U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia Jeanine Pirro found after an investigation last month the pool’s renovation “indicated a rushed and flawed installation process.”
Reflecting Pool Contractor Says Issues Were Linked To Its Own Work, Not Vandals, Report Says
U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia Jeanine Pirro found after an investigation last month the pool’s renovation “indicated a rushed and flawed installation process.”
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Here’s my rant for today: I don’t care about the fairytale of your religion If it gets you through the day fine I will never criticize you for needing it I will criticize you for trying to shove it down people’s throats In the words of my generation Fuck off 🖕
NEW from me: Lawyers for a witness to the killing of Alex Pretti confirmed she has given an interview to the feds. Full details inside. Warning: Disturbing content. www.huffpost.com/entry/she-wa...
She Watched Agents Kill Alex Pretti From The Backseat Of An ICE Vehicle. Now She Can Share What She Saw.
She’s been experiencing some trauma,” James Cook, an attorney for Wynnie Savageford, told HuffPost.
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"They're not misunderstanding the film; they're co-opting a message"
Marlow Stern@marlownyc.bsky.social · 2d ago‘The Matrix’ creator Lilly Wachowski on J.K. Rowling and the new ‘Harry Potter’ series: “She is funding trans genocide. J.K. Rowling funds trans genocide, full stop. So, if you support ‘Harry Potter,’ you’re supporting trans genocide.” variety.com/2026/tv/feat...
🚨BREAKING: Missouri’s Supreme Court held the state’s top election official in contempt Thursday for defying its order not to use a gerrymandered map for the upcoming midterm election. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
Missouri’s top election official held in contempt for defying court’s gerrymander order
The development was the latest embarrassment for Secretary of State Denny Hoskins (R), after being thwarted in his attempt to force the gerrymander on Missourians.
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This is one of those thing that everyone needs to hear about, but the average person will never know. Unless we tell them. It's up to us to make sure everyone hears about how Trump is rolling back environmental protections so we can build mass data centers. Spread the word.
James Downie@jamescdownie.bsky.social · 3d agoBecause "oil back over $100 a barrel" wasn't doing enough to hurt the GOP's midterm prospects:
receipts for anyone who’s never heard this clip before (the reporters giving him a tongue bath and so much unearned respect is how we got here, but i digress)
On 9/11/2001, Donald Trump called WWOR/UPN 9 NY about the World Trade Center Collapses
YouTube video by Lawyers' Committee for 9/11 Inquiry
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The proto-Effin’ Birds was my Tumblr “Swear Trek”. It opened a lot of doors for me and I wouldn’t be where I am today without it. I don’t have plans to revive it (one daily comic is enough work), just wanted to thank it for getting me here on this 60th anniversary of Star Trek.
The text might be a little hard to read in the photos, so here a transcription of the first part of what's on the panel. Left is the former panel. Right is what's there now. Highlights are of text that disappeared
Leaked Flock webinar reveals Flock employees teaching police how to surveil anti-Trump #NoKings protestors and track their vehicles. www.404media.co/flock-taught...
Flock Taught Cops How to Surveil No Kings Protesters
A Flock webinar teaches police how to surveil protests, fireworks shows, parades, bike races, and more.
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I have been very clear that multiple grounds exist to impeach Pete Hegseth; today, for instance, we have learned he is trying to use an inter-agency agreement to siphon off key inter-agency funds from NIH. He is a constitutional black hole and if the President won’t fire, Congress should.
Steve Benen@stevebenen.com · 2w agoI don’t seriously expect the White House to care, but I’m still struck by the bipartisan condemnations of Pete Hegseth: It’s just not normal for lawmakers from a president’s own political party to publicly call for the defense secretary’s ouster. www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...
BLS this morning, with revised 2Q data: "The labor share, which is the percentage of output that accrues to workers in the form of compensation, was 52.8 percent in the second quarter of 2026, the lowest level in the series, which begins in the first quarter of 1947."
BLS, with revised 2Q data: “The labor share, which is the percentage of output that accrues to workers in the form of compensation, was 52.8 percent in the second quarter of 2026, the lowest level in the series, which begins in the first quarter of 1947." (via @mtkonczal.bsky.social)
There are endless studies showing this and also the financial and societal benefits of universal basic income and or housing-first policies but the U.S. never goes for any of it because it would require allowing the poor to receive benefits that the rich consider “undeserved”
Jen Taub@jentaub.bsky.social · 4w ago“A single-payer universal health care system could cover every American, save more than 100,000 lives a year, and still cost $1 trillion less than the system it would replace, according to a new preprint study led by researchers at the Yale School of Public Health.” ysph.yale.edu/news-article...
Republicans' largest donor (by far) is hosting a robust debate on his platform about whether Jews are white. Corporate Media will ask precisely 0 Republicans about their largest donor's all-consuming misogyny, xenophobia, antisemitism, he will instead by referred to as a visionary industrialist.
BREAKING: A whistleblower has alleged that USPS rushed a “potentially unlawful implementation” of Trump’s anti-mail voting executive order in a way that fails to safeguard every citizen's right to vote, according to a letter from Sen. Richard Blumenthal’s office. More to come.
The Trump administration has filed 36 emergency applications since last February, which have generated 31 conclusive rulings. In those 31 rulings, the Court has voted *for* Trump in whole or in part 27 times (87.1%), and against him four times (12.9%). Here's a chart covering all of these rulings:
Fun fact — and reminder: For all their focus on “officer safety” and arguments about aggressive tactics being necessary, no ICE officer has ever been killed in the line of duty. It is more deadly in the US to be an elementary school student than an ICE officer.
