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Another project, instant memes. This is what Kate voted for. She’s right though, we don’t deserve him. View: https://x.com/kate_p45/status/1952774513906630898 View: https://x.com/BagdMilkSoWhat/status/1952783524517319103

Exactly.

https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/archive/2025/08/a-terrible-five-days-for-the-truth/683756/?gift=jya-z5lTntURuSFdyDPB2Tp3bPYQ6dxF0DurESfz29o&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share Awarding superlatives in the Donald Trump era is risky. Knowing when one of his moves is...

Some historical context on authoritarians and official statistics. https://lucid.substack.com/p/how-authoritarians-cook-the-books?publication_id=300941&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=email-share&triggerShare=true&r=1b1xyv Classic Dictatorships Cook the Books In long-established regimes, the...

Great analysis, given all the uncertainty. I got to thinking the firing of the BLS chief is maybe the best example to date of Trump’s MO of shaping reality to suit himself. The Big Lie of a stolen 2020 election was….bigger, but he could keep repeating it, and buttressing it with conspiracy, and...

https://futurism.com/white-house-orders-nasa-destroy-important-satellite The White House has instructed NASA employees to terminate two major, climate change-focused satellite missions. As NPR reports, Trump officials reached out to the space agency to draw up plans for terminating the two...

This should drive Trump nuts…. https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-bad-news-us-economy-jobs-2108440 According to a note released by Goldman Sachs over the weekend, preliminary revision estimates set to be published by the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) in September will reveal a...

Statement from NPR president and CEO. https://www.npr.org/2025/08/01/g-s1-80660/statement-from-katherine-maher-npr-president-ceo-on-closure-of-corporation-for-public-broadcasting "The Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) has been a cornerstone of public broadcasting in the United States...

First 23 minutes of this interview deals with Epstein. Wolff claims to have about 100 hours of recoded interviews of Epstein, as Epstein wanted to rehabilitate his image and asked Wolff to write his life story. Wolf said Epstein talked at length about Trump. And I may sound like a rumor monger...

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/aug/02/republicans-trump-bureau-of-labor-statistics-commissioner

Trump biographer Michael Wolff has his own take on the Trump- Epstein falling out. Interestingly, Wolff claims Epstein believed to his dying day that Trump ratted him out to authorities. Wolff claims Trump went behind Epstein’s back to buy a property Epstein had bid on. (Although it’s unrelated...

Sexual predator first, victims last. https://nypost.com/2025/08/01/us-news/ghislaine-maxwell-quietly-moved-to-cushy-new-texas-prison-as-she-pushes-for-deal-to-tell-all-on-epstein-his-associates/ Notorious sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell has quietly been moved to a cushy prison camp known as a...

Seems like a natural entry for this climate change thread. I think it’s actually an even more natural entry in the New Dark Age thread. The administration’s climate report is 100% pseudoscience. Based on debunked claims. A report that demonstrates this administration is an enemy of human...

In theory, yes. In practice, leave the pitchfork at home….

Working on a more Banana Republic image to the world… View: https://x.com/Public_Citizen/status/1951362829933494664

How stupid! https://www.cnbc.com/2025/08/01/trump-erika-mcentarfer-jobs-report-fired.html President Donald Trump on Friday fired the Bureau of Labor Statistics commissioner, hours after the agency reported that job growth in the U.S. had slowed to a near-halt. In a Truth Social post that also...

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/08/01/corporation-for-public-broadcasting-shutting-down-00488553 https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/cpb-funder-npr-pbs-says-will-shut-congress-cuts-money-rcna222524 The Corporation for Public Broadcasting announced on Friday that it will begin shutting...

View: https://x.com/ChrisMurphyCT/status/1950597449589854274

Let’s follow the money….and what did Trump know, and when did he know it…. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/epstein-bank-records-ron-wyden-leon-black-b2799888.html The top Democrat on the Senate’s powerful finance committee has been investigating the financial...

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wxTI7416P9I