NEW: During her time in public service, WH press secretary Karoline Leavitt’s private family investments included stock in: 🇺🇸 Trump’s social media company 🪖 Defense contractors 🛢️ Oil companies 🤖 Tech giants 🔌 Tesla In @washingtonsun.bsky.social: www.washingtonsun.com/money/karoli...

Karoline Leavitt Discloses Family Investments in Trump Media and Tesla

An ethics document shows the former press secretary’s family holdings contain Trump’s social media company, defense contractors, oil companies and tech giants.

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Circus Performers, by Walt Kuhn, 1978, 📸 via @marisakabas.bsky.social

I'm profoundly against this depraved record and want to do the exact opposite: pass Medicare for All.

Mike Rogers voted against children’s health coverage over and over - Detroit Metro Times

Mike Rogers repeatedly voted against efforts to expand health insurance for children of working families.

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There are two familiar failures even here -“Falters” is just the usual language dodge -But “Appeared to” is another *refusal to do reporting*—did it or did it not?—and insert hedge language (see above) instead Funny what we consider “better” from the nytimes theses days 🤨

As the space shuttle takes off, O rings falter

man the republicans who hate language policing are going to be so mad about this

Justin Hendrix@justinhendrix.bsky.social · 2h ago

United States President Donald Trump issues executive order instructing federal government agencies to "use the terms 'Super Intelligence' and 'SI' in place of 'Artificial Intelligence' and 'AI' and will not acknowledge the usage of 'Artificial Intelligence' and 'AI' in any applicable setting."

A fuckup so dumb even NYT homepage/headline writers have no choice but to describe it accurately

NATO and EU allies support Estonia after 'sabotage' blamed on Russia

NATO and EU allies support Estonia after 'sabotage' blamed on Russia

Estonia accused Russia of 'sabotage' in an August arson attack on a drone manufacturer.

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Nicki Minaj isn’t a U.S. citizen, so she can’t even vote herself. For a network that pushed false claims about noncitizens voting, you’d think they’d mention that. If this is about getting Black women to vote red, I’m here to tell you that black women are smarter than all of us.

I am opposed to eugenics but I think anyone capable of making this face should be barred from office. This is the fourth face of power (smug).

Don Moynihan@donmoyn.bsky.social · 5h ago

He really thought he had something

Jesus Christ dude

How long before the Cornell 7 become interns at the WH?

This is their way around the weaponization fund. All Blanche has to do is settle the case that gives them millions.

THERE IT IS: Group of January 6 riot defendants have filed each filed federal civil lawsuits in DC seeking taxpayer-funded compensatory and punitive damages for alleged violations of their righrs They claim they were "targeted..and punished" for "protected expressive" activity

GOP Consultants : what do you mean she just fucking tweeted it out

the software industry has not solved "cleanly copying and pasting text in a table from one program to another" after 40 years of productivity design and optimization. just thinking of other things that took more time and effort than cracking an atom in two

It really gives the game away when the anti trans orgs are calling the election of the neo nazi party in Germany a "glimmer of hope."

King shit. t.co/0kwtLSmVJL

"it certainly sounds like the US government through the DFC is being used leverage a deal for business pals of the Trump family." talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/us-ta...

US Tax Dollars Now Used to Secure Deals for Trump Family Cronies

This has gotten very little attention, as far as I can tell....

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Not sure it’s tenable if, going forward, every president knows that so long as they have firm control over DOJ, enough loyal senators to avoid removal, and are willing to issue blanket pardons on the way out, they can break any law they please while in office.

ryan cooper@ryanlcooper.com · yesterday

"it certainly sounds like the US government through the DFC is being used leverage a deal for business pals of the Trump family." talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/us-ta...

When I say we desperately need a Democratic doctor in the US Senate I mean it.

FactPost@factpostnews.bsky.social · 4d ago

At least 6 babies in Pennsylvania have been born infected with measles.

Huge bummer when you’re just innocently trying to join and promote a movement that hates Black people, immigrants, and Jews — but then you discover that they have a dark side. apple.news/A9g-feRPSTme...

seeing a lot of discussion about this and like: the reason the poster did a screenshot with no link is that if you actually search for the article you'd learn that this bill 1) has nothing to do with Zohran Mamdani 2) was introduced in committee back in May and didn't go anywhere

the cornell case has me thinking about how existing as a woman means knowing you could be the victim of sexual violence at any moment, all while knowing there's a high likelihood no one will believe it even happened if you come forward.

the cornell case has me thinking about christine blasey ford and how she so bravely testified in 2018 about how future supreme court justice brett kavanaugh had sexually assaulted her. i'm thinking about what i wrote at the time and how nothing has changed:

Trump: "Because of tariffs, we are taking in hundreds of billions of dollars of profits. It's one of the reasons I can offer, if Republicans win the House and Senate, $5,000 to every adult. We can do it and the Democrats can't, because the Democrats don't have any income."

DNA testing showed 30 years ago that *a* Jefferson fathered children with Sally Hemings. But holdouts desperately claimed it wasn't Thomas. Now DNA from a lock of Thomas Jefferson's hair cut on his deathbed proves it was him: www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-...

Did Thomas Jefferson Father Sally Hemings' Children? After More Than a Decade of Research, the Answer Is Finally Firmly in Hand

A lock of hair, advances in genetic science and a community of descendants all contributed to solving an American mystery

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TILLIS: can the classified documents case be brought again in the future? JACK: we dismissed it without prejudice YESSSSS

They live in a false, constructed reality. Cult shit. Just saying things that are literally the opposite of being true.

Justin Baragona@justinbaragona.bsky.social · 7h ago

AMAZING! Sean Hannity’s Twitter account is trying to frame Eric Schmitt's embarrassing screwup as a win, claiming he put Jack Smith "on the spot."