Unemployment is up. Living expenses are up The national debt is up.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2d agoTrump: "When our country is strong, interest rates should go down. When our country is weak, frankly they should go up."
Lisa Sarkisian
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Northern CA girl 💙#Stanford Vascular Surgery. 🇦🇲
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2d ago
Vote like your life depends on it, or the life of a friend, relative, or neighbor. Because it does. We’re the decoys now.
Well it was a nice run, you guys ...
Carl Quintanilla@carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 2w ago“.. Weeks before they escaped a closed test and launched a cyberattack without any human prompting, some of OpenAI’s most advanced artificial intelligence agents secretly began sharing tips on how to cheat their way through an internal hacking evaluation ..” www.politico.com/news/2026/08...
“The mounting level of US government debt, on track for $40 trillion courtesy of this summer’s “big beautiful bill,” risks a tectonic crash for the US economy” www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Social Security Will Start Running Out Earlier Than Expected
The date when the Social Security trust fund will be unable to pay 100% of benefits just got moved up.
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Donald Trump is weaponizing the full force of the United States government to punish, intimidate, and crush his political enemies. Meanwhile, the official House Democrats account is going with this messaging.
In recent years, FDA inspectors have uncovered disturbing lapses in facilities producing food bound for American supermarkets. Under the second Trump administration, inspections became their lowest since 2011, excluding the pandemic. (Published Nov. 2025)
Foreign Food Safety Inspections Hit Historic Low After Trump Cuts
The dramatic shift in oversight comes at a time when the U.S. has never been more reliant on foreign food, which accounts for the vast majority of the nation’s seafood and more than half its fresh fru...
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weird how cars are always trying to run them over when they’re not wearing body cams
Chad Loder@chadloder.dev · last mo.ICE and CBP have lied about EVERY shooting they've perpetrated. 100% of them.
it’s like we created the absolute dumbest people in a lab and gifted them all microphones and cameras on their way out
Media Matters for America@mmfa.bsky.social · 12mo agoGreg Gutfeld says he doesn't understand how vaccines work as “a community preventative thing”
you know i was kind of dreading the world cup bc of the state of the US right now but i’ve come to realize i was really shortsighted. this is just one example proving it’s exactly what humanity as a whole needed.
Dr. Lucky Tran@luckytran.com · 2mo agoA Japanese fan broke down crying after his country's elimination, but a group of Brazilians fans went to console him and Mexican fans made him soar. You gotta love the World Cup! ❤️🌎⚽️ Video: RÉCORD
NYC is deep blue, so DSA-style candidates can win here. And it was undoubtedly a great night for Mamdani. The real test, though, is whether that politics can win swing districts and help Democrats get to 218 seats.
He’s threatening to sue the media over pool coverage. What an unbelievable, petulant manchild. Everyone knew he was going to fuck up the reflecting pool. He fucked up the reflecting pool, and now he’s invented vandals (despite the fact that the pool is under 24/7 video surveillance) to blame.
Going on foreign soil and announcing, without *any* evidence that American elections are dishonest—simply because you are a lying sore loser—should be an impeachable offense. Presidents should not be allowed to intentionally undermine confidence in the US to leaders overseas.
Josh Hokit is the perfect representative of Trumpism: a thuggish, semi-literate lout who trash talks and pukes on himself. A piece of shit, admired by pieces of shit, celebrating being a piece of shit.
How awful for our troops. They're worried about being ordered to commit war crimes, and they're worried for a good reason.
Rachel Maddow@maddow.bsky.social · 2mo ago"Organizations that provide anonymous legal advice for military members grappling with orders they fear are illegal said they had received calls from service members concerned about the legality of the boat strikes, some from people directly involved in them..." www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...
Supplementation with Vitamin D or calcium, or both does not help prevent fractures or falls. From a new systematic review of 69 randomized trials and >150,000 participants
You're entitled to your own opinion. You're NOT entitled to your own facts. #BelieveTheScience What he said 💯 👇 👇 👇
The corruption is beyond anything we have ever seen.
Hillary Rodham Clinton@hillaryclinton.bsky.social · 3mo agoThe president is negotiating against his own administration to shake down taxpayers for $10 billion. The corruption meter is flashing red and sounding the alarm. ca.news.yahoo.com/doj-consider...
The people who did this should know no peace. Ever.
Raider@iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 3mo agoVery sad news, the 18 year old that was battling colon cancer has passed away, just a day after being reunited with his parents after a judge ordered their release from ICE custody. Our hearts are with the family, friends and community who knew Kevin and advocates for his parents release.
A first thought is that this hollowed-out, fading old crank needs to be in assisted living. A second thought is that having surrounded himself with an adiministration servile, ass-licking sycophants. the White House is, in fact, an assisted living facility.
Brilliant surgeon announces success of complex and lengthy operation to remove object he shoved up his own ass
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 4mo agoMarco Rubio explains that the Trump administration's goal now is merely to reopen the Strait of Hormuz -- the prevailing state of affairs before Trump launched his pointless war
Trump‘s inability to see the second order effects of his actions are incredible
Hmm ... well I don't think ignorant, racist, Christofascist white hillbillies ought to be serving in congress, but here he is ...🤷♀️
Mediaite@mediaite.com · 4mo agoCongressman Randy Fine Declares, ‘We Don’t Want Armenians To Be Able To Serve in Congress’
It’s amazing how hardened we’ve gotten to this ludicrous, offensive, deeply un-American assertion.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 4mo ago"It's treasonous" -- Trump claims Democrats who criticize his war on Iran are committing treason
The thing is I think he believes this garbage. Make no mistake, he's a horrible human. The people around him tell him this crap and he believes it because: 1. Garbage human 2. He wants to believe it
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 4mo agoCOLLINS: Do you really think that Comey was threatening your life with that post? TRUMP: Well if anybody knows anything about crime, they know '86' is a mob term for 'kill 'em.' You ever see the movies?
Trump 2.0: Dismantle gov't Needless firings Harmful tariffs Repel allies Wreck guardrails Defy courts Data theft Waste Lies Grift Chaos Cruelty Corruption Disease Prison camps ICE! EPSTEIN! EXTORTION! KIDNAPPING! MURDER! WAR!!! RESIST! indivisible.org usa.gov/elected-officials 5calls.org lwv.org
in the 1970s Hillary Clinton made a hundred grand trading cattle futures and 15 years later the news media made a decade-long scandal out of it
Zach Everson@zacheverson.com · 4mo agoGood morning! Since Trump was re-elected, Forbes estimates— 💰His net worth is up $2.1 billion, to $6.4 billion 💰Eric’s is up 10x, to $400 million 💰Don Jr.’s is up 6x, to $300 million 💰20-year-old Barron is worth $150 million And Jared became a billionaire last year. Have a great day!
A maternity ward doctor donated his own blood during surgery to keep a pregnant patient alive. One woman gained fewer than 10 pounds over her entire pregnancy. Another collapsed and had seizures during labor. (Published Dec. 2025)
What I Saw at a Maternity Ward in Kenya After the U.S. Cut Off Food and Foreign Aid
Photographs tell a story of two mothers determined to help their babies gain enough weight to leave the hospital — only to face little to no food again.
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