these are like the same attacks he'd use against a Democrat 😂😂

We tried to open up a new family shelter in Denver but there was zero appetite to spend one dime less on police, so it died.

“Open the Strait of Hormuz or I’m closing the Strait of Hormuz” is not the winning argument Trump thinks it is.

Whoa no way, can't believe it.

It’s not a real triumphal arch unless it’s constructed via imperialist war spoils, otherwise it’s just sparkling Roman-inspired fascism

lmao. long live Jerome Powell

Also worth noting: Rep. Weinberg, whose conduct kicked this whole thing off, appeared virtually today. So he wasn’t in the chamber at all.

you guys remember when Zuckerberg got really into Brazilian jiujitsu and challenged Elon to a match and Elon kept egging him on publish and weasel out of it in private? I'm very upset that this fact takes up any of my brain space and I would love it if middle aged men could find another outlet

It is fucking frustrating to see people saying "oh yeah? well THIS GROUP is gonna have to get in line" That's not how politics works. You have to put together a winning coalition or you do not win.

Did they meet their aims 100%? No, not yet. That doesn't mean they didn't accomplish something.

People saying that student protestors were ineffective in protesting for Gaza really are missing that public sentiment has swung pretty fast and far on that, and they were absolutely a part of that.

Three years ago, they faced off in the race for Mayor of Colorado Springs. Now, Mayor Yemi Mobolade is bringing in his rival, Wayne Williams, as his chief of staff. Our exclusive, sit-down conversation about their decision to work together for the city they love.

2000, published by Picador, small advance. They contacted bookstores in SF (where we were living), Chicago (where I grew up) and Denver. I organized SLC and Telluride where I'd lived. They paid my plane fare to Denver & SLC. I paid to Chicago. I rented my car to Telluride. No real "tour".

The publishing industry has changed over the past few decades – nowhere more noticeably than in the publicity support they offer authors Some has happened so gradually it’s almost impossible to imagine what it was like in the before times (cont’d)

I really need health care reporters to get educated on ABA because I am extremely tired of seeing stories about ‘autism services’ being cut and then it’s just ABA uncritically represented as the best thing ever and no discussion of services autistics have actually asked for and benefit from.

Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz made an unannounced visit to the Everglades concentration camp where she describes the inhumane conditions she witnessed.

Because people seem to think I put regular anti-Zionists on my Nazis list, I’m gonna use this thread from now on to show why I’m adding people

This photo will be ubiquitous from today through Taiwan's 2028 presidential election.

Trump fundamentally doesn't care about American power. He likes displays of power and he likes deals. He got both out of this conflict, and now gets to limit domestic blowback. Iran does care about American power and doesn't mind taking some punches

Not sure anyone knows if it's Actually Over or not but surely this is a best case scenario for the fossil fuel companies They get 3 to 4 quarters of blood profits and "emergency" gov't subsidies, and everyone else suffers through crippling fossil fuel prices

The time between fossil fuel crises is just going to keep shrinking, until there's no discrete single "crisis" - just one unbroken prolonged state of global suffering due to fossil fuel unreliability The best time to ditch fossil fuels was 30 years ago. The second best time is now

Breakdown of immigration enforcement in Maine under Trump shown in charts and statistics. The details help show the whole story. #Maine #MEpolitics #Immigration

It's time. And there's now a ceasefire. For up to 2 weeks/April 25.🌮😋🤞😌😮‍💨

A little under 2 Hours To Go.

The only excuses are that we have only a little over 4 hours to go, and that our parents really fucked up the Antiwar Movement response to Operation Desert Shield in 1990. Neither are good excuses.

Four Hours To Go.

the stock trading algorithms loved this headline

Republican Mike Johnson is Speaker of the House because American voters put Republicans in the majority. Republicans control the calendar and the agenda. Should Democrats speak up? Absolutely. But try yelling at the right people, starting with the Speaker.

Donald Trump is openly threatening war crimes against the entirety of Iranian civilization. 25th Amendment proceedings must begin immediately, but if the Cabinet is too cowardly, the House should begin the impeachment process now.

Not according to this: bsky.app/profile/fint...

"Jaw, jaw and war, war Jaw, jaw is better than war, war." -- Harold MacMillan paraphrasing Winston Churchill. winstonchurchill.org/resources/qu...

Attacking civilian infrastructure is a war crime. Our President is threatening war crimes and the result will be the US being more entrenched in an unjustified war that will kill thousands of innocent people and wreck the global economy.

"...and the judgment given to Croesus by each of the two oracles was the same, to wit, that if he should send an army against the Persians he would destroy a great empire."

This is important #copolitics info from @marionicolais.bsky.social — traditional GOPers have mostly given up on electing people to #coleg and instead are legislating via ballot measure. It's a complicated, tedious process that most of us don't pay attention to.

The New York Times deleted Trump’s “open the fuckin’ strait” line to make him look less insane Their write-up falsely says his post says only “Tuesday will be Power Plant Day, and Bridge Day, all wrapped up in one, in Iran. There will be nothing like it!!!” and “Praise be to Allah”

The astronauts, reaching the point in the trip where everyone is bored. "I spy..." "Is it earth again???" "ugh, yes "

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While today, the legacy media celebrates Dr. King and contrasts today's protesters against him, that same media actually stood in the way of King and the civil rights movement at the time. The tendency to treat protesters (even Dr. King) as unreasonable, dangerous, and unnecessary has long roots.

The Chicago Tribune mocked the claims that the city was segregated & the police brutal. Black Chicagoans “don’t need the help of the Rev. Mr. King...we don’t need any agitators from the south.” King himself observed, “I have seen nothing worse in [the South] than the Chicago Tribune editorials.”

In 1963, 99% percent of US daily newspapers employed no Black reporters.The LA Times didn’t have a single one. After the Watts uprising, the paper supported Gov Brown’s claim that “California was a state without racial discrimination” & praised the police who “are doing their job & doing it well.”

Dr. King wrote in 1963, “Few people realize that even our authentic channels of information—the press, the platform and in many instances the pulpit—do not give us objective and un-biased truth. … Our minds are constantly being invaded by legions of half-truths, prejudices and false facts.”

On the 58th anniversary of Dr. King's assassination, it's time to reckon with the media's troubling role in the civil rights struggle. (I pitched this to @nytimes.com who found it "fascinating..[but] the news is making deeper & certainly more historical pieces very hard." But they're the news.) A 🧵

It begins. Expect to see a lot more of this across multiple sectors in April. Defensive measures cutting the marginal products/segments with significant elasticity/exposure.

My grandfather was a penniless Russian immigrant who became enormously successful. He, too, thought riding around in limos with ladies in furs and shiny everything was the height of elegance. He had these hideous gold taps in the guest bathroom. He had the excuse of growing up with nothing though.

The story would be baffling,” Krugman wrote, “except that there’s an obvious explanation: somebody close to Trump knew what he was about to do, and exploited that inside information to make huge instant profits.” It certainly isn’t the first time people had lucrative premonitions just minutes before

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