Apple has bowed to the dictator and changed Lake Ontario to “Lake America” on its maps. It’s clear that Big Tech will sell out every one of us if it means another nickel in their bank account.
James Finn Garner
@jamesfinngarner.bsky.social
Humor monger. PC Bedtime Stories. Rex Koko, Private Clown. Bardball. American Bystander. AHOY Comics. "You can't put a price on money." Jamesfinngarner.substack.com
I hope someday we'll find out how much financial help the Russians gave to Trump decades ago when his businesses were struggling.
Russia Joins G20 Summit After Trump Invite—Sparking Massive Backlash
Our European allies were shocked after Russia’s finance minister attended the summit being held in North Carolina.
newrepublic.com
Just like local police, retiring while under investigation is a standard law enforcement move.
Bovino was under internal investigation by Border Patrol when he retired, newly released records show
Former Border Patrol chief Gregory Bovino retired while under internal investigation for his conduct during immigration enforcement operations in Minneapolis and Chicago, records show.
chicagotribune.com
Does anyone have an explanation for why major media aren't reporting loudly that the president of the United States is out of his mind? Other than the obvious explanations of media cowardice and complicity, I mean.
wingnut grifter-provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos got nabbed by ICE, and MAGA is shitting their pants, because it happened to one of their own. boo fucking hoo, crybabies. thank you for your attention to today post, in which I document the atrocities. link is here: bit.ly/4qLBF20
Rural hospitals closing or shutting down key departments like obstetrics will be one of the biggest stories of 2027. Democrats need to make it one of the biggest stories of the next two months.
Republicans Built a Medicaid Time Bomb. It Goes Off After the Election.
It's Democrats' job to explain what's coming and who must be blamed by November.
thefarce.org
Michigan Advance@michiganadvance.com · 2w agoMore rural hospital closures would mean long drives for pregnant women seeking obstetric care michiganadvance.com/2026/08/28/r...
I’m hosting my first town hall of the Senate campaign this week — which will be one more than Susan Collins has held in the last 25 years.
The biggest military in the world and Iran kicked our asses but good.
Bill Kristol@billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 2w ago“A former military officer now working for a navy contracting company, who has been briefed on the shortfalls, said: ‘They’re fucked. They shot all their weapons; they trashed all their ships; they ran out of their money.’” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
It’s mind-blowing that we have literal white nationalists in the White House carrying out unfathomably cruel, abusive, white nationalist policies, and the punditariat has spent the last two weeks debating if some people were too intemperate after a Black man was murdered by cops six years ago.
Hiding in the cradle and saying Goo Goo didn't save him this time.
Sleestak@sleestak.bsky.social · last wk.
Pritzker: So here’s the truth, plain and simple: Our state is under siege. Not by protesters, immigrants, the deep state, the press, Canada or Mexico or Greenland, Antifa or Jewish space lasers or pride parades. No. Our state's under siege by a petty, corrupt man in Washington.
“Consumerism as activism” can be a questionable tactic… but it’s worth noting: if you all see COYOTE VS ACME this weekend and make it a giant hit… you will specifically humiliate David Zaslov and make him miserable… while also seeing an entertaining and heartfelt movie. The definition of win/win.
Wile E. Coyote Bored
Alt: Wile E. Coyote files his fingernails.
static.klipy.com
Just when you think you couldn’t love David Byrne more he goes to the Hollywood Bowl playing "Life During Wartime" projecting ICE raids 🔥
Texans check your voter registration, especially those in Dallas, Collin, Denton, and Tarrant counties. From the article: Suspended voter registrations span the whole state, but these Blue/Blue leaning counties are targets: Dallas: +129,000 Collin: 56,000 Denton: 56,000 Tarrant: + 73,000
Texas Has Suspended More Than 1 Million Voters Ahead of Senate Race
If you’re one of the people who had their voter registration suspended, there’s still time to fix it.
newrepublic.com
Hiring sex workers used to disqualify you from working at the FBI. Kash ran out of applicants who haven't, so now it's okay. apnews.com/article/fbi-...
