the argument about whether they should or shouldn't impeach is going to be pretty academic when trump starts trying to arrest Ds who got elected to the senate and the house in mid november. 1

The lawsuit challenges laws that require doctors to perform tasks nurses are trained to handle, including ultrasounds and gestational age estimates story via @glorihuh.bsky.social

My colleagues and I have spent a decade tracking NextEra's sprawling political machine, and how it has used that machine to thwart competitors (including clean ones!), at ratepayers' expense. Essential reading for the NEE/D mega-monopoly merger plans. energyandpolicy.org/nextera-domi...

No, what undermines his "credibility" as a pro-Palestinian advocate is that he has never once even claimed to be a pro-Palestinian advocate in his life and openly hates Arabs.

The GOP already gerrymandered far more seats than Dems had in 2024, 42% to 14%, but Trump pushed them to go even further in 2026. There's no question who "started it." That gap shrunk to 44-26 with CA's Dem map, but the GOP re-gerrymandering several states made the districts even less fair overall

now we get to play a fun game: how fucking stupid are investors

what is the point of a public utility if it can be sold to private equity. really hope this doesn't happen

this basically was my take today. SpaceX has a perfectly reasonable possible business model selling launches and Starlink for like $20 billion of yearly profit, stapled to the rotting corpse of Twitter plus the worst, most money losing AI company of the bunch

That’s 2.5 miles on blacktop through a Houston summer. Remember to bring extra water, my Oranje friends.

that's what's missing from this conversation: an acknowledgement that even if we did not need a single tax dollar from the rich to fund public policy, taxing them into oblivion would still be the right thing to do in and of itself

Jeff Bezos paid $0.00 in income taxes in 2007 and 2011, years when his net worth was $4 billion and $18 billion respectively. Otherwise, he pays an income tax rate of about 1%. More people should know this! www.propublica.org/article/the-...

Kind of feel like we especially don’t need fancy law explainers at the moment. “Can the president just take money when he wants?” A third grader could answer this. A Yale law prof is likelier to write the wrong answer so their 2L can work for Alito

When Twitter was heavily used by liberals, it was a bubble. Now that it’s mostly right-wing bots directed by a ketamine-addicted neo-Nazi billion, it’s more like real life.

Not the sheriff: taxpayers. I genuinely think there is a broader trend of institutions not feeling bound by fiduciary duties; they prefer to do what the want, and deal with the lawsuits and compensation.

now that google is being sacrificed to the ai demons, is it time for the encyclopedia to make a comeback? 👀

I was joking yesterday about the Deathstar Ballroom but he really has stopped talking about it in terms other than how much military force it can project

The white house is being turned into a military base. Does this make elections coup attempts?

no take, only throw

1. 1100 words is only very long if you’re an amoeba. 2. Asking an LLM a question is not a skill. 3. One dead teen is actually too many unless you are a sociopath. 4. You’re welcome.

Mark Zuckerberg had more dignity when he was shilling the metaverse.

The most perfect panel discussion ever, three dudes in wide, each one with a close up shot, and a randomly incuded woman who is in no way a part of the conversation shown.

Someday we will find a billionaire without a messaniac complex. It's not today though.

this tradition needs to end. it’s little more than a manifestation of white civility politics. republicans are building concentration camps, starving the public, and stealing from the treasury. is it too much to ask for democrats to act like all of that matters?

This part of Hill culture never sat right with me. I've worked with plenty of Republicans and conservatives over the years, but if someone is spreading conspiracy theories about climate science or refusing to accept election results, I don't want to grab a beer with them or do a sportsmanship.

Gosh, what would it look like if Trump pulled the US out of NATO. I mean literally, we already know what it would look like if he did it functionally.

grogu has been caught and compromised to a permanent end

Trump has been a casually destructive, lying piece of shit his whole life, & US culture let him do it -- celebrated him for it! -- so of course he has an "unbelievable capacity for risk"! It's always, always other people who deal with the consequences. An acute version of the "white male effect."

this the kinda shit Joyce Carol Oates needs to see on the platform in order to feel anything

i think, looking back, we will discover (god willing) that the second-most-afraid donald trump has ever been was when BLM came knocking at the front gates

I think the reason I've been a little ambiently mad all day is because January 6th rioters are statistically the most likely group of pedophiles in the world and they clubbed a guy to death and they're going to be rich from the tax money that I give to the country I live in.

No judge has approved this. No law has ratified this. It's just a pinky swear and a publicity stunt. It can be easily overturned. It's blatantly corrupt, but also functionally useless. It's not like it wasn't already Trump Administration policy when he took office again.

Matt Walsh is currently doing an hour long response to all the people who objected to his Rosa Parks revisionism. x.com/MattWalshSho...

minnesota gov. tim walz has signed a bill banning prediction markes (kalshi, polymarket). first state-level ban of its kind. (sports betting via traditional/mobile sports books is still illegal here too)

I know it's lame to point this out still but it is amazing that the 'Buy Twitter to Save Free Speech' has completely tweaked the dials such that most posts get no immediate feedback unless on a specific set of topics (racism, culture war, AI) & also created a 'pay to speak freely' tier

Google is transforming Search from something accurate to something inaccurate that hopefully you’ll be more addicted to

Jared Polis should resign today and never return to politics.

"Only Republicans' opinions count" is usually just subtext in our political media, but sometimes they put it right in the headline

If you understand the ballroom is actually a bunker where he intends to rule forever, his focus on it becomes a lot more understandable. He needs to be safe, in his "ballroom".

"Dems need to talk like normal people talk." Meanwhile...

peteris pinnis

Trump's EPA putting poison back in the water. I'm certainly feeling Healthy Again www.nytimes.com/2026/05/18/c...

This was a Brady Bunch episode

Mokuʻāweoweo Caldera Thermal [MTcam], Hawaiʻi Volcanoes National Park #NPSS#NationalParkServicee#Hawai~iVolcanoeses

Some folks who don't know NextEra's history in Florida and beyond seem to think of it as some kind of potential benevolent dictator for the grid. I feel like I'm going to be pointing to this link a lot in coming days: energyandpolicy.org/nextera-spen...

spending $100m so 9,000 people can look at their health insurance bill and move back to south africa

“.. Local opposition blocked or delayed at least 48 projects valued at some $156 billion last year, according to Data Center Watch. “.. A record of 20 were canceled in the first quarter ..” @wsj.com www.wsj.com/tech/ai/the-...

The Honolulu skyline is a transit success story, which is funny because people were writing it off as dead six months ago. Honolulu needs to start planning expansion now, so they can be ready to begin construction as soon as they finish building into downtown in 2031-ish.

Brightline is truly fucked. The idea of a privately operated passenger high speed railroad was always a longshot, but it's just circling the drain now. The only real question now is will Florida continue to operate it or just shut it down.

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