August 27, 2025 The image of National Guard troops, some of them from as far away as Louisiana and Mississippi, in Washington, D.C., spreading mulch around the cherry trees at the Tidal Basin and picking up trash, il...

Washington Post noted, custodial work like that being done by the National Guard troops normally would have been performed by National Park Service employees. But that service was already short staffed when the administration slashed through the federal workforce.
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The Backbone of Coffee Standards Is About to Break. And the Fallout Is Coming for Your Morning Cup. The best part of waking up will never be the same.

Vietnamese robusta was once considered cheap & low quality; thanks to the specialty coffee movement & those who assess coffee within it, bitter & bold robustas have been valorized; hence Vietnam today produces high-quality robustas to sell to discerning consumers like us.

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August 26, 2025 Today, for the second time in as many days, President Donald J.

if Trump’s illegal firing of Cook is allowed to stand, “the implications will be profound and disastrous. The US will be well on its way to becoming Turkey, where an authoritarian ruler imposed his crackpot economics on the central bank, and inflation soaring to 80%
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Trump administration considers stake in defence firms like Lockheed Martin US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick floated the possible investment in a TV appearance, as part of a wider Trump push.

Since taking office for a second term, Trump has sought to increase US investments in several key industries, from steel to technology, prompting questions about whether Republicans were drifting from the “small government” platform they are often associated with.

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CDC Scales Back Food-Borne Illnesses Surveillance - Joe.My.God. NBC News reports: A federal-state partnership that monitors for foodborne illnesses quietly scaled back its operations nearly two months ago. As of July 1, the Foodborne Diseases Active Surveillance N...

Wouldn’t you love to see Teddy Roosevelt school RFK Jr? In the Jungle?

As of July 1, the Foodborne Diseases Active Surveillance Network (FoodNet) program has reduced surveillance to just two pathogens: salmonella and Shiga toxin-producing E. coli (STEC)

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Portland Police yesterday:
10 police cars and an ambulance responding to a situation that involved one homeless woman who was screaming outside of the Architectural Heritage Society.
8 officers were a part of holding her down and restraining her.

Didn’t see what prompted this.

YouTube video by Takes™ by Jamelle Bouie How many slaveholders were there, really?

a bit late but the whole jillian michaels thing last week gave me an excuse to talk a bit about the economy of slavery in detail youtu.be/pRs2Xu1FWR4

Kamala Harris nailed it. We warned everyone the stakes were too high to hand the guy built for Project 2025 another shot — but noooo.

Ever have one of those mornings you just want to throw the window open and yell, FUCK YOU ALL? Yeah, that.

In solidarity with Kevin Sorbo and Scott Baio stating they are refusing any acting jobs in California, I hereby refuse to play defense for the Colorado Avalanche in the upcoming season!
I will also not be pitching for the Rockies this year...
HOLD THE LINE, BOYS!👍

Walz: "It boggles my damn mind that in the midst of a military takeover of our cities, the flaunting of the rule of law, that the press finds the need to talk about, 'Oh, there's a division in the Dem Party.' There's a division in my damn house & we're still married and things are good. That's life"

Even Justice Antonin Scalia Admitted Flag Burning Was Protected Free Speech Trump signed an Executive Order seeking to criminalize flag burning, which the late justice (who was a terror) once said was the kind of speech that ”tyrants would seek to suppress.”

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Activists Again Re-Chalk Orlando's Pulse Memorial - Joe.My.God. Orlando’s Spectrum affiliate reports: As residents continue to protest the state’s decision to paint over a rainbow crosswalk at the Pulse memorial site last week, Orlando police officers and the Flor...

Act Up

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State That Banned "Climate Change" Term Uses More Federal Money On Beach Restoration Than Others Do - Joe.My.God. Florida Politics reports: A new analysis published by Warwick Group Consultants shows Florida uses more federal money than any other state on beach renourishment and replenishing projects. The Washing...

Sea walls can talk

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Trump: I Stopped War In "Deepest Darkest Africa, I Love Black People," Also Rename "Department Of War" - Joe.My.God. TRUMP: “Pete, you started off by saying the Department of Defense, and somehow it didn’t sound good to him, you know, it didn’t sound good, defense. What do we defend? Why are we defense? So, it used ...

