2025 RECAP: Trump is the most corrupt President in American history. Each and every day this year, he’s abused his power to line his own pockets & help his billionaire friends. Trump has created a government run by the crooks, for the crooks.

All of the money that changed hands in the Teapot Dome scandal totaled less than $10 million after adjusting for inflation, and it was considered so corrupt we still teach it in high school government classes a century later.

“It is all lunacy. Absolutely, it’s 100% nonsense,” said Joe Schwarcz, director of McGill University’s Office for Science and Society about the claims made in Kory's book that chlorine dioxide is a miracle treatment for a wide range of ailments. By @megomatz.bsky.social

Trump turns the White House into a stalled construction pit

MAGAZINER: How many veterans have you deported? NOEM: We haven't deported veterans MAGAZINER: We are now joined on Zoom by a combat veteran you deported to Korea

"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed." -Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953

This was just sent to me by an LAUSD parent. A 4th grader was assigned to design a book cover for Pippi Longstocking using Adobe for Education. Here is what the AI tool generated:

Ah yes, a national parks holiday to commemorate the president who drove out 24% of the National Park Service staff and is proposing a $1.2 billion cut to the agency's budget, exposing both visitors and public lands to greater risk.

Utterly lawless

WA needs to stop paying the taxes that fuel this insanity! If we need to fend for ourselves, then keep the money in the state! Money is the only leverage that gets the attention of those in power medium.com/@carmitage/e...

Judge Ellis derides Greg Bovino as a serial fabulist who brazenly lied on the stand and seemingly considered it funny to perjure himself. cst.brightspotcdn.com/49/34/daecfb...

Ellis repeatedly accuses multiple CBP and ICE officials of lying (under oath) and says their "widespread misrepresentations call into question everything" they "say they are doing in their characterization of what is happening." She broadly discredits their testimony as objectively false.

There is no universe where it is acceptable for a United States ally to detain an AMERICAN CITIZEN under these god awful conditions. This is not "America First" in any way. The Trump administration needs to take action immediately to bring this teenager home.

This is America today. It doesn’t have to be this way.

VA To Improve Veterans’ Health Care With New $500 Million Waiting Room https://theonion.com/va-to-improve-veterans-health-care-with-new-500-milli-1819576535/

Democrats are so amateurish and naive to act on a promise of behavior in the future by people who shamelessly lie about their behavior in the past every single day.

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

“We don’t have illegal aliens… the legal term for my people were slaves….” 🚨This is what leadership looks and sounds like in 2025.✊🏼

1. Last week, there were 3 Trump corruption scandals in 4 days that would define any other presidency. Most people are probably not even AWARE of all three scandals. 🧵

NOAA hurricane hunters flying aboard a P-3 Orion aircraft ("Kermit") are monitoring Hurricane Melissa as most aircraft steer clear. The storm poses a catastrophic threat to Jamaica and Haiti. The crew are among the many federal workers working without pay during the US government shutdown.

Trump Judge Ryan Nelson wants to end all judicial review over the president’s deployment of the National Guard into Democratic cities to suppress dissent. Why that’s (a) howlingly wrong on the law and (b) astoundingly dangerous on the ground: slate.com/news-and-pol...

There are so many things to be upset about, but this visual is absolutely galling.

The Cowardly Lion, Tin Man, & Scarecrow met the PDX Frog at No Kings today!! 🎖️❤️🌾🐸

RIP chuck. If masked thugs can’t have compassion for humans, why would they have compassion for pets.

Long before becoming the District of Columbia, these lands were home to indigenous peoples. Native American artifacts have been found all over DC, including Rock Creek Park, Anacostia, the Arboretum, Van Ness, the Palisades, Capitol Hill, and even the White House.

In past shutdowns, Congress has been in session and voting. This time, Speaker Johnson has closed the House floor and stopped all negotiations. We should be negotiating right now.

