There will be 10 survivors speaking on the 3rd.
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There will be 10 survivors speaking on the 3rd.
3. DTJ proves once again he is incapable of understanding that judges use evidence without being “loyal” to the president who appointed them (well, most anyways) 4. He claims that somehow in the last months the tariff $$$ has already been appropriated or even earmarked to the military?
Maybe we’ll learn once Weimar Republic style inflation kicks in? How many wheelbarrows of $10 bills does it take to buy a dozen eggs?
I think the premise is flawed. The question is, “As a ‘perfect’ pricing mechanism, why hasn’t the US stock market tanked yet and what does this mean for the credibility of economic theory?”
I look forward to the book, although it will surely enrage me. I’ve been shouting at the NYT for years with their constant framing issues - the “I guess RFK has a point” makes me spit blood in anger.
What about the Intelligence Agencies that learned Russia was putting bounties on US soldiers' heads? Or who have worked for decades in Africa and see what the Russian Neocolonialism is doing to US interests? The CIA has a horrible past but FFS some must know the path with Trump is worse!
Why is it only between Gabbard and the CIA Chief? Why not the agent him/herself? Why aren't ALL CIA agents furious at Gabbard's ineptitude and cowtowing to Russia and its propaganda? There must be career agents who realize just how much jeopardy Gabbard puts the US into with each blunder.
Was the live band so impactful? As part of the TV audience, the music seemed just a truncated transition marker ("We're back!"). Seeing the host enthusiastically enjoy a 4 second song ending was odd ("What did I miss?")... OTOH, I know those who saw live shows really enjoyed the bands.
As a recovering catholic, this also caught my eye. I left the church as a teen because I could no longer believe the fairy tales. Then the paedophilia scandals blew up. And now they're rife with fascist supporters and whacko fringe conservativism (see SCOTUS, opus dei, Vance). Wow.
The EU is approaching 50% of its power from renewables with Denmark and Portugal near 90%! This isn't slowing down anywhere in the world except the US.
House Republicans Want To Doxx Wikipedia Editors Over Bogus ‘Bias’ 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 and…
The EU is approaching 50% of its power from renewables with Denmark and Portugal near 90%! This isn't slowing down anywhere in the world except the US.
The EU is approaching 50% of its power from renewables with Denmark and Portugal near 90%! This isn't slowing down anywhere in the world except the US.
Does anyone recall the scandal where VW used software defeat devices for years in 590,000 U.S. diesel cars? Paid some $19b billion (buybacks/mitigation/ZEV investments, civil and criminal penalties) by 2017. Doesn't seem like they learned their lesson.
OK, so the man has a golden touch. Casinos, Washington Generals, Steak, Charities... how does he do it?
This whole thing is great but the highlighted bit made me laugh out loud. 😂 Marlon on Snoop:
“ILLEGALS” MY ASS! Green card holder Rami Othmane speaks out after being snatched off the street by ICE while driving to the grocery store. He’s a documented immigrant and the husband of Dr Wafaa Alrashid, chief of staff at a local hospital. He was locked in detention for 13 days.
He needs to emphasize that the National Guard in DC have travelled 100s of miles from their home states, away from their families, mostly bored and frustrated that the skills they have and want to improve as Guardsmen are being wasted on the totalitarian whims of the president.
Yes, that cancer treatment I got was just more jack-booted thuggism.
Yeah, man, totalitarianism is when people listen to experts. Good talk, always a pleasure to hear from you.
Some liberals called for better scopes and target practice training.
This “explicit” is a weird editorial choice. The constitution gives the president no power over this at all. It’s not ambiguous.
That would be a twist! Maybe there is an opportunity to create rifts within the Maga cult by spreading theories that it was Vance, Musk, Theil, Hogsbreath, Jared, Netanyahu….let them eat their own.
Another NYT article that normalizes Trump Kennedy policies on vaccines their dismantling of institutions, tolerance for disinformation, and personalist style of rule. It treats the relationship like palace intrigue — who gets along with whom, who gets fired, how the White House feels.
Wait for the conspiracy theories that claim Trump was poisoned by Biden, Soros, Clintons, Hollywood, etc.
Yes we have our very own Lysenko. The problem is we have Lysenkos everywhere in this admin - from Agriculture to Trade to Crime and Terrorism Prevention to Education to Diplomacy to Economic Policy.
