So is Nithya Raman going to be the next mayor of Los Angeles?

Rapaciousness in all its forms - the Trump Crime Family™ business model. Their mascot is the locust.

Losing Anthony Head feels like the world collectively losing our innocence -- when we thought we didn't have any left to lose. I'm crying.

damn straight

apropos of nothing, and despite my loathing of CBS right now, I need a series about Carmen Moyo and Mr. Lester.

::sobs:: it's so weird wanting the Valkyries to win but not wanting the Lynx to lose! GREAT game. wowzers.

I have a sneaking suspicion that I would have spent less buying my tomatoes, berries, and squash at the local farmers market than growing them. Especially now that the squirrels have arrived.

Democrats get up every day and think about how they can help people. Republicans get up every day and think about how they can hurt people.

I'm gobsmacked by the absolute selfishness of the Democrats running for the new CA-06. Were no grownups keeping an eye on this race? ::curse word::

This is it! 🧵

All is well with the world.

It makes me so angry and ashamed of our country that we're not supporting and defending Ukraine and making the Russians stand down and get out.

I guess I'm a prude, but I don't think gambling, including sports gambling, should be allowed to advertise on broadcast/cable/streaming. And I think "ew" about athletes who promote it.

I've started a rewatch of Masters of the Air, not because I need to feel good about America again but because I desperately need to feel good about Americans again. gift link

Essential Information

watching Aces @ Wings, getting ready for Fever @ Valkyries - there's some mighty fine basketball going on this season.

The CA gov race is making me kookoo - and I already voted. I kind of hope it will be Becerra v Steyer so I can revisit my vote, and I kind of don't. I wish Katie Porter had been perfect (which it seems a woman has to be). I wish... ugh. ack.

Yikes! I'm watching that Testaments finale again. Like right now. So good!!

That fleeting glimpse of Margaret Atwood tonight wasn't enough. Felt like a character worth showing up again.

Also true if one replaces “ornyn” with “assidy”

ETTD, RIP another political career.

If you're still undecided, this is pretty interesting. Full disclosure: I already voted for Becerra. This +/- one hour interview by Ana Navarro makes me feel good about my vote. youtu.be/Fk8MNMPgroM?...

sad and true

I'd love to see Julie Vanloo find a landing spot.

Reading this thread is like watching that dinner scene in While You Were Sleeping youtu.be/jEjibbRv8ds?...

I didn't know it until this moment, but I must read this book.

Holy FUCK, SCIENCE!

I'm not a Democratic strategist, but I would like to think that "The Republican Party is taking your money and giving it to Trump's criminal foot soldiers as a reward for their loyalty" is a pretty easy message to run on in the midterms!

Trump is allergic to any gathering where HE isn't the center of attention.

Elizabeth Banks is proof that god loves us and likes to see us happy.

Kevin Kiley is now cosplaying as an independent, but he votes with the Republicans. Here he's voted for a bill with rightwing poison pills. Nota bene, CA-06.

Kat Abughazaleh has the chance to do the funniest thing

The purpose of their White Nationalist and coup compensation program isn't to "persuade" moderates for the midterms. It's to animate their base and most vitally to incentivize recruitment into the much larger force they will need to fuck with the next election.

"So we’ll make sure that everybody has got security around here,” Thune said, referring to concerns that MacDonough could be targeted after Trump’s broadside." If they keep funneling The Big Bucks to goons who beat up the police, who's going to want to provide their security?

👇💯🚨

hey, MAGA, I guess voting for a convicted fraudster wasn't such a great idea after all, huh?

The Trump administration is full of monsters, and the Republican Party either pretends not to see it or cheers them on.

Billionaires are bad. Clueless, mansplaining billionaires are the worst.

A cabal of cronies, at the order of the president, has just stolen $1.8 billion from the United States. The President has, in essence, shot someone in the middle of 5th Avenue; a crime so blatant none can deny it. What we do next as a nation is up to us.

Cassidy voted to confirm RFK Jr despite knowing better. He deserves to lose. What a sick, sorry end to what was once a decent life of service. Everything Trump touches dies - but only when they let it.

Bill Cassidy stuck us with RFK Jr for literally nothing

Steyer or Becerra – What to do? (I stopped considering Porter when she became unviable and for no other reason.) This was the hardest decision for me ever, and I’ve been voting since the ‘70s. I voted for Becerra, and for what it’s worth, here’s why. 🧵

Apropos of nothing, Helen of Troy is a fictional character who was hatched from an egg after a god shape-shifted into a swan and impregnated her mother.

My first thought: Who's paying him off?

Got email from secretary of state, ballot received and will be counted! Voting in blue states is so easy. Vote for your state to be blue 💯

Sing it! This is beautiful.

Dropped my ballot in the drop box today. Now comes the tense time until I find out they believed that was my signature! The older I get, the more it looks like a space alien scribbled it out.

I finally saw Becerra's supposedly awkward moment in an interview, and it was just him commenting on the interviewer's questions. I'm also sick of reporters asking inane questions to get their own viral moments, so I'm pretty much on Becerra's side on this one.

It's always the first people to scream about sharia law that are the first to practice it when they get power.