FTC ensuring "safe spaces" for conservative media. www.ftc.gov/news-events/...

BARTIROMO: Did you see Europe is drafting a plan to open up the Hormuz Strait without the United States? TRUMP: It's so sad. Look at Greenland. We should have Greenland.

New: San Jose and SJPD sued over use of nearly 500 Flock Safety cameras. Class action alleges their prevalence and the accessibility of residents' location data violates the Fourth Amendment.

My eldest picked her college last week and I’m thrilled at her choice (I think Cornell College and one course at a time is genius and it made me who I am as a thinker and writer and activist). BUT I’m not very happy about how we decided and I want to share some higher ed segregation thoughts (1/x?)

This morning at 10 ET, the Senate Homeland Security & Governmental Affairs Committee is holding a hearing on … the Second Amendment: www.hsgac.senate.gov/hearings/the... I’m the minority witness. My written testimony offers some thoughts about what the Committee ought to be talking about instead:

Today, these Dems likely to hand Trump-Kash Patel FISA Section 702 power to access Americans' emails, texts, calls without a warrant @meeks.house.gov @jahimes.bsky.social @adamsmith.house.gov "undecided" While Trump admin appears poised to abuse such powers against bogus "antifa" affiliates.

Last month the Trump FCC announced a "ban" on all foreign made routers (almost all of them), demanding ambiguous favors from manufacturers if they wanted to continue doing business in the U.S. Netgear is the first to gain approval. Did they agree to bribes? Backdoors? who knows! 🗽💩

My father was a relentlessly self-degrading casino owner from Queens with high grade sociopathy and a penchant for buggery. He would womanize, he would tweet. He would make outrageous claims like he invented the phrase "prime the pump." Sometimes he would accuse popes of being weak on crime.

American conservative politician Clare Boothe Luce converted to Catholicism in 1946. In a 1953 meeting with Pope Pius XII, she was fiercely lecturing the pontiff on the Church's moral duty to fight communism when the Pope finally interrupted her. "You know, Mrs. Ambassador, I am a Catholic too."

news happens so fast that I also forgot the president posted a murder video like a day or two before the Jesus fiasco and it's crazy that the latter made more of a stir

Hi everyone in this thread. Under conditions of fixed supply, cutting the fuel tax *doesn't really cut fuel prices at the pump.* The standard economic prediction is that they rise to the same level they would have had with the tax, because there's a *supply* issue.

Again: for any big liberal donor who wants to funnel millions into fixing this country's politics, the ROI on buying any struggling paper and simply tasking it with doing real reporting on local news is vastly higher than the same $$ given to some group that does mass ad buys every election year.

Doors were supposed to close at 4 for the Turning Point event that had announced starting time at 5. I got in a few after 4 and this is the scene:

Days after the president blasted the Pope as “weak on Crime,” his own DOJ moved to dismiss criminal cases against individuals convicted of conspiring to use force to prevent the peaceful transfer of power. Some of the conduct for which Rhodes was convicted: www.lawfaremedia.org/article/oath...

BREAKING: Hochul will formally propose a yearly tax surcharge on second homes in NYC that are worth $5 million or more, she said on Tuesday. The exact cost of the surcharge has not yet been ironed out, but the governor hopes to raise $500M annually that would be used to address the city's deficit.

Vance, of course, is famously careful about the accuracy of his public statements. www.businessinsider.com/jd-vance-hai...

Note that Trump could pardon Rhodes and the other worst of the Oath Keepers and Proud Boys. By having DOJ move to vacate their convictions instead, he avoids having to do that & take the (scandalously minimal) flak for it. Craven. DOJ delenda est.

I study racism for a living and can still manage to be shocked by how institutionalized it is. What do you mean they were giving tax-breaks to white supremacists celebrating treason? just a wild country

I just signed a bill to rename Minnesota’s community solar program after Speaker Melissa Hortman. Melissa was a true champion of solar and I was proud to sign this in honor of my dear friend.

New: Thomson Reuters, which runs the CLEAR database ICE uses, fired a longstanding employee for speaking out against ICE, a new lawsuit says. Billie Little led an internal effort raising concerns; was fired. We've shown CLEAR is linked to ICE's Palantir tool www.404media.co/thomson-reut...

A man who was shot seven times by ICE agents during a traffic stop in Central California last week was arrested by the FBI upon release from the hospital Monday, according to his lawyer. ICE contends he's wanted for murder but his family insists it's a case of mistaken identity as he was acquitted.

