Back in March, the Trump administration repeatedly assured the public that the war with Iran would take "four to six weeks." NINE WEEKS later, the President floats the idea that the blockade could continue through Labor Day.

George W. Bush said immigrants renew America's character and culture. Trump spread lurid claims about immigrants and public disorder. LibCon 2026: conference.ismaglobal.org?utm_source=b...

I'm honored to earn the endorsement of Council President Natali Fani-González. Her support means a great deal because she knows that leadership is about showing up, working together and delivering results — even during tough times.

This video camera study showed that less than 5% of people on bikes broke traffic laws while riding bikes, yet 66% of people did so while driving. And perhaps even more importantly, if you REALLY want even MORE bike-riders to obey laws, build more protected bike infrastructure. Via @carltonreid.com

New rule, if you're a "how is diversity our strength???" dipshit you are not allowed to root for the team whose star player is an agnostic biracial frenchman representing a majority hispanic city bsky.app/profile/eric...

This is the way. Small businesses are the backbones of our economies and neighborhoods - yet local govt hardly supports them.

“Workers are now taking home the smallest percent of America's economic output since records began in 1947," per MorePerfectUnion

$4 Billion! So embarrassing

IMPORTANT: The Dutch invested €595 million annually on urban biking, resulting in €19 BILLION saved in public health care costs alone. That’s how smart governments do the math on investing in better mobility. Let’s be clear— it WASTES public money to NOT do it. #CityMakingMath HT @modacitylife.com

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Once again: German universities were the envy of the world before the Nazis rose to power and took an ideological wrecking ball to the entire enterprise. If you want to know how long it took for German universities to recover… they haven’t.

Rep Chellie Pingree (D-ME) on ruling to strip Trump name from Kennedy Center: “A federal judge made clear what we have been saying from the start: (Trump) had no legal authority to do it. The Kennedy Center belongs to the American people. Now and always.”

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Shout out to people rocking holiday lights at the end of May. I 🫡 you.

NEW — I wrote about my visit to Delaney Hall, the ICE facility in Newark, NJ where detainees are on a hunger and labor strike in protest of rotten food, unpaid work, and unjust detainment, and where protesters outside have spent the last week drawing ICE's ire while keeping strikers' demands alive.

Now that Would be So Logical…. SO IF WE DON'T LET ATHLETES BET ON GAMES THEY HAVE THE ABILITY TO INFLUENCE.... WHY DO WE ALLOW CONGRESS TO INVEST IN COMPANIES THEY REGULATE?🤷🏻

THE BOSS!

A President ordering the Justice Department to criminally investigate a woman who won a sexual assault lawsuit against him makes Watergate look like an unpaid parking ticket.

The adjudicated rapist is using the DOJ to prosecute his victim while paying off the domestic terrorist sex offenders that attacked the Capitol. #pedocracy

I remember how exciting we all were to “cut the cable”, and stream bc cable tv was so expensive! Took all of 10 months till they figured out how to get us to pay double, for less options and still commercials.

We lost one of the great ones today. RIP to the saxophone colossus, Sonny Rollins. #SonnyRollins #Jazz #Musicsky

Colbert guest hosted a public access TV show in Monroe, Michigan a day after the Late Show ended. Guest star: Jeff Daniels Special appearance by: Eminem Musical director: Jack White Genius. youtu.be/jJTXB5uT_C4?...

Just wanted to let you know that the IRS has audited every president annually for decades now to ensure there was no corruption and the reason you didn't know that was because only one president found that to be a problem

Experts are projecting that the war in Iran will cost taxpayers $1 trillion. The people in charge just gave the richest 1% a $1 trillion tax break. And they really want us to believe SNAP and healthcare are the problem?? Get real.

21 May 1971, Marvin Gaye released his album 'What's Going On'. The concept album told the story of a Vietnam veteran returning to the country he had been fighting for, and seeing only the hatred, suffering and injustice. It is regarded as 1 of the greatest albums of the 20th century. #WhatsGoingOn

🔥 SPRINGSTEEN: "I’m here to support Stephen Colbert, the first guy who lost his show because a president can't take a joke - and the Ellisons feel they need to kiss his ass… small-minded people with no idea what freedoms of this beautiful country are supposed to be about." 🇺🇸

GOP Sen. Thom Tillis calls the new Trump/DOJ $1.776 Bn slush fund "stupid on stilts." "These people assaulted police officers, admitted their guilt, were convicted. Now we're going to pay them for that?!?!" He calls it what it is: "tyranny,” and corruption on steroids!

Former NJ AG Matt Platkin: They’re indicting the SPLC for allegedly misusing donor funds to infiltrate and disrupt white supremacist networks by paying informants. Now they’re turning around and they’re going to take $1.8 billion of public money not to disrupt those networks, but to fund them.

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BREAKING: Alexander Vindman is LEADING against Republican incumbent Ashley Moody in Florida. If Democrats can win in Florida, they'll take back the House AND the Senate in November. This is amazing.

Raskin: "This is about funding, or pre-funding, Donald Trump's private militia"

Raskin: "The whole administration now just just corruption -- highway robbery every day"

File under “more stupid policy the GOP is pushing.”

Sometimes i think i listen to too much Disco. Then I’m like nahhhhhhb.

southern state governments are banning black congressional representation and installing statues of men who waged a war to continue the enslavement of black people in public parks

Idk how these kinds of sanctions would work…but it’s something!

So Russia supports the country we’re at war with and we bend the knee to their Ukrainian desires? Doesn’t make sense unless #trumpisarussianasset

I love this woman

Babies who don’t get the vitamin K shot are 81 times more likely to develop severe bleeding. In many cases, oxygen can’t reach their brains and blood pools around their skulls. Yet driven by misinformation, more parents are refusing the injection.

WIRED BLIND: @wired.com blindfolded coffee professionals and got them to rank drinks made by these coffee machines. They could only judge the drinks on taste, and had no idea which machine made which drink. The most expensive maker came nowhere close to winning. www.wired.com/story/we-ask...

It’s quite an increase from the $400 million in tax dollars that Senate Republicans asked for last month, and from the zero dollars from taxpayers that Trump promised. trib.al/9mokaeb

New revelations prove Trump and Hegseth are covering up the truth about what a disaster the Iran War has been. It is Pentagon Papers 2.0. Should be a massive scandal. www.thedailybeast.com/the-scandal-...

“The people who control our government or have a disproportionate influence have totally dissociated.” @profgalloway.com walks @karaswisher.bsky.social through his “ketamine economy” theory— how extreme wealth has disconnected elites from the systems the rest of America relies on.

One of my favorite aspects of #gop politics is how important the national debt is when they aren’t in power and irrelevant it is when they’re in power.

Not good …

It’s the 1%

If Ukraine ceases firing, Ukraine ceases to exist. IF Russia ceases, the war ceases

Trump's war in Iran has already cost Americans $21.7 billion more on gas alone. Let that sink in.