Good morning bluesky Looks like I'm busy again today, even if it is a local holiday 🌥️ A variant from last night's "ruined castle" prompt 🏰 #synthart

For his 4th birthday today, Conway shall receive a frozen blueberry for every like he gets. #HappyBirthdayConway #Conway #Dogo

Humans call themselves the most intelligent species on earth. We built cities. We built machines. We have built weapons powerful enough to destroy life itself. But look at nature. A mouse doesn't build a mousetrap. A tree does not poison the earth. A river does not pollute itself.

Arrivals of tasty bombs of the Ukrainian Air Force on the enemy position at the substation in the center of Kostyantynivka (Donetsk region).

Just re-read 1984 for the first time in a while. If anyone reading this hasn’t read it, please do so… And then tell me it waan’t a remarkably scary and accurate prediction of the future!

The Trump “Enablers” are much more dangerous than Trump himself. We know the limitations of the office of the president, it’s Congress who was supposed to be the guardrail of this office but have chosen to abandon their responsibilities. They shouldn’t walk away unpunished for their negligence.

"It's frightful that people who are so ignorant should have so much influence." ~ George Orwell

The NYC Mayor balanced their city budget, a basic footnote in the MSM.

Letitia James is running for the office of Attorney General in New York. James is a tough proven leader with the standards of ethics & excellence we must expect from the AG’s office. She will protect your election security, protect seniors/children/the community. ⬇️ #ResistanceUnited #ProudBlue

🌊 In the deep blue sea, it leaps up, interpreting power and freedom.

Any chance Bruce could headline an alternate 250 celebration in July?

Bruce will be back in D.C. on Oct. 3, as a special guest of the first-ever Power to the People Festival — joining Tom Morello to play a few songs with his band for another night of music and resistance.

🥳 A small town in #Oregon is celebrating after officially stopping a large data center from being built in their community‼️ The #LaPineCity Council voted unanimously to reject the proposed project 👏

Kash Patel’s FBI is showing up at election officials’ HOMES in Wisconsin. Not offices. Homes. After seizing ballots in Georgia, Arizona & Michigan. This isn’t “election integrity.” It’s intimidation straight out of an authoritarian playbook. #USDemocracy #Pinks apple.news/A31o0ahxoR5i...

Step 1: Start a war with Iran. Step 2: Iran demands $300B in reparations. Step 3: Send your son-in-law…a real estate developer to pitch… investment properties. This is not satire. This is American foreign policy in 2026. #USDemocracy #Pinks apple.news/A8AOmptFXRoi...

BREAKING: Zack Attack has backed out of Freedom 250.

Journalist Katie Phang is suing the U.S. Justice Department over the Epstein files. Her lawsuit names acting Attorney General Todd Blanche and accuses the DOJ of failing to fully release the documents required under the Epstein Files Transparency Act.

Let’s hope they do stay on this. #pinks

Corruption in plain sight. It will take a decade to fix this debacle. #TrumpCorruption

Republicans "follow the Hitler line - no matter how big the lie; repeat it often enough and the masses will regard it as truth." -- John F. Kennedy, born #OTD 1917

Democracy cannot survive a state treasury that subsidizes its own destruction.

A democracy weakens when the media suppress expression to stay in regulators’ good graces. Stephen Colbert’s decision to hold his ground is a reminder of how essential individual courage can be.

When a president responds to criticism with schoolyard behavior, it’s embarrassing. When a major network reacts in ways that appear politically motivated, it’s dangerous. Democracies don’t collapse overnight. They erode through moments exactly like this.

It’s genuinely jaw‑dropping to watch people willing to torch our nearly 250‑year experiment in democracy just to follow an increasingly unstable, criminally convicted reality‑show charlatan.

$100 million could feed and house every homeless veteran in America for more than two months.

Supreme Court term limits? Or a group of 24 supreme court justices justices serving for 12 years. The court is divided in difffent chambers or random chambers of 7 to decide cases.

Not a political scientist, I agree this is a good list, but I would add getting rid of the Senate altogether (I guess that’s implicit in the change to a parliamentary democracy?)

5. All legislative districts apportioned by population 5a. All district lines determined by nonpartisan commissions 6. No lifetime appointments 7. Large Supreme Court with staggered appointments & random selection of justices for cases 8. High public servant salaries w/ ban on non-salaried income

IMO the biggest priorities would have to be 1. Parliamentary democracy with a no confidence motion 2. Some type of PR electoral system (party list within states?) 3. Curbs on judicial review 4. Hard donation limits/public financing of campaigns I'd be interested in other political scientists' takes

Garcia: "We asked Bondi questions about Ghislaine Maxwell and the transfer, and she referred those questions to Todd Blanche and the Bureau of Prisons. So we have many questions for Mr Blanche that Republicans are refusing to ask. Why was she transferred to a less secure facility?"

August: Trump Jr.'s firm buys stake in Vulcan. September: White House calls Pentagon. "Get this done." November: $620 million loan announced. "No political favoritism," they said.

While Americans struggle to pay their bills, the First Family is treating the Pentagon like a private wealth accelerator. This is our money they are spending. This is corruption we pay for. Congress should issue subpoenas immediately.

A 60-year low in sentiment is a big deal because the baseline is already tough: this survey has lived through recessions, inflation, wars, and financial crises. And yet this is worse.⁣ ⁣ Read the full analysis on Substack: https://newsletter.platypuseconomics.com/p/consumer-sentiment-hits-a-record

Even if Middle East tensions ease, futures markets are signaling oil prices will stay elevated for months — maybe years.⁣ ⁣ That's the "Iran tax." And it's not going away anytime soon, regardless of what the White House says about prices coming down.

If there’s a water shortage, don’t subsidize showers. If there’s a blackout, don’t make AC cheaper. If there’s an oil shortage, don’t cut gas taxes. Prices are helping signal scarcity. A gas tax holiday weakens that signal right when it matters most.

Politicians love visible gestures. Economists ask the annoying follow-up: does it work? ⁣ ⁣ On gas tax holidays, the answer was basically no then, and no now.

While we seem stuck innovating better ways to burn through tokens, actually exciting shit is happening in China. insideevs.com/news/797182/...

🚨 “You’re hearing hope… and you’re seeing fascism.” 🚨 Outside Delaney Hall ICE prison, protesters sing “Take Me Home, Country Roads” as ICE agents surround them. Jordan says the moment shows what America could be — while what he’s witnessing shows the complete opposite. LIVE ⬇️

Corporations spend more than $1.5 billion a year on union-busting. That’s $1.5 billion they could have spent on higher wages, better benefits, and improving workplace safety. Remember: if they weren’t so scared of worker power, they wouldn’t fight so hard against unions.