 60% of Americans canāt afford basic necessities while billionaires can write off the entire cost of their private jets and yachts on their taxes.
BREAKING: A federal judge has *blocked* the Trump administration from abruptly deporting 600 unaccompanied Guatemalan children ā perhaps within a matter of hours ā granting an emergency restraining order after advocates called the plan illegal + dangerous. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
This is the type of person Trump pardoned. He proudly asserts that they should have injured a US Capitol Police Officer worse than they did on January 6th (@sergeantaqgo.bsky.social) had to medically retire). But MAGA supports law enforcement? Seriously? Then show me by condemning this guy.
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Trumpās Decapitation of the CDC Takes a Darker Turnāand Hands Democrats a Weapon Illinoisās JB Pritzker is leading a charge other Democratic governors should take up: In our America, weāll make sure public health systems remain strong.
That means heās going to accelerate what heās been doing for decades. The Senate ushered that in, knowing full well his history. Iāve written so much about him Iāve organized a section of my newsletter under āRFK Jrā Find them all here ā¬ļøā¬ļøā¬ļø š news.immunologic.org/t/rfk-jr š§µ
Whatās wild to me: NOW, media outlets & medical organizations are āstunnedā by the damage RFK Jr. is doing to CDC, other health agencies, & public health. Me & my colleagues have been screaming about him for years. Years. Even more so in the last year. We were called hyperbolic. 1/
House Republicans Want To Doxx Wikipedia Editors Over Bogus āBiasā Complaints Congress has absolutely zero constitutional authority to investigate a private website for its editorial decisions. Zero. None. This is First Amendment 101. Yet House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer andā¦
This whole thread is exhausting. The questions vary between insulting to teachersā professionalism, trivial, and irrelevant (but requiring a particular set of beliefs). Nothing about actual teacher qualification.
RADDATZ: One of the things they are trying to do in DC with the National Guard is have them back up local law enforcement WES MOORE: They are picking up trash
He wonāt let the press anywhere near him. This is getting weirder and weirder.
honestly it rules that every social media site ginned up death rumors that forced the White House to do a proof of life deal where Trump looks even more like a wadded up gym towel than usual bsky.app/profile/coop...
Last night was fun and it spooked the white house into releasing a proof of life photo where Trump looks like that moment in a cheap action film where they replace the actor with a dummy the moment before an explosion.
Why donāt you send everyone proof of life first? (Either way, Chicago doesnāt want you here)
Pritzker: "No one in the administration -- the president or anybody under him -- has called anyone in my administration or me. It's clear that in secret they're are planning this invasion with US troops."
"Perhaps the most important thing to understand about Trumpās mobster state capitalism is that it isnāt about economic efficiency or stimulating growth, let alone a vision of how the economy works and what it should create. Itās about *power*, pure and simple."
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.
Hereās why you should keep your kids off Roblox
As Americans have known for far too long, Trump sees truth as indeterminate, ripe for manipulation by his regime. Trump simply doesnāt want reliable, accurate AI. He wants MAGA agitprop. trib.al/F2JIosX
šØChildrenšØKilled byšØICE Say their names. Their lives mattered and their deaths were govt. sanctioned murders. 1/2
If you had told me in 2012 that Mitt Romneyās presidential campaign manager would be posting like this 13 years later i would not have believed you
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Trump & Kennedy, instead of attacking diseases are attacking the scientists who keep us safe, exactly what anyone who watched Trumpās performance during Covid, is familiar with Kennedyās anti-science views, or read Project 2025 could have anticipated. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/29/h...
Jones: I would say to my colleagues who serve in governmentākeep your thoughts and prayers, keep your tweets. If you want to address gun violence, you don't need to tweet. What you need is a mirror. You have the power to change things.
In @nytopinion.nytimes.com Today, as the Israeli government ācalls on tens of thousands of reservists to participate in the cruel re-occupation of Gaza City, I implore my fellow soldiers: Refuse to report,ā Yotam Vilk writes in a guest essay.
Trump goes on rant about how the limestone he selected for the White House was damaged and how he looked up video surveillance footage to blame a contractor. Trump says he will now charge the contractor for the damage.
āFor the second time in less than a month, the Justice Department abruptly dropped charges against a client represented by Brad Bondi, the brother of U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi.ā Must be nice! abcnews.go.com/US/doj-drops...
I really hope this becomes the black eye it deserves to be www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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.