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USA: Government backtracks on commitment to avoid working with spyware companies linked to human rights abuse - Business & Human Rights Resource Centre share.google/cUWLpuZeXtAq...
OpenAI Says It's Scanning Users' ChatGPT Conversations and Reporting Content to the Police share.google/gD0pLgA14xib...
A good read about a terrible person Russ Vought.
🚨NEW: AG Bondi uses her authority as AG to reinstate two precedent decisions from Trump's first term (Matter of A-B- and Matter of L-E-A-) that aim to end asylum for victims of domestic violence from countries unwilling or unable to protect them, and asylum for people targeted for family ties.
I have been a dog owner for over 30 years and have had as many as 5 dogs at a time. Each and every one of them has been fully vaccinated. I can attest to the fact that they were / are all cognitively fine, and most, if not all of them, were smarter than these people.
Federal Appellate Court Finds the NLRB to Be Unconstitutional This matters to you if you work. Rights you had for 90 years are gone. Employers can now violate whatever rights workers thought they enjoyed. How did we get here? prospect.org/justice/2025...
Fired Democratic FTC commissioner reinstated by US appeals court reut.rs/4270IBn
DHS Secretary Kristi Noem Seems To Have A Poorly Hidden Secret Facebook Page talkingpointsmemo.com/news/dhs-sec...
See through it.
When President Trump used 32 U.S.C. § 502(f)(2) in 2020, that was to have out-of-state National Guard troops sent to D.C.—which has no sovereignty of its own. Sending the un-federalized TX National Guard into IL without the latter’s consent raises *serious* Article IV problems that 2020 … didn’t.
Chicago’s Mayor Brandon Johnson says “Chicago will continue to have a violence problem as long as red states continue to have a gun problem.” Mayor Johnson points out if Trump really cared about violence in America, he would work on gun reform not militarizing cities!
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A note to RFKJ- don’t cross the nurses. They’re tough as nails and get things done. We’re glad to have National Nurses United join the fight against unscientific nonsense.
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".. Sign-ups in the U.S. failed to meet last year's total and even the company's own target, according to internal company data reviewed by Reuters." $AMZN www.reuters.com/business/ret...
Supreme Court begins the verdict and sentencing phase of Jair Bolsonaro's coup trial Tuesday, with the former president facing a possible 40-year sentence.
Good Taco Tuesday, friends!! I'm starting to think he might be at least on hospice care. It wouldn't be the first time a president's team takes over and acts as the president. The last time it happened, the people surrounding the president were competent. Have a day, y'all!! #SheShed
Yes, it was carefully hidden in the New England Journal of Medicine. Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine (www.nejm.org/doi/pdf/10.1... ) 1/2
He demands that Pfizer and other companies show their vaccine data (which he calls drugs) to the CDC to show them how good they are. What does this tell us? That the outrage against RFK Jr. is having an effect and we need to push even harder to force this wedge.
Trump on RFK Jr., the CDC, and vaccines (a translation). He seems to be saying that he was shown data about COVID19 vaccines being safe and effective, but that the pharma companies didn’t show those amazing data to anyone else, like RFK Jr. He thinks this is why there is a “mess” at CDC.
Labor Day March and Rally in Chicago Labor over Billionaires! ✊ www.mobilize.us/mayday/event...
Thank goodness for scientists like Dr. Peter Hotez who are doing the heavy lifting as HHS and CDC continue to push their anti vaccine agendas.
Trump demanded that Israeli prosecutors drop their corruption case against Netanyahu. “It is INSANITY doing what the out-of-control prosecutors are doing to Bibi Netanyahu,” he complained. So much for not lecturing other nations “on how to live and how to govern your own affairs”! wapo.st/4nahJCH
Exclusive: US regulators cancel bank exams as Trump rollback gathers pace reut.rs/423lH8a
And there's the grift...
Good morning, you beautiful humans. We have some good momentum going into this week ahead of Thursday’s hearing. Let’s use it! Call your reps, demand they fire RFK Jr. They’re listening- we’ll see which of them steps up to do the right thing. #SaveHHS #USAnotRFK #FireRFKJr
New from @lhn.bsky.social in @wired.com: '"States are merely an ‘agent’ for the (USG) in counting and tabulating the votes... must do what the (USG), as represented by the President...tells them”-DJT... election experts emphasize that this is a completely inaccurate...' www.wired.com/story/trump-...
In one of the country's priciest housing markets, Utah's leaders worry young people are shut out from building wealth. But despite new incentives, few developers are signing on to build smaller homes.
