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Funny that an American Worker looks like he just stepped out of a 1960s Soviet factory somewhere in eastern Siberia , full of determination to fulfill a five-year plan in four years and conscious of the dangers of too much alcohol and talking to foreigners.
Epidemiologist Erin McCanlies spent much of the past two decades studying the environmental causes of autism. Under the leadership of Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who has promised to find a cause for the condition, her entire division was cut.
Spot-on from @jonathanfreedland.bsky.social (www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...)
vm.tiktok.com/ZNd43SJaj/ If you are fed up of Farage and don’t want to become the next USA please follow this idea to complain about the disproportionate coverage of Reform.
Ousted CDC chief told to break the law: Colleague www.rawstory.com/cdc-firing-i...
Don’t worry, RFK Jr is investigating the anti depressants to stop these massacres happening.
🚨Johnny Noviello, a 49-year-old Canadian citizen and longtime U.S. resident, died in ICE custody in Florida while awaiting deportation over past drug convictions. His death spotlights rising concerns over detention conditions. open.substack.com/pub/theintel...
In a functional government, this would be a five alarm fire where Congress calls in Kennedy and asks him what the fuck is going on
🔴 NEW 🔴 Nigel Farage plans to hand a massive fracking windfall to a Trump donor. Reform's policies would allow Lincolnshire to be drilled by a firm whose boss has given money to the past two Trump campaigns. 📝 @desmog.com scoop 👇
Trump loyalist William Pulte is utterly out of control at this point. Look at this tweet. Absolutely outrageous. Really supports the argument below (see thread) that Trump's authoritarian takeover depends on corrupt willing accomplices.
You are living through the unthinkable: the president of the United States using the military to seize domestic power. The greatest crisis of executive power in American history, at the hands of the worst, most corrupt, and most unfit president in American history.
No10 spokesman not prepared to criticise anything about Farage speech today. Not his description of "invasion", not his prediction that the UK on brink of civil war, not plans to pay the Taliban or Iran to take back migrants, or indeed to rule out doing so themselves.
A glimpse into Trump's make-believe world of "giant water valves" in Northern California…
His eyes are really bulging- it’s weird. The bruises are probably due to an IV infusion.
Pritzker: To the members of the press who are assembled here today and listening across the country, I am asking for your courage to tell it like it is. This is not a time to pretend here that there are two sides to this story.
Gov. Pritzker: “Earlier today in the Oval Office, Donald Trump…asked for me personally to say, ‘Mr. President, can you do us the honor of protecting our city?’ Instead, I say, ‘Mr. President, do not come to Chicago. You are neither wanted here nor needed here.’”
President Trump’s federal takeover of D.C.’s local police is unprecedented. “The last person who asserted the authority to use military personnel for routine law enforcement anywhere in the country for any reason was King George,” a legal scholar said.
National Guard troops in DC will be armed from this evening, ABC reports. And the Pentagon confirmed plans are being drawn up for the deployment of the National Guard in Chicago.
Why does he have the time or energy to worry about such stuff when he’s supposedly the leader of the free world?
we really do need to figure out how this guy managed to create an environment where he can say "i wasted an amount of taxpayer dollars so large I can't even tell you how much it was" & it doesn't cause immediate national outrage
A half dozen armed goons brutally attacked a man FOR EATING IN PUBLIC?
Well why wouldn’t you believe a sex trafficker was telling the truth instead of the documents that we aren’t allowed to see?
This sort of admission—the VP is involved in prosecutorial decisions, the "concerns" arise from political actors, and the administration knows they don't have probable cause—would have prompted the Founders to impeach everyone involved.
That was one of the most batshit press conferences of Trump's public life. He brandished a photo of Putin and promised to deploy the US military to occupy Chicago, New York, and San Francisco. A sane country would be moving toward impeachment and removal right now.
god I hate this I hate this I hate it I hate it, I hate that the mainstream right has gone this mad and racist and radicalised, I hate that no one seems to know how to stop it from getting worse, it worries me so much and I hate it all
This is all so bonkers…he was explaining who Putin was in case we were unaware.
Today in DC makes Watergate look like a storm in a teacup. The corruption and crime in the White House is enormous- 8 months into the administration. How much lower can the USA go?
"Here legally, engaged in a sanctioned process to determine their eligibility for asylum, they have committed no crime. They are arrested anyway, and the lives they’ve risked to come to the United States are thrown into chaos."
