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Democratic Candidates Have Embraced Unity. Dem Pundits? Not So Much.

Losing candidates have prioritized the big tent and embraced their former rivals. Why can’t the media and pundits get on board?

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BREAKING: Federal Reserve Chair Kevin Warsh signaled the Federal Reserve is not ruling out an interest rate hike as inflation remains too high.

Warsh indicates Fed could raise rates to cool inflation

Federal Reserve Chair Kevin Warsh signaled on Friday the Federal Reserve is not ruling out an interest rate hike as inflation remains too high. “We must be confident that underlying inflation…

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SCOOP: Trump officials are pressuring the National Park Service to find a way to give a small piece of Yosemite to a private developer. The land would be used for a road, to give the developer rare private access to the heart of the park.

Trump’s Quietly Working to Give Part of Yosemite to a Private Developer

The National Park Service is under pressure to make an unprecedented deal that cedes a quarter-mile strip of the park.

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JUST IN: The Philadelphia-based 3rd Circuit has rejected ICE's unprecedented expansion of mandatory detention — the eighth straight appeals court to reject the Trump administration's approach as the issue hurtles toward SCOTUS. s3.documentcloud.org/documents/28...

NEW: The Supreme Court lifted the previous block because the USPS rule hadn’t been finalized. Now that it has, judge Talwani is blocking it again.

Kyle Cheney@kyledcheney.bsky.social · yesterday

JUST IN: Judge Talwani has again blocked the Trump administration's mail-in ballot overhaul for the 2026 elections, saying it imposes onerous requirements and threatens to disenfranchise voters / harm states. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Here’s the other thing he doesn’t understand - the second he switches parties Republicans will turn on him because his views and stated positions on hundreds of issues are the exact opposite of theirs. His popularity with Rs only lasts while he’s a Dem criticizing Dems.

A legal watchdog says it filed bar complaints accusing U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro and two lieutenants of violating their ethical duties in seeking to charge six Democratic lawmakers with federal crimes for appearing in that video that called on troops to resist unlawful orders.

Watchdog files bar complaint against Jeanine Pirro over bid to indict 6 Democratic lawmakers

A legal watchdog says it has filed bar complaints accusing U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro and two lieutenants of violating their ethical duties in seeking to charge six Democratic lawmakers with federal ...

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NEW: We obtained recordings of 160+ emergency calls made from or about an immigration detention center where three people died within six weeks. “They will not give them medical treatment,” one caller said, seeking help for a detainee with kidney stones.

Listen to 911 Calls From Inside an Immigration Detention Center: “We Just Need to Take Him to the Hospital”

Reporters don’t have access to Camp East Montana, one of the largest immigration detention centers in the country. Emergency calls from the Texas facility offer a glimpse of unfolding crises faced by ...

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"We cannot go back to the pre-Internet media system. But we will need our elites to be better adapted to the media system that we do have." Yep. Via @adamgurri.liberalcurrents.com, a big problem is elites who shape our discourse willingly marinate in fascist slop b/c it's in their narrow interests:

Liberal Currents@liberalcurrents.com · 20h ago

“The problem is not truly that the media environment is full of conflict, lies, and racist conspiracy theories. The problem is that our epistemic and financial elite spend all day exposing themselves to an environment that cooks brains until they are well-done Bircher burgers.”

Two months out from the midterms, the Vance operation is already gaming out 2028 and hunting the op it believes is against it. The ally quoted insisting they are not stupid worked a slur into the denial, anonymously, to a reporter.

MAGA’s 2028 Civil War Is Already Here

JD Vance’s allies believe there is a mysterious plot underway to thwart his prospective 2028 run. Are they right—or just paranoid?

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“.. there are really two separate economies: one for people who make their primary income through investment and passive income . . . and then typical workers who clock in day in and day out.” @financialtimes.com www.ft.com/content/6f3a...

World leaders & US Universities & law firms unwilling to submit to Trump’s will. European leaders refused to join his war. Gulf states nixed his Strait shipping toll Bond markets reject his fiscal policies. Even ABC found it could not buy peace & is suing www.nytimes.com/2026/08/25/u...

At Home and Abroad, Deference to Trump Turns Increasingly to Defiance

While the president remains the most dominant figure in the world, other leaders and institutions are pushing back more vigorously than at the beginning of his second term.

