A new report finds corporations like Kroger and McDonald's are using digital loyalty programs to track your data and potentially charge you more. It's a tactic known as surveillance pricing. Former FTC Chair Lina Khan explains. https://youtu.be/-cbtUYshYM8?si=GPRt5_WnLehnjgWR

Those who cannot build and improve the world will do everything possible to rationalize (both to themselves and anyone who they think will listen) that their acts of breaking and destroying are somehow the moral equivalent.

Reagan's approach to the world prominently featured two things: 1) Russian aggression bad, Western democratic alliance good 2) Free trade good, tariffs and other barriers to trade bad Pretending it's the opposite is the sort of reality inversion only someone who rejects truth itself could buy.

@nytimes.com: Trump's $130 million mystery donor is Mellon heir Timothy Mellon! His “donation” only works out to $100 per service man & woman. Plus, it’s illegal under Federal laws.

1/2 🧵Exactly, Alexa. That’s the perfect phrase for it. Every line they use... “unity,” “peace,” “mutual prosperity”...is Orwellian doublespeak for domination...extraction...and control. They don’t mean bridge building...they mean resource tunneling.

Yes...and that’s what makes this moment so damn dangerous. When strongmen start testing boundaries and democracies look the other way...lines that once felt unthinkable start to blur fast. Trump’s ego has always been for sale to flattery...and Putin knows it.

Yeah - over my dead, maple syrup soaked Canadian body. 😉🇨🇦

When Russia says “Bridge of Understanding,” read it as “Access Point.” The Bering Link isn’t about peace. It’s about proximity.👇 www.jackhopkinsnow.com

Ah, locals mention the federal court order here, which also requires agents to wear some identification. Also, quite an image in here: masked, fully-geared-out DHS agents getting screamed at in a residential neighborhood by some dude who is barefoot and in pajama pants.

#MAGAphiles #Pedofiles #EpsteinFiles #TrumpEpsteinFiles

🚨🚨🚨When the government fails the people; the people must rise, and help one another. Volunteering helps. Donating helps. Make supper and take it to your neighbors. Everything helps. We will NOT let our military members and their families go hungry. We take care of our own.

Electric heat to cost more this winter, federal agency projects

“Fastest accumulation of $1 Trillion in debt outside of the pandemic…” But at least the rich got their tax cuts, right @MarshaBlackburn? With Inequality at gilded age levels. PSA: They don’t care about the debt and never did.

The Capital Area Food Bank (CAFB) is actively helping federal employees and contractors impacted by the shutdown. We’ll be making a $5,000 donation to help. If you have anything extra to give, please consider donating to them or to a local food bank near you, every bit helps! 🙏

The problem of course is that women will vote for misogynists, but men won’t vote for women.

Trump is demanding that the DOJ transfer $230 million in taxpayer dollars into his own personal bank account. At first, you might think, ‘Can he do that?' Then you remember the SCOTUS opinions under Roberts, which made federal agencies mere extensions of the president’s will.

Our military is being paid by an anonymous donor. Our WH East Wing was demolished for a ballroom - paid for by donors. These aren’t acts of benevolence or patriotism. This is the oligarchy assuming control, insidiously becoming part of how we function. Every American should reject it.

Chump's Military Dictatorship or Martial Law, That's What We'll Be Up Against, If He Gets His Way.....

🚨Illinois State Representative and Congressional Candidate, Hoan Huynh, was surrounded by ICE agents while one of them pulled a gun on him in NW Chicago this morning.

The Epstein Recess continues.

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When my kids were like, 2-4 years old….they also pouted and acted like babies.

Jeffries: "He's found time to demolish the East Wing in the most horrific way possible bc he wants to erect a ballroom so he can be celebrated like a king. He's found time for all of these different things, but somehow can't be bothered to find a dime to extend the ACA tax credits."

Popok: Letitia James appeared in court today in Virginia, and she's already filed multiple motions against the DOJ, Trump, and Lindsey Halligan. The first motion is a motion to dismiss because Lindsey Halligan has been improperly, illegally appointed to be the U.S. attorney.

Congress just held a hearing to determine why nothing ever gets done. After five hours...they adjourned...because nothing got done. America’s fine. Carry on. #FridayTwistedHumor

Urgent breaking news: former street cat curls up on lap to listen to the rain outside

This guy’s company will now be manufacturing the motors for our military drones. What could go wrong?

He's exactly right.

C/2025 A6 (Lemmon) behind thin cirrus clouds ☁️💫

Some personal news, I am going to eat ice cream for dinner.

On a deadly serious note, the President cannot rely on external, private sources to fund spending as an end-run around Congress’ constitutional power of the purse. If he can, we no longer have a republic.

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BREAKING: Left-wing independent Catherine Connolly is set to become Ireland’s next president after her rival conceded defeat in a presidential election Saturday.

“Tyranny requires constant effort. It breaks, it leaks. Authority is brittle. Oppression is the mask of fear.”

I haven’t seen anyone talk about how Jane Doe - an Epstein survivor - just sued the Bank of New York Mellon for funding Epstein and failing to file a Suspicious Activity Report. A Mellon heir is the one who gave $130M to pay the troops. Seems bribey to me.

I’m in!

Cartoon by @billbramhall.bsky.social.

A win! The 9th Circuit allowed Judge Karin Immergut’s restraining order against deploying National Guard troops in Portland to remain in effect while the full appeals court decides whether to rehear the case.

Being a lawyer right now is weird because you're sitting waiting multiple years for an Appellate Court to rule on basic shit, meanwhile SCOTUS rules every ten seconds that a different precedent doesn't mean what it very clearly says

Maybe we should all apply and then wash out of the academy.