If you thought John Mitchell or Bill Barr were bad… just you wait.
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every day he finds new ways to degrade the united states
The New Republic@newrepublic.com · 2d agoPresident Trump is banning students majoring in degrees that don’t make enough money from taking out college loans. Degrees for social work, art, religious studies, teaching aides, and music will be hit the hardest. trib.al/aaAEu6v
The Democrats' midterm ad practically writes itself.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · yesterdayCornyn: "There's nothing we could do to rein in the president"
I would like to propose the Taco Bell Principle When a person/institution Did A Problem, & IMMEDIATELY fesses up & takes proactive steps to solve it That's exactly what we want them to do? So how bout we let them live ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Sarah Taber@sarahtaber.bsky.social · 3w agoA quick word on Taco Bell: That's where we found the suspected lettuce, and it's not bc Taco Bell is gross. It's bc Taco Bell is REALLY GOOD at tracing product! Keeping track of exactly where they got their ingredients, & exactly what restaurants each shipment of ingredients went to!
People asked questions. Opposition has surged across the US. WIRED's Senior Climate Writer Molly Taft says they've never seen anything like the anger toward data centers, or how resistance has united people from opposite ends of the political spectrum. www.wired.com/story/how-da...
How Data Centers Broke American Politics
What the Unabomber, Steve Bannon’s tech guy, and Bernie Sanders taught me about the great data center backlash of 2026.
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Head Start, established in the 1960s to help fight poverty, has long been considered by experts to be a gold standard early learning program. https://to.pbs.org/457Vzdx
Trump administration weighs proposal to gut Head Start preschool standards, leaving states to set the rules
Two people familiar with the deliberations tell The Associated Press the Republican administration's proposed changes could significantly reduce the preschool program's quality standards.
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Yf you spye a fadid signe at the syde of the roade that saith 'V short leagues to the Shack of Love'
“Dude, you are the government.” RFK Jr. tells Dana Bash the press should be more skeptical of authority, then bristles when she questions him. @saletan.bsky.social calls out the hypocrisy.
#SamSpade on the big screen! #TheMalteseFalcon turns 85 this year, and Cinemark theaters are celebrating by showing it on Sunday, Dec. 6, and Wednesday, Dec. 9. #TheNoirCollective #NoirAlley #HumphreyBogart www.cinemark.com/movies/the-m... (Image from Britannica.com)
President Trump is banning students majoring in degrees that don’t make enough money from taking out college loans. Degrees for social work, art, religious studies, teaching aides, and music will be hit the hardest. trib.al/aaAEu6v
Trump Moves to Cut Off Student Loans for Tons of Degrees
Under a new rule, if your degree doesn’t make enough money, you won’t be able to get a student loan.
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I had completely forgotten about this. The zone flooding works!
Will Sommer@willsommer.bsky.social · 2d agoTransportation secretary Sean Duffy benefited from millions in corporate donations to make a show about road trips. But two months after Duffy said the show would premiere, it doesn't appear to exist at all. My latest False Flag @thebulwark.com: www.thebulwark.com/p/what-the-h...
every single time this happens the next reporter should ask the same question. and then the next. and the next. he’s not going to cut off access. he craves attention too much for that. call his fucking bluff.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2d agoTrump says Jeanine Pirro "choked" and then snaps at a reporter who asks if her job is safe: "Don't ever talk again"
Q: You’ve been Republicans for most of your voting lives. Who’s voting for James Talarico? Republican moms: *all raise their hands* “I like him. I want a middle school teacher who’s like, hey, this is broken. Somebody needs to fix it. Why not me?”
This Wed at 8 PM ET/5 PM PT, I’m hosting #TheNoirCollective and #TCMParty watch party of MAN HUNT (1941), airing live on TCM. Pull up a chair – and lock your door. This is noir; you never know who’s out there… @tcmparty.bsky.social Link to watch if you don’t have TCM: archive.org/details/man-...
"First, Democratic senators should kill the deal on the CR. Then they need to use the Blanche confirmation to highlight that a GOP Senate will be a rubber stamp for Trump. Blanche may get confirmed. But Democrats can turn that sour lemon into sweet, tart lemonade." www.thebulwark.com/p/gop-sheep-...
GOP Sheep to the Midterm Slaughter
Todd Blanche’s confirmation will be bad for the country—and a gift to Senate Democrats.
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Every vote to confirm Todd Blanche as attorney general is a vote to continue the coverup of the Epstein Files.
NEW: Capital One closed hundreds of Trump accounts for money laundering. We wouldn’t have known if Trump hadn’t sued. Now he’s got tax immunity. My latest: www.muellershewrote.com/p/new-capita...
NEW: Capital One Closed Hundreds of Trump Bank Accounts for Anti-Money Laundering Reasons
"A bottled water company, a winery, a golf course, a construction payroll firm, and a real estate brokerage, and hundreds of other businesses" were debanked. Trump claims it was for political reasons.
