The Trump administration is canceling an annual government effort to gather data on how many Americans struggle to get enough food, per WSJ
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The Trump administration is canceling an annual government effort to gather data on how many Americans struggle to get enough food, per WSJ
Large anti corruption protests in the Philippines are underway. Triggered by deadly floods which exposed $2billion lost to corruption in flood defence projects some of which didn't exist at all. www.rappler.com/philippines/... And a familiar flag is being flown at the protests.
“Mr President, if Bagram is so important, why did your admin agree to surrender it in 2020?”
Malpractice that the headline or sub head at least don’t point out that fucking TRUMP is the one who negotiated the agreement that surrendered it all in the first place!!
“Mr President, what do you mean ‘we gave it away for nothing?’ Don’t you remember that you directed the agreement?”
I don’t know, seems like it should be big news that the President doesn’t remember the surrender negotiations he directed with the Taliban back in his first term. Maybe a reporter can show him some clippings of Trump himself talking about it?
lol glad they’re covering it but these view from nowhere headlines fucking kill me. “Trump’s politicization of National Guard risks its future, generals say”
It really is like Nixon live blogging Watergate and the journalism establishment saying eh, what can you do
The Cass Freight Index, a key measure of freight volumes, hit its lowest since the Great Financial Crisis, excluding 2020. This shows weakening demand for shipping and goods movement, and a slower economy. #EconSky
The CDC shooting which was much bigger and more straightforwardly political, was completely gone from newspapers in 24 hours.
FUN FACT: There is no such thing as white American culture. None. There is only American culture, which is a mix of many cultures, but of which more than 50% is attributable directly to the contributions of Black Americans. What we watch, wear, eat, listen to, think is funny, find entertaining,
This chaos also speaks to the growing awareness of the profound corruption of the Supreme Court. The excessive H1B fee is clearly illegal according to the text of the applicable statute. But no one can have any confidence anymore that it will ultimately be thrown out.
Border Czar Tom Homan was caught by the FBI accepting bribes - on camera - to deliver government contracts in exchange for $50,000 in cash. Pam Bondi knew. Kash Patel knew. Emil Bove knew. And they made the investigation go away. A corrupt attempt to conceal brazen graft.
And of course by “woke” we mean they want to live in a multiracial democracy where everyone is entitled to the rights enshrined in the constitution
Holy cow Detroit is only 1 game up on Cleveland/the wild card
Puts the Guardians back into the wild card too 😱
"My thoughts turned to David Rose, who volunteered to try to prevent another such attack on our country, and then, when back home, ran toward danger once again to help his fellow Americans." www.thebulwark.com/p/a-hero-dav...
The Anchorage summit persuaded Putin that Trump won’t bolster Kyiv’s defenses or intervene in the conflict
Holy hell the Guardians are back in the playoffs LMFAO
Everyday Trump is allowed to remain president is an example of the legislative and judiciary failing to do their damn jobs. A huge failure.
Still can't shake that feeling normie Americans seriously underestimated how many of their fellow Americans are just extremely bad people.
Emil Bove should be prosecuted for this btw. Doesn't matter that he's on the bench.
so the president just tweeted out an offense worse than watergate, we all realize that right?
Holy cow the AL playoff picture has gotten CRAZY this week
Why not Bondi too?
Democrats need to seriously consider an impeachment inquiry into now-Judge Emil Bove if/when they take back the House. He led the brazenly corrupt Eric Adams quid pro quo. He facilitated the Tom Homan bribery cover-up. And there’s probably more! He was Trump’s hatchet man at DOJ for months!
Why isn’t this being framed as Homan, Patel, and Bondi are all finished? I mean, in a sane reality Trump himself would be getting sized up for impeachment over this.
It’s fucking grim on that front now though. McCain and Burr have been replaced by Markwayne Mullin and Tommy Tuberville.
I’ve thought about it a lot, and I think that’s the biggest thing I want ordinary people to know and try to do to make things better on the NatSec front. If we ever get out of (*gestures at everything on fire rn*), the legislature has to claw back power and people need to hold them to it.
Congress was AWOL from oversight of the war, and Trump’s negotiations with the Taliban that set conditions for the end. And of course they were so beclowned by their lack of oversight of the first two instances that they were unable to impose any form of rigorous inquiry on the withdrawal itself.
The thing ya gotta understand is that when a President or a billionaire or a member of Congress tells incendiary lies in their official capacity, that’s fine. But when an employee of a school or university does wrong speak, then there have to be consequences. krcgtv.com/news/local/m...
Dude takes 15 minutes to brief his simple four part slide while everyone else is slowly dying inside
I cannot emphasize enough that “little people” in government (military officers, GS level government workers, etc) would, rightfully so, have their lives destroyed for engaging in this kind of abuse. Government efficiency, indeed.
