In a letter to a member of Congress, Gen. Dan Cainem chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, addresses growing anxiety among Democrats that the Trump administration could try to meddle in the midterm elections. https://mrf.lu/2qpGL

do you think the people who designed AI integration into basic apps realize how just obnoxious some of the AI "tools" are? "do you want me to summarize this email?" the email I just wrote? why? "I can summarize this article!" do you think I don't know how to read

🚨 BREAKING: U.S. Army Secretary Dan Driscoll has submitted his resignation to the White House following months of tension with Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, Reuters reports, citing a source familiar with the matter.

Dr Oz: "If we could just get the average American to feel so healthy, so with it, so vibrant that they want to work just one extra year, that's worth $1 trillion to our GDP every year"

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A note for the next Dem president, you are allowed to break the law while SCOTUS thinks about it.

Steve Vladeck@stevevladeck.bsky.social · 2d ago

#BREAKING: By a 5-4 vote (with Chief Justice Roberts joining the three Democratic appointees in dissent), #SCOTUS grants a stay pending appeal in the ballroom case, clearing the way for Trump to continue building the ballroom indefinitely while the litigation proceeds.

I dunno much about Maness or Anderson but Schlicter is a straight-up fascist who wants to among other things "use the law to ensure blue submission" and "imprison dissenters" to achieve the aim, "force them to be like us."

Dan Lamothe@danlamothe.bsky.social · 3d ago

EXCLUSIVE: Pentagon secretly installs military influencers in civilian government roles. They include Rob Maness, Kurt Schlicter and Tom Anderson, better known as Cynical Publius. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

I don't think it should be controversial to say, "we will not provide financial or military assistance to a country where the Minister of National Security brags about popping people's dreams of 'food' and 'education' then sending them to a prison where they are starved."

Nathan Tankus@nathantankus.bsky.social · 3d ago

Ben Gvir posted this video on twitter today which shows fat and happy Palestinians on a conveyer built going through the Israeli "prison" (torture camp) system and coming out emaciated and maudlin. This is textbook genocidal content.

"It is difficult to avoid the conclusion that the HHS secretary sees deaths from outbreaks of diseases we had beaten or contained, like measles and cyclosporiasis, as a form of social hygiene that kills off the weak and susceptible."

RFK Jr.’s Toxic World

The HHS secretary uses fear of contamination to denigrate modern medicine and advance a project rooted in vulgar eugenics.

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I somehow missed who Trump had appointed as science and technology advisors the list explains a lot. "Marc Andreessen Sergey Brin Safra Catz Michael Dell Jacob DeWitte Fred Ehrsam Larry Ellison David Friedberg Jensen Huang John Martinis Bob Mumgaard Lisa Su Mark Zuckerberg"

President Trump Announces Appointments to President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology

Today, President Donald J. Trump appointed the first members to his President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST). Established by

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Trump: I am renaming Lake Ontario to Lake America. Seneca Nation, citing 1794 treaty signed by George Washington: Not so fast, Orange Man. thehill.com/homenews/adm...

Seneca Nation requests reversal on ‘Lake America’ executive order

Seneca Nation President J. Conrad Seneca called Friday for President Trump to rescind his order to rename Lake Ontario as “Lake America,” citing a 225-year-old treaty between Native Americans and t…

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Let all the Canadian companies moving to the US try to sell something back to Canadians after. We will boycott the hell out of them.

🍁🇨🇦Team Canada Forever🇨🇦🍁@teamcanadaforever.bsky.social · 3d ago

At this point, Canada should just navigate the storm until 2029, when hopefully the US. will put a grown up in charge. In the meantime, our government should keep on doing what it is doing and establishing partnerships across the world with reliable partners There is NO deal to be made with the US

The MAGA movement is Christian in word but deeply un-Christian in deed.

Since my LGBTQ+ bookshop days, I’ve been told my stumping for trans rights was “performative” or because I “hate women” or because I want “cookies” and it’s all been so frustratingly stupid when it’s really just all about a thread like this. People just need to be happy as we can be ❤️

Evan Urquhart@evanurquhart.bsky.social · 3d ago

I'm in the strange position of being grateful for how truly awful my life was pre-transition (and how incredibly well transition worked for me purely as a medical/mental health intervention). Even with everything it's still a miracle, every day, just to be here with all of you.

Gift link to a stunning report: Heads of European Command, Pacific Command, Southern Command, and Navy’s top admiral "responded with...a 'non-concur,' those familiar with the assessment said — meaning they disagree with the secretary’s order to extend their forces but will execute it nevertheless."

