Trump's FCC just scrapped a Biden-era cap on the maximum price of prison phone calls between inmates and their families. Telecom and private prison companies — which donated to Trump's campaign — lobbied for the rollback. This regime's cruelty and corruption knows no bounds.

America letting the royals (?!) lap them on this is so embarrassing I cannot

This just happened in the The Netherlands today. The centrist "D66" party, running on a platform that includes a universal basic income, won the most votes, positioning its leader to become the new PM. You heard that right, UBI is now a moderate position there and seen as a pragmatic solution to AI.

Ugh who is Vance hitting on

NEW: James Comey asks the court to dismiss the indictment against him because he responded to Ted Cruz’s "fundamentally ambiguous questions with literally true answers." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Look at this ridiculous primitive country, casting out its sex pests rather than making them Presidents or Mayors or Supreme Court justices

As a reminder, here's what happened after we exploded 100 nuclear devices in the atmosphere at the Nevada Test Site from 1951-62:

Trump just ordered the Pentagon to resume nuclear weapons testing, a move that could reignite a dangerous global arms race. He's also furloughed nearly all federal workers responsible for overseeing and safeguarding America's nuclear stockpile. Hello?

This is a lie: www.propublica.org/article/immi...

Clean energy is cheap energy. Trump’s policies are doing the opposite. Blocking wind and solar, bailing out coal, and slapping tariffs that raise grid costs mean that 49 states are facing higher electric and gas bills, with Americans paying hundreds more a year.

Millions will go hungry because Trump and Republicans won't use available funds to keep SNAP running during the shutdown. And they won't end the shutdown because they refuse to extend ACA subsidies that will keep insurance premiums from doubling for millions. Policy choices.

Stephen Miller’s wife threatened to have a naturalized citizen deported because she didn’t like what he said during a TV debate. www.rawstory.com/katie-miller...

ABANDONED THE TODDLER IN THE BACKSEAT Arrest these motherfuckers for child endangerment

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Exactly. Some people scoffed that Pritzker even raised this. But now Noem is on record, which looks awful AND ALSO may help win legal cases.

SCOOP: The decorated rear admiral who was heading the critically important Office of Naval Research, and who brought lengthy experience in Navy tech-leadership to the job, "is being replaced by a 33-year-old former DOGE employee with no apparent naval experience." www.thebulwark.com/p/scoop-trum...

Name one corporation with Nazi ties. Just one. I’ll wai— Ok, two. Name jus t— Three. Just name thr— …. OK, 4,871. Just 4,871. Name sources. I’ll wait. bsky.app/profile/wils...

Outside of this apparent asylum (over on Threads for example, out in the real world where we might embarrass Grim with our crazy), a Nazi tat is not only A-OK but *proof of authenticity.* I also fear it is proof of authenticity, but I’m apparently insane and think we ought not risk that.

Not wanting candidates with Nazi tats is now an insane purity test I guess.

The most recent police report I've seen involving the National Guard was from Monday, when a sergeant from Alabama reported that a man "spit in her direction" and some of the spit landed on the sleeve of her uniform. The man was charged with a misdemeanor. The sergeant declined medical treatment.

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NOIRLab image of the week (B) Timelapse: a gorgeous gibbous Moon climbs into the sky from the ridge line of Cerro Pachón, the home of four NOIRLab-operated telescopes including Rubin Observatory Credit: NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/P. Horálek (Institute of Physics in Opava) noirlab.edu/public/image... 🧪🔭

we're now a hair away from it being "treason" to utter a single critical syllable about Dear Leader on any topic whatsoever

Facing claims of animal abuse, a major breeder of research dogs will close its pipeline | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti... 🧪

Don't fund fascism.

Gather round kids: Once upon a time, when a political lie was really clearly and conclusively debunked, political actors would tend to stop repeating it. One of Trump's big insights was that... you can just keep saying it. The press eventually gets bored of pointing out the same lie.

Complicating matters is the frequency with which Trump throws around the “treason” accusation, falsely and casually. Schumer is part of a surprisingly long list: www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...

Watch this ICE agent getting arrested for drunk driving tell a cop that he uses race to decide who to target. "You're a ginger, so I'm sure you're legal."

President Donald Trump’s authoritarian rampage has relied on a bold and cynical strategy to bend the public’s perception of reality: abject stupidity.

No one should have to put up with this shit but in particular kids should not have to put up with this shit

"As the press becomes more subservient and less independent, the first-hand knowledge needed to even stage a fight to get our mojo back is a whisper in the ether," writes @briankarem.bsky.social. That's why veteran journalists who know how abnormal this all is need to be extra vocal.

Private equity gave $10M to Trump's inauguration. He gave them greater access to Americans' 401(k)s. DuPont and Dow Chemical gave $750K. Trump exempted them from an air pollution rule. Intuit gave $1M. Trump killed the IRS Direct File Program. Everything is for sale.

"For last generation, GOP donors have poured vast amounts of money into flipping state supreme courts to Republican control, successfully capturing majority across America. .. state courts hear about 95% of the cases in the country, and they increasingly have become the final word on civil rights"

NEW: Paul Newby, a born-again Christian, has turned his perch atop North Carolina’s Supreme Court into an instrument of political power. Over two decades, he’s driven changes that have reverberated well beyond the borders of his state. By @dougbockclark.bsky.social

Boy, North Carolina Republicans sure don't want the attached story to circulate. I sure hope that this stupid threat from their spokesperson doesn't boomerang on them and have a lot more people read and share the story, which once again, is conveniently attached below. That would be a shame.

Ramping up to arrest people desperate for food, while our president covers the oval office in gold and builds his massive ballroom. This is so sick.

depraved

Steven Hatfill was seen by many as a driving force in Kennedy’s decision to cancel $500 million in federal grants for developing mRNA vaccines against future pandemic threats.

Patrons keep asking "I had this book on hold but now I don't have it on hold anymore, why not?" and we keep having to explain that we had the bookn on order, but now we have to find a new place to order it from. People have been mostly okay about it, but it's exhausting.

Shutting down the government doesn't shut down the First Amendment. It's absurd to exclude reporters from immigration hearings absent government permission, especially when it's impossible to obtain permission, and especially when the current government despises First Amendment freedoms.

No one is testing nuclear weapons. They are testing missles that may be able to carry nuclear payloads. He is the absolute dumbest person.

This moron is giving China essentially permission to resume testing. We've done >1000 tests. China has done <50. That's a good place to stop - not restart. Time for Congress to get their heads out of their asses, before this man gets nuclear war happening, by accident or otherwise.

And now we know the answer to "And if everyone else detonated a nuclear device in a desert, would you do that, too?" He so very much wants to be seen as a special big boy. They all come to him, strong men with tears in their eyes, to call him "sir" and praise him as a special big boy. FFS.

The irony of demanding testing while also not paying the people in charge of maintaining our nuclear arsenal.

Your daily reminder that Trump absolutely can fund SNAP through contingency funds. He absolutely can prevent 42 million Americans — including 20 million children — from going hungry next month. He is choosing not to. Don’t let him lie his way out of this.