Seen this morning on 14th & U.
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There should be two distinct citations: the Presidential Medal of Freedom, and the "Presidential" Medal of "Freedom." I bet y'all can figure out the reason for the scare-quotes version, & who would confer it. (Rush Limbaugh, Miriam Adelson and Jim Jordan can have scare quotes added retroactively.)
If anyone is planning empirical trials to test this hypothesis, I will volunteer.
This ‘blue states closed schools too long’ narrative is becoming increasingly entrenched in the Polite Center but it’s arguable at best. Republican states had far more deaths during COVID and their students have roughly comparable learning loss.
In fairness to my union, I do now see @seiu.org (and several #SEIU locals) posting.
Exactly
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@aflcio.org is doing a great job this morning reposting #LaborDay posts from union accounts. Thanks, #AFL-CIO! It's only 10 AM in the east, I guess, but I am very disappointed to see NOTHING from my own union.
That's very Henry II/Thomas á Beckett of him, innit?
ONE person? I feel like that's got to be a massive undercount.
I don't know JD--and I don't want to--but what I read in the news make me pretty sure JD believes he's way more Catholic than this Leo guy.
They got palm trees in Virginia?
J.B. Pritzker is 100% right. Please listen to him, pay attention, and join us in speaking out against authoritarianism and to protect free and fair elections.
Both parties are not the same. Anyone who says they are is either an ignoramus or a liar.
There are plenty of reasons--both political and economic ones--why any President firing a Fed governor is a terrible idea. But can we also talk about the chutzpah it takes for donald f. trump to fire ANYBODY over an accusation of mortgage fraud? apnews.com/article/fede...
Gutted for Lando. Also for Charles Leclerc. Great weekend for Hadjar, obviously. Ollie Bearman, too. Really glad #F1 is back
Donald Trump’s rumored death raises new questions about Joe Biden’s health
Religulous is the thing he did that made me hate him irreversibly.
I'm usually very sarcastic (I consider it a character defect of mine), but I'm completely on the level here: that's got to be hard to say, and I respect you for being able to say it.
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Who do I trust? Let's just say, when I canceled my @washingtonpost.com subscription, I immediately redirected those dollars to a recurring monthly donation to @democracydocket.com. Every day is a good day to cancel your #WaPo subscription.
If this photo is proof of life, we must be using a very low threshold for either "proof" or "life."
JD Vance has never let his inexperience, his lack of qualifications, or the fact that he may be contradicting something he has said on the record previously stand in his way. If there's a chance to say something cowardly and obsequious within earshot of donald trump, JD will take it. Every time.
@steveinskeep.bsky.social can't word it that way, Kai. It would completely undermine Steve's commitment to bothsidesing.
I'm not sure about that. I'm a (very late) boomer liberal, and I hate that sonofabitch. I think whatever audience Maher may have is mostly Gen X men who think they are Libertaians, when in fact they just want to smoke weed and not pay taxes.
Watching videos of Bill Maher never results in anything good, and nobody should do it.
As I was texting just now, my phone tried to change "kvetch" to "ketchup." Who knew autocorrect was so goyish? (P.S. Now it tried to change "goyish" to "boyish"! No, I am not making this up.)
Yes! My first impression was, "This how John Fetterman looked before...whatever TF happened to him." But as with Fetterman in 2022: even if, God forbid, Platner becomes a Milkshake Duck, the alternative is intolerable. Dr. Oz was wholly unacceptable in '22, just as Collins should be in '26.
This story has it all: aquaculture, Black Flag, Bernie Sanders, Star Trek as policy, John Hodgman, male tears, and a candidate citing Luthen’s monologue from Andor. Meet Graham Platner, the Maine oysterman trying to crack the senate. @grahamformaine.bsky.social newrepublic.com/article/1996...
How exciting for DHHS Deputy Secretary Jim O'Neill. It isn't every day one gets to be the Philippe Pétain of public health. Plus, he can rest easy at night, knowing how well trump looks after his operatives after they've done their dirty work. www.reuters.com/business/hea...
I believe I understand your point, but when I look at recent events, I can't help thinking that #SCOTUS Republicans generally, and Chief Justice Roberts in particular, have completely given up worrying about what might "look bad."
Hello, everyone. Today, thanks to @sbg1.bsky.social and @newyorker.com, I learned a new word. The word is: "butt-snorkeler."
America clearly has no shortage of rich a-holes who think that being rich makes them qualified to run government. apnews.com/article/mark...
Can you fit that on a bumper sticker?
If I were a lawyer, I'd be glad to embrace that label.
It's a very Dunning-Kruger presidency, but RFK might be the Dunning-Kruger-est of them all.
Also a lie. Very few people, if any, are saying that.
I wonder what the 2AM posts will be after a day of Taylor Swift dominating the media attention.
It can be hard to define the line between "lying" and "making shit up." But in this case it does not matter, because trump is on both sides of it.
No, this is a lie. People do not say this.
I have never...and I hope I never will. People really say that?
A melodramatic break-up after a fairly tepid romance?
Still waiting for someone of prominence to admit it was not about eggs.
I do hope that if Greg Gutfeld should one day make a joke that actually is funny, @decodingfoxnews.bsky.social will be there to alert us all to it.
Trump to skip work on Friday
"Democracy dies in darkness. We'll get the light switch."
...if it's allowed....
Today is another day when I'm glad I canceled my @washingtonpost.com subscription! I only wish I could cancel it again. Honestly, any day is a good day to cancel #WaPo.
He means “democracy” but yes
Yeah...I think those federal officers might be mishearing what residents are whispering to them. In fairness, it could SOUND a little bit like "thank you," but....
