Julie is like if a Ghost of Christmas saw Ebenezer Scrooge die and said "my work is unfinished, the haunting will continue." Bravo.
Julie is like if a Ghost of Christmas saw Ebenezer Scrooge die and said "my work is unfinished, the haunting will continue." Bravo.
We all suffer because privilege is equated with ignorance and opinion not intellect or facts.
What’s happening in Fulton County Georgia right now impacts all of us when we go to the polls in 2026 and 2028. We owe it to ourselves & our country to stay informed. joycevance.substack.com/p/five-quest...
This is the kind of WW passive-aggressive bullshit Black women deal with in EVERY professional situation. School too. Especially when they're less qualified and they know it. www.cbsnews.com/news/amy-con...
It’s worth noting people approached about being an FBI informant are those already involved in the crimes…and if DJT were an FBI informant, why would he be fighting so hard to avoid releasing these files? These people insult our intelligence daily.
“Chipocalypse Now” sounds like something Cookie Monster would say before destroying a plate of chocolate chip cookies. The cringe is real, y’all.
The beginnings of Christian nationalism date back decades. This is how the movement has evolved since the 1970s — and how it has become a powerful force in American politics today. By @phoebepetrovic.bsky.social (Published Oct. 2024)
C’mon now
Allow this excellent thread to get you up to speed on the Christian Nationalist desire to end the separation of church and state and its connections to the Broligarch consolidation behind fascism.
With @dahlialithwick.bsky.social the growing—and possibly unprecedented—lower court revolt against the Supreme Court: slate.com/news-and-pol...
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The self-owns are impressive, even for this kakistocracy.
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Black Unemployment 7.5% (+0.2)
Wyden is solid, no surprise there. The real performance goes to Mr. Crapo contorting himself into a gordian knot to avoid undermining Dear Leader’s psychopathic death dealer.
The Fraud Squad
A friend of a client has just announced she is running for Andy Biggs' seat in Arizona. She's a nurse, deeply committed to veterans healthcare and healthcare for all, affordable housing, and public education. GO ELIZABETH LEE GO. www.nurselee4az.com/our-campaign
This non-answer is rooted in the popular notion among anti-vaxxers like RFK Jr. that people died "with Covid" not "from Covid"
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The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) and the Republican-controlled North Carolina elections board teamed up on a proposed deal that could disenfranchise tens of thousands of voters in the Tar Heel State. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
RIP CBS News
Such an odd thing to read in the newspaper www.nytimes.com/2025/09/03/u...
Like this, America
More like this please! Thanks Australia!
America now has more unemployed people than job openings for the first time since April 2021.
So our military just bombed a boat in international waters and extrajudicially killed suspected drug traffickers without so much as a conversation, let alone a trial? Then posted it on social media? And we’re all supposed to just trust their account?
Had the good fortune of meeting Bill 3x in Manhattan in the same period, late summer-early fall ‘99. The last time, he called out, “You again?!” across a crowded corner in the West Village while he was shooting a street portrait. A true New Yorker; friendly, gregarious and always on business.
Hell yes
Sen. Mark Warner, D-Va., the vice chair of the Intelligence Committee, says he was denied a meeting with career intelligence workers because Laura Loomer objected.
The “brand of utopianism that the Thiel Fellowship’s staff & recipients espouse is indebted…to Thiel’s writings, & … to his…vision of Christianity, mediated by the work of French philosopher René Girard: a…fusion of techno-utopianism that characterizes its successes as Christian miracles.” - 2020
🚨BREAKING: President Donald Trump is preparing to deploy National Guard troops in the state over the governor’s repeated objections. Pritzker also warned Trump will soon launch large-scale immigration raids in Chicago. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
"We have a much better chance of combatting autocracy if people are creative instead of reactive....Do not let Donald Trump be the most important person in your life." sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/mafia-stat...
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You love to see it.
Remember in early 2022, when Anthony Fauci was overheard on a live mic describing Sen. Roger Marshall as a “moron”? tinyurl.com/4hpn9j52 I find myself thinking about that quote with some regularity.
So much fucked up in there.
She was barely elected to represent an Oregon’s 5th district for a single term before she got bounced (for the third time) by current rep, Janelle Bynum (D) who, like former Dem Kurt Schrader, votes center-right. Bynum voted FOR Laken-Riley 👎🏻
This is F’ing maddening. There were some legit studies showing a correlation between acetaminophen being elevated in umbilical samples and higher autism risk, but when researchers looked at large samples and corrected for sibling outcomes, it vanishes. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
The US military will conduct a flyover of the White House and wider DC at 11am tomorrow (Wednesday). Epstein’s victims will be holding a press conference on Capitol Hill around the same time.
Okay. They know they can’t invade Chicago because it will trigger a massive nationwide backlash but it’s this ‘if they’d only ask for help’ bit that really highlights how flaccid and dysfunctional Trump and his regime are.
One thing that's really reassuring about SCOTUS is how their actual, real, serious, genuine position on ethics is "we are not bound by any mortal law nor any code or creed, this is our world, you merely live in it."
Remember: a core tenet of this coup project is abject denial of accountability. They don’t want to be told what they can and cannot do, legally or otherwise. This move is likely to get slapped down but they’re unlikely to stop trying to instantiate sovereign immunity for their acts no matter what.
If you were wondering why Trump squashed crypto regulations, fired the ethics watchdogs overseeing corruption, and ended the National Cryptocurrency Enforcement Team, this $5 billion payday is why.
This is starting to feel even more suspicious www.aol.com/jd-vance-fle...
