NEW: Patel responded to The Atlantic’s questions about the FBI’s election investigations by referring to a graphic that appeared on an unrelated news story on another media company’s website www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
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“Courage is the price that Life exacts for granting peace. The soul that knows it not, knows no release from little things.” —Amelia Earhart Coloradoan fighting Trumpism. Daughter of a D-Day veteran. Illegitimi non carborundum.
NEW: GOP Gov nominee Victor Marx says he'll respond today to domestic violence allegations - video/audio where he describes slamming his wife into a door and throwing his toddler across a room. Voters/reporters new to Marx may not realize he has a long history of justifying violence.
🌧️ Today marks the first day of Water Year 2027! What is a Water Year and why do water managers and climatologists use them? Check out our thread below ⬇️
Colorado Climate Center@climate.colostate.edu · last yr.Happy New (Water) Year! 🥳 Today marks the first day of Water Year 2026. But what is a "water year" and why does it begin in October? Here's a short explainer! [1/7]
In other words: This meme is a surprisingly accurate scaled depiction of the magnitude of the 2026 El Niño event vs the 1997 event *if using the absolute index.* But if using the relative index, Danny DeVito is currently the same height as Arnold Schwarzenegger. And either pairing is striking... 👀
Daniel Swain@weatherwest.bsky.social · 3d agoWading into the "relative versus absolute" El Niño intensity debate: I genuinely think both are important--and I think we lose important information if we focus solely on one vs another. And both, as of late Sep, have now reached or exceeded record levels! [Thread]
A 5,000-year-old civilization isn’t impressed by your ballroom. @frankfigliuzzi.bsky.social kept asking: Where are the experts? What’s the strategy? We marked the scorecard: Xi summit: Anything besides two pandas? Iran war: What's the way out? CIA exodus: What does losing our best officers cost?
ANNOUNCING THE AUTUMN 30%DISCOUNT SALE! Apologies for raising my voice - I just didn't want you to miss it, as it's probably the last one of the year. Come and spend an adle five minutes perusing our cards, Christmas cards, board prints, bookmarks and jigsaw puzzles. www.rathergoodart.co.uk
Breaking News: Major TV networks — ABC, CBS, Fox News and NBC — agreed to suspend their pooled coverage of President Trump after the White House blocked CNN from its duties.
Networks Suspend Pool Coverage of Trump After White House Bans CNN
The move was an escalation of President Trump’s showdown with the White House press corps after he moved to bar journalists from CNN, MS NOW and Politico.
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My take on the new Trump White House media ban and its German precedent. youtu.be/oDzGqHh9llA
Andrew Weissmann on the Trump CNN-MS NOW-Politico White House Ban and its German Precedent
YouTube video by Andrew Weissmann
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Introducing the Civil Defense Institute, a nonpartisan investigative research organization documenting the people, networks and institutions whose conduct undermines Americans' freedom to participate in public life. Visit our website: civildefenseinstitute.org
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Squirrels on suicide missions have knocked out power to Castle Rock, Colorado twice this week. Our investigation has revealed a century of squirrel attacks covered up by the pro-squirrel media.
Squirrels have fired the first shots in their long-planned assault on humanity, with daring assaults that took out power in Castle Rock, CO two days in a row.
You hear more noise during a funeral ‘s moment of silent reflection than you do in this rally
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2w agoTrump on affordability: "It was Biden's thing ... it was a word they made up"
VICTORY: Trump's mail ballot interference rule is blocked in FULL A fed. judge ruled USPS never had the power to rewrite how America votes, weeks out from the midterms @democracydefendersfund.org & @campaignlegal.org brought this case for LULAC, ASA, SFI, Madison WI & Travis County TX👇 -TN
So I called it, but y’all. The fact they’re saying it was “a military aide” is even more concerning. A single person can deploy a slide in error if the plane isn’t parked. But this was parked. The door wasn’t supposed to be armed. That is MULTIPLE PEOPLE’S ERRORS. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/09/u...
