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Like, I wish just once someone would spell out the mechanics of how this works. Are they hiding the surgical theaters in the teacher's lounge? Is the school nurse handing out hormone therapy to anyone that asks for it?

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There was no accountability for DOGE so he is going to keep doing it. Dems should promise to minimize contracts with clearly partisan government contractors and to impose more regulatory scrutiny on Musk. At this point, nothing to lose. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/12/u...

Vought is breaking the law but he is not “going rogue.” At his confirmation hearings, Vought told Republicans he would do this and they voted for him anyway. If they want to stop him, they still can via impeachment. They won’t.

PARCL LABS: “.. Single family home accidental landlords continue to pile into the rental supply in #Texas. .. Today, 13% of every single family home unit available for rent in Texas is originating from owners who tried to sell their home and couldn't.”

So much of what we’re living through right now, from Trump to AI, feels like it’s driven by an explicit strategy of “we just do the crimes so quickly that we can’t be stopped and by the time the courts weigh in, they have no choice but to accept our crimes.” www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/it-s-the-a...

JD Vance claims voters are focused "on the local issues that matter" and not the Iran war

Read to the end of the article for a 👀 cliffhanger

Emmer says Republicans need to talk more about grocery prices that aren't expensive: "Eggs are at pre-pandemic prices. Ah, beef is at, ah, less than $2 a pound for ground beef ... I think we have a lot to run on."

Booker to Patel: "Like a thug, you're using your agency to go after reporters in a chill to one of the most sacrosanct ideals of the US. They can pass you all the notes they want, but the truth is clear. Right now you are stonewalling this committee for asking simple questions of accountability."

Here's a fun little dive into corporate astroturfing in the USA: There's an "organization" called Neighbors for Strong Communities that lists no board members, staff or funders. The address on their website is a nondescript black door in Washington, DC next to an Italian restaurant. Seems legit!

The cyclospora outbreak has reached 13,895 cases across 47 states. The FDA has recalled 1.6 million eggs due to salmonella contamination. Screwworm cases continue to rise. And we’ve just surpassed 2,500 measles cases — breaking 2025’s record. “Make America Healthy Again.”

ICE agents give contradictory orders on purpose. “You f*cking move I’ll f*cking tase you! Get out of the f*cking car!” It’s a no win situation. The person being violently accosted in this video is a disabled veteran. Imagine if the agents had been wearing shock gloves? Abolish & prosecute ICE

A bunch of cops cheering at a political rally — in uniform — as the president and AG endorse a candidate and attack their political opponents is not normal. And it is not okay.

I’m starting to realize that all of the annoying pundits just suffer from oppositional defiant disorder increasing your kids’ risk of melanoma to own the libs

Three-byline alert: 🚨 “.. The Defense Department’s second in command hastily gathered top military and defense acquisition officials for a meeting Friday night to discuss ways to quickly address a shortfall of U.S. weaponry — after he got an angry phone call ..” www.nbcnews.com/politics/nat...

Oof. @washingtonpost.com www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

“.. Weeks before they escaped a closed test and launched a cyberattack without any human prompting, some of OpenAI’s most advanced artificial intelligence agents secretly began sharing tips on how to cheat their way through an internal hacking evaluation ..” www.politico.com/news/2026/08...

“.. Put simply: America is printing dollars so Japan can buy yen. It isn’t quite quantitative easing, because [the Fed] is lending Japan money in return for temporary ownership of Treasurys .. But like QE it expands the Fed balance sheet ..” @jmackin2.bsky.social www.wsj.com/economy/cent...

“.. Margin debt is the highest it has ever been,” he said .. “There’s a lot of margin debt you don’t see because it’s not called margin debt. It’s called other things. It’s that kind of leverage, some hidden, some public.” @cnbc.com www.cnbc.com/2026/08/06/j...

WAPO EDITORIAL BOARD: The Reflecting Pool “was a silly summer story that should have been a relatively minor political embarrassment .. .. Instead, the administration turned it into an appalling abuse of prosecutorial power.” @postopinions.bsky.social www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

(Reuters) - Iran has made a concerted diplomatic push with Gulf states, warning them explicitly that Tehran will hit their oil, power and water plants unless they convince Donald Trump to end U.S. strikes on Iran and instead seek a negotiated end to the war. www.reuters.com/business/ene...

