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"Most people stayed with me in the bad times, but I had some people who were disloyal. And those people I'm going to destroy. Just for the sake of destroying them. If I ever have the opportunity." (Donald Trump, Financial Post, March 20, 1993)

A helpful message from Lula for tech/media overlords (and their minions) everywhere: “We cannot have monstrously huge corporations earning millions and billions, paying no taxes to this country, & trying to steer this country's election results.”

“Like other groups in Iran’s ‘axis of resistance,’ the Houthis are ‘obsessed’ with Mr. Epstein, said Mr. al-Basha… [Epstein], he added, serves as shorthand for the corruption of the United States & Israel and is invoked to bolster antisemitic conspiracy theories that Jews & Zionists run the world.”

Setting aside all the other deeply appalling aspects of this ad, it is being aired by a billionaire who would exploit this obviously troubled elderly homeless woman for his political career.

Who knew that the catalyst for the term “yellow journalism” was a comic about an endearing, “buck-toothed, big-eared Irish street urchin,” originally published in Joseph Pulitzer's New York World newspaper in 1896?

“GloriFi swiftly imploded, filing for bankruptcy in 2023 only a few months after its website launched… The… legal battle includes well over a dozen overlapping lawsuits, many of which are pending in bankruptcy court in Dallas… The scorecard in the various GloriFi cases can be hard to parse...”

“We're seeing parents deported without being given an opportunity to decide what happens to their children... [And] pregnant, postpartum and nursing women… are being pulled into immigration custody, despite a U.S. policy that says… absent exceptional circumstances… [they] should not be detained.”

“Experts described the legal argument… as ‘absurdly thin’ and predicted the lawsuit would not withstand judicial scrutiny. Univ. of Notre Dame law professor Derek Muller called the legal argument ‘one of the worst ones I’ve ever seen… designed to win the press release rather than the litigation.’”

“By the spring of 2018, MBZ had also put roughly $1 billion for Kushner into a second account at Israel’s Central Bank—at Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s urging. Unlike the political slush fund, Kushner’s activity in this account indicated that it was for his personal use.”

"I only wish the mothers of my opponents would be so brave [...] what she was really doing was saving Ohio from making a truly horrible choice! The Press is trying to convince everyone that this Ad is bad, because it's so good! Who wouldn't use such an Ad? I would, it's called, 'hitting pay dirt.'"

Naming your insane Rights Removal psyop after students murdered by the Nazis for resisting is a deliberate and repulsive choice.

“If the vice president of the United States can have a meal at my house when he is in Ghana, and if Adlai Stevenson can come into my home, then I cannot understand why I must receive this treatment at a roadside restaurant in America.” Ike apologized, inviting Gbedemah to a White House breakfast. 🧵

This money is absolutely meaningless to Elon Musk, but it has the potential to completely rewrite your future. He's spent over $36 million in about 4 weeks, and he's adding millions a day. All to corrupt our government to push his agenda. Let your friends know what's up.

“Two of the Minnesotans and another man interviewed by Sahan Journal… reported having work permits and Social Security numbers... Detainees had only 30 minutes’ notice to prepare for travel. They were shackled before being transported to the airplane. During the flight… detainees remained chained.”

“… members of a fraternity posted vile things about her on social media… taking photos of her at her workplace on campus… She went to report it to CUPD at the encouragement of her boss... ‘They sent a male officer to take my statement. He informed me that I should be “flattered” by the posts’…”

NEW: Susan Collins team bragging in its canvassing materials about her having "delivered" the conservative Supreme Court majority that overturned Roe. tinyurl.com/3mxnybe7 #MEpolitics

100 years ago, the afternoon daily paper in Angie Nixon’s hometown, the Jacksonville Journal (its morning rival was the Florida Times-Union), had a popular weekly column entitled, “What Socialists are Doing in Florida and Elsewhere.” Vance would export a sizable number of past & present Floridians.

You have to wonder if this is going to make Black Floridians more or less likely to turn out to vote. The last high water marks for Black voter turnout in Florida: 2018 - when Andrew Gillum lost to DeSantis by less than half a percentage point 2012 - Obama victory 2008 - Obama victory

Putting FBI agents to work for Nixon’s campaign: “The… request for… info was contained in a memo to the FBI from Geoff Shepard of the WH staff… Shepard's memo asked for information ‘in order for (presidential advisor) John Erlichman to give the President maximum support during campaign trips.’”

In the Netherlands, acceptance of LGBTQ+ people has dropped sharply among Dutch youth. This is part of a worldwide trend where LGBTQ+ rights are increasingly under pressure. This cartoon was published in Dutch newspaper @trouw.nl on September 25.

“A US permanent resident argued that evidence collected from a cellphone search at [JFK] Airport should have been suppressed at his…trial because the search was done without probable cause. The court…[ruled] that border officers don’t need reasonable suspicion to go through travellers’ cellphones.”

I repeat: you should pay attention to what's happening in Mississippi

“Minneapolis Public Schools enrolls about 30,000 students but has buildings capable of serving roughly 43,000. More than half of its 56 schools operate below 70% capacity. Since school funding is doled out per student, under-enrolled schools often struggle to afford electives and interventions…”

“The California Supreme Court on Thursday ordered a sheriff to return more than 600,000 ballots he seized from election officials, finding that he lacked the authority to review them based on a thin allegation of fraud.” www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

So, the state of Florida is now suing news outlets over alleged "bias"?

Anti-DSA fundraising text from John Fetterman: “Sadly I'm pretty much alone on this side of the aisle.” The implication is that he might be much less alone on the other side where grass is greener. Anyway, there are plenty on “this side of the aisle” that are giving oxygen to disdain for the DSA.

Motel owners in the tiny border town of Sweet Grass, Montana will be reading this report with interest.

People have this perception that #HIV is kind of defeated and under control these days. It's very much not. It took a lot of time, money and effort to suppress it to the current level, and if we drop the ball, HIV can surge back to disaster levels really fast. I fear it will.

"NIH is using a troubling list of 235 keywords as proxies to identify grants or researchers likely to express or support perspectives this administration does not like. Forbidden terms include 'equity,' 'advancing diversity,' 'racist,' 'gender,' 'Latinx,' 'climate change,' 'pregnant individual'..."

Four full-time immigration judges at the Fort Snelling Court in Minnesota have a backlog of 33,000 cases. The national backlog is 3.1 million. The MN court implemented a brutal schedule of hearings with up to 100 cases per judge each day and a “rocket docket” for cases involving Somali immigrants.

“Trump is part of the 44% of Forbes 400 members who have donated less than 1% of their fortune… Last year, 39% of the list had given less than 1% - meaning that, as the richest Americans' net worths have shot up, their generosity has not increased.“

Back in November 2024, @gregsargent.bsky.social wrote that we were about to endure, under Trump 2.0, “an extraordinary spree of unrestrained malfeasance.” Sen. Ron Wyden spoke of a four-year “smash and grab.” And those stark assessments still don’t begin to describe the current level of corruption.

“In the days leading up to Trump Jr.’s wedding, Kremlev was in China as part of the delegation accompanying Putin, according to Chinese state media. The month before, Putin had bestowed him with a state honor, the Order of Friendship. The Ukrainian government has imposed sanctions on Kremlev…”