And we have a new all-time record warm *absolute* temperature for the oceans, according to ERA5 (which goes back to 1940): August 21st likely marked the warmest Sea Surface Temperatures have been for the entire Holocene period. Should be major news!
UPDATE: The Trump administration says it opposes the voting rights groups' emergency request to enforce the court injunction blocking the USPS final rule on restricting mail voting. DOJ says it can file its official opposition on Aug. 27, after the final rule is published.
Court must enforce injunction blocking USPS from finalizing rule restricting mail voting, says voting rights groups
“By issuing this final rule, the Trump administration has flouted the court’s injunction,” says voting rights groups.
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The Top 1% of U.S. earners now have more wealth than the entire middle class
I listened to ATCQ earlier and now Bennie and the Jets is on at this restaurant. You’re welcome!
🗳️ The DNC requested records from the DOJ in February about any plans to seize ballots, voting machines or other election materials before the 2026 midterms are certified. The DNC says it has received no responsive records — and now it’s suing to get them: https://demdock.com/4cWJmMX
You can see why Hegseth and his flunkies didn't like jawdropping details like this one, from Korte's final Stars and Stripes story, about US Navy evacuees from Bahrain. www.stripes.com/branches/nav...
You can walk into 193 million acres of it tomorrow because somebody a century ago decided it belonged to you. Forty-five million acres of that is on the table right now: actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...
Tell Congress: Stop Trump from destroying 45 million acres of our National forests
Contact Congress today!
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‼️ The Trump administration has appointed a large number of election deniers to prominent government jobs. But there are other anti-voting activists in Trumpworld operating outside of the White House — and directly influencing efforts to undermine your elections. Allow us to introduce you:
The election deniers influencing Trump’s anti-voting policy from the outside
Read more here.
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“This war has involved one cover-up, after cover-up, after cover-up by Team Trump. Within the first 72 hours of the conflict, the administration was…trying to cover-up the true nature of U.S. troop casualties – a suppression of information…that persists to this day. And… zeteo.com/p/scoop-trum...
Chase Madar@madar.bsky.social · 3d agoRemarkable how little political noise it's made here in the US that a major American naval base in Bahrain was basically destroyed, and that this was kept quiet for five months www.nytimes.com/2026/08/14/u...
Personal heuristic: If the lead story on the NY Times website is about the bond market, things are not going well with the economy.
This obviously sucks for these two families, but Alex still owes $1.4 billion to 17 other families in Connecticut. This should expedite their path to collect, our ability to take over the domain name and studio, and the dispersal of merch money.
The Associated Press@apnews.com · 3d agoBREAKING: A Texas court slashes the $50 million judgment against Infowars founder Alex Jones over falsely calling the Sandy Hook shooting a hoax.
Victor Marx wrote that he has a photo of the very moment a "demonized" man’s “ears started sticking out from his head and looking sharp, like a troll’s.” I asked if he would show me this photo. I did not receive any response. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/colorad...
Colorado GOP Gov Nominee Claims to Have Battled ‘Demons’ With ‘Reptilian’ Eyes
Victor Marx was deep in the jungle and crippled by a fever...
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NEW: Colorado GOP Gov Nominee Claims to Have Battled ‘Demons’ With ‘Reptilian’ Eyes, 'Pointy' Ears, And 'Superhuman Strength' talkingpointsmemo.com/news/colorad...
Colorado GOP Gov Nominee Claims to Have Battled ‘Demons’ With ‘Reptilian’ Eyes
Victor Marx was deep in the jungle and crippled by a fever...
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It’s not even 7am here and I have already spent thousands of dollars. Can someone who knows about this stuff please help! Do I need this many candles or not?!?
No reason for you to believe me, but when this ship was mentioned in last week’s news about the President changing its design, I said to myself, “they’re going to change the name.”
Carl Quintanilla@carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 4d ago(CNN) - The US Navy is working to rename an aircraft carrier under construction that was set to honor a Black sailor hailed for his heroic actions during .. Pearl Harbor .. .. there have been internal conversation about renaming it to honor Trump.” @halbritz.bsky.social www.cnn.com/2026/08/20/p...
So now, he's angered an ally AND left to twist in the wind. This is the plan. Trump doesn't know that's the plan, but it is. He is there to destroy America's power and influence in the world.
Trump enraged South Korea to please the North. It didn't work.
North Korea test-fired more ballistic missiles on Thursday—for at least the third time this month.
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Australia says relations with Israel are "difficult" after Israel dropped a probe into the killing of aid worker Lalzawmi "Zomi" Frankcom in Gaza. The Australian was among seven World Central Kitchen staff killed in 2024 when their aid convoy was hit by an Israeli air strike u.afp.com/SHF4
There’s so much going on here. First, the assumption of access, which makes sense since Rs are essentially trying to re-segregate higher ed (if not solely by race, certainly by class). But then, simultaneously demonizing it as a threat and being terrified of the possibility of a lack of conformity.
The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 4d agoAmazing — Trump Transpo secretary Sean Duffy tells his daughter he may refuse to send her to Harvard because it will “corrupt her mind”… while simultaneously saying he wants her to “make choices for herself” 🤔 (Translation: he worries she’ll finally realize how full of💩he is)
I’m not sure folks appreciate how bad AI’s effects are in this new paper The graph that went viral shows AI hurts students on regular class tests But the paper also looks at China‘s high-stakes national HS and college entrance exams — AI use leads students to do up to 18-24% (!) worse on those
Henry Mance@henrymance.ft.com · 5d agoWoah.
JFC! This is not a car crash! This is a driver killing and injuring people on bikes with a car.
2 college cyclists killed and 7 injured in Tennessee car crash
Two members of a university cycling team have been killed and seven others were injured in a car crash in northeastern Tennessee.
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At an invitation-only gathering in Italy, white supremacists mapped out strategies to target rural America while local press coverage vanishes www.confrontthehate.com/p/white-nati...
