there is a cohort of men who resent the responsibilities and obligations of adulthood — of the fact that you owe things to other people. it is a fundamentally childish impulse that they have reconfigured as the height of masculinity, and i think it informs the parasocial attraction to platner.

If roughing up a girlfriend and locking her in a room was a virile, authentic a rejection of “smoothgroined” “HR lady” politics, but a rape is too far, then what’s at stake is not a principled rejection of violence against women but a cynical assessment of how much violence a man can get away with.

Andy Beshear needs to use his office to determine if it is in fact the case that McConnell can no longer fulfill his duties (i.e. he's dead or vegetative and they're hiding it), and if so, call a special election. It's not the party's seat, it's the voters' to give or take away.

Barack Obama's thoughts on finding inspiration to keep going and not sink into despair. 📽️ IG HigherGroundMedia #Pinks #ProudBlue

Heading up the "investigation" to keep it from finding any actual crime is an old Republican trick. Here it is again 👇

“Ghetto Man”

Ooooh. Trump's going to feel so burned by these photos of large, enthusiastic crowds for Carney in Canada - a country with only one-tenth of USA's population. Stuff it, Donnie.

You mean a 34 felony, tax cheat, sex pest with dementia should step down? I agree.

This is a harrowing - and lifesaving - piece on how heatstroke kills and how easily you can be lulled into becoming its victim. In this era of record-breaking heat in places where "that never happens" this is life and death knowledge. Read and circulate. www.outsideonline.com/health/welln...

Sealant Team Six guarding our vulnerable shores against Algae-Qeada, Algaetifa. And Algae Sharpton.

#Brexit 10 years on Borders blown wide open Economy clobbered Subservient to the EU and the US 6 PMs down and counting Fisheries screwed Farmers buggered I'm beginning to think #Farage 's Brexit hasn't worked Maybe we should #RejoinEU

The same man who will pardon you if you ransack the Capitol and smear your feces on its wall will throw you in jail if you wiggle your fingers in the water of the Reflecting Pool.

Oddly, Trump hasn't been screaming his usual trademark "Don't pay them!" for this fiasco. Could it be that *someone* doesn't want to return his own cut of the $14M tab to the US gov't? And who is now "immediately" doing the cost-plus repairs? Another no-bid laundry buddy? Or same one?

Oddly, Trump hasn't been screaming his usual trademark "Don't pay them!" for this fiasco. Could it be that *someone* doesn't want to return his own cut of the $14M tab to the US gov't? And who is now "immediately" doing the cost-plus repairs? Another no-bid laundry buddy? Or same one?

You pay the price when leaders pick fights instead of fixing things. Steady diplomacy works. Reckless online tantrums create real danger for your loved ones & spike costs across the board. We need serious leadership. That's what protects your family and your wallet. Fire the GOP. #ProudBlue #Pinks

An offshore wind farm in Portugal became a haven for octopuses and 270 other species in just eight years, a data point that reframes how energy and ocean life can coexist share.google/ojfqZksQ3g0B... 👏👏👏

yeah unfortunately the point at which security agents started manufacturing crimes to so they could arrest people to support the delusions of a single personalist ruler was the point at which the story stopped being silly heavy-handed metaphor and started being of real concern

Migod. Ran right over her.

Oh, man.

Of course Trump wants to hide the $300 Billion cash to Iran; He expects to get a nice cut of our money for his *kindness*. Hey. the more the merrier, right?

Best photo ever of the normal female reaction to a creep.

Nah. Maybe the banksters are just afraid of getting caught?

Seems *someone* learned an lot frome the Na**s.

According to the book Regime Change, Donald Trump repeatedly called Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick a "pussy" after Lutnick initially pushed back on Trump's tariff plans. The book says Lutnick eventually embraced the insult, allegedly referring to himself as Trump's "$25 billion pussy."