Trump Is Delayed After Emergency Slide Deploys on New Air Force One
The mishap occurred while the Qatari-donated jet was parked on the tarmac at Joint Base Andrews. It delayed President Trump’s departure to a Republican convention in Dallas.
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Gillian Brockell@gillianbrockell.com · 3w agoIt looks like one of the emergency slides may have improperly deployed? Which if so i would like to know A LOT more about how that happened. Did a crew member mess up the arming/disarming procedures, or did the mechanism malfunction on mfing Air Force One??? Plane shouldn't fly until replaced.
Extraordinary, powerful and heart-wrenching. Active duty Marine Colonel Zach Schmidt, speaking in his personal capacity, about Khalil, an Afghan national whose family helped U.S. forces in Afghanistan. Khalil was deported by the U.S. on Friday to a conflict zone.
The Post attempted to throw Karen Attiah overboard to prove their loyalty to the Trump regime & the mob that demands absolute conformity Our full @democracydefendersfund.org & @wbng.org statement 👇 -TN
Karen Attiah Secures Landmark First Amendment Victory in Wrongful Termination Case Against The Washington Post
Independent arbitrator orders full reinstatement at the Post and back pay, vindicating journalistic freedom against corporate retaliation and censorship
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Editor-in-Chief "Slavin said he and Korte were fired for participating in a CBS News interview, during which he said any hypothetical censorship of the military newspaper would cross a red line."
Pentagon fires Stars and Stripes leaders who criticized DOD’s interference
The Defense Department earlier this year railed against the publication, which has long enjoyed editorial independence, as “woke.”
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And let’s be clear—this information is out there because we took the Trump administration to court. This fall, we can elect a Congress that will follow the Constitution’s call to be a check on a lawless President.
Don Moynihan@donmoyn.bsky.social · 2mo agoAnother day, another impeachable offense: The White House ordered federal agencies to block resources to Colorado because it had punished an election denier. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/14/u...
New Evidence Suggests Dinosaurs Had Quinceañeras
New Evidence Suggests Dinosaurs Had Quinceañeras
BOZEMAN, MT—Upending long-held beliefs about how the prehistoric reptiles commemorated a juvenile female’s transition into adulthood, new evidence published Thursday by researchers at Montana State Un...
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NEW: Meta reviewed, approved, and ran more than 50 ads containing AI-generated child sexual abuse material across Facebook, Instagram, Messenger and Threads. They ran for nine months. Some were live this week. After WIRED asked about them, researchers found ~30 more
Meta Ran Ads That Contained AI-Generated Child Sexual Abuse Imagery
More than 50 offending image and video ads were published across Facebook, Instagram, Messenger, or Threads, according to Meta’s ad library data. Some ran as recently as this week.
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This is unAmerican and must stop. And it's exactly why DemocraticAGs continue to take this administration to court again and again--and keep winning. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/24/b...
Trump Administration Admits Canceling Grants to States That Did Not Vote for Him (Gift Article)
Federal officials said in court documents that they halted billions of dollars in funding for energy projects to states “based solely” on whether they backed President Trump in the 2024 election.
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The job of the AG is to enforce the law Todd Blanche fired a career pardon attorney for refusing to rubber stamp Trump's agenda & then sent US Marshals to her door If the Senate confirms Blanche, it won’t be confirming an AG, it will be confirming Trump’s personal attorney -TN
Fired Pardon Attorney Asks Court to Reject DOJ's Bid to End Lawsuit | Democracy Defenders Fund
Elizabeth G. Oyer, the former U.S. pardon attorney who sued the Department of Justice last year for unlawfully withholding records related to her abrupt dismissal, today asked a federal court to rejec...
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Headquarters@headquartersnews.bsky.social · 3mo agoFormer Pardon Attorney: 2 days after Mr. Blanche was confirmed as Deputy AG, he fired me from my position as a pardon attorney. I declined to rubber stamp a political favor for Trump's friend. Blanche sent US Marshals to my home in an effort to prevent me from speaking with members of Congress.
