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Not a much better illustration of how stupid the American public is that Joe Biden had a lower approval rating in his fourth year in office than did Donald Trump. I know there was a major political technology campaign by the fossil fuel industry and other fascists, but still crazy it worked so well

Trump last night: Praises Putin to the New York Times and promises to bully Ukraine (again) into handing over more land and people to Russia. Putin last night:

Project 2025 is coming to the Fed. What could possibly go wrong?

Note to Europe: whatever Trump touches he destroys. Stay away from his council for your own sake as well as ours!

Two German sociologists just wrote a book on that joy of destruction: "Zerstörungslust". Their publisher writes: "The authors conclude that Trump, Musk, Weidel and their followers are all about the destruction of the world as a last, desperate attempt to save themselves from being crushed by it."

Just such an asshole move to see a beloved Hollywood icon murdered, and your first thought is "How can I use this to defend Russia?"

If the US can seize a Venezuelan tanker carrying sanctioned oil, then can other tankers in other places, say the Baltic or the Black Sea, also be seized?

Democrats would be crazy not to make this comment super-famous tomorrow when the Senate debates health care. Republicans don’t want you to be cared for as a patient when you’re sick. They think of you as a “consumer”—and tough luck if you don’t have the money for the care you need.

On this day in 1957, U.S. Army troops escorted the Little Rock Nine to Central High School in Arkansas. Less well known—in August 1958 all the city's high schools were closed for a year to resist integration. Students learned through televised lessons, as shown in these photos.

After DOGE outed Mohammad Halimi on social media, Taliban intelligence agents blindfolded and took three of his family members to a remote prison. They were repeatedly beaten and questioned about Halimi and his recently publicized work for the United States.

Photographer Pennie Smith, The Clash, 1979, used for the 'London Calling' album cover art and voted best rock 'n' roll image #womensart

I am just going to keep posting that the TX governor recently pardoned a political murderer. The dude texted "I'm going to shoot protestors", then went and shot a Black Lives Matter protester. He was convicted in a jury trial. Hard to find a more blatant example of celebrating political violence.

JD Vance is doing the Reichstag Fire the right way. by Ezra Klein

This is an amazing excellent analogy. Civility in the service of evil is hollow.

People need to grasp the fact that the median Republican voter would rather a trans person die than have to see them in public.

EXCLUSIVE: U.S. Attacked Boat Near Venezuela Multiple Times to Kill Survivors American officials said the repeat drone strikes were carried out by Special Operations Command, and more attacks could come soon. theintercept.com/2025/09/10/u...

The student who died from the Colorado mass shooting has been confirmed to be the suspect. www.cbsnews.com/losangeles/n...

“f—king crazy”

This is an example of bad political priorities. The plant employs just 500 workers. Yet, it is estimated that the proposed SEPTA reductions could result in a loss of 76,700 regional jobs, $6 billion in lost wages, and $674 million in lost annual state and local tax revenue.

I was a Chicago alderman. Many of my colleagues & a number of our governors went to jail. I know the type- focused on power & personal gain. For years, Trump mixed in that world here, too. Now he's even worse- a crooked pol on steroids with his own personal army. open.substack.com/pub/edwineis...

Elections have consequences. Unless you're black, then Alabama apparently has the right to make you do the election over again, and make you wait to take your rightful place: apnews.com/article/alab...

Very illuminating clip here: Los Angeles City Councilmember Imelda Padilla criticizes SB 79 because it limits local elected officials’ power to block new housing, then @jonlovett.bsky.social reminds her that we have a massive housing shortage that is strangling our state’s growth.

Here’s the clip of CM Padilla bragging about reducing the size of a 100% affordable housing project in her district and increasing the amount of parking while arguing against the transit oriented upzoning bill SB 79. (ED 1 is an affordable housing program in LA.)

Put another way, it's as if someone made a real life version of AI-slop in an effort to align reality with the slop.

ever notice how rfk’s head is crooked?

This. Pundits *and*citizens are lazy and vulnerable to fear propaganda and tend to accept premises rather than push back on claims of crime without providing any context or perspective. It’s a gun lobby / project 2025 authoritarian effort. @jamellebouie.net

the other thing is that this is so easy to predict and the only reason so many of our pundits have a hard time with it is because they have fully bought the idea that Trump is some pure representation of what the Volk wants.

Good news, Goldman Sachs is forecasting that U.S. Brent crude oil price will drop to the low $50's in 2026! If we can actually drive oil prices this low next year by reducing demand enough and keep it that low for about a year, that should drive about half of our small-scale oil companies bankrupt!

For anybody who thinks any of this is new, this isn't even Trump's first attempt to try to prosecute Bolton.

George Conway on Donald Trump: “This man is an adjudicated sexual abuser. Found liable for something that most people, as the judge said three times, consider rape. There is no bottom with him.”

why does this guy look like he wants to teardown toon town?

In June, ProPublica reported that the FDA has given more than 20 foreign factories a special pass to send drugs to the U.S. even though they were made at plants the agency had banned. Here's a list of those exempted drugs.

I guess folks didn’t read Project 2025.

Batteries and solar are fast becoming the backbone of a clean, flexible power system🔋☀️ In our #GER2025, we saw California batteries supplied ~20% of evening peak demand in June 2024, displacing gas. Fast forward to today: they’re now averaging 28% ⚡ ember-energy.org/lat...

Bannon & Guo's 501c4, Rule of Law Society is req'd to file audited financials w the NYS Charity Bureau.

The regime is laying the groundwork to kill Americans who oppose them. Everything they’re do is a step towards ending freedom of speech and competitive elections.

This is an interesting quote in light of Trump's using claims of antisemitism for bad-faith attacks on universities.

Breaking WaPo: DHS Secretary Kristi Noem is living for free in a military home typically reserved for the U.S. Coast Guard's top admiral. The highly unusual arrangement has raised concern from officials, who describe it as a waste of military resources. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

I’m gonna say armed troops from red states descending on a blue city is just a few inches — or maybe one exchange of gunfire — short of a civil war’s opening stages.