hey so the price of food is literally not sustainable. i plan every grocery purchase and week after week i buy LESS and pay the same if not more. wtf are we supposed to do 😭
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El-Sayed: "My commitment to Jewish safety is the same commitment that I have to the safety of my own daughters. Because if there is one question of political philosophy that ought to animate us all, it's what would we do if we treated all our kids like they were all of our kids?"
My Michigan loves: Mennonites, Billy Strings, Traverse City, Manistee. Good for all,
Forbes@forbes.com · 4h agoAbdul El-Sayed, a former public health official, was backed by prominent progressives, including Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y.
More than 50 offending image and video ads were published across Facebook, Instagram, Messenger, or Threads, according to Meta’s ad library data. Some ran as recently as this week. www.wired.com/story/meta-r...
Meta Ran Ads That Contained AI-Generated Child Sexual Abuse Imagery
More than 50 offending image and video ads were published across Facebook, Instagram, Messenger, or Threads, according to Meta’s ad library data. Some ran as recently as this week.
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El-Sayed: "They think they want to use my whole name against me. Mike, listen man, If you can't say the name -- it's Abdulrahman -- keep the name out your damn mouth."
FUCK DOJ has, in general, not relied on Trump v. US, even in all its most expansive claims to be able to do what they want. But in Broadview--where defendants suspect that Todd Blanche's enforcer Akash Singh was involved--DOJ went there. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
![Separately, as the Supreme Court recently held, “[i]nvestigative and prosecutorial
decisionmaking is ‘the special province of the Executive Branch,’” and so even the “President may
discuss potential investigations and prosecutions with his Attorney General and other Justice
Department officials to carry out his constitutional duty to ‘take Care that the Laws be faithfully
executed.” Trump v. United States, 603 U.S. 593, 620 (2024) (quotations and citations omitted).
Thus, members of the Executive Branch are constitutionally required to “take Care that the Laws
be faithfully executed,” and it is entirely appropriate for them to “decide which crimes to
investigate and prosecute.” Id. (quoting U.S. Const. Art. II, § 3). Although the Supreme Court in
2024 made clear that the law permits such interactions, as already noted and consistent with
Department policy, in this matter, the United States Attorney reported the Office’s charging
decision to Main Justice shortly before the first grand jury presentation in this case. R. 110 at 4,
n.2.15 Former Defendants are not entitled to any communications relating to charging decisions or](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:bbp2b224lro3bfnzcqwwnkfo/bafkreihyyexcusmlv2qq5dhiupo44u6dxuggoidlrpfdkddmsuesirnp2q)
“Anybody who’s so mentally ill that they cannot get out of their cell for even two hours a day needs to be in a care setting, a place where they can actually get treatment,” says a Colorado state Senator representing Boulder. “We’re not doing that.”
Colorado Limited Solitary for People with Mental Illness. But Judges Still Routinely Approve It. - Bolts
Despite a 2021 law meant to curb solitary confinement in local jails, judges almost always grant requests to isolate people with serious mental illness, often because there
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Jeff Dean and other high-profile Google executives have founded Discovery Loop, a startup that will seek AI-powered breakthroughs in everything from drug discovery to chip design.
4 of Google’s Top AI Brains Are Leaving—and Launching Their Own AI Startup
Jeff Dean and other high-profile Google executives have founded Discovery Loop, a startup that will seek AI-powered breakthroughs in everything from drug discovery to chip design.
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Excellent piece from @newsjennifer.bsky.social whose newsletter I highly recommend. We can't trust the Ellisons with anything, let alone this enormously influential network. You can already see their influence in CNN's reporting and commentary. It will likely get much worse.
@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze)@newsjennifer.bsky.social · 6h agoNEW from me: I think this is the perfect time to use Rachel Maddow’s oft-repeated phrase - ‘watch what they do- not what they say.’ Ignore Ellison's PR pitch, but look at what's happening at CBS News including directing reporters to add “facts” that did not exist. open.substack.com/pub/jennifer...
For the first time since 2017, a Reuters/Ipsos poll finds Democrats surpassing Republicans on which party voters think has a better approach to the economy. Trump's approval rating is at 35%. Democrats lead by 5-points on the generic congressional ballot.
Voters prefer Democrats over Republicans on economy for first time in a decade, Reuters/Ipsos poll finds
Democrats lead Republicans 37% to 36% on the economy, a Reuters/Ipsos poll shows.
