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ROSIE: “.. A special hello to those of you watching from home and from the White House. I do have some bad news for President Petty Roosevelt. That's all I'm gonna say about you tonight sweetheart. You got to realize it's time to hang up your wig and let Natalie tuck you in.” $DIS

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BREAKING: we are going back to court in the Kennedy Center case to STOP the flagrant violation of the courts order preventing renaming @democracydefendersaction.org & Washington Litigation Group are proud to represent @repbeatty.bsky.social to protect this treasured memorial  Our brief is here 👇

(CNN) - The US Navy is working to rename an aircraft carrier under construction that was set to honor a Black sailor hailed for his heroic actions during .. Pearl Harbor .. .. there have been internal conversation about renaming it to honor Trump.” @halbritz.bsky.social www.cnn.com/2026/08/20/p...

Unspeakably disgraceful. Doris Miller was a mess attendant -- the only jobs open to Black sailors -- who won the Navy Cross at Pearl Harbor. With this, and reports USN leaders are considering changing the design of aircraft carriers *because Trump said so* -- the Navy is dishonoring itself.

Schiff:

AP has called Tuesday's special election in a Pennsylvania state House district for Democrat Brandon Dukes. This is a FLIP for Dems. Their 6th so far in 2026 (and in the reddest district so far, this one was +18% Trump), and their 31st since January 2025. The GOP has flipped 0 seat in that period.

Apparently, some folks still want to do business in California. 👀 @wsj.com www.wsj.com/tech/ai/cali...

Page One: @wsj.com

Ossoff should give a bunch more speeches, bc this shit is wack.

“It’s Déjà vu all over again” Rep Joyce Beatty (D-OH) files emergency motion asking court to block Trump acolytes on Kennedy Center board from their latest attempt to add Trump’s name to facility

JUST IN: DHS is responsible for dangerous and unsanitary conditions at at California's Adelanto ICE facility, even though it is managed day-to-day by the GEO Group, the 9th Circuit rules. 3 judge panel declines to stay lower-court order for monitors. www.documentcloud.org/documents/28...

ING with the obligatory Titanic reference. 🚢 @fortune.com fortune.com/2026/08/20/s...

Foodborne Illness of the Day: www.dailymail.com/health/artic...

So 1. Hrs right. There is nothing magic about $40 trillion. It’s just a number. 2. He’s delusional. He’s paying >5.2% to borrow at 30 years. GDP grew 1.5% in Q2. His math isn’t mathing.

SMACKDOWN! AG Bonta brilliantly explains why the Paramount/Warners mega-merger violates anti-trust law & why he will not be swayed until that is addressed Paramount’s PR surge is backfiring

NEW: An undercover ICE agent’s dropped recording device revealed a purported operation that religious groups say violates a court order barring most immigration enforcement in/near churches. Now the groups want ICE held in contempt. w/ @joshgerstein.bsky.social www.politico.com/news/2026/08...

WSJ tees up the Ultimate Humiliation. @wsj.com www.wsj.com/world/asia/t...

Zero new NSF grants in sociology, anthropology, political science and economics. The agenda of this US govt is to stop documenting the society in which we live while they are destroying it. We will find other ways to track and explain our times and fight to restore our research funding.

NEW: ABC Television notifies federal judge in DC they’d like a hearing as early as TOMORROW to argue for a temporary restraining order to halt Trump’s FCC from its onerous early license review of ABC TV stations

Governor Abbott's new claim in the Minnesota/ICE extradition case is that his office is looking into whether Castro "is a fugitive." One problem: #SCOTUS has held—over and over again—that governors in the "asylum" state don't have *any* discretion to make that kind of determination for themselves:

Your own Juggalo Jesus

Wow, Cook moves #IAsen and #TXsen to Toss Up: 👀

For all the GOPs who actually think Dems are saying Harp & Trump are fucking, they're not. We can clear that up. They're saying she's his emotional support blanket. He's a praise & sycophancy junkie on his last legs. And he needs the heroin of fangirls 24/7. And that's Natalie.

“He wants to build his ballroom and travel with Natalie…” FACT CHECK: True.

