Texas has long had an outsized impact on textbook content due to its purchase volune. The industry wont print different copies forcing other states to adopt Texas’s standards involuntarily. This is also tailor made to go straight to the Supreme Court so it can disembowel the separation clause.

But I heard they’re just grifting.

Heartbreaking www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Brilliant. But he was pretty cool with it when it wasn’t him in the crosshairs.

Woke ass flood

You going snowboarding? 😂 🤣 😂

“It’s a disaster World Cup” - Medhi Taremi, Iran captain. Good for him to speak up, his body language says a lot more than his words. 😕

Try me newrepublic.com/post/212401/...

I am completely over watching my country men and women having to launch go fund me pages to pay for health care, while insurance companies rake in billions in profits I am COMPLETELY over that, and have no tolerance for half measures. ACA was the compromise. The GOP fucked that up. So fuck

This is what resistance looks like

Don't listen to the people doom posting about raising minimum wages across the country. When Seattle first did this, these people swore it would be the end of the city. The economy would crash, restaurants would shut down. In truth, restaurant workers could afford to eat out and the economy boomed.

Today, I introduced legislation to require that the minimum wage be a living wage. $25 an hour is what’s required for a full time worker to pay their bills, and we shouldn’t accept that full time work leaves people living in poverty.

FNC did more to normalize, protect, and celebrate rape culture than perhaps any other organization. She was fine with all of it until it caught up with her. Now she’s peddling full-blown ethnic cleansing. Looking forward to the day that catches up with her too.

Utopia

Evangelical Christianity got its dream President... He hates all the same people they do...

The rainier cherry harvest has begun in WA. This cherry is very delicate. Workers must be careful not to bruise it. They earn $10 per 25 lb bucket. In this very short one month season a very fast picker can make 40 buckets in a 8 hr day. But most workers pick much less. #WeFeedYou

Yes he’s dozing. The people standing behind him will be around long after he’s gone and what he’s saying should chill us to our core.

The scientists behind Climate.us are the same experts Trump fired because they were researching and reporting on climate change. Formerly NOAA’s Climate.gov. They didn’t disappear. They rebuilt.

This reminds me of how evangelicals tried to co-opt hiphop in the 90s.

He’s saying it out loud. It’s a live or die election for them all this time. Good idea to assume the worst. If they can attack it, disrupt it, manipulate it, intimidate it, change it, confuse it, control it, deflect it, lie about it, pay for it, or take it, then expect it.

Real Leadership

Trust expertise, but not blindly. If we can’t trust the person first, their expertise becomes an assumed malevolence. Titles mean nothing without trust.

Corpos gonna corpo

Cool, cool. Totally losing sight of what’s critical is exactly what the moment calls for.

We’re assured there is no threat to the integrity of elections though. No need for extra scrutiny. 🙄 www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

It’s ok James. A lot of us have been saying that exact phrase since you were relevant. You’ll still be expected to plug your nose and vote for whatever nominee the party tells you to vote for, of course, or you’ll be blamed if they lose. Themz the rulz.

Until they launch another war

Courts getting an education in trumped up charges. Been happening for a long time. It takes a tyrant.

I don’t know man, who is “the Democratic Party” if it’s not the voters?Democratic voters choose candidates, not party leaders. And party leaders need to listen to what voters are telling us - and right now they are demanding our party be bolder.

This is accountability. #DIVEST from Fascism. The City of Jersey City has announced they will divest from Citizens Bank over them providing $2.5 billion towards U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention financing, officials said on Wednesday. hudsoncountyview.com/jersey-city-...

Pretty sure the candidate that stops targeting fishing boats and starts on spam callers and scammers is a shoo-in for emperor.

Find-out phase for Dems has begun. Be sure to thank Merrick Garland on your way out.

Incumbent Democrats haven't done much to stop Republicans from destroying this country, etc., and so the Democratic voters in their districts chose candidates who promised that they would, in fact, stop Republicans. That's precisely why there were primary challenges. This isn't complicated.

Someone admonished me that THIS is how voters lose the general and... I believe this person has never met the Colorado GOP. Trust me when I say they are not serious candidates. They are not even trying.

Zohran Mamdani and AOC aren’t the main reasons democratic socialists are getting elected. Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg, Donald Trump and Mike Johnson are the main reasons democratic socialists are getting elected. Eventually, people start to realize who’s keeping them poor.

Great thread by EMB, and a lot of the common moves that we come across when people defend systems sold as "AI". I would add another which is the deployment of the term "guardrails", which is a meaningless term, especially in the labor policy space.

I see the Bluesky bubble is still at each other’s throats. I presume for the sake of arguing over the most proper way to hate him. Pretty sure most of them secretly miss the other place where they had actual red-hats to dogpile and shine next to.

Some Democrats think the party has gone too far left and needs to readjust towards the “center.” Rubbish. Where’s the center between democracy and oligarchy, and why would Democrats want to be there?

So Scientific American did an article on the hydrogen peroxide they added to the algae pool… Turns out the “expert” they got to weigh in has a bachelor in Sports Management and is named Tim. Tim has some ‘splaining to do

Co-sign (but not as an attorney)

From activist judges to social engineering to censorship to wealth redistribution—one of the real lessons of the Trump era is that the GOP was always accusing the rest of us of what they wanted to do, so we no longer have to worry about their hollow accusations. We’re free to rebuild as we see fit.

Fox Corporation is buying Roku for $22 billion. Roku sits in more than 100 million global streaming households. Fox owns Fox News, Tubi, and NFL and MLB broadcast rights. Fox now controls the hardware in your living room, the platform you use to access it, and your viewing data. Follow the money.

Once more for all the schadenfreudians. Oligarch media doesn’t care about ratings. That isn’t why they acquired it.

That learning curve is gonna be life-long, Joe.

We have a new message for Democrats: attack attack attack. Trump is corrupt, he’s butchered the economy, and his DOJ operates like mob lawyers. And every voter knows it. So stop looking backward. Stop with the endless focus groups. This isn't complicated. He’s weak. Finish him.

Like totally easy.

No serving two masters in MAGA world, TG.

Curious what the cops out there have to say about this. I assume they just put out in the morning briefing that anyone touching the water will be charged with vandalism and to let the courts sort it out, because “orders”. Is that how it works or would that not fly in your department?

Summer Solstice captured from Stonehenge yesterday. At first light, the sun climbed up behind the Heel Stone and threaded itself straight through the center of Stonehenge exactly where the builders aimed it nearly 5,000 years ago. Ethereal Earth on FB

What more of an indicator do we need? They will cheat anywhere they can.