The man's company created housing shortages around the country and some places are putting legislation against AirBnB. His concerns have nothing to do with the border.
The man's company created housing shortages around the country and some places are putting legislation against AirBnB. His concerns have nothing to do with the border.
Lutnick Family Angling To Make Astronomical Sums Off Court Nixing Tariffs talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/lutni...
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Link just in case: bookshop.org/p/books/the-...
Group of HSI agents walking around Shaw, shining flashlights in cars.
There's even a graphic novel version if they just want to look at pictures.
Same. It's insane all of this is happening.
I am not kidding even a little about the necessity of starting with Reconstruction 2 if there is to be any hope of making this a country worthy of survival.
He thinks he can pay his way in.
Every time your electricity bill goes up for the next 10 years, it can be traced back to this Administration’s actions. They are making solar and wind power illegal to build in the United States. They are artificially restricting supply while demand is going up.
BREAKING: Big moment as CDC staff stage a mass walkout. They have lined the street outside its HQ to greet and salute the four top officials who have resigned in protest at RFK Jr’s attack on the agency’s science base. (🎥 AP)
Tulsi Gabbard surprised CIA officials last week when she included an undercover senior CIA officer on a roster of 37 current and former officials she stripped of security clearances.
BETRAYED YET AGAIN BY MAGA elected officials that can’t muster the courage to honor with a plaque the J6 officers who fulfilled their oath and duty while they ran in fear for their lives and from the mob she was part of. FU all cowers.
A former CDC staffer adds: “This is the work of a death cult.”
The Trump Cabinet laughs as Howard Lutnick announces he will demand that American universities give the US government a stake in patents that they own. More federal government coercion of private entities into ceding ownership. More federal government intimidation of universities.
"If somebody kills somebody in the capital, Washington, D.C., we're going to be seeking the death penalty, and that's a very strong preventative,” President Trump said at a Cabinet meeting.
Straight outta Stirling: the musical giving William Wallace the Hamilton treatment
This is the second day in a row he’s said this. This is an intentional normalization effort.
🚨BREAKING: A leading election conspiracy theorist has been named to a new “election integrity” post at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS). www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
For folks not familiar with DC, here is a map of the stations National Guard is at. Red is where they reported they’d be, purple is where they have also been seen. Notice anything?
Spotted in Columbia Heights, DC yesterday: one of the 25 new decked-out ICE SUVs the Trump admin spent millions on
The prolonged public torturing of a single man because the state cannot admit to its errors is not something that occurs in a free country
Trump's troops are making federal cases out of low-level arrests — such as possession of an open container — in DC. Meanwhile, his administration has rolled back enforcement actions against 165 lawbreaking corporations since January. "Tough on crime."
A new executive order turns the National Guard into his personal police force. @janessagoldbeck.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/janessag...
The precise moment when and where in recent weeks America crossed that invisible line from democracy into authoritarianism can and will be debated by future historians, but it’s clear that the line itself has been crossed. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/america-ti...
It’s up to the discretion of RFK Jr to define what ”medically frail” is when it comes to potential Medicaid work requirement exemptions—which may play a huge role in deciding which chronically ill and disabled people could qualify. My latest for @motherjones.com. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
There's going to be many people along the Gulf states who are going to be upset they can no longer wear American flag bikinis and wife beaters.
holy shit
EXCLUSIVE: The Trump administration will move to pull the COVID vaccine off the U.S. market “within months,” one of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s closest associates has told the Daily Beast.
Epstein accuser Virginia Giuffre’s memoir to be published posthumously
Listening to this episode and when RFK Jr was mentioned, I thought it should be shared that the brain worm story came from his 2nd divorce proceedings where we was trying to say he was not mentally capable to pay child support. He was having money troubles. www.politico.com/news/2024/05...
After Viktor Orban sent Trump a note about a Ukrainian drone strike on Aug. 13 that damaged the Druzhba oil pipeline, Trump wrote back: “Viktor — I do not like hearing this. I am very angry about it.… You are my great friend.” Why is Trump never angry about Russia’s relentless attacks on Ukraine?
"I gave my life to Christ in their parking lot"
🚨🚨🚨 DEVELOPING: The FBI Is at John Bolton’s House "Shortly before 7:00 am Friday morning, the FBI and Montgomery County police were seen at the Bethesda home of John Bolton...Montgomery County police confirmed that they were on site in support of the FBI." www.thebulwark.com/p/developing...
