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Grijalva: The frustration for me is that it seems as if Speaker Johnson is not willing to swear me in because our politics are a little different, or because I’m going to be the 218th signer—he can just continue to drag this along with no end in sight.

That is not a foundation of our democracy.

Kristi Noem confronts enemy combatants in the Portland war zone today.

Opinion | You Beat Trumpism by Banding Together. It’s as Hard and as Simple as That.

Our future depends on who can coordinate best and how Americans answer the two most urgent questions in our politics: Will the administration succeed in picking off enough of the opposition such that resistance seems useless?

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/o...

Thank you! I am a rube at linking spotify stuff.

The official website of the Nobel Prize - NobelPrize.org The Nobel Prize rewards science, humanism and peace efforts. This is one of the central concepts in the will of Alfred Nobel, and it also permeates the outreach activities that have been developed for...

Six of the nine Nobel Prize winners this year work in the U.S.
Three of the six were born outside the U.S., which is the pattern most years. No country has benefited more from welcoming immigrants from around the world.
www.nobelprize.org

If we look at 20th-century China and Germany as examples, it actually takes a few decades to recover from the type of self-harm that the US is currently inflicting on itself.

We produced this infographic about immigrant physics laureates a few years ago. You can find the article here. physicsworld.com/a/more-than-...

Yes! Yes! A thousand times yes.

Supreme Court Weighs Ban on Scientifically Discredited ‘Conversion Therapy’ The U.S. Supreme Court will determine whether Colorado’s ban on conversion therapy, an ineffective and often harmful practice targeting LGBTQ+ youth, violates a therapist’s right to free speech

The U.S. Supreme Court will determine whether Colorado’s ban on conversion therapy, an ineffective and often harmful practice targeting LGBTQ+ youth, violates a therapist’s right to free speech

"Dance Magic Dance!"

Remembering "Dance Magic Dance!" (David Bowie singing in Labyrinth to put Baby to sleep).

Vote on Prop 50. Remind your friends and family,

These Activists Want to Dismantle Public Schools. Now They Run the Education Department. Under Trump, the Department of Education has been bringing in activists hostile to public schools. It could mean a new era of private and religious schools boosted by tax dollars — and the end of publ...

Not arbitrary inequality effects but planned ones.

"The department’s actions and policies reflect a disdain for public schools and a desire to dismantle that system in favor of a range of other options — private, Christian and virtual schools or homeschooling."

www.propublica.org/article/educ...

It is the MBA destruction plan for C average students. Burn through all liquid assets, gut existing staff and replace with no experience newbies, expend all existing goodwill, liquidate any remaining assets, file bankruptcy, and then walk away.

“.. 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
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Great reasons to disconnect.

Pam Bondi admits she spoke to Apple to "get the ICEBlock app taken down." Sounds an awful lot like coercion to suppress disfavored speech to me. A clear violation of the 1st Amendment.

She shook me to the core when I first read about her actions in Florida. She was determined in her destiny to be in Trump's orbit.

So the American taxpayer eats it twice, once on tariffs and again on a second farm bailout. I’m glad farmers are getting help, no one should lose their farm, but it’s remarkable how fast “socialism” stops being a dirty word when the checks clear in red counties.

But aren't all people like us? Which half of the glass is full.

I had a agnostic epiphany today after researching the media buyouts, proposed and completed, of Ellison fame (Oracle, Paramount, CBS, CNN, TikTok, etc...). Public education is about to get shot through the heart. Not that it wasn't on life support already from decades of neglect and GOP wounds.

Broadview police are investigating.

RAJU: You swore in 2 GOP members during pro forma session. Why not swear in Grijalva? Does it have to do w/her signature on Epstein petition?

JOHNSON: It has nothing to do with that. We'll swear her in when everybody is back

R: Why not now?

J: Uh - we'll schedule it, I guess, as soon as she wants

Can we have a discussion about contempt yet? Or what do you call this kind of thing? Low-brow idiot weasel-stalling?

Even though we pay her salary we just are not quite good enough to get answers?

Just in case you were thinking you are a private citizen.

Gobsmacking...

This is your snotty demeaning United States Attorney General talking to Congress. Guess who pays her salary.

Bless Dr. Jane Goodall’s Final Message To Humanity In which she tells us who she'd launch into space.

Please watch her final words to us all. They are beautiful and have given me a grounding sort of hope. Maybe they’ll help you too.

Journalist Edward R. Murrow used his platform on CBS to criticize the witch hunts led by Senator Joseph McCarthy in the 1950s.

This is what real journalism should do — hold power to account, not capitulate to it.