๐จBREAKING: Ex CIA officer Joel Willet tells a story that Vladimir Putin sent armed guards to shut down a puppet show for mocking him.
That sounds a lot like Donald Trump using his FCC to pressure ABC into suspending Jimmy Kimmel.
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๐จBREAKING: Ex CIA officer Joel Willet tells a story that Vladimir Putin sent armed guards to shut down a puppet show for mocking him.
That sounds a lot like Donald Trump using his FCC to pressure ABC into suspending Jimmy Kimmel.
Okay, *now you can start to worry about data being manipulated.
01.08.2025 18:20 โ ๐ 3695 ๐ 953 ๐ฌ 134 ๐ 62The Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) announced today that it will begin an orderly wind-down of its operations following the passage of a federal rescissions package and the release of the Senate Appropriations Committeeโs FY 2026 Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies (Labor-H) appropriations bill, which excludes funding for CPB for the first time in more than five decades. For nearly 60 years, CPB has carried out its Congressional mission to build and sustain a trusted public media system that informs, educates, and serves communities across the country. Through partnerships with local stations and producers, CPB has supported educational content, locally relevant journalism, emergency communications, cultural programming, and essential services for Americans in every community. โDespite the extraordinary efforts of millions of Americans who called, wrote, and petitioned Congress to preserve federal funding for CPB, we now face the difficult reality of closing our operations,โ said CPB President and CEO Patricia Harrison. โCPB remains committed to fulfilling its fiduciary responsibilities and supporting our partners through this transition with transparency and care.โ
The Corporation for Public Broadcasting is shutting down operations after loss of federal funding:
01.08.2025 17:11 โ ๐ 3466 ๐ 1876 ๐ฌ 263 ๐ 606The overarching goal is reversing the 1960s in every way; civil rights, immigration, public media, and more.
17.07.2025 12:38 โ ๐ 3068 ๐ 1006 ๐ฌ 106 ๐ 40Abrego is the *only* prisoner ever released from CECOT, so this is the sole account we have of the horrifying conditions in the prison in El Salvador where Trump has sent over 260 people from the US.
03.07.2025 06:08 โ ๐ 3565 ๐ 1417 ๐ฌ 38 ๐ 28here's a new nightmare if anyone was looking for a new one!
03.07.2025 05:36 โ ๐ 483 ๐ 26 ๐ฌ 18 ๐ 8far be it from me to tell scientists how to do their jobs but i feel like there might be value in surveying the <365 hot dogs per year demographic
03.07.2025 03:59 โ ๐ 6627 ๐ 1058 ๐ฌ 316 ๐ 265Big Bill designed to effectively end Obamacare
A rise of 16 million in uninsured would led to 42.2 million uninsured in 2034.
Total uninsured was 45.2m in 2013 before ACA
Thus Big Bill would erase almost all (84%) of decline in uninsured since 2013, and raise uninsured number by 60%.
The thing that is so frustrating about congressional Republicans is theyโre acting like anyone would do the same in their position.
Thatโs simply not true. There are other, better, people, who would risk losing their job in order to do the right thing and protect others. Lots of them.
Over the past two decades, this little-known tent company went from helping to support music festivals like Lollapalooza to building camps for a completely different use: detaining immigrants at the U.S.-Mexico border.
Now it's hoping to cash in on Trumpโs deportation plans.
(Published April)
Republicansโ comical inability to govern would be a lot more entertaining if the healthcare of 17M people was not at stake.
03.07.2025 03:35 โ ๐ 361 ๐ 54 ๐ฌ 8 ๐ 0This is why they didnโt want him back: He is a witness.
02.07.2025 22:08 โ ๐ 16876 ๐ 6050 ๐ฌ 419 ๐ 180"He has launched a preemptive military strike. He has defended the strike by misrepresenting intelligence. He has prematurely declared the mission a total victory. And he is impugning the patriotism of anyone who challenges his lies."
02.07.2025 21:01 โ ๐ 494 ๐ 149 ๐ฌ 34 ๐ 4We're going to need Nuremberg trials when this is over, yes, and to send a significant number of people currently in the federal government to prison. But we're going to need an unwavering commitment to ostracizing the supporters of it, as well. Never accept them again in polite society.
