#Russia is getting a reminder that war has consequences. Drone alerts are active across Rostov, Smolensk, Tula, Kaluga, Voronezh, Saratov, Tambov, Kursk, Volgograd, Bryansk, Nizhny Novgorod, Lipetsk, and Belgorod regions, as well as occupied Crimea, Donetsk, and Luhansk.

Jeffries: Trump went overseas to China and embarrassed the country, as always. It's unfortunate, but it's extraordinary to me that you had an American president go over to China and bend the knee to the Chinese Communist Party.

Wait, so Trump went to China and 400 US businesses lost trade? What chapter in “Art of the Deal” covered this?

Xi flexing. Sending a message that Trump needs him and not the other way around. That’s gotta sting coming from such a “great leader and friend” after promising the relationship would be “better than ever before.” Sorry ranchers & meat processing manufacturers who probably voted for this maniac.

China abruptly revoked export licenses for more than 400 US beef plants, affecting major processors. The sudden reversal came during the high-profile Trump-Xi summit in Beijing. www.msn.com/en-us/news/i...

Trump: When Xi was talking about a "nation in decline," he was talking about Biden, not me! 🤡

Hakeem Jeffries: The country’s falling apart. The economy is a disaster. Gas prices have skyrocketed. He’s gotten us involved in this reckless and costly war of choice in the Middle East… but he has time to post about me seemingly every day—sometimes multiple times a day

Watch: Trump is going to be just as loyal to Taiwan as he was to Ukraine. Donald swoons before ruthless authoritarian power.

Every single person in Trumps circle that went with him to China Are mega wealthy They don’t have to worry about health care or gas prices or food costs Yet they are negotiating decisions that will make themselves even more wealthy and the wealth gap greater Power and greed are destroying us

APPALLING: "Rent is now unaffordable for nearly half of all tenants across the country. There is no place in America where a full-time worker earning minimum wage can afford a two-bedroom apartment." - Robert Reich

‘Trump’s Mental Decline is Alarming—I’m One of the 36 Doctors Asking for an Intervention’ open.substack.com/pub/bandyxle...

Xi not showing up to greet Trump in Beijing and instead sending flunkies is a MASSIVE sign of disrespect - consider how Trump feted Putin in Alaska! There once was a time the President of the United States commanded respect around the globe. Not now. Not anymore.

Trump flew to Beijing and Xi spent 24 hours reminding him who holds the cards. The US needs a president who actually understands what is going on and takes the job seriously.

This frequently happens in China. During Trump’s first term, they tried to block the aide who carries the football from entering the room. During one of Obama’s terms, they scuffled over armed USSS agents and press movement.

The dismantling of USAID is a humanitarian crisis. Only the cartoonists are covering it.

"I view myself as sort of a special teams player ... I'm gonna come in for a term and work to get rid [Trump] and then work for one more term, max, to pass legislation that makes sure, or does the best we can to make sure that this kind of autocracy, and this kind of corruption never happens again."

Swear to god if Democrats nationally can’t rally behind a simple common midterm slogan like, I don’t know, “Pain at the pump? Blame Trump.” then they are truly braindead.

China is busy creating long-term energy solutions using renewable energy. They don't need a country that's moving backwards.

AOC, explaining that because Trump is so busy enriching himself, he doesn't have time to think about the financial situation of the American people. 😂🤣👇

If the country rejects Starmer, we sure as hell reject the man who was paid to privatise and destroy the jewel in this country’s crown, the NHS.

#Brexit is back in the news, which reminded to repost this TOP cartoon by @mackinnonart.bsky.social

“[Donald Trump] has created a permission structure for people to be their worst selves. He has taught Americans that it’s okay to be selfish and spiteful and hateful and angry and resentful and that is the most toxic thing he has done to the country.”

Current thinking is that civil engineering and economics are the two best university degrees to aim for because of their high resistance to AI elimination. Any arguments to this?

What are the odds that American AI companies will change strategy after visiting China ? China is taking a pragmatic approach and looking for practical uses of AI, while America is shooting for the moon trying to achieve AGI.

