“The President shall, at stated Times, receive for his Services, a Compensation, which shall neither be encreased nor diminished during the Period for which he shall have been elected, and he shall not receive within that Period any other Emolument from the U.S., or any of them.” [i.e. state govs]

The answer is no. There is no way that smartphones are responsible for a 40% decline in worldwide fertility rate. This is what the graph looks like from 1970 to the present (from @ourworldindata.org).

I wrote about the campaign to criminalize “organized retail theft” in this piece. It’s the only time I’ve written something where I felt like I was going crazy. Theft is already a crime! But retailers lied about the stats, the law, and the causes—they claim that MS-13 and Hezbollah are behind it.

bluesky — i am talking to you, all of you — need to internalize this and you need to tell everyone you know this. shampoo more expensive? republicans. burgers more expensive? republicans. beer more expensive? republicans.

Ogles should be in prison for stealing money he raised to build a memorial garden to his dead baby, and he has the nerve to call other people hustlers:

the indoor smoking bans of the 90's and 00's were the last genuinely great win for organized labor in this country and absolutely could not happen today, trying to reopen this door actively sets us back as a civilization, don't give them an inch

Mitch Randall: Rural communities often have few or no private school options, meaning the greatest benefits go to suburban and metropolitan families. For-profit schools rarely prioritize poor or rural communities because their central purpose is profit. Read more: ow.ly/9EgQ50YP2zj

Seattle Times is still talking about "mandating treatment" as a necessary condition of having a place to sleep out of the rain. You can't get furious about the persistence of tents and also say people in active addiction don't deserve shelter.

Iran says Lebanon is part of the ceasefire. The U.S. and Israel say it is not. This is why real diplomats spend considerable time on joint communiques. Each side will always spin agreements to their domestic audiences. But you can’t have disputes over fundamental matters like entire theaters of war.

I'm a bit of a broken record on this, but usurping the power of the purse isn't just one constitutional violation among all the many others. It is, uniquely and singularly, the death of constitutional government altogether. Game over, end of story, you now live in an autocracy.

For years I've been looking for the right guest to do a pod on this. The car-sales model that is dictated by law in the US -- you must go to a dealership & suffer for hours in order to buy one -- is one of the most nakedly anti-social special interest giveaways in history. Needs to be killed dead.

IBM OS/2 Warp 4 😍😍😍

Trump: I’m going to put ICE in the airports, where they will target and arrest all the illegals, especially Somalis, because I hate the Democrats Headlines: Trump puts ICE officers in airports to ease long lines, provide relief for weary travelers

Farage 2026 : "Starmer has finally given the US permission to use British bases to destroy Iranian missiles. Better late than never" Farage 2015 : "We don't need to take foreign policy advice from the American President. The last time we did that it was called the Iraq War" There's always a tweet

We saw an uptick in ICE activity today. ICE continues to be spotted around the metro area - dining, driving, and hiding in between events. Current vehicles on the short list include Black Chevrolet Tahoes, White or Silver Jeep Wagoneers, and White Ford Transit vans with fake branding.

there are a lot of people working in the government right now who want to intentionally trigger an apocalypse to create the conditions for the return of jesus christ and I know how crazy that sounds but its absolutely true

They won't start with banning birth control. First they'll lie about it. Then dictate who can prescribe it, use it, fund it, in what forms, and for how long. Suddenly, your doctor won't call you back. I know this is what they'll do because it's what they're doing to transgender healthcare right now.

It seems like the majority of people are just looking at the headline and interpreting this as another "whoops! user data got leaked! our bad!" What was actually exposed was code used in Persona's software. Code showing that this company is doing A LOT MORE THAN CHECKING YOUR AGE.

I have just experienced a thread about right-wing media and JD Vance dissing AOC's Munich speech, and so many commenters were asserting that it was all a Newsom promotion ploy. Yes, that's why Fox News is so anti-AOC all of a sudden. 🙄 I'm beginning to think social media was a mistake.

if you post something online and at least one person reposts it, that means it’s true

This scheme to make passports harder to obtain comes as Republicans are trying to make passports one of the few documents that can be presented in order to be permitted to register to vote.

CEO said a thing!

