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Wednesday
Netflix is putting its money where its mouth is: š° $2M to back Newsom in the redistricting fight šŗ A deal for Sesame Street ā new episodes and the full archive free to watch. Thatās how you pick a side.
In the russian Duma they said Mykolaiv and Odesa regions are the new ātargetsā of the war According to member of the russian Duma Viktor Sobolev, the plan is full āliberationā of Sumy, Kharkiv, Dnipro, Mykolaiv and Odesa regions Absolutely insane idiots. Just scum and freaks. š¤”š¤”š¤”
kyivindependent.com/russian-map-...
A sea turtle surfacing by a MASSIVE school of rays near Clearwater, Florida a couple days ago. Another post into the BluSky void. Maybe 2 or 3 people will see this one and my time won't have been wasted. I'll keep trying a little longer. #nature #animals #amazing #wildlife #awesome #ocean
CNN confirms that the pilots landed the plane using paper maps. www.cnn.com/2025/09/01/w...
They must be telling him that he hasnāt got long . Maybe heās had close calls
Iām thinking that he was furious and stroked out after his tariffs were declared illegal
Itās pathetic
Hahaha
So were the kids returned or ??
And still getting weirder
An upcoming news conference with victims of Jeffrey Epstein could be āexplosive,ā one of the congressmen pushing for full release of the files on Epstein predicts. Democratic Rep. Ro Khanna said the victimsā accounts will force lawmakers to vote on a bill requiring DOJ to release its files.
Okay ā¦ Iām not gonna get too excited
Ohh man am I glad to be a Californianā¦ lifelong, born a hundred miles from here
Ohh shit
āThe CDC you knew is over,ā @drdemetre.bsky.social said. āUnless someone takes radical action, there is nothing there that can be salvaged.ā www.advocate.com/politics/dem...
Hmmm š¤ Iād like to hear that story
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).
Wowā¦ theyāre monsters
NEW: The trump administration attempted to remove 600 terrified unaccompanied minors to Guatemala in the middle of the night on a holiday weekend. Judge Sooknanan stopped it. My latest: www.muellershewrote.com/p/the-sookna...
āWhiplash Willieā
āSomebodyās gotta go back and get a shitload of dimes !!ā
Heās not playing any golf . The guy should probably be admitted . No doubt heās in bed at this moment
I planned to live post the 12:30 p.m. hearing but the call-in line doesn't appear to be connected....Stay tuned. š©
NEW: Many of the unaccompanied minors who Trump is trying to traffic to Guatemala today are in foster care - some of which seem to be Christian facilities. These 10 represent a putative class of nearly 600 children nationwide. Our government is trafficking children.
Why the Texas AG is trying to lock me up and what we're doing to fight back and win. open.substack.com/pub/betoorou...
Did Clemens already pay his bribe or something ? I hope this just focuses more negative attention on Roger , fuck him
African media have quizzed FIFA president Gianni Infantino if people from the continent will be safe and welcome in the United States at the 2026 World Cup.
Pritzker on Trump's authoritarian takeover: "The playbook is the same. It's thwart the media. It's create mayhem that requires military interdiction. These are things that happen throughout history and Donald Trump is just following that playbook."
āSigned anonymouslyā š¤
Pritzker: "We don't want troops on the streets of American cities. That's un-American and frankly the president ought to know better. This one doesn't seem to. He hasn't read any books. He doesn't seem to understand the Constitution or the laws."
RADDATZ: You talk about what can be done. After shootings in Buffalo & Uvalde, Congress passed a bipartisan Safer Communities Act. It provided hundreds of millions for schools to expand mental health services. You didn't vote for it. Why? TOM EMMER: I don't remember the reasons I didn't vote for it
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."
Murchyk, my mum's garden cat, is having lunch ā¤ļøā¤ļøā¤ļø
So now he wonāt pay someone
wtf
Wow
After Rep Ty Burns pleaded guilty to domestic abuse, injuring his wife & assaulting his teenage daughter, it's unclear whether OK GOP & House Speaker Kyle Hilbert will take action. They even kept the case against Burns secret until Thursday, Aug. 28. THIS IS WHAT THEY DO & THIS IS WHO THEY ARE!
NEWS: Walgreens just got taken over by private equity. Private equity has a record of running companies into the ground. Walgreens could be the latest victim: closing more stores, service plummeting, workers losing their jobs, and eventually bankruptcy.
"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:
This crime at Social Security might amount to the biggest data theft in human history. Committed by a government against its own citizens. I donāt think anyone has begun to grasp the sheer scale of corruption and institutional destruction that has occurred in the last few months. Era-defining.
Who made the accusation ? Some on reported that ?
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...
Last January, a source shared evidence with me that DOGE was installing devices on govt servers to upload data to the cloud. Some hosts were FOREIGN. On Friday, a whistleblower resigned and came forward to share the same. Listen to what we found in January: www.muellershewrote.com/p/a-fork-in-...
Unbelievably bad. āThe CDC you knew is over. Unless someone takes radical action, there is nothing there that can be salvaged.ā www.advocate.com/politics/dem...
If youāve been confirmed as a judge, you should not be working at the justice department. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/29/u...
Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker: "The Trump administration has not contacted me at all whatsoever. Nobody in my administration. They're just looking to invade the city of Chicago, not coordinate with law enforcement ā¦ not coordinating with the state of Illinois, the Governor or the Mayor of the city."
Thank you, Trump voters.
šØBREAKING: 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/...
