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Again: Why does Musk have operational control over any *military grade* version of anything. That