More than that. "The FBI ***recorded*** Tom Homan taking the money "after indicating he could help the agents — who were posing as business executives — win government contracts in a second Trump administration."
Can you IMAGINE having to listen to this blowhard in staff meetings or planning sessions. “So, more of a comment than a question…”
Democrats need their own security service. In a time of dramatic political polarization, assassinations and federal lawlessness, it's no longer enough to depend on certain local law enforcement organizations or standard rent-a-cop security guards. Dems need trusted and vetted security.
That is an S-tier sploot for a large dog
No mincing of words in this @ecfr.eu policy brief on the China-Russia relationship ecfr.eu/publication/...
had to read the article to understand wtf was going on here which is that Meta is literally feeding Instagram pictures parents took of their teenage daughters to middle aged men as ads for Threads
“In the world I know, the Times story would initiate a Justice Department investigation and an impeachment inquiry, and Trump’s Mideast envoy Steve Witkoff could be counted on to resign by week’s end. In the mystifying world we inhabit today, none of these things appears likely to happen.”
Nick Kristof went to talk to some of the moms losing their beloved children to Trump’s aid cuts. We are paying storage on already existing food rather than release it to starving kids. “I loved my child so much” www.nytimes.com/2025/09/20/o...
A couple of months ago, I started digging into the Justice Department’s decision to seek a death sentence for Luigi Mangione. One thing I found: Never since Congress reinstated the federal death penalty had an attorney general bent so many rules to get her way. www.vanityfair.com/news/story/l...
Thinking of this for no particular reason. Can someone send to Vance and Hegseth?
Friend, you make it sound like we could mistakenly kill innocent people, or even our own people, with Predator drones.
I’m still kinda stunned we haven’t gotten any real insight into how they are generating intel for these targets, ISR, SIGNIT, HUMNIT, blast the first boat closest to the predator? Really alarming stuff ngl
🤬 #HistoryMatters #FactsMatter
Doesn’t every USN ship maintain a VBSS team from within the crew?
Asking social media titans to deal with active dis/mis information re: elections, COVID, and Hunter Biden psyop
At a time when the Trump administration is actively suppressing the work of public historians and the history of American slavery, the decision to highlight one of the most harmful historical myths in American history should be roundly condemned by all of us. 🗃️ open.substack.com/pub/kevinmle...
Ah. I see. www.wsj.com/politics/nat...
I no longer think it's just SOCOM; there's almost certainly quite a few naval officers who need to see the inside of a jail cell
Elected lawmakers aren't just there to carry out bureaucratic technocratic procedures. They are your agents, to stand between you and the force of the state, empowered with the people's "she speaks for us." This is what representative democracy is for, at its best in the face of its worst failures.
Blanket. Pardons.
The Senate confirmed Mike Waltz to be the next U.S. ambassador to the United Nations after months of delays. Waltz was ousted as President Trump’s national security adviser in May after he mistakenly added a journalist to a private Signal chat used to discuss sensitive military plans.
Absolutely wild how Signalgate was only 6 months ago and everyone has... forgotten about it and moved on. Signalgate would have ended careers and prompted wall-to-wall congressional hearings in any other administration. In Trump II, no one was held accountable. We just moved to the next scandal.
Blowing up boats in the Caribbean without any legal authority risks dragging the United States into another war, and provoking attacks against American citizens. I'm getting ready to force a vote with @kaine.senate.gov to ensure Congress' power to declare war is not so easily trampled.
Wait until he finds out who was President when the US signed its exit deal with the Taliban
Disney/ABC have a responsibility to refuse to participate in corruption. Kimmel must be reinstated. If Disney/ABC agree to this extortion then perhaps creatives + workers should consider collective action to push back. Same w/buying park + cruise tickets if they bow. People have power. Ask Target
Tom Petty free falling
It’s been sad this year watching how the White House press corps refuses to back each other up. Here a female journalist is insulted and denigrated and the next male reporter just moves on to a new question. You’re all in this together, folks. Time & again, they won’t stand up for their colleagues.
JUST IN: Bureau of Labor Statistics postpones key inflation data report
Ed Luce offers a meditation on some remarks by Gov Spencer Cox (R-UT). Is social media a cancer on our society?
