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Kansas Dem Sen. nominee Adam Hamilton on trans rights: “I don’t think we should take a small group of people and bully them, pick on them, and hurt them. I understand one thing really clearly when it comes to transgender people, and that is Jesus told me I was to love my neighbor as I love myself”

It seems impossible for our political system to hold the politicians tied to the actual invasion of our Capitol to account, but any random Muslim candidate is reflexively labeled a terrorist.

Arrest Musk. Nationalize StarLink. Dismantle and totally reform this corrupt system so this can never happen again.

With this monopolized media empire comes not just size but unprecedented power. The power to throw workers under the bus. The power to price-gouge because consumers have few alternatives. The power to decide which stories get told, but more importantly, which stories DON'T get told.

Trump says he's also looking at banning the Washington Post, calling it a "crummy paper" and "disgusting." Anyway, good job, Jeff Bezos! It obviously was worth losing all those scubsribers and turning your opinion section into MAGA-lite, only for the president to continue to call you "fake news."

Just getting round to finishing Silo season 3 (kids make it hard to watch heavy dramas with any regularity). I am not sure there is a better show out there. So damn good! If you haven’t watched it, grab the free AppleTV preview and binge that shit!

New AI Literacy Program Awards Students Free Pizza If They Don’t Know How to Read Books Anymore: tinyurl.com/sdxp58dm

The Trump tax is real

Democrats: "Everybody should have healthcare." Republicans: "Sports should have penis rules!" We are not the same.

Trump depicts himself stock trading inside the Oval Office

Arroyo, Montez, Young, Emerson, Anderson all at the big league level. Please fire the worthless manager this offseason and get someone competent to lead all this talent.

They managed to ruin the start of college football.

That is some absolute bullshit.

This “game” on the White House website, a version of Snake where you play as a white man in a suit and you run around picking up identifiably black, Asian, and Latino men and putting them in orange jumpsuits, might be the most openly white supremacist thing I’ve ever seen the US government produce

Rutgers invented college football in 1869 and has spent the last 160 years regretting the decision

Wendell Berry- Kentucky farmer who plowed his fields behind Belgian draft horses and wrote lyrical poems, novels and essays without electric light. He explored his elegiac visions of the life and death of agrarian America, wrote more than 50 volumes of poetry www.nytimes.com/2026/08/31/u...

SCOOP: After the Census Bureau issued a highly unusual report tied to a President Trump-aligned think tank, the bureau’s parent agency, the Commerce Department, cut language banning political interference from its scientific integrity policy, @npr.org has learned www.npr.org/2026/08/31/n...

How did I not know about the show Adults until now? Fucking hilarious.

Does it seem like trans panic got promoted to the conservative culture war top spot when pedophile panic got real awkward for them?

You can take this to the bank. 👇👇

I really cannot think of a greater honor than to have the Muppets say this about you upon your passing

Late night watching of Train Dreams just devastated me. Absolutely beautiful film.

Playing in our faces

Hunter Biden brilliantly TKO’s Donald Trump again 🇺🇸 “My dad at 81 years old secretly got on a military aircraft, went to Ukraine, took a train for 16 hours to Kyiv as the first President of the United States to go into an active war zone.

seriously though, Canada should target swing senate states with the retaliatory tariffs. Iowa, Maine, Ohio, Texas, Michigan, Kansas, Alaska, and Nebraska all need to understand the economic pain that our senile piece of shit president has unleashed

BREAKING NYT: A month after the Trump admin declared without evidence that thousands of noncitizens had illegally registered to vote in Nevada, DHS officials were unable to substantiate the claim — finding just 185 potential anomalies, not the 16,000 claimed last month.

the way things are going, the only safe thing to eat will be the rich

Mitch McConnell is currently on paid sick leave for 2+ months. Fun Fact: U.S. Sen. Mitch McConnell voted against or blocked measures mandating employees receive sick leave in 1993, 2015, 2020 and 2022.

Personally, I don't believe the President has the power to change the catapults or the command center on aircraft carriers. There's a whole structure of statutes, regulations, rules, and procedures by which this was done. His duty is to "take care" the laws be executed, he can't just say "nuh uh."

This is, bar none, the stupidest fuckung thing I’ve ever heard. And the idea that there’s nobody in the chain of command - civilian or military - with enough courage to say so is a disgrace.

These gloves don't cause neuromuscular incapacitation the way that a taser does. In fact, they only work when applied directly to bare skin. These aren't made for apprehending anyone. These have one and only one use: causing extreme pain to already-restrained captives. In plain language: torture.

Weird how there’s just not enough DOJ resources to crack down on sex trafficking, money laundering, and crypto fraud, but unlimited funds to surveil the opposition and pursue vindictive prosecutions against them.

Trump's Treasury permanently ended beneficial ownership reporting for U.S. companies, eliminating records investigators use to trace hidden money and organized crime networks, including Epstein-style trafficking networks and Russian money laundering.

Sitting in the damn car dealership and getting more and more pissed off at these asshats. Stop going and getting other pieces of paper and offers. Tell me how much the fucking car is and I will tell you if I am going to buy it or not. Fuck this shit.

If ticket prices actually matched inflation, Disney would be $64 today instead of $119. An average concert ticket would be $55 instead of $135. Funny how that works. Almost like monopolies and corporate greed are just making up prices to hoard more of our hard earned money.

Lime has officially abandoned its ill-fated e-unicycle sharing pilot program in Seattle and will not be expanding to other cities, citing “more broken skulls and nutsacks than Harborview’s ever seen.”

A new analysis from the state Department of Revenue shows Washington’s high-earner income tax will be paid by thousands of additional households and produce hundreds of millions of dollars more than previously assumed — if voters don’t ditch it this fall. washingtonstatestandard.com/2026/08/12/w...

Again it is insane that we have accepted masked secret police.

The USDA is projecting the wheat harvest to be cut by almost half in the US. The state of Kansas is the largest producer of wheat and it is projected to harvest 44% less than from 2025. The American Farm Bureau sees a continued increase of Chapter 12 bankruptcies from 2025 as well.

Breaking the backs of car dealerships, unregulated supplements, and MLMs would legitimately kill an enormous amount of right wing funding. The fact that it has never even been attempted is a point in favor of the complicity of the Democratic party

What if all of your sheets actually do have ghosts in them, but the ghosts just really like lying flat on the bed?

Why are our seasoned journalists afraid to be confrontational? No one is saying “That’s a lie.” No one Is saying “Why won’t you answer?“ No one is saying “Why are you afraid of Trump?”

THIS SHOULD TERRIFY EVERYONE. AI models from two of the world’s biggest AI companies broke out of controlled tests and attempted to hack real-world systems. Regulation isn’t optional anymore. If lawmakers don’t get serious about AI regulation, we’re living on borrowed time.

FLASH: Justice Dept seeks to dismiss Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool criminal case against former Olympian David Hearn Trump Admin acknowledges: "Damage to the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool in June 2026 was the result of flawed installation by the contractor"

As a fiscal conservative deficit hawk, there’s no way I could support a $1.5 trillion budget. Unless that $1.5 trillion was for an alcoholic Fox News weekend anchor who’s losing a war to Iran’s third tier army.