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When I'm not avidly doom-scrolling I am gardening, hiking, making and studying textile arts, making digital art related to nature, being one of the "ladies who lunch" with close friends and asking my cat what I can do to make her more comfortable.
🚨 Must-read from @jvl.bsky.social about bizarre backstory of Natalie Harp & how her too-good-to-be-true tale about Trump saving her life was crafted to get attention in the MAGA media ecosystem The fact her biography is fabricated helps explain why she's resisted trying for a security clearance
Trump and Natalie: A F*cked-Up Love Story
The weirdest relationship ever just got weirder.
thebulwark.com
Canada fuels American growth. Canada supplies 99% of natural gas imports, 85% of electricity imports and 60% of crude oil imports. I don't think they want us to stop sending any of that energy. -PMCarney #TrumpTariffs
This would not be happening if people remained silent.
I've been having this conversation with friends and family members. But maybe it's time to say it out loud. This #ElNiño event will be one of the defining climate moments of our lives.
This will certainly contribute towards impeding future legitimate investigations of wrongdoing. It will become very easy to say “remember those shakedown investigations during the Trump era."
Whistleblower alleges political pressure, lack of evidence in antisemitism probes targeting schools
A Trump administration task force created to combat antisemitism pushed for settlements with Ivy League universities despite government investigations that were rushed and incomplete or that failed to...
dailykos.com
New in PN: DHS's abuse of power in Minnesota was even worse than we knew "When the Department of Justice indicted 15 Minnesotans earlier this summer, it was painfully clear that this was a cobbled-together mess, a transparent attempt to criminalize dissent. But boy, we didn’t know the half of it."
DHS's abuse of power in Minnesota was even worse than we knew
It's the stuff of East Germany.
publicnotice.co
Mike Hoerger, PhD MSCR MBA @michael_hoerger 🚨BREAKING 🦠 On Friday, the US CDC arbitrarily shifted higher COVlD levels into lower categories depicted with cooler colors. Much of what was Very High is now "High." What was High is now "Moderate" or "Low." Low is "Very Low."
Fascinating post on how selection algorithms smooth away variety in all kinds of settings. laurenleek.substack.com/p/temperatur...
10 years ago this would not have been a passing news article, barely noticed in the midst of so many other things.
Opinion | What you need to know about ICE’s new electric-shock gloves
A new electric-shock glove would allow ICE agents to hurt people in ways that could leave no marks and may be impossible for observers to notice or document.
ms.now
Today in Politics, Bulletin 439. Everything you need to know about what happened today in politics. open.substack.com/pub/meidasto...
Today in Politics, Bulletin 439. 8/13/26
… Text messages shared with MeidasTouch by a family member of a service member currently deployed aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln paint a bleak picture of daily life on board, more than 8 months into a...
open.substack.com
This was my exact thought about half an hour ago. Everything has become tainted.
I feel like an issue that would connect well with voters would be doing anything at all to slow the current progression toward "absolutely everything now is a scam"
NYT stating this like it’s normal when it’s absolutely berserk.
An American oil company connected to Donald Trump is preparing to sink wells in remote Greenland despite not having received permission from the local authorities
Greenland issues ‘strong warning’ as Trump-linked oil firm prepares to drill
Island’s government says no approval given after Greenland Energy brings kit ashore for exploratory drilling
theguardian.com
The tricky part for a future Dem Admin is going to be finding a way to divest the US govt from these companies without tanking their stock price & hurting them over the long term. What Trump is doing is a fundamental tenet of communism while he distracts by claiming Dems are.
An organization I had never heard of before, but one that is essential and should be applied to all areas of history and culture that might otherwise be erased.
America 433+
Our National Parks. A Shared Story Worth Preserving.
america433.org
Q: There's a report that the US has taken in $13b from Venezuela. Where is that money going? T: Even more Q: But where is it going? T: We've paid for that war many times over Q: Where is the money going? T: Running the country Q: No, the money US is taking in -- T: Running the country
Alex Pettis’ mom’s message. 💚 We can’t believe it’s already been six months.
A dark money campaign is offering influencers $1,500 per post to attack Abdul El-Sayed and support Haley Stevens. Same exact dollar figure that was paid to attack @katmabu.bsky.social (Nobody ever found out who was paying for that campaign.) Gross, lazy and above all cynical shit.
Secret paid influencer campaign backing Stevens floods Michigan Senate race
Rep. Haley Stevens and the Senate Democratic PAC said they were not involved in the effort to pay for user-generated content endorsing her.
ms.now
CDC: Measles cases this year (2,318) already surpass 2025 numbers (2,289)--and 2025 was the worst year for measles in decades. www.cdc.gov/measles/data...
Verily I say, though this is a drop in a vast trough, this—like all dark money campaigns—should be illegal.
Get in, there’s a new secret political influence campaign paying people to post. This time, a network targeting people in Michigan. First paid to post about how hard it is to afford groceries and gas, the accounts have gone hard in recent days, supporting Haley Stevens. www.ms.now/news/haley-s...
It’s like they have goons who work 24/7 figuring out how to break the most things and screw over the most people.
This is major attack on higher ed and a perverse narrowing of its purpose. newrepublic.com/post/213446/...