The price tag for building enough renewables to power the grid is eerily close to the U.S.’s typical price tag for the kind of war it would take to fully secure the Strait of Hormuz. trib.al/UBpn8gP

The closure of the Strait of Hormuz has brought Russia a sugar high. But that cannot fix all its troubles

This is only going to get worse before it gets better.

These guys have completely lost their minds. They are coming up every day with new days to do direct, material harm to people.

Pensacola doctors are reporting the first measles case in Escambia County in at least 30 years. MAHA's contribution to making America "Great" Again. #MAHA #vaccinationmatters #measles #pensacola

Donald Trump has already broken laws and used violence in an attempt to overturn an election. Now he’s setting the stage to try to overturn another one. We cannot let that happen.

The purchase came just days before Trump's January 2025 inauguration, according to The Wall Street Journal.

You better believe if the Biden administration had ever done something like this, Marco Rubio would’ve been screaming from the rooftops that it was an act of war

Even Fox News can't deny that Iowans are struggling with rising costs in Trump's economy.

One problem with advocating for censoring unwanted political content on TikTok is that you might get your way

I almost appreciate how Trump has exposed how vacant every single high profile conservative belief was: free speech, states’ rights, letting the market decide, NATO, the right to bear arms, democracy, all of it. It’s been an empty, malicious political project for decades and decades now

Walz: "To Americans who are watching this, I've got a question for you: What side do you want to be on? The side of an all powerful federal govt that can kill, injury, menace, & kidnap its citizens off the streets? Or on the side of a nurse at the VA hospital who died bearing witness to such govt?"

And what is happening inside ICE detention centers? 404 Media also learned that the federal government claimed that the day after it was sued for allegedly abusing detainees at an ICE detention center, a “system crash” deleted nearly two weeks of surveillance footage from inside the facility.

Americans are more or less inured to Donald Trump’s incoherent ramblings and political theatre. After his speech in Davos, stunned Europeans are inclined to call his behavior what it is: out of control. newyorkermag.visitlink.me/IOTmJO

Make no mistake, he is justifying violence if he objects to the outcome of an election. Keep that in mind as we prepare for 2026.

When you really want to surprise her...

NEW: More than 300,000 Missourians signed a petition for a referendum aimed at blocking Missouri Republicans’ new congressional gerrymander. Despite the GOP doing everything in their power to stop them, voters successfully delivered those signatures to the state.

President Trump has pardoned former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez, who was serving a 45-year prison sentence for drug trafficking. "Meanwhile, fishermen on boats in the Caribbean who we have never been tried or charged with anything are shot and killed from the air."

According to Republican Senator Mike Rounds, Rubio told senators that the 28-point peace plan drawn up by Special Envoy Steve Witkoff and his Russian counterpart, Kirill Dmitriev, was actually a Russian plan that the U.S. had agreed to pass along to Ukraine.

NEW: ProPublica examined months of Fox News’ coverage and reviewed over 700 videos posted on social media. The network used five-year-old footage, mislabeled other dates and implied footage from elsewhere was in Portland.

Last prop of #Halloween 2025.

NEW: NC GOP enacts a "racist" gerrymander. Maine Republicans push a ballot measure to gut mail voting as USPS delays ballots. Trump’s DOJ, led by election deniers, set to deploy agents to state elections. What legacy media probably missed this week👇

Close to a deadline for mailing your ballot, tax return or legal document? To make sure it gets a postmark on time under the latest USPS changes, you may want to send it early or visit a post office. n.pr/47ll5Nc

Add #JonnyQuest robot spider to my Halloween collection this year.

Americans have been dragged, tackled, beaten, tased and shot by immigration agents. They’ve had their necks kneeled on. They’ve been held outside in the rain while in their underwear. At least three citizens were pregnant when agents detained them. By @nicolefoy.bsky.social

Last week, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent announced a $20 billion package to rescue the Argentinian economy. Too bad that it's basically a gift for one hedge fund manager with ties to Bessent himself.

The U.S. government will collect a multibillion-dollar fee from the American investors who will take over TikTok. Some experts call the fee and other deals like it "extortion."

It is with great sadness that I awake to find #CoxComm no longer has #MeTV listed in the line up for #Pensacola. There aren't a lot of reasons for keeping cable at this point and losing MeTV makes for one less.

UC Berkeley told 160 faculty, staff and students that their names were included in files shared with the federal government related to "alleged antisemitic incidents." We hear from one of them.

Florida’s move on vaccine mandates will lead to avoidable illnesses and deaths.

One disabled Marine veteran has not had a primary care doctor assigned to him since his previous doctor left in the winter, his wife said. The VA “was never like this before. There’s a lack of staff, empty rooms, locked doors.”

Multiple postal services around Europe say they are suspending the shipment of many packages to the United States amid a lack of clarity over new import duties.

One man, the son of Holocaust survivors, said, “People being kidnapped without arrest warrants, without trial, without recourse, by the president of the United States’s ICE armies ... We are not headed toward an authoritarian fascist government; we are already there” trib.al/MGjPFH2

Critics warn that Trump's demands for business leaders to step down, and for the government to take a cut of sales, threaten American-style capitalism.

President Trump made false and misleading claims about crime in Washington, D.C., during a news conference on Monday as he announced that the administration would take federal control of the police. Here’s a fact-check. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/12/u...

"We’re creating something even more dangerous to the country: A masked monster of a law enforcement agency, one uniquely unsuited for its new power, authority, reach, and funding levels."

President Trump's tariffs are expected to cost households an average of $2,400 per year, according to the Budget Lab at Yale University. They estimate food prices could rise more than 3 percent and car prices could rise 12 percent.

"Trump and everybody around him belong in jail... There is no sane human being who can look at the situation and not see a pile of war crimes." A doctor in Gaza describes the horror of starvation

Some of the world’s most prominent researchers are laying off young researchers and shelving years, or even decades, of research into everything from opioid addiction to cancer.

If anyone needed a reminder that Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has no background in science or medicine, look no further than his recent social media posts.

GOP lawmakers have used the threat of noncitizen voting to justify harsh voting restrictions, claiming noncitizens are illegally swinging elections. But investigations across the country unanimously concluded one thing: noncitizen voting is a nonissue.

"Mr. Kennedy continues to use words that make it sound like he knows what he's talking about. But, in fact, he doesn't," Michael Osterholm, the director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota, said of the HHS secretary.

Ghislaine Maxwell DOJ Cartoon by @Andertoon for Raw Story #PoliticalCartoon #EditorialCartoon #Trump #USPolitics

Redistricting happens every 10 years. But Abbott & Trump aren’t waiting. They want to redraw the map now—mid-decade—because they’re afraid of 2026. This is a surgical strike on democracy. Every voter should be pissed. #MessWithTexas

The BLS did exactly what it's supposed to do: provide accurate, nonpartisan data. When the numbers showed Trump's "economic boom" was actually a bust (33k jobs vs claimed 291k), he fired the messenger. After all, when it rains too much, true leaders fire the meteorologists.

U.S. military veteran Anthony Aguilar, who worked as a security contractor at Gaza Humanitarian Foundation sites, says he was horrified by war crimes being carried out against starving Palestinians. "The sites have not only become death traps, they were designed as death traps."