Utah, this year, legalized open carry of firearms on college campuses. And the FBI head in Salt Lake City, experienced in anti-terrorism, was female and from Asia so she was recently fired.

What I say about this is not long, but too long for this platform. If you still have Facebook, click through. www.facebook.com/dvd.avins/po...

Wrote about Paul Skenes .. who has a 1.99 ERA career ERA in his first 46 career starts .. which is the lowest in the Live Ball era. Feels like we're kind of just acting like that's normal. (Fun fact: He's allowed a .574 OPS in his *losses.* It is the lowest ever.) www.mlb.com/pirates/news...

Generative AI needs to be burned to the ground and then salted. White hat hackers: These applications are not safe. They are not private. They can be exploited. They do harm. It's actually pretty easy to do. No code, no supercomputer needed. Just a calendar invite. Google: Welp. Security is hard

Meanwhile, the Republicans fundraise off rural Americans by painting cities as death traps.

This was part of AOC clapping back at Trump, who had insulted her. But I don't think Trump was the only Queens boy she had in mind. It seems likely Andrew Cuomo's electoral career is finally done.

📊The new Quinnipiac poll asked voters about antisemitism — and it turns out the more that a group believes antisemitism is a serious issue, the less likely they are to approve of how Trump is approaching it.

Lander doing the right thing.

The government is surveilling US senators and the phone companies are illegally failing to report it www.politico.com/live-updates...

“He sat back in his chair and he had a slight smile on his face with his hand up to his chin ... It looked to me like, I don’t know, like he was proud of what he did.” via @invisible.institute / @propublica.org

Read more about Christopher Young, a political adviser to Musk who also serves in DOGE, helping to gut the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.

Those accused of housing discrimination “know that we don’t have those resources anymore,” one HUD official said. “They also feel emboldened that this administration will not consider the things that they are doing to be illegal.” By @jessecoburn.bsky.social‬

"Celgene had kept the price of Thalomid low when it was initially intended for AIDS patients...as the company “didn’t want huge numbers of people demonstrating in front” of its office. That wasn’t a problem with cancer patients. There was “plenty of room for very substantial increases”..."

Hey! Press covering Trump! The statute that lets him impose tariffs at will? It EXPLICITLY excludes movies. He has no authority to do this. Not just bc of an absence of authorization, but bc the law says “you CANNOT do this.” Do NOT say “Trump has imposed movie tariffs,” bc he did not. He CANNOT.

"The people who’ve been able to get back out of the pit of despair and disinformation have all described one thing that was critical to allowing them to do so: a friend. Having someone in their life who was willing to give them the space to come back with dignity and not be treated as a fool..."

Particularly degenerate homophobia at the highest court in the land this week

I have rarely seen the shortcoming of Democratic/left messaging worse than seeing "due process" over and over and over and almost never "a fair hearing" or "facts presented to a court."

Scary things that you may have recently read headlines about that it turned out you didn’t have to worry about include: microplastics in your brain, black plastic spatulas, intermittent fasting, and plant based meat alternatives. Also, no, you do not eat a credit card’s worth of plastic a month.

Consecutive headlines in WaPo daily email: In the rain-soaked South, a warning to prepare for ‘generational’ floods still to come National Weather Service halts automated translation for alerts

It’s so important that this story is being told - a truly terrible thing happened to Becky and people need to know. It’s also important to emphasise that every person who ended up at the bottom of the Mediterranean Sea, or crossing the Darien Gap, or in a detention centre is somebody’s Becky.

Definitely read this.

"What we’re seeing is a wholesale abandonment of consumer protection, leaving people to fend for themselves when credit card companies, banks, payday lenders and payment apps violate the law." CFPB Probes of Big Tech and Finance Frozen Under Trump

It took NYT four days to report this, which still misdescribes both the Trump White House actions (they dispatched C-130 transports filled with black-clad security agents with heavy weapons) and the full furor of the Greenlanders' reactions. Most US media simply ignore the whole story.

Trillion. With a T.

If you call because your social security check didn't arrive you are a "fraudster". Unbelievable. You paid into SSA your whole life. That money is yours. In 2025 SSA benefits represented ~31% of income of people over 65. Seniors NEED this. #factcheckfriday #eattherich www.ssa.gov/news/press/f...

We are now living in North Korea.

"Among those detained was Ernesto Campos, a U.S. citizen and owner of a Bakersfield landscaping company. Agents stopped Campos’ truck and slashed his tires when he refused to hand over his keys." Many, many documented examples here. Excellent piece.

<<The FBI is moving to criminalize groups like Habitat for Humanity for receiving grants from the Environmental Protection Agency under the Biden administration. Citibank was told to freeze the groups’ bank accounts >>

FAA employees threatened with termination if they 'impede' SpaceX takeover: report www.rawstory.com/elon-musk-fa...

Also, Cuomo almost single-handedly cost Dems the House. He let the GOP gerrymander NY’s Senate to thwart progressives, pushed through an amendment to try to block future Dem maps, & chose conservative judges who blocked Dems from gerrymandering after 2020 while the GOP ruthlessly drew TX, FL, etc.

Cuomo is even worse than Adams. At least with with Adams, almost everyone knows he's corrupt and under Trump's thumb. Cuomo would usher in just as much corruption. And if it suited him, he'd cut whatever secret deals with Trump would help Cuomo become president some day.

The lack of precision in the committee’s methodology is “obviously laughable,” said Kim Lane Scheppele, a professor of international affairs at Princeton University who studies the rise and fall of constitutional governments. @propublica.org www.propublica.org/article/ted-...

Every mainstream attempt to grapple with the rise of Tate and other misogynist ideologues have posed them as a product of men’s despair. Few have posited them as an assault on women’s safety and dignity.

Exclusive: Hegseth orders Cyber Command to stand down on Russia planning

While some agencies have resisted efforts by Elon Musk’s team to access confidential records, HUD has opened the door. The potential harm to privacy could be significant. Read @jessecoburn.bsky.social's latest: www.propublica.org/article/doge...

You only get someone like Trump when the system is broken. Until people who are in the "resistance" understand this, then we will be going in circles just trying to re-create something that was going to die somehow either way.

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From 2017, still true, still relevant, and still scary. Trump and Putin are natural allies in their fight against the postwar, U.S.-led international order that has kept the peace for 70 years. Trump and Putin want to form a pincer movement to destroy what we have known for a long time as the West.

NEW: Frank Schuler was a leading promoter of a tax deduction derided as a scam by prosecutors, senators and the IRS. Now, under Trump 2.0, he’s a senior adviser to the General Services Administration, which manages the federal government’s property. By @peterelkind.bsky.social

If you wanted to cut waste, fraud, and abuse, you would empower the inspectors general. If you wanted more waste, fraud, and abuse, you would fire them.

A big problem with American politics is that a third generation hvac company owner is seen as more working class than a teacher’s aide