“BREAKING: The ICE agent who shot and killed Renee Good in broad daylight has been identified as Jonathan Ross by the Minnesota Star Tribune. I think today is a great day for Jonathan to be indicted!”
Attention US media companies: in case you’re wondering, this is what censorship looks like.
Max Berger@maxberger.bsky.social · 3mo agocOmEdY iS LeGaL aGaIn
@nytimes.com, @bloomberg.com, @washingtonpost.com, @msnbc.com, @cbsnews.com.web.brid.gy, @npr.org You folks watching this? Take notes and Do Better!! You’re in the business of journalism for christs sake, not stenography. Act like it!
The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 11mo ago🇦🇺 REPORTER: “How much wealthier are you now?” TRUMP: “My kids are running my businesses 🤥 … I’m building a ballroom…” 🇦🇺 REPORTER: “Is it appropriate for a president to be doing so many business deals while in office?” TRUMP: “You’re hurting Australia right now.”🤔
@chicagotribune.com This is what actual journalism looks like, not the Fox News BS you’re peddling. I’ll never subscribe to your fascist aiding tabloid.
Chicago Sun-Times@chicago.suntimes.com · 11mo agoThe Chicago Police Department’s criminal homicide tally for June, July and August is the lowest in 60 years. And overall violent crime remains near its lowest point in more than four decades. trib.al/f4O8yRs
From the Editorial Board: We’ve said from the start that the nothing-to-see-here, murder-rate-is-down, crime-is-under-control, we-know-best argument from local politicians was a loser.
Editorial: Chicago’s gunmen did not get Pritzker and Johnson’s memo
A violent Labor Day weekend brings a dose of lived reality.
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Although crime is declining, Washington is still far more dangerous than it should be, Charles Fain Lehman argues. Instead of just looking tough, “the administration should focus its resources on the people and places that make the District unusually unsafe.” https://theatln.tc/6RCOGO23
one of the biggest technological revolutions in human history is happening quietly, and the part of the reason its quiet is because our own country is being left behind, so that Trump and Republicans can funnel our money to their Saudi paymasters
Albert Pinto@70sbachchan.bsky.social · last yr."Realizing that people in Germany could just go to the supermarket and spend $550 on a balcony solar panel that they could install themselves vs. $30,000 for a rooftop system was, uh, mildly radicalizing" - Kim-Mai Cutler www.canarymedia.com/articles/sol... US hates those cheap chinese solar...
I’d like to see the Democrats focus more on process than policy. Its more unifying. But we really need an expanded court, more House districts, new states (and 2 sen). Overturning citizens united, banning gerrymandering. Maybe public funded elections. Change the rules, then we can argue about policy
Remember the people who hated Obamacare but loved the Affordable Care Act, and didn't realize they were the same thing? Yeah, a lot of them are about to find out their health insurance IS THROUGH MEDICAID! More leopards, more faces to eat.
the white house thinks brute force is, no pun intended, a trump card. they don’t anticipate pushback and they don’t know how to handle it with anything other than escalation. the issue is that each escalation is itself a gamble. if protesters refuse to back down, you’ve lost face. (1/?)
Can’t get over this image of Governor Gretchen Whitmer shielding herself from cameras in the Oval Office this past week. Whitmer’s spokesperson said she was at the White House to meet with Trump about Michigan matters and didn’t know she would be walking into a press event. (Photo: Eric Lee/NYT)
Giving Trump control of tariffs is like giving a 3 year old a lighter to play with.
Carney: "The old relationship we had with the United States based on deepening integration of our economies and tight security and military cooperation is over."
Le Monde reporting that a French scientist traveling to Houston to attend a conference was denied entry to US after a search of his phone & computer revealed messages critical of Trump's science cuts, "which [says CPB] conveyed hatred of Trump & could be qualified as terrorism". Computer confiscated
President Trump's approach to the war in Ukraine is a reversal of the last three years, the editorial board writes, "but also a repudiation of a nearly eight-decade core belief that the United States was safer in a world where it stood against aggression and authoritarianism and for freedom."
Opinion | Trump’s Misguided Strategies for Peace in Ukraine
In their silence, Republicans are betraying the Ukrainians, national security and their own party’s values.
nytimes.com
Has anyone considered that Trump may be playing an elaborate game of 6th dimensional chess with Putin? If the Russians keep popping champagne bottles open at this rate they all may soon die of alcohol poisoning.
people will yell at you for expressing this opinion - maybe they're right - but it's how I and I think a lot of people increasingly feel about subsidies and liberal outreach to rural America www.volts.wtf/p/dan-savage...
The problem with left wing extremists is that they mistakenly spend most of their time attacking progressives to their right than actual fascists. Good work, Electrichead.
If you hate protesters blocking roads in the name of taking immediate #ClimateAction, you’re going to really hate how Climate Change itself blocks roads. A picture today from Valencia, Spain where they received 500mm of rain, a year’s worth, in one day on Tuesday. #ClimateEmergency #ClimateChange
"Capital can flow freely between most countries with few restrictions, allowing businesses to seek out the most favorable environments... Labor, on the other hand, is often trapped within national borders, restricted by immigration laws and policies." www.liberalcurrents.com/liberals-mus...
Liberals Must Wage War on Rent-Seeking
Rent-seeking classes form a core backbone of the Republican Party.
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The free Dave's Redistricting App has new demographic data & a cool election comparison tool: davesredistricting.org Great data for drawing your own maps or exploring a state's demographics/elections. The map below compares different statewide election results in each district on a user-drawn map
"City data shows 127 people were killed by drivers across the five boroughs during the first six months of 2024, about 55% more than the 82 who were fatally shot over the same period."
Cars prove far deadlier than guns in NYC so far this year
City data shows 127 people were killed by drivers across the five boroughs during the first six months of 2024, about 55% more than the 82 who were fatally shot over the same period.
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Ever see (or heaven forfend been in) a family where one partner beats the shit out the other partner, engages in financial abuse, just a horror show and then everyone pretends to maintain the status quo for others That's my country.
Coach Finstock@coachfinstock.bsky.social · 2y agoShould've jailed Trump and his cohorts immediately. Members of Congress. His advisors. It was literally an attempted coup. And we treated it like a rough day at the office. Some of the people already convicted might even go free because of SCOTUS! We fucked it up!