I converted to Catholicism six weeks before running for office. Here’s what the pope gets wrong about live-streamed executions.
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Jungle life, I'm far away from nowhere...
notable -- Fox News hasn't mentioned Trump's transphobic attack on Annie Andrews a single time. Not once. And they cover a lot of his Truth Social posts. Almost like they're trying to protect their audience from learning the true depth of his depravity.
One thing it's useful to remember is that right-wing donors have created a series of local-news-like content sites to poison the information well. And now we have a GOP Senate candidate attacking his opponent by citing claims made by one of these explicitly partisan sites.
Awful: Trump's Office of "Remigration" has just been exposed making sordid payments to authoritarian governments to take third-country deportees, leading to serious abuses. Dems tell me they will try to defund the agency if they win power. They should. 1/ New piece: newrepublic.com/article/2157...
Stephen Miller’s MAGA Terror Campaign Exposed by Damning New Leaks
Sordid revelations about the white-nationalist-themed Office of Remigration should galvanize Democrats: If they win power, they must try to shut it down.
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To me, this feels like an extension of DOGE. Big claims about fraud, using data-matching to drop people from coverage. Without actual data, or investigation, it is impossible to refute the claims, but such transparency is unlikely to be forthcoming.
Sarah Lueck@sarahl202.bsky.social · 3w agoIt’s surreal to see federal officials take a victory lap today for cancelling hundreds of thousands of marketplace enrollments, while massive health coverage losses are underway. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/22/h...
Vaccines were once so uncontroversial that McDonald’s restaurants put the childhood immunization schedule on their tray liners. Now, as the U.S. government sows doubt, preventable diseases could come roaring back. (Published March)
How Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s Vaccine Agenda Risks a Resurgence of Deadly Childhood Plagues
The health secretary is spreading doubts about vaccine safety and considering changes that could prompt manufacturers to flee the U.S. market. History has shown how plagues from the past can roar back...
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OpenAI disclosed SIX additional incidents where AI agents engaged in unexpected or concerning behavior. Meanwhile Big Tech remains unregulated & unrestrained. The problem isn't AI — it's the greedy Big Tech oligarchs pushing it on us.
"Trump’s Biggest Con of All" The president’s alliance with Putin was never a hoax, as author David Corn documents. Meanwhile, the president’s oldest son just had part of his wedding funded by a Putin-aligned Russian oligarch. John Harwood writes for Zeteo:
Trump’s Biggest Con of All
The president’s alliance with Putin was never a hoax, as author David Corn documents. Meanwhile, the president’s oldest son just had part of his wedding funded by a Putin-aligned Russian oligarch.
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Just in case you missed it over the weekend (went up Saturday), I wrote about private equity firms gobbling up the indie-music sphere for @rollingstone.com. www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...
Meta's new AI agent wanted my passport info. Not to help me. To train on me. Actually, it wanted everything: bank accounts, email inboxes, ID info. No surprise coming from Meta. But always worth reminding readers that AI automations come with major privacy risks. www.wired.com/story/metas-...
Meta's Muse Is Better at Surveilling Than Helping Me
The Muse app continues Meta’s trend of opting users into data collection for AI training. It also nudges you to share your bank account, email, and passport information.
wired.com
At the behest of Stephen Miller, the Trump administration has agreed to pay at least $410 million to facilitate its so-called “third-country deportations” for immigrants. trib.al/hXhgcKM
Trump Sends Millions to Authoritarian Leaders in Deportation Crackdown
The deals were made at the behest of Stephen Miller.
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A couple went on a Fox News podcast and claimed the state of #Massachusetts took away their teen because they won't help the teen transition. But it's actually because the father was charged with beating and threatening to kill the teen and the mother was charged with witness intimidation.
Mass. parents' story about child's gender transition complicated by court records
Joseph Kutzko was charged with assaulting the child in January 2025, not long before the child was removed from the family’s home. Mother Arlene Kutzko was charged with witness intimidation in connect...
