i am *real* skeptical of the methodology and the results here but if you are more afraid of dog autism than rabies, you’re genuinely too fucking stupid to own a dog and should probably be the one in crate training
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i am *real* skeptical of the methodology and the results here but if you are more afraid of dog autism than rabies, you’re genuinely too fucking stupid to own a dog and should probably be the one in crate training
Khanna: It’s going to be a bombshell press conference tomorrow at 10:30 a.m. The American people will hear directly from survivors of the Epstein abuse. And they’re not just going to talk about Epstein’s and Maxwell’s abuse — they’re going to talk about rich and powerful men…
Relatedly, as Palestinians have been saying, what they are being subjected to by Israel and the U.S. will not end with them
Maine now allows anyone over 65 or with a disability to make a one-time request to receive a mail ballot, without needing to ask again, for future elections. An upcoming ballot measure would repeal this.
An Alabama prison guard who left incarcerated people unsupervised in outdoor cages for hours was suspended for three days. But he was still allowed to participate in executions as part of the team of officers who administer the death penalty:
Trump and his family have made three billion dollars in the White House share.google/4teswyoMf3tb...
"President of Peace"
Over the decades since the presidential fitness test was first implemented in the late 1950s, health experts increasingly criticized it for not only being ineffective, but also counterproductive. Turns out ritually humiliating kids does not lead to positive attitudes about exercise.
Epstein survivors speak out. www.nbcnews.com/politics/pol...
Forcing press to leave during a dispersal order is a violation of state law (1st pic), violation of a federal restraining order (2nd pic) and violation of LAPD’s own policy (3rd pic). Also note how LAPD’s policy says press does not have to be in designated media areas.
LAPD sergeant Vazquez falsely claimed press are NOT exempt from dispersal orders — a direct violation of both California law (PC 409.7) as well as a federal restraining order. He said the federal restraining order “didnt matter right now.” He then refused to ID himself.
Congress approved $4.9 billion in spending for foreign aid. The Trump White House canceled all of it. Whether he likes it or not, the Congress that you elect decides on spending. These "pocket rescissions” can start with foreign aid, but your education, your roads, your healthcare could be next.
I am so, so tired of these people insisting that all they want is to protect children, when both the intended and unintended consequences of so, so many of the policies they enact and defend result in children dying senselessly
Thank the Supreme Court for immunizing the president from criminal liability over cold blooded murder.
Last year, Idaho passed a strict law that forbids anyone from providing to a minor any service that could be construed as medical or psychological in nature without parental consent. Now, minors calling the state's suicide hotline are being forced to have a parent speak for them or hang up
This is like reporting “Johnny gets furious after Hannibal Lecter refers to dinner plans” when the actual news story is that Hannibal Lecter is going to murder someone.
A panel of Seventh Circuit judges reversed a lower court's decision, which found an Illinois law prohibiting guns on public transit a violation of the Second Amendment. @rosencaitlyn.bsky.social www.courthousenews.com/seventh-circ...
Article is from 2015 but still a good explainer about why dedicating land to biofuels / bioenergy won’t curb climate change.
Multiple outlets have reported over 300k Black women have lost jobs. We know unemployment has ticked up for Black women since early spring. This HAS BEEN a problem. People have BEEN talking about. Black women have been sounding the alarm. #blacksky #econsky 2/ 19thnews.org/2025/07/blac....
Probably not a great month to go out fishing in the Gulf now. The US military might be your judge, jury and executioner.
Currently listening to the nightly pot banging, car honking protest to what is going on that takes place on a corner near me & in other places in the city from what I understand. The disconnect between public sentiment, harms reported by targeted communities & Bowser is striking.
Extrajudicial killings = murder!
I’m old enough to remember when we had 47,000 congressional hearings over Hunter Biden allegedly making money off his father’s name. Meanwhile, Trump’s corruption, in the billions, gets openly celebrated.
