Now THIS is interesting. Especially that last bit about Melania making an unscheduled visit to ātourā Walter Reedā¦.
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Now THIS is interesting. Especially that last bit about Melania making an unscheduled visit to ātourā Walter Reedā¦.
Whatever is in the Epstein files must be pretty bad, because the President seems extremely stressed by its content. š¤ Tomorrow morning, we push for the release of the unredacted Epstein files, and the impeachment of this criminal president. Join us.
Wild Giuliani theory that fits his story: He does biz w/a sex worker & refuses to pay the agreed amount. Pimp shows up so Giuliani calls the cops. Pimp leaves & Giuliani makes up some BS about rescuing a woman in distress when they show up When he leaves, pimp tries to run him off the road
Homer is a great town. Love the library.
This was spotted on a protest sign today and is too good not to share. It is spot-on.
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. NŹkiāwah brother.
I desperately want to email this to a certain journalist
This is all just practice for Election Day 2026. ICE will have check-in stations near every big blue or purple city and National Guard troops with guns will be stationed outside. Voting day will be limited to one day with no mail in and few voting places in cities.
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The President of Portugal Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa called the orange felon a Russian asset in a live televised speech. Well done, this is how you do it. š
Delusional Disorder is a psychosis often underreported, especially if wealth & educational attainment limits consequences and help seeking. Those afflicted have a VERY high rate of comcommitant Substance Use Disorders (SUDs). They often believe they possess extraordinary insights & dismiss experts.
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.
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CHICAGOā¦
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We want to apologize if it feels like weāve been venting a lot lately. Itās just hard to ignore that nearly every move from this administration seems to be illegal, unlawful, or outright unconstitutional and yet nothing happens.
Taylor Townsend has gotten a raw deal from the tennis establishment. But sheās been doing great although sheās been ranked low in singles despite being #1 in doubles.
Learn to decipher the codespeak.
I donāt think high school students read books anymore, let alone Grapes of Wrath.
Heās trying to get her killedā¦
Interim CDC Director Jim OāNeill thinks we should be able to decide to sell our own organs if we want since there are āplenty of healthy spare kidneys walking around, unusedā. Which is problematic enough, but just wait until *he* decides he should be able to sell your organs.
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)
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This is Thanos. He has figured out how to rest and babysit at the same time. Very impressive, very Montessori. 13/10 (TT: thanosthesaint)
āWhen I call Kennedy a ādangerous crank,ā I'm not saying that as an insult or as hyperbole, but honestly as the most economical way of describing the man's views,ā says @chrislhayes.bsky.social on RFK Jr.
The new ICE song by Jesse Welles nails it. ICE isnāt recruiting heroes, itās recruiting the bitter, the rejected, the ones desperate for a badge to cover their failures. Losers with power become the most dangerous kind. (c/o Caroline Codsi)
Between RFK decimating the CDC, normalizing Ashli Babbitt & the umpteenth school shooting... I'm losing the will to post. #ReleaseTheEPSTEIN_Files
Portugalās president gets it, branding Trump a āRussian asset,ā and blasting him for his tepid response to Moscow. āThe supreme leader of the worldās greatest superpower is, objectively, a Soviet, or Russian, asset. He functions as an asset.ā www.thedailybeast.com/portuguese-p...
The decision to quit vs stay to fight but also become complicit is a very painful decision. I feel lucky I just got fired rather than have to agonize over it. Synchronized quitting is a powerful choice and I'm sure the top people at the CDC didn't come to it lightly.
NEWS Once again, Kilmar Abrego Garcia's lawyers seek an order blocking the Trump admin's "inflammatory" campaign to disparage their client before trial ā including through this image on the White House and DHS official accounts, their "piĆØce de resistance."
I think we should start referring to the CDC in the style of "X (formerly known as Twitter)"--"Empty buildings in Atlanta formerly known as the CDC."
Bath ME is a lovely place.
From Indivisible Southern Maine: FYI: URGENT: Collins in Southern Maine Thurs AM 10:30 AM: Bath Area Food Bank at 807 Middle Street, Bath ME. Re: Searsport She told the media she thought the roomful of people booing were just misinformed. If folks can be there with signs, that would be great.
All the news is badā¦bad bad bad. I just went outside to literally touch some grass. While sitting next to my Verbena, a hummingbird flew around them right next to me. It took him a few seconds to realize I was there before he flew off. It was the break I needed. Fuck Trump.
Yeah, you should.
Here he goes.
Our President keeps insisting prices are going to drop by 1400%, 1000%, or some other number thatās mathematically impossible. That he canāt do simple math isnāt the problem, itās that heās lying to America while things are getting more expensive because of his bad choices.
Massive walkout underway at CDC. RFK jr. must resign so that we can be safe.
If someone tells you there's nothing we can do about gun violence beyond thoughts and prayers, remind them: āGun laws in other countries have prevented mass shootings āMore guns don't make us safer āA majority of Americans want gun reform We don't have to live like this.
"Pat, why do you carry that ridiculous 600mm lens on long hikes?" Buddy, I can see mountains reflected in the eyes of a trailside pika.
AMOC isnāt going to stop in my lifetime. But itās looking pretty inevitable for my grandchildrenās lifetime. Collapse of critical Atlantic current is no longer low-likelihood, study finds www.theguardian.com/environment/...
āThank god for IVF so I could get pregnantā āActually god made you infertile, science made you pregnant. So itās thank science actuallyā
Yes, it should. However, that would require an effective mainstream media in America ā which we donāt currently have.