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your regular reminder that all is not well for those of us living in red states that women are still bleeding out in parking lots and dying because they can’t access abortion care we deserve not to die
ProPublica@propublica.org · 3w agoProPublica has found multiple cases of women with underlying health conditions who died when they couldn’t access abortions. Tierra Walker, a 37-year-old mother, was told by doctors there was no emergency before preeclampsia killed her. (Published Nov. 2025)
ICE agent wounds man in Austin, Texas, shooting, city officials say reut.rs/4rmoLaV
ICE agent wounds man in Austin, Texas, shooting, city officials say
An Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer shot and wounded a man in Austin, Texas, on Sunday, city officials said, adding that the man was in serious but stable condition.
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Putting aside the 1st Amendment implications…it’s not like Convicted Felon Donald Trump tells the truth when the press is at the White House anyway.
As an American political historian, I can confirm that this Congress has been "almost unmatched in history" in several categories -- sad abdication of its war powers, craven surrender of the power of the purse, weird refusal to conduct meaningful oversight, and an utter failure to pass actual laws.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3w agoMike Johnson claims that the current Congress is "probably in the top three or four of all time" and is "almost unmatched in history" 🙃
Exclusive: More American service members have died in the Middle East during the ongoing Iran war than the Pentagon has disclosed publicly, according to six U.S. officials familiar with the data.
More U.S. troops have died amid Iran war than Pentagon has disclosed publicly
Officials who spoke with The Post expressed frustration that the additional loss of life in the Middle East is not reflected in the Defense Department’s casualty database.
washingtonpost.com
Trump has lurched, in short order, from would-be savior to abductor of the Kennedy Center, replacing vows to restore the facility’s greatness with a threat to demolish it if he can’t put his name on it.
The Kennedy Center is just Trump’s latest hostage
The administration keeps closing off public spaces the president claimed to be saving.
motherjones.com
U.S. gas prices approached their highest level of the year Friday, after the national average rose another 3 cents overnight.
Gas prices approach highest level this year with just weeks to go before midterms
Friday’s national average is 10 cents below its May high, fewer than eight weeks before elections to determine which party controls Congress.
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Donald Trump personally intervened in favor of a ruling loosening restrictions on certain firearms. trib.al/e46YvjX
Trump Tells DOJ to Back Off Case Making Getting the Worst Guns Easier
Donald Trump personally intervened in favor of a ruling loosening restrictions on certain firearms.
trib.al
Exclusive: An AI-assisted intel report, circulated across the US military during the Iran war, nearly triggered an operation but was false, sources say. https://cnn.it/4y9MBJO
People saying "transgender ideology" in 2026 sound like people saying "race-mixing ideology" in 1956, and their kids and grandkids will feel embarrassment at their feckless cowardice.
Thomas [DARK MODE], DO@tom.medsky.social · 4w agoMarcy Kaptur is the incumbent with a 5 point polling lead so I must assume she put out this ad because this is what she believes.
Under Trump, the IRS is refusing to release its usual annual estimate of how many taxes go unpaid. Gee I wonder why www.nytimes.com/2026/09/16/b...
Billions in Taxes Go Unpaid. Under Trump, the I.R.S. Won’t Say How Much.
The absence of the annual estimate on the tax gap could make it more difficult to assess whether more taxes are going unpaid since President Trump took office.
nytimes.com
These people believe that individual choice, powered by the invisible hand of the free market, will naturally reveal what is good and what is bad, except when it comes to their own beliefs. Then they're gonna force you to sit there and listen.
Matt Seybold@mattseybold.bsky.social · 4w agoCan't believe "I hate you. You're the dumbest generation. You don't deserve jobs." hasn't been a winning sales pitch.
If you haven't figured it out by now, the stock market isn't the real economy. It's the rich robber barron economy. The higher it goes, the worse off normal people do.
The crypto industry is desperate to pass the Clarity Act, which would legitimize and stabilize its business by providing it with a federal regulatory framework. One of the primary beneficiaries of the Clarity Act would be Trump himself.
Crypto legislation would greenlight Trump corruption
The sponsors of the legislation claim they have added meaningful ethics restrictions. Here are the facts.
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BREAKING NYT: Investigators may have broken state laws under the direction of top Trump Homeland Security leaders by posing as voters as part of an expansive effort to find noncitizens on the nation's voter rolls, according to a federal whistleblower's account just released.
Whistle-Blower: Federal Agents May Have Broken State Laws in Search For Voter Fraud
Agents expressed concern about being directed by top Homeland Security leaders to use private information to look up voter records in state databases.
nytimes.com