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Here’s a clip of the Zach Bryan song that has MAGA furious.

DURBIN: You won't even say whether you talked to the WH about this?

BONDI: I'm not going to discuss any internal conversations with you


D: They're going to transfer TX Guard troops to the state of Illinois. What's the rationale?

B: I wish you loved Chicago as much as you hate President Trump

Today's a good day to learn Colbert found a new job.

Hope it's a good one for everybody!

#HappyLaborDay

Social justice messages to continue in end zones For the sixth straight season, all 32 NFL teams will feature a message of their choice in one end zone at each home game and "It Takes All of Us" in the opposite one.

💥 The NFL is stoked to be woke.

“All 32 teams will feature an end zone message of their choice at each home game throughout the season, selecting from four options: ‘End Racism,’ ‘Stop Hate,’ ‘Choose Love’ or ‘Inspire Change.’

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Advocates File Immediate Legal Challenge to Texas Gerrymander Advocates File Immediate Legal Challenge to Texas Gerrymander

I promised Texas would be sued.

And I don't bluff.
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One overlooked tidbit: RI voted Kamala. Governor is Dem. The wind farm was to benefit RI and CT. Blue states.
Meanwhile, in Texas, wind is booming. From Texas public comptroller site:

The only thing better than a wind farm for your ocean view is a 9/10 completed wind farm sitting there doing nothing. Thank, Don

NEWS: DNC Chair Ken Martin says TX State Rep. Nicole Collier was threatened with a FELONY charge for speaking on a press call with him, Cory Booker, and Gavin Newsom.

Why Did Meta’s AI Policy Let Chatbots Have ‘Sensual’ Conversations With Kids? Forget the AI apocalypse: chatbots are already wreaking havoc. But it’s not too late for Congress to do something to bring tech companies to heel.

"Why Did Meta’s AI Policy Let Chatbots Have ‘Sensual’ Conversations With Kids?"

Forget the AI apocalypse: chatbots are already wreaking havoc, writes @jacobsilverman.com for Zeteo. But it’s not too late for Congress to try and bring tech companies to heel.

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Mass Die-Off of Western Monarch Butterflies Linked to Pesticides, Study Finds - EcoWatch A new peer-reviewed study has linked pesticides as a likely cause to a mass die-off of Western monarch butterflies that occurred in 2024.

Mass Die-Off of Western Monarch Butterflies Linked to Pesticides, Study Finds
Shameful we are not acting to stop the wipe out of these beautiful Butterflies but profit of pesticide industry who buy politicians is all that matter
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Why our broken food system remains a climate disaster: ‘broiling the planet to stuff our faces’ Why our broken food system remains a climate disaster: ‘broiling the planet to stuff our faces’: Author Michael Grunwald reckons with the challenge of food-based climate emissions in his new book We Are Eating the Earth Ridding ourselves of fossil fuels has been a tortuously ponderous pro...

Why our broken food system remains a climate disaster: ‘broiling the planet to stuff our faces’: Author Michael Grunwald reckons with the challenge of food-based climate emissions in his new book We Are Eating the Earth Ridding ourselves of fossil fuels has been a tortuously ponderous pro...

Anas al-Sharif, prominent Al Jazeera correspondent, among five journalists killed in Israeli airstrike on Gaza — The Guardian Israel admits deliberate attack on the journalist, known for frontline coverage, in a strike on a tent outside al-Shifa hospital

Israel, which does not allow foreign journalists into Gaza…has killed 237 journalists since the war started, according to Gaza’s government media office.

The Committee to Protect Journalists said at least 186 journalists have been killed in the Gaza conflict.

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Three uniformed Border Patrol agents standing at the corner of 7th & H St. N.W., near an entrance of the Gallery Place/Chinatown Metro station.

Two uniformed Homeland Security Investigations agents patrolling a sidewalk in the Chinatown neighborhood of D.C.

Department of Homeland Security agents, loitering around a nightlife district in D.C. as part of a presidential show of force? More proof of the need to unwind the entire department.

Medicare for All - "That's socialism!"

Social Security - "That's socialism!"

Debt free education - "That's socialism!"

Universal childcare - "That's socialism!"

$1 trillion in tax cuts for the richest 1%...

"That's just how it is."

In my piece on Gov. Greg Abbott’s suit, I briefly addressed why his allegations that the Democratic legislators committed bribery are entirely meritless.

But I’m so annoyed by this that I might have to write more. It’s just so unserious.

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VA Just Terminated Most Federal Union Contracts, National Nurses United Included The VA has terminated union contracts for over 360,000 healthcare workers, including nurses—raising urgent concerns about staffing, patient safety, and veteran care nationwide.

