We had a great run
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Trying to remember what normal looks like. Old XRepublican white guy getting more liberal by the day. Retired Engineer BSE,MSME,PE. CASA Child Advocate. No DMs!
This video on the rise of Russ Vought is based on scores of interviews, thousands of pages of emails and dozens of hours of videos and recordings of private briefings given by Vought, most of which have not been previously reported.
Russell Vought: The Shadow President
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This should be another aspect of immediate journalistic inquiry: What has happened to other world leaders who have suffered from similar psychiatric issues in their decompensating end stages? How did that turn out for themselves and the people they govern?
Ossoff: "Each day his allies are fewer & even they no longer deny his corruption, the obscene self-dealing while he plunges nation deeper into reckless war while he rakes in billions & builds himself ballroom & prepares again to attack elections. Let's be clear, one man attempted fraud in GA: Trump"
Here we are in 2026 and this song is just as relevant now as it was when it was created. ‘Stop, Hey What's That Sound’ Buffalo Springfield Released December, 1966
“Madness in great ones must not unwatched go” @shakespeare.lol
‼️"There is no reforming prisoners when you are making profit off of those prisoners."‼️ 🔴 LIVE FROM MAINE: Matt Gordon, a.k.a. @usmcangryveteran.bsky.social, protests ICE's injustice after they shot and killed Joan Sebastian Guerrer in Biddeford, Maine. Join our LIVE COVERAGE below ⬇️⬇️⬇️
➡️ "If this graph represented STOCK MARKET PRICES, ... ‼️ a new OLYMPIC RECORD ‼️ ... or a MEDICAL TEST RESULT, it would dominate the headlines. Instead, it is being met largely with silence. That silence should concern us just as much as the graph itself." And it's also not just about El Niño.
The Graph That Should Be Front-Page News
Every so often the Earth produces a signal that is impossible to ignore. This graph is one of them. It shows sea-surface temperatures in the Niño 3.4 region of the equatorial Pacific, one of the most ...
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Lindsey Graham died this weekend, and many are choosing to remember the man he once was instead of the harm he ultimately inflicted. I break down Lindsey Graham's real legacy as a power-hungry, pilot fish who wished to destroy the American republic. youtu.be/c_ineHOkxx8
He Betrayed His Country for Power | Steve Schmidt
YouTube video by The Warning with Steve Schmidt
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A bicentennial song went “we must be doing something right to last 200 years”. Ford had pardoned Nixon declaring our long national nightmare over. At 250, we are challenged by a corrupt, divisive president. I flew our flag today as a sign of hope in the American dream of truth and justice for all.
Mamdani: "As we mark 250 years ... we see the wealthiest country -- one where children go to sleep hungry while the world's first trillionaire hungers for more ... we see masked agents terrorizing our streets, eating food cooked by undocumented neighbors before spiriting them away in unmarked vans"
Trump starts wandering off in the wrong direction after a G7 photo and world leaders have to step in and redirect him
An elephant at the Texas Republican convention has urinated all over the floor.
Rep. Kamlager-Dove: "I rise today to sound the alarm about a grave national security threat: Donald Trump's sleeping habits ... we cannot trust the WH on matters concerning the president's health because they are denying what Americans are seeing with our own two eyes."
Kamlager-Dove: We cannot have a president asleep on the job. Is he sleeping in classified briefings or on calls with foreign leaders? How can we trust a president who is literally asleep at the wheel?
via @acyn.bsky.social Lieu: The president is not well. He has tremendous difficulty staying awake on the job. He has repeatedly fallen asleep at Cabinet meetings, at White House events, at a Memorial Day ceremony, and most recently at a very loud NBA game last night. ...
STEPHEN A. SMITH: “.. The brother wasn't awake. If it was that important for you to be there, why did you look like you were asleep? Didn't you call out former President Joe Biden, 'Sleepy Joe'? Well, what should we call you?” @espn.com
In case you forgot what it looks like when a real president gets the love at a game. You know, when the crowd actually wants the president there.
Look how fast they took Trump’s face off the screen after the crowd erupts in boos.
> @kylec.bsky.social gets the John Oliver treatment: @ivanthek.bsky.social
Solomon@solomonrmissouri.com · 2mo ago
“…if markets stumble it creates a much more dramatic impact on the economy than we would have seen before. I refer to it as a Jenga tower that’s top-heavy. As you remove support from the bottom, the tower becomes more fragile. To me, that’s a very fragile economy.” english.elpais.com/economy-and-...
The popularizer of the K-shaped economy: ‘The rich are living a golden age under Trump’
Professor Peter Atwater believes economic inequality has mutated into something more dangerous for social cohesion. ‘Such an unequal economy is fragile, like a Jenga tower,’ he warns
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Putin forgot to ask Ukrainians for permission to hold the 2026 St. Petersburg International Economic Forum, and the event opened not with investment news, but with smoke rising above an oil terminal. A few hours before the opening, Ukrainian drones struck an oil export terminal in St. Petersburg⤵️
Participants of the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum gather against the backdrop of a burning oil depot following the overnight drone attack.
The burning oil terminal at the background for the attendees of the Saint Petersburg International economic forum (SPIEF) is quite a fitting picture of current state of Russia.
2/ Russia expected the eyes of (part of) the world to be on St Petersburg today. It's the start of #SPIEF2026 But instead of chatting about Russia's premier Economic Forum, there's just one story in town, with luminaries from Africa and Afghanistan wondering if it's safer at home!