The U.S. Secretary of Energy does not know that electricity is energy. I'm glad we've gotten rid of DEI programs and are now giving America the leadership it deserves.
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The U.S. Secretary of Energy does not know that electricity is energy. I'm glad we've gotten rid of DEI programs and are now giving America the leadership it deserves.
“New” strategy: LIE
Keffe D sentenced to 16-40 months for jailhouse fight www.8newsnow.com/crime/las-ve...
man. if Eric Schmitt's speech to NatCon isn't a sign of the times, i don't know what is
SCOOP: Sources at the House Oversight Committee confirm documents posted by Rep. Anna Paulina Luna are the same ~33,000 pages of Epstein documents they received — 97% already public — and part of a broader plan to block transparency.
Ken Paxton is now "recommending" that Texas school children recite the Lord's Prayer at school.
Pritzker: "I refuse to pretend that any of this is normal ... I refuse to fall into the pundit trap that demands we sacrifice vital constitutional rights if it's being done in the fake guise of fighting crime."
Studies repeatedly show that most people age out of "hardcore" crime by their late 30s and 40s. And nobody is "born to be" a criminal. Even Trump, who is a hardcore criminal who has not aged out of his illicit behavoir, was not born like this. I blame his parents.
In Opinion In 16 rulings in a row, the Supreme Court has ruled "against challenges to Trump and against lower courts that have ruled against Trump, in this wild streak of victories for Trump that have largely happened under the radar,” Kate Shaw says on this episode of “The Ezra Klein Show.”
For SPIN, I gave love to DJ Quik's masterpiece, "Safe + Sound," on a roundup of the best albums of 1995. I even mentioned two unreleased songs from that era, Quik's best era, "Boom" and "Check the Vibes." You can read the full list here: www.spin.com/2025/09/the-...
This is a good read. How the stupid are going to kill America.
Perfect encapsulation of the Trump administration: The guy suing Harvard for alleged antisemitism is a straight-up Hitler-admiring Nazi. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/09/02/m...
STFU
Breaking News: President Trump’s deployment of thousands of Marines and National Guard troops to Los Angeles was illegal, a federal judge ruled.
BREAKING: Judge Breyer rules that President Trump's deployment of the military to Los Angeles violated the Posse Comitatus Act, says Trump is using military as a "national police force with the president as its chief." Injunction granted. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Trump to announce U.S. Space Command headquarters will be moved from Colorado Springs, Colorado, to Huntsville, Alabama, per Reuters
Crime is literally lower than it has been in the entire life of every single non-senior-citizen American. If you are under age 65 you have never lived at a time with lower property crime rates, lower violent crime rates or lower homicide rates. Never.
Photo passed along from a federal employee from inside the Dept of Labor building, where a giant Orwellian image of Trump's face is now draped outside. Big Brother is watching.
Just an astonishing, powerful op-ed that drives home what we are losing and what's already been lost. We are so incredibly fortunate to live with the advances modern medicine and health science. Destroying and stymieing it is just unforgivable. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...
Nine former CDC directors basically said RFK Jr is a threat to public health.
🚨BREAKING: Bread is now woke, according to Alex Phillips
How Music Criticism Lost Its Edge www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
The Trump administration has enacted a sweeping suspension of approvals of almost all types of visitor visas for Palestinian passport holders, according to U.S. officials. The move will stop, at least temporarily, travel for medical treatment, business, attending university or visiting relatives.
Jesus fucking christ. The Trump administration tried to send a bunch of children to Guatemala at 3 am and justified it by saying that the kids just wanted to return to their parents in Guatemala, but the kids actually told the court that they are afraid of being sent back to Guatemala.
Well this doesn't raise any questions at all, and given Giuliani's history of upstanding transparency, I'm sure there won't be any questions in the future either.
A 10-year-old boy was in critical condition after he was shot while playing the “ding dong ditch” prank in Houston on Saturday night, the authorities said.
How Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.,’s Anti-Vax Agenda Is Infecting America www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...
