Here's a YouTube of the people Trump was complaining about, who spit on cops. Trump pardoned all of them.

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Going on vacation tomorrow so spent Saturday night making maps of all the places in Ohio, West Virginia and South Carolina with higher violent crime and murder rates than D.C. Perhaps better places for those governors to focus resources!
https://www.pbump.net/o/more-people-in-ohio-need-protection-from-violent-crime-than-do-people-in-d-c/

Remember "facts don't care about your feelings"? Turns out that, too, was pure projection. The entire Republican governing project at the moment is devoted to addressing the baseless fears of conservative cowards.

Trump sending ICE agents to Newsom’s press conference is thuggish totalitarian behavior, but more than that it’s deeply pathetic, insecure, and petty.

@newyorktimes @most-emailed-newyorktimes Beyond parody.

Some editor at The Times looked at their own home page today and decided fifteen minutes ago “yes, let’s promote the idea that Trump is a powerfully good negotiator.”

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@acdha I guarantee there’s an electronic copy on that computer of every document printed in the past week & possibly longer.

On a stay last year I went to print something in the hotel business center & afterward went looking for the file to delete it. Was completely horrified at how much stuff people had left e-lying around.

“At around 9 a.m. on Friday, three guests at Hotel Captain Cook, a four-star hotel located 20 minutes from the Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson in Anchorage where leaders from the U.S. and Russia convened, found the documents left behind in one of the hotel's public printers. NPR reviewed photos of the documents taken by one of the guests, who NPR agreed not to identify because the guest said they feared retaliation.”
https://www.npr.org/2025/08/16/nx-s1-5504196/trump-putin-summit-documents-left-behind

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/15/us/politics/judge-hearing-dc-home-rule.html

Useful tracker for Redistrictingpalooza https://votehub.com/2025/08/15/2025-redistricting/

...I mean, Commissioner of Labor Statistics nominee E.J. Antoni thinks the Nazi battleship Bismarck "in all its glory" is what he wants behind him on his video calls. That is definitely an ethos, of a sort. And the message he is sending is definitely received. The last thing the Bismarck transmitted was: "We will fight to the last shell! Long live the Führer!"

If you want a picture of a WWII battleship that performed its mission impressively while in serious harm’s way, you want the U.S.S... 2/

"This seems to be a core emotion of modern conservatism: wallowing in terror of largely imaginary dangers." prospect.org/justice/2025...

Why Republicans Are Terrified ...

"I think on some level, conservatives know perfectly well that liberal American cities are quite safe. That’s why they have to work themselves into such paroxysms of hysterical cowardice—to give themselves permission to inflict violence on the Americans they hate." prospect.org/justice/2025...

Why Republicans Are Terrified ...

Some good news. Judge calls out that senior FTC staffers (who double as shitposters) had tweeted about how much they hated Media Matters, which undermined the claims that this was just an ordinary investigation, and not punishment for speech.

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More than 500 humanoid robots compete in first world games in China https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/video/9.6868696

@joebeone In related news: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/ouate_de_phoque#French

@kcivey omg what craven BS from them

Hi Issa.

‪Politico‬:

EXCLUSIVE: Leaked chart reveals winners and losers in California’s Democratic gerrymander.

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/08/14/leaked-chart-reveals-winners-and-losers-in-californias-democratic-gerrymander-00510363

@jalefkowit Impressive self-own by the aggressor nation.