Modi and Xi forge strong new ties as Trump shreds America's relations with India over Nobel Prize lies. Yet again, China reaps huge gains through Trump's inept and corrupt conduct. www.ft.com/content/890c...
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Modi and Xi forge strong new ties as Trump shreds America's relations with India over Nobel Prize lies. Yet again, China reaps huge gains through Trump's inept and corrupt conduct. www.ft.com/content/890c...
What a POS
Absurd and outrageous map would lead to a 7-1 GOP margin in a state that is often split about 60-40 GOP by creating an absurd district 5 that spans about two thirds of the way across the state, 200 miles from West to East Oppose this.
We've been here before. America has a track record when it comes to exploiting the resources of oppressed people.
This is an unconstitutional and authoritarian power grab. The constitution grants power over federal elections to the states and Congress - not the president.
Just remember; the last God-made-man didn't have a great time down here. Keep a low profile, and stay away from loaves and fishes.
Why do you appreciate unions? I’ll start: Weekends off Paid vacations Work breaks Sick leave Paid holidays No child labor Safer working conditions Health care and retirement benefits
The Trump plan for Gaza includes the relocation of the entire population - 2 million people - a US “trusteeship” and the creation of a tourism and tech hub. Landowners get digital tokens worth $5,000 and rent subsidies. Investors are promised 4x return on $100 billion.
This whole thing is great but the highlighted bit made me laugh out loud. 😂 Marlon on Snoop:
I bet he voted at all three residences as well.
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This is a great time to remind everyone that EOs aren’t laws, the federal government doesn’t manage voting in this way, and it’s all a scare tactic and any reporting that doesn’t provide that context is enabling potentially lawless activity.
His Mea Culpa: "It’s all about the famous hat, of course. Yes, I took it. Yes, I did it quickly. But as I’ve always said, life is first come, first served,” he claimed." If you have any business dealings with this slime ball, keep this in mind. HE comes first; HE gets served first.
“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.
CEOs are a curse on humanity.... Polish CEO Piotr Szczerek, literally stealing treats from a child.
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The Trump administration is undertaking an unprecedented strategy to try to undermine our elections. They are doing so by rewriting election rules, targeting election officials, supporting election deniers, and retreating from protecting voting rights. bit.ly/4l1lUPP
I still have a full set of Encyclopedia Britainer.
So 'Birth of a Nation: Hardbound'?
CHICAGO…
Saddened to hear of the passing of Dr. Rossiter, who told the stories of the many forgotten and underappreciated women of science. Like many women of her generation, she survived academia by developing a tough exterior, but her support for jr women, myself included, was unwavering. RIP, Margaret.
Ma'am, this is a Wendy's.
Most people dream of him in an early grave. I'd prefer to see him hale and hearty, and enjoying the inside a prison cell after being removed from office.
Live your life such that everyone doesn’t spend ten solid years planning the rager they’re going to throw when you die.
Trump has not made any public appearances in the last several days. His public schedule shows no public events or appearances scheduled on August 29 and 30. Makes you wonder…
Trump's hate is boundless; and it's based in racism and sexism.
The Guardian is finally saying it: It’s all about the racism. No “both sides.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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This would certainly fail me... I find it very hard to do eye contact in conversations (and incidentally, this is just digitizing a common prejudice that has been used as a bogus indicator of "truthfulness" by police and recruiters alike, for years). #AI #biometrics
M-O-O-N, That spells TARIFFS!
So Trump; he's just like Trump. Maybe Trump isn't a person; maybe he's a walking, talking contageous disease factory?
Alan Dershowitz has become a querulous, lawless buffoon and serial abuser of the legal system. This lawsuit was indefensible and a contemptible example of the sentiment “I am famous and important, you can’t disrespect me.”
Joni Ernst, who cast key vote on Hegseth, vandalizes U.S. military and walks away.
I’m so grateful that I have tenure and the academic freedom to call it like I see it. “Dr. Kathleen Bachynski, a professor of public health at Muhlenberg College, described Kennedy’s comments as “absolute gibberish” and slammed the HHS secretary as a “dangerous buffoon” who is “threatening us all.”
He rose to power through crying about censorship from the medical establishment. And now Vinay Prasad is spending his time as an FDA official censoring his critics.
Troll... blocked.
Our client, Mohsen Mahdawi, just finished his citizenship interview when ICE arrested him in retaliation for his pro-Palestinian activism. Now, the government is asking an appeals court to re-detain him for no other reason than his speech. We won’t back down from protecting our right to dissent.
Something blue states will need to explore: how to create cross-state compacts dedicated to a functioning government as the Trump administration walks away from it's responsibilities.
