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Is he talking about his girlfriend?
Probably a good idea for anyone sane to disregard anything Nate Silver has to say about anything.
This âblue states closed schools too longâ narrative is becoming increasingly entrenched in the Polite Center but itâs arguable at best. Republican states had far more deaths during COVID and their students have roughly comparable learning loss.
Nine of the CDC directors over the past 48 years have a lot to say about what RFK Jr is doing vs health of Americans www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...
You guys see where this is going? Right?
A DOGE whistleblower revealed that employees uploaded a Social Security databaseâcontaining full names, dates of birth, and addresses of hundreds of millions of Americansâ to a cloud server without âindependent security or oversight," creating âenormous vulnerabilities" to hackers. trib.al/FDTWG43
Remember the Goolsbee Rule, also called the âpathological irony of crisisâ: If you lose credibility, your statements begin to mean the opposite of what you say.
"Across three different courts, 15 judges have weighed Trumpâs tariff maneuversâand 11 of them, appointed by presidents of both parties, have found he acted without legal support" share.google/Y4ohBxL7PPfG...
An examination of more than 1,200 federal judges and state supreme court justices turned up dozens of judges who chose not to recuse when facing potential appearances of impropriety involving familial financial connections. (Published July 2024)
I donât know if Trump is dying. But I do know that people telling themselves Vance would be better because heâs not as âpopularâ are ignoring the fact that these fascist systems are designed to crush democracy and popularity doesnât figure into it. jaredyatessexton.substack.com/p/if-trump-d...
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Putting getting myself and my kid all vaccines and boosters on my "immediate action" list. fucking dipshits running this administration.
The epitome of an unqualified nincompoop.
Interesting nugget in Lisa Cook's lawsuit against Donald Trump: The entire Fed Board, and Jay Powell, in their respective professional capacities are also defendants. It looks like she's doing that because the relief that she seeks includes restraining the Fed Board from terminating her.
The suit argues: (1) Trump didn't have cause for firing Cook (as required by the Federal Reserve Act); (2) Cook didn't get notice & a hearing (as required by the Federal Reserve Act); & (3) Cook didn't get notice & a hearing (as required by the Due Process Clause).
Matty Yglesias personifies the trolling, soulless fail-upward engagement hounding pseudo-intellectual brunchlord bullshit that has devoured modern American media
This is very bad news. Louisiana won't even defend its own map in SCOTUS. It abandoned its own Black voters. Those of us committed to defending the VRA are now entirely on our own. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
America's dark love affair with off-the-shelf, military-grade firepower keeps our schools and children at risk. I wrote this in 2018. It has never lost relevance.
COVID cases are on the rise -- and RFK just took away the ability for millions of Americans get COVID vaccines. COVID shots are now only FDA approved for 1) people 65+ and 2) people w/ underlying conditions that put them at severe risk. That's it. www.huffpost.com/entry/covid-...
Docketed: A federal judge issued a written order barring Kilmar Abrego Garcia from being moved more than 200 miles from the court â or deported outside the continental United States â through the next hearing in his habeas corpus lawsuit on Oct. 6. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
They warned that the Trump Administration's cuts to disaster response and the current FEMA leaders' complete lack of experience risk placing the country at a "Katrina-level" disaster. So Trump fired them. www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...
well well well www.the-downballot.com/p/iowa-democ...
The perfect definition of lipstick on a pig.
Looks like being a worthless asshole is ruining Nancy's life. Who knew?
Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce announce their engagement on Instagram:
He's never going to find that tiny limp mushroom.
Everything with America is incoherent artifice. A four year mass public hyperventilation about TikTok while our federal court system sat there full of holes and vulnerabilities broadly known since 2020:
NEW: The full 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has been asked to review a panel ruling that found private individuals and groups in seven states have no right to sue to enforce the Voting Rights Actâs Section 208 protections for voters with a disability or limited language proficiency
Read my newsletter, Civil Discourse. No sugarcoating. We have work to do to keep the republic. joycevance.substack.com/p/only-monday
Ominous: Trump and Stephen Miller are very clearly working to acclimate Americans to the spectacle of US troops in US cities, to the idea of the military carrying out domestic enforcement on US citizens. Harrowing stuff from @vermontgmg.bsky.social in this exchange: newrepublic.com/article/1995...
1/2 Trump should absolutely not be able to fire Lisa Cook. But this is because he should not be able to fire anyone with statutory tenure protections.
Lies by an addled old man to self aggrandize himself are pathetic. In fact, as @govwesmoore.bsky.social recounted to me in detail, he tried to spend the least amount of time possible greeting Trump in a place the WH could not manipulate www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
There is absolutely no reason to subscribe to Jeff Bezos' newspaper anymore.
