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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."
I like the rebrand.
I'm still waiting for the relentless onslaught of media demands for a press conference and calls to resign.
California stepping up.
He’s providing them with valuable mulching experience though.
There’s a special place in hell for morons who get millions of people killed.
"The lunatics are running the asylum."
Who voted for war with Venezuela?
The way that housing co-ops work in Switzerland may seem foreign to many. But the central idea is simple: What if homeownership had no profit motive and no capital gains? Advocates say their model could reshape how the world thinks about affordable housing. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/r...
I really hope this becomes the black eye it deserves to be www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Television legend Stephen Colbert has just signed a $13.5 million deal with Netflix for a 7-episode series.
I wonder how Chump will try to distract from this. Invade Chicago probably. Let Fox cover Chicago. Everyone else pay respect to the victims.
CHICAGO…
Reverse Brexit, crisis avoided.
Trump wants you to forget Epstein. Or at least, trust the lady whose been convicted of the crime. My latest adamkinzinger.substack.com/p/maxwell-th...
The UN should move its headquarters to a more balanced country.
@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.”
Only the best experts for 47.
BREAKING: Congresswoman Maxine Waters just called for Trump’s cabinet to invoke “Article 25” of the Constitution to remove him from office. “Something's wrong with this president!" Who agrees?
Trump and the GOP are hellbent on killing our kids. Whether it’s no gun control or defunding pediatric brain cancer research/trials. Our kids deserve better than Trump and his feckless Republicans.
Corporate America’s playbook: 1) Exploit workers to maximize profits 2) Use profits to buy Congress 3) Use Congress to pass union-busting laws 4) Use these laws to further exploit workers 5) Repeat Let's break the cycle and keep building back a powerful labor movement.
The Rev took attendance…
RFK Jr looks like he’s been sampling the diseases at the CDC
Rather sadly, that thought has crossed my mind more than once, what is it they don't see.
For a government driven by hate, enabled by lies and selling deceit, what did they expect, the truth?
RFK Jr joined the fight on deadly diseases on the side of deadly diseases.
🚨BREAKING: Missouri Gov. Mike Kehoe (R) reinforced GOP power grabs sweeping the country, calling a special legislative session Friday to redraw congressional districts and weaken the ability of voters to pass laws through ballot initiatives. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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.
The NRA buys off Congress. No action on guns. The oil industry buys off Congress. No action on climate. Insurance companies buy off Congress. No action on health care. The list goes on and on. Money in politics is the root of our dysfunction.
"She did not die defending the Constitution. She died trying to overturn it. She was not protecting lives at a gate in Iraq; she was forcing her way through windows in the Capitol to stop the peaceful transfer of power." New from @markhertling.bsky.social:
Perhaps he shouldn't have been appointed?
Disgraceful.
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👀 Zelensky: The buffer zone already exists, if Russia wants to have a greater distance from us, let them retreat deep into the occupied territories. 📍Kharkiv and Donetsk regions. We are conducting active operations in two regions and it is not easy for the enemy there today.
BREAKING: Trump has canceled former Vice President Kamala Harris’ Secret Service protection, effective September 1, 2025. Imagine being so petty and hateful that you put someone’s life in danger to “own the libs”. Piece of crap.
WATCH — @jessicatarlov.bsky.social : “If a Democratic president were doing any of these things you would be losing your mind.” 🎯
The fact that Reform were trying to run a person who had been dead for six months as their Croydon Mayoral candidate is proof if it were needed that they are not a serious party. It demonstrates abject incompetence and no vetting as well as utter contempt for the electorate.
Angus: I’m saying we need to start building progressive media that people actually listen to. I’ll give you an example: MeidasTouch. Wherever I go in Canada, working-class people listen to MeidasTouch because they talk about what’s happening in a practical way. They give facts.
In Atlanta, staff at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention gathered to applaud colleagues who resigned following the firing of Director Susan Monarez. With four top officials stepping down, many now feel that the CDC is effectively finished.
EPSTEIN Epstein Epstein Epstein CDC and FBI hollowed out of experienced servants to make way for pliant toadies. Epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein January 6 Traitor Ashli Babbit receiving military honors. Epstein Epstein Epstein EPSTEIN
Thousands of Mike Johnson's own constituents are at risk of losing Medicaid coverage following the passage of a budget bill he pushed for. And it’s all so he could help bankroll more tax cuts for corporations and the super-rich. Don’t let him forget.
