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In August, President Trump announced he had signed the “biggest oil deal in world history.” ProPublica reviewed the deal and found it gives a small group of people largely handpicked by the Trump administration long-term control of the enterprise.

Writers Guild speaks out about tech platforms squashing the @alexgibneyfilm doc about Elon Musk: “A small handful of billionaires now own virtually every major media company, news outlet, social media platform and are demonstrating how this unchecked concentration threatens democratic discourse.”

Oil hit $115 a barrel for the first time since May on Fri, weighing on global markets already rattled after a brutal sell-off in Big Tech stocks on Wall Street. Brent crude climbed as much as 1.8% to $115.16/bbl in London, extending a blistering rally amid fears of renewed escalation of conflict.

No kidding. According to her photographer, Jarl Alexandre Alé de Basseville, Melania worked in Moscow before she transitioned to the US via Paris and Epstein's friends, and she speaks fluent Russian. Maybe she's an alumna of the apocryphal red sparrow school.

FYI: Bailing out farmers is socialism.

Trump on the World Series and a possible baseball lockout: "Nobody cares"

What’s extremely important to remember in this is that for a fascist/authoritarian regime to take hold, it requires the population turning on itself. The government does not have the numbers to do it on its own, it needs people willing to sell each other out and others living in constant fear.

Elected Democrats need to have Slotkin's back here because the last time she made a pretty routine call for accountability—namely, by reminding servicemembers to ignore illegal orders—Donald Trump took to social media to suggest that she should be executed.

Let’s check in on The Free State of Florida, where the GOP is pursuing criminal prosecution of anyone who mentions a grand jury investigation that implicates the governor’s wife and a sitting US senator www.miamiherald.com/news/article...

Other Republican consultant: we need to message better, like its just about getting able bodied men to work. The problem is that is bullshit. Most people who can work, are working. What's going to get them is the paperwork requirements. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-trump-...

"Warming Rate Doubled Since 2010, Seven Climate Records Broken: 2026 State of the Climate Report" by Oscar Lazenby for #TechTimes: www.techtimes.com/articles/329...

Absolutely stunning that in the NYT’s latest major story on Elon Musk single-handedly trying to save the GOP there is NOT ONE WORD about how he is the world’s most vocal white supremacist and advocate of ethnic cleansing.

JD Vance running around the country saying he’s fighting health care fraud while his nominee for the senate in TX who he completely supports is partying in Dubai with a guy whole stole over $300 million in health care fraud and gave Paxton $190,000. This is the Republican Party.

BREAKING: We just filed a Hatch Act complaint over the outrageous raid on Ilhan Omar's home Officials can't use criminal power to affect an election. This is the textbook case @democracydefendersfund.org & @rwpusa.bsky.social👇

I don’t think this is how the world works.

New working paper: the Norwegian wealth tax was a huge success. The "exodus" of wealthy people never happened (less than 100 individuals left). Tax revenue increased by 71.5%. No changes in business activity or investment. www.nber.org/papers/w35854

Guilfoyle specialized in abusing the staff around her. "'Guilfoyle was drinking at four in the morning, she called her security detail, Vasili, a grandfather, who was sleeping obviously, and did not respond. Next day, she demoted him.' Her alleged early morning request? To fetch more ice cubes."

Starting Oct. 1, many immigrants who are here legally lose their Medicaid coverage because of the Republican budget bill passed last year. n.pr/4z0FPpq

They look like they get the joke.

Electric car emissions benefits are far greater than first thought Their results showed that the climate benefits were generally greatest when gasoline vehicles were retired at year one, resulting in a 58% reduction in carbon emissions over a 16-year period. www.futurity.org/carbon-emiss...

Mentions on Fox shows of the very newsworthy confrontation between Schmitt and Jack Smith: Ingraham (7-8pm): 0 Watters (8-9): 0 Hannity (9-10): 0 Gutfeld (10-11): 0 Fox & Friends this AM: 0

"Nebraskans couldn’t escape the heat this summer — not even at night" 'Minimum temperatures have shot up, presenting an overlooked threat to people, livestock, and crops' grist.org/extreme-heat...

