Private equity gave $10M to Trump's inauguration. He gave them greater access to Americans' 401(k)s. DuPont and Dow Chemical gave $750K. Trump exempted them from an air pollution rule. Intuit gave $1M. Trump killed the IRS Direct File Program. Everything is for sale.

I’ve been thinking a lot about a new kind of polling I’d like to see. We have polling that measures public opinion, which is obviously important, but I’d love to see a little more empirical work on public knowledge: what do voters know about politics and policy?

Wow - those are quite phenomenal headlines given the details of the story. Ahh look, he’s just a ‘nerdy’ guy. No harm done. You need to scroll down to paragraph 13 of the Sky piece to find the full story! 🧵 1/9

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Censorship Alert: I published a book about Ghislaine Maxwell trial, and another on Kevin Spacey's trial- this evening I got an email from Amazon's KDP saying they are inappropriate and there all of my books are being taken down, including on Sudan, SBF, Eric Adams

Mike Johnson doesn't know sh*t

Just remembered this post. And realised it has a very different resonance now. We now know his close friend and ally Nathan Gill was accepting Russian bribes when he posted this

Voters in red states are going to feel the pain from their choices. It's not about vengeance or whatever. It's just about time many Americans discover the concept of consequences. Vote for Trump, get a 300% rise in premiums. Then let's see who they vote for again, now that bsky.app/profile/cweb...

A Texas megachurch pastor and GOP leader has been arrested for crimes against children. Not Robert Morris, a different one. Not Josiah Anthony, a different one. Not Luke Cunningham, a different one. Not Tony Evans, a different one. Not Scott Crenshaw, a different one. Not Steve Lawson, a different o

MAGA: If you want to know what the rest of the world thinks of Donald Trump, here you go. They think he's an idiot and a buffoon. Because that's what he is. Thank you for your attention to this matter.

Hoping that the Latinos of all origins who voted for Trump because they thought they'd be seen as "the good ones" will learn that to the eyes of the modern GOP, *there are no good Latinos*.

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now the dutch are scoring on us

AI can now design functional viruses - not the computer kind, either

Everyone should be held to the same standards.

Please have a word for these entitled & self-indulgent asshats while you're at it.

As a new father, I can't imagine leaving my partner with our baby when she couldn't move much, let alone properly look after the baby or even herself. No humanity in this, none.

🔥 Wildfires have displaced tens of thousands, destroyed communities, & burned 7.3M hectares this year in Canada. Our Signed, Seared, Delivered postcards show iconic Canadian landscapes at risk. 📬 Send yours to Ottawa to demand action for a climate-safe future: www.signedseareddelivered.com

Cartoon by @andertoon.bsky.social. Orange is the New Hack.

Trump on undocumented farm workers: "People that live in the inner city are not doing that work. They've tried, we've tried, everybody tried. They don't do it. These people do it naturally. Naturally ... they don't get a bad back, because if they get a bad back, they die."

Oh well I guess we now have the answer to the question @daraobriain.bsky.social asked in this routine... youtu.be/KsZXK2ctWeo?...

Here's what it gets you

Grok is a full blown nazi now.

Whoever did this wins the internet today.🏆

Have I missed @mrjamesob.bsky.social going on holidays or something? Can't be that he will be at work next week, not with this crazy amount of news right now. :)

Trump: "Russia fought with us in WWII and everybody hates them. And Germany and Japan, they're fine — some day somebody will explain that...Everybody hates Russia and they love Germany and Japan...It's a strange world."

Here’s a video of Stephen Miller in high school screaming that he’s “sick and tired of being told to pick up my trash, when we have plenty of janitors who are paid to do it for us.” This is the sociopath shaping our immigration policy and so much more

Found this terribly, terribly beautiful www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

This is a horrifying hate crime. RIP Jonathan Joss. www.yahoo.com/news/king-hi...

Albertans have good reason to be angry: their real wages are down 10%, their minimum wage is frozen, their inflation is worst in Canada, their health care's at risk. None of that was caused by the rest of Canada. My take in today's @TorontoStar: www.thestar.com/business/opi.... #cdnecon

Last month was statistically tied for the lowest April snow cover on record across the Northern Hemisphere. Springtime snow decline has consistently been an indicator of a warming cryosphere and results in changes to surface albedo properties. Graphic/data by climate.rutgers.edu/snowcover/

As wildfire season begins, a warning: the locations we love won’t wait for us to confront the climate crisis. #SignedSearedDelivered is a new initiative of @climateunit.bsky.social that flips the classic postcard on its head w/ a scorching message to those in power. 🧵 www.signedseareddelivered.com

This is the inevitable result of a moral panic about trans people. Cis people will always be impacted more from attempts to police gender. www.cbsnews.com/boston/news/...

A memory of an evening flight in Mexico

When I was writing about these pronatalist people this week I came across this anecdote from the Guardian about the guy In the CNN clip.

Two backpacking German teenagers who had obtained ESTA approval from DHS were detained by CBP at the Honolulu airport, strip searched, jailed overnight, and ultimately deported to Japan because immigration officials weren’t satisfied with their lodging arrangements. beatofhawaii.com/why-these-ha...

Fatima Hassouna, who had been documenting war in Gaza for 18 months and was subject of new documentary, killed along with 10 members of her family. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

🧵 THREAD: A federal whistleblower just dropped one of the most disturbing cybersecurity disclosures I’ve ever read. He's saying DOGE came in, data went out, and Russians started attempting logins with new valid DOGE passwords Media's coverage wasn't detailed enough so I dug into his testimony:

I relish every time you get to see Olympians race normal people who you can see what world class athleticism looks like on a relatable scale

Trump to Bukele: "Home-growns are next. The home-growns. You gotta build about five more places. It's not big enough."

No DOGE savings at all. It's all a complete lie. All they've done is fire qualified workers while not actually cutting spending at all.

There’s some truth here.

It’s the stupid, economy.

"I didn't vote for" you did. Sorry. You did. Should have listened to the woke libtards instead of your roided out imaginary friends who told you kids were pooping in kitty litter at school

A story in two parts.