Just a hunch... but I think this is really encouraging. They lost. And they lost bad. They banked on a billionaire being able to buy them the power they want, because they can't win elections. And he couldn't pull it off. California Democrats did NOT fall for the rope-a-dope. I'm relieved.

CA voters did more to stop America's burgeoning oligarchy yesterday than the "DEATH TO BILLIONAIRES" crowd has ever done. And they had to do while fighting the "DEATH TO BILLIONAIRES" crowd, which might be the most ironic and spectacular thing of all. This is good. Yesterday was good.

CA *actually* fought the oligarchy yesterday. And won. They did it against a wanna be oligarch who tried to buy the 5th largest economy on Earth with the backing of the so-called "DEATH TO BILLIONAIRE" cult shamelessly propping him up. This is a big win. Not just for CA, but for democracy.

This is the kind of person Brian Heywood and the WA MAGA GOP want to give a giant tax cut to, paid for by making kids go hungry in schools and parents go without healthcare coverage. They care more about their 2nd yachts than working people.

Brian Heywood is obsessed with children's genitals and should have his hard drives checked immediately

Brian Heywood is a pervert who wants the government to check school children’s genitals. Republicans are creepy perverts. www.kuow.org/stories/tran...

Just a guess, but it’s the universe where free speech is measured by your social comfort level in saying despicable things in public. You know, the free speech culture universe.

This is true HOWEVER… few things large corporations yes AI ranking and backend ATS set ups to knock your resumes out and placed into the rejection bucket before a recruiter ever sees it. Medium size companies 50/50 use of AI 🤖 Small to super small startups not using it really.

Stumbled on this powerful piece while researching today: Felix Nussbaum (1904–1944). Self-Portrait with Jewish Identity Card, 1943.

“The thing about my son‘s wedding is that it’s not all about me, and I only attend events that are all about me, where I am the center of attention. Also, I don’t like my son. Bruise on my right hand? What bruise? No bruise, no bruise.”

"well yes my son is getting married but as president of the united states i am just too busy to attend his wedding"

💯 Corruption Corruption Corruption

Congratulations to @debhaalandnm.bsky.social for winning last night's primary to be New Mexico's next governor. If elected, she'll continue to make history as the first Native American woman to serve as a governor anywhere in America. Onward!

These are the kinds of changes that will be harder to reverse

greatest president on climate change in history

We literally have had a program of releasing millions of sterile male screwworm flies a year into the Darien Gap in order to prevent it from expanding northward into Mexico. What happened to that program under Trump? Who the hell knows--but welcome to screwworm! These guys are absolutely nasty.

Scientists have identified a group of worker honeybees that are specially adapted to build their queen's waxy abode within the hive. https://to.pbs.org/4amHrQr

He talks a good game but he’s still a billionaire who is into increasing his own wealth because he let go of none of his investments to prove his commitment. And people say but he signed a pledge to give up all his wealth before he dies. Side note, he can’t take it with him when dead so?

Instead the entire focus, in large part due to Steyer and his paid minions, was on the donations Becerra has taken to keep his campaign running even though his history shows he hasn’t been bought by big oil in the past. If the corps think he can be bought that’s on them.

And where else is Steyer invested but in green energy companies. Normally a good thing but not when you’re the one controlling who gets the contracts. He should have been called on to divest from everything that he could potentially financially benefit from but there was NO focus there.

2) Whatever your thoughts on Ai, those data centers are destroying water sources, land, and resources and for the “environmental guy” to be invested in them is peak hypocrisy. Even his calls to dismantle SEC. One step in making that happen is to disperse the task among green energy companies.

You’re missing my points. 1) Steyer has a number of problematic investments right now (not in the past) and yet the focus is on Becerra for taking money from corps while everyone acts like Steyer won’t be corrupted because he has billions already. Give a billionaire power and watch and see.

Background?!? Right now, today, he’s heavily invested in AI data centers. Why did not one of his supporters who genuinely cares about jobs and our environment demand he drop those investments to “earn” their vote? No one said to the billionaire, “bring your millions back from offshore tax havens.”

As governor Steyer would have far more opportunities to engage in corrupt practices and hide them (as happens when one has excessive wealth and resources to do so) than Becerra ever could. And yet no one supporting him ever asked their candidate to divest to avoid areas of potential conflict.

