I extensively contributed to this fact check on RFK’s critiques and calls to retract a recent Annals of Internal Medicine paper by Danish researchers showing dose of vaccine aluminum adjuvants does not increase risk of any of 50 chronic diseases including autism www.factcheck.org/2025/09/rfk-...
Empty words as long as these guys are in power.
Trump is eroding the separation of church and state, critics say
Nice schadenfreude here, Reuters dug up Bill Pulte's father & stepmother claiming two houses as their primary residence, and when Reuters asked Michigan about it, Michigan yanked their homestead exemption.
trying to explain dental plan coverage and having to raise my voice higher and higher above their incredulous laughter
Gov. Pritzker enlists the public's help: "What we've asked is that people pull out their iPhone or their Android phone and film what they're seeing. Take a video of everything so see so that we can know if, in fact, laws are being broken by these federal officials coming into our state."
Trump’s entire administration is A DISGRACE TO EVERYTHING AMERICA EVER WAS OR IS
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They said engaged, not salivating. 😀
3 words: Veggie Mac Rib
What if the McRib had a vegetarian version?
How 1975 is the movie Night Moves (1975)? There is post-coital fondue
I believe the crux of the argument was essentially that anyone livestreaming or filming ICE operations was doing violence because neighbors or community members would show up to do harm to officers (which, let’s be real…who has the guns here, and also yelling neighbors =/= violence in this scenario)
Gotta tell ya, sitting in the courtroom hearing this DOJ lawyer trying to make this argument was, once again, pretty wild. Also pretty funny that nearly the entire gallery rocked back in their seats and scoffed at it upon first listen lmao
The dumbest country to ever exist.
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@nytpitchbot.bsky.social
a 'WaPo pitch bot' feels a lot more needed right now.
Schönes Wochenende!
Apparently RFK Jr. is not just opposed to vaccines, he's against to germ theory. This makes him less qualified to be HHS secretary than most five-year-olds.
Trump administration wants to "turn off" satellites gathering climate change data, ostensibly to save money. A former NOAA scientist compares this to running your car into a tree in order to save money on gas.
GOP may finally succeed in unrelenting quest to kill two NASA climate satellites (Stephen Clark/Ars Technica) Main Link | memeorandum Permalink
Die frühe Außenministerin ist in New York angekommen. Die neue Präsidentin der Uno-Vollversammlung inszeniert sich auf Instagram im Stil von »Sex and the City«. Eine Chance, die Markus Söder sicher genutzt hätte, ließ sie aber aus.
Is this an attempt to undermine one of the few honest unbiased journalist outputs? Almost all news, media or any media is owned by billionaires who want us to think and act and support in certain ways Basically, to keep them rich and undisturbed in their largely nihilistic veristic activities
Reminder: Since CO2 lasts in the atmosphere for 1,000s of years it is worth pointing out who the greatest CO2 polluters have been over the last 175 years: Source: robbieandrew.github.io/GCB2024/
Secretary of Energy: “Climate change, for impacting the quality of your life, is not incredibly important. In fact, if it wasn’t in the news, in the media, you wouldn’t know.” The burning West, choking on smoke from worsening wildfires:
Let's be clear: The flood of hatred sloshing across Britain right now is 100% a product of the political and media elite scapegoating minorities for the harms that those elites have visited upon the country.
Ah yes.
Where are the red Make America Great Again hats out in the fields? You know, the same people who swore immigrants were “taking their jobs.” Keep snatching hard-working folks who are just trying to support their families and don’t be shocked when this becomes the new norm.
The FT is seen as one of the highest quality media sources in the UK. And the FT deputy political editor was categorical and adamant that Elon Musk did not perform a Nazi salute. If that’s where the FT’s political editors are, god help the UK.
The US and UN today, ladies and gentlemen….
BREAKING: Donald Trump just disclosed buying millions in bonds. He notably sold one bond holding, at least $500,000 of Black Belt Energy Gas District.
Unthinkable 20 years ago when I started to work on energy: The world may finally be hitting peak coal, as wind, solar and hydro continue to grow and will overtake coal generation perhaps already in 2026. Graphic by @orennia.bsky.social
The DOE scam climate report tries to deny the obvious observed fact that sea-level rise has been accelerating. A statistician explains in his blog: tamino.wordpress.com/2025/09/06/b... It’s a long predicted physics effect of a warming planet: continental ice melts faster the warmer it gets.
Winter is coming for America’s economy. Great work, Donald!
HAPPY FRIDAY PATRIOTS!! 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸 ENJOY YOUR WEEKEND. — GCN
AS PREVIOUSLY MENTIONED, WE ARE GIVING SERIOUS THOUGHT TO TAKING AWAY STEPHEN MILLER’S CALIFORNIA RESIDENCY. HE IS NOT A GREAT AMERICAN AND IS, IN MY OPINION, INCAPABLE OF BEING SO! — GCN
here's a fact in that report: the budget for building and maintaining mil installations annually is about the same as NASA.
