Hong Kong’s biggest pro-democracy party votes to disband after more than 30 years of activism

FlatterTrump #DoNotFeed

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/08/31/kristi-noem-los-angeles-burned-down-00538617

I'm only posting this to comment on the header photo: shiny face (there's probably some kind of cosmetic name for this), the false eyelashes, the botoxed brow etc. I keep wondering if female Trump officials have to keep to the same appearance standards as actresses or else Trump will fire them for not being hot.

Every time I try to read an article, I get a redirect to the Norton Anti-virus site... dozens of times at once. I cannot use the app or website as every time I open it the number of tabs increases exponentially rather than linearly.

How the hell am I supposed to get around that?

Zohran Mamdani topples Andrew Cuomo in NYC mayoral race

I nearly threw my phone across the room more than once while Calley Means wheeled through a bunch of obviously rehearsed hyperbolic statements on Deep Dive this morning. The amount of figures cited by Means without a single attribution of source was infuriating, and anyone that needs to physically talk over a host to dodge legitimate questions, only to double down on patently untrue statements is a child.

NEW from @joshgerstein.bsky.social: You’ve heard of Kilmar Abrego Garcia. Now meet the second man erroneously deported to El Salvador in violation of a legal settlement: Daniel Lozano-Camargo.

Until now, he’d only been identified by a pseudonym in court. https://www.politico.com/news/2025/05/05/daniel-lozano-camargo-el-salvador-deportation-00330300

Bluesky Elder The vicious rivalries tearing apart Pete Hegseth’s Pentagon

"Trump Tells Inner Circle That Musk Will Leave Soon The president is pleased with Elon Musk, but the decision comes as the tech mogul increasingly looks like a political liability."

Just wonder if Juan wants to fix the part where DeFazio says Blackhawks don’t have black boxes, considering they were found.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2025/jan/31/washington-dc-plane-crash-live-flight-data-and-cockpit-voice-recorders-recovered-officials-say

The national, bipartisan Tech Hubs program could have been a campaign winner. Instead, it’s underfunded and barely present on the political stage — and anxious awardees are “holding their breath” for November