BREAKING: Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey JUST CALLED FOR a statewide and federal ban on assault weapons. Who’s with him?
It strikes me, that this is not the sort of thing that should be celebrated.
Please, don't tempt them.
8/28/25😳 second time this month, Justice Department dropped charges against a client represented by Pam’s brother abcnews.go.com/US/doj-drops...
Welch: This is a guy who has redecorated the oval Marie Antoinette style and is building himself a ballroom because he has no intention of leaving.
Four just made the point well, there is simply no evidence to support the right wing rhetoric. It would seem to fix the catastrophic Brexit, the ECHR is the blocker. Next week what will it be?
The debate earlier on Four made the point clearly, there is simply no substance in the right wing argument, it is not based on fact or measure, just populist policies.
Welch: He claims that he's the law and order president. But we all know that's a lie because he's a convicted felon. He pardons convicted felons, he surrounds himself with obsequious people that kiss his all day, every day
Between RFK decimating the CDC, normalizing Ashli Babbitt & the umpteenth school shooting... I'm losing the will to post. #ReleaseTheEPSTEIN_Files
I hear you, balance and objectivity are lost.
You're not going to believe this but Susan Collins is "extremely alarmed"
"Literally no one thinks prayer is a substitute for action." Then why is prayer, literally, *always* the substitute for action, you willfully obtuse asshole?
Thou shalt not listen to a damn thing that RFK Jr. says.
GOV. @gavinnewsom.bsky.social : “Facts are stubborn things… Mississippi, Tennessee, Arkansas…. Alabama is a top 3 murder state. Where is the President? — He isn’t focused on crime & violence. It’s about an expression of authoritarianism.” (H/T @acyn.bsky.social )
It's possible ... hear me out, here …. It may well be that these people lie their asses off whenever they exhale
Newsom: This cannot be normalized. And yes so I'm highlighting some just just blatant hypocrisy. Yes, we are putting a mirror up to the lunacy that is trump's tweets and his grift.
Tulsi Gabbard released the names of CIA OPERATIVES! “It could potentially put CIA cover procedures at risk. It could put relations with foreign governments at risk.” The Predator in Chief picks all the best people...right? Not! www.thedailybeast.com/intelligence...
The newly ousted director of the CDC refused to fire top agency leaders or approve changes to vaccines from RFK Jr.’s hand-picked panel of advisers.
THOU SHALT STOP WORSHIPPING GUNS!!!
* ITALY PM MELONI SAYS RUSSIA'S LATEST STRIKE ON KYIV SHOWS IT HAS NO INTENTION OF NEGOTIATING END TO WAR @reuters.com
The national news will move on, but Minnesota will not.
If the Democratic Party intends to win this fight, it must stop functioning solely as a party & instead step into its moment in history: to lead a pro-democracy movement capable of confronting this authoritarian threat. https://www.lincolnsquare.media/p/stand-up-america-the-time-for-a-pro?r=2lckc
Yes, it should. However, that would require an effective mainstream media in America — which we don’t currently have.
If someone tells you there's nothing we can do about gun violence beyond thoughts and prayers, remind them: —Gun laws in other countries have prevented mass shootings —More guns don't make us safer —A majority of Americans want gun reform We don't have to live like this.
Translation: Buy our bulldozers to demolish Palestinian homes, or face tariffs on salmon and sweaters. Nothing screams ‘freedom and democracy’ like mandatory shopping from the empire’s catalogue of destruction.
Makes you wonder how much political capital is lost to being driven by hate. If only Trump attempted to unite, instead of divide.
Frey: I think the impetus has to be on all of us to recognize that we've got more guns in this country than we have people, and it's on all of us to recognize the truth and the reality that we can't just say that this shouldn't happen again, and then allow it to happen again and again
It shouldn't be up to American children to save each other from getting shot. It's the job of American adults to stop shootings from happening in the first place. Ban assault weapons again now.
