Crazy that there's three impeachable/corruption stories on just one current news screen...

Luckily, Wautier’s work has been reconsidered through new exhibitions, research, and scholarship that brings her creations back into view. A new book “Illuminating Women Artists: Michaelina Wautier” by Katlijne Van der Stighelen helps shed light on Wautier’s career. Learn more: gty.art/4wUePYK

Just imagine the level of criminality that compels a President who was already personally granted full immunity by Supreme Court for anything related to 'official acts' to think that's not enough, he must *also* have his DOJ release all civil claims against him, two of his kids, and his company.

Regarding SpaceX's upcoming launch: I've made a sign so I have something to tap:

California really should be doing this including down to the power plant configuration It’s crazy that every single operator in the Bay Area has a different config for an urban 40ft or 60ft bus

That several major California transit agencies are preparing to scale back service or even declare bankruptcy while the state continues to expand highways is a failure on an almost indescribable scale.

The Lead Paint Theory of Anti-Gentrification holds that preserving neighborhood disamenities like freeways depresses property values, keeping housing affordable. Lead Paint Theorists oppose quality of life improvements like parks, bike lanes, and small businesses like coffee shops or restaurants.

BNSF will be mitigating visual impacts of the rail yard, while refusing to mitigate the biggest impacts: deadly air pollution from diesel trucks and trains. Don't we love the CEQA process, folks?

But the idea that Dobbs was ever just *letting the people decide* what to do about abortion was a fig leaf - it was clear that Alito and others were more than happy to have the courts force abortion restrictions even when people and politics didn’t want them

CalTrans will explore anything, including spending billions of dollars altering our highways to accommodate 140 mph buses connecting some cities, than spend time or money to coordinate, upgrade, or even expand our train network which can move more faster than any bus can www.kcra.com/article/cali...

This is a soon to be shuttered boondoggle that squandered hundreds of millions of dollars and simultaneously engaged in human rights violations. In a functioning political system, it would be a massive scandal.

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Also, this is why the Paramount/Skydance/Warner Bros. Discovery merger is so terrifying to us all. Fewer competitors means fewer movies and shows competing in the market. Less choice, fewer jobs making those choices. It's lose/lose for creatives and audiences both.

If OCTA is truly concerned about the high operating costs associated with slow diesel trains, they should throw their weight behind electrification. But drastic service cuts make electrification harder, not easier, and threaten the very service itself.

OCTA is circulating an outrageous fact sheet justifying their cuts to Metrolink. 50% cuts that will lead to a death spiral in the US's 3rd largest regional rail system are "aligning service with demand". Speak out at 9:30 on Monday! Here's what they're missing: 🧵

If the driver isn't mentioned because we think the car could somehow have done this without the driver intending it to, the only proper response would be an urgent investigation into how this was possible and how it can be prevented in future (perhaps halting all driving until we know it's safe?)

if the voters are confused about this, it's only because the Republicans lie to them about it OVER AND OVER

Cities like Shafter can pull these types of schemes because they have wide latitude over construction permits. We need permitting reform for 3rd party permits so small cities can't endlessly delay major regional projects.

Good time to remember to wear a mask in airports, on airplanes, and in healthcare settings

This is particularly maddening because the court allowed the election to go ahead when all the legal facts were exactly the same. The only real new information they have now is what the result was.

Conservatives have always wanted to undo the 1960s. But now they're taking aim at the 1860s as well. My latest at Public Notice: www.publicnotice.co/p/trump-conf...

Prediction markets are websites where insiders who know how things will play out monetize that knowledge without worrying about insider trading laws

I suspect a big part of the push to eliminate people managers in big tech is that their value to CEOs is seen as message conduits and performance reviews. If you can ask AI any questions about what people work on and AI can generate performance reviews, then CEOs see the value of managers as zero.

Let us honor Ted's greatest legacy: Turner Classic Movies

Not the most important thing here, but if Democrats get national power in 2029, the factually accurate answer in 2030 to “why is this such a problem” will often be “because Trump badly messed it up.” That’ll be true for many years. All problems must be solved within a year is a bar you won’t clear.

If the Democrats let Republicans have this INSANELY easy W, I am going to be apoplectic. This shit polls like chlamydia. Get on the other side of it now and be loud about it.

