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Trump finally deploys National Guard to the Nation's Capital 4 years, 7 months, 5 days too late.

U.S. Government to Take Cut of Nvidia and AMD A.I. Chip Sales to China

the art of the shakedown

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

Missouri’s minoritarian red state government, which cemented its own rule 5 years ago by overturning an anti-gerrymandering law passed by a majority of Missourians, is now successfully clawing control of its blue urban centers by overturning minimum wage, sick pay, and control of our police.

Netanyahu brands Australia 'shameful' - ABC listen A defiant Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has fronted the media in Jerusalem, outlining why he believes occupying Gaza City in the coming months is the only option for the next stage of the ...

What is really "shameful" is that almost all Australian mainstream media report Netanyahu's confected indignation and 'defiance' as big news,
while avoiding any mention that he is a wanted war criminal currently undertaking a genocide. #ThisIsNotJournalism #auspol
www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...

Trump orders homeless he passed en route to golf course to leave Washington DC President demands unhoused residents leave US capital or face eviction and vowed to use officers to make arrests

The phrase "en route to golf course" adds so much to the headline.

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

Anti-immigrant agenda means 'unprecedented growth opportunities' for GEO Group On the company’s earnings call, one participant congratulated executives on “the positive news.”

On GEO Group’s second quarterly earnings call, the private prison company’s executive chairman, George Zoley, told participants that the company was pursuing “unprecedented growth opportunities” as President Donald Trump rapidly expands the U.S.’s detention and deportation apparatus.

BBC International Editor Jeremy Bowen has confirmed that the entire Al Jazeera team in Gaza City has been killed.

The CEO of a a multi-trillion dollar company went to the White House, openly handed the US president a gift made of gold, and his company got a special exemption to tariffs the president has illegally imposed.

Also, the Founders took bribery so seriously the Constitution bans it 3 separate times.

Doonesbury cartoon by Garry Trudeau for August 26, 1982

Israel has been falsely characterizing Palestinian civilians as “terrorists” to justify killing them for decades.

Below is a Doonesbury cartoon on the subject from 1982.

via @bcfinucane.bsky.social

Israel murders five Al Jazeera staff in Gaza, including Anas al-Sharif Al-Sharif was killed along with Mohammed Qreiqeh two cameramen and an assistant in an Israeli attack on Gaza City.

The Israeli military has issued a statement saying that they struck Al Jazeera Arabic journalist Anas al-Sharif and accused him of being part of a Hamas cell.

🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/o5rzvs

ICE looted their restaurant and tried to break into the safe. News chopper footage caught them backing their cars up to the door and carrying out cases of food.

You know when DC needed the national guard? When a whole bunch of insurrectionists were storming the Capitol. Yeah, it might have been helpful then.

Video shows Department of Justice official urging Jan. 6 rioters to 'kill' cops The Department of Justice hired a former Jan. 6 defendant who was caught on tape urging rioters to "kill" police. The department calls him a "valued member" of the administration.

The Department of Justice hired a former Jan. 6 defendant who was caught on tape urging rioters to "kill" police. The department calls him a "valued member" of the administration.

“wait. a pos can do that?”

feels like the team behind this square ad didn’t think through the acronym at its core

Tomorrow, the President is going to order the national guard to militarize the nation's capital (despite crime being at a 30 year low) after sending Congress home to prevent them from investigating evidence he committed sex crimes against children.

The Congressional GOP is unified behind him.

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During a live broadcast of Big Brother in Israel, members of Standing Together rush the stage wearing “Leave Gaza” shirts and calling for an end to the genocide and against Netanyahu’s plan for permanent occupation.

We're being gaslit in Geneva.
Halfway through #PlasticsTreaty talks and plenary fell flat, serving up more of the same — and none of the urgency this crisis demands. Hear what’s really going on inside the negotiations.

A black bollard with a picture of Charlie Chaplin at the top.

The Charlie Chaplin bollard.
#WorldBollardAssociation

usually if you ask experts why an empire fell they’ll say it’s nuanced and multifaceted, so i think it’s kind of cool that with America future historians will get to just say like “oh they took the idiot train to moronsville”

There is no policy arena in which Democrats have a unified belief that can be communicated to voters. Not on a $15 minimum wage, not on universal healthcare, not on student loan debt, etc. Even as some are signing onto legislation to ban weapons to Israel, another group is on an AIPAC sponsored tour

Why isn’t the Kraft Enterprise paying the entire cost of Foxborough Station improvements which primarily benefit their private business empire? Instead T riders & #mapoli taxpayers shoulder the burden - & other projects that would help daily T riders lie dormant. @leungboston.bsky.social

Watch the moment a group of Israeli activists stormed a live television broadcast to protest Israel’s war on Gaza.

Members of Standing Together, wearing 'Leave Gaza' T-shirts, jumped onto the stage during the airing of the Big Brother show on Channel 13.

Donald Trump and Republicans are pushing illegal maps that violate the Voting Rights Act.

Instead, Congress should pass fair, independent maps nationwide. Without that, Democratic states must consider all the options to protect our constitutional republic.

Dever School is closing, but its legacy can live on. ✊
Support the Dever Legacy Award—honoring resilience, equity & student leadership.
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If you care about your neighbors, you need to be sure you can answer one huge question:

Does your local law enforcement cooperate with ICE officially or unofficially? And who is working to do everything they can to keep ICE from terrorizing your town?

FULL EPISODE: www.youtube.com/watch?v=QzYH...

LEFT: Where our government incarcerates a person who has a tattoo in honor of a family member.

RIGHT: Where our government incarcerates a person who has facilitated and/or engaged in the sexual assault of over a thousand children.

What happens if you don’t do background checks or training for thousands of people and you give them all total authority?

ICE has been caught looting and destroying property at Pittsburgh restaurants. They even tried to break into the safes. They loaded food, supplies and equipment into vehicles

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I love that NY made this happen:

Thoughts on #QPR PNE: A Poem

Own goal.
Thank goodness for his return.
From a solstice slumber,
Thus a point did QPR earn.

(See photo for all five stanzas)

cc: @qprnewyorkcity.bsky.social