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Vulnerable Republicans Are Claiming They Love Medicaid After Voting to Gut It Reps. Mariannette Miller-Meeks, Tom Kean Jr., and Gabe Evans introduced a resolution supporting Medicaid after voting for cuts to the program.

As Republicans gear up for next year’s midterm elections,
vulnerable lawmakers who supported the so-called “Big Beautiful Bill”
are attempting to recast themselves as protectors of the health care program they sent to the wood chipper.

Trump's Government Is a Den of Snitches, 'Freaks,' and Paranoid Tyrants The Department of Health and Human Services is the latest agency to ask government employees to snitch about diversity practices.

Trump’s administration simply will not stop setting up snitch lines,

urging federal staff to rat on each other for the crime of being anti-Trump
or in favor of the virtues of diversity, equity, and inclusion.

www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

@kendallyb.bsky.social shows us how trump uses the white house official social media pages to try to bully content creators and kids who post opinions that don't reflect his views. This is so ridiculous. Hes a laughing stock for the way he acts to anyone beside his cult.

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We’re keeping up the nationwide pressure with billboards in GOP districts that call Republicans out for covering up the Epstein files. We want to add more billboards in more districts, but that depends on the amount of money we raise. Please pitch in if you can:

In L.A., police nightsticks are clubbing press freedom to death | Will Bunch On Friday, LAPD cops allegedly battered and detained journalists at a protest — the ugliest of the many threats to U.S. press freedom.

The latest Los Angeles protest march against Donald Trump's aggressive deportation arrests
took off from the city's MacArthur Park uneventfully on Friday night,

which is just as well for journalists

In L.A., police nightsticks are clubbing press freedom to death

-- Will Bunch

Meidas: Trump Has Nightmare Sunday as Worldwide Protests Break Out MeidasTouch host Ben Meiselas reports on Donald Trump’s disastrous Sunday as protests spread around the world and he gets hit with more awful news as his cover ups backfire.

MeidasTouch host Ben Meiselas reports on
Donald Trump’s disastrous Sunday
as protests spread around the world
and he gets hit with more awful news as his cover ups backfire.

littlegreenfootballs.com/article/5482...

Brian Jopek (@BrianJopek@mastodon.world) Attached: 1 image The contrast between Barack Obama’s clear respect for the work of US attorneys, the FBI and then … the FOTUS. “In the past few months, Trump has fired FBI staff involved in the in...

The contrast between Barack Obama’s clear respect for the work of US attorneys, the FBI and then … the FOTUS.

“In the past few months, Trump has fired FBI staff involved in the investigation of Russia’s reported involvement in the 2016 election....

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Firing of labor statistics head undermines trust in key data, ex-Trump official warns President Trump is expected to nominate a new head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics this week, days after firing Commissioner Erika McEntarfer following the release of a disappointing jobs report. Th...

Trump is recklessly shredding our economic advantages in the global economy.

Companies that are looking to make investments shouldn’t have to worry if Trump has cooked the books on economic data--but that’s exactly what’s happening following his decision.

www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...

RFK Jr. cuts $500 million in mRNA vaccine contracts, dealing major blow to promising area of research The cuts add to mounting evidence that Kennedy is pursuing an aggressive anti-vaccine agenda.

The Trump Administration is giving tax breaks to billionaires while cutting vaccine research and development.

This puts every single American at risk.
www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

Your periodic reminder (like, every time he opens his mouth): Matthew Whitaker's primary claim to fame before getting senior Trump admin. posts was that he worked for a company shut down for fraud by the FTC marketing special toilets for men.

New chatbot on Trump’s Truth Social platform keeps contradicting him An “answer engine” on Trump’s social media site says the 2020 election wasn’t stolen, tariffs aren’t boosting the stock market and Barack Obama is seen favorably.

New chatbot on Trump’s Truth Social platform keeps contradicting him

An “answer engine” on Trump’s social media site says
the 2020 election wasn’t stolen,
tariffs aren’t boosting the stock market
and Barack Obama is seen favorably

www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

HR4944
To end qualified immunity for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents.

📢 Introduced in House

www.congress.gov/bill/119th-c...

VOTER: “West Virginia has 4 members of Congress… none of them are willing to come here and do what you’re doing. What can we do?”

BERNIE: “We need a political revolution. We need to elect people accountable to the working class rather than raising money from billionaires.”

Stephen Shankland (@stshank@mstdn.social) Attached: 1 image 80 years ago today, the US dropped Fat Man, the plutonium-powered implosion bomb, on Nagasaki, Japan. I'm visiting Los Alamos, where the bomb was built, and today saw this replica a...

80 years ago today, the US dropped Fat Man, the plutonium-powered implosion bomb, on Nagasaki, Japan.