Concentration camps

NEW: Emails obtained by @wired.com show how a small conservative group was instrumental in FCC chair Brendan Carr's actions against Jimmy Kimmel. @dell.bsky.social has the scoop. No paywall bc FOIA: www.wired.com/story/the-fc...

While I'm glad they are doing SOMETHING, I'm not happy with this plan. (a) It delays real action (b) There is no good reason not to impeach, and huge costs they are not accounting for in not (c) Trump needs to go to jail - stop trying to give him a diminished capacity defense!

This is an existential crisis for American higher education, & it remains maddening, if not sadly predictable that there continues to be <exactly> no loud, collective public action by university chancellors & presidents to speak out against & try to reverse these policies (Olson 1965, Akerlof 1970).

Local TV giant Nexstar's $6.2 billion deal to acquire rival Tegna won speedy approval from Trump administration regulators. But it faces tough challenge from a pair of anti-trust lawsuits.

Someone compiled all of the Calvin and Hobbes strips about Calvin’s polls of his Dad, which is proof that good people do exist on the internet imgur.com/a/poll-resul...

“This has never happened before,” one government employee tells WIRED. “I have never gotten a message like this from anyone.” www.wired.com/story/govern...

I saw the best minds of my generation produce high quality content for startups that laid them off on a zoom call

Man Who Threw Molotov Cocktail At Sam Altman’s Home Claims He Was Following ChatGPT Recipe For Risotto https://theonion.com/man-who-threw-molotov-cocktail-at-sam-altmans-home-claims-he-was-following-chatgpt-recipe-for-risotto/

oh dear god it’s the same fucking name and everything wowwwwww

so close to getting it

an aspiring cryptkeeper currently working as a federal judge said two Texas prosecutors and a sheriff can't be sued for charging a woman who had an abortion for murder, even though such a charge is explicitly forbidden in state law. me in @ballsandstrikes.org

he's counting on people not knowing what a doctor looks like because they don't have healthcare

Not just journalists, but lawyers as well. It’s so reliable that courts will judicially notice its content without hesitation. I’ve used WM captures to defeat motions over personal jurisdiction, establish the popularity of streaming media over time to calculate copyright damages, and so much more.

I know there is a lot happening <gestures wildly at all this> but we should all be worried that America's main Wall Street watchdog quietly announced last week that it is prosecuting way fewer financial crimes: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

This was the presser opening: "Formerly, press conferences worked in a way that the propaganda media asked questions that were written for them by govt... We will now give the floor to those Hungarian outlets who are still independent."

It's telling that: a) he caught enough pushback from the religious right to delete something, which he almost never does b) those people have not used this influence to cross him on anything more substantive than a gross but fundamentally superficial aesthetic insult to their brand

Peter Magyar confirmed that Szijjarto, Orbán's FM, has barricaded himself with some of his closest colleagues and is shredding documents related to the sanctions on Russia any other evidence of treason.

Interesting that the FTC went after a multi-level-marketing scheme participant, not the company. www.ftc.gov/news-events/...

Remember the @pewresearch.org data on the decline in Israel's standing in the US published last week? We asked them for the crosstabs which they graciously shared with us, and we're publishing for the 1st time. Bottom line: total collapse of Israel's standing among young Americans across the board.

This is so cool. There are all these beautiful trees and sculptures out in the middle of Grand Army Plaza, but it’s almost never worth it to go out there because traffic is so crazy

the Soros conspiracy coming from Elon in particular is just embarrassing. you’re worth like 80x what Soros is buddy, if you thought he was buying elections you could snap your fingers and fix it.

Members of Congress resemble other retail investors in their stock trading behavior and fail to outperform, from Haotian Chen and Bruce Sacerdote www.nber.org/papers/w35041

Say "weak on crime" again. I dare you.

BREAKING: DOJ investigates the Hungarian electorate for Mortgage Fraud

Reporter: Why did you attack Pope Leo? Trump: I don’t think he’s doing a very good job. He likes crime I guess. We don’t like a pope who says it’s ok to have a nuclear weapon. We don’t want a pope that says crime is ok. I am not a fan of Pope Leo.

Credit where credit is due! As Secretary of State, Clinton put more pressure on Orbán than anyone else (including the EU). This was one of the main reasons for Orbán’s early embrace of Trump. He hated Clinton.