Laura Kirkpatrick

Trump just said, "in closing" about two minutes ago. more empty promises.

Watching on CSPAN and it appears that the broadcast of #Trump's #UNGA speech has been switched over to the Russian translator. Someone there has a great sense of humor.

Trump moves onto attacking Obama, after saying Europe is "destroying its heritage."
(He's not even bothering to code anything at this point, just letting the crazy and racism hang all out. I guess that's honesty.)

"I really good at predicting things, I don't say that in a bragadocious way, but I'm always right."

So Trump just said, "I'm here to tell the truth."

Trump claims he has the highest poll numbers ever,
The Hill: thehill.com/homenews/adm...
USA Today: A majority of Americans disapprove of President Donald Trump's job performance (www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...)

"I'm really good at this stuff, your countries are going to hell" - Donald Trump to the rest of the world.

On one hand, #Trump brings Bravo level entertainment to #theUN, even if his makeup is shockingly more sedate than anyone in the Housewives franchise, yet he's repeatedly launched attacks on the UN, immigration, & leaders London's mayor to the Middle East

#Trump announces the US will lead Intl effort to curb biological weapons, using AI.

#Trump at #UNGA80 transitions from compaining about UN, including decor, to talking about weapons of mass destruction weapons, and how the US has successfully used theirs for peace (not to be ignored is his plug of Nobel Peace Prize)

Then #Trump reverts back to complaining about #UN decor.

He then riffed on the lack of assistance from #TheUN like someone very privileged complaining to their therapist about how their parents never loved them. "Only thing UN ever gave me was a broken escalator . . . and a broken teleprompter."

More interesting #Trump #UNGA80 statements:
He's ended 7 wars, raging with "countless thousand of people being killed" in 7 months. "No other country has ever done anything close to that."

Trump's #UNGA80 speech goes from garnering laughs over "who ever's operating the teleprompter is in big trouble" to immediately criticizing previous US leadership, saying it weakened the US with a litany of lies and manipulated data sets.

Melinda French Gates Backs $100 Million Bet On Women’s Health Breakthroughs Melinda French Gates’ Pivotal Ventures and Wellcome Leap commit $100M to accelerate women’s health research and close long-overlooked gaps worldwide.

Melinda French Gates’ Pivotal Ventures and Wellcome Leap commit $100M to accelerate women’s health research and close long-overlooked gaps worldwide.

Human Rights First Decries U.S. Boycott of UN Universal Periodic Review for Further Damaging U.S. Credibility and International Human Rights Norms - Human Rights First Washington, D.C. — Human Rights First today condemned the U.S. government’s unprecedented decision to not participate in its own Universal Periodic Review (UPR) before the United Nations Human Rights ...

The US is refusing to participate in its own UN Human Rights Council #UPR review for the first time—joining rights-abusing governments in dodging accountability. This weakens US credibility & undermines global human rights. We call on the admin to reverse course: humanrightsfirst.org/library/huma...

FBI action at John Bolton’s House—Live A recording from Benjamin Wittes's live video

Wow, Bolton's house raided by FBI.
#PettyIsTheNewBlack
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Are Marathons and Extreme Running Linked to Colon Cancer?

Yep. (Caught pre-cancerous, but )
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/19/h...

This wasn’t just a security breach, documents obtained by NPR from a hotel guest who found them on a printer revealed something even more disturbing: a planned luncheon in honor of Vladimir Putin. The menu literally read, “In honor of his excellency Vladimir Putin.”

The Troubling Lines That Columbia Is Drawing By adopting an overly broad and controversial definition of antisemitism, the university is putting both academic freedom and its Jewish students at risk.

Wrote about Columbia’s embrace of the IHRA definition of antisemitism, which is likely to chill campus speech, violate academic freedom and make Jewish students less safe. www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...

Macron's eye roll looked like if he did that any harder, it would have hurt. #UkraineSummit

Why is the fact that Carter Hart is wearing a burgundy suit so important to the #CBC team? #HockeyTrial

This is really a fascinating breakdown of the testimony.

Hockey Canada trial: Justice Maria Carroccia has said that she does not find the evidence from victim EM "credible or reliable" and that the Crown did not meet the onus for any of the counts before her. She hasn't delivered a verdict yet, but this is the language she has started with.

The US, under Trump, is withdrawing from UNESCO - again.

How von der Leyen’s no-confidence vote fueled Russian propaganda A confidential study found that a known Russian disinformation network had ramped up its posts by 60 percent while pushing the narrative that the European Commission president was “toxic.&#82…

Russian-sponsored propaganda engines went into overdrive in the weeks leading up to the European Parliament’s no-confidence vote against Ursula von der Leyen, a confidential study seen by POLITICO shows.

ICE Agents Invade a Manhattan Little League Field Youman Wilder has coached local kids for twenty-one years—including four who have gone pro. When masked agents tried to interrogate his players, he told them, “You don’t have more rights than they do....

When ICE agents questioned a group of 11- to 14-year-olds who’d just finished batting practice, their coach, Youman Wilder, stepped in. “I’m willing to die to make sure these kids can get home,” he recounted afterward.

Russia’s increasing use of chemical weapons in Ukraine ‘unbearable,’ says top EU diplomat Moscow is using banned chemical weapons to inflict as “much pain and suffering” as possible to force Ukraine to surrender, Kaja Kallas said.

Russia is increasingly using chemical weapons in Ukraine in an effort to subdue the country by causing as much pain and suffering as possible, Europe’s top diplomat Kaja Kallas said today.

Odd to hear GOP Senators talk about Iran being in violation of JCPOA, when it was during the 1st Trump admin, they basically celebrated the US withdrawal from it.