Sigh.
Boltonâs home raided, Gen. Kruse fired, Epstein coverup proceeds, seizure of 10% of Intel another step towards state capitalism. Just one day in the somewhat chaotic but directionally purposeful march towardsâŠdespotism. Does anyone think theyâre doing all this so they can hand over power in 2028?
Exactly a week after providing this testimony that is supposed to exonerate Trump, DOJ transferred Maxwell to a minimum-security prison -- which is highly unusual for someone convicted of sex trafficking children.
WASHINGTON (AP) â Trump administration says grants for Hispanic-serving colleges are unconstitutional and it won't defend them in court.
NEW: Oregon and Pennsylvania are the latest to reject the U.S. Department of Justiceâs (DOJ) effort to acquire statesâ private voter data, according to letters obtained by Democracy Docket. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
The three long tails of the Democratsâ accountability dodge. www.offmessage.net/p/democrats-...
Essential reading. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
Figures from a classified Israeli military intelligence database indicate five out of six Palestinians killed by Israeli forces in Gaza have been civilians, an extreme rate of slaughter rarely matched in recent decades of warfare.
The Damage Report projects.propublica.org/federal-heal...
I think it's important to understand that people who identify as conservatives have not, as a group, turned away as their party has gone to full mask-off fascism whatsoever, so we can see their true ideology and we can stop pretending to believe in the fake ideology they propounded to disguise it.
Gift đ link. This is a straightforward explainer on why RFK's vaccines-cause-autism nonsense is, indeed, nonsense, and how grifters David and Mark Geier have been and still are heavily involved in the scam. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Good luck explaining to your grandchildren why we crossed known climate tipping points. âOh, we wanted to let big companies pollute for free,â wonât have much appeal.
BS NOW is the perfect nickname.
Trump said the goal of the summit was a ceasefire. If no ceasefire, there will be consequences for Russia. Putin gave Trump the middle finger. Said he would continue fighting and committing war crimes. Trump said ok no problem. Putin's in charge. Trump follows orders.
A group of House and Senate Democrats â led by Rep. Jamie Raskin â have introduced a joint resolution that would put an end to Trump's control of DC's police. "His efforts in D.C. ... are part of a broader plan to militarize and federalize the streets of cities ⊠whose citizens voted against him."
Sure, Jan.
ProPublica documented nearly 50 incidents of immigration officers shattering car windows to make arrests â a tactic experts and former ICE insiders say was rarely used before President Donald Trump took office in January:
đœïž WATCH: Student Kenneth Santizo captured ICE and FBI officers stopping a family on their way to church in the Boston suburbs. Agents broke the window, forced Daniel Flores-Martinez to his knees and slammed him to the ground while his children and his wife, a U.S. citizen, sobbed in the car.
How easy it is to con Trump by feeding him back his lies.
Jeffries isn't the one. He proves it again. The Democratic leadership needs to go. The party has its lowest rating in modern history because of these cowards who bend the knee to corporate donors Mamdani is going to win & they're all gonna look weak. Also he lives in a rent stabilized apartment.
These dipshits left schedules and protocol details on a printer in Alaska. Nothing earthshaking - menu for a lunch that didn't happen, seating chart for the bilat, revelation that Trump gave Putin a present - but it's yet another embarrassing opsec fail for a guy who ran on protecting secret info.
It appears the ED of Israelâs cyber defense team was just popped in a child sex sting in Vegas⊠then allowed to leave the country. www.ynetnews.com/article/rymh...
You better tell people you like me, Vlad, or I won't give you Alaska.
âPutin Got a Red Carpet, Trump Got Nothingâ The âdealmakerâ leaves Alaska summit with no deal â only humiliation, writes âŠâȘAida ChavezâŹâ© for Zeteo.
Is he melting?
Who actually cares what Arnie, this old GOP cheater, says about anything?
what
America.
He can't. Can he kneel instead?
Hakeem is a coward.
A criminally embarrassing moment for the United States.
âItâs pretty sick⊠thatâs how weak and pathetic the Trump administration is. How desperate they are.â @gavinnewsom.bsky.social talks to @danpfeiffer.bsky.social about Trump sending his goons to try to intimidate Dems outside their announcement today.
NEW: Inside the culture of fear that has taken hold within Smithsonian museums in D.C., as White House officials wage an authoritarian-style censorship campaign to âensure alignmentâ with Trumpâs preferred version of American history. "Everyone is so scared." www.huffpost.com/entry/smiths...
