Rep. Balint to Russ Vought: You can find money for all the pet projects of this administration, yet we can't find money to alleviate the cost of food and housing and gas on the home front. With the additional funding for the war in Iran, $350 billion, we could fund the ACA tax credits for 10 years.

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Palestinian leader Marwan Barghouti at risk in Israeli jails as he faces ‘escalating abuse’

They have a lot of these here in San Diego. It's neat because it also keeps the interior of your car shaded and cool while it's parked.

I am honestly kind of "whatever" in terms of the amount of solar energy this would generate — it's way more expensive than just putting panels on the ground in an open field — but we should do it precisely because it would make surface parking lots more expensive to build

Grab onto the base and pull out the roots.

But each year, it's easier. Last year I was out there with big tools grabbing giant plants all summer. I didn't know their life cycle, I didn't know to get them early in the year, I didn't get the clover seeds down in time.

But there will always be weeds. You will always have to find them and make them unhappy and ultimately uproot them. As long as I want an environment hospitable to my clover and my kids, I will be out there getting my fingernails dirty, year in and year out.

You keep pulling it up by the roots and you keep working, though. Slowly, the beautiful stuff you want starts to take over, and gradually you start to see the difference. The good stuff starts to set down roots and mat and make it harder for the weeds to get a foothold.

So you weed. And if the weeding has been neglected, it is a horrible job. You are basically just ripping up chunks of turf in some areas. It's ugly, you're covered in mud, the ground is ugly, but it's how you make room for what will eventually be beautiful.

Spending a lot of time ripping out crab grass by hand so my clover can take root out back, and it has me meditating a lot on what it means to take out fascists. We always used to say it was whack-a-mole, it wasn't. Successful antifascism in a democracy is a practice of weeding

⚡️ Ukraine uses ground robots and drones to capture position without infantry. 🧵 1/6 ⬇️

Rep. Yassamin Ansari (D-Ariz.) just filed six articles of impeachment against Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, accusing him of repeatedly violating his oath to the Constitution. www.huffpost.com/entry/latest...

BREAKING: The U.S. bishops’ Committee on Doctrine just issued a formal statement defending Pope Leo XIV's teaching authority on just war doctrine — less than twelve hours after JD Vance told a Turning Point USA crowd the pope should “be careful” talking theology. This is a serious escalation.

🇮🇹 PM Meloni: Supporting Ukraine is not only moral duty, but also strategic necessity, because at stake is not only dignity, freedom and independence of Kyiv, but also security of Europe.

Point of order: all that matters is turning out the vote. Hungary just proved this. Political actions that matter: doing whatever we can to motivate people to vote. —We will get distracted, so repeatedly bringing our focus back to this objective, is key.

Oh, all you science huggers with your precious charts and facts showing vaccines virtually eliminated measles in the United States! Where do you get off?

“Israel has a right to defend itself” Ever notice how you have never ever heard that about any single other country? “Criticizing Israel is antisemitic.” Ever notice how you have never ever heard the same about any single other country? The propaganda is outrageous.

ERASING HISTORY: U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro asks court to vacate seditious conspiracy convictions of Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes and Proud Boys leaders Ethan Nordean & Joseph Biggs, despite jury findings of coordinated efforts to stop the transfer of power.

The price of food increased 30% in just a few years, while the quality of the food declined due to shrinkflation, and this reached the tipping point at which people feel these prices don't match the value of the food, but it's not optional, they have to pay it anyway, so they say the economy's bad.

WARREN: I want to understand how slashing healthcare for families so Meta gets a $3b tax cut is a 'really good outcome for the American public' IRS CEO BISIGNANO: I don't see the two as correlated W: Those tax cuts were paid for by pushing people off their healthcare. Did you not follow that?

This is Moose. He has been accused of stealing a carrot. Too bad there's no evidence to back that up. 13/10 (TT: mooooooooooooose13)

Truly remarkable how many people have told the Pope, in some way or another, to "shut up and dribble." Or corrected him on the Bible, despite their thin education on theology. Or told him to stay out of US affairs, despite him being a US citizen. The hubris is amazing.

I remember an early episode of Louis CK's show (of all people) where a gay friend of his calls him in for using the F-word in his routine, saying "get your laughs but remember, gay mean have had that word screamed at them, sometimes while being beaten to death or nearly to death"

IDK Dave Chappelle if you're making a "joke" about trans people that can be politically "weaponized" maybe your joke just doesn't work. It definitely doesn't work the way you think it did and we can't look into your heart to see what you really meant

Republicans' support for a mentally disturbed president isn't just bad judgment. It's an assault on the safety and well-being of everyone you hold dear.

Vance has chihuahua energy. He’s got no rizz, weird eyes, and everyone who meets him treats him with a mixture of pity and disgust. And so his response is to try and fight everyone, shitty little attacks that are impotent and mostly just kinda funny. Chihuahua energy.

BALINT: Are you trying to get revenge on states that did not vote for your boss? VOUGHT: What's interesting about your question is Joe Biden-- BALINT: Oh, for goodness' sake!

So true. I love Mackenzie.

These mid-terms should be seen as a zero-sum fight to the death, because Trump and his Gross Old Pedophile devils, are going to rig it to fuck.

NEW: Trump is trying to save his legacy by scrubbing from the record that his presidency culminated in a violent attempt to overturn an election on his behalf. But there is something even more sinister in that effort, because these are his soldiers and midterms are coming. Read & Subscribe 👇🏼

My tax professional put it aptly last month: you’re screwed. You make far too much to qualify for tax relief, and you make far too little to qualify for the loop holes. We, an upper middle class normal American family of 6, paid a record amount for us this year.

It wouldn’t have mattered. Anyone that watched Biden debate should understand it was all lost right then and there. Dems biggest misstep was not convincing Biden to step down early on and have a primary.

Nearly 60% of U.S. farmers say their finances are getting worse as fertilizer, fuel costs rise: Survey

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Boycott LL Bean. Return everything. Let them know we will not stand for their inaction!

CHRISTIAN NATIONALISTS: "We need more religion in politics." [Pope uses religion to criticize Trump.] CHRISTIAN NATIONALISTS: "Keep your religion out of our politics!!!"

How many lepers has Lord Trump healed today? How many sermons has he delivered? How many money-changer tables has he overturned? How may times has he died for the sins of mankind? How many hungry people has he fed? How many poor people has he consoled?

i don't have time to watch the full interview, if he's sincerely contrite i think there should be a way to move past making the jokes he did. whether he wants to do that work or if he just wants to keep grousing about being used is up to him

Yaaaaaas! In the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing, Democratic Senator Sheldon Whitehouse exposes the self-dealing and self-enrichment of Donald Trump and his family and the pay-to-play pardon scheme out of Mar-a-Lago. More of this please! 🍿

LA nails it. No notes. [10 FWY just now]

You knew Iran was going to have something to say about this Trump blasphemy thing, and it didn’t disappoint. Their LEGO videos are incredible.

I'm surprised & delighted. Olivia is knowledgeable, whip smart, experienced & a favorite of mine.

Thank you for sharing this. Traveling and missing a lot. Olivia running is very exciting!!

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Olivia Troye is awesome, she has my full support. 👍

See this? Let's get her name out there!