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This is how you steal an election.
Note: the EPA is the bad guy now
finland president stubb today on russia/ukraine: not “very optimistic that we will achieve a ceasefire or a framework for the peace negotiations in the near future” (me neither) acknowledging that putin is “testing everyone’s patience.”
The tech industry is the only place where hiring 3 people to plagiarize an essay for 1 college kid is considered “innovation”
Rather than reproaching Israel for human rights violations in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, the Trump administration is taking aim at its critics. Rubio just expanded sanctions on the judges & prosecutors of the International Criminal Court for probing alleged Israeli and US crimes. wapo.st/4nahJCH
UK borrowing costs hit highest since 1998, pound slides on fiscal worries reut.rs/47ktFxj
⚡️ Update: Ukrainian soldier whose throat was cut by Russian forces found safe after disappearing from hospital. Vladyslav Nahornyi's wife told Ukrainian broadcaster Suspilne that her husband had been found safe and was now with her.
Latham & Watkins was the largest international law firm in the world at one point. I was horrified. Who has more power?
Anne Applebaum on the threat of authoritarianism in the United States. "The surprise has been the number of people, the Republicans in the Senate and the House, but also law firms, business...how many people gave up before fighting and they just kind of acquiesced." youtube.com/shorts/QpYrO...
"methane has likely caused 40% to 50% of all warming in the past 20 years" Meanwhile, we are told that liquid methane (LNG) is a climate solution. If we follow that path of insanity, we are in deep, deep trouble.
This is a good read. How the stupid are going to kill America.
This is not reporting. This is propaganda.
"I don’t care what motivates mass shooters. It doesn’t matter if they’re motivated by far-right white nationalism, QAnon, radical Islam, delusion, sexism or revenge. Without access to guns, these motives won’t result in mass shootings; it’s that simple."
I'm just going to keep noting that the owner and operator of Twitter -- the social media that too many politicians and pundits use to determine what's "normal" -- keeps on pushing the white supremacist Great Replacement Theory that has been the motivation for multiple mass shootings in this country.
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Surviving Jeffery Epstein: This week we hear from Jess Michaels, a survivor of Epstein's abuse, who exposes both the monster himself and the wider system that affected so many. Watch it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFqeOt_rNFM
Concern over low birth rates was what the theocracy in Margaret Atwood’s Handmaid’s Tale used to come to power.
"If the federal government truly cared about safety in the district, it would restore the $1 billion in local tax dollars that Congress recently blocked...Instead, federal taxpayer money is being spent on troops and a federal police takeover"
Susan Collins should actually be *concerned*. I'm not sure if Maine wants this, but I've been waiting to hear someone tell everyone who Collins is for more than a decade.
Israel has engaged in 'widespread crimes against humanity, war crimes, and genocide' in Gaza, the world’s foremost experts have said
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Platner: “Fake remorse doesn’t hide the sellout to lobbyists. Empty opposition won’t reopen hospitals. Weak words won’t restore Roe v. Wade. Maine deserves better than Susan Collins.”
All major entrances to Walter Reed Hospital have been closed off in Washington, and apparently there have been sightings of Melania taking “tours” of it alone. An admin at the hospital says that Donny has been there. Something weird is going on, and Donald is holding a presser at 2 PM EST today.🧐
. THIS is one of the biggest problems of our time . . . ⬇️ ⬇️ ⬇️ .
Reps. Ro Khanna (CA) and Thomas Massey (KY), have announced they will have a press conference on Wednesday, September 3, 2025 at 10:30 a.m. Eastern at the U.S. Capitol. They plan to have victims who have never spoken publicly before about Jeffrey Epstein. It should be explosive!
#Seaweed farms are a dual solution for climate change & sustainable energy. - don't require freshwater, fertilizer, or arable land to grow, making it one of the most eco-friendly resources - naturally absorbs massive amounts of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere through photosynthesis helping 1/...