WGAE member organizers Rez Nemorin, Jessica Schulberg and Leah Gotcsik sit down to discuss what the organizing, bargaining and enforcement process looks like at each of their workplaces, how being in a union builds a stronger community and more: www.wgaeast.org/onwriting/ep...
Oh, man, I remember Tenerife! And, I guess, also several popes.
Bartók or Lugosi?
I respect that. But I won't watch Bill Maher. Pete Buttigieg goes on a lot of shows I won't watch, too.
A DOGE kid gets beat up in DC and it’s DefCon1; hundreds of bullets into federal buildings with officer killed in Atlanta and it’s crickets; violent mob attacks Capitol wounding dozens of officers and it’s pardons for all.
JUST NOW home from dropping my daughter and son-in-law off for their honeymoon cruise. Timing on this particular Moby-Dick quote maybe could've been better for me!
The only thing “so far gone” in Baltimore is our Confederate Monuments
Just spitballing here, but cryptobros throwing sex toys at WNBA players on the court and other cryptobros and male sports commentators calling it funny and telling the women and their coaches to 'lighten up' both explains the 'male loneliness epidemic' and why I don't care about it.
I mean, if trump IS scared of Putin, it'll be the first thing he's been right about in ten years.
They'll just hire a bunch of guys who don't have any real experience--but are SUPER eager to carry guns, tasers and handcuffs--and RUSH them into service. Then they'll pay for it with the money they've diverted from higher education, the VA and SNAP.
I realize broad science-literacy problems cannot generally be solved just by shoving more facts at people but I really wish more people understood that the entire purpose and mechanism of a vaccine is to educate your OWN immune system, making it about the most "natural" medical intervention possible
He's stopped saying "the best people," hasn't he? Because now he's firing his own guy after just 2 months. apnews.com/article/bill...
Good news for leading universities in Europe, Canada, Australia...oh, also in China.
Woof
Po-tay-to Po-tah-to
I haven't read the article, and I try not to read NY Post in general, but it seems possible to me that some of the decline could be due to "younger Americans" spending whatever money they can earn on expensive groceries and exorbitant rent, rather than patriotically blowing it all in Las Vegas.
People want health care, food, housing, and good jobs. They also want their flights to take off and land safely — and to not be nickel and dimed by airlines. Priorities.
But what really matters is whether SCOTUS gives a damn about these sections. I'm not super optimistic about that.
It is just impossible to decide which reckless, unprincipled ignoramus in the Voldemort administration is, when all is said and done, the most despicable. But this guy is always a strong contender. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/05/h...
The young girls were the innocent people.
I appreciate how, when they text me about these things, they never use my name. In order to...protect my privacy, I suppose.
Unless and until there is a literal autopsy of Bill Maher, I'm not interested.
"If they get a bad back, they die"? I wasn't aware of this. My wife is a doctor. I'll have to ask her about this.
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
I've seen enough. I'm ready to storm the Bastille.
Focused on the important stuff, isn't he?
RELEASE 1500% OF THE EPSTEIN FILES
Texas Republicans being more committed to cheating voters with a frankenstein map than to doing emergency legislation to fix the state's flood warning systems is pretty much all you need to know about them.
In 1993, scientists fixed a solar-powered satellite whose onboard computer had frozen by sending it through the shadow of the moon to turn it off and on again.
This kind of reporting is the reason why I stopped my NPR donation...and have not restarted it, despite what's happened to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
Important details from this story: 1) Yet another news-break by student journalists (this time @theharvardcrimson.bsky.social) www.thecrimson.com/article/2025... 2) Harvard saying "see you in court," not "let's make a deal." 3) Per Garber, WH/MAGA leaked news of a "deal." NYT then ran with it.
There is just no f***ing bottom with these people.
Burgum's concern does have some merit I've always wondered what life would be like if I had some portable device I could use at night, while camping, so I could have illumination in the darkness Alas, since there's nothing that could power this mythical electric torch, we'll forever be deprived
So it turns out the guy who falsely claimed Harvard is admitting "students who can't add two and two" (m.economictimes.com/news/interna...) doesn't understand percentages (which are middle-school math).
Unless, you know, cooking the numbers is the whole damn point. Then it makes perfect sense. And finding one ideological toady to fix the numbers is probably much easier than fixing the economy during a global trade war of your own making.
Trump’s felony convictions were for making up numbers to make himself appear worth more than he was. His 29 club championships in golf are because he makes up his own score. No surprise he wants people in charge of government statistics who will make up the numbers he wants.
How very North Korea of him. apnews.com/article/trum...
The bigger message in this good piece on the ADL is broader: For two generations post-WWII, there was a sort of consensus US Jewish politics (though with dissidents on both right and left), that combined support for center-left politics and civil rights in the US with pro-Israel global politics.
Important distinction: donald trump is interested only in enriching himself. He DGAF about public service.
Let them eat cake.
I'm sure this stuff plays great in the cafes of the little farming towns outside Sioux City, Dubuque and Bettendorf.
Really? I would have thought it meant, "Eat dessert first."
A Maybach, maybe?
SCOTUS + cakes It’s not so fun when a business denies service, is it Alan. Deal with it. We have to.
I recognize that face. That's the face I used to make in my 8 AM calculus class in 1982. That face got me a C in calculus class.
There is no way to be "serious" and to consider pardoning Diddy at the same time.
Just to reiterate: What this administration is doing right now is orders of magnitude more dangerous for academic freedom and free speech than anything the right has spent the last 30 years complaining about.
It turns out, a lot of ostensibly good people have far too high a tolerance for evil.