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The plane Ursula von der Leyen @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu was on was forced to land in Bulgaria due to suspected Russian GPS interference | FT There are reports that the pilots even had to use paper maps due to GPS jamming as they made the emergency landing.
This should be getting far more attention from the media, and it should be investigated as a hate crime. A 14-year-old Black teen was targeted, beaten, and dehumanized with racial slurs by white teens while people stood around cheering. 1/4
Watch what this does to our economy. Small business owners and those who rely on them are already aware. Wait til this compounds the hurt weāre about to feel because of tariffs on goods & now services too. Itās squeezing the average American in favor of corporate greed/ extreme ideologies.
apnews.com/article/labo... million immigrants are gone from the US labor force under Trump, preliminary data shows
Today's a good day to learn Colbert found a new job. Hope it's a good one for everybody! #HappyLaborDay
Much! Iām very lucky to have quite a few in my area. We need to ensure people in cities & all communities have this kind of direct access. Itās a vital resource that needs to be more equitable.
Veggie gardens are unbelievable.
Farmers markets. Local grocery.
Netflix just gave Gavin Newsom 2 million for the redistricting fight and made a deal with Sesame Street. New episodes will air there and the backlog of old episodes will Be free to watch. Netflix picked a side. I will keep my subscription.
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SHAY D. DANCE BETTER TIPTOE PAST NEWSOM'S TWO LIPS!
senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, former chief economist to Senator Rob Portman (R-OH) & director of budget and spending policy for Marco Rubioās 2016 presidential campaignšš½
MO Gov Mike Kehoe is calling a special session to gerrymander the 5th District which encompasses Kansas City. He is specifically violating Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, which bans any voting practice that denies or weakens the power of a racial minority to elect its preferred candidates.
Trump and his family have made over $3.4 BILLION while in office. Weāve never seen profiteering at this scale ā not even close. While costs rise for Americans, Trump is using the White House to rake in as much money for himself as possible.
This is, of course, false. The United States exported $83 billion in goods and services to India last year alone.
Unacceptable. We should be actively keeping this from happening. Not handing them weapons. Itās stomach churning.
āAnother merciless night in Gaza City,ā said Saeed Abu Elaish, a Jabaliya-born medic sheltering in the northwestern side of the city. https://to.pbs.org/3HVQ7T5
Friends, I urge you to join a Workers Over Billionaires protest this Labor Day. Letās honor the roots of this holiday by standing together to protest the exploitation and oppression of our tinpot dictator. bit.ly/4lMgKaR
The problem isnāt refugees on boats. The problem is oligarchs hoarding obscene amounts of wealth while most people fight to stay afloat. Wages aren't tied to inflation, so the working class keeps falling behind no matter how hard they work.
Exactly. Iām such lazy dog person. Thatās why I end up with a variety of labs.
This is what happens when it takes this long to seek justice. They effectively bought time for the perpetrators. The victims continue to wait for the justice they deserve. I bet the evidence was all there when Epstein received his sweetheart deal. Easy case at that point.
If they enact a new illegal congressional map, Missouri will be sued.
Today we celebrate the strength and resilience of working people everywhere. Nearly 300,000 federal employees have lost their jobs this year not because of necessity, but because of a political agenda. And while peopleās lives were destroyed in the name of āsaving money,ā
We would not do that. Hopefully heās passed by then. Heās wasted enough of our money.
Revoking an entire nationalityās visas is collective punishment and never acceptable ā especially in this moment when millions of Palestinians lack equal rights, basic healthcare, and so much more at home, forcing them out of the US is unfathomably cruel. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/31/w...
Tuesdayās moisture and energy will be in the mid levels of the atmosphere and wonāt require sunshine or mountains to pop a thunderstorm. This means lightning is possible regardless of time of day or proximity to a mountain range. Storms could begin before dawn in the Central Valley. #CAwx
The National Guardners
Wages of unionized workers are 13% higher than their nonunion counterparts. But unions also set a higher pay standard that all workers enjoy. In high-union-density states, median household income is $12,000 higher than in low-union-density states. This is why unions are vital.
Yes, and now president Cankles has handed Russia & China a new ally. A very large one. India is huge. This is incredibly dangerous. The summit that just happened with these countries in China is creating a new axis of power. Idiot.
The thing I donāt get is the same press that is being kept at a distance from an obviously not hale and hearty president isnāt screaming for answers?
Not soon enough.
An upcoming news conference with victims of Jeffrey Epstein could be āexplosive,ā one of the congressmen pushing for full release of the files on Epstein predicts. Democratic Rep. Ro Khanna said the victimsā accounts will force lawmakers to vote on a bill requiring DOJ to release its files.
Robert Mueller has Parkinsonās disease, his family said, and will not be able to comply with a request that he testify before Congress
I signed an open letter from economists supporting Fed independence & Governor Lisa Cook Letter: docs.google.com/document/d/1... Add your name by Monday: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
āDiversity of thought is, in many ways, harder to be comfortable with than demographic diversity,ā Arthur C. Brooks writes. Corporate leaders should turn curiosity about othersā beliefs into a cultural norm. Itāll be great for their business too: https://theatln.tc/7IegYzMp
California stepping up.
If it was that critical, no way they would have sent her. Tanks rolling through a park with nothing going on but summer camp. No citizens wielding actual weapons (which are REALLY easy to obtain as weāve seen recently). No riots. Nothing but federally imported/ contrived political theater.
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Pritzker: "We don't want troops on the streets of American cities. That's un-American and frankly the president ought to know better. This one doesn't seem to. He hasn't read any books. He doesn't seem to understand the Constitution or the laws."
Medicare for all, paid leave, universal childcare. Busting up big corporations and tackling Wall Streetās greed. Getting big money out of politics. Supporting unions and fighting for higher wages. If Dems want to win back working people, this is the agenda they must support.
Heās providing them with valuable mulching experience though.
āLetās begin by saying that we are living through a very dangerous time.ā So opens āA Talk to Teachers,ā which James Baldwin delivered to a group of educators in October, 1963.
@jollygoodginger.bsky.social is in DC with other vets right now standing up for democracy. He's playing General Milleys speech on repeat for them today š #LoveTheVets!
Pritzker: "No one in the administration -- the president or anybody under him -- has called anyone in my administration or me. It's clear that in secret they're are planning this invasion with US troops."
Denmark accuses Trump-linked Americans of stirring separatism in #Greenland www.helsinkitimes.fi/world-int/27...
Pivot to the Caribbean
Did anyone have the possibility of war with/ invasion of Greenland (Denmark) or Venezuela on their radar before this year? So confused.
The Social Security Administration official who exposed that the Department of Government Efficiency had left millions of Americansā personal data vulnerable says he has been forced to resign due to retaliation. Charles Borges, who served as the SSAās chief data officer, told
āILLEGALSā MY ASS! Green card holder Rami Othmane speaks out after being snatched off the street by ICE while driving to the grocery store. Heās 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.
Good to see the New York Times has a lengthy obituary for Margaret Rossiter
Love to see it
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At least SOME countries recognize the value of NATURE and all its offerings.
CARTOON OF THE DAY (From @mluckovichajc)
"She did not die defending the Constitution. She died trying to overturn it. She was not protecting lives at a gate in Iraq; she was forcing her way through windows in the Capitol to stop the peaceful transfer of power." New from @markhertling.bsky.social:
They donāt care if you have papers or not. What they care about is whether you look like an immigrant from south of the border.
I really hope this becomes the black eye it deserves to be www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
NEW: Late Friday night, a federal judge blocked the Trump administration's unlawful and cruel fast-track deportation policy. This win is a blow to the president's anti-immigrant agenda. Immigrants have the right to due process and to live without fear of being torn from their families.
California lawmakers reach an agreement with Uber and Lyft that will open the door for app-based drivers to form unions. This is a victory for organized labor that could lay the groundwork for similar efforts in other states.
Katrina inspired a $3B wetlands rebuilding project. Louisiana just killed it.
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.
Garcia: We finally got word from the Epstein estate. They're going to be providing the actual Epstein bookā¦ 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.
A federal court in Washington, D.C. has blocked President Donald Trump's plan to expand an expedited deportation process to immigrants who have been in the country longer than two years.
