Two officers who defended the Capitol against the Jan 6 rioters just sued to block Trump's $1.8 billion slush fund. Check out their standing argument, it's pretty interesting:

Lots of tech companies are releasing surveillance specs & I’m reminded of the internal Meta memo to put facial rec in their glasses during a “dynamic political environment” because people will be too focused on other issues to resist. Companies think now is the right time to foist these on us all.

Oh my god (from today’s Morning Brew)

My wife and I own a local newspaper, and we’ve seen a substantial uptick in local businesses buying ads. We think Meta’s enshittification is having a real effect. As they squeeze their services for ad dollars and fill their feeds with slop, they drive small businesses back to local news.

Or Krasner

Good point. This is already true to a degree with journalism—misinformation is free, reported-out quality news usually has a paywall

Luckily, the most important thing to consider is that a group of EVPs over there want a yacht and/or a third vacation house

I realize no one over there thinks beyond their own vesting schedule, but what happens to Google when the publishers whose content they've co-opted go under and the web itself shrivels to nothing?

This supposed clip from yesterday's TrumpRx press conference has gone hugely viral on Threads and X. I can't find any evidence from a real news source or the transcript that he actually said it. x.com/chiky_handlr...

WHERE DO I VOTE

Thirteen years into our relationship, my husband and I finally got around to talking last night about what we got on the SAT, and it turns out I married a certified Smart Kid??? Fucker got a nearly perfect score. Even beat me on verbal. EVEN ON VERBAL

Renewables are unstoppable. BNEF's New Energy Outlook for this year says solar is set to be the biggest source of electricity in 2032 and wind will be second biggest in 2034. Both coal and gas displaced from those thrones. This is the business-as-usual scenario. 🎁🔗 www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

:) puck.news/cbs-news-res...

NEW: Sen Michael Bennet (D) says he will not appoint Gov Jared Polis to the Senate if Bennet is elected Governor. Bennet calls Polis' clemency for Tina Peters "disqualifying"

How is it possible that RFK Jr’s hand looks even worse

In an unusual flight path, jet flies into World Trade Center.

I would like Democrats to come out and say that anyone receiving assets from this new slush fund, or profiting any of the other corrupt acts from this candidate, will have 100% of their assets seized the first chance we get. Even if they get pardoned.

I’ve never really been an Our Tax Dollars guy but all the blatant corruption, ballroom, slush fund for rioting pedophiles etc is really throwing me into a permanent state of rage and bloodlust. Something’s gotta give

Mamdani: I cannot help but think of the words of our 40th president, Ronald Reagan. He famously said, “The nine most terrifying words in the English language are 'I'm from the govt & I'm here to help'" I think nine more terrifying words are actually, "I worked all day and can't feed my family"

The “we don’t have the votes” excuse for refusing to force a vote on impeachment is conceding the point and saying even the opposition party doesn’t think this high crime merits removal from office. It’s not being politically astute and pragmatic, it’s self-defeating in its cowardice.

So you CAN get reparations you just have to be a reactionary white person who tries to overthrow the government because black votes shouldn’t count

Democrats should be saying anybody who takes this stolen money will see the government coming after them to claw it back.

Just another day in which to feel great about being an American taxpayer

taking tax dollars to pay insurrectionists. which (by the way) the 14th amendment is supposed to prohibit: "[N]either the United States nor any State shall assume or pay any debt or obligation incurred in aid of insurrection or rebellion against the United States...."

My friend Chris Hass’s book distilling 50 years of the Chicago Reader is a thing of great beauty. (With a foreword from @chrislhayes.bsky.social!) chicagoreader.com/book

this persistent liberal mindset that we have to appeal to some mythological perfect standard instead of engaging in political combat is literally the secret weapon the right has employed for decades now to turn us into fascism. i cannot fucking understand holding on to it after all we have seen.

Your tax dollars paid for this event freedom250.org/celebration/...

As a guy with half a trillion dollars, I have lots of options: 1. Enjoy a 100% stress-free life doing whatever I please in unfathomable luxury all over the world with people of my choosing 2. Have 87 meltdowns a day on a website

People have already memory-holed how critical #TeslaTakeDown was. It was the earliest decentralized set of protests in the second term as early as Feb 2025 at a time when most people were shell-shocked and Dem leadership was cowering and capitulating. And it pushed Elon out of the WH.

I will say this: this woman’s trolling game is elite

People who think Democrats are too woke and radical now control all three branches of government, the institutional apparatus of the Democratic Party and all major media outlets. Stop fucking congratulating each other for saying it!

its wild to live in a time where you know if this case came up now it would not be unanimous, and I can't even say for sure they'd strike down segregation

After Plessy v Ferguson it was 58 years before we got a court willing to overturn it. I don’t think Black people who want to vote and women who want to have rights to their bodies and trans people who want to EXIST should have to wait that long because it offends your sense of propriety.

In Louisiana, raising the mandatory judicial retirement age from 70 to 75 has failed by 50 points, if you want another data point for how voters feel about the gerontocracy problem.

“I don't understand what it's supposed to do. Every time I see a video on Instagram that's like, 'Hollywood is cooked,' what follows is, like, the most stupid dog shit I've ever seen in my life…”

Caught in a barb wire fence, twisted sideways, pants ripped down to my ankles. Outsmarted again by gophers. Suddenly, I see dust billowing up from the horizon. It’s a convoy of rental cars! Hundreds of national reporters are on their way to ask me about gas prices and woke

that's my fucking New Reconstruction President

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Who came out on top in the negotiations between President Trump and China's Xi Jinping? We asked four unvaccinated Buffalo Sabres fans who'd been ejected from an NHL playoff game.

In a cowardly move that he waited until late on Friday afternoon to announce, Colorado’s Democratic governor is commuting the sentence of a Trump ally who was convicted for tampering with election equipment as part of Trump’s Big Lie. This is a stunning betrayal of our democracy.

The reason people keep doing crimes for Trump is that you get rewarded for doing them, congratulations to Colorado's Dem governor for making sure we get more people trying to overturn elections on his behalf bsky.app/profile/kyle...

This slush fund helps explain the political economy of MAGA. It could serve as coalition management: Payments to insurrectionists persuade his coalition that his corruption is good for them, as they get a cut of the spoils. 5/ (h/t @lioneltrolling.bsky.social) newrepublic.com/article/2105...

my feeling about this is that Third Way is basically just three guys in an office and should be ignored

Sure, we live in hell BUT ALSO Denali Park has a sled dog puppy webcam www.nps.gov/dena/learn/p...

Cool, another plague!

I posted a legal theory on Bluesky on Friday night and by the end of the weekend, Hakeem Jeffries was talking about it with Virginia Democrats.

still not quite over the fact that i watched 15 year olds get sued for millions of dollars for downloading twelve songs and now we all have to accept AI slop because every tech company in the known universe decided that IP laws don't exist now that they're inconvenient for them

Some potentially good news—I say potentially because the US hasn’t decided whether they will approve/allow it here yet: www.nature.com/articles/d41... #covid19 #airborne #transmission