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Like a baker ...

Colorado seems to be a venue for made-up claims from straw plaintiffs to let the reactionary SCOTUS 6 impose what they want on Americans no matter what law or Constitution says.

very cool that if you are working on behalf of right-wing culture warriors, you no longer need standing to have your claim adjudicated by the supreme court

Whitehouse: "The supposed contribution made to me by some Epstein person is actually not true. It's false. So, weird when an AG of the US comes to the Judiciary Committee & makes false allegations about a senator - demonstrably false - rather than answer a simple Q: Is there a picture, or no?"

“.. On closer inspection, however, it turned out that the image was not a photograph of a real event in Portland, but instead a fabrication created by combining two photographs of scenes that unfolded in South America nearly a decade apart ..”

@theguardian.com
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David Weigel tweets that right wingers post a photo of Abigail Spanberger with a hood on to supposedly prove she's a 'COVID ninny" (whatever that even means), when in fact she was wearing an "escape hood" on 1/6/21 during the violent, pro-Trump insurrection at the US Capitol

Republican Rep. Alex Mooney tweeted on 1/6/21 that "we've been equipped with escape hoods and we're being moved through the Capitol"

Just incredible dishonesty by Republicans on this. In fact, those were escape hoods provided to all Congresspeople (Ds and Rs alike) during the violent 1/6/21 pro-Trump insurrection bluevirginia.us/2025/10/fina... h/t @daveweigel.bsky.social

He’s the only Republican there. He sent all the rest of them home again to avoid a vote on the Epstein files. Since Johnson has become Speaker they have probably been in recess at least 3 out of every 4 days. And they’ve done NOTHING on health care for years. bsky.app/profile/atru...

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Donald Trump and Chris Wright want to spend millions of taxpayer dollars in a giveaway to the polluting and uneconomical coal industry. Higher bills, dirty air, and 19th century solutions to 21st century problems. I’m demanding answers on this back-alley bailout.

Really? They know exactly. The desire is to make @cbsnews.com a tool of authoritarianism.

The Trump regime:
So much damage in
So many different ways

With this:
- balance of payments cost of perhaps $4-$6B (average $60k/year/student, $4.3B)
- reduce US student international exposure
- soft diplomacy losses
- weaken universities
- reduce educated immigration
- …

Nearly 20 Percent Fewer International Students Traveled to the U.S. in August The data shows the steepest decline in August international student arrivals since the pandemic.

"If we ever closed the door to new Americans, our leadership in the world would soon be lost." - Ronald Reagan

Whatever you think of the rest of his legacy, it is a tragedy that today's GOP is so committed to the desecration of our shining City on a Hill. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

DURBIN: Why did you publicly claim to have the Epstein client list waiting for your review and then produce nothing relevant to that claim?

BONDI: There was no client list

“The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.”

― George Orwell, 1984

The Rule of Law v. The Rule of Trump A crisis moment in the defining debate of our time.

"We are facing a clear and present authoritarian danger.

In these circumstances, can Democrats in Congress continue to take the position that their demand from the Trump administration is simply to restore health care funding?

I don’t think so."

www.thebulwark.com/p/the-rule-o...

jfc. I don’t got cash like that. Do you?

I do not understand why television stations are not showing live coverage of how there is literally nothing happening in Portland and Chicago. I mean, Peter Jennings, Dan Rather, and Tom Brokaw would each be sitting on a set in those cities telling everyone the white house is lying.

I guess we’re at the “desegregation was bad” op-Ed’s in NYT stage of MAGA’s campaign to create Jim Crow II.

Whatever state you live in, if you vote for a Republican for governor, you’re voting to have your National Guard stolen.

Trump floats Insurrection Act use amid National Guard standoff with states The extreme presidential power hasn't been used without state consent in over 60 years.

The president of the United States is considering using the Insurrection Act to go around judicial decisions. In other words, he is threatening to ignore the separation of powers that makes up a key part of our democracy.

www.axios.com/2025/10/07/t...

Acting CDC director calls for MMR vaccine to be broken up into three shots There's no evidence that breaking up the MMR shot would make the immunization safer or more effective.

“We have 1,544 measles cases this year, 92% in unvaccinated people, and 3 deaths. The problem isn’t the vaccine — it’s that people aren’t getting it. O’Neill hasn’t offered a single scientific rationale for breaking up MMR.”

@aniloza.bsky.social
@statnews.com
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China Is Beating the US in the Battle for Energy Export Dominance China’s exports of clean energy technology hit a record in August, with $20 billion shipped globally.

Oh:
- The US sold $80 billion in oil and gas abroad through July.
- China exported $120 billion in green technology over the same period.
By @akshatrathi.bsky.social
🎁🔗 www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Pritzker is also furious: “Should National Governors Association leadership choose to remain silent, Illinois will have no choice but to withdraw from the organization.”

Bari Weiss Signs Huge Deal To Usher CBS News Into Its Vichy Era | Defector On Monday, newly appointed Paramount CEO David Ellison announced that his company had acquired the Free Press, the smirking blood-and-soil blog founded and run by former New York Times hall monitor Ba...

I wrote about Bari Weiss as the grim future of mainstream media under billionaire control: defector.com/bari-weiss-s...

It really is staggering to see so many people willing to abandon our 249 year experiment in democracy for an increasingly unstable criminally convicted reality show charlatan.

“If you’re frustrated that your police department doesn’t allow you to smash heads, throw old people to the ground with impunity, and treat “colored people” like trash, ICE wants you …”

We need to melt ICE (and stop melting Greenland / Antarctic / glacier ice).

“If you’re frustrated that your police department doesn’t allow you to smash heads, throw old people to the ground with impunity, and treat “colored people” like trash, ICE wants you …”

Not just the “hypocrisy” but running scared of reactionary RWBM (right wing bullshit machine) screaming about @bsky.app / @safety.bsky.app / @support.bsky.team somehow enabling (supporting) attacks on their angelic Charlie. Doesn’t bode well for defending other (free) speech.

Key seems not just the “hypocrisy” but the running scared of reactionary RWBM (right wing bullshit machine) screaming about @bsky.app / @safety.bsky.app / @support.bsky.team somehow enabling (supporting) attacks on their angelic Charlie. Doesn’t bode well for defending other (free) speech.

perhaps the biggest story TFPever ran was a catastrophically shoddy argument that George Floyd ackshully died of an overdose. When confronted with irrefutable evidence that the piece was simply wrong, Weiss didn’t take it down, she asked her critic, @radleybalko.bsky.social, to come on a podcast.

With China, many things can be true at once

While many in the west admonish China by name on emissions, despite China's full support for climate science, dramatic action of scaling wind and solar, we fail to directly call out the science-denying crackpot-in-chief of USA
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