Joyce Carol Oates roasts “Dear Leader”’s pet; Elon Musk on X, for his apparent lack of culture, so true!

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Pentagon concedes Trump admin. doesn’t know who it’s killed in boat strikes Who has the U.S. killed in recent boat strikes? It’s a problem that we don’t know. It’s an even bigger problem that the administration doesn’t know, either.

House Speaker Mike Johnson told Fox News this week that he’s seen “exquisite intelligence”…but it was not the President’s!!!

www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...

Fascists=robots.

As yourself: what is the difference between a king and a billionaire, if both are just as perilous as the other?

Mystery of The Ocean's Missing Plastic a Step Closer to Being Solved Think of ocean plastic and you may picture bottles and bags bobbing on the waves, slowly drifting out to sea.

Who pays for plastic waste cleanup in our oceans, The People?! How about the deferred private sector cost is paid by the originators of the waste itself; the petrochemical companies producing plastic.
www.sciencealert.com/mystery-of-t...

Trump Administration Live Updates: White House Changes Course and Will Demolish Entire East Wing

Maoist feels:

www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10...

Meta's New AI Data Center Is The Size Of 70 Football Fields And Residents Are Left 'Scared' - BGR Meta is building a huge data center in Louisiana as large as 70 football fields, but residents fear its potential impact on drinking water and local ecology.

Football fields, 700 of them; something AI can help us get folks heads around, is it worth the (public) cost to maintain?!?:

www.bgr.com/1990532/meta...

'Bombshell!' Ex-clerk to Clarence Thomas sends shockwaves with Supreme Court warning The U.S. Supreme Court seems almost certain to side with President Donald Trump in an upcoming challenge to his authority to fire government officials for any reason, but a leading conservative legal ...

“If a highly respected originalist scholar like Professor Nelson, on whom the court relies frequently, denies that originalism supports the unitary executive theory…[it] raises serious questions about an originalist justification for the court’s looming approach.”
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What Drives MAGA Christians' Un-Christian Actions? Experts Say It Comes Down To This. This framework reveals why some MAGA-aligned Christians act in ways that contradict Jesus’ teachings.

“In the current era, conservative Christian nationalists see anyone on their political team as good and on God’s side, while those who oppose them as evil and satanic.”

www.huffpost.com/entry/vertic...

Did it occur to anyone else, creative types art music and such product is made less popular because of our consciousness being overwhelmed by technology…? Or, that tech is the purveyor of art that would otherwise go unnoticed, unexercised.

A poster describing hate groups in the Portland metro area. Poster states "know your local hate groups" in black text over a white bar of color in the top fifth of the page The bottom 4/5ths of the page are black and white logos and white words over black background (with a dark gray iron front logo emblazoned over it" Local hate groups include the Astaru Folk Assembly, Moms for Liberty, Proud Boys, Evergreen Active Club, Patriot Front, Rose City Nationalists, Northwest Territorial Imperitive, III Percenters, and Northwest Nationalist Network"

@cascadiaresistance.bsky.social

Judge finds the Trump administration unconstitutionally targeted noncitizens over Gaza war protests A federal judge says the Trump administration unconstitutionally targeted noncitizens for deportation over pro-Palestinian protests. U.S.

“Trump believes the American people are so divided that today they will not stand up, fight for, and defend our most precious constitutional values so long as they are lulled into thinking their own personal interests are not affected,” - U.S. District Judge William Young

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Says expert ass wipe, Hogseth.

'Drunk with power': Author tells how Chief Justice John Roberts 'corrupted' Supreme Court Twenty years ago this week, John Roberts was sworn in as chief justice of the Supreme Court, at 50 years old. On that day, Lisa Graves “wept.” As chief counsel for nominations with the Senate Judiciar...

Robert’s, Alito, Thomas; RATs. Maoist RATs!

www.rawstory.com/raw-investig...

Remember Bali’s Fitness?

Opinion | If Only We’d Fight as Hard to Save Our Democracy as Ukrainians Are to Save Theirs

“Sometimes you have to get outside America, and go to a place like Ukraine, to see the full impact of Donald Trump’s policies on both our country and the world.”

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/23/o...

Opinion | Pam Bondi’s ignorance of the First Amendment is no excuse The attorney general previously threatened to “go after” Americans who express “hate speech,” but the nation’s top cop should know better.

“The attorney general should not speak loosely and wrongly about the rights protected by our free speech tradition.” www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

'Literally lawless': Expert warns Supreme Court created new legal system for nonwhites Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh's concurrence in a decision allowing Immigration and Customs Enforcement to engage in overt racial and ethnic profiling in California raids gives an insight into ...

“…America is effectively becoming two separate states: the normative state, where the Constitution and all its rights apply, and the prerogative state, where you are a suspicious person and the president can do whatever he wants to you.”

www.rawstory.com/kavanaugh/?u...

Kash Patel’s Big Mouth May Have Landed Trump in Hot Water Donald Trump could be deposed thanks to Patel.

“Between 1975 and September 2025, individuals motivated by right-wing ideologies … committed 391 murders, according to the Cato Institute. Comparatively, people motivated by left-wing ideologies were responsible for 65 deaths.”

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Melting Arctic Ice is a National Security Threat Melting ice in the Arctic region is fueled by climate change, but it could also heighten tensions that lead to the next big war.

WWSD; what would Santa Claus do?

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Bill H.R. 3486 sounds like institutionalized (super charged)racism by MAGA-heads. Purge this filth, my liberal friends.

Q: Why should immigrants be incarcerated by private prisons?

A: $$$$

This kind of “business” is parasitic to any sense of morality. Through it out!

Hawley Decries Transhumanism as Elitists’ Contempt for Common People Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Miss., took the big tech project of transhumanism to task over its disrepute for the dignity of mankind.

Opinions on this…somewhat intrigued, trying to balance my hatred of Republicans, agreed with some ideas, elitism is an interesting concept detested by most - who are actual elitists…yet fuck neurolinks, I’ll die mortal like my ancestors, thanks
www.dailysignal.com/2025/09/04/s...

Ex-Bush Speechwriter Sounds Alarm On Trump's 'Most Extreme' Attack Against Constitution David Frum argued that Congress has "lost control" of one of its key powers after the president turned to his "completely ludicrous theory."

“…one idea running through the American and English legal traditions is that the executive branch can’t impose taxes without the legislature’s consent…”

www.huffpost.com/entry/david-...

Control, Surrender and the Paradox of Self-Transcendence: Vintage Wisdom from the Moomins “It’s a pity that exciting things always stop happening when you’re not afraid of them anymore and would like to have a little fun.”

Control, Surrender and the Paradox of Self-Transcendence: Vintage Wisdom from the Moomins www.themarginalian.org/2015/01/22/t...

Contact info for Washington and Oregon BLM offices.

Contact info for Washington and Oregon BLM offices.

Contact info for Washington and Oregon BLM offices.

The Washington/Oregon bureau of land management is actively working with ICE and are the ones who helped ICE kidnap the firefighters who were working on the Bear Gulch fire in Washington state. Here’s all the contact info for every BLM office in Washington and Oregon. No need to be kind.

Federal agents arrest firefighters working on WA wildfire Federal agents showed up northeast of Lake Cushman to check identification of crew members fighting Washington's largest active wildfire.

Arresting firefighters putting their lives on the line to protect our communities doesn't make us safer. This evil stunt is putting families in harm's way just so Donald Trump can score a Fox News hit.

It’s bad enough to flatter the boss as a requirement for employment. But it’s even worse to sell out your fellow Oregonians along the way.

For decades these problems have festered because of the judiciary’s attempts to cover up its own negligence without congressional oversight. The status quo puts national security, sensitive data and witnesses at risk.

Top official from Oregon tells Trump she welcomes federal crackdown: ‘I hope you will come to Portland’ Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer made the remarks during a cabinet meeting.

www.oregonlive.com/politics/202...

Oh my, should we anticipate this?