Everyone should #TuneOutTrump tomorrow.

Every accusation is a confession

Sen. Booker to Todd Blanche: "Your nomination should fail. The Attorney General's client is not the president, it's the American people. You've been protecting one person for most of your career…You should not be confirmed to this job."

Todd Blanche just testified under oath that Constitutional rights don’t apply to people who are undocumented living in rhe U.S. This is incorrect. Just wrong. The law is clear. Constitutional protections apply to “all persons” within the country’s borders.

Sen. Durbin: Let me ask about the J6 rioters pardon. Among those pardoned by Trump have gone on to commit serious crimes. Do you think that blanket pardon was the right thing to do? Acting AG Todd Blanche: The Constitution gives Trump full authority to pardon whoever he wants

One of the most shocking data center developments in the country is families increasingly being pushed to sell their property for data center power lines, under threat of eminent domain.

“It was always himself that the coward abandoned first. After this all other betrayals came easily.” ~ Cormac McCarthy, All the Pretty Horses #Booksky

The numbers are in! 97 American nurses have moved to #VancouverIsland (31 to #Nanaimo hospital alone) in the last year — with 87 more in the pipeline, thanks in part to the Nanaimo Infusion movement. And that's not counting the 18 doctors, radiology techs, speech pathologists, and others.

How does being Lindsey Graham’s sister qualify someone to be a Senator?

Murray: Is it true that people making under $184,000 pay a 12.4% Social Security tax rate? Dahl: Yes. Murray: And what is the rate for someone making $1,000,000? Dahl: 2.2%.

1/ Chevron. Philip Morris. UnitedHealth. Those donors fund the group that flew Haley Stevens business class to Lisbon, four days, luxury hotel. Now it is spending millions telling Michigan she fights for you. Big Corps always expect quid pro quo for $$🧵 #DV1 #ProudBlue #Voices4Victory #USDemocracy

Just a random reminder that trickle-down economics was invented by conservatives in the 1980s to justify massive tax cuts for the wealthy and corporations. It’s been nothing short of a disaster.

Tour de France heats up. I can’t be the only one thinking ‘The Tour’ would be way more interesting if the contestants also delivered newspapers.

Note from my notebook from 2016 which I find has only grown in pertinence in the intervening decade.

WaPo burying the lede: Graham’s death plus McConnell’s absence leaves just 13 Republicans on the Appropriations Committee vs. 14 Democrats, meaning Republicans are unable to advance any spending bills if all Democrats are in opposition.

Revenge = Comedy + Time

The Audible version is just one long exhausted sigh.

You're going to get left behind if you don't use Al." Leave me then. Leave me with my critical thinking skills, my ability to read and write long- form, and books without needing Al summaries.

A contractor building Meta's data center flushed its "closed-loop" cooling system straight into Cheyenne's sewer. It carried a bacterium and knocked the city's water-reuse system offline for months. They sell these as sealed systems that barely touch the water. This one poisoned a city's.

If you’re not alarmed you’re not paying attention. www.propublica.org/article/fede...

Never trust a man who wants to colonize mars before he volunteers to fix earth.

Can someone pls recruit @stephenking.bsky.social to run for Senate? He knows Maine. He knows horror and humor. And wouldn't it be amazing if not absolutely poetic?

It is a truth universally acknowledged that a person living through an Ontario summer must be in want of a dock on a lake

NEW: Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton appears to have used an address where he did not live while voting in six elections in the past two years — despite warning voters that “it is illegal to misrepresent your residence on election records.” with @texastribune.org

Why can’t someone just find out if Mitch McConnell is dead? They have to use his death to steal another senate seat? Can’t someone go to the hospital? Where is TMZ when you need them?

America is now the world’s longest-running episode of “Jackass: Oval Office Edition.”

The Viking row to celebrate!!!!! 🇳🇴🇳🇴🇳🇴🇳🇴

Three days after Mitch McConnell suffered a heart attack and received CPR, his wife, Elaine Chao, fled to China. thedailybeast.com/mitch-mcconn...

Vonzinha

Cape Verde!

I will assert, again, that the only reason to drive a Cybertruck is to save time going door to door to tell people you’re an asshole.

That shouldn’t be a red card.

I don't know who needs to hear this, but crypto produces nothing. It has no inherent value or function. That Trump made $1.2 billion in crypto means people simply gave Trump $1.2 billion. Many were just duped. Others gave it in exchange for something, and we don't know what that something is.

Physical books. You own them. They don't require updates. They don't surveil you or collect and sell your data. They are a genuinely safe hallucinogen that leaves you smarter and more empathetic and with a longer attention span the more you use them. Free from the library. What's not to like?

The real headline from the birthright‑citizenship case isn’t the outcome. It’s that four Supreme Court justices signaled they believe a president can effectively rewrite the Constitution through executive order.

Tom Kean was so transparent & honest with the American people about why he disappeared with no explanation for the past 4 months while collecting a taxpayer salary that he showed up, read a brief speech, then refused to answer questions both before & after reading his statement.

Basically the Supreme Court is 5-4 on whether America is white man's country

I'm sure this is just a coincidence, right. Oh and not that it matters but the White House is 209 years old not 250. Fascist Idiot

The speaker has 2 legislative days to schedule a vote

Donald Trump, in fact, is a rapist.

Paraguay Goalie is a hero. Amazing upset.

People who can barely afford food or rent are stuck paying a trillionaires bills. Fuck that.

My favorite argument showing that LLMs aren’t like brains is that babies start talking at 1-2 years old and they didn’t need to steal all published books ever written to do it At least I hope they didn’t, some babies definitely look suspicious

I’d say the hardest thing about being a writer is the writing.

‘It’s dangerous and it’s going to erode trust’: redesign of US government websites stokes surveillance fears

‘Say yes and never do it’ Mel Brooks knew how to deal with the studios

BBC isn’t backing down. Trump sued them for $10 billion, which means discovery cuts both ways. So the BBC wants his phone logs, daily diaries, and communications. They’re defending the case by asking: did their documentary damage Trump’s reputation, or did January 6 do that all by itself?