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🧵🧵🧵 A scandal that hardly anyone knows happened is Trump giving traitor Michael Flynn $1.25 million in your tax money. Flynn, Trump’s 1st national security adviser, pleaded guilty twice to lying to the FBI but was pardoned by Trump. He sued, alleging "weaponization," and DOJ paid him in March. 1/4🧵
Justice Dept. Settles Flynn’s Wrongful Prosecution Suit for $1.25 Million (Gift Article)
The agreement was an extraordinary example of how the Trump administration has offered legal relief to those aligned with the president.
nytimes.com
🚨BREAKING: Voting advocates filed a lawsuit Tuesday, asking a state court to quickly put a redistricting referendum on the November ballot as Missouri Republicans inch closer to thwarting voters’ efforts to block gerrymandered new voting maps. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
Missouri voting advocates sue after redistricting referendum rejected
Missouri voters have fought for nearly a year to put the gerrymander to a statewide referendum vote in November.
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A paramilitary group plotted to overthrow the Constitution then conducted a violent attack on America. They were convicted in court of seditious conspiracy, and jailed. Then the leader they aimed to illegally install got power and let them out, their records wiped clean. The Jan. 6 attackers won.
Judge Pained as He Grants Dismissal of Jan. 6 Charges Against Oath Keepers
The judge, Amit P. Mehta, blasted the administration’s request for a dismissal in the case, saying it bestowed “unearned grace” on the Oath Keepers defendants “by wiping their records clean.”
nytimes.com
🚨BREAKING: Missouri voters have rejected a ballot measure to limit their own ability to pass amendments to the state constitution — a proposal that fueled extraordinarily high voter turnout in Tuesday’s election. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
Missouri voters reject ballot measure limiting their power to amend state constitution
Notably, the proposed amendment would not have affected constitutional amendments that the legislature put on the ballot. State lawmakers only wanted to make it harder to pass a voter-led measure, not...
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There's a Kornacki Cam fyi www.nbcnews.com/video/kornac...
Kornacki Cam: Watch Steve analyze midterm primary election results
NBC News chief data analyst Steve Kornacki breaks down real-time vote tallies from Kansas, Michigan, Missouri, Virginia and Washington, while giving viewers a behind-the-scenes look at election night ...
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MELIUS, on Elon’s statement that $SPCX “has decided to exclusively use Nvidia compute and suggested the company could deploy closer to 8GW of AI compute during 2027”:
Ultimately, Trump yielded, positioning Iran to exert control over the Strait of Hormuz. Iran will likely extend negotiations until his departure from office. It’s a regrettable loss of American lives and resources.
Shipwreck@shipwreck75.bsky.social · 16h agoThe U.S., Iran and Oman are closing in on an interim agreement to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, with the U.S. aiming for a Wednesday announcement. -Axios
El-Sayed is projected to win the Michigan Democratic Senate primary and will go up against Mike Rogers in November
University of Michigan voters have a 100% El-Sayed precinct right now.
Microsoft: $101 BILLION in profits. $12.5 BILLION in tax breaks. $176 BILLION in stock buybacks. 4,800 workers fired this week. 9,000 workers fired last year. Please don't tell me trickle-down economics works. It never did. Nothing trickles down.
At least all those expensive weapons went to a good cause: Allowing greedy Donald Trump to get rich from manipulating the stock market. Glory!
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · yesterday"The Army has used up 'virtually all' of its stockpile of highly accurate long-range missiles during its five-month war with Iran, raising concerns about the military's readiness for future conflicts"
Capital One has asked a federal judge to dismiss a lawsuit from the Trump Org. over the closure of hundreds of bank accounts in 2021, arguing that the shutdowns were the product of a monthslong anti-money-laundering review — not retaliation for the Capitol riot, as the Trump businesses have claimed.
Blanche’s nomination as attorney general will move to a full Senate vote, despite critics who argue he didn’t sufficiently kill Trump’s $1.8 billion “anti-weaponization” fund.
Senate Judiciary Committee Approves Todd Blanche As AG After Initial Delay
Blanche’s nomination as attorney general will move to a full Senate vote, despite critics who argue he didn’t sufficiently kill Trump’s $1.8 billion “anti-weaponization” fund.
forbes.com
PHANG'S OUT: Katie Phang has surged past 700,000 YouTube subscribers, fueled by her fearless reporting and a growing community hungry for real accountability journalism. That's more than 70,000 new subscribers in just one month. 🤯
