“Trade associations have played a role for many years, allowing companies to hide in the crowd. These associations can do the dirty work for corporations and run their political campaigns that might otherwise do brand damage.” www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

ICE is pepper spraying CPD (Chicago police)

When we have a Democratic Administration, that will be the time to put Hegseth in chains and send him to The Hague for trial for crimes against humanity. This PoS is no better than the murdering Slobodan Milošević & should be treated the same way. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/03/u...

World’s oceans fail key health check as acidity crosses critical threshold for marine life

Think that's the worst of it? Think again. "Joe Botello was jolted awake before 6 a.m. Masked & armed agents ... had forcibly entered his house in the 900 block of Chippewa Drive, destroying a front door and glass patio door in the process." www.chicagotribune.com/2025/09/16/e...

The assassination of Kirk or any other political commentator is despicable. So how about some history about another political commentator who was assassinated by a white supremacist: Alan Berg. What is the right-wing view on this murder of a political commentator? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Be....

@edzitron.com could have written this article in the Atlantic. I'm reading pretty much exactly what I have been hearing from Ed. Here's the link to the (gift) article: www.theatlantic.com/economy/arch...

Here's the punchline: 84% of the grants were made in districts that voted for Trump & overwhelmingly voted for Republican members of the House & Senate. If you have friends or relatives who live in rural America & voted for Trump, let them know what they unleashed. abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory...

Here is something that should make everyone shudder: " ...that the tipping point where the [AMOC] shutdown becomes inevitable is probably in the next 10 to 20 years or so. ... a shocking finding as well & why we have to act really fast in cutting down emissions.” www.theguardian.com/environment/...

For anyone who's interested, these are the 18 cities in the US with the highest crime rates, the most dangerous: 1. Memphis, TN 2. St. Louis, MO 3. Detroit, MI 4. Baltimore, MD 5. Jackson, MS 6. Birmingham, AL 7. Kansas City, MO 8. Little Rock, AR 9. Minneapolis, MN 10. New Orleans, LA

Professional analysis of Trump’s mental and emotional problems. youtube.com/live/Wf09JXU...

Given that China has an authoritarian government, I would not want to live there. However, in the realm of electrification & decarbonization, they are on the right path. (As opposed to Trump, who is living in the 19thC.) foreignpolicy.com/2025/08/21/c...

Want more evidence of Trump showing symptoms of Alzheimer's disease? (Remember, his father had it.) Signs indicate that Trump has progressed to stage 3 & is rapidly moving to stage 4 out of 7. The descriptions of each stage listed below. www.thedailybeast.com/donald-trump...

1/ We put enormous effort into this: Comprehensive Timeline of Jeffrey Epstein-Ghislaine Maxwell Law Enforcement Failures (1996-2025) Important findings. Some will be new to many, including close observers All levels of government. 3 decades. #GhislaineMaxwell #EpsteinFiles #Corruption 🧵

GOP Representative Rob Bresnahan is a multimillionaire & represents one of Pennsylvania's POOREST congressional districts purchased a personal helicopter (a 2024 Robinson R66) in late 2024. The helicopter had not yet appeared in his personal financial disclosures as of August 8, 2025.

Have you noticed the kind of people Noem wants to recruit as ICE agents? I think she got her recruitment script from Hedley Lamarr in Blazing Saddles. Here's the clip: www.youtube.com/watch?v=fLpm...

Want to have an instance and definition of corruption? This is it. And you can be sure that the frightened Republican sycophants who run Congress won't do anything about it. They'll just hope for their cut of the grift. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/07/u...

Cervantes would be amused by Trump's imitation of his most famous character, Don Quixote. (With Vance playing Sancho Panza.) Don Quixote may have been a complete & utter lunatic, but at least he had values unlike the other Don. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Trump wandering on the roof reminds me of when Nixon knew he was at the end of his Presidency & was about to officially resign, Nixon was wandering in the WH halls drunk out of his mind & talking to portraits of Presidents on the wall. (Credit photo New York Mag.)

I saw clip of this smiling sycophant & groveling worm, Kevin Hassett, on Meet the Press. It was disgusting. He was disgusting. He came with nothing to support his point regarding why we shouldn't believe the BLS report. A lying Trump whore. Burn in Hell, Hassett. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/08...

Trump "... has exhibited odd behavior at campaign events, in interviews, in his spontaneous remarks and at press conferences. ... drifts off topic ... & misremembers ... simple facts about his government and his life." Trump shows unmistakable signs of dementia. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Manufacturing economic data to suit your own ends never ends well as the people in Argentina, Greece & other countries know well. "Shooting the messenger" is the first step on the road to corrupting then destroying data collection & unlimitedly the economy. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/03/b...

