crazy that under the precedent set by callais, a lily-white congressional delegation formed by "partisan" gerrymandering in a plurality black state passes constitutional muster, while any majority-minority district is constitutionally suspect

I've served at every level of law enforcement. Why is there large contingents of ICE thugs at contractually PRIVATE detention centers? They're being paid billions to run those. Why are we paying for their security? There shouldn't be any more than a nominal ICE presence at these PRIVATE facilities.

I'm not saying we should abandon electrical technology, it's very good. But I will say I think we should return to mechanical means for many things. You do not need an app for your door lock. You do not need a smart fridge. You do not need a coffee machine with a camera. Bring back the mechanical.

Fun fact: to keep production costs low, many Star Trek scenes were filmed on Earth.

A rose for your morning:

I just watched video of 5 ICE agents abducting a guy from a courthouse in my area of Massachusetts. Periodic reminder that ICE hasn't gone anywhere. They are still here and still terrorizing immigrants.

The tech bros gave us crypto currency that isn’t currency, artificial intelligence that isn’t intelligence, and prediction markets that are inside-trader scams. On the other hand, they have given us gigantic data centers that employ no one and destroy communities. So there’s that.

(1/X) I would argue that the vast majority of all commentary is essentially pro-Trump. I don't mean pro-Trump in the sense of liking Trump, I mean it in the sense of them not holding him to the anything close to the same standards as Democratic politicians....

Oh my God, he wasn’t kidding. Stephen Colbert actually returned to community-access TV in Monroe, Michigan for a very special episode: youtu.be/7DlF5Cf4VLM?...

One of my all-time favorite moments from Colbert’s show — this exchange with Dua Lipa on faith and grief.

Trans people have been around your whole life. You’ve been sharing bathrooms with them your whole life. They’ve been in your communities your whole life. They’ve even been playing sport your whole life. And you didn’t care *at all* till a few years ago when every right wing org decided you should

don’t know a ton about government financing. And even I know the President isn’t supposed to have tax immunity and his own government-funded slush fund. How is this happening in broad daylight?

No money for pediatric cancer research but there's $1.7 billion for people who beat cops and smeared feces on the walls of the US Capitol.

Editorial cartoonist Andrea Arroyo presents “The Slow Bleeding of American Democracy.”

If it feels like your grocery bill suddenly got way worse, you’re not alone. New data shows tomato prices are up 39%; coffee 18.5%; and beef nearly 15%. Working families are getting squeezed in every aisle of the store. abcnews.go.com/Business/tom...

I AM A PROFESSIONAL PHOTOGRAPHER. I studied photography during four years of post secondary education. I’ve been shooting for decades. I’ve captured thousands upon thousands of images all over the globe. that’s my thumb on the left. 😬

France is mandating solar panels on every large commercial car park in the country — turning millions of square metres of idle asphalt into one of Europe's most productive clean energy assets. I have been mentioning this for months - they are shooting up on all the supermarket car parks.

BURGUM: When the sun goes down, solar produces zero electricity HUFFMAN: I want to enter into the record this amazing new technology that apparently the secretary is unaware of -- it's a battery

So Texas, Florida, Missouri, North Carolina, and Tennessee can redraw districts without a referendum and that stands, but when Virginia lets voters decide directly at the ballot box, it gets overturned?

It’s staggering How swiftly states in the South can still move to stymie Black voters And how ready they were to do so

Witnessing southern states rush to dismantle black voting power is truly truly some heartbreaking shit to behold

Loved The Tracey Ullman Show!

If racism is no longer a problem, then why are all the states rushing to redistrict after the Supreme Court ruling all in The South? And all the people pushing to redistrict all White? 🤔🤔🤔

According to PBS, Dump has paid up to $2 billion to cancel offshore wind farms on both coasts. He actually spent taxpayer money to shelve economically viable private company projects which would have provided electricity to Americans at a fraction of the current average price

That feeling when a ticket to an NBA playoff game in Madison Square Garden is the cheaper of your two options for the evening.

Foreclosure filings have jumped to a six-year high as homeowners face rising costs and a difficult economy.

Ukrainian artist, Alexandra Velichko

Got up early in hopes of catching this photo before work this morning. There's only a few days each year where it's cool enough in the morning to make this shot possible. Thankfully, today was one of those days! #wildlife #birds

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This👇🏽 deserves to be posted 100 times but I’d be labeled spam.

In grade school, I read a story about an entire family who reads all the time. They get invited to dinner, and realize that they won't be able to read through the meal, but will have to have conversations. Does this sound familiar to anyone? I'd love to track it down.

Notice how a book can make you gay, a vaccine can make you autistic, a mask can make you sicker, and a poster of the Ten Commandments can make you moral, but guns don’t kill people.

Half of all new electricity demand in the U.S. last year came from data centers—just as public opinion of them plummets Source: Fortune

How tragic that you could publish, then re-publish, then re-publish, then re-publish, then re-publish a cartoon like this over and over again...

Today's winner of the Internet. Congratulations!

I'm not joking when I say mRNA technology is more important than "AI" and it's a tragedy we're throwing billions into one while our government is aggressively defunding the other.

Why have grocery prices been going up on a weekly basis? At this point it is just pure greed. They are making more profits than they have ever been. I mean. It is literally on a weekly basis. The new French Revolution can’t come fast enough.

Ns surprise that a Secretary of Defense who gets his Bible verses from "Pulp Fiction" gets his military strategies from "Catch-22".

The FBI guy is on a paranoid bender and won’t leave his room. The War guy quotes bible passages from Pulp Fiction. The Health guy collects raccoon dicks. It’s an Idiocracy on steroids.

If I were trying to establish myself as a dictator, starving my military would certainly be a strategy I would implement...

Food for thought .... "When I give food to the poor, they call me a saint. When I ask why the poor have no food, they call me a communist." - Helder Camara -

Hey, NYT Spelling Bee - how do you not know the word “pennate”?

"The Blazers look to avenge their 4-1 series loss to the Spurs the last time the teams met in the postseason in second round of the 2014 NBA Playoffs" im cracking up imagining a visibly angry shaedon sharp muttering WE MUST AVENGE THE BLAZERS FOR WHAT WAS DONE TO THEM WHEN I WAS ELEVEN YEARS OLD

"A recent convert to Catholicism who has been openly coveting a dead man's wife on television has advice for the appointed emissary of God on this earth because well, he knows better." 🛋️ Who am I?🛋️

Zapped my coffee, opened the microwave, and there was an ant running around in circles inside; crushed it before in manifested its mutant monster form.

To do any of this, though, you have to register to use the app. Which means that its real, and only useful, functionality is: 4. Harvest data from gullible people.

Someone is dying in ICE custody EVERY WEEK. And that doesn't even include the American citizens ICE has killed in the middle of our streets in broad daylight. It could not be more clear, ICE needs guardrails, not a blank check from Congress.