Blueberries. Lettuce. Eye drops. #RecallNation @cbsnews.com www.cbsnews.com/news/clear-e...

Aisha Wahab is heading to D.C. & will replace Eric Swalwell: AP just called the #CA14 special election for her. Wahab faced heavy spending from AIPAC in the final stretch of the race, as well as attacks over her support for criminal justice reforms by her opponent.

We didn't drop enough bombs on Iranian schoolgirls, Republicans say.

“.. When you're trying to sell your bonds to the market, it's you who has to understand the market, not the market that has to understand you.” @dow.bsky.social

(Reuters) - Walmart missed quarterly comparable sales expectations for the first time in at least five years on Thursday as shoppers pulled back on spending in the face of rising gas prices, sending its shares down 6% in premarket trading. @reuters.com $WMT

Under Trump, frozen blueberries can now kill you while his health secretary is busy dicking around making expensive salmon cakes on his new TV show. www.cbsnews.com/news/blueber...

A judge in Oregon has enjoined the Trump administration from conditioning dissaster relief funding on policy demands: "It is hard to imagine the connection between the use of preferred pronouns and the fires currently burning through central Oregon" storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just. www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

Sometimes when I read criticism of Bluesky I’m like wow we really all do live on different internets. Hostile to AI? That applies to the userbase of every single social media platform I’m on lol

It's Day 577, and the "Day 1" people are still blaming Biden.

Wondering why data centers are as unpopular as nuclear waste? It's not the data centers. The problem is both more obvious and more fundamental: The daily lived experience of the AI boom sucks. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/ai-is-maki...

January: “HELP IS ON ITS WAY.” August: “MOST CRUSHING ECONOMIC OPERATION EVER TAKEN”

WSJ nails it on the ballroom issue: “.. What happens when a boundary-pushing president moves faster than courts can keep up?” @wsj.com www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

Didn’t age well. Bond market probably wishes it had. [Oct 2024] #DOGE news.bitcoin.com/elon-musks-d...

Four-byline alert: 🚨 “.. He’s in a situation that he can’t get out of — and unlike so many other things that Trump has gotten himself into, he cannot get bailed out.” @washingtonpost.com www.washingtonpost.com/world/2026/0...

2016: “.. How do you renegotiate the debt?” O’Donnell followed up. “You go back and you say, hey guess what, the economy crashed,” Trump replied. “I’m going to give you back half.” @politico.com www.politico.com/story/2016/0...

I know, you have to do constant-dollar calculations. But: -Under Jimmy Carter, *total* accrued federal debt was about 2/3 trillion (vs 40+) -Yearly budget deficit for whole fed govt, which caused "alarm" and belt-tightening, was around $60 billion. Or about first two months of war-by-whim in Iran

this is ... in a narrow sense, accurate. but it is only another way of saying that one of the "benefits" of immigration crackdowns is reduced economic growth. So ... yay?

Judge set deadline for TODAY for ABC TV & Trump Admin to make new filings & establish deadlines - in ABC’s new, blistering lawsuit vs. FCC ABC argues the FCC is unfairly & unlawfully “coercing and retaliating against a network that refuses to bow to the Admin.’s demands.”

Alaska's GOP governor earlier this year vetoed a bill that would have set limits to individual campaign donations. Then what happened? Voters on Tuesday approved a citizen-led ballot initiative that institutes very similar reforms. By a 40%+ margin.

The Kennedy Center board of trustees - which is stocked with Trump acolytes - ain't subtle with its latest resolution Nor is it humble

".. it’s become a “pretty universal topic," he said. "You literally can’t turn on the TV or radio without hearing about it. It’s really an issue that’s uniting people across political and cultural spectrums.” @cnbc.com #DataCenters www.cnbc.com/2026/08/20/a...

Friday’s Page One: @financialtimes.com

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“..His strategy clearly is to change the reality on the ground so that instead of preserving the status quo, those who rightly invoke the law against what he’s doing are put in a position of having to undo something that is already a fait accompli.” @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/08/18/u...

$WMT @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/08/20/b...