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WTAF: Josh Kohut, a physical oceanographer and Dean of Research at Rutgers University’s School of Environmental and Biological Sciences has been arrested for using a cellphone to secretly record “upskirt” videos of another person. 🌊

Rutgers University dean arrested, accused of taking 'upskirt' videos

A Rutgers University dean was charged with invasion of privacy after authorities alleged he recorded "upskirt" videos of another person.

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Remembering MLK and John Lewis on the 63rd Anniversary of the March on Washington. “Let Freedom Ring...” #GoodTrouble youtu.be/vP4iY1TtS3s

Sitting on the Great Lakes right now w/ Huron and Michigan out my window as sun rises, I remember growing up here and as a child learning acronym for the Lakes as HOMES. With Trump action yesterday concerning Ontario new acronym could appropriately be SHAME.

#CollectTheGood Before this week disappears, collect something good from it—a laugh, a kindness, a beautiful sky, a moment you didn’t expect. Keep that part. And I invite you to reply, if you’d like, with one good thing from your week. Good morning, beautiful friends! #Jaye’sMorningLight

The States not the President have the power to set the time, place, and manner of elections. Congress can override States when Congress does so through legislative enactment. An executive order is not a legislative enactment. An executive order is little more than a press release.

This is a lesson that people On Here would be well to understand, bc it will be an uphill fight to get even the subpoena compliance Trump refused in 2019. www.wsj.com/politics/ele...

Absolutely terrific work tying together a series of stories- we are watching the death of the American Empire in real time.

emptywheel@emptywheel.bsky.social · 21h ago

Overboard! Whiskey Pete Hegseth Tries to Fire His Way Out of Being a Loser emptywheel.net/2026/08/28/o...

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🚨Trumpworld walloped by judge who rules major act 'to punish and retaliate' was illegal www.rawstory.com/anthropic-26...

Trumpworld walloped by judge who rules major act 'to punish and retaliate' was illegal

A federal judge ruled against the Trump administration on Thursday after declaring its treatment of the artificial intelligence (AI) company Anthropic to be unlawful, The New York Times reported.Earli...

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Trump administration's cancellation of off-shore wind contracts results in a) higher GHG emissions b) huge windfall for Trump donor. Rinse and repeat.

How wind projects got replaced by a $900 million payday to a Trump donor’s firm

The Trump administration’s latest deal to abandon an offshore wind project and redirect investment into fossil fuels stands to deliver a windfall to one of President Donald Trump’s major donors.

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The Hope Florida grand jury identified serious unanswered questions and a failure to cooperate that kept investigators from getting the full truth. Floridians deserve answers. As Governor, I will reopen the investigation, pursue the facts, and hold anyone who broke the law accountable.

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Norway has a new king, whose tasks will include stabilizing the Scandinavian country’s monarchy and boosting the royal family’s popularity after his wife’s past contacts with deceased sex offender Jeffrey Epstein and his stepson’s rape conviction.

They’re trying to intimidate people; to keep them from voting. It’s up to us to make sure it doesn’t work. joycevance.substack.com/p/revisiting...

Revisiting: Can Federal Troops Be Stationed At The Polls In 2026?

On September 2, 2025, as Trump continued to deploy National Guard troops in American cities and openly blustered about militarizing American streets, I wrote an explainer about the law prohibiting fed...

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Wab Kinew reacts to Donald Trump renaming Lake Ontario: "You know when a rock band is really over the hill and you see them in a casino playing some song from like 50 years ago? I think that's the part of Donald Trump's presidency we're at now."

Nepal floods live: At least 380 dead and hundreds missing as fears grow of new surge www.independent.co.uk/asia/south-a...

Nepal floods live: At least 380 dead and hundreds missing as fears grow of new surge

Nearly 650 foreign nationals unaccounted for since disaster in Nepal and Tibet as villages up to 30 miles away wiped out

independent.co.uk

BREAKING: A federal judge once again blocks President Trump's executive order limiting mail voting.

Judge again blocks Trump mail ballot executive order in ruling that’s likely to be swiftly appealed

A federal judge is once again blocking President Donald Trump’s executive order that seeks to limit mail voting in the midterm elections. U.S.

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