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RIP Graham Greene. Every time he popped up on screen when I was a kid, my mom would excitedly point him out for being an actual Native on the screen. Able to be deadly serious and infinitely hilarious (even in smaller roles like Last of Us), he ate up the screen. Nʌki’wah brother.
HIMARS and FPVs struck an assault column in the Pokrovsk direction. As a result, Russia’s 155th Brigade lost between 50 and 100 personnel and 7 pieces of heavy equipment.
I don’t normally ask to hear from the president but it’d be nice to see if he can still complete a sentence
Republican governors have sent National Guard troops to Democratic-led Washington, D.C., even though cities in their states all have higher rates of violent crime than the nation’s capital. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/u...
Platner: Our taxpayer dollars can build schools and hospitals in America, not bombs to destroy them in Gaza.
Platner: No one cares that you pretend to be remorseful as you sell out to lobbyists. Symbolic opposition does not reopen hospitals. Weak condemnations do not bring back Roe V Wade. Maine deserves better than Susan Collins.
Yeah he's not beating the allegations
If you enjoy… Weekends Safe working conditions Retirement benefits Paid vacations Breaks at work Sick leave Paid holidays … then you’re part of the labor movement. Happy Labor Day.
The treadmill screening of ‘THE LONG WALK’ took place, where every person had to walk on a treadmill faster than 3MPH for the whole movie. If they stopped, they were escorted out of the theater.
wow
Kressly: I expect in the next couple of weeks, this is going to get worse. You’re going to hear from the same administrative people who have gutted the expertise needed to promote child health — pushing false narratives like, “we need to look at the link between vaccines and autism.” That is a lie.
During Jim Crow, many states mandated that anyone seeking to register to vote or apply to a state university had to have multiple voters/alumni “vouch” for their character. It was an easy if unsubtle way to maintain all-white (or mostly-white) institutions
If you're 60, 69.1% of all job growth since your birth occurred under Democratic administrations. If you're 45, that number is 74.7%. If you're under 28, the number is 100%. Happy Labor Day.
Nine former CDC directors basically said RFK Jr is a threat to public health.
Note the one crime he is not charged with
Kyiv Links Moscow to Killing of Former Ukrainian Parliament Speaker - The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/world/europe/ukraine-andriy-parubiy-murder.html
🧵🧵. The "intellectual dark web" is just reheated Plotinus chain-of-being stuff, with a strong spritz of fascism
“U.S. Secretary of the Treasury Scott Bessent watches as his food order is served during a Labor Day visit to Metro 29 Diner in Arlington, Virginia.” @reuters.com
Anyway, I’m glad to know the president is still technically alive so he can watch this tomorrow www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...
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15/ Whoa. Former Canadian PM Stephen Harper has been a member of the government relations team for Praxis, per this 2023 NYT report. (Praxis is a self-professed “network state” that hopes to build its own country and has been eyeing Greenland for a startup city. Lonsdale is an investor.)
Palantir co-founder Joe Lonsdale co-founded the University of Austin Texas (UATX) in 2021. UATX’s recent “Convocation Address” was titled, “In Defense of Inequality.” “To the class of 2029: you have chosen to rebel. Not against hierarchy, but against its abandonment.” 1/ x.com/uaustinorg/s...
I think this goes too far in the other direction. I think the Israelis are engaging in a kind of collective guilt against Gaza, and definitely trying to clear people out of urban areas.
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Senator Kelly escapes Magneto’s lair in the first X Men movie
Russian forces (official, quasi-official, and otherwise) have been conducting non-kinetic and semi-kinetic warfare against Europe and the US for some time now, and it's largely been invisible to most.
Rudy Can’t Fail Card cheat Giuliani says he crashed while trying to save a young Janie Jones from a hateful lover’s rock. But it’s more like likely he had brew for breakfast instead of koka-kola when he was lost in the supermarket on the way to his brand new Cadillac. by Maureen Dowd
Michelle Obama: kids should have healthier school lunches RFK Jr: maybe if we let the plague run wild we can build a master race Media: wow these are the same thing
"In extraordinary times, citizen soldiers mobilize to reinforce civilian authority and protect their neighbors," writes Christopher Purdy, reflecting on serving in the National Guard. "Over the past six months, that trust has shattered":
With US GOV debt at 37T and personal debt at 18T. The USA is 3 clicks from collapse. And that’s why I don’t talk politics.
A report tied Iowa’s water pollution to agriculture. Then the money to promote it mysteriously disappeared | Iowa | The Guardian share.google/4ybhw8703KZb...
Look at this graph. The share of national income going to the richest 10 percent was lowest (and share to lower 90 percent highest) when union membership was at its highest. As unions have weakened, inequality has widened. This is why we must build back union power.