When this national nightmare is finally over, no pardons. No “This is necessary to heal the country.” Public trials. Jail time. We need to expose, convict & punish every corrupt & complicit one of them.
Lickspittle Lori just loves to lie for Dear Leader.
Stiffing your soldiers, I feel like that's something with a little bit of historical precedent if someone were inclined to look into it
Whole thread is eye-wateringly gruesome; thanks to detailed documentation by @annabower.bsky.social. This is the USA abusing children at will in our name claiming that doing so is lawful. Do you want this? I sure as fuck don’t!
Same playbook here in the States and elsewhere; Vile and well orchestrated.
The Sunday talk shows are particularly egregious examples of corporate media’s craven disregard for truth telling but Pritzker uses this to his advantage.
I’m very progressive-left from a largely progressive-left *southern* family and while it’s unknown exactly what my kids’ political orientation will turn out to be as adults, I have three and lead by example, so I like our odds. 💅
Not too surprised to see to these two senators doing their best to represent the interests of the American people in supporting aid efforts for the decimated Palestinians and calling for an end to their slaughter while calling out the obfuscation of the Netanyahu regime.
Lawmakers in California killed an anti-AI price manipulation bill, and "a bill that aimed to protect electric utility customers from bearing higher costs associated with data center proliferation" that "required data centers to publicly disclose how much energy they use," per @khari.bsky.social:
A federal employee directory helped us figure out just how many workers have left federal health agencies since the beginning of President Donald Trump’s second term. Here’s how we crunched the numbers. By @pratheekrebala.bsky.social @anniewaldman.bsky.social @bxroberts.org
Nope! ☠️
This is both heartbreaking and infuriating.
Coming Soon: Banana Eats Live!
Real men love a good cuddle.
In frustration, I asked a law professor (Michael Libonati), "is anything in the law real?" He replied: "Burdens." That's why Manners' framing here is so important. The question isn't how much has Congress limited POTUS, but how much it has allowed. The burden is on POTUS to prove he's allowed.
Same energy
America’s truest global export is hate.
Yes and objectively the answer to all of this is ‘they won’t’ not because they can’t but because their intention is to rule not govern.
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They don’t care if you have papers or not. What they care about is whether you look like an immigrant from south of the border.
This is the scorched earth thread we need right now which just happens to be @sethabramson.bsky.social’s specialty. Go off, king.
Normally they've booked 40% of their fall soybean sales to China at this point. This year, they are at 0% booked, and no, that's not a typo. www.farmprogress.com/soybean/us-s...
With O'Neill (apparently) taking over CDC (if they ever get around to firing Monarez), I think it's worth looking back to Project 2025 and asking what they actually intend to *do* to CDC. So, I went to remind myself today. Here's what's in store:
Intel Ends Funding for HBCU Legal Pipeline Amid Trump Deal news.bloomberglaw.com/in-house-cou...
‘National embarrassment’ is the only thing the Trump regime hasn’t tariffed yet.
Oh this AI thing is just not going well at all for Suckerberg, is it? www.reuters.com/business/met... Amazing reporting from @jeffhorwitz.bsky.social on yet another AI disaster with dire legal implications.
"It never does any good to suck up to an autocrat. He will screw you over anyway. You should preserve your integrity and your dignity if he's going to try to steal everything else." www.youtube.com/watch?v=7CaI...
Absolutely and whatever ‘evidence’ he and his lackeys use to justify it will be egregiously stupid and easily disproven by real science.
So odd that domestic news orgs continue to tie themselves in knots to not tell the simple truth.
Every time you use ChatGPT or something like it, you’re helping to train an algorithm that is actually being developed to do things like this
Pay attention, Canada. If Alberta is successful in this book banning, this will spread. Look around you, b/c this is how it starts. We're on the same ledge the US was on. And we either start fighting this right-wing rise now, or we follow the Americans over the edge. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Quinnipiac poll finds that Half of US voters (77% of Democrats & 51% of independents) believe that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza. 6 in 10 voters also oppose the US sending more military aid to Israel.
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According to Lumo, Proton is using “specialized language models” but cannot reveal those SLM providers.
Suckerberg will always be the pick-me of the insufferable broligarch Bond villain class.
NEW: More than two decades after victims and families of the 9/11 attacks began trying to hold the Saudi government responsible for aiding the Qaida terrorists who carried out the plot, a judge has ruled that a lawsuit against the kingdom can go to trial.
Graham’s got the juice, folks.
From a Constitutional standpoint, Vance's claim is *far more radical* than, say, expanding SCOTUS, gun control, or a wealth tax. Under Art I § 8, coining/borrowing money has always been up to Congress, not POTUS, and Congress set up the Fed to run the way it does. Vance wants all of that scrapped.
Again, at what point does the company selling this unregulated product get dragged out from behind their cowardly EULA and properly dragged into court?
However evil you think this is, it’s worse: “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.”
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Prayers had 40 years to work. And if mine worked, we’d have new gun laws.
Stand together or fall apart. Do not let them use our trans folks to scapegoat their fascism.
Spot on. The only way out is through but the only way that’s going to happen is if we stick together.
Must read thread 👇🏻
“Do it out of love” ❤️
One more time, shout out to the very serious people who suggested that RFK had some really good points about public health. No way to have predicted how things would turn out, except to look at his past record and everything he said about vaccines.
Reuters repeating a falsehood here. Most of this money was already granted to intel under the chips act passed by Biden. The rest under other pre-Trump programs
The fact that this is already being outed by the press underscores the kakistocracy attempting this ‘coup d’influence’ scheme.
Kkkaroline ain’t getting into paradise no matter how hard she prays.
