Vladimir Putin is always looking for a chance.
Vladimir Putin is always looking for a chance.
I would love to hear what was said between them before they turned on the tape recorder.
Yep. www.kwardcummings.com/post/does-tr...
In 1885, royal Hawaiian brothers were studying at a military school in California. There, they introduced a sport known as "surfboard swimming." The Princes of Surf exhibit tells what happened next.
In 2024 Sen. Merkley & I visited the Rafah gate on the Egypt-Gaza border. On the other side was Gaza’s thriving city of Rafah—home to 270K. Today we saw it reduced to rubble. The Netanyahu govt has gone beyond targeting Hamas to waging a war of destruction against all Palestinians. It must end.
Netanyahu is restricting aid trucks into Gaza—the best way to get food to starving people there—so Jordan is delivering some with air drops. The Jordanians said @merkley.senate.gov & I could join one of those flights to see the devastation, but Israel denied authorization for our scheduled flight.
Caroline Kennedy was very clear about what she thought of her cousin. www.npr.org/2025/01/28/n...
They are constantly inventing new ways to lie to us.
Taylor swift is not someone you mess with.
Kari Lake, the Trump administration official tasked with dismantling the Voice of America, sent termination notices to more than 500 employees at the broadcaster and its parent agency Friday night.
Trump doesn’t care abt workers. baltimorepostexaminer.com/how-trumps-m...
Covid should have taught voters a lesson about Trump. It did not. Things may be worse this time. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/30/o...
Another way the WH has found to lie to us. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/30/b...
The government's colossal failure to respond after Hurricane Katrina led to major reforms at the nation's top disaster agency. Now, the Trump administration has reversed some of those changes.
Hurricane Katrina flooded nearly every building in St. Bernard Parish near New Orleans in 2005. Twenty years later, the community is still rebuilding and flood protections encouraged some to return.
The Education Department has cut off funding for campus-based child care at more than a dozen colleges, accusing the schools of conflicting with the administration’s polices by teaching children about gender and race or prioritizing diversity in hiring.
The Trump administration has fired at least seven Environmental Protection Agency employees for signing a letter nearly two months ago criticizing the agency’s leadership, according to union officials.
They know they cannot win the legal, regular way. They know people are pissed. They know Latinos regret their vote and Blacks intend to come out. But they also know they need a full 4 yrs to break things so badly that Americans will oppose the expense of rebuilding it. They need to win!
JUST IN: Gov. Mike Kehoe called a special session starting Wednesday to help the GOP hold onto Congress. It's part of the battle to reshape the voting map and help Trump keep a majority for his agenda.
The legendary Shakespeare and Company bookstore in Paris. At the door, author James Joyce and the owner Sylvia Beach.
Ulysses is unreal. I cannot believe a human wrote that book. Breathtaking brilliance. Was Joyce a secret alien living among us?
The number of meteorologists employed by the government to advise air traffic controllers has fallen to a critical low, according to a report by a nonpartisan watchdog agency. Fewer than half of the U.S.'s control centers are fully staffed, it said.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio said on Friday that he would not issue visas to Palestinian officials to prevent them from attending the annual UN General Assembly in New York next month.
These people don’t want the Palestinians to have a state and they think Ukrainians are punks.
Eric Trump, who runs the Trump family’s cryptocurrency businesses, gave a rousing endorsement of Bitcoin and President Trump’s support of crypto at an industry event in China. "Buy right now, shut your eyes, hold it for the next five years and you’re going to do terrifically well,” he encouraged.
someone should put together a "kennedy death count" for everyone who dies of a preventable disease and just plaster it everywhere www.statnews.com/2025/08/28/c...
Is this America? Is this who we are?
Sen. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) will not seek reelection to a third term, creating an opening for Democrats in their bid to regain control of the Senate. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/08/29/joni-ernst-iowa-election/
Iowa’s Joni Ernst won’t seek reelection next year.
Breaking News: Israel recovered the body of Ilan Weiss, who was killed in the Hamas-led Oct. 7 attack, the office of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said. The remains of “another deceased hostage” were also recovered, Netanyahu's office added, but their identity was not released.
Not only is our new acting director of the CDC NOT a scientist, but he also has deep ties to Peter Thiel and Silicon Valley’s techno-utopia movement. One epidemiologist compared Jim O’Neill’s appointment to “making Elon Musk head of the FAA.”
