Jane Tate

Yeah, very sad. Somehow Ireland got sold to US tech without the majority of Irish people being aware of it.

President Miller in action.

The Derek & the Dominos founder Bobby Whitlock dead at 77 — Daily Mail Bobby Whitlock, the soulful pianist, guitarist, and songwriter whose fingerprints are all over three of rock's most celebrated albums has died at the age of 77.

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This explains the MAGA crowd.

this gives the game away:
"federal officials may well become suspicious if elite schools do not reduce admissions of Black and Latino students."

"He believed the COVID vaccine made him suicidal… some laid-off CDC employees say @RobertKennedyJr shares responsibility for the violence and should resign…”

With a head full of lies + easy access to weapons he fired at the CDC and killed Officer Rose. www.politico.com/news/2025/08...

Donald Trump and Republicans are pushing illegal maps that violate the Voting Rights Act.

Instead, Congress should pass fair, independent maps nationwide. Without that, Democratic states must consider all the options to protect our constitutional republic.

Don’t let this fade away

Christian Reconstructionists gained so much influence in part because few Americans know that this movement even exists, let alone what its policy objectives are. By the 1980s the CR movement had penetrated elite US evangelical circles & the elites subsequently pushed its ideas to the masses...

Music to the ears of every expansionist country that would go to war with a neighbor. “Earned” is deeply offensive to Ukraine and dangerous to the world

The world is burning. Trump wants to add more fossil fuels to the fire, while sidelining the brightest solution.

Here's a survey of the steps Trump is taking to cast a shadow over solar energy development: rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

Allie Phillips (@allie4tn) on Threads Have you received this piece of mail? Republican, Democrat or Independent. Lmk in the comments if you have !

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Cornyn got the headlines he wanted still it's good to see the @washingtonpost.com doing a much needed follow-up on this story. More news outlets should do the same.

Suspect in custody after shooting at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam Wahiawa Annex Base officials said the incident is isolated and there is no threat to the base population.

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I have to agree as well.

I Am Suing the Department of Justice for the Epstein Files Training Videos On July 20th, I was the first to report the existence of training videos instructing FBI personnel how to flag mentions of Trump and others in the Epstein files. Today, I'm suing for those videos.

BREAKING: I am suing the Department of Justice for the training videos instructing FBI personnel to flag mentions of Donald Trump in the Epstein files. My latest: www.muellershewrote.com/p/i-am-suing...

funny how all these “wE hoNOr HiStorY” chodes refuse to admit they lost that war

‘I’m Actually Surprised It Didn’t Happen Sooner’ CDC staffers saw the violence coming.

Some CDC staff say that they have long feared the day that escalating animosity toward the agency would culminate in actual violence, @landmanspeaking.bsky.social reports:

Juvenile among 6 injured in Park Heights mass shooting A juvenile is among six people shot Saturday night in Northwest Baltimore.

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Kate Lincoln-Goldfinch | Virtual Immigration Attorney (@attorneykatelg) on Threads Lets stay human. Thank you for this

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After Years of Anger Directed at C.D.C., Shooting Manifests Worst Fears

CDC workers were terrified as gunman shot at the agency’s headquarters yesterday.
Today they are still reeling from shock, fear — and rage.

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These GOP Lawmakers Referred Constituents to the CFPB for Help. Then They Voted to Gut the Agency. Many of the same Republican lawmakers who have targeted the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau for cuts have collectively directed thousands of constituents’ complaints about banks, credit cards,…

Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, voted for cuts to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, but he’s also routed more than 800 of his constituents’ complaints to the agency — the most of any current lawmaker from either party, ProPublica found.

By @joeljacobs.bsky.social

A recap of some of the horror committed by I.C.E. …This week

Billionaires, now is the time to step up and prove your *real* worth.

ProPublica (@propublica) on Threads They were sent to CECOT by the Trump administration. For months, their families were left wondering whether they’d ever see their loved ones alive again. Now that they’ve been released, three of the ...

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Anthony Milian (@deffnotant) on Threads Student debt didn’t just happen—it was built. In the 1960s, college was almost free. Then Ronald Reagan’s team called free education for the working class ‘dangerous.’ That warning turned into policy—...

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My Father, Guitar Guru to the Rock Gods When the greatest musicians of the 1970s needed an instrument—or a friend—my dad was there.

When the greatest rock musicians of the 1970s needed an instrument—or a friend—Fred Walecki was there. @nancywalecki.bsky.social writes about her father’s work:

The Movement is the Medium Right-wing media sets the terms of US politics. Drawing on earlier reading, here’s a draft playbook for how we can organize distributed progressive media networks.

New post up! Teaser: "Right-wing media sets the terms of US politics. Drawing on earlier reading here’s a draft playbook for how we can organize distributed progressive media networks."

Thanks to @werd.io for inspiring some of the inquiries informing a number of my recent posts. Check out his blog!