The US now has 64 national parks after President Trump signed legislation designating Arizonaβs Chiricahua National Monument as a national park. Established in 1924, the 12,000-acre site is known for its volcanic rock formations and Apache heritage.
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What is most striking about this is the sheer stupidity of the entire plan. Did he think no one was ever going to figure out he was a plant? I mean, FR. π€·π»ββοΈπ€¦π»ββοΈ Oh, and please, more of this.
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WATCH: @lawrenceodonnell.bsky.social explains how Donald Trumpβs comments appearing to welcome a nuclear attack on Los Angeles and San Diego are βexactly why the 25th Amendment was written.
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A Chinese financing company owned by several local government entities has funded the purchase of restricted Nvidia chips, according to documents filed with Beijing regulators
βNo agency on Earth could fail eight audits and still get a $1.5 trillion check, except the Pentagon.β
Think Trumpβs $1.5 trillion Pentagon budget request is outrageous? This'll blow your mind.
From the newsletter:
- Trump is a titanic f*ck up
- Brutal new WSJ polling for Trump, consumer confidence craters
- SCOTUS corruptly bends the knee, again
- Watch new interviews with battleground Senate and House candidates
- Let's go win this thingπ
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A federal judge ordered President Trump to restore White House access for journalists from CNN, MS NOW and Politico, saying his ban on the three media outlets was likely unconstitutional reut.rs/4iGBhjl
We roll out the red carpet for Putin and Xi while we shit on our closest allies daily. The American government under Trump and his cultist Republican Party is a disgrace.
I wrote about why not backing down to bullies is more important than ever. Mike Flynn sued me 3 years ago to shut me up & strip away not just my rights but everyone who cares about democracy in America.
He decided to make an example out of the wrong blogger. I won.
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Breaking News: Major TV networks β ABC, CBS, Fox News and NBC β agreed to suspend their pooled coverage of President Trump after the White House blocked CNN from its duties.
The major television networks are standing with CNN by declining to replace its White House pool crew after the Trump administration barred the network from fulfilling its assigned duties on Monday. https://cnn.it/4xAtxTC
Bensky: I had met one woman who had been to 42 Trump ralliesβsheβs very well known in the community.
And she said that when Trump had said, βAre we still talking about Jeffrey Epstein?β that something in her switched. She said, βI canβt support him. I canβt support MAGA.β
So to sum up a busy week in American politics:
- Trump is a titanic f-ck up
- He is far more a painted clown than a President
- The country and the world have turned on him
- The American people are ready to put Democrats back in power
More π
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More US military personnel have reportedly died during the ongoing Iran war than the Pentagon has shared publicly, the latest and most serious evidence of the Trump administrationβs ongoing cover-up around disastrous military failures in that conflict.
Reminder that Kanye West performed in Tampa in June and is scheduled to play at the Cowboysβ stadium in November. Thereβs been no pushback from stadium owners.
But I think it's a mistake to use that to conclude they're crazy, delusional, or just engaged in hype to make money. As in climate, there is evidence in the world to assess and there is a ton of mounting real-world evidence that this is a technology that is getting much more powerful and dangerous.
I find the ideological hothouse around AI - rationalism, effective altrusim - super weird and alienating. I don't share the worldview of most of the people, and obviously almost everyone involved in the entire debate has enormous financial stakes in the outcomes.
One of the stubborn dynamics in climate politics is conservatives being simply unwilling to believe that their ideological opponents were/are right about something very important. Lots of conservatives really did covince themselves it was all a conspiracy to impose more government control.
We know 1,622 people have voted so far in the midterms!
All in North Carolina.
Registered Republicans make up 7% of the total so far. election.lab.ufl.edu/early-vote/2...
We spoke to several women, now adults, after finding images of their abuse on X. One said the abuse was like a rock tossed into a pond, and the spread of the images are ripples that continue to disrupt her life. Here is how another woman described X's role:
When we presented our findings to child safety experts, they were shocked that we were persistently finding NCMEC images. Even though X said it reported 1.3 million images to NCMEC this year, some were clearly slipping through β X did not answer specific questions about how it blocks abuse material.
Over six months, we tracked the appearance of child sexual abuse material on X. We found images from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children's database, which is considered one of the most highly vetted and which many tech companies block on upload. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/11/t...
Twelve countries, including Canada, France, UK, Spain and Denmark moved to ban trade in Israeli illegal settlement goods. The widest coordinated Western action against Israel's crimes on Palestinians in the West Bank.
UK declares Israelβs West Bank occupation is unlawful and that settler terrorists are carrying out ethnic cleansing. Israel closed the UK consulate in Jerusalem, expelled UK personnel from Gaza ceasefire monitoring, blocked a UK team in Ramallah and barred 12 Britons. Vows retaliation against UK.
Britain declares Israel's occupation of the West Bank unlawful, reports Israeli settler terrorists are committing ethnic cleansing, Israel vows to retaliate on UK www.yacnews.com/britain-decl...
Hundreds marched to Peter Thiel's house to read him an βeviction noticeβ, calling for him to leave Argentina and close his businesses. They cited water use & land purchases for AI infrastructure, Palantir, and the SΓΊper RIGI bill, which they said is written to facilitate AI data-centre projects.
Argentina's Senate votes on 10 September on the SΓΊper RIGI, a 30-year tax freeze for billion-dollar projects, with poverty at 30% and rising. Protestors call on Peter Thiel to be deported. www.yacnews.com/thirty-years...
Chris Hayes and Rebecca Traister discuss the enduring hope of feminist trailblazer Gloria Steinem.
βWe're constantly in the fight, and the only end is, in fact, when you say, "Oh, we've lost.β And that was her point. There's no loss. There's no end. There's hope,β says Traister.
How Leonard Leo is spreading h is toxic brand of Christo-fascist nationalism to the next generation. Wonder why Roe is gone? Blame Leonard Leo. And if you don't know who he is, you should.
Palestinian American Loui Ridi, speaking from the occupied West Bank village of Qusra, describes being trapped inside his family home amid an ongoing Israeli settler siege.
"Sen. Jon Ossoff knew exactly what he was doing by invoking President Trump's 'travel with Natalie' the other day," writes Brian Stelter.
"Liberal commentators cheered Ossoff while conservative commentators condemned him." | Analysis https://cnn.it/3SlKqD8
49.8M vs 1.9M:
The number of jobs created by Democratic administrations vs Republican ones since George Bush Sr, almost 40 years. Why aren't Democrats taking about this? It's because their messaging machine sucks. By every economic measure, Democrats are better.
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