The map is obviously wrong, but the 4,800 sites is a weird thing to put on there, there are ~500 bases (installations). A site is a piece of land or facility. A base can have many sites. A site may be, for example, a fence near/on a base. All of this is in the BSR: www.acq.osd.mil/eie/imr/rpid...
obsessed with this 21 savage/Amadeus edit
Kennedy Center ticket sales take a nosedive after Trump takeover (Richard Luscombe/The Guardian) Main Link | memeorandum Permalink
Trump has signed the executive order renaming the Department of Defense to the Department of War. “We decided to go woke and we changed the name to Department of Defense.”
REUTERS: Trump official Bill Pulte accused Fed Governor Lisa Cook of fraud. His relatives filed housing claims similar to hers www.reuters.com/world/us/bil...
just an ongoing embarrassment that this barely sentient meathead is secretary of defense
It will.
Today's healthcare is the result of policy, we can change that.
DnL (2002-2006): This "upside down" --both literally and figuratively--version of 7-Up, featured a stronger lime flavor, caffeine, and was a dark green color.
Left: yesterday Right: today
Ex-Israeli spokesman: "You represent sharia. You represent the hatred of Western society." Me: "I am Western, you racist piece of shit... I thought I was coming on to debate John Spencer not this ridiculous war criminal." Full debate between me & an Israeli racist: www.youtube.com/watch?v=6A0c...
donny "brasco" trump
"State legislatures saw a torrent of anti-clean energy bills introduced this year — and little more than a trickle of measures that would benefit renewables. Fortunately, most of the legislation was not signed into law," writes @danmccarthy.bsky.social: www.canarymedia.com/articles/pol... 🔌💡
It actually is legal to just say “No it isn’t“
One of the few remaining serious journalists at Fox News asks a very good question about reports that Hegseth just had 10 *stealth fighters* deployed to Puerto Rico allegedly for "counter-narcotics."
"...bring a digital or printed copy of the standing order to their pharmacist or health clinic. If a pharmacy refuses to administer the vaccine, the state said, people could file a complaint with the Pharmacy Quality Assurance Commission or the Health Systems Quality Assurance."
Goolsbee really doesn't want to cut (he will tho)
🙏 Thanks for having me at this sad, dangerous time.
This is my lil guy, bought originally for Burning Man. Components, because I’m a nerd. One panel, one tiny lifepo4 battery, a basic solar controller and a 1000W inverter. All Renogy stuff. Runs a small but super nice sounding PA, DJ decks, and a bunch of LED strings for hours after sunset.
A TEXAS COURT ALREADY RULED AGAINST YOU
anyone, eg federal employees, wanting to contact me securely can hit me up on Signal: ryanlcooper.71
I think this might be the choice for my DIY off grid solar system. crazy price for what you get www.pecron.com/products/pec...
Nobody wants this gas plant. Trump is forcing it to stay open. The Department of Energy is citing Trump's declaration of an 'energy emergency' and voracious data centers in its decision to keep the plant outside of Philadelphia running. grist.org/justice/nobo... #DOE #Energy #Gas #Climate #Policy
This is a huge warning sign. Trump thinks he can make up his own facts. That’s why he fired the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Now he’s telling us to wait a year for the “real numbers”? His policies are tanking the economy. And no amount of mathematical gymnastics will change that.
I don’t agree with Stancil on everything but it’s hard not to agree with his vibenomics theory when I have not heard a single person bitch about the economy since Trump’s election despite this
This alone is 1mm people, enormous implications for the labor force.
Updating my recession watch chart. Note that you want to weight these measures according to their signal-to-noise ratio. The smoother lines are more signal, less noise, and they're suggesting the economy has slowed pretty sharply.
New: CBS News has changed its interview format in reaction to complaints from DHS. According to a statement from a network spokesperson, Face The Nation will now only broadcast live or live to tape interviews
Translation: the Congressional GOP falsehoods and misinformation about the budget reconciliation law that deny or minimize the nearly $1T in draconian #Medicaid cuts that will take away health coverage from millions of people still aren't working.
Large methane leaks at oil and gas facilities not only unleash massive plumes of the potent greenhouse gas, but also carry a toxic mix of harmful air pollutants. A new interactive map examines the health risks around these methane plumes. By Tony Briscoe @latimes.com www.latimes.com/environment/...
The US regime is conducting ideological purges of the federal government, deleting entire agencies because they dared touch inconvenient topics, prosecuting political enemies.. and fools like Nate Silver are still complaining that LIBERALS are too close-minded and censorious????
