Thank god the Democrats’ new Senate majority won’t allow John Fetterman to hold the party hostage.
After observers lawfully filmed ICE in a public parking lot, the agents followed their car, boxed them in, and slashed their tire in retaliation. The observers bravely caught the whole thing on video.
I find myself often thinking about DiCaprio’s final words in “Don’t Look Up,” just before the comet - which might have been averted if not for the idiots in charge - struck Earth. “We really did have everything, when you think about it.”
Why in God’s name isn’t Congress hauling all of the tech bros into hearings to explain exactly what they’re doing to prevent an AI apocalypse and why they shouldn’t be regulated to the hilt?
Grand jury report, sealed for months, finally revealed. Gov. Ron DeSastrous' administration misappropriated $10 million from sick kids & gave it to Hope #Florida, but can't charge anyone. But the nexus was AG James "Oopsie!" Uthmeier. www.cbsnews.com/miami/news/g... via @jimdefede.bsky.social
Grand jury finds DeSantis administration "misappropriated" $10 million in taxpayer money to Hope Florida
A Florida grand jury found the DeSantis administration misappropriated $10 million in taxpayer money for political purposes.
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Anyone else remember the right win freaking out when Biden tapped the Strategic Petroleum Reserve to lower gas prices? It never got lower than 346 million barrels under Biden. Today it’s 293 million barrels. www.eia.gov/dnav/pet/his...
Weekly U.S. Ending Stocks of Crude Oil in SPR (Thousand Barrels)
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News from Trump’s home county in Florida: The Republican clerk of court in Palm Beach County, appointed last year by his pal Ron DeSantis, has been suspended after accusations of child abuse. www.tampabay.com/news/florida...
Ex-Florida state representative arrested on child sex abuse charges
DeSantis on Tuesday suspended Michael Caruso as Palm Beach County’s clerk of courts and comptroller.
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We have a million of these a week but it’s always worth pointing out… Can you imagine what the reaction would be if a Democrat said this?
I’m thinking about all the Iran war hawks who smugly asked why a country with so much oil reserves could possibly want nuclear power, unless what they really want is a nuclear bomb. www.nytimes.com/live/2026/07...
Trump Live Updates: U.S. Signs Deal to Help Saudis Obtain Nuclear Power
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Americans today remind me of those “Lord of the Flies” British boys who went loopy without any adults around.
The Texas legislature rammed through a gerrymandering bill at the request of Trump. Virginia actually voted in favor of redistricting to counterbalance what Texas and other Republican-controlled states have done. Yet only one is considered a "power grab." Oligarch-owned media in a nutshell.
Whether it's Trump threatening a nuclear war on Truth Social or Hillary Clinton sharing risotto recipes by email, both leaders made controversial use of digital communication.
Why didn’t NBC have any shots of Robert Kraft looking disappointed? That’s what I was here for.
A reminder - before Trump, MAGA, Musk and Fox rewrote history - that this is what the entire country agreed had happened five years ago today:
The White House is now on Bluesky. Do yourself a favor and block them.
The $700K a LA developer once involved in his state’s biggest bribery scandal invested in #Florida political campaigns paid off when Gov. Ron DeSastrous & Cabinet voted unanimously to buy a 4-acre parcel from him for $83 million. www.orlandosentinel.com/2025/10/19/8... via @sundogwriter.bsky.social
$83 million for sandy Florida lot: Did GOP donations pay off for seller?
Robert Guidry’s campaign contributions paid off as he stands to make a $70 million profit off of a 4-acre parcel in Destin he bought in 2016 with the intention of developing a condominium and…
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The president says there are very few stores left in Portland, Oregon, and the ones that are left are made of plywood. I know we’re numb to this, but in any other time he’d have been removed by the 25th Amendment by now
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last yr.Trump: "Portland, I mean -- every time I look at that place it's burning down. There are fires all over the place. When a store -- there are very few of them left -- but when a store owner rebuilds a store they build it out of plywood. They don't put up storefronts anymore. They just put wood up."
Elon Musk promises to do to Wikipedia what he did to the federal government www.niemanlab.org/2025/10/elon...
Elon Musk promises to do to Wikipedia what he did to the federal government
Wikipedia is one of the 10 most popular websites on planet Earth and, in this reporter's opinion, one of humanity's greatest modern achievements of the digital age. It's the closest we've gotten to…
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Critical part of the President's new $100,000 charge for H1-B visas: The Administration can also offer a $100,000 discount to any person, company, or industry that it wants. Replacing rules with arbitrary discretion. Want visas? You know who to call and who to flatter.
Elizabeth Warren on people who say Dems needs to tone down their rhetoric: "Oh, please. Why don't you start with the president of the United States? And every ugly meme he's posted and every ugly word."
Please, the U.S. Open asked us not to share any video of the president being booed heavily by an entire stadium, please respect their wishes, please
Ron Filipkowski@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · last yr.Trump gets booed at the US Open today.
Whether it's Zohran Mamdani opening city-run grocery stores or Eric Adams handing potato chip bags filled with cash to reporters, both candidates have provocative ways of getting food to New Yorkers.
“you should have a choice” means “we get to choose for you”
Josh Marshall@joshtpm.bsky.social · last yr.BREAKING: FDA says covid boosters now only for those over 65 or with preconditions. www.statnews.com/2025/05/20/f...
But MAGA said 86 means impeach. It’s all so confusing.
"You get two dolls and some pencils. I get a golden 747 jumbo jet. See? You get more things than I do. When was the last time you said 'Thank you, Mr. President'?"