King Leopold, meet Donald Trump.

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holy shit

Whoopsy

Baltimore is a great city.

Trump is a racist.

Who rapes children.

Release the Epstein files.

Punish the criminal in the White House.

Seattle Times today:

Sunday will see a high of 90 at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport, the Seattle branch of the National Weather Service predicts. The record high for Aug. 24 is 88 degrees, set in 1982.

Trump’s attacks on the ‘Blacksonian’ have a history in a century-old myth The United Daughters of the Confederacy set out to make slavery respectable again by promoting ‘the lost cause’

“the lost cause” promoted an outlandishly misleading account in which slavery was irrelevant as the cause of the Civil War & benevolent because Christianity & plantation life benefited African-descended people who were otherwise unfit for civilization.
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Round And Round, Up And Down, Feds On The Streets Of Your Town! An occupied-DC update sing-a-long!

School is going to start. More kids on streets that are teeming with military vehicles and troops carrying Sig Sauer pistols that fire on their own randomly.

I feel bad for the people of DC and especially the kids.

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Almost all the Epstein files given to Congress were already public, Democrats say Republicans say the Justice Department will hand over more files.

Pam Bondi coverup www.miamiherald.com/news/politic...

Frost: He knows they can't win, so he wants to cheat. The same thing he's done his entire life. But I'll tell you something else I feel really good about, is what California's doing. They're saying we're not gonna let you do this without a fight.

ICE Is Using So Much Tear Gas in Portland, a School Abandoned Its Campus “Daily, we were finding that [sic] munitions on our play yard, we were getting footage in the evening of green gases, and gases were being used near our gardens," said the school's interim executive d...

Got to see the West Virginia State Police train on tear gas.

They didn’t contain it. Didn’t wear real gear.

They looked scared, though they were training alone on a blacktop. Proper deployment of weapons means making sure you are not hurting yourself or others.

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Texas Bill Allows Private Citizens To Collect $100,000 Bounty From Anyone Who Provides Abortion Pills - Joe.My.God. The Texas Tribune reports: House Bill 7 would allow private citizens to sue anyone who manufactures, distributes, mails or provides abortion medication to or from Texas. Successful plaintiffs would be...

This creates some very weird incentives.

Suddenly my neighbor goes through my trash counting tampons & looking for pill packaging. Steals my phone to get information.

But, it really gets in the way of people supporting their neighbors. Helping their families.

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ICE Director Won't Rule Out Raids On DC Schools - Joe.My.God. NBC News reports: Acting Immigration and Customs Enforcement Director Todd Lyons said parents in Washington, D.C., should not expect to see ICE officers visiting schools when kids go back to school in...

These people aren’t trained to with in dense environments with many distractions and perceived targets.

Professional federal school shootings. That’s a conservative outcome.

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Junior: Send Troops To "Crapholes" Portland And Seattle - Joe.My.God. The Oregonian reports: President Donald Trump’s eldest son referred to Portland and Seattle as “craphole cities” in an interview with Newsmax when talking about the administration’s takeover of the Wa...

Hating Portland is so boring.

George HW Bush called us Little Beirut in 1990.

DTJ is not nearly so clever. Also, he has never done anything heroic in his whole life.

We won’t even throw our vegan sandwiches. They cost $18.

I gotta think the US is out of troops.

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I didn’t know they had to pass the hat for medicine in Alberta.

Actually, Slavery Was Very Bad The president’s latest criticism of museums is a thinly veiled attempt to erase Black history.

a thought i have reading @clintsmithiii.bsky.social’s wonderful piece is that one reason the administration wants to erase any mention of the worst of our past is because it is intent on recapitulating those atrocities www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Cackling Maxwell Smears Prince Andrew’s Accuser on DOJ Tape The convicted child sex offender dismissed allegations against Prince Andrew for jaw-dropping reasons.

By all means, let’s believe the heinous sex offender who lies like she breathes. Todd Blanche is shameful for conducitng this idiotic inquiry designed only to protect Trump www.thedailybeast.com//cackling-ma...