GOP Lawmaker Sparks Outrage After Calling For Dem Rep. To Be Executed For Urging People To Protest Trump

Which party incites violence again?

Trump likely wants a small war where victory is certain like the 1983 Invasion of Grenada. Venezuela or Iran would be a major war and victory iffy.

China weaponizes ag imports to target Trump and US farmers China’s freeze on U.S. soybean purchases hits a key GOP constituency in the run-up to 2026 midterm elections

Who lost China? Trump and his Republicans lost China. The Middle Kingdom has also abandoned American for Australian beef. Starting trade wars you are going to lose is stupid.
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Costly geoengineering schemes could stall real solutions Some are clearly designed to allow the destructive fossil fuel industry to keep operating.

Geoengineering can not "stall" what is already stalled. The UNFCCC has failed as a climate regime. Time to stop pretending that national decision-makers will suddenly come to their senses and save the day.
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Trump is being lobbied by rival foreign policy networks for wars with Venezuela or Iran. Sending troops to Portland obviously plays to a domestic audience of anti-urban conservatives while avoiding the sort of large scale interstate war that he fears going very wrong. #Portland #Venezuela #Iran

Healy's only year-round medical clinic will close in November The closure means many Denali Borough residents will have to drive longer distances for care at other facilities.

Healy's only year-round medical clinic will close in November.

Denali Borough Mayor Chris Noel said he was surprised by the announcement and hopes the community can work together to find a solution.

The Lowdown (TV Series 2025– ) ⭐ 6.9 | Biography, Drama, History 59m | TV-MA

JJ Cale is the perfect soundtrack for THE LOWDOWN
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Ethiopia?

Decision-makers in Ankara and Cairo are now likely thinking much harder about acquiring their own nuclear deterrents. Saudi Arabia seems to be in the process of borrowing Pakistan's and the cheapest option would be to buy nukes directly from Islamabad.

Great news: Sales at Pike Place Market were up 7.5% in August too! That's three months of solid data showing the pedestrianization pilot is good for business.

Add your ideas for how to keep the momentum going into the fall: actionnetwork.org/letters/pike...

Assassinating Peace: How Bernadotte’s Murder Ended the Israel-Palestine Two-State Dream Chicago (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) - The UN General Assembly has just (September 12) endorsed the New York Declaration on the two-state solution between Israel and Palestine. A day earlier...

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Here’s another thing Israel (or its enablers are doing when I posted this article on FB, it immediately disappeared!!! Tried 2 more times:same result. Deleted history!!!

Nancy Mace pronounces the word 'dignity' as "digny." How undignified.

Feds take next step in removing protections from 6.4 million acres of Montana’s national forests The ‘Roadless Rule’ has prevented new road construction across 58 million acres of national forest land across the country.

‼️PUBLIC COMMENTS NEEDED by SEPT 19TH to SAVE MIILLIONS of ACRES from LOGGING‼️GO‼️

The Trump Adm & U.S. Department of Agriculture has taken the next step in repealing rule protecting nearly 60 million acres of national forest land from logging & development
#RoadlessRule
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Pedestrian hit, killed in early-morning Route 50 crash in Anne Arundel A pedestrian was killed in a tragic early morning crash on Route 50 in Anne Arundel County. Troopers from the Maryland State Police responded to the scene, where a preliminary investigation revealed t...

Windshield bias from a Fox affiliate: "female pedestrian was struck by a vehicle." Implicitly attributing agency to vehicles they would never attribute to firearms.

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Workers are getting fired, placed on leave over Charlie Kirk posts Reactions to the conservative activist’s killing have become a litmus test for employers’ tolerance for political speech by employees, in public and private.

Conservative extremists only getting a catch-as-catch-can purge and not the violent pogrom they wanted.

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This is a good moment to read or reread Amy Knight's brilliant take on one of the most important assassinations of the 20th c.

UK fires ambassador to the US Peter Mandelson over his links to Jeffrey Epstein British Prime Minister Keir Starmer has fired the U.K’s ambassador to the United States, Peter Mandelson, over his links to the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer has fired Britain's ambassador to the US, Peter Mandelson, over links to Jeffrey Epstein

Dispersal, isolation and surveillance: Regime survival urbanisms in the 21st century | Request PDF Request PDF | Dispersal, isolation and surveillance: Regime survival urbanisms in the 21st century | The 21st century is witnessing massive and rapid urbanization, especially across the Global South. ...

Urban protest/riot is the primary revolutionary weapon and regimes have adopted three urbanisms in response:

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Dispersal, isolation and surveillance: Regime survival urbanisms in the 21st century | Request PDF Request PDF | Dispersal, isolation and surveillance: Regime survival urbanisms in the 21st century | The 21st century is witnessing massive and rapid urbanization, especially across the Global South. ...

Nepal has the attention of activists in 2025 as Bangladesh and Uganda did in 2024. Regimes around the planet have been implementing three urbanisms to protect themselves from protest turned riot since the mid-20th c. #Nepal www.researchgate.net/publication/...

Mamdani takes big lead in NYC mayoral race, new poll shows Forty-six percent of likely voters said they would vote for the democratic socialist in the race for the city's top seat.

Democratic Party Establishment once again unable to think beyond the same faces and ideas

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Street design in the French Quarter breaks every rule of transportation engineering. This curb radius is about 6', and the gallery columns are about 6" from the street. It's important to study seemingly impossible things & ask "why does this work?" & "are the rules wrong?"

a graph of year-on-year change in US blue collar employment

US blue-collar job growth has completely stagnated, hitting the lowest level since the onset of the pandemic—manufacturing is currently losing jobs at a rapid pace, and growth in construction/transportation has slowed to a crawl

Talks Between Adams and Trump Adviser Center on Saudi Ambassadorship

This is so perfectly corrupt I’m almost impressed.

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Ah America! The land of the free! 🙄

Putin and China's Xi heard on hot mic discussing life-prolonging organ transplants and immortality "Predictions are, in this century, it may be... possible to live to 150 years old," China's Xi Jinping mused to Vladimir Putin before a historic military parade in Beijing.

Fun to know that a vulgar transhumanism informs the musings of the two biggest dogs of authoritarian Asia. Also unsurprising. #Putin #Xi #globalpolitics

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Sask. RCMP raid 'Queen of Canada' cult compound, arrest 16 adults | CBC News For the past two years a former school in the Richmound, Sask., has been the home of Romana Didulo and her followers.

Has been a long time, too long, since Romana Didulo was in the news. Always entertaining.

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US builds up forces in Caribbean as officials, experts, ask why A large buildup of U.S. naval forces in and around the Southern Caribbean has officials in Caracas and experts in the United States asking: is the move aimed at combating drug cartels, as the Trump administration has suggested, or is it for something else entirely?

Almost every POTUS wages war. Trump wants a war just big enough to rally public opinion. Problems: 1) keeping the war small; 2) 'Rally Round the Flag Effect' isn't quite what it used to be. #peace #Venezuela #Maduro #Trump
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China and India pledge to be 'partners not rivals' at security summit Xi Jinping and Narendra Modi met on the sidelines of a summit that Russia's Vladimir Putin is also attending.

As the early 21st century's 'least of the great powers', India rationally values predictable relationships with other great powers. The USA under Trump is unpredictable.
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