Celebrated ken Paxton winning the primary by donating some money to @jamestalarico.bsky.social

Of course the AI loves it when I call it my little disembodied friend

The Supreme Court:

Name them shame them

Priorities.

The biggest risk in this moment is something sociologists call “symbolic compliance.” That’s when an institution that is violating civil rights gives the public just enough symbolic victories that accountability efforts lose steam before there has been any meaningful change.

What can history teach us about what happens when a populist strongman with an idiosyncratic taste for low interest rates undermines central bank independence?

It’s wasn’t okay for the left to critique Charlie Kirk because he got murdered but it is okay for the right to be pro-murdering people

revolution.

Context you rarely hear: global stocks are up about 30% over the past year. U.S. stocks? Around 18%. That means American investors underperformed the world by about 12 percentage points, even while headlines called it a “fantastic year.”

I don't do much astrology these days... but I can't make up a better example of Saturn and Neptune conjunct in Pisces than this

Pizzagate: If you replace the word “hot dog” with “little boy” and “pizza party” with “child sex orgy,” you will see the lengths these elites go to cover up their crimes. Real elite emails: Send me nude pictures of those 8th graders we abused last weekend post-haste! I am the Ambassador to Turkey.

It's right up there with the villain's need to be understood as the evil genius they are instead of quickly dispatching the hero

Project 2029 Let’s do this!! 🔥 #SheShed

In response to this claim that the "strategy didn't work." The people were on our side. We were building momentum to help save our democracy. We could have won - the premium increase notices were just starting. And giving in now will embolden him. Things will likely get worse.

Dems: Donate now to save democracy Dems: cave on Big Beautiful Bill Dems: Your donation will save America! Dems: Cave again, risking ACA Dems tomorrow: Just 25 dollars could keep the republic alive!

My family has been without half our income for 40 days. It has been.. very hard. We are willing to feel that pain so people can have health care next year, or to undo these illegal recissions. We are not willing to have been put through this for NOTHING.

Thanks, New Yorker

If astrology is bullshit then why is my Leo rising daughter a saber tooth tiger cub called Smiley, because you know, saber tooths are actually Smilodons, you know?

Astro-nerd friends might recall the two eclipses that crisscrossed the state of Texas recently...

NGL I am living for all the Tom Lehrer content right now

Tom, you made growing up in a f'ed up Catholic family so much more bearable www.youtube.com/watch?v=pvhY...

Behold the power of stories

Keep going Hochul! Keep going

Oh interesting. Jeffrey Epstein was born during a Saturn Neptune conjunction

Get a load of the minimization in the article description

This is gonna be fun

1/2 You could write a book about one atrocious headline in print NYT today (I sort of wrote this book 30 years ago, Breaking the News, but others can take a turn.) What's wrong this headline? Mamdani "faces scrutiny" **ONLY AND EXCLUSIVELY** because NYT decided to make this a "thing." Really bad.

Best level up goes to…

My kid loves this show and is constantly asking when she will be old enough and this is how she is learning about the importance of urban planning and industrial design

As a martial artist I am totally offended by the prospect of a UFC fight at the white house

We are enacting a cycle of trauma, anybody who grew up in a truly dysfunctional family knows exactly what this is about

It is done.

Auto Freedom sticker in Germany. 📸 @bumm0r.bsky.social

Reality is now so internet poisoned you cannot say true things without appearing insane. “The New York Times ran a hit piece on Zohran purely so a minor race science blogger could place insider trades on Polymarket” sounds like you are a schizophrenic but it is straightforwardly factual!

Yeah, I have felt the power of this personally and it is time not just for smeared candidates but all of us to embrace the power of the zombie

Please believe me when I tell you: Double the fuck down on your spiritual practice now. You are going to need it. And no, that doesn't have to be a prayer-god thing. The thing that sustains and nourishes you. That makes you more alive to yourself, the world, others. More present. More:

The word of the Lord.

Good job from my rep Josh Riley—let’s keep it up

Feel like "Don't you want to fight these bastards for real?" would be a good campaign slogan for a primarily challenger to a Democratic incumbent.

How frightened they must be

The fact that I’m hearing more about Mamdani than the Bill to Kill America is the reason the Democratic Party deserves its death

What is more LA than two waiters at a Japanese restaurant cheerily shout “irrashimashe!” And then turn back to one another to continue conversing in Spanish

- Religious exception rulings apply only to the plaintiffs. - Environmental regulations continue to be enforced despite rulings against them (just not against plaintiffs). - and on and on. The left has to use this decision, not just criticize it. It'll be chaos, but that's what the Justices get.

Mamdani’s rizz is formidable. I want it paired with Lander’s experience. Can they both run?

RFK Jr. is flogging wearable diet/exercise monitors that cost “80 bucks a month”. This is a good demonstration of his complete lack of understanding about public health and people with differing resources from those that he enjoys. Feed them. Pay them a livable wage. Don’t track their behavior.

You have more in common with the average Iranian citizen than you do with the people that run this country

The concept of sexual harassment has endorsed Andrew Cuomo for Mayor.