The. Senate. Is. In. Play.

This is really, really good.

Again, Blanche has no authority to order this. This order has no legal force, probably violates rules of professional conduct (because its only persuasive power is in intimidating others against doing their job), and is not worth the piece of paper it is written on.

It feels like the values of honesty, integrity, merit and hard-work are being violently shoved to the side in favor of a system of patronage run by the most lawless, corrupt, and unscrupulous who are willing to lie, cheat and exploit in a zero-sum transactional way of life. I hate it.

I can’t stress to everyone how much the Administration just relies on wild assertions of power that lack in any statutory basis. OMB’s claim to be able for instance, to police all grantmaking by agencies, is well, McStuffins. Peer review is often established by statute.

4/I said this before, and I will say it again, Russ Vought relies on everyone complying to his weasel demands because administrative law is wonky, but this is a wild overreach.

1/If you read NPR’s article, the reporter failed to call anyone who is an expert on administrative law—I don’t know, someone who wrote a whole article on this exact topic, called Infrostructure, which is pinned to this page—and I would note be happy to note the rule’s many, many failings.

Congratulations to everyone who said it would get this bad. Your prize is watching everyone who disagreed now claim no one could have predicted it would get this bad.

I see a lot of charts everyday. Few make me go: THIS IS CRAZY. www.carbonbrief.org/ai-boom-mean...

I'm posting this video every day so we NEVER forget what insurrectionist Donald Trump did on J6 Instead of accepting defeat and honoring the peaceful transfer of power, Trump unleashed a deadly mob on the U.S. Capitol in a last-ditch attempt to stay in power THIS is what an insurrection looks like

🚨🚨 Huge breaking news from Brussels: Hungary has lifted its two-year-long veto on Ukraine's EU accession. Ukraine and Moldova will soon be able to open the first cluster of the accession process. The saga is over.

Dred Scott Roger Taney had NOTHING on John Crow Roberts.

I genuinely hope John Roberts is rightfully remembered as worse than Roger Taney as Chief Justice. And I hope Roberts lives long enough to watch that become his legacy.

At least Taney proudly stated what he was doing. These guys are trying to fully void the Reconstruction Amendments at night, and silently. The malign, packed Court must be reformed. It is at odds with the foundation of our post-Civil War Republic, let alone the civil rights laws of the 1960s.

There is no law & there is no legitimacy anymore. Congrats again to Chief Keyser Söze, who has now passed even Roger Taney as the worst, most corrupt & authoritarian Chief Justice in American history: bsky.app/profile/mcop...

I'll say this for the Supreme Court they're making it easier for me to convince people of the necessity and urgency of court reform

I mean, it's getting to where a guy can't have a beer, put on a white hood with some buddies, and have a weenie roast around a burning cross without being called a racist.

Obscene. Never buy into the "Rubio is the normie" arguments. He's got a lot blood and terrible policies on his hands.

I'm old enough to remember multiple Democrats, with newborns, being made to trek from their home districts to D.C. to place votes in person because Creepy Mike said they had to.

Lying under oath to Congress should have consequences

Today, Sec. Mullin conceded that DHS has made numerous false statements. That’s why independent investigations into the killings of Alex Pretti, Renee Good, & all victims of DHS's violence are necessary. But he won't give states access to critical evidence. What is DHS hiding?

On this day in 1920, a German speaking Jewish woman was born in Sudetenland. On the 2 Dec 1941 she was deported, with her mother, to Theresienstadt where she perished on the 2 Mar 1943. Her name was Sonja Sonik

Breaking: The chrysalis of John Roberts has hatched into its final form, known as a “Roger Brooke Taney.”

This heinous ruling confirms a worst-case-scenario reading of Callais as an all-purpose shield for racist lawmakers who want to gerrymander Black communities into electoral oblivion. And it’s outrageously partisan—a totally unprincipled gift to the GOP. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...

This isn't about principled conservative theories or to legal doctrines like originalism and textualism. It's not even just about partisanship. This court was selected to do the work of white supremacist patriarchy. And that is exactly what they have spent the past 7 years doing.

BREAKING: In an unsigned, per curiam opinion on the shadow docket, the SCOTUS conservatives allow Alabama to use a congressional map held repeatedly by a lower court to have been enacted with discriminatory intent.