Female elephants usually love the opportunity to nanny younger siblings and members of their herd. Naleku takes this to the next level: In late 2025, she left the dependent herd early, refusing to enter her bedroom to instead spend nights out in the wild caring for ex-orphans' calves.
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) sharply criticized Senate Republicans over what she described as their unwillingness to use their power to challenge President Trump, calling them “gelatinous blobs” who simply comply with his wishes meidasnews.com/news/gelatin...
“Gelatinous Blobs”— Elizabeth Warren Slams GOP Senators Over Failure to Check Trump
Democratic Senator: "Outrageous" that Republicans want Blanche
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The direct consequence of Trump's decision to deny Ukraine replenished defensive missile batteries. www.thetimes.com/world/russia...
Kyiv unable to stop Russian strikes after missile defences run out
President Zelensky said at least 17 were killed and dozens wounded in attacks that Ukraine was unable to intercept amid a global shortage of Patriots
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Trump: "An outlier is a person that doesn't have a chance" (That's not what 'outlier' means)
This isn’t remotely true — again, reference the Economist cover in October 2024 calling the US economy “the envy of the world” — and if anything it’s true if the world Trump handed Biden in Jan 2021.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 8h agoTrump: "When we took office, we inherited a total catastrophe"
CHAFETZ PLANS TO LOSE WEIGHT ON ALL-FRENCH-FRY-AND-GIN DIET
FinTwitter@fintwitter.bsky.social · 16h agoSPACEX PLANS MOON FACTORIES POWERED BY HUMANOID ROBOTS
if he literally makes a new party called the American First Party, i will turn into the joker
Keeping people constantly deployed has a mounting cost. www.ms.now/news/conditi...
Moldy showers and no soap: Military families are outraged by conditions on USS Lincoln
The aircraft carrier's long deployment in the Iran war is raising concerns that the sailors and Marines on board are facing poor conditions, low supplies and fatigue.
ms.now
If It Happens because the president installed an incompetent reality TV star as Transportation Secretary ....
FinTwitter@fintwitter.bsky.social · 14h agoFEDERAL AVIATION ADMINISTRATION CONFIRMS MARINE ONE WAS BRIEFLY TOO CLOSE TO PASSENGER AIRPLANE - STATEMENT
When he was Chair of the House Intelligence Committee, Mike Rogers (the Republican candidate for Senate in Michigan) publicly took the position that "you can't have your privacy violated if you don't know your privacy is violated." Colbert had some fun with that: crooksandliars.com/cltv/2013/10...
Colbert Savages NSA And Rep. Mike Rogers In 'See No Evil' Segment
Colbert Savages NSA and Rep. Mike Rogers in 'See No Evil' Segment
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Ben Shapiro has recreated Judeo-Bolshevism from first principles, just replacing "Jew" with "Muslim."
Joel S.@joelhs.bsky.social · 12h agoBen Shapiro probably does not know enough history to even know this, but the way he is talking about Muslims as a nation within the nation who can never be integrated is almost verbatim what European nationalists said about Jews in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
FWIW, both of VDARE’s founders were on the masthead of the National Review in the late 1990s and early 2000s. Peter Brimelow was also a staffer for Senator Orrin Hatch. This white nationalist thread has been present in the conservative movement for a long time. Screenshot is from 1997.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 12h agoSCHIFF: You told my staff you stood by your article in white nationalist website VDARE where you wrote, 'Muslim immigrants & their kids seem prone to terrorism' C: I wrote that article in support of Trump's travel ban S: Do you stand by it? C: I stand by that article S: That's all I need to know
This highlights a profound impact of Trump — the further normalization of violence against women. Trump got elected in spite of his long history of violence against women. He is not held accountable when he continues to abuse women. 1/2
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 16h agoMax Miller on why he's staying in the race: "When we go back to 2015 and 2016, & people in the media looked at President Trump, & everyone came out with allegations. Dozens of women, dozens of crazy allegations, dozens of nasty criminal misconduct. And you know what he did? He stayed in the fight."
"Republican Senators Thom Tillis and John Cornyn each reneged on their promises to meet with victims of Jeffrey Epstein, with Tillis even leaving them waiting in his office for 45 minutes before they gave up." newrepublic.com/post/213959/...
Epstein Survivors Say Republicans Ghosted Them Before Blanche Vote
Survivors of Jeffrey Epstein’s abuse say they were stood up after having scheduled a meeting to speak about Todd Blanche’s nomination for attorney general.
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Imagine a fellow draft dodger like Bill Clinton, posting an image of him in uniform, wearing more medals than Patton or MacArthur. Fox News would’ve spontaneously combusted
Helen Kennedy@helenkennedy.com · 10h agoThis guy never served. He faked an injury to avoid the draft. None of his children have served. He called those who did serve their country "suckers and losers." He skipped the centenary memorial for servicemen who died in WWI because it was drizzling. This is more than usually repellent.