I write about people who became famous for saying and doing horrible things so I routinely get asked this question. "Did they really believe it?" Look, I get the curiosity, but in the grand scheme of things it doesn't matter. It doesn't matter what's in their hearts. They put evil into the world.

I spend a lot of time enraged that rich progressives are too short-sighted and tightly wound to their own flawed messaging. All single races, not the long-term value of an educated public. They don’t think journalism is a good investment. @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social semafor.com/article/05/0...

CA spends more on highways EVERY YEAR then we have spent on HSR over the past 20 years combined

Dear Millennials and Gen Z: as we become old enough to become decision makers, we must work together to destroy/dismantle the Reagan era idea that "everything can and will be a point of profit, zero generosity" that previous managerial oafs have done to us for every service industry business.

Christian Nationalist company towns are popping up across the country. The rich people behind this movement somewhat resemble the Gilded Age moguls who built libraries, but they are even more ambitious in their vision for how the rest of us should live. opb.org/article/2026...

"I remember smoking in the 90s. It was divine" "Im my 20s, smoking was sexy." GIRL, SHUT UP. Shut up. Shut up. SHUT UP. First off, you smelled like ashtrays. It was gross. And forced people serving you/around you to inhale your disgusting smoke, too.

It's a remarkable situation because the Court is doing politics from the bench to bring right-wing law. Democrats don't believe they can or should constrain them, so essentially, it is a one-sided fight.

Thinking about this one again…

c) "Worries about birth control are also increasingly spreading to a growing group of wellness influencers on Instagram and other online platforms." Fuck them + the maga pipleline they rode in on. Highlighting this insidious BS the damage they did to vax was already.. Stay vigilant on this, OK?

a) We fucking called this before Roe fell ffs LISTEN TO US b) if they win this will set our whole society back to the 1950s or earlier. Workplace equality? Sexual freedom? What??? THIS MUST BE TAKEN SERIOUSLY AS AN ALL HANDS ON DECK ISSUE c) (see next skeet)

this is what all the social media in the Purge movies looks like

Until there are laws and consequences, the Broligarchy will never do the right thing. They all need to be strictly regulated.

You don’t platform them and dialogue. They’re not interested in restoring public trust in public health. They want to destroy the very idea of public goods. And their careers depend on them doing that work.

Trump truly is a master. He's made Democrats look competent on the economy. Do people get how difficult it is for Democrats to pull that off? The deeply ingrained viewpoint of Republicans as better on the economy is so consistent I tend to take it as a political given.

No. YOU DO NOT PUT A MAJOR GUBERNATORIAL DEBATE ON A PROPRIETARY STREAMING APP. *THIS* is what public airwaves are for. Don't want to use yours for it? Then give up your license. This is inexcusable: www.kron4.com/news/politic...

I thought this point Eric made about how libraries are early introductions to a social contract was really interesting, too:

As part of the restoration of the rule of law, every lawyer in the Trump admin who touched this file needs to go to jail. Sanctions and disbarment are what you do for private abuses of the legal system. Abusing the government power of criminal indictment is another matter, and they keep doing it.

Two things can be true: Congress should pass uniform, national legislation reining in partisan gerrymandering; and Until that happens, or every state adopts an independent redistricting commission, neither party is going to (or, frankly, should) unilaterally disarm.

To celebrate #EarthWeek "the Trump Administration is launching the Freedom to Drive Initiative." This is just the latest escalation of Big Oil's decades-long global war on #publictransit, walking, rolling and #cycling (spearheaded by Koch bros). Attn @urbantruth.bsky.social #urbantruth

A trillion dollar budget, yet they cannot organize food, clean laundry, or basic hygiene for their own troops deployed on warships. So where is the money going?

"In a country without the NEA, NEH and IMLS, hundreds of small local #arts groups would likely cease to exist entirely — and with them, the community, education and enlightenment that underpin our increasingly fragile, fractured society." @jessicagelt.bsky.social in @latimes.com

the president of the united states is personally looting the treasury to the tune of literally billions of dollars and that he is not being immediately removed from office and tried for high crimes against this country is a devastating indictment of every part of our political system