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Like parts of Spain and France, Eastern Washington is burning. Below is a photo (by John Stember) of a Spokane neighborhood covered with fire retardant. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/02/u...
You’d have to be a fool and/or desperate to get to yes to accept this, so it’ll probably be enough to get him confirmed. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/03/u...
Blanche Gives G.O.P. Senators Written Assurances on Trump’s I.R.S. Deal
Todd Blanche’s confirmation as attorney general has been held up over concerns about a planned $1.8 billion fund for Trump allies and the president’s immunity from tax scrutiny.
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The wife of Rep. Max Miller accused him of spraying her w/ hot water. He has denied he abused her. Today, he released a transcript of a conversation w/ her--and JFC, it is not exactly exculpatory. "I didn't mean to hurt you" he says, after admitting he sprayed her www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/982qz...
![MILLER: (30:00) Well, what, well okay, but what do you have that you're going to release that I'm abusive? MORENO: (30:06] Because you-you were. You poured steaming hot water on me, and you've also, you have been insanely emotionally abusive. And have photos of my--me that my mom took at my house with me with scars on my neck, and you've actually seen those photos. MILLER: [30:20] What are you talking about? That wasn't from me- and you know that wasn't from me. MORENO: (30:24] Yes, was. When you poured hot water on my neck? And I fucking left for my parent's house? MILLER: [30:28] First of all, didn't, I didn't. First of all, I didn't pour hot water on your neck. MORENO: [30:30] Or you, you, you took the fucking faucet and poured it on my neck. MILLER: [30:33] First of all, first of all, the water incident-which have the text messages from that we have, even following up after that -I never thought that that hurt you, and you know that. MORENO: [30:44] I literally went into my closet, went into the laundry and started crying.
MILLER: (30:48] But, but even within the text message? MORENO: [30:51] Okay, let's see them. MILLER: (30:56] Okay, it literally says, did not think that you were hurting, you were laughing the entire time. I am deeply sorry if that hurt you. I have it, you can pull it up, you have the same one. There is nothing there that is in any admission of guilt that I thought that I was hurting you whatsoever. [One sentence concerning an unrelated third party omitted - corresponds to the gap between EX-513 and EX- 514. EXCERPT 2 (EX-514) MILLER: (31:52] t was never done to hurt you with intent. It never was done to hurt you, and you know that. MORENO: [31:58] No, it is true, and if you knew it was because when you went into my-you went into the laundry room when was crying. MILLER: [32:02] -So-so-so, so- MORENO: (32:04] -And you literally, you started crying saying I didn't mean to hurt you, why are you scared of me? MILLER: (32:08) o Yeah, I didn't mea…](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:svawqo4jxobyyuqmixplvcux/bafkreifhadsexmt57a2t7mjih6zh4epasunxvrryrukottd7mx224jxi5e)
Republican leaders refused to say on Sunday’s news shows that President Donald Trump’s controversial “anti-weaponization fund” is dead, or whether it even should be. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
While Trump says ‘anti-weaponization fund’ isn’t dead, GOP lawmakers are silent on if it should die
Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.) and Rep. Jim Jordan (R-N.C.) both refused to disown Trump's discredited "anti-weaponization fund" on Sunday.
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In 1911, Milano Films produced one of the first movie adaptations of The Odyssey
June Foray and Bill Scott #BOTD the voices of Rocky and Bullwinkle. "It was a special show for special people," said Scott, who also voiced Mr. Peabody and Dudley Do-Right and was the head writer and co-producer of the show (with Jay Ward). #TVSky #animation
The points Miller makes in his video are common from abusers. He recorded her. He calls her crazy. He says she was nice to him. He says she never went to a doctor. Anyone who is a survivor of DV has heard all of it.
Ron Filipkowski@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 3d agoAnyone who has worked with domestic violence victims know the answer to this is too often yes.
The DSA in Wilmingotn, N.C. has created a "crisis" by putting benches at city bus stops, after literal decades of the city promising and failing to do so.
Democratic Socialists’ bus benches remain, city mum on next steps | Port City Daily
WILMINGTON — The handmade bus benches installed by the Wilmington Democratic Socialists of America have highlighted a problem nearly everyone agrees exists: most Wave bus stops have nowhere for riders...
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Allison Gill@muellershewrote.com · 3d agoNEW: Todd Blanche just admitted in a court filing in the @katiephang.bsky.social lawsuit that the Epstein Files redaction process was flawed. I'll speak to Katie in ONE HOUR about what could come next. Link here: www.muellershewrote.com/p/new-todd-b...
I know we’re all supposed to find Sen. Kennedy charming. But wgen he says that “he grows anxious when he has an unexpressed thought,” it’s just a way of deflecting and refusing to tell the truth about Trump, which is that he’s a shameless and contemptible liar.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3d agoSen. John Kennedy on Trump's blatant reflecting pool lies: "The president says it was caused by vandals. I don't know if he really believes that or it's part of his political messaging or he's just thinking out loud ... he grows anxious when he has an unexpressed thought."