BREAKING: The Trump White House just ousted all three sitting members of the U.S. Election Assistance Commission — hamstringing the bipartisan agency ahead of the midterms. The EAC helps state and local officials run elections, including by certifying election equipment.

Three men who were in the van with Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, the victim of the ICE shooting in Texas, are potential witnesses who are now being put under pressure to self-deport by federal authorities, according to a representative for the families. | TNR newrepublic.com/article/2129...

My Senator is very concerned about the appearance of impropriety.

“This is a tragedy,” Rep. Garcia said at the press conference. “A family led by a man here thirty-five years with absolutely no criminal history. Remember Renée Good? Has ICE learned nothing from that experience?”

Time to resign. For someone so concerned with appearances within the Democratic Party our Senator is pretty casual about corruption.

Hot ‘nuff for yah? Apparently not.

Back in the game! #mtb #Otis #trailriding

Or this bsky.app/profile/seth...

Oof

July 5, 2026

Large Language Models are built on the same imprecise fog we all live with. Don’t make a god of them “Vagueness isn’t a problem that can be solved. It’s a fact about how beings like us encounter the world. And this encounter, we are finding, is also true of our most complex and powerful creations.”

This pleases me.😎

#ADK #Paddling #OsgoodPond #July4th #SummerWhiteHouse 10 mile paddle for the 4th of July. It was gloriously immersive. I should have stayed off the internet afterwards as bad actors continue the assault on our beautiful country and people. Lesson learned, make space for beauty.

Weeks ago, I spoke directly with Major Jason Watson regarding his planned act of civil disobedience. What I do not hear enough people discussing is the broader constitutional strategy behind his message. 🧵

I think we’ve seen enough.

He’s going to increase the treason until he is removed.

#woodlands #FridayFlowers #raspberry

Here’s our billionaire run future.

Echos of Paine in the land today. “…that a nation should rest not on the arbitrary rule of a single man and his hand-picked advisors, but on the rule of law.” - HCR

THIS IS WHAT IS CALLED FOR UNDER FASCISM — BRAVERY Before the attacks & the hot takes start, a few facts: Major Jason Watson is a graduate of the US Air Force Academy, a career logistics officer, a NATO officer, and a decorated veteran who volunteered for a 365-day tour in Afghanistan… 🧵

How much was Trump paid to shut this down?

“The White House is not a business opportunity. The presidency is not a license to steal from the American people. The government of the United States doesn’t exist to make Donald Trump rich.” - Sen Murphy

#woodlandsWednesday #ADK #ferns #woodlands

Americans now need an income of $120k per year to afford median priced home of $400k. It was $66k annually back in 2020. Everytime you give rich folks more money, they buy more assets and your quality of life plummets. Tax the rich. Tax wealth — not work. Pass the Affordable Housing Act now!

Witkoff is as corrupt as the day is long. He should brief Congress on his self dealing w/Trump crime org instead of cosplaying as a diplomat. Investigations revealed that an investment firm tied to the ruling family of the UAE deposited $2B into WLF, a startup founded by Trump & Witkoff families.

This is a dark one.

#DirtChurch #mtb #OtisMountain #SolaceCycles

#ADK #ChaneyPond #BoreasRiver #paddling #kayak #dog happy weekend everyone!

As the former President of South Korea serves a life sentence for his role in a failed insurrection, his wife just got sentenced to 7 years in prison for bribery. The US could learn a lot from South Korea what accountability looks like for power-hungry, corrupt grifters. youtu.be/nAUksLhLSKs?...

in fact i think the huge push for AI in creative industries is part of this- AI results in a flood of garbage that means nobody can stick out without paying to promote their stuff, essentially, which gets rid of one of the last worlds where class mobility was in *any sense* possible

It’s not just mental health. My VA dental appointment took over a year to schedule. And my MRI was done incorrectly and had to be re-done, postponing my surgery for a year. Stop. Voting. For. Republicans.

First Amendment folks: The Establishment Clause: Prohibits Congress from making any law "respecting an establishment of religion".The Free Exercise Clause: Prevents the government from interfering with a person’s right to practice their faith (or have no faith at all).

Someone on Reddit used this prompt to get "AI" to reveal its copyrighted training data, and I decided to test it myself and what do you know, anyway, "AI" is trained on theft, don't use it

“Mankind will reach maturity on the day it learns to value diversity —of life and ideas. ... The worst thing that could happen is for all of us to look and think and act alike.” — Gene Roddenberry I'm guessing Pauline Hanson is no fan of #StarTrek. #auspol #diversity #multiculturalism

Cruelty is the point. I remember evaluating a Haitian child for the the health department. Mom was a home health aide who had just completed her degree. There were pictures of mom and her sister in graduation gowns on the side table. Working, going to school, and raising her child. Some of the best.

Grok is now in the history manipulation business. And what more important history to distort at this moment than that of the 14th Amendment.

Two pages. The same story. SNAP cuts: American children are losing food assistance and going hungry. USAID gutted: Children overseas are dying after humanitarian aid was cut. History won’t remember the excuses. It’ll remember who let children suffer. #RepublicansStarveChildren

He used our tax dollars to pay for it. He ruined it. Now we’re being treated like trespassers.

Nancy Lacore, a former Navy admiral who was fired by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, won the Democratic nomination for the First Congressional District of South Carolina.

They need to arrest the terrorists who ruined the pool!

Groundhog Day!

Juneteenth Celebration in Plattsburgh last night.

More Ignorance than Political Ideology….

Social Security is earned, not given. We paid into it our entire working lives. Speaker Johnson knows how unpopular cuts would be. That’s why these conversations happen behind closed doors instead of out in the open. We earned these benefits. We’ll fight to keep them. #HandsOffSocialSecurity

The new super PAC cannot outspend the AI industry or meet it one-to-one. But it can educate people who already hate AI about where the industry is spending its money, and how they can counteract it. prospect.org?p=140051

Obama Presidential Center

Should be reposted every month....Speak Truth....

>renames it to the Department of War >names himself the Secretary of War >fights one war >loses

WHY WAS THE STRAIT CLOSED WHY WAS THE STRAIT CLOSED, DONALD