Ethical Operator

You’d think Audi, owned by Volkswagen, might know better than allying with a fascist dictator. www.volkswagen-group.com/en/the-histo...

If you’re thinking of buying an Audi, don’t forget that an Audi executive appeared at a Trump rally this weekend to try to boost an American dictatorship. Make your car-buying decision accordingly.

Hey Audi

📬 ICYMI: Republicans are pressing ahead with their effort to block a pro-voting policy in Georgia — just days before early voting begins. The RNC wants to restrict how voters turn in their mail-in ballots. And they want to do it in a county that is a major Democratic stronghold ⬇️

From battleground candidates to Elon Musk, Republicans can’t stop posting wistfully about Rhodesia.

Washington, D.C. election officials asked the National Guard to keep troops away from ballot drop boxes after residents complained about soldiers posted beside one just before voting began.

Morning Spew for Night Owls—"When we heard the shots ring out, everybody started screaming, we all turned around, we ran."

It should. The Republican Party has debased itself by groveling at the feet of a felon, a pedophile, a traitor. The Republican Part is spit. It is the beetle beneath the dung.

That fat orange pedophile has used his apartheid nazi musk and their dog shit doge to rig it. Its cute that the USA thinks it's still a democracy

America is toxic and broken and should never be trusted again. We were foolish to do so in the years since the Second World War. Friendship with the USA exposed us to unnecessary risk, made us enemies of people with whom we had no tangible disputes, and did us little good. Go home Yankee!!

I'm a US citizen, 74YO, and I don't see how I can ever trust the voters of this country again. Roughly 77 million of them seem capable of dangerously bad judgement, which brought us to where we are now.

Canadians think America “is toxic and broken and can never be trusted again,” Chrystia Freeland, the former Deputy Prime Minister, tells David Remnick, and they’re seeking allies abroad. www.newyorker.com/podcast/the-...

Execution live stream could cause PTSD in viewers, say psychiatrists

It may be too late to reverse years of tech-induced harms, but there is still time to unfriend a few billionaires. trib.al/cEZwa2n

Editorial: There have been no winners among the moving forces of this tragedy although some actors on the periphery of the fight may have benefited.

Big surprise: Trump wants UN president who will swear loyalty to Trump agenda. Time for the UN to shun the Tangerine Palpatine and shut him up.

Who gives a fuck what he thinks? He’s waning. Weak and desperate, and everyone can see it.

Ukraine’s Operation Vivaldi foils Russia’s plan to encircle the Donbas

How about this headline WORLD IN CRISIS: American President continues national tour of demented rants, threatens global stability

Trump has been boosting Putin for 10 plus years…. Gotta wonder why, must be something in it for Trump🤔🤔🤔😳

Crooks and grifters all. And, in many cases, fraudsters, rapists, and liars.

We released a trove of disclosure records that detail the finances of more than 1,600 Trump appointees, including former lobbyists, industry executives and at least a dozen officials who declined to identify former clients. Explore the database:

A joint investigation by Kansas Reflector and MS NOW suggests Sen. Roger Marshall's office blurred the line between official work and his 2020 Senate campaign, according to records and experts.

No incompetence is the consequence of a Republican Party lying to rednecks and blue collar workers in order to enrich corporations and billionaires.

Switch-off X and Grok.

⚡️Russia continues arrests of banned pro-peace Yabloko party members. Russia has continued arresting members of the Yabloko opposition party, detaining two candidates on Sept. 4 as parliamentary elections approach, the party announced.

Sailors from the USS Abraham Lincoln came ashore near the Thai beach town of Pattaya this week, amid reports of poor conditions and low morale. Locals had expected an infusion into the local economy. But on the streets, a sense of anticlimax pervaded.

President Donald Trump's unprecedented oil deal with Venezuela, of which the full details have yet to be made public, is already destined to "backfire" in a spectacular fashion, academic and economic expert Francisco Rodriguez argued on Saturday.

GOP panics as Trump admin desperately spins soaring fuel prices: 'Can't message that away'

After Syracuse police agreed to provide decades-old records to a former student and sexual assault victim, lawyers for Syracuse University intervened to “partially quash” the subpoena, arguing the request was a waste of time for everyone involved.

Anti-immigrant provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos deported by ICE after arrest in New Orleans

A for-profit hospital slashed costs. Then a patient froze to death on its roof.

House Speaker Mike Johnson unwittingly skewered President Donald Trump on live television Saturday when two off-the-cuff comments bounced badly off B-roll.

A new California bill would ban ICE from using electric shock gloves Democratic lawmakers are advancing a bill to block ICE agents from using gloves that can deliver electric shocks or even to let law enforcement buy them in California

Meta, the owner of Facebook and Instagram, on Wednesday agreed to pay 47 states, the District of Columbia, and a handful of U.S. territories, up to $17.1 billion in penalties over claims that its social media platforms are addictive and a danger to children.

Israeli settlers attack more Palestinian homes in the West Bank

A deeply unserious administration.

Trump judges deal a massive blow to his own allies with 'pretty brutal' opinion

An anonymous Defense Department employee has created a database to track Americans based on their political affiliation. trib.al/h9sKhxE

More women have nearly bled to death during miscarriage under Texas’ abortion ban. Experts say the trend paints a troubling picture of the harms of unnecessary delays in care. “This is striking,” one doctor said. “The trend is very clear.” (Published July 2025)

Damn, I hadn't reckoned on Reuters becoming the lame propaganda arm of the US govt.

Joe Lonsdale, co-founder of the weapons-tech company Palantir, is also a major force behind the Trump administration’s policy of pushing unhoused people toward incarceration. Advocates for unhoused people argue that he is putting the 700,000 unsheltered people in the US in danger.

⚡️Ukrainian forces reportedly strike Russian retail warehouse in Rostov Oblast. Ukrainian forces struck a warehouse in southern Russia belonging to appliance and electronics retailer DNS overnight on Aug. 29, monitoring channels reported.

Colleges across the country are seeing an unprecedented influx of cheating complaints. Struggling to prove AI misuse, they're moving away from hard discipline and moving toward mitigation. https://chroni.cl/3SzfZcK