US Open fan who snatched souvenir from young boy identified as millionaire CEO Piotr Szczerek, boss of DrogBruk The prominent businessman has shut down his social media accounts after being described as a ‘sack of garbage’. 7news.com.au/sport/tennis...
Lawyers for the children say they're still on planes in El Paso. SOOKNANAN: "I have the government attempting to remove minor children from the country in the wee hours of the morning on a holiday weekend. That's surprising." www.politico.com/news/2025/08...
BREAKING: A federal judge has *blocked* the Trump administration from abruptly deporting 600 unaccompanied Guatemalan children — perhaps within a matter of hours — granting an emergency restraining order after advocates called the plan illegal + dangerous. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Ed Gordon did a great job interviewing Tupac here. He listens respectfully, asks insightful questions, and lets Tupac feel comfortable answering. He doesn’t talk over Tupac and doesn’t try to be the star youtube.com/live/ab3v0Gf...
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...
An element of fascism is a kind of upside down where the meanest, most rapacious, and least virtuous of society are loosed to bully and abuse people who genuinely uphold civic ideals of service and sacrifice. Public service isn’t what the system is about. It’s about conditioning the national body.
Dr. Dmitri Daskalakis, who resigned from the CDC says that RFKJr said he believes that Avian flu should be allowed to "burn through" the chickens and then children and others, so we can propagate a "stronger species". RFKJr believes in eugenics. RFKJr needs to resign or be fired.
Praise for The Tupac Encyclopedia - Volume 1.
In @nytopinion.nytimes.com “Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the secretary of health and human services, is endangering the health of the American people now and into the future. He must resign,” Senator Bernie Sanders writes in a guest essay.
Every time your electricity bill goes up for the next 10 years, it can be traced back to this Administration’s actions. They are making solar and wind power illegal to build in the United States. They are artificially restricting supply while demand is going up.
Prosecutors file criminal charges against veteran who burned US flag outside White House www.wusa9.com/article/news...
I vaguely remember tweeting something like the country that effectively captures this free energy source at scale will rule the 21st century. whelp.
"Her patient had signs of what could be a cancer or could be an unusual infection — diagnoses that would require completely different treatment. Ordinarily, she would confirm an infection after sending a sample to the CDC for testing ...the CDC no longer has the capacity to do that"
NEWS: Trump says the court decision deeming his tariffs to be ILLEGAL will "literally destroy the United States" if allowed to stand
Secretary of State Marco Rubio said on Friday that he would not issue visas to Palestinian officials to prevent them from attending the annual UN General Assembly in New York next month.
there is no question in my mind that rfk jr is the most dangerous person in this administration and that his eugenicist ideology threatens the lives of millions of people www.advocate.com/politics/dem...
This is called cutting Medicare coverage. Trump and Republicans are using AI to try and cut your Medicare. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/28/h...
Trump voters did
@gavinnewsom.bsky.social
NEWS: Iowa U.S. Senator Joni Ernst (R-IA), who recently told her constituents "we're all going to die" anyway when asked why she supported Medicaid cuts, does not plan on seeking reelection in 2026. (CBS News)
I know it's illegal on here to notice that our leaders are actually fighting back in the job we actually elected them to do, but here's the Wall Street Journal bitching about Schumer's "historic" delaying tactics that have left almost 90% of Trump appointee slots empty. archive.ph/2025.08.27-0...
The Pentagon is restoring a portrait of Gen. Robert E. Lee, which includes a slave guiding the Confederate general’s horse in the background, to the West Point library three years after a congressionally mandated commission ordered it removed, officials said. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/28/u...
"O’Neill, unlike Monarez, has no training in medicine or infectious disease science" Has no training in medicine or infectious disease science. Because protecting public health is not a concern for this administration. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Too late to update Volume 1 of The Tupac Encyclopedia
Didn't hold it all that dear, I guess
Good work
Well done, America
“It feels like the CDC is over.” Current and former CDC officials say that the departure of several top leaders will further undermine the agency’s ability to provide reliable guidance to Americans, Tom Bartlett reports.
CVS is currently not offering Covid vaccines in 16 states, including Florida, New York and Pennsylvania, even to people who meet newly restricted criteria from the FDA. CVS said it needed a CDC panel to recommend the shots before it could offer them nationwide.
