Young people’s role in building a freer and more democratic America is often overlooked. That’s why youth and their older allies should be coming together to ensure a multiracial, multiethnic, and multigenerational democracy, Yael Bromberg and Cornell Williams Brooks write. https://bit.ly/3R527pI

OMG I love this thread.

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What a wonderful hypothetical he poses. Jimmy Carter was a farmer, but SOLD his farm when he became president because signing a farm bill would in fact have been a conflict if he still owned it.

I had a 20 minute phone call with my good friend Mitch McConnell this morning. I can verify that it was really Mitch because when I mentioned that my town's local orphanage recently burned down he could not stop laughing.

No, I would NOT like to view this in browser hell, but thanks for the offer.

PASTOR LORAN LIVINGSTON (@CentralChurchNC): “There has never been a Christian nation, and never will be. You don’t live in one now. A Christian nation wouldn’t have killed and displaced 20 million Native Americans, or thought owning slaves was pleasing to God.”

www.theguardian.com/environment/... Please join me in nominating The Blob itself: slime mold!

CLARKSVILLE: Days before news Darrius Chappell died in custody, his family posted video👇🏽of them calling for medical attention for him saying he had open wounds from the K-9 bites and needed medical attention, saying nobody had checked on him. Their post: www.facebook.com/share/p/1F9Z...

Well, no one ever accused MAGA of being smart.

More than 100 million spent; just more grifting from the grifter in chief.

Trump should have volunteered for a dunk tank at the Great American State Fair. It would have ensured massive crowds. HUGE success.

Fox chyron: GREAT AMERICAN STATE FAIR CELEBRATES MAHA MOVEMENT Fox footage: *people gagging on pancakes and nearly puking*

NOT TRUE!!! This is pure propaganda, this Administration is pushing & wants you to believe. I spent my entire legal career working with the SSA Disability Program, which parallels the VA Disability Program in many respects. Trump/GOP are in the process of a full on attack AGAINST ALL Veterans…

Perfection.

Trump Team Changed a Report to Hide How Bad DOGE Made Things The report "portrayed the average wait time for callers to speak to a representative as having dropped to under 10 minutes" BUT: newrepublic.com/post/208020/...

The “Making Life More Affordable for America's Seniors” SSA email you received this morning just recycles the same old misleading propaganda. www.warren.senate.gov/wp-content/u...

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Walking a bit without the frame today (yay!) but I have a bit of a rolling seaman’s gait with the boot. Which got me thinking about Popeye. With that nickname he probably had hyperthyroidism, and spinach actually would have been good for him!

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@rejectednytwords.bsky.social Really, NYT? UNCIAL?

Trump’s Great American State Fair is the 2026 version of Willy’s Chocolate Experience.

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Instead of the vague “have more (white!) children” this administration is pushing, our policies and tax code should recognize that children’s wellbeing and education are essential to all our futures and wellbeing. Even the richest of the rich will need young doctors, nurses, and health aides.

Yes.

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My father had a huge huntsman that he let live above his dining table, in the corner of the room. He used to greet it in the morning when he ate his breakfast and completed his crosswords. When I visited him, I ate my breakfast in the lounge room. I wasn’t as brave as my Dad. 😆

Gotta love our NC legislature, 🙄making it hard for young and overseas voters (including military families) to have their say—and easier for the crooks to keep their seats. By the way, the Democrat and Independent who didn’t bother to vote against the anti-DEI and pro-ICE bills? I hope they’re toast.

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No kidding! 😄

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The sudden propensity of our toaster to pop a slice all the way out and hit the wall with it led me to this fascinating piece on toasting history (and how the modern toaster changed our tastes).

Last night, Republicans betrayed the American people and bowed down to Trump. Trump is too incompetent to negotiate a good deal to end his disastrous war—and it’s hurting families, endangering our national security and humiliating our nation. Republicans own all of it.

Soft sales pitch for MOO notebooks at the end. (MOO’s a fine company in my experience.) But interesting info for those of you not enjoying the new AI-enhanced workplace.

I’d like to report that my daughter’s summer break is going well.

This.

"No one gives a shit about housing." Only ballrooms.

“I have heard from our managers at ProPublica that they don’t intend to replace us with AI. And that’s great. But we’re gonna need that in writing.” This is why we’re fighting for protections against artificial intelligence:

Crime and Punishment — A cartoon by Nick Anderson

C’mon, people! Be informed! Annoy Musk! Like and follow—or are you afraid to risk the wrath of one of the biggest losers on the planet?

Somebody should write a book that has cats as spies in the great houses of power

Damn they know how to hurt him

Meet the microbiologist and science advocate who’s headed to Congress. Jasmine Clark led a March for Science in 2017. She just won a Georgia primary for a safe Democratic House seat - by Jeffrey Mervis | 22 May, 2026 19thnews.org/2026/05/geor... cen.acs.org/people/profi...

Alarming stuff. Institutionalizing people with mental health issues is a good way to “disappear” them.

For chrissake. The propaganda is everywhere.

If destroying government property can get you up to ten years in prison, I think we all know the repeat offender they should be looking at.

“After all the controversy, one thing Americans can algae on is that the reflecting pool is a peeling.”

Thomas Jefferson once wrote "The Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool is to be a rotten cesspool devoid of all life and dignity. As we gaze upon this liquid wasteland we will be reminded of the sins we strive to avoid." Trump is just giving us what the Founding Fathers wanted.

Trump said on Wednesday: “If we didn’t do this deal, we could have dropped more bombs for another three weeks, two weeks, four weeks, two years,” but then “you would never have the Hormuz Strait open.” That is the ugly truth that Trump grasped and the uber-hawks still fail to. wapo.st/4xFUV3Z

Reflecting pool, reflecting pool on the mall….