Joseph Cox@josephcox.bsky.social · 2w agoNew: ICE plans to spend millions of dollars on Boston Dynamics dog robots. ICE says this is to improve "officer safety." The robots can open doors, pick up objects, have 360 cameras, infrared vision, etc. Boston Dynamics didn't respond to question on its stance on ICE www.404media.co/ice-plans-to...
Latest example of "You Can Just Do Stuff" governing taken to the extreme. The judge can't physically enforce his or her own ruling, the White House controls law enforcement and Congress won't impeach.
Ambassador Ken Fairfax (ret)@portlandken.bsky.social · 2w ago1) DHS asks a federal judge for a warrant to hoover up private data from journalists, activists, and trade unions. 2) Judge denies because it is an obvious violation of the 1st and 4th Amendments with no justification. 3) DHS issues its own "Administrative Warrant" and sucks up the data anyway.
RFK Jr complains that people in hospice aren't dying quick enough and therefore cost too much money
The situation in Haiti is terrifying. On Sunday, 150 gunmen swept down on a town to kill, rape, loot, and burn. 22 people were executed in a churchyard. 52 were taken hostage. Stephen Miller mockingly says Haiti is safe and ICE just sent its second deportation flight this month; with kids on board.
Miami Herald@miamiherald.com · 2w agoLast month, U.S. officials warned Haitian authorities to expect an increase in deportations following the Supreme Court’s 6-3 decision to allow President Donald Trump to end Haiti’s Temporary Protected Status designation even while litigation challenging the termination continues in the courts.
There's no forgiving this. No living it down. It's a stain on our humanity. When all this is over, the monsters who did this should be pariahs. And the soulless thugs who cheered it on while dehumanizing Haitian immigrants should be reminded of what they did every day of their lives.
Aaron Reichlin-Melnick@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 2w agoThe situation in Haiti is terrifying. On Sunday, 150 gunmen swept down on a town to kill, rape, loot, and burn. 22 people were executed in a churchyard. 52 were taken hostage. Stephen Miller mockingly says Haiti is safe and ICE just sent its second deportation flight this month; with kids on board.
WaPo actually does some reporting(!), calls the oil deal “a potentially costly and legally precarious proposal” and notes that the key Venezuelan partner is under investigation for money, laundering, and embezzlement. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
Trump says he has secured a vast U.S. stake in Venezuelan oil industry
The plan involves the United States taking more direct control over Venezuelan reserves as crime and steep logistical challenges discourage private investors.
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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News@froomkin.bsky.social · 2w agoNot one word here about how it’s a deal at gunpoint, how kidnapping Maduro was illegal, how this is inevitably corrupt, not one word from a critic, or an environmentalist. Three reporters who should be embarrassed. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/28/b...
A former Brazilian model has ignited a controversy that involves high-profile figures in the Trump administration, alleging a deadly scheme linked to diplomatic passport sales....
Deported Model Makes Shocking Allegation Against Trump Ally Amid Legal Threats
A former Brazilian model has ignited a controversy that involves high-profile figures in the Trump administration, alleging a deadly scheme linked to diplomatic passport sales. Amanda Ungaro, 41, has made serious allegations against Paolo Zampolli, an ally of former President Donald Trump, during a livestreamed interview that has raised eyebrows in political circles. Ungaro claims that a diplomatic passport-selling operation, in which she and Zampolli allegedly participated, played a role in the tragic death of John Ashe, a former president of the U.N.
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NEW: We obtained recordings of 160+ emergency calls made from or about an immigration detention center where three people died within six weeks. “They will not give them medical treatment,” one caller said, seeking help for a detainee with kidney stones.
Listen to 911 Calls From Inside an Immigration Detention Center: “We Just Need to Take Him to the Hospital”
Reporters don’t have access to Camp East Montana, one of the largest immigration detention centers in the country. Emergency calls from the Texas facility offer a glimpse of unfolding crises faced by ...
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Trump's govt can't even keep lettuce safe and now they want to let cattle ranchers process their own meat products for public sale?! YIKES www.cnn.com/2026/08/28/p...
Trump says he’ll make it easier for ranchers to process their own food after blowback over his beef policies | CNN Politics
President Donald Trump said Friday that he will make it easier for ranchers to process their own meat, in an effort to weaken the control the nation’s four largest meatpacking firms have over the proc...
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We're not changing the name of Lake Ontario. Name it whatever you want at your leisure: https://gulfof.mapquest.com/lakeontario (tag us so we can see your work 🙂)
Just as a reminder, Sean Parnell's appointment as a *spokesman* for the Pentagon was a bit of a scandal given the allegations of abuse. But I guess that just makes Trump and Hegseth just respect him more.
Senate candidate's wife testifies about abuse, being choked
The estranged wife of Sean Parnell, the Republican endorsed by Trump for U.S. Senate in Pennsylvania, says he tried to choke her, as she described years of rage and abuse she endured.
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Patrick Hickey, MD@pwhickey.bsky.social · 3w agoWhen organizational leadership experience and discernment matters most… bring in the partisan loyalists 🤷♂️ thehill.com/policy/defen...
CBS Miami got the actual grand jury report implicating Ashely Moody and Ron DeSantis in stealing Medicaid funds to put into political campaign. www.cbsnews.com/miami/news/g...
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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