FLASH: Kash Patel files $250 million defamation lawsuit against the Atlantic
Patel claims "Defendants published the Article w/ actual malice, despite being expressly warned, hours before publication, that the central allegations were categorically false"
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Exactly one year ago today:
Trump: "Millions of American small businesses, including corner stores. What is a corner store? I've never heard that term. I know what a corner store is but I've never heard it described-- a corner store. Who the hell wrote that?"
If you like sea music, check out Henry Kaiser. Hes a guitarist/composer and research diver.
TRUMP: Do you think men should play in women's sports?
DOORDASH DRIVER: I really don't have an opinion on that. I'm here about no tax on tips.
I think it's bad for the President to threaten to annihilate an entire culture and i do not think you are being alarmist if you take his threats seriously and literally.
$2 million per ship — to cross a Strait that was free six weeks ago.
@nytimes.com
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Of The Empire We will be known as a culture that feared death and adored power, that tried to vanquish insecurity for the few and cared little for the penury of the many. We will be known as a culture that taught and rewarded the amassing of things, that spoke little if at all about the quality of life for people (other people), for dogs, for rivers. All the world, in our eyes, they will say, was a commodity. And they will say that this structure was held together politically, which it was, and they will say also that our politics was no more than an apparatus to accommodate the feelings of the heart, and that the heart, in those days, was small, and hard, and full of meanness. - Mary Oliver
God this poem is haunting me again.
Ali Ghamsari absolutely knows that US-Israel will not hesitate to kill him and destroy the power plant.
That is the point of the action. To die for justice.
The good thing: Fishback has virtually no chance of winning the nomination.
The bad thing: It's more than a bit worrying that he can draw a pretty decent sized crowd of mostly young white men despite being so obviously horrible
This is an absolute scandal; the United States government is deliberately consolidating all deportation cases of an ethnic minority that the President has called "garbage" in front of a handpicked group of judges and with dramatically accelerated timeline.
A lawsuit was filed yesterday against it.
Besides the point, his framing of what Alejandra actually says in the screenshot is pretty misleading. The "suicides and ruined lives" line is specifically referring to women who end up failing the DNA test after not knowing they had an intersex condition.
The SAVE Act exists simply to create stricter barriers to register to vote, and in some versions, it would impose new restrictions on voting methods. It's looking less and likely to become law.
The latest edition of Press Pass from @cheetah.bsky.social: lnk.thebulwark.com/40S5HVL
Any Chicago-based folks on here who have carpentry skills and might want to help out a great local youth-serving organization? Please holler at me if this is you. I believe they need someone who can build shelves.
"AI cannot coexist with education--it can only degrade it"
YES OMG YES
The Kennedy center board of trustees look like theyre about to give Dick Tracy a real hard time…
Ofc not. It wont be his kids. Hell, he wont live long enough to see the end of it, possibly. He doesnt care.
America first is letting foreign companies come into the US to mine copper?
🚨BREAKING: President Donald Trump ratcheted up pressure on Republican senators to pass the SAVE America Act, threatening them with a loss of his endorsement and a ‘garanteed loss’ if they don’t vote for his version of the expansive anti-voting bill. www.democracydocket.com/analysis/tru...
Narrator: No. It isnt.
Trump: "Hormuz -- you wouldn't necessarily sailing a boat there right now. You know why? Not because of them, because of us. We've taken out their entire navy."
Jack Donaghy: “Lemon, Kabletown’s recent acquisition of the UFC has given me an idea for a show. Seasoned cage fighters whipping the Obamafied sissies of the intelligence community back into shape! I borrowed your writers to help me produce a pilot.”
[Cut to Bas Rutten punching Lutz in the liver]
broadly speaking Iran aligned extremism experts have either been reassigned to work on ethnic cleansing or fired for being involved in the Jan 6 prosecutions
Why sre both of these people so wet
It is possible for the government to do things that help people at the expense of corporations. Our politicians simply choose not to do them here.
That can change. But only if we completely change the direction and leadership of the Democratic Party.
Iran has begun laying mines in the Strait of Hormuz, the world’s most important energy chokepoint that carries about one-fifth of all crude oil, according to two people familiar with US intelligence reporting on the issue. https://cnn.it/4ljpiay
Since receiving presidential pardons, dozens of former Capitol rioters have gotten into more legal trouble. In Florida, Andrew Paul Johnson was sentenced to life in prison for child sex abuse. n.pr/4rUa1zD
"The reason Kamala was so vulnerable to Trump's 'I'm for you, she's for they/them' attack is because no one knew who the fuck she was for and if she actually had a credible thing that she was for...it bounces off of you differently."
Morris Katz on the clear power of messaging.
In Defense of Effeminate Boys If anyone had suggested that I might really be a girl, I don’t know how I would have responded. By Ben Appel
If medical authorities have a rigorous way of distinguishing effeminate boys from transgender kids—or of distinguishing transgender kids from proto-gay kids—they aren’t saying. I have met a number of detransitioned gay men who tried to live as women for a time because they and their families were so averse to homosexuality. According to a 2019 report in The Times of London, staffers at Britain’s foremost gender-identity clinic joked darkly that, as a result of the facility’s work, “there would be no gay people left.” A statement last month by the American Society of Plastic Surgeons noted that there is no validated way to assess whether a child’s gender distress will persist over time or disappear without medical intervention. A lack of good research and recordkeeping means that we may never know how many patients who would have been considered effeminate gay boys not so long ago have undergone medical treatments for gender dysphoria.
Absolute trash. The author did not speak to a single medical professional and the article does not contain a shred of evidence that effeminate gay boys are being bamboozled into thinking they're trans.
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I'm sure this will go great. And it's not like one of the big foreign policy controversies of Trump's first term was his total betrayal of the Kurds or anything.
