Terrific

Respect to those who got here first.

After years of complaining about cancel culture, the current administration has taken it to a new and dangerous level by routinely threatening regulatory action against media companies unless they muzzle or fire reporters and commentators it doesn’t like.

JB Pritzker: “The president knows so little about the government and he cares so little about delivering anything that talking to him is a useless endeavor. I’m about delivering for the people of my state, he’s about delivering for himself.“

Four years ago, I tested for COVID. I'd had dinner with someone with cancer the night before. Thanks to the vaccine, I did not give that dinner companion COVID. And I only ran a low-grade fever for a few days. Fuck that idiot RFK Jr. and the equally stupid buffoon who hired him.

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The new Director of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, John Barron, has revised the jobs numbers for the last three months up from 106,000 jobs to "seventy trillion billion jobs."

Underrated tweet.

July 8, 2023

Folds: If we’ve been told our whole lives that we can’t spend money on the arts because they’re not important—then why was taking over the Kennedy Center and the arts the first thing they did? It is extremely important. It’s the bedrock of self-expression.

AOC: "On this point of tax on tips, as one of the only people in this body who has lived off of tips, I want to tell you a little bit about the scam ... the cap on that is $25,000 while you're jacking up taxes on people who make less than $50,000 across the US ... while kicking them off the ACA."

I’ve been strongly criticizing the capitulating law firms, I’m sure as hell not OK with Paramount doing so.

I obtained this from a community member minutes after arriving on scene following a raid at the Cypress Park Home Depot this morning. they detained day laborers.

Congratulations, the universe sent you this dog because you have been chosen. Joy awaits. 13/10

Leavitt without a trace of irony: "When you have a totalitarian regime, you have to save face. I think any common sense, open-minded person knows the truth about the precision strikes on Saturday night. They were wildly successful."

People who like war are stupid.

Seems important.

Just to be crystal clear: bombing Iran is completely illegal.

Hi, this is Meg Barnette, Brad's wife. While escorting a defendant out of immigration court at 26 Federal Plaza, Brad was taken by masked agents and detained by ICE. This is still developing, and our team is monitoring the situation closely.

When NO KINGS reigns over your parade. #SAD 🤣

Thank you for your attention to this matter! #NoKings

Gnight, all. We ride at dawn. Let’s make tomorrow one for the history books.

Worker to ICE agent at a workplace raid: “And here’s my bag of f*cks.”

"The National Guard will be redeployed to what they were doing before Donald Trump commandeered them." Governor Gavin Newsom explains what comes next for the California National Guard after a court ruling against Donald Trump.

David Huerta has been released. Here he is embracing his wife outside the Roybal courthouse

She was right.

This entire thread is incredible. Thank you @lorennacleary.bsky.social

Cuts have consequences, illustrated. As seen on TV 📺

This is Bodie. He’s here to celebrate the start of Pride Month. Been working on this pose for weeks. 14/10 the parade starts right behind him 🌈🐾 (IG: hellobodie)

MUST WATCH: ICE kidnapped a disabled American citizen. Her name is Alma Bowman. Born in the Philippines while her dad served in the U.S. Navy. She’s lived here 48 years. They crashed her wheelchair, denied meds, cut her off from her lawyer—and jailed her. She. Is. A. Citizen.

This is the best thing I’ve seen today and I need a source. Bluesky, please help. Credit to whoever this rad group is.

CBS reporter Scott Pelley: This is a warning that I fear many will look back on in five or six years and think “he was so right”. If you haven’t already shared this, please do.

Hey, guys. You wanna jizz up a coup?

I don't know what this means, but I'm the one who wrote a fully updated, 624-page hurricane response plan at FEMA that took over 2 years of work and careful coordination among state and federal agencies. He could start by studying that.

BREAKING: A sweeping ProPublica report reveals the U.S. State Department is interfering with foreign countries on behalf of Elon Musk. Officials in both Washington and Gambia have aggressively pushed for the West African country to approve a license for Starlink, of which Musk owns a $150B stake.

This is already how games work if you are over 35

Something I hope everyone covers this tomorrow notes is that...the President has no authority whatsoever to make trade deals without congress. None. Not even the pretext of one.

Walz: When did government get to tell you how many dolls your child has? Government just big enough to fit in your bedroom, your womb, and apparently now in your toy chest.

seems kind of weird that the vice president of the united states is openly supportive of german neo-nazis!

1/ People sometimes need a jarring reminder of how far down the path Trump administration is going toward authoritarian assertions of power A sign: John Yoo, architect of torture memos and maximal presidential powers, sharply rebukes President Trump and DOJ actions on 4 grounds @npr.org interview

But you can say Merry Christmas again. (We are a global embarrassment.)

RFK Jr. Encourages Americans To Do Their Own Research About Dragons

Some folks are getting confused by this scenario but the upshot is that vaccines are already approved on the basis of placebo-controlled trials, what RFK is trying to do is eliminate vax updates, which don’t require placebo controlled studies. So basically trying to kill annual flu/COVID updates.