Idk about Hathaway but both Swift and Gomez are extremely/intelligently litigious. This could be good.
Prolly pocketed some of that after he lied about the costs.
Every sick, evil, thing Republicans claim Democrats will do to citizens becomes a horrible reality under Republicans. Guns, health care, the economy or our environment... the GOP has proven time and time again that they are a Death Cult.
Reason 4857 why health care should never be for profit: AI DEATH PANELS. This is the same kind of program used to deny claims at United Health, and they want to use this for VA claims, too.
He's a union buster, Trump megadonor, noted friend to multiple sex criminals, and an incompetent, paranoid dope who let MSG be used for a Nazi rally before the election. But yeah, keep posting these cute lil vids.
Offshore wind is the most promising ocean-based climate solution. The Trump administration is destroying a livable future for everyone.
Now Trump's just showing off his depravity... www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
🎶 Boom! Here comes the boom! 🎶 🎶 Ready or not, here comes the boys from the South 🎶 🎶 Boom! Here comes the boom! 🎶 🎶 Ready or not, how you like me now? I say... 🎶
this is one of the president's' closest advisors. the mainstream media refuses to reckon with this so substitutes in a fictional sanewashed trump and fictional west wing in which loomer doesn't participate in their stories. telling the truth would not help trump so they don't do it
What a cursed sentence (gift link) “The A.I. companies selected to oversee the program would have a strong financial incentive to deny claims. Medicare plans to pay them a share of the savings generated from rejections.”
This guy has zero regard for the rule of law, and he's a judge now.
Because good Baptists like Mike believe strongly in covering up the sexual depredations of their leadership, and in lying resolutely all about it.
I still can’t believe voters chose the guy whose solution to inflation was even higher inflation
Pentagon Orders Portrait of Robert E. Lee to be Reinstalled at West Point 🗃️ open.substack.com/pub/kevinmle...
Have faith. Democracy prevails, no matter how long it takes.
'Once more into the breach...' indeed.
Welcome news. For blue states must hang together or will hang separately.
Firefighters in Washington State putting out a 9,000 acre wildfire were stopped by ICE. It turns out some of the firefighters are tribal members. Those tribal members are putting out the fires on their beloved ancestral lands. Colonizers continue to oppress and they have not stopped!
A couple of months ago, the Navy dishonored civil rights hero Harvey Milk by removing his name from a ship. Now, the Air Force is dishonoring itself by celebrating a domestic terrorist called Ashli Babbitt.
...and it *appears* that one of the first businesses to take away sick leave from employees - even hours that were *earned* - is that fine, Christian-centered restaurant, Chick-Fil-A:
"Business owners were clear: Proposition A’s paid leave and minimum wage policies were a job killer," Kara Corches, president and CEO of the Missouri Chamber {of Commerce]..." "More than 57% of Missouri voters in the November 2024 general election supported passing Proposition A."
Missouri; Sickest State of the Union... "Mandatory paid sick leave will officially end in Missouri on Thursday, putting an end to the voter-approved policy just months after it went into effect. Gov. Mike Kehoe signed House Bill 567 into law earlier this year... "
I am lightly horrified by how many people have now looked up their books and found out their publishers (who often were required contractually!!!!) just... didn't register the copyrights on books. Not all of them! Just sporadically! This is not just one publisher, I've seen all the big ones now.
A South Carolina School school district included a letter in their graduation packet to seniors from Rep. Magnuson that included evangelistic statements. We have confirmed that the school district will ensure this doesn't happen again. ffrf.us/4m90pNT
It's important to know what we're dealing with. Though some in the media still try to horse-race, both sides this, we're faced with psychopaths at the helm of our nation's public health, scientific and healthcare efforts. They want to inflict pain and suffering. It's a goal, not a by-product. 6/
Russian asset, doing Russian asset things...
Trump does not have the type of paramilitary mass organization that characterized interwar European fascism. But he is rapidly and systematically building a machinery that serves a similar purpose and functions to impose martial law in the streets.
SCOOP I spoke to the leader of the 764-linked swatting group that is behind the recent spare of hoax active shooter calls at university campuses across the US. He claims to have earned $100,000 in the space of just six days www.wired.com/story/purgat...
Academics once loved Twitter—but in the age of X they’ve abandoned it in droves. www.wired.com/story/bluesk...