I'm visiting Los Alamos, where the bomb was built, and today saw this replica at the lab's Bradbury Science Museum.

LANL is now building replacement plutonium pits at TA-55.

Heavy thoughts.

OpenAI removes ChatGPT self-doxing option : Checkbox to make chatbot conversations appear in search engines deemed a footgun

To prevent users from unwittingly exposing sensitive information
OpenAI has removed the option to make ChatGPT interactions indexable by search engines

The feature rollback follows reports of ChatGPT conversations being discoverable in search results,
an option recently extended to ChatGPT users

What do the police think “Palestine Action” is?

Could it possibly mean PROVIDE FOOD AND HUMANITARIAN AID TO PALESTINIANS TO PREVENT GENOCIDE?

Except, that’s a lot of words to fit on a sign.

A worldwide police credo: always arrest what you don’t understand.

Walmart to pay $5.6 million to settle lawsuit alleging California shoppers were overcharged Walmart has agreed to pay $5.6 million to settle a lawsuit filed by the Santa Clara County District Attorney's Office, alleging that the retail giant overcharged customers for prices that were higher ...

Walmart has agreed to pay
$5.6 million
to settle a lawsuit alleging that the retail giant
charged California customers prices that were higher than advertised

www.aol.com/news/walmart...

The order was based in part on the finding that O’Rourke’s PAC committed bribery or caused legislators to commit bribery.

It’s a completely outrageous finding. Paxton’s allegations don’t even come close to supporting a bribery charge.

Also courts are enforcing internal House procedural rules now?

How Trump’s War on Higher Education Is Hitting Community Colleges

Community colleges are grappling with disappearing federal grants,
shuttered D.E.I. offices,
eliminated programs,
canceled cultural
convocations
and panicked students and staff

Grants that fund financial aid for low-income students and the staff that support them have been eliminated or threatened

Walmart knew about explosion risk in water bottles for 7 years before recall The retailer knew since 2018 that the bottle lids could be “forcefully ejected.” But the path to a safety recall is surprisingly complicated.

Walmart knew about explosion risk in Ozark Trail water bottles for 7 years before recall

The retailer took action last month, long after learning lids “forcefully ejected”
-- and partially blinded two people.

www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

Watch Duty - Wildfire Maps & Alerts Real-time information about wildfire and firefighting efforts nearby

The Gifford Fire advanced into the rugged Garcia Wilderness
and is now threatening the Machesna Mountain Wilderness
fueled by two large fire columns observed yesterday afternoon

Overnight, crews worked to reinforce control lines
hoping to prevent the fire from spreading beyond the Garcia Wilderness

'Ukrainians will not gift their land' — Zelensky rejects idea of territorial concessions to end Russia's war The day before, Donald Trump claimed that peace talks between Moscow and Kyiv would likely involve "some swapping of territories."

'Ukrainians will not gift their land'
— Zelensky rejects idea of territorial concessions to end Russia's war
kyivindependent.com/ukrainians-w...

Trump Wants Admissions Data on Grades and Race, but Who Will Collect It?

Trump Wants Admissions Data on Grades and Race, but Who Will Collect It?

The Trump administration has fired nearly everyone who worked at the federal statistics agency that would collect the data the government is seeking.

www.nytimes.com/2025/08/09/u...

Trump's Confederacy rises again The Lost Cause doesn't seem all that lost anymore.

Trump firing the labor statistics commissioner and bringing back confederate statues are both part of his “fascist impulse to rewrite history”

When they tell you who they are, believe them.

A book titled "Outdoor Pigs: How to Make them Pay."

those damned outdoor pigs can't keep getting away with this

And then Buzz Aldrin replied and the thread just stopped

BREAKING: The D.C. Circuit has vacated Judge Boasberg's contempt order over the Trump administration's decision to deport people under the Alien Enemies Act in defiance of his TRO.

Rao (Trump), Katsas(Trump) side against Boasberg

Pillard (Obama) dissents
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Why Has the Media Stopped Fighting Trump’s Lies? Will Saletan takes on Donald Trump’s latest assault on reality, this time targeting the nation’s job numbers.

How Trump's delusion about the 2020 election morphed into a movement

Why so many Republicans are still playing along

And why the media has stopped pushing back

www.thebulwark.com/p/why-has-th...

A Single Poisoned Document Could Leak ‘Secret’ Data Via ChatGPT Security researchers found a weakness in OpenAI’s Connectors, which let you hook up ChatGPT to other services, that allowed them to extract data from a Google Drive without any user interaction.

Security researchers found a weakness in OpenAI’s Connectors, which let you hook up ChatGPT to other services, that allowed them to extract data from a Google Drive without any user interaction.

www.wired.com/story/poison...