Russia has started selling off its gold reserves for the first time to pay for the war. The Bank of Russia has, for the first time, started real sales of physical gold from its reserves as part of the Finance Ministry’s operations to fund the state budget.

A week before he voted to cut Medicaid, Republican Congressman Rob Bresnahan dumped up to $130,000 worth of stock in four companies that manage nearly half of all Medicaid enrollees in the country. www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...

“I want their morale as low as possible because a team with low morale is ineffective.” Meet the veteran who chases ICE on a scooter

Before the midterms of 1866, President Andrew Johnson called his congressional opponents traitors and said they should be hanged. Voters were so profoundly moved by his words... that they gave his opponents a supermajority in Congress, and the nation got the Fourteenth Amendment.

Corruption at every level of government. Inconvenient truths are eradicated.

*laughs in historian* “… ranks among the 10 minds in history, rivalling polymaths like da Vinci or Newton…”

I had thought we were past this childishness.

Whoa, look at Max talking sense!

The worst part is that so much time money and effort has been wasted on a multitude of studies that do in fact rule out the possibility that infant vaccines cause autism, in direct contradiction of this CDC post. All because of one study subsequently proven to be fraudulent.

Time to repair and reinforce the guardrails.

A friend and I visited The Poe Museum yesterday in Richmond and I couldn't stop laughing at the googly eyes and eyebrows someone added to the raven 😂😄😆 #eastcoastkin #photography #rva

1. Bloomberg journalist Jason Leopold reported this morning that the president’s name has been redacted from more than 100,000 documents the FBI has on child-sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein. www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...

Elon Musk’s Grokipedia cites neo-Nazi website Stormfront 42 times, researchers say www.nbcnews.com/tech/elon-mu...

🚨 Labour MPs are calling for a minister-led review of the government’s use of X, warning it poses growing risks to democracy and public safety @politicshome.bsky.social understands a review is currently being carried out by officials, but without ministerial oversight

Page One in Iowa.

Overdue

"A Chinese immigrant was found dead in U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention, with his hands and feet tied behind him, an attorney has alleged." www.newsweek.com/ice-detainee...

“And so “distrust and verify” should be the motto going forward. Congress, the media, the survivors—everyone committed to the truth come out—needs to be prepared to keep the pressure on, and to scream from the rooftops if there seems to be evasion or stonewalling. www.thebulwark.com/p/the-epstei...

We should get serious about sanctions. Russian missiles that kill Ukrainian civilians contain parts made in the West. And this repeated mass murder of civilians by Moscow should bring total boycotts on Russian gas and oil. And the Ukrainians should get everything they need to defend themselves

Trump in a room with a very charismatic person results in like half a day of Trump agreeing with everything that person said, so this has the potential to be very, very funny.

You see the thing about Republicans is they’re really passionate about states rights

Happy 45 years to @motorweek.bsky.social!

First, do no harm.

Plastic surgeons wrestle with requests for ‘Mar-a-Lago face’: ‘You’re going to look like Maleficent’

When ABC paid $15M to settle a lawsuit it would have won, it may have thought it bought peace with Trump. Instead, it invited more bullying. Yesterday, Trump called an ABC reporter ”insubordinate” and threatened ABC’s licenses. Today, more abuse. You either fight Trump or he owns you.

I'm starting to find myself rooting for the solar flare to clear out some of this junk.

I think that we could make a lot of progress socially if TV networks/streamers would run the Schoolhouse Rock series to remind people of some important truths. It seems like these episodes could help snap some people out of their current stupor.

Almost time to pull out Holiday Lights v2 (1995)

squirrel: *points gun* me: what do you want me to do? squirrel: *gestures at sign* me: alright, i get it *opens book drop* squirrel: *makes hurry-up motion* me: NOT A SQUIRREL! squirrel: *disappears into book drop* me: *whispers* forgive me, keith

Concept Stereo designed by Andrè Morin for RCA Canada (1972-73)

Just want to emphasize here that this is an image of an INTERSTELLAR COMET taken by a camera orbiting MARS. Space is so cool!

the crimes are obviously worse but there's also the constant indignities of all formal levers of government communication being taken over by people with a schoolyard bully's vocabulary and the pugilistic instinct of a drunk at the second bar that's cut them off that night

A federal judge has asked attorneys to identify witnesses and offer plans for how to conduct a contempt probe of the Trump administration for failing to turn around planes carrying Venezuelan migrants to El Salvador in March.

Pouring one out tonight for my old college friend George Wade, lead singer and bandleader of Not Shakespeare, winner of the MTV New Music Search competition circa 1986. He was always quick to offer help with any fundraising shows I ran for the student radio station. #CancerResearch

Some fun projects here!

Post your getaway vehicle. (IYKYK)

The Trump Administration killed over 383 active clinical trials and directly harmed more than 74,000 Americans with lasting future impacts for the public at large. Trump' s war on scientific research and public health is costing Americans lives and livelihoods.

The Post is keeping an updating map and list of the Trump administration’s extrajudicial killings in the Caribbean and eastern Pacific (Gift link) wapo.st/4oNn8RJ

A heartwrenching story of a woman’s 14-year-old son performing CPR as she died at home after being denied an abortion. Abortion bans kill. Tierra Walker should have been offered full reproductive care. JJ should still have his mother. www.propublica.org/article/texa...

A former Russian military cartographer told Mediazona that Moscow’s battlefield maps are often grossly inaccurate. He also compared the Russian army to the Third Reich, saying many soldiers know the war in Ukraine is “criminal and unwinnable.” meduza.io/en/feature/2...

Was this in effect when Putin invaded Georgia during the 2008 Beijing Olympics?

Yesterday, Trump defended the Saudi Crown Prince in the Oval Office. He said he had “nothing” to do with the murder of Jamal Khashoggi. But I reviewed a call while serving on Trump’s NSC that I believe would be of interest to the Khashoggi family and the American people. Release the transcript.

NEWS: A stunning courtroom admission may have just blown up the Trump DOJ's case against James Comey. Prosecutors just admitted the full grand jury NEVER reviewed the final indictment, only the foreperson did, after Lindsey Halligan brought an altered version straight to the magistrate. 1/

Judge Nachmanoff shut Halligan down after she tried to defend it, and Comey’s attorney declared, “There is no indictment.” With the statute of limitations now expired, the entire case may have just collapsed. 2/2

It is a station wagon/SUV locomotive!

“Military” and “foreign policy” are not magic words that automatically get the government out of court, or give the president unlimited powers. Anthony Sanders on Trump's authoritarian power grab, and the Supreme Court's responsibility to reject it:

Just so long as they adhere to Chuck Jones's rules! sevengoodthings.com/chuck-jones-...