If Joe Biden's son-in-law was flying around the Middle East as an unofficial Secretary of State while also working on business deals for his company with the same people he was meeting with on behalf of the US government, I'm pretty sure it would be a bigger story 🤔
the odor is coming from 1600 Pennsylvania Ave NW
Pete Hegseth Questions What Girls Were Doing In School To Begin With
Pete Hegseth Questions What Girls Were Doing In School To Begin With https://theonion.com/pete-hegseth-questions-what-girls-were-doing-in-school-to-begin-with/
When a federal judge (finally) put ICE officers under oath, they admitted that they are given daily detention quotas and rely heavily on a Palantir-supplied AI tool to select targets, without warrants and without enough evidence to obtain one. They simply go into neighborhoods and round people up.
Some 78% of Oregon voters approved limiting campaign contributions in 2020. Four years later, the Legislature finally adopted limits, but an advocate for tighter controls says recent changes render Oregon’s contribution limits “illusory.” @robwdavis.bsky.social
This DOGE boy dissolved my Fort Negley grants, taking money earmarked for descendant-led archaeology and oral history collection because he was given power that indulged the fact that he is too arrogant to see the value in the histories of Black Tennesseans and how they have shaped ALL of the US.
NEW: Hundreds of mental health professionals have left the Department of Veterans Affairs since President Donald Trump took office, leaving staff “at a breaking point” and some veterans waiting as long as six months for help.
This company should be nationalized, torn apart, and sold back to the industry as spare parts.
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National Science Foundation: $9 billion total in FY2026
BREAKING: The Senate has passed the biggest housing affordability bill in 30 years, and it includes a ban on investors buying single-family homes.
The bill passed 89-10.
A high-ranking retired US Air Force major general who once commanded a base long associated with UFO lore has been missing for nearly two weeks, and authorities are appealing to the public for help locating him, according to the Bernalillo County Sheriff’s Office in New Mexico.
We can thank Mike Pompeo for this precedent .
Whoa. This is big. "The U.S. Navy has refused near-daily requests from the shipping industry for military escorts through the Strait of Hormuz since the start of the war on Iran, saying the risk of attacks is too high for now." www.reuters.com/world/middle...
Billy Frank Jr. (1931-2014), Nisqually activist and leader during the fish-ins, 1973 Courtesy Northwest Indian Fisheries Commission
Born on this day in 1931, Nisqually citizen, treaty fishing rights warrior, front lines fighter in the fish wars, and salmon management advocate, Billy Frank Jr.
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Trump DOJ offers a deferred prosecution agreement to Halkbank, the Turkish state-run bank charged with laundering billions in Iranian oil money.
Trump repeatedly tried to end this case in his first term—per John Bolton, as a favor to one of the "dictators he liked" (i.e. Erdogan).
Trump to America: you fucking idiots, you utter simpering assholes. Shut up and clap! Thank you for your attention to this matter.
an extraordinary and deeply! reported story. Hoping @johnsipher.bsky.social 's production company takes up the option!
Tarrio is, quite literally, a pardoned terrorist.
CNN’s Frederik Pleitgen says black, oil-contaminated rain is falling over Tehran after strikes on oil facilities by U.S./Israeli airstrikes.
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To build on this concept: @samquinones.bsky.social has been tapping the sign for decades! Close or not maintain a park or community center? Expect (econmic & individual) despair and all that follows it, not just addiction.
QAnon luminaries say they’ve drafted the Trump “national emergency” declaration to scuttle the midterm elections:
Don't forget the word clouds!
So let me get this straight ...
1. US bombs Iran
2. Oil price goes up a bit, benefitting Russia's petrostate
3. Russia gives Iran targeting info
4. Oil price shoots WAY up
5. US unsanctions Russian oil
Do we know where Zimmerman is?
“Donald Trump’s White House is blocking top US intelligence agencies from warning law enforcement across the country about rising threats to the homeland tied to his war with Iran, the Daily Mail can reveal”
'... my main takeaway is this: The people representing the Trump administration knew they were entering a privately-owned building, and the DC MPD allowed them to enter despite that fact.'
Oregon lawmakers passed legislation to restrict the use of face coverings among law enforcement officers in the latest state pushback against the Trump administration’s aggressive immigration crackdown.
www.oregonlive.com/politics/202...
Well, gas is expensive, and food is expensive, and we’re doing a war nobody wants, but at least there are no jobs
