wisemet well met

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Again: wild that neither Hegseth or Trump (or @marshablackburn ) have been asked about this

Obergefell v. Hodges made me believe in the whole "arc of history bends towards justice." In the 90s, I didn't think gay marriage would be legalized in my lifetime because homophobia was so deeply ingrained. We would have never gotten here without the decision and now it may be overturned.

Just going to reiterate that in 2016 Trump inherited the lowest murder rate of any president in 50 years. He set reality aside, gave his “American Carnage” inaugural address, and was then the first president in 30 years to leave office with a higher murder rate than when he started.

Looking forward to the federal takeover of Tusla, Oklahoma's police department.

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How Much Is Trump Profiting Off the Presidency? A comprehensive estimate of how much Trump and his family are making, from hotel mega-deals to crypto schemes, has been elusive—until now.

💰 The New Yorker puts a number on it—

$3.4 billion

That’s how much Trump & his family have profited from his presidency, estimates David Kirkpatrick.

(Mentions my reporting too.)

www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

Trump nominates Heritage Foundation economist as labor statistics chief EJ Antoni, longtime critic of Bureau of Labor Statistics, nominated to replace Erika McEntarfer, who Trump fired Donald Trump has announced he is nominating EJ Antoni, the chief economist at the conservative Heritage Foundation, as the next commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics. “Our Economy is booming, and E.J. will ensure that the Numbers released are HONEST and ACCURATE,” Trump said in a post on Truth Social. Continue reading...

Trump nominates Heritage Foundation economist as labor statistics chief

No, JD, belonging in America does not depend on how many generations of your family have lived here. The values of this country matter - deeply - to who we are and what it means to be American.

Exclusive: Medical journal rejects Kennedy's call for retraction of vaccine study An influential U.S. medical journal is rejecting a call from Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to retract a large Danish study that found that aluminum ingredients in vaccines do not increase health risks for children, the journal's editor told Reuters.

A large-scale, government-funded study tracking 1.2M children over two decades found something Kennedy doesn't like, so he wants it retracted.

www.reuters.com/business/hea...

The 2024 violent crime rates per 100,000 people in Washington, DC (926) and Indianapolis Indiana (878) are very similar.

In 2024, you were more likely to experience violent crime in Elkhart, Indiana (995) than DC

Moving backwards.

I haven’t really seen much on the shooting at Fort Stewart either.

Because not enough people died. I’d say “white” people, but 1. that’s a given in this admin and 2. when the MN legislators were shot it was out of MSM in 2 days

The call has always been coming from inside the house…

The thing about so-called 'creeping fascism' is that it doesn't actually creep. It's loud and overt. What's insidious is how quickly those loud, overt changes are normalized.

NEW: Donald Trump's bid to commandeer D.C. law enforcement implicates a long list of laws and precedents governing federal law enforcement and use of the military for domestic purposes.

An overview:

www.politico.com/news/2025/08...

We are watching him unravel in real-time.

Trump is now ranting about defending women’s sports standing next to a guy who just endorsed taking away women’s right to vote

What a champion for women!

Is anyone going to point this out?

The irony is not lost on many in Washington that Trump says spitting on a DC cop is justification for hitting/punching back "hard" when he pardoned hundreds of Jan. 6 rioters who assaulted those same cops — and said attacks on them that day were "minor."

aging well, unfortunately 👇

A former DOGE worker ("Big Balls") gets beaten up in DC,
and Trump sends in the military to take over the city.

But when thousands of CDC employees are targeted in a shooting,
federal buildings are attacked, and a first responder is killed...

there’s not even a statement from the White House?😡

Finland charges ship captain over Baltic cable sabotage The Eagle S is believed to belong to the Russian shadow fleet — old tankers used to skirt restrictions on Russian oil exports.

The captain and two senior officers of a ship believed to belong to Russia's so-called shadow fleet have been charged with sabotage for cutting five Baltic Sea cables in December, Finnish prosecutors said Monday. www.courthousenews.com/finland-char...

I can’t stand to listen to his stupid, hyperbolic, ignorant voice for one second…

for the second time this briefing, Trump claims he's "going to Russia" on Friday (he's actually going to Alaska, which is in the United States)

MSNBC absolutely DRAGGING Trump in real time, bringing the stats.

Kristi Noem Secretly Took a Cut of Political Donations A dark money group paid $80,000 to Noem’s personal company when she was governor of South Dakota. She did not include this income on her federal disclosure forms, a likely violation of ethics…

#ICYMI: Kristi Noem, while governor of South Dakota, supplemented her roughly $130,000 salary by secretly accepting $80,000 donated to a political nonprofit she was affiliated with, records show.

She never disclosed this income on federal ethics forms.

Trump named Pete Hegseth as defense secretray because he knew Hegseth wouldn't hesitate to order American troops to fire on American civilians. Sending the military into our cities is a major step toward imposing a dictatorship.
It's so obvious that mainstream media are afraid to say it.

#USpol

BLOOMBERG: “Small businesses especially are grappling with the ability to stay in business.”

This is what @MarshaBlackburn is bragging about as she tries to ride Trump’s coattails into the governor’s office, hiding from town halls and the press.

www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Combating Domestic Violent Extremism Is No Longer a FEMA Priority Documents obtained by WIRED show FEMA plans to direct states and tribes to halt activities intended to combat domestic violent extremism so as to align with "current administration priorities."

FEMA is telling states and tribal governments to halt programs tackling domestic violent extremism, aligning with “current administration priorities”.

In “On Tyranny”, Timothy Snyder warns that armed anti-establishment groups are incredibly dangerous when they become the establishment.

Judge Engelmeyer is particularly brutal here: "The one colorable argument under that doctrine for unsealing in this case, in fact, is that doing so would expose as disingenuous the Government’s public explanations for moving to unseal."
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...