only in the Christopher Lambert incarnation...
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only in the Christopher Lambert incarnation...
"I am going to resign as president and pursue a golf championship"
It’s been 100 years since A. Philip Randolph organized Black sleeping car porters and got them into the AFL while half the affiliates were whites only. And in WWII he told FDR he’d lead a march on Washington if the armed services and fed bureaus weren’t desegregated. He won. BlackLaborMatters✊🏽
At least 1,000 were killed in a landslide that destroyed a village in the Marra Mountains area of western Sudan, leaving only one survivor.
given that AI would have cited a non-existent case, which I have heard of it doing, when you ask around, how many people think it would also include a null citation?
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...
The Trump administration used Benny Johnson's claims that his house was "burned to the ground" and that "people were murdered in my front yard" to justify its federal takeover of DC. @kenbensinger.bsky.social found out that Johnson made it all up. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/30/b...
Rep. Maxwell Frost (D -FL10) today gave YouTuber and streamer IShowSpeed a U.S. Capitol tour. Frost repeatedly mentioned vote.gov and how important it is that young people register to vote. Speed has +43M YouTube subscribers, 41M followers on TikTok and 39,8M on instagram.
tell me that this was genned using AI and I'll absolutely believe you.....
see, there's a guy I followed on the dead bird site and then unfollowed because he couldn't take the idea that The Atlantic was no better than many other magazines and argued when people pointed out what it was doing wrong.
make sure and get back to us tomorrow when US markets are open....
This says it all.
Madame Obvious: they have no list of those parents....
There’s a bunch of statutory protections that specifically apply to removals of unaccompanied migrant children. But DOJ argues that 6 U.S.C. 279(B)(1)(H) establishes an independent basis for removal in order to “reunify” kids w/ a parent abroad… bsky.app/profile/joed...
New blog thread: Write it Like a Fairy Tale For writers, especially for Regency romances pajheil.blogspot.com/2025/09/writ...
@wtopnews.bsky.social the bigotry of media is showing up because none of them have done blackouts for the hostages. cc @henmazzig.bsky.social
In an interview while he was filming Valdez is Coming (1971), Burt Lancaster pointed this out. Fifty years later, it's here. Nobody needs the studios any more, not even as money brokers.
@wtopnews.bsky.social David Ewalt pointing at starpower as the only reason the big studios survive shows how weak the studios really are. they haven't invested in story. people can now make movies on their home computers with better stories than the studios have offered in decades. 1/
Instagram influencer Adventorin goes viral after demonstrating how simple it is to climb over the U.S. Border Wall.
This is nothing else but a hybrid war that Russia wages against Europe Let's name things as they really are:Russia has made an assassination attempt of the President of the European Commission Russia has been jamming GPS-signals over many Eastern Europe countries that are in its immediate vicinity
senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, former chief economist to Senator Rob Portman (R-OH) & director of budget and spending policy for Marco Rubio’s 2016 presidential campaign👇🏽
These are the indicative estimates of Russia’s combat losses as of Sept. 1, according to the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
⚡️ Ukraine destroys Russian S-300 radar in occupied Crimea, military says. Radars serve as the "eyes" of an air defense system — without them, anti-aircraft units are effectively blind and unable to operate.
⚡️ Ukraine says it destroyed 2 Russian Mi-8 helicopters, tugboat in occupied Crimea, shares footage. Drones struck the Russian military air base in Hvardiiske near Simferopol, destroying helicopters worth an estimated $20–30 million, according to HUR.
⚡️ Key Chinese bank reportedly halts Russia payments after EU sanctions. Heihe, a small rural lender, was one of the last Chinese banks willing to process transactions for Russian non-sanctioned credit organizations after larger Chinese banks cut off such services.
MORE: Sparkle Sooknanan is still awake -- and she wants a fourth status report from DOJ. The judge orders the government to update her when all putative class members have been returned to ORR custody.
An 11-year-old boy was fatally shot in Houston after a prank in which he rang the doorbell of a home and ran away, police said Sunday.
UPDATE: DOJ says that all but 4 of the unaccompanied migrant children have been returned to ORR custody. Transfer of the remaining four children is expected at approximately 11:00 p.m.
hint: Venezuela has oil resources. in fact, Citgo is 50-50 US and Venezuela ownership. In 2016 Venezuela pledged 50% of Citgo to Rosneft which came to nothing. Rosneft is now in big trouble due to sanctions and Ukrainian strikes.
This is what happens when you obliterate the presumption of regularity. Endless homework assignments because the court can't trust the government to follow orders in good faith.
A must for reposting.
Thank you for your hard work
UPDATE: DOJ says it expects that the children will be returned to ORR by 10:30 pm. The report also offers some clarity on how many children were loaded on planes (76, purportedly). (But the putative class isn't limited to those put on planes today -- plaintiffs estimate # in the hundreds)
who won the sweepstakes when the judge declared the tariffs illegal last week?
nobody will notice
MORE: Judge Sooknanan orders further status report from DOJ, setting 8:30 p.m. deadline to address whether all of the unaccompanied children have been returned to the custody of HHS's Office of Refugee Resettlement.
