rogue vagabond

People seemed surprised that Trump would dismiss high gas prices and claim the U.S. is making a fortune from the Iran war. But if you know Trump’s brain, it’s not surprising at all. trib.al/PuX8XYi

She yelled “fascist” as President Trump spoke at a midterm campaign rally. Almost immediately, she was tackled and punched by male rally-goers. Why has no one been charged? nyti.ms/3Ukw1b8

@DavidSirota.com on why Dems keep repeating a losing strategy: www.levernews.com/rahm-emanuel...

Again: Elon (with Trump’s permission) throttling Ukraine via Starlink to help Putin kill Ukrainians. Building Starlink into essential systems is handing Elon supervillain-level powers. More: www.ft.com/content/e267...

The "Party of Reagan" has the United States siding with Russian aggression against NATO allies and a brutal war on a European democratic US partner. Yes, the whole party. If they didn't, they would impeach and remove the president who is blatantly breaking US law to help fund Russia's war effort.

This is the first time my dumb brain put “AI” and “election” together

this is just like those Lawfare articles about how it’s banana republic to prosecute the president for crimes. no, it’s the opposite, idiots

There's a case to be made against impeachment, but the alternative should be a scorched-earth effort to destroy and discredit the Trump administration and everything the Republican Party stands for. If you think "passing an ethics reform package" is the answer, my god what is wrong with you?

what an asshole

🔥JACK SMITH: "Trump engaged in serious crimes against 🇺🇸- a criminal scheme to prevent a lawful transfer of power... the rule of law faces challenges unlike any we've experienced. I won't be silenced by threats of prosecution. While fear may be contagious, courage is as well."

“Judges simply don’t believe the representations that are being made by United States attorneys, assistant United States attorneys and the like,” a former federal judge said. “I don’t think...in the history of jurisprudence in the United States, we’ve ever seen anything close to this.” (Pub. July)

The 81st session of the United Nations General Assembly opened with clashing worldviews: one arguing for shared climate policy, protecting forests and regulating AI. The other boasted climate denial, celebrated fossil fuel expansion and attacked global climate regulation.

NYT: “Two men deported to Equatorial Guinea by the Trump administration were hooded, bound, beaten with guns and shoved down a flight of stairs recently by police officers at a remote hotel where immigrants are being held indefinitely.” www.nytimes.com/2026/09/18/w...

🔥 MUST-READ — A WARNING ⚠️ from @AOC: “Heads they win, tails we lose… should the A.I. bubble congress must not bail them out… the biggest threat to humanity isn’t A.I. — it’s the tech oligarchs themselves… @RepAOC points out A.I. companies are demanding massive investments from 🇺🇸 while LOSING money

Exclusive: More American service members have died in the Middle East during the ongoing Iran war than the Pentagon has disclosed publicly, according to six U.S. officials familiar with the data.

“This idea that it’s somehow beyond our power to use what is probably the single most elegant feature of the Constitution—which is its capacity to be amended—is a complete failure of ambition and imagination,” Pete Buttigieg tells @jeffreygoldberg.bsky.social. theatln.tc/t9IwiQTz #TAF26

🚨An alarm is being sounded for the American public. Sitting federal judges go on the record with the NYT. On threats to democracy by DOJ/administration actions. Includes 90 minute interview with conservative Judge Patrick Schiltz. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/09/17/u...

Energy Transfer, whose CEO is a major Trump donor, named as biggest single methane producer in new rankings

🚨BREAKING: Supreme Court REJECTS Department of Justice effort to restore U.S. Postal Service mail-in voting rule. A huge victory for voting rights and free and fair elections. A defeat for Trump and his scheme to rig the elections. www.democracydocket.com/cases/trump-...

BREAKING: Judge Nichols, a Trump appointee in Washington, D.C., has *blocked* the administraiton's mail-in ballot plan, saying USPS lacked the authority to issue it. ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/show...

Breaking News: The E.P.A. is said to be planning to announce that the U.S. will no longer limit climate pollution from power plants.

"when I listen to Democratic voters, they’re not asking for ideological recalibration or even policy specifics. ... Instead, the Democratic voters I’m listening to are almost universally asking a different question: Why aren’t you fighting harder?"

The one and only AI "slowdown" or "pause" is companies realizing that frontier-capability + massive compute = a need to truly prioritize guardrails and instruction-following before their models walk them into liability that bankrupts them. Everything else is cynical and fake.

