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Semi-retired lawyer -- had the “Western Civilization” education that right wingers want for all, but read the books. Very worried about how our institutions are failing us, one by one.
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Some new street art spotted in DC 🤣
More likely than not: no scar, no medical reports, immediate fist in the air, pausing to collect shoes, recently available video showing photogs being lined up just before-hand in order to get that iconic shot. If faked, this was a double murder. Two dead. One audience member plus the shooter.
senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, former chief economist to Senator Rob Portman (R-OH) & director of budget and spending policy for Marco Rubio’s 2016 presidential campaign👇🏽
Not fond of conspiracy theories. But this one has more than just a ring of truth. Strong source. Answers lots of questions about Epstein,Trump and Putin (ex-KGB, no doubt good at setting up and using a “honey” trap). m.facebook.com/story.php?st...
It’s long past time you all stopped using “Congress” when you mean “Republicans”. Not a single Democrat voted for this hot mess of an appointment. This endless grind to maintain a non-partisan tone, despite the partisanship of our fascist reality, is willfully blind, & a betrayal of your country.
"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:
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Wait! What? Not dead yet? How do I get the top back on this bottle of champagne?
Wait! What? Not dead yet? How do I get the top back on this bottle of champagne?
Question: Why did US put big tariffs on India despite major national interest in cultivating a strategic counterweight to China and trying to isolate Russia? Answer: Because the US president lied that he fixed India-Pakistan and India wouldn’t go along with the lie. (Seriously, that’s the answer)
Not good for property values up there. But a fair trade off if he acts fast.
newrepublic.com/post/199839/... “When Trump’s first term ended, Biden politely extended Secret Service for all of Trump’s adult children to 18 months as well. Instead of matching the basic kindness that Biden offered, Trump terminated protection for Hunter and Ashley Biden. …”
Donald Trump didn’t write “The Art of the Deal” (he probably didn’t even read it) and he sure as hell isn’t writing any of these executive orders. He’s just The Heritage Foundation’s useful idiot.
This horrific climate disaster could easily occur in my grandchildren’s lifetimes. “. . . the tipping point where the shutdown becomes inevitable is probably in the next 10 to 20 years or so. . . . shocking . . . and why we have to act really fast in cutting down emissions.”
I dare you to go to Annunciation School and tell our grieving community, in effect, guns don’t kill kids, antidepressants do. Just shut up. Stop peddling bullshit. You should be fired.
““. . . this is now a top-down president leading the charge,” instead of “so-called experts who have read a lot of books but never talked to Putin . . .” White House sees . . . Steve Witkoff, a real estate developer and Trump golfing partner, as more valuable than the experts . . . .”
Medicare Will Require Prior Approval for Certain Procedures www.nytimes.com/2025/08/28/h... “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.”
this is exactly right. it's the same stupid bet every republican has made since 2015.
They gaslit you all throughout the election.
If a president wanted to become effectively a dictator, he’d likely: 1. Purge govt of non loyalists 2. Weaponize law against opponents 3. Use military to police opposition strongholds 4. Threaten media, schools, businesses w penalties to get them to heel 5. Change election rules in his favor.
Oh, so there’s a military leadership purge happening? If only Democratic leaders had any history to draw from to know what that means and usually precedes, they might have cause to sound the alarm.
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/22/u... Once again firing the messenger who reported facts that Trump did not like — a pattern going back to the first term.
There have been some very scathing dissents over the years, but I can't think of one where the accusation is so bluntly made that the majority is a bunch of partisan hacks who are politically subservient to a president.
Send him money!
Sure, we can talk about the pros and cons of mail-in ballots, but what’s really bad is when a guy in office needs 1,000 FBI agents to search for his name in the Epstein files to cover up all of his child raping.
This fucking sentence
When you spent the entire plane ride to Alaska giddily practicing your Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech about how you "Art of the Dealed" a ceasefire agreement out of Putin, only to have your dreams snatched away by that smarter, more savvy Russian once again.
What we saw today in Alaska is not normal. My full statement:
A foolish coward: “Even in the annals of Mr. Trump’s erratic presidency, the Anchorage meeting with Mr. Putin now stands out as a reversal of historic proportions. Mr. Trump abandoned [his] main [stated] goal . . . an immediate cease-fire. Instead, he bowed to Mr. Putin’s preferred approach …”
Everything about today’s summit in Alaska benefited Putin—an indicted war criminal—and did nothing for the people of Ukraine. Red carpet. Limo ride. Warm welcome. All on American soil, with no concessions, no peace plan, and not even a promise to meet again.
The “great dealmaker” made no deal, no progress, no effort to end the war Putin started. Instead, he normalized a dictator responsible for waging an unprovoked invasion. Diplomacy—even with adversaries—should aim to end brutal conflicts, not hand out PR victories.
Based on facial expressions alone, Putin played him like a fiddle.
In America, we don’t use federal agents to intimidate citizens out of participating in their own democracy. Yet more than a dozen Border Patrol agents showed up Thursday in downtown LA at a rally Gov. Gavin Newsom held on congressional redistricting an event that had nothing to do with immigration.
One (more?) gold trinket from Putin and Trump will lose whatever tiny shred of decency he still has. It might not even take that much.
Imagine if they’d had sandwiches. 🥪
International embarrassment.
Kristi Noem is living rent free in home used by Coast Guard commandant Free home and private use of a Gulfstream jet (for the cost of a commercial coach ticket). Nice gig. (Too bad about the missing weighted blanket on one flight — an issue worthy of her attention, no doubt.).
i think they're handing this medal out to dipshits *because* it's gone to people like rosa parks and MLK
A temporary win! A federal judge in California has sided with a group of states, issuing an order that temporarily stops the Department of Health and Human Services from providing Medicaid recipient data to the Department of Homeland Security for immigration enforcement purposes.
