Why Won’t Farmers Rebel Against Trumponomics? Because They’re Rich. The majority of “family farmers” aren’t working-class strivers. They’re affluent, politically connected businessmen who know when their next bailout is coming.
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Why Won’t Farmers Rebel Against Trumponomics? Because They’re Rich. The majority of “family farmers” aren’t working-class strivers. They’re affluent, politically connected businessmen who know when their next bailout is coming.
“.. levels not seen since 1992.” @bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
NEW: Ed Martin, the head of the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) vague weaponization task force, in a recent letter threatened to open a criminal investigation into a now-retired FBI special agent who sued the far-right conspiracy theorist Alex Jones over Jones’ lies about a mass school shooting.
Aldenberg was one of the first responders the day of the school massacre. He & the families testified that they faced years of harassment & threats from those who believed Jones’ lies that the shooting, which killed 20 first graders & six adults, was a hoax. www.cnn.com/2025/09/24/p...
Kimmel: “This show is not important. What is important is that we get to live in a country that allows us to have a show like this."
Their return will allow the agency to clear a massive backlog of work that has cost taxpayers an untold amount of money by forcing the government to pay more to stay in properties where leases had been slated for termination or were permitted to expire. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
Three indie media outlets in Chicago have teamed up to boost the reach of their reporting on the ICE presence there. They're all on bluesky. The Triibe @thetriibe.com , Chicago Reader @chicagoreader.com , and Unravelled @unraveledpress.com L.A. TACO interviews them here: lataco.com/chicago-ice-...
The locations were set up near U.S. military bases “for easier recruitment & indoctrination of military members,” some of whom were directed by church leadership to attend the bible seminaries & use their military benefits to pay for attending.” www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-...
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Kimmel shreds Trump in first episode after GOP effort to silence him www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...
Trump to low-income seniors: Screw you!
Jimmy Kimmel: "A government threat to silence a comedian the president doesn't like is anti-American."
Just a reminder that Republican candidate Valentina Gomez posted a video simulating the execution of a migrant in December
Just to piss off Nexstar, Sinclair, and Trump. Linking to the Kimmel YouTube video which has nearly 3 million views. www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1tj...
Noem said a motive is not known and that "ICE law enforcement is facing unprecedented violence against them." www.npr.org/2025/09/24/n...
He said that if such interference were really happening and conservatives were supporting such behavior they were “crazy” because eventually they themselves would be the target of such censorship. www.cnn.com/2025/09/24/b...
It was foreign affairs journalist Ishaan Tharoor who captured the larger story of Trump’s speech. “A senior foreign diplomat posted at the U.N. texts me,” Tharoor wrote, “‘This man is stark, raving mad. Do Americans not see how embarrassing this is?’”
Ishaan is a Washington post global affairs columnist 👇🏽
The complainants in the case engaged five experts, including Baccarelli, to testify in their case. But in December 2023 their testimonies were dismissed by a federal judge, Denise Cote, who found their views to be “unreliable”. www.thetimes.com/us/american-...
F*** ICE
Major themes [of the committee] since the 2010s, according to a data analysis, have been prevention of sexual assault and harassment, gender equality and integration, career progression and women’s health and wellbeing. www.militarytimes.com/news/pentago...
We are seeing the creation of an oligarchy, where those in power & those with money slowly merge. We are seeing the proclamation of a one-party system. We are seeing Trump & those around him pick targets to go after & make them obey the administration’s wishes. www.theatlantic.com/podcasts/arc...
NEW: CBP has been funneling DNA from US citizens—including kids—into the FBI’s crime database. Nearly 2,000 Americans swabbed, many with no charges. Once for violent offenders, CODIS is becoming a mass-surveillance archive. analysis by @georgetownprivacy.bsky.social
Sens. Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock are asking Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem for answers after more than a dozen people died in immigration detention, as the department rushes to expand.
Three people familiar with the federal probe into Kirk’s assassination told NBC News that investigators have yet to find a link between the alleged shooter and left-wing groups. www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...
This is delusional but you don’t have to read the whole thing. Boils down to: he’s shutting down the government because he thinks he’s a king.
Trump’s remarks were irresponsible. New York University bioethicist Art Caplan said it was “the saddest display of a lack of evidence, rumors, recycling old myths, lousy advice, outright lies, and dangerous advice I have ever witnessed by anyone in authority.” apnews.com/article/tyle...
Lindsey Halligan was sworn in Monday as U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia, though she has no prosecutorial experience. Most recently, she's been helping Trump remove what he calls "improper ideology" from the Smithsonian museums. www.npr.org/2025/09/22/n...
"It is highly unsettling that our federal health agencies are willing to make an announcement that will affect the health & well-being of millions of people without the backing of reliable data," said the president of the American College of Obstetricians & Gynecologists www.npr.org/sections/sho...
