“Epstein is the story. But he is also a stand-in for every closed maternity ward in a rural county, for every mom choosing between insulin and groceries, and for every veteran battling the Department of Veterans Affairs while Silicon Valley billionaires buy senators.”

The weather dude on TV last night said it's going to be 99 degrees today. I'm demanding that he be fired and replace with another dude that will forecast a high of 82. Am I doing this right?

So... He's in the Epstein files?

Love thy neighbor doesn’t come with fine print.

Just took 2x the money we were spending on our Paramount+ monthly subscription and donated that monthly to PBS.org for streaming access to all of PBS's amazing programming anywhere we are. A few more streaming services on the block soon = more for PBS. Might I suggest you doing the same?

Wonder how sexual predator Brett Kavanaugh and sexual predator Clarence Thomas will vote on the fate of sexual predator Ghislaine Maxwell.

“.. Within about three minutes of the crash, the Model S uploaded a “collision snapshot”—video, CAN‑bus streams, EDR data, etc.—to Tesla’s servers .. The vehicle then deleted its local copy, resulting in Tesla being the only entity having access.” @electrek.co $TSLA electrek.co/2025/08/04/t...

Question for Mike Flood: With $450 million being allocated to Alligator Alcatraz, and ICE burning through $8.4 million a day to illegally detain people—How much does it cost for fascism? How much do the tax payers have to pay for a fascist country?

The idea that President can negotiate/dictate bilateral “deals” by using the full force of the federal government to punish and humiliate his perceived enemies goes against the whole idea of the rule of law. That should be the story, rather than normalizing this authoritarian behavior.

Of *course* they are doing this. Slavery’s not something they’re ashamed of. They would bronze a gd lynching tree. Knuckle-dragging Jim Crow mfs.

Some differences between my father and DJT: - My father was not a rapist. - My father was not a racist. - My father worked hard and was honest. - My father worked his way out of poverty. - When my father became demented in his final years, nobody at @nytimes.com wrote headlines sane-washing him.

Trump administration moves to end veterans’ abortion access in cases of rape or incest scdailygazette.com/2025/08/05/r... This is a terrible disservice to the women who have given their lives for our country!

It stinks! Perplexity is using stealth, undeclared crawlers to evade website no-crawl directives. blog.cloudflare.com/perplexity-i...

Today is #HiroshimaDay, marking 80 years since the devastating atomic bombing. My song Paper Cranes documents an emotional visit to the peace museum and an encounter with a survivor. Today and every Aug 6, I’ll donate any profits to a Hibakusha charity. sitenonsite.bandcamp.com/album/hirosh...

I'm angry all the time these days, but it's actually unfathomable to me that one person has the power to halt scientific progress, doing *generational* damage. For literally all of our sakes, someone needs to do something. Get this man out of the government.

it has been said over and over but it’s worth reiterating in the face of this horrifying decision: RFK is quite literally joining the war on cancer on the side of cancer

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If you see this pop up on a website, you should not use that website.

Damn the evil prick ending $500 million in vaccine research while children die of preventable diseases.

People in Los Angeles have been protesting 24 hours for 2 weeks straight and no news outlet is covering it! 8/8/25

Let me repeat it! 👇🏼👇🏽👇🏾👇🏼👇🏽

RIP 💔😔

Narrator: Sadly though, SCOTUS has now exempted the president from the founders’ intent to criminalize bribery.

a specific skill I've developed over the past ~20 years is crafting responses to emails sent to me, but intended for that other Naomi Wolf

Reboot Anthony Bourdain’s “No Reservations” but with Alan Dershowitz and the whole show is just enjoying him never getting food because he’s a querulous, joyless douche and he’s constantly demanding that the Laotian street vendor or whoever denounce Hamas before he’ll try the khao jee

What if instead of weird one-off extortion schemes the government just collected meaningful and stable amounts of corporate tax revenue hmmm www.nytimes.com/2025/08/10/t...

Drug Enforcement Administration officers patrolling the National Mall. If you know DC you understand how tremendously goofy this is (h/t @lorenzohall1.bsky.social)

NEW: In June, ProPublica reported that the FDA has given more than 20 foreign factories a special pass to send drugs to the U.S. even though they were made at plants the agency had banned. Today, we’re publishing a list of those exempted drugs.

Fear makes good people comply. Here’s the step-by-step playbook to stop it cold.👇 www.jackhopkinsnow.com

#ProudBlue Stephen Miller can fuck all of the way off. Stephen Miller says DC is like Baghdad or Fallujah. The only war here is the GOP’s war on truth. Their plan to intimidate Americans isn’t working. We see through their bullshit.

She reportedly conceived twins with the man who would become her third husband while married to her first. Got divorced. Married second husband. Divorced him to marry the father of the twins. Then divorced that guy to remarry the second husband. But yeah, perfect person to try to deny gay marriage.

The woman petitioning SCOTUS to overturn marriage equality in the name of the sanctity of marriage is on her fourth husband.

"This isn’t scientific disagreement. It’s either staggering incompetence or willful misrepresentation." www.statnews.com/2025/08/13/r...

Thou shalt live to remove the Republicans from office, gerrymander them out of existence, and then put a HUGE Trump / Epstein exhibition in the Smithsonian Museum.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, which is instrumental in Trump’s bigoted anti-immigration and mass incarceration agenda, plans to purchase mobile AI-assisted tech that will reportedly allow the agency to scan people’s irises and determine their identities from several feet away. (MSNBC)

It’s amazing that Washington DC can achieve its lowest crime rate in 30 years when 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue is experiencing its highest crime rate in history.

“You cannot negotiate with people who say what’s mine is mine and what’s yours is negotiable.” President John F. Kennedy

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“It’s a bit of an obscenity that I’m asked so much to speak on this subject because I happen to be Jewish and because I happened, as an infant, to have survived the Holocaust…Why aren’t we listening to the Palestinians?”

Notification about the Kennedy Center Honors:

No beverage?

Throwing a sandwich at a cop: felony. Beating a cop unconscious with a flag pole: tourist behavior.

The White House’s official X account has a long thread in which they’ve posted pictures of people arrested during the feds’ occupation of the city. Every single person in the thread is a person of color.

"Ruined" means there are too many non-white people. He just admitted that he is carrying out ethnic cleansing, not law enforcement. I hope to see him put on trial along with Stephen Miller and Thomas Homan for crimes against humanity.

That agent’s statement would be the kind of response that would get a career civil servant put on a disciplinary path as it violates The Hatch Act

In any other setting, these men are insignificant, ignored, unremarkable, milquetoast. ICE lets them live out their fantasy of action hero masculinity, where they are victors — powerful, in charge, masters of their own universe... When really, they are still the same sad Nazis playing dressup.

"Liberals already ruined it" Remember that if you ever have doubts that this is a purely partisan Republican War on American.