"Homan…indicated he would facilitate securing contracts for them in exchange for money once he was in office.…On Sept. 20, 2024, with hidden cameras recording the scene at a meeting spot in Texas, Homan accepted $50,000 in bills" Reporting by @carolleonnig.bsky.social & @kendilanian-nbc.bsky.social

EXCLUSIVE: Tom Homan was investigated for accepting $50,000 from undercover FBI agents. Trump's DOJ shut it down.

Dutch late night TV has its take

Along the same lines, we need language for verbal political conflict other than just "disagreement." Kirk did not "disagree" with queer people, Black people and Jews, he explicitly argued that they should be suppressed and deprived of their rights through state power.

Jesse Watters has a lot of thoughts on men

Read my latest:

Another way to handle this would be, “The spokeswoman for DHS declined to go on the record. Our news organization does not provide anonymity to government spokespeople and thus we are unable to provide DHS’s response. We will be happy to update this story should DHS change its policy.”

And yet it turns out that to get a semantic engine geared toward coherence to produce output they otherwise find acceptable… you have to make it a Nazi.

"Many cities in the U.S. and Canada are developing bike networks. Expanding their scope to specifically include the needs of delivery workers and their bikes will result in more bike deliveries." Another reason Downtown Detroit needs a bike network & more bike parking. nacto.org/publication/...

I keep thinking about that video that @jamellebouie.net made right after the election about how people, particularly on the right, engage with politics through so many levels of irony that they don’t view it as real - that the idea of real policy and the consequences do not exist to them

the thing that periods of immense prosperity and growth have in common in the US and Europe is that they follow periods in which racist political factions were massacred and crushed

Average Democratic politician: Zohran Mamdani must answer for the Suez Crisis Average Democratic voter: <goes to a rally in the pouring rain and holds up a picture of the Nuremberg gallows with various Trump administration figures' faces glued on>

broke: LGBT is just liberal imperialism imposed on the unwashed masses woke: no it fucking isn’t bespoke: but maybe it should be

They’re all flash frozen at when they got rich which is why Bezos the perpetual second year hedge hire, Zuck is on his 30th junior year, and Elon Is Five

Gore winning 2000 means no Alito or Roberts. Clinton winning 2016 means no Kavanaugh, Gorsuch, or Barrett. A few thousand votes' difference means misery and terror for millions.

“How Plessy overplayed his hand … and lost”

Remarkable. MSNC: "I want to reiterate this has been 100% peaceful." Seconds later, LA County sheriffs start firing on the crowd. Yet again, "law enforcement" deliberately escalated.

From Rabbi @marisaelana.bsky.social: May Iranians, who mostly hate their leaders, be safe. May Palestinians, who mostly hate their leaders, be safe. May Israelis, who mostly hate their leaders, be safe. May all the war-mongering authoritarians be deposed & may they [yet] experience real justice..

More Americans voted for Senator Alex Padilla than for 48 of the 53 red state GOP U.S. Senators combined.

I told you we’d be back

2000: "both parties are the same" Result: 100,000+ Iraqi civilians dead 2016: "both parties are the same" Result: 1.2 million (and still rising) Americans dead from COVID 2024: "both parties are the same." Result: 300,000 (and still rising) worldwide dead b/c of illegal shuttering of USAID.

this is like drake and kendrick lamar but they're both drake

Millions of Americans will lose Medicaid and food assistance under Trump's proposed tax bill, all to pay for more tax breaks for billionaires who don't need them. #TrumpsBillWillKill

HAWLEY: Let's see the Trump chart. You don't think it's a little bit anomalous that Trump has so many more nationwide injunctions against him? KATE SHAW: A very plausible explanation you have to consider is that he's engaged in much more lawless activity than other presidents

After pleading guilty to tax crimes, Paul Walczak was set for prison and $4.4M in restitution. Then his pardon application noted how much money his mother had raised for Trump. Then she attended a $1M-per-person dinner at Mar-a-Lago. 3 weeks later, a full pardon. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/27/u...

Since I am officially a dad now I will be updating both my politics and posts accordingly. in: earnest climate posting cringe dad jokes that are somehow vaguely Leninist discussions of snack praxis out: doomerist takes sectarian squabbling commentary on anime with excessive fan service

it’s pretty remarkable how the Democratic Party is self-flagellating more in 2025 after swapping out their candidate and losing the popular vote by 1.5% than republicans did in 2021 after losing the popular vote by 4.5% and inciting an insurrection

There are lessons to be learned from our shared history. Right now, one is ringing loudest for me: Cowardice can be contagious, but so can courage. It’s time for us to step up and be courageous.

A new study shows that air cleaners can reduce up to 98,1 % of viral load in the air of a #COVID patient's room with confirmed positive airborne viral RNA. Rooms with HEPA ventilation had zero virus detected. 👏 #CleantheAir in hospitals and schools!👏 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Crazy how long this conversation has been going on

I suppose the New York Times will run daily stories on this until he resigns, unless Secretary of Defense is a less newsworthy job than a college administrator?

And why was Baraka there in the first place? Turns out the private prison facility is violating the law, but also unwilling to be served with legal process apple.news/AV9JgWB8fQq6...

I  know your goal is to try to make life as hard as possible for immigrants.

On April 24, ICE agents broke into a home of a family of US citizens in Oklahoma. The family repeatedly said we are citizens, you have the wrong people. ICE terrorized the family, ripped apart the house. It's not "other people" that this is happening to. It's us. Open your eyes. Wake the hell up.

These two paragraphs (by Sean McCreesh) are something:

Stephen Lynch, aiming to be top Dem on the Oversight Cmte, blew up at a constituent who asked him to oppose the GOP. "I get to decide that. I get to decide that. I get to decide that. I'm elected. I get to decide that. You wanna decide that? You need to run for Congress, okay? I get to decide that"

Booker: Do you think we got the right to vote for women because a bunch of men on the House floor got together and said “on the count of three, women get the right to vote..” That’s not how it happened… Change doesn’t come from Washington. It comes to Washington.

The ideal DC hero is a clean cop. The ideal Marvel hero is an ethical soldier.

Two Naval Academy faculty members have resigned, and 18 more have taken early retirement. One was offered a place of honor at the annual dedication parade. He declined, telling the academy’s superintendent:

"currency named after a guy, which exists for the sole purpose of bribing him" is a concept so unambiguously corrupt that it makes bothsidesism impossible, therefore the press ignores it

PhD Timeline xkcd.com/3081

Walz: "This is how government is supposed to work. It's not supposed to be one old man in the Oval Office sending out middle of the night tweets that shock markets into free fall. It's not supposed to be a bunch of 20 somethings unelected and firing everyone. It's not supposed to be chaos."

Walz: If you say you love freedom but you don't believe freedom is for everybody, then the thing you love is not freedom, it is privilege.