Imagine if Biden said he found the cause of cancer and the next day his HHS head said all cancer was caused by eating pickles. That is basically what is happening.

It's okay to actually compliment a Democrat when they do something we've been complaining about for months

The US attorney in Maryland, Kelly Hayes, is now telling people she's bracing for pressure to bring charges against Adam Schiff. But she also won't do so if the facts don't warrant it, NYT reports. More evidence that Trump's corruption is running into deep institutional resistance (see below).

we have gone from a world in which we were told not to cite wikipedia because it was unreliable to a world where wikipedia might be the only reliable source left on the internet and we all owe a lot to the pedantic nerds who got us there

70 with a modest overcast is actually the ideal weather. #Portland

All headlines just from today 🇺🇸

Honestly wonder if some Cities should consider just giving people actual ownership to one parking spot in front of their townhouse. Most cities are doing that anyway by approving the driveway crumb cuts for these garages. Maybe we can just get cheaper housing with no net impact.

This comparison shows the price of putting an internal garage on a rowhouse Both of these rowhomes are ~16' wide Left: 2BR+Den/3BA Right: 4BR/3.5BA So the cost is losing TWO bedroom.

Real banana Republic stuff having Trump not fire Tom Homan. By doing this Trump is sending a message to the whole world that every single person working for Trump is open and ready to take bribes.

No one could’ve seen this coming

A bit underplayed that the Homan sting didn't reportedly come out of a public corruption investigation, it was a counter-intelligence one. Which means they somehow made the not-very-far leap to him from initially targeting a foreign and almost certainly state actor.

If Senate Majority Leader Thune (R) doesn't impeach Tom Homan for taking a $50,000 cash bribe you need to conclude that likely means Thune and most Republican members of Congress are also taking large cash bribed.

Very cute how much joy my 7 year old gets from wrapping the presents for his little brother.

just saw a tiktok from a disney adult reading from On Tyranny and asking their followers to cancel their d+ and disney trips omg

Trump’s tariffs and immigration crackdown have led to an 11% drop in tourists visiting Las Vegas in June, compared to the same month in 2024. There were 13% fewer international travelers, and hotel occupancy fell by about 15%, according to data from the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority.

Did Trump’s DOJ shut down this bribery investigation? Was it Attorney General Bondi or FBI Director Patel? The act was caught on camera. The administration must turn over the tapes to Congress. Every decision made by Homan must be scrutinized for possible corruption.

Trump had his accounts suspended on January 7, 8, and 9th 2020. WHEN HE WAS STILL PRESIDENT. It was not Joe Biden because Biden was not President.

Why does it take a BRITISH newspaper to break a story like this? Where the hell is the American media? 🤨

This is why it was completely insane for Dems to laugh off the Twitter purchase. We created a forum with practically every single political and media elite all in the same room together hearing the same things, and then we turned it over to a far-right oligarch

The core political flaw of the past several years is not accepting there is no set of policies/messaging/moves that would prevent a GOP eventually win the presidency BUT there was a very clear path to prevent that GOP president from being an open criminal. Quickly arrest and prosecute criminals. 1/

This is the scariest possibility that could cause an AI bubble to bust. The promise has been we are just a few billion dollar refinements away from perfection but if the flaw is fundamental and you need to rebuild the whole thing from scratch...

"In a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limits." www.computerworld.com/article/4059...

One big problem for America's urban politics is on a basic level almost no one truly accepts the fact that from a green perspective Any urban housing >>>>>> the most eco-designed suburban house. Any new "green" requirement in a city that increases housing cost is actually a net negative

So Trump literally committed a high crime on this personal app, but is too much of an idiot to know how to send a DM on his own app so instead publicly posted his crime and the whole world just saw. Trump just committed what everyone knows is an impeachable offense. A pure abuse of power.

the beatings will continue; we have defunded the agency that tracks morale

Despite all of these junkets, I don’t think either the Austrians or the Americans really have a clue about what the circumstances are like in the other place. Neither understands the vast gulf in demand, shortage, or construction cost between the two places.