The fund managing the wealth of Lego’s billionaire owners plans to ramp up investments in plastics technologies as Europe tightens recycling rules.

🚨 BEWARE of VoteSafe.org 🚨 While it bills itself as a “safe” way to register to vote, it is actually a digital surveillance machine created by Elon Musk’s super PAC.

I'm going to KEEP talking about how Senator Rick Scott, the RICHEST man in all of Congress, DEFRAUDED Medicare & is trying to CUT Social Security. Will you join me?🤚

Apparently people are sharing this far and wide on social media, which I think is horrible. This could cripple ICE operations. PLEASE do not share this.

Trump this month announced plans to rescind a landmark rule that has protected old-growth forests in the US for 25 years. If finalized, the rollback is expected to benefit the companies that Tom Schultz, chief of the US Forest Service, represented in his previous role as a timber industry lobbyist.

The 20-year-old Haitian wrote before his death, “I came to this country to pursue my education … Yet now I’m walking through the streets of the United States with GPS monitor on my leg, carrying a feeling of shame and humiliation that I never imagined I would experience.” trib.al/8JowExf

Lianyong Wei's death marks the 57th death of an immigrant detainee held in the care of the government since the start of President Trump's second term. Twenty-four of those have occurred since Jan. 1. n.pr/3UzCLBQ

When you think the problem is the solution. “it follows that faster and more expansive growth will reduce deaths by even more.”

California farmers use a dizzying array of plastic materials to produce the crops that feed the nation. But as scientists document microplastics accumulating in soil and waterways, they’re urging legislators to find sustainable alternatives.

"For more than a year, the National Park Service has been quietly working to fulfill an unprecedented directive from Trump officials: Parcel off a corner of Yosemite National Park to give to a private developer." www.notus.org/agencies/tru...

We are a broken nation. Hundreds of thousands of Haitians were living and working legally, paying taxes, and contributing. Haiti remains wholly unsafe. But Trump hates Haitians, and the White House wanted videos of Black people in chains, so they stripped them of status and turned on the cameras.

These people had protected status. They lived here legally. They worked, they paid taxes. They made lives. Raised families. Now we’ve dehumanized them. Ripped away that protection and told them to get out. This is a stain on the soul of this Nation.

This got a lot of play this week: “.. Disruptions in the Strait of Hormuz and the coming super El Niño are adding to fertilizer and food price pressures, with the potential to translate into weaker yields and lower food production capacity through 2027.”

Organizations that help service members apply to leave the military as conscientious objectors are seeing a large increase in concerns over U.S. military strikes against alleged drug boats and targets inside Iran. www.ms.now/news/conscie...

The high court’s shadow-docket decision isn’t the final word on mail-in ballots, but it reveals the conservative bloc’s comfort with the administration’s voter suppression schemes. trib.al/clG2enK

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Exclusive: The Interior Department created a “White House priorities” list so that Trump’s pet projects could quickly be approved and funded—while maintenance needs at national parks across the country were deemed lower priorities, Michael Scherer reports:

BREAKING: The editor of military newspaper Stars and Stripes says he has been fired for insubordination after calling any censorship a "red line."

Iowa has the second-highest rate of cancer nationwide. Promises to address the issue are top of mind for candidates ahead of the November elections. "At some point," one voter said, "wouldn’t people just look at that data and say, you know, maybe we should do something different?”

If you didn’t already dislike power-hungry data centers popping up on Earth, just wait till you see what they could do to the night sky. A new study suggests proposed megaconstellations of orbital data centers could outnumber the visible stars and blot out the Milky Way.

Nearly 45 million acres of national forest land could be opened to logging and development.

50 Senators let a Weekend News Anchorman run the Pentagon because they were afraid a gameshow host would yell at them

The Defense Department has designated its press office as a classified space, off limits to journalists, further restricting interactions between its public-facing representatives and the reporters assigned to cover the military.

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More like a hush fund, am I right?

BREAKING: The Trump Justice Department has expanded the just-announced settlement of Trump's IRS lawsuit to include a pledge that the IRS will no longer pursue *any* claims it may have against Trump, his family members, and his companies over unpaid taxes.

Public opposition to data centers is hardening as overwhelming majorities of Americans now oppose the facilities in their communities, according to a new Gallup poll. The survey found that opposition is especially intense among Democrats. https://wapo.st/4nt6cA1