In 2024 the President of Chevron attended a fundraisng dinner at Mar-a-Lago for oil and gas executives where trump requested $1 billion for his campaign in exchange for favorable energy policies if trump were reelected. Chevron would be the primary beneficiary of regime change in Venezuela.

WTF? ICE is arguing in court that US CITIZENS can be detained, handcuffed, and biometrically screened unless they can prove citizenship on the spot. And that a REAL ID isn't enough. This isn't border security.

The US would be worse off without Raffi.

I thought I needed to turn down the heat in our house because I'm not cool enough. It appears that the temperature today got high enough that out house is holding heat. It is 66 degrees in here and it was set to 64. I refuse to turn on the AC in December. I have no compunction about the fan.

What a crock! This is vile!

1. Most schools have a rule that they will not provide bus service within a mile. They don't take into account whether there is a busy highway, train tracks or other dangerous situation between their home and school. 2. Bullies are worse on the bus. 3. Extracurricular activities.

“The Congress shall have Power […] to declare War, grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal, and make Rules concerning Captures on Land and Water.” Though we’ve made a seemingly bipartisan decision to ignore it for years, Article I, § 8 is in fact remarkably clear.

Good to know male gentalia remain beyond the scope of Heritage Foundation regulations.

They dragged a pregnant woman then knelt on her.

No. No. No! This is critical research. It's not even centered on climate. It's solar physics! It's geomagnetic storms! It's space weather! It's sunspots! It's a research center needed for satellites and spaceflight!

I had no idea.

Companies, No, I don't want AI help in my home, chat, docs, phone, car, tv--I want your AI to fuck right off. It's wasteful and does a shitty job of the things you're pushing. Stop prompting me to turn it on. Give me an AI that takes away the drudgery of life so I can have more beauty and free time.

Translation: The car is totaled now so my theft of it no longer matters.

Editor in Chief of Christianity Today Magazine 👇🏽

Kind of darkly funny that the government's defense of the well thought out plan for Trump's bigly beautiful ballroom looks like this storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

My husband and i went to our storage unit on Saturday and learned that someone spent a lot of time stealing from us... they went through every box, dumped things out, reboxed things they didn't want randomly and left at least 15 empty boxes. No idea when it happened. How we left it vs found it.

You go, AP 💪. "unsubstantiated claim...shocking post...even for Trump...drastic departure from the role presidents typically play...after the death of a public figure...laid bare Trump’s unwillingness to rise above political grievance in moments of crisis." apnews.com/article/trum...

Not that it's not appalling enough, but this is an official US Government post, paid for by our federal tax dollars.

Me, I got stuck at A is for AK, like Arkansas? Picture of an aardvark, oh, but... maybe I'm H is for... woops, guess we skipped to L? And there is no J? What is wrong with this whole thing?

Thinking more about Ahmed al-Ahmed on this first night of Hanukkah than the Bondi Beach shooters. A true hero. www.jpost.com/opinion/arti...

Domestic terrorists

IOWA — “I’m a very pissed off conservative Christian woman. I almost died because I was denied medical care after being diagnosed with a fatal fetus… Cornered by the system… pro life? Choose me. Choose the mother.” It had to happen to her to get this? #ForcedBirthNation

This is college in the United States. Video from inside a Brown University building shows the moment that police found a group of students who were sheltering after the shooting on campus. This isn't freedom.

I say this as someone whose entire job is finding the narrow use cases in which AI is actually useful: All the fear about AI, all the reluctance to adopt it, is entirely legitimate, and a product of the fact that it's been foisted on the public with no consideration of its negative externalities.

I might have the happiest dog in the world. She is so content to lay on the couch with me.

MAGAZINER: How many veterans have you deported? NOEM: We haven't deported veterans MAGAZINER: We are now joined on Zoom by a combat veteran you deported to Korea

A federal judge ruled Thu morning that no order of removal for Abrego Garcia had ever existed. By Thu evening, an immigration judge had conjured a “Immigration Court’s Sua Sponte Order Correcting Scrivener’s Error," Abrego Garcia's lawyers tell the judge in the emergency overnight filing:

NEW: Five years of social media history is only a fraction of what the US Government will shortly demand of overseas visitors. The full requirements will end tourism in the United States. Below is the full, mind-blowing list. 🚨THEY. WANT. YOUR. DNA.🚨 1/

I got pulled in 5 directions today so I didn't finish my motion earlier. I've been working in it since 7 pm and I WILL finish it tonight.

ADHD- completed a project time to celebrate! youtube.com/shorts/qYU1W...

🚨 New York Times reports more details than we've had before on how Donald Trump's administration pulled strings to pressure Romania to allow Andrew Tate to travel while he was charged with crimes including trafficking minors and violently beating and raping a 15-year-old girl.

Lucky us... Pretty soon, when you buy a National Park pass... You will get the image of Donald Trump on the pass... In violation of the law... Which requires that only prize winning nature images be featured on National Park passes... abcnews.go.com/US/face-laws...

MINNEAPOLIS: “All I did was step outside as a Somali American citizen, and I got chased by a masked person, assaulted, kidnapped. It was inhumane. If this is what’s happening to a 🇺🇸 citizen on camera, imagine what could happen to your loved ones.”

COLLINS: You talk about 15 years of Obamacare. But that also means Republicans have had 15 years to come up with a solution and have not yet done so. ROGER MARSHALL: I'm not sure what we can say

We had a good run with the rule of law, but it’s over. Bribery is official policy now, the more brazen the better, because the brazenness is effective advertising for more bribes.

I finished the amendments to the pleadings and filed them so I can finish the motion.

I hate that finishing one motions means I also have to amend two pleadings and some discovery and I just don't flippin wanna.

Time to remind everyone that the first thing Trump did when he was elected this time was to put a 22-year-old, whose only experience was mowing lawns, as the head of counter-terrorism. As if he hasn't done enough damage to the economy already, complete disaster is on the horizon.

Ok, I'm going to focus now. This is my accountability post.

I am running to be a justice on this Court so I will say absolutely zero about the merits. But this is the full spiel that the judge said to the jury during voir dire, in case anyone else is curious:

Shot. Chaser.

My stupid toe is heeling, but I've had to dig into my summer sandals to find other shoes to wear that don't hurt. At least it's 60 degrees today instead of in the 30s and 40s. Sigh

This post by the world’s richest and most divorced man on the site he bought to promote his far right extremism is ripped straight from the Klan messaging of the 1870s or the 1915 film Birth of a Nation that inspired the Klan’s rebirth as a PR stunt/Ponzi scheme/terrorist organization in the 1920s.

When I say deconstruct this what I want!! Cuz wym they hate women this much?!

O'Hare-based Border Protection officer sexually abused, robbed women at gunpoint, indictment claims UPDATED @chicago.suntimes.com story: chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

@danielahorwitz.bsky.social I'm totally stealing the "my views are my employers." Sorry *not sorry.

Couple of things here: 1. Trump says he took another cognitive test recently 2. In front of "large numbers of doctors and experts" 3. He called the examinations "long...and very boring" 4. If you're given 3 cognitive exams in one year by panels of doctors, something is VERY wrong with you

This is great, if one is a cow.

I paid off my law school loans (with about $8k in help at the end from my parents bc they had been paying my niece's undergrad tuition and wanted to "equilaize" between me and my brother). I still wish everyone else had free education, interest free loans, or my interest rate of 3%.