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Lethal force against a civilian vessel in international waters is a war crime if not in self-defense. If not in self-defense, only non-lethal actions, such as warning shots or disabling fire, are allowed. "Not yielding to pursuers" or "suspected of carrying drugs" doesn't carry a death sentence.
🚨Regarding the #Pentagon and #SpaceForce announcements: Reps @rokhanna.bsky.social (D-CA) and Thomas Massie (R-KY) are holding a press conference tomorrow, 9/3, 10:30am, with ten victims of Epstein’s sex trafficking. Link to watch live: youtube.com/live/q6fUosr... 🗣️ Release the Epstein files
Like a 1980s televangelist, Trump is now asking his supporters to send him $15 to help him get to Heaven. meidasnews.com/news/trump-a...
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J.B. Pritzker says he's heard intelligence that Trump is "staging" the Texas National Guard to invade Chicago. It's hard to believe this is really happening, but Trump seems to be recreating the war between the states.
I know, I know, but: The president of the US saying, literally, "we're going in" in reference to sending the military to an American city for no reason beyond terrorizing the local population should be the most immediately impeachable shit imaginable
In the coming days, we expect to see what's playing out in LA and DC happen in Chicago. These efforts are not about fighting crime or making communities safer. This is about Donald Trump testing his power and producing political drama to cover up his own corruption.
This guy gets it. This is the way.
imagine being so detached from reality that you long for “common ground” with the people destroying your country.
"your Guardsman is part of something historic" www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
He also released a convicted triple axe murderer onto the streets, after gifting him an American flag and welcoming him back. newrepublic.com/post/198272/...
If you have one Nazi at a table and nine other people sitting around the table trying to "find common ground with the Nazi," how many Nazis do you have?
"President starts low-level conflict by trying to get Nobel Peace Prize" is the funniest story going, can't get enough
Jake Tapper: "Listen, as long as he doesnt stutter at all when he finally gets out there, its a clean bill of health as far as I'm concerned"
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“Its pharmacokinetic profile—how the body absorbs, distributes, and eliminates the drug—supports sustained drug levels that can be maintained for a month after a single dose, representing a potential innovation over current daily oral PrEP options.” www.genengnews.com/topics/infec...
People were trying to ask Grok yesterday if the photo of Trump's head lump was real. Grok insisted it was, again demonstrating that you can't trust AI chatbots to fact-check this stuff either.
this now brings us up to six (!) grand jury refusals to charge (that we know about), plus two cases filed as part of the dc surge dismissed on the us attorney's office's request
Please post everywhere Rep. Ro Khanna On September 3rd at 10:30am ET, Rep. Massie and I are hosting a press conference joined by survivors of Epstein and Maxwell's abuse — several of whom will be speaking out for the first time. The survivors deserve justice and the public deserves transparency.
⚡️Macron to meet Zelensky ahead of talks with European leaders in Paris, media reports. Volodymyr Zelensky is expected to meet Emmanuel Macron ahead of a high-level summit of the so-called "Coalition of the Willing," scheduled for Sept. 4.
Things feel uncertain right now, Illinois. I want you all to know we’re doing everything we can to protect your rights. Make sure you know how to stand up for yourself and others at illinoisimmigrationinfo.org.
The tolerance for lies is killing our country. Trump just called Chicago “the most dangerous city in the world, by far.” But its homicide rate isn’t even in the U.S. Top 20. Will major media call out the lie – and call it “a lie” – or will they talk about his “tenuous relationship with the truth”?
Recent discoveries have raised the possibility of new cancer-preventing drugs that might help the body better suppress the harmful tendencies of its own immune system. That could be game-changing
NEW: Massie tells CNN that there is significant pressure from the White House to BLOCK the release of the Epstein files.
We see you @dreamfornyc.bsky.social Crush these billionaires 🔥🔥🔥
“At the rate at which journalists are being killed in Gaza by the IDF, soon there will be no one left to keep the world informed. This is not only a war on Gaza, it is a war on journalism itself,” said Thibat Bruttin, director general of RSF. (Reporters Without Borders.) www.cnn.com/2025/08/31/m...
