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State elected officials were banned from raising money during the 40-day legislative session until a 2021 law changed that. An @ajc analysis shows they have helped top Georgia politicians rake in $15.5M over the last 4 sessions. #gapol ajc.com/politics/202...
Not a lot of people know this, but itâs actually Peak Performance for a President when the country is constantly spectating if youâre dead and/or a pedophile.
Under Dr. Oz, Medicare is launching a pilot program that will use AI to determine whether patients would be covered for certain procedures. Companies running the program will be paid a share of the savings from rejecting claims. Who in their right mind voted for this? No one.
More gender affirming care clinics for trans youth close in Washington State - for those who were confused as to why I upped the risk to moderate in that state for youth. www.thenewstribune.com/news/local/a...
A new tool at ICE's disposal and - experts and history tell us - a new threat to civil liberties www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
"The GOP is signing on to mass murder of children based on the novel theories of a man who has no party ties except a single Trump endorsement. It is a measure of the partyâs utter hollowness, brokenness, and evil that even in this case, it can barely find the resources to demur."
âThere are so many other folks who had been murdered in other places prior to (Till), and no one said a word. Or more specifically, from a collective standpoint, there was silence. And that was the truth about Tallahatchie County," Benjamin Salsberry said at the Two Mississippi Museums on Aug. 13.
LEVINE: â.. it has always struck me as quite straightforward. .. the Constitution gives Congress, not the president, the power to impose tariffs. Trump made up his own tariffs without any input from Congress, so they are unconstitutional.â @matt-levine.bsky.social www.bloomberg.com/opinion/news...
PSA: Zohran is putting on a messaging clinic every time he opens his mouth. The Dems that canât see it are the ones you should really be afraid of.
Technically it wasnât reassigned, it was assigned. There wasnât an assigned judge before now. Judge Sooknanan was just temporarily handling the matter over the weekend as the emergency duty judge.
The case filed to protect unaccompanied Guatemalan children appears to have been reassigned from Biden-appointed U.S. District Judge Sooknanan to Trump-appointed Judge Timothy Kelly, for reasons not currently specified on the docket. www.courtlistener.com/docket/71240...
US factory construction continues steadily declining as CHIPS & IRA projects either complete or cancelâin official data released today, overall US manufacturing construction activity is down 7% compared to last year & electronics/electrical manufacturing construction is down 14%
Trump admin wishes happy birthday to the man who had journalist Jamal Khashoggi hacked to death with a bone saw:
WATCH: @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social @mizzwelch.bsky.social & Pumps on Cuomo defending Netanyahuâs war crimes at the ICC after resigning in disgrace â showing an âaffection for authoritarian right-wing strongmenâ Full @ivehaditpodcast.bsky.social episode: youtu.be/PM88cTxx0hw?...
The next Democratic president should declare that the National Emergencies Act and Article II of the Constitution allow him to: â˘admit D.C. and Puerto Rico as states â˘abolish ICE â˘grant citizenship to any immigrant â˘disband the 5th Circuit â˘expand the Supreme Court Seriously: Why the hell not?
BREAKING: Judge Charles Breyer finds that the Trump administration violated the Posse Comitatus Act by using the military for domestic law enforcement purpose in Los Angeles. He enjoins further violations of the Posse Comitatus Act âŹď¸ storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
As a federal judge ruled today, Trump is illegally misusing the Guard in the service of "creating a national police force with the President as its chief"
CARTOON OF THE DAY
you'd be unsurprised that he worked for Josh Hawley too www.legistorm.com/person/bio/4...
Googled this guy and came up with this. He's like a pompous Paper Chase character.
What could go wrong. (If someone has a WSJ subscription and wants to throw a gift link in the replies, that would be much appreciated.)
Maternal mortality, also mostly red states at the top! www.kff.org/state-health...
I'm just going to go on, I'm sorry. If you look at the "most incarcerated states" from @prisonpolicy.org , they are red states! If incarceration worked, they would have less crime! www.prisonpolicy.org/global/2024....
Lori Chavez-DeRemer: "I was elected as the Labor Secretary for all Americans" (She was not elected)
Also known as the âIâm not dead yet!â Press conference
When centrists adopt far-right rhetoric, they donât make themselves stronger. They make themselves look inauthentic, legitimise the far right, and shift the political debate onto terrain defined by their opponents. www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...
The body of evidence showing that when centrist parties adopt the priorities and talking points of the far right, they torpedo themselves is vast and powerful. Yet Keir Starmer's Labour Party seems determined to ignore it. A few examples in đ§ľ: theconversation.com/how-should-l...
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Ports across the country were planning to become economic hubs for the growing offshore wind industry. The Trump administration is cancelling grants to build the infrastructure for it.
Students can't get into basic college courses, dragging out their time in school
From our magazine: Rural Texas wears a friendly facade. You know everyone, and everyone treats each other so kindly, but, if youâre Black, you just ignore the stares when you walk into the local steakhouse for fish fry night.
