The Guardian (@theguardian.com) reposted
Leaked ‘Gaza Riviera’ plan dismissed as ‘insane’ attempt to cover ethnic cleansing
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view profile on Bluesky The Guardian (@theguardian.com) reposted
Leaked ‘Gaza Riviera’ plan dismissed as ‘insane’ attempt to cover ethnic cleansing
Capitol Media Services (@azcapmedia.bsky.social) reposted
Right now it takes 3 years of law school to practice in Arizona. But Supreme Court administrator floating a plan to let folks who complete just one year of specialized legal training handle criminal cases, even those with life term. Reaction? tucson.com/news/local/s...
ProPublica (@propublica.org) reposted
Alaska vowed to resolve the murders of Indigenous people. But when one nonprofit asked state law enforcement officials for a fundamental piece of data — a list of Indigenous murders they’d investigated — the state said no. By @kylehopkinsak.bsky.social, w/ @adn.com
Mrs. Betty Bowers (@mrsbettybowers.bsky.social) reposted
Back when Donald was a failure in real estate, he was famous for not paying his contractors. He would come up with fictional fault in their work as an excuse not to pay them. Now, this unscrupulous cretin is short-changing the National Guard. www.rawstory.com/trump-infuri...
Anna Bower (@annabower.bsky.social) reposted
Seems like as good a time as any to reshare my story on the Coffee County voting system breach, which details the key role Giuliani played in Trump’s effort to overturn the 2020 election. www.lawfaremedia.org/article/what...
Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) reposted
"Even in a long line of anti-labor GOP presidents, Trump stands out. And while he may not succeed in completely destroying collective bargaining in America, he’s poised to strike terrible blows against organized labor." — @paulwaldman.bsky.social
KJZZ Phoenix (@kjzz.org) reposted
The International Association for Indigenous Aging states that 80% of people with dementia will wander from home multiple times — while 90% may die if they are not found within 24 hours.
Ms. Future Hope (@msfuturehope.bsky.social) reposted reply parent
#RFKJrMustGo #RFKJrMustGo #RFKJrMustGo #RFKJrMustGo
AZ Alison (@noblebirth.bsky.social) reply parent
Have any of the airplane tracking people weighed in on who has been coming to town to visit him!?!
𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 (@sundaedivine.bsky.social) reposted
If you're 60, 69.1% of all job growth since your birth occurred under Democratic administrations. If you're 45, that number is 74.7%. If you're under 28, the number is 100%. Happy Labor Day.
Harry Dunn (@libradunn1.bsky.social) reposted
donald trump has been convicted of more felonies than 99.9% of Washington DC residents.
AZ Alison (@noblebirth.bsky.social) reply parent
AZ Alison (@noblebirth.bsky.social)
Reprehensible.
AZ Alison (@noblebirth.bsky.social) reply parent
That's a lame excuse. He should just follow along on BlueSky with BlueNotify if he wants up-to-the-minute information.
MeidasTouch (@meidastouch.com) reposted
NEWS: Trump and House Republicans' budget cuts seek to eliminate the HOME affordable housing program that’s built/rehabbed 1.3M homes in 30 yrs, including 540k in rural areas. 84% of those homes are in districts that voted for him. Rural families now face losing their lifeline.
AZ Alison (@noblebirth.bsky.social) reply parent
Where did all of the palm trees from the earlier photo of the president go?
Patti Olivier EPSTEIN FILES NEVER FORGET (@patti3333.bsky.social) reposted
Thank you @adamkinzinger.substack.com Trump cares so much for our National Guard....NOT!! Puts them on orders for 29 days only so they are not paid housing allowance or health insurance Adam Kinzinger on X ⬇️⬇️
AZ Alison (@noblebirth.bsky.social) reply parent
I was a power seller in the early 2000s because I could program in HTML and e-commerce and postage rates had not yet exploded yet.
AZ Alison (@noblebirth.bsky.social)
WtF? You have to sign kids in and out of school and church. This is NOT acceptable.
AZ Alison (@noblebirth.bsky.social) reply parent
I attend a very LGBTQIA+ accepting church in the East Valley. If you are finding that you need God during these troubling times, know that there are safe places and people. Not everyone is filled with hate like Ms. Rogers.
AZ Alison (@noblebirth.bsky.social)
25 years later...
