After the White House complained about an unflattering photo of Karoline Leavitt, it was removed from AFP and Getty’s systems. This is the photo in question. Please do not repost it. 👇

“You couldn’t ban trans-affirming therapy either,” say the very smart Elena Kagan, who knows full well that states are freely banning schools using trans kids’ pronouns as well as gender-affirming care—which is infinitely more expressive.

Bad immigration economics assumes every extra person is one less seat. Good economics notices they also bring a seat, a side dish, and demand for the bloke selling drinks. The first story is fear; the second is how economies work.

I don't know how many people showed up today, but it was a lot from what I could see.

Only 23% of government workers believe they “can report a suspected violation of a law, rule, or regulation without experiencing retaliation.” That's way down form the share the prior year (72%) who said they could report suspected illegal activity without fear www.thebulwark.com/p/two-more-g...

Brendan Carr: “Look at the results so far — PBS defunded, NPR defunded, Joy Reid gone from MSNBC, Sleepy Eye Chuck Todd gone, Jim Acosta gone, John Dickerson gone, Colbert is leaving, CBS is under new ownership — & soon enough CNN is going to have new ownership as well” #NoKings protest tomorrow 🤘🏼

NEW: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has been transforming a government that long championed vaccines into one that questions their safety. This is what could happen over the next 25 years if shots are unavailable even to the people who want them.

My latest:

If Trump can pay TSA agents now, then he could’ve paid them a month ago too. Nothing has changed between then and now other than his decision to do it.

This is either an open admission of a massive intelligence failure or an open admission of a massive failure to brief the president on the possible consequences of starting a war with Iran. Neither option makes Trump/Hegseth look good.

1/ Disruptions mean countries will rush to exit US-led oil order Worst case scenario for oil companies (best for rest of us) is that people permanently shift...what they call “demand destruction“ i.e short term pain but Long: Iran war will accelerate ongoing STRUCTURAL shift to solar+EVs+batteries

lowkey love her being like EYE have a passport bc I'm rich but what about the rest of y'all broke asses? I still know an unconstitutional poll tax when I see one!

Good afternoon. This is your daily reminder that Trump just lifted sanctions on Iran to give them $14 BILLION to hep fund their war against us. In other words, your daily reminder that this is probably the dumbest war of all time.

He should have spent the rest of his life in prison and the reason he isn't is bc John Roberts personally intervened to prevent that

Everything about the Trump regime is so infuriating and so petty. The moon isn't ours to give up. It's not an industrial goal or a spoil of war or a trophy to covet. It's a world to explore, to understand, to better help us learn about our place in the cosmos.

jfc they are literally keeping Trump in a cocoon of ignorance in order to not upset him the same as you would do with any other elderly dementia patient

Oh, my god

??? GOP Rep. Mary Franson says she's not worried about climate change because it's not in the Bible: "If you've read the Good Book, you know how it ends, and it's not with climate change." How can we expect Republicans to do serious work when they're so proud about ignoring science?

Words cannot express just how impossible this is. It sounds like a bad sci-fi movie plot that failed to consider the input of actual scientists and engineers.

Feel like it might benefit the U.S. in some ways if our current position weren't that science is for woke losers.

we probably shouldn't be growing alfalfa in the middle of the fucking desert using dangerously scarce water resources! It seems like it'd be a layup to buy these economically unviable farms from these farmers, shutter them and recover the water rights to stop the Great Salt Lake from drying up?

the human body was not designed to know what the worst person in the world is doing every fifteen minutes

This cruelty is being done in our name. Shame on this administration. Shame. 13,000 third country deportees so far. Many were ordered deported decades or even generations earlier, but no admin previously would have considered something as inhumane as this as a means of carrying out a removal.

"communities with vegetable bans had 30.4 percent fewer Black, 28.5 percent fewer Asians, 7.8 percent fewer Hispanics, and 12.6 percent more white people than the population of their state. Those communities were also richer, with a 73.5 percent higher median income."

Trump is plotting to shell out nearly $1 billion of taxpayer money to get an energy company to stop building two wind farms. That will make us more reliant on dirty fossil fuels, whose prices are soaring due to his war on Iran. Everyone loses — except Trump’s Big Oil donors.