The Epstein “Birthday Book” & other items have been subpoenaed from Jeffrey Epstein’s Estate. Congressman Robert Garcia gets us caught up on the latest developments in the Epstein Files, as well as how the proposed redistricting maps in CA impact his own district. youtu.be/Z9M-lNB2sSw?...
It's time to remove Robert F. Kennedy Jr from government before he kills us all
"Edward Coristine, 19, who calls himself “Big Balls” and was fired from a previous cybersecurity job for leaking proprietary information". Not really a surprise. www.thenation.com/article/poli...
What has America come to, that the use of a sandwich was even considered a felony.
❗️In Kyiv, terrifying footage appeared - Two russian missiles hitting a residential building. This is not “a military target.” This is people’s homes. Families. Children. Lives torn apart in seconds.
If Reform cut ties with a paper while claiming transparency, it smacks of hypocrisy; true openness means tolerating scrutiny, not cherry-picking friendly outlets. It looks like message-control, not principle.
UK energy bills stay high because we’re hooked on gas, rely on short-term contracts (as Putin mocked), and have weak storage. Add flawed market rules, bailouts, levies, a weak pound, and now £815m wasted turning off wind farms—the system loads costs onto consumers, not companies.
It's almost as if the apparatus of the US is working for another government?
Sen Patty Murray (D-WA): “If there are any adults left in the White House, it’s well past time they face reality… We cannot let RFK Jr. burn what’s left of the CDC and our other critical health agencies to the ground—he must be fired.”
Susan Monarez, the CDC director, was fired just shy of a month into her role. At least four other top CDC officials have also submitted their resignations, with one of them writing, “I am not able to serve in this role any longer because of the ongoing weaponizing of public health.”
This is #Kyiv today Putin is deliberately striking Kyiv on the eve of a meeting in the United States between Head of the Office of the President of Ukraine Andrii Yermak, Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine Rustem Umerov, & President Trump’s Special Envoy Steve Witkoff
I don't want to live in a country where 10-year-olds are on the news talking about how their friends saved them by lying on top of them during a shooter incident... and got shot. Thanks, GOPNRA.
Starbucks’ CEO made 6,666x more than the company's median employee in 2024. This was the widest CEO-to-Worker pay gap in the entire S&P 500. Remember this before you order your next pumpkin spice latte.
Sorry to say, but for a party entirely driven by hate, it's not exactly a surprise.
Putin brought the war to Ukraine. By Trump's logic, Iraq and Afghanistan should have simply surrendered to the US. Perhaps patriots actually fight for their nation?
Landlords say they can’t afford a rent freeze, but have $2.5M to give to Cuomo. Reminds me of corporations that spend millions to bust unions instead of just raising wages and offering benefits. Doing the right thing is always cheaper than the cost to block it.
Dr. Demetre, in his resignation from the CDC, said this: “I have never experienced such radical non-transparency, nor have I seen such unskilled manipulation of data to achieve a political end rather than the good of the American people”. It is an outrage that RFK Jr. remains as head of HHS.
We’re going to go on a rant for a minute, and yes we’re bringing some history with us. Back in 1755, Benjamin Franklin wrote words that still echo today: “Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.”
Just as oil and gas do. Makes you wonder why they would campaign against solar energy. Perhaps they are developing a method to charge for the sun?
Me, trying again, on how John Roberts gave Big Balls access to all our Social Security data. www.youtube.com/watch?v=TzdH...
Did Putin leave his wallet behind?
School just started, and we are already mourning two children killed and dozens more injured as they prayed during mass. It doesn’t have to be this way. Congress must act to keep our kids safe.
Those who have the power to stop mass shootings can go to hell with their "thoughts and prayers." Do something about it, you evil bastards.
AMERICA: “It’s a mental health issue.” REST OF THE WORLD: “We have those. But don’t have mass shootings.” AMERICA: “It’s video games.” WORLD: “We have those too. But don’t have mass shootings.” AMERICA B: “It’s cause they took Jesus out of the classroom.” WORLD: “God, you’re stupid.”
Never before in our history has one man exercised such unbridled discretion affecting the lives of so many of us, while simultaneously preventing others — Congress, the courts, the American people — from having a say or even knowing what he’s going to do next. This is what dictatorship looks like.
FUCK YEAH SCIENCE arstechnica.com/science/2025...