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‘Don’t go to the US – not with Trump in charge’: the UK tourist with a valid visa detained by ICE for six weeks Karen Newton was in America on the trip of a lifetime when she was shackled, transported and held for weeks on end. With tourism to the US under increasing strain, she says, ‘If it can happen to me, i...

A retired British primary school administrator with a British passport and a valid visa was shackled, chained and detained for six weeks by ICE

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He's great. I keep thinking about Hannibal Burress just saying what everyone knew but didn't say about Cosby, and how that changed EVERYTHING. I feel like Josh Johnson is doing the same stuff.

Dokoupil is too dim-witted to understand that the "Ultimate Florida man" is a guy who smokes crack with an alligator, uses it to steal a lottery ticket from a 7-11, wins the lottery, and uses the proceeds to buy a python, which consumes him in a live shot on WPLG-10 Eyewitness News at 11 pm

I’m listening to Sen. Schumer in real time on @morningjoe-msnow.bsky.social My God can’t we Democrats get a better advocate ?

This war is completely illegitimate: 60% of Americans disapprove of going to war with Venezuela—74% disapprove war without Congressional approval. Only 19% are in favor.

The people oppose it. Our representatives didn’t approve it. Trump should be removed for this unconstitutional war.

So MAGA is furious with Biden when terrorists murder U.S. military personnel in Afghanistan during the withdrawal but we can’t blame Trump when a terrorist murders National Guard personnel in Washington D.C. ?

In this Indiana diner, everyone. has three questions: How's the breaded tenderloin? Is the quarry hiring? And what was the exact APR on the Virginia home that New York AG Leticia James purchased for her niece?

My gosh. What are the words to the Brazilian national anthem?

Right up until the minute Trump’s business ventures like Trump Shuttle, Trump Atlantic City casinos, Trump Steaks, Trump University, etc, etc, went bankrupt, Trump was claiming they were a huge success with big things right around the corner. Just like now with the economy.

Why would any Democratic legislator give her the time of day?

One thing about never-Trump Republicans, during Trump II particularly: They understand that the world they knew is dead.

They have no investment in either reviving the former GOP (because they understand it's impossible) or maintaining the pre-2016 Democratic Party (because it's not their party).

Oh I forgot to mention that Trump and the Mrs. also vote by mail.

I’m a Dem in Florida and @mattyglesias.bsky.social has no idea apparently that the biggest proponent for vote by mail in this state is DeSantis and the MAGA GOP party.

He’s laying the groundwork to fuck with & overthrow the 2026 election. He’s laying the groundwork to stay in the White House after the 2028 election. Donald Trump is America’s enemy. It must be said. He is an enemy to this country. And he must be stopped.

26-08-1935 USA: United Auto Workers union founded.

Just look up most of @walshfreedom.bsky.social tweets or posts on other sites since 2018, he’s gone above & beyond in apologizing for the Tea Party and his actions/comments. He blew up his career in right wing media for his beliefs and calling out the fascism & grift on the right.

Republicans: disappear people off the streets and rendition them to El Salvador, crash the economy, build concentration camp in the Everglades, declare martial law in DC, eliminate cancer and vaccine research, align with Russia, disenfranchise Black people, tank in the polls

Political pundits:

For the most part I appreciate and respect @radiofreetom.bsky.social commentary but many times his
“remedies” for our current civil ills are that Democrats should just act more like pre-MAGA Republicans.

At (another) Hampton’s fundraiser with Republican donors on Saturday, Andrew Cuomo said it plainly: he’s expecting Trump’s help to defeat us in November.

“I feel good about that,” Cuomo said.

New Yorkers won’t.

Exactly right. I don’t think we have ever had a meeting like this in the White House before. Because we have never had a president this horrible before.

If many Americans don’t know - or refuse to accept - what Trump and MAGA are the European leaders do with their alignment - and defense of - Ukraine and Zelenskyy

So both Putin and Trump went to an AF Base in Alaska. Each had a set of demands. Trump accepted all of Putin's demands and then said he would convince Ukraine and Europe to accept them. And both then went home. Do I have this right?

This is only going to get worse as they continue to deport the workforce…

That wasn’t a summit. That was a debacle.

You know @scalzi.com writes very entertaining books and he deserves this attention and acclaim

Veggie-flation strikes, with a warning for grocery prices No matter what the official data shows, consumers "feel" inflation when grocery prices rise.

ICYMI, the eye-popper in today's PPI: a 39% rise in wholesale fresh vegetable prices.

It's the largest month-on-month increase ever recorded in the summer (data to 1947), and one of the ten largest ever, regardless of season.

With the estimable @alexjamesfitz.com

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I wonder if the MAGA tariff mental gymnastics is as exhausting for them as it is for me watching it

Sums it up.

The Cowboys dominate the “national sports conversation” because national media like @theathletic.com can’t stop talking about them.