“Instead of student loan forgiveness we’re doing a coup forgiveness program”

I realize there's a gulf between "what a president is explicitly permitted to do" and "what a president can get away with" but every single day is a damning indictment that the last administration did not see fit to pursue expansive power against Trump's return nor did it dare SCOTUS to stop it.

the president of the united states sued his own government for ten billion dollars and “settled” it by directing that government to use taxpayer money for a nearly two billion dollar slush fund to distribute to his political allies at will typing it out barely feels real

They're stealing billions of your money to pay off violent right-wing psychos while doing everything in their power to spike gas up to $5 a gallon, make groceries into a luxury and hand the country over to the oligarchs who want to permanently replace you.

It’s genuinely terrifying that someone posting like this has access to nuclear codes.

This is insane. The terms of DOJ's slush fund appear to transfer control of $1.8 billion beyond US government entirely. Unless I'm misreading this, that would circumvent Congress *entirely* and put the money outside of *any* constitutional and/or legal constraints ofany kind. Straight up theft.

Like what if I sued a Dem admin for some health thing, and then they “settled” with me to create the Bobby Kogan Medicare For All Fund?

The way the Judgment Fund is being used for the Trump “settlement” creates a profound loophole in the Appropriations Clause, allowing an administration to fund any program it wants without an appropriation. Sort of thing the Court needs to stop.

the president is raiding the treasury to put your tax dollars into this mans personal checking account as a reward for what hes doing in this picture

Calling out lawyers for requesting more than $320 million in legal fees when each author only expects a $3,000 payout, some objectors asked the court to delay approval until a more reasonable compensation plan is constructed.

It is actually good news that corporations, at least, will still ban people for the Nazi rhetoric being espoused by the Department of Homeland Security www.nytimes.com/athletic/728...

pure cinema

Good. The more we see of this the better. I don't know what has to happen to kick people's ass in gear and get them to wake the fuck up but I am happy for every mask off moment. It's more damaging to Ds who want to "work across the aisle" than Rs and I'm here for it.

A beautiful severe-warned storm at sunset near Ellsworth, KS. #kswx

9 years was not an excessive punishment. Peters was a county official who used someone else’s security badge to let a fellow election denier access the whole county's voting data. That is an extreme breach of public trust for the purpose of undermining our democracy; harsh deterrence is vital.

Fresca Fairgrove, MI

I wonder what film this 80's kid is most looking forward to this year...?

“The increase in Black infant mortality, from 9 to 21 deaths per 1,000 births, means Black infants born in Hamilton County are more at risk than those born in Iraq, Iran, Guatemala, Honduras, Libya or Vietnam, according to the World Bank.”

evergreen (via the brilliant @smoothdunk2.bsky.social)

I'm begging for one article--just one--that is "Trump says Iran war is worth the economic pain. These urban voters in Harlem say `We told you he'd screw everything up, why didn't you listen to us?'" Just one. Just one "diner" interview in a place w a density above 1 per 1000 sq mi and < 95% white.

Timmy the humpback whale has been found dead. I’m a whale scientist, NOT a vet. I gave my opinion about this situation a few weeks back. I reflect on this once again. #timmy #whale #denmark #germany

just open contempt for the united states as a pluralist and secular democracy. and a reminder that the function of the fiction that the united states was founded as a fundamentalist christian nation is to establish a hierarchy of human worth with white christians at the top

I feel like everyone who’s used it as a therapist needs to see this “By using it, Client waived confidentiality”

“When someone offers you a ride on a rocket ship, you don’t ask what seat—you just get on” I’ve got a submersible near the Titanic to sell you

🙏 #bloodborne

Coming Tuesday! On the next episode of the Streets Dept Podcast, we’ll be talking with PA State Senator Nikil Saval! While you wait, be sure to catch up on our current episodes.

"So you expect every author to check every citation is real and accurate?" YES, in fact, we do. The very *best* explanation for having a fake or inaccurate citation is that you were misleading your readers by dishonestly padding your citations! That's unacceptable!

Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt was booed throughout this commencement speech at the University of Arizona for his praise of AI. This comes just a week after another commencement speaker who mentioned AI was booed at a school in Florida. Read more: www.404media.co/ucf-ai-comme...

I'm sorry, what? In writing my first monograph, I spent six weeks trying to track down a citation in TWO languages I didn't know. And good thing too, because the citation was wrong. That's scholarship. That's research. You know, the thing we're trained to do?!?

Alien: And how did you run out of water? Earthling: Machines drank it. Alien: Machines. Earthling: We had to feed machines the water. Aliens: So the machines were holding your planet hostage for water. Earthling: No, we made the thirsty machines. They worked for us. Alien: End communication.

Wait this isn't a bit?

DOLLY is the first compelling slasher flick of 2026. A gritty, gnarly and deliriously surreal character piece in the vein of Texas Chainsaw Massacre. It feels like a hazy dreamlike time capsule of an obscure VHS tape rented from your local video store that you now question if it even existed.

Wish I could find a mattress THIS comfortable.

No I'm not political, I try to stay out of it. *breaks into politics like the Kool aid man breaking through a brick wall*

Its Peachfuzz 🐺🪓

Your reminder to stop and smell the flowers on this beautiful sunny day!☀️🐺 #HappySunday

I’m at MCAF all weekend booth A8!

Louisiana showed up. All 5 amendments failed. That's 2 years in a row Louisiana voters showed up to shut down the racist Governor's proposal.

The Byrd rule remains a real kick in the ballroom

It is crazy that I was bang on about the Subprime AI Crisis years ago. They’re all subsidized and they’re going to have to start doing token-based. Once Microsoft makes it the norm I think you see others make the jump and then see the true value of AI

A Halal deli appeared 5 minutes from my house!!! #Food

Published in The New England Journal of Medicine. Peer-reviewed. Large sample size. Sound methodology. An antiviral pill has, for the first time, been shown to prevent COVID-19 in individuals exposed to SARS-CoV-2. Ensitrelvir blocks the enzyme coronaviruses need to make new copies of themselves.

romani #art

AYYYY they actually look good in those!

BTS brought Texas western style to the global stage after members were seen wearing hats purchased from Starr Western Wear in El Paso during their Mexico City concerts. MORE: https://www.ktsm.com/local/el-paso-news/bts-members-wear-hats-purchased-at-starr-western-wear-during-mexico-city-concert/

“The reforms I’m describing do not come naturally to me. It’s something I resisted for a long time, but I think if you look at what's necessary to reinforce democratic self-government in the United States, you simply can’t do that with the filibuster and this Court in place.” — @joshtpm.bsky.social

the trump administration assertion that it is “unlawful” for private organizations to pursue diversity is nonsense. what this is, once again, is an effort to roll back desegregation that the ABA has surrendered to.

Hawai’i just passed a bill that undermine Citizens United. The bill establishes corporations as “artificial persons” without the right to spend money on elections. The bill could limit the influence of super PACs and be a model to challenge the influence of money in politics.