It never occurred to Dems to do this to a man who fomented a coup. Just saying….
Bush - Gore - Nader - Brooks Brothers Riot - Supreme Court debacle.
I wonder why Bill Pulte didn’t send this case over to DOJ with a criminal referral along with his selective targeting of Adam Schiff and Lisa Cook? apnews.com/article/paxt...
He follows in the tradition of L Ron Hubbard, another manipulative megalomaniac full of sh*t who hates people but craves acceptance
Portugal’s President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa: Trump is "objectively, a Soviet or Russian asset. He functions as an asset." In March, British Conservative Party MP Graham Stuart raised that Trump had been groomed by the Kremlin’s security services over a period of decades.
“Kennedy would be less hazardous if he decided to do cardiac surgery. Then he would kill people only one at a time rather than his current ability to kill by the thousands. Why is it that killing a single person is seen as murder but killing masses is excused if you are a politician?” Dr Bill Foege
Like father like son. The president has shown that he doesn’t need to know or learn anything - just make statements of an imaginary world that fits his desired narrative at the time. His sons are the same.
Kleptokakistocracy. It’s non stop clown car bumbling fools whose brazen thirst for money and power is done right out in the open.
www.newsweek.com/ron-desantis... $450m?
Martin O’Malley, former Social Security Administrator, says the DOGE bro upload of SSA to cloud is the biggest data theft in history and could maybe lead to need to mass issue new SSA#s. 🤯 www.msnbc.com/the-last-wor...
I just spoke with my colleagues in our Delegation in Kyiv, after our building was damaged by a Russian strike. Your resolve to keep supporting Ukraine gives us strength. No diplomatic mission should ever be a target. In response, we are summoning the Russian envoy in Brussels.
A former CDC staffer adds: “This is the work of a death cult.”
This month, outlets like @washingtonpost.com and @npr.org have let DC Police union head Greggory Pemberton present himself as an authority on crime statistics. But he's at the heart of an ongoing scandal that led to the first ever sanction of a DC prosecutor for manipulating and hiding evidence:
Kyiv, Ukraine: Russian fascists continue to murder Ukrainian civilians with targeted ballistic missile strikes. No peace is possible until Russia is defeated militarily.
Yes, Blair was a “mastermind” of the successful Iraq war. He & Kushner don’t have any conflicts of interests with Israeli businesses. I can’t imagine any issues with desperate people who’ve lost family to Israeli war crimes. The hotels and casinos will never be at risk from aggrieved survivors. FFS.
Reform UK, which has a grand total of four MPs, was just given an uninterrupted platform for an hour and a half on the BBC and Sky News channels, in order to talk about its plans for mass deportations When was the last time the Greens (with four MPs) or the Lib Dems (with 72) were given the same?
There aren't many stories that prompt gasps at our editors' daily budget meeting. But this was one.
While this is outrageous let’s just put it in perspective. This little hotel/golf club lobbying gig at $931k is roughly 1/3000th of what he’s earned through his crypto schemes $3.4b. It’s a rounding error on his monument of emoluments violations.
"Yesterday featured a striking spectacle: A three-and-a-quarter-hour televised Politburo meeting, in which the highest-ranking government officials of the world’s oldest and once greatest democracy abased themselves ridiculously before their presidential idol." www.thebulwark.com/p/all-the-pr...
FUCK YEAH SCIENCE arstechnica.com/science/2025...
⚡️Lithuania urges EU to bypass Hungary in Ukraine membership talks. Vilnius reportedly proposes launching technical-level accession talks with Ukraine and Moldova without Hungary, provided the other 26 member states agree.
US accused of conducting hostile campaign designed to destabilize Denmark, a close democratic ally amp.dw.com/en/denmark-s...
This, plus similar efforts in Brazil, and the overt campaign against Venezuela.
🚨The National Guard is now picking up trash in D.C. These images will not make recruiting brochures.
Good thing they’re wearing camouflage so the trash doesn’t see them coming.
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The instrument has yet to be invented that can measure the absence of relevance of this reporter’s question to our current situation. In a just world the reporter would lose his WH access.
Despite backsliding in the US, global investment in renewable energy stayed strong in the first half of 2025. This is the energy of the future, and the GOP is letting the rest of the world develop it.
