Foreclosures increased 21% in the first half of this year. Student loan defaults are at a record high. Total household debt is also at a record high of $18.8 trillion. Meanwhile, corporate profits are the highest they’ve ever been. “New Golden Age” for whom?

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How Criminal Cases Against ICE Protesters Are Crumbling www.nytimes.com/video/us/100...

Trump on US troops who were just killed: “We feel very badly, but … “

lmao Gianni looked like he was about to tackle Trump to get him out of the shot

Donald has grandiose narcissistic behavior with paranoia,He hasn't capacity for compassion or empathy,he's void of morals values can't be trusted,He demands loyalty gives none in return,His cabinet gotta stroke his ego & praise the tub of lard 🥰👇

Trump on stage with the World Cup Winners

Republicans have controlled the Arkansas governorship and both legislative chambers since 2015. Arkansas is now first in America for hunger and for opioid prescriptions, and near the bottom on nearly everything else. This is not bad luck. This is the #Republican way. #Arkansas

Angus: MAGA politicians are threatening our sovereignty, saying they’ll cross the border if we don’t solve the climate crisis. We’ve always crossed the border to help each other. Today we’re mourning a Canadian firefighter who died helping fight a wildfire in Aspen, Colorado.

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The conditions are real. A Senate investigation released last week found lead exposure that threatened a newborn’s health and mold contamination severe enough to send families to the emergency room at Fort Stewart and Fort Benning.

Here’s what the agreements do.  When a family fights their landlord over mold, lead paint, a rodent infestation, they often have to sign away their right to talk about it just to enter the dispute process. Even if they never get a settlement, they stay silent. The gag is the price of admission.

This story is not getting the attention it deserves. Confidentiality agreements forced on military families in privatized base housing have jumped more than 300% in six years. In 2020 just 15 families signed one. Last year the number hit 67.

U.S. News has now ranked Louisiana the worst state in America two years running. Republicans have held both chambers of the Louisiana legislature since 2011. That is not bad luck. That is the

Changing your toilet paper & paper towel purchasing habits won’t necessarily prevent forest fires but it will help fight against deforestation. I was surprised by this list: www.nrdc.org/resources/is... #weallneedabidet

#Corruption #MAGA When #MajorJasonWatson took a stand against the regime this was not news. Add this to the list of crimes they are committing against OUR country. We pay for this. Are we great yet? #BoycottParamount #DOOR www.propublica.org/article/paramount-mergers-fcc-kennedy-center-gala

If they can build a data center overnight, then they can install a solar farm overnight.

Hi Everyone In preparation for the Disappeared in America National Call to Action, LA Orgs, Faith Leaders and Activists are building cardboard coffins to represent each of the lives lost to ICE violence. You can help by clicking on the link below to sponsor a coffin: bit.ly/July25Coffins

"Strategists rarely ask, 'Where can we move forces?' They ask, 'What capabilities must we preserve, and from where can they best influence events?'" That's because they understand, or care about, strategy.

And it’s very questionable how he attained his degree 🤨

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@hcrichardson.bsky.social turned decades of studying democracy into a nightly act of devotion, writing alone past midnight, no sponsors, no noise, just truth and care. She’s given millions a place to breathe, to understand, to feel less alone. Grateful for her light in the dark. TYSM HCR! #Pinks

Russia launched 41 missiles and 125 attack drones across Ukraine overnight, according to the Ukrainian air force. n.pr/4wVEuzw

Once upon a time on 4/15/2022, even mr. miller the morbid decaying crypt dweller knew the real social truth about free speech. Wonder what the quid pro quo was to change his feeble mind.

A family lost their dog for several days and searched for him using drones. What they discovered left them speechless. The dog had made friends with a family of bears. Original post

Daily Beast: An Iranian strike in Jordan has killed two American troops and a 3rd is missing. Highlighting Trump’s claims that the Iranian military has been crippled, Fox News talking head asks how this was possible.

Opinion | It’s sad to see young people wasting their money on lattes and avocado toast instead of giving it to the president to receive advance warning that he’s about to manipulate the stock market.

Odysseus, Achilles, and the crisis in modern masculinity. by Ross Douthat

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Clearly not the answer they were looking for...

It’s important to protect federal agents doing their jobs, but this review of ICE cases shows the agency has lost its way and needs drastic reform. I feel for my friends who worked at ICE when it cared about professionalism and safety. Gift article. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/18/u...

Imperial Beach. One of 18 incorporated cities in San Diego County.

The Comforting Resurgence of ‘Grandma Hobbies’ www.nytimes.com/2026/07/18/w...

If Markwayne Mullin thinks we are in the business of educating people then "sending them home", he has no idea how the US economy works, or why it works.

Climate change is here. Can we take it seriously now?

Putting everything else aside, why are we expending our most advanced munitions to make the rubble in Iran bounce, munitions we would need for a peer fight if it ever happened?

Daily Beast: Trump appointed judge Hala Jarbou castigates DOJ lawyers for a court filling with fake case law from a hallucinating AI: “improper and unacceptable for litigants…to submit non-existent judicial opinions with fake quotes and citations.”

I actually once had a British Tornado do this to me on a lonely road in Scotland. Caught me completely by surprise and thought my number had come up.

Texas GOP congressional candidate Brandon Herrera has a history of sexually explicit attacks on women and crude remarks about children — including calling a child a “cum trophy”

Meetings with victims and survivors should not be this rare or difficult. It is an opportunity to show them they are seen and heard. And if you actually listen, you might even learn something of value to the case.

"Extreme heat" is in the forecast this summer. How do people cope if they don't have air conditioning? Here are suggestions from a heat researcher who grew up in a very hot, AC-less place.

Hunter Biden responded to Donald Trump’s speech with a statement noting that Trump’s own newly declassified documents undermine years of false claims about the Biden family:

When Solitaire Miles was 18, she had a stroke. When she got to the hospital, doctors and nurses accused her of being on drugs. Then, her unsung hero arrived and ensured she got the care she needed.

New reporting from the Portland Press Herald and the AP reveal the violent history of the ICE agent who fatally shot a 25-year-old father in Maine—and raises urgent questions about how he was hired.

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Data centers are fantastic example of externalized costs. They suck up water & energy locally and export the untaxed economic value.

i wish for everyone a mayor who truly loves their city