Is it bad sign that many Americans can’t afford groceries and those that can afford groceries risk dying if they buy the wrong ones?

I guess the silver lining here is that a lot of people are about to know who Doris Miller is if they didn’t already en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doris_M...

The core problem is malicious people manipulating ignorant people, and such a situation requires the exact opposite of sympathy, which inherently acknowledges the validity of the malicious position. The situation requires shame: "You are all grifting liars who are killing children."

So the president probably has a stalker who is right next to him all the time. Upside: he’s a jerk who has this stalker largely because he’s a narcissist who would mistake stalker for a fan, feels karmic Downside: she has no security clearance and he probably tells her everything because narcissist

DHS GC James Percival spends his workday litigating in front of fed. district judges & he spends his evenings ranking them online DHS calls that "nothing more than a factual review." Judges asked him to stop & he escalated instead @bloomberglaw.com on our complaint👇 -TN

NEW: The GOP has put two nearly-identical measures on the ballot in North Dakota and South Dakota. Both would raise the threshold for future amendments from 50 to 60%. This comes as ballot measures in both states have been successfully used to get around GOP lawmakers — e.g. to expand Medicaid.

* EXCLUSIVE - UEFA, AFC AND CONCACAF DISCUSS POSSIBLE NO-CONFIDENCE VOTE IN BID TO OUST FIFA PRESIDENT INFANTINO -- SOURCES @reuters.com #ETTD

JUST FILED: Amid gaffes, probes and unsatisfying fundraising … GOP candidates learn Trump’s endorsement is no longer a silver bullet youtu.be/TLqafDLlDKY

Abbott has no plausible legal basis for opposing Minnesota's demand. The bigger issue is the timing—"the distinct possibility that Abbott ... is not trying to win, but rather is trying to run out the clock, which may expire as soon as next Wednesday." Me on the Minnesota/Texas ICE extradition mess:

(FreightWaves) - Layoffs and facility closures are mounting across U.S. freight, distribution and manufacturing networks, with more than 7,000 jobs affected by recently announced workforce reductions .. @scottlincicome.bsky.social $FDX $TSN www.freightwaves.com/news/freight...

CHRISTENSEN: At 5%, nearly a third of US tax receipts will go toward paying interest on the debt. marketmonetarist.com

NEW: Federal judge has ordered Trump Administration to respond by Sept 3 to the new legal challenge from ABC Television, which seeks a temporary restraining order against the FCC's onerous review of ABC TV stations Probe was launched amid Trump complaints about ABC

NEW: For the second day, the Census Bureau's homepage, census.gov, features an unauthored report with analysis that @npr.org found was conducted not by career civil servants, but a team that included individuals affiliated with a President Trump-aligned think tank, the America First Policy Institute

"The Bureau of Land Management, the agency in charge of protecting wild horses, is quietly selling thousands of horses to ... be exported alive, processed into cuts of meat and sold abroad." www.nytimes.com/2026/08/20/u...

* US debt-interest expense: $1.06 trillion * Implied expense at 5.0%: $1.57 trillion (via Yardeni) @mikezaccardi.bsky.social

“.. columns carved in Italy ..” @cbsnews.com www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-k...

An earthquake in the midterm election forecasts Texas and Iowa US Senate races shift to “toss ups” US House battlefield expands too Just filed ===> youtu.be/LbvjTNrsVWk?...

As expected NKs respond to Trumps fluff overture by treating him like an obedient little bitch apnews.com/article/sout...

All my life, I've been reading "California is so, so over" stories. And I've been around a long time!

“Trump’s party is willing to spend $17 billion to fund a white elephant wunderwaffen that everyone knows is a boondoggle just to humor him and avoid his wrath, even as the country is losing a war.” newrepublic.com/article/2144...

“.. a teeny, tiny stick.” 👀 @financialtimes.com www.ft.com/content/150a...

Here's something to keep on your radar screen. State AGs are using state antitrust law to prevent the Paramount/Warner Bros merger. They are working to keep additional media outlets from being Trumped!