Military leaders warn Hegseth against extending Iran war operations

A recent classified assessment advised that prolonged large-scale operations in the Middle East risk weakening U.S. capabilities elsewhere.

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“Why didn’t scientists warn us?”

NEW: Evidence filed in a Colorado case reveals how ICE officers are arresting people without a warrant, which is illegal unless ICE determines the person is a flight risk. A man was dragged from his car after ICE showed him a warrant for someone else and refused to check his ID to see his identity.

Is the US about to lose a multi-billion dollar deal? | DW News (VIDEO) www.youtube.com/watch?v=ukYx... #cdnpoli #polcan #defence #defense #military #RCAF #CanceltheF35

Is the US about to lose a multi-billion dollar deal? | DW News

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Trump's announcement today that he's trying to make it so farmers and ranchers can "process their own food" came directly from Glenn Beck during their interview the other day. So America now has a right-wing shock jock making our agricultural policy. Good times!

Darline Graham said that because her own parents died when she was a kid, people today shouldn't expect "government health care." So I dug up the real story of the death of Darline/Lindsey's parents. It makes a strong case FOR government health care. 1/ (new piece) newrepublic.com/article/2148...

What Darline Graham’s Ugly, Viral Outburst About Death Really Reveals

The senator’s parents died when she was a kid. That’s tragic. But it’s also tragic that she’s against the kind of care that could help untold numbers of people avoid that fate today.

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🚨BREAKING: The US Postal Service announced late Friday night that it intends to move forward with its final rule on changing how mail voting is administered. The new rule was created to enact Donald Trump’s executive order, which seeks to restrict mail voting. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

USPS pushes final rule on restricting mail voting forward

The federal postal service acknowledges the new rule will impose burdens on states, but says its necessary to help law enforcement hunt for voter fraud.

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Photographed with pristine clarity by Atsushi Nakamura (Studio KJ), this exceptional metal obidome (sash clip) by the master metal engraver Mitsuharu Katsura (1871–1962) represents a triumph of 20th-century Japanese chōkoku (metal carving and chasing).

Corporations are too stupid to realize the cost of mistakes is far more expensive than regulations and a little bit of effort. I call it Harvard Business School.

Food companies wanted deregulation. Now there are dozens of recalls across the country. Mining companies wanted deregulation. Now the black lung rate is at a 45-year high. Financial companies wanted deregulation. Now financial losses to fraud are the highest on record. Noticing a pattern?

The Trump administration is withholding funds for first responders in Nashville unless the city adopts its preferred election and ballot-counting procedures.

Nashville sues feds over election-linked FEMA grant cuts - Nashville Banner

Nashville is part of a lawsuit against the federal government that alleges DHS grant conditions tied to election administration rules is unconstitutional.

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I'd like to thank Michael Cohen for personally ending any trust Americans have in the future to any person who turns against Trump. It's only temporary, folks. As soon as they see anything good in it for them, they'll weasel back. www.politico.com/news/2026/08...

A thirsty Michael Cohen tries to get back into Trump’s good graces

The much-anticipated conversation between the president and his former fixer-turned enemy was light on substance.

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Important to note that what got Hegseth angry wasn't anything "woke" but reporting that highlighted issues like housing affordability around military bases. In other words, Stars and Stripes has been genuinely serving the troops, and the Trump administration won't allow that.

The Associated Press@apnews.com · 2w ago

BREAKING: The editor of military newspaper Stars and Stripes says he has been fired for insubordination after calling any censorship a "red line."

Unspeakably disgraceful. Doris Miller was a mess attendant -- the only jobs open to Black sailors -- who won the Navy Cross at Pearl Harbor. With this, and reports USN leaders are considering changing the design of aircraft carriers *because Trump said so* -- the Navy is dishonoring itself.

Carl Quintanilla@carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 2w 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...

There is actually only one true spreadsheet person. The rest of us are just posers. www.thisiscolossal.com/2017/12/tats...

Meet Tatsuo Horiuchi, the 77-Year-Old Artist Who 'Paints' Japanese Landscapes With Excel

For over 15 years, Japanese artist Tatsuo Horiuchi has rendered the subtle details of mountains, cherry blossoms, and dense forests with the most unlikely tool: Microsoft Excel. The 77-year-old illust...

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lauren@lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 2w ago

if spreadsheet people was ever meant as an insult, i am reclaiming it. my columns and rows are beautiful even if others don't see what i see within them

The Bureau of Land Management is rounding up thousands of mustangs around the U.S. and quietly selling them on the cheap to buyers who are exporting them for slaughter abroad, an examination of government records by The New York Times found. nyti.ms/4grb8Co