Laura Bridgewater

Two of Epstein’s victims wrote letters—and they didn’t mince words about the Trump administration shielding Trump while not giving a damn about “transparency” or the victims.

📌 So of course, right on cue, Pam Bondi ordered the DOJ to launch an investigation into President Obama.

🔥 “How much does it cost for fascism? How much does taxpayers have to pay for a fascist country?”

Nebraska Republican @USRepMikeFlood gets the raucous reception he deserves at a town hall.

The rich must be incentivised; the poor must be disciplined.

The political economy of the super-elite in one headline.

Today in "CEOs are sociopaths"

Rachel @maddow.msnbc.com last night: "We do now live in a country that has an authoritarian leader in charge. We have a consolidating dictatorship in our country."

World Cup 2026 amirite?

Korean scientists say they developed oral drug against COVID-19 - UPI.com A group of scientists has confirmed the efficacy of a new oral anti-viral treatment, called CP-COV03 or Xafty, against COVID-19 after a clinical trial.

Some good news, another antiviral drug is looking promising. www.upi.com/Health_News/...

Law firms, universities, media companies, and now banks. If people don’t understand what’s happening to our country, it’s because they don’t want to.

A Maine Woman Paid Her Back Rent. Her Record Still Says She Was Evicted. Repayment plans are supposed to help public housing tenants avoid eviction. In Maine, these deals have put evictions on their permanent records, even if they’ve fulfilled all the terms and were never ...

NEW: Jasmin Belanger believed the deal was simple: pay off what she owed, and her landlord would let her keep her housing.

It wasn’t until months later that she learned it had left her with a permanent record of an eviction — despite there never being one.

With @bangordailynews.bsky.social

I think we’re on the cusp of mass attempts to automate teaching, and I also think it is going to be a massive wasteful failure in ways that will make the “learning loss” of the pandemic look like a speed bump next to a mountain.

Seriously, folks: do not trust your health to AI.

The devil is truly in the details, and AI…misses. Bad.

I read something the other day about people trying to act as their own lawyers now using AI. And it's not going well.

3/This is no longer the DOJ courts can rely on to act in good faith. The “presumption of regularity” courts have afforded the gov’t, an assumption of good motives & proper behavior that the gov’t regularly pleads in court when accused of wrongdoing without evidence, no longer exists.

A Gallup popularity chart showing the Pope at +46, Bernie at +11, AOC at -4, Trump at -16, Musk at -28.

Two most popular politicians on this list are Bernie (the rare double-digit positive opinion) and AOC. Elon Musk is one of the most unpopular people in the world.

Fascism is expensive.

A very clear lesson for Americans who oppose Trump and think the solution was "what if we just leaned into the whole xenophobia culture war thing to win back the Trumpists."

It... does not work.

Abbott just issued arrest warrants for the Dems who fled the state.

Rep Jasmine Crockett: unbothered.

“You have a lot of intelligent attorneys that serve in the Texas House, and so they know there’s nothing he can do outside of the Texas jurisdiction.”

Not for the first time, I’ll point out that the president doesn’t understand how the global economy works

Tesla Grants Musk $29 Billion in Stock to Keep ‘Elon’s Energies Focused’

Elon Musk granted $29 billion in additional shares, which is more than twice as much as all the US foreign aid spent on sub-Saharan Africa last year before Musk took his chainsaw to USAID. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/04/b...

I know this will get me in trouble. I usually try not to curse but my military is showing…

These stupid motherfuckers want to put a nuclear reactor on the moon. Boondoggle and a straight money enema to our oligarchs.

Epstein files must be very, very bad.

Every month since 2019, I get three pieces of mail from United HealthCare

1) Your bill is due. Did you know you can sign up for autopay?

2) If you signed up for autopay, you can ignore that bill we sent.

3) Your autopay went through and you won't receive any more bills in the mail.

Hi, former Foreign Service Officer here

The Secretary of State might be interested to learn that visa requirements and terms are generally reciprocal. We do it to them, they do it to us.

Narciso Barranco's story is a story that echoes in the experience of millions of undocumented immigrants; a hard-working father who raised proud American children who love their country.

The Trump admin lied to the public and painted him as a danger. He is not. He's part of the American fabric.

And current Chief Justice John Roberts was a part of the Bush campaign's legal team in Florida during the 2000 election fight (along with Ted Cruz).

George W Bush is not your friendly grandpa. He was an unmitigated disaster that directly led to Trump.

He literally cheated an election i'm losing my mind. And the patriot act resulted in the largest loss of rights in US history.

Deals are generally reached between two parties who each want something. When one of the parties' desire is "to not be arbitrarily punished by the power of the state" that is not a deal, that is extortion.

The idea that President can negotiate/dictate bilateral “deals” by using the full force of the federal government to punish and humiliate his perceived enemies goes against the whole idea of the rule of law. That should be the story, rather than normalizing this authoritarian behavior.

Harvard also has much more federal money at stake. The Trump administration has warned that it could ultimately strip $9 billion in funding for Harvard; it threatened $510 million in funding for Brown.

ON WHAT LEGAL BASIS IS THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION MAKING THESE ‘THREATS’ AND ‘WARNINGS’?
Trump could just as easily demand the John Harvard statue in Harvard Yard for the new White House ballroom.