James Who Lives in Queens
@jamesfromqueensny.bsky.social
I will tell you about myself at another time.
BLUMENTHAL: Judge Cronan, you're already on the district court. Who won the 2020 election? CRONAN: Joseph Biden received the majority of electoral votes B: You have nothing to lose. You have a lifetime appointment, and yet you're unwilling to state the simple fact that Biden won the 2020 election
The president of the United States and a cabinet secretary were willing to imprison (yet another) an innocent person — this time an American Olympian — to to sustain (yet another) lie. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/04/u...
Inside the Oval Office Showdown Between Trump and Jeanine Pirro (Gift Article)
Jeanine Pirro, the U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia, told President Trump that his interior secretary, Doug Burgum, had misled him with a self-serving cover story for his own mistakes.
nytimes.com
Here is a weak spot. Corner tRump and let him talk and talk about how unfair Miller is being treated, “all lies,” and “he’s a nice kid”…
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 14h agoQ: Any comment on Rep. Max Miller? TRUMP: I hope he's able to work it out. I feel badly for him.
'You'll choke too' - an aerial embroidery landscape inspired by all the wildfires happening right now... I'm upset every time I smell smoke outside and somehow we have people starting them maliciously too! But we all breathe the same air so they'll choke too (1/2 - see thread for close-ups)
📌Susan Collins is voting "no" on the repulsive Blanche because she has been given political cover by Thune. Her vote doesn't matter. This isn't a heroic decision, it is pure politics, and whether anybody wants to admit it or not it's how she has survived like a parasite in that chamber for 30 years.
Lon Burnam, a former state lawmaker representing Tarrant County from 1997 to 2015, was carried out of the room by four sheriff deputies, who held him by his hands and feet: fortworthreport.org/2026/08/04/t...
Tarrant County judge removes attendees during public meeting about voting site reductions
Former state lawmaker Lon Burnam was carried out of the courtroom by sheriff deputies after O’Hare called speakers disruptive.
fortworthreport.org
𝗕𝗥𝗘𝗔𝗞𝗜𝗡𝗚🚨 "While he was detained, he lost 30 lbs. He had high blood pressure-he had diabetes. They refused him his medication...& I'm going to grow up without a father.. #ICE tried to cover up the fact that they killed him...They're just Heartless monsters." —preteen daughter of Edwin Lopez-Cornejo
He's losing words. Anyone with a parent or loved one suffering from dementia will recognize this pattern. Wen he says "moving cameras," it's because he can't recall the word "videos" and so he's stating the component parts as best he can. E.g., a "camera" is involved and the images are "moving"
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2d agoTrump: "We have photographs or tapes -- like moving cameras, right? -- where people are on the side cutting it with a box knife."
“The ICE agents that attacked me followed me by transport in one of their unmarked vehicles to the hospital, and then came into my room with me in a trauma unit while I was trying to be treated."
“The ICE agent behind me grabbed the back of my shirt and just threw me like a sack of trash”
People keep suing the agency for beating them up.
motherjones.com
“Bowe suffered injuries to her face, head, right knee, right arm and right hand. An MRI identified a kneecap fracture and torn meniscus…” www.newsweek.com/nurse-allege...
US nurse alleges ICE agents broke her kneecap in $500,000 legal claim
Norma Bowe, a nurse and professor, has filed a $500,000 claim against the government, saying ICE agents threw her to the ground.
newsweek.com
An ICE goon walked across the street and pepper sprayed a woman for filming him on her phone.
Mid-90s, cared for a man whose lover had beaten him up, again, thrown him down the stairs, friends begged him to leave, lover came to ER, Security wouldn’t let him in, patient demanded to see him, bedside reunion, love and sorries from both, never again, signed out AMA.
Ben Collins@bencollins.bsky.social · 3d agoA caucus of violent, drunk ex-husbands controls three branches of government and both chambers of Congress.
This is a story about the President and several of his hand-picked appointees all committing crimes and blatantly lying to the public while stealing public funds and abusing the criminal justice system, but the NYTimes describes the situation like they're recapping a soap opera.
Larry Glickman@larryglickman.bsky.social · 3d agoAnother example of the problem with the fixation with Trump’s putative emotions: here a story about the Trump administration’s corruption, incompetence, and venality is framed as one about Trump’s “wrath.” www.nytimes.com/2026/08/01/u...
This is one deeply reported, beautifully written (or edited) story, and you should find time this Sunday morning to read every word of it. 1/2 Gift link www.nytimes.com/2026/08/02/u...