02.07.2025 22:24 โ ๐ 9856 ๐ 3114 ๐ฌ 29 ๐ 254The Food and Drug Administrationโs top vaccine official rejected broad uses of two Covid vaccines, citing unknown risks or injuries despite assurances of safety from dozens of staff experts, newly released documents show. @by-cjewett.bsky.social
03.07.2025 03:02 โ ๐ 40 ๐ 26 ๐ฌ 2 ๐ 3Good rundown of corporate pork in the Big Bad Bill
substack.perfectunion.us/p/the-one-bi...
lol
02.07.2025 00:13 โ ๐ 22152 ๐ 3899 ๐ฌ 461 ๐ 238the president just opened a concentration camp
02.07.2025 13:14 โ ๐ 7948 ๐ 2341 ๐ฌ 110 ๐ 23Attacking peopleโs citizenship and identity as punishment for their politics is a fascist move.
"Democrats should be manning the barricades against this stuff because the menace on the other side of the line is a far greater threat than a few negative ads in 2026."
Are we great yet?
02.07.2025 15:58 โ ๐ 15658 ๐ 5664 ๐ฌ 1657 ๐ 452MADISON, Wis. (AP) โ Wisconsin Supreme Court's liberal majority strikes down the stateโs 176-year-old abortion ban.
02.07.2025 13:15 โ ๐ 17580 ๐ 3019 ๐ฌ 201 ๐ 350According to the forecasting models, the current steep funding cutsโ coupled with the potential dissolution of the agencyโcould lead to more than 14 million additional deaths by 2030, averaging more than 2ยท4 million deaths per year. These deaths include 4ยท5 million among children younger than 5 years, or more than 700โ000 deaths annually.
There is not a single person in the Democratic Party who is treating the death of USAID with the gravity it deserves. Thereโs no political issue more important than the death of 14 million people, but theyโre just delivering boilerplate condemnations and nothing more.
02.07.2025 05:24 โ ๐ 4571 ๐ 1220 ๐ฌ 108 ๐ 69i would like to start one day without something completely fucking insane.
02.07.2025 13:20 โ ๐ 7093 ๐ 921 ๐ฌ 345 ๐ 251No notes. Not one word is exaggerated.
01.07.2025 14:30 โ ๐ 1560 ๐ 436 ๐ฌ 31 ๐ 7Final vote. 50-50. VP breaks the tie.
One single GOP Senator could have stopped this abomination. Saved millions of parents from watching their child go hungry. Saved the lives destroyed when Medicaid disappears.
They will all live forever with the horror of this bill.
I work as an elder and hospice caregiver, which I am oddly passionate about. I can love on them shamelessly and no one complains about my codependence. It's a win-win situation. Many of my caregiving colleagues complain about the repetitive questions and, sometimes reactions, of the elderly, especially when those patients happen to read the newspaper, especially with the current downward spiral of our country โ as if these people haven't lived through enough horror... I love my dementia peeps, but sometimes wonder if there's a Guinness Book World Record for how many times an hour a dementia patient can repeat the same question โ it's got to be in the hundreds. At least with small children, they ask different questions. Dementia patients will get stuck on one short question and ask it until you can interrupt their train(carousel) of thought and successfully redirect their attention. That carousel is pretty manic sometimes. A couple days ago, I picked up my mail from the post office and drove over to the nursing home to take (let's call her "Miss Daisy") Miss Daisy out for a drive. Before we took off on our road trip, to the end of The Road and back, in our landlocked little town (Juneau, Alaska), I set my copy of The Onion down in front of her. Over our two-hour excursion, tiny Miss Daisy read that front page at least a dozen times and each time she would snicker, giggle, and guffaw, then put it down on the dash board and, a minute later, discover it anew. I think it was the best afternoon of my life. We don't often hear them laugh and when they do, it's the sweetest thing you've ever heard. ... Thank you, thank you, thank you, for the really important work all of you do. You make the world a better place.
I got permission to share this, and I'm extremely grateful for that.
The Onion got this letter from one of our subscribers in Alaska. She works with dementia patients and decided to leave a copy in the car for each one.
This email made my year. Read it and you'll see what I mean. People are good.
No money for Medicaid or SNAP or museums or schools or sidewalks or gun violence prevention or art or libraries.
Always money for war.