The federal government's charges against Rep. LaMonica McIver are a test case for Trump's ultimate fever dream: Locking up anyone he wants, using the weakest evidence and the full backing of the nation’s law enforcement agencies.
Trump's speeches on homelessness drip with fear and disgust. His policies are worse.
If Trump cared about working people, he wouldn’t do things like this.
Trump’s claim that he'd stand up for workers was always a lie. He has consistently attacked the right to organize — even the already very limited rights of federal workers. More of the same from Don the Con. We will fight back in the courts.
Courage! We all must be courageous!
That’s fair.
One minute Johnson supports the individual polls, then he’s against the individual polls. These people!
This week @merkley.senate.gov and I returned to Kfar Aza — a kibbutz brutally attacked by Hamas on Oct 7. We witnessed the evidence of the atrocities committed that day and saw the homes of two young men still held hostage. The message from a kibbutz leader: Bring them home and end the war.
Picture is worth a thousand words.
Ладно.
When people ask why can’t the US seem to become a color blind society—This is why!
When people ask why can’t the US seem to become a color blind society—This is why!
When people as why the US cannot seem to shake racism, or put the Civil War and Slavery behind us—This is why. This is why racism doesn’t die in the US!
Bill Pulte has emerged as a key enabler of President Trump's extraordinary attacks on Lisa Cook, the Federal Reserve governor, over unverified allegations of mortgage fraud. But what about Pulte's paperwork problems of his own?
I visited Kerem Shalom, one of the two main crossings between Israel and Gaza, where @merkley.senate.gov and I pointed out that the so-called Gaza Humanitarian Foundation's delivery system is fatally flawed. People are starving. The Netanyahu government must let more food into Gaza NOW.
Pin this guy’s post. This is a clear example of Trump’s racism and callousness about all US soldiers who fought and died to protect the US from treasonous confederate traitors!
The message @merkley.senate.gov and I heard from the hostage families we met with in Tel Aviv was as simple as it was powerful: bring them home and end the war NOW. They told us that Netanyahu has prioritized his political survival over the lives of their loved ones.
If u are not complaining about Trump to your friends and family, u are part of the problem.
Midterm Strategy: Strip Dem cities of resources and then blame Dems for poor leadership.
You're not going to believe this but Susan Collins is "extremely alarmed"
Republicans are trying to redraw congressional district lines to keep their grip on Congress in the midterms and beyond. Voters should pick their politicians, not the other way around. Get involved with the @democraticredistricting.com as they fight back: bit.ly/3HJ1ayW
The US bears some responsibility for this tragedy.
A large part of Zeitoun, a neighborhood in Gaza City, was still standing just three weeks ago. But as Israeli forces have expanded their military campaign, the area has been turned into a barren wasteland, according to satellite images reviewed by The New York Times. nyti.ms/4lVj3bR
Russ Voldemort must be licking his lips in anticipation.
Donald Trump is attempting a hostile takeover of the Fed’s board of governors, Lev Menand argues. Capturing it would provide the president with a big prize.
Neil Young launched a broadside against President Trump on Wednesday through a new song that decries “fascists” and includes the line, “There’s big crime in D.C. at the White House.”
European officials say they can't tell what exactly Putin promised Washington behind closed doors, what U.S. officials took away from their discussions with Moscow, and where that leaves peace efforts, Vivian Salama and Jonathan Lemire report:
All Putin and Trump discussed during their summit was Putin’s data analysis of American voting machines and strategies for how to intercept mail-in ballots.
@merkley.senate.gov and I were just in Israel to discuss the situation in Gaza and press to end the war and return all the hostages. We visited a World Food Program site in Israel with enough food to feed everyone in Gaza for 3 weeks. The Netanyahu government's weaponization of hunger must stop.
How is this different from reinstalling confederate monuments? Both efforts honor treasonous acts.
If you are not complaining to your friends and family about Trump, you are part of the problem.
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services plans to begin a pilot program in six states that would use a tactic employed by private insurers that has been heavily criticized for delaying and denying medical care.
I like Ostapenko bc she’s off. But what is the “no education” comment about?
