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The feeling when you realize you are the only member of the Biden family who actually needed a pardon, and you were passed over.

From Zelenskyy. Patriot interceptors that could save innocent lives are sitting in European countries for weeks, which they paid for, unable to be transferred to Ukraine because Hegseth refuses to sign off.

There is something deeply wrong with allowing a sociopath from South Africa to kill thousands of kids in Africa and Ukraine just because he has a lot of money.

People in Houston are leaving their “I Voted” stickers at the memorial of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, who was killed by an ICE agent in July. A beautiful reminder of the people who can’t cast a ballot themselves, but whose lives matter just as much. #SheShed #VOTE

988,000 people bought into Trump’s crypto scam. Maybe start there.

A former director of Florida’s problem gambling hotline was sentenced to nearly 10 years in prison after prosecutors said he stole nearly $1.5 million from a previous employer to feed his gambling habit.

It’s the same flag.

I don’t think everyone realizes how bad things are for US science: For the fiscal year that just ended, the Trump regime withheld $1.4 billion from the National Science Foundation’s research budget, which is about 1/5 of its primary research budget.

Do you remember in The Lion King when scar told the hyenas if they helped him become king he will make their lives better and then their lives didn’t get better and he blamed them for it. And upon realizing this, the hyenas ate him. Do with that story what you will.

Peter Thiel is getting a very cold reception outside his new mansion in the exclusive Barrio Parque neighborhood in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Argentinians are chanting: “Out, out, Peter out.”

Refusing to tear my clothes and smear ashes on my face in performative mourning for a white man that espoused violence is…. not the same as violence

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...

Texas Gov. Abbott is refusing to extradite to Minnesota an ICE agent charged with firing into a home there, "at least until Minnesota 'step[s] up and [repays proceeds of] fraud that they’ve committed in their state through federal programs.'” It's a meritless stand. [@stevevladeck.bsky.social]

🚨🚨🚨 BREAKING. Joe Rogan has just discovered that Trump might be corrupt.

When you win a war, you dictate the terms of the peace. When you lose a war, you try to salvage the best deal you can get to end hostilities. What we are doing is the latter.

FYI there is no "real" reason why Rome "fell." Its power waned for the usual, mundane reasons: widening gap between rich and poor, inability to maintain infrastructure, incompetent leadership, pointless wars, endless persecution of marginalized groups who performed vital labor, etc.

NEW: In a stunning admission, the Trump administration admitted in court documents that it canceled billions in energy grants to states "based solely" on politics -- and whether that state was represented by Democrats and backed Harris in 2024. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/24/b...

The three genders (nonbuynary)

So now millions of football fans around the world view the US as cheaters who used political corruption to influence FIFA and we lose anyway. So much winning. When’s the next war?

CARTOON OF THE DAY (From @dccartoonist.bsky.social ) #BribeForceOne

It is seriously alarming how many of the world’s wealthiest and most powerful people are just screamingly mentally unwell in deeply toxic, dangerous ways.

An iPad inside Independence Hall tells visitors that a second floor room was used in the 1850s to hold individuals “accused of crimes of the period.” Originally, the screen read “accused fugitives of slavery.” @fallonroth.bsky.social and I discover more retelling of history by Trump’s admin. 🎁 🔗

Ossoff: "Just think, 250 years on, what the Founders would see if they visited us today. *crowd groans* But wait -- they would see that slavery had been abolished. They would see that Americans without land, and then women, and then the descendants of slaves had secured voting rights ... "

While Russia bombs apartment buildings and murders civilians daily, the US will play a hockey game in Russia to “melt the ice between us.”

Trump's reelection basically meant that white collar crime is now legal, except when it can be used as a cudgel against his political or personal enemies. The task of rebuilding the DOJ after this debacle is going to be epic and thankless.

The worst possible tactic you can use when negotiating a deal with a regime like Iran is to dunk on them in public during negotiations. Any knowledgeable seasoned diplomat knows this. But we have Mr. Art of the Deal who needs to feed his cult and the markets a steady diet of BS.

Congratulations to Péter Magyar on a decisive election victory in Hungary. The Hungarian people have chosen a new path. We are ready to work with you, and our European allies, to deepen our cooperation in trade, defence, and security.

Everyone please welcome CBS News Immigration Analyst Viktor Orban.

The real reason Trump is mad at NATO.

“Are you encouraging oil company CEOs to use the Strait of Hormuz?” Trump: “I think they should use the Strait. Look, we took out just about all of their mine ships." Hours later, an oil tanker is decimated by Iran just past the Strait of Hormuz. His advice killed people and destroyed a tanker.

Bill Clinton was just interviewed about his Epstein links. Here he is as assistant professor at the University of Arkansas School of Law in 1973. He had just graduated from Yale Law School after a Rhodes Scholarship paid MA degree at Oxford. That's real hair!

TCM movie tonight during the SOTU was "Gaslight" PS In hindsight, they needed a movie about a Gasbag. He set the all time blather record: 1 hour and 41 minutes

Don’t let Trump steal your music. Sue him like the Hayes family did.

Truly nothing new under the sun. Just reading Pat Buchanan from 2002 writing what might as well be every Miller/MAGA/Project 2025 talking point in 2026. All the talk of birthrates, white victimization, xenophobia, anti-feminism, Christian nationalism, even promoting anti-minority violence. All here.

Admission to a capricious abuse of power based on petty grievance—a power usurped from Congress.

This brand new protest song is timely and totally Boss

Target in Minneapolis has pulled Hispanic employees off of pick-up order duty after ICE arrested two US citizen Hispanic employees while on the job. “I’m literally a U.S. citizen!” one shouted as they escorted him into a van.

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Alex Pretti was a colleague at the VA. We hired him to recruit for our trial. He became an ICU nurse- I lover working with him. He was a good kind person who lived to help and these fuckers executed him. White. Hot. Rage.

Today’s front page of the Minnesota Star Tribune. 👀

The total NSF budget was 9 billion. I doubt they spend 89% of it on quail.

Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell just hired an extremely aggressive law firm in his criminal fight against Donald Trump. The firm is known for going “scorched earth” and fighting until the very end without settling.

The Norwegian Nobel Prize committee has been forced to make a statement, declaring that the prize cannot be transferred. It's hard even to comprehend how stupid this has become

She was protesting. He told her to leave. She was complying. SHE TURNED THE WHEEL TO LEAVE. Another agent tried to forcibly open her door. She gave the car gas to leave. He shot her in the face. These are the facts of what happened.

South Park writer Toby Morton bought the domain www.trumpkennedycenter.org months ago. Decent trolling

Having to watch a bootlegged copy of a video from another country because my country censored it is making me feel as if I'm living in 1980s Eastern Germany.

Relieved that the MIT & Brown shootings are solved. This Reddit post “blew the Brown case wide open.” The poster later told police he asked him: “Your car is back there, why are you circling the block?” The police then tracked the car and identified the man. www.reddit.com/r/providence...