Texas AG Ken Paxton hired a former staffer to work on a recent case. As a state employee, her labor would have cost taxpayers $641. As a private attorney, Paxton allowed her to bill $3,780 an hour, so that day of work cost taxpayers $24,570. (Published July with @texastribune.org)

Not that anything matters anymore but for the record this is more radically anti-Christian than any amount of gay marriages or trans kids playing volleyball. I don't think you can make a more direct assault on the ethos of Christ in two sentences than this.

What happens when we give kids a smartphone — we ask the impossible. A wonderful PSA by Smartphone-Free Childhood US.

Invasive vines can be deadly for forests. But this past year, scrappy groups of @chesapeakeclimate.bsky.social volunteers have helped save nearly 1,000 trees across green spaces in Southeast and Northeast D.C. alone, @samdelgado.bsky.social reports:

Here are my top 10 fall dogs!

“In an undercover operation last year, the FBI recorded Tom Homan, now the White House border czar, accepting $50,000 in cash after indicating he could help the agents — who were posing as business executives — win government contracts in a second Trump administration” www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/t...

Ro Khanna: "They're making comedy illegal. Brendan Carr pressured ABC to cancel Jimmy Kimmel, and Disney cancels Jimmy Kimmel. This canceling from an administration that lectured us about cancel culture. That's why today I'm introducing a motion to subpoena Brendan Carr."

Tune in as we introduce the No Political Enemies Act. We aren't going to lie down as Trump tries to destroy free speech in this country.

Charlie Kirk was like no one else in Trump world. Now comes the aftermath. slate.trib.al/EIB8ODM

Guy whose literal job is to tour the country convincing young men to adhere to fascistic, aggressively patriarchical societal ideals and who flaunted school shootings as a necessary evil gets shot Antifascists: lol Morons, seeing that "lol": WOW, YOU ARE THE PROBLEM

Ohhh this is awesome thank you! @washingtonian.com

Do you work at the Office of Management and Budget? Do you know someone who does? Are you a current or former federal worker with information that you can share about Russell Vought? If the answer to any of these is "yes," please contact @andykroll.bsky.social www.propublica.org/tips/

Headline: Trump mobilizing National Guard in 19 states My mood: They didn’t start off wearing red robes…

On the left: Nate Cavanagh, a 28-year-old DOGE staffer and college dropout. On the right: Mohammad Halimi, a 53-year-old exiled Afghan scholar. This is the story of how DOGE targeted Halimi on social media. Then the Taliban took his family. 🧵

According to a post on Reddit, a Mine-Resistant Ambush Protected (MRAP) vehicle t-boned a car in Capitol Hill this morning. Firefighters reportedly used the jaws of life to free the driver, who DC Fire & EMS said sustained only minor injuries.

Senate Democrats who are angry about Trump's dictatorial takeover of D.C. law enforcement can flex their opposition by voting AGAINST three pending Senate bills that would repeal laws enacted by D.C.'s elected representatives.

#Texas #StandUpFightBack! #Pinks

🚨ALERT🚨 A group of about 10 Secret Service, ICE HSI, and DHS police have been spotted across various locations around Adams Morgan, the Columbia Heights metro, the triangle park at Harvard and 16th St NW in Mount Pleasant, and at the Ft. Totten metro between 8 and 9 PM today (8/8). 1/

Guy Confronts ICE ✊🏽

Jessica: I also heard no complaints when Mike Johnson decided to abdicate his job to say actually congress isn't in session anymore because I don't want to have to vote on turning over the Epstein files…. so be equal opportunity in your complaints about fleeing your job

With IRS commissioner Billy Long saying the Direct File program is "gone," revisit our 2019 story about how TurboTax owner Intuit spent two decades fighting to prevent Americans from filing their taxes online for free:

The continents are rapidly drying out and the earth’s vast freshwater resources are under threat, according to a recently released study based on 20+ years of NASA satellite data. Here are the report’s key findings and what they portend for humankind.

@dcpubliclibrary.bsky.social do you all recommend patrons focusing on physical copies?