WOW: A stunning new report in the WSJ reveals that military advisers intentionally excluded Donald Trump from the command room during the recent high-stakes operation to extract a downed U.S. airman in Iran, because they feared his erratic behavior could jeopardize the mission. 1/
Donald Trump posted dozens of late-night, incoherent messages about the 2020 election while tensions with Iran escalated. Serious questions about his mental state continue to grow.
Trump is reportedly being sidelined by his own military leaders amid escalating tensions with Iran.
As he renews war crime threats against Iranian civilian infrastructure and claims of a “deal” fall apart, Iran has closed the Strait of Hormuz and says, as of now, they plan to skip any talks.
Alt text: Screenshot of a post on X (formerly Twitter) by Abdulkhaleq Abdulla (@Abdulkhaleq_UAE), with a verified badge. The post reads: “This is what I told Reuters today: The UAE no longer needs America to defend it, as it has proven during the Iranian aggression that it is capable of defending itself with distinction. What the UAE needs is to acquire only the best and latest weapons that America has. Therefore, it is time to think about closing the American bases, as they are a burden and not a strategic asset.” The post is labeled “Translated from Arabic by Grok” and shows a timestamp of 10:21 AM · 4/19/26 with 139K views.
NEW: UAE scholar Abdulkhaleq Abdulla says the UAE no longer needs U.S. protection, calling American bases a “burden, not a strategic asset” and suggesting they should be closed. The United States’ standing in the region has been obliterated.
"Too cheap to meter".
That was a phrase coined by Atomic Energy Commissioner in 1954.
NOPE.
Nuclear energy is neither cheap nor safe.
We're due for another round of suspicious trading very soon.
The government just built a domestic surveillance machine in every state by executive order. There’s a .gov website bragging about it. This is what parallel construction is and why it matters.
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WATCH: Researchers at Stanford University modeled how many people could die or be disabled in 25 years if vaccines for polio, measles, rubella or diphtheria were no longer available.
Dayton show tonight.
American journalists have a lot to learn from Scotland.
I beg to differ. I contend that Gordon got all 3 words wrong. The third word may be what he intended to convey but I contend that it is actually inaccurate rising to the level of being wrong.
Political show August 15th in Minneapolis with Walter Masterson.
Firstly, morans?
Secondly, he must think very poorly of Donald Trump. Afterall, name calling is Donald Trump's substitute for competency.
NY & NJ shows coming up.
Big New York state tour coming up.
Albany, Syracuse, and Buffalo shows.
Shows coming up in Ann Arbor, Lansing, and Grand Rapids.
Israel's supreme court ruled that the government is starving prisoners.
In response, Benjamin Netanyahu continued being the same corrupt fascist asshole he's always been.
National Guard is now tasked with picking up garbage in DC
About 90 VA staffers in the Texas region turned down job offers “due to the uncertainty of reorganization,” officials wrote.
What’s more, low morale was causing existing employees to not recommend working at the medical centers, they added.
Greystar was using rent-setting algorithms from software company RealPage, the subject of a 2022 ProPublica investigation that showed the firm was helping landlords decide prices in a way that legal experts said could result in cartel-like behavior.
By @heathervogell.bsky.social
In 2022, after years of violations, the FDA imposed its toughest penalty on global drugmaker Sun Pharma: banning one of its factories from shipping drugs to the U.S.
But the agency undercut its own decision by quickly exempting more than a dozen drugs from the ban.
A top Democrat on the oversight committee requested that wildland firefighter vacancies be accounted for following ProPublica reporting that showed thousands of vacant jobs at the Forest Service, hampering its ability to fight wildfires.
By @abestreep.bsky.social
North Dakota does not regulate the costs that oil companies can pass on to the people they lease drilling rights from, even though the state does not allow such deductions for government-owned land.
“It’s kind of all rigged,” one royalty owner said.
With @northdakotamonitor.com
After the IRS said it would allow religious leaders to endorse candidates, @fortworthreport.bsky.social identified at least three churches in Texas whose leaders openly praised the IRS decision.
The Trump administration’s slashing of budgets and staff have Great Lakes scientists concerned that they have lost the ability to protect the public from toxic algal blooms, which can kill animals and sicken people.
(Published May)
ProPublica identified 95 Facebook pages that regularly post made-up headlines designed to draw engagement — and, often, stoke political divisions.
The pages, most of which are managed by people overseas, have a total of more than 7.7M followers.
(Published Feb.)
Farmers are dying by suicide at the third-highest rate by vocation in Utah.
But after a federal program offering mental health support ran out of money, the state did not continue it.
(Published April w/ @sltrib.com)
8/ Then came Cavanaugh’s turn. The United States Institute of Peace, he told the assembled men, was making payments to a contractor associated with the Taliban.
As he spoke, the chyron at the bottom of the screen read: “THE TALIBAN GETS DOGED.”
