An 11-year-old boy who was shot while playing the âding dong ditchâ prank in Houston on Saturday night has died, the authorities said.
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An 11-year-old boy who was shot while playing the âding dong ditchâ prank in Houston on Saturday night has died, the authorities said.
After banning visas for Palestinian children seeking medical care, the Trump administration is now banning any Palestinian passport holders from entering the United States. Extraordinary bigotry being converted into US policy. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/31/w...
Nate has failed to consider that most people want what the pundits (whose work depends on being heard) don't understand. Affordable housing & health care, sensible gun laws, due process under the law. Those "radicals" are mostly on Bluesky. We'll get to dark money in politics too. So they worry.
[CUE MUSIC: âIN THE ARMS OF AN ANGELâ PLAYING SOFTLY] [FADE IN BACKGROUND SOUND: A solemn voice reads names] Nate Silver. Matthew Yglesias. Megan McArdle. Mark Cuban. [FADE IN: SALLY STRUTHERS sits on a stool in a pool of light on a minimalist set. She looks SAD.] /1
Jain: We have a U.S. Attorneyâs Office that is also facing a vacancy crisis. And that is at least partially because the predecessor to the current U.S. Attorney, Jeanine Pirro, was Ed Martin. He fired more than 20 prosecutors whose only âcrimeâ was prosecuting violent January 6 insurrectionists.
If youâre interested in finding out what we can do to fight back against the gerrymandering in Missouri, I hope youâll join this call. I will be speaking on the call. www.mobilize.us/indivisiblek...
When a president decides to disregard the will of the American people, youâre right, thatâs the mark of authoritarian rule. The White House has notified Congress that it plans to cancel $4.9 billion in foreign aid funding that lawmakers had already approved, doing so without their consent.
If you enjoy⌠Weekends Safe working conditions Retirement benefits Paid vacations Breaks at work Sick leave Paid holidays ⌠then youâre part of the labor movement. Happy Labor Day.
Yes. This is clear evidence that testosterone supplements are making men crazy, especially when taken with ketamine.
Garcia: We finally got word from the Epstein estate. They're going to be providing the actual Epstein book⌠the estate is actually going to actually now get us that book and a bunch of other documents that they have that's actually not been reported yet.
Psaki: Comer was a little slow to move forward with the subpoenas, at least in my view. Moskowitz: Thatâs actually his regular speed. Heâs just a little slow in general.
A collection of clips from MSNBC of multiple Republicans getting booed at town halls this week.
Phillip: The final point from my conservative friends at the table. Since when are conservatives cheerleading for tax increases? Since when is it okay for one man to decide that every person in the United States has to pay a higher tax, and he never has to go through congress to do it?
Welch: Am American president talks to other American citizens like that, and propagandists come on TV and normalize this behavior. And nothing about this is normal. Nothing
Welch: As someone who lives in a red state, let me just tell you what MAGA supermajorities get you. We're 50th in education. The worst in the whole country for women to live. We're poorer, worst health care. And if you look at the bottom ten states, they are all MAGA supermajorities.
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 malpracticeâwhen you pray for something you have the power to change.
Jones: I would say to my colleagues who serve in governmentâkeep your thoughts and prayers, keep your tweets. If you want to address gun violence, you don't need to tweet. What you need is a mirror. You have the power to change things.
Full video from Katie Phangâs YouTube channel here: youtu.be/7WMea-UkakE
Su: The BLS collects statistical information â things like the nationâs 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.
Trump wants us to stop focusing on the bad parts of slavery. Wrote about how we tend not to focus on one of the worst partsâsweeping, horrific sexual violence. Christofascist patriarchs donât want to talk about that, for obvious reasons. www.everythingishorrible.net/p/slavery-wa...
Like itâs not an exaggeration lol bsky.app/profile/atru...
There are people in public life clearly and accurately stating the danger to America at this bizarre moment. Those people need support from every Conservative and Liberal American who find our Constitution worth preserving.
"It isnât that many more Americans wouldnât like to belong to unions if they could âthey donât have the chance. That decline in union membership is no accident." By @paulwaldman.bsky.social in PN: www.publicnotice.co/p/trump-labo...
Who is concerned? Crackpots? The same people who hate medicine everywhere?
Gonna get him banned if I see him again. âclothing and tattoos with offensive messages and clothing that may present health or safety hazards or damage club equipment, is not allowed.â
Trump is now clearly telegraphing that he's going to militarize Chicago in part to retaliate against JD Pritzker for daring to criticize his occupations
Atlantic festival coming up! In NYC, September 18-20 I am speaking at various events, with @garrykasparov.bsky.social, @lynseyaddario.bsky.social and others. Sign up here: www.theatlantic.com/theatlanticf...
There is no possible legitimate reason to do this. Itâs what despots do. Itâs petty. Itâs dangerous. Itâs unAmerican. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/08...
