Crews were setting up oil booms at Willow yesterday and at PCH today.

Crews are hard at work up and down the Los Angeles River, including multiple spots in Long Beach, cleaning up after thousands of gallons of crude oil leaked from a ruptured pipeline in East LA Friday. Read more from @brandonrichardson.bsky.social on the Watchdog. lbwatchdog.com/east-la-oil-...

Spotted: Oil booms deployed and other cleanup operations in the wetlands of the LA riverbed near Willow St in Long Beach

They think that you’ll just move on after they dodged your question once or twice cause you have limited time. I’m more than happy to spend my entire time getting the answer to my damn question.

Very much looking forward to It happening

I'm starting to think we all need a friend whose job it is to keep us from smelling our own farts. Unfortunately, we got The Machine That Concentrates Your Farts And Blows Them Back At You instead.

"I voted for him because he would be good for my farm" is the public lie to cover for the fact that they love him for his hate and bigotry. Nothing matters more to Trump voters than that. They want to see the people they hate suffer and he delivers.

Trump’s career is an affirmation of the effectiveness of lying in politics. The ubiquity of lying is also why the public generally despises politics. Public cynicism often makes it even easier for politicians to lie without consequences. This quandary is not easy to solve.

If you have never read Mother Night by Kurt Vonnegut, now is the time to read it. If you have already read it now is the time to read it again. This is exactly the point he is making. You are what you pretend to be so you'd better be very careful what you pretend to be.

The point that needs to be hammered home is that the Republican party in its current form hates democracy and the rule of law. It cannot be a partner for reform and must be destroyed before reform is possible.

New, from me: This should be a clarifying moment about the relationship the Supreme Court's opposition to representative democracy in America. Lets look at some graphs that make this point. 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/power-demo...

@hawaiianairlines.bsky.social this account is obviously not monitored, but holy hell the result of the Alaskan merger has been a disaster for the customer. Accommodations and service have plummeted.

John Lewis had John Roberts' number from the jump: takebackthecourt.substack.com/p/john-lewis...

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100%. Until the Supreme Court is reformed and the corrupt members removed, nothing else matters because the Supreme Court and its corrupt members will just stand in the way of everything else. Any Democrat who can't get behind that simple fact should leave politics now.

Destroyed, by oligarchs and the prostitutes who serve them.. The SCOTUS6 should die in prison.

The President of the United States is a liar.

for amerika to be born again as a better country of many peoples it will have to d1e an ugly ugly death

Meet the 42 House Democrats who just voted with Republicans to renew warrantless surveillance power for Donald Trump and Stephen Miller — pass it on clerk.house.gov/evs/2026/rol...

several generations of goo goo liberals whose politics were Sorkin a decade ago find themselves much closer to Sherman today, having seen the institutions they took for granted crumble under the weight of corrupt men (very much including the bitch ass losers at the nyt)

the only thing i want to know from these people is if they understand that their hatred and confusion about trans people and immigrants and every other fake villain of the day was weaponized against them to get them to vote for morons, literally the only question id be curious to read their answer

I know normalization is just what we've decided to do to cope but turning a botched assassination attempt on the president of the united states into a public debate on gilded playspace is FUCKING STUPID and I refuse to treat this bullshit pivot seriously or with respect.

I think a lot of people in the media frog-boiled themselves into thinking of "the president is a demented pedophile" as not being a big deal but a lot of normie people are experiencing it as a full break with expected reality

OK - in Harvey Weinstein trial, now witness from Knickerbocker Hotel previously at the Doubletreet- Jessica Mann on deck? Inner City Press is covering the trial matthewrussellleeicp.substack.com/p/metoo-unav... & will live skeet, thread below

Impeach Remove Prosecute Convict Incarcerate

The point at which a sane, morally principled award winning teacher who is angry about school shootings picks up a gun and thinks it’s the only way to make a difference is a bad place to be in. Dismissing him as a crazy person and blaming Dems is disingenuous and dishonest

Unfortunately a bunch of Dems are going to make a lot of noise about toning down the rhetoric when they should be holding up a mirror to Republicans and reminding them of who is actually generating the violent rhetoric. (You don’t hear any Republicans calling for bipartisanship and comity do you? )

This guy is indicative of people who are anti Trump not having a voice because Congress and SCOTUS have enabled Trump to obliterate any recourse they have when he does horrible things.

This guy does not have the profile of a mass shooter and he knows what he’s forgoing. I worry that we’ll see more of this because Congress and SCOTUS refuse to constrain Trump and people who would not otherwise be radicalized are feeling a kind of moral injury by extension

Well done sir, they're calling it your best interview yet

"A Prince, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people." —The Declaration of Independence

I'm rewatching the Chernobyl series on HBO, and the opening voiceover from Legasov resonates: "What is the cost of lies? It's not that we'll mistake them for the truth. The real danger is that if we hear enough lies, then we no longer recognize the truth at all."

Trump’s ballroom is costing taxpayers nothing, just like he said. Unless you count the taxpayer money he’s shoveling under the table. A comically corrupt administration, from top to bottom. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/25/u...

It’s pretty damn simple. EVERYONE makes mistakes while driving. We are human. Making a mistake while driving a tank is way more dangerous than when not driving a tank. Therefore, if you choose to drive a tank you are a fucking douchebag.

Republican Senator: I'm sorry the gas prices are going up but your national security is more important than your pocketbook

I've written before about how USAID was the first government agency killed by conspiracy theory. This confirms it. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-death-...

The Direct File case offers interesting implications for state capacity. It showed that government could build good products. The debate on technical feasibility is over. The bigger question is whether we can have public interest capacity in domains where private interests lobby against it.

Congratulations to JD Vance & the International Council of Nationalists for helping cost Orban the election & providing a road map for defeating our fascists at home. If a Dem nominee won’t clean house & punish the monsters administrating concentration camps on American soil, they’re a collaborator

Trump must be removed from office. He has no capacity to do the job, and he’s destroying the US and the world with incoherent flailing. He thinks he can bully and blackmail the whole world and will start WW3 or nuke someone eventually. He absolutely cannot he allowed to continue.

An avowed bad-faith republican can co-host a news show for a major network as an alleged journalist because the intent of corporate media is to support the republican party

What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy?

Back in September 2024, most of us were focused on stopping “King Donald II,” so a lot of people missed the speculative fiction “documentary” 2073. www.youtube.com/watch... It’s brilliant—not because it predicts exactly how things collapse, but because it shows how today’s tech-bro … 1/5

The Union was far too lenient on the traitors after the Civil War. Happy Confederate Surrender Day (or whatever it’s called)

Happy Shoulda Finished The Job Day

The obvious answer here is that the student protest movement was broadly smeared as anti-semitic and aligned with terrorists, and a variety of institutions from government, media and the universities acted as if that smear was true, threatening, suspending, expelling and even deporting students.

"While the end point is unclear, Trump’s would-be dictatorship is politically broken. And as Trump’s mental and physical dissipation increases by the day, it’s increasingly important to focus on the network of stooges that have built and sustained his regime." — @davidrlurie.com