I know this sounds crazy, but shouldn’t the Secretary of Energy know something about energy?
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I know this sounds crazy, but shouldn’t the Secretary of Energy know something about energy?
In wrestling terms, this wsj poll finds the American Dream dead and long live the American Nightmare: "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.”
Maybe she thinks the confirmation process is an election.
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People should not get too excited about bruises on the back of the hand in an old person as a sign of imminent death or disability.
The story is a 19th C. fabrication, spun from a forgotten past. To paraphrase Galadriel, "History became legend. Legend became myth. And myth became history." If you want to know more about the eel ships & images of London, I have a longer thread: (fin) bsky.app/profile/gree...
Rest in peace. He turned out great performances consistently.
The WAPO published a leaked document outlining a plan to forcibly displace all 2 million residents of Gaza and place the territory under U.S. trusteeship for "at least" 10 years. In other words, ethnic cleansing, a "final solution" done IN OUR NAMES...Y'all think real carefully about that.
If you’re Italian, each family gets 2 sets of 4 names that alternate with each generation.
Thank you on this labor day!!
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When I was an Amazon driver, holidays weren’t really holidays. Nobody gets paid holidays. If the holiday falls on a day that you’re regularly scheduled, you have to make up that day to get your regular weekly hours. Would it kill the company to give everyone real paid holidays? Happy Labor Day.
I want this for you, too.
He can pretend to be dead all he wants. I still want the Epstein files released.
Normally they've booked 40% of their fall soybean sales to China at this point. This year, they are at 0% booked, and no, that's not a typo. www.farmprogress.com/soybean/us-s...
started off with a sweep 🧹🤘 #HookEm
Doesn’t the groom ask the bride’s father for her hand, not the ex-father-in-law?
Alberta is Canada's fascist growing province.
Excellent question.
Huge news - appeals court rules that a majority of the President’s tariffs are illegal. The President is wreaking havoc on our economy, and he is breaking the law to do it. We must right this ship. We need sane trade policy again.
Heinrich Gobbler meet Doogie Himmler.
I wonder why Bill Pulte didn’t send this case over to DOJ with a criminal referral along with his selective targeting of Adam Schiff and Lisa Cook? apnews.com/article/paxt...
Guilty as charged.
My home state is a national embarrassment.
🚨 BREAKING: JD Vance just claimed there is no Epstein client list — and blamed Biden for the scandal going public. Let that sink in: They’re rewriting the timeline, gaslighting their own base, and pretending the list never existed.
Yea, Kennedy has NO health credentials
Any relation to Dr. George McCracken?
How about the Caitlins, Kaitlyns, Caitlins, Caitlyns, Kourtneys, Kortnees, Kortneys, Cortneys, Courtnees, …
At what point will her hair be on fire?
Geez. Us. He could ask them to roll in a pile of pig s&/+, and I bet these craven a’holes would do it.
Sen Patty Murray (D-WA): “If there are any adults left in the White House, it’s well past time they face reality… We cannot let RFK Jr. burn what’s left of the CDC and our other critical health agencies to the ground—he must be fired.”
This 👇🏻👇🏽👇👇🏾👇🏿👇🏼
Unpopular take: not every business owner, artist, performer, or public figure is going to share my politics. I don’t control their thoughts. I will survive.
He can see their mitochondria. #BetterThanXrayVision
Now I know what a moral circle is.
Marcial is the best! Glad he’s speaking up because pediatricians need a strong policy advocate.
I’m on a call with a young woman who uses a baby voice. I want to stab my ear drums. Speak like an adult. #PetPeeve
Sandwich throwing is down 1500%!
I think is Kilmar Abrego Garcia, part 2: The full force of the federal government working against you because a despot wants it.
“Trump’s pretense to ownership of public goods and public spaces isn’t some quirk to be ignored or waited out — “there goes our Donald!” — but a direct expression of his autocratic ambitions and despotic cast of mind.”
I cried out loud in an airport while reading The Art of Racing in the Rain.
Who’s Matt Walsh?
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a... #FriendsOfGabrielAllon #DanielSilva
Cracker Barrel was just a roadside restaurant and gift shop, known for biscuits and tchotchkes, when the CEO agreed it was time to update its logo to appear more modern. Now it has people disparaging it right and left. The Epstein files were not released. #Distraction #FocusPeople
Barely a millimeter long, tardigrades have endured on Earth for more than 550 million years, predating the dinosaurs.
We once had a Mayor in Dallas who said no. God bless Laura Miller. Now we have a guy who has no real interest in the job and does nothing.
Don’t diss the biscuits. We will have to disagree on this.
Does anyone know what happened between May and August this year?
BREAKING: Democrats Flip Iowa State Senate Seat and Overturn Republican Supermajority In Stunning Upset open.substack.com/pub/demwinsm...
Graham Platner: "Susan Collins has been in the Senate for almost 30 years... People know that she's a self-interested politician who has tried to play this charade for many years about how she tries to be a moderate... Everybody sees this for what it is."
BREAKING: Abrego Garcia just renewed his bid for asylum. Keep fighting!
Unfortunately, the mean as hell people have the most sway right now.
Bless Us! #AdulteryForMeNotThee
It really never went away… but it’s back and spreading #Covid www.nytimes.com/2025/08/20/w...
Kilmar Abrego Garcia is what happens when you have an incompetent administration, constantly making mistakes, that is too insecure/dishonest to admit to any error.
Epstein Epstein Epstein
Pritzker gets it.
