The Am. Heart Association says 90% of American adults have some degree of cardiovascular-kidney-metabolic syndrome, a health disorder caused by connections among obesity, diabetes, chronic kidney and cardiovascular diseases. 3/4 of American adults are overweight or obese. --NYT

Mamdani’s Push to Halt Sale of 5,000 Apartments to Big Landlord Fails The sale of the apartments is an early test of Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s ability to deliver for tenants. --NYT

Machado acts the fool, but still doesn't get Drumph's endorsement to become Venezuela’s president.

Many Gulf States worry that an attack on Iran could jeopardize their reputations as safe hubs for business and tourism. --NYT

forgot the pound of lard.

Enjoy your MAHA-approved affordable dinner during the Golden Age. It’s your patriotic duty to ration and fight inflation for Dear Leader. The nation is counting on you.

N.Y.C. Council Leader Takes on Antisemitism, and Possibly Mamdani The Council speaker, Julie Menin, will introduce bills that would serve to protect congregants at houses of worship. --via NYT

Nothing is going to stop the people of Minnesota and America from defeating this criminal President, his administration, and all the traitors who enabled it. Not ICE terrorism. Not the insurrection act. Not martial law. Not a second civil war. Nothing. No matter what happens, they are going to lose.

Ex-South Korean Leader, former President Yoon Suk Yeol, Gets 5-year Prison Term in First Ruling Over Martial Law --NYT

I have an advanced degree in Math, but I still find this sort of thing confounding. 🤔

Pritzker: The Insurrection Act is designed for circumstances where your rights can’t be protected by local authorities This is exactly the opposite. Your civil rights are being infringed upon by CBP and ICE, and then they want to call in troops claiming that they’re protecting CBP and ICE.

Kristi Noem is a liar and a disgrace who must be removed from office. If you agree, tell your members of Congress to get on board with impeachment right now:

Don't make me dig up my posts telling y'all that voting for Jill Stein is voting to make the world a more evil and dangerous place.

A retiring Assemblywoman who backed Mamdani wants a progressive to replace her, but Mamdani says he will campaign for the socialist instead. --via NYT

It will become increasingly important for people to take video and protect and save that video so that when there is finally an accounting for what’s happening, there will be evidence.

Donald Trump is going to call protest against his unconstitutional rule "insurrection" and deploy the military against American citizens exercising their free speech rights.

"He said he saw guards choking Lunas Campos and heard Lunas Campos repeatedly saying, 'No puedo respirar' — Spanish for 'I can’t breathe'..." www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

Donald Trump gets a lot of hate, but it’s not enough. We can do better.

Kamala Harris warned us.

And there it is. All your fault, Minnesota, that there will be no midterm elections....

One of the reasons it is really important to push back hard on the investigations against people telling the military not to follow illegal orders is because when he invokes the Insurrection Act he is presumably going to be ordering the military to do illegal things and we want people to speak out.

Can't say it often enough: every Trump administration accusation is a confession.

🌹 random rose 🌹 July 27th 2024

None of Mamdani’s Deputy Mayors Are Black. Black and Latino leaders worry they are being denied access to power under Mayor Zohran Mamdani and that they may lose the ground they had gained. --NYT

Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/15/u...

Sigh. Shutting down the National Center for Atmospheric Research will make the world a more dangerous place for all of us.

Let’s have one anyway and see what happens.

Grocery prices are rising --NYT

Trump said that if Iran killed protesters, he'd attack. They've killed 3000, and of course he did nothing.

Iran killed as many civilians in 2 weeks as Israel killed terrorists in 13 months - yet American so-called leftist protesters are nowhere to be found. (via WJ) We already know why.

DHS says Jonathan Ross, the ICE officer who murdered mom Renee Good in Minneapolis, suffered internal bleeding after the shooting. However, video taken of the murder showed Ross walking up and down the street after Good was shot and killed. Ross was quickly released from a hospital. -via The Hill

Sean Hannity slammed by Fox News viewers for claims Trump never flew on Epstein's jet despite flight logs www.irishstar.com/culture/ente...

The main bank account holding revenue from the Venezuelan oil sales is located in Qatar. “There is no basis in law for a president to set up an offshore account that he controls so that he can sell assets seized by the American military,” Sen. Elizabeth Warren. www.semafor.com/article/01/1...

ICE takes over international airport as US citizens urged to carry documentation www.themirror.com/news/us-news...

Normalize obstructing masked terrorists.

/3 Nobody had patience in 2003 for the concept “maybe we should reform existing entities rather than dramatically eliminating and reorganizing and renaming.” Nobody had patience for the “sensible reform, modest oversight” message some are now pushing over “abolish ICE.”

Let’s talk about abolishing ICE. Very few people who say “abolish ICE” mean “abandon all immigration enforcement.” Rather, they mean “the structure of immigration enforcement is irretrievably broken and needs to be reorganized, just like we did 23 years ago when we created ICE.” /1

1/ Ciji Graham was the mother of 2-year-old SJ, a sister to 9 younger siblings, a beloved friend. She's also the 7th case we’ve found of a pregnant woman in a state restricting abortion who died after being unable to access standard care. This is her story.

Trump’s Gulf Allies Do Not Want Him to Bomb Iran --NYT shocker.

The Democratic Senator told the New York Times that the U.S. attorney for D.C., Jeanine Pirro, had written to the Senate’s sergeant-at-arms seeking an interview with her.

Nonessential personnel were moved from Al Udeid Air Base in Qatar, an American site that could be a target of Iran --NYT

ICE Shoots Projectile and Takes Out Kid’s Eye Surgeons spent six hours removing shards of glass, plastic, and metal from his face. Unfortunately, the damage to his left eye was irreversible. Second kid in the video, shot point-blank in the face.

I made my truth social account on Monday. Trolled Trump all day Tuesday. It's Wednesday and my account no longer exists. 😂 No loss.

Iran has sent Russia $2.7 billion worth of missiles. Just to underline how important Iran has become for the Russian regime. It is absolutely vital for Putin to keep the mullah regime running.