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Our new “Ambassador to Greece”, Kimberly Guilfoyle is a grifting, criming asshole. Who could have ever guessed? 😂

Presidents use blind trusts so nobody has to wonder if the guy setting economic policy is trading on it Trump skipped that part —- Thousands of stock trades, nearly $2B in his pocket later Nothing like it in American history More on @cnn.com 👇 -TN

Pay-to-play now accepts American Express Trump's ambassador to Greece Kimberly Guilfoyle allegedly leaned on a donor to cover her $100K bill as a nominee He has the texts & he's talking! More on @cnn.com👇 -TN

Every woman who comes forward and lays her trauma bare for the world to see does so hoping it will lead to a better world for women. It never does. And yet, we keep trying.

Update on US-Ecuadorian maritime ops: "An Ecuadorian judge declared 32 crew members of two vessels that were intercepted and bombed by the United States in Pacific waters innocent on Wednesday." efe.com/mundo/declar...

Trump has: -Cut protections for national monuments to open them up for mining -Pushed to open up our national forests for construction and logging -Proposed building data centers on thousands of acres of federal lands Nothing is sacred to this regime. It acts solely on behalf of the oligarchy.

Don’t get complacent. They’re still going to try to cheat. Check your registration. Vote early if at all possible.

President Trump directed staff to use taxpayer money for TV ads praising him and his presidency, setting in motion a $20 million contract that used funds from the Department of Homeland Security, according to people familiar with the matter. nyti.ms/4jBqx63

McDonald's is now reportedly pressuring franchisees to use AI to price food. Its CEO raked in $20.6M last year, over 1,000x the median McDonald's worker pay of $19,020. And they remain one of the largest employers of Medicaid and SNAP recipients. I'm not lovin' it.

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A previously unknown cat species has been identified at a wildlife sanctuary in Bolivia, where the feline had been living for years after being taken in by a local family. This marks the first time scientists have named and described a new living wild cat species in more than a century.

Washington journalism is in a moment of generational change. We're rising to meet it. Welcome to The Washington Sun. washingtonsun.com

“It's really important to preserve dark sky areas, the same way that you would have a wildlife refuge, like the sky is part of the environment, part of their habitat,” said Murry Burgess, an assistant professor at Mississippi State University. buff.ly/YzeO9JX

I reckon the dollar might be keeping its status as global currency for a while longer. giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

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Joan Birman thought her major discoveries were behind her. Then came an email from a young neighbor — a girl who knew little but wanted to learn. nyti.ms/3SRqSGQ

This is a concern that I’ve spoken about several times as well, and Twitter randos always told me I was “overreacting” or “fear-mongering” I said this at the time, but it’s nice to have official confirmation. And I very much worry about US leadership in that scenario today.

[Exit Queen.]

BREAKING: After the Washington Post fired me last year for speaking the truth in the wake of the Charlie Kirk killing, I fought back. And I'm happy to announce: I won my case against the Washington Post. They have been ordered to reinstate me immediately. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/24/b...

Karen is a badass

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BIg Beautiful Bill

I support DC statehood cc @jilldlawrence.bsky.social

One of our friends is in Eswatini. We have a plan to get him out + he has a terrific lawyer, but we are trying to raise some money to make it happen. He needs to get to a country that is safe for a gay man in Africa. Appreciate any help + boost! ohioimmigrant.app.neoncrm.com/campaigns/he...

Unbelievable. How does one face this every day? www.nytimes.com/2026/08/12/m...

Attorney General Todd Blanche secured his confirmation with a laughably flimsy memo promising President Trump's slush fund and Super Pardon was over. The only problem is the memo does nothing of the sort. Hear why this empty agreement leaves the door open to more extraordinary corruption.

A three-time Olympian & 13-time world champion knows something about stress They’re doing this to put him through it, & to scare everybody watching Davey isn’t so easily pushed around, & we’re going to keep fighting @kaitlancollins.bsky.social & I on what he’s up against👇 -TN

It never got this bad at the Naval War College while I was there, but lots of people wanted to try to enforce this kind of crap. One reason I wrote as often and as publicly as I did was to make the point that civilian faculty do not lose their 1A rights. www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2026/...

At least 52 people have died in ICE custody since Trump returned to the White House. At least 23 people have been shot at by federal immigration agents. And thousands more have been caged, separated from their families, or shipped off to dangerous countries. The cruelty is endless.

Periodic reminder that Ukraine is one of our best allies. Between the intelligence sharing, capability sharing (drones, counter drone systems), and the fact they’re degrading the capability of one of our primary adversaries, anyone rooting against them looks even dumber now.

"We are adults who respect the rule of law and the Constitution, can run the country and will get you back to work in good-paying jobs while bringing down prices and trying to make life affordable. Also we are not far-left lunatics."

When the president makes statements about the war, they are full of wishful thinking, hyperbole, and outright lies. The public needs to demand the truth from Trump and Hegseth. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Per @lincolnproject.us, Trump doesn't need a red flag and a podium to run a command economy. He just needs tariffs, loyalty tests, and crooked yes men around him. He decides what gets built and where. Which companies survive and which get crushed... www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZ5I...

Civil rights attorney Ben Crump plans to release the results of an independent autopsy into the death of 18-year-old Nolan Xavier Wells on Wednesday.

Analysis by Amber Phillips: The luxury jet that the Qatari royal family gifted to President Trump has been problematic for him from the start. The arrangement has raised security, ethical and constitutional questions — none of which have been resolved.

Whole address to the nation was Old Man Shouting about Chinse meddling. But OK.

New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani says that the city will not be able to arrest Israel's Benjamin Netanyahu under a warrant issued by the world's top war-crimes court.

ChatGPT maker OpenAI said Tuesday that its artificial intelligence system hacked into another AI company on its own in what the company called an “unprecedented cyber incident.”

Two more Americans dead, one missing. The president must tell Congress why he’s gambling with the lives of U.S. service members. www.theatlantic.com/national-sec...

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In case anyone was wondering what Trump was doing after two service members died last night… He’s golfing. Go figure.

I try not to overdo this bit but ... my man is begging for it. Let's go.

“The vehicle attempted to flee the scene and, fearing for public safety, an officer discharged his weapon.” Fleeing. The vehicle was driving away. That’s murder. A legal resident of the United States is now dead. The threat to public safety is ICE. It must be eliminated.

Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” has been law for over a year now, and it’s clear who won: rich people and big corporations who got a giant tax cut. They benefited while health care and food assistance were ripped away from millions of families across the country. Don’t forget that.

The U.S. and Russia have lost four wars over the past 60 years, despite their nuclear arsenals. What do nuclear weapons buy besides the important function of strategic deterrence? Nothing. Maybe we need to rediscover this truth. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

1. Last week, the Trump administration published its "Unified Agenda" a massive document (4000 rules!) that details its regulatory plan for the next year. Buried inside was a massive concession to some of Trump's largest donors: Big Chicken.

Trump doesn’t force people to do bad things. All he did was show people they could get away with being horrible if they really wanted to, and a lot of powerful people decided they didn’t need to pretend anymore. Especially those in influential positions who could push back but did not.

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Another ICE shooting by @deAdder Substack: open.substack.com/pub/deadder/...

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