Lyle Simpsons: Oh No!
Alt: Lyle Lanley failing to skip town after his latest monorail sale
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Hell Gate *subscribe today!*@hellgatenyc.com · 3d agoThis past weekend, former Mayor Eric Adams was in Wisconsin Rapids—population 18,654—trying to convince residents that they should allow a real estate developer to build a data center in the heart of their town. The public hearing did not go well. hellgatenyc.com/eric-adams-i...
Big Bend holds a special place for me: it was the first National Park my wife and I visited together when we were dating, a big road trip we’d planned during spring break one year. This is heartbreaking.
The Bulldozers Have Arrived in Big Bend National Park
Contractors are grading roads and surveying the Rio Grande corridor even as lawmakers, outfitters, and residents plead for basic answers about a $1.7 billion border barrier project
ourpubliclandsandwaters.substack.com
in 2016 Elon Musk said he would build a fully automated factory in Fremont, California for the upcoming Model 3 and he then spent on the order of $2 billion on production lines that didn't work, forcing Tesla to assemble cars by hand in a tent but sure, now he's gonna do it on the moon
I wrote about how one of the central problems we have in the moment is that the wealthy have grown increasingly used to not facing accountability. www.ctinsider.com/columnist/ar...
The powerful keep escaping accountability. Here’s who enables them.
Philip Bump argues that political allies, investors and public cynicism allow wealthy and influential Americans to operate without accountability.
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Gonna go out on a limb here and say racist cranks who write for extremist white nationalist websites like VDARE should not, in fact, be confirmed to top roles in the Department of Justice.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 12h agoSCHIFF: You told my staff you stood by your article in white nationalist website VDARE where you wrote, 'Muslim immigrants & their kids seem prone to terrorism' C: I wrote that article in support of Trump's travel ban S: Do you stand by it? C: I stand by that article S: That's all I need to know
Very plausible, but it would be just as illegal and appalling if they WERE involved in drug trafficking.
CNN@cnn.com · 2d agoThe US military’s strikes on alleged drug boats have likely illegally killed “individuals who are not involved in narcotrafficking,” Sen. Tim Kaine told the White House, following “a careful review” of classified information he has seen so far.
I had to code and pronounce a time of death on a respiratory therapist colleague. There's a memorial plaque for her outside the emergency department to this day. I wrote and re-wrote my will. I will never forgive these ghouls trying to rewrite history and deny our experience.
Gabriel Bosslet@gbosslet.bsky.social · 3d agoRFK Jr said these words today on national television "There were ICUs that were empty all over the country including in New York at the height (of the pandemic)" hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha You are a fucking idiot hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha <sobs silently>
They could always sign up to give comment at a public meeting.
The Wall Street Journal@wsj.com · yesterdayNew York City’s business elites are long accustomed to direct access to City Hall, where even Democratic mayors felt the need to court the city’s wealthiest and most influential corporate leaders. That access is getting shredded by Mayor Zohran Mamdani.
Face it. The Court is captured by right-wing billionaire interests, just the way railroad barons used to capture the railroad rate commissions, or mining barons the mine safety commissions. Look up “regulatory capture” or “agency capture.” thehill.com/opinion/judi...
Just admit it: The Supreme Court is political
Let’s face it, the Supreme Court has dug itself into a hole, and it just keeps digging.
thehill.com
H/t to @hcrichardson.bsky.social for reminding me of this article by @natashabertrand.bsky.social in @theatlantic.com documenting how Trump's purge of the DOJ and FBI in his first term focused on experts in money laundering and organized crime. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
Trump’s Top Targets in the Russia Probe Are Experts in Organized Crime
Some of President Trump’s favorite targets in the Russia probe have spent their careers in the Justice Department and the FBI investigating organized crime and money laundering, particularly as they p...
theatlantic.com
SCHIFF: You told my staff you stood by your article in white nationalist website VDARE where you wrote, 'Muslim immigrants & their kids seem prone to terrorism' C: I wrote that article in support of Trump's travel ban S: Do you stand by it? C: I stand by that article S: That's all I need to know
The Heritage Foundation asserts that women never needed sports in the first place. To prove that Title IX has become a tool of “feminist social engineering.” To demonstrate that women don’t need sports and that “clubs, intramurals, and exercise classes” is enough. open.substack.com/pub/jesspipe...
Give Them an Inch...
And they'll take away women's sports...
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The Senate has confirmed nearly 60 Trump-nominated election deniers to the judiciary. The attorneys who prosecuted the Jan. 6, 2021 rioters want them to stop. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
Jan. 6 prosecutors urge Senate to stop confirming Trump's election-denier nominees
“The institutional denial of truth — especially by potential federal judges — is dangerous, yet it’s become all too clear that President Trump expects his nominees to provide evasive answers about bot...
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