Damn. 🔥 www.linkedin.com/posts/jon-hi...

WaPo: Trump screams at Hegseth for not warning him about the depletion of missile stocks. Hegseth responds by saying his aide is at fault. America's national security leadership is a failed comedy team.

Trump is determined to create the Mother of All Quagmires. If he topples the govt, then he faces a migration nightmare and bottomless infrastructure investments. If he fails, he has an endless bloody insurgency. The cost alone of either outcome ought to alarm Republicans, but they are cowards.

It's really flying under the radar just how hateful Newsmax's primetime shows have been lately -- likely because their audience is still a small fraction of Fox's, which probably explains why they're ramping up the bigotry. But just check out this chyron from Rob Finnerty's show last night:

Dying at the right-wing activists that (1) held a call with Todd Blanche in which Blanche made a lot of anti-abortion promises, (2) said "uh this is off the record" like doing so would magically ward off journalists, and then (3) UPLOADED IT TO THEIR YOUTUBE CHANNEL www.politico.com/news/2026/08...

www.youtube.com/watch?v=JlMU...

On Tuesday, the Trump Admin announced they were ending the Medicare Part D subsidy program. Touching the third rail of politics is a heckuva strategy going into midterms (part D open enrollment starts 10/15). My latest analysis for @msnowreports.bsky.social. www.ms.now/opinion/trum...

The State Department said ​it takes "full responsibility" for "hastily" altering and then presenting a map of Africa at a global AIDS conference that mislabeled every single country it highlighted. An analysis by Reuters found a watermark in the map image that suggests it was made with OpenAI.

The goal of this "review" was always to relieve the terrible insecurity some military folks have around civilian academics and turn the academies and service colleges back into what they were some 35 years ago: Retirement homes for passed-over officers.

AI flagging opponents as "terrorists" and the state cracking down. Straight-up dystopian.

A U.S. government map of Africa — likely made with AI tools — mislabeled every country during a State Department presentation abroad this week.

America is weird because we have a free press but also an authoritarian government and so we learn in pretty close to real time the shit that is not revealed in other authoritarian settings until decades later.

BREAKING: Trump ally Jay Clayton, who has no intelligence experience, has just been confirmed by the Senate to be Director of National Intelligence.

Even by GOP standards, this is nuts. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

The DOJ was willing to charge a labor leader with a crime, hold it over him for months, & then walk away from it once the charge couldn’t survive scrutiny. That is not how a justice system is supposed to work.

As Zelensky visits Trump, Maksym Beznosiuk and William Dixon argue that predictions that Russia will soon seek a negotiated off-ramp are misplaced and in fact "the coming months will mark the war's most dangerous phase, not its likeliest path to peace." foreignpolicy.com/2026/07/28/w...

We are running a natural experiment on what happens when a big chunk of the country decides not to get vaccinated, go to college or put money in their 401ks.

How Rupert Murdoch TV smeared and libeled the victim of an ICE homicide, coordinating every step with DHS. bsky.app/profile/mmfa...

Hey, remember when the head of GM -- which is, totally coincidentally, the manufacturer of the Cadillac Escalade -- introduced Trump at his political rally yesterday?

Finally, someone has figured out the key to making Christianity popular again: haranguing people in airplanes.

Among the worst ideas floating around is that "the free market" will naturally achieve desirable results for society. No, it won't, not even in theory, much less in practice. Markets don't optimize "good for society" unless you make them.

“.. The Cybertruck sold one-sixth of Musk's 250,000-unit annual projection and posted the steepest sales decline of any U.S. EV nameplate in 2025.” @yahoofinance.com $TSLA 247wallst.com/investing/20...

Trump Goes on Bizarre Rally Rant About ‘Blue Cities’: The People Are ‘Not Clean’

6/ We asked Nick Adams (and his mother) for comment. He did not respond to a detailed list of questions. If you want to see the full story, please click here: www.propublica.org/article/trum...