Day late, self inflicted wound.
An M.I.T. study found that 95% of companies that had invested in A.I. tools were seeing zero return. It jibes with the emerging idea that generative A.I., “in its current incarnation, simply isn’t all it’s been cracked up to be,” @johncassidysays.bsky.social writes.
Is Baltimore’s scrappy skateboarding scene getting legit?
Trump’s face hasn’t been seen in public since this 👇
Gold has kept setting new price records this year and topped $3,500 an ounce in early September. Why are investors rushing to bullion? Here's what to know.
"Some Dem officials and health care advocates see parallels between the upcoming midterms and the 2018 cycle....The difference this time around is that Republicans actually succeeded in passing their legislation."
Every major US economic crisis is driven by conservative policies, no matter party name: 1830s panic + real estate crisis; slavery & Civil War; 1890s GD w/ tariffs, M+A, Trusts; 1930s GD w/ tariffs, immigration limits; 1970s stagflation; '08 crisis; Trump '17 tariff = 21st highest tax in US history.
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.
Lawmakers return with a shutdown looking likelier by the minute bit.ly/4p89zwM
Southwest Airlines introduces cockpit barriers on new Boeing 737 jets | Click on the image to read the full story
Kim Jong Un's train arrives in Beijing. Video:
Kraft Heinz to split into two separately listed companies reut.rs/3I2wkBk
Ok. This is a good line. To Trump: «100 kilometers from my border is the world's largest nuclear arsenal and it's not directed against me but against you»
Oh wow Støre is on the thumbnail for The Rest Is Politics. I guess I have to watch it.
Including Miss Utah
"It is grasping at straws to justify an open-ended 'national emergency' power of the sort that should be disfavored in our laws unless it is granted in terms far more explicit than these."
"The courts have been unpersuaded that we live in a state of permanent national emergency that is global in scope and decades-long in duration, requiring swift executive action on the theory that Congress could never assemble in time to address the issue. … www.nationalreview.com/corner/divid...
Weird tone and messaging. Almost obituary -like....
Los Angeles, CA Music Festival 9/1/25
🚨Speaking truth to power in Atlanta, Georgia! This man is spot on. We see you, Atlanta!🚨
A Chinese-owned mining company has been accused of covering up the extent of a disastrous toxic spill in Zambia that polluted a major river that millions rely on with cyanide and arsenic. https://to.pbs.org/4mHnt79
78 YEAR-OLD REP. NADLER TO RETIRE: “Watching the Biden thing really said something about the necessity for generational change in the party, and I think I want to respect that.” www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/n...
BREAKING: Chicago just showed Trump what resistance looks like — tens of thousands taking the streets, shoulder-to-shoulder, loud as hell. He thought he could bully this city? Nah. Wrong fucking move.
🚨🚨🚨If you live anywhere in the greater Chicago area…ICE will start using Great Lakes Naval Station as a command center for their “enforcement” operations across Chicago on Sept 5. The base isn’t in the city or Cook County. It’s north, in Lake County. Expect raids across entire the metropolitan area.
The United States had one of the worst COVID outcomes in the entire world from a body count standpoint. Anyone who argues with a straight face we were TOO cautious is an unserious imbecile.
America’s unions have had much to celebrate on recent Labor Days. Not this year.
Melania Trump Exposed For Blatantly Stealing From a Michelle Obama Speech.
why can't the democrat messaging on trans people be "no, we are not going to force children to undergo genital inspections in order to play sports"
House panel to question former Trump official who oversaw Epstein's plea deal The House Oversight Committee also issued a subpoena to Jeffrey Epstein's estate, seeking any records that "could be reasonably construed to be a potential list of clients." www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...
Classic Patriotic Celebrations for Labor Day
“There are those who would try to refuse the worker any effective power to bargain collectively, to earn a decent livelihood and to acquire security. It is those shortsighted ones who threaten this country with class dissension…” — Franklin Roosevelt, Sep. 6, 1936 www.thebulwark.com/p/labor-day-...
Mueller, the former FBI director and special counsel, had been subpoenaed by the House Oversight Committee as part of an investigation into Jeffrey Epstein.
NEW: Bluesky is becoming place to discuss scientific research - it gets more proper engagement & attention, new study finds. For all the talk of decline - borne out by several metrics - the science community seems to have adopted Bluesky more than others. Story: www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
“But our march had done its work. We had drawn the attention of the nation to the crime of child labor…The Pennsylvania legislature passed a child labor law that sent children home from the mills, and kept others from entering the factory until they were fourteen.” www.thebulwark.com/p/labor-day-...