Thumb wrestling! So we can get a closeup when Trump’s puss filled hand explodes, oozing out decades of moldy, fetid cheeseburgers. On second thought, please let me unthinking this idea.
I think our founders never anticipated just how much bad faith, power hungry and mean spirited one party can become.
Among others.
What you missed overnight night.🥳 Utah's gerrymandered congressional map was struck down. The judge reinstated the citizen-led redistricting reforms voters approved in 2018. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
Very familiar with the Yarvin clown and that sovereign nation sh*tshow. It is categorically different than the garden variety dictatorship kleptocracy that Trump and his MAGA idiots are chasing.
You’d be surprised how a not insignificant % of the US ppl prefer a dictator. They’ve been Fox-fed news about the out of control the US & world. The media has fed the perception that president is all powerful. Sadly they also naively think they’ll alway be on the safe side of dictator whims. Idiots
There is some % of the population that is comfortable with cartoonishly simple solutions to public policy issues like crime. It’s like solving undocumented immigration by building a wall (replaced by kidnapping to terrorize immigrants). Or tariffs to force “fairness” into trade imbalances. Idiots.
💥 Occupied Crimea: Russian rail infrastructure next to a fuel depot in Dzhankoi struck by Ukraine.
Or explicitly asking for Georgia votes as a favor. Or explicitly demanding that Zelenskyy drum up fake stories about the Biden’s. These were so f*cking obviously a willingness to do anything for power and yet both were treated by the media as curious political incidents to analyze.
Please forward to the Russian apologists you know. This is not how a civilized nation treats political prisoners.
Exactly. The GOP media is acting like Dems want to protect Clinton. I see no efforts to do. If Clinton gets caught up in this, so be it. But Trump is the focus here - not just because he was a (prolific) client but because he is clearly abusing justice to cover his guilt.
I have turned on 100s of people to the Digable Planets over the years. Jazz samples and hip hop - two great tastes that taste great together. (Still, “Cool like Dat” from their first album gives it the edge over blowout comb)
Right? Peter Strzok and Andy McCabe seem like good guys. They constantly defend former FBI colleagues as apolitical and wanting to do the right thing. Where are the hundreds or 1000s of agents whose investigations in counter intelligence or domestic terrorism were gutted by Pathetic Patel’s cuts?
Stern words from the conservative WSJ editorial board: “The real offender here is a President who seems to think he can use the powers of his office to run vendettas. We said this was one of the risks of a second Trump term, and it’s turning out to be worse than we imagined.”
Fully agree. The exit polls after the last election showed how woefully uninformed most voters were. They get dribs and drabs of talking points and quick takes from TikTok and YouTube influencers. But they surely are not confronted with the nuances of academic discourse on “open borders”
Logistics barriers is part of Trump’s dance for voters and allies who are not paying attention: provide quotes that feed plausible deniability for his pro-Russian stance. If you do a search for Trump’s “promises” there are dozens. Superficially, some might perceive him as supporting Ukraine.
I think that’s the point - musk has been touting Tesla’s assisted driving as if it were autonomous. It’s led to loss of life, unlike Waymo’s which has led to annoyed block partygoers and inept police presence.
Agree. It’s misguided that 19th C immigration policies (or lack thereof) should apply today. A main reason immigrants want to move here (at least until recently) is that the US has infrastructure and services that mostly work (electrical grid, sewage, law, schools, etc). 19th C? Not so much.
Terrorism is not the point. Local small town govt services (water mains, electrical grid, school availability, etc) are not capable of dealing with even 100 immigrants suddenly flowing in. Get a job in local govt and then talk about how anyone should be able to move to any town in any country.
I’ve been saying this for years. I consume lots of “left” sources. I can count on one hand the number of times someone used “liberal” associated terms in any kind of direct meaning rather than a meta level reference to the term. This includes terms such as “defund the police” or “open borders”
Perhaps a different headline is warranted, “ICE agent denies diabetes medicine to mother of 4” Or “Mother of 4 absconded by ICE on 20 year old possession charge”
Nice but I don’t want my country’s research dependent on the whims of billionaires - many of whom are clearly sociopaths and show outright contempt for ordinary people and/or democracy (Andreeson, Theil, Musk, Murdoch, Hamm, Devos, Kochs, Mercer, Adelson, Crow, Waltons…).
