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Lights are reflected off a bulletproof screen as President Trump speaks during a campaign rally in Greenville, North Carolina. More photos of the week: reut.rs/4yGkBNh 📷 Evan Vucci

Clear weakness for the Canadiens this season: they can dominate possession for all three periods, but can't hold on to leads. #GoHabsGo

#Habs can't take their foot off the gas in 3rd period #GoHabsGo

Your all-too-regular reminder that Republicans in Congress think this is just fine.

Let's go Brewers!

I was deputy M.E. at the WSJ when Murdoch took over, with a similar “editorial independence board.” Within 4 months, our top editor was gone, replaced by a loyal Murdoch deputy. That board raised a quivering objection, but the deed was done. If the Ellisons own CNN, they’ll do whatever they want.

Her name, these days, is Wisdom, band number Z333, and she is the oldest known wild bird on Earth. #ResistanceEarth Wisdom’s tracking device has no battery, no signal and no moving parts. Both the albatross and the observer need to show up every November. #Science scienceblog.com/b-a-biologis...

Story with more context and statement from Diageo's spokesperson here:

Christ Appearing to His Mother, by Juan de Flandes, 1496, 📸 via @MartinFLSheriff

PRESIDENT: "We should have a national database of all legal US gun owners." CONSERVATIVES: "YOU CAN'T DO THAT! THAT IS UNAMERICAN!! YOU CAN'T TRACK AMERICAN CITIZENS!!! IT'S AGAINST OUR LIBERTY!!!!" PRESIDENT: "We will have a national database of all legal US voters." CONSERVATIVES: [yawn]

The Declaration of Independence specifies 27 grievances with King George III and Britain. Donald Trump and his regime have committed at least 20 of those same offenses highlighted in yellow. #NoKings

Updated:

The President boasts of "no tax on tips", but this expires in 2028. He boasts of "no tax on overtime," but it is taxed, and the break expires in 2028. He boasts of "no tax on social security," but it is taxed, and his break expires in 2028. He also passed tax cuts for the rich. They're permanent.

33 of the people pardoned by Trump for January 6 have committed more crimes including molesting children and killing people while drunk driving.

What IS wrong with him? People are asking. Many people.

This guy talking about how corruption "shreds the fabric of our nation," gtfo

trump is calling for banning congressional stock trading, but he leaves out the key detail: the reason there's a standstill right now is democrats want it to apply to trump and the white house, but trump issued a veto threat over that.

tapping the sign

An unknown number of powerful men (and some women) trafficked and abused a much larger number of vulnerable women and girls. Those victims urgently need justice

Republicans are still trying to pass the SAVE Act—a bill that would make it harder to vote and disenfranchise millions of Americans. Join @redistrictingaction.org and tell your member of Congress to vote no: act.redistrictingaction.org/a/natl-saveact-cte

WaPo editorial board when TX imposes a legislative gerrymander: don't freak out guys! Not a threat to democracy! When VA responds to TX with *referendum* on their own gerrymander: brass-knuckled hypocrisy, anti-democratic gamesmanship. There is hypocrisy here, all right, but not from VA.

What if Big Beer neither totally tanked craft beer like true believers feared, nor built it up like they promised? At @vinepair.com I wrote about how the country's biggest brewer is scooping money off the floor even as its lip-service about raising the segment's ceiling never really materialized.

Any subscriber quitting on Dave over this can't have been reading his stuff too closely...but you should! Beer has *always* been political. If you don't see that, it's probably because the politics was designed around your comfort. Dave just helps us make sense of that reality.

Since a lot of the coverage is omitting this detail: The Kennedy Center HAD a $250 million renovation and expansion just a few years ago, in 2019.

"I'm coming to Boston and I'm bringing hell with me." --Homan in February "Do I expect violence to escalate? Absolutely." -- Tom Homan in March "I actually thought about getting up and throwing that man a beating right there in the middle of the room" -- Homan in July, referring to a D congressman

He wasn't a domestic terrorist. A domestic terrorist was the Oklahoma City bomber. This was a VA nurse looking out for his neighbors.

This moment in history provides us with incontrovertible evidence that all the conservatives who claim to be extremely devoted to freedom of speech and the right to bear arms, and opposed to the encroachment of tyranny, are completely and totally full of shit. It's all white supremacy and greed.

Imagine what’s happening in the camps.

NEW Statement from the family of Alex Pretti:

Video message from Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell: www.youtube.com/watch?v=KckG... www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/s...

once again: ICE is operating as if they have a general warrant, the specific type of warrant the founders were most concerned about when drafting the 4th Amendment

And it was Mitch McConnell who made it possible by letting Trump off the hook on impeachment, and Kevin McCarthy who proactively brought Trump back into the GOP fold. Let their shame never be forgotten.

By essentially redacting most photos but Epstein and Bill Clinton, the DOJ is further undermining any pretense that the agency is anything other than a Trump goon squad. And for what, bc this ploy is not going to pass muster with victims.

The only person whose standard of living has improved during this Trump term is Ghislaine Maxwell.

America is being run by mean girls and shitposters and trolls and the Comic Book Guys. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

So there were, y’know…edits?

Remember, they're currently arguing that Biden's pardons are illegitimate because he signed the actual forms with an autopen. Trump, meanwhile, repeatedly insists he knows nothing at all about one of his very controversial pardons. Never heard of the guy! Sorta seems like a problem.

Citizens waving American flags protest Trump violating the Constitution. MAGA: They’re Marxists who hate America. GOP operatives praise Hitler and joke about rape and gas chambers in their group chat. MAGA: Boys will be boys!

In the last 70 years, federal jobs fell from 4.5% of all employment to below 2%. Civil servants aren't what's driving government debt, and firing them won't address it.

Imagine under a Bernie Sanders admin, Congressional Rs and Ds agreed to give a 5% increase to DOD in exchange for big boosts to housing and nutrition. And then Bernie decided to just illegally ignore it and actually cut defense 10%. That’s what Trump is doing. How can you make a deal under that?

All of us right now. #caturday

A lot going on, for sure, but the Trump administration still needs to #ReleaseTheEpsteinFiles

Went to a science fair under the I-610 today.

Important to remember that everyone involved in renaming the DoD to the Department of War is afraid to take the subway.