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Honestly, Musk’s need for attention is a significant weakness Democrats ought to exploit. If Musk were smart, he’d be hiding his giving the way other billionaires do. But that’s not him. He’s gotta be in our faces all the fucking time. Dems should make this the face of the opposition.

State Department employees are being told they are ineligible for promotion unless they can prove they voted for Trump for president in 2016, 2020 and 2024. www.washingtonsun.com/administrati...

James Tallerico goes after Elon Musk on Twitter. 👌

This is pure 🔥

WSJ sets out the story of Ken Paxton's lavish New Year's party in Dubai with a group of felons who fled to avoid prosecution and a woman who was not his wife. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

A parliamentary investigation found that Poland's previous government paid $7.65 million for Israeli-made spyware Pegasus and used it to target opposition politicians and legal officials. Netanyahu had full access to all this data just as he does to the data of every Pegasus client.

A U.S. Air Force member jailed since August for publicly calling for President Donald Trump's impeachment is being held in solitary confinement 24 hours a day, according to his attorney. www.military.com/air-force-ma...

This graphic image, by @mackinnonart.bsky.social , shows Lady Justice blindfolded and pinned down as her scales lie beside her, one hand covering her mouth — an explicit reference to how California professor Christine Blasey Ford described an alleged sexual assault by Kavanaugh

The richest man owns X. The second richest man owns The Washington Post. The third and fifth richest men control Google. The sixth richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. And the eighth richest man now owns both Paramount and Warner Bros. See the problem here?

Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. and the CDC have stopped recommending seven vaccines for children, including vaccines that protect against hepatitis B, RSV, and meningitis. These vaccines have kept millions of children out of the hospital and saved countless lives. I'm suing.

"The Archdiocese of St. Louis has filed a lawsuit ... claims that the Ste. Genevieve County Jail and ICE have violated the First Amendment rights of immigrant detainees by preventing Catholic priests from delivering communion, hearing confessions and celebrating Mass." fox2now.com/news/missour...

Troy Jackson after Collins takes credit for rural healthcare cuts in big beautiful bill not being as bad as they could've been even though she voted to advance the bill: "Sen. Collins is like an arsonist who helped set the fire, and then she wants credit for bringing a cup of water to put it out"

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The only refugees we let in were white South Africans fleeing an imaginary genocide.

Pilots in beautiful machines dropping bombs down air chutes into drug slash nuclear factories?

Commerce secretary Howard Lutnick has an annual salary of $205,000. And he reported "outside income" of $250mn last year, largely based on investments with strong connections to US Government action. www.cnbc.com/2026/09/30/h...

"His summits are a national hazard precisely because Trump apparently does not understand that he is representing the United States; instead, he seems to think he’s just having a visit with some of the guys in a very cool club of which he’d very much like to be a member."

Trump's presidential campaign aired an identical version in January 2024. Trump promoted it on his Truth Social back then: truthsocial.com/@realDonaldT...

5 weeks before the midterms, American taxpayers are paying to air an ad from the 2024 Trump campaign. You are paying for this political ad. bsky.app/profile/bayl...

Our country is staring into the abyss, and much of our national press corps lacks the fortitude that this moment demands www.nytimes.com/2026/09/26/b...

US Ambassador to China David Perdue says in their recent meeting Trump asked President Xi if China wanted to buy weapons systems from the US.

For the folks in the back: CEOS ARE PAID *325* TIMES AS MUCH AS THE TYPICAL WORKER! 📣 It hasn't always been this way. It doesn't have to be this way. When workers had more power, CEOs were paid 21 times as much as their workers. Workers, it's time to take your power back. #FormAUnion #UnionStrong

From @sulliview.bsky.social: Fox is shielding its rubes from 1) news that Don Jr really is on the take from RU after all (2016 scandal) and 2) news that mail-in voting really is legal and safe (2020 scandal). www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

A Nobel Peace Prize-winning psychiatrist is calling for an intervention over the president’s access to nuclear weapons.

