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Recent photo of MAGA thanking law enforcement in DC

one guy even tried to give us a sandwich

These people also had “other health problems” before the Nazis starved/gassed them to death en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aktion_T4

They Became Symbols for Gazan Starvation. But All 12 Suffer from Other Health Problems. A Free Press investigation found that the viral photos lacked important context: The subjects have cystic fibrosis, rickets, or other serious ailments. By Olivia Reingold and Tanya Lukyanova 08.17.25 -Israel and Antisemitism

I’m kind of speechless with this one. I can’t imagine the kind of person who continues to make the argument that it doesn’t count as real starvation if the kids were already sick.

🚨🚨" It was humiliating to watch an American president act like a happy puppy upon encountering the dictator of a much poorer, much less important state, treating him as a superior". Spot-on by @anneapplebaum.bsky.social of #anchorage debacle.

No agency insignia at all on their uniforms, so this is likely not DEA or ATF or FBI or Border Patrol. So probably it’s DHS, most likely ICE.

And yeah, the comment about “liberal” is really telling. These guys are wildly unprofessional.

I have lost all patience with the apparently unshakeable conviction that striking a reasonable, moderate pose means assuming the sincerity of transparently pretextual horseshit. Donald Trump does not care about reducing crime in DC. He is testing and normalizing paramilitary deployments in cities.

serious political advice, free of charge: sometimes people in your community are people like this who just make shit up and you shouldn't trust anything they say lol

Trump claps for Putin as he arrives in Alaska.

marco rubio sitting just in the corner of the frame, having sold out all his anti-russia positioning over the years in exchange for the opportunity to wield the thinnest veneer of power, really captures our current moment

Veggie-flation strikes, with a warning for grocery prices No matter what the official data shows, consumers "feel" inflation when grocery prices rise.

ICYMI, the eye-popper in today's PPI: a 39% rise in wholesale fresh vegetable prices.

It's the largest month-on-month increase ever recorded in the summer (data to 1947), and one of the ten largest ever, regardless of season.

With the estimable @alexjamesfitz.com

www.axios.com/2025/08/14/i...

this is wild

At a complete loss as to why Trump would attack these specific mayors.

The stats showing a huge decline in violent crime and homicide in D.C. last year were put out just the other day by the FBI, which is run by Kash Patel.

Just a handful of cities that have a higher violent crime rate than Washington, D.C.:

Kansas City, Cleveland, Indianapolis, Anchorage, Nashville, Toledo, Tulsa, Baton Rouge, Wichita

Wonder why there’s no masked goons and troops harassing residents in those places 🤔

this is really a testament to the kind of campaign Mamdani is running more than anything else

Just an innocent bystander, no doubt just out walking his dog.

this is why i’m over bipartisanship post-Trump. there is no Republican Party without Trump. They all own this, and they aren’t interested in fixing anything he broke.

Should Jon Stewart Run for President in 2028? I was skeptical about a Stewart candidacy, but maybe ‘The Daily Show’ host is the right person to shake up the Democratic presidential primaries.

my serious analysis of the idea of a stewart run is that he is too much of a "pox on both houses," anti-politics, anti-partisan to be able to do the work of reconstruction and reform in the wake of trump. zeteo.com/p/should-jon...

A senior administration official, as well as other officials, told Rolling Stone that it is a priority of Trump that these kinds of military deployments -- in times of relative calm -- become normalized in American political culture.

More: rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

this is why reporting on crime is absolutely broken: even when crime in major US cities reaches historic lows, reporters feel the need to caveat it with shit like this, because crime hasn’t been totally eliminated

Iirc, they only planned on leaving Texas for a week

Transphobes are a public menace.

Mamdani Leads NYC Mayor Race By Nearly 20 Points: New Poll Pollsters spoke to registered voters citywide between Aug. 4-7.

New poll!
Mamdani 44
Cuomo 25
Sliwa 12
Adams 7

Pretty great news, and this is not the main takeaway, but do pause a moment to consider exactly how thoroughly you have to screw up to be the incumbent mayor of New York City and poll at 7 percent. patch.com/new-york/was...

#ReleaseTheCuomoList

Weirdly this doesn't mention that the woman Trump put in charge of reviewing the Smithsonian is his Florida criminal defense attorney who didn't like some of the museum's exhibits when she visited after the inauguration so she convinced Trump to sign an executive order putting her in charge

An irredeemable newspaper

FEDERAL AGENT PULLED FROM THE FINAL STAGES OF A TEN YEAR INVESTIGATION TO CAPTURE THE KILLER RESPONSIBLE FOR THE "HOUSTON HATCHETMAN" SERIAL MURDERS TO PATROL TOURISTS ON THE NATIONAL MALL: hey. you can't vape there

BREAKING: U.S. layoffs have surged to their highest level since the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic.