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Forbes: Almost 90% of Americans are Worried about the Cost of Groceries PBS News: White House says it will begin construction on $200 million ballroom in September

Most Americans are worried about the cost of groceries.

Meanwhile, Trump is spending $200 million of taxpayers' money to build a golden ballroom.

agreed to do overtime again

A long red beetle is lots of black dots, black legs except a red femur, and long antennae perched of the end of a half chewed milkweed leaf

Straying off the Beautiful Path Tax

Red-Femured Milkweed Beetle
(Tetraopes femoratus)
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This is ICE.

Using the same mobility asset as Timothy McVeigh did.

The similarities don't stop there...

Badenoch thinks Britain is only deporting 50 illegal immigrants. It's actually 50 a week, even so - still better than a £700 million luxury stay for four volunteers sent to Rwanda. #ukpolitics

a man in a safety vest stands in front of a trump truck ALT: a man in a safety vest stands in front of a trump truck

Peace Through Strength

Last time we heard from Rep. Corey Miles he was getting evicted from his 20k a month DC apt, where he allegedly assaulted his DC girlfriend who wasn't his wife. Now another girlfriend says (same time as wife and assault GF) he's been stalking her and threatening to release their sex tapes.

The Storm Is Here: Inside the Attack on the Voting Rights Act Our system has checks and balances, but they don’t run on autopilot.

NEW: 60 years after the Voting Rights Act was signed into law, its protections are being gutted.

@staceyabrams.com breaks down how we got here, what’s at stake, and how we fight back.

@nickmark.bsky.social

The great acceleration debate Why the consilience of evidence points toward acceleration

Is global warming accelerating? Over at The Climate Brink I argue that the consilience of evidence from surface temperatures, climate models, forcing changes, ocean heat content, and earth energy imbalance all point toward yes: www.theclimatebrink....

Sun is shining. Trump’s fascism is fascism-ing.

If NYC democratically elects the mayor that NYC wants to be the mayor of NYC & Trump doesn’t approve of that mayor then Trump will fascism all over NYC, like he did in LA.

And remember, a “communist” is anyone that Trump doesn’t like.😬

Opinion | Bernie Sanders, A.O.C. and the Surging Politics of Anger Struggling working-class voters fear that the country they’ve always counted on is sliding away because of Trump.

About Bernie Sanders: “He brings awareness of what’s going on in the country, and he’s giving voice to those who are voiceless,” Dina Garibay, a teacher, told @megankstack.bsky.social. “He wants to stand up for the rights of everybody, and the Democratic Party doesn’t always stand up for that.”

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Credit where it’s due: Kessler has written *by far* the most eye-opening piece about the decimation of the Washington Post.

Russ Vought Is Talking A Big Game—But Even This Supreme Court Might Not Back It Up A hallmark of the second Trump presidency is the White House’s insatiable,...

“If the President can disregard appropriations bills and threaten members of Congress with defunding their states if they don’t vote for whatever he asks for, he’d have more power than the English kings had prior to the Revolution,” #NoKings

Can the world’s beaches survive a sand shortage? From Miami to Barcelona and Australia’s Gold Coast, governments are trying to save shorelines where climate change is accelerating erosion

I missed this at the time but Eva Xiao has written a great piece on the value of sand to stop or delay coastal erosion. The picture is from Rodanthe NC and shows two beach houses that will be lost to the sea.

I joined @lauracoates.com's CNN show with the great Sarah Krissoff and @willsommer.bsky.social to talk about what's happening with the Trump administration and the Epstein files

It's an important case, and I hope we will all get to see these files soon.

www.businessinsider.com/jeffrey-epst...

Tim Cook pathetically kisses Trump's ass by pretending him with a "24 karat gold" gift

Newsflash, Wannabe Dictator:

I don’t care how many times you shake the Etch A Sketch trying to redraw these lines. I’m not disappearing.

I’ll be back, still on your behind every step of the way. (1/2)

Many thanks to you for including me in this Resisters list!…

Tennessee Demands Records of Abortion 'Exception' Patients 8.6.25

Tennessee Demands Records of Abortion 'Exception' Patients
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Pro-Trump group wages campaign to purge “subversive” federal workers Federal employees faced a barrage of intimidation and harassment after a group linked to the Trump administration posted their personal information on online “watchlists” denouncing them as liberals. Some have been fired. Two have moved abroad, fearing for their safety.

www.reuters.com/investigatio...
Some have been fired. Two have moved abroad, fearing for their safety. Yet free-speech experts say the group's websites remain just outside the boundaries of violating personal privacy…

Scoop: Brown interviewing campaign managers for Ohio Senate race Brown would be another key candidate recruit win for Senate Democratic leaders.

www.axios.com/2025/08/04/s...
Former Sen Sherrod Brown (D-OH) is interviewing campaign managers for a 2026 comeback bid, a clear indication that he's preparing to jump into the race to defeat Sen Jon Husted (R-OH), according to three people familiar with the matter...