Today, Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook filed a lawsuit challenging President Trump's attempt to fire her from her role as governor on the Board. View her suit, and other litigation challenging the Trump administration's actions at Lawfare's litigation tracker. www.lawfaremedia.org/trumptracker
“They say this whole thing is about ‘criminals,’ but it’s not about criminals — it’s about being cruel and attacking anybody who is here that is, basically, not white, to be honest with you." More: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
Harrisburg can't find $$$ to run your bus yet the state is giving up to $1.6 billion (!) to Shell's polluting, climate-crushing plastics plant that's a jobs bust and may even be for sale after less than 3 years Inside Pa.'s biggest boondoggle, ever. My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/shel...
House Democrats could force a vote on impeaching RFK any time they want. Of course it would fail. But do you want to make an issue of it or not?
Won't someone think of the mom-and-pop millionare slumlords?
By the way, this guy was the 'Mom and Pop' landlord who owned one of our places in Philly and the cops later found out he had taken underage Amish daughters in trade for money the family "owed" him and he kept them at his house in Feasterville.
Seeing if adding mom and pop to something makes it more sympathetic or positive and it's not working Mom and Pop police department Mom and Pop ice detention facility Mom and Pop colonoscopy clinic
Just tried watching Ezra Klein’s latest NYT podcast episode on how the U.S. got to this point where vaccines are so politicized. It’s pretty clear that Klein and his guests—David Wallace Wells and Rachael Bedard—really do not understand why/how the political right turned on vaccines.
Full resignation letter from Demetre C. Daskalakis, a CDC leader, does not hold back. "The recent shooting at CDC is not why I am resigning. My grandfather, who I am named after, stood up to fascist forces in Greece and lost his life doing so. I am resigning to make him and his legacy proud."
This is a real photograph of Washington, DC this week, where the United States president has ordered military occupation in peacetime, and ordered the display of colossal portraits of himself. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
The abrupt attempt to oust Dr. Susan Monarez, the CDC’s director just weeks after her Senate confirmation, is yet another glaring sign of Secretary Kennedy’s failed leadership and reckless mismanagement. www.apha.org/news-and-med...
I'm not think of them being sympathetic to Ukraine. I just think it would be educational to let them know their own sons and daughters - or they themselves - may be pressed into service. No one minds if the Army is sent to kill the enemy, until the Army calls for *you*.
I love all of this.
Ukraine needs to send drones with paper handouts to drop on Russian cities. They need to inform the people there how well and rightly f#cked they are due to Putin's megalomaniac ego. When Putin runs out of NKoreans and sick Russian prisoners, he will send the 'press gangs' for them. Guaranteed.
This demonstrates pretty clearly RFK has no stomach for actual debates on medicine. The second he’s challenged by people who know more than him he demands their removal.
There aren't many stories that prompt gasps at our editors' daily budget meeting. But this was one.
Midterms may or may not be the answer. But at least we'll get a good headcount of the fascist threat we face. So lets respect - and defend - the process. It costs us nothing, and could mean everything. (#2, #13)
I meant the implication he was a white supremacist. I don't doubt he was troubled and should have never been allowed to own guns. I want to knoe if authorities verified a WS tie-in, and to what group. It doesn't say anything about WS in the article, or the link to Robin Westman.
WITNESS AND TESTIFY. LET NO ONE HARMED BY THE TRUMP DICTATORSHIP BE FORGOTTEN.
Kick rocks, Trump. It looks like the Epstein files will be released long before ICE ever gets its fascist fingers on Garcia... if ever. 🤣👍
Do you have a source for this?
I stand with Denmark. (Never imagined I'd have to say that.) www.nytimes.com/2025/08/27/w...
Basically Chuck-E-Cheese. They're going to spend millions of dollars developing an AI to simulate a Chuck-E-Cheese. What could possibly go wrong?
Did she have the audacity to express concern about her building being shot up and a security guard being murdered because of RFK Jr’s lies?
Another big win for Democracy and voter's rights...
the actual sources of Trump's power are not Trump himself - a feckless and lazy incompetent - but the media and judiciary, who swoop in and clean up all his messes after the fact.
Harvy Dent: "You either die a hero, or live long enough to see yourself become the villain" Mark Hamill: "HOLD MY LIGHT LIGHTSABER!"
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Shuler: Thirteen billionaires in one picture—four of whom now run agencies of our federal government. If you’ve ever met someone who says the word “oligarchy” is too confusing or too complicated, well, you can explain it with that one photo.
Labor Day honors the people who keep our country running—and the unions that fight for fair wages, a voice on the job and a democracy that works for all, not just billionaires. Find an event near you: www.mobilize.us/aft/?tag_ids... #WorkersDeserve #LaborDay
Asimov: Here are my The Three Laws of Robotics... China: Hold my Baijiu