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An absolute legend. RIP.
š Uhh, this strikes me as an awfully large crowd for a Democratic Senate candidate in Maine over a year prior to an election for which they have not even won the primary yet.
Bumper sticker, Irvington, Virginia
* BESSENT: WE MAY DECLARE NATIONAL HOUSING EMERGENCY IN THE FALL @bloomberg.com
Hey @joshkaulwi.bsky.social this racist horror happened in your state.
Bluesky is now among and often *the* highest referer to @motherjones.com. Thatās traffic that has been additive. Only Twitter has dipped btw, the rest as fairly steady state (and instagram impressions and video views on all platforms up enormously.)
This is cool
Putin's top propagandist and a former economics professor at the University of Alabama, Vladimir Solovyov, threatened that Russia would āmarch on Parisā after Franceās President Macron called Putin "a predator and an ogre at our doorstep".
NestleĢ CEO Laurent Freixe ousted over alleged romantic relationship
Good grief. www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-r...
Get the hell off Substack before you literally canāt anymore without blowing up your business
* Trump Family Amasses $6 Billion Fortune After Crypto Launch @wsj.com
Happening Now ā Washington DC: Pretty massive rally is forming at 14th and U NW.
Remember when people used the term "false equivalency"?
Why donāt you send everyone proof of life first? (Either way, Chicago doesnāt want you here)
This whole thread is just appalling. The hearing arises from the Trump admin conspiring with a foreign country to violate a federal court order in the middle of the night so it can deny due process to children who escaped dangerous circumstances.
Remember when obituaries would lead with the deceased's name?
Someone please kill me right now.
More than 1/3 of Americans either donāt believe in God or unsure? In 2022, a Gallup poll found 80+% believed in God. Thatās either a ginormous swing or one of those polls is way, way off.
Trump has failed to fix the serious safety issues at Newark Airport: "Given the totality of the risks involved & the gravity of the situation,ā the FAA has ānot responded adequately & any changes & procedures implemented are a farce at bestā & āat worst, they are akin to criminal negligence"
Yes, women should absolutely be taking advice on emotional stability from Elon Musk. x.com/elonmusk/sta...
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How is Newark Airportās tech upgrade coming along? www.forbes.com/sites/suzann...
Leaving aside the typical histrionics, this seems to be Trump beginning to distance himself from Kennedy (whoās āripping apartā CDC), and inviting mainstream physicians and scientists to defend the vaccines, so Trump can then say, I got them to explain it better and vaccines are OK.
Itās crazy how Tapper doesnāt seem concerned.
It is insane to me that the richest man in the world is using his global megaphone to call for millions of British people to be rounded up and deported (including my family) and somehow this isnāt even news.
The right wing is going to convince themselves in a week that hormonal contraception is what's making women liberal and that banning it will lead to a permanent Republican majority
You guys see where this is going? Right?
Pope Leo XIV met with one of the most prominent advocates for greater LGBTQ+ inclusion in the Catholic Church. The Rev. James Martin said Leo told him that he intended to continue Pope Francisā policy of LGBTQ+ acceptance in the church and encouraged him to keep up his advocacy.
J.B. Pritzker is 100% right. Please listen to him, pay attention, and join us in speaking out against authoritarianism and to protect free and fair elections.
A plane carrying European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen was disrupted by jamming that authorities suspect was the result of Russian interference in Bulgaria.
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
Gavin Newsomeās social media team wrecked Dean Cain. Hilarious!
Euronews - Russia accused of jamming the GPS of the airplane carrying European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen during her official visit to Bulgaria.
The connection is that the Deltas are Black women and the judge is a Black woman
public sector employment has historically been a more reliable path to the middle class for Black workers, especially Black women, than the private sector where discrimination is rampant, and this is another important reason why the Right wants to destroy the federal government
The first Black mayor of a tiny Alabama town has overwhelmingly won an election, four years after White residents locked him out of the town hall and refused to let him serve. https://cnn.it/4p0fkwn
Another dispatch from the āhellholeā of Chicago.
FEDERAL AGENTS TAKE NOTEā¦ Itās not just Chicago standing strong. Other blue cities and governors are ready to unite against Trumpās federal invasion. Iām not an attorney, but this point seems huge: if federal agents break state or city laws, they can prosecuted. And Trump cannot pardon them.
Why is the Draft Dodger-in-Chief trying to drag us into a war with Venezuela? The claim is that drug cartels are so out of control theyāve been designated an international terrorist organization, so we need to send warships. But weāre denying Venezuelanās asylum claims who fled for their lives. š¤
āJobs disappear and the markets cheer.ā On Labor Day 30 years ago, I issued a warning the growing divide between workers and the super-rich. Watch. youtu.be/8rW1kkAV-gw
This is not what America is. Itās not. And we must make this very clear when we vote in 2026.š
FEDWATCH: With reciprocal tariffs āhanging in the balance, the Administration will shift more levies to 301/232, thereby sustaining the impact on PCE and likely increasing the tariff pass-through, which could lift core [inflation] .. well above 3 percent .. bonds are likely to react negatively ..ā
After a successful day... š š¤£ #dog #dogday #bluesky
Trumpās plan to rename the Department of Defense as the Department of War shows (once again) that his self-characterization as the āpro-peaceā candidate was complete bullshit. www.wsj.com/politics/nat...
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."
"Sure, I could double check that Raddatz is with CBS, or I could just go fold the laundry."
Whereās Jake Tapper? Not that I consume CNN.
Your dad was Mario Cuomo.
Who voted for war with Venezuela?
