MacFarlane: The park service records that I obtained show where the priorities are. $323 million allotted for the White House grounds alone, beautification and vanity projects…
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Design, Nature, Art, Dogs! Also leftist politics
Absolute failure of congress. Vote them ALL out of office. And our legacy media is bought off and thus useless
Inside the IDF: “I bet if we make up a fake threat, we can get that idiot Trump to get in a food cart.” “Deal. Let’s do it.”
If we have to have #DataCenters , let's find solutions to the problems they cause and not just build them all over the country and then find out that lives are adversely affected. Sound like a plan? Finland found a solution to the need for cooling. youtu.be/Jup5QDOig5w?...
Finland’s Revolutionary Data Centers: Turning Waste Heat Into Clean City Power!
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COMMENTARY: The Department of Homeland Security is planning a 24-hour immigration call center in tiny Adams, Tennessee, prompting one local official to say “I don’t know that little, ole sleepy Adams has got the things that you need” for the project. From editorial cartoonist John Cole.
Democrats & Republicans may disagree on nearly everything. But put a massive data center next door, draining water, straining the grid and jacking up electric bills? Suddenly everybody’s pissed. Big Tech managed the impossible: bringing Americans together AGAINST them. #USDemocracy #Voices4Victory
US Atty Jeanine Pirro has convened a special grand jury in Washington, D.C. There’s already plenty of speculation about what she’s up to. But the details about how these grand juries work could change the picture considerably. Here’s what you need to know: joycevance.substack.com/p/a-special-...
A Special Grand Jury
Undoubtedly feeling pressure to perform after the debacle of the now-dismissed Reflecting Pool prosecution, Trump’s U.S.
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We just dropped our newest ad — and this one’s special. It features my PawPaw — a Baptist preacher who taught me to follow the two great commandments: love God & love neighbor. Those teachings led me to public service and they’re why I’m running for the U.S. Senate.
The Trump administration has already cut nearly $1 trillion in Medicaid benefits, and over $400 billion from Medicare And they’re threatening to take even MORE of these critical benefits away
Ian Weissman, DO@drianweissman.bsky.social · 2d ago“Maternity care deserts are not naturally occurring, nor are they inevitable. They are the result of policy decisions and longstanding underinvestment in maternity care infrastructure.” thehill.com/policy/healt...
The fight for Alaska runs through the Bering Strait! So good to be in Savoonga and Gambell today.
Two years.
Michael Corleone: Settle All Family Business
ALT: Michael Corleone: Settle All Family Business
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Truthout@truthout.org · 19h agoTrump administration repeals a rule requiring U.S. companies to disclose their true owners to FinCEN, rolling back a key anti-money-laundering provision of the bipartisan Corporate Transparency Act championed by Marco Rubio.
If you wonder why the TrumpedDOJ has lost virtually all credibility with the judiciary, read this thread.
Zach Everson@zacheverson.com · 20h agoNEW: Harmeet Dhillon swore in 100+ new Civil Rights Division lawyers as "civil rights warriors" for "ALL Americans" — then named exactly none of them. So we did. Court filings let us ID 11. At least 5 arrived with records of misconduct, controversy, or hiring irregularities. 1/
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Multiple USS Abraham Lincoln sailors have tried to go overboard amid extended deployment, families say
Multiple sailors aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln have attempted to go overboard as the carrier's deployment stretches into its ninth month.
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Multiple sailors on the USS Abraham Lincoln have tried to jump overboard after 8+ months of extended deployment with no end date. Families say their loved ones are burnt out, exhausted, and terrified. No fresh meat or fruit. Rotten food. The Navy keeps them at sea while mental health collapses.
US Coast Guard data shows they have about a 20% error rate in correctly identifying vessels carrying contraband. How much better do you think private mercenaries operating out of a UPS store and using Amazon drones would be?
Christiaan Triebert@trbrtc.bsky.social · yesterdayEcuadorean fishermen say drones attacked them in the Pacific — English-speaking men in US-flag uniforms, no insignia. 8 missing, several injured. Flight data shows a patrol plane shifting course to stay pointed at all 3 boats. It's on no Pentagon roll, registered to a UPS store mailbox in Virginia.
Worth noting that both the DEA and the general and Southcom commander who stood up the new joint task force for boat strikes said they are ineffective at combating drugs.
This is a goddamn monstrosity . This is a concentration camp, funneling humans into a for-profit system that either works them to death or kills them theough neglect. #prosecuteGEO
La Resistencia@laresistencianw.bsky.social · 19h agoOn August 12 at around 12 am, at least 140 people had not been given dinner yet. In the video, people can be heard crying for help, for food, and for freedom.
USS Abraham Lincoln sailors tried to jump overboard amid extended deployment – reports www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
USS Abraham Lincoln sailors tried to jump overboard amid extended deployment – reports
Aircraft carrier’s crew in ninth month at sea and has spent record 250 days consecutively without making land
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More like this coming. "An Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor battery charge on Wednesday for throwing an activist to the ground near Chicago." This one brought by Cook County prosecutors. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/12/u...
ICE Agent Who Pushed Activist to the Ground Near Chicago Pleads Guilty
The agent, Adam Saracco, was charged with misdemeanor after the altercation at a gas station near Chicago last year during the Trump administration’s crackdown there.
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I didn’t come anywhere near this when I was on the Roosevelt (‘87-‘90) - I think we hit like 85 straight days at sea. But even that was miserable. This is an abuse of the force and will have long term repercussions
Phil Lewis@phillewis.bsky.social · 20h agoThere have reportedly been multiple attempts by sailors to jump overboard the USS Abraham Lincoln as poor conditions and mental stress reach a breaking point. The crew is in its ninth month at sea, and has spent 250 days consecutively without making land, a record
What happened when Donald Trump gutted the IRS? - Paper returns took longer to be processed - Fewer calls got answered - Less in-person help was available - Call wait times got longer I’ve been warning this would happen. Now a new government watchdog report confirms it.
The media is obsessed with the supposed 'extremism' of democratic socialists... Meantime you've got mega-MAGA dude running for statewide office in TX who wants to "round up" Muslims and Chinese people, calls Native Americans "savages," and has a dark nostagia for Rhodesia. My profile of Bo French:
He Wants to “Round Up Every Muslim” — and Oversee the Oil Industry In Texas
Lone Star MAGA candidate Bo French is an unvarnished “bigot.” Just ask his fellow Republicans.
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Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito has reportedly made up to $2.9 million from fossil fuel interests as he prepares to vote on whether oil companies should pay for the impacts of climate change. #Ethics www.thedailybeast.com/analysis-say...
Thing is, grand juries have a mind of their own. The last time a federal special grand jury tried to issue a report, it accused DOJ of botching the case. The judge only released a heavily redacted version — so the foreperson wrote a book accusing DOJ of a cover up. Good luck, Jeanine!
emptywheel@emptywheel.bsky.social · yesterdayJeanine Pirro has now set up a Special Grand Jury, presumably so she can write a Special Counsel-type report implicating people she can't charge. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
The Pentagon never rejected a single wind farm. That's what makes what it actually did so much worse — and a judge finally made it stop on August 6. www.dworkinsubstack.com/p/trump-won-...
This is after the Burke Law Group, who had no experience in immigration, withdrew from the contract earlier today. I can't find anything on Our Rescue's website about legal representation or that they have any lawyers on staff. They might be a worse choice than Burke. Pure corruption.
NPR@npr.org · 19h agoUtah-based Our Rescue was founded by activist Tim Ballard. It was previously known as Operation Underground Railroad and it says it helps law enforcement perform sting operations and rescues human trafficking survivors. n.pr/45l6Asb