“Air sampling at four US airports in 2023 and 2024 detected SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, in over 98% of samples and influenza A in over 17%, according to a study published in PLOS Global Public Health” www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/air...

Today, Marco Rubio and former urinal salesman now NATO ambassador Matt Whittaker announced the US abandonment of NATO. And US corporate media simply didn't notice.

1. Trump has amassed, by far, the largest midterms war chest ever. He’s finally started spending it.

www.theguardian.com/world/2026/s... Trains carrying Boris Johnson and ex-CIA chief may have been targeted in Russian strike, officials say

David Brooks wants to ask the questions that every generation must try to answer. On his new podcast, some of the world’s leading thinkers join him to explore what it means to be human, and more. Watch the first episode of “The Permanent Questions”: theatln.tc/xtELXgmc

Democrats have a plan to stop AI from destroying civilization. But how will they pay for it?

The White House has given RFK Jr access to military aircraft as the health secretary has criss-crossed the country. RFK Jr used private flight to join GOP candidates in Iowa last month. www.washingtonpost.com/health/2026/...

Late-night host Jimmy Kimmel said the agency that regulates television "threatened" the show and that an interview with James Talarico, the Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate in Texas, will not air on television but on YouTube. https://to.pbs.org/4h1MubS

James Talarico, the Texas Democratic Senate candidate, says the Trump admin is committing “the most dangerous form of cancel culture” by pressuring TV stations over their content. His interview with Jimmy Kimmel will be up on YouTube tonight... www.cnn.com/2026/09/10/m...

This is the interview Trump’s FCC doesn’t want you to see. We’re not just going up against the most corrupt politician in Texas. We’re going up against this entire corrupt system.

For the first time in history, the national average price of gas for the month of August has been above $4 per gallon every single day. If it feels like it’s been the most expensive August at the pump, that’s because it is. End. The. War. apnews.com/article/stoc...

Through a massive purge, Hegseth has fired or pushed out every single Senate-confirmed uniformed and civilian leader in the Department of Defense... largely because he feels threatened by them. (Recall that Hegseth was RIFed as an O4 due to suspicions of alcoholism.) www.wsj.com/politics/nat...

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...

Darline Graham said that because her own parents died when she was a kid, people today shouldn't expect "government health care." So I dug up the real story of the death of Darline/Lindsey's parents. It makes a strong case FOR government health care. 1/ (new piece) newrepublic.com/article/2148...

NEW: Thermal drone footage shows the Microsoft-backed DataOne AI data center in Vineland, NJ is running dozens of gas generators. None of them have permits. A Floodlight visual investigation with @us.theguardian.com:

Shut it down. Now.

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Oh, no, no, no. Elections can have terrible consequences. Their outcomes can destroy lives & our planet. Please make a pledge never to sit out another election. If you have to "hold your nose" to vote, then do that. It's no game; what we lose may be gone for good. www.nytimes.com/live/2026/08...

It’s curious that the tech billionaire members of the “Nerd Reich” that @gilduran.com writes about in his new book of the same name REALLY don’t want you to be able to listen to his podcast or hear about his book. Maybe they’ve been living under a rock and haven’t heard of The Streisand Effect…

"USDA reported a nearly 500% jump in beef export sales before revising the figure down by 90% a ​week later. The error was the latest of a series of questionable USDA reports amid ​concerns about data quality after staffing losses during the Trump administration..." www.reuters.com/business/ret...

Trump reported 1,051 trades in his June disclosure. These two stood out: — June 18: Bought $250K–$500K in Boeing, the same day the Navy awarded Boeing an $880 million contract — June 23: Bought $15K–$50K in SpaceX, the same day NASA recorded a $425.6 million award to SpaceX

WATCH: Trump’s Iran war has BACKFIRED in 'remarkable' way, says fmr. War College Professor @radiofreetom.bsky.social #LastWord

Tom Nichols on Hegseth: “We’re losing a war, morale is bad, our men and women out there are suffering, and he is putting out TikToks of himself doing sloppy chin ups.” @radiofreetom.bsky.social