$1 billion for a Ballroom, $10 billion for vanity projects in DC, $15 million for an arch in front of Arlington Cemetery. Meanwhile—they are proposing to cut over $1 billion in tribal programs, tribal housing, education, water and other basic programs, while opening sacred sites like Chaco Canyon.

Kash Patel was asked to take this test. but I doubt he would give honest answers. www.uptodate.com/contents/cal...

Learn from history, or be condemned to repeat it.

My daughter made up this song, and sang it repeatedly, when she was 3 or 4 years old: In the fiddle of the moon, In the fiddle of the moon, I love you, In the fiddle of the moon. There were five ducks and magickers making magic, In the fiddle Of the moon.

I read a Truth today oh boy The Iranian Army had just won the war A crowd of people turned away But I just had to look Having bought the stock

Some bullet points that I post from time to time. My answer to a reader who asked me: what could our journalists do NOW to break with some of their more corrosive habits.

He yells, “I’m a corrections officer”, but ICE didn’t give a sh*t. MAINE: 7 ICE agents against one “squeaky clean” corrections recruit. The sheriff said, “They all took off leaving his car with the windows down, the lights on, unsecured and unoccupied. Folks, that’s bush league policing.”

Kare 11 local news just read, in full, this statement from Michael and Susan Pretti, the parents of Alex Pretti. "Please get the truth out about our son."

Here is a good opinion:

Footage where you can hear the children shouting. These kids went to school with your kids, they love Bluey and Pokémon and now they’re screaming in terror.

ICE sprayed a one-year-old in the face with pepper spray. The child and parents are US citizens, but that doesn't even matter. These monsters pepper-sprayed a baby. We cannot allow ICE to continue this behavior, and they aren't going to reform themselves. www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

Religion note: Remember that pastor who was arrested protesting an ICE detention facility outside Chicago recently? The one who was photographed on the ground as officers arrested him? That's Rev. Michael Woolf, and this is his church.

Joint Statement from Goodlander, Slotkin, Kelly, Crow, Deluzio, and Houlahan

“Housing shortage – Jews to blame," letter sticker, German Reich, 1938 zwangsraeume.berlin/en/context

There should be a German word for white men who cannot conceive of possibility they'll be held accountable for their own actions.

And here's the Republic of Korea again, showing us how a real democracy acts. www.chosun.com/english/nati...

The New Yorker has just released next week's cover. "Remote Control," by Barry Blitt, captures "Donald Trump's unprecedented series of attacks on the media, destruction of federal programs, and abuses of executive power that have ushered in a new era of political vengeance."

My mom called me last night about the Kimmel firing, saying "This is how Hitler got started!" I quickly responded, "By firing the late night tv hosts?" Turns out, mom was right.

Yeah, we're cooked. www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8S8pVQq/

Someone needs to do a take down on this batshit NY Times op-ed and I can know two people who fit the bill - @lizdye.bsky.social and @andrewtorrez.bsky.social

NEW: A federal appeals court tossed out a redistricting lawsuit filed by tribes in ND, saying they weren't allowed to bring a suit under the VRA — only the DOJ can. That's just the tip of the iceberg of really escalating threats against Native voters. Must-read, quite distressing reporting:

Bill Maher exploded at Sean Penn during his podcast when the Hollywood star questioned his decision to dine with Trump. Read more here: https://trib.al/CumTf1J

Watching John Oliver and I gotta say, the part on conservatives complaining about being censored is great. Conservatives are censored the same way I censor my dog by making her shit in the yard instead of on the couch.

[Leonard Cohen voice] Aye! Aye aye aye! She picked Walz, she picked Walz…

I adore the late jazz trumpet player Don Cherry. Here's an introduction from the New York Times, complete with a Spotify playlist for those who subscribe: open.spotify.com/playlist/1Qj...