The White House decided there was a threat so great that Donald Trump was secretly moved to another plane but they never told the passengers on Air Force One. Cowards look out for themselves. Leaders look out for their people.
Trump Said to Have Secretly Used Military Jet to Leave Turkey Amid Threats From Iran
President Trump hid in an airport catering container and was taken to a military jet for a secret flight out of country after the NATO summit last month.
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Again it is insane that we have accepted masked secret police.
Aaron Fritschner@fritschner.bsky.social · 18h agoVideo of an ICE agent pulling a gun on a wife and mother, who is a US citizen born and raised in the area, near Bailey's Crossroads in Northern Virginia yesterday. Chillingly, they claimed she “almost ran them over” until she told them she had video proving that was a lie.
If you wanted to fly Donald Trump out on a different plane without advanced warning to protect him, that would be one thing. But to put others on what you believed to be a targeted plane served only one purpose: To propagate and maintain a lie to assuage a single man’s ego.
This — very much this. It’s crazy how Platner yields “Dems in disarray,” when action is taken, and crickets about the right when nothing is done with Miller. Another great example about how the media’s default frame is actually right-friendly.
David Roberts@volts.wtf · 3d agoIs any high-profile media outlet going to run a story contrasting how Platner was treated by the Democratic Party (run out on rails) with how Max Miller is being treated by the GOP (protected, supported) and drawing the obvious conclusions?
So the Times did a story on this, but not Capital One closing Trump accounts over suspicions of money laundering.
Chuck Grassley Announces the Death of His Beloved Vacuum, Beth (Gift Article)
Senator Chuck Grassley mourned his decades-long cleaning companion, writing on social media: “GOOD BYE BETH. U hv been a real workhorse.”
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🔻 Russia Strikes German-Owned Cargo Ship in the Black Sea with Drones — Bild Reports
I cannot imagine a more disgusting appropriation of Spider-Man on both moral and aesthetic grounds. This is fascist AI-slop, the thirstiest cultural ambulance-chasing they could commit, and I hate them even more for it.
Two Republican mayors from the reddest parts of Georgia are breaking ranks to back Sen. Jon Ossoff’s reelection bid, telling the @ajc.com that the Democrat’s work for their communities outweighs partisan differences. #gapol www.ajc.com/politics/202...
Why 2 GOP mayors are crossing party lines for Jon Ossoff
Valdosta Mayor Scott James Matheson and Tifton Mayor Julie Smith aren’t household names, but their willingness to cross party lines signals a weakness for Mike Collins.
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"So he can feel a bit more manly by making an AI video" is a direct callback to this image that deserves a second life in this campaign
Headquarters@headquartersnews.bsky.social · 7d agoDr. Abdul El-Sayed: Mike Rogers is a guy who wants to put a data center in your backyard so he can feel a bit more manly by making an AI video. If you want a senator who's gonna lick some boots, go vote for Rogers. But if you want a senator who's going to stand up to Trump, you've got your option.
This is an important breaking story published through our collaboration with the Appalachian News Exchange, written by @justinhicks.lpm.org and Howard Berkes. Appalachia’s black lung rates highest in nearly 50 years as miners’ protections stall kentuckylantern.com/2026/08/05/a...
Appalachia's black lung rates highest in nearly 50 years as miners' protections stall • Kentucky Lantern
A new report found that working veteran underground coal miners in central Appalachia are suffering from black lung at the highest rates in nearly 50 years.
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Governor Whitmer endorses Jocelyn Benson and Abdul El-Sayed 👇
Notice DOJ doesn't talk about its efforts to obtain state voter files anymore. They are 0-20 in those cases and today is the beginning of the quiet period -- states can no longer do systematic removals of names from the voter rolls. TLDR: We won!🥳
The message here is for establishment democrats: The electorate wants fighters. People unencumbered by big donors. People who will fight for the working class. People who will stand up to Trump and the oligarchs. Shape up or get out of the way.
Ray Bradbury’s 1950 story, “There Will Come Soft Rains”, starts with a household AI reminding its owners of their appointments. But nobody is listening; they have all been killed in a nuclear war.
NETANYAHU SAYS TRUMP AND HIS TEAM THINK THEY CAN BRING HAMAS TO DISARM AND DEMILITARIZE GAZA AND SENT ISRAEL A DRAFT, WHICH ISRAEL DID NOT AGREE TO, SAYING IT IS NOT ISRAEL'S DRAFT AND THAT IT SENT ITS COMMENTS BEFORE RECEIVING A MEDIA CAMPAIGN ON THE MATTER.
BREAKING: *DOJ TO MONITOR POLLING SITES IN FOUR MICHIGAN CITIES TODAY *DOJ TO WATCH POLLS IN DETROIT, LANSING, EAST LANSING, HAMTRAMCK
What El-Sayed actually said about why he was voting for Kamala Harris ahead of the 2024 election.
Anne Frank was arrested on this day in 1944. History rarely returns wearing the same uniform, it returns asking the same thing of ordinary people: Will you sit down and look away? Or will you stand up and fight? #Resist
BREAKING: Cornyn and Tillis have confirmed they'll vote for Blanche after his order rescinding the "anti-weaponization fund." Any concern they claimed to have had for survivors was performative and has now been abandoned. Ultimately, they chose to bend the knee to the Trump administration.
20/ But here is what actually works: knowing it exists. Once you understand that the content in your feed was selected for your specific fears and pressure points, it starts to lose its grip. Not all of it. But enough. Awareness is the first real defense any of us have.
Abby was the one that broke open the Max Miller story (and shame on NYT for not acknowledging that). Here is her original story: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Assault, misogyny, verbal threats: Records detail new allegations against Rep. Max Miller
Police reports and filings in a bitter custody dispute raise new questions about the conduct of an Ohio Republican as he campaigns for a third term.
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Abby Vesoulis@abbyvesoulis.bsky.social · last wk.I first got 1000+ pages of court documents from Miller & Moreno's custody case. Anybody can request these from Cuyahoga County. I reviewed those by myself, one by one—no AI involved!—and the filings pointed to police reports. I then sought those out separately and spent days combing through them.
Things I and friends have done to calm an angry abusive man from further escalating and killing us or our children: -Smiled -Kept normal schedules in order not to trigger a fight -Appeased with kind acts (cooking, cleaning, favors) -Forced friendly tones and words
The Bulwark@thebulwark.com · last wk.Rep. Max Miller: "My former wife has claimed that during a custody exchange at my home that day, I assaulted her…If I had assaulted her, would she have offered to cook me dinner six days later?"
senator bernie moreno finally makes a statement about the allegations of abuse by rep. max miller against his daughter and granddaughter after miller went live on X this morning to deny everything.
Julian Bailey's widow finally received the autopsy report in his death this week. The findings? U.S. Marshals shot him six times in the back. www.wusa9.com/article/news...
