1/ If you are feeling overwhelmed by the fast paced of legal news, remember that it’s deliberate. It’s a strategy Trump uses, flooding the zone in hopes that people will tune out. Read what you need to know here to get ready for the week: joycevance.substack.com/p/the-week-a...
Happy Labor Day, Kentucky. As you spend time with your family, remember the true meaning of today: to recognize the hardworking labor unions who helped build our country and ensure workers everywhere are delivered the security and fairness they deserve. Thank you to our unions.
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You forgot the tua
Thanks, somewhat heartening
State supreme courts are a battlefield for pressing issues, from abortion rights to ballot access. But do you know how your court works? Our guide breaks down the structure and procedures of every single state’s highest court.
Want to know who new CDC head Jim O’Neill is and what he stands for? Look no further. @jesshamzelou.bsky.social put together this very timely in-depth profile for you. www.technologyreview.com/2025/06/30/1...
Yeah, about that. Corn has a third "gender" that allows fertiliztion. There was a TV show like that (a third, priest form to accomplish pregnancy) but can't be bothered to remember that 90s show name
How can anyone look at that lemon car salesman face he makes and believe a blinking thing he says?
So, my guess... trump will charge the Dems with plagiarism and or being a copycat
All three are here: insidemedicine.substack.com/p/breaking-n...
When the asteroid struck, much of the world died. Burnt wood, bone, and ash scattered under darkened skies. Fungus spread over the decay, lives that also fed surviving ants. Ants who began to farm the fungus, inventing agriculture long before we did. I’ll tell you more at Smithsonian. #InvertFest
Bird of Paradise flower (Strelitzia reginae) FYI... In South Africa, Bird of Paradise flowers evolved with sunbirds. When one lands to sip nectar, it is just the right weight and size, so the blue petal hinges open, brushing pollen onto its chest. #nature #photography #sbgphotography
Wages are not keeping up with the cost of living. We cannot tackle this piecemeal or leave this up to just business owners. Good jobs & strengthening worker power are democratic & economic imperatives. rooseveltinstitute.org/publications...
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Monster.
Ok but I have lodged a cease and desist with hubs on ever seeing this live again. Things that are interesting about Wm are not him trying to put gore other writers of his time. Tell me how I am wrong?!?
For all of us.
Donald Trump says he is going to deploy the National Guard to Chicago. This is what weak men do to pretend they’re strong. Stay safe, stand with your community, and most importantly, know your rights:
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Omg! I have been looking for this! Conservatives wore masks for HIV! BUT REFUSE TO MASK FOR COVID!
It’s amazing how quickly people stopped mentioning that Sam Altman’s sister sued him for sexual abuse.
AG Bondi's threat to criminally prosecute state officials embarrasses and disgraces the office of the United States Attorney General.
Private prison and surveillance companies like Geo Group, CoreCivic, and Palantir just reported massive profits last quarter thanks to lucrative government contracts for Trump's mass deportation machine. All of course donated to Trump's inauguration. They're getting rich off cruelty.
The earliest whales walked on land, and some four-legged cetaceans even crossed oceans. Dive into my latest for @smithsonianmag.bsky.social. 🐋 🧪
This absolute abandonment of fellow Christians by those that want to appear righteous may irredeemable to the soul of our nation as a Christian one, this willful rejection of the call of Jesus to love one another.
60 Minutes Australia said YOLO and did a major investigation into Trump and Epstein. youtu.be/qMIP4RIoCHc?...
This is important for all women. Please watch this!
This is f*cked up‼️ They poisoned the air and water. Now they want to run the hospitals. The Yates family, New Mexico’s oil barons are bankrolling private equity’s takeover of healthcare. 🧵
The first time Charlie Chaplin used his voice in a film, he wielded it to forcefully condemn the rising forces of fascism around the globe. Will we listen to his words today?
Lisa Kudrow nailed it! This was the best Republican impersonation I have ever seen, I was even getting upset thinking this was real. Love it!
My painting NORTHWOODS LAKE
take heart in this fab essay and forthcoming book: archaeologists find that when empires fall, the powerful fare badly but the commoners fare better! people want to cooperate and thrive. what happens next is still up to us. aeon.co/essays/the-g...
Women are done with this guy*
This bodega owner pays for good report cards! #blacksky #AMomentofJoy Academic Division!
Because
Unless moving to Canada/
I had no idea, wow
WADA’s The Unraveling isn’t just an exhibition — it’s a reckoning. Curator Jude Leitten and artist Ali Syverson turn USAID’s dismantling into a visceral map of loss, memory, and urgency. Every frame, every story reminds you: when aid collapses, the world feels it.
Here are the Top 5 Dogs of the week!
I just think of this sometimes 🤣🤣🤣 sometimes the cards are screaming l: Listen Linda! 😜
If you're worried about the world or frightened for the future, here’s my message for you: Don’t just sit idly by and wring your hands. Roll up your sleeves, channel that anxiety into productivity, and join us at this year's @clintonglobal.bsky.social.
Lawrence O’Donnell is giving a scathing and profoundly relevant to August 2025 indictment of the lax, ethically compromised, historically disengaged White House Press Corps. It should be widely circulated tomorrow and used in every journalism department in the nation. @lawrenceodonnell.msnbc.com
Hope her name is Alice Floofer
Thank you Jack Hopkins- I've been following you and your wise posts for years and trust & cheer you on to the maxxx. I feel like standing up and winning this battle is PROJECT: 080525 NOW, or never!!