Perhaps. But I think the “why did voters do X when Y was true” assumes that people were paying attention and even heard Y. Many Americans do not consume news at all. Not misinfo from Fox et al, but no news info at all except the rare “political” content on a 3m TikTok video.
This is a typical error when asking AI to generate text content within an image.
Years ago I was invited to a party filled with people way above my tax bracket. Many had interesting backgrounds, professions etc. but ALL conversations inevitably came to taxes and the extraordinary efforts they took to avoid them - most were willing to live 6mo/yr away from their children.
I think if you were able to hook up an iMRI to the brains of the 1000s of billionaires at the moment when they learn they would owe $millions in taxes, the brain would light up in ways similar to a mother thinking about the loss of her child. It’s visceral.
A small silver lining - at least the waymo had lines of code that said “if you can’t figure out a new situation, then freeze.” Tesla’s autopilot’s code says, “if you can’t figure out a situation, keep going until you can!” www.reuters.com/sustainabili...
Emphasizing this: “When Rosa asked about his wife’s medical care, the agent cited HIPAA as a barrier to knowing her health issues. Rosa pointed out that doctors can share medical info with law enforcement for those in custody… as outlined in HIPAA. He said, ‘We’ll notify next of kin if she dies.’ “
I don’t trust this promise to deliver will not be revoked, restarted, delayed, revoked again. Putin wants time and is willing to let Trump continue to string Ukraine along.
I recall reading about many US sovereign nation types of Irish descent saying how they wanted to target their “homeland” for their delusional efforts to depose govt institutions. Follow the money and you might see those behind the Irish fringe group at US idiots.
Why hide the lede behind a neutral headline? “Trump fires analyst for report he doesn’t like”. THAT is the headline accurately portraying the context
Where are all of the other CEOs whose companies are affected negatively by this?!? Direct chip rivals (AMD, Nvidia, Qualcomm), Alternative foundries (TSMC, Samsung, GlobalFoundries), equipment suppliers (risk of over-reliance on Intel), OEMs lose bargaining power & hardware diversity.
Already, the type of person seeking FBI jobs have black&white sense of justice right or wrong. No nuance. Add in loyalty tests, younger and less educated recruits, and a vindictive christo-fascist leadership and the FBI becomes a right wing militia instead of law enforcement, counter-terrorism
Who spearheaded opposition to the 2021 For The People Act, which would have assigned redistricting to an independent commission in every state, Kevin? I believe that was you.
www.cbsnews.com/texas/news/k...
The GOP governors of South Carolina, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Tennessee have all sent their states' National Guard troops to assist Trump's occupation of DC. All four of those states have cities with crime rates higher than DC. This was never about "fighting crime."
is there an easier prediction than that, five years from now, there will be stories about how China now dominates the commercialization and innovation of yet another technology invented in the US? see @ryanlcooper.com on mRNA vaccines prospect.org/health/2025-...
ProPublica identified 95 Facebook pages that regularly post made-up headlines designed to draw engagement — and, often, stoke political divisions. The pages, most of which are managed by people overseas, have a total of more than 7.7M followers. (Published Feb.)
Went ahead and updated my map of cities with higher crime than D.C. to accommodate the two new states from the Deep South who are sending troops to the capital. In the five states there are 64 cities, home to 1.7 million people, that had more crime in 2024 than D.C. www.pbump.net/o/more-peopl...
This article could be clearer in saying Trump's claim is ridiculous horseshit. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/19/w... He’s claiming credit for ending conflicts that also started on his watch, for ceasefires in small border clashes and for stopping Israel’s war with Iran, which he allowed to being with.
I came for this. He rolled out the red carpet for Putin (literally), treated him a hero not a war criminal, ignores Putin’s continuous violations of treaties, promises, agreements. Trump has never said a word about 35k kidnappings of Ukrainian children nor indiscriminate bombing of hospitals, etc
During his interview with Trump on Air Force Once Bret Baier didn't push back at all when Trump made false statements about the history of inflation in the U.S. This is not something that is debatable. Inflation was much higher when Trump was a businessman in the 70's and 80s.
Texas in 2025.
He’s one of the 5 out of 4 magas who don’t understand basic descriptive statistics.