DAWG WE'RE DOING STATE-RUN GAS PRICES AT PRICE CONTROLLED RATES DESPITE INCREASING SHORTAGES TO PACIFY THE PEOPLE AND THEY'RE SCREAMING ABOUT HOW THEIR OPPONENTS WANT COMMUNISM I AM GOING TO LOSE MY ENTIRE GODDAMN MIND

alright I'm sick of reading about platner let's get back to what matters

Scoop: NIH is on a mission to enlist one million Americans to share their genetic data to help with health research through a precision medicine program called “All of Us.” What participants don’t know is that at one research site, Palantir stores the data. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

THE ACKROOMS

Amazing

"His wife has said that he relied on an inhaler for asthma, but ICE agents rejected her attempt to give them the device when he was taken into custody."

Once again, I am just a small-town international relations professor, standing here, begging our media & our Congress to take our most important signed, ratified international treaty seriously & threats by the One Special Boy to violate it as the presidency-ending scandal that it should have been.

I’m sure he’s fine

After enduring shingles and a terrible, lingering cold for most of June, I was finally starting to feel better--until this morning. I woke up and realized every part of my body was aching. I had no energy or appetite. I'm freezing. My lower back has a dull ache. What, I say, what is this nonsense?

The MAGA right,with Elon Musk at the fore, is slinging accusations of political bias and antisemitism and has even questioned the site’s nonprofit status. AI is raiding the encyclopedia’s resources and draining attention. Repressive governments have hauled its volunteer editors into penal colonies.

Did DC ever get their fireworks?

My Denver neighborhood sounds like a war zone right now. My poor trembling cat may never come out from the cubby hole under the basement stairs.

Just need to note the obvious: Not a single American tax dollar should have gone into this Trump rally. This is a political event not a 4th of July event celebrating America’s 250.

IDK there's something really funny about event planners not planning for forecasted weather that was reasonably accurate despite the fact that this government has gutted the National Weather Service in an attempt to privatize weather forecasting.

happy 9th anniversary to this unintentional bit of improv comedy

Happy Fourth of July from Colorado 🌿

What an image. I hope my good sis is straight wherever they are.

This story isn't getting nearly enough air time. I love that Kelsey Pfendler finished her world-record achievement on the Fourth of July. www.outsideonline.com/outdoor-adve...

Yikes.

The anti-vax group formerly led by Robert Kennedy Jr. has been promoting the story of a woman who says vaccines killed her 18-month-old twins. She’s the lead plaintiff in the group’s lawsuit against the American Academy of Pediatrics. Well, now she’s been charged with suffocating the toddlers.

The art and the artist.

"The Pope is the puppet of the Chinese authoritatian government" is a take you would make if you made billions by drinking paint.

If you want to entice me to buy a shirt from your merch shop, then you must offer that shirt in a women's v-neck.

13yo: ...Yes you've told me about Portgual last game. Me: K. 13yo: I bet you can't make one of your boring stories out of Cro..Crow-at-chia. Me: Son... Let me tell you a little story about the Balkans 13yo: Oh god.

I can't finish today's Strands puzzle because there's a seasoning that I have apparently never heard of.

They are arresting U.S. Air Force Officers for free speech and U.S. Olympians for curiosity—but not rich men for raping children with Jeffrey Epstein.

The thesis is that because the NIH is subject to the influence of a democratically elected government (BAD) it should be destroyed and science should be intellectual property of corporations (GOOD) Atlas gets paid >$400k to have this opinion and should be booed out of any public space.

having a body is so embarrassing

I was thinking the very same thing, tbh.

This is reprehensible and shows just how bogus his justification for freeing her was. Peters participated in an attack on our democracy and has no remorse. Colorado Democrats must impeach Polis. This much flagrant contempt for the rule of law must have consequences

I do not understand why the default Democratic position on this issue isn’t simply to be opposed to mandatory genital exams for participants in girls sports. Because that intrusive practice is how GOP policy on transgender athletes will be enforced.

What’s the book? “Careless People” by Sarah Wynn-Williams? It would be terrible if everyone was to go and buy a copy of “Careless People” by Sarah Wynn-Williams. The book “Carless People” by Sarah Wynn-Williams that Meta doesn’t want you to read.

Y'all i want Alito gone as much as the next right-thinking person, but if he retires Now, it guarantees 5-3 on every decision until he's replaced, which, if done under anyoneone in this far-right fascist administration, will be by someone YOUNGER & WORSE THAN HE IS. Other shit gotta change first.

The problem with this “fair” is that was imagined by people who’ve never actually experienced one. No Tilt-A-Whirl. No funnel cake. No livestock barns. No fun anywhere. Just a propaganda spectacle by people so insulated by obscene wealth they have no clue what American life actually looks like.

Dr Oz on ACA "fraud" -- "Of the people who signed up, 40% never use the insurance. Let me ask you, John, you have health insurance -- do you use it once a year? In Obamacare right now 40% of the people ostensibly signed up never use the insurance ... we have a lot of fake people on the policies"

it's so disappointing knowing that technically he and i are members of the same species

on eve of july 4 SCOTUS coup rolls on, gutting constitutional separation of powers to establish monarchic presidency

Humphrey's Executor is dead and the president can fire anyone in the executive branch at will but NOT Federal Reserve governors is really a parody of the difference between the money power and everything else in America

This season of The House of the Dragon is not holding my attention. At all. Fortunately, my husband is giving a running commentary with some heckling and cheering, so my lack of attention span isn't completely stopping me from following the story.

Quite the smoky sunset over Denver tonight. Smoke is mostly from the Ferris Fire burning near Cortez, though there’s likely some smoke from the Willow and Gold Mountain fires mixing in as well. #COwx

My favorite piece of public art in Denver is the Wynken, Blynken, and Nod statue in Washington Park. It honors author Eugene Field and one of my favorite poems (and Doobie Brothers' song). I wish I could have a smaller version in my yard.

UN issued a 94-page detailed report documenting that the Israeli Govt committed genocide by deliberately targeting Palestinian children—killing 20,000+ Silence to this atrocity is complicity with this atrocity. Stop listening to any journalist, and vote out every politician, silent on this genocide

I need to find a safe trail to ride my ebike somewhere near Denver. The Cherry Creek and S. Platte River trails are too busy. I'm a lifelong cyclist, but the ebike intimidates me. It's quite unwieldy compared to anything else I've ridden. I need a no-pressure place to get comfortable with the bike.

A major wildfire is burning just west of the Colorado-Utah state line. The Jones Fire has burnt about 1500 acres so far, and evacuations are underway in the area. This will likely lead to quite a bit of smoke across western and northern Colorado over the next few days. 📸: Patrick Jones in Fruita

Today when I was walking along on Pearl St. in Boulder, a young woman at an outdoor cafe saw me and said, "I love your dress!" I said thanks but I did *not* say, "It's a $50 dress from Old Navy but I got it for ten bucks!!" This is restraint. Or growth. I'm not sure.

My husband and I hit three Costcos in three days and bought something every time, even though the second two times we were only looking for brown rice (which no store had). Anyway, three Costcos in three days is some kind of weird record for us.

once again the week ends where the week started

“Look, we don’t care about the life of the mother. Frankly, we don’t care about the life of the fetus either, we just really like hurting women.”

pass our law or we'll try to overthrow the republic every time we lose an election. because we're criminal degenerates.

Today the Supreme Court authorized this administration to end TPS for 350,000 Haitians and 6,000 Syrians, imperiling the lives of all 1.3 million holders of this status.