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Fraud trial witness unsure if defendant is a lizard person - Nashville Banner Witness in Plaza Mariachi fraud trial suggests defendant may be a lizard person, cites 'extended imagination' for ability to recognize reptilian traits.

“'I don’t know if Mr. Janbakhsh is a lizard person,' May responded. 'There’s a difference between a belief and entertaining something as an idea.'" @connordaryani.bsky.social nashvillebanner.com/2025/08/01/m...

Trump Weighs Getting Involved in New York City Mayor’s Race

Hey @andrewcuomo:

Is it true that you spoke to Donald Trump about clearing the right-wing lane for you? When? What did you promise him in return? New Yorkers deserve to know.

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This looks amazing. nashfilmfest.eventive.org/schedule/688...

Very cool to see an excerpt from a forthcoming Vanderbilt University Press title featured on @parisreview.bsky.social website! It was a pleasure working with Lily Meyer as an acquisitions editor at Vanderbilt.

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She actually let those mofos send her home! Marsha Huckabee Blackburn. She should just go ahead and order her $30,000 podium now.

The GOP’s Internal Polling Must Be Brutal Splinter is your home for news and opinions that challenge power in our political and economic system that's becoming more unhinged each and every day.

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How Chuck Grassley's Politicized Redactions Gave Putin Leverage over Trump - emptywheel Days before Trump sent his golfing buddy Steve Witkoff to pretend he's going to get stern with Vladimir Putin, all Trump's top spies renewed a secret they share with Putin's own spies. And that likely...

"Russian spies know what is too embarrassing for Grassley & Tulsi & Kash & Ratcliffe to release...Grassley’s willful protection of this secret...has only served to give Putin leverage over Trump and over the United States." @emptywheel.bsky.social www.emptywheel.net/2025/08/06/h...

it seems like none of these people are familiar with the history of “the nations.” it was always working class until these gentrifiers, who all seem to have moved in post year 2000, changed the fabric of the neighborhood. it really is always about class war, isn’t it? 🦞

New Interview: www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...

I introduced a motion to subpoena the Epstein files. We got the votes.

Today, we got the subpoena.

The DOJ has 2 weeks to release the Epstein files to the Oversight Committee. Justice must apply to everyone, no matter how rich, powerful, or well-connected they are.

GAO summary: "Based on publicly available evidence and the lack of any special message pertaining to NIH funds, GAO concludes that NIH violated the ICA by withholding funds from obligation and expenditure....Furthermore, HHS showed no sufficient justification for the pause that it instituted."

Recently, I organized some sparsely-attended anti-Maga protests with a few neighbors. Around the same time, a lot owner cut down some trees, leading to hundreds of angry residents at gov't meetings. I wish they could bring that same energy level to love their "neighbor" like they love the trees.

reporters talking to the president the way i would ask a cat what he's doing up on the roof there little buddy. how'd you get up there! sweetie!

*nods with vigor* Your politics is what you do with your energy. Your politics is your witness is who you are. Same as it ever was.

This is such a great way to frame this.

The Gaza Genocide Is a Test for American Democracy The public overwhelmingly opposes the genocide, but the political elites help keep it going. Something has to give.

"The American public did not need to wait for the recent soul-crushing photographs of starving children to decide they were against this abomination. They figured that out nearly 18 months ago." @jeetheer.bsky.social www.thenation.com/article/poli...

The Ridiculous Music City Loop Project Rumbles Forward Last week, the State Building Commission approved the first step in The Boring Company's Music City Loop project

"Is the Nazi tunnel going right past the front door of the oldest Black church in Nashville an intentional insult, or...just...Gov. Bill Lee refusing to acknowledge that Nashville is a real place where people live & things happen?" @betsyphillips.bsky.social www.nashvillescene.com/news/pithint...

The Ridiculous Music City Loop Project Rumbles Forward Last week, the State Building Commission approved the first step in The Boring Company's Music City Loop project

"Is the Nazi tunnel going right past the front door of the oldest Black church in Nashville an intentional insult, or...just...Gov. Bill Lee refusing to acknowledge that Nashville is a real place where people live & things happen?" @betsyphillips.bsky.social www.nashvillescene.com/news/pithint...

SPOILER ALERT! Ari Aster, Jay Weingarten (Episode 350) YouTube video by Office Hours Live with Tim Heidecker

"Our political identity is generally formed through personal experience." @timheidecker.bsky.social www.youtube.com/live/ijhbf43...

The Ridiculous Music City Loop Project Rumbles Forward Last week, the State Building Commission approved the first step in The Boring Company's Music City Loop project

The thing about being married to John Baldwin and being friends with @betsyphillips.bsky.social is that I know two people who didn't have to google "who is Jere Baxter."

Ghost 6.0 Networked publishing, native analytics, and $100M earned by indie publishers

new ghost just shipped and lol: “No opaque algorithms. No suppression of links. No unhinged mechabots. If you've been around on the web for while, and you can remember back that far... you might even call it the return of the blogosphere.”

The long struggle to balance faith and freedom at Baylor – Baptist News Global The latest controversy between Baylor University and the Baptists — rejecting grant funding to study LGBTQ exclusion in the church — has roots that stretch back more than 100 years, far preceding late...

This Baylor history article from Curtis Freeman at Baptist News addesses the award and withdrawal of a research grant at @bayloruniversity.bsky.social and is a marvelous example of how history may be used in the service of social action. HT @daviddark.bsky.social

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YouTube video by Faber Books Stewart Lee in Conversation with Alan Moore

Sometimes the algorithm really does roll a 20.
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By "Vilifying" SVR Victim Julianne Smith, Kash Patel Establishes Precedent to Share the Epstein Files - emptywheel Kash Patel and Pam Bondi said they wouldn't release details about what Trump knew about Ghislaine Maxwell stealing girls from his spa, recruiting one into a sex slavery, because such disclosure would ...

"Kash chose to make the name of someone who had been framed — with his help — by Russian spies public.
Which pretty much demolishes his excuse for hiding details about what Trump knew about Ghislaine Maxwell stealing his girls." @emptywheel.bsky.social www.emptywheel.net/2025/08/04/b...

Helpful.

Donald Trump's Parallel Ghislaine Maxwell and Vladimir Putin Problems - emptywheel As Trump attempts to look strong in the face of Vladimir Putin's intransigence on Ukraine, consider the twin pillars of compromise Putin has on him.

"As has been the case for years, it was never the pee tapes that would most worry Trump. It’s the proof that Trump owes his presidency — now, both of them — to Russia." @emptywheel.bsky.social www.emptywheel.net/2025/08/04/d...

“Two visions of America under trump”

This review absolutely nails it

"Masking is actually taking personal control of public health, while the ostentatious refusal to do so is whiny and dangerous."