Peter Sagal (@petersagal.bsky.social) reposted
Also in the Times today: an article about a violence prevention program in MN that was cut by the Trump WH designed to prevent the kind of attack that happened last week: www.nytimes.com/2025/08/30/u...
Doug Holst (@doug-holst.bsky.social) reposted reply parent
Pam Keith (@pamkeithdc.bsky.social) reposted
Thousands of farm animals & livestock are going unattended. They aren’t being milked. They aren’t being fed. I feel a great deal more for those animals than for the farmers who voted for this shit. They KNEW who their workers were & where they came from. But they voted to hurt them anyway.
Acyn (@acyn.bsky.social) reposted
Jones: I want to bring theology into this because you have all these people that want to give thoughts and prayers. But I was a minister, and that is a form of theological malpractice—when you pray for something you have the power to change.
AZ Alison (@noblebirth.bsky.social) reply parent
RFK the Lesser is a lawyer, not a doctor or public health expert.
Robert Reich (@rbreich.bsky.social) reposted
The NRA buys off Congress. No action on guns. The oil industry buys off Congress. No action on climate. Insurance companies buy off Congress. No action on health care. The list goes on and on. Money in politics is the root of our dysfunction.
Ally to Democracy (@allyhartwell.bsky.social) reposted
💥 Trump cuts $4.9bn U.N. & Foreign Aid approved by Congress In a letter to Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) OMB is cutting the budget without going through legislative branch Vought is using "pocket rescission" for first time in 50 years to strip U.N. of its funding including $838m for peacekeeping 💥
AZ Alison (@noblebirth.bsky.social) reply parent
I think you might be talking about the already existing Unitarian Universalist Church. www.uua.org/beliefs/what...
AZ Alison (@noblebirth.bsky.social) reply parent
Push back.
AZ Alison (@noblebirth.bsky.social) reply parent
Go, AG Mayes, Go!!
AZ Alison (@noblebirth.bsky.social)
youtube.com/watch?v=tPxA...
AZ Alison (@noblebirth.bsky.social) reply parent
AZ Alison (@noblebirth.bsky.social) reply parent
Congress goes back into session soon! We can start to badger them again! #epsteinfiles #trumpfiles #pedophiles
AZ Alison (@noblebirth.bsky.social) reply parent
Barack Obama (@barackobama.bsky.social) reposted
Republicans are trying to redraw congressional district lines to keep their grip on Congress in the midterms and beyond. Voters should pick their politicians, not the other way around. Get involved with the @democraticredistricting.com as they fight back: bit.ly/3HJ1ayW
AZ Alison (@noblebirth.bsky.social) reply parent
AZ Alison (@noblebirth.bsky.social) reply parent
RFK the Lesser is NOT A MEDICAL PROFESSIONAL. If he is making diagnoses, he is practicing medicine without a license.
Barack Obama (@barackobama.bsky.social) reposted
Here's some good news: Catelin Drey won a special election this week to flip a seat blue in the Iowa Senate and break Republicans' supermajority.
AZ Alison (@noblebirth.bsky.social) reply parent
AZ Alison (@noblebirth.bsky.social) reply parent
Please follow the lead of the AltCDC and call him "RFK the Lesser".
Santiago Mayer (@santiagomayer.com) reposted
I do not understand why government officials resign when asked to do something bad. The resignations will no longer be treated by the public like a scandal. It’ll be out of the news within 24 hours. People should stay and force the White House to fire them. Do not make it easy.
George Takei (@georgetakei.bsky.social) reposted
Pay attention. Your family’s safety is on the line.
AZ Alison (@noblebirth.bsky.social)
This will probably be the list they use to determine culling in their eugenics program.
AZ Alison (@noblebirth.bsky.social)
#FireRFKJr
Marc Elias (@marcelias.bsky.social) reposted
🚨BREAKING: Arizona Court of Appeals REJECTS right wing challenge to Arizona's signature matching process. Another VICTORY for my law firm's clients and the voters of Arizona. www.democracydocket.com/cases/arizon...
The Tennessee Holler (@thetnholler.bsky.social) reposted
WATCH: “Are you seriously still buying this bullsh*t? — my taxes should go UP, they’re historically low… and we should support the poor & middle class in 🇺🇸, not give massive giveaways to people like me.” @ramitsethi.bsky.social 🔥 shreds the “Millionaires Will Flee” lie
Jacqueline Antonovich (@jackiantonovich.bsky.social) reposted
Zillow solves Nazi art heist
AZ Alison (@noblebirth.bsky.social) reply parent
Ciele (@ciele.bsky.social) reposted
US friends It appears that DOGE, or someone else, has put 300 million Social Security Numbers, name, address & date of birth on AWS and/or a cloud based system/thumb drive according to a Social Security data officer whistleblower You should consider freezing your credits bsky.app/profile/thec...
The Tennessee Holler (@thetnholler.bsky.social) reposted
NPR: “A whistleblower says a former senior DOGE official now at the Social Security Administration copied the Social Security numbers, names & birthdays of over 300 million Americans to a private section of the agency's cloud lacking adequate security...” www.npr.org/2025/08/26/n...
Mrs. Betty Bowers (@mrsbettybowers.bsky.social) reposted
My current favorite bit of right-wing Christian hypocrisy is Ken Paxton, a man whose wife is divorcing him for adultery, forcing Texas schools to unconstitutionally post "Thou Shalt Not Commit Adultery." www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston...
Rachel Maddow (@maddow.msnbc.com) reposted
“on Tuesday, for the second time this year, a Democrat appeared to flip a conservative-leaning district in the Iowa Senate…” www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/u...
AZ Alison (@noblebirth.bsky.social)
Phoenix people! What is going on with the gas prices? It has gone up $0.54/gallon in the last 2 weeks at Sam's Club.
AZ Alison (@noblebirth.bsky.social) reply parent
Thank you for these detailed updates! Someone should make a courtroom drama...
AZ Alison (@noblebirth.bsky.social)
RFK the Lesser strikes again.
AZ Alison (@noblebirth.bsky.social)
Woot!!!
AZ Alison (@noblebirth.bsky.social) reply parent
"American Christians!?!" He does NOT speak for me. I'm on the Christian left and this stuff is totally whack. It is completely contradictory to everything I've learned in church over the last 5 decades.
AZ Alison (@noblebirth.bsky.social) reply parent
Where in the bible does it say warrior culture is a good thing!?!
Luca (@lucagalletti.bsky.social) reposted
Naturally formed hexagonal basalt pillars from past volcanic activity in Fingal's Cave, Isle of Staffa, the Inner Hebrides of Scotland.
Kevin M. Kruse (@kevinmkruse.bsky.social) reposted
It’s funny, we never get those anguished “but how will I explain this to my child?” posts when it’s armed goons violently snatching people off the street. They save that for the real horrors, like someone having two dads.
AZ Alison (@noblebirth.bsky.social) reply parent
Senator Bill Cassidy, is this one of RFK the Lesser's "good ideas"?
AZ Alison (@noblebirth.bsky.social) reply parent
Someone seems to not know anything about the Sixth Amendment. Garcia's lawyers have stated that he has never been convicted of a crime, including domestic abuse, in the US or El Salvador. Unlike POTUS, who has been convicted for falsifying business records as part of an alleged hush money scheme.
AZ Alison (@noblebirth.bsky.social)
RFK the Lesser is a total quack, as in a person who dishonestly claims to have special knowledge and skill in some field, typically medicine.
AZ Alison (@noblebirth.bsky.social)
People should learn a lot more than they do from works of fiction.
Luca (@lucagalletti.bsky.social) reposted
Where the Karakoram Highway connects Pakistan with China over the Khunjerab Pass at 4700m above sea level, one of the highest paved roads in the world.
Jeff Cox (@jeffcox.bsky.social) reposted
Florida bans "The Diary of Anne Frank" in school libraries. Whoever made this decision should have to eat every page of that amazing book, page by page.
Michelle 🪷🇲🇽🇺🇸🌵 (@chicana74.bsky.social) reposted
The paint on the Mexico side of the wall is so much prettier
Dr. Damien P. Williams Wants A Better Sociotechnical Paradigm (@wolvendamien.bsky.social) reposted
Hell yes
Mark Jacob (@markjacob.bsky.social) reposted
I'm old enough to remember when Republicans warned us incessantly about government overreach.
AZ Alison (@noblebirth.bsky.social)
RFK the Lesser, hellbent on bringing preventable diseases back to a town near you.
PatriotTakes 🇺🇸 (@patriottakes.bsky.social) reposted
Trump was released on cashless bail 3 times in 2023
NPR (@npr.org) reposted
JUST IN: The detention, which was expected, happened after Abrego Garcia walked into the Immigration and Customs Enforcement building in Baltimore for a check-in after being released from custody on Friday.
Anna Bower (@annabower.bsky.social) reposted
NEW: Kilmar Abrego Garcia files habeas petition over his recent detention and impending deportation. The case is assigned to Judge Paula Xinis, who is the presiding judge in Abrego's other civil suit in Maryland. Many of the filings are currently sealed on PACER.
AZ Alison (@noblebirth.bsky.social) reply parent
I'm guessing it is not part of the curriculum in Arizona.
AZ Alison (@noblebirth.bsky.social)
AZ Alison (@noblebirth.bsky.social) reply parent
I've seen a bunch of young people who do not know how to address a letter.
Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1.bsky.social) reposted
Virginia Giuffre's family: "The content of these transcripts is in direct contradiction with felon Ghislaine Maxwell's conviction for child sex trafficking. During DAG Todd Blanche's bizarre interview, she is never challenged about her court-proven lies, providing her a platform to rewrite history."
Cat Butler Sr. (@catbutlersr.bsky.social) reposted
- Appreciate Newsom Fighting Fire w/ Fire - Appreciate Pritzker Standing Up for Texas Dems - Appreciate Mamdani Bringing Fresh Hope to the Party - Appreciate AOC and Bernie Taking On the Oligarchs We need ALL of these voices now! Let's worry about 2028 after we secure OUR VOTE and DEMOCRACY.
AZ Alison (@noblebirth.bsky.social) reply parent
Is he supposed to be the new "Uncle Sam"?
Katie Phang (@katiephang.bsky.social) reposted
@rokhanna.bsky.social: “Only 3% of the documents given to the [House] Oversight Committee are new. The rest are already in the public domain. Less than 1% of files have been released. DOJ is stonewalling.” khanna.house.gov/media/press-...
AZ Alison (@noblebirth.bsky.social) reply parent
Does he EVER think through all of the ramifications? No, the answer is no.
Mrs. Betty Bowers (@mrsbettybowers.bsky.social) reposted
Oh, Ghislaine, we've *all* seen evidence of Donald Trump being inappropriate around young girls. Here he is with a tarted-up Ivanka (note the fingers lingering under her top). FYI: Out of all the many photos Donald has of his favorite daughter, *this* is the one he chose for the Oval Office.
AZ Alison (@noblebirth.bsky.social) reply parent
KMart? I thought Private Equity Firms destroyed them long ago.
AZ Alison (@noblebirth.bsky.social) reply parent
I have a Canadian teacher friend who told me that the War of 1812 is a 15 minute lesson in American classrooms. It is a week long study in Canadian High Schools. Of course, Canadians know this history and I'd bet some money that our current POTUS does not.
AZ Alison (@noblebirth.bsky.social) reply parent
MAGA Marxism? fortune.com/2025/08/12/m... #MAGAMarxism
Marc Elias (@marcelias.bsky.social) reposted
That got us wondering: How would those governors feel if National Guard troops from other states were ordered onto their streets, perhaps to patrol one of the 53 cities in those states with a higher murder rate than Washington’s? So, we asked them. www.democracydocket.com/analysis/the...
AZ Alison (@noblebirth.bsky.social)
AZ Alison (@noblebirth.bsky.social) reply parent
I'd include Puerto Rico and all other US Territories as well.
AZ Alison (@noblebirth.bsky.social)
#Caterday This sweet baby has been sick all week. He and his abandoned litter mates have parvo. They are acting like they feel much better but still have diarrhea. The good thing is, they will all be bath proficient by the time this week is over. So many kitten baths.
Jeff Tiedrich (@jefftiedrich.bsky.social) reposted
HA HA DONALD TRUMP (PERV WHO NO ONE EVEN LIKES!) DID A VIDEO ON TIKTOK AND THOUSANDS OF COMMENTERS POSTED RUDE MEMES AND YELLED AT HIM TO RELEASE THE EPSTEIN FILES. WHAT A LOSER (TINY HANDS!) THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO READING ABOUT IT IN MY "THIS WEEK IN STUPID." LINK IS HERE: bit.ly/3UEp6GB