The āPutin wants peaceā crowd, especially the āpoor persecuted Russia just has some reasonable security requestsā variety, really need to reckon with . Peace-seekers donāt go after the bureaucrats and diplomats.
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The āPutin wants peaceā crowd, especially the āpoor persecuted Russia just has some reasonable security requestsā variety, really need to reckon with . Peace-seekers donāt go after the bureaucrats and diplomats.
God Bless the Irish & their everlasting loyalty! www.irishstar.com/news/us-news...
At a briefing held by Gerasimov, Chief of the General Staff of the russian army, a map was behind him that showed the Odesa and Mykolaiv regions as part of russia. Russia does not want peace. They are planning to continue their conquest.
'Various participants described the outlook for US monetary policy as āhorribleā, āchaosā, and a ādisasterā.' on.ft.com/4n3d3yA
A Labor Day reminder: today there isn't a single city, metro area, or state in the U.S. where a full-time minimum-wage worker can afford a modest 2-bedroom apartment. Millions of people with jobsāeven multiple jobsāaren't safe from homelessness in this country.
9 CDC Directors going back to 1977 speak out. What RFK Jr has done to our nationās public health system "should alarm every American." It "is unlike anything we have ever seen at the agency, and unlike anything our country has ever experienced." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...
ICYMI (from 2019): www.vox.com/world/2019/2...
Ukraine said on Monday that it had arrested a suspect in the murder of a former Ukrainian parliamentary speaker, accusing Moscow of involvement in one of the most high-profile killings since the war began. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/w...
Von der Leyenās plane hit by suspected Russian GPS interference on.ft.com/4p2wEAO
Yesterday, after enjoining DOJ/DHS from removing dozens of unaccompanied Guatemalan minors, Judge Sooknanan ordered DOJ to file 4 status reports *later that same day*āwith a 5th still due this morningāto prove it complied. (āPresumption of regularityā is gone for this DOJ.) ... 1/2
Exactly what they wantedā¦ to make the holdouts miserable
Everything he said, and apply it to biomedical research too. Itās demoralizing to be told your lifeās work, your purpose, your passion, is not worthwhile and needs to be demolished.
First day of teaching today, and I'm going to tell my students that taking liberal arts classes at a time when a lot of the country wants the liberal arts to die is an act of resistance. Reading books and taking the time to sit with them and refusing easy answers is an act of resistance.
The only way to produce lasting peace in Ukraine is to defeat Russia, force it to return to 2014 borders and admit Ukraine into NATO and the EU. Anything less is likely simply to produce only a temporary pause before Russia attacks again.
In 7 months, Trump has taken the world's most powerful nation and turned it into a train wreck, inviting both our allies and our adversaries to reshape the world based on our irrelevance.
This is what you get when the head of management and budget openly says he wants to inflict trauma on bureaucrats. Too bad the country relies on those "bureaucrats" for minor things like disaster response, health care, air traffic control and weather warnings.
The AI infrastructure build-out is so gigantic that in the past 6 months, it contributed more to the growth of the U.S. economy than /all of consumer spending/ The 'magnificent 7' spent more than $100 billion on data centers and the like in the past three months *alone* www.wsj.com/tech/ai/sili...
Modi hugged Putin, then rode in the same car with him. š¤®
At least while alienating all of our allies, Trump has been instrumental in bringing others closer together.
Just basking once again in the wonder and glory of this one.
Most of the GPS problems come in eastern Europe, bordering Russia. The International Air Transport Association and the EU Aviation Safety Agency (Easa) held a summit in January to discuss GPS jamming and āspoofingā š” www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Putin has not changed. In the last 25 years he started four wars. He can only be kept in check through strong deterrence. We must be precise and fast with the surge in our defence posture ā europa.eu/!wgH6QK
Bulgaria has confirmed the incident and added that since February 2022, a significant increase in GPS jamming and spoofing is being observed.
āļøThe 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.
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Just sayinā.
letās hit pause here. rfk jr. wasnāt picked until november 14, 2024. most folks in politics thought it wouldnāt happen, while public health was ringing alarm bells many former cdc directors spoke out against him before before everyone else realized he was a serious threat
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In light of an opinion issued by Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost, the American Civil Liberties Union said that eight Ohio counties don't have legal contracts with U.S. Customs and Immigration Enforcement, so detainees must be released. ohiocapitaljournal.com/2025/09/01/a...
