David Turnbull

Really starting to make sense why Mike Johnson and Republicans skipped work for 40+ days

Trump bragged about grappling women by the pu**y & barging into rooms of partially dressed, young pageant contestants. A jury concluded he assaulted E. Jean Carroll in a dressing room. So nothing that’s in the Epstein emails is a surprise. It’s just confirmation.

...in the situation room.

This is, again, another meeting at the White House about how to prevent the release of FBI documents about child rape. Think for a second, if you were accused of raping children, would you be convening multiple meetings about how to prevent the release of documents that prove your innocence?

The fact that Trump is calling Mace and Boebert today pleading with them to remove their names from the Epstein petition at the last minute tells you everything you need to know about how incriminating the info in the files is to him and his cronies.

“Riots Raging”: The Misleading Story Fox News Told About Portland Before Trump Sent Troops After reviewing coverage from the network and hours of social media videos that preceded Trump’s decision, ProPublica found that Fox’s portrayal of “Portland rioters” routinely instigating violence wa...

NEW: 2020 footage said to be in 2025. A neighbor who keeps reappearing in the same clip, said to be on different days & months. A broadcast from elsewhere suggested as Portland.

How Fox News misled its viewership -- which may have included the president.

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Annie Karni @anniekarni Trump himself called Boebert, regarding her signing onto the Epstein petition and spoke to her yesterday, I am told. Trump playing phone tag with Mace. So far, they are not planning to remove their names from the petition.

this should be obvious but the reason Trump is working desperately against Epstein transparency is because he's guilty

If you’ve got a Senate Democrat who is not calling for new leadership, they’re part of the problem.

We should no longer trust Senate Dems who decline to come out against the leadership that led us here. Until proven otherwise, we should assume they were in on the game to fool their own supporters.

Well it was fun feeling like we had some Democratic momentum for what, not even a week?

Quote on a wall at an aquarium from Rebecca Solnit: “The world is blue at its edges and in its depths.”

A @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social quote sighting always brings a smile. This one at the Seattle aquarium.

With a career as long and as impactful as hers, there inevitably will (and should) be a varied discourse on her legacy...but really my thoughts this morning regarding Nancy Pelosi are that I was proud and excited to get to vote for her in multiple elections when I lived in SF. It was an honor.

The ADL has decided to treat fascists as allies and progressives as enemies. For a group that is tasked with protecting American Jews, that is a world historic fuck up.

I will never forgive these people for their moral decrepitude.

What Really Happened in Portland Before Trump Deployed the National Guard In the two months before Trump’s decision, criminal charges were announced against only three people. On nights when physical conflict did erupt, it often came from police firing on, shoving, pepper-s...

NEW: We reviewed 700+ videos, hours of footage from ICE protesters and counterprotesters in Portland.

In 2 months before Trump said he was sending the National Guard, federal officers fire on, grab, pepper-spray or tear gas people 20 times -- without charging anyone. "Gratuitous," one expert said.

The last month of the anti-Mamdani campaign was an absolutely shameful undertaking, an attempt to rip the city and Democratic coalition apart and I'm very happy to see it failed.

For any unfamiliar with the quality of journalism at Teen Vogue, it's well known for hard-hitting stories on "politically sensitive" topics including climate.

Then there's CBS: the only major network to increase climate coverage in the last few years. They just axed nearly their whole climate team.

My wife has decided her favorite player is With Risp. He’s always up when something exciting is going on.

So to be clear, the Trump administration has been trying to illegally withhold SNAP benefits, an illegal and immoral attempt at using people's hunger as a bargaining chip.

The fall of the CBS News climate team David Ellison, the new pro-Trump chief executive of Paramount Skydance, has dismantled the best climate change reporting team in cable news.

Great coverage from @emorwee.bsky.social of the first entire unit to be let go at CBS News under new management: the climate team 🙃 heated.world/p/cbs-news-k...

CBS News just gutted its climate team Paramount and Bari Weiss aren't off to a great start. Here's why David Ellison should change course.

NEWS: CBS News gutted its climate team as part of the big Paramount layoffs this week. These journalists had been doing incredible reporting on extreme heat, flooding, clean energy investments and more.

I've got details for Climate-Colored Goggles: www.climatecoloredgoggles.com/p/cbs-news-g...

It's like they're taking that chainsaw straight to my heart!

Worth reading the whole thread...needless to say, I agree!

Screenshot of a post from SF Parks and Recreation announcing they are taking down an old Cyprus tree in Golden Gate Park due to its deteriorating condition.

Don’t mind me, just mourning a tree I’ve loved for half my adult life.

If you’ve ever been so lucky to enjoy a weekend at Hardly Strictly or a lazy day lounging in Hellman Hollow…you know this tree.

I’ve never considered myself a treehugger, but I wish I could give this one a hug goodbye.

Feds sent Guard to Portland ICE facility Oct. 4 despite judge's order • Oregon Capital Chronicle The federal government could be in contempt of court for defying a federal judge’s order blocking National Guard deployment to Portland.

The federal government could be in contempt of court for defying a U.S. District Court judge’s order blocking National Guard deployment to Portland. buff.ly/YMG7ODD by @alexbaumhardt.bsky.social

“This is a political prosecution and a gross attempt to silence dissent, a right protected under the first amendment," Abughazaleh said in a video she shared on social media.

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

It is a badge of honor, mark of courage and sign of effectiveness to be so brazenly targeted by this regime. Kat walks her talk and the regime knows it. Regardless of who you back in this race, if you back the *idea* of voters choosing their leaders, you must back her fight to be a public servant.

Someone you love will go hungry while Trump stole your money to bulldoze our White House and build himself a ballroom.

Damn it.

☑️ Prosecute enemies (see James, Comey, etc.)
☑️ Order mass deportations (see ICE)
☑️ Use soldiers against citizens (see DC, Chicago, LA, etc.)
☑️ Abandon allies (see Canada)
☑️ Play politics with disasters (see LA fires, NC recovery, climate crisis etc.)

if you think the problem is that the democratic party is too extreme rather than our current media environment privileges right wing bull shit then you have no real business discussing politics in public

AI-generated fakes proliferate as Hurricane Melissa nears Jamaica AI-generated videos were clogging social media feeds Monday as Hurricane Melissa surged toward Jamaica, diverting attention from critical safety information about the massive Category 5 storm.Senator ...

New @afp.com:

AI-generated videos were clogging social media feeds today as Hurricane Melissa surged toward Jamaica, diverting attention from critical information about the storm.

TikTok appeared to remove more than two dozen such fakes after we flagged them.

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