Mike Johnson dismisses the unpopularity of the Big Beautiful Bill: "The individual provisions of that giant piece of legislation are wildly popular." CNN host John Berman immediately debunks that claim.
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
Killing clean energy projects means killing jobs and raising bills. 64,000 jobs already lost or at risk. 400,000 more on the line. The future is clean energyāand thatās where we must invest.
OPINION by @erum-salam.bsky.social: āChicago Mayor Brandon Johnson called Trumpās intention to deploy the National Guard in the city āuncoordinated, uncalled for, and unsound.āā READ MORE: www.msnbc.com/top-stories/...
Americaās rule of law is facing its biggest test in decades, as court battles over Trumpās use of executive power expose limits on how much judges can constrain the presidency.
As weāre observing.
Pam Bondi just lost to a Subway sandwich. Couldnāt even convict a $5 footlong. Same crew that hides the Epstein files, pretending they run the show. Theyāre not powerful, theyāre clowns. #EpsteinFiles #AhujaCongress2026 #CD32 #ChrisAhuja
And water is wet.
Well, yes. Itās a difficult problem and he wonāt benefit from a solution. Why wouldnāt he? Thatās who we (not me) elected.
After Hurricane Katrina, residents of a large Vietnamese community in the Algiers neighborhood were some of the first to return and rebuild. 20 years later, their neighborhood is still prone to flooding. Trump shut down the FEMA program that the community was using to mitigate the problem.
Presidency is the part that everyone should care about. But if weāre honest, weāre talking about his whole life.
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Clueless in Anchorage, as Putin chumps Trump again and again and again. Is it just incompetence, or does Putin have something on him?
Iowa Senator Joni Ernst is not seeking reelection in 2026: www.cnn.com/2025/08/29/p... Iowa swung hard to the right starting in 2016, but the 3 special elections that have happened in Iowa so far in 2025 have swung toward Dems by 22, 24, & 26 percentage points. Two seats have flipped blue.
Would we expect anything less of him? What made you think that the guy who bought them this much time was ever going to do anything else?
This story has it all: aquaculture, Black Flag, Bernie Sanders, Star Trek as policy, John Hodgman, male tears, and a candidate citing Luthenās monologue from Andor. Meet Graham Platner, the Maine oysterman trying to crack the senate. @grahamformaine.bsky.social newrepublic.com/article/1996...
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She would do a whole lot worse than that given the chance. And she has the ear of POTUS. We need to end this. All of it.
Thousands of Mike Johnson's own constituents are at risk of losing Medicaid coverage following the passage of a budget bill he pushed for. And itās all so he could help bankroll more tax cuts for corporations and the super-rich. Donāt let him forget.
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Trump is attempting more ILLEGAL cuts to government investments, trying to push Congress to the side entirely. This is a brazen attempt to steal Congress's power to be YOUR voice on taxpayer spending. Trump does NOT have a line-item veto, much less a retroactive one.
White House declares $4.9B in foreign aid unilaterally canceled in end-run around Congress' funding power.
āMind yer ownā says FOX. Umm, right. We agree.
Can we send them to farms? Crops are rotting. If they could hang out at Home Depot on the weekends, that would be helpful too. Theyāve been trained for all of this, right?
Canadians have HEART! So much heart: Before Wednesday night's game in Toronto between their Blue Jays vs our Minnesota Twins, the whole stadium, (42,000+), observed a moment of silence for the victims of the mass shooting at Annunciation Church and School in south Minneapolis. Thank you Canada!
In Norway & the UK, guns mean training, licenses, storage, inspections & bans on weapons of war. In America, itās broad access. We need red-flag laws, waiting periods & safe-storageābaseline protections other democracies already guarantee. #CD32 #GunSafety #NationalEmergency
Stop giving them bombs!!!
Israel hit Nasser hospital 4 times in its deadly attack on Monday. Analysis with @merlynthomas.bsky.social and Sebastian Vandermeersch. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
He doesnāt like competition. He hates anyone who can demonstrate how vile & incompetent he is. He is petty & devoid of conscience. So, yes. He will throw her, giddily, to the wolves. And anyone else who doesnāt hand him gold or kiss his enormous soft butt. And even thenā¦