Obama's decency should be honored, and there should be a presidential center. But pro-democracy politics in recent decades has failed, and that includes Obama's 8 years. Billionaires' dark money and GOP sabotage thwarted him. Michelle's speech hit the right note: a call to action, not a victory lap.

Warsh wants to cut short-term rates while selling off the Fed's bonds, pressing the accelerator and the brake at the same time. The likely result: cheaper money for Wall Street, costlier mortgages for everyone else. My piece in @nytopinion.nytimes.com: www.nytimes.com/2026/06/16/o...

Trump at G7: Qatar will be investing $19.4… $19.1 $19.2 Trillion in the United States, the record was $3 trillion. Reality: Qatar’s Total GDP is $220 billion.

#2 on my summer soundtracks list. The real IYKYK album of the Beach Boys discography. Not a bad moment in it. Sunshine and good times captured on wax. #nowplaying

This administration is doing so much bad shit in the name of Elon mush

How the fuck do we have $300 billion to rebuild Iran after we spent $80 billion bombing it, when we don’t “have the money” for pediatric cancer research?

Feed: "The Colorado Sun" By: Rahmin Sarabi on Thursday, June 12, 2025

This is a cracking summer BBQ/back yard chill/fire pit record. Americana/country with a sharp edge. #nowplaying

He bombed Iran for no reason, spent billions in taxpayer money, killed our troops’, shut down the Strait of Hormuz, and now wants credit for reopening what he broke. Now the bill comes due: military costs, shipping and fuel, reconstruction money, and whatever else. All for an Epstein distraction.

SCOOP from @by-cjewett.bsky.social & me: Markwayne Mullin urged the Department of Health and Human Service to remove warnings from the FDA website about the health risks of the gas station drug kratom. Mullin owns equity in a leading kratom company called Botanic Tonics that could have benefited.

A $60 million White House spectacle gave a platform to attacks on Michelle Obama—an embarrassment that should be condemned by everyone involved. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

REUTERS: “He has settled for a deal that appears short of many of the goals he outlined, potentially opening himself up to attacks from hawks in his own party and leaving the U.S. looking strategically worse off ‌than it did before he went to war.” www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

A society that crowns the greedy, applauds the hateful, and fears the educated is a society that has lost its way.

So lift all sanctions on Iran, pay $300B for reconstruction, another $24B for good measure, we don't get the nuclear materials, and Israel pulls out of Lebanon which they say they won't do. Got it.

It's time for us to ban stock trading for all members of Congress, for the vice president, and for the president. Period.

Yet another peace deal on a Sunday afternoon minutes before futures opened. #marketmanipulation

When the government tell you we’re all in same boat.

Alexi Lalas is that kid at high school that everyone secretly hoped would get the shit kicked out of him st the first opportunity. Insufferable amounts of unwarranted self confidence.

Young England fans wondering why us olds are always banging on about the summer of 1990 and the Italian 90 Workd Cup would do well to enjoy this brilliant Gary Oldman narrated doc about England’s remarkable odyssey! #threelions #england #worldcup youtu.be/UcllHFaHTYE?...

Elon Musk has never been to space. The trillionaire promises he will take us all to Mars and the Moon, but he has never been to space even once. 🚀 Even though he owns SpaceX worth 2 trillion dollars. 💸 Is he afraid of going to space ?

It shouldn’t be controversial to say that the creation of a “trillionaire” represents a giant and complete failure of public policy and government.

Until we stop worshipping money, all our most grotesque humans failings will be legal or still done legal or not

#DisclosureDay #deer #theyrehere

David Hockney, giant of British contemporary art, dies at age 88.

TESLA: A shitty company that loses money and makes bad cars that blow up. TWITTER: A shitty platform that ruined civil discourse and loses money. SPACEX: A shitty company whose rockets explode and only survived thanks to government welfare. WALL STREET: "OMG! Elon Musk is a business genius!!!!!"

Look closely. #nature #deer #disclosureday

California portals. #california #portals #santacruzmountains #sunset #westcoast

GenAI is a tech bubble of hype and absurdity. It runs on nothing but vibes and dollar signs in billionaire's eyes. But that's why we must resist it. We broke NFTs, we broke the Metaverse, we can break this nonsense too.

Hundreds of strangers in Belfast working together. Doing shopping, providing accommodation, driving kids to school, people to hospital appointments. Have just been told of a woman close to us who hasn't left her house since Monday so we'll be sorting her out today and getting her anything she needs

🚨EXCLUSIVE: A commercial airline pilot tells us they filed FAA and NASA safety reports after lighting from Trump’s UFC event at the White House allegedly flooded their cockpit on approach to Reagan National. They called it “10 times worse than any laser illumination event” they’d ever experienced.

If you were to count out a million seconds, it would take you 11 and a half days. A billion seconds would take you 31.7 years. But a trillion seconds would take 31,700 years — to reach that point today, you would have needed to start counting around the time that neanderthals went extinct.

now that's a fucking Space X IPO headline

Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha.... Maybe they should have tied a bottle of booze to each side of that as an incentive.

Stanley. Seven months old.

#3 on my summer soundtracks list. It’s completely timeless and while it covers some dark topics, it never fails to bring sunshine along with it. Is there a more iconic and mood setting opening 30 seconds? And Marvin’s voice remains an instrument of tender wisdom beauty. Simply glorious.

Saw Disclosure Day. Thought it was a solid, fun roller coaster ride. Cast were all excellent - especially Emily Blunt who was startlingly great. Script was good, lots of Spielbergian license to be daft which is okay. Last 10 minutes almost collapsed but just about saved itself. 8.3/10.

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I've reported on Musk for around 8 years. I've co-authored a book on him. I don't think folks understand the rate of his wealth accumulation. Shortly after he helped elect Donald Trump in Nov 2024, his net worth was around $350 billion. That net worth has nearly tripled in less than two years.

NEWS: A senior Israeli official tells Channel 12 they are not aware of any agreement. They don't seem to know what Trump is talking about in his latest post claiming a deal has been "approval" by the "highest level of Iranian leadership."

Mellow, post-rock, jazz, ambient… and a magnificent cover of Talk Talk’s Taphead to boot. Extraordinary. More Human album by @splashgirl and Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe. @funkentechno.bsky.social one for you to lend an ear too!

#4 in my summer soundtracks list. A gorgeous, squelchy roadtrip of a record. Full of shuffling beats, mellow vibes and beautifully understated nods to the after hours and chill out mindset. Inspired by the William Least Heat Moon’s epochal Blue Highways book.

This blew my mind. Some of the largest data centers can require up to 5 million gallons of water per day, equivalent to the water use of 50,000 people. Why are we selling out the survival of our planet to enrich a handful of Big Tech CEOs?

Sgt Peoper cover with living people only. @tedgioia.bsky.social substack.com/@tedgioia?r=...

Day 10 Albania Tirana — protesters are walking towards the Prime Minister’s residence like every night.

Portals in the Santa Cruz mountains.

A band that I’ve genuinely puzzled over for decades. The debut album was and is a fizzing cracker of perfectly melded big guitars and big synths and they knew a tune and a hook when they heard one. But that haircut and the paunches and clothes… Reynolds was a prodigy too but no matter, apparently.