We now know that Trump, or probably more correctly, the White House posted a photo today showing Trump playing golf which we now know was taken over a week ago. What do you reckon is going on?
The six reliably pro-Trump justices are "racking up a rap sheet of constitutional abuses of staggering import." ICYMI Philip Allen Lacovara on the coming judgment of history:
THE TRUMP DEATH RUMOR WAS ENTIRELY TRUMP'S FAULT. Of course he's not dead. On the other hand, how could you really tell? But his staff screwed this up. Heās never before STFU for five days since 1946 so rumors run wild GET THE ALL-NEW COUNTDOWN LABOR DAY PODCAST HERE: tinyurl.com/32zr8a9t
Trump is trying to repeal a roadless rule that prevents loggers from denuding National Parksāsomething they just announced and which public only has a few weeks to speak against insideclimatenews.org/news/3008202...
Okay, here's what I know and don't know* about the planes that were supposed to take children to Guatemala today. *None of this flight tracking would be necessary if ICE Air didn't keep its operation secret and if Drew Ensign didn't talk to the court in riddles. 1/
Marcia Shore: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
The US State Department has instructed its diplomats to refuse most visas for Palestinian passport holders, whether they live in the West Bank, Gaza, or overseas, according to a cable seen by CNN. https://cnn.it/4n6T0iJ
I seriously wonder sometimes if the folks in places like Dearborn have any regrets for how they voted in 2024.
University of Michiganās consumer sentiment index was 74.0 in December, now 58.2 in August. Conference Boardās consumer confidence index was 104.7, now 97.4. Government officials shouldnāt go on TV and blatantly lie like this.
Performative public lying is a hallmark of far right authoritarian parties
Damn autocorrect. It put the pronunciation for Tusconan with Tusconian.
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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.
They loaded up those planes with children - some as young as 10. I donāt believe they had a safe place to go in Guatemala. And the government did not care. This admin is the least compassionate of any in my lifetime.
It put the pronunciation for Tusconan with Tusconan. Very confused.
Okay. I just came back to this and you arenāt calling these efforts resegregation yet, you absolutely should be
Trump is winning at driving Americans apart.
A 76% point gap between how satisfied Republicans are with the country versus how satisfied Democrats are. The largest partisan gap ever. news.gallup.com/poll/694370/...
Tulsi Gabbard has effectively dissolved FMIC, the Foreign Malign Influence Center. Iām shocked by her flagrant chutzpah to cater favors directly to Russia and China (& other actors), and at the same time, I am not surprised because this is exactly who I thought she is.
Whether or not these people are actual foreign agents is almost irrelevant. Their actions are observationally equivalent to & indistinguishable from the actions actual foreign agents would be taking. The consequences of our total Article I constitutional crisis, right here:
Idk what to make of this except as more know-nothings who believe they can easily make sweeping changes about things donāt understand Whatever you happen to think about the patent system, the USPTO is not remotely built to appraise each patentās $$ value, and most have zero or negative value
Lutnick probably assumes itās easy to tell what products and/or services sales are covered by which US patents, and then just say the patent is āworthā a share of the sales revenue, andā¦what if I told you thatās completely wrong
I wonder if the 80 million Americans who voted for Trump still believe it was the right decision ... or if they even know that he's taking over government in an effort to become dictator.
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NEWS Robert Mueller Has Parkinsonās Disease. The former special counsel, who led the Russia investigation during President Trumpās first term, has had difficulty speaking in recent months and will not be able to comply with a request that he testify before Congress. Full Story: nyti.ms/4g7ABjM
JUST IN: Judge who blocked the transfer of about 600 Guatemalan minors from US to Guatemala Sunday is keeping a very tight leash on the government. Echoes of Alien Enemies Act litigation simply deafening here. Earlier: www.politico.com/news/2025/08...
By the time DOJ files this status report, Judge Sooknanan will have been awake for nearly 20 hours.
I'm already there from all the wellness women.
Rudy Giuliani suffered severe injuries in a car accident last night, according to his spokesperson
Is this non-linear narrative like Tarantino does?
Lunacy. It seems they had slowed down and were gawking at the domestic disturbance the police were attending on the total other side of the freeway and were rear ended by a young woman. All were hospitalized. Rudy was not assisting a women in distress and tending to her. What a crock.
They donāt even do that. They bail the GOP out over and over again. This weekend they both had stories out in the media about how they were reaching across the aisle to avert a government shutdown. The GOP own this shit show. Get out of their way when they are fucking up. Stop bailing them out.