BREAKING: A federal judge has ordered Trump to restore $500 million in frozen UCLA NIH grants. The same judge, Rita F. Lin, previously ordered all UCLA NSF grants reinstated. Lin has now nearly entirely reversed Trump's July de-funding of UCLA research: www.latimes.com/california/s...
The Republican-dominated House Oversight Committee has been slow to release records related to the investigation of convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein - not least because reports that the records mention Trump seem confirmed by FBI director Kash Patel’s refusal to answer questions.
“For many years, RFK and Trump have shared their belief that vaccines cause autism, but this is also not supported by the science, which has shown no relationship between vaccines and autism.” autismsciencefoundation.org/press_releas...
Voters in southwest Arizona are highly likely to elect a new Democratic House member in a special election today. That would-be lawmaker plans to become the 218th and clinching supporter of a bipartisan effort to force public disclosure of federal investigative files related to Jeffrey Epstein.
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Hundreds of years ago, the Church laid the foundation for the theft of the Americas, enslavement of Africans and Native Americans, and centuries of brutal colonization worldwide, with the doctrine that it was O.K. to take land and liberty from people who were not Christian. time.com/5929478/chri...
Imagine finishing a science based undergrad, doing 4 years of med school, volunteering hundreds of hours in health facilities, completing a 4 year residency and getting Board certified just to have some inbred fuck walk into your hospital telling you “Nope RFK said Tylenol will make my kid Artistic”
A must-watch @velshi.com segment featuring @colinpclarke.bsky.social and @milleridriss.bsky.social covering the “incredibly dangerous” great replacement theory and its mainstreaming on the American right. One of the gravest threats to American lives today. www.msnbc.com/ali-velshi/w...
BREAKING: Jimmy Kimmel Live! will return on Tuesday night following a brief suspension. "Last Wednesday, we made the decision to suspend production on the show to avoid further inflaming a tense situation at an emotional moment for our country..."
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There is only one way to resolve this. RELEASE THE HOMAN TAPES!!!
"Thou shall have no other gods before me"
Coulter Gets "Put In Her Place".....
OLIVER: “I’d argue @disney & Bob Iger need to stand by @jimmykimmel and his staff — history is also going to remember the cowards who knew better. Giving the bully your lunch money doesn’t make him go away, it just makes him come back hungrier each time.” 🎯
That's a LOT of current/former Disney talent. @thr.com $DIS www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/j...
OLIVER: “In Russia, when Putin rose to power, TV satirists were among his first targets… Putin was driven to madness by how he was mocked on a puppet show… the lesson is it’s not safe to let one show slide because there are currently others.”
Friday the Bureau of Labor Statistics postponed the release of the annual report on consumer expenditures—a key report for understanding inflation—without explanation. Officials at the BLS said the new report will be “rescheduled to a later date.” heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/september-...
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“They studied 51 populist presidents and prime ministers who were in power between 1900 and 2020 and found that after 15 years, GDP per capita was 10% lower when compared with a plausible nonpopulist counterfactual.”
New in PN: Turns out Republicans don't care about free speech after all "Calling this 'hypocrisy' is too banal and oversimplified. To understand it in full, you have to be attuned to how power operates and how the right thinks about it."
The backlash to ABC/Disney canceling Kimmel has been swift, and severe. The whole episode underscores something I've been blogging about for a while: A lot of powerful people just don’t realize how unpopular Trump is www.gelliottmorris.com/p/a-lot-of-p...
For @onthemedia.bsky.social I spoke with @ryanhatesthis.bsky.social (whose Garbage Day newsletter is absolutely essential these days) about radicalization and what mainstream outlets get wrong about internet culture and memes. Really enjoyed this one: www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm...
Agree with Mayor Pete.......
Usman, 40, told CNN her most recent loss was in March, just days after a US-funded nutrition program that had provided therapeutic food packets to her malnourished twins was abruptly halted. www.cnn.com/2025/09/21/a...
I don’t know whether I should laugh or cry, but this really pisses me off.
Lachlan Murdoch recently took over Fox Corp and News Corp, the family's media empire, bringing a lengthy succession battle with his siblings to a close. Rupert Murdoch, 94, is chairman emeritus of News Corp. www.bbc.com/news/article...
These new restrictions fall in line with the broader policy of the Trump administration to attempt to limit coverage from outlets who President Trump has deemed unfair. www.npr.org/2025/09/20/g...
About 2.4 million fewer Americans, including families with children, are forecast to receive food stamp benefits in an average month after lawmakers expanded work requirements to some parents, older enrollees & others, according to a Congressional Budget Office analysis. www.cnn.com/2025/09/21/h...
The organization says it received close to 100 examples of content takedowns from abortion providers, advocacy groups and individuals on Meta platforms such as Instagram and Facebook, as well as TikTok and even LinkedIn. fortune.com/2025/09/16/f...
Chump makes History for All The Wrong Reasons........
