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Not sure if these are the Page One headlines WH was going for. @wsj.com

Five years ago today

KASIE HUNT: Over the summer you said, “There’s no vaccine that’s safe and effective”. Do you still believe that? RFK JR: “I never said that.” KASIE HUNT: “Play the clip.” RFK JR (clip): “There’s no vaccine that is safe and effective.” (March 2024) ht: @cwebbonline.com

I see Ronny started Happy Hour early again.

Rep. Jim McGovern: "Republicans are terrified because the president doesn't want to release all the Epstein files after promising that he would release them during the campaign ... What are they trying to hide?"

Fox News had to pay 3/4 of a BILLION dollars for lying to its viewers. And it STILL lies.

The U.S. Secretary of Energy does not know that electricity is energy. I'm glad we've gotten rid of DEI programs and are now giving America the leadership it deserves.

Pritzker: Any rational person who has spent even the most minimal amount of time studying human history has to ask themselves one important question: Once they get the citizens of this nation comfortable with the current atrocities committed under the color of law, what comes next

It’s not just that the President of the United States posted a video of eleven people being murdered in international waters it’s that the President of the United States ordered the murder of eleven people in international waters so he could post a video of it.

Pritzker: "When did we become a country where it's ok for the US president to insist on national television that a state should call him to beg for anything? Especially something we don't want. Have we truly lost all sense of sanity in this nation that we treat this as normal?"

Khanna: It’s going to be a bombshell press conference tomorrow at 10:30 a.m. The American people will hear directly from survivors of the Epstein abuse. And they’re not just going to talk about Epstein’s and Maxwell’s abuse — they’re going to talk about rich and powerful men…

For years, MAGA partisans have employed various tactics to prevent the imminent pain of cognitive dissonance. Now Newsom is forcing them to see what Trump looks like without the distorting force field created by Trump’s showmanship: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

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"A Prince, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people." —The Declaration of Independence

Sensing a theme these last cupla weeks. Can’t put a finger on it. @barrons.com @npr.org @axios.com @politico.com

“I can keep the troops there as long as I want” And that’s why there won’t be another free and fair election while he and his cronies remain.

Q: The DOJ is sending some of the Epstein files over to the House Oversight Committee. Are you in support of them releasing them? TRUMP: Innocent people shouldn't be hurt. You have a lot of people that could be mentioned in those files that don't deserve to be bc he knew everybody in Palm Beach

NEW: A federal judge in Miami has ruled that operations at the controversial detention facility Alligator Alcatraz must begin to wind down, ordering state and federal officials to stop transferring detainees there and relocate current detainees within 60 days.

Krishnamoorthi on the FBI raiding Bolton's house: "It looks like it's also an attempt to distract from the other big news of the day, which is the first production of the Epstein files that is required by subpoena from the Oversight Committee and they want to change the conversation."

"If you want to have a coup against the constitutional order, you want to control the capital city. And if he has control of the policing in the city of Washington...Who's gonna tell him to leave the White House?" @gtconway.bsky.social joins @jvl.bsky.social:

Yowzah! This is an epic cover!!!

Fox News Reporter Jacqui Heinrich: The way that it felt in the room was not good. It did not seem like things went well. And it seemed like Putin came in and steam rolled, got right into what he wanted to say and got his photo next to the president and then left

Epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein Wholesale inflation up .9%. Epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein Strikes out with make-believe peace meeting. Epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein $60 million taxpayer money on golf outings. Epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein

Like a well oiled machine www.npr.org/2025/08/16/n...

Snort

In other words: They lied.

Dear Britain, it’s now clear: 20mph zones save lives and don’t slow traffic. Implement them | Sadiq Khan

1. "'Trusting the experts is not a feature of either a science or democracy," Kennedy said." It's literally a vital feature of both science and of representative democracy. I've written a fair bit about trust in expertise as a vital mechanism in the collective epistemology of science.

Refusing to "trust the experts" is meant to be a brave, responsible position. But (as Carl explains in the thread) there is too much knowledge in the world. You have to trust *somebody*, much of the time. If you have no trust in experts, you end up trusting the idiots.

The White House has instructed NASA to terminate two major, climate change-focused satellite missions. They've been collecting widely-used data, providing both oil and gas companies and farmers with detailed information about the distribution of carbon dioxide and how it can affect crop health.

Well, I guess we can now all look forward to Trump turning the Olympics into a demonstration of American military might.

One thing I learned during my time as labor secretary is that the Bureau of Labor Statistics is a crown jewel of knowledge about jobs and the economy. In one fell swoop, Trump destroyed the credibility of this vital source of information.

I see why he bankrupted casinos.

#America #shooting #massshooting #gun #guns #ameriKKKa #KKKillers #AmericaIsAGun #poetry #poet #poem #poets #poems #BrianBilston #news

We went from “are we still talking about jeffrey epstein” to “he stole her”

What in the actual fuck

Republicans are going to kill us. It's a pro death cult. www.nbcnews.com/politics/pol...

Someone who is not capable, but earnest, can be worked with & helped to do their job, but when power is placed with people who are malignant and do not want the system to work as it should, they install a waterfall of bad actors under them and the system rapidly corrupts to all tiers below them.

Amazing, Microsoft's Flight Simulator is using WebAssembly for their plugins. I love this and I need more of this. docs.flightsimulator.com/msfs2024/htm...

Age verification? 10 INPUT "WHAT IS YOUR NAME", NAME$ 20 PRINT NAME$ "IS AN IDIOT! "; 30 GOTO 10 *FX 200,1 *KEY 10 "OLD ¦M RUN ¦M" RUN ... And then you run out of the shop before the manager finds you as they now have to unlock the security cage housing the BBC Micro in order to power cycle it 😜

Sickening.

Oxygen, stat. 😂😂😂😂

It is one year today since this genius gave us the most hilarious demonstration of Karma ever.

Still one of my favourite movies (and movie trilogies) of all time!