Schiff: "He waited until he became president. Why did he wait to bring this $10b lawsuit? He waited so he would have the power of the presidency to leverage the IRS and DOJ to make him more money!"

Cornyn: "There's nothing we could do to rein in the president"

Hard to disagree

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · yesterday

Dr Oz: "This is corruption on the underlying system ... when everyone is doing it, that's a real pathology. Bc if you're not part of the corrupt system, you're a fool. When I'm lying to you & you know I'm lying & I know that you know that I'm lying, & on & on & on, that's how countries collapse."

Cuba's national electrical grid collapsed again as authorities struggled to restore power following a nationwide blackout on August 2, state-run media reported, marking a fresh setback in the country's deepening energy crisis.

"They tell me - if I want to take 2600 dollars and go to Haiti, or if I would stay here and be arrested and put that ankle monitor on my leg" Haitian asylum seeker with TPS status speaks after check in at Blue Ash Ohio ICE office.

Not exactly a surprising analysis, but a sobering one. open.substack.com/pub/gooznews...

Health care headed for a financing crisis

Uncompensated care for the uninsured is skyrocketing ahead of major cuts in federal funding, setting the stage for a major spike in insurance premiums for the privately insured.

open.substack.com

The next time a climate change denier comes at you with that excuse:

Happens every time.

The whole point of the Bill of Rights is to protect the only true minority - the individual. It limits the governments power to harm the individual. The whole constitution is designed to limit the governments power.

i’m never gonna be able to fire a cruise missile yet the question of using my tax dollars for them has never been up for debate

USA TODAY Opinion@usatodayopinion.usatoday.com · 2d ago

Opinion: Mamdani's idea may sound appealing, but it's NYC taxpayers who will take the hit, subsidizing discounts they may never even use.

Yup. You did. And cancer research for children was first to go.

You can't convince me this isn't Kids in the Hall.

AJfromBrooklyn@ajfrombrooklyn.bsky.social · 2d ago

I dare anyone to come up with a worse album cover than this.

11 years ago today, Ken Paxton surrendered at the Collin County Jail on felony securities fraud charges. This is his mugshot.

The President promotes Scotts Miracle-Gro in the middle of an Oval Office event: The best grass you can get. Scotts, you know Scotts? Scott's Miracle-Gro, they're doing it. They do great grass. I got to give him a plug because they did the White House for free.

Can't think of a thing that will radicalize a generation faster than "you've gotta let that old man in the corner over there see what's inside those pants before you play Kindergarten volleyball."

Gillian Branstetter@gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 2d ago

An initiative on the ballot in Washington state in November would require all athletes seeking to play girl's sports from kindergarten to high school to undergo "genetic screening, a testosterone-levels test, or an examination of their reproductive anatomy" before they can play

Capital One revealed in court filings Friday that it closed over 300 bank accounts tied to the Trump Organization in 2021 due to an internal anti-money-laundering review, not for political retaliation as Trump's business claimed. #USDemocracy #Voices4Victory

Capital One says it closed Trump Organization accounts over money-laundering concerns

The bank is asking a judge to permanently dismiss a lawsuit from Trump-affiliated businesses, arguing a monthslong internal review — not the Jan. 6 riot — explains why hundreds of accounts were shut d...

npr.org

Trump administration moves to block public from enforcing environmental protection laws

Trump administration moves to block public from enforcing environmental protection laws

For decades, regular citizens and advocacy groups have filed suits that forced companies and the federal government to clean up the environment. Trump officials have moved to limit that power.

theconversation.com

67 boat strikes 221 people killed EXCLUSIVE: Operation Southern Spear has not reduced the volume, availability, purity or price of cocaine arriving in the U.S., according to an internal DEA assessment and a closed-door Pentagon briefing for senators, and has made enforcement more difficult

67 boat strikes. 221 dead. The cocaine hasn’t slowed, officials report.

The president says Operation Southern Spear has virtually ended drug trafficking by sea. Pentagon and DEA analysts have concluded otherwise.

washingtonpost.com

We opened an ICU that had been shuttered for well over a decade so that a hospital that has 18 MICU beds could fit 46 patients on ventilators

Gabriel Bosslet@gbosslet.bsky.social · 3d ago

RFK 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>

This New York Times article, which ran a week before Christmas last year, didn’t get the attention it deserved. It detailed Trump and Epstein's predatory behavior toward women – “a game of ego and dominance” in which “female bodies were currency.” Here’s a gift link and a thread. 1/6🧵

‘Don’s Best Friend’: How Epstein and Trump Bonded Over the Pursuit of Women (Gift Article)

The president has tried to minimize their friendship, but documents and interviews reveal an intense and complicated relationship. Chasing women was a game of ego and dominance. Female bodies were cur...

nytimes.com

Sen. Bernie Moreno, the father of Emily Moreno—who accused her ex-husband Rep. Max Miller of domestic and child abuse—denounced him for the first time. "He should not serve in the House. I believe Max Miller needs to seek professional help to end the clear pattern of abuse he has left in his wake.“

Rep. Max Miller denounced by Sen. Bernie Moreno, his former father-in-law

“I believe Max Miller needs to seek professional help to end the clear pattern of abuse he has left in his wake,” the senator said.

politico.com

A caucus of violent, drunk ex-husbands controls three branches of government and both chambers of Congress.

The Bulwark@thebulwark.com · 3d ago

Rep. Max Miller: "My former wife has claimed that during a custody exchange at my home that day, I assaulted her…If I had assaulted her, would she have offered to cook me dinner six days later?"

It is completely unacceptable to close the only bike lane on Embarcedero with no safe protected bypass Especially just to add a redundant parking lane @sfmta.com If curbside access is needed to Ferry Building then repurpose a redundant vehicle lane as a safe bike bypass

after he got big mad about canadian wildfire smoke he decided to just domesticate it

Trump administration denies emergency funding for 2 Oregon wildfires

U.S. Sens. Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley have sent a letter to the federal agency expressing frustration with the decision.

oregonlive.com

BREAKING: Capital One bank closed Trump’s accounts in 2021 over money laundering, per a new court filing. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Capital One Cites Money Laundering Review in Trump-Related Suit

Capital One Financial Corp. said in a court filing late Friday that it closed accounts belonging to President Donald Trump’s sprawling real estate company in 2021 for legitimate reasons after an inter...

bloomberg.com

Means-tested programs like SNAP are shaped not just by benefit levels, but by hassle. And hassle is regressive: it hits hardest when you lack a car, flexibility, cash, or time.⁣ ⁣ https://newsletter.platypuseconomics.com/p/how-snaps-new-rules-make-eligible

This would have been a month-long scandal on Fox News if Obama or Biden had done this. They are burying the death count because they want people to forget that war actually has a cost. www.huffpost.com/entry/iran-w...

Iran War Widow Says 'Nobody Has Reached Out' To Explain Husband's Removal From Death Toll

Jamiah Gonzalez-Swinton gave a tearful interview after her late husband, Sgt. Michael Emmanuel Swinton, vanished from the Pentagon’s public casualty count.

huffpost.com

Another datapoint for the fascist radicalisation of institutional pillars of much of the American Right

There is literally nothing true in this statement.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 5d ago

Hassett: "Data centers are very good for towns bc they create so many jobs & bring people in with high incomes that can buy houses & stuff like that. So if you take a sleepy town that hasn't seen much in the last 30 years & put a data center there, there are gonna be a bunch of happy residents."