Anyone not complaining abt Trump to their friends and family is part of the problem.
i find this image so fascinating. it is both a literal example of authoritarianism but also a second-hand reproduction of the aesthetics of other authoritarian states. it's like a simulacra of authoritarianism whose purpose is to attempt to make the simulacra real.
What more proof do u need that Americans are selfish than how we value guns more than the lives of our children?
I see no difference btwn the sentiment behind Till’s gruesome murder, and Trump reinstalling Confederate monuments— they are both intended to send the same message.
Midterm Strategy: Trump cuts off resources to states, then says Democrats are not good on crime. If u are not complaining abt Trump to your friends and family, u are helping him.
This is how it should be in our Nation.
If u personally are not complaining about Trump to your friends and family, you are help him.
These horrible things can’t happen unless we all help in some way: either by our active help, or refusing to see what is happening before our eyes.
If Americans weren’t so selfish we might be able to get rid of all of these guns.
A man made famine, and the US helped make it happen.
There are too many guns, too easily had. If Americans weren’t so selfish, we might be able to make it difficult to get guns. But Americans are too selfish for that to happen. And the killing continues.
Is this what Americans do? Is this who we are?
The Department of Homeland Security is barring states and volunteer groups that receive government funds, like the Red Cross and Salvation Army, from helping undocumented immigrants, according to a Washington Post analysis. https://wapo.st/3JRvesC
Another dissatisfied customer.
Another disappointed buyer.
Reminder: Since being elected, Trump has moved quickly to undo progress made with gun safety policies.
How did a functional, if flawed, democratic machinery hand absolute power over to Hitler, someone whom the conservative political class regarded as a chaotic clown with a violent following?
We can't allow ourselves to become numb to mass shootings. What happened today in Minneapolis is heartbreaking, and Michelle and I are praying for the parents who have lost a child or will be sitting at their hospital bedside after yet another act of unspeakable, unnecessary violence.
Two children were killed and more than a dozen were injured in a shooting at a Catholic school in Minneapolis on Wednesday. Former president Barack Obama took to X to share his condolences with grieving families. Follow more live updates here: https://wapo.st/4oVVJgL
"The oft-mentioned tyranny being opposed by gun owners is really just the sense that the wrong people are encroaching on the privileges and prerogatives of whiteness." From 2020:
“There are thousands of people who are starving because the Israelis decide to use hunger as a weapon.”
BREAKING: In Atlanta, GOP operatives are trying to strong-arm Fulton County into installing two far-right activists on Georgia’s LARGEST elections board Both have ties to the national voter suppression machine & a record of undermining confidence in our elections This can't fly under the radar
He also wants to create the impression that Dems are poor govt managers.
“Trump’s pretense to ownership of public goods and public spaces isn’t some quirk to be ignored or waited out — “there goes our Donald!” — but a direct expression of his autocratic ambitions and despotic cast of mind.”
By that logic, if Trump can fire Cook for her alleged actions B4 she was on the board, Trump can be IMPEACHED for his crimes committed B4 he was potus.
My colleagues @brookings.edu wrote on the rise of political violence in the US They explain important ways we can prevent rising violence 2 protect the health of our democracy Read more👇-TN www.brookings.edu/articles/pol...
His Highness, the Most Exalted Supreme Leader is pleased.
Absolutely insanity.
Satire against Trump is brilliant. Both Newsom and Trump know they are BSing. Trump thought he was brilliant for doing it. But Newsom is the brilliant one for using Trump’s style against him.
Gavin Newsom is parodying Donald Trump online—and the reaction from Trump’s supporters is proof that Newson is on to something, @radiofreetom.bsky.social argues. https://theatln.tc/KweBff6O
".. Social Security numbers .. individuals’ full names, addresses and birth dates, among other details that could be used to steal their identities .." @nytimes.com #DOGE www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/u...
a bit late but the whole jillian michaels thing last week gave me an excuse to talk a bit about the economy of slavery in detail youtu.be/pRs2Xu1FWR4
This was coordinated. They are ALL participating.
Wow. Someone get me a camera!
Trump promised to lower prices on “Day 1” 8 months later, the only ones cashing in are him, his family & his cronies I’ll be on @weeknightmsnbc.bsky.social at 8:40pm ET to discuss the latest on his presidential grift