This headline is weak
I wonder why Trump imposed secondary tariffs only on India for buying Russian oil while not caring about all the other countries who buy Russian oil?
Republicans had a chance to protect public health. Instead they chose to put a dishonest quack in charge of it. They own the nightmares to come.
The world as we know it is slipping away. "Canada is strengthening defence ties with Finland and Sweden." www.cbc.ca/news/politic... Canada needs a "whole-of-society approach" to security and defence if it intends to hang on to its sovereignty.
1) We will still have an on-balance independent media. The MSM will be subject to state coercion, some of it successful, but it will also continue to break stories that are damaging to the regime.
Okay. So there's a lot of uncertainty about how "free and fair" the 2026 midterms are going to be. If you forced me to speculate, my *low confidence* prediction is that they'll be less free and much less fair than in 2024.
Anyone who has covered the White House, worked in or around it, or covered Washington in the last generation knows that Mark Knoller was the very very best of DC. I honestly canāt imagine a presidency without him.
Wouldnāt we be safer to go with Danās take, given the stakes?
Sadly, this onion headline will never get old
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
TBC he doesnāt know anything about building or building materials. He has no artistic inclinations and knows nothing about art, architecture and the materials used in creating them. Heās just babbling like a senile old turd.
"The visible health problems of the oldest president in American history barely registered in mainstream coverage." ā @passantino.bsky.social www.status.news/p/trump-heal...
Some Maine residents could see health care premiums rise by as much as $900 a month next year, thanks to Republicans letting the ACA subsidies end. Think about that. $900...PER MONTH. But don't worry, Maine. I'm sure Susan Collins is very 'concerned'. www.newscentermaine.com/article/news...
NYT leadership is āneutralā on democracy. AGSulzberger, Joe Kahn, Healy etcā¦ āSidestepping normsā
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Epstein's estate set to provide 'birthday book' to Congress, House Democrat says www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...
Stuart Stevens, currently to the left of most democratic leaders on the Hill
Happy Labor Day weekend to all the union members, like my colleagues in the @forbesunion.bsky.social (fighting for a contract for nearly 4 years!) and @nyguild.bsky.social. And to members of @afacwa.org, @aflcio.org and @neatoday.bsky.social. Shudder to think how low wages would be without unions.
We simply cannot allow this to happen Children deserve better
ā.. The Oval Office photos donāt resolve those questions. They raise them. And until the press decides to treat Trumpās health the way it treated Bidenās, makeup and memos will remain the White Houseās firstāand lastāline of defense.ā @passantino.bsky.social www.status.news/p/trump-heal...
Nice committee you have there. Shame if something happened to it.
Kudos to Paris mayor Anne Hildago. Of the socialist party, btw.
How would it be reported if it were happening in Latin America, he asks. But we know, donāt we? www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
A collection of clips from MSNBC of multiple Republicans getting booed at town halls this week.
So not only do churches NOT have to pay taxes, they're going to get YOUR tax dollars to boot. This seems like oh, I don't know, government establishing a religion in violation of the First Amendment?
Dear Americans, welcome to the thrilling game of āDid this dictator die or just disappear for a day?ā Weāve been playing it with Putin and Lukashenko for decades. Enjoy the suspense.
Macron: If a bilateral Zelensky-Putin meeting "to which President Putin has committed himself to President Trump" does not take place by Monday, "I believe that once again, this will mean that President Putin will have played President Trump". -Le Monde (translated)
Of COURSE it all comes down to Modiās refusal to nominate him for a Nobel prize. š¤”
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.
Migrants sent by the US to the Guantanamo Bay naval base in Cuba earlier this year faced āabusive and inhumane detention conditionsā that seriously affected their physical and mental health and even led to some suicide attempts, according to a new report by Human Rights Watch.
CAP ECON: āWe obviously have no particular insight into whether the Supreme Court will uphold .. If it did, āTreasury would .. need to return most of the now-close to $100bn in additional customs duties .. and there is a danger .. other countries would back-track on any preliminary agreements.ā
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.
RFK Jr was not chosen to preside over US public health and science because he had any qualifications. He had a famous family name and Trump needed his endorsement and supporters. We saw it happen live in this call. Thatās why we are here.
The Q doesnāt ask about friends/family. It says āfamily member.ā The highest bar.
This is good: With Trump/RFK destroying CDC, JB Pritzker's officials are exploring the possibility of buying Covid vaccines from manufacturers and distributing them in-state themselves, source tells me. Dem govs must step up and fill the void. New piece from me: newrepublic.com/article/1998...
Mike Johnson makes clear that when Congress returns next week he's going to work tirelessly to cover up the Epstein files
NEWSOM, to @karaswisher.bsky.social: ā.. I just wanted to put a mirror up to the absurdity of all of this. .. I mean, itās comical. .. embarrassing .. And Iām glad theyāre melting down over it. Their situational unawareness is rather jaw-dropping, and weāll keep at it.ā nymag.com/intelligence...
You canāt pack more joy into a 90-second clip than Coldplayās 2020 āTiny Deskā @npr.org #LetsGoLetsGoLetsGo š
For heaven's sake, we're all going to die anyway
As I said, Republicans are avoiding actual contact with voters, juries, and citizens because despite what everyone is pretending in DC, 49.8-% is not a Mandate from Heaven.
Authors Express Concern Over Unregistered Copyrights lunch.publishersmarketplace.com/2025/08/auth...
Opinion | Iām not saying liberals elected Trump, but Iām not saying they didnāt.
Just want to flag this for today's readers b/c honestly it was pretty terrifying interview...
Donāt look away