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It really is better to be rich and guilty than, poor and innocent in this criminal justice system.

For goodness sake. It's 5 pocket pants. I hope Costco gets ALL their costs and then some. people.com/lululemon-fi...

PLEASE tell me some of the evangelical MAGAs get it now. Mount Sinai...Golden Calf...ring any bells?? www.cnn.com/2025/07/01/p...

Reminder that Bezos's first wife (and Princeton grad), novelist MacKenzie Scott, has spent the years since her divorce committed giving away BILLIONS of dollars of her estate to community-focused nonprofits. A true icon. www.nytimes.com/2020/12/20/b...

Lovely. Pentagon Sends Hurricane Forecasters Scrambling After Suddenly Announcing Shutdown of Key Satellites share.google/u5Xgqi6dH6eK...

Impressive Congressional candidate, District currently represented by an R in an even District. Would love to see a blue wave bring him to DC. bsky.app/profile/mann... www.mannyforcolorado.com #MannyRutinel #CO8th

So you’re telling me it’s illegal in certain places to hand out a bottle of water to people waiting in line to vote but perfectly fine for people with assault rifles to stand there and stare people down. 😵‍💫 What kind of shit hole third world country have we become?!?

And these are the same snowflakes who couldn’t handle wearing a mask during the pandemic.

We supposedly don’t have money to feed the hungry but we have money for billionaire tax cuts, wars, and pointless parades. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/22/n...

The idea that we could perish, and the world could be populated by the buffoons on this plane... www.ndtv.com/world-news/u...

YIKES. $280 an hour is not very high, but this is a really bad look for the HHA and law firm. www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston...

It was the highlight of my week to be able to talk with these smart, talented folks for a bit. With news moving so fast, it's good to be able to take a minute to process the consequences for Houston. Take a listen! @raflemaitre.bsky.social @laurahtx.bsky.social houston.citycast.fm/podcasts/abb...

Politicians are not responsible for the violence committed by their supporters *only* when they have sought to avoid and discourage that violence. Donald Trump has failed to meet that bar.

This is the last post that Representative Hortman made before she was assassinated.

You probably don’t care what random Bluesky leftists think of you But ever think about how your grandkids will one day read about this era, see you fawning over Trump or sneering about protesters, and just disown you in embarrassment?

A reminder to reporters, when historians look back on this moment with the president throwing himself a military parade and the people throwing No Kings rallies across America, the media sources raving about the former and sneering at the latter are going to be quoted by name. This is your legacy!

NEWSOM: "It's a vulgar display. It's the kind of thing you see with Kim Jong Un, Putin, dictators that are weak… How weak do you have to be to commandeer the military for your birthday?“

NEW: U.S. agents suspected Trump ally Bukele and some in his inner circle of diverting USAID funds to MS-13 leaders. Agents sought to review any U.S. bank accounts held by 15 Salvadoran political figures including Bukele, other senior officials and their relatives. @propublica.org

Oh man, this is nuts reporting. “Federal agents came to suspect that Bukele…had diverted U.S. aid funds to the gang as part of the alleged deal to provide it with money and power in exchange for votes…”

BREAKING: A few minutes ago, a vehicle of three people was rammed by a truck belonging to federal immigration authorities in Boyle Heights, CA. According to security footage shown to me, they deployed chemical munitions & detained the driver at gunpoint. All are US citizens according to the wife.

It has been decided.

We don't get nearly enough cultural representation in our local paper given that Latinos make up over 44% of our community, but this piece is a great read by @joysewing.bsky.social www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston...

Now this is funny. www.newsweek.com/russia-offer...

In the ACA fight, Pelosi noted there were so many rumors that "we have to pass the bill, so that you can find out what is in it." Republicans lied and pretended she'd said "so WE can find out what's in it" and then acted outraged. And yet now they're doing the thing they falsely accused her of.

I'm about to walk into a 2 hour 5th grade graduation. Pray for me.

Great news! Congratulations @evan7257.bsky.social ! www.houstonchronicle.com/about/newsro...

President Trump is a virile manly man who bestrides the world like a colossus but he’s also just a poor little guy who gets his feelings hurt when the teevee says mean things

Vile.

It brings me such a deep sense of sadness that my child now goes to a school with a metal detector. We were spared for 9 years, but here we are, 3 years before graduation.

"I begged my local library to reopen in March of 2020, but they waited until May or June, so I'm glad they're now going to lose funding and possibly have to close forever for unrelated and objectively evil reasons"

As the trial begins, I keep thinking of the saying "it is better to be guilty and rich than innocent and poor." The defense strategy to admit that Diddy is a domestic abuser, but NOT a trafficker is incredibly risky. I guess we'll see how true that saying is.

There was an old tweet that stuck with me: "If you can easily walk to the coffee shop but your barista has a one hour commute, you don't live in a walkable 15 minute city; you live in a theme park"

Loss of white privilege should not be a criteria for fast-tracked asylum.

These are people who put their lives on the line for our troops and our missions. I’ve met some of them. This is unconscionable.

I'm gonna need the VP to stay far, far, far away from our new pope.

The May 8 edition of @thelatinonewsletter.org is opinion from Boston City Councilor Enrique J. Pepén We Don’t Censor Students in Boston, Even if It Costs Us What 826 Boston’s stand says about this moment for education

"Leaders of influential hospitals in Dallas empowered doctors to intervene before patients’ conditions worsened, allowing them to induce deliveries or perform procedures to empty the uterus. In Houston, most did not." www.propublica.org/article/texa...

taking off my TARIFF EXPERT hat to put on my INDIA PAKISTAN EXPERT hat

Breaking News: India said it had conducted strikes on Pakistan, two weeks after militants killed more than 24 civilians in Indian-controlled Kashmir.

It's a big room with a bunch of cots, blankets and pillows.

Lunch time. www.houstonchronicle.com/projects/202...

Why you should buy all of your spices from Penzeys www.penzeys.com

🔥 BREAKING: Bristol Myers Squibb shareholders voted today to reject two anti-DEI proposals. One of the proposals called on BMS to "Cease DEI Efforts," and was rejected by shareholder vote 97-2 percent (1% abstained). BMS Board supports "our culture of inclusion" and "all decisions are merit-based."

The masked ICE agents are in DC today, as rumored, whisking people off the street while covering their faces completely.

Again, I cannot stress enough how wild it is to see LA County not just kinda admitting but actually arguing that its own former sheriff and a former LASD detective were targeting critics with a "hit squad" they are now arguing was all at the former sheriff's bidding:

Strong anti-GOP results from yesterday's races in Texas. Hopeful for midterms.

I'd give good money for a 24 hour reality TV show where a panel of US voting Trump supporters reacted to the absolutely unhinged things this President has said. Real time. Extra if they were made to defend this nonsense.

Texas conservatives who've championed book bans & anti-LGBT policies suffered big losses tonight in school board races. And They seem to have lost their working majorities to pass their policies in big school boards. I tracked these results in FOUR boards tonight. So a 🧵 on each ICYMI.