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🔥 “A dictator is rising. I would encourage people not to look away.”

DHS attacks NASHVILLE councilwoman sandra sepulveda for saying ICE is arresting 🇺🇸 citizens “just for being brown”

— which they are, as @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social points out their officers have admitted in court.

As I keep saying every time the “PhD-level” marketing bullshit goes around, it makes me mad that we’re funding this shit while defunding the actually-existing PhDs that we already have

Saying the quiet part outloud.

That’s the one argument that our illegitimate and corrupt SCOTUS does NOT accept on gerrymandering: gerrymandering cannot be based on race.

Video shows Department of Justice official urging Jan. 6 rioters to 'kill' cops The Department of Justice hired a former Jan. 6 defendant who was caught on tape urging rioters to "kill" police. The department calls him a "valued member" of the administration.

Less than five years after urging rioters to "kill" police, a former Jan. 6 defendant is working as a senior adviser for the Justice Department.

Police bodycam footage introduced at the trial of Jared Wise showed him berating officers on Jan. 6 and yelling "kill 'em." www.npr.org/2025/08/07/n...

Stephen Colbert is going SCORCHED EARTH right now. To RFK Jr: “Fuck you, you roid-addled nepo carnie! Fuck you, you roadkill-munching Luddite human slim jim!”

REPORTER: You were the driving force behind Operation Warp Speed, these mRNA vaccines that are the gold standard. Now your Health Secretary is pulling back all the funding for research ... what is going on?

TRUMP: Research into what?

REPORTER: mRNA vaccines

TRUMP: We're onto other things

Nah just publicly shamed to the point of being untouchable.

Billionaires, Crypto Investors, and Fossil Fuel Companies Fill up Trump Super PAC As the Trump administration doled out new corporate tax breaks and rolled back regulations, donors who gained showered millions of dollars on the president’s political operation.

Trump's political operation got tens of millions in the first half of 2025 from each of following:

- fossil fuel industry, as he gave tax breaks worth tens of billions
- crypto industry, as he deregulated and pushed its legislative wish list
- billionaires, as he extended tax cuts for wealthiest

Robert Reich Project 2025: The MAGA Plan to Take Your Freedom | Robert Reich

Project 2025’s roadmap for dismantling American government is 47% complete, according to the website Project 2025 Tracker.

Remember when Trump denied knowing about the authoritarian playbook and many pundits and politicians gave him a pass? https://youtu.be/XmZm3zeSSDc?feature=shared

This is a good take and the other problem for Dems is that they don’t challenge the firehose of GOP lies that media gatekeepers *also* don’t challenge. Everybody knows Biden maintained an “open borders” policy because the right repeated it nonstop, the refs let it slide and Dems shrugged haplessly

I think it really should be emphasised that what happened here is a tall woman approached a 14 year old to ask if she needed help, and the mother, not the girl, freaked out and is now calling for a ban on trans people being allowed to work with kids.

We’ve discovered a literal miracle with almost unlimited potential and it’s being scrapped for *no reason whatsoever*. This isn’t even nihilism, it’s outright worship of death and human suffering.

Teaching STEM without teaching the Humanities is how you get Spider-Man villians. Teaching Theater without teaching the Humanities is how you get Batman villians.

This made me laugh. And then I sat and thought about it. This is correct.

Understand: this is exactly what RFK Jr. was appointed to do, pander to a stupid and scared antivax movement.

America is going to be a third world country by 2030.

A pandemic just killed over 1 million Americans. And it would’ve killed even more without the extraordinary development of highly effective mRNA vaccines within a year of the virus emerging. It’s hard for me to overstate how monstrous, incomprehensible and foolhardy this is. RFKJ does it again.

a fun game to play with BLS numbers is to go “that’s stupid, why do they do it that way” and then go find the paper explaining why they do it that way to see if you still think it’s stupid, and if you do, you win

I am like 0 for 19 lifetime at this game

I don't say this lightly: The New York Times should fire the reporter and editor who chose to present a leak from the white house as if it was a leak from Harvard.

Don't print lies in the newspaper

The quote set against a pale yellow and pink plain background.

“Get it all down. Let it pour out of you and onto the page. Write an incredibly shitty, self-indulgent, whiny, mewling first draft. Then take out as many of the excesses as you can.”
— Anne Lamott

Trust yourself, #turtlewriters! You can do this! 🙂🐢❤️ 🍀 #WritingCommunity

Trump’s Efforts to Control Information Echo an Authoritarian Playbook

It’s so infrequent that the New York Times uses “Trump” and “Authoritarian” in the same headline that it’s worth noting when they do. Now they need to say clearly and loudly that he’s in the process of building a dictatorship. Because he is.

Join our 31 Days of Action for science now! — STAND UP FOR SCIENCE Help add to the pressure on Congress to ensure ZERO CUTS TO SCIENCE in the 2026 Budget Battle this fall.

For USians!
The Trump administration – aided and abetted by a compliant Congress – just spent seven months dismantling a world of American science it took 80 years to build.
Let’s spend the rest of this summer making it an August our US Senators and Representatives will never forget. 🧪

AI thrives where education has been devalued | The Observer A culture that views knowledge as a means to an end invites the misuse of new technology

“It is less that AI is the cause of degradation in reading and thinking, and more that the creation of a culture that views knowledge primarily in an instrumental manner has made it easier to misuse AI.” My ‪@theobserveruk.bsky.social column: observer.co.uk/news/opinion...

Bravo #StayReady crew💪🏾😤

There isn’t a single category that we didn’t identify and/or stock up on before folks decided to pay attention.

This little tidbit in the article caught my eye.

www.today.com/today/amp/rc...

Ukraine breaks up 'corruption scheme' in defense sector The anti-corruption watchdog said the scheme involved inflating prices for electronic warfare and drone equipment, and then funneling off 30% of the contract amounts.

Ukrainian authorities said Saturday that they had arrested several politicians in connection with a "large-scale corruption scheme" in the defense sector.

These VOA newscasters and reporters were given visas because there weren't experienced broadcast journalists in the US with native level skills in such languages as Bambara, Lao or Georgian. But since Kari Lake wiped out nearly all VOA's 48 language services there are indeed no jobs for them now.

Tweet from Matt Walsh: "Women do, in fact, owe children to the world. Your ancestors suffered and sacrificed and died to bring you into existence and build the civilization you now take for granted. You stand on the shoulders of thousands of years of untold hardship. Giving up, throwing it all away, extinguishing your own bloodline, all so that you can live a pathetic and pointless life dedicated solely to your own material gain is an act of generational betrayal and suicide."

The far right mega-influencers at it again, telling us what women "owe... to the world". Hint, it's children. To fail this obligation is to commit "generational betrayal". Just your latest reminder of where women stand in the far right imaginary.

Occasional reminder that Grammarly once tried to get me to post a graph on my blog proving men are better writers than women and they wanted to pay me for it with an Amazon gift card.

Fuck Grammarly forever.

BREAKING: China has officially banned cryptocurrency trading, mining, and related services

I heard from my cousin that if you stare into a clock and say "Flava Flav! Flava Flav! Flava Flav" at exactly midnight his face will appear and he'll yell "YEEAAH BOOYYY" so I tried it last night and he did appear and looked me right in the eyes and gently whispered "it's actually Flavor Flav"

More on Trump’s nominee to lead the office investigating Jack Smith:

➡️ He said that the descendants of slaves should pay reparations to the descendants of slave owners

➡️ He urged Congress to make J6 a national holiday

➡️ He called for Trump’s birthday to be made a national holiday (“MAGA Day”)

They fear the flowers.

So grow them.