Late-night comedy unites for a brutal, laugh-out-loud compilation roasting the release of Melania Trump’s new documentary — and nothing goes according to plan. youtu.be/8_rojmIJBYU?...

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@governor.ca.gov @gavinnewsom.bsky.social: Please sign #SB42, the California Fair Elections Act — to strengthen our democracy by legalizing public financing of campaigns everywhere in California and empowering voters!

The Arctic Refuge: a sacred home for wildlife & communities, NOT an oil field. Trump admin just opened 1M+ acres to drilling. This reckless greed must be stopped! 🐻❄️✊ #ProtectTheArctic #StandWithTheGwichin share.sierraclub.org/s/WSguWFCu

Boycott Home Depot, Shop Lowe's or Ace...

@boxedwater.bsky.social #BetterPlanet

@governor.ca.gov @gavinnewsom.bsky.social: Please sign #SB42, the California Fair Elections Act — to strengthen our democracy by legalizing public financing of campaigns everywhere in California and empowering voters!

This week, a federal judge ruled that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service broke the law when it decided not to protect gray wolves in the Northern Rocky Mountains under the federal Endangered Species Act. www.humaneworld.org/en/blog/laws...

if i were on this deployment i would be pissed. these people have actual jobs! and here they are, walking around picking upt rash.

Ex-Israeli minister Ayalon: "There is no famine in Gaza." Me: "Why does the IPC say there is a famine?" Ayalon: "The IPC changed the criteria." Me: "That's a lie. What criteria did they change?" Ayalon: "They changed many criteria." My full interview with Danny Ayalon: zeteo.com/p/danny-ayal...

I'm attending Greenpeace USA's event, “Monthly Volunteer Call” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/greenpeace/e...

Here what is happening…

The bill the Senate is voting on right now would reduce US power generation through 2035 by 300GW, raise wholesale & retail power prices, increase household energy costs, reduce national GDP, & kill 100s of 1000s of jobs. I mean, this isn't "public grocery store" bad, but it's pretty bad!

“Because they never heard about the lives regularly saved by their tax dollars, Americans don’t realize the generosity that has been stolen from them,” writes William Herkewitz, who worked for U.S.A.I.D. missions in Rwanda, Ethiopia and Kenya.

If Emile Bove’s past performance is any measure of future results, writes David French, “we should prepare for a judge who would do what he deems necessary to accomplish his political objectives — law and morality be damned.”

Trump’s decision “will open up vast swaths of largely untouched land to logging and roadbuilding, including about 30% of the land in the National Forest System — encompassing 92% of Tongass, one of the last remaining intact temperate rainforests in the world…” www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

Huge red flag for all Americans! March 20th, Trump signed executive order “Eliminating Information Silos.” The administration is working with tech company Palantir to create a database containing all information collected by federal agencies on all US citizens. www.ocregister.com/2025/06/19/r...

"The vulnerable parcels of land include areas adjacent to Yosemite National Park, Mount Shasta, Big Sur and Lake Tahoe..." "The land sale proposal... detailed by Sen. Mike Lee, a Republican from Utah who chairs the Energy and Natural Resources Committee..." www.sfgate.com/politics/art...

One of the many Steller’s Jays in the neighborhood (Truckee, CA)

They lie about everything

What just happened to Senator Padilla for speaking out is completely unacceptable, this administration does not recognize our first amendment right to free speech, they don’t want anyone, anyone, speaking out against them…

The photojournalist Sebastião Salgado, who passed away last month, at the age of 81, documented some of the greatest human horrors of the past century, but he said, “I never. . . photograph the misery.”

That should not be a surprise…

Ludnik is so far out of his depth they even when questioned by a Republican, he digs a deeper hole…

On Flag Day, we're reclaiming patriotism. 🗽 Join Indivisible’s No Kings Day of Defiance—a nationwide push to say loud and clear: we are a democracy, not a dictatorship. No immunity. No coronation. No kings. 👑❌ #NoKings #FlagDay www.mobilize.us/noki...

He should be so lucky…

Since I administered the WH emoluments rules, let me explain why this is forbidden Trump expressed interest in it before it was offered He is going to use & benefit from it a while in office And he's going to keep using it after he leaves! Functionally, it's a gift to him & so it's illegal

National Law Day of Action -- May 1st Lawyers, law firms, bar associations, the general public lawdayofaction.org

It really takes a lot for me to say this, but the Graham tweet is genuinely a pretty offensive thing to say.

100 DAYS...of lying, grifting, lawbreaking, division, incompetence, ignorance, illegal deportations, self-aggrandizement, vulgarity, self-pity, cruelty, ignoring the Supreme Court & due process while attacking: the Media, Universities, Law Firms, the Courts & Journalists. 1362 Days to go...

New photo to post. Close up of a stalk of a succulent…

Table top and placemat at Limosneros, a fantastic restaurant in Mexico City. The food looks amazing also, but I don’t take pictures of food; I eat and enjoy it…

I almost forgot to post my (sometimes) daily photos. Here is one from this morning…

Every sentence of this is more insane than the last. The weapons safe??? (gift link) wapo.st/42dj8kl

Russia kidnaps Ukrainian children and gives them to Russians to erase their heritage and demoralize Ukraine. Over 20,000 so far. And the US just stopped helping track these kids and likely deleted the database of all the research. Pure evil, right maga?

The administration is removing phone support for Soc Security recipients. Making it more difficult for seniors to get their checks. It’s a back door way to cut SS benefits. Horrific. If you know anyone who is impacted, please help them get online to get their benefits approved

TONIGHT: Former USAID aide Sarah Charles, who spoke to Senate Democrats about the effects of the Trump-Musk USAID cuts, joins @lawrenceodonnell.msnbc.com on The Last Word.

TONIGHT: @ejdionne.bsky.social and @normornstein.bsky.social join @lawrenceodonnell.msnbc.com on The Last Word. 10PM ET on MSNBC. Tune in!

Snow time… (then the rain came and…)

Photo from last weekend at the Palace of Legion of Honor museum in San Francisco. Trying to see how controls on the Fjorden app allows control over ASO, etc.

A new photo for today. This is a small, elegant glass vase, with dried flowers from my front yard on a shelf I made.

Another photo for today… “Small plate with abstract design, Claremont, CA 1960” by Harrison McIntosh (1914-2016) Early afternoon sun coming in at an angle that highlights the pattern on this part of the plate. I enjoy the play of light that brings out the beautiful glaze on this ceramic plate.

I’m starting a practice of looking around me for images that catch my eye and recording them. Here is one from this morning. Out my bedroom window at sun rise.