What was I thinking?

Trump now has his Heinrich Himmler who will do his best to turn the FBI into the Gestapo.

Every journalism professor, ever, implored their students to follow the money. Every editor, ever, has offered the same commandment. It has never let down a single scribe.

#Brexit - President Macron is spot on - Brexit has been an utter disaster for the UK.

The US Preventive Services Task Force is part of my doctor bible. But evidence-based and not swayed by lobbyists. There is NO good reason to not let the primary care experts do their (free) work to keep us all healthy. www.medpagetoday.com/washington-w...

"We'll make sure that any potential identity thieves can easily determine which mail includes your passport"

From tonight's Hookland talk on Re-enchantment as Resistance at @treadwells-books.bsky.social. 'Folklore is often the wild frontier of belief, the place where wonder may still live. Here be Woodwoses, here be Harrowhounds, the ghosts which whisper wisdom.' #FolkloreThursday

Florida Republican tries to save her seat by ... running ads against Trump

📣 CDC colleagues: Working on something you want to see get more attention? An article, project, or program you’re proud of? DM us. We’ll do our best to highlight the amazing work you’re doing. 💚 Let’s make sure good public health work gets seen.

It's a fascist regime. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

The smoking gun evidence in the hush money trial that convicted Trump on 34 felony counts included a $50K payout to Red Finch Technologies. Red Finch artificially boosted Trump's polls. Just making sure no one forgets Trump has been fixing the polls for a decade.

“Remember that you’re standing on a planet that’s evolving and revolving at 900 miles an hour… … So remember, when you’re feeling very small and insecure, how amazingly unlikely is your birth; and pray that there’s intelligent life somewhere out in space…” Monty Python Galaxy Song

SCOOP: The Trump administration plans to step up deportation flights to Haiti as soon as this week, according to documents obtained by The New York Times, a move intended to more quickly expel thousands of Haitians whose legal status expired this summer. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/27/u...

Rorschach Challenge. Well I know what I see - but what do you see?

On BBC Radio 4's Moral Maze tonight: “Slavery - Right or Wrong?” Some people say it’s morally wrong. On the other hand, it makes a tonne of money. On the panel: Edward Colston, King Leopold II, Tommy Robinson and Matt Goodwin. Join us as we discuss one of the great moral dilemmas of the day.

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This is the most Republican story you will read all day. A Republican who represents Trump’s home district was arrested for molesting his OWN GRANDSON and could face the death penalty under a state law he sponsored. There has to be a German word for this.

Great @phillipspobrien.bsky.social piece on depth of Trump’s alliance w/Putin: “The US keeping Ukraine dependent on Patriots means even a small number gives US leverage, & in this case it can be used to do a massive favor for Putin—a favor Ukrainians were sadly forced to start giving right away.”

Susan Collins failed for months to disclose up to nearly $400,000 in stock transactions, violating the STOCK Act.
 Mainers deserve to know whether their senator is looking out for them—or her own stock portfolio.

You know what’s worse than living in America illegally? A president who raped children and the Republicans who are covering it up. #ProudBlue #Pinks #SheShed

Cheryl's 80 Days to Midterms Starter Pack (#30) 80 Days to the Midterm Elections! You cannot sit this one out! Democracy won't defend itself. Please Repost and Follow go.bsky.app/RsjdZzd

New: We pieced together dozens of violent incidents from the ICE agents seen in viral videos from Virginia this week. They've roamed across multiple states, but are most often working in Chicago. We also verified the identity of Martin Lagunas, the fed who pointed his gun at a woman on Monday:

Indeed. Total eclipse of international law, no longer deep contestation.

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We want to train you on what to do if ICE invades your area. Our next call will focus on how you can effectively organize community support in response to ICE’s brutality.

You guessed it but even just threatening to declare an international straight a ‘territory of the United States’ is not just violating the US’ international obligations but constitutes a threat to the law of nations as a whole. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

CEO Tim Gitzel signed it in Delhi standing next to Modi, Carney, and Scott Moe. India needed a uranium supplier that wouldn’t threaten them with tariffs every time its feelings got hurt. Gee, wonder who came to mind. deanblundell.substack.com/p/while-trum...

Nigel Farage’s two biggest personal donors, Christopher Harborne and George Cottrell, can both be linked to a betting platform implicated in potentially illegal gambling in the UK. With Venetia Menzies @gabrielpogrund.bsky.social @manumidolo.bsky.social www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

Democrats are uniting around primary winners. That's the reality. Don't let the oligarch-owned corporate media tell you there's some kind of "war" between the left and the center. They are dividing their opposition. The reality is unity. Ignore the rich people trying to convince you otherwise.

If Joe Rogan listened to the Daily Beans podcast, he’d have known this a long time ago.

So we have partisan political police in the middle of a work day attending a political rally in uniform. Looks like Nuremberg in 1936.

Listen to Commander Adama.

Insane that this has been normalized and is probably not even gonna crack the news.

41 years ago, Carl Sagan gave a clear and elegant explanation of the science behind global warming.

#CrooksAndLiars #Maga #Blues #BSC1 Sick of these deadly idiots running the administration.

lmao at Iddin-Sin, an ungrateful little shit of yore

I don’t care what side of the aisle you’re on - if your position is that the president of the United States and his family should be immune from IRS scrutiny, you’re unqualified to be the Attorney General. It’s an indictment on our entire system that 50 GOP Senators don’t agree.

Trump, Hegseth, Caine, the first people in a very long time to lose a war quickly. VIetnam and the ME wars took a while, and in the case of Iraq its a better place now, even though not worth the sacrifice. But this team? No one else to blame: they lost in record time

Things are happening

#BlackAmerica is under attack. Family demand answer After 29 year old Black woman found handing from a tree of an Abandoned Mississippi home. www.mississippifreepress.org/black-woman-...

More than 50 parents and spouses of active-duty U.S. troops have been detained, and at least six have been deported, in President Donald Trump’s massive crackdown on immigration. 🧵 www.thedailybeast.com/ice-detains-...

We created this guide for anyone who could experience a miscarriage in a state with abortion restrictions. We wrote it in consultation with dozens of doctors, including those who regularly treat patients who are miscarrying 👇

This is pretty straightforward, and it's weird to me that people are against it.

Good framing.