Dianna Tibbetts

US farmers are saying they "just need temporary help, until things get better."

Here's the thing. US farm exports- which are mostly soy- CANNOT get better.

Other countries expanded their soy industries to fill China's demand.

We've walled ourselves out of the global market, folks. This is it.

Trump’s Argentina bailout enriches one well-connected billionaire A $20 billion taxpayer-funded rescue package for Argentina is a gift for a hedge fund manager with personal and professional ties to the Treasury Secretary

1. The $20 billion taxpayer-funded rescue package for Argentina, announced last week by the Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, delivers an enormous windfall to hedge fund billionaire Rob Citrone.

Citrone has a longstanding personal and professional relationship with Bessent.

He Was Asked About His Tattoos and a TikTok Video in Court. Five Days Later, He Was in a Salvadoran Prison. Albert Jesús Rodríguez Parra was one of more than 230 Venezuelan immigrants the Trump administration sent to a maximum-security prison in El Salvador. After his release, he says he wants the world to ...

Albert Jesús Rodríguez Parra was one of more than 230 Venezuelan immigrants the Trump administration sent to a maximum-security prison in El Salvador.

After his release, he says he wants the world to know what happened to him.

By @melissa-sanchez.bsky.social

“generally apolitical… never really talked politics…”

@kenklippenstein.bsky.social talks to a friend of the killer and gets a different picture from the one the government & media are portraying.

www.kenklippenstein.com/p/exclusive-...

Jeffries’ response to Van Hollen rightly calling him out as “spineless” for not endorsing Mamdani is typically lame, weak, and unfunny. Dude isn’t qualified to run a school board let alone the Dem caucus in the House. Sheesh.

YouTube video by PoliticsGirl KIRK 48 hours later

I have something to say about the Charlie Kirk murder.
youtu.be/LyPdCw5Hcr0?...

Your mom is correct 🤣

Every tyrant in history has sought to stifle criticism of himself and his regime.

But America was founded on criticism.

American democracy was built on dissent.

Every institution, group, firm, or individual that surrenders to Trump’s wanton tyranny invites more of it.

The pace of our transition from Republic to Autocracy continues to accelerate, with all the same pretexts and justifications we’ve seen in other places throughout history for each incremental move. We even have the enablers and quislings that are a necessary precursor.

🔥 STEWART: “This is the lie they tell you — that all this money flowing towards corporate interests is actually for YOUR benefit…. That government intervention for corporations is our ‘FREE MARKET’, but government intervention for workers is ‘SOCIALISM’.

Steamrolled: Vladimir Putin Shares an Existential Secret with Trump and You Just Saw the Result - emptywheel Trump doesn't want to talk about what demands Putin made of him in yesterday's meeting. He does want to cling to the lies about Russia getting him elected that he can only sustain if Russia is willing...

www.emptywheel.net/2025/08/16/s...

SAN BERNARDINO, CA: Trump’s Gestapo shoots at a family that fled when they refused to ID themselves and smashed the family’s windows.

(Last week they chased a man from Home Depot onto the 210 freeway and he was struck and killed: www.latimes.com/california/s...)

Crow: "Look at what happened. US military personnel in uniform literally were on hands & knees rolling out a red carpet for the most murderous dictator of the 21st century...we keep on acting like Putin deserves to be brought out in open like any of head of state. This is a historic embarrassment."

Time and again with Putin TACO Trump lives up to his nickname.

🇺🇦👊

At a time when we have a president who wants to halt Black progress, silence Black voices, and erase Black history…

I’m thankful for this 🙏🏽

Europe's leaders showing up in force at the White House tomorrow is not a display of solidarity with the US. It's the opposite. A sign of their profound distrust of Trump and of his relationship with Putin and his commitment to our NATO allies and Ukraine.

On MSNBC last night I made it clear "We are at war." Trump does not want to govern, he wants to rule us! We need more Democratic leaders to wake up to the threat Trump poses to our freedoms and our Republic as he follows page by page the fascist playbook:

What Texas is doing is unprecedented and wrong.👇

As Republican Rep James Comer makes clear — Trump’s authoritarian takeover (to distract from his Epstein files cover-up) will not stop with Washington.

“Chicago, NYC, Philadelphia…”

Will someone please find out what work the pedophile sex-trafficker is being allowed out to do, and who she is working for?

Brett Meiselas: I’m against gerrymandering, but that doesn’t mean we unilaterally disarm. Governors like Newsom and Hochul are right to fight back. Democrats tried to ban partisan gerrymandering in the Freedom to Vote Act, which also included voter ID—but not one Republican voted for it.

Meet the Press put together a supercut of Trump being for the BLS jobs numbers before he turned against them

Start your morning with two minutes of the testimony of Samuel Garcia, an average American who drove 3 hours to speak truth to power to the Texas legislature. Let’s decide that we are all Samuel Garcia. Get in their faces and make them listen. Mr. Garcia is a great American.

Real like Geralt of Rivia? 🤣

“She’s worse than Epstein. She’s a monster… Epstein was Pinocchio, she was Geppetto.”

A reminder: The perpetrators in the Epstein files are Oligarchs, and so are the ones protecting them.

“NOT TRUE”

Embarrassing - @senmullin tries to lay the Epstein sweetheart plea deal on Obama when as @jaketapper points out it happened under Bush🤔

Also: Trump made Alex Acosta, who gave it, his Labor Secretary 🤔🤔