The candidates are a mix of retirees and educators still on the job. Some are longtime Republicans, others were unaffiliated until recently, and one switched parties from Democrat to Republican last month. Many were previously apolitical. www.theassemblync.com/education/k-...
In June, the Army announced plans to consolidate its current 41 museums down to just 12. The Army has not publicly confirmed which museums will be closed. www.theassemblync.com/military/82n...
Trump demanded Bondi appoint Halligan – a onetime beauty queen – to replace Erik Siebert, a former police officer and experienced prosecutor and US attorney who resigned after finding no grounds for prosecuting the New York attorney general, Letitia James. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
A senior intelligence official disputed this account & said Gabbard told Trump in the Oval Office that she had compiled names of officers who had worked on the intelligence assessments on Russia’s influence operations during the 2016 election who should be fired www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
British fighter jets have conducted a Nato air defence mission over Poland as part of an allied response to Russian drone incursions into Polish airspace. www.bbc.com/news/article...
Because Republicans know that voters overwhelmingly support abortion rights, they’re trying to trick Missourians about what their ballot measure would actually do. First, they called it Amendment 3. That’s right, GOP’ abortion ban has the same name as the pro-choice measure that voters passed in Nov
The president ordering the murder of 3 more human beings on a boat didn’t even make the list
NEW: Jack Smith: "The Department of Justice Was My Home...That Home is Now On Fire." open.substack.com/pub/muellers...
Disney is no longer associated with magic and innocence in the minds of millions now. There are mistakes - and there is catastrophic cowardice that changes your brand identity. Boycott Disney.
Oh, look, our DEMENTED so-called president accidentally tweeted a text to our so-called Attorney General for ALL to SEE! This is CORRUPTION OF THE HIGHEST ORDER!👇🏽
“Stop the Count”: food-insecurity version. 🤡 @wsj.com www.wsj.com/economy/trum...
"In fact, the number of far-right attacks continues to outpace all other types of terrorism and domestic violent extremism." share.newsbreak.com/f3mveuh4
Increase in productivity since 1979: 87% Increase in hourly pay since 1979: 32% Just so happens that ~25% of workers were unionized in 1979. Today? 10%. As unions declined, the super-rich have taken a larger share of wealth generated by labor. We must build back union power.
VFC works so well not only because it provides vaccines free of charge but also because it is designed to ensure that doctors always have a supply of vaccines on hand—who then dole them out to children in need. www.theatlantic.com/health/2025/...
Homan indicated he could help the undercover agents win contracts and the FBI and Department of Justice had planned to wait and see if Homan would deliver on that — but the case was ultimately stalled and then closed under the Trump administration. www.politico.com/news/2025/09...
Meanwhile, back in the real world . . . Bagram Air Base was built by the Soviet Union in the 1950s. What an idiot.
Good for you, Mayor Biss!
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The Disney+ cancellation page keeps crashing. creators.yahoo.com/lifestyle/st...
“Trump is cancelling an annual government survey that measures hunger in America, rather than allow it to show hunger increasing under his tenure.” apnews.com/article/trum...
This is the other big story people aren't paying attention to but you really need to widen your lens. The broligarchy is coming for all of our milkshakes. fair.org/home/as-elli...
Top fed prosecutor in Virginia is forced out, as Trump allies seek criminal case against New York AG Tish James Prosecutor’s goodbye letter to staff: “Thank you for the lessons you have taught me, the sacrifices you have made & the pursuit of justice” www.cbsnews.com/news/acting-...
Whatever leverage is in veteran voices, whatever that coin is worth , spend it here If we ignore the people who tell our stories getting bullied then “veteran” as an idea is bullshit whatever “veteran” is, it has to mean fighting for your friends They wouldnt stand silent if it happened to us
As I told @newrepublic.com, "Once last week, twice today, ICE has picked me up and thrown me on the ground. Honestly, it doesn’t compare to what our neighbors who are trapped inside the Broadview processing facility are going through. They’re committing crimes against humanity there."
While the share of all American adults who say the country is off track has increased 13 percentage points since June, from 62% to 75%, the biggest change has been among Republicans. In June, 29% of Republicans were concerned about the direction of the country; now that number is 51%.
Plz don’t send me classified info but if you want to tell me what’s going on at the Pentagon my Signal username is annabower.24
Under the First Amendment, the president doesn’t get to censor comedians, TV networks or political speech. Americans and our Constitution reject Kings, dictators and speech Commissars.
Last month saw the biggest jump in grocery prices in almost three years. For Shelia Fields, who lives in Galveston, Texas, the hunt for affordable food has almost become a full-time job. www.npr.org/2025/09/19/n...
They’re going to fire a US attorney because they couldn’t find evidence for a crime that was manufactured by the administration? Banana republic shit
First Colbert. Then Kimmel. Now the U.S. Attorney for Virginia's Eastern District open.substack.com/pub/thefucki...