"Nobody wants to be a cop [in DC]. They were abused. They were spit on." "When you when you say they were abused and spit on, I'm assuming you're talking about January 6th, correct?" "All you guys want to do was bring up J6 about the answer to everything."
Okay. I just came back to this and you aren’t calling these efforts resegregation yet, you absolutely should be
“.. with the exception of the pandemic, Black women have never seen such staggering losses in employment.” @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2025/08/31/u...
Remember the Goolsbee Rule, also called the “pathological irony of crisis”: If you lose credibility, your statements begin to mean the opposite of what you say.
"83.3% of LLM users were unable to quote even one sentence from the essay they had just written"
"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:
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Children with brain cancer
A big difference between Republicans and Democrats is that Republicans understand the science of political communication. Republicans dictate the topics/terms of debate while Dems (and the left) usually burn energy in constant response. Thiel and Co call this mimetics, Lakoff calls it framing.
Promise tariffs ⟶ faff around ⟶ announce tariffs ⟶ pause tariffs ⟶ promise deals ⟶ court rules tariffs illegal ⟶ appeal ⟶ court order stayed ⟶ make no deals ⟶ 90 days expires ⟶ delay tariffs again ⟶ announce tariffs again ⟶ appeals court rules tariffs illegal again ⟶ you are here
@nealkatyal.bsky.social: “You’ve got the president who's imposed the largest tax increase on American consumers since 1993 … and he did it without Congress saying one word. That is not our constitutional structure.”
Morning Bluesky. Tesla had its seventh straight monthly decline in European sales in July, dropping 40% to 8,837. Chinese rival BYD surged past Tesla with 225% sales increase, to 13,503.
Walmart prices getting crazy y’all
After Hurricane Katrina the city of New Orleans was rebuilt at an enormous cost. On “The Weekend Intelligence”, the Economist’s Southern correspondent travels there to try to understand the human and economic consequences of that decision
Rosneft net income drops 68% in first half, blames OPEC for weak oil prices reut.rs/4lXTua1
Sudden, irreversible changes to the climate could be dangerously close. Listen to “Babbage” to hear about the Earth’s tipping points that are alarming scientists
Attacks on #nuclear plants are being normalised - and the consequences could be disastrous. Nuclear power plants have become significant pawns in the #Russia-#Ukraine war. inews.co.uk/news/world/a...
For 98% of days in the year in Britain, it’s either windy or sunny. Well-balanced for clean power — plotting this on a calendar shows how #wind and #solar power complement each other across days and seasons.
Killing clean energy projects means killing jobs and raising bills. 64,000 jobs already lost or at risk. 400,000 more on the line. The future is clean energy—and that’s where we must invest.
Mike Johnson dismisses the unpopularity of the Big Beautiful Bill: "The individual provisions of that giant piece of legislation are wildly popular." CNN host John Berman immediately debunks that claim.
TEXAS: “Would I be required to carry my birth certificate to the restroom because I have short hair? Is there anything in it to protect people like me?” REP. ORR: “No. It protects biological females.” @jessicafortexas.bsky.social : “That’s what I am.” More: www.fox7austin.com/news/texas-h...
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Eagerly awaiting Stephen Miller's meltdown complaining how only radical Marxist judges would strike down the President's authority to levy taxes without congressional approval.
Welch: As someone who lives in a red state, let me just tell you what MAGA supermajorities get you. We're 50th in education. The worst in the whole country for women to live. We're poorer, worst health care. And if you look at the bottom ten states, they are all MAGA supermajorities.
A collection of clips from MSNBC of multiple Republicans getting booed at town halls this week.
This story has it all: aquaculture, Black Flag, Bernie Sanders, Star Trek as policy, John Hodgman, male tears, and a candidate citing Luthen’s monologue from Andor. Meet Graham Platner, the Maine oysterman trying to crack the senate. @grahamformaine.bsky.social newrepublic.com/article/1996...
I think one of the things people misunderstand about being anti-ChatGPT and related products is that they are being forced into institutions and other products and services in ways that affect all of our lives whether they work or *not* and we will all have to deal with the consequences
Neuroscientists have long believed that our bodies are paralyzed during REM sleep to prevent us from acting out our dreams, and the twitches we make are movements that slip through the cracks—but recent research tells another story.
Unconstitutional but keep going?
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If we survive this, I hope I live long enough to find out what historians dub this period in US history. The Great Madness has a certain ring to it.
WITH THE HELP OF THE SUPREME COURT just straight up saying it lmao
Here's something I think a lot of folks don't yet understand, but 16 states' worth of CVSes refusing to give out Covid shots *is* actually preventing people from accessing them. They are the biggest pharmacy chain in the country and they own Aetna insurance, often forcing those clients to use CVS.
