Who’s been eating my cactus?

People are always like what’s something you miss from the past and one of mine is antitrust laws

This week's cover @thelancet.com

State and county officials have ordered a pause on construction at the Stanley-area property, formerly known as Zorro Ranch, alleging the new owners failed to obtain the required permits. sfnm.co/3OLdDoM

Have reported on protests, crackdowns, and immigration kidnappings — especially at Columbia — for more than two years now. If you have any tips or info, please text me on Signal: premthakker.35 You can remain anonymous And even if you don't have info, please boost this, so others know where to go

Transform your walls into active healing agents. This is nature and it here to help you. Even just by going full screen with this and gazing at it for a minute to reset your neurophysiology. 🌿 #BiophilicDesign #BiophilicArtPhotography

I read some things this morning about inside the Democratic Party and I just say, @kenmartin.bsky.social would do well for himself and the rest of us to get off the pity pot, resign, and hand over the keys to @benwikler.bsky.social . He is a fighter not a whiner and should have won, IMO.

Apparently it was Epstein, not love, that made the world go round.

If you live on the south side of Oklahoma City, have a car, and would like to help me with a little reporting, please message me on Signal at gbrockell.44. Will pay your gas money. 🙏

people, the guy who won this case is running for Attorney General of Colorado. he's been uniform in saying he will prosecute ICE & CBP agents who break the law. you should support him. @seligmanforag.bsky.social

Look, I too want to raise the vibration of humanity but just like Casey Means, I am not qualified to be Surgeon General.

1. Today, Jared Kushner is in Geneva representing the US in high-stakes negotiations with Iran. It is a last ditch effort to avoid war. But Kushner has debilitating financial conflicts that makes a deal less likely.

Eye-popping margins in the Pennsylvania special elections today: —Democrats won HD94 by 63 points. (Harris won it by 30 in 2024.) —Democrats won HD42 by 35 points. (Harris won it by 17 in 2024.) [The 2024 numbers are via the essential @the-downballot.com].

I mean, you know who doesn’t like dogs???

Is he FINALLY realizing what he’s done? That he will go down with the MF-in-Chief?

SOTU Counter Programming. Raise your hand if you love dogs.

A new NPR investigation reveals the Department of Justice withheld portions of the Jeffrey Epstein files that contain allegations involving President Trump. https://to.pbs.org/4qUc4lK

I know we all know he's lying, but about those accounts he's bragging about...

Counter programming for SOTU. Dogs are our best friends.

I'll be there.

I think this is a first: Our great Capitol Hill reporter, Joe Perticone, is doing a live Reddit AMA from inside the House chamber during the State of the Union:

All from Minnesota. Love to see it.

Stunning!!! A most beautiful baby white whale. Nature is amazing. 🤍💙 cc @angrywaterman.bsky.social

It’s both funny and cosmically correct that the U.S. men’s hockey chodes will have to sit through 2+ hours of rambling from their addled little king while the U.S. Women’s team gets to skip the speech and party with Flavor Flav in Vegas

The fact that there’s a secret network of doulas going around Minneapolis to help with home births for parents afraid of ICE should be front-page news. These children, born in secrecy, are American citizens.

Semi-apology for sharing so much Epstein yuck. I know normal people find it hard to believe, because it is so depraved. But WE must get over our collective disbelief, let it really sink in, and then be prepared to remove this man from office and put him in jail. For the rest of his life.

In other news, let's not lose sight of the positive side of sexual health. "Dream orgasms are one of the clearest examples of orgasms occurring without direct physical stimulation. These events are typically associated with the REM phase of sleep." www.medscape.com/viewarticle/...

The victim was interviewed by the FBI four times. The last time was the day before Jeffrey Epstein died

America is watching today, so every reporter covering tonight's State of Delusion should be questioning why 50+ pages related to a woman accusing Trump of sexual assault when she was a child are missing from the released files.

Cat mouse game is escalating.

New Mexicans, please be sure to remember that Albuquerque based CSI Aviation organized this, and all deportation flights with shackled migrants. The “evil doers” are nearby. Closer even than Zorro ranch.

“By declining the State of the Union visit, the US Women’s Hockey Team’s polite 'no thanks' says more than any corporation, or tech billionaire, or media company is willing to say. Amid so much cowardice, it’s those who stood up who will be remembered…

Another simple, brilliant move. The people can get it done and earn a fair wage while they're at it.

A significant number of Americans think that being racist should be free speech but calling someone racist should not be.

More than three-quarters of Americans say that the issues that divide the United States pose a serious threat to the future of the nation's democracy, according to the latest PBS News/NPR/Marist Poll.

"Point is: We should regulate the ever-loving fuck out of these AI companies. . . . Doing the same to AI ought to be a core plank for any responsible governing party." Second item here: www.thebulwark.com/p/how-the-na...

Seeing Trump and Kash Patel interact with the men’s hockey team is a solid example of how misogyny functions as a male bonding ritual. Patel is clearly trying to impress the athletes and Trump, Trump is trying to impress the athletes, and the athletes are trying to impress the president

According to an article in Fast Company, the great spiritual leader and apparent horn dog, Deepak Chopra, emailed this to Epstein: “God is a construct Cute girls are real.” ‘Bring your girls’ and ‘zero in on your prey’ Fast Company apple.news/A3plhLPYdSCu...

BREAKING: Shackled migrants, federal agents and ICE-contracted guards have been stuck on an ICE deportation plane since 1 a.m. Monday, confirms NH state rep and aviation journalist @wandrme.paxex.aero. My story: gillianbrockell.ghost.io/breaking-sha...

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Your timing is impeccable, @erictopol.bsky.social Besides being creepy, Attia is also an influencer scientist, not a real scientist.

I love an explanatory chart.

“.. It should have been clear all along that a single GPU cluster in North Dakota generating the output previously attributed to 10,000 white-collar workers in midtown Manhattan is more economic pandemic than economic panacea.” #GhostGDP 👻 www.citriniresearch.com/p/2028gic

When the lawyers themselves cave, we are truly on our own. “Legal uncertainty and political pressure?” American Bar Association: You are literally the one profession that was born to fight. (Sports don’t count.)

Listen to Jay.

It takes a lot to Ken Dilanian mad… Patel has to go.

Skip Trump’s lies tomorrow night and tune into the People’s State of the Union with @moveon.org and @meidastouch.com: www.mobilize.us/moveon/event...

One answer to the puzzle of why Republicans would push policies that punish Republican women is an embrace of Christian nationalist values, such as the idea of "the household vote" i.e., the head of the household decides who the family votes for. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-save-a...

Hey, USA? Can we at least start the countdown clock to arrests in our country?

I 💙 this by @erictopol.bsky.social . I studied ex science decades ago & learned several things — you can too. Then, stay for Peter Attia being called out, along with ChatGPT Health & Claude, which rely on quite inaccurate smart watch data to assess health. 🙏🏼 erictopol.substack.com/p/the-flawed...