Is this in lieu of the $2 million trump was supposed to pay him?
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Is this in lieu of the $2 million trump was supposed to pay him?
I let out several different audible “NO”s during this video incredible stuff, you gotta watch the whole thing
"what if we did the iraq war but under Trump for NatCon reasons"
Two years after the oil deal was signed, it collapsed — with the Taliban accusing the Chinese company of breaching the contract and some Chinese employees likening the Taliban's actions to robbery.
For all the Jake Tapper jokes, it is pretty unusual when someone writes a book on a topic to not be booked to opine as an “expert” when almost the exact same situation is very relevant again. Jesus, Woodward and Bernstein are still dragged out to comment on every presidential scandal.
Tewwifying!
It’s the stick dragon!
I’m pretty sure someone would have told me.
"The plan of EU competition boss Teresa Ribera was overruled this morning with no clear sign of when the decision may come."
So sick of this shit.
If true, this update is astonishing. The Commission climbed down from a planned break up of Google’s ad business to a mere fine, and then dropped even the fine for fear of offending Trump. This is for market violations that have been proven in U.S. court.
I can
we did some tussling this morning and now he's absolutely zonked out
You need dogs for this. Cats are no match.
Okay sure everyone loves Zohran but have you considered Sliwa's feral cat colony proposal
The guy who farted on the parking ticket (former) lawyer lady...?
Yeah robots are definitely not taking over the world. Not the red one, at least. 🤣
* BESSENT: WE MAY DECLARE NATIONAL HOUSING EMERGENCY IN THE FALL @bloomberg.com
Republican governors have sent National Guard troops to Democratic-led Washington, D.C., even though cities in their states all have higher rates of violent crime than the nation’s capital. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/u...
Well done.
STREET PROTEST- FEEDBACK NO 1 One thing we learned is that this setup really, really, really, really, really, pisses MAGA off. One guy in a PU at the intersection ranted at me through two signal cycles and then challenged me to a fight. Another drove over and parked his truck to give me a lecture.
“But our march had done its work. We had drawn the attention of the nation to the crime of child labor…The Pennsylvania legislature passed a child labor law that sent children home from the mills, and kept others from entering the factory until they were fourteen.” www.thebulwark.com/p/labor-day-...
Today is the first day of public trading for Trump’s crypto scam.
"In extraordinary times, citizen soldiers mobilize to reinforce civilian authority and protect their neighbors," writes Christopher Purdy, reflecting on serving in the National Guard. "Over the past six months, that trust has shattered":
First thing I thought of.
Troops hanging out in the DC metro today, displaying assault rifles, doing absolutely nothing
Photo passed along from a federal employee from inside the Dept of Labor building, where a giant Orwellian image of Trump's face is now draped outside. Big Brother is watching.
* Trump Family Amasses $6 Billion Fortune After Crypto Launch @wsj.com
"in paper wealth"
The (proposed) ordinance is VERY bad. It goes beyond criminalizing "camping" or "sleeping"; it also makes it a crime for a homeless person to have any personal property that's not in their immediate possession and authorizes CPD to destroy it. Cruel, unhelpful, probably unconstitutional.
So, terrorist Russia, in its escalation, is suspected of GPS jamming the plane carrying the EU chief.
This is part of the residency on the east side of the main building, though not a bedroom
Gorgeous.
Another sun sets on an Irish Atlantic rainforest 🌍
I dunno, I'm not buying these recent *proof-of-life* posts from the President on Truth Social. 🤔😳🤨 #Enlightenment #Metaphysics #Epistemology
Wow. What a little shit.
Back when Donald was a failure in real estate, he was famous for not paying his contractors. He would come up with fictional fault in their work as an excuse not to pay them. Now, this unscrupulous cretin is short-changing the National Guard. www.rawstory.com/trump-infuri...
Right-wing Daily Caller just released a transcript of an interview they did with Trump last week. This was part of it.
This is, I swear to Christ, the lead story at the Atlantic Monthly right now
Ooo. Good to know. Thank you.
Excellent NYT story ruined by one subhead and one paragraph. No, red-state governors are not going to "rethink" putting their National Guardsmen on their own streets if it brings down crime. As one expert explained, "It’s designed to humiliate political opponents." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/u...
The ethos behind Kennedy’s Make America Healthy Again movement blames individual people for their chronic diseases and links Medicaid users’ value to their economic productivity.
Hey look, Donald Trump — the leaders of three countries of 3 billion people got together just to laugh at you! Just imagine the fun they had discussing in detail what an idiot you are. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/w...
Great lead headline right now, @nytimes.com.
Just an astonishing, powerful op-ed that drives home what we are losing and what's already been lost. We are so incredibly fortunate to live with the advances modern medicine and health science. Destroying and stymieing it is just unforgivable. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...
A fainting couch and smelling salts would be right at home in the newly bedazzled Oval Office.