🚨 Milestone: Since Trump was elected in November , more people signed up with Run for Something to run for office than in ALL of Trump’s first 4 years. 67K new sign-ups → 230K+ future leaders. The next generation isn’t waiting. Run for office.
The next Democratic president should declare that the National Emergencies Act and Article II of the Constitution allow him to: •admit D.C. and Puerto Rico as states •abolish ICE •grant citizenship to any immigrant •disband the 5th Circuit •expand the Supreme Court Seriously: Why the hell not?
"what liberal media" imagine if kamala harris followed a bunch of black radicals online. the msm would be at full alert 24-7
NEW: Trump’s executive orders stripped nearly half a million federal workers of union rights.
Note: the EPA is the bad guy now
A sitting US congressmen is openly saying this about trans people.
“Chemically altering the body harms people” your body is chemically altered every time your heart beats, every time you breathe, every time you eat, every time you exercise. these fuckin people harm people.
They don’t mind chemically altering their bodies when they can’t get it up, though…
Or when they take Advil, or when they drink coffee, or when they have a beer, or when they...
The tech industry is the only place where hiring 3 people to plagiarize an essay for 1 college kid is considered “innovation”
This is so basic … a massive fail by media to confuse a fetus with an infant. 😒
Flagged this just a few weeks ago, in fact. We *desperately* need more education for reporters on pregnancy criminalization, and for readers to be skeptical of these kinds of headlines bsky.app/profile/jess...
Pro tip for covering pregnancy-related arrests: don't use the word 'infant' before finding out what actually happened. More often than not, these are miscarriages, but outlets will repeat the language cops use - smearing women in the process www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
That's what happened in South Carolina this summer, when reporters claimed a woman used a “plastic bag to dump stillborn baby.” @kylietcheung.bsky.social and I uncovered that she actually had a miscarriage at 18 weeks - yet her name and *mugshot* were splashed across the crime pages
Here's another piece uncritically reporting that an "infant" was found - even though we know cops frequently use that language for miscarriages and fetuses www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
NEW: We reached a landmark agreement with an Oklahoma county court that ends the county's practice of jailing people because they can't afford bail. Freedom shouldn't hinge on how much money you have.
and that is for a full year. Trump is claiming $8 trillion in tariff revenue for tariffs that have been in place for four months.
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CARTOON OF THE DAY
Essential reading on how the mega-rich rigged the rules of the economy against the vast majority of the population.
Only an independent Fed can prevent administrations from using monetary policy for self-serving political ends in otherways, like simply printing more money to finance debt. If left unchecked, like his tariffs, Trump’s short-sighted and self-serving economic impulses could lead to total economic
collapse. They could also lead to the collapse of the US dollar, which may explain Trump’s bitcoin obsession.
You know what would actually help the housing crisis? According to the AFL-CIO, the average CEO to worker pay ratio (for S&P 500 companies) was 285-1. And since 1978, CEO pay has soared 1,085% compared to typical workers pay, which has increased 24%. Tax the rich, pay workers.
Trump is attempting more ILLEGAL cuts to government investments, trying to push Congress to the side entirely. This is a brazen attempt to steal Congress's power to be YOUR voice on taxpayer spending. Trump does NOT have a line-item veto, much less a retroactive one.
Three scientists learned they carry genes that dramatically increase their risk for Alzheimer's disease. Now they're working to keep their brains healthy.
All these MAGA morons who *screamed* about Posse during the (completely imagined) Jade Helm “takeover” during Obama’s presidency are now so curiously and tellingly quiet. Trump and his cultists stand for nothing—no principle beyond their own bloodthirsty desire to dominate those they oppose.
100K Subscribers on Day 1 and this is just the beginning of us taking back the public space from fascist disinformation. Thank you, everyone, for helping to make this launch day such a success! We're gonna keep kicking at the darkness until it bleeds daylight.
