MUST WATCH: Tennessee sheriff defends jailing liberal activist for posting Trump meme about school shooting www.newschannel5.com/news/newscha...

A sitting president opening a betting market on his own website taking bets on things he influences. Wild times.

Yet one more example of an industry impacted by climate change: England's hottest summer on record produced unusually sweet apples, which bumped up the alcohol content of scrumpy (hard cider). Now, it's classified as “wine”...taxed at a higher rate...and too expensive for producers to sell to pubs.

Usually the neurologists order the MRI if you’ve failed the cognitive test.

NBC News and MSNBC journalists are appalled after learning their parent company, Comcast, helped bankroll Donald Trump’s ballroom—prompting behind-the-scenes venting and on-air rebukes of the corporate giant. Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/comcast-ba...

Ioffe: I don't think that what's being done to the white house, you don't do that, if you think that anybody else is going to inhabit this thing after you and if you are planning on leaving power.

What @kff.org is saying is that the average NET increase for *currently subsidized* enrollees will be around 114%, while the average for *currently unsubsidized* enrollees will be around 25%. Combined, that's a blended average of around 84% or so.

A source familiar with this incident told me today that not only did they arrest and charge the comedy club manager, but the Latino man he was defending from ICE -- who was also arrested and whisked away -- **is also a U.S. citizen.** It's unclear where the Latino man is now.

Not voting for anyone in 2028 who doesn't promise to tear down this arch, along with every other gilded chunk of Trump's garish gimcrackery.

He wore this *to a CNN interview and CNN photoshoot*

I'm kind tired of "overhauling map" Framing instead of what it actually is which is to suppress people's will. It's a theft of votes

There is a serious uprising in farm country over tariffs and bailing out Argentina and then also buying their beef and cuts to SNAP and USAID too

Dems are very timid about arguing that Republicans have fundamentally bad *values*, while Republicans will literally call Dems demonic baby killers without blinking.

Centrists like to yell at me when I say that Dems let Republicans define them, but then the same centrists turn around and state against evidence that the problem is that candidates are talking too much about, say, climate and trans issues when every single campaign is talking about the economy.

Good thread about how Grokipedia handles fascist groups

Justice Kavanaugh: "and those individuals may promptly go free after making clear to the immigration officers that they are U.S. citizens or otherwise legally in the United States."

Republicans are feeling the heat as America barrels toward the health-care cliff they created. I joined the @demwomencaucus.bsky.social & my @housedemocrats.bsky.social colleagues at the Capitol today to highlight the impact of this crisis on hardworking families and businesses.

“Saving lives in El Fasher is a humanitarian and moral imperative that cannot be delayed or constrained.” We are devastated by the ongoing atrocities and humanitarian catastrophe in #Sudan. Our government can and must do more to stop the suffering and support peace.

It is painfully clear Republicans are not listening to folks back home.   What families nationwide are saying is: "Please stop my premiums from doubling."   And what are Republican leaders saying? "Not our problem, we never wanted to lower health care costs in the first place."

Hegseth is meeting his “Japan counterpart”? Would that be the barely competent weekend anchor of Japan’s most-watched disreputable cable news channel?

A lot of small minded people I spoke with aka debated last year said the US was a business and needed a business person to run it. Obviously this was stupid conclusion to come to but thinking about it now it wasn’t only stupid but dangerous. A corrupted businessman could ONLY lead to oligarchy.

The Maga Oversight Committee is trying to say Biden was in Cognitive Decline, and any use of the autopen should be null & void. This includes the Pardons he gave out. While a Child-Rapist that said Pete Rose (Died 2024) should have been put in last nights World Series. Dementia oversight.house.gov

I'm telling you, Medicare Advantage is a bad deal - for one thing, you'd have access to only half the doctors you could see with traditional Medicare. Open enrollment runs into December. Just say no to M.A. www.kff.org/medicare/med...

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Senate votes to REPEAL Trump's tariffs on Brazil. 5 Republicans vote with the Democrats. Great work everyone!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

We live in an episode of Veep

Flagging via Reuters: U.S. military officials involved with Trump's military operations in Latin America have been asked to sign non-disclosure agreements, three U.S. officials say, a development that raises new questions about a military buildup that Venezuela fears may lead to an invasion.

