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"It's really a case about a journalist who was targeted because of his filming of police and ICE. And so it feels like it's part of a much broader censorship regime that we're seeing." - @attorneynora.bsky.social with @kristaldixon.bsky.social of @axios.com #FreeMario www.axios.com/local/atlant...
The gas crisis in Russia is spreading. Several more regions have joined the list, including frontline Belgorod.
Chicago's ICE protests are clearly having a big impact.
"Autism experts at the CDC were neither consulted for the White House’s long-awaited autism announcement nor asked to review a draft of the findings and recommendations, CDC scientists told @kffhealthnews.org" Always read @amymaxmen.bsky.social: kffhealthnews.org/news/article...
SCOTUS greenlit Trump’s dismissal of the last Democratic member on the Federal Trade Commission, and said it would hear arguments later this year on whether it should overturn a 90-year ruling that protects independent agencies from White House influence. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
If the GOP want to continue down their current path (Deport Omar! Deport Mamdani!), then Dems need to start calling for the denaturalization & deportation of Melania, fight fire with fire - plus there are far more unanswered questions about her immigration to the US than either Mamdani or Omar.
Every time I talk with @mclem.org about the economics of immigration, I come away a whole lot smarter. You can enjoy the same experience: He's written a fantastic primer on what the data reveals about the effect of slashing H-1B visas. It's a banger. Read it. www.piie.com/blogs/realti...
Pretty good explanation of why Trump is bailing out his “loyal puppet” buddy Millei in Argentina 👇🏽 America first folks, where you at? And who does this for us when our chickens come home to roost?
(Bloomberg) - President Xi Jinping’s export engine has proved unstoppable during five months of sky-high US tariffs, sending China toward a record $1.2 trillion trade surplus. @bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
Erdogan bodies Trump on Fox News
ROSENBERG: “.. the American household allocation to stocks is also at a near-record share of 72% .. And leverage has overtaken the market, with margin debt soaring by +3.6% MoM in August to $1.06 trillion and up by +33% from year-ago levels, which is nearly double the price action in the S&P 500.”
NEW YORK (AP) - Secret Service dismantles hidden telecom network it says could have crippled cell towers during UN General Assembly. @apnews.com
It’s incredible to watch the drone advances in the Ukraine battlefield. The US is totally unprepared for what this next phase of war is going to be.
Why are we bailing out Argentina because their economy is terrible?
ABC is putting Jimmy Kimmel back on air despite pressure from the FCC chair and Nexstar (which is seeking FCC approval to acquire TEGNA/9NEWS). Rep Jason Crow (D-CO) said Americans will show the companies caving to Trump and his allies that "cowardice and greed will fail them."
Weaponized Justice…
on this note, i will also say we need side by side botox maga females
Not a day goes by when I don't think of how Gene Wilder perfectly described MAGA. www.youtube.com/watch?v=_krn...
“.. With the new capabilities, a user can direct a tool .. to research a specific client, build a profile of them from both publicly available data but also multiple internal data sets, and translate it into a foreign language, all in a single step.” @wsj.com www.wsj.com/articles/ai-...
This story about Noem & her boyfriend will make your head spin. They are every bit as awful as you think they are. Welcome to the Monsters Ball. nymag.com/intelligence...
New Mexico's methane emissions are lower than Texas, but not low enough for the state to meet its 2030 climate goals.
Trump: "We've got a lot of stupid people in this country running things."
"I've been waiting for 20 years to ban this thing I can't pronounce and couldn't adequately describe if my life depended on it. Please everyone clap and treat me like the hero who save the children."
Trump: "I think it has -- I think it's very bad. They're pumping, it looks like they're pumping into a horse. You have a little child, a little fragile child, and you get a vat of 80 different vaccines, I guess. 80 different blends. And they pump it in. So ideally, a woman won't take Tylenol."
Fiery dissent makes it clear the majority is "raring" to reshape the separation of powers to give Trump unilateral control over all independent agencies, Congress and precedent bedamned.
One side of me wants him to stay and fight (for all of us) The other side of me wants him to walk out Tues night and say Fuck abc & trump...I quit (for his own safety & health)
Justice Kagan, dissenting, says the majority will clearly overturn Humphrey's Executor soon—but objects that "our emergency docket should never be used, as it has been this year, to permit what our own precedent bars," or to "transfer government authority from Congress to the President."
"The $42 billion initiative, created by Biden's infrastructure bill, aimed to close the digital divide, with a focus on rural communities. Trump’s changes to the program have disqualified hundreds of thousands of locations from receiving internet access..." www.newsfromthestates.com/article/fewe...
Redford takes The Actors’ Studio quiz: #RIP
Gendered administrative burdens academic.oup.com/jpart/articl...