It's a bit of whimsy to be sure. Random mutation that benefits a planet where it just passed it's carrying capacity can be seen as a benefit to that system, and anthropomorphizing Mother Earth is far from uncommon.
They have vanity in common too.
I mean the inputs to make meat (water, feed) and outputs (methane, misery) are massive. I used this as an example of ways nature fixes a problem, like walnuts producing every other year to reduce an explosion of baby squirrels year over year.
Mother Earth reduces needed inputs
Columbia University folded. 60 Minutes was brought to heal. The legal and political class took dives. And yet South Park is on the rampart of democracy and forcing media to discuss the nature of the authoritarian regime in Washington. Watch this interview. www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1tc...
Trump’s firing of the BLS commissioner threatens the integrity of economic data. Back in February, we wrote about how data revisions work, why they happen, and why transparency is what underpins trust in government-reported data. ⤵️ rooseveltinstitute.org/blog/why-eco...
Can't get Beastie Boy's song Sabotage out of my head
If you protect children whomever their parents happen to be, you'd be more relatable
Pedophilia is a strategy to choke any empathy out of the ruling class. Feature, not a bug.
The content of this article sounds very plausible, but how do you deal with it, adjudicate it, in a credible, effective way in today’s environment??? thiswillhold.substack.com/p/she-won-th...
im also picturing the guy escaping like this? its very disconcerting to lose my most treasured possessions to crime but the mildly hysterical dissociated part of me keeps thinking "at least they won't be hard to fence"
This is not just made-up hoopla, here's the real court papers for Katie Johnson
Why aren't Medicaid expansion states discussing using AI to quickly simplify all qualification and requalification requirements that will cost 10m people their coverage ? Why aren't Dems pushing solutions that blunt many of the obstacles introduced to reduce coverage ?
What really surprises me is how the American system is so corrupt and broken that continues to allow that a senile compulsive liar continues to be the president...? I realized that Trump is just the final result of an oligarchic system designed to perpetuate the power of the elites over anyone else.
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In honored of Mick Jagger's 82nd birthday, I'm posting the song "Strange Game" that he wrote & sang a couple years ago for the TV series Slow Horses. Even if you've watched the show, you haven't heard the whole song. Mick is still *crushing* it. Work.
NEW: Nathan Albers once co-owned a company that schemed to hire and conceal undocumented workers. Now his company could make hundreds of millions from work on the nation's largest detention camp. “The irony is thick,” said a former DHS official.
Anybody else playing War Pigs on repeat?
Maybe she'll visit DC more often.
The decades of granted powers that lead to a US dictatorship.
I believe it is the whole point.
#Auschwitz #TheHolocaust #Hitler #Genocide #TheThirdReich #Trump #Musk #MAGA #Project2025 #Nationalism #BadFaith #TheFourthReich #Fascism archive.is/Ob6xh Photos show the horrors of Auschwitz, the largest and deadliest Nazi concentration camp. ⏬ Bluesky article thread (10 min) with extra links 📖🍿🔊
It’s SO GOOD. You want to read this one.
And one final thought: Ozzy going out after giving an emotional final performance that raised a ton of money for charity is more spiritually uplifting and did more genuine good than anything any televangelist and religious grifter who railed against him ever did combined.
youtu.be/3c5neBXQwf8?... This SNL skit from 5 and a half yrs ago aged well. #EpsteinFiles #EpsteinCoverup #PedoTrump #SNL
Straight up planning the coup
True. Had something similar in Seattle. Ins wants it this was as those squishy bodies are expensive to fix
So far
The ban would bar members of the state board and county boards from making “written or oral statements intended for general distribution or dissemination to the public at large encouraging or promoting voter turnout in any election.” www.democracydocket.com/analysis/don...
"You got to make your own worlds. You got to write yourself in." - Octavia Butler
Three minutes. But I like the notion.
Why Colbert's cancellation marks a dangerous new stage for the culture at large
Ahaha. Do. It.
Free the Spokane 9 Largely ignored in a small market, this week's federal indictment of 9 anti-ICE protesters in Washington state, including a former council president, shows how far the Trump regime will go to crush dissent This was always the plan. My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/ice-...
Watch the seismic waves from today's magnitude 7.3 Alaska earthquake ripple across seismic stations in North America. More ➡️ loom.ly/kaJp5I0
Yankee Beria. God help us all.
Can everyone share this?
Fuck it, they killed him live.
Have you ever seen or heard of this in the US before? I haven't. This is not a legitimate government of the PEOPLE, by the PEOPLE, for the PEOPLE.
One does not simply paint over rebel art. Is it our own Banksy? Long Live Hot Rat!!!
Crockett: Earlier someone was talking about cities being hellholes. Los Angeles contributes almost 20 billion in taxes. That’s more than all states in this country except for four.
After the largest dam removal in US history, Indigenous youth paddled 300 miles down the restored Klamath River. The journey reconnected Native communities to ancestral waters and honored decades of tribal activism. Salmon have already begun returning. cnn.it/44YTqBr
#booksky
Donald Trump used Jeffrey Epstein’s former jet for campaign appearances | Donald Trump | The Guardian share.google/bXHJpVeqn3kH...
While others are writing memoirs and playing it safe, Justice Jackson is writing history—one fearless dissent at a time.👇 www.jackhopkinsnow.com
Got damn
"It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no God." --U.S. founding father Thomas Jefferson
Leaving this here, you may wanna pack a lunch.... www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Yep, pretty much.