Yet again i want to remind everyone that Bill Gates and several other billionaires have invested in mining projects in Greenland that are only accessible because of melted land and sea ice, he and other billionaires are essentially shorting the planet

what Democrats need to understand is that these are not judicial confirmations in the traditional sense—the only people Trump is sending to the bench are people who will further his corruption and backstop his anticonstitutionalism; voting to advance any Trump appointee is fucking madness

Will D.C. end up footing the costs for SNAP food benefits should federal funding lapse this weekend? @cmfrumin.bsky.social tells me a decision from @mayorbowser.dc.gov should come by tomorrow.

"The people in the Capitol who are obsessed with which bathrooms we use, what we do in our own homes, and what kind of art we make? The feds who want to strip away retirement benefits from trans Air Force veterans being forcibly removed from their positions? Those are the weirdos."

“I expect everyone to act in good faith,” Ellis says, saying she does not want to run this operation. “I don’t know that we’re going to see a whole lot of people tear gas being deployed over the next week.”

Ellis tells Bovino the people of Chicago have a right to tell him and his agents that they don't like what they are doing and want them to leave. "They can't get tear gassed" for doing that. Bovino: "I understand what you are saying, your honor. We will abide by the temporary restraining order."

This is how you do it. It is simple. Federal agents are illegally assaulting people. So they must be locked up. This is where the rubber hits the road: liberty or fascism.

This is not good.

“you can’t refer to your dad’s cousin as your aunt” is their closing scandal? yeah they got nothin’, they’re cooked

It's another example of the president’s ongoing cognitive decline caught on video. Trump appeared to forget where he was going and left the Japanese Prime Minister behind as she watched him, clearly confused. trib.al/Nc0YdZD

I’ve been in Congress for shutdowns before, but this one is different. I’ve never witnessed a shutdown where the President of either party has told congressional leaders to not negotiate at all. He's choosing to raise health care costs for millions of families.

I know it’s too much to expect them to know their history, but if the American Revolution had a motto, it definitely would not have been “immigrants go home.” It would have been “get your fucking soldiers out of our cities.”

One reason I think Platner needs to go is that at some point we're going to have to do an aggressive denazification of the entire political system and the party leading that effort cannot be caught handing out indulgences.

The states say suspending SNAP "is both contrary to law and arbitrary and capricious under the Administrative Procedure Act," and "irreparably harming their states." "A harm that increases every day SNAP benefits are delayed."

Big big BIG state elections coming up!

They don't have an answer, because they don't ask the question. It is 2025. If you are a Democratic Party operative in 2025 and you aren't even looking into media ownership and propaganda effects, then you are either a conman or a mark.

Again, I can't stress this enough: Democratic elected officials are not constantly talking about climate change and trans rights. They are constantly talking about "kitchen table issues." Centrist pundits: Do a single fucking content analysis of their campaign speeches and materials, I beg you!

Republicans generally know that the Trump 2028 talk is largely about Trump shutting THEM down. He doesn’t want to see anyone begin running for president, be it Vance, Vivek, Haley etc. That lame duck status undermines him in a big way. So the 2028 talk is a way to keep ambitious GOPers in line.

Right. They’re having trouble getting enough cameras. But tear gas, weapons, cosplay camo gear, smart glasses, rubber bullets, pepper balls, they have plenty of those. I wonder why there’s a shortage of cameras.

Medical masks were never designed to protect the wearer — and leading safety authorities are finally saying so. Only respirators (like N95s) qualify as Personal Protective Equipment (PPE). Read more: whn.global/whn-joins-in.... #PublicHealth #N95 #MaskUp #Masking

Has Mike Johnson ever considered holding his daily presser an hour later to give him time to read a paper?

They say “election integrity.” But the pattern says something else. Federal election “observers.” Redrawn maps. Trump’s third-term talk. Same playbook. New language.

Stop calling them "anonymous" donations (for the ballroom and military pay). The donors are fully known to the government. The Trump Administration is just letting the donors hide their identity from the American people. I can't think of any non-corrupt reasons to allow this.