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Coast Guard Buys Two Private Jets for Noem, Costing $172 Million

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Mimi is a constituent of mine. She testified at a shadow hearing today about caring for four U.S. citizen children who were detained and torn from their parents.

Teachers' punishment for social media posts on Charlie Kirk's death prompts free speech debate More than three dozen professors, teachers and school staffers have left or been removed over allegations they made disparaging or mocking comments about Charlie Kirk.

NEW: I tracked three dozen teachers, professors and other school staff who've been forced from their job or stepped away due to their comments on Charlie Kirk and his killing

Republican lawmakers are increasingly getting involved, pushing for firings

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KOMO (Chan 4) IN SEATTLE IS A SINCLAIR AFFILIATE AND IS AIRING THE CHARLIE KIRK MEMORIAL INSTEAD OF KIMMEL ON FRIDAY

You know things are rough when the AAUP's advice on how to use social media is just "set all your accounts to private."

This is a fair point.

Tim Walz: "I'll tell you what doesn't make people feel safe -- a tank next to Chipotle. It's stupid and it's for the cameras ... where are the 'don't tread on me' people?"

Officials demand answers from Noem, Hegseth on Naval Station Great Lakes' use for immigration arrests A letter obtained by the Sun-Times, to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, demands terms of the use of the far north suburban base be put in writing.

Trump’s DHS may have fled from us last week, but Senator Durbin, Congressman Schneider and I are still looking for answers.

We need to know what Trump’s plans are for Naval Station Great Lakes. 
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The BBC news headlines tonight led with the state of the king’s relationship with his son, followed by news of riots on the streets of Paris motivated by rising inequality and the failings of the political class. It’s possible that the eighteenth century is back.

I don't think anybody covered the Feb/Mar Dem debacle over the GOP funding bill with better, earlier, or more actionable insights than @joshtpm.bsky.social. So this is very much worth a read.

in any case, every single one of these people hates your freedom and would happily see you enslaved for the sake of their fantasies of domination

Agencies that typically have little to do with offshore wind power have been drawn into the effort, the two people said. At the Health and Human Services Department, for instance, officials are studying whether wind turbines are emitting electromagnetic fields that could harm human health. And the Defense Department is probing whether the projects could pose risks to national security. Last week Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the health and human services secretary, said he was working with Doug Burgum, the interior secretary, Howard Lutnick, the commerce secretary, Chris Wright, the energy secretary, and Pete Hegseth, the defense secretary, as part of a “departmental coalition team” to investigate the risks from offshore wind farms. “We’re all working together on this issue,” Mr. Kennedy said during a cabinet meeting.

The entire federal government is being mobilized to destroy the American wind energy industry.

Why? Because the toddler king didn't like seeing windmills from a golf course, so he decided he hates wind power and now that's the policy of the United States.

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We’re only a few years removed from creatjng a vaccine to protect against a deadly airborne virus in a matter of months. Now, we have a scion fail son running the CDC into the ground not because it failed, but because its success conflicts with RFK Jr’s eugenicist ideology.

Close up of the neckline of a white low loft puffy vest showing the price tag. Price of $59.90 is on a sticker on the price tag.

Close up of the same tag and vest, but with the sticker removed. Price under the sticker — the originally planned price that they had to scramble to cover with a sticker when the tariffs were slapped on — $49.90.

On the “who pays the tariffs” question:

Uniqlo vest came today. Look, a hastily applied sticker with an updated price!

What’s the new price vs the old? +20%.

What’s the tariff on Bangladesh, where the vest was made? 20%.

I paid the full 20% tariff.

Not Bangladesh. Not Uniqlo. ME.

Yes we know

RFK Jr faces calls to quit as CDC chief fired and senior staff resign: ‘an embarrassment’ Susan Monarez’s ousting and four top resignations follow vaccine confusion, leaving US health agencies in turmoil

"CDC basically imploded yesterday and now it’s truly in shambles,” said @kkjetelina.bsky.social. Also: vaccines? My latest:
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Opinion | Trump Has Dropped an ‘Atomic Bomb’ on the Department of Justice

French, at his finest:

www.nytimes.com/2025/08/28/o...

On August 11th, the lawyers for a local anti-wind group here in Rhode Island called Green Oceans sent a letter to Brown University demanding they take down three papers by my Climate and Development Lab. 3/n

Idea: Senators don't provide unanimous consent maybe for a bit.

Acknowledging that we are living under a fascist regime at the Federal level is essential for figuring out how to fight. And I'm sorry but burying one's head in the sand at this moment is actually allowing fascism to be further entrenched & authority more easily consolidated.

NASA chief to defy agency's charter, terminating science NASA's 1958 charter's top priority was, "the expansion of human knowledge of phenomena in the atmosphere and space." Is this how it ends?

NASA chief to defy agency’s charter, terminating science

On August 14, 2025, NASA acting administrator Sean Duffy announced a new direction for NASA, eliminating science and focusing on spaceflight.

Who cares if it violates the NASA charter?
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#space #astro #nasa #ohwell

Under Trump, middle-class Americans like teachers, firefighters, truck drivers and police officers will lose hundreds of dollars next year.

Billionaires? They'll pocket hundreds of THOUSANDS in tax breaks.

And Republicans couldn’t care less—because that was the plan all along.

Boston showing everyone how it is done. Go Mayor Wu. ✨

Excellent perspective:

www.nytimes.com/2025/08/20/o...

Electric cargo bikes are car replacers.

It’s so great to see how many families can get to soccer practice this way (enabled by Minneapolis’ protected bike infrastructure).

Don't. Print. Lies. In. The. Newspapers.

Even. On. The. Op-ed. Page.

The total collapse of a once-proud publication that no longer has any baseline standards of "journalism"

Improving Oversight of Federal Grantmaking By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, and to improve the process of Federal

The day the current U.S. gave up on Science:

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