I say it often but once again: By granting them borrowing privileges and protecting their privacy, public libraries afford children a form of civic standing and respect that has few parallels in our “free” society, which mostly treats children as chattel. Vociferously defend public libraries. 📚

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Members of Congress should not be able to trade individual shares of stocks. No ifs, ands, or buts. We vote on laws that move markets. We receive briefings the public never sees. We should not be able to use that position to profit from the industries we regulate.

Some Sunday Black Boy Joy

CBS staff, you have one job and that is to incept Bari Weiss into believing she can win over Isaac Chotiner.

The woman who did this should be prosecuted and shunned by decent people for the rest of her life.

I assimilated all the way to Congress and this idiot still tells me to go back where I came from.

Anyone not running on reforming the Supreme Court cant be the leader of anything moving forward. It's an unhinged gang of extremists unrestrained by anything or anyone.

Trump is having tourists arrested over imaginary vandalism.

It takes 1.28 seconds for a message to reach us from the Moon. It takes as little as 35 minutes from Jupiter. It takes as little as 4.5 hours from Pluto. It takes at least 6-12 months from NYT reporters, plus $35 for the book containing it.

Dear @democrats.org: Remember how excited we were, across the country, when Mamdani won? And you know how we keep droning on and on and on (and on and on and on) about wanting to see a lot more of the kind of politics he represents? MAYBE YOU SHOULD START LISTENING.

The vandal is the same person who demolished part of the Whitehouse and glued fake gold crap everywhere…

Photo Monday. My moment of zen from this weekend, taken at the Fabyan Villa Japanese Garden. OM-5, 8-25mm f/4. ISO 200, f/4, 1/500s #photography #garden

To all farm worker fathers: Thank you for your hard work, sacrifice and love. Your dedication strengthens your families and feeds our nation. ¡Feliz Día del Padre! #FathersDay

Same office that covered up prosecutor's crimes in the Broadview Six case just covered up a police shooting. Feds said a teen beat up a cop before he's shot. They have clear video evidence showing the kid just squirmed away from him. They hid it from the judge. Judge just set a sanctions hearing.

I’m sorry, no. This is not the guy who did the reflecting pool. No. Come on. We’re just putting a hat on a hat here. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/18/u...

the business is called what a what now sorry

Mamdani's NYC: 1st Ave has traffic lights synched with cycling (= legal car) speeds. NYPD no longer just ignores 311 pings about illegally parked cars. No more parked cars within 20ft of Lafayette & Bleecker intersection. … Improving NYC, one tiny, logical step at a time. Thanks, @mayor.nyc.gov

“You dismissed charges because of prosecutor misconduct a 2nd time?”

Buttigieg: We sit in a in a country that's got the wrong number of people on the Supreme Court, possibly the wrong number of representatives in the House of Representatives. And by the way, when you consider the disenfranchisement of the people of DC, we have the wrong number of states in the US

From car wasteland to one of the best examples of urbanism in the world. 20 years.

The SpaceX IPO is a telegraphed rugpull for insiders to cash out, especially the underwater investors in xAI and Twitter that are now somehow part of the rocket company. I'm staying far far away from this.

The pedestrianization of Broadway through the heart of Manhattan just expanded, and it's glorious:

"France passed a single law and instantly unlocked 11 gigawatts of #solarenergy — without using new land. In 2023, France's government mandated solar canopies over all car parks larger than 80 spaces. The scale was enormous: There are 400,000 parking areas across France #ActOnClimate #Renewables

After consulting with my attorney I’ve been advised that what I actually want to say about this would be ill-advised so I’ll just say that he couldn’t possibly be clearer about which side of D-Day he’s identifying with

It's funny how the pitch for SpaceX is domination of the global AI business but the company's primary business (~60% of revenue going forward) is leasing its GPUs to Anthropic and Google at a discount because nobody wants to use Musk's MechaHitler AI.

There’s been a lot of talk in this race about what makes a "real man." A man does what’s right when no one is watching. He upholds his commitments to his family and neighbors. He doesn’t lie, cheat, & steal his way through life. Real men serve others. Weak men serve themselves.

Note to media: police arresting peaceful protesters singing “give peace a chance” is not protesters “clashing” with police. It’s the state violating the First Amendment rights of people upset that human beings who did nothing illegal are being held without due process and being fed maggots.

Cops busting through a barricade that they set up is pretty tough to misinterpret.

Holy - look at this. On May 26th, someone opened nearly 5,000 contracts of the drone maker Unusual Machines, #$UMAC, $20 calls expiring 7/17/2026. Then literally YESTERDAY, the Pentagon reported possible stakes in the industry. These contracts hit a 570% gain. Unusual.

This is Ken Paxton's mugshot. He was indicted on 3 felony counts for investment fraud. He was reported to the FBI by his own staff for bribery. He was impeached by his own party for corruption. Now he’s the Republican nominee for US Senate in Texas. Together we will stop him.

The USPS ran a contest and had people vote on 25 previously issued postage stamps, and whichever one won would be reissued. Mister Rogers won. I'mna cry.

The word "hero" gets thrown around a lot. But it's clear the attack on the San Diego Islamic Center yesterday could have been SO much worse. 140 children were feet away from the attackers. Security guard Amin Abdullah engaged these cowards in a gunfight, and they ran away.

daaaamn london

Holy moly this has been bugging me for weeks because I couldn't place Altman and yup. Nailed it. The resemblance is way deeper than mere appearance.

The White House is the people's house, and this country belongs to all of us. Let's make sure Donald Trump and his cronies know so, too.

I can say this for Alito his ability to be pissy little bitch is unrivaled peerless in the little bitch field

"Y'all are in a death spiral. That's why you have to redistrict. That's why you have to cheat." Watch this man.

Ending Reconstruction before hanging every Confederate was a mistake

Abolish ICE in its entirety and deny everyone working for them any future government employment.

Abolitionist John Brown was born May 9, 1800.

its true that i dont understand how the supreme court operates. for example do you get the free RV and house for your mom before or after issuing favorable rulings? is it a *wink wink* deal or more explicit? these are the things the general public doesnt understand

Courts had deemed Republican gerrymanders illegal in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, and Ohio several months before the 2022 elections. The Supreme Court and other courts let the GOP use those maps anyway, and it handed them the House. Now SCOTUS is doing the opposite thing for the same goal

A message from Mary, a 72-year-old Amazon worker from North Carolina projected onto Jeff Bezos’s $120 million penthouse before tonight’s #MetGala, chaired by Bezos.

This line in particular makes me feel ill: "The dissent would require that the 2026 congressional elections in Louisiana be held under a map that has been held to be unconstitutional." SCOTUS' Republican majority has long required elections to be held under illegal maps—when it hurts Dems.

Some pictures from the day yesterday around LA. #photography #la

“Don’t be evil” was always a lie.

1. Flip the Senate this year 2. Block all GOP SCOTUS nominations 3. Hold the Senate and elect a Dem POTUS in 2028 4. Kill the filibuster 5. Pass HR1 6. Pass 18 year term limits on SCOTUS 7. Fill the 5 new vacancies with liberal justices 8. Have nice things