NEW. A wide-ranging and I think very instructive conversation with @anneapplebaum.bsky.social on Ukraine, Europe, Trump, and the danger of authoritarianism. youtu.be/F8yzpfxOm6o?...
Something blue states will need to explore: how to create cross-state compacts dedicated to a functioning government as the Trump administration walks away from it's responsibilities.
NEW: Social Securityâs chief data officer, Charles Borges, has resigned, three days after submitting a whistle-blower complaint that alleged members of DOGE had uploaded the confidential personal information of hundreds of millions of Americans to an insecure cloud server.
Through its work in disease prevention, the CDC has saved millions of lives throughout the globe. Some of Trump's partisan critics question his plan to dismantle it.
h/t Heather Cox Richardson Almost one hundred and 43 years ago, on Sept 5, 1882, workers in NY City celebrated the 1st Labor Day holiday with a parade. The parade almost didnât happen: there was no band, and no one wanted to start marching without music. Two musicians showed up. Working together.đ
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Non-combatant deaths are not immediate evidence of genocide, because every war has them (and some have immense numbers of them)
And this is how you end up at âeverything is genocideâ
And with regards to the terrific Mr. @ericbraedenyr.bsky.social
"So that you will learn by experience that I do not tolerate interference, I will now detonate the nuclear warheads in the two missile silos. Let this action be a lesson that need not be repeated." AI has always haunted our nightmares. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
California governor Gavin Newsom co-hosted Pivot with Kara Swisher, where he discussed his Trump-mimicking social media strategy.
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No notes except well done Liz.
Pro drop off gone awry presumably.
Xi may be evil, but unlike trump, he's not stupid! đ
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GOV. @gavinnewsom.bsky.social : âFacts are stubborn things⌠Mississippi, Tennessee, ArkansasâŚ. Alabama is a top 3 murder state. Where is the President? â He isnât focused on crime & violence. Itâs about an expression of authoritarianism.â (H/T @acyn.bsky.social )
And thatâs how itâs done!
WEDNESDAY. PRESS CONFERENCE WITH EPSTEIN VICTIMS. WEDNESDAY. STAY TUNED!
Ex-Google exec Mo Gawdat predicts a 12â15 year AI-driven dystopia starting in 2027, with mass job loss, concentrated wealth, and social unrest. He warns only proactive human planning can prevent chaos before a potential post-2040 utopia. economictimes.indiatimes.com/magazines/pa...
I gather Waffle Houses would be even more ripe for it--I heard of the Waffle House sign that the hurricane's REALLY serious when they finally send the servers home--but I've never been to one, not being in the right region
"We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors. We borrow it from our children." Native American Proverb
We are all connected to everyone and everything in the universe. Therefore, everything one does as an individual affects the whole. All thoughts, words, images, prayers, blessings, and deeds are listened to by all that is. Serge King
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He Found a Clam, A CLAM! đ #dog #dogday #bluesky
Thank you so much for this. I do get tired of the Dem bashing in the media when voters decided to give them no power. Theyâll are doing all the can with the cards dealt. Iâm glad Mr. Velshi acknowledged you and hereâs hoping he hosts you on his show for the actual facts.
Plus, Jaime Harrison is no longer the head of the DNC. So how are his posts the cause of depressing the base. When all else fails, they blame Black people who are the true base of the Democratic Party.
"Sending away the 'others' to make way for white people to flourish is at the literal center of Gastâs painted vision of the West. That vision is reproduced in Homeland Securityâs own videos." ICYMI:
Fifty-one of the 85 Federalist papers were written by a guy born in Nevis.
Anna has had excellent coverage of this developing case in which the Trump administration tried to use the holiday weekend to secretly and illegally deport children.
NEW: 72 of the 76 Guatemalan children previously boarded onto planes have been returned to ORR custody, per DOJ, with the remaining 4 expected to be returned in the next 15 min. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
âŚThe governmentâs argument seems crazy to me because, among other things, it suggests that 6 U.S.C. 279(b)(1)(H) displaces or overrides processes set out in statutes like the TVPRA bsky.app/profile/anna...
In related news, Iâve discovered a provision of law that allows the Secretary of Transportation to summarily abolish cars and order construction of high-speed railways wherever he feels like it
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Trump is doing a great job of bringing our adversaries together
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Flood watch continues for South-Central Texas until noon Monday. Here's the latest. www.expressnews.com/san-antonio-...
'Ungodly things:' Texas sheriff charged with sexually harassing employees www.expressnews.com/news/article...
Keto diet benefits women more than men, says UT Health San Antonio study www.expressnews.com/news/article...
From Vietnam to a Nazi leader, Army nurse's career was a wild ride www.expressnews.com/news/article...
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Okay. I just came back to this and you arenât calling these efforts resegregation yet, you absolutely should be
I have an opinion piece in the New York Times today on how the labor movement has failed to step up to the moment in countering Trump, even as Trump unilaterally strips public sector workers of collective bargaining. Labor will die as a movement if this continues. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...
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