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President Obama on President Trump: "He's got the White House looking like Saddam Hussein opened a Cheesecake Factory...so, he's clearly not focused on lowering prices for you." Cheesecake Factory SocMed Manager: "Why are we catching strays?" Wendy's: "He's not wrong."

Company executives need to start experiencing time in prison, not just fines. They see fines as just a part of doing business.

I love a good history lesson!

All rise. [Resuming again.] Stan Woodward: we do not plan to call plaintiffs. no objection to their returning. Dr. Kevin Griess is taking stand. [also in NPS uniform] [name is pronounced "grease."] J: thank you for coming. thank you for spending part of your holiday with us. /128

J: ma'am, thank you very much for your time. I'm letting you go. we might have to call you back. dont talk to anyone about your testimony. Okay, Dr. Griess next. Let's come back at 2:35pm. then go straight into argument. [TAKING A BREAK TILL 2:35PM] /128

All rise. We're resuming. Judge: who would you like to take first? Abbe Lowell: [inaudible] Judge: Ms. Bowron first. [she's sworn in. she's in an Nat Parks Svc uniform.] AL: how long serving JB: comptroller since 2017 ; acting director since jan (?) 2025 /95

At 10am Judge Ana Reyes will begin an evidentiary hearing in the golf course case at 10am. I'll try to live-blog from the US Courthouse media room for @lawfaremedia.org . This is a case to stop Trump from converting a historic public golf course, open to all, to a Trump style championship course.

This is Tommy. Tommy had a question about my allegiances. Listen to the end to hear about his.

Katie was fired so fast the equation needs a rounding error.

Under 0.5 Scaramuchis. 5 Millimuches.

Excerpts from Michael Lewis on DOGE (Guardian article). 1. Gavin Kliger, white nationalist, refused to shake hands with the Black IRS staffer who briefed him on privacy issues. Or pay attention. Kliger now has a defense start-up valued at 1.4B thanks to DOGE. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

🧵🧵🧵 I was going to write a simple sentence about the madness of the moment, but I got distracted by the U.S. president’s complaint that he was screwed out of the Nobel Peace Prize after bombing multiple countries, and then he bolstered his case with a plan to execute a guy in a wheelchair and ...

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Josh Turek: We need to have campaign finance reform to get dark money out of politics. I want to sponsor a constitutional amendment to overturn Citizens United. We can have oligarchy or we can have democracy. We can't have both.

California, it’s time to vote! Check your mailbox and make sure to return your ballot as soon as possible. In the Golden State, we cherish democracy.

Said no woman ever

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#JillsPin on @11thhourmsnow.bsky.social with @velshi.com celebrates more than 50 years since my #Watergate team’s successful fight for truth and justice against a criminal president (not named Trump). We were minor the deep state. We were doing our job uncovering facts and finding crimes.

I recommend people read this to get a sense of the president's grave cognitive impairment. Trump is either unwilling or unable (or maybe both) to answer the questions he's actually asked, so he just rants and raves while the interviewers do their best to provide structure to his random brain firings

Kegsbreath is definitely overcompensating for something, with drugs and alcohol on top.

It's important that we remember this scene. The soulless Orange Scum never offered one word of apology or even condolence to covid victims and their surviving loved ones. Not one. But Joe understood. He held this candlelight vigil for ALL of them before he even set foot in the White House as POTUS.

Golly…

Not ideal 😕

Golly this is adorable. Really makes me miss my little doglet. 💜

Cher’s outfit reveals on The Cher Show (1975) designed by BOB MACKIE — who passed away today at the age of 87.

Angel Reese posted an absolutely hysterical Team USA celebration TikTok. There. Is. So. Much. Happening. 😂 What a masterpiece.

We're being told that if we sacrifice the rights of some people, then the rest of us get to keep our rights. We all know that's some BS.

UPDATE: NASHVILLE Airport will officially be renamed after Dolly Parton 🎉 ✈️ ew.com/nashville-ai...

1. Oh man, I had no idea Kenny Rogers sang “The Gambler” with Phish! This was at Bonnaroo in 2012. In interviews, Kenny said Phish came to his dressing room and asked if he would join them onstage for a song, and he said yes.

Triumphal Arch To learn more about my creative process, the ideas behind my work, and to see behind-the-scenes sketches, videos, and works in progress, subscribe to my Substack newsletter: nickanderson.substack.com For @rawstory.com

Good morning from the Moakley Courthouse, outside Courtroom 9, where we'll have the 9am preliminary injunction hearing in League of Women Voters v. Trump and California v. USPS. It's pretty rainy in Boston today and I think I biked through the worst of it.

Hey, Questies. #GulfofMexico and #LakeOntario are available here. iPhone: apps.apple.com/us/app/mapqu... Android: play.google.com/store/apps/d... No printer required.

Dolly was a liberal icon. 💜

"Fuck ICE" Mural in Los Angeles by Mister Alek

Source: www.wsj.com/articles/pol...

The smoking gun evidence in the hush money trial that convicted Trump on 34 felony counts included a $50K payout to Red Finch Technologies. Red Finch artificially boosted Trump's polls. Just making sure no one forgets Trump has been fixing the polls for a decade.

Good grief men are exhausting. Time for women to take control.

Most of the US and the rest of the world: no, we’re not Sorry, Canada. Our president is a lunatic. At least you don’t have to live with him. 😕

This morning, the Coldstream Guards at Buckingham Palace performed a tribute to Dolly Parton. The last time I remember the guards at the palace honoring the memory of an American entertainer was when they paid tribute to Aretha Franklin after she passed away.

A King County Superior Court judge in Washington state has found that Kalshi’s trick of calling itself a “prediction market” doesn’t make it not gambling under the Washington Gambling Act, and has therefore ordered Kalshi to stop almost all activity within the state. Read more here:

Thanks God. Please can you give us a qualified, uncorruptible leader who will banish cruelty & corruption, end wars, and bring back a just, affordable America. We don't need a ballroom- we need affordable healthcare. food gas & housing. And God, protect & comfort Gaza's suffering children

Yale University and University of Maryland researchers have estimated that Medicare for All Act would prevent 114,000 deaths per year and save Americans more than $1 trillion annually.

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Fantastic!

Dozens of gas-burning power plants are being built across the country, solely to power data centers. These plants could emit as much planet-warming pollution as half of all passenger vehicles in the entire country in a single YEAR. We need a data center moratorium — now.

Whitehouse: "Today, I think is a sad and embarrassing day for this committee. As it looks like on a party-line vote, we are going to advance out of this committee probably the most discreditable person ever to seek the office of attorney general of the United States..."