As Israel’s defenders feign horror at Vance’s comments, they continue to unleash carnage in Lebanon to keep peace with Iran from taking hold. www.thecanary.co/global/world...

Huh, weird. I can't seem to put my finger on why so many elected Democrats are incredibly disappointing on all these issues like taxing the rich, or regulating finance and crypto, or.... Oh. There it is.

His name may not be on the Kennedy Center anymore, but it's still in the Epstein Files over 38,000 times.

TACO didn't lose - he signed the $300 Billion deal because he expects to get a nice kickback from Iran for his "generosity." That's why he tried to keep the terms secret: the big number means a big grift for him. He plays; we pay.

Personally, I suspect that the reason Trump agreed to - and is concealing - the astonishing $300 Billion in reparations is that he expects he's going to get a personal skim off that in "appreciation" from the Iranians.   Q: Would Trump do a thing like that? A: Absolutely.

Meanwhile in Russia: state TV host Vladimir Solovyov explicitly contradicted the official storyline that Putin's invasion is meant to "protect Russian speakers in Ukraine," and expressed his outrage about Russia's failing air defense. www.youtube.com/watch?v=-pOl...

Trump's Arch is actually intended to be his own mausoleum, his grand burial at the entrance to Arlington Military Cemetery because he was told he couldn't be buried w/24/7 honor guard there BCAUSE HE HAD NEVER SERVED. He wants his own eternal flame, his own eternal memorial. Sux it, Donnie.

How much will you pay for a lung full of air? Lindsay Hooper, CEO of the Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership, declared that water, soil and oxygen should not be "infinitely accessible" to the public. She called them "natural capital" that global elites must put on "the balance sheet."

Sure. Trump's "secret mission" here was so *secret* that there's no evidence it actually occurred. Oil traders seem to have heard nothing about 200 additional supertankers arriving anywhere; there's no satellite evidence to support it. It's just like.... he's lying as usual. Of course. Read on 👇

Ummm. Using tunnels and sewer pipes to sneak Russian soldiers into Ukraine is one of Russia's favorite attack tactics.

I'm just saying, I don't trust a man crying about voter fraud that also made sure the IRS can never audit his or his family’s taxes… How about you?!

Safe National Forest bear habitat is now reduced from 2,500 acres to one. ONE ACRE.I am not joking. That's what our "national protectors" are doing to our national heritage: rape, loot and plunder of everything they can make money from. All "perfectly legal." Smokey the Bear be damned.

It's come to this: Researchers with lifesaving information about diabetes were barred by American police from attending their annual diabetes science convention. Who would do a thing like that, RFK Jr? OMG.

While the president is focused on building a one-night-only fight cage on the White House lawn for his birthday and tearing down the East Wing for his ballroom, can anyone explain how any of it lowers your grocery bill? Your electric bill? Your medical bills?

I actually saw my Elders fired from jobs, humiliated, beaten, bombed, murdered, lynched and assassinated for the right to vote. I have a debt to pay. I repay that debt every Election Day when I vote for the candidate of my choice.

Corruption in plain sight. It will take a decade to fix this debacle. #TrumpCorruption

Awww. JD Vance was booed by graduates of the Air Force Academy when he gave their commencement speech. We still have true patriots with their heads on their shoulders. Yay! 👇

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“That is what inventory looks like…The economy we are walking through this week was bought before the war—the gas, the groceries, the shipping containers, the labor contracts, all of it loaded onto trucks and tankers and warehouses when the world was a different world.” Read on for the timing.

GIFT ARTICE: Trump's Defeat in Iran. An outstanding analysis of the utter defeat and surrender Trump faces in Iran, by Robert Kagan. www.theatlantic.com/internationa...

So Trump decides he needs some muscle with China and at the last minute recruits his besties to "Quick! sign lotsa deals! deals! deals! like no one has ever seen before!" Trump has a lot to learn about negotiating with the Chinese, if indeed he's capable of learning anything at all. 🤦