This is the problem: When an honest person faces a false accusation, they often seem confused, hesitant, uncertain, because they are genuinely trying to figure out what the accuser is talking about and why they seem so certain.

Unearthed video: Leaked Flock webinar reveals Flock employees teaching police how to surveil anti-Trump No Kings protestors and track their vehicles.

Trump and Bessent are effectively putting an end to the dominant role of USD as a reserve currency globally. And this is a major source of US economic power in the globe.

In case you were wondering what those surveillance cameras would be used for… Video: buff.ly/aegvchv

Life comes at you fast. One minute you're an unknown health economist rushing to publish a hasty study of COVID incidence in Santa Clara and the next thing you know you're signing away a good fraction of the NIH's budget to the Department of Defense.

I interviewed Maine's new Democratic senate candidate. He's pretty cool

We are alive in the most incredible time in human history and we should appreciate it a whole lot more.

Our troops could be using UNSAFE or INEFFECTIVE weapons because of Pete Hegseth. That's right. Hegseth gutted the office that tests weapons. @norcross.house.gov and I are pressing Hegseth to reverse these cuts. We shouldn’t unnecessarily risk troops’ lives and our national security.

Earlier this month, Massachusetts Governor Maura Healey signed a bill strengthening protections against warrantless arrests by federal agents in courthouses, public schools, and healthcare facilities.

John Solomon’s Propaganda Technique: Keeping the “Who” “What” “When” Secret to Fool the Rubes emptywheel.net/2026/08/17/j...

NEW: As Democrats get hammered for Hasan Piker saying "America deserved 9/11"... ...the media ignore these Republican candidates sponsoring a pastor who blamed America for COVID and Jan. 6...

The Trump administration gives a green light to crooks. Casey Michel explains: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Trump has been openly toying with the idea of invoking a national emergency to take over elections since last June. Quick thread to re-up what's going on...

It seems like landmark studies such as the Oregon Medicaid study would no longer be eligible under these new guidelines?

I keep on noting that: (a) cutting both USAID and SNAP programs at the same time is not good for the farm economy in the United States; (b) blocking the Strait of Hormuz, a major choke point for fertilizer…also not good for the farm economy; and (c) major heat droughts in Europe. This is not good.

“The class-action lawsuit said the tap water at the facility was “discolored and tastes odd, raising serious concerns about its potability”, with lawyers writing: “The ‘drinking’ water provided in coolers often appears dirty and regularly runs out for hours at a time.””

As usual, Susan Collins does the tally, sees that Todd Blanche has the votes to win, and then announces...

Pretty convenient that Trump gets immunity from IRS audits for the year where he made, by far, the most money of his entire life in shady deals all over the globe. His should get a special “Trust me, bro” tax form from the IRS to submit.

Apple got a $2.2 billion tariff refund. Amazon got $600 million. Trump is sending the "refunds" to the companies, not working people. Every single cent of these refunds should go back to American consumers.

Awful: The local press in Maine is crediting Susan Collins for getting Trump to agree to ICE bodycams nationwide. It's cynical BS: She voted for $70 billion in ICE money and against requiring bodycams. But this kind of thing is why she could still win. New from me: newrepublic.com/article/2138...

If you don't give a sh*t whether every young people has a short & miserable life ricocheting from one climate disaster, food insecurity to another, then you'll celebrate oil billionaires record profit, and support North Sea Oil drilling to give them more luxury homes, private jets, yachts, bunkers

Appalling cruelty — and all to fund more tax cuts for the rich.

STATEMENT ON TRUMP ADMINISTRATION REFLECTING POOL INFIGHTING

Mission of France to the UN in Geneva: The US used to be a beacon of human rights. Not anymore. Today, it stands alongside North Korea, Nicaragua, Mali & Russia, isolated. And the world no longer listens to it.