Republicans call Democrats communists the way toddlers call every vegetable broccoli.

nbcnews: Believe them. #Epstein

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I have a follow up to Cheryl’s post on munitions at 1945: The economics of munitions stockpiles have always been fraught, and the increasing sophistication of missiles has made calculations even more ...

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SHOUT OUT to Mike Luckovich: one of the all-time great political cartoonists. 🏆 With corporate media doing such a poor job in these most perilous of times, his work is more vital than ever! THANK YOU @mluckovich.bsky.social!!! 🙏

This actually might just be defamation. Abdul El-Sayed might have a legitimate defamation case against his Republican opponent.

Zelensky added that reduced deliveries of anti-ballistic missiles may be intended to pressure Ukraine into being more accommodating. He said partners officially attributed the cuts to fighting in the Middle East, but argued that political motives may also be involved. #Ukraine

The United States Treasury: An ATM for the Rich and Powerful

Talarico’s argument is simple: Stop treating marijuana like a crime. Legalize it. Regulate it. Tax it. Stop wasting police resources on low-level marijuana offenses. Clear the records of people whose lives have been derailed by nonviolent marijuana convictions.

as noted yesterday, Trump has now come around to treating an Iranian toll system covering the Strait of Hormuz as a given. Hard to overstate the level of strategic failure. US started the war purely as a war of choice and ends up dramatically empowering Iran and given the Iranian govt big wins.

Bill Grueskin@bgrueskin.bsky.social · 5h ago

Reuters: Iran wants fees of 5%-7% of the price of cargo from ships using the strait; Oman wants 3%. "Making fees voluntary, at least nominally, could be a way out of the impasse, although an implied threat of Iranian attacks could mean shippers would be ​unlikely to risk transit without paying."

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An Explosion of Misery

Making American hungry and uninsured again

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Ukraine’s allies are pathetic cowards and Putin knows it. We need to step up fast or we will have a lot of Ukrainian blood on our hands this winter

Joni Askola@joniaskola.bsky.social · 12h ago

1/5 Putin cannot win on the front lines, so he has engineered a terrifying new theory of victory. Ukraine’s allies are pathetic cowards and Putin knows it. With his army stalling, he is betting everything on raining ballistic missiles onto Ukrainian cities while the West watches

this.

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El-Sayed: "They think they want to use my whole name against me. Mike, listen man, If you can't say the name -- it's Abdulrahman -- keep the name out your damn mouth."

New: Police in Wisconsin used Flock to create a pretext to search a man's car for weed. Their justification? He drove from Wisconsin to Michigan, a “known source state for marijuana as it is legal there,” and Flock showed he "travels to Michigan frequently." www.404media.co/cops-used-fl...

Cops Used Flock to Track a Man Across State Lines to Create Pretext to Search His Car for Weed

"The vehicle travels to Michigan frequently which is a known source state for marijuana as it is legal there," a probable cause justification reads.

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🇺🇦❗️🇰🇵 Reuters: Ukraine's military intelligence says North Korea has begun deploying a missile unit to western Russia, with plans to provide up to 120 ballistic missiles and 6 launchers for use against Ukraine.

A civilian medical plane went down after an experimental US military GPS jamming test reportedly disrupted its radar. Every person aboard lost their life. www.yahoo.com/news/us/arti...

DESECRATION.

Susan Collins announcing she'll vote against a controversial nominee is basically the moment it becomes clear that nominee will be confirmed. It means Thune has enough votes to confirm, and thus, Collins gets a pass to look independent.

Right out in the open.

Booker: "Ghislaine Maxwell is sitting in the lowest possible confinement after giving no information that helped us get one more investigation started and has been silent, and the man responsible for that we're about to make the attorney general of the US ... this is farcical."

Guaranteed, if the Iran war ever comes to an end, no matter what all sides agree to, when Donald Trump is having a bad day months later, he will send missiles into Iran just for the joy of it.

In other words, going from a constitutional right (Roe) to a constitutional state by state decision (Dobbs) to a constitutional rule of no abortions. What is the DOJ/legal underpinning for that? There isn't one. Ladies & Gentlemen, your lawless soon-to-be AG. www.politico.com/news/2026/08...

Blanche assures anti-abortion supporters that Dobbs will be ‘permanent in every single state’

The acting attorney general made the remarks during a private call with faith leaders.

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Berlin as I see it.

ICC CHIEF PROSECUTOR: “Oppose Israel and we will go after your family — You have been warned. Rubio, McConnell sent me a letter… what’s liberating is accepting mortality.”

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Deal with it USA.