Perfect encapsulation of the Trump administration: The guy suing Harvard for alleged antisemitism is a straight-up Hitler-admiring Nazi. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/09/02/m...
One almost wonders their dogged commitment to fighting antisemitism is neither sincere nor good for the Jews.
It hasn't been a great last week of the August recess for Republican members of Congress. At town hall events across the country, attendees booed, laughed, jeered, and demanded answers as their GOP representatives tried to defend President Trump's agenda.
Americans believe, correctly, that the US economic system has been rigged for the benefit of the 1%. "Nearly 70% of people said they believe the American dream—that if you work hard, you will get ahead—no longer holds true or never did, the highest level in nearly 15 years of surveys."
Can you hit repost? Marjorie Taylor Greene doesn't want you to know the name of her opponent but will try every desperate attempt to save her seat. My name is Shawn Harris. I am a Democrat, husband, father, Retired Brigadier General, farmer, and I'm running against MTG. Can you share and follow me?
The indictment was handed down 2 days after career prosecutor Richard Barker, the acting US atty for eastern Washington state, resigned. In a social post, Barker wrote “I am grateful that I never had to sign an indictment or file a brief that I didn’t believe in.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Well, that’s one way to put it. Luther challenged authority in 95 Theses posted on All Saints' Church's door. Zola accused the President of cruelty & corruption in an open letter in the paper. I mixed it up a little: 25 questions to a “dictator” POTUS posted on the Internet. archive.ph/yMjsG
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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.
Enjoying your Labour Day long weekend or ANY weekend? Benefitted from vacation time, OT, maternity / parental leave, safety regs, 8 hour work days? Yeah? Thank a union member. #uspoli #cndpoli #solidarity #labourday #abpoli
@repyassansari.bsky.social Visited Eloy Detention Center again, and went on Alex Witt to discuss her experience. She said “This is nothing short of a prison, with the complete lack of even basic needs for detainees.” 97 women asked to speak to her, she was only able to speak to a some of them. 6/
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A recent study compares the quality of healthcare in the U.S. to other countries, highlighting key differences in hospital performance and care outcomes. Understanding these metrics can inform improvements in the American health system. Source
Already there!
Perfection.
Moderna vaccine (www.nejm.org/doi/pdf/10.1... ) 2/2
Yes, it was carefully hidden in the New England Journal of Medicine. Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine (www.nejm.org/doi/pdf/10.1... ) 1/2
Never forget, a 13-year study found that protected bike-lanes led to a drastic decline in fatalities for all road users. ALL ROAD USERS. And painted bike-lanes? No safety improvement at all. For sharrows, it’s actually safer to NOT have them. Via @usa.streetsblog.org @nyc.streetsblog.org
Graham Platner, an oyster farmer from Maine, wants to “claw back wealth that was created by the labor and the consumption of working-class Americans who have not shared in the riches they helped build.”
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“Get it all on record now. Get the films. Get the witnesses. Because somewhere down the road of history some bastard will get up and say that this never happened.” Dwight D. Eisenhower
'Parable of the Talents' - Octavia Butler
After Donald Trump nominated RFK Jr to be his Secretary of Health and Human Services, 75 Nobel Laureates and more than 17,000 doctors publicly urged the U.S. Senate to oppose Kennedy's confirmation. EVERY REPUBLICAN U.S. SENATOR EXCEPT FOR MITCH MCCONNELL ignored all the warnings and confirmed him.
If Trump was actually concerned about fighting crime, he’d be trying to militarize states like Alabama, Arkansas, and Tennessee. Instead, he’s terrorizing Californians, Washingtonians, and threatening to target Chicagoans. It’s all a political game to him. #UnitedWeStand #RESIST
The Holocaust and the Genocide in Gaza are exactly the same. Fascist Governments with all the power, murdering innocent civilians to steal all their land and possessions. The identity of the victims and the people doing it is irrelevant.
