The Trump administration’s EPA approved two new chemicals for use in semiconductor manufacturing even after its own review identified potential health risks to workers and the public. Those risks include cancer, neurological harm, and dangerous effects from inhalation exposure.
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Spot of blue in the red hellscape of the south Fuck maga
15 August 1935 | Dutch Jewish girl, Marianne van Loggem, was born in Amsterdam. In September 1944 she was transferred from Westerbork to Theresienstadt ghetto. On 12 October 1944 she was deported to Auschwitz where she was murdered in a gas chamber after arrival selection.
Oh look— Snopes fact-checked Scott Jennings, confirms he used “heavily edited… missing key context” footage to (defame) Hasan and say he wanted to bring back lynching Black people: www.snopes.com/news/2026/08... Hasan is looking into legal action. (@CNN @abbydphillip continue to have Jennings on)
15 August 1902 | Jewish woman, Szerina Lipschitz, was born in Élesd in Austro-Hungary (today Romania). She emigrated to Belgium. She was deported to #Auschwitz from Kazerne Dossin in Mechelen on 24 October 1942. She did not survive.
How did prisoners live in Auschwitz? What did everyday existence mean in a place shaped by overcrowding, hunger, disease, exhausting labor, terror, and surrounding death? Watch the new episode of our “Video History”: “The Living Conditions of Prisoners in Auschwitz.” ▶️ https://bit.ly/3TZz2gG
15 August 1921 | A Pole, August Kowalczyk, was born in Tarnawa Góra. In #Auschwitz from 4 December 1940. No. 6804 He escaped from the camp during a revolt of prisoners of the penal company on 10 June 1942. After the war, an actor. He passed away in 2012.
What‘s important to the President of the United States is that his name gets on the Kennedy Center. What‘s not important to the President of the United States are sailors under his command being driven mad at sea in his vanity war. This is because he’s only ever been a rapist. Never a leader.
Trump protects powerful men who stick their dicks in children; and they got you mad at nannies and drag queens.
15 August 1879 | Jewish man, Giacomo Alhadeff, was born on Rhodes Island. He was deported to Auschwitz on 23 July 1944. He was murdered in a gas chamber after arrival selection with his wife Sara. ▶ Gas chambers and crematoria of the Auschwitz camp: https://youtu.be/-A05i25j9Ck
(1/4) You’ve probably been hearing a lot of bullshit about the COVID-19 vaccine’s supposed links to 82% of miscarriages in vaccinated pregnant people. There was no increase of miscarriages among expecting mothers who got the vaccine vs those who did not.
This move allows members’ identities in holding companies not to have to be registered with the government. Talk about shadow owners!
Top Big Pharma drugmakers have raked in $300B in revenue so far this year and increased their stock buybacks and dividend payments. What's driving those windfalls? Lifesaving cancer drugs that Trump excluded from Medicare drug price negotiation. "Make America Healthy Again."
GREED WATCH: Big Drug Companies Make Record-Breaking Sales While Seniors With Cancer Get Sold Out Thanks to Donald Trump — Protect Our Care
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My favorite one, especially with all of his tough guy AI stupid posts
Sailors on Aircraft Carriers Have “Virtually No Food, Water, or Soap” newrepublic.com/post/214376/... via @newrepublic.com
Sailors on Aircraft Carriers Have “Virtually No Food, Water, or Soap”
Families of deployed sailors recount the horrific living conditions on the ships.
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Thousands of kids with Special Immigrant Juvenile status, a classification for children who were abused or abandoned by a parent, live in the US, waiting until they're eligible for a green card. Despite this protection, ICE has detained about 400 people with SIJ status under Trump.
A young immigrant's deportation nightmare
ICE is going to war against kids who have a special legal status.
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Forged by the Sea shouldn’t mean abandoned at sea.
🚨EXCLUSIVE: Military families and service members are now describing horrific conditions across MULTIPLE ships: human waste flooding bathrooms, virtually no food, water or soap, months without port calls, exhausted crews, and no end in sight. This crisis is far bigger than just the Lincoln.
Not Just the Lincoln: Families Describe Human Waste, No Food, No End in Sight Across Multiple Ships
Since MeidasTouch began reporting on conditions aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln, messages have poured in to MeidasTouch from military families and service
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Apparently the recent reporting from MeidasTouch, Aaron Parnas, and others, and the subsequent tantrum from CENTCOM, made its way into a new lego video
DHS spent almost half a billion dollars on a no-bid contract to buy 10 used airplanes. They claimed there was no time to consider other offers. The planes were urgently needed for deportation flights. But since then, they’ve barely been used for anything. Gift link. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/13/u...
Zohran Mamdani is backing a bill to hold Amazon accountable for exploiting delivery drivers. Now Amazon is launching a $5M lobbying blitz — led by Chuck Schumer's daughter — to crush it. Instead of spending millions on lobbying, Amazon should pay and treat its drivers fairly.