Finally went ahead and made an interactive tracking Trump's visits to Trump Org properties and his golf outings. I'll update it regularly, so feel free to bookmark pbump.net/outofoffice/ if people still bookmark stuff.
Joe Biden was the first U.S. president to join a labor union on strike in 2023. 🔗 tinyurl.com/5n6k7fad His #CupOfJoe always celebrates American workers – the heart and soul of our nation. Forever grateful to drink from his cup.
Jesus Christ. He was Jewish. :)
The story of how the 1st Akitas came to the US is remarkable. It starts with Helen Keller: She was a world celebrity following her 1903 book, "The Story of My Life", speaking on rights for people with disabilities & equally on pacifism, equality. She toured Japan on a speaking tour in 1937.
She asked to visit the Akita district, having heard of Hachikō, the Akita dog who waited daily for 9 years at the train station for his master who had died in Tokyo & would never return. Hachiko died in 1935. During the tour, she met a real Akita and expressed interest in an Akita companion.
A local policeman was asked to provide her with a puppy "Kamikaze-Go". Keller fell in love with "Kami" "If I cried from loneliness for my beloved teacher, he would put his big paw on my knee and press his cool nose against my cheek and lick away the tears."
Unfortunately, Kami died from distemper at 8 months old. The Japanese government, hearing of the tragedy, offered as an official gift a puppy "Kenzan-Go". At a time when Japan-American relations were deteriorating, Keller's love for "Go-Go" created a demand in the US for the breed.
Availability of Akitas was limited during WWII, but GI's returned home with Akita puppies, and the breed was AKC recognized in 1955. Helen Keller: "Nobody, who is not blind, as much as they may love their pet, can know what a dog's love really means."
My favorite evergreen Molly Ivins quote: "I prefer someone who burns the flag and then wraps themselves up in the Constitution over someone who burns the Constitution and then wraps themselves up in the flag."
Let's talk about the fascinating myco-doppelgänger we call the lobster mushroom (Hypomyces lactifluorum). It's not a lobster🦞, but has the color of cooked lobster & a seafood-like taste. But it's not a MUSHROOM🍄 either! So what is it? A parasitic MOLD that's has taken over the BODY of a mushroom.
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"If the federal government truly cared about safety in the district, it would restore the $1 billion in local tax dollars that Congress recently blocked...Instead, federal taxpayer money is being spent on troops and a federal police takeover"
The Commerce secretary's family has invested immense sums of money on a bet that the Trump tariff regime will be found illegal by the federal courts (as indeed, so far, it has been). This is the sort of corruption that barely rises an eyebrow in Trump 2.0 talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/lutni...
lotta headlines this AM *TRUMP’S LA TROOP DEPLOYMENT VIOLATED FEDERAL LAW, JUDGE RULES
"IU was a gem in Indiana. The state legislature and the IU Board of Trustees appear to have hired Whitten to fulfill an ultraconservative and Christian nationalist agenda... Sadly, they are destroying all that made IU great in the process." Scathing but spot-on. www.idsnews.com/article/2025...
#writer #authors #indieauthor #writingtips #aspiringauthor #indiebook
THURSDAY, 9/4: Tune into "It’s Happening with Velshi & Ruhle” LIVE on YouTube. @velshi.com and @stephruhle.bsky.social answer YOUR questions and look at the major stories at the intersection of business, politics & the economy. Email us your video questions TODAY: Velshiruhlequestions@msnbc.com
The indictment was handed down 2 days after career prosecutor Richard Barker, the acting US atty for eastern Washington state, resigned. In a social post, Barker wrote “I am grateful that I never had to sign an indictment or file a brief that I didn’t believe in.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
“National Gardeners”
Big business is just huge companies forever merging and splitting “to generate shareholder value.” That’s their only idea.
A Democratic super PAC is launching a $700,000 digital ad blitz slamming Susan Collins for opposing a bipartisan bill that would ban members of Congress from trading stocks. This ad accuses Collins of “the worst kind of greed… using insider information to trade stocks.” Please WATCH and SHARE. 👀