The size of Pete Hegseth’s security detail is insane. Grown to 400+ agents since January. They’re pulled from the Army’s Criminal Investigation Division, which should be investigating crimes in the ranks. Instead, they’re stuck guarding his ex-wives, multiple kids, and multiple properties.
Yet again Facebook had me following JD Vance. This is the second time this year I have some how been made a follower. What is going on at @Facebook? Is he paying for followers or are Facebook deliberately doing this?
Optics here that really scream, “We’re the good guys.”
Donald J. Trump, President of Tackystan
H/t @shoshanade.bsky.social for spotting this one 😆
Leaving no bronzer line untouched…
Brian Glenn: President Zelenskyy, you look fabulous in that suit Zelenskyy: You are in the same suit. I changed, you did not.
Zelensky explains he is open to holding an election in Ukraine after the war (Ukraine law precludes voting during war), then Trump quips about canceling US elections in 2028. www.c-span.org/clip/white-h...
Trump’s adoration is reserved for dictators, not defenders of freedom.
It sounds conspiratorial to suggest that Vladimir Putin told Donald Trump behind closed doors to launch an assault on mail-in voting in elections administered by the states, and Trump immediately set about mobilizing federal power to do it… but that is literally Trump’s account of what happened.
What? Is he threatening to go back on it or just entering one of his frequent fugue states?
this is where Stubb was sitting when Trump couldn't see him btw
Restaurant reservations in DC plunged after Trump announced his takeover. It’s no surprise that rolling out troops into the streets dampens consumer appetite.
Do they not get that this stuff is killing the economy? No one outside the US wants to visit anymore…why go to a country where masked men appear to assault people on the streets?
“Just for fun, let’s give it to Obama again”
If you’re under any illusions about what an authoritarian personality cult the GOP has become, they’re not hiding it:
"Papers with U.S. State Department markings, found Friday morning in the business center of an Alaskan hotel, revealed previously undisclosed and potentially sensitive details about the Aug. 15 meetings between President Trump and Russian President Putin in Anchorage." www.npr.org/2025/08/16/n...
These are the kids whose medical treatment in the US Loomer objects to: "Leyan is a 14-year-old who was burned and injured by shrapnel in an explosion at her school. Ghazal, 6, was also hurt in an explosion. Another child, 8-year-old Anas, was hurt in an explosion that killed his entire family."
Even Fox News were astounded that he had nothing to say afterwards!
Backlash in Washington as Trump leaves Putin summit empty-handed on.ft.com/4mOWBC8
Um…but you’re president and…uh…it’s still happening.
Fox News Reporter Jacqui Heinrich: The way that it felt in the room was not good. It did not seem like things went well. And it seemed like Putin came in and steam rolled, got right into what he wanted to say and got his photo next to the president and then left
This is a real AP photo
Trump looks chastened- just like the last time they met.
i hope you find something you love in life as much as Trump loves Putin (Getty)
Former US Ambassador to Russia: Putin doesn't look at all of this stuff as a sign of strength. He looks at it as a sign of weakness. He had to do absolutely nothing to get this meeting. Putin has gained everything and given nothing in return
Trump’s all about being on the TV and newspapers’ front pages, just another publicity stunt from him.
There was a time when American presidents lectured Putin and made him look small. Now, it's the other way around.
Lukashenko is a junior-varsity thug, but okay.
I’m actually embarassed for him www.politico.eu/article/dona...
This is what fascism looks like — masked agents arriving, uninvited, at a governor’s event to intimidate a political rival. The idea that the Border Patrol would accept such a nakedly authoritarian assignment six months into the Trump admin should terrify us.
I’m deceased 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣☠️☠️☠️☠️
Trump refers to Obama officials as "Clapper and Comer and that whole group of criminals ... that is a criminal group of people, they are sick people and they are criminals and they should be taken care of."
Newsom on ICE action outside his presser: "It's pretty sick & pathetic. It's everything you know about Trump's America & the authoritarian tendencies of the president. Wake up, America. You will not have a country if he rigs this election. You will a president running for a third term. Mark my word"
A bystander? Appearing at both sides of the Capitol? Not “statistically” likely...
