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Yesterday, Blanche refused to say Trump's $1.8 BILLION slush fund wouldn't be used to pay off convicted Jan 6 rioters & child molesters. I'm offering an amendment to prevent these criminals from getting a penny of your tax dollars. Will Republicans send your money to criminals & pedophiles?

Seeing a lot of discussion about this and as a San Diego Knower I gotta chime in. It's true there's been a lot of YIMBY-type reforms in the SD Metro, especially in the City of SD (about 1/3rd of the metro population). However! www.sandiegouniontribune.com/2026/05/13/s...

Low tide at lower Rose Creek. 😍

We could've had student loan forgiveness. Instead, we have insurrectionist forgiveness with cash bonuses.

#Giro D'Italia Stage 11 today. 195km finish up in Genoa. There is some climbing!! I'm pulling for Enric Mas 🇪🇸 today. Not sure the breakaway will survive at 2:54, though. 😬

Did you say double? That is not what we're thinking here, Bozos. 🤡😡

Few things better than coming off the line, heading into staging, and seeing row after row of our friends from up north!

"Because he's an idiot." 😂

I honestly feel like if someone isn't feeling some distress right now, they must be in denial, which is its own type of mental health issue:

I've been saying: Democrats sticking to their principles rather than swaying with political winds is not only more morally admirable, *it is more politically savvy*. Nothing was more predictable than this thermostatic backlash against Trumpian fascist immigration policy.

The musical equivalent of "touching grass." The legendary Levon Helm on Letterman only a few years before his death.

Trump did not reach a settlement with the government. There was no case to settle. He has not created a slush fund. He has colluded with Todd Blanche to steal money from the US Treasury. This is not a “deal.” This is a crime for which Trump & Blanche must be prosecuted. It ia a crime.

Cedar Fire, October 26 - ". . . At that time, the fire remained on the north side of Interstate 8, the main east-west highway in that part of our county. It became an important goal to hold the fire from crossing I-8. With so few resources assigned to our sector, that would prove a difficult task."

Polls have now closed in the majority of Kentucky, with polls open for another hour in the west. This begins my Kentucky primary election results thread! #kysen #kyga26 #ky4

I just want you to know that @parkermolloy.com wants me to officially be the narrator of a sports game after I called the catcher’s gear “armor” when she couldn’t think of the word “chest plate” … and I stand by that my word choice is better.

#TusilFire now 550 acres and has crossed Interstate 8 to the south.

However appalled you are by this, it’s not enough. It’s a frank statement that Trump and Trumpists are above the law and need not even plausible excuses to loot your tax dollars. It’s a total failure of our civic institutions.

I worked for Long Island's newspaper, Newsday, and then NY Newsday for a decade. No one ever called the LIRR "the lurr." This is insane www.nytimes.com/2026/05/18/n...

No one uses these car lanes, we should take them away

Filippo Ganna passed seven riders who started before him and smashed the #Giro D'Italia ITT record with an average speed of 54.9 km/h (34 mph) over the 26 mile course!! 🇮🇹😱

The "race of truth" at the #Giro D'Italia today. Filippo Ganna 🇮🇹 takes the stage win in the 42km Individual Time Trial. Afonso Eulalio 🇵🇹 holds on to the Maglia Rosa (leader's jersey) by 0:27!

East winds are blowing in our far east county. The #TusilFire is burning near Interstate 8 north of Campo. Evacuation orders are in effect.

Ted Cruz is a phony duplicitous pig who gives a bad name to the human species. See his TMZ interview today.

The #SandyFire in Ventura County making a bit of a run this morning. South of Simi Valley in the open space area. Currently around 1400 acres and reportedly at 5% containment.

For those interested,

Join EFF in saying that everyone deserves privacy with our new Puffy Multisticker Sheet! eff.org/spring

We live within a mile of the shooting at the Islamic Center of San Diego and attended an open house last fall. If you want to help, ICSD is raising money for victims and families. bit.ly/supporticsd

“We define ecocultural legacies as manifestations of traditional Indigenous stewardship practices [like trails & large, nut-producing trees] that are embedded in the structure and composition of ecosystems in complex ways…They are gifts left by the ancestors that help us understand how to live well”

Fuck all these hateful bigots and merchants of death.

What a fucking dullard. 🤪

Meet the neighbors. Barely visible as a slight overdensity of very dim stars that I brought out by cranking the brightness up to max, is the Draco Dwarf Galaxy, UGC 10822. 260,000 light years away, it is one of the faintest satellites of our Milky Way. #astrophotography #seestar #ugc10822

If I'm responsible, I'm sorry for crashing the website: 😬😜

Check this shit out motherfucker [I go on a bizarre ban spree and crash my website, its not clear what kind of feature I was trying to vibecode]

A friend shared this fundraiser for the ICSD. It's horrific to see this kind of hate so close to home. goodbricks.org/campaign/ics...

Interesting article on how vaccines might prevent dementia. It’s fun when new scientific techniques are able to sort of upend some of our ideas about how immunity works.

4 candidates for San Diego County's District 5 supervisor seat split sharply on homelessness and transit at a forum. 3 backed housing-first policy while 1 called for more law enforcement. On transit, rural access and bus service emerged as a dividing line. thecoastnews.com/district-5-s...

This was a "fun" one. There were some teachable moments here. Overall, a solid job by the LKS. 👊

Everybody in northern California who says things like “well irrigated plantings cannot ignite and will keep my home safe should go outside, look at and touch their hedge today.

Can we ease-up on the Mark Cuban dick riding around here now? 😶‍🌫️

So very sad to see this. The mosque and school is in the Clairemont community north of downtown (not far from our home). It is a very busy place with lots of families and children. These people are our friends and neighbors.

is brian enlisting

I have found my spirit animal

I think my favorite 538 article was this piece in late October 2016 illustrating just how unlikely a Cubs comeback would be... (The Cubs ended up winning 3 games in a row and won the World Series)

Oh, Nate Silver. How little you understood the goat guarding the gate of the Hellmouth with all your probabilitymaxxing and pontificating how little you ever understood

This Day in Labor History: May 18, 1979. A jury found for Karen Silkwood’s estate in her plutonium exposure case. Unfortunately, she had died in a car accident five years earlier that was likely a murder orchestrated by her employer enraged by her exposing their toxic legacy!!!!

🧪Though we generally perceive forest fires as a disaster, there are those that actually rely on them for prosperity. 🌳About the wondrous woody leviathans, the giant sequoias, in our latest article: www.lbscience.org/en/2026/05/1... @lbscience.org

seems like jared polis thought this would make him look like an enlightened and humane centrist instead of a dumbass

This tweet, for a Ross Barkan story that copied my lede and reporting, now has more than 10x the views of the original. Ross hasn't apologized or acknowledged it; maybe he's just waiting for me to shut up. Without any explanation, I'm left to wonder how many times he's done this

the endpoint of the scheme Peters was a part of and attempting to execute is to end the United States Constitution, abrogate any of the freedoms Americans enjoy and then ultimately enslave us. This is in some ways *worse* than treason as defined as assisting a foreign enemy.