Most people don’t know this: Heat pumps REDUCE gas consumption even if running 100% on electricity from a gas fired power plant. More here in my piece for @carbonbrief.org👇 interactive.carbonbrief.org/factcheck/he...

Good luck to our NFLPA union members on the New England Patriots and Seattle Seahawks tonight at the #SuperBowl!

Bezos isn't destroying the Washington Post because it isn't profitable. He's destroying the Washington Post because he's calculated that a robust free press threatens the ability of his class to warp society around their interests

Obviously I knew public schools were completely underfunded, but you still want to imagine that your tax dollars are out there doing good stuff for you. But no, we can't afford luxuries like "snacks" and "books" and "teacher salaries" when our poor cops are driving around tankless

Alex Pretti was a colleague at the VA. We hired him to recruit for our trial. He became an ICU nurse- I lover working with him. He was a good kind person who lived to help and these fuckers executed him. White. Hot. Rage.

Acting Field Director David Easterwood.

wrote about the occupation in minnesota with a closing note on how the white house has exactly one tactic — repression with goons — but no particular strategy for dealing with entrenched resistance. gift link.

I was trying to buy happiness with the power of cold hard cash and just really getting my ass handed to me. A total bloodbath.

cool. but no one else needs to see this

The decision has been made to break an American city. It is an experiment. We must do all we can (legally) to help Minneapolis hold on.

they didn’t leak it to make the shooter look innocent, but to make the victim look guilty. not guilty of a crime. guilty of having a visibly queer wife. guilty of liberalism. guilty of opposing the regime. they don’t seek to exonerate themselves, only to demonstrate who deserves to die.

As we have increased anti-intellectualism, challenged the very concept of expertise, and embraced epistemologically nihilism, we have removed the ability to even debate the meaning or best course of action. It's all been reduced to a system of magic run by the smoke and mirrors of podcasters.

unbelievable. the canonical example of an illegal order in the Law of War Manual is "an order to fire upon the shipwrecked."

Ask yourself why there wasn’t this level of wall to wall coverage for this shooting wgme.com/news/local/i...

IL transit reform: "Does something rare in U.S. transportation politics: it writes a coherent vision into law. [O]ther states have good reason to watch what happens next, as Illinois has quietly become the most important state to follow on transit and rail policy." www.railway.supply/illinois-int...

"Warming is going to exceed 1.5°C. We are heading into overshoot within the next few years": a stark message by PIK Director Rockström & James Dyke in @theconversation.com. Yet, science shows a way back: fossil-fuel phase-out, nature protection, carbon removal. theconversation.com/the-world-lo...

COP30 overpromised, underdelivered, empowered distractions, backtracked on issues and once again gave big oil and big ag a free pass. Unfortunately, the suspicions of climate scientists (here in Brazil and abroad) were confirmed again.

The Founders were so concerned about bribery that the Constitution forbids it three separate times. Two emoluments clauses ban officials—unambiguously including the president—from accepting things of value, plus bribery is the only named impeachable offense besides treason. Unprecedentedly corrupt.

#Agrivoltaics moving into the mainstream in #Italy Would be good to see some horticultural production in the mix, beyond sheep. Italy awards 2 GW in agrivoltaic tender backed by #EU funds. #agsky #energysky www.pv-magazine.com/2025/11/12/i...

New Yorkers: we have to run it through the tape for Mamdani. Assume nothing until it’s all over. Vote, and get everyone you know to vote. We all know how things have gone in the last decade when folks got comfortable thinking we had it in the bag. It’s not over until it’s over.

California, don't forget to vote on Prop 50. Turnout is expected to be low, and we can't afford to unilaterally disarm while rightwingers pack congress.

There’s 1,000 times more chatter about the Maine senate race in a year than about Maine’s ballot measure in 3 weeks that’d bring voter ID and crack down on mail voting… maybe let’s start there??? boltsmag.org/maine-questi...

Remember Pennsylvanians to vote YES to retain our three state supreme court justices Don't forget down ballot and retain Dubow and Wojick on the other courts as well

Here's my take for @the-independent.com on the AWS outage today and what it tells us about the future of relying on a handful of names www.independent.co.uk/voices/inter...