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Neil Young has filed a $10 million lawsuit over Trump's use of his song 'Rockin' in the Free World' at campaign events.

Students from North Carolina A&T can be seen marching back to their HBCU after voting on the first day of early voting in the state. The Guilford County Board of Elections voted to remove the school’s on-campus polling site. (video via Todd Simmons) greensboro.com/news/local/g...

Zelenskyy says Trump has betrayed Ukraine.

Is ageing a barrier to cycling? On the contrary! In The Netherlands , people between 65 and 75 years old, cycle more than any other adult group. Source: CBS – Statistics Netherlands, How much do Dutch people cycle? (2023) Fishman, Schepers & Kamphuis (2015).

President Donald Trump dropped his final challenge to the $5.6 million payout to writer E. Jean Carroll, ending the case she won against him in 2023. The president also withdrew his bid to make Carroll return the money.

BREAKING: TV pool will not be providing coverage of presidential events until further notice b/c of CNN's ban, pool chair and FOX News Washington Bureau Chief Bryan Boughton said. It's effectively a boycott by the fellow members — ABC, CBS, NBC and FOX: www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

Every response from Republicans when you asked them about one of Trump's latest abuses of power is to lie about Joe Biden. bsky.app/profile/atru...

Join tomorrow if you’re free! We hope to see you there! 💚✊ Hands Around the Kennedy Center Friday, September 18, 2026 at 6:30 PM ET The Kennedy Center 2700 F Street NW, Washington, DC

I remember when polio put my friends into iron lungs. We lined up at school to get vaccinated. We eradicated the disease. We protected the common good and saved lives. Now, two MORE unvaccinated people have died from measles. What RFK Jr. is doing to public health in America is a disgrace.

A lot of people are discussing the idea of a 24/7 surveillance watch committee for the Kennedy Center following the reported Trump vandalism.

ALL Americans are hurting and paying more for things because of the high price of diesel caused by Republicans. MANY businesses are hurt, EVERYONE pays more for everything. So why the hell should farmers get our money in a bailout - especially when 75% of them voted for this.

Tough chart from Bilello.

The IRS is bound by federal law to protect the confidential information they have about taxpayers, and the Trump Administration blatantly broke the law.

The hummingbirds have been very active lately, preparing for their long journey south.

Republican lawmakers have quietly cut funding for Dolly Parton’s children’s book charity, Imagination Library, which sends free books to children across the world.

I’ve cracked a few helmets, so I’m going to keep wearing one. But keep in mind that bicycle helmets are not designed to protect you against impacts with cars. We need better infrastructure for that.

As millions of students head back to school, Trump’s tariffs and illegal war in Iran are squeezing families with higher prices on everything from pencils to laptops. Getting your kids ready for school shouldn’t mean going into debt. www.usatoday.com/story/money/...

An independent arbitrator ruled that former Washington Post columnist Karen Attiah was wrongfully terminated last year over social posts tied to the death of Charlie Kirk, and ordered her reinstated with back pay and lost benefits.

Raised crosswalks are an incredible traffic safety technology. Our pedophile president’s circus can’t even overcome them.

The Supreme Court for a second time refused a request by President Trump to review a $5 million civil judgment against him after a jury found in 2023 that he had sexually abused and defamed the writer E. Jean Carroll.

Instead of fighting for Maine, Susan Collins has destroyed Roe v. Wade, recklessly funded ICE, threatened rural hospitals, raised gas prices, propped up Big Pharma, and helped slash Medicaid. Maine deserves a senator who actually gives a damn about the working people in this country.

it's that easy? wow other places ought to do this

Showing up and taking the 5th is not contemptuous, it’s a constitutional right. NOT showing up at all like Jim Jordan didn’t when he was subpoenaed? THAT is contempt.

“In London cyclists now outnumber cars in the City by 2 to 1. Paris, where they now outnumber motorists across the whole city, is catching up with Europe’s traditional bike capitals, Amsterdam & Copenhagen…In Copenhagen, bikes account for almost half of commuter trips to work/school.” @economist.com

Disappointed in number of stories about Fauci that neglected to point out that the attacks on him are part of an on-going effort by Trump and GOP to distract from their catastrophic mismanagement of the pandemic, mismanagement estimated to have caused hundreds of thousands of unnecessary US deaths.