Republican policy: Give everything and every break to the wealthy and nothing to those actually in need - just forget about them. Need proof? Here's some: www.nytimes.com/2025/07/31/u...

"Speaker Mike Johnson ... announced he was cutting short the week’s legislative business & sending the House home early for the summer on Wednesday to avoid having to hold votes on releasing files related to the accused sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein." www.nytimes.com/2025/07/22/u...

How is sick is Trump? And are we looking at someone with heart failure? Here are a couple of charts with diagnostic probabilities:

Can everyone share this?

For those of you who live in Southwest US and frankly, for all of us, this is an incredibly sobering article regarding one of the many consequences of human-driven climate change. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/16/c...

I'm a reporter at WIRED, and I'm wondering if anyone out there initially hesitated to vaccinate their kid against measles but has changed their mind during the current outbreak. I'd love to speak with you for a possible story: [email protected] or emullin.06 on Signal.

How ignorant, stupid & just plain brain dead does one have to be to say something like this: "... there are 34 million able-bodied adults in our Medicaid program. There are plenty of workers in America," Sec of Ag. Brooke Rollins said. www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

More lunacy from the corrupt, dress up, grifting, stealing fraud who's our pretend Secretary of Homeland Security: www.thedailybeast.com/kristi-noem-...

Looks like Trump has again been taking lessons from Putin: Create a lie and use it to smear and persecute an adversary. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

I'm betting that Jimmy Swaggart has found his way into that special place in Hell that has been waiting for him all these years. "He attacked Catholicism as a “false cult” and suggested that Jews (like me), by rejecting Jesus as the Messiah, brought the Holocaust upon themselves." wapo.st/3TOJJ2b

Do you want to see what cruel & sadistic looks like? Take a look at this (brought to you by Republicans), the numbers of people kicked off health insurance as a result of this vile, abomination of a bill providing the wealthiest people with a massive tax break: www.jec.senate.gov/public/index...

Article in The Atlantic about this awful bill: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

What is the joke of a Secretary of Homeland Security been up to? Corruption, graft! What else would you expect from a member of Trump's cabinet? (Criminal see, criminal do.) Here's a taste: www.propublica.org/article/kris...

Pentagon briefings have gone full "North Korea." What is "real" is only what the "dear leader" (Der Fuhrer?) says is real. That's the picture they're painting over there. www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

I couldn't let this slip by ... This is what working for Trump will do to you. Leavitt only 27 years old already has old lady lips. Lips like these should appear only when one reaches late 70s or 80s. And check out Stephen Miller and see what working for & being evil will do to you.

Protest art in Elgin Illinois

Massive No Kings protest in suburban Chicago, Elgin, Illinois.

Stunning details now emerging: this was an operation planned a year and a half in advance, involved smuggling drones into Russia, placing them in containers on top of trucks, arranging for them all to open simultaneously and to strike.

This is about as sick and demented as it gets. Remember Noem murdered her puppy for acting like a puppy. So who knows what they have in mind? www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

This is more of the kind of pushback I want to see. Thank you Doctor for taking on these deranged morons.

It now appears that ICE has turned into a criminal gang with the "protection" of being law enforcement. This cannot be tolerated. And those responsible will at some point need to be held accountable: www.yahoo.com/news/ice-inv...

This is an outrage! Completely unacceptable. Call your representatives and senators. The F.B.I. arrested a Wisconsin judge, Patel says, accusing her of helping an immigrant avoid detention. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/25/u...

There is more about Signalgate and Hegseth: www.nytimes.com/2025/04/20/u...

This is cruel, sick & demented: characteristics that Trump, members of Trump's sycophantic administration & the rest of the Republican horde have embraced with gusto. No Republican can ever be trusted to the right thing ever. www.thebulwark.com/p/health-ins...

Josh Barro with Tim Miller: a discussion of the bond market, lowering the US standard of deliberately, exchange rates, the "exorbitant privilege," & how the Trump Admin is intentionally weakening the position of US workers and consumers so we can in iPhone factories: www.youtube.com/watch?v=YIRU...

It looks like Trump is using Hungary’s Victor Orban’s playbook & as all can see that not end well: www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

This is something that we all need to pay attention to and raise Hell about: Whistleblower details how DOGE may have taken sensitive NLRB data www.npr.org/2025/04/15/n...