How a Top Law Firm Went From Standing Up to Trump to Bending the Knee (Gift Article)
Paul Weiss was a progressive stalwart for decades and led the legal resistance against President Trump in his first term. Then it surrendered without a fight. This is the inside story of its transform...
nytimes.com
Americans’ Social Security benefits will have to be cut by roughly a quarter in six years due to depleted funds, according to a June report from the Social Security Board of Trustees. That’s months sooner than the group had estimated in 2025. https://to.pbs.org/4f39DL0
Your Social Security benefits could be cut by a quarter in 2032. Here’s what to know
Americans’ Social Security benefits will have to be cut by roughly a quarter in six years due to depleted funds, according to a June 9 report from the Social Security Board of Trustees. That’s months ...
to.pbs.org
"We hug. And, you know, I had four or five guys that gave me a kiss on the cheek. I kissed a couple of guys on the cheek. People can think what they want to think. I don't give a f*ck." - Ray Knight on his 1986 Mets teammates
this is incredibly abnormal and scary. always a possibility this decade, extremely bizarre to experience in real time. we’ve got important stuff loaded in the car, not going anywhere at the moment because by all accounts traffic is already very bad www.spokesman.com/stories/2026...
Thousands evacuated in north Spokane as wildfire crosses river into city
A wildfire driven by high winds has jumped the Spokane River and is threatening neighborhoods near and within the city of Spokane.
spokesman.com
'Just a pure weird moment': Art project takes over Manhattan subway kiosk gothamist.com/news/just-a-...
'Just a pure weird moment': Art project takes over Manhattan subway kiosk
Instead of newspapers or gum, the former newsstand is stocked with free zines, guides to several subway stations and a limited supply of rat tail keychains.
gothamist.com
“Broadway Melody of 1936” shows it age, corny and dismissive of Black entertainers, but it’s got great bits, especially this dance number by Eleanor Powell. Skip the book, enjoy the numbers, I always say of most film musicals. #FilmSky youtu.be/V1G9aQEmfyQ?...
You Are My Lucky Star | Broadway Melody of 1936 | Warner Archive
YouTube video by Warner Bros. Classics
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“is the federal government assisting iran in their attacks on dem run states” is a legitimate question that needs to be asked
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 5d agoQ: Can you rule out that Iran is behind the water attacks? TRUMP: I don't think so. I think that Minnesota is behind it. You know who is behind it? Minnesota. Because they're grossly incompetent. I don't think there was an Iranian cyberattack. I think Minnesota ought to get its act together.
That's right, racist. The inbred "heritage Americans" of the traitorous Confederacy got their asses kicked by a motley assortment of immigrants in the U.S. Army.
Alexander Clarkson@aphclarkson.bsky.social · 4d agoAnother datapoint for the fascist radicalisation of institutional pillars of much of the American Right
Pope Leo received singer and songwriter Patti Smith in private audience this morning. The Pope and Smith are both Chicago natives. She was accompanied by @antoniospadaro.bsky.social, undersecretary for the Vatican's Dicastery for Culture and Education.
All because of tRump and the Republican Party. Haven’t we all had enough of their racist hatred of America? Time to smash them into shards that can never be put back together again, pulverized into oblivion. Time to save America from our internal enemies.
Rob Shum@robshum.bsky.social · 5d agoWho needs airports, nursing homes, or schools? (22/n)
On Monday evening, Haitian workers at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood Airport burst into tears as they were asked to turn in their badges. Marlene, 47, a single mother who has worked as an airport janitor for 12 years, said she has been sick to her stomach.
Airports, nursing homes and schools brace for disruption without Haitian workers
The Trump administration and courts are at odds over whether about 350,000 Haitians have officially lost humanitarian protections, but employers are already letting workers go.
washingtonpost.com
I mean this is fundamentally one of the big reasons why data centers have no local constituency: they don’t actually create a lot of jobs they’ll employ some folks during construction but the actual day to day operation of a data center really doesn’t need many people, especially given its size
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 5d agoHassett: "Data centers are very good for towns bc they create so many jobs & bring people in with high incomes that can buy houses & stuff like that. So if you take a sleepy town that hasn't seen much in the last 30 years & put a data center there, there are gonna be a bunch of happy residents."
I am thinking if all the orc doctors and nurses and hospital administrators and surgeons and anesthesiologists and physician assistants and nurse practitioners who voted for tRump and how they threw their patients, communities, and colleagues under the bus because they are selfish and racist.
Aquarian Grandma ✨♒✨@starmom45.bsky.social · 6d agoDump is the puppet, the Mouth.This decision is coming from Vought & the other authors of Project 2025.They know Dump can't last much longer.They want ChristoFascistAutocracy, NOT democracy.They want to rule with fear & dread,eliminating all they consider"useless"- seniors, disabled, & seriously ill.