Brazilian authorities blocked two senior U.S. officials from traveling to the country next week, concerned that the visitors planned to sow doubt about the security of the nation’s voting systems, according to U.S. and Brazilian officials.

Google has been deleting the reviews of ICE detention centers on Google Maps, according to a new study. The study found Google deleted reviews from dozens of ICE prisons, then blocked users from writing new ones. DHS says ICE never requested that Google do this. theintercept.com/2026/07/20/g...

The fact that VP JD Vance and Richard Grenell went to Romania—on behalf of the Trump Administration— to advocate for Andrew and Tristan Tate, who by all accounts, were rapists running a coercive sex ring, then permitted them to come to Florida, should be a crazy, crazy scandal.

Some humans have the hubris to think we can geo-engineer other planets to suit our biological needs, when in fact we're taking the perfect planet, that we've evolved to co-exist with, and literally burning it up with fossil fuels.

Balint on Hegseth's obsession with testosterone and his attacks on women in combat: "I think it is indicative of the fact that there are so many people in this administration that have some weird, intense, homoerotic, feelings towards men while also being incredibly homophobic..."

Lindsey Graham was one of the main subjects of a @theatlantic.com cover story I wrote in 2020, on why people collaborate with regimes they know are immoral. Here's a gift link: www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

The weather didn't even show up

Pick up a floating paint chip in the Lincoln Reflecting Pool?You're looking at 10 years in jail. But steal the Speaker of the House's lectern from the Capitol? Dude, you get a pardon! Welcome to the crazy world of Trump justice.

The president’s social media company is sponsoring the UFC event at the White House. The league is owned by one of his friends, and the event will be streamed to paid subscribers on Paramount+, a company whose merger the president just approved this weekend.

Congrats, MAGA, you’ve thoroughly owned the Libs—and all it’s cost you is a functioning government, a working democracy, human rights, national peace, economic stability, affordable groceries, affordable healthcare, qualified leaders, and global standing.👍 johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/congratula...

Full statement of Scott Pelley after he's fired from CBS 60 Minutes, detailing the sort of corruption of journalism Bari Weiss has brought to CBS News:

Not enough has been said about how barbaric UFC matches are. The fighter on the left with the long hair and mustache, who pummels his opponent's bloody head, will be one of the "attractions" at the While House UFC fight. www.youtube.com/watch?v=mOsB...

Tom Morello, an activist and guitarist of Rage Against the Machine, announced that he organized a protest festival to take place at Merriweather Post Pavilion on Oct. 3. Bruce Springsteen, Foo Fighters, Dave Matthews and more are set to perform.

BREAKING 35 former federal judges move to reopen Trump v. IRS in an effort to kill the $1.776B slush fund. Doc buff.ly/1065CA7

1. Lead Left, a super PAC created on 4/24, purports to stand "against MAGA extremists." It has spent $3M+ in Democratic primaries. But it's funders and motivations have been secret. Until now. It's a GOP dirty tricks operation. 🧵

“Ovarian cancer is the deadliest of all gynecological cancers,” Nami Mun writes. When hers was diagnosed, she had a tumor “as wide as a peach and as long as my hand.” She writes about what she learned from her body after years of self-silencing:

"The Government cannot escape liability for DOGE’s work by scapegoating ChatGPT." A US judge slammed DOGE's use of AI in a decision today blocking the termination of $100M in humanities grants, finding DOGE lacked authority and unlawfully based decisions on race and viewpoint buff.ly/Qw0qcDH

Supreme Court: Using race as a criteria to implement equitable solutions is racist! Supreme Court: ICE, go ahead and use racial profiling in California. Also, we see reverse racism and religious discrimination against white Christians everywhere!

Nearly three in 10 drivers are walking and cycling more because of the spike in fuel prices, a new survey suggests

Wasn’t this Ivanka’s pet issue in the first term??

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No one should be surprised when the TACO king extends the deadline.