The World Bank's investments in East African hospitals were meant to help alleviate poverty. For some, however, those services came at an almost unbearable cost (co-published with @icij.org)
âI keep seeing these memes where Indians are bragging about taking our tech jobs,â said Ely, 36. âSo I said, âOh yeah? Well Iâm going to work with these guys that are going to arrest you, slam your face on the pavement and send you home.ââ wapo.st/3VrzEJg
An Army veteran, known in his community for the work he did trying to get people to safety after the fall of Kabul to the Taliban, was arrested for his protests against ICE. The charge is alarming. Latest by @aglantz.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Glaciers in Central Asia have long managed to withstand rising temperatures and changing weather patterns. But now, that isn't the case
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.
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Tuition is going to skyrocket. Or universities are going to close. #Overhead #NIH #WarOnResearch #NoMeGusta
So this is happening. #Cancer patients cut off midstream from their treatment due to "NIH cuts." Once again, who voted for this?𤨠#waronscience #waronresearch #waronpatients #cansky #IDSky #medsky @standupforscience.bsky.social
Here's a list of colleges and universities that have been forced to cut back on faculty and staff, thanks in large part to Trâ˘mp's War on Knowledge and Education. It's a bloody slaughter. #Edusky #WarOnEducation #Kakistocracy bryanalexander.org/horizon-scan...
"...Mr. Musk and his artificial intelligence company, xAI, have tweaked the chatbot to make its answers more conservative on many issues, according to an analysis of thousands of its responses by The New York Times. The shifts appear, in some cases, to reflect Mr. Muskâs political priorities."
1. đ´đť"I know the $45 billion we gave to ICE for new prisons, violent abductions, and violations of due process, are evil and unnecessary. But we can't say 'Defund ICE!' That's bad messaging, because the people that don't care about immigrants don't like it!𤥠2. đ´đť"We can't say 'Defund the police!"đ¤Ą
I really don't think we've barely begun to come to terms with how tech companies have actively decided to destroy the basic infrastructure of human information to juice their share price
This morning (9/1) at 8 AM feds pulled over a couple at 18th & Park NW. They smashed the window, dragged the husband out & arrested him. When a community member stopped to record they were grabbed & threatened w/ pepper spray by this piece of shit. @mayorbowser.bsky.social do you welcome this too?
Femicide Census says more mums killed by sons than by strangers
At Central NY nursing home, deaf residents suffered in silence: âThey were just aloneâ
A massive landslide in Sudan's western Darfur region has flattened an entire mountain village and killed more than 1,000 people, a rebel group said, leaving only one survivor âĄď¸ u.afp.com/SAv7
#BREAKING Afghanistan earthquake toll rises to more than 1,400: govt spokesman
Marsha Blackburn wants the National Guard in Memphis. www.actionnews5.com/2025/09/01/s...
Elon is quoting Nazis again
At least 10 gun industry businesses, including Glock, Smith & Wesson, Remington and Mossberg, secretly handed over names, addresses and other data to lobbyists, who used the details to rally firearm owners to elect pro-gun politicians. By @coreygjohnson.bsky.social (Published Oct. 2024)
Thousands rally across Indonesia as the military is deployed in the capital. Six people have died in nationwide protests sparked by anger over lavish perks for lawmakers u.afp.com/SAFc
And actually news!
Modi gets back at Donald with a *massive* troll. lol
And after 2 decades of drawing India back away from the Russia/India economic and military partnership, Trump sent them back together with one tweet. Super Duper Special Agent Kraznov was the best money Russia ever spent.
Sheâs amazing. I would love to have an American tv journalist get in front of a camera and say: âThis is what happened, this is what didnât happen. This man said this, it was a lieâ Clear & concise!
âLIKE A BROKEN RECORDâ Now that the @nytimes is reporting Modi and Trump had a falling out over Trumpâs lie that he deserves credit for the India-Pakistan ceasefire, we re-submit to you this clip of an Indian anchor calling him out months ago â even as đşđ¸ media wouldnât.
âTravel to đşđ¸ down⌠Trumpâs tariffs, immigration crackdown etc. alienated travelers⌠đşđ¸ the only country among 184 studied where foreign visitor spending would fall in 2025...â The Trump effect. World Cup & Olympics are disasters waiting to happen. apnews.com/article/inte...
The man has been divorced twice before. I donât think thatâs it
3/ juice? What's happening exactly?
2/ forced him out of the race in the final stretch. totally unprecedented in American history. meanwhile you've got Trump showing up in public events with parts of his body looking like morgue photos and talking like he's playing mad libs and yet ... I guess the elite press ran out of reckoning ...
ive got no idea what's going on with Trump's health. But the 'biden precedent' is just so glaring and hilarious. half of 2025 has been taken up with elite press shaming of how no one ever talked abt Biden's age which was actually their main topic in 2024. Ok. Set aside that his party literally ...