Bear chatter around the NVIDIA/OpenAI deal: a dangerous trend toward “vendor financing”: (via Vital Knowledge) $NVDA
Trump is using the U.S. government to prop up right-wing politicians in other countries. Argentina's Milei may get a U.S. bailout, and Trump imposed tariffs on Brazil's goods because it enforced its laws against the traitor Bolsonaro. Did U.S. voters know they'd be paying for this?
The oldest church in the US… Santa Fe, New Mexico…
Up and down the chain. 📦 www.griceconnect.com/local-news/g...
“.. He thinks this is more like the early part of 1929 when stocks added significantly to their Roaring ’20s gains.” @wsj.com www.wsj.com/finance/stoc...
I've been trying to understand why this isn't generating as much fury as it should, and i think it's because there is a fundamental belief among many americans that the military can pretty much do whatever (which isn't entirely inaccurate.) that said, what the actual fuck.
Dear Department of Homeland Security: I gave this request almost a full second's worth of consideration, and my answer is an unequivocal no. I would have answered sooner, but I was laughing.
They are NOT the majority. They have billionaires who own mainstream and social media, most of the Supreme Court and half of Congress. Yet, they are NOT the majority. This is why they’re always trying to take away your votes. Because they are NOT the majority. They never will be.
📽️ WATCH: Epidemiologist Erin McCanlies spent much of the past 20 years studying how parents’ exposure to toxic chemicals affects the chances that they will have an autistic child. RFK Jr. cut her entire division — yet promises to identify the causes of autism by September: https://propub.li/4nhXQua
In the White Place… Abiquiu, New Mexico…
Marinka, Ukraine 2020 vs 2024. Go ahead and zoom. See for yourself what russia is doing with Ukrainian towns and cities.
Thank You!
Me in December 2024 referencing my work from earlier in 2024 www.wheresyoured.at/godot-isnt-m...
Homeland security communications show officials are moving operations following a protest in which demonstrators said they were hit with teargas.
There’s a simple answer. “Democrats won’t vote to fund this regime as is. It’s up to the republicans if they want to shut down the government. They’re in the majority.”
Financial Times: “The dollar is having its worst year in decades” www.ft.com/content/ac9e...
NATO scrambled 2 🇩🇪 Eurofighters over Baltic Sea on Sunday after a 🇷🇺 aircraft, initially unidentifiable, flew without a flight plan or radio contact. Plane was later identified as a Russian II-20M reconnaissance aircraft. Germany has put additional planes on standby to protect NATO’s eastern airspace
Meet the Press put together a clip of Trump vowing in January to "bring back free speech to America," followed by him saying last Friday that negative coverage of him is "no longer free speech"
Josh Shapiro: "I was on a Spanish language radio program in the Allentown area and the host said something really chilling to me -- that he now has to think about what topics he's going to discuss because he's fearful he might offend federal regulators of the president."
Chris Murphy: "The question today is when is enough enough for Republicans. I was very glad to see Ted Cruz stand up and say what is simply true -- it is unconstitutional and deeply immoral for the president to jail or silence his political enemies."
High in the Shetland Islands…
Happy 21st of September 🎉….do you remember?
Crockett: "I'm gonna honor someone who decided they were going to proclaim I was involved in the 'great white replacement'? Yeah, I'm not honoring that ... it's unfortunate more of my colleagues even on my side couldn't see the amount of harm this man was attempting to inflict upon our communities"
The Trump-Vance administration is threatening public education across the nation. Drew Vaughn, a Florida PTA board member, joined CEO @skyeperryman.bsky.social to discuss how we’re helping parents, educators, and unions fight back – and win – in court.
Everything Trump does is intended to enrich himself and his wealthy cronies while incrementally seizing power from Congress in a variety of areas to wield himself as an authoritarian while Republicans in Congress acquiesce.
Wonderful
Raskin: "He wants to condition the public to the idea that it's completely legitimate for the president not only to be ordering prosecutions of particular people over the objections of prosecutors, but he wants to condition the public to accepting the idea he can do that in public, openly."
“American politics is no longer a fight over policy; it is a fight over the character of the nation itself.” @jamellebouie Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/20/o...
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Do YOU remember “the 21st night of September?” Earth Wind & Fire’s co-writer Allee Willis said she told the band: “We can’t leave ‘baa-dee-ya’ in the chorus. That has to mean something.’” Maurice White replied: “No, that feels great. That’s what people are going to remember. We’re leaving it.”
That said, the record is still open on both hearings. So @durbin.senate.gov @raskin.house.gov and others can submit a whole slew of QFRs about why Kash allowed Homan get away with bribery.
Thousands of activists marched down Park Avenue and turned down Billionaires’ Row toward Trump Tower in New York Saturday to “Make Billionaires Pay,” calling for climate justice, democracy, free speech, gender equality, a stop to the Trump’s immigration crackdown and a ceasefire in Gaza.