NEW: The Department of Veterans Affairs just terminated union contracts including AFL-CIO (AFGE), NAGE, NFFE, SEIU, and nursing unions NNOC and NNU. nurse.org/news/va-term...

FBI will help locate Texas Democrats who fled the state, Cornyn says Texas GOP have been threatening the state legislators with "legal consequences" for breaking the quorum.

Federal law enforcement is being used to literally hunt down Texas Democrats in Illinois so Republicans can draw new electoral maps and disenfranchise millions of people.

An extremely scary precedent is being set right now and Illinois is the first proving ground: www.axios.com/2025/08/07/f...

Pristine Forest and Endangered Gorilla Habitat at Risk as Half of DRC Opened to Bids for Oil and Gas Drilling: Report - EcoWatch The Democratic Republic of the Congo plans to open 306 million acres of tropical forest and gorilla habitat to oil and gas drilling.

Pristine Forest and Endangered Gorilla Habitat at Risk as Half of DRC Opened to Bids for Oil and Gas Drilling:
Disgusting our closest relatives stand no chance against the giant corporate who will obliterate their home for profit
www.ecowatch.com/congo-oil-ga...

“Democrats could lose 42 seats”

Bannon says he has been pushing for Trump to redo the census like this for 10 years — and Alex Degrasse says between stealing seats in Texas, a new census, and attacking the Voting Rights Act they hope to grab over 40 seats from Democrats.

Alabama immigration advocate detained by ICE in traffic stop, family says: ‘Just heartbreaking and discouraging’ "Her detainment is not only legally questionable — it is morally wrong," a petition demanding her release reads.

In Alabama, another horrible ICE detention story— pulled over for going 1 mile over the speed limit and then put into detention, a woman who earned a masters degree and has become a beloved community advocate. Not a criminal. Someone who contributes to America. www.al.com/news/2025/08...

ICE is hiring! US immigration and Customs Enforcement is looking for highly motivated, morally indifferent individuals to join our team. Open positions include: Senior Goon Racism Enforcement Office Unmarked Van Driver (Part-Time) Experience with children a plus usajobs.gov

From this month's edition of The Onion.

BREAKING on MSNBC:

A group met to discuss Jeffrey Epstein and other topics at the White House last night. AG Pam Bondi and FBI Director Kash Patel were both there.

Another topic discussed: Two fired FBI agents with ties to the Mar-a-Lago search. @msnbc.com

truthout.org DHS Says DACA Recipients are “Illegal Aliens,” Tells Them to “Self-Deport”

DHS Says DACA Recipients are “Illegal Aliens,” Tells Them to “Self-Deport” https://twp.ai/4ioweu

The Trump administration is wiping out scientific data on climate change. The data heroes are ready. While the Trump administration is erasing critical health and environmental data from government websites, a group of scientists, archivists and volunteers is racing to rescue it.

Trump is wiping out scientific data on climate change

And has already purged more than 8,000 government web pages and 3,000 dataset

Outrageous decades of research erased because he doe s not want people to know the truth about climate change

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PMO: Benjamin Netanyahu decides full IDF occupation of Gaza | The Jerusalem Post The Prime Minister's Office conveyed the message to the Chief of Staff: If this does not suit you, then you should resign.

Think about every pro-Israel person who denied this was the plan for the past 22 months; who gaslit you; denied this to you; pretended this wasn't the plan.

And then never believe those liars about anything ever again.

The photographer Mark Peterson spent several weeks documenting the presence of ICE agents at Federal Plaza, who line the hallways waiting to detain people as they leave their immigration hearings. nyer.cm/dnwU8MF

Plastic pollution 'grave and growing' health threat: Lancet Plastic pollution is a "grave, growing and under-recognized danger" to health that is costing the world at least $1.5 trillion a year, experts warned in a report on Monday.

Plastics 'crisis' is costing $1.5tn in global deaths from heart failure to dementia new report confirms
Less than 10% of plastic is recycled
Plastic set to triple to more than a billion tonnes a year by 2060
More than 16,000 chemicals used in plastics, many not regulated
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We have hit pay dirt, so please stop talking about what we will forever call "the Jeffrey EPSTEIN Hoax"

Sadly, his PAST supporters have bought into this "bullshit" hook, line and sinker.

We should just be grateful he doesn't want their support anymore & stick together like glue.

#EPSTEINS4EVER

Trump plans $200M overhaul of East Wing in significant change to White House The project to construct a massive ballroom fulfills a wish for Trump, who has long disliked the tent pitched on the lawn to accommodate large-scale events.

As President Trump strips health care away from millions of Americans and burdens working families with higher costs, he plans to build a $200 million ballroom for himself and his billionaire donors.

This is an unbelievable display of excess and abuse of the presidency.