"“Our objection as Democrats is not to a photo ID,” Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer said this week" Well it fucking should be

MSNBC Journalist David Rhode reports: "Iran offered to give away ALL of its enriched uranium during peace talks in Geneva. The British thought it was a credible offer. Hours later, Trump started bombing Iran anyway. The US didn't want peace, they wanted war." So to recap... 1/2

Shame on John Fetterman. Markwayne Mullin’s entirely predictable lawless abductions, detentions, deportations, and deaths at ICE are on his head.

Crime apparently legal as long as you support Trump.

The Minneapolis police officer that shot and killed 22-year-old Amir Locke during a no-knock raid in 2022 is now a leader within the Minneapolis Police Department’s new Health & Wellness Division.

"Both sexual encounters with Cesar led to pregnancies. I chose to keep my pregnancies secret and, after the children were born, I arranged for them to be raised by other families that could give them stable lives." Devastating. medium.com/@dolores_hue...

I know I've said this a trillion times but I have to say it periodically to keep from going insane: The right ran a huge, well-funded, & ultimately successful campaign to completely take over political media & the infosphere more generally. This is by far the most important political development...

Allow me to convey my hateness for this likeness shit. You wanna see the dead actor? Go watch all the movies they acted in when they were alive. You want new movies? Give new actors paid acting jobs to make new movies. Stop this shit.

"The federal government buying back its own permits because the current occupant of the White House lost a lawsuit in Scotland twenty years ago and never got over it." Recommend this deep dive by @lizdye.bsky.social into Trump's crazy obsession with wind energy.

Videos about vowels that include visuals of consonants. Butchered state names like Ribio Island, Conmecticut, Oklolodia. Characters changing in every frame. AI slop is all over the internet—and preying on your kids.

It's so incredibly disappointing that Daniel Biss, who had an affair with a student while he was a professor, has beat young and vibrant Kat Aboughazaleh instead of withdrawing from the race He should not accept the nomination

I am going to become the joker. We've been screaming from the rooftops that this was never about sports or trans youth healthcare. Instead, we were ignored and browbeaten by a bunch of idiot centrists who took the concerns of people who want us eliminated in good faith. archive.ph/xgwCd

Crazy crazy story. Times of Israel reporter ( English language Israeli news site ) gets escalating death threats to change story that’s at center of big polymarket bet. www.timesofisrael.com/gamblers-try...

These people are creepy, childish and just weird as shit and we should say it all the time.

Screaming at the top of my lungs: The Founders saw a free and independent press as a fourth and necessary check against government power, one that could check them all. Any government against a free and independent press is against the very essence of American democracy.

This is what fascism looks like, example #73636471

Absolute Queen behavior from the Zamboni Rider today at the Minnesota Frost game. No ICE No War No Kings No Fear.

Ossoff: "The WH put out a video depicting this war as a video game. When service members are returning in flag-draped coffins, & even more have lost limbs or suffered brain injuries or are fighting for their lives, this WH treats war like a game. It's a disgrace. And it speaks to a moral rot."

Let there be as much outrage from politicians in Washington when kids go hungry as there is when I break bread with New Yorkers.

I honestly don’t know how future dystopia and cyberpunk media makers are going to manage to come up with sufficiently over the top, unthinkably crass content to portray their mega awful governments as worse than what the current regime is earnest-posting.

Well this is insane. Julie Le is the ICE lawyer would couldn’t keep up with sending people to concentration camps & told a judge her conveyor belt job “sucked.” Runinng against Ilhan on the “I was doing Pam Bondi’s work until I couldn’t get sleep” is a heckuva pitch. apnews.com/article/juli...

Tyrus, a retired professional wrestler, claimed Trump had a great record of avoiding wars. Earlier in the week a Fox News correspondent pointed out that Trump has used the U.S. military to attack seven countries in three continents.

It's looking increasingly like these guys thought that if they could wreak more death and destruction than the other side then they would be respected as strong powerful men and they would "win" and that would make them big important heroes. Very possibly they had no rationale deeper than that.

I was in a 2 hour briefing today on the Iran War. All the briefings are closed, because Trump can't defend this war in public. I obviously can't disclose classified info, but you deserve to know how incoherent and incomplete these war plans are. 1/ Here's what I can share: