1/ Here’s my opinion about Mr. Binion. 👇 Reason magazine reporter (Binion) dunked on data center critics using one feel good town story. He never mentioned Reason Foundation sits inside the same free market donor network pushing data centers nationwide 🧵 #DV1 #ProudBlue #Voices4Victory #USDemocracy
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America Promises Made Promises Broken The mantra of the whole damn trump administration Here is Grace Ortega She feels betrayed Enlisted in the army 2024 A program promoted to offer protection from deportation But Trump took it away Her dad was deported on July 4th What have we become ?
Sen. @ossoff.senate.gov on Navy sailors trying to jump ship due to horrific conditions: “We have to step back & recognize this entire war is based on lies... Iran still has uranium. Hormuz remains closed. A catastrophic failure by the commander in chief + his team.” (Follow: @acyn.bsky.social )
There’s this really weird thing happening on the right where they’re pretending like Karoline Leavitt was actually a good Press Secretary. They’re all saying the same thing, so I’m assuming they don’t know what a Press Secretary is supposed to do… or they were given a script.
Eric she would literally respond to questions with answers on the level of "your mom," you do not actually have to hand it to her or the administration that is engaging in active censorship of your employer and your industry. Wake up. www.liberalcurrents.com/the-war-on-p...
The War on Professionalism and Professional Competence
Incompetence and sloppiness are the self-conscious ethos of the administration.
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Eric Lipton NYT@ericlipton.nytimes.com · 18h agoOne you might find surprising. White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt & members of her team have been extremely helpful in responding to questions I raise. Regardless of public facing commentary, privately they are willing to engage and address questions. And I have appreciated that. Thank you
This just goes to show the performative nature of Trump officials. When the cameras start rolling, they play the roles they've been assigned. We're living through a four-year season of The Apprentice, but this time it's in the Oval Office, with the future of the US at stake.
Eric Lipton NYT@ericlipton.nytimes.com · 18h agoOne you might find surprising. White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt & members of her team have been extremely helpful in responding to questions I raise. Regardless of public facing commentary, privately they are willing to engage and address questions. And I have appreciated that. Thank you
My opponent is a (insert epithet for being feminine or gay here) is all they've got. Like they have nothing else to run on at all. Everything they have done for the last two years is less popular than syphilis. They are just hoping they can neg dudes into voting for them.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 11h agodeplorable -- Tom Emmer smears Peggy Flanagan as "a more masculine version of Tim Walz"
Utah residents packed a meeting to fight a 40,000-acre data center. Commissioners wouldn’t even hear public comment. Then they voted YES & left the stage to finish virtually. A project that could suck up 9 gigawatts of power & the people living there get told to shut up. Hell no. #USDemocracy
The perfect MAGA "self-made man." Mom helped him lie to investors about a drug, giving patients false hope. He cashed out for $260m, and then the stock dropped like a rock. One teacher's union retirement fund lost $1 million. Dude made his fortune on the backs of Alzheimer patients and teachers.
How Vivek Ramaswamy’s mom manipulated Alzheimer’s data and made her son rich
Vivek Ramaswamy, a billionaire and the Republican nominee in Ohio’s gubernatorial race, served as the frontman for a dubious pharmaceutical company and then cashed out weeks before its dramatic crash.
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Hegseth called earlier reports of dire conditions on the ship "more fake news." When sailors are suffering, when spouses are begging for help, when parents are demanding answers, and leadership offers only PR responses and delayed dates, trust evaporates.
Mrs. Betty Bowers@mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · yesterdayFeed the sailors on the USS Abraham Lincoln—and then bring them home—you incompetent, useless TV talk show chatterbox twit.
Today in @thenation.com: a harrowing piece written from inside the Dilley ICE detention center by Maryam Tahmasebi, a green card holder who's been locked up along with her husband and son for months despite none of them committing any crime. www.thenation.com/article/soci...
One Woman’s Message From the Hell of ICE Detention
My husband, son, and I have been locked up for months—despite being permanent residents with no criminal record. It is an unendurable, unending nightmare.
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fireworks do suck. I'm not a fan of having to tranquilize the dog every year because people like to see if they can blow their fingers off in their yards.
Dare Obasanjo@carnage4life.bsky.social · 20h agoThe only scandal CNN could dig up is that he doesn’t like fireworks? I’m embarrassed for whatever “journalist” had to have their name associated with this article. Both sides have scandals I guess. 🤦🏾♂️
Dr Fauci saved the lives of tens of millions globally via AIDs treatments, MRNA/Vaccine research since the 1980s. That’s pretty damn heroic if YOU’re one of those millions still alive, or their family. By contrast, Trump/Musk/DOGE have already killed millions by cutting CDC, USAID, FEMA, NASA, NOAA.
The congressional switchboard number is (202) 224-3121. Put it in your cell phone. Use it. If you're not calling at least once a week, you're not doing your part.
Alt National Park Service@altnps.bsky.social · yesterdayThey really are the Gestapo, and they just keep escalating their use of force. The Department of Homeland Security is now moving to equip ICE officers with gloves capable of delivering electrical shocks.
📮 The Trump administration wants SCOTUS to hurry up and let it implement sweeping restrictions on mail voting for the midterms. But the order asks states to notify USPS that they will use mail-in ballots “no fewer than 90 days prior to a Federal election.” That 90-day deadline passed last week.
Trump admin begs Supreme Court to quickly unblock anti-mail voting executive order
Voting experts have warned that the order, even if quickly implemented, would confuse mail voters and wreak havoc on ballot counts.
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Multiple sailors on the USS Abraham Lincoln have tried to jump overboard after 8+ months of extended deployment with no end date. Families say their loved ones are burnt out, exhausted, and terrified. No fresh meat or fruit. Rotten food. The Navy keeps them at sea while mental health collapses.
Trump doesn't want to interfere with the money laundering and other corruption he's come to depend on. "The Trump administration is moving forward with a plan to scale back scrutiny of the shadowy shell companies that criminals use to launder money and traffic drugs."
Waldo Jaquith@waldo.net · 20h agoCongress passed the Corporate Transparency Act. Trump vetoed it. Congress overrode his veto on a bipartisan vote. So Trump has decided to simply not enforce the law. I do not understand the role of Congress anymore. I guess they just make suggestions?
Rep. Max Miller’s ex-wife, Emily Moreno, filed a federal civil rights lawsuit against Miller and his attorney, alleging they “recklessly published” a nude image of Miller’s 2-year-old daughter online Moreno says the image showed the child’s genitalia and was available for download for 23 hours
More than 200 gold statuettes of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart have disappeared from Salzburg, officials said Wednesday.
Mini-Mozart heist blights anniversary tribute as thieves make off with 210 statuettes
More than 200 gold statuettes of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart have disappeared from Salzburg, officials said Wednesday.
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This afternoon, Donald Trump's lawyers, including three DLA Piper lawyers, filed a "time sensitive motion" at the Eleventh Circuit seeking a stay of the sanctions order in Trump v. IRS. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Now feels like as good of a time as any to remind folks that the Yam Tits in Chief is not a doctor or a scientist, and his recent executive order on childhood vaccines is NOT legislation, nor is it rooted in reality or science. Do not listen to that absolutely demented and unqualified freak!
Fact-Checking the Trump Administration’s Claims About Vaccines (Gift Article)
Mr. Trump signed an executive order on Monday calling to scale back the number of vaccinations American children receive.
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The president was in grave danger if he’d stayed aboard Air Force One, but the staffers and journalists who were left aboard Air Force One were in no danger whatsoever
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · yesterdayNEWSMAX: The media is freaking out over the president swapping planes in Turkey. Some are saying journalists' lives were put in danger. What's the White House's reaction? KUSH DESAI: Leave it to the mainstream media to try to make the story about themselves
So, I completely understand secreting POTUS away from a credible assassination attempt. But leaving the entire Air Force One crew, press pool, etc. to play decoy is some sick shit.
Noah Shachtman@noahshachtman.bsky.social · 3d agothe manliest
What a joke. Imagine the GOP temper tantrum when a Democratic POTUS claims executive privilege over communications with a private citizen.
The Secretary of State got to play decoy while Natalie Harp traveled in safety with Trump. On brand.
It’s really sad that we just keep failing to learn the lessons of the war in Ukraine. Hopefully, joint exercise results like these will convince our decision makers to quit sitting on their hands.
CA5 signals it’s going in for the kill against Planned Parenthood just hours after SCOTUS let states defund it
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Mike Sacks@mikesacks.bsky.social · last yr.The Roberts Court, in one fell swoop, has: 1) Allowed states to defund Planned Parenthood even for non-abortion care so to... 2) Rip away people's right to choose their care provider under Medicaid while... 3) Advancing a neoconfederate understanding of our civil rights laws. This can't go on.
