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The powerful executives who cozied up to Trump didn't oops accidentally forget about pendulum swings. They either: 1) Like the fascism 2) Calculated it was here to stay, so going along was savvy 3) Saw no real downside, no consequences when the pendulum swung Crucial to show them 3 was a mistake

I really mean this: read the story; the story of how Vivek’s ad came together — including but not limited to what she was like when they found the mom and noticed how incoherent she was and how she couldn’t keep facts straight — is somehow more depraved and worse than you already think

On the occasion of Ursula von Rydingsvard's passing, a wandering meditation on public art that's been cooking tor many years, complete with notes and sketches: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

lol not our LG tv demanding we agree to their updated five-finger surveillance and datascraping before we can connect to any of our streaming devices. is jailbreaking my spy tv what finally gets me to use ai?

and you can turn congress into the forum for investigating, airing, and stopping the administration's ongoing impeachable crimes, shifting the political discourse and momentum as you hold people accountable for f'ing once

she looks well-rested. she should go back to doing whatever she was doing before today, and less of whatever this is

he means the secretary of the interior took $100 million of venezuela's gold

The US government poured all its resources into fabricating evidence that day laborer Kilmar Abrego Garcia was a criminal (all because he embarrassed the despot) even as it now rolls out the red carpet for an actual criminal who happens to be an ally of Trump

"The votes aren't there" is cowardice masked as savviness. There has to be accountability for their crimes. The House has a duty to make the case here and if some GOP senators want to weasel out, make them own that vote. Don't let pundits and "strategists" talk you out of doing your damn job.

Keeps happening! @wyden.senate.gov can you send a nice little letter to our friends over at The Facebook?

NEW: The DOGE operative who gutted USAID -- firing thousands of employees and canceling lifesaving programs -- never actually signed the paperwork that's legally required for him to be employed by the agency.

Trump importing undocumented criminals over our southern borders

WaPo reports this no-bill was the Cassidy Hutchinson case www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

there are people serving life sentences right now on thinner evidence than we have for "donald trump was jeffrey epstein's partner in serial rape" democrats-judiciary.house.gov/media-center...

This is really THE thing to get from the Paul Reubens auction, an accordion wall with cartoon characters I strongly suspect were painted by Gary Panter, though no artist's name is listed: www.juliensauctions.com/en/items/229...

doubling the number of refugees admitted into the us this year ig

is that melania director, jeffrey epstein associate, and russell simmons assistant brett ratner with him?

According to the Argentine press, the fugitive Bolsonaro Jr is on board a plane that has been barred from taking off from Missiones airport, on Argentine territory.

More women have accused Donald Trump of rape than seen him in a Cheesecake Factory

Surprising exactly zero people, "forgive my youthful indescretions committed at age 53" guy recently sponsored a law to get 15-year-olds tried as adults. nashvillebanner.com/2024/07/15/n...

the so-called “Arab Parties” would have 50% or more of the vote if all of the people living in the territory over which the State of Israel exercises control could vote

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put an airtag on that guy, just because he quit doesn't mean he stopped working there.

incredible news: Sunshine Skies' David Henderson came in clutch with the single Hammons installationphoto from the commemorative book the city published about the artworks. he spotted the book on ebay last year and, having remembered and liked the art from way back when, decided to buy it.

tbqh the Souvenir Chairs from Charles' 1969 investiture as Prince of Wales are not good chairs, but they're flashy, and there are 4,600 of them, so they keep popping up. Meanwhile, I like Snowdon's slate slab throne better, but there's only the one greg.org/archive/2026...

Javier Calvo and Javier Ambrossi — known as "Los Javis" — have turned four pages of an unfinished play by Federico García Lorca into a sweeping epic about the persecution of gay men in Spain. n.pr/4yVvWJy

I love this for us. These neighborhoods continue to be *heavily* targeted by ICE & MPD.

Abortion is illegal in multiple states because every republican appointed justice lied about how they would vote.

1. Not sure when a new, on-the-record rape allegation against a sitting president isn’t considered news — especially considering Trump was found liable by a jury in a similar case — but it was ignored by most mainstream media outlets

von Rydingsvard's 2011 oral history with Judith Olch Richards for the Smithsonian's Archives of American Art is the best oral history I've ever read, and one of the most affecting things I've ever read, period. Save the PDF and read it. It will always be with you. www.aaa.si.edu/collections/...

Fascinating point in here: If Dems can win this district, it'll be the ultimate repudiation of "21st century Jim Crow politics." Read @aselrod.bsky.social

in 2025 Bliss on Fifth LLC bought a 16k sf Stanford White townhouse on 78th for $46m (orig. asking: $80m) apparently fully furnished, w/all the knockoff Royere, latticework, & lettuceware the prev owner's decorator could find in 2014. which they are now selling www.stairgalleries.com/bidding/AUC0...

‘With seventy thousand Palestinians designated as military targets and default collateral damage set at twenty civilians for every low-level operative, “in this way you could kill the entirety of Gaza.”’ Eyal Weizman on 𝘕𝘈𝘡𝘈, online early from our next issue. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Incredible

I'm not criticizing those who are showcasing the accomplishments of scientists, artists, and writers to debunk RFK Jr.'s comments but I think it's also important to treat them not as ignorance, but as the outright malice they are. He made those comments to claim a US citizen is unfit for the Senate.

House Dems Report: “A growing body of evidence demonstrates Trump was an active participant in Epstein’s sexual abuse of young women during the 1990s. The DOJ & FBI are doing everything they can to keep the 🇺🇸 people in the dark about it.” The report: democrats-judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-su...

Heritage is campaigning for the dismantlement of Title IX, calling its guarantee of equal rights a "failed experiment." The author of its recent report says “we live under a regime of compulsory feminism." He says women who pursue careers are "medicated, meddlesome and quarrelsome."

A hunting trip to Mongolia furnishes cover for meetings between TrumpJr and Putin sidekick Umar Kremlëv. TrumpJr stood on stage with a wide smile as an auctioneer sold off the chance to join him on a week-long hunting trip in western Mongolia. “Will you beat $225,000? I’m giving you a bargain,” the

This report is genuinely overwhelming, in terms of the evidence both against Trump and of a ham-fisted cover-up. Including one instance in which Ghislaine Maxwell was actually about to mention one of Trump's young accusers and Todd Blanche told her to stop talking. The media response is "yawn."

RFK Jr is obviously racist and wrong, but also: he doesn't produce science; he will never win the Nobel Prize, the Fields Medal, or American Idol; he'll never produce literature unless you count his felching poems. The racist just wants racial props for things he's too stupid or untalented to do

Something that stood out to me when I was in Greensboro, how many Black women were conscientious of their grandparents' role in fighting for their right to vote. "Ancestors have fought for this right, and so it’s my duty to do it," one of them said thepoliticalspectrum.substack.com/p/theyre-att...