(If you're confused, this is SDNY district judge Dale Ho, not Fifth Circuit judge James Ho.)
I hope they're EXTREMELY uncomfortable and absolutely ridiculed.
New reporting from @jeffhorwitz.bsky.social, who got hold of internal standards for chatbot behavior at Meta.
The most disturbing aspect of this analysis is that Trumpers have structurally shrunken the US economy by terrorizing immigrant workers and imposing massive tariff sales taxes. That process is all but certain to continue, to the long term detriment of our country.
BRUTAL: Producer Price Index (PPI) surges to 3.3% YoY in July, far exceeding expectations. Core PPI up 3.7%. Trumpâs tariffs on imports are driving up wholesale costs, signaling even higher prices for consumers.
Unlimited. We're showgirls now.
Zuckerberg is evil.
I hate these losers.
I hope she sues them into bankruptcy.
ProPublica obtained a vast cache of IRS information showing how billionaires like Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk pay little in income tax compared to their massive wealth â sometimes, even nothing. (Published 2021)
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Eat a bag of dicks, Harry.
Once again, if a single municipal-level Democrat ever spoke about a single small town in a single GOP majority state like this, it would be a nonstop National Conversation for weeks. But Republicans do this & đŠ. This is only different in degree, not kind, from decades of GOP behavior.
The weirdest thing about Trump deploying the National Guard to the Nation's Capital is that he still hasn't released the Epstein files despite campaigning on that pledge, probably because he's directly complicit in a massive sex trafficking operation that targeted children.
They're Nazis. Racist, brutal, stupid, Nazis.
Trump's own DOJ website still has a press release up from January pointing out that violent crime in D.C. is at its lowest in more than 30 years.
Sundowning before noon. He is accelerating.
the clown car arrives in the White House briefing room
Smart, hard fighting is important for many reasons, particularly right now. But one that's hardest to quantify is this: Fighting fills the plots of the stories many voters need to hear before they know whose side to choose. www.offmessage.net/p/fighting-g...
This sounds like a form of torture.
The phrase â parents have a legitimate concern about integration of races in schools and as a party, we havenât done a very good job of listening to those concerns.â would shock and offend I would hope. A similar statement about trans kids should also shock and offend.
Absolutely not.
I saw a link to this headline and thought it was a joke. Then I went to the site and saw its real. At this point the legacy media is so trained by Trump, it cannot help itself.
Ironically, he's too dumb to know.
The five brave Palestinian journalists whom Israel targeted and killed today (left-right): -Anas al-Sharif (correspondent) -Mohammed Qreiqeh (correspondent) -Ibrahim Zaher (camera operator) -Muhammad Al-Khalidi (photojournalist) -Mohammed Noufal (camera operator) -Moamen Aliwa (camera operator)
For any wavering supporters of Israel, there have been off-ramps to take to avoid being (staying) on the side of a genocide basically every day. Hereâs another, killing an entire team of journalists and claiming they were terrorists.
![In a statement confirming the deliberate killing of al-Sharif, Israelâs military accused the journalist of heading a Hamas cell and âadvancing rocket attacks against Israeli civilians and [Israeli] troopsâ. It also alleged that it had documents providing âunequivocal proofâ of his involvement with the Palestinian group. Muhammed Shehada, an analyst at the Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor, said there was âzero evidenceâ that al-Sharif took part in any hostilities. âHis entire daily routine was standing in front of a camera from morning to evening,â he told Al Jazeera.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:u45hqzk7counfbwyg5edhmvi/bafkreihpiwmxgb3lyce4thtprhohn2t74vshacopp5uc6bb3oij4viq5te@jpeg "Click to view full size")
From a speech President Zelenskyy delivered to the Ukrainian people today:
No secret that the reason companies like OpenAI intentionally hide their energy and environment metrics is because they look very, very, very, very bad and the company is more valuable if the damage they do is kept secret
Yeah JD, we remember. We will never forget your boss was best friends with the guy who ran a literal child sex trafficking ring. And then that guy was "silenced" forever. And now we will just not talk about anything else until they... #ReleaseThe_EPSTEIN_Files
Judge Henderson, joined by Judge Wilkins, does not mince words â even as she treads carefully. â[N]o Congress should be made to wait while the Executive intrudes on its plenary power over appropriations and disclosure thereof.â
Andy can't float.
đ§”đ§”𧔠In this thread, I lay out more than a dozen facts about Trump and his child-molester friends Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell. I challenge you to read the whole thread and then decide what the odds are that Trump did not abuse girls or tolerate his pals Epstein and Maxwell doing so.