Ashli Babbitt was a grown ass adult who chose to break into an unauthorized area during an insurrection against the repeated warnings of law enforcement. She ignored those warnings and got killed through no one's fault but her own. She was a traitor. She doesn't deserve full military honors.
A smaller population means more for the few.
Starbucksā CEO made 6,666x more than the company's median employee in 2024. This was the widest CEO-to-Worker pay gap in the entire S&P 500. Remember this before you order your next pumpkin spice latte.
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Grand juries may save us.
Thatās going to be a tricky situation since he stopped all the research.
They are sending soldiers into cities to prepare to intimidate people at the polls next year. They gerrymander because they canāt win on policy. They intimidate because even gerrymandering wonāt work at this point.
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Krasner: So, if what you have is a group of ICE agents, or even the military, coming into Philadelphia and committing crimesāassaults that are illegal, kidnapping, unlawful restraint, obstruction of the administration of justiceāthey can be prosecuted.
50% tariffs on India begin. Thatās going to hit most low-mid income older people who buy over-the-counter and generic medications, most of which are manufactured in China and India.
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open.substack.com/pub/heatherc... Hooray for the brave governor of Illinois! The home state of my parents, grandparents and great grandparents.
Dictatorship!
PSA: My wife & I usually get our flu & covid vaccines in October. This year we are going to get them in the next two weeks, knowing that RFK Jr is going to pull all covid vaccines and potentially flu vaccines from the US market in as little as 2 months. The rest of you might want to plan the same.
Between Kilmar Abrego Garcia and the DOJ official who tried to extort a plea out of him with threats of trafficking him to Uganda, there is someone who committed a crime. But that someone isn't Kilmar Abrego Garcia.
I hope they get a TRO to stop DHS from sending him to Uganda
Trump posting āno one is above the lawā achieves one of the largest failures of self-awareness I can imagine.
Just another Monday in Gaza! apple.news/Anmdj4pskQbC...
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Found it
Lithuania is really gearing up!
This is like the Soviet Union of the 1950ās.
@joyannreid.bsky.social Drops the truth like a tactical NUKE! š„šÆ
It always costs more to have a private company do any service. Taxes pay for the service plus a profit tacked on and a subtraction of quality. Workers are paid less and care less about the job.
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In 1968, 43 African American soldiers at Fort Hood in Texas refused deployment for riot control at DNC in Chicago. āWe shouldnāt have to go out there and do wrong to our own people." When will our state's National Guard do the same? #RESIST through #PeacefulProtest #NONViolenceIsPower #StopICE
Andrew McCabe casts doubt on Ghislaine Maxwellās interview with DOJ: āItās so suspicious. When you listen to the tapes, you get the sense that Ghislaine Maxwell went into that room knowing what information she had to deliverā¦to get some sort of benefit that she is pursuing from the administration.ā
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The government has given Abrego a choice. Plead guilty to the bogus case in Tennessee and you go free in Costa Rica. Keep pleading not guilty and we will deport you to Uganda. Such a major violation of the fifth amendment. But to this regime, the constitution is just meaningless marks on paper.
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NEW: The government has offered Mr. Abrego deportation to Costa Rica if he pleads guilty, and threatened deportation Uganda if he does not. According to his lawyers in a new filing, that violates his 5th Amendment due process rights. My latest: www.muellershewrote.com/p/the-govern...
I remember that and someone was frogmarched off the train with them.
I ate in one once when visiting a friend in Georgia who said it was just the best with such a fantastic gift shop (of knockoff Americana) in the entrance.
Amidst all the distractions this week, has anybody actually stopped to contemplate that the president of the United States encouraged Americans to not think of slavery as ābad?ā Have we become that numb?
I was thrilled when I found one many years ago in a bit of intermittent water down from my house.
The DOJ released the security video of Epstein's jail in parts so they could take out anything inconvenient. The DOJ released the Maxwell/Blanche transcript in parts so they could take out anything inconvenient. Such an obvious cover-up.
D.C. has more residents than two U.S. states. They pay more per capita in federal taxes than any other state. But they donāt get a serious seat at the table to decide how theyāre governed. D.C. statehood now.
šØThis is an emergency. šØ Itās clear that Trump will stop at nothing to rig American elections. What weāre seeing is a multi-pronged assault on our freedom to vote and on our democracy.
Itās my opinion that humanitarian and musical genius Dolly Parton (as well as Chef JosĆ© AndrĆ©s) deserves the Nobel Peace Prize. tucson.com/life-enterta...
The #COVERUP continues Todd Blanche and Pam Bondi are orchestrating The largest COVERUP in our history.
Hereās what was NOT released today: - the proffer agreement between Maxwell and the DoJ - the agreement transferring Maxwell to club fed - communications showing who waived Maxwellās sex offender status allowing her transfer and possible work assignments outside prison - the Epstein files
Because of RFK Jr.ās attacks, Iām reflecting again on a note from a constituent with autism: āWe are not a tragedy ā we are human beings.ā His rhetoric demeans that truth. Iāll keep pushing back with everything Iāve got.
open.substack.com/pub/heatherc... People are not begging Trump to take over companies and cities.
This is so importantā¦ Sharon has been tracking license plates on cars driven by ICE agents, and sheās finding they donāt match the vehicles. In other words, ICE is using secret, illegal tacticsājust like we suspected. REMINDER: the DMV is not a federal agency. @governor.ca.gov š§µ
Chairman Mao touts his state-run economy