The president ordering the murder of 3 more human beings on a boat didn’t even make the list
Holy shit www.youtube.com/watch?v=emiB...
Rather than extend the subsidies that keep Obamacare plans affordable, the Trump administration is making it easier for insurers to sell cheap junk insurance. These “catastrophic” plans require people to spend more than $10,000 a year on deductibles before the policies pay most medical costs
Also a musical goddess www.youtube.com/watch?v=fPWb...
And now US wants to attack Afghanistan unless they give back the military base US withdrew from.
I’m delighted he is getting recognition
This account has been saying this on Twitter, urgently, since 2022. Trump's plan to seize power on Jan 6 was entirely serious. And he offered his backers very seriously that they could police American thought and education. People should have been on red alert and full action the last 4 years. 2/
President Trump Saturday ordered Attorney General Pam Bondi to indict New York Attorney General Letitia James (D) and chided her for not going after his other perceived political enemies quickly enough.
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The White House may call it deregulation, but in reality, it's replacing written rules with unwritten rules. (Rule 1: "Don't upset the President.") It's swapping transparent, tested rules for secret, shifting ones. One set serves the public interest, the other reflects the President's whims.
🌟Hispanic Heritage Spotlight🌟 I’m proud to highlight Zack Quintero, Executive Director of the National Hispanic Cultural Center. As a dedicated leader in our district, Zack champions the power of culture, representation, and community every day. #HispanicHeritageMonth #LatinoLeaders
Trump canceled an annual government survey on how many Americans struggle to get enough food. The data has been collected every year since mid-'90s, and is widely used by federal, state, local policymakers to make funding decisions for food-aid programs, & to evaluate how well those programs work
Sure doesn’t *look* like 24 carat 🤔 He has the detailed receipts for both the additions and the labour, I’d hope; @democrats.senate.gov @democrats-judiciary.house.gov @housebudgetdems.bsky.social What budget has it all come from; who did the acquisitions, labour & sign off, and who was paid?
absolutely my good boy knows his toys...
TikTok will be co-owned by China and Trump allies, Paramount was sold to a pro-Trump billionaire who's also set to buy Warner Bros, X is owned by an apartheid-bred fascist, WaPo and Meta are owned by Trump-cowering billionaires, and Murdoch owns the Fox empire. Here's why media has a liberal bias.
Awww
Fantastic For him!
Spotted in Denver:
The Disney brand, and the USA brand, sinking together. Parody from Dutch TV www.youtube.com/watch?v=7vRX...
Along Stone Creek…
First they came for the trans people, but I did not speak out ... Discussions are reportedly underway in the Trump administration to designate transgender people as “violent extremists” in the wake of last week’s shooting of conservative activist Charlie Kirk. newrepublic.com/post/200688/...
Poland just scrambled jets after Russia launched one of its biggest aerial assaults yet: hundreds of drones + missiles raining down across Ukraine, with airspace near Poland on edge. NATO & allies now in high alert. This isn’t a drill…global stability is being teste
EXCLUSIVE: Tom Homan was investigated for accepting $50,000 from undercover FBI agents. Trump's DOJ shut it down.
Trump hints on us ending up with a “closed country for a period of time”.
Goodbye, clowns.
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This just isn’t true. My audience is bigger here than it was after 15 year in twitter, and, for mostly better, they are real people, not bots and sock puppets. Do I wish this place was bigger and more ideologically/tinalky diverse, yes. But also we are not fueling Musk.
So much of Trump’s agenda — from Covid to the Fed to foreign policy — is about trying to blame and fix all the “mistakes” made by whoever was president from 2017-2021, whatever his name was — it was probably Biden or Clinton or Obama, but he forgets.
With higher utility bills, a house that produces more energy than it uses may be appealing. In southern California, one such house has existed for more than a decade. NPR's Jeff Brady visited the "Green Idea House" in Hermosa Beach, California. From @jeffbradynews.bsky.social
Something to make you smile: a guy got pulled over by the police in Italy
“Stop the Count”: food-insecurity version. 🤡 @wsj.com www.wsj.com/economy/trum...
Freedom of speech is under attack. Help keep independent journalism alive in Colorado with a donation today. Donate: coloradosun.com/support?form...
Beautiful
Self Edge has dropped new Sugar Cane jeans, their “1966 Jean”, that are great Jackpot pants: time-travel perfect repros of 1966 501’s. Even the denim itself is an exact match!
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Media execs have fallen prey to a propaganda and harassment campaign that has completely divorced them from what people actually want right now. Both their insular information environments (group chats, podcasts) and ambient noise (Twitter reactionaries) have put them in a very stupid bubble.
genuinely believe that a large number of political, economic and media elites do not realize that nearly half the voting public did not vote for trump