"A world in which the White House is allied to the Kremlin was, until now, the stuff of paranoid fiction. Manchurian candidates and red presidents were fantasies, dark tales that Americans told themselves, like ghost stories around a campfire. But this alliance now exists."

Tom Nichols@radiofreetom.bsky.social · 2d ago

Humiliating and dangerous: Trump has now finally just made America an ally of the Kremlin and is aiding Putin in his war against an American friend and partner. Shameful betrayal of a US friend, and pathetic submission to a US enemy. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1...

WAPO: The lining “failed in at least 85 places because of errors in the renovation, including the premature refilling of the basin before the liner had fully dried ..” @washingtonpost.com www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...

@danboriscreates.bsky.social

One week out, and this is where “I’ll do it later” starts costing people. If somebody in your family keeps saying they’ll get around to it, call them. If your coworker just moved and has been meaning to update everything, remind them.

NEW TROY JACKSON AD 🔥 Susan Collins spent years perfecting that “reasonable moderate” act. Then ProPublica dropped the receipts: A defense contractor funneled $150,000 through a shell company to a pro-Collins super PAC while Collins pushed for $32 MILLION in naval contracts.

So, in his own words, he has no Fs left to give. This document is what a man with nothing to lose and a grudge against the Secretary of War does with his last four months in Congress. Here’s what’s in it. deanblundell.substack.com/p/breaking-a...

BREAKING: A Republican Just Filed War Crimes Charges Against Trump’s Secretary of War. On the Same Day the FBI Director Had to Explain the Bestiality Thing.

Thomas Massie’s 34 pages are not a stunt. They’re a prosecution file with the dates already filled in while Kash Patel told the Senate why “victims of bestiality” should be FBI agents.

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🚨 5.4 MILLION views. And counting. Trump doesn’t want you watching this interview. So naturally, we should get it to 10 MILLION. Let’s make sure Trump sees just how many people are watching. 10 million views. One Texas Senate seat. Let's fucking go Texas. Let’s fucking go, Texas.

Jimmy Kimmel’s Interview with James Talarico That the FCC Doesn’t Want You To See

YouTube video by Jimmy Kimmel Live

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🤔 @espn giving Cruz air to push policy opposed by the @NAACP but Kimmel can’t interview Talarico?

Call it the MITCH Act

Diphtheria, Tetanus, and Pertussis have been administered in a combined shot since the 1940s. Combo vaccines are one of the most proven medical technologies ever.

🔥 TEXAS: “Registered voters in Tarrant County has increased 30% — to be closing polling stations is blatant voter suppression… when I joined the Navy, I swore an oath to defend the Constitution from enemies foreign and domestic…Talking to you, Comrades."

@andertoon.bsky.social

maga will accept as leaders rapists, pedophiles, white supremasicsts, wife beaters, con artists, conspiracy theorists, absolute morons, paid foreign agents, & people who are *all* of those things but you can't be even slightly pro-immigration, that's the line newrepublic.com/article/2138...

MAGA Erupts at Trump DHS Chief—and Accidentally Exposes Big MAGA Scam

Markwayne Mullin just said the unsayable: that immigration can sometimes help the economy and the country. Now MAGA wants his head.

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Judge Sullivan has given acting AG Todd Blanche 5 days to produce unredacted versions of some Epstein Files documents & proof that the reasons given for making the redactions were true. Here’s what’s significant about that: joycevance.substack.com/p/an-importa...

An Important Epstein Files Update

This afternoon, federal District Judge Emmet Sullivan did something unexpected.

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Todd Blanche has five days to come down with an illness that only about a dozen people have and which requires extended care somewhere apparently.

Joyce White Vance@joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Judge Sullivan has given acting AG Todd Blanche 5 days to produce unredacted versions of some Epstein Files documents & proof that the reasons given for making the redactions were true. Here’s what’s significant about that: joycevance.substack.com/p/an-importa...

The Pentagon has retroactively lowered the U.S. death toll in Trump's Iran War, claiming the four soldiers killed last weekend don't count because Trump declared a ceasefire in April. Trump's ego is so colossal he can't admit his own warmongering is getting Americans killed. Shameful.

ATLANTA (AP) — US surpasses 2025’s record-breaking tally for measles cases, with 2,318 cases and 5 more months left in the year.

Hearing this, would you give this man an additional $1.5 TRILLION dollars for the war he started in Iran? Senator @ossoff.bsky.social grills the mess out of Defense Secy Pete Hegseth.

𝗕𝗥𝗘𝗔𝗞𝗜𝗡𝗚🚨 Madison Brouillette says her father David, an ICE officer who abused her & her mom, called her & admitted to killing Johan Sebastián Guerrero. Her mom, Ashley Brouillette details the abuse including when he threw boiling water on her while holding her child. This is who ICE hires! ABUSERS

The Treasury’s top tax policy official was forced out of his job after he warned that the White House was at risk of violating a federal law prohibiting senior officials’ involvement in IRS audits www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

Exclusive | Top Treasury Tax Official Ousted After Clashes With White House Over IRS Audits

Kenneth Kies warned that political officials risked breaching a law that limits who can influence tax enforcement.

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Isn't it weird that this week a currently sitting president had to pay a woman MILLIONS of dollars for *raping* (and defaming) her—and the media has forgotten all about it? There was a time that this would have been the ONLY story—until the rapist was driving from office.

“ICE’s Camp East Montana is a human rights disaster” 90% of 71 detainees contacted in the concentration camp on Fort Bliss were beaten by guards or witnessed beatings, in addition to being denied necessary medical care, forced to live in filthy conditions & fed inedible meals @hrw.org @aclu.org

Report: Detainees at ICE facility in Texas report frequent beatings and other human rights abuses

A new report from human rights advocates says 90% of detainees interviewed at a sprawling ICE facility in Texas say they were either beaten by guards or witnessed others being beaten.

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🚨BREAKING: President Donald Trump Thursday dismissed all remaining commissioners on the Election Assistance Commission (EAC), a bipartisan federal agency created to help states administer elections. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

In sweeping attack on elections, Trump fires leadership of key federal voting assistance commission

The dismissals leave the elections assistance agency without leadership just months before the upcoming 2026 midterms.

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I know there is, um, other stuff happening right now, but HHS under RFK Jr. has postponed yet another meeting of the US Preventive Services Task Force, while also failing to provide public access to nominees' application materials as promised in a Federal Register notice

Key Health Care Panel Is Again Blocked From Meeting

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Trump on AI: "It's a massive industry. And I think things are gonna happen. What you're seeing here with the kids -- I think something could happen in that regard too with a contribution to the people of our country. I'll give you a little inside information. Paul, am I allowed to do that?"

“Jesus Christ, everything’s happening so fast I can’t even keep track of it—let us catch our breath!” Reds fan Aaron Cartwright said as he scrambled to down a beer and a hot dog during a recent home game in his native Cincinnati

Nation Decides Baseball Too Fast Now

NEW YORK—Just a few years after Major League Baseball introduced sweeping pace-of-play reforms intended to make the sport more compelling, a stressed-out nation confirmed Thursday that baseball games ...

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Puregoldj@puregoldj.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Election Judge here. If you’re doing a mail-in ballot, note that you can also put the ballot in a ballot drop box if your state has those, or you can bring the ballot into any voting station on Election Day (or on early voting days).