It’s not just handing out cash to insurrectionists. It’s part of a project that started with the mass funding of ICE to use stolen public funds to create spoils for loyal foot soldiers that exist beyond any accountability. It’s how these things work and it will grow as the economy craters.

this is such a great encapsulation of what the various factions of the reactionary right want. i might add that they envision themselves as slave masters and the rest of us, in one way or another, as their slaves. betterdonkey.substack.com/p/the-vra-wa...

Had someone reach out because of my critique of the Obama guys’ insipid commentary and ask for one piece of advice I’d give a politician that wasn’t cliche. Fine. Your job isn’t always to inform voters. Sometimes it’s to give voice to things they intuitively know and might struggle to communicate.

“Nearly 50,000 Lake Tahoe residents are being told to find a new power provider because the grid is being re-routed to A.I. data centers.”

Every single one of these “soft men” needs to be hog tied and hug up by their ankles in the capital of the place/people they’re supposed to represent. Tie them up and let them rot.

Every democratic congress person should be supporting this. Any one that doesn’t is a traitor. @murray.senate.gov

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This is how government should be.

Some people restore my faith in humanity. 💙🐱

@lawofruby.bsky.social: "The scope of the Epstein Files ... is brought to bear when you walk into the space. It's staggering and it hits you."

🇪🇸 Spain's electricity in 2000: 56% fossil, 2% solar & wind. By 2026: 44% solar & wind, just 17% fossil. The crossover came in 2023. Gas now sets the price only 15% of the time vs 89% in Italy. More in my forthcoming Substack newsletter 👇 janrosenow.substack.com

It’s incredible how much our culture, from music to art to publishing to journalism, is saturated with people who had wealthy parents who supplemented their income as neoliberalism flatlined wages and cost of living priced others out and who had their careers artificially boosted in the online era.

Repubs are such losers. It’s way past time for a rise up and a smack down.

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www.tiktok.com/t/ZTkbVwQwR/ There are a LOT of reasons why I am in awe of Taylor Swift. But her business acumen is in the top five. Her savvy stands to make millions for literally hundreds of artists. She negotiated her contract to benefit them ALL. Who does that? Uh…the Queen of Pop does.

Justice Elena Kagan Isn't Mincing Words, About The Voting Rights Act........

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MAGAs are morons. So is anybody else that believes this 2nd assassination attempt was anything but a terribly staged attempt to raise Trump’s poll #’s.

Someone told me to watch this SNL sketch about America’s “media-opoly.” It feels eerily prophetic given today's media environment. Watch.

The richest Americans saw their net worth soar 120% from 2017 to 2025. The top 1% now control $55.8 trillion in assets — more than the G.D.P. of the United States and China combined. Meanwhile, millions of Americans live paycheck to paycheck. Still wondering if inequality is out of control?

Good. I hope he felt every stomp.

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The EU now requires all Mobile Phones to be sold with easily replaceable and standardised batteries, as they used to be. From 2027 they all will be again, in Europe.

This is the reason the stock market is completely disconnected from the real economy.

Here’s a feed cleanser. Dogs catching treats.

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Morning Kittens

Trump is touting the no tax on tips provision in his budget bill. But many tipped workers won't benefit because their earnings are so low. And the provision expires in 2028. The estate tax cuts that primarily benefit the rich? Those were made permanent. Funny how that works.

Christian nationalists who support Trump won’t care about him posting a picture of him as Christ. The vast majority of them have always had pastors and leaders who continually positioned themselves as stand ins for Christ as they’ve committed Trump-like abuses. It’s systemic. Hope this helps.

And this is one of the main reasons we are where we are in this country.

South Korea’s telecom giants surprise 7 million users with unlimited, universal internet — net access declared a 'basic telecommunications right,' 400 Kbps data after monthly plans run out | Tom's Hardware share.google/WaOamtTnMxc4...

Seven countries now generate 100% of their electricity from renewable sources, proving the transition is not theoretical but already operational. The barrier is no longer technology, but political will, investment priorities, and the courage to move faster.

1/3. Very helpful summary in preparation for the epochal Hungarian elections tomorrow. See also essays by Anne Applebaum and Lászlo Gendler and commentary by Kim Scheppele mikegalsworthy.substack.com/p/why-an-orb...

There should be a moratorium on men in politics.

Repubs don’t care that trump, Vance, 90% of the cabinet are Russian operatives.

Good news! We’re ending this week with a day of discussion & collaboration about how we “navigate this nadir” & use the 14th Amendment as a guide for re-founding our country. Again. All day Friday at @howardlawschool.bsky.social. Learn more here: 14thamendmentctr.org/news/second-...

Timeline cleanser

A colleague just alerted me to this. Buckle up: Anthropic's new Claude Mythos has the capacity to hack any platform anywhere to attack and change data. Rather than saying "this is a bad idea," Anthropic gave big cap companies a chance to shore up their platforms FIRST, www.anthropic.com/glasswing

With this settlement the US is worse off in every way than it was before the war; Iran is strengthened by the huge new tolls in the Straits of Hormuz, paid by the whole world. (1/14)

Renowned Iranian composer, Ali Ghamsari and tar virtuoso, announced he will stay at the Damavand Combined Cycle Power Plant. His plan: Create music there as a symbolic effort to shield Iran's infrastructure from attack. @iranscreenshot

Where the f’ck is Congress?!? Where the f’ck is the outcry from all the governors? Why are we going to let these brave people be murdered by a sadistic mad dictator?!? @murray.senate.gov @governorferguson.bsky.social

everything we are seeing now is the consequence of having a political environment in which indifference to the deaths and suffering of other people - even by the state whose supposed responsibility is to safeguard their welfare - is a superpower rather than a political liability

Do it!! Every congress member should be in DC calling for his impeachment.

This poem came back to me today. Percy Shelley, as if it was written for today: perfection. ‘Rise like Lions after slumber In unvanquishable number, Shake your chains to earth like dew Which in sleep had fallen on you – Ye are many – they are few.’ www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/poem/the-mas...

NASA just dropped this image of Artemis II astronaut Christina Koch looking back at us. The first woman to ever see our planet in its entirety. I’m not crying you’re crying 🥹🔭🧪 📸: NASA

The best explanation why millions of Americans worship and support a convicted felon and sexual predator...