Jennifer Lindquist

This is MAGA. Empty promises, followed by thuggery when called out. Link: buff.ly/aE3RHuC

OR: Rogue companies are creating AI agents -- and the law can't keep up

RUSSIA TARGETED A BUS FULL OF CIVILIANS AND MULTIPLE APARTMENT COMPLEXES THIS WEEK ALONE. Maybe the ingrate is the guy who made the decision to fund that terrorism by purchasing oil in a last ditch attempt to boost his poll numbers?

Signs you’re a war criminal: You attack the court that goes after war criminals

If I built an AI lab and it went rogue and deleted all student loan information, I'm betting they'd suddenly figure out how to prosecute me.

Perceptions of press freedom in the U.S. hit a record low, and are now below the average among developed nations. news.gallup.com/poll/715025/...

Vote! Pres. Carter was right: "Our American democracy is not a luxury, but a necessity — not the salt in our bread but the bread itself. Our common vision of a free and just society is our greatest source of cohesion.” President Jimmy Carter, farewell address, Jan. 14, 1981

Q: Mr President, did you call on President Xi to stop buying oil from Iran? TRUMP: ... Q: What about guardrails on AI? TRUMP: ... Q: Why are you banning media outlets? TRUMP: ... Q: Should US taxpayers pay for ads about you? TRUMP: *walks away*

I spend a lot of time at Section 60 in Arlington, visiting friends I lost in Iraq. Now Trump wants an ugly arch within view of that sacred ground. This isn't about liking the guy. It's January 6th. It's the DOJ. It's putting his name on the Kennedy Center. None of it earns a monument.

Nothing says “the economy is working” like screaming at the person who asks why you’re mailing everyone money.

HISTORY: diesel has crossed $6/gal nationally for the first time ever, according to live GasBuddy data. every truck, every delivery, every package, every grocery run just got more expensive. the cost of moving everything in america just hit a record. Statement⬇️ (9/10/26, 3p CT)

It seems that nobody when talking to these ghouls follows up with "eighteen months ago Iran didn't have a nuclear weapon. A year ago President Trump said he completely obliterated Iran's nuclear arms capacity. Six months ago he said he super-ultra-obliterated Iran's nuclear arms capacity. So...?"

“Musk’s open attempt to buy elections for the Republicans should be bigger news, not only because of the political power his money has given to one man, but also because of what his behavior says about the MAGA administration’s ideology and its goals heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/september-...

Rice: The world is looking at this and seeing the United States and Israel throwing the military kitchen sink at Iran and failing. So it’s more than the lies and the bluster and the memes and the threats. It’s the real perception of a weakened American deterrence…

I assume what AP means is: "Lies about noncitizen voting are being used by Trump to attack elections his party is set to lose and to set up an authoritarian effort to overturn the results" If so, they should just say that.

Food companies wanted deregulation. Now there are dozens of recalls across the country. Mining companies wanted deregulation. Now the black lung rate is at a 45-year high. Financial companies wanted deregulation. Now financial losses to fraud are the highest on record. Noticing a pattern?

This should be setting off alarm bells. Service members trying to leave the military on moral grounds have surged to SIX TIMES the normal rate since Trump’s war with Iran began in February.

That's not how executive orders work and that's not how naming things work and this isn't how political reporting should work either. This event should be covered, yes, but as another sign of the president's steady descent into complete ineffectiveness and utter insanity.

Trump is charging $100,000 for early access to his own posts on Truth Social. Posts that move markets. At least 10 companies already paid up. That’s insider trading with a subscription fee. Don the Con rakes in more while Americans suffer. #TrumpsCorruptionCostsUS

If you live in a state with wild horses, tell your governor to be like AZ Governor Katie Hobbs & shut down the wild horse slaughter pipeline. Also AZ, Katie Hobbs is a keeper. Get ready to vote for her again in 70 days! She is a fearless fighter for AZ!

"“The modern digital environment trains kids to expect everything to be summarized into a 280-character tweet or a short-form video clip,” Mr. Chen said in a message. His goal was to make sure his children “know how to do things the slow, hard way.”"

"Phones are banned at the Waldorf School of the Peninsula, two miles from Google’s headquarters. “No phones means no distraction, no social media anxiety, and no constant comparison. Just real childhood,” the school explains. Waldorf’s price for a real childhood: as much as $47,500 a year."

Are we going to drop bombs on the bond traders? Video: buff.ly/uzdPmTh

“…airports in Colorado, Texas and Arizona have told TIME that ICE agents have become a recurring presence in recent weeks. With protocols for handling such encounters unclear or inconsistently applied” time.com/article/2026...

One of the things I hate the most about tariffs is that we knew they were illegal, and when the court finally decided they were illegal, they forced Trump to refund the tariffs. But the refunds went to the corporations, and not the people the corporations raised prices on. What a scam.

Loyal Losers is good shorthand for: "Totalitarianism in power invariably replaces all first-rate talents, regardless of their sympathies, with those crackpots and fools whose lack of intelligence and creativity is still the best guarantee of their loyalty." Hannah Arendt

BOSTON…😕 ✈️

The Trump/Republican agenda in one chart 👇🏽

The job market is struggling — and not just for foreign-born workers. Native-born workers are having a tough go of it, too. It wasn’t supposed to be this way, according to proponents of stiffer immigration policy. Fewer immigrant workers meant more jobs and higher wages for the native-born.

Albanians don’t want their islands sold off to Trump and Kushner ft.trib.al/V7JQvGO | opinion

A good design decision to put the domestic money at the bottom, so you can see that it — putatively Trump’s real business genius — barely moved at all.

In recent weeks, there has been a remarkable surge in large, intense, fast-moving, and unfortunately in many cases destructive/deadly wildfires in multiple Northern Hemisphere regions spanning a wide range of climates & ecologies, but they all share one key commonality. [Thread]

“The 301s allow a permanent tariff without going to Congress to settle the dispute…The president doesn’t want to knock on the front door of Congress, so he’s trying every side door and every unlatched window to get in.” ~ Barry Appleton open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...

Please, Arizona, defeat Trump’s election deniers at the midterms. #BlueWaveIn100Days

Grifting all the way

NUCLEAR CASH President Trump, his family and his circle of advisers have monetized crypto, the predictions markets, the data center boom & rare-earths mining. Now they are seeing there's money to be made in a new vector: The nuclear industry. The NYT takes a look www.nytimes.com/2026/07/26/u...

“What is at stake is more than just buildings. It is the whitewashing and bulldozing of our history and culture, created over centuries by the many people who have built the United States…” open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...

Amen. If you go into the archives looking to confirm a hunch, you'll likely find some random bit of evidence that fits. This is why "originalism" is considered a joke by actual historians. Finding one quote from one member of the founding generation who agrees with your hot take is pretty easy!

“The recent diarrhea debacle …” www.wired.com/story/diarrh...

Who forgot to tell Mr. al-Houthi that we do ceasefires on Mondays. Fridays are for escalations.

Government officials who declare that dissent deserves “bloodshed” are poisoning the democratic institutions that Americans cherish, endangering our rule of law, and thus bringing incalculable harm to all Conservatives and all Liberals.

Maybe I'm not overthinking, maybe I'm just regular thinking about stuff that’s overhappening

It's extremely annoying how this wound up being both a huge regressive tax on actual Americans and a huge deficit financed election year stimulus for corporations simultaneously

Simple question: If Democrats could somehow cheat Trump out of reelection in 2020 when he was President, why didn't they cheat him out of winning in 2024 when they were in charge of everything? It doesn't make the least bit of sense.