I don't *think* this is what's going on, but we should at least be aware that close to death rumors can be useful if you need a strong man saved by God moment to buck up flagging poll numbers.
Given he's doing everything the sane staffers and guardrails stopped him from doing last time, have any double XL T-shirts been delivered to the White House this week?
Promises made. Promises kept.
I have made my peace with "alright" in peevish exclamations like "Alright already, I'll be right down," but otherwise the kids, pace The Who, are all right.
Anyway, I’m glad to know the president is still technically alive so he can watch this tomorrow www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...
That’s an epic find, by the way. Congratulations.
remember folks, we cant have gun restrictions because if we do the federal government will occupy our streets, imprison people without due process, ship dissidents to foreign gulags and things of that nature
wildly
Must be Gruden’s favorite golf outfit since he wore it last week at Trump’s club in Virginia.
I like the eyeshadow.
Mari 🐕 Baby female Spaniel mix Adoptable from Safe Hands Animal Rescue (Minneapolis, MN) https://www.petfinder.com/dog/mari-78055631/mn/minneapolis/safe-hands-animal-rescue-mn206/
Fuck yeah, Gov Pritzker and Mayor Johnson. It will be fascinating what happens when ICE agents get arrested for flouting this.
It's mostly "the biggest victim of COVID was me" combined with "I can't get mad at a virus, it doesn't react in a way that gives me emotional satisfaction." Obviously COVID policy wasn't perfect. But to think it was political persecution, and pretend Trump wasn't president then, is really something.
Question: What "liberal-coded institutions" were kept open during COVID while churches—for sake of argument, pretend they're all conservative—were closed? Universities closed, Hollywood shut down production, unions met on Zoom, progressives avoided indoor gatherings. So... which institutions?
Seems something is being disposed of or bypassing security.
Something press pool could ask about
But Ensign has already lied repeatedly.
NEW: Judge Sooknanan is back at it. She orders DOJ to file at fifth status report to address whether the two children discussed in its previous report have been returned to ORR custody. Status report due at 12 noon today.
It makes me emotional to see Judge Sooknanan showing that she values each individual child’s life at a moment when this administration is doing exactly the opposite
I love those black pods with the devil horns. I use them a lot in prints.
You guys see where this is going? Right?
This is a good illustration of what’s happening
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/
This does a good job ad links to it. But basically, a pretty convincing case for all the weirdness adding up to stroke. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/it-s-time-...
His face and neck have become a continuum.
He doesn’t even have the strength for his makeup and hair routines.
☝️This.
Trump on RFK Jr., the CDC, and vaccines (a translation). He seems to be saying that he was shown data about COVID19 vaccines being safe and effective, but that the pharma companies didn’t show those amazing data to anyone else, like RFK Jr. He thinks this is why there is a “mess” at CDC.
Those are epic paws.
Excellent dental health.
It just seems kind of asinine. It’s loses its amusement potential after one trip through. All I see is a bunch of stuff that will have to be torn out.
Excellent ear floppage and dumdum doggie face.
*crab-walked
I love the idea third one.
my sickness is that i'm addicted to looking at the instagram account for UK's House & Garden Magazine and imagining myself living in such spaces IG houseandgardenuk
I saved that doggie shower area, too.
I’m trying to create that garden at the moment. I have very few flowers, but many cuts and scrapes, and one literal fall down a rabbit hole.
This is Spud. She was offered a stick of celery today and took personal offense to that. 12/10 (IG: spud.the.cryptid)
This seems important:
A plane carrying Ursula von der Leyen, the president of the EU's executive arm, suffered from jamming of GPS navigation while flying over Bulgaria. The authorities believe that Russia was behind the operation, European officials said on Monday.
Your kitty is very handsome.
Joe’s got a way better hat than Spanky, too.
I’m glad Joe is out enjoying himself, while Spanky is gloomily going to his golf club alone, and not even playing.
That’s the spirit!
Joe Biden is out buying ice cream while everyone is asking whether Trump is dead.
He even said he has no idea how much the bedazzling of the Oval Office cost, but he doesn’t care because it’s so, so worth it. He had the same attitude about his crappy military parade, and now about these deployments.
he'll send ICE to intimidate us. if i see an ICE agent at my polling place i'm going to walk right past him.
every day i see hundreds of comments of people spinning elaborate scenarios to explain how trump can control everything and all opposition is futile. a) i think a lot of you need to log off and stop following professional doomsayers. b) i think a lot of you are cowards
Very good profile of the lawyer who chose this path www.politico.com/news/magazin...
“By shutting down the Foreign Malign Influence Center, Gabbard stripped away America’s shield against foreign meddling. Moscow and Beijing couldn’t ask for a bigger gift.” Robert Morton #NationalSecurity #ForeignInterference #counterespionage
Dean Cain got exactly what he wished for: he collected ICE’s sign-on bonus, was ‘injured,’ and is now out on disability.
Johan 