We built a calculator that doesn't work, but don't worry, it's also a plagiarism machine that will tell you to kill yourself. It runs on the world's oceans and costs 10 trillion dollars.
Welch: Am American president talks to other American citizens like that, and propagandists come on TV and normalize this behavior. And nothing about this is normal. Nothing
⚡️Ukrainian drone strikes halt operations at Russia’s Kuibyshevsk refinery, sources tell Reuters. The refinery, operated by Rosneft, saw both of its main crude distillation units — CDU-4 and CDU-5, each with a capacity of 70,000 barrels per day — taken offline in the recent strikes.
Exclusive: Meta has appropriated the names and likenesses of celebrities — including Taylor Swift, Scarlett Johansson, Anne Hathaway and Selena Gomez — to create dozens of flirty social-media chatbots without their permission, Reuters has found reut.rs/3JWb00R
We live in socialism for the wealthy with harsh austerity for everyone else. Privatise the profits, socialise the losses. The only solution is a working class revolution. Eat the rich asap obvsly 💪 #antifascist #antibillionaire #classconsciousness #anticapitalism
Iowa Senator Joni Ernst is not seeking reelection in 2026: www.cnn.com/2025/08/29/p... Iowa swung hard to the right starting in 2016, but the 3 special elections that have happened in Iowa so far in 2025 have swung toward Dems by 22, 24, & 26 percentage points. Two seats have flipped blue.
“The world will not be destroyed by those who do evil, but by those who watch them without doing anything.” –Albert Einstein www.snopes.com/fact-check/e...
What a cursed sentence (gift link) “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.”
The next days and months and years will demand from all of us great courage — and solidarity. Be prepared.
Today’s update from Weirdo HQ.
Psaki: Comer was a little slow to move forward with the subpoenas, at least in my view. Moskowitz: That’s actually his regular speed. He’s just a little slow in general.
Blue states banding together to make up for a Federal vacuum in health policy feels like the first step into… something.
I vaguely remember tweeting something like the country that effectively captures this free energy source at scale will rule the 21st century. whelp.
so many people are going to die because not enough people were willing to believe that RFK jr would actually try to do exactly what he has said for decades that he wanted to do
A federal judge has ordered Florida to shut down "Alligator Alcatraz," after the state spent a staggering $218M to build the now-vacant detention camp. Closing it will run taxpayers another $20M. An utterly cruel and costly waste.
1/ This week, House Oversight Committee Chair James Comer demanded that the Wikimedia Foundation hand over information on editorial policies & individual contributors to help the committee investigate "propaganda" on Wikipedia. These demands are offensive to 1st Amendment values
Zoë Kravitz tells us how Darren Aronofsky’s ‘BLACK SWAN’ left an impact on her “I think there’s something about that movie, starring a woman but being so dark and twisted... women don't get a lot of films like that. That was a punk movie for me.”
SARAH PALIN: "There are going to be death panels!" RFK JR: "Technically, it's just me."
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...
The Cubs are pouring it on at Coors Field. Pete Crow-Armstrong's sac fly, Ian Happ's RBI automatic double, and Dansby Swanson's 3-run 3B in the 5th give the Cubs an 8-2 lead over the Rockies.
Lots of right-wing political pastors and charlatans about to get rich from FEMA money.
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?
I hope people realize how absolutely fucked this situation is. This isn’t normal. People are resigning all over the place because the government is mishandling our data, ruining our public health services, and generally making Americans less safe.
The City of Atlanta is opening its first municipal grocery store today. The city is spending $3.5 million in partnership with a neighborhood grocery chain in an effort to eliminate a downtown food desert. www.wsbtv.com/news/local/a...
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The NRA buys off Congress. No action on guns. The oil industry buys off Congress. No action on climate. Insurance companies buy off Congress. No action on health care. The list goes on and on. Money in politics is the root of our dysfunction.
California lawmakers reach an agreement with Uber and Lyft that will open the door for app-based drivers to form unions. This is a victory for organized labor that could lay the groundwork for similar efforts in other states.
Live your life such that everyone doesn’t spend ten solid years planning the rager they’re going to throw when you die.
WATCH — @jessicatarlov.bsky.social : “If a Democratic president were doing any of these things you would be losing your mind.” 🎯
FOX: *plays clip of Gavin Newsom pointing out that crime is higher in Louisiana than in California* FOX: Your response? MIKE JOHNSON: He needs to go an govern his state and not be engaging in this
If the numbers on Over The Cap are correct, Micah Parsons' cap number for 2025 will fall under $10 million, and he won't cost more than $27 million against the Packers' salary cap until the 2028 season.
One of the world’s foremost experts? Get the fuck out of here, Doogie Himmler.
The same people who villainize Dr. Anthony Fauci, an actual doctor with a speciality in immunology and research in virology, are praising RFK Jr who has never seen the inside of a lab.