House Democrats secured the necessary signatures to bypass Speaker Mike Johnson and force a vote on a package of Russia sanctions and billions of dollars in Ukraine aid. This is the eighth time in the last three years that a discharge petition has been used to do an end-run around GOP leadership.

It's a free-for-all race to the bottom where they wilfully allow people to fall into the delusion that AI is sentient - actively promote the ludicrous idea! And THAT has been very destructive for individuals The people who run these companies are psychopathic

They really think Zelensky is stupid.

President Obama: “We pulled it off without firing a missile. We got 97% of their enriched uranium out. There’s no dispute that it worked and we didn’t have to kill a whole bunch of people or shut down the Strait of Hormuz.”

Dear @fetterman.senate.gov you are the worst Democrat sitting in congress… and that’s pretty impressive considering the pool. Please Resign. We will never vote for you again.

Beshear: The president finally said something that was true. He said he does not care about the financial situation of the American people. And you know what? The way he governs shows it. The Trump economy is a failure. The only failure that rivals the Trump economy is Trump’s foreign policy.

The plan to gerrymander Republicans into permanent House control is cracking. SC dropped their plan entirely. Louisiana refused the map Trump wanted. Mississippi punted to 2027. Turns out Republican state legislators can read polling, and they don't want to lose their chambers for a decade.

The Senate fell one vote short of formally shutting down the war with Iran, with John Fetterman casting the decisive vote.

A USA collapse & reconstruction is the best outcome for the world. And for the people of the USA. The USA’s basic issues have crystallized into its culture & can’t be fixed through elections or even edge reforms.

AI is not the problem. Humans are. Once again billionaires have distracted humanity from the real threat.

Humanity’s primitive tribalism is likely to defeat global AI controls & hence makes a ‘machine apocalypse’ far more likely. Ergo the enemy of humanity is tribalism and nationalism. While we cannot elevate ourselves beyond it we remain doomed to be a short lived species.

Basically before we deal with the AI question, we need to deal with the globalisation question. This would also support climate action & reduce global slavery. conflict and food & health inequities. But it’s heavily ideologically opposed by nationalist folks.

Agreed. And this needs to be enforced globally - which is the hard part. Individual nations may act, but that doesn’t mitigate the risks. However many folks disagree with globally enforced laws, particularly in the USA. It won’t happen without overcoming that resistance first.

Black athletes should refuse to play in TN. Athletes on the Grizzlies, the Titans, as well as the college teams! The University of TN, Vanderbilt, and Memphis college players should also refuse to play! SHUT IT DOWN!! There are 7 HBCU’s in TN. Black athletes should pick one and go there!

Epstein Survivors Will Testify Publicly for the First Time Women who survived Jeffrey Epstein’s abuse are testifying publicly thanks to House Oversight Democrats. By Malcolm Ferguson

There’s many different analysis and they vary widely. The truth is that we don’t know. It is that not knowing that often scares people.

“London Bus stops for London bus” postcard, c1960 This famous 1950s photograph captures Metropolitan Police Officer PC Edward Ridout on traffic duty in Chelsea. He is holding back a double-decker London bus to let a young boy pull his toy bus across a zebra crossing. #bus #police #children #toys

Judging from the replies, an astounding number of people still cannot grasp that "taking all the prominent liberal and progressive voices and putting them on a remote island where no ordinary people or institutions interact with them will reduce the political influence of liberals and progressives"

This is why they really hate him — because he’s showing government can actually do good stuff for regular people

“My childhood home is being taken by @GeorgiaPower to supply power to a new data center…” 🤔 They are now seizing people’s homes in Georgia via eminent domain to build power lines for a $17 billion data center. One has been forced into Utah. And xAI in Memphis. And on and on.

I’m sick of our media pretending like it’s normal to have a president snoozing during Oval Office meetings then raging on social media in the dead of night. It is not a storyline you gloss over. It is the story.

There is no good news when it comes to this economy. In fact, I think the numbers in this clip are underestimating things. I was just trying to book flights abroad, and they are double what they were this time last year. Everything sucks right now.

Hawaii just became the first state to pass a bill stripping corporations of the power to spend money in elections — not regulating that power, but never granting it in the first place.