There’s something almost performance-art-ish about filing a post containing “Trump Derangement Syndrome,” “Degenerates and Losers,” and “lie after lie” as Exhibit A in support of an argument about other people’s failure to maintain “professionalism and decorum." www.ms.now/news/trump-f...

Breaking: President delivers remarks. Nobody knows what they were.

A Clockwork Orange, but reverse the conditioning: don’t make him recoil from what he’s watching. just keep the screen on 24/7 until it becomes reality.

“I cherish the free press,” followed immediately by “the press I don’t like is a national-security threat and must be stopped” is quite the First Amendment argument.

Nothing says serious national-security leadership quite like hosting fake wrestlers at the Pentagon and giving yourself a tougher-sounding stage name.

Anytime I see the words “Trump” and “science” anywhere near each other in a sentence, I'm immediately terrified. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/20/s...

White House Moves to Take Control of N.I.H. Grants

Federal officials are drafting an executive order that would place grants under review by an outside panel, the latest effort to redirect billions of dollars in research spending.

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Absolute jackassery right here.

Miller: noncitizen voting is “widespread, commonplace and pervasive.” Mullin: 300,000 are being looked into. Also Mullin: 1,620 are actually under investigation and 151 arrests (0.0001% of the electorate). These people are profoundly stupid.

So the operation is over enough to call it an “epic success,” but not over enough that it no longer needs to be “resolved.’

March: CNN reports Russia likely gave Iran satellite intelligence to hit U.S. military bases. May: a Putin-decorated Russian businessman picks up the tab for the President's son's wedding weekend. September: the Attorney General says an investigation is unlikely (ABC).

Tell kids the robot isn't real = doable. Stop AI from destroying mankind = too hard. Congress regulates plenty of technically-complex industries, but hey, at least someone in the GOP finally admitted they don't have the intellectual prowess to tackle real problems.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2w ago

Rick Scott: "With regard to destroying mankind, these companies need to do the right thing on their own. We're not going to get smart enough to regulate them. We're not going to get something done up here."

He may have claimed afterward that he was only joking, but his track record shows he's fully capable of following through on a threat like this. Conditioning federal funding on political outcomes is exactly the kind of thing his administration has already done.

Calling this "Special Forces of Health Innovation" is very generous. Autism research doesn't need a branding exercise from an administration with a track record of politicizing science. It needs credibility. They really should sit this one out and let the real researchers work.1

Conspiracy-building backwards: find something the public didn't know, pretend the FBI didn't know it either. Then, declare that whatever wasn't kept forever was "destroyed." Also, evidence being processed and then a crime scene or body being released isn't "destroying evidence." Nice try, MAGA.

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Treasury says KPMG is tracing the disbursements and reviewing downstream recipients. Bessent says Treasury staff reviews KPMG’s work daily. So then why can’t he say whether any of the money is flowing to U.S. persons or corporations?

What happens when you go to war with the experts in your own government.

juliacurlee.bsky.social@juliacurlee.bsky.social · 2w ago

The administration went to war against the "Deep State" and lost the war with Iran. Pentagon leaders mass-emailed staff for ideas on how to break the stalemate in the Strait of Hormuz. If only they had a Council. To discuss National Security.

Hold my beer. Trump says there is something “wilder” than the “RUSSIA RUSSIA RUSSIA HOAX!”

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The Steady State Files Hatch Act Complaint Against Defense Secretary Hegseth Over Iowa Campaign Fundraiser

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: September 11, 2026

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The Steady State@thesteadystate.org · 2w ago

There are laws for a reason. The Steady State filed a formal complaint asking the Office of Special Counsel to investigate Pete Hegseth’s alleged Hatch Act violations. A previous complaint was closed in 26 hours. This time, let’s see what happens.

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President of the United States tells you to "BEWARE" if you criticize AI, or express concerns -- calls you a "Traitor." #holdfast

I had authoritarianism and WWIII on my existential-anxiety bingo card. I forgot to add "President declares AI guardrails unnecessary because he himself is the guardrail" right before he's the reason humanity doesn't make it.

Paxton left out one rather important word: “radicalized.” Talarico didn’t say white men are America’s greatest terrorist threat. He said radicalized white men are. You can disagree with the statement, but you shouldn’t have to rewrite it to make your argument.

“Elect my party and you’ll get $5,000” is obnoxious enough. “It’s going to happen” as though Congress has no say in spending more than a trillion dollars is the other problem.

Notice how he says Ukraine "right now" doesn't want to do that, which implies he likely believes they should want to do that in the future.

Trump and his clueless emissaries continue to pursue decisions that hurt America. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

Opinion | The dangerous fantasy of a win-win with Putin

The Russian president is no businessman searching for deals.

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Three of the most prominent figures in AI publicly agree that capability development needs to be paced more cautiously.

And I’m sure the “stats" he wanted FBI personnel to push on X were rigorously vetted, completely accurate, and not misleading in the slightest. Right?

Courts are still holding the line on executive overreach. DHS can’t override protections Congress put in place for FEMA, and destroying evidence has consequences. While a remedy is still pending, this is a meaningful accountability ruling.