All of the election fraud lies and conspiracy theories have softened the ground underneath our election process, enabling the Trump regime’s next steps… to use those lies to justify changing the rules of elections to (further) tilt them in their favor.
Downtown Baltimore: Labor Day parade is held in the city center and many protesters have gathered to show their rejection of the Trump administration
When fascism comes to America it will be wrapped in bullshit lies and carrying a cross
🧵 Trump's 79-Year History of RACISM #Racism
Call out Racism, Stochastic Terrorism #Racism #Terrorism
Local news: If you watch it through, it sounds like the police are referring to this as a “fight.” This wasn’t a fight. It was a race-based attack. On August 16, 2025, a 14 YO Black teen from Platteville, Wisconsin, was attacked by white teens at a party in the town of Pulaski, Iowa County. 3/4
Video shows white teens punching him while yelling racial slurs like “F*** that n up” and “kill that n.”At one point, they shoved him against a meat grinder, then slammed him to the ground and kept beating him. This is not “kids being kids.” This is racial violence in 2025, in Wisconsin. 2/4
I hope my fellow decent humans and Americans recognize that we're almost certainly, if things continue like this, going to have to do some bad stuff to bad people to defend the good among us. Sucks, and I'd love to be proven wrong about this, but we've seen this all before.
Wait what?
No. Instead, they teach babycare to 12 year old girls in public school in Texas. Grooming institutionalized. Rapists pick the mother of their children.
We haven't had any Nuremberg trials yet for centuries of genocide, slavery & apartheid here in the US. That's a huge problem. False, Nazi, racist history is a critical part of this culture and especially of conservative beliefs. www.history.com/articles/how...
🎯 Chronic illness is wildly profitable.
Completely agree!
So the photos we get of the “golf outing” today is a pale and feeble looking one of him getting to a car at the WH and this one of him returning. Nothing from the course.
M-orons A-re G-overning A-merica shorturl.at/Y5yPL
Wow! Love the photos. @drdemetre.bsky.social, Dan, and I greatly appreciate the community coming out to support us and lifting up the “bat signal” we sent out
"Nancy Mace Says She’s Looking Forward to Watching ‘Soldiers’ March into Chicago" Again we are war. Mace does not want to protect the Democrats in Chicago-she wants to oppress them. She is from the former Confederate state of South Carolina. www.mediaite.com/politics/nan...
This.
"Ohio spent nearly a billion dollars on private school scholarship programs for the 2024 fiscal year...'There’s no way you can take that much money and transfer it to private schools without having an impact on public schools,' Berman said. Nearly 90% of Ohio students attend public schools..."
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I just verified this. It is true. Leases have been signed until March 1st of next year. FEMA simply broke the leases to evict them.
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One of my favorite resources for demonstrating this is from @themarshallproject.org. A round up of feedback from incarcerated people on what might of kept them out of prison, it is both a blueprint and a call to action. I hope you will read and share it. 4/ www.themarshallproject.org/2020/10/27/w...
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McMahon is a dangerous liar and public education destroyer. She is Cruella DeVos' evil twin. thehill.com/homenews/edu...
Evangelicals spent 60+ years screaming about the Antichrist coming, then when he showed up they started wearing his merch.
Thiel, Musk, and Bezos all had ties to Epstein. Larry is suspected of being a redacted name. Alexander Litvinenko accused Vladimir Putin of being a paedophile four months before he was poisoned. Hell is empty and all the devils are here. ~William Shakespeare
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By the grandson of a traitor trading with the enemy, the son of a cover- up, and the perfect tool for the super wealthy, not that sharp thetriallawyermagazine.com/2021/07/bill...
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As Spike Lee's documentary made plain, Hurricane Katrina was the moment when Americans realized that their country was capable of fully abandoning them, even in their time of greatest need. defector.com/hurricane-ka...
“.. with the exception of the pandemic, Black women have never seen such staggering losses in employment.” @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2025/08/31/u...
They will literally say **ANYTHING**.
