Pat McGuffin

Read Bondi’s Letter to Minnesota’s Governor Attorney General Pam Bondi sent a letter to Gov. Tim Walz of Minnesota on Saturday that blamed him and other Democratic officials for allowing “lawlessness” in the state. It was not immediately clear ...

Like a hold-up, will ICE murder a hostage a day until they get the voter rolls and the rest of their demands? What country is this?

That he hasn't already slapped his name onto the John F. Kennedy International Airport surprises me.

Just finished "Burn Order" by @maddow.bsky.social, and it's excellent work. I can hardly wait for the next "Rachel Maddow Presents:" always worth a listen!

Find you somebody who looks at you like Donald Trump looks at Zohran Mamdani.

"Things happen," applies to missing the bottom step or tripping over the area rug and falling in the foyer, slipping on a wet spot, random bruises, flat tires, and getting stuck at a railroad crossing when the train is long and slow-- not being murdered, dismembered, and carried out in suitcases.

Family says Indiana hospital discharged mom in labor, leading to roadside birth Mercedes Wells gave birth minutes after being discharged from the hospital, her family claims.

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Such extremism! So much terror!

Joy-Ann Reid (@joyannreid) on Threads One day, everyone will have always been against this. Welcome to #DonCrow … #occupiedchicago #magafascism

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Yes. We. Are. SERIOUSLY PISSED.

Reminder: Tariffs aren't paid by other countries, no matter what Trump says.

A tariff is an import tax, raising the price of almost everything we buy.

Tariffs are also regressive — taking a higher percentage out of the paychecks of working people than out of the wealthy.

Miscarriage Is Increasingly Dangerous for Women in Texas, Our Analysis Shows. Here’s How We Did It. Using seven years of hospital discharge data, we found that the number of blood transfusions during emergency room visits for first-trimester miscarriage shot up by 54% since Texas banned abortion.

As numerous women recounted losing dangerous amounts of blood during miscarriage, our reporters searched for a way to gain a broader understanding of how abortion restrictions have impacted care.

Here's how we conducted our analysis.

By @andreasuozzo.com, Kavitha Surana and Lizzie Presser

This is what I mean when I say the system is rigged.

Is it any wonder so many feel abandoned by our economy? People lose faith, and a demagogue fills the void.

This is why we must fix the system.

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US doctors working in Gaza allege children are being deliberately targeted by Israeli military American doctors volunteering in Gaza report a disturbing pattern of children shot by Israeli forces. Now they’re pushing for accountability.

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How the Trump Administration Is Weakening the Enforcement of Fair Housing Laws Starting with cases involving sexual orientation and identity, the Department of Housing and Urban Development is hobbling enforcement of the Fair Housing Act. Said one HUD attorney: “People are…

“No one is watching, no one will hold them accountable, so they can just do what they want,” said one HUD attorney. “The civil rights laws that people marched for and fought for, ... it’s not happening. And people are really being harmed by it.”

By @jessecoburn.bsky.social

CFPB Quietly Kills Rule to Shield Americans From Data Brokers Russell Vought, acting director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, has canceled plans to more tightly regulate the sale of Americans’ sensitive personal data.

Russell Vought, acting head of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, has canceled plans to introduce new rules designed to limit the ability of US data brokers to sell Americans’ most sensitive data, credit history, and Social Security numbers.

Duffy’s full of it. Pete Buttigieg and Dems pushed to modernize our air traffic control system under Biden—Republicans in Congress blocked it.

The Trump administration’s been too busy blaming DEI instead of fixing the real problems.

Donald Trump’s termination of Register of Copyrights, Shira Perlmutter, is a brazen, unprecedented power grab with no legal basis.

It's surely no coincidence he acted less than a day after she refused to rubber-stamp Elon Musk’s efforts to mine troves of copyrighted works to train AI models.

Live updates: A new pope has been chosen. White smoke rises from the Sistine Chapel White smoke streamed out of the Sistine Chapel, signaling that a new pope has been chosen. Faithful await to see who is the new pope.

Habemus Papam! I do hope he will be a compassionate pope who will lead with an open heart and mind.

Protesting in the Rotunda is not allowed:
Trump pardoned the riotous protestors.
Will he pardon the prayerful clergy? Only 100 days in, and I am sickened by this regime.

The Promise of American Higher Education No government—regardless of which party is in power—should dictate what private universities can teach, whom they can admit and hire, and which areas of study and inquiry they can pursue

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Archibald: In Lowndes County, DEI has a more sinister meaning Apparently Americans don't do irony anymore.

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Just a legal historian here reminding everyone that “high crimes and misdemeanors” do not need to be felonies.

They can include political abuses and stupidity, like, hypothetically, destroying the economy and wiping out people’s savings in 3 days.

NORD CEO Statement on the Termination of the Advisory Committee on Heritable Disorders in Newborns and Children - National Organization for Rare Disorders The sudden termination of the Advisory Committee on Heritable Disorders in Newborns and Children (ACHDNC) raises serious concerns for the rare disease community and families nationwide.

What's next, a MAGA version of Taktion4?
"Each year, newborn screening helps identify approximately 14,000 babies with serious conditions.[1] Elimination of the ACHDNC risks the preventable death and suffering of children with treatable rare disorders." rarediseaes.org/ceo-statemen...

At his rally in Wisconsin, South African billionaire Elon Musk says he will put an end to the Federal Reserve Bank and the US Dollar so that he, Peter Thiel and David Sacks (the South African broligarchs) can introduce a new cryptocurrency based financial system.

Opinion | RFK Jr. Is Already Vindicating His Critics Shrinking HHS makes sense, but giving power to antivaccine crusader David Geier doesn’t.

Wall Street Journal editorial board:

"Our worst fears about Mr. Kennedy are coming true..."

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AP FACT CHECK: Trump vs. truth on the Iran nuclear deal WASHINGTON (AP) — In withdrawing the U.S. from the Iran nuclear deal, President Donald Trump outlined a rationale that contradicted the analyses of U.S. and foreign intelligence sources.

He withdrew from the Iran nuclear deal in his first term...now he is pissed because Iran doesn't trust him enough to consider negotiating a new deal? Damn, he's obtuse as f#@%.