Post now deleted, more or less confirming it was a DM. Great opsec!

How much do you want to bet the Department of Homeland Security will determine perfecting an AI waifu girlfriend's ability to flirt with a Billionaire while he is deep in K-hole is in our "national interest"

The H1-B visa thing is, like everything else in the Trump administration, set up to carve up exceptions for friends and punish enemies. It’s the authoritarian thru-line that stitches everything together.

Trump just told Pam Bondi that "JUSTICE MUST BE SERVED, NOW!!!" with prosecutions of political enemies — James Comey, Sen. Adam Schiff and NY AG Letitia James. A U.S. attorney just resigned after being pressured to bring charges against James despite a lack of evidence.

And for this we all hated Biden because it came at the cost of our Burrito Taxi going up $5.

I feel like literally 100% of D messaging today and this week needs to be Homan. $50,000 ON TAPE? The guy who is Mr. Tough Law and Order? He's also a central pillar of maga self-image, so attacks get amplified because they won't stop defending him.

the republican line to open corruption in the government is “WE DON’T CARE” lmfao

So, uh, I guess Trump is just going to use Truth Social as interoffice mail now?

There’s no hiding the political retaliation and weaponization. It’s all out in the open.

There is no world in which it is normal for the president to publicly call upon his attorney general to hurry up and prosecute his political foes. It’s like the Watergate tapes but posted on social media. Let’s get a grip on what’s happening here.

Every day there are like 3 new things that happen that 25 years ago would have instantly disqualified someone from public office.

I feel the single biggest problem in America is we simply stopped enforcing the rules at every level from Wall Street crash to today. Each lack of enforcement just farther erodes what is acceptable until we now just have straight up open lawlessness by top government officials.

NYT: “Tom Homan, who was later named President Trump’s border czar, was recorded in Sept 2024 accepting a bag with $50,000 in cash in an undercover F.B.I. investigation, according to people familiar with the case, which was later shut down by Trump admin.” www.nytimes.com/2025/09/20/u...

The goal of any actual political movement is to make their currently fringe policy proposal eventually become boring centrist mainstream opinion. Any policy organization that doesn't have that as the long term goal is not a political movement. At best it is a political LARPing group, at worst a con.

Oh my GOD. This is the first official confirmation that the new H-1B entry ban does not apply to people with current visas (despite the text not containing ANY exception for people with current visas), and it’s not even something on an official website, it’s a passive aggressive tweet!

Between this and ICE insane abuse of Korea workers it is going to become nearly impossible to get foreign countries to set up new factories here.

To recap, Trump signed a proclamation saying that after midnight tonight, no one with an H-1B visa may enter the US unless they have paid $100,000. However, anonymous White House officials are saying it doesn't apply to people with current H-1B visas — yet there is NO official guidance! None!

What’s more astonishing: 1) that the president clearly believes, and repeatedly suggests, that asylum seekers are people from mental asylums, or 2) that no journalist has ever challenged him on this and no mainstream media outlets have done any deep dives on this story?

An unwillingness to accept that almost no "audience" on most of the internet is organic but the result of very explicit manipulation by the owners of different tech platforms is going to rot everyone's brains.

Shot/chaser

The lack of very basic auditing (financial and performance) in #Portland and Multnomah county was shocking. Hopefully there was no issues here but when an organization has problems in multiple other locations and we aren't doing proper oversight...

A lot of people on the left will roll their eyes at this but Democrats have the chance to claim they are "the party of rule of law for everyone and the GOP is the party of rule by Trump for the enrichment of Trump"

Right wing crazies want me arrested because they know I won't back down. Too bad.

Very happy to say this was the first time in three years working downtown Portland that between my office and bus stop I didn't see anyone who had clearly just consumed way too much opioids.