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American Exceptionalism:

My wife applied for "Parent/Child bonding time." to extend her paid leave beyond 6 weeks, she now has to file a "short term disability" claim with an insurance company.

Bonding with a newborn is officially a disability, apparently.

Quick thoughts:
*These are two huge and complex organizations. They are not part-time gigs. They deserve full-time leaders.
*You now have a single person in charge of the two largest sources of personal data in the government.
*7 IRS leaders in less than 9 months.

Claim: 10 cars rammed ICE
Truth: No cars rammed ICE

Claim: She boxed ICE in
Truth: ICE boxed her in

Claim: She shot a rifle at ICE
Truth: She did not have a rifle

Claim: ICE returned fire
Truth: Only ICE fired

Claim: She drove herself to the hospital
Truth: Paramedics found her

Clash between professional bureaucracy and personalist regime, where Trump has already deemed his opponents to be "guilty as hell."
Who wins? Because the Supreme Court has allowed Trump to engage in illegal purges of the government, the employees defending the rule of law risk being fired.

Work requirements are going to cost a ton to implement, at a time when states will have less administrative resources, and despite evidence that they don't work

Jim O‘Neill, Interim Director of the CDC and a man with zero knowledge, training or experience in science or public health, has finally signed off on the ACIP recommendations for COVID19 vaccines.

“Informed consent is back”, he said, acting as though people were being forcibly vaccinated.

Let it never again be said that a woman with no real reporting experience who fell for a Twitter account called "Official Antifa" cannot be the head of a huge news organization

This morning I'm sitting down to read through some *peer-reviewed articles*. The one I start with mentions Congress introduced a bill in ~2013~ to abolish FEMA.

"Huh??? No they didn't", I think to myself.

Reader, the author cited a satirical article from the Daily Currant.

Speechless.

A text from my mum. The general population appear to be losing their minds

The Science Behind Honda’s Solid-State Battery Breakthrough Honda may become the first car company to get an all-solid-state battery into an actual car. Here is how they're doing it.

Wow. Good luck to Honda on this.
It will be limited test production of Solid State Batteries, but that's much further than anyone else has attempted.
This is the kind of R&D Tesla should be funding, not silly games with toy robots.
www.topspeed.com/hondas-solid...

“Trucks from the First Nation could soon be transporting food, furniture and even critical minerals south of the border along ancestral pathways once used to move buffalo hides and pemmican across the plains—without paying taxes or tariffs.“

Texas proudly invading Illinois.

It’s hard to describe the level of potential constitutional crisis here.

Without an understanding of immune tolerance, organ transplantation will not be possible. Also, their discoveries opened avenues for cancer and auto immune disease therapies.
Congratulations to these year's awardees of the nobel prize in physiology or medicine.
bit.ly/4mC0Gc5

I don’t mean to overreact or anything, but this is the commander-in-chief telling military personnel that Democrats are a problem to be dealt with.

Judge blocks South Carolina from giving DOJ millions of voters' data Sep. 3, 2025

Judge's house on fire

Judge Diane Goodstein crossed the Trump administration last month. Yesterday, her home burned, her husband was injured and it's being investigated for arson.

www.postandcourier.com/news/crime/s...

Jared Kushner is going to the Middle East to negotiate a deal on behalf of the U.S. government days after Kushner announced a $55 billion deal between his private equity fund and the Saudi government

One of the most brazen conflicts in history.

I’m a US citizen and a veteran. ICE arrested me for no reason. Jailed for three days without an explanation or ability to notify anyone, George Retes argues the only path to healing starts with the government taking accountability for its actions.

"[A]gents engulfed my car in tear gas, smashed my driver-side window, and pepper-sprayed my face.... I spent three nights and three days in federal custody. No explanation. No charges. No apology. One day, I was just told, 'you’re free to go.'" #KavanaughStop

we simply do not have a union anymore if the president is using troops from one state to invade others entirely on the basis of political disagreements

ICE is hog tying protesters in Portland and removing them on Dollies.

This is dangerous and could cause serious injury.

The Department of Homeland Security thinks it’s a joke.

They’ve shared this video with the tagline “Refuse to Walk? We’ll give you a ride”.

Stay strong Portland.

This evening, President Trump is ordering 400 members of the Texas National Guard for deployments to Illinois, Oregon, and other locations within the United States. No officials from the federal government called me directly to discuss or coordinate. We must now start calling this what it is: Trump's Invasion. It started with federal agents, it will soon include deploying federalized members of the Illinois National Guard against our wishes, and it will now involve sending in another state's military troops. I call on Governor Abbott to immediately withdraw any support for this decision and refuse to coordinate. There is no reason a President should send military troops into a sovereign state without their knowledge, consent, or cooperation. The brave men and women who serve in our national guards must not be used as political props. This is a moment where every American must speak up and help stop this madness.

Statement from Illinois Governor JB Pritzker

Kaepernick-Funded Autopsy Reportedly Finds Trey Reed Didn’t Die by Suicide — Family Attorney Ben Crump Hasn’t Confirmed According to a source who isn't authorized to comment publicly, the autopsy of Trey Reed reveals that his death was not caused by a suicide.

Trey Reed, a student at Delta State University in Mississippi, was found hanging from a noose. Mississippi police ruled the death a suicide. Now an autopsy reportedly concludes that he suffered extensive blunt force trauma across his body before he died, meaning he was beaten before he was lynched.

Law enforcement detains a protester near an Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Broadview, Ill., Friday, Oct. 3, 2025. (AP Photo/Erin Hooley)

The men kneeling on this peaceful protester are not ICE. The reality is that the sheer number of people in a city like Chicago means that without the state assisting in its own occupation, these “operations” could not succeed. Which certainly begs the question of who serves whom.

Text of the fourth amendment “The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.”

Just posting this. Everyone knows why.

I spoke to a Venezuelan woman who was arrested in this raid and later released with her 4yo son. She said agents broke down their door, pointed guns at them and made sexualized remarks about Venezuelan women. When she returned to her apartment it was boarded up and all her possessions were gone.

He uses this framing a lot. His boss clearly loves it. It also works for him because, in his own way, he is the minoritized Other in that little power cabal — he isn’t really one of them. He does this to show *his* gratitude which I suspect they demand frequently.

But also such a smarmy so and so.

"Solar energy is anticipated to be the world’s main source of energy by 2050" hell yeah

I agree. We should all take care of each other and golf carts should not automatically come before kids on bikes. Or people in wheelchairs or pushing strollers.

The Vice President of the United States used his social media page to tell Joy Reid, a private citizen with no connection to the government, that she should express "gratitude" for how this country has treated her.

Black women remain the most consistent targets in all of this.