JUST IN: Judge Sooknanan ordered the government to file a status report by 4 pm to address whether the children have been deplaned. DOJ blew the deadline. Now she orders them to show cause why they didn’t file the report in time — and sets new 6:30 pm deadline.
⚡️Ukrainian authorities arrest suspect in shooting of politician Andrii Parubii. "The suspect has given an initial testimony. Urgent investigative actions are currently underway to establish all the circumstances of this murder," President Volodymyr Zelensky announced in the early hours of Sept. 1.
'In many states, anti-mask laws apply only if the wearer has harmful intent, such as committing a crime (California, Michigan, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Florida, Washington DC) or **** deprive another person of their constitutional rights ****(Connecticut, Delaware, New Mexico).'
@faithgrace7777.bsky.social WSJ is a Putinist publication. of course they're going to say this. you'd be better off using European statistics.
the people in Alcatraz were deported. that's why it's empty.
Traktorozavodsky district fire in market yesterday covered 3.2 thousand square meters. cc @igorsushko.bsky.social
NEW: The trump administration attempted to remove 600 terrified unaccompanied minors to Guatemala in the middle of the night on a holiday weekend. Judge Sooknanan stopped it. My latest: www.muellershewrote.com/p/the-sookna...
“This is a historic win for the families,” said Brett Eagleson, whose father was killed in the 9/11 attack on the World Trade Center. “The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is going to be held accountable.”
Obviously the Telegraph is totally unaware of the long ties between these three, such that Modi is running Muslim concentration camps just like China is, and has been buying Russian oil for years, and is on his way to making India a one-party nation. think twice before using Telegraph again.
Fire up @resist.bot & tell your reps that you support FEMA. We are all at the whim of Mother Nature & this is the agency that comes to the rescue.
Explosive is a good description. Expect Trump to go into fulltime distraction mode this week, most likely dramatically amping up plans to send Feds and others into Democratic-led cities. #RadioFreeAmerica www.mediaite.com/media/news/h...
Chemical plant fire engulfs 4,000 square meters near Moscow Mi-8, Ka-32 helicopters joined ground firefighters battling a blaze at warehouse facilities belonging to Balashikha Experimental Chemical Plant euromaidanpress.com/2025/08/31/c...
@kylegriffin1.bsky.social Judge Cobb strikes down fast track deportation. www.cnn.com/2025/08/29/p...
These are the indicative estimates of Russia’s combat losses as of Aug. 31, according to the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
⚡️ Russia's Rosneft net income plummets 68%, Reuters reports. Oil prices were dragged down by production hikes by Saudi Arabia and other OPEC countries.
One disabled Marine veteran has not had a primary care doctor assigned to him since his previous doctor left in the winter, his wife said. The VA “was never like this before. There’s a lack of staff, empty rooms, locked doors.”
Su: The BLS collects statistical information — things like the nation’s inflation rate, the unemployment rate, the number of jobs created, which industries are growing, and which are contracting. And on every one of those fronts, Trump is failing.
ICYMI ICE Poster Boy Dean Cain only made it one week And unlike hard-working Brown People, he will get short-term disability until Republicans eliminate that ICE must be stopped and investigated Call Your Representatives 202 224-3121
No matter what @MarshaBlackburn keeps saying, it’s not criminals they’re targeting. www.cnn.com/2025/08/30/u...
Reminder that RFK Jr is not a doctor. He is not a scientist. He has zero scientific literacy. He is not qualified to make any assertions about vaccines, disease, pediatrics, hospital parking... NOTHING. He is a fraud.
One of the best signs I've ever seen Enjoy your Labor Day Weekend
These are my patients. Kids dying of brain cancer. Kids and families desperate for treatment and hoping to find a cure through experimental therapies. Trump is dismantling science and children with brain tumor are the victims. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/28/w...
The Trump regime has pulled the US out of the UN Human Rights Universal Process Review. This is chilling. This review happens every 4-5 years for each country in the UN. No country has ever pulled out of the review. Until now. I remember the last time the US had its UPR... 🧵
I’m absolutely begging reporters to stop suggesting that Lisa Cook stated that she would use both properties as a principal residence on her mortgage APPLICATIONS Mortgage APPLICATIONS and mortgage AGREEMENTS are not the same thing We have no idea what she represented on the APPLICATIONS
This is a new low.
“ILLEGALS” MY ASS! Green card holder Rami Othmane speaks out after being snatched off the street by ICE while driving to the grocery store. He’s a documented immigrant and the husband of Dr Wafaa Alrashid, chief of staff at a local hospital. He was locked in detention for 13 days.
@henmazzig.bsky.social @chabad.bsky.social lots of us knew that this was where he was going. see Pastor Niemoller.
