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Making myself an espresso and walking to the bathroom thinking “one must imagine Sisyphus happy”

SCOOP: 'Tommy' from the now-viral exchange with Abdul El-Sayed is Thomas Teepell, a former staffer for Republican Senator Josh Hawley with close ties to Christian Nationalist Sean Feucht. He's the son of a former Bobby Jindal staffer whose consultant work was instrumental in getting Hawley elected.

Surely I’m not the only person that remembers this?

Why does this guy have an insatiable thirst for killing children? Was “feeding USAID into the woodchipper” really not enough?

I’m ok. Make no mistake: this is an attempt to target political enemies and weaponize federal law enforcement. For ten years, Trump has targeted me with baseless lies and smear campaigns. This is just the latest escalation in his campaign of political intimidation. I will not be silenced.

wrote on saturday that trump was not going to let democrats avoid the question of impeachment and here we are with an offense that would have had a president impeached, removed and *at least* exiled if it had happened at any point prior to now.

no coming back from this without punishing the entire chain of command from the officers carrying out this shit to the people at the top giving the orders

I wonder if like, maybe his old suits suddenly didn’t fit right for some reason

a livestreamed execution is just a lynching

First Lady Natalie Harp sits next to her man in Marine One as they return to the White House last night, then reenters the building after another day of traveling together #TravelWithNatalie (Tasos Katopodis/Getty)

We’ll know there’s a real problem when Trump and cabinet start making frantic transactions for mask, vaccine, casket manufacturers, etc

feels like at least part of what is happening is that a lot of people want politics to solve the "my life feels empty" problem and the populist right is directly appealing to them

holy shit -- turns out Jack Smith went to a Hawkeyes game in Maryland but Schmitt's team is so reckless they concocted a conspiracy theory that Smith was actually in Atlanta seeing a Hawks game and colluding with Fani Willis. Klobuchar points out to Schmitt, "you have your teams wrong."

Katie Britt repeatedly accusing Smith and his team of “biast” is doing me real psychic damage

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Fully electric aviation has some major challenges (mostly: batteries are heavy and don't get lighter as they get used up) but I love the idea of decreasing aircraft emissions through a hybrid approach, perhaps as a step toward new, clever solutions for fully electric air transport in the future.

Just heard a reporter wonder aloud “what is Mitch McConnell thinking?” And the answer is indisputably one thing, and one thing only: “the white lotus season 2 theme song”

It’s pretty funny that the RNC scheduled a fake convention just in time for the last day to coincide with all hell breaking loose in the oil and bond markets. That $5000 check can’t come soon enough!

Indeed

Looking at my lunch salad like

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Time to bring back this classic from season one, 🎶”selective declassification”🎶

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He hasn’t said the same about McConnell because he knows the parks police handle wildlife deaths

Pausa deshidratacion

So, Trump has to be really feeling his age today, right?

I don't use AI for stuff I just kick it from my head, you know what I'm saying? I can do that, no disrespect, but that's how I am [ratatat seventeen years riff]

In a last-ditch effort, Senator McConnell’s staff have placed him in a sealed box with a vial of poison, the release of which is controlled by the decay of a radioactive isotope. They’ve also put a cat in there because they don’t understand science.

I mean, good to see, but I've lost a lot of respect for warren's judgment throughout this process - these were not subtle red flags and it was absolutely possible to see this coming your turn, bernie

perhaps we should view nazi tattoos as disqualifying from here on out. i kind of assumed we'd already view them as disqualifying but was unpleasantly surprised so maybe from here we could all agree not to downplay nazi tattoos since they seem pretty indicative of broad disregard for human dignity

AOC not getting behind Graham Platner looks like a chess move now.

2 more thoughts on birthright: 1. The movement to overturn Roe and Humphrey's Executor was built over decades. It took an enormous amount of effort to manufacture that sense of scholarly viability (see: Teles, Hollis-Brusky). The right got 5-4 on birthright with a sloppy last-minute scramble

Apparently, you're not allowed to post: “BREAKING: The ICE agent who shot and killed Renee Good in broad daylight has been identified as Jonathan Ross by the Minnesota Star Tribune. I think today is a great day for Jonathan to be indicted!”

With seven decisions with the *same* 6-3 lineup over the last three days, I really can't wait for all of the hot takes from the folks who keep insisting that #SCOTUS *isn't* defined by its ideological division.

Isn’t it the other way around?

Show me the algae and I’ll show you the crime

I can't speak for other people but I call Elon a Nazi because he walks and talks and acts and even salutes like one. Hope that helps clear it up.

In manufacturing we call this an “adhesive” failure. That’s to contrast with a “cohesive” failure, which, while not something you’d want to happen, is what you’d expect to see in a properly applied coating. Adhesive failures indicate that the stuff you put on was never really attached to begin with

If they’d had it their way he probably would have left in handcuffs, so tears is actually the better option

Lawn darts, forbidden sport

Exactly

McConnell was the adult in the room in the sense that he was conscious of, and played a pivotal role in, creating the conditions that have led to everything you see today.

In just a few hours they could be saying things at the UFC fight like “I’m so glad Mitch isn’t around to see what he did to this country”

Musk's gutting of USAID killed hundreds of thousands, possibly millions. He has used his net worth to stoke hatred against people he dislikes and to fuel white supremacy. So no, I don't think he is uplifting humanity.

It's hard to be excited about the Artemis III mission announcements when the CEO of the company making one of the mission's rockets has spent his week inciting racial violence via his personal social media platform.