Do you think it's arrogance? I think some people are oblivious to how different this all is.
Most Trump tariffs are not legal, US appeals court rules www.reuters.com/legal/govern...
Trump admin planning to change student visas from lasting for duration of academic program to fixed 4-yr term, and then much harder to renew Could destroy US ability to attract global talent, particularly those seeking advanced degrees in STEM. The median time to complete a PhD is 5.7 yrs per NSF.
This rule would have meant I couldn't do my Ph.D. in America. I did do it in America. Became a professor. 12 thriving U.S. labs are now headed by trainees from my research lab. Like me, they are all working hard to enrich American knowledge and society. With this self-harming rule, none of that.
Until the TCJA, the top 400 US individuals by wealth and the full US population both had effective tax rates of ~30%. The TCJA reduced the Top 400 individualsā total effective tax rates to 23.8% in 2018 ā 2020, well below those of the full population (still ~30%). www.nber.org/system/files...
This Is Whatāand WhoāWeāre Losing in RFKās Purge open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...
Every five years, the Fed Board in DC votes to approve the reappointment of all 12 regional Fed presidents. This is typically a routine matter. But if Trump has enough governors willing to do so, they could decline to reappoint the regional Fed presidents. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/31/b...
No matter what @MarshaBlackburn keeps saying, itās not criminals theyāre targeting. www.cnn.com/2025/08/30/u...
Once more for those in back: They were never going to be able to implement a mass deportation program without prioritizing people like this. Criminals and gang members are too hard to find and apprehend. Regular folks who show up to work, church, and their scheduled immigration appointments are not.
Q: Would you welcome federal resources going into a part of South Carolina with a high crime rate? Nancy Mace: I hear that DC is safer than it's ever beenā¦I look forward to watching the videos of soldiers entering Chicago
As a friend recently put it: the venn diagram of people who assured us the gun violence was worth it because we need the guns to protect ourselves against a tyrannical federal government and the people cheering on Trump as he deploys the military to take over American cities is a circle
Remember the Goolsbee Rule, also called the āpathological irony of crisisā: If you lose credibility, your statements begin to mean the opposite of what you say.
Le Monde: one week after the Anchorage summit, the full scope of the wins achieved by Putin and his team are more readily apparent, as is the spinelessness of Trump and the witlessness of Witkoff. www.lemonde.fr/internationa...
Can we stop to talk about how remarkable the timing was? Compliant at 1am, Judge engaged at 2am, ex parte call to the Government at 2:30am (they did not answer), TRO at 4am? On a Sunday of a holiday weekend?!
Pour one out for Judge Sparkle Sooknananās clerks this Labor Day weekend
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 didnāt file the report in time ā and sets new 6:30 pm deadline.
First of all, they admitted he has a serious disease that if not carefully managed through diet, weight loss, lifestyle, and so forth can cause severe pain and death. Having the disease is often though not necessarily a sign of more serious problems elsewhere.
there are like five separate questions being invoked in AI discourse: 1) is AI art the product of learning or copying 2) what does the law say about that 3) does/will it unfairly impact traditional artists 4) what even counts as AI 5) what will culture/society decide about it (right or wrong)
Is Jake Tapper's forthcoming book on Trump's mental health decline available for pre-order yet?
He wonāt let the press anywhere near him. This is getting weirder and weirder.
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Like, media are *not* freaking out and they would be if this was Biden. Think of the palace intrigue stories we'd get and analysis from medical experts.
I hope to live my life in a way that no one is elated to hear Iāve died. Trump seriously has a billion people waiting with party favors.
Why are US warships heading toward Venezuela? https://www.europesays.com/2374303/ Why are US warships heading toward Venezuela? Why are US warships heading toward Venezuela? Posted by KizaruMus
Chinaās industrial policy has not achieved all its goals. Civil aviation and cutting-edge chipmaking remain elusive. And not all successes owe much to explicit policy
āSomething is very wrongā: Ex-Trump insider flags āalarmingā news about presidentās health https://www.europesays.com/2374305/ āSomething is very wrongā: Ex-Trump insider flags āalarmingā news about presidentās health https://www.rawstory.com/trump-something-wrong-alarming-health/ Posted by ā¦
Norway selects UK as strategic partner in Ā£10 billion frigate deal, boosting NATOās northern security https://www.europesays.com/2374284/ Norway has chosen the United Kingdom as its strategic partner for the acquisition of Type 26 frigates, inā¦
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