really can’t be overstated how much Polis was out on a limb with the Peters thing there are definitely issues on which “the Democrats” suck but on the topic of Tina Peters it was “Jared Polis sucks” the entire state party is furious, you don’t censure your own governor lightly

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I'm getting to where I'm to outaged to even try. I know I'm preaching to the choir. But this editorial does sum it up well... (Gift link) www.nytimes.com/2026/05/20/o...

You will be paying her with your tax dollars. Brought to you by the Republican Party.

After ordering a RI hospital to turn over trans kids’ medical records, “he then issued an injunction claiming to prohibit the hospital from seeking relief in the federal courts that oversee Rhode Island under threat of contempt.” Again, how can that possibly be legal?

It will be truly karmic if the results of Putin's war, and of Trump’s ego-driven quest for foreign policy achievements, end up destroying the Russian vassalage in the post-Soviet “near abroad” that was the last vestige of the Russian (or Soviet) empire.

What if I told you, the owlets are back, and they're cuter than ever? 🪶 🐣

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I have no idea how this can possibly be legal.

I saw one of them; the ‘if I hadn’t, I’d have had to make a special trip’ one as opposed to the ‘it will be back, and I will probably whiff once again’ one. Look at its range map. Yellow means ‘maybe you can catch it flying through, but it’s awfully rare’; red means ‘easier to see …

Link: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/r...

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“Similar people: Sharon Tate” 😱

Quinnipiac: Trump Approval 34% poll.qu.edu/poll-release...

Both videos are worth watching. She is VERY good.

The relevance of his assistance to police is not just that he’s a good guy; it’s that there is a visa program for witnesses in criminal cases, and he was in the process of getting one when ICE arrested him.

It’s nonsense because it’s impossible to distinguish the two. If you want to spend money on something, you need to raise revenue for it, and to call that a spending problem rather than a revenue problem is just to say that you don’t think the spending is worth it.

People are supposed to do something in my apartment between now and 5pm, so of course now is when I learn that there are not one but TWO birds I have never seen before a short bike ride away. 😖

Interesting that the Trump administration is laying down a marker that a military attack on an unarmed craft can be the basis for prosecuting senior government officials who supervised the attack in home countries of the vehicles' occupants.

Not sure why I’m on the mailing list that sent me this article but I’m not mad about it. news.ucr.edu/articles/202...

When Barack Obama said he would meet with Ahmadinejad without preconditions it spurred years of right-wing attacks over his willingness to talk to the guy Sean Hannity described as "Hitler Jr." www.mediamatters.org/sean-hannity...

This is the same as Trump putting $100 million tax dollars in his own pocket. He is stealing our money.

“The facility was built for 12 hours, and people are regularly staying there for three days or more. It is completely unacceptable. That fundamental problem has not been fixed one bit.” story via @jerodmacevoy.com

Not the sheriff: taxpayers. I genuinely think there is a broader trend of institutions not feeling bound by fiduciary duties; they prefer to do what the want, and deal with the lawsuits and compensation.

ProPublica used leaked tax returns to calculate that through complex tax avoidance schemes, Jeff Bezos pays a tax rate of 0.98% www.propublica.org/article/the-... So if we doubled the taxes he pays, that would mean he'd still be paying less than 2%.

Come on. Come on. This cannot be true. It just can’t. Can it????

Rapidly Growing California Wildfire Threatens Contaminated Nuclear Reactor Site gizmodo.com/rapidly-grow...

Good morning! 🪶

I'm not a plumber. But I'm pretty sure that's not how sinks work.

I was terrified of Barney as a young reporter in Boston. He had a sharp tongue and you did not want to say anything stupid around him. But I think he was the first politician I ever genuinely liked, too. RIP.

Rest in peace. m.youtube.com/watch?v=nYlZ...

A story about KY GOP Senate nominee Andy Barr: In 2019 he got mad at AOC and demanded she come to his district to visit a coal mine. She said yes, which he didn't expect, so he withdrew the invitation. Then it turned out there were no working coal mines in his district. Because he's an idiot. 1/3

The @who.int has confirmed Ebola cases linked to the Bundibugyo strain, alongside suspected cases and deaths in several zones across Ituri and North Kivu provinces.

Gift link, because WtActualF??? “To say that Mr. Ahmadinejad was an unusual choice would be a vast understatement.” www.nytimes.com/2026/05/19/u...

Journalists need to avoid making this category error

What a shock that the Prasad/Hoeg claim about child deaths from the COVID vaccine was a big fat lie.

In case you, like me, are wondering where this is from, here’s a link. www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...

It’s because it’s not government policy. It’s not a legal action. It’s not a political move. It’s a heist. You’re watching an armed heist in broad daylight and the man leading it is asking you to be happy about your money being stolen from you and your family

The AP projects that there will be a June 16 runoff between Burt Jones and Rick Jackson for #GAgov. Jones, who tried to overturn the 2020 election, would be a pretty weak candidate for the GOP, but he has Trump's endorsement…

In general I vote for the Democrat, but there are exceptions.

The most principled figure in American politics: a retiring Republican Senator thinking about their book deal

This corrupt lazy asshole is supposedly a public servant

Good.

He promised to release his tax returns as soon as there were no more audits pending, and now there are no more audits pending.

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Fascinating.

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