“Kennedy would be less hazardous if he decided to do cardiac surgery. Then he would kill people only one at a time rather than his current ability to kill by the thousands. Why is it that killing a single person is seen as murder but killing masses is excused if you are a politician?” Dr Bill Foege
So.... 1)The state of Florida spent >$200 million to build the facility it calls "Alligator Alcatraz" 2) It opened in early July, christened by Trump. 3) Now it is closing, due to a judge's order. 4) It will cost $20 million to dismantle the center, which was used for about 2 months.
BREAKING: Big moment as CDC staff stage a mass walkout. They have lined the street outside its HQ to greet and salute the four top officials who have resigned in protest at RFK Jr’s attack on the agency’s science base. (🎥 AP)
The Toxic Avenger is clearing medical debt as marketing for the movie.
"RIP to vaccines; long live Lysenkoism, miasma, and black bile." defector.com/rfk-jr-is-ma...
Traitors are patriots in today's America
AMA Deeply Troubled by CDC Turmoil Statement: Bobby M. Mukkamala, MD President, American Medical Association “We must restore confidence in our public health institutions to ensure that scientific expertise and data drive guidance and policy.”
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."
In an extraordinary turn, Susan Monarez, the CDC director, said she would not resign after Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said she must quit or be fired.
The Minneapolis shooter was apparently a fan of several mass murderers who were motivated by the same "Great Replacement Theory" that has pretty much taken over the Republican Party.
Can’t fix crazy
wtf is this nonsense? He thinks he can understand kid’s “mitochondrial challenges” just by looking at them? This is an insane person.
It’s not just a gap in information when they’re changing who can and cannot get vaccinated….
Update: At least three other high-ranking officials in CDC have also resigned. “I am not able to serve in this role any longer because of the ongoing weaponization of public health,” one of the officials said in a note to staff.
CHAOS ERUPTS AT CDC CDC Director Susan Monarez has been ousted after RFK Jr. demanded she change her policy on the COVID vaccine. Top officials from the Vaccine Unit, Zoonotic Division, and the Chief Medical Officer are resigning, per reports. Horrifying news for public health.
Shit show - C.D.C. Director Departs After Just Weeks on the Job www.nytimes.com/2025/08/27/h...
Spotted in my neighborhood
"Prosecutors failed to secure a grand jury indictment against a Washington, D.C., man accused of hurling a Subway sandwich at an officer, The New York Times reported." [CNBC]
At least one-fifth of U.S. national parks have been significantly strained and understaffed because of steep cuts mandated by the Trump administration, according to internal government data obtained by The New York Times.
So the sandwich guy ... beat the wrap
SUB-OPTIMAL www.nytimes.com/2025/08/27/u...
National Guard soldiers called into service for President Trump's law enforcement surge in D.C. have been assigned to spread mulch at federal monuments. Normally the Park Service does that, but the administration laid off the workers. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
He was so awful as two face. Incredibly bad. Val Kilmer was wasted as well. Best thing you can say is it’s better than Batman and Robin
Pretty good soundtrack. The movie not so much
Breaking News: FEMA suspended about 30 employees who had told Congress that the Trump administration had gutted the nation’s emergency preparedness.
National Guard is now tasked with picking up garbage in DC
A fuckin' camera
Sigh, *taps the sign again*
Trump on deploying the National Guard to Chicago: "I have the right to do anything I want to do. I'm the president of the United States."
No shit
After prosecutors failed three times to secure a felony indictment against a woman they accuse of interfering with an ICE arrest, the judge in the case is calling a conference with the lawyers Thursday:
When did I move to North Korea?
Adam Raine, 16, died from suicide in April after months on ChatGPT discussing plans to end his life. His parents have filed the first known case against OpenAI for wrongful death. Overwhelming at times to work on this story, but here it is. My latest on AI chatbots: www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/t...
National Weather Service meteorologist applicants are now being asked to pledge their support for Trump’s executive orders. (Image reposted with alt-text)
The entire Social Security database, dumped on a random cloud server: www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/u...