PiĂš di mille persone sono morte a causa di una frana nel Darfur, in Sudan
BREAKING About 2,000 North Korean troops killed in Russia deployment, says Seoul spy agency
Only a white lady could get away with shit like this and get paid to write about it. Smdh
I find a pint of really good ice cream helps take the sting out.
The irony/idiocy of this banner screaming "American Workers First" is that Trump has forced more than 199,000 federal workers out of their jobs since Jan. Nearly 1 in 10 federal workers gone. www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
NYT reports TRUMP & MODI had a falling out because Modi wouldnât back Trumpâs lie that he brokered the India-Pakistan ceasefire â a lie đşđ¸ media has let him get away with with even as Indiaâs media has openly mocked him for it. Video: x.com/thetnholler/...
He won the Nobel Peace Prize but itâs really the Noble (hair) Piece Prize brought to you by Trump, Inc, Trump Ltd & Trump Crypto
It says the President, not President Trump. So it will probably be President Vance announcing invasion of Venezuela and a blanket pardon for the former guy Or not. Who knows?!
In the midst of the Labor Day weekend, the Trump administration continued trying to make Donald Trumpâs fascism happen. What I saw in response, though, was heartening â on multiple fronts. Tonight, at Law Dork:
First Nations trailblazer Graham Greene, Oscar-nominated for 'Dances With Wolves,' dies at 73
Concern over low birth rates was what the theocracy in Margaret Atwoodâs Handmaidâs Tale used to come to power.
Compare these first two photos of Trump from the cabinet meeting last Tuesday, August 26 (screen captured from the video) to the recent ones from Getty images from this weekend (after his several day disappearance).
âIn 2017, OâHanlon was captured at Trumpâs first inauguration festivities in DC decked out in his full Eagle Scouts uniform. The photographer who took the photo wrote on his personal website of âthe Boy Scout kid that looked like a Brownshirt.ââ
Lorelei Cloud was born 3 years before Native Americans living on tribal lands in Colorado were guaranteed the right to vote. She is now vice chair of the Southern Ute Tribe. âI donât want future generations to have to deal with any of what weâve had to.â
An immigration law expert warns that New Orleans officialsâ efforts to safeguard facial recognition tech seem designed for âan old ideaâ of how levels of government interact: âWeâre probably at the lowest point with regard to local democratic control.â
The incumbent prosecutor of Chesapeake, Virginia, left the GOP last fall, accusing local party officials of pressuring him in exchange for financial donations. He is running for reelection as a Democrat.
It is beyond wild to me that there is zero coverage of "Workers over Billionaires" rallies anywhere on The New York Times or The Washington Post right now. This is a colossal failure in journalism. Mainstream media can't just pretend that hundreds of thousands of protesters don't exist
As of 3:20 pm ET, @thexylom.com is projecting roughly 220k - 492k Americans attending Labor Day rallies nationwide, using a methodology developed by @gelliottmorris.com. That would put "Workers over Billionaires" on track as one of the 20 largest protests and demonstrations in American history:
This is an extremely gracious way for Nadler to put things, and is exactly right for the current moment. He's helping his party and cementing his legacy at the same time.
the thing about Zohran is he is really fucking good at politics and everyone on the Dem side behaving like heâs a liability has lost their minds I donât care how you define It, he has It
So the Russian asset triggered the DC military takeover? Shocked!
SMDH
when they stop being funded by billionaires
Guys...I think that might be a bathroom.
Somebody is throwing things out of a window of the White House wtaf
My forced moment of silence:
this is a GOP poll lol
God @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social should be both Mayor of NYC and the head of the Democratic Party's comms and I'm so glad we get to watch him cook.
I made a stop-motion animation about Cuomo's harassment using images from his deranged Covid-19 celebration poster
Fascinating article by @vauhinivara.bsky.social on the push to put AI into K-12 education. www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
BREAKING Belgium to recognise Palestine at UN General Assembly, says foreign minister
People at today's Labor Day rally spoke about general fear of the countryâs direction, the plight of immigrants, and the feeling of living in troubled times. Joining the rally helped with my âpanic and fear,â said one. missionlocal.org/2025/09/hund...
First day for the new headline writer? Don't let the bastards grind you down!
Break the damn silence. There is something CLEARLY wrong with Donald Trump. Hints came with JD Vance on Thursday with his "tragedies happen" interview. Then the proof-of-life photos with Trump looking dazed and slack jawed. Did he have a stroke? www.youtube.com/live/vDqh8k3...
Never forget this: Working people outnumber the billionaires and CEOs by a huge margin. If workers stand together, they will win. Solidarity.
Not all workers get today off! While you enjoy your holiday, many agricultural workers are hard at work planting, harvesting, and packaging the food we eat every day. Today lest honor those workers and thank them for their amazing work. #WeFeedYou #LaborDay