Following a riot in Houston on August 23, 1917, members of an all-Black military unit were hanged on mutiny charges. What actually happened that day? https://www.texasmonthly.com/being-texan/black-soldiers-wrongfully-executed-1917-texas/
The fact that this administration is hell bent on punishing Kilmar Abrego Garcia while rewarding Ghislane Maxwell tells you all you need to know about their violent racism and misogyny.
Epstein accuser Virginia Giuffre wrote a memoir. Months after her death, it's coming out nationalnewswatch.com/2025/08/24/e... #nationlnewswatch
I dislike slogans like "Listen to women" because while I get that you really mean "Don't ignore someone just because she's a woman," there are a crapton of people of every gender who should absolutely be ignored when what they say is terrible and/or untrue.
“If Newsom wants to start this arms race…” Maybe I was just never cut out for politics bcuz I could never, ever say something like that. Never. I wouldn’t like myself if I lied like that. I know it’s @tedcruz, but still…
This is what autocrats say and do. Some threats he intends to carry out, others are just meant to intimidate to produce a change in behavior caused by fear. Every day we move closer to autocracy. Who will be fearless & fight, who will ignore it and hide, & who will bend the knee?
Andrew McCabe casts doubt on Ghislaine Maxwell’s interview with DOJ: “It‘s so suspicious. When you listen to the tapes, you get the sense that Ghislaine Maxwell went into that room knowing what information she had to deliver…to get some sort of benefit that she is pursuing from the administration.”
Another one.
I trust steak tartare from a food truck with no refrigerator in August more than Ghislaine Maxwell
This map shows hospitals currently facing cuts or closures. It will get 10X worse in the months and years to come. Hospitals rely on Medicaid & Medicare payments for survival. People will lose healthcare access, esp. in rural areas. Save Medicaid and Medicare. 🏥🧑⚕️ www.commondreams.org/news/hospita...
I hope it is a best seller.
⚡️Ukraine liberates 3 villages in Donetsk Oblast, military reports on Independence Day. Ukrainian troops have liberated the villages of Zelenyi Hai, Mykhailivka, and Volodymyrivka, Commander-in-Chief of Ukraine's Armed Forces Oleksandr Syrskyi reported on Aug. 24.
⚡️'Our flags are returning to where they belong' — Ukraine liberates Novomykhailivka in Donetsk Oblast, military intelligence reports. The joint operation "took the occupiers by surprise" and cost Russia "about a company of personnel," HUR announced on Independence Day.
Moore: "The reason I asked the president to come & join us is bc he seems to enjoy living in this blissful ignorance, these tropes & these 1980s scare tactics...while the president is spending his time from the Oval Office making attacks at us, there are people actually on the ground doing the work"
Virginia Giuffre's family: "The content of these transcripts is in direct contradiction with felon Ghislaine Maxwell's conviction for child sex trafficking. During DAG Todd Blanche's bizarre interview, she is never challenged about her court-proven lies, providing her a platform to rewrite history."
In Texas, almost all the big metro areas are dem strong holds. I’ll be curious to see how his wealthy donors in Dallas, Houston, Austin, and San Antonio respond.
Here’s my take: she says Trump and Clinton did not engage in illegal behavior because she knows if one side says she can’t be believed, the other side says the same. She also continues to lie about her part. This is why all documents need to be released.
From @francescadnunz.bsky.social: “He has never been imprisoned or had a criminal record. His life has always been marked by hard work and integrity. He has no connection to the Tren de Aragua case.”
“I was r*ped sometimes 3 times a day on that island… and I was not the only girl on that island… Ghislaine must die in prison, because I’ve been in hell and back for the last 17 years.” Listen to the survivors.
🗣Heads up #StayReady crew! How are small businesses supposed to survive like this? Do folks know how many OTC meds come from India? www.cbsnews.com/news/europea...
Since it’s Sunday, I want to spread the word of God (even though I’m an atheist) 👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽
It infuriates me that major media, including NBC, played a big story on the “interview” with Maxwell- which was a TOTAL WHITEWASH of reality.
A microscopic tardigrade going for a stroll through some algae. Credit: Sinclair Stammers
So no “Help Me, Rhonda” on your playlist?
It's worth reiterating that the administration has never wavered from the position that it sent Kilmar Abrego Garcia to an El Salvador prison by accident. Everything they've done since is calculated to obscure that and punish him for existing as an example of their own stupidity and callousness.
Citizen journalists fighting fascists! Bravo, JJ in DC!
And yet he couldn’t vote for the woman.
I'm not interested in what notorious liar Ghislaine Maxwell has to say. I'm interested in evidence of what she did. Release the Epstein Files. Stop Donald's coverup.
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The most impressive thing about this campaign is how *creative* they are. They’re trying new stuff! Multiple times during the last few months I’ve thought “wow, I’ve never seen a campaign do that.” Much more of that needed everywhere.
Here’s what was NOT released today: - the proffer agreement between Maxwell and the DoJ - the agreement transferring Maxwell to club fed - communications showing who waived Maxwell’s sex offender status allowing her transfer and possible work assignments outside prison - the Epstein files
"Critics of Trump have likened the president's willingness to meet Putin one-on-one in Alaska – and his suggestion that Ukraine may have to accept the loss of territory – to British PM Neville Chamberlain's mistake of taking Hitler at his word," Nathan Hodge writes | Analysis https://cnn.it/4oPx25B
Where are the Epstein files?
Because it seemed like a good idea on its merits? #wtf
The president's highly unusual announcement underscores the Trump administration's desire to take control over U.S. businesses.
That's exactly what it is.
“In the run-up to the 2024 election, Mr. Bolton again warned about why he believed Mr. Trump was unfit to be president, although he refused to endorse Vice President Kamala Harris.” - NYT #WhosSorryNow