“I have been in the same room with Elon, and he always tries to be funny. & he’s not funny. Like, at all,” says a senior Trump administration official. “He makes these jokes & little asides and smiles and then looks almost hurt if you don’t lap up his humor. I keep using the word ‘annoying’; a lot…

you may not care about the global rules-based order but it cares about you

Puppies for Talarico event is full of hot dogs. Note the bootleg merch time to start flipping tables shirt on golden Jax, who is the goodest boy and would def not flip tables unless expressly asked to. /1

JUST FILED: A deadline day for ABC TV's suit vs. Trump Admin Democratic campaign operatives widen battlefield to Kentucky State suffering worst from RFK Jr-inspired vaccine hesitancy Trump debt nightmare scenario More enterprise reporting here: macfarlanenews.substack.com/p/day-ahead-...

Stop me if you've heard this before, but not all heroes wear capes

SCHWAB: “.. The 10y Treasury yield has clawed back all of its post-buyback announcement decline, while the US dollar has continued to decline.” 👀 #Twist

IP: “.. investors no longer flee to the safety of Treasurys during stress periods as they once did. .. All of this, he argues, shows Treasurys are seen as less safe.” @wsj.com www.wsj.com/finance/inve...

Post-Amber Heard, if you’re a woman on trial in a high-profile case with cameras in the room, you can look forward to thousands of people on TikTok analyzing your every facial expression and move to determine you’re actually a lying psychopath

“.. its latest move to blunt fuel costs and supply concerns stoked by the war in Iran.” @bloomberg.com ⛽️ www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

They were asking u to speak English

“.. a slew of unexpected maneuvers this year, .. putting his credibility on the line in an effort to quell a potentially damaging rise in US borrowing costs.” @bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

communism. must be stopped. also Sharia

Costco, I love you, but this is obscene.

"The US Navy is working to rename an aircraft carrier under construction that was set to honor a Black sailor hailed for his heroic actions during the attack on Pearl Harbor ... there have been internal conversations about renaming it to honor Trump." www.cnn.com/2026/08/20/p...

is it possible that the president being an infantile freak and personally running the whole government and breaking the international financial system while installing a toady to run the fed might be playing a role?

NEW: Cole Allen, defendant in White House Correspondents Dinner shooting, appears in court at 10am Defense has asked judge to permit Allen to appear *unshackled* in court Why would he be physically restrained? Seems there was an incident in different case recently ====>

Trump was president when the Navy held a ceremony to announce the ship would be named after Doris Miller. Here's the Navy press release from January 2020: www.navy.mil/Press-Office... Trump 2 is far worse than Trump 1.

Good for Angie Nixon. Gayle King and CBS owe her more of an apology for this (the way she went back for a follow-up, after knowing she was wrong).

Trump never said "I just wish her well" about Marimar Martinez, the Chicago woman shot 5 times by Homeland Security in an incident that the feds blatantly lied about. But Trump did say "I just wish her well" about sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell.

BESPOKE: “.. This will be Walmart's sixth decline on its last seven earnings reaction days dating back to its first report of last year. If its 9% drop today holds, it will be its worst one-day drop on earnings since it fell 11.4% on 5/17/22.” $WMT

JPMORGAN: ".. Absent real fiscal consolidation, we fear the markets will view this action as lacking credibility. .. This could contribute to higher term premium and yields over time should Treasury become more opportunistic .." @bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

“.. it highlights the pitfalls of elevating candidates with no political experience primarily because they are descendants or relatives of other elected officials.” @washingtonpost.com #SCsen www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Ten weeks to the midterms, & plenty worth talking through that isn't making the front page yet I'll get into it on The Weeknight @ms.now at 7:20 ET 👇 -TN

re: the Ossoffmentum National media boomlet: this was the argument Obama staff made in the earliest moments of the 08 primary when Hillary looked inevitable; he may be trailing but look at his approval rating, like 90 percent or w/e, among people *who know who he is* Team Ossoff seems clearly on…

one of the most notorious ICE-boosting sheriffs (way before Trump) is facing a challenge in November that i want many people to know about, so allow me to reshare this occasionally! boltsmag.org/alamance-cou...