"MAGA" Signs in Los Angeles
“A respected network of hospitals and cancer centers is halting enrollment in clinical trials for children with brain cancer after the federal government said it would no longer provide funding to the group”
This morning 9 former CDC Directors, whose tenures date back to 1977, published this warning in the NYT: RFK Jr is a danger to public health. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...
Euronews - Russia accused of jamming the GPS of the airplane carrying European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen during her official visit to Bulgaria.
CBS News correspondent Mark Knoller remained a national treasure after he left the briefing room. I hope he shared his data, & that someone else will keep the count. He was kind & generous to me & many others, & accurate about the record. RIP to a great newsman. www.cbsnews.com/news/mark-kn...
Gavin Newsome’s social media team wrecked Dean Cain. Hilarious!
Telling it like it is 🔥 "Once again, we are seeing the federal government retaliate against our civil servants for whistleblowing—which is both illegal and a deep betrayal of the most dedicated among us." www.newsweek.com/fema-staff-l...
Trump’s unprecedented weaponization of National Guard troops in recent months raises alarming concerns that the administration might be laying the groundwork to interfere with elections in key cities next year and in 2028.
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👇🏽
My quote of the day Nobody ever thanks you for saving them from the disease they didn't know they were going to get. William Foege
A plane carrying European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen was disrupted by jamming that authorities suspect was the result of Russian interference in Bulgaria.
Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem lashed out at CBS on Sunday over the way the network edited her most recent interview.
Interesting that there’s so much chatter of a serious health decline just a few days before a press conference is scheduled on the Capitol steps with Epstein’s victims. Things that make you go hmmmm…..and he’s guilty af
Here's what you need to know to start your day
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Why more and more people are tuning the news out: ‘Now I don’t have that anxiety’
Federal agents in DC have been starting dangerous car cases for small stuff like tinted windows. The chases violate DC police policy. Out of 10 cases, six ended in a crash. One car had a minor in back. www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...
As a friend recently put it: the venn diagram of people who assured us the gun violence was worth it because we need the guns to protect ourselves against a tyrannical federal government and the people cheering on Trump as he deploys the military to take over American cities is a circle
Gun culture in the USA grew out of white people were afraid of violence from former slaves in slave states, spreading & enduring across the country. Many white men had the fantasy of taking up arms against tyrannical Union again, & lived a reality of depriving black men of life whenever they chose.
“The prevalence of slavery in a Southern county (measured in 1860) predicts the frequency of firearms in the present day” academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar... “social connection to historically slaveholding counties predicts county-level gun ownership, even outside of the South.” Slavery => gun culture
Israeli banks plan financial giveaways after anger over wartime profits on.ft.com/4g3dl6o
It's not just the Pulse memorial, DeSantis is ensuring any and all murals across the state that go against his bigotry must be painted over and ripped out. www.axios.com/local/tampa-...
Vinay Prasad of the FDA demanded that @joho.bsky.social’s YouTube channel be removed, and it was. Dr. Howard regularly pointed out the numerous flaws in Prasad’s statements about COVID19 vaccines and other topics. You can read about it here.
the story for how giuliani got hurt is super sketch but it does include “911” so i respect his commitment to the bit
Brilliant
I'm never 100% convinced that anything is true until Donald denies it.
"A lot of people are saying maybe we'd like a dictator,” says Trump. And indeed some victims of right-wing brainwashing think dictators can “get things done.” What they don’t understand is that dictatorships are often incompetent. A thread. 1/ 🧵🧵🧵
WELKER: Do you have 100% confidence in Secretary Kennedy? LANKFORD: I believe he's who the president picked. He's challenging some of the assumption - what is it about autism? He seems to be following the science WELKER: The science has debunked links between autism & vaccines for more than 20 yrs
Are they actually sleeping on the job now? Spotted near a police station in the southeast. Washington, DC
GOP Rep Chuck Edwards is confronted by infuriated constituents at his town hall.
He jumped that gate like he was a crossing guard, terrible execution. White boy can't jump 😂
RFK Jr. likes to claim that thimerosal in childhood vaccines causes autism spectrum disorder (ASD). So I wonder if he’d like to explain how the rates of ASD diagnoses in the U.S. have kept going up when thimerosal was removed from all childhood vaccines in 2001?
That’s, apparently, today.
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