Reporter: What’s going on with those posts on X that are clearly trolling the president? Newsom: I hope it’s a wake up call for the president. I’m just following his example. If you have issues with what I’m putting out, you sure as hell should have concerns with what he’s putting out
NEW: Governor Newsom will be holding a press conference and rally at 11:30 AM PT tomorrow in Los Angeles regarding redistricting. The announcement is chef's kiss.
The Supreme Court could end up overturning marriage equality. Here is Alina Habba campaigning for Trump at one of their “Unity” events: “We love our gay men. We love our lesbian women. And we are here to unite. It is Trump 2024, baby.”
More from Newsom’s press office.
A kid in my class said “children are dumb.” There was silence for a moment, then another kid whispered “you have no respect for your own kind”
Oh.
James Bolam & no idea who he’s supposed to be!
It’s not like he’s got anything else going on…literally polling the worst of any President & this is his focus…or distraction from Epstein.
“For the second time in eight months of his presidency, Donald Trump has deployed federal military force to subdue a city with a large Black population currently led by a Black woman. Los Angeles is led by Mayor Karen Bass and Washington, D.C. is led by Mayor Muriel Bowser, and Trump is a racist.”
Yet JD is holidaying here, it’s almost as if they make things up
The same as the West Bank. Russia would be the government and reap the economic benefits but it would still officially be Ukrainian. Absolutely crazy - how anyone could think this has worked well and a model to replicate. Real estate developers shouldn’t be diplomats
I'm Jewish and I think about antisemitism all the time. I can't tell you how fucking weird it is that Homeland Security posting literal neo-Nazi propaganda generates less discussion about the threat to Jews than a mayoral candidate who believes Palestinians are human beings.
Well, he thinks there’s no free speech here so they had to prove him wrong 🤷🏼♀️
it's crazy how we just take for granted now that the president is a deranged racist
She’s not wrong
Wtf
You’d think he’d have more important stuff to be thinking about…and there’s no way he’s ever willingly been in a museum unless it was a fundraiser
Now is the time for choosing. Where are you at, where do you stand, who are you going to be? This is not a choice you can avoid; it is being forced upon you.
The man has no had a normal interaction with humans in decades. I wonder when he last bought something in a store, drove a car or walked anywhere,
These are concentration camps.
She’s insane.
Listening to #Americast with @mattchorley.bsky.social this morning. Amazed to hear Justin Webb compare Trump to Hillary regarding mistakes they make…Trump said he was meeting Putin in Russia. Hillary never made such a mistake but Trump does this daily. He rambles & cannot make a succinct reply.
Baltimore Mayor Scott response on Trump: I think it's very notable that each and every one of the cities called out by the President has a black mayor, and most of those cities are seeing historic lows in violent crime…
Oh Jesus Christ. CNN host right now asks Rep. Jamie Raskin, "We know that statistics show crime is down in DC. But does it 'feel' like crime is down?" Raskin: "Oh, definitely, if you compare it to other periods in DC." (He grew up there, and knows.) But obvs still a problem. FYI it's Kasie Hunt.
Not just 15 years ago — definitely seven years ago, quite possibly five, maybe even one.
The stuff that, 15 years ago, would have been a screaming 72-point all-caps headline — and now appears in the sixth paragraph, almost as an aside www.wsj.com/world/russia...
1/Trump’s Secretary of Defense, Pete Hegseth, seems interested in making women 2nd class citizens. A tweet he posted late last week isn’t getting nearly enough attention. In any other administration, there would have been swift calls for his resignation. Here, mostly crickets.
guess what all these mayors have in common. i’ll wait.
Does he have a mirror? Or does he believe his doctor’s weight assessment :) Honestly Trump would have no family without his money holding them there. His own wife can’t bear to be near him.
what could possibly go wrong?
On January 6, 2021, Donald Trump refused to order the National Guard to DC when then *were* needed. On August 11, 2025, Donald Trump orders the National Guard to DC when they are *not* needed. Both instances are examples of Trump's disregard for law, order, decency, and democracy.
🚨NEW: This is what all networks should do! MSNBC fact checks Trump live during his press conference. The REAL crime stats are put on screen as he reads out his made up figures.
WaPo failing to call out the blatant lies that Trump is telling. DC is in a 30 year low of crime. He is turning USA into a fascist state. The Dems need to rise up
Someone forgot to take down this webpage: www.justice.gov/usao-dc/pr/v...
