Jon B. Wolfsthal 🤯

🚨 NEW AD: 🚨 Trump’s job cuts are hitting Virginia hard — but on Friday, my opponent said she doesn’t think it’s a “real issue.” Virginians disagree.

How a public library's summer game took over a Michigan city Summer in Ann Arbor, Mich., means thousands of people hunting for hidden codes around the city and reading books to earn points. It's part of a popular game organized by the public library.

Summer in Ann Arbor, Mich., means thousands of people hunting for hidden codes around the city and reading books to earn points. It's part of a popular game organized by the public library.

In the cover article in the current edition of Survival, I assess that thanks to the June bombings, the US and Israel may face a new nuclear-armed enemy sooner than once feared.

www.iiss.org/online-analy...

Time to fight dirty

All of this exhausting Texas gerrymandering bullshit is a direct consequence of Manchin, Sinema and whoever else was hiding behind them failing to pass new voting rights legislation, enshrine non-partisan redistricting nationwide or pack the outlaw Supreme Court.

Break California into three states and take back the Senate forever.

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The country is falling to fascism, the Yankees are terrible and the Nats are worse.

Gee, if only members of Congress had the power to legislate, confirm officials and provide checks and balances on the power of the executive branch.

They are playing a dangerous game of rope a dope - study for three years and hope the next admin is not going to enforce the Trump deal.

love it!

I am fortunate to be the custodian of a first edition. One of the most important things ever written and perhaps one of the most under appreciated.

Jane Mayer on John Hersey’s “Hiroshima” His monumental report changed history, journalism, and me.

Link: www.newyorker.com/magazine/tak...

Some American Jews whose families fled Nazis are now seeking German citizenship. Here's why A growing number of American Jews whose parents and grandparents fled Germany during World War II are now getting German citizenship.

A growing number of American Jews whose parents and grandparents fled Germany during World War II are now getting German citizenship.

A Fight Over a West Point Job Reveals Two Visions of America Under Trump

Jen is exactly the type of patriot you would want to teach at West Point and serve in Government.

www.nytimes.com/2025/08/03/u...

Holy hell - one of the 10 American released by Trump from Venezuela is a triple murderer, was brought back to Us and RELEASED?!?!

Remember when the USS Kentucky went to port on South Korea. At that moment, it was the only weapon the US could not use against North Korea.

Makes sense. If you cannot use race to determine student acceptance then why should you be able to use it to stop and ask for papers?

Google Will Use AI to Guess People’s Ages Based on Search History Plus: A former top US cyber official loses her new job due to political backlash, Congress is rushing through a bill to censor lawmakers’ personal information online, and more.

Plus: A former top US cyber official loses her new job due to political backlash, Congress is rushing through a bill to censor lawmakers’ personal information online, and more. www.wired.com/story/securi...

Opinion | The Trump Economy Stumbles The President has his new world tariff order in place, but jobs and growth don’t look so good.

“The tariff tax increase in dollar terms at Mr. Trump’s current rates will be close to $360 billion a year. That’s among the largest tax increases in recent history.” www.wsj.com/opinion/dona...

US bureau of statistics next year:

Excellent

10% of the country remember him. Explains a lot.

Happy Friday to everyone who might be concerned that he has possession of the nuclear codes, blames the messenger for tanking the economy & would gladly pardon a monster to save his own thin orange skin.

Donald Trump Just Delivered The Worst Three Months Of Job Growth Since The Pandemic The last six months of Biden’s presidency saw twice as many jobs added as the first six months of Trump’s second term.

Trump just delivered the worst three months of job growth since the pandemic www.huffpost.com/entry/july-j...

Typical.

He fucks up the economy and he blames a Biden appointee.

Trump ordered the top labor statistics official to be fired because his job numbers suck.

It’s only going to get worse as the tariffs take hold.

By @scientistsorg.bsky.social

Also we have 400 ICBMs ready to go. This is school yard chest thumping, with our lives in the balance.

Trump orders nuclear submarines moved near Russia U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday said he had ordered two nuclear submarines to be positioned in regions near Russia in response to threats from former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev.

Trump’s announcement that he has ordered “two nuclear submarines” into position in response to Medvedev’s equally stupid statement is deeply irresponsible and reckless. It is unnecessary, escalates the situation, and shows Trump is unfit to be president. www.reuters.com/world/trump-...

Opinion | Only one American can start a nuclear war: The president The American president has the sole authority to order a nuclear strike, even if every adviser in the room is against it.

Apropos of nothing in particular

www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/int...

Opinion | Only one American can start a nuclear war: The president The American president has the sole authority to order a nuclear strike, even if every adviser in the room is against it.

www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/int...

Today would be a good say to reread @mknight.bsky.social ‘s excellent piece as part of our series on the Next Nuclear Age in the @postopinions.bsky.social

And to pass a law that would put checks and balances in the way of a US President starting a nuclear war.