The executive threatening the Fed that it can only remain independent if it makes the choices it wants, is equivalent to eliminating Fed independence.
"I don't know what a constitutional crisis would look like. I don't think that we are currently in a constitutional crisis, however” —Justice Amy Coney Barrett I’m not SCOTUS justice but I know what it looks like. Seems like Justice Barrett needs to read a few books.
The research linking alcohol to breast cancer is deadly solid: Alcohol, regardless of whether it’s in Everclear or a vintage Bordeaux, is carcinogenic.
Oh well www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
Great analysis here from @ryanlcooper.com. As I show in my book on the 2020 Census, states have significant power resources to bring to bear to counter authoritarianism, if they can be mobilized and (more importantly) horizontally coordinated. prospect.org/politics/202...
Is Lutnick saying here that they are going to fire everyone at the BLS who isn’t cooking the books for Trump? That’s what he’s saying, right?
"Now that Trump is president again, elite institutions of all descriptions are melting like snow before a hot stream of urine." prospect.org/politics/202...
We?
Trump strongly fired the Woke Jobs Reports person and yet there are still Woke Jobs Numbers. He’s gonna have to fire at least four more Woke jobs people
JD Vance said the government had to deport undocumented immigrants because they increase demand for and thus prices of housing for citizens. What they’ve actually accomplished is to decimate construction of new supply, which will definitely increase prices for everyone
Starmer has started his reshuffle, no doubt hoping to distract from the Rayner resignation. Commons leader Lucy Powell the first to go.
New data shows that for every millionaire who got a Trump tax cut, four Americans will lose their health insurance.
I for one am shocked the guy who had a Nazi battleship as his Zoom background also has horrible opinions about women & gay people www.cnn.com/2025/09/05/p...
450 were napped by ICE at a Hyundai construction site in Georgia, where 3 workers had been killed. Workers complained about the deaths to Trump's OSHA, which did nothing. Instead, ICE showed up in an act viewed as retaliatory. paydayreport.com/450-napped-b...
America lost 7k construction jobs in August, and overall job growth in the sector is now at its worst pace since the pandemic Over the last year, the US has lost 31k jobs in residential construction and only gained 78k jobs in nonresidential & civil construction
This is so perfectly corrupt I’m almost impressed. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/05/n...
They are so far from being journalists. They think of themselves as comms professionals whose job it is to help out the regime. Bobby's craziness and terrible policies are a problem, so they're inventing "alternative facts" to lead their viewers to more favorable conclusions.
Yesterday we ran a piece about the economics of AI. Here's our friends at @revolvingdoordc.bsky.social about the politics, and how Democrats have nothing in the industry as it stands today that's worthy of support. prospect.org/power/2025-0...
Man, this is just next level political communication
Gee, a governor fiercely opposes Trump and he backs down, imagine that. (from @ryanlcooper.com) prospect.org/politics/202...
Weak jobs report raises new concerns about Biden's economic policies.
“If we could hire great talent for tech in the government, I think in five years, we can really transform a lot of these systems to be much more modern and user-friendly, and easy for citizens to engage with what they need,” says woman nominally in charge of purging tech talent from government.
Secretary of War Jay Cutler has betrayed the legacy of Pete Hagseth. by David Brooks (2026)
The median American is not in the military and is either too old or obese to be drafted. So Democrats would be politically wise to ignore Trump's warmongering and instead stake out pandering positions about the Cracker Barrel logo. by Matthew Yglesias
Opinion | Trump has behaved horribly without a Nobel Prize. He should be given one in the hopes that it might change him.
Trump may be wrecking the economy but at least he ended the war in Ukraine in 24 hours like he promised with his incredible negotiating skills.
When homicides were up the national press wrote dozens of articles suggesting that this was Larry Krasner’s fault, even though DAs have little impact on crime rates. As homicides plummet to their lowest level in 50 years, the same journalists are silent, and no one credits Krasner’s reforms.
Well Well Well, We Want Them Infected Doctors Are OK With Censorship After All www.accountabilityjournalism.org/insights/wel... #COVID19
Everybody wants in on the "selling our children's futures" feeding frenzy!
It’s very popular among certain groups on here to be anti-anti-popularist and anti-anti-Abundance, but none of those groups ever seem to have any answer for why so many of their faves keep finding themselves in social proximity to dyed-in-the-wool race science promoters.
Whether it's Democrats making it harder for kids to get cigarettes or Republicans making it harder for kids to get vaccines, both sides have imposed the will of government on America's children.
My focus group reported feeling squeezed by Trump's tariffs, job layoffs, and Medicaid cuts. But they expressed strong support for his billionaire tax cuts since all of them had bought Powerball tickets and felt good about their chances.