Seems like an obvious question to ask: Where’s the $50,000 now? Did he give it back…or is he just fifty thousand dollar richer?

If it were a choice between signing my name to this pledge or losing my credentials, I’d hand over my badge and still break news you wanted kept secret. This is going to backfire so hard. Do. Not. Sign.

TIL.

Yes, there are bigger things than this. But this is how you tend to the smaller actions that still push norms, and build upon other smaller acts until you’re buried. Calm, measured, citing statute and law. And remind those people of who actually makes those laws.

Argument number eleventy jillion why editors are critical. Justice Alito died?

Larry Tesler, inventor of the cut, copy, and paste commands, dies at 74

I watch this every 9/11. It reminds me of what Mr. Rogers told us when we were kids, and what he had learned from his mother: “Look for the helpers. There are always people who are helping.” Watch this story. m.youtube.com/watch?v=MDOr...

This is a very cool thread of things that people are doing to make the world better. In small ways and huge ways…and today, in a way that I needed to read thru and absorb. Thank you @darthbluesky.bsky.social for putting the call out. You’re a good egg.

Eric Swalwell signed the discharge petition following a brief absence from the House for a funeral, bringing total to 216, and James Walkinshaw will be sworn in today, bringing Dems one more in their ranks, and the likely 217th name on DP.

NEW: Former Meta employees say they saw child abuse in VR before company blocked research In an exclusive interview with NBC News, one of the whistleblowers told me social media platforms are so unsafe, parents should keep their kids off of them — period www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-ne...

Cheers to 10 years of making videos 🥂

If you've been using a 📌 emoji to bookmark posts, @rafael.my and @samuel.bsky.team cooked up a special tool you can use to migrate them to your Saved Posts. Try it here: pin2saved.vercel.app

Nevertheless, she (The Grey Lady) persisted.

Fascinating - and frustrating - read. To change the name of the Department of Defense will mean changing all 700,000 seals, letterhead, signage, etc around the world. At a cost of potentially billions. subscriber.politicopro.com/article/2025...

As always, @ringwiss.bsky.social with the data. And note also his following pot that says names withdrawn will be added to bottom of the DP list.

Weird. Discharge petition is now down to 215. But all four Republicans are still listed. Which could only mean a Democrat removed their name. Going thru the list now to double check. clerk.house.gov/DischargePet...

The new fun wrinkle would be Nancy Mace announcing that she has changed her mind and it would hurt the victims to go forward so it drops to 217 (read: she wants Trump to endorse her for governor)

Smart thinking from @daveweigel.bsky.social (posted on the other place.) When the two new Dem House members are seated, replacing Connolly and Grijalva, they will boost the discharge petition by 2. Equaling 218.

Finance Committee ranking member Ron Wyden asks Chairman Mike Crapo to swear in RFK Jr., which Crapo declines to do.

Four things I’ll note here: 1. McGovern is effective as hell when he has the gavel in Rules; 2. But his IDGAF goes to eleven when he’s in the minority, which is fun; 3. That being said, he himself said he’s not a priest. He doesn’t owe his GOP colleagues his silence; 4. Name names, Congressman.

Don’t know when this happened, but reader, I had to sit down.

Reader, I choked up

Big burst of additional names on the discharge petition. Now up to 201. But the Republicans are still stuck at 4. And they still have 15 Dems who haven't signed on. clerk.house.gov/DischargePet...

2/3 of House Democratic Leadership -- Jeffries and Clark -- have signed the discharge petition. But it's all moot if Massie can't wrangle two more House Republicans. Rep. Luna said yesterday she would sign on, but hasn't yet.

I’d like more of this, please.

Discharge Petition now has 86 names, including some Republicans clerk.house.gov/DischargePet...

Timeline cleanse. Bruce found a new use for old Gatorade bottles

McGovern was the second person to sign the Discharge Petition. It’s here if you want to follow along: clerk.house.gov/DischargePet... Rules should be interesting tonight if past is prologue.

Here’s where you can see the Discharge Petition — and who signs in for it. Needs 218 names. clerk.house.gov/DischargePet...

So up until his post last night about this 2pm event, his calendar for today was completely empty.

On Monday, the Rules Committee reported a rule providing for the adoption of some Epstein-related resolution, and the House seems to have forgotten about it...

The neighborhood kids coming over to play with the dogs is genuinely one of my favorite sounds drifting in through the windows

Bruce accomplished the Prime Directive of becoming the newspaper delivery pup, and celebrated by napping in my favorite chair.

News outlets should send their medical correspondents (the ones who are actual doctors) to the White House on Tuesday - and every day after that - to ask him questions about his health, hand bruising, if he’s getting lasix infusion, etc etc

Seems to me it would be easier to, you know, move yourself closer to the giant rocks…?

Speaking as someone who was actually out there … neither the National Guard nor the Marines moved more than 150 feet off of federal property for the entire month-plus they were deployed

Be on the lookout for a snail with a lefty sprial to their shell. Ned the Snail needs a mate, and can only get it on with another lefty. 🫲🐌 Also please enjoy the little gem about how Ned got his name.

I think about this at least once a day. “Don’t let some internet platform convince you that what you have to say and create isn’t worthwhile. Words are the echo of your soul. Honing that echo matters.” Poetry.

Portrait of a good boy

Gotta try this out! www.youtube.com/shorts/oKRcb...

"Honey, I don't have much time. I've been arrested by ICE and they are sending me to a detainment center. I love you and the kids, I will be OK, please call our attorney" -- John Shin, DACA resident, speaking to his wife last week. She hasn't heard from him since www.fox13now.com/news/local-n...

Derpy puppy has a helicopter tail…and no brakes.

this iconic advertising copywriter named Kathy Hepinstall Parks died over the weekend and I wanted to share something from her website I thought Bluesky would like

Seems to me you might have wanted to frame it around this part of her deposition, considering that he’s still insisting he won in 2020.

The interpreter is amazing here...

Master class in House procedure. 👇🏻

<cracks knuckles> www.ca5.uscourts.gov/opinions/pub...

When you want to keep an eye on your human but also be sneaky about it, and you discover that you match the hardwood floors

What’s the over/under number that deliniates “wow you sneeze a lot” and “you’re going to die of sneezing” because I think I’ve met/exceeded that number

⚠️ Israel killed prominent Palestinian journalist Anas Al-Sharif in Gaza. A tent housing journalists outside of Al-Shifa Hospital was targeted. He was reporting until the moment of his death. The final words of one of his last messages were a plea to people to speak out: “Silence is complicity.”