The FBI is raiding John Bolton's house, apparently at Kash Patel's personal direction, the NY Post is reporting:
This should cure whatever fear you have about looking stupid or weak in the gym.
Wal-Mart is feeling the pinch as tariffs cause price increases that customers can’t keep up with forcing stores to close in low income areas.
NEW: In March, the Trump administration announced a massive purge of workers at the nation's health agencies. We asked them how many workers were laid off, pushed out or left. They refused to give us numbers. So we conducted our own analysis... 🧵 projects.propublica.org/federal-heal...
Standing at Rhode Island Ave., Metro. Guy waiting to pick somebody else up just told me that there’s a checkpoint on Rhode Island Ave NE, nearby. be careful everybody. If I see it on my way home, I will Post the location for you. @spacelawshitpost.me
What's gone unsaid in all this talk about homeless people in DC is that so many in the Capital are veterans who are now having the military aimed back at them for the crime of being poor.
Have you seen an increase in your electricity bill this year? A new report has found that the average household electricity bill has increased by 10% since Donald Trump re-entered the White House.
party of sadist fucks www.msn.com/en-us/news/u...
DC residents respond to an ATF/Secret Service/MPD/FBI arrest in front of the Union Market Trader Joes earlier tonight: "You're not even from here. Piss off." "Get the fuck off the streets, you're not here for us." "Fascists, go home."
The U.S. has deported the first Ukrainian refugees, according to Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
“The agriculture community by and large supported President Trump,” Mr. Kelley told me. “We’re of a like mind in many ways." In what ways?
Newsmax will pay $67 million to settle one of the last outstanding defamation lawsuits against a news organization for airing false claims that the 2020 election was rigged.
Holy shit.
NEW YORK (AP) — Television's MSNBC network is changing its name to My Source News Opinion World, or MS NOW for short.
Late last night I mapped crime rates for cities in OH, SC and WV to show how often they exceeded the rate in DC — where those states’ governors are sending National Guard troops to “combat crime.” www.pbump.net/o/more-peopl...
60 Minutes Australia said YOLO and did a major investigation into Trump and Epstein. youtu.be/qMIP4RIoCHc?...
Members of the Proud Boys were convicted of seditious conspiracy, the closest crime we have to treason itself
Waterstones opens 10 new stores a year as younger adults embrace reading
In other words: They lied.
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While masked agents were violently attacking a delivery worker this morning, bystanders repeatedly asked to see their badge numbers but they refused. Bystander: You guys are ruining this country, you know that, right? Agent: Liberals already ruined it.
UPDATE: This exclusive story has been updated to include a response from the White House.
this person should get a lawyer, and, if they don't have a lawyer, my number is easy to find
“None Of These Books Are Obscene”: Judge Strikes Down Much of Florida’s Book Ban Bill This is a big win for intellectual freedom and will have big implications in other ongoing lawsuits and future laws aiming to ban books. bookriot.com/penguin-rand...
One of these things is not like the other #washingtondc
Between Trump’s authoritarian plan to occupy American cities, this scheme to invade our neighbors, and with FEMA not up to the task for any natural disasters— the military might be stretched a little thin. 🚨 Team Trump is actually drawing up attack plans for Mexico.
ALABAMA: “The verdict is in. The state’s tough immigration law just isn’t working out… American workers not mentally or physically fit enough to last one day…”
PM update- many more National Guard + vehicles (I saw six) at 6 pm, and half a dozen federal police vehicles too. The taxi drivers who threaten pedestrians in the Union Station crosswalk, who imo represent the greatest danger to me personally on my commute, seem to be unaffected
NEW: Inside the culture of fear that has taken hold within Smithsonian museums in D.C., as White House officials wage an authoritarian-style censorship campaign to “ensure alignment” with Trump’s preferred version of American history. "Everyone is so scared." www.huffpost.com/entry/smiths...
Neo-Nazi “Youth Clubs” are forming across the U.S., targeting boys aged 15 to 18 with white supremacist propaganda, MMA training, and recruitment tactics modeled after the violent Active Club network. Active in at least 42 states, the movement is spreading both online and offline. Read more:
Meta’s flirty AI chatbot invited a retiree to New York. He never made it home. reut.rs/45DNQnj
Notice they don’t deny it. Corruption and grift at every turn. 🇺🇸
HSI duties at Union Station: walk in one door, look around, walk out another door, stand and stare in direction of Capitol with hands on hips.
