crisko 2.0

say it again:

4 million people work in higher ed, the largest employer in 10 states, second largest employer in 10 more, and in 60 of the 100 biggest cities

demolishing higher education is economic sabotage

‘He has trouble completing a thought’: bizarre public appearances again cast doubt on Trump’s mental acuity Joe Biden was hounded for his age-related gaffes, but Trump’s increasingly strange behavior has largely been ignored

It's pretty notable to me that it's the US branch of the Guardian publishing this. Most of the other big national papers have been notable in their refusal to acknowledge the president's visible senility

Pro Soccer Player Who Spent 125 Days At CECOT Gives Chilling Account Of His Time There “Both the physical and mental abuse doled out by the officers made me think sometimes that I would never leave that place,” Jerce Reyes Barrios said.

Assuming we have a functioning judicial system in 2029, we will need to establish an apparatus to determine the culpability and penalty for officials who made things like this happen.

Remarkable reporting via @jessicaschulberg.bsky.social and @mattshuham.bsky.social www.huffpost.com/entry/pro-so...

Win-win

sure, it sounds good, but what if we become so corrupted by our pursuit of power that we end up ruthlessly imposing a pluralistic, egalitarian society upon a reluctant country?

Just reading transcript of 7/24 hearing before Judge Boasberg in JGG—AEA case where govt sent Venezuelans to CECOT despite his orders. Even if DC Cir blocks criminal contempt proceedings, Boasberg says he’ll refer DOJ attys to bar authorities & court’s own disciplinary committee ...
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Better journalism would say "should" and not "could."

It is an objectively enormous problem that the dispassionate government statistics the world uses to assess the health of the US economy are now going to be propagandized.

That SHOULD undermine confidence. If it doesn't, that's a new problem

Americans -please watch and pass on! Then resist

My neighbors and I share a driveway. Arbitrarily because I feel like it and am jealous of their new car, I will be charging them an extra 35% tariff on any driveway maintenance and plowing they do unless they make a deal with me to soothe my ego.

#resist #mepolitics #VoteBlue #TrumpTariffs #Canada

It had been reported she moved to a more private wing.

Opinion | They Saw Their Neighbors Taken Away by ICE. Then They Made a Plan.

Yay for the helpers! Those who are stepping up. Thank you.

Ripping families and communities apart by unidentified, masked government-sanctioned terrorists is NOT making this country great. It's cruel and inhumane.
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/30/o...

How Conservative Christians Cracked a 70-Year-Old Law

I regret to inform you that NYT has done it yet again.

Half a dozen quotes by known religious zealots (e.g. Jeffress, Perkins, Mike Johnson) in the first few paragraphs, undermining the value of the Johnson Amendment with a cynical presentation of its origin, (1/2)

www.nytimes.com/2025/07/30/u...

Succinct insight!

Let her go and invoke the fifth. Make the questions pointed and informed. Then send her back… she was a sex trafficker for under aged women!

Opinion | The Supreme Court Owes the Country Explanations for Its Big Decisions

www.nytimes.com/2025/07/28/o...
The Editorial Board

GIFTED

Fed judges are not elected..Nor are they supposed to make decisions based on their ideology

SCOTUS is creating a problem by issuing many important rulings as unsigned orders, votes among justices aren't public & offer little explanation

Hahaha… yeah, that’s funny! Sorry to be a drag, but definitely not a troll! Gave up being surprised years ago by the number of guys unsolicited punctures and. Messages that were NOT anonymous. =sigh=

And they are blaming Democrats (who voted overwhelmingly for Harris) as Maryland is seen as a blue state. Like that justifies not providing federal aid?!?!

Safer for a man… women are better off not sharing so openly!

Hey genius, someone was filming HER as she was trying to call the guys family and confronting LEO.
Your stereotyped bias is blinding you to your inability to grasp details or discern relevance. Drop the trope and open your eyes?

For just a moment you took me there. Thank you for starting my day off right!

This famine is not a natural disaster. It is not a spontaneous event.

This is a deliberate act of the state of Israel.

This must end now. For the sake of humanity. Please.

This one is heartbreaking. America, haven’t we learned anything? It’s time to be better than this.

Stunning!

But, but…. Canadian content, eh?
Iagree with you of course, wish they’d pull him from US channels too!

Trump’s executive order criminalizing homelessness and mental illness lays the groundwork for social cleansing—wrapped in moral language, stripped of due process. Every student of 20th-century history should recognize the echoes of Nazi Germany.

I think you underestimate the average Canadian’s rage against Trump And his professed followers. Quite likely in a least a few of these instances the threat was real.

Not always easy, but a good goal and better outcome?

China Flexes Muscles at U.N. Cultural Agency, Just as Trump Walks Away

Great job, everybody.

If the administration had any idea how international relations and organizations worked, they would not be withdrawing from and defunding them.

The Hype Man of Trump’s Mass Deportations Gregory Bovino has taken his aggressive tactics and propaganda videos from the southern border to the streets of California.

"What Bovino is doing in Los Angeles is a pilot of sorts. It showcases the potential for a broader Border Patrol role in US cities and communities, especially those that have adopted 'sanctuary' policies restricting local police cooperation with ICE."

www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...