Wow: French President Emmanuel Macron just called out Trump at a major press conference with the German Chancellor š³
NEWS: Trump revokes visas for Palestinian officials planning to attend the UN Assembly in New York next month. This will mean there will be a reduced Palestinian delegation at a meeting where Britain, France, Canada and Australia plan on recognizing a Palestinian state. @meidastouch.com
BREAKING: Social Security Administration chief data officer and whistle-blower Charles Borges has resigned after bombshell report that SSA put highly-sensitive data at risk. He sent out an email to colleagues moments ago. Here is the text of his email shared with me:
Garcia: This is a great ruling by the court. Of course, Donald Trump is already overreacting, saying this is going to somehow be the destruction of the United States. I'm not sure if he's aware he's trying to do that all on his own.
Whiskey Pete is gonna investigate people for mishandling information ? š¤
Ohh my gosh
www.bbc.com/news/article...
While Trump goes backward on clean energy development, California pushes forward in building an affordable, clean energy future. I signed a new executive order to maintain our progress in adding clean electricity to our power grid while protecting thousands of good-paying jobs.
New: In 7 months, Kennedy has broken the CDC, perhaps irreparably. For all heās done with mass firings, gutting expertise, and attacking vaccines, Wednesdayās loss of its most senior and competent leadersātruly the CDCās backboneāis the most consequential attack yet. www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/c...
Oh so he's not being charged with flag burning and won't be going away for a year? How embarrassing for Donald!
So not only do churches NOT have to pay taxes, they're going to get YOUR tax dollars to boot. This seems like oh, I don't know, government establishing a religion in violation of the First Amendment?
Air raid siren šØ in Kyiv š¾ Many groups of drones are approaching Kyiv from different directions I already closed the kitchen Although I realise that it can't help in case of the missile Anyway I prefer that my cats stay away from the kitchen window
Thereās a word for that: corruption.
"The media seems to have accepted Leavittās 'frequent handshaking' diagnosis. But photos from last Saturday showed Trump with bruising on his left hand too. Are we to believe heās double-fisting his handshakes now?"
Reason 4857 why health care should never be for profit: AI DEATH PANELS. This is the same kind of program used to deny claims at United Health, and they want to use this for VA claims, too.
Susan Collins rolling out her familiar playbook of pointing out to Maine voters heading into an election year clear abuses of power by Trump, solely to create an illusion of independence, while doing absolutely nothing about it.
HORROR: ICE agents violently tore a child from her fatherās arms while he was being ARRESTED ā for simply trying to RENEW his legal documents. This is state-sanctioned abuse. The media wonāt show you. Thatās by design. Share it. Expose it. Donāt let them bury it.
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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/...
They are disappearing undesirables. They are deploying the military into cities. And now they are trying to commandeer railway stations. I canāt put my finger on it but this sounds familiar.
If I were charged with a federal crime, Iād hire Pam Bondiās brother as my lawyer. Because I donāt think this is a coincidence.
New in PN: Alert the media ā the WH is lying about Trump's health "Something's clearly up & the official explanations donāt make sense. Thatās not a shock given that Trump is a liar surrounded by toadies who surrendered their shame long ago. But itās past time for reporters to ask some questions."
Rescue operations at the site of the russian strike in Kyiv are complete, but 8 people are still missing, President Zelensky said In Darnytskyi district debris removal is ongoing He noted that 22 people, including 4 children, died at one impact site, and 1 person died at another šš
I donāt think even redistricting is gonna save these guys .
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.
www.thedailybeast.com/pam-bondis-d...
GOV. @gavinnewsom.bsky.social : āFacts are stubborn thingsā¦ Mississippi, Tennessee, Arkansasā¦. Alabama is a top 3 murder state. Where is the President? ā He isnāt focused on crime & violence. Itās about an expression of authoritarianism.ā (H/T @acyn.bsky.social )
Good
Newsom: Perhaps the president could deploy the National Guard in every corner of Mississippi. Murder rate is out of control there. And the governor may want to make that phone call.
Hahahaā¦ one can only hope
Everyone knows about the continued Nevada cybersecurity attack that has downed all their state governmental services from the DMV to business licensing to all police offices to state departments of education to state parks for daysā¦ Right?
No surprise here. Gotta make sure to dump all the "DEI" hires & promotions. They don't want to make the "manosphere" feel uncomfortable w/"feminine energy" taking over...JFC.šš®āšØ ESPN reportedly demotes Doris Burke from NBA Finals broadcast team in favor of Tim Legler www.yahoo.com/sports/nba/b...
Uh oh
Lynx coach Cheryl Reeve on the Minnesota shooting: "The sad thing is we can't sit here and tell them that help is on the way. Because we're not going to do a damn thing about it."
This interview, which is also available to listen to as a podcast, provides a useful overview of some of the dangerous trends weāve been seeing in recent months regarding federalization and militarization of state and local police functions.
I was a Norwegian citizen at birth and Iām about to get a passport for the first time. I donāt know if Iāll actually go. But itās nice to have options
Subway Footlong BOGO is gonna be anarchy
Of course
With US taking a 10% stake, Intel warns investors to brace for losses and uncertainties -- "It sets a bad precedent if the president can just take 10 percent of a company by threatening the CEO" arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...
We are seeing.
Sen Patty Murray (D-WA): āIf there are any adults left in the White House, itās well past time they face realityā¦ We cannot let RFK Jr. burn whatās left of the CDC and our other critical health agencies to the groundāhe must be fired.ā