NEW: The U.S. Supreme Court is set to hear oral argument in Callais v. Landry — the high-stakes Louisiana redistricting case that could upend the Voting Rights Act (VRA) — on October 15. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
US to retaliate against IMO members that back net zero emissions plan reut.rs/4lo7720
So much about our current national situation is explained by the fact that a substantial proportion of Americans truly believe that “feeling somewhat uncomfortable” is the same as being the victim of an actual crime
BREAKING WSJ: The Trump White House plans to conduct a far-reaching review of Smithsonian museum exhibitions, materials and operations ahead of America's 250th anniversary to ensure the museums align with "Trump's interpretation of American history." www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
🚨ALERT: ICE & other feds raided the Home Depot parking lot on Rhode Island this morning (8/12) and detained approx 15 people who were both workers and shoppers. Multiple agencies were involved and the cowards were masked. 1/
BREAKING: EXCLUSIVE: Senator Whitehouse asked the BOP for Ghislaine Maxwells sex offender waiver, custody level, transfer code, and security point score. I have them. She's also been granted the ability to leave the facility for work assignments. My latest: www.muellershewrote.com/p/exclusive-...
Stay salty DC 🔥
I decided to catch cliff notes rather than explode in real time
Someone forgot to take down this webpage: www.justice.gov/usao-dc/pr/v...
🚨 Sources close to the DC mayor and police say, Trump will deploy 1,000 National Guard troops into D.C. tomorrow/Monday. • For context, Los Angeles is 502.7 square miles, and he deployed 4,000 troops there. • Washington, D.C. is only 68.3 square miles. This is what cities under siege look like.
BBC International Editor Jeremy Bowen has confirmed that the entire Al Jazeera team in Gaza City has been killed.
Shoutout to our besties @ftpmutualaid.bsky.social for putting these to use & heading out to help folks print their documents & make digital & hard copy duplicates in case they are stopped by ICE or camp is evicted. Important info to prepare for increased fed presence from migrant solidarity below 👇
Donald Trump demanded that unhoused Washington, D.C., residents “have to move out [of the city] IMMEDIATELY.” Story: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
INBOX: Former US attorney Preet Bharara is representing Adam Schiff and has issued a statement blasting Ed Martin's "glaring" bias as he examines allegations Bharara says are "stale" and "debunked" re Schiff's mortgage.
Trump says he will meet Putin in Alaska and signals Ukraine may need to cede land on.ft.com/3UhcuVF
Seven different people have been Directors of the IRS this year.
I hate AI, but that is amazing and, okay, a good use for it -- futuristic speculation instead of pretending it's something real now. Maxwell, Leavitt, Noem instantly recognizable.
In English a cat’s paw pads can be called “toe beans.” In German, I’ve heard them referred to as Zehenbeere, or “toe berries.” In Japanese they are 肉球 (“flesh buns”). Norwegian has tredeputer, or “stepping pillows.” And a colloquial Korean name for them is 냥젤리. It essentially means “meow-gummies.”
“We don’t erase history” says the sentient can of body spray who took Medgar Evers and Harvey Milk’s names off Navy ships
NEW: The Department of Veterans Affairs just terminated union contracts including AFL-CIO (AFGE), NAGE, NFFE, SEIU, and nursing unions NNOC and NNU. nurse.org/news/va-term...
The women of the family sewed their jewels into their dresses, acting as bullet-proof vests. So when they didn't die by firing squad, bayonets were used.
Laura Loomer is now touting her new title as “Trump’s Rasputin” for her growing political influence, à la the Russian Svengali who advised the Romanov family.
Grocery stores that have been eating the cost of tariffs are about to pump the brakes. Some are looking to be more transparent about the coming price hikes. Starting tomorrow, new tariffs of 15% to 50% hit a wide range of food items. If you’ve got a household food budget, this is a must-watch.
The Department of Justice hired a former Jan. 6 defendant who was caught on tape urging rioters to "kill" police. The department calls him a "valued member" of the administration.
SCOOP: The Prospect has discovered that FEMA probationary employees who had been on paid leave were told to report to ICE within seven days or lose their jobs. It could signal problems with ICE recruitment. From @ddayen.bsky.social:
It's starting to feel very 1936 Olympics.
A reigning Miss United States beauty pageant winner has accused a Florida MAGA Republican of harassment and of threatening to leak sexual videos of her following their breakup.
Hegseth has announced that he intends to reinstall the Confederate monument in Arlington National Cemetery. Let's see how this plays out. www.thedailybeast.com/pete-hegseth...
Florida officials are warning the public about the risks of consuming raw milk after over 20 people have gotten sick.
Kate from Kharkiv 