@marcelias.bsky.social you knew all along that this was what he was after.... cc @kylegriffin1.bsky.social
This is a real case of "the squeaky wheel gets the grease". Everybody should check as soon as possible whether they have a county cable commission or state PUC with a way to file complaints. Verizon's FIOS login broke some weeks back and within a week of my filing a complaint, Verizon fixed it.
somebody in PA saw a text I sent about this and answered.
maybe all your teachers taught off the same score sheet but different kids need different teaching methods, beyond just what kind of learner they are. and p.s. these are all BS GOP talking points. they'll never get into anything as complicated as how to teach. they don't know.
I can also make local calls using WiFi. I'm in Maryland near DC and have used the net or texted today.
welp FiOS is working or I wouldn't have seen this. so what does that mean?
A federal employee directory helped us figure out just how many workers have left federal health agencies since the beginning of President Donald Trump’s second term. Here’s how we crunched the numbers. By @pratheekrebala.bsky.social @anniewaldman.bsky.social @bxroberts.org
make sure and repost Trump's unhinged rant about Netflix being too woke....
Television legend Stephen Colbert has just signed a $13.5 million deal with Netflix for a 7-episode series.
Trump’s private Russia-backed pitch for postwar Ukraine revealed by insiders: report www.rawstory.com/ukraine-2673...
Chicago Strong. Among other things, the proclamation prohibits law enforcement wearing masks and requires them to wear body cams. #RadioFreeAmerica chicago.suntimes.com/news/2025/08...
❗️ASTRA reports that in the latest strike, 🇺🇦Ukrainian forces destroyed a pumping station building at the 🇷🇺Druzhba oil pipeline’s LPDS facility in Naitopovychi, Bryansk Oblast. The pumping station is a critically important component — without it, the facility cannot transport oil.
Buford Pusser was a murderer....
@jjgreenjr.bsky.social burn baby burn cc @kylegriffin1.bsky.social
Ukraine: Russian hitman disguised as a courier assassinated Andriy Parubiy in Lviv today. City on lock down, manhunt underway. Parubyi was the commandant of the Euromaidan protests against Yanukovich & Russia through 2014, coordinated volunteer security corps for the protesters.
youtube.com/watch?v=3qcK...
Started my weekend in Black Mountain, NC, and joined Buncombe County Dems who are already organizing to elect fighters like @roycoopernc.bsky.social. Despite all the bad news these days, this is what gives me hope: communities like this doing the work and holding Donald Trump accountable.
CHICAGO…
The @status.news newsletter looks into the current president's "visible bruises" and asks: Why are the country’s biggest newsrooms silent? www.status.news/p/trump-heal... [paywall likely]
BREAKING: Iranian-backed Houthis say an Israeli airstrike has killed the prime minister of the rebel-controlled government in Yemen's capital, Sanaa.
so stop using ChatGPT or get swatted.
@hollybfletcher.bsky.social
SO naive. Bolsonaro is a Putinist. Our Putinist has been convicted of 34 felonies and then got re-elected.
Not to add anything unnecessary, but uh: www.pizzint.watch We're at a DEFCON 1 on the PizzINT scale. PizzaPlaces in DC are really busy.
Thanks to RFK Jr, I am no longer able to get a #COVID vaccine in New Mexico. #NewMexico is one of the 16 states that can’t provide the vaccine unless it is okayed by the #CDC. And Kennedy has gutted that agency.
Republican Rep. Barry Moore was heckled so badly at his Alabama town hall that he literally left out the back door in the middle of the event. Moore didn't offer concluding remarks or even bid good night to the rowdy crowd as they chanted "Shame!" during his exit. www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...
These are the indicative estimates of Russia’s combat losses as of Aug. 30, according to the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
⚡️ Ukraine destroys underground explosives depot in western Russia, intelligence source claims. The facility was used to store pyroxylin gunpowder, a smokeless powder used in the production of small arms, artillery, and rocket engines, a military intelligence source claimed.
Very Candace Owen
⚡️Update: Poland scrambles fighter jets as missiles target western Ukraine. In response to Russia's large-scale attack, Poland's Air Force said it had scrambled fighter jets to protect Polish air space, as missiles target Ukraine's far-west.
US Homeland Security chief reports breach at FEMA, fires 23 employees reut.rs/3I0jnYP
Now this is the attitude ALL district attorneys need to take when it comes to dealing with Trump.
It's never wrong to be morally and ethically right with yourself. #morals #ethics #dotherightthing #Constitution #resist
Blue Cross had refused to pay thousands of claims for the center’s patients, but on several occasions executives at the insurance company had signed special one-time deals with the center to pay for their wives’ cancer treatment. (Published April 2025)
@govwesmoore.bsky.social US TOO
⚡️Large fire seen after Ukrainian drones reportedly strike oil refinery in Russia's Krasnodar Krai. Ukrainian drones reportedly struck an oil refinery in Russia's Krasnodar Krai overnight on Aug. 29, Russian Telegram channels reported.