A failed op-ed writer bankrolled by billionaires purging a universally liked and credible straight news journalist from 60 Minutes really has to be the height of the complete slide of American news media into a complete death spiral.

Hard to believe I’m even writing this. Meteorological summer hasn’t even begun, yet Paris, France has already logged more days above 32°C than its annual average.

Well if the CEOs think it’s ok, I guess the US is doing fine… #wow

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yeah you gotta willie horton ken paxton. have the party committees and super pacs run ads explicitly accusing paxton of covering up for a child abuser. “you love your children and would do anything to protect them. so why would you vote for a man who lets child abusers run free”

Rep. Mike Levin (D-Calif.) revealed Friday that House Republicans on the Appropriations Committee voted to make themselves eligible to collect from President Donald Trump's $1.8 billion January 6th slush fund, triggering immediate outrage online.

May is National Mental Health Awareness Month. Our elected officials in Lake County have worked hard to raise awareness and build support for those living with mental health issues. Though we highlight it in May, this important work happens throughout the year.

This is what we are trying to combat. From the fucking Washington Post.

We have a new term that we shouldn’t have to have: “data center heat islands”. Data centers expell so much exhaust heat — and moisture from their cooling systems — they create their own hellscape microclimate. Welcome to living out the Lorax.

The GAO, Congress’s independent watchdog, reports that improper payments surged to $186 billion, with $153 billion of that coming from overpayments alone. This shows it was never about the money, only the data.

1. What I found in Trump's new 113-page financial disclosure report. It doesn't look good.

When I asked for advice on what to say in this commencement speech for Middlebury, someone replied: “Just tell the truth. Kids love that shit.” Advice taken! Maybe my favorite thing I’ve written. open.substack.com/pub/ayanaeli...

The USS Arizona is not a tourist attraction. And Navy SEALs escorted Patel and nine guests on the trip. These are elite special operations forces not a babysitting service for a recreational snorkel outing. That’s a misuse of military resources.

Kash Patel is facing backlash after a New York Times investigation confirmed that the FBI Director took part in a “V.I.P. snorkel” excursion near the USS Arizona memorial at Pearl Harbor a sacred war grave where more than 1,100 American service members lost their lives.

One of the VERY FIRST things done after the Constitutional Convention in 1787 was to have the text of the new Constitution translated into Dutch and German, which were at the time the two largest non-English language spoken in the United States. Here's the National Archives making this point:

NEW: We've spent 10 months tracking the outcomes in tens of thousands of lawsuits brought by ICE detainees amid an unprecedented detention push. It's not a cose call: judges have ruled more than 10,000 times against ICE, a 9-1 ratio. See the database: www.politico.com/news/2026/05...

where is john roberts to tell us that this is just one of those apolitical, unpopular decisions the court has to make sometimes?

Why don't we have better public transit, and more safe routes to walk, roll and cycle? "It’s the fossil fuel industry that wants you to burn more gasoline. It’s auto manufacturers who want to keep you buying more cars." #UrbanTruth #climatesky

Could you get any more vile?

More importantly, not all the time do their incentives align with what is best for society. Which is the case here.

“In sum, the researchers uncovered extensive ways that the oil, auto, roadbuilding & trucking industries exert their influence for their benefit. Their experience and political connections are deep…working with state departments and public officials to advance their own industry-oriented campaigns.”

We don't ordinarily publish posts at [checks watch] 8:51 PM on a Friday night, but state constitutional law expert Quinn @yeargain.bsky.social has an outside-the-box idea for reversing the VA Supreme Court that is very much worth taking seriously: Dems can simply lower the retirement age.

First time with multiple 10-game win streaks in a season since 1935. It's May 8th.

A bit of cheerleading for you: Even some gerrymandered seats are not 100% certain to go the way the GOP wants in a wave election. In the last five midterm elections, the incumbent's party lost 9, 13, 30, 40, and 63 seats. Do you know how many turnovers Democrats need to flip the House? Three.

Another data point in the everything-is-housing theory: A 10% increase in local rents raises the likelihood that non-college men live w/ their parents by about 1.1% --rising housing costs could explain roughly a third of the employment decline among non-college men. aibm.org/research/hig...

9 in a row, again!

Remembering the Bill Gates memo arguing he could do more good for the poor if he deprioritized climate change.

8! Go Cubs Go

Look I'm no political strategist but it seems to me that when the President's chief financial advisor is going around gleefully talking about how great it is that everyone's spending more on things and that credit card spending is up, that would be useful for opposition political messaging...

Because there will always be an opposition party, I get where he's coming from. But the GOP he's talking about still had a significant contingent that called him a terrorist and denied that he could have been born in the US because of his name and skin color.

7 in a row, 17 of their last 20!

The Ohio Governor's race is set. Former Trump DOGE MAGA billionaire Vivek Ramaswamy will face Democrat Dr. Amy Acton for Ohio governor. Ohio hasn't elected a Democrat governor in 20 years. If you live in or know someone in #Ohio, let's network to rally the blue troops. We have had enough of Trump.

I hope all my friends in Ohio have the courage to vote for Amy Acton for governor.

Fossil fuel phase-out is not only possible, it’s necessary for humanity to continue to prosper over the next decades, centuries, & millennium. Thankfully, Ministers from 60 nations who gathered last week in Santa Marta, Colombia, understand that and are beginning to work towards phase-out.

This is partisanship at its rawest. SCOTUS has clamped down on lower courts for rulings that could alter maps many *months* before an election—even when those maps have been judged illegal. Here, it's rushing to let the Louisiana GOP change a map *while an election is underway.*

How about literacy-literacy? Financial literacy, even

Not enough people are talking about this.     The Trump Administration is moving to cut benefits for up to 400,000 disabled Americans — people with Down syndrome, severe autism, dementia — for no other reason than that they live at home with their families instead of in an institution.

Trump’s racism is increasingly overt

@cnn.com you can't be serious...no elected Democratic leader has called for any harm to be done to a Republican. The same cannot be said on the other side. What a joke organization, hope you're happy with Larry

no worries, nico's got it.

A double digit team.

Ohio State is the first school in 59 years to have four players selected in the first top 11 picks of the same NFL draft. Ohio State is the first school EVER to have three defensive players drafted in the top 11 picks in an NFL draft.

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Yesterday evening, the Lake County Democrats gathered for our biennial convention and elected Daniel Didech as Chair and Laura Faver Dias as First Vice Chair. Lake Dems are unified, fired up, and ready to work together to flip even more seats this year!

Happy Earth Day! Cubs with 8 in a row

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If you read one thing today ... An essential article by the great @billmckibben.bsky.social billmckibben.substack.com/p/big-oil-br...