MIRKWOOD: 22% OF WOOD KING’S BARRELS FOUND TO CONTAIN DWARVES SHIRE: GAFFER SAYS STOCKS OF PIPE WEED 20% LOWER AFTER DROUGHT DALE: TOY PRICES UP 300% AFTER BURNING OF LAKETOWN
Logan here is acting befuddled at the basic Lockean framework articulated in the Declaration: the right of revolution is a last resort in extremis. There is always the obligation to exhaust all other options first. Hardly an obscure idea, it's literally one of the most famous documents in the world.
if I were a member of the current Trump administration I would not be excited about the concept of “illegal pardons”
This is way outside of my areas of expertise, but I’d be genuinely frightened that asking for a letter like this would demonstrate the I knew or recklessly disregarded that what I was doing violated the law.
There are countries where 97% of the stories would be bad about the leader, but they got rid of free speech, so it's now down to 0. Russian, North Korea, China....
While we're all distracted by the domestic sideshow, Trump is sending the military out to kill people he says are "terrorists", in violation of US and international law. No wonder people at the Pentagon are checking in with their lawyers. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
I mean you can if you have a definition of America as a nation that reflects MAGA
You can brand yourself w/ whatever slogan you want, but you can’t be “The party of national security” while historically performing poorer on the economy; underinvesting in human capital; and willfully destroying the constellation of allies and institutions that made America a global power.
96 year old craven, oatmeal brained empty suit says what?
It’s because they are engaged in an effort, existential to the MAGA party project, of destroying American military and statecraft power and building something shapable and utterly loyal to the party in its ashes.
A congressional authorization for the Trump administration’s use of military force against “narcoterrorists” wouldn’t solve the fundamental problems: 1) that military forces is the wrong tool 2) this isn’t a war 2) targets thus far haven’t been lawful www.nytimes.com/2025/09/19/u...
I should say, a firm “No” voiced by the senate. I don’t want to hear about “serious” GOP senators like Moran and Wicker ever again. Hollow, craven men who have utterly forsaken their oaths and ruined the country.
I can’t believe we didn’t see the big military resistance early on. Nothing belligerent, just a firm “no” backed by the senate. The line should have been the first wave of fired service chiefs and CJCS/VCJCS and certainly the discharge on spurious reasons of trans members. These are YOUR people!
Can’t express how important those records laws are to ensuring basic justice and accountability. It is a sick joke that the admin was not driven from office as soon as Signalgate revealed the magnitude of their evasion.
Heard from a friend at Disney+ that there are multiple levels of freakout internally, both from internal dissatisfaction, concerns about subscription cancelations, and of course the big one: concern about a boycott spilling over into parks and cruises.
Stephen Colbert: "Nexstar has a major merger coming up before the Trump administration. A company apparently capitulating to the whims of the president in order to ensure their merger goes through? Has that ever happened before? I'm being told not to answer that question."
“The beat”, huh?
For some inexplicable reason, this brilliant 1938 anti-Appeasement cartoon by the great David Low came to mind when I looked at the list of the Mega-Powerful / Hyper-Rich at yesterday’s Windsor Castle nosh up for our superhuman masters.
lol they are bragging about killing people with the US military in flagrant violation of any kind of legal authority not once but twice in a week. The press is just gone, too many abuses to keep up.
The media allowing Trump plausible deniability on Project 2025 during the campaign is right up there with Iraq War stenography in craven, lazy disgracefulness
and a retired meteorologist shall lead us
I think that they think the constitution is actually a pamphlet with a bunch of cool old school style script on the outside. On the inside it just says “Grunt Style 1776” next to a Punisher skull.
Pence: "State ownership of business is very common in China & Russia. Taking a percentage of sales of Nvidia, taking a percentage of stock of Intel is inconsistent w/ free market principles, and I think it's taken our country to a very perilous place and I think we need to resist that very strongly"
What does Trump say about his political origin story being years and years and insane shit talking about Obama on Fox?
The context here, of course, is that the “local broadcasters” Carr is egging on are actually huge conglomerates with a pending merger before his office that would give them (and him) vast control over all broadcast television stations
It’s darkly funny that the search for the shooter’s politics never provided much clarity about *his* politics but brought the politics of a lot of powerful people into sharp relief.
Oh so that’s why he’s getting state funeral treatment. He was even more bespoke than a troop - a guy who could have joined but then was too good to be a troop. Makes sense.
Children can't agree to a contract/license, so the idea that their unauthorized use of a service could force a parent into arbitration is just ludicrous. arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...
This is what happens when you ask him about his crypto scam. He won’t have to worry about that as long as he keeps the foreign press away.
I cannot stop thinking about how the media ecosystem (broadly defined) was so horrendous during the Helene response and now it’s significantly worse.
Here’s what a Ball State University employee said that led to their termination:
i think that if the FCC threatened to revoke ABC’s license unless it replaced Jimmy Kimmel with Kevin Hart to diversify the network, Ilya Shapiro would be able to identify the issue here