Don’t worry, people! Trump says AI robots marching into cities to get rid of everyone is just a “hoax.”
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Almost flew too close to the sun 🌞 woke, woker, wokest
this is a damn good post from a U.S. Senator and I wish all of them could figure out how to talk like this
@andykimnj.bsky.social · yesterdayStop calling this a DC makeover. This is an illegal desecration of our capital and a huge waste of American families’ money. DC is sacred ground, and we shouldn’t minimize the real damage being done.
Mitch McConnell is “back” without a single thought in his mind (nor spark of life in his body). 😬
"Crews were still working Monday to remove No. 2 diesel fuel that leaked from a storage tank at an Equinix data center in Secaucus. The fuel went into Anderson Creek, a tributary of the Hackensack River." www.nj.com/business/202...
N.J. activists are at war with data centers — and a fuel spill just made things a lot worse
Climate advocates are calling for a statewide pause on data centers after diesel spilled into a New Jersey waterway.
nj.com
Please read this piece from @talkingpointsmemo.com @joshtpm.bsky.social @joshkovensky.bsky.social -- NSPM-7 is one of the scariest government documents we have every seen. Exclusive: FBI Builds Out National NSPM-7 Center to Track Dissent, Docs Show talkingpointsmemo.com/news/fbi-nsp...
Exclusive: FBI Builds Out National NSPM-7 Center to Track Dissent, Docs Show
The FBI has tapped employees from across federal law enforcement to crack...
talkingpointsmemo.com
That and a dildo skyscraper
Alfred Twu@alfredtwu.com · 22h agoDo you ever think about how San Francisco basically went through an economic miracle, with multiple years of double-digit growth, and about the only thing they have to show for it is a world-famous housing crisis? Data from fred.stlouisfed.org/series/GDPAL...
Umar Kremlev is the same Russian oligarch scum-bag who bankrolled the ginned-up 2024 boxing fake transphobic gender debacle at the Olympics. Now he’s paying for Trump Jr’s wedding. www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2024/...
The Putin-backed strongman who threw the Paris Games into chaos
Banned from the Games, Russia wanted to upend the Olympics. Enter Umar Kremlev and the boxing ‘gender controversy.’
washingtonpost.com
Katie Phang on a Russian oligarch bankrolling Don Jr.’s wedding: “They’re so dumb, we see it happening in real time. But because there’s no consequence or accountability, they just do it in the wide open.”
BREAKING: Supreme Court rejects President Trump’s mail ballot restrictions for now ahead of midterms
Supreme Court rejects President Trump’s mail ballot restrictions for now ahead of midterms
The Supreme Court on Monday rejected President Donald Trump’s mail ballot restrictions for now, capping a flurry of last-minute legal action with voting in the midterm elections already underway.
chicagotribune.com
The number of women who died after an ectopic pregnancy in states with abortion bans has spiked, proving that abortion bans KILL WOMEN. www.propublica.org/article/ecto...
Ectopic Pregnancy Deaths Have Nearly Doubled. It’s Worse in States With Abortion Bans.
With prompt and appropriate medical care, experts say, people shouldn’t die from an ectopic pregnancy. Women in Texas and Oklahoma have sued over delays in care, which, coupled with our new analysis, ...
propublica.org
The protestor is yelling 'HE SUES HIS PATIENTS', which tells me that the New York Times story on about Sen. Roger Marshall suing his patients - and some of them winding up in jail - has broken through in Kansas.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 22h agoa protester interrupts JD Vance's speech in Kansas. Can anybody tell what he was yelling? I can't quite make it out (sounds like it was something about Roger Marshall)
The video of this is genuinely unsettling. He literally appears to have no idea what the journalist is talking about when she mentions January 6—even when she clarifies that she is talking about 2021 and about the rioters at the Capitol that day. He looks at her blankly. Scary.
“ICE agents were caught on video pulling one teen from the car and punching him repeatedly in the face while he lay on the ground. The other teen, Luis Ochoa, said he informed the ICE agents he was a citizen but was told, ‘I don’t give a damn.… Your parents can’t help you now.’”
Gabe Ortíz@tusk81.bsky.social · 21h ago“Two U.S. citizen teenagers who were on their way to file enlistment papers to join the Marines were violently attacked by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents, who reportedly detained them for nearly eight hours before letting them go.” newrepublic.com/post/215393/...
NEW: Donald Trump Jr.’s Bahamas Wedding Was Secretly Bankrolled by Russian Oligarch Close to Putin Umar Kremlev footed the bill for hundreds of thousands of dollars of wedding expenses at Donald Trump Jr.’s lavish wedding, including renting out a private island and paying for the fireworks show.
Donald Trump Jr.’s Wedding Bankrolled by Putin-Linked Russian Oligarch
The oligarch, Umar Kremlev, spent hundreds of thousands on expenses like renting out a private island. He appears to have met Trump Jr. only recently, but he attended the intimate wedding with a large...
propublica.org
The President of the United States is an adjudicated rapist and the subject of 15 sexual misconduct allegations.
🚨BREAKING: Agents of the Department of Homeland Security have been ordered to unlawfully access state voting records to carry out the department’s escalating elections-related probes, an anonymous federal whistleblower recently disclosed to Sen. Alex Padilla. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
Homeland Security officers are illegally accessing state voter data, new whistleblower alleges
The searches likely resulted in "thousands of violations of state laws," Sen. Alex Padilla (D-Calif.) said.
democracydocket.com
Texas really torn between a crook and a former school teacher who brought insulin down from $684 a month to $25, and wants to close tax loopholes for billionaires. Hard choice, I'm sure.
$4.7 million in Epstein-connected money flowing directly to the Mike Rogers campaign. They’ve bought his loyalty. https://www.metrotimes.com/news/donors-named-in-epstein-files-gave-nearly-4-7-million-to-mike-rogers-and-groups-backing-him/
“The United States will no longer limit the planet-warming pollution that power plants pump into the air while burning coal and gas” www.nytimes.com/2026/09/13/c...
E.P.A. Will Erase Limits on Climate Pollution From Power Plants (Gift Article)
Generation of electricity is the second largest source of carbon dioxide and other planet-warming gases in the United States.
nytimes.com
What a little, little man. A pipsqueak, really. He is not the House Speaker; he speaks as directed by Trump. Worst Speaker of the House in history. Sad.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2w agoMike Johnson on Iranians: "It's apparently part of their religion that they can just lie to someone they disagree with"
Happening now in the Chicago suburb of Franklin Park: Community members have gathered to commemorate the 1-year anniversary of the death of local resident Silverio Villegas González, whom an as-yet unidentified ICE agent shot and killed on this block at the start of "Operation Midway Blitz."
Farm bankruptcies are up 70% under Trump. Good job America. Now you just have to figure out how to survive without food. www.farmaid.org/blog/trackin...
Tracking the Farm Economy in Crisis – Farm Aid
Ongoing updates on how farmers are faring, with news from economists, policymakers and the farmers on the ground who experience these challenges directly.
farmaid.org
The real issue in our politics is not about liberal and conservative. It's about the few who lock the rest of us out and whether or not we're willing to fight to unlock that system for everybody.