I just...I just can't. We truly live in the stupidest timeline.

Jesse Hawken@jessehawken.bsky.social · 4d ago

To me this is a sign of how desperate Bari Weiss is to find anyone who will work for Zombie 60 Minutes radaronline.com/p/maria-bart...

40 men the Trump administration sent to CECOT prison in El Salvador were beaten, sexually assaulted by guards and driven to attempt suicide. It's basically the same story Bari Weiss yanked at 60 Minutes told by @hrcberkeley.bsky.social researchers working with @hrw.org and @cristosal.bsky.social.

‘You Are All Terrorists’: Four Months in a Salvadoran Prison (Gift Article)

The Times interviewed dozens of migrant men sent to a prison in El Salvador by the Trump administration. Independent forensic analysts called the testimony credible and consistent and said the treatme...

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Let's not forget the percentage of German voters who oppose the AfD and don't want them in a government even as a junior coalition partner.

Newsom: "He's not screwing around. He wasn't screwing around when he called Greg Abbott for 5 seats, said he was entitled to 5 seats. Why does he do that? Because he knows he's going to lose the election unless he rigs the election before one vote is cast. That is what we're up against."

Doesn’t sound familiar at all

Scott Horton@robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 5d ago

An exhaustive study of AfD's use of its parliamentary powers of inquiry leave no doubt that it was consistently attempting to collect intelligence that would be of use to the Russians in connection with their hybrid warfare campaign targeting Germany and Europe more broadly.

This could easily be entered into evidence in a future prosecution of Trump for corruption.

As WSJ reported, Witkoff was handpicked by Putin to replace Gen Kellogg. He was picked because he built his whole New York real estate empire by laundering money for assorted Russian oligarchs in Putin's inner circle and is beholden to them.

So you know where we stand: United States was the only country to vote against it. The U.N. backs a new world map showing Africa in its true relative size www.npr.org/2026/09/04/n...

The U.N. backs a new world map showing Africa in its true relative size

The U.N. has backed a new map showing Africa in its true relative size, with the U.S. standing alone in opposition.

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HHS is canceling infant mortality and postpartum grants to focus instead on research related to what the department says are “root causes” like sperm counts and erectile dysfunction. https://www.notus.org/health-science/hhs-cancels-infant-mortality-postpartum-grants-focus-infertility

HHS Cancels Infant Mortality, Postpartum Grants to Focus on Sperm Counts, ED

Officials at the Office of Minority Health told grantees that they’re prioritizing “root causes” of infertility and promoting exercise.

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Trump's crackdown on foreign student who criticize Israel was revealed in discovery to be the implementation of a plan designed and prepared by an organization funded and set up by the government of Israel. It was found to violate the Constitution, unsurprisingly.

Opinion | Who’s the Snowflake Now?

Marco Rubio is taking the wrong approach to free speech.

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Trump's new press secretary?

Scott Horton@robertscotthorton.bsky.social · last wk.

A perfect reminder of who Maria Bartiromo is: nutcase, political hack, conspiracy theorist. And a trustee of NYU.

I’ll have more to post on this later but a) please feel free to subscribe to read the whole thing (there’s quite a bit), & b) my thesis is simple: Right now, the most urgent moral test for this nation today is happening in Springfield, Ohio We as a country are currently failing this test miserably

Asawin Suebsaeng@swin24.bsky.social · last wk.

I’m livid. zeteo.com/p/trump-spri...

Was the systematic destruction of the US system of defense alliances and trading partnerships without anything to replace them the top priority of the Trump presidency? Looking back over his actions and accomplishments at 19 months in, it certainly looks that way. www.ft.com/content/c51d...

The wheels are coming off the US world order

Trump believes in a world in which there are no allies, only satellites, and in which power is America’s alone to wield

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What Sir Grant says. It's remarkable that US media have largely decided they will not report on any of the cases he discusses here.

We should be clear that JD Vance bears moral, if not legal, responsibility for this death. He should atone for it. www.springfieldnewssun.com/local/spring...

Springfield Haitian student takes his own life after being fitted with ICE ankle monitor, advocates say

A 20-year-old Wright State student took his own life on Interstate 70 out of anguish over a required ICE ankle monitor, according to local community advocates.

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BREAKING: Army Secretary Dan Driscoll RESIGNS. Driscoll is the guy Buria told to approve certain firings because "Trump won't want to stand next to Black female officers." The Army now has ZERO Senate-confirmed civilian or military leaders. www.wsj.com/politics/nat...

Exclusive | Army Secretary Resigns After Months of Friction With Hegseth

Dan Driscoll had a close relationship with ousted Army chief of staff.

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There are just a few guys Trump can turn to and ask the crucial question, "What would Jeffrey do?"

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2w ago

Lutnick on why the Commerce Secretary is suddenly overseeing the Kennedy Center: "The president asks me to help him out all the time on all sorts of things. And so when he said, 'Will you help me out with this?' the answer was, 'What can we accomplish?'"

Iranian attacks on buildings and surveillance equipment in the Middle East caused unprecedented damage for the CIA and other U.S. spy agencies. Trump hushed it all up.

Iran inflicted billions in damage to U.S. intelligence sites, sources say

The attacks on buildings and surveillance equipment in the Middle East caused unprecedented damage for the CIA and other U.S. spy agencies.

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Columbia trustees authorized a payment of $221 million to the Trump administration to settle claims of antisemitism. A DOJ whistleblower says these claims had been reviewed and were determined to be bogus by DOJ but were filed anyway.

But is it the current bunker big enough to house Trump's private militia? That's why he needs the "ballroom". “The ballroom is so much a military component with the drones and the bomb shelters,” Trump told reporters on the South Lawn on Wednesday.

Sanho Tree@sanho.bsky.social · 3w ago

🚨Vindicated at last!🚨 I’ve been yelling about this for nearly a year. Washington Post now confirms that a massive secret bunker/command center hardened against WMDs already exists under the White House. It was built in 2010 & completely undercuts Trump’s excuse for his ballroom/bunker! [gift link]

What's your plan?

Sen. Adam Schiff@schiff.senate.gov · 3w ago

Canada is one of our closest allies and friends. Not our enemy. And the President’s self-defeating tariff wars will only raise our prices, and further drive Canada away. Probably irreparably. Time to stop this insanity. www.ft.com/content/e3b5...

Trump has a positive approval rating in precisely 3 out of 50 U.S. states: www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...

💯

capitolhunters@capitolhunters.bsky.social · 3w ago

Jeffries is bad at public image management, definitely. Maybe that is a reason to go for new leadership. That's valid. But choosing to have this discussion now, in late August before a November election, is letting the GOP pull your strings. All leaks are motivated. This leak was aimed at you.

Largest export market for Maine, Michigan and Ohio: Canada.

This is insanity.

I keep asking why 🇨🇦 is refusing to import California wine. 🍷 California and Canada are on the same team, friends. Let's work together. 🤝

David Rothkopf@djrothkopf.bsky.social · 3w ago

Dear PM Carney, Hit the exports of swing states. America will thank you. (And apologies about the lunatic to you and all Canadians.) Signed, America

Reposting for no particular reason, John Roberts. 🤬

Stephanie Willerton@stephwillerton.bsky.social · 3w ago

👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼

Harp is a huge security risk. That said, I bet there are dozens of others in this admin that are equally big risks. I'd be interested how many people in the inner circle of Trump have actually gotten their security clearances and been vetted properly. Let's set the over/under at 50%. Whaddya think?

MS NOW@ms.now · 3w ago

EXCLUSIVE: Trump’s closest aide, Natalie Harp, declined multiple times over more than a year to seek a routine security clearance normally obtained by West Wing staffers to work at the White House, sources tell MS NOW.

Over the past 18 mos, at least 28 federal datasets have been deleted and another 338 data collections have been modified, according to an online tracker released last week from dataindex.us, a group formed last year to monitor changes to government data.

Trump 2.0 has deleted or altered nearly 400 US datasets, endangering public health, education and more

Health data appears to be most affected by administration’s attempt to wipe findings that don’t align with its priorities, tracker shows

theguardian.com

Virginia Giuffre's case files finally to be unsealed. Miami Herald set a landmark legal and journalistic precedent in its fight to unseal the civil lawsuit. Todd Blanche is stopping release of the files, but many are getting released just the same.

Virginia Giuffre's case files finally to be unsealed

Miami Herald set a landmark legal and journalistic precedent in its fight to unseal the civil lawsuit. What it means

jkbjournalist.substack.com