What a gang of mindless amateurs in Washington accomplished in Beijing:
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What a gang of mindless amateurs in Washington accomplished in Beijing:
The United States is the only place on earth where poor people shun unions, free healthcare, and free education because the rich tell them to.
Nate Silver is a toxic bro & has long been one. He also reflects a pattern of men who started in data journalism or analysis & became all about vibes: him, Yglesias, Leonhardt, & others.
www.tiktok.com/t/ZT6t2dqEc/ I have discovered an odd quirk of my personality. I am incapable of feeling empathy for those who deny empathy to others. I feel nothing for the farmers who voted to deport their own workers and put tariffs on their own products. NADA. Not a thing.
Revoking an entire nationality’s visas is collective punishment and never acceptable — especially in this moment when millions of Palestinians lack equal rights, basic healthcare, and so much more at home, forcing them out of the US is unfathomably cruel. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/31/w...
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.
They Tried to Sneak Out 600 Kids on a Holiday Weekend The government was loading Guatemalan minors, unaccompanied, some as young as 6-7.
The single biggest disappointment of that election season
close enough, welcome back burning man attendee
www.tiktok.com/t/ZT6GvjPcr/ How in the HELL does any government lawfully deport 600 unaccompanied minors? Who does that? Who the fuck are we? What are we? What have we become?
Flamingo calling
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Sad state of affairs
This is not normal. Japan is continuing its run of astonishing temperature records. The country has just had its hottest summer for the third year in a row, and by a substantial margin. Data: JMA
A judge blocked the deportation of about 600 unaccompanied children after the Trump administration had tried to deport them without notice. This is OUTRAGEOUS!! Read up on what the Nazis did to children in WWII! The Trump regime has to be stopped.,
Imagine if our federal and local law enforcement were out there solving actual crime. 🤷♂️
Creating false charges to arrest individuals from minority communities.
United healthcare is going after this Dr after she was phoned by them during a patient's surgery to make sure they were not paying for unnecessary medical expenses. Wild stuff youtu.be/eVgIlDsBXZY?...
They don't jive do they?
GOP Rep Chuck Edwards is confronted by infuriated constituents at his town hall.
So the photos we get of the “golf outing” today is a pale and feeble looking one of him getting to a car at the WH and this one of him returning. Nothing from the course.
It is somewhat obvious that trump is using this pause for medical treatment... of what, I have no idea. His disappearance is making it more and more clear that he is not.long for this world. BTW... that.makes him extremely dangerous. His "i dont give a fuck" attitude may be fatal to us all.
Can the media STOP referring to Jeffrey Epstein as a “financier”? The money he made came from SEX TRAFFICKING MINORS, RAPING CHILDREN, and BLACKMAIL. He was NOT a financier. I’ve seen at least five stories from three outlets refer to him this way in the past week. This is the latest from the Times:
Why is the Draft Dodger-in-Chief trying to drag us into a war with Venezuela? The claim is that drug cartels are so out of control they’ve been designated an international terrorist organization, so we need to send warships. But we’re denying Venezuelan’s asylum claims who fled for their lives. 🤔
New: I looked at 90 porn sites to test the new age-verification law rewriting the web. The ones following the rules, and scanning visitors' faces, are crumbling, while the lawbreakers are doubling or tripling their traffic. One of many unintended consequences for an experimental tech wapo.st/47QuttW
The police version of the crash, as relayed by a local Manchester reporter, is unsurprisingly quite different from what Giuliani's spokesman says. The whole thing is even more murky now, however. manchester.inklink.news/rudy-giulian...
Crazy idea: what if we make electricity cost more for non-residential use.
Brilliant
www.rawstory.com/trump-infuri... lmao they’re activating them for 29 days over and over so they don’t get full active duty pay
New Mexico has issued a public health order that removes federal restrictions to COVID-19 vaccine access so that pharmacies in New Mexico can vaccinate people of all ages and risk profiles. Every state need to do this!
Who’s next at LSU?
I'm still waiting for the relentless onslaught of media demands for a press conference and calls to resign.
Remember when Hillary coughed and the media were practically writing her obituary?
Trump’s plan to rename the Department of Defense as the Department of War shows (once again) that his self-characterization as the “pro-peace” candidate was complete bullshit. www.wsj.com/politics/nat...
Remember when they attacked Biden because "the American people deserve to know the truth about the President’s health?” Now after being missing for 5 days we get a picture of Trump taken with a telephoto lens from hundreds of feet away.
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.
A mother is filing a $1 million claim after her 15-year-old son was held at gunpoint by immigration goons in Los Angeles.
🔴 Need a laugh , today ? 🤭🤣🙃🤭 #Dogsky #Dogs 🐥
Mallory McMorrow: "When we take back power, we need a party who is not afraid to use it."
All of which was avoidable. And yet, we caved to the fossil fuel and utility lobby. We can't even get simple 800W balcony solar. It's embarrassing
China is going to eclipse the US based off electricity alone. They have a modern grid and have been increasingly electrifying their economy. They have massive surpluses of electricity and a lot based in renewables. The US has an aging grid and is tied to a future of burning fossil fuel for energy.
China isn’t the reason to build solar—it’s the reason we can’t afford to wait. While US nuclear flatlines, China’s solar has already rocketed past it. The lesson isn’t to copy them—it’s that the transition is happening at breakneck speed. Delay now means falling behind forever. ⚡☀️ #EnergyTransition
Are they actually sleeping on the job now? Spotted near a police station in the southeast. Washington, DC
We are third world country abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory...
But you voted for this!! You craved MAGA! Don't whine like bitches because what everyone told you would happen... Happened Can we get a NYT piece from a rural diner to make things right? #FAFO except you're taking the rest of us with you 🖕 fortune.com/2025/08/30/r...
