steve sumner: nation of many nations
@steveasumner.bsky.social
Kansas. Old School where we learned to read and write. no dms.
Treasury Department's own consolidated financial statements for fiscal year 2025, released last week to near-total media silence. The numbers: $6.06 trillion in total assets against $47.78 trillion in total liabilities as of September 30, 2025. finance.yahoo.com/economy/poli...
The Treasury just declared the U.S. insolvent. The media missed it
The Government Accountability Office can't even verify the books. Here's what Congress must do.
finance.yahoo.com
#MusicHistory On this day 1966, The Beatles released their groundbreaking 7th album, Revolver, one of the most inventive, influential & endlessly fascinating albums ever recorded. The unforgettable cover was created by Klaus Voormann, who combined line drawings with photographic images of the band.
The Seattle library levy is on track to pass with 80% voting yes. The Seattle Times came out against it and was resoundingly ignored. Seattle voters want nice things and are willing to pay for them.
So far, voters overwhelmingly approve Seattle library levy
A property tax levy to fund the city's public library system over the next seven years is solidly ahead after the first release of vote totals Tuesday evening.
seattletimes.com
NEWS: Rep. Chuck Edwards (R-NC) just dropped out of his re-election race at 3:32 a.m.m. He said he’s done running but will finish out his term. This after the House Ethics Committee found “substantial reason to believe [he] violated House Rules related to sexual harassment and hostile workplaces.”
the release after bush, unexpected and sudden. pent up for years released in a slow instant. the spring unwound. tears flowed when Obama won. like seeing Fr. Dennis appear unexpectedly at Dad's hospital bedside with the tube draining fluid from his brain into his chest. lost it in that instant.
Is it me or does Peter Gabriel and Billy Joel look like brothers now?
Kinda odd seeing an old man jump around on stage. Not a complaint, more power to him! I'd be lucky to give that kind of energy these days!
¡No nos acostumbremos a las armas nucleares! www.pressenza.com/es/2026/08/n... Cifras (a) Hiroshima y Nagasaki Se estima que, en los cuatro meses posteriores a los bombardeos, falleció hasta el 39 % de la población de Hiroshima y hasta el 32 % de la de Nagasaki. A estas cifras hay que… #pressenza
¡No nos acostumbremos a las armas nucleares!
Cifras (a) Hiroshima y Nagasaki Se estima que, en los cuatro meses posteriores a los bombardeos, falleció hasta el 39 % de la población de Hiroshima y
pressenza.com
Yes, my Native American group is distantly related to the Zulu of Africa ☑️
@jamestalarico.bsky.social for Texas US Senate gets it - under his opponent Ken Paxton and Gov. Abbott, data centers are running amok in TX. Talarico has a sensible plan to regulate data centers. Texas, he is the right choice for your next senator, not the corrupt, 15 home owning Paxton.
🚨 HAPPENING NOW 🚨 Women's Marchers have been arrested in the Capitol for standing vigil for the people killed by ICE. #AbolishICE llustrations by @channeldraw
After losing their federal funding, these scientists had to pivot and some “got scrappy.”
How Scientists With Cancelled ‘Woke’ Grants Kept Going
‘We basically had all of the banned words,’ one environmental equity researcher says. So they got scrappy.
baynature.org
to think what it must be like to have a mind focused solely on the nefarious is just twisted. Republicans and Libertarians are twisted.
US judge grants DOJ request to dismiss January 6 cases against Oath Keepers. This denigrates the work of prosecutors and law enforcement; excuses criminal acts that caused a centuries long pillar of our democracy-the peaceful transfer of presidential power to buckle. www.yahoo.com/news/politic...
US judge grants DOJ request to dismiss January 6 cases against Oath Keepers
By Andrew Goudsward WASHINGTON, Aug 4 (Reuters) - A U.S. judge on Tuesday granted the U.S.
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Trump & Musk cuts led to more than 377,000 federal employees in total that impact his own voters and a DOGE employee allegedly planning on selling sensitive Social Security data to a private company. WHAT? l.smartnews.com/p-8eRWQwed/P...
Professors sue Texas A&M System over limits on teaching race, gender This is the second Texas university system sued over teaching restrictions in recent weeks. www.texastribune.org/2026/08/04/t...
Texas A&M sued over teaching limits on race, gender
This is the second Texas university system sued over teaching restrictions in recent weeks.
texastribune.org
Heads up: The Trump Justice Department says it's monitoring polling sites in four Michigan cities today: Detroit, Lansing, East Lansing, and Hamtramck.
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Staggering And Limping Trump Looks Like He Is Living On Borrowed Time
The harsh shining spotlight of the presidency reveals all, even those things that the people around a president try to hide. One of those revealing moments happened to Donald Trump today.
open.substack.com
Put him down like the rabid dog he is.
Trump finds anyway he can self deal and enrich himself all while blowing through more than the federal receipt of money. More going on the USA debt. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/01/c...
Trump’s Fixation on Arctic Ships Led to Billions in No-Bid Contracts
The president decided to buy 11 polar icebreakers after a game of golf with Finland’s president. Experts say it’s far from clear the United States needs so many.
nytimes.com
Republicans and anybody associated with them are the most mean-spirited and lawless people in the world.
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Americans Live in the 'United States of Oligarchy' With Elon Musk at the Top
Read an exclusive excerpt from journalist Casey Michel's new book exploring how the country's wealthiest are monopolizing U.S. democracy and propping up dictators and autocrats in the process.
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