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JUST POSTED: A Russian energy giant has secretly moved to acquire a position in a massive Alaska gas project. Its part of talks between Witkoff/Kushner & Putin. But CEO of US company resigns after learning of Russian money in the project. A wowzer of a story. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/23/u...

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A CNN investigation has found that while Jared Kushner acted as a key Middle East peace negotiator, his private equity firm held the largest stake in an Israeli company backing businesses tied to Israel’s military campaign in Gaza, including its largest arms manufacturer. https://cnn.it/4AIwBQs

Trump: everyone in the US died from drugs last week Reporter: [nods] Trump: so we must murder on the high seas Reporter: [nods] Trump: I caught Trix rabbit once Reporter: [nods] Trump: the cock on that bunny Reporter: [nods] Trump: bigger than you think Headline: Trump Policy Seeks To Save Lives

I cannot believe the most antisocial, fucked up people from my freshman dorm get to decide how humanity works from here on out. If they aren’t put in check we are all gonna die. They do not care.

Ford: "I don't respond to a dictator like Trump, a bully like Trump ... I'm not gonna take any advice off a guy that's the king of bankruptcies ... your own people don't even like you. And they're gonna speak loud and clear in the midterms. If I was allowed to, I'd be down there door-knocking."

"The president treats America’s cities as though they’re populated by scofflaws to be subjugated rather than by citizens with a say in their own future, and deploying the Guard to D.C. is a way to make that vision into a reality." www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Back in 2002, we explored life aboard another aircraft carrier, the USS John C. Stennis, stationed in the Arabian Sea and supporting bombing missions over Afghanistan. www.thisamericanlife.org/206/somewher...

Here, educate yourself & watch our Prime Minister counter all of ShitWeasel Greer's bullshit, bring the truth & drop bombs on the narrative the corrupt US Regime is trying to spin: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZR9T...

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Brilliant Orwell. "The great enemy of clear language is insincerity" www.orwellfoundation.com/the-orwell-f...

Trump is willing to take the world to the edge of war & economic decline to achieve his personal goals. He should have never been reelected. He should be impeached & convicted. He is 80 & failing. He is blinded by personal gain & applause. Vance & the Cabinet should trigger the 25th Amendment

It's just all so exhausting.

70 years ago right now at Bikini Atoll in the North Pacific (5:46 AM July 21, local time), the United States conducted Shot TEWA of Operation Redwing. Detonated on a barge between Namu and Yurochi Islands, the 5-Mt explosion blasted a crater in the seafloor 4,000 feet in diameter and 129 feet deep.

Beyond absurd. A budget is a moral document.

@ejeancarroll.bsky.social: "I don't understand how people can be afraid of a fat elderly man who wears apricot makeup, his hair done up like Tippi Hedren in The Birds and sits in a court room and moans and groans and complains”

We should have learned that you can’t manage a public health crisis by ignoring it. Politicizing science and weakening disease surveillance doesn’t make threats disappear, it only makes us less prepared to respond.

Statement from The New York Times on the DOJ subpoenaing its reporters to expose their sources. This is anti-democratic and hostile to the First Amendment.

BREAKING: Rep. Garcia has formally requested the Oversight Cmte. call in the following Trump officials in the wake of that new NYT report on Epstein: J.D. Vance Susie Wiles Tyler Budowich James Blair Karoline Leavitt Steven Cheung Kash Patel Dan Bongino Stanley Woodward, Jr.

Dear Knicks Fans ALL OVER THE WORLD… why should you enjoy the winning bucket by OG only in English? Anunoby would like you to enjoy it in many languages. 🧡💙

Living in DC has me thinking a lot about this moment in Casablanca. When the Nazis start up The Watch on the Rhine, the people at Rick’s Café Américain slump down. They are not broken but they feel helpless. The occupation is a degradation to the soul of a free people.

It’s past midnight and Republicans are fighting to pass $70 billion for ICE—but they can't find a single cent to make health care more affordable.   All while Trump's war and tariffs send prices surging.   That's the Republican agenda: Drive costs higher. Do nothing for families.

NEEDS MORE CAPITAL LETTERS THOUGH THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER

This is almost alarmingly contemplative. Worth a watch.

Colbert guest hosted a public access TV show in Monroe, Michigan a day after the Late Show ended. Guest star: Jeff Daniels Special appearance by: Eminem Musical director: Jack White Genius. youtu.be/jJTXB5uT_C4?...

“[Colbert] went on to quote Robert Hayden's famous poem: ‘We must not be frightened nor cajoled into accepting evil as deliverance from evil. We must go on struggling to be human, though monsters of abstraction police and threaten us.’” www.editorialboard.com/take-comfort...

Has the hospital ship made it to Greenland yet?

Simpler times

The White House, in a statement to The Times, said the Al-Khayyat family dealings with the Trump family had no impact on President Trump’s support for the sanctions repeal. Obviously, we felt it was still worth documenting this backstory. Please read/share. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/19/u...

The fact of the matter is that your racist uncle who hates Woke Studies ever since he heard about it on the drive back from the supermarket and the governing board that oversees your research institution are converging, and the results are exactly as monstrous and as stupid as you would have guessed

this is fucking unreal stuff from Noah Wyle on the magic of The Pitt. www.gq.com/story/noah-w...

It's hard to articulate the level of anger & rage I have about watching this happen. I first saw weev doxx people I love *TWENTY* years ago. I spoke to founders of multiple social networks about the risk of these people over 15 years ago. I wrote about it all a dozen+ years ago. They let it happen.

Tired: using "checks notes" in social media posts. Wired: Letting the reader determine oblique obviousness.

The success of the U.S. vaccination system depends on two fundamental pillars: parents trusting in vaccines and children having access to them. Under RFK Jr., both are in peril.

This is so well done. 👌

An army of fans bent on broadening the white supremacist Nick Fuentes's audience are using social-media algorithms to amplify his message and to help him gain a following on the left, Amogh Dimri reports:

Are we a serious *species* or not? Iran made clear there were no high-level talks ongoing, Trump lied to the world and said there *were* to get wishcasting markets to stupidly respond—which they dutifully did—and he postponed his war crimes to Friday to reduce their news impact.

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I read the “Save America Act,” so you don’t have to. Most of the media apparently *hasn’t* read it because, if they had, they would be sounding the alarm about the provision in Point 1, below, which almost none of them have even mentioned. I hope this summary helps raise awareness. 1/

This is just astonishingly great reporting. All of the crises the White House has claimed over the last 14 months were planned in advance. All of them. And however much contempt you have for media outlets who reverently relayed Trump's claim to have no relation to Project 2025, it isn't enough.

This is how our government has been corrupted: 1) Donors give huge sums to elect politicians 2) Elected officials rewrite rules in donors' favor 3) Donors make huge profit 4) Repeat We must get big money out of politics. It’s the root of all evil in Washington.

Essential read: a statement from Cardinal Cupich. www.archchicago.org/statement/-/...

There's something deeply obscene and broken about the fact that Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth are bombing elementary schools in an illegal war of aggression, and there's still a sense among the opposition that it has to be explained in terms of gas prices in order to get American voters to care.