Bless you. This is exactly the mainstream Dems need to hear.
How big is the Texas fight? If Trump can order the warping of congressional maps so that Republicans maintain a House majority, even when their policies are despised, then the basic premise of representative democracy is crushed. And the system of checks and balances is threatened as never before.
Wow. This is a serious attack on the DOJ -- well deserved.
Good grief. The SG is insane. And has no shame or common sense. Lying to an appellate court is a very bad look.
This is a letter to the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals from the Solicitor General—the government’s top lawyer—and I can’t believe it’s real and that he put his name to it.
Even if Israel was right about one journalist being tied to Hamas, how does that justify murdering the others? This — and the purposeful starvation of Gaza and the 60,000 dead (and counting) — will be a stain on Israel for generations to come. Time for regime change.
Good summary of why taxes on exports -- like Trump's extortion of Nvidia and AMD -- are unconstitutional. constitution.congress.gov/browse/essay.... Oh, and they are also extortionate. Did I mention that?
Welp
Resist Christofascism.
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/10/t... So f*cking wrong in so many ways. Pure extortion. And I say that as someone who once tried to get Nvidia to pay single digit royalties on patents they were obviously using.
ANTI NETANYAHU is NOT ANTISEMITIC NETANYAHU Denies Famine Starvation is RAMPANT NETANYAHU LIES Massive Protests in Tel Aviv
I’m stumped!!
This miserable fraud has poisoned the national conversation about lifesaving vaccines with his conspiracy theories, but he is also doing so much more to destroy science and progress. This will grind lifesaving research to a halt and set us back decades for no good reason.
The quote doesn’t claim that god doesn’t exist. Interesting that you conflate being anti Christian with being anti theist.
Aside from the Khmer Rouge, who destroyed a country that didn't have a pot to piss in to start with, has any country ever scored as spectacular an own goal as the USA is currently?
Not street tacos. Ironically, they are perfectly chaste. But don’t get me started on enchiladas.
The Washington Monument.
Today is the day that Trump was supposed to impose tough new sanctions on Russia if they didn’t agree to a cease fire.
FLASHBACK: Jeffrey Epstein pleaded the Fifth when asked if he and Trump ever socialized with girls under 18. That speaks volumes.
Unfortunate choice of words? "...the commercial microreactor had been dismissed as too expensive, impractical and dangerous to distribute widely. But soaring demand, driven in large part by the explosive needs of AI developers, is causing large-scale energy users to reconsider."
“A Department of Justice spokesperson said in a statement, "Jared Wise is a valued member of the Justice Department and we appreciate his contributions to our team."
TEXAS @repcasar.bsky.social : “Imagine in another country a corrupt president was trying to change the election laws. Then that president’s political ally threatened to remove all the legislators of the other party to get it done. That’s what’s happening in Texas right now.”
weird how the guy born into obscene wealth, bailed out repeatedly, allowed to fail upwards forever until he fell ass-backwards into the presidency, and then was declared by the Supreme Court to be a Very Special Boy Who Can Crime Forever never stops whining about how everything is rigged against him
Kennedy Cancels Nearly $500 Million in mRNA Vaccine Contracts One man’s delusions will disrupt many scientific careers and could cost millions of lives.
Fascism is expensive.
A fun reminder that a loss of 60,000 jobs in and around academia is ~50% more than all coal mining jobs in the entire country.
Trump on his way to bankrupting even more Casinos. So much winning.
The most corrupt White House in history. Here is an account of what people are paying, directly to a PAC called MAGA Inc, in order to meet the president, get pardons, change policy www.nytimes.com/2025/08/02/u...
youtube.com/watch?v=OgDp... Remember this. A protester tasered. Marjorie Taylor Greene and her crowd applauding.
Nah, Just some 2025 "alternative facts" at work.
Oh good. “We’ve been hearing a lot about uncertainty . . ., but that’s all resolved now,” Stephen Miran, chairman of the White House Council of Economic Advisers . . . speaking before the president fired the BLS chief. “So, it’s all going to get much, much better from here.”
thehill.com/opinion/camp... Donald Trump's dementia is showing
Weakest 3 months of job growth since 2020.
In true authoritarian fashion, Trump, confronted by evidence of his failures, fired the labor statistics chief for telling the truth. It’s dangerously insane to set the credibility of government stats on fire to satisfy presidential whims. This isn’t how Americans govern; it’s how despots rule.
“The last thing our economy needs is a bunch of negative numbers accurately portraying the state of things. The Trump administration is all about positivity, and anyone who says otherwise will be fired IMMEDIATELY!”
Smithsonian removes Trump from impeachment exhibit in American history museum 1984. Reminders now of Trump’s TWO past impeachments could not be more important. Instead they are erased under pressure from … wait for it … Trump.
Murky Pledges of Investment Cast Shadow on Trump’s Trade Deals That Trump lies about the upside of his deals is no surprise. The scandals here are the extortion he is practicing and also the enormous damage to multiple economies (including ours) that is certain to follow these deals.
Texas 18-year-old died of sepsis after 3 ER visits Despite bleeding and pain, 2 hospitals sent her home because the fetus had a heartbeat. The 3rd confirmed fetal death—but it was too late. She died. This is the deadly cost of abortion bans. Abortion is health care www.propublica.org/article/neva...
Trump didn't break with Epstein over being a sex predator and a pedophile. All that was fine. It's because Maxwell "stole" Virginia Giuffre from him. Disgusting.
I came here to say exactly that.
‘1984’ is upon us If you think cutting $1 trillion from medicaid won’t cost people insurance and make things more expensive you don’t understand how things work