Turns out Trump administration adores waste and inefficiency.

Do it! runforsomething.net

Let me be clear: if Chuck Schumer caves tonight, that will be the formal end of his career in Democratic politics. The new generation coming into leadership has no tolerance for cowards.

Went back to the history of the Sicilian Mafia to illustrate something obvious but worth stating explicitly: The Trump administration behaves like an organized crime syndicate running a protection racket, not a representative government www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

At the end of this episode of On The Media, Elliot Morris has a great idea for the Democrats: stop spending money on ads and instead spend it locally, doing practically anything to visibly help people. www.wnycstudios.org/story/do-mod...

There’s more to the story about Chicago South Shore apartment building raid. therealdeal.com/chicago/2025...

Yearly killing a million 3/3 The model is conservative, assuming for example that the State Department will fully sustain the programs that remain. As of Nov. 5th, it estimated that U.S.A.I.D.’s dismantling has already caused the deaths of six hundred thousand people, two-thirds of them children.

That time DHS (really Greg Bovino) got sued for promoting a white dude to a CBP job that he hadn't even applied for over a black dude who had. www.plainsite.org/dockets/down...

A CHATTANOOGA veteran processes his new health care reality This is what @RepTimBurchett @MarshaBlackburn and Trump are fighting not to fix

Imagine having a 84 year old president providing artists a basic income: "It is never acceptable, therefore, that art be treated as something peripheral or residual. The arts are foundational for our lives together." 🇮 www.instagram.com/p/DPU29D1j94V/

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I'm fairly certain this decade will be universally acknowledged as the death of so-called "American exceptionalism."

ChatGPT gave a significant portion of my students the wrong answer to an easy quiz question that everyone used to always get right I had two groups of students turn in annotated bibliographies that were ChatGPT generated - not a single citation actually existed

Stephen Miller (2003) celebrating torture #StephenMiller

Enraging

I am just so fucking proud of her.

Fact-check: Most of the goons in Trump's deportation army aren't even ICE agents. Only about 13% of the personnel carrying out Trump’s deportation agenda are employed by ICE’s primary deportation unit; the rest are pulled from other jobs. Check out the full report: tinyurl.com/yvavwh4f

Keep an open heart and mind to interpret all manner of words spoken to you whether they be from birth, family, circumstance, sunlight, dreams, air, sky, water, all creatures and plants, dust, shadows, or illusions. These are among your many teachers.

There are a lot of children of ICE agents who are going to change their names when they grow up.

We have at least 3 Hitlers with nukes and they're all on the same team and the media is seemly unconcerned.

In this post I express an opinion which may result in my deportation to Turkmenistan because it was deemed hate speech: I like Kurdish food.

Good for Me but Not for Thee Department: Eric Trump’s crypto mining plant is powered by wind. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

This is a 9-0 Supreme Court decision from just last year.

Trump underwater in swing states. Interesting that more voters say civil rights and civil liberties are the most important issues facing the country (15 percent total) than crime (3 percent) or immigration (9 percent). www.economist.com/interactive/...

Trump’s so-called Department of Justice has removed a study showing that white supremacist and far-right violence “continues to outpace all other types of terrorism and domestic violent extremism” in the United States.

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On the greenway www.reddit.com/r/massachuse...

If any reporter ever pointed out to Trump what cities have the greatest crime rates and asked him why he isn't sending troops there, they would forever be my hero. But I suspect no such hero exists.

Why electricity bills have increased. youtu.be/hJ2tqs_vksc

AP News has a tracker of lawsuits against the Trump administration.

DHS is recruiting using a not-so-subtle reference to a 1978 book from white nationalist William Gayley Simpson, Which Way Western Man? Simpson's book was released under an imprint associated with the National Alliance, founded by Turner Diaries author William Luther Pierce.

Apologies in advance for Apple News link.

Don't Be Distracted from Trump's Filth www.emptywheel.net/2025/08/12/d...

Below are the 30 U.S. cities with at least 100,000 residents that had the highest number of crimes against people, per 100,000, according to the latest FBI data report. Goodness, Washington, D.C., forgot to be included! JD Vance & Jim Jordon's Ohio makes a stellar showing. Heck of a job on crime!

Every day the news is like “the US government announces that meat can be sold without saying what animal it is & they are also mandating a return to mercury thermometers,” followed by “RFK Jr. has removed the coloring from Twizzlers in a major win for everyday Americans & their health & pocketbooks”

🚨LEVER TIME: Trump’s billionaire private equity booster is on tape saying his “dream” is to get access to Americans’ retirement savings — now Trump may let private equity loot your 401k. We air the billionaire’s audio on LEVER TIME — you gotta hear it👇 www.levernews.com/your-401-k-i...

I scored 88% on The Boston News Quiz! www.wbur.org/quiz

Today as 25 UN World Food Program trucks entered Gaza, IDF soldiers fired on the hungry thousands, apparently killing more than 60. Yesterday near a U.S.-Israeli-run food site, IDF soldiers opened fire and killed at least 32. War crimes. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/20/w...

Because. www.youtube.com/watch?v=C729...

Here’s what the US government is up to right now: invading playgrounds.

How much does this guy want us to avoid preventative care?

In 2018, Trump hailed a trade deal with South Korea as "fair and reciprocal" and said it was "a historic milestone in trade." So much for that.

Thank you Cloudflare! gizmodo.com/free-lunch-i...

🔥🔥🔥 Please stop what you're doing and watch how Democratic Congressman Joe Neguse DESTROY the chair of the House Rules Committee, MAGA Congresswoman Virginia Foxx, as they debate Trump's Big UGLY Bill.

The Supreme Court term went out with a bang on Friday, giving Trump's lawlessness the green light.

NEW: The death shadow cast by Musk. “When U.S.-supported soup kitchens were forced to close, babies starved quietly, their mothers said, while older siblings died begging for food.” The world’s richest man did this to the world’s poorest children. Don’t ever forget.

AI in the wild? This tray tissue I was given at a restaurant is full of errors and hallucinations…!