One week ago, thousands of New Yorkers tried something new. They heard about it last minute. They didn’t know where it would take them or who they would meet. It was free, earnest, even educational. It was the #ZcavengerHunt and it was a thing of beauty.
What air defense doing??
Trump once again compared Russia’s war on Ukraine to “two children fighting on a playground.” But in this picture, the only child is Trump himself—incapable of adult words or serious analysis, reducing a brutal war to playground brawls.
Every time he opens his mouth... Bullshit
They don't want to release the Epstein files
Hi All, Just sent out my free weekend update. Its been less than 3 weeks since the great Russian breakthrough at Pokrovsk (which was no breakthrough). And because it failed we have no reporting. Where are all the analyses once the Russians have failed. open.substack.com/pub/phillips...
Imagine being this hateful. Florida should spend more money on its education system and less on trying to marginalize those who are marginalized.
At the UN Security Council, as PM Yulia Svyrydenko showed the body of a child killed in a Russian strike, Russian representatives stared into their phones. A stark reminder: for Moscow, human life means nothing, cynicism is their official policy.
SIGNS OF FASCISM 🪧
Gonna put some DC flags on my pickup truck and drive around like ISIS. Might even block Key Bridge. Who's with me?
Private equity kills everything it touches
No matter what @MarshaBlackburn keeps saying, it’s not criminals they’re targeting. www.cnn.com/2025/08/30/u...
Just went thru a “DUI Checkpoint” They pulled over some cars and let others thru. Every single one pulled to the side was a person of color. #FuckICE AND #FuckCops Trust no one. I’m so pissed. Van Nuys. West of Woodley on Roscoe. Be careful, folks.
We’ve been lied to our whole lives. The maps we grew up with shrink Africa down, making it look so much smaller than it really is. The truth: Africa is massive. You can fit the United States, China, India, Japan, and most of Europe inside it—and still have room left over.
It was probably always inevitable that the rise of a dictator in the US would be greeted with a shrug by many Americans and Europeans alike. But it doesn’t make it any less shocking to see. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Wait for her to hit her full voice
This is the way to victory. The collapse of Russia's petroleum based economy will lead to the collapse of the Putin regime.
Let that number sink in. This is how to do it when you’re fighting for the future of your democracy.
“ILLEGALS” MY ASS! Green card holder Rami Othmane speaks out after being snatched off the street by ICE while driving to the grocery store. He’s a documented immigrant and the husband of Dr Wafaa Alrashid, chief of staff at a local hospital. He was locked in detention for 13 days.
Thousands of farm animals & livestock are going unattended. They aren’t being milked. They aren’t being fed. I feel a great deal more for those animals than for the farmers who voted for this shit. They KNEW who their workers were & where they came from. But they voted to hurt them anyway.
Our taxes are paying for this absolute ridiculousness!!! 4+ agencies, over 100 cops/NG...for fucking SIDEWALK CHALK.
Crime Spree in DC - Yes, this is a real event. No, it’s not sarcasm. Lmao. Your taxpayer dollars are at work.
This firefighter arrived in the US at age 4, has been here for 19 years, was on track to legal status, and was on a crew trying to contain a major blaze (in Washington state, vs Oregon, fwiw.) h/t @joshuajfriedman.com www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Here's what the third day of elementary school looked like in Mount Pleasant, Washington DC.
No press pool, no cameras… even I’ll say it’s weird.
Ukraine is striking Russian oil refineries, the financial engine of their war machine that fueled war for years. Russia is bombing sleeping Ukrainian cities. Families, homes. Both are happening right now. One targets infrastructure. The other targets civilians.
🧊🖕🪖 TERRORIZING KIDS 😲 Schoolkids in DC ride free on Metro, and a lot of them use this benefit to commute to school. They're talking about the soldiers they're seeing at the stations, and the rumor is that if you so much as eat a snack on the train, they will grab you and deport you. ✊ FREE DC!
I'm handing out copies of the Constitution.
White House declares $4.9B in foreign aid unilaterally canceled in end-run around Congress' funding power.
Nature is healing...
Tiny town's first black mayor, locked out of office by white clique, wins in landslide boingboing.net/2025/08/29/a...
It costs taxpayers over $1 million a day for them to be there. And people complain about a $15 minimum wage for the actual garbage cleaners and gardeners. Go figure.
This is so ridiculous. Taking these men and women away from their jobs and family instead of funding DC or federal public works/parks & rec. Insanity.
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.
I had to go out and run some errands. Is he dead yet?
finding a sudden belief in the collective ability of all humanity to will something into existence through sheer hope
🐥 need a political break ? 🐥 #Catsky #Dogsky #Kittens ♥️
Unbelievably bad. “The CDC you knew is over. Unless someone takes radical action, there is nothing there that can be salvaged.” www.advocate.com/politics/dem...
So good
If only they put this much effort into gun violence at schools.
DC PD using some sort of facial scanning software on people they illegally stop during the federal occupation of Washington DC
and people on this app say they don't understand sports while they all try to will a thing into existence like Jets fans every offseason
ICE GOONS forcibly removed a law-abiding man from his distraught children, despite his recent renewal of immigration documents in court. Where is the real law enforcement in all of this, and why are they allowing kidnappers to operate within government buildings?
I will never get over how a handful of tech bros set billions of dollars on fire to build a plagiarism machine that doesn't work and will destroy human society when they could have used a fraction of that money to fund a new golden age of creativity and knowledge.
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.
There’s a persistent myth that new solar farms don’t really help tackle climate change because panels are “made with coal” and “never pay back” their carbon debt. This is simply false. - UN: solar ~8x cleaner than gas, ~19x than coal per kWh - panels repay CO2 in 4 months; save 57x over life