FBI no longer treating an applicant's experience with prostitution as automatic bar against hiring
The FBI is no longer treating an applicant’s prior encounters with prostitutes as an automatic bar against employment.
apnews.com
𝟔𝟎+ 𝐂𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐫𝐲 𝐓𝐫𝐞𝐞𝐬 𝐰𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐜𝐮𝐭 𝐝𝐨𝐰𝐧 𝐢𝐧 𝐃𝐂 𝐭𝐨 𝐦𝐚𝐤𝐞 𝐰𝐚𝐲 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐚 𝐠𝐨𝐥𝐟 𝐜𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐬𝐞 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐓𝐫𝐮𝐦𝐩. 𝐓𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐚𝐜𝐭 𝐯𝐢𝐨𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐚 𝐜𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐭 𝐨𝐫𝐝𝐞𝐫. 𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐲 𝐝𝐢𝐝 𝐢𝐭 𝐚𝐧𝐲𝐰𝐚𝐲 𝐛𝐞𝐜𝐚𝐮𝐬𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐥𝐚𝐰 𝐝𝐨𝐞𝐬𝐧’𝐭 𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐥𝐲 𝐭𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐚𝐝𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧. 𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐬𝐞 𝐭𝐫𝐞𝐞𝐬 𝐰𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐠𝐢𝐟𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐀𝐦𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐧 𝐩𝐞𝐨𝐩𝐥𝐞 𝐛𝐲 𝐉𝐚𝐩𝐚𝐧 𝐢𝐧 𝟏𝟗𝟏𝟐. 𝐌𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐝𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐮𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐛𝐲 𝐚 𝐜𝐫𝐢𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐠𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐧𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭.
I for one am surprised Chuck Grassley can keep up with modeling trends on the continent.
Parker Molloy@parkermolloy.com · 2w agoOkay, grandpa, let's get you to bed
I feel like I’m living In a dystopian novel written in 1993 that was rejected by dozens of publishers because it was incredibly stupid.
Amazing to live in a country where the secret police are handling inter-chud beefs. It's like the Night of Long Knives playing out in the parking lot of a Dollar General.
Justin Baragona@justinbaragona.bsky.social · 2w agoLaura Loomer is taking credit for Milo getting detained by ICE.
Trump’s ‘Blitz’ on Chicago targeting the ‘worst of the worst’ detained only 5 murderers in 68 days chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/... -- I got to team up with Alden Loury for this one
Trump’s ‘Blitz’ on Chicago targeting the ‘worst of the worst’ detained only 5 murderers in 68 days
Last fall’s "Operation Midway Blitz" campaign to remove the “worst of the worst” was more hype than reality, a Chicago Sun-Times / WBEZ analysis has found. Immigration officers were often more success...
chicago.suntimes.com
I'm a staff writer at @wired.com and I'm looking to speak with parents of immunocompromised kids, especially those in areas with measles outbreaks, and how you're dealing with back to school with rising cases. emily_mullin@wired.com
While you fish for clout in St. Marys, Iowa's up to 17 measles cases (double last year). Hope the “MAHA superstar” discussed how RFK Jr.'s anti-vax crusade is actively hurting our state.
I cannot overemphasize how important it is to read this and ignore pretty much every breaking news headline to get a sense of what’s going on here.
Kim Lane Scheppele@kimlanelaw.bsky.social · 2w agoLots of headlines on SCOTUS mail-in ballots ruling are wrong. A different injunction blocking the executive order still holds and the Post Office's proposed rule will probably be enjoined too. It ain't over yet. Steve Vladeck sets the matter straight: www.stevevladeck.com/p/246-making...
And you definitely don't want to use a high-powered 532nm green laser, because it can permanently burn and disable digital camera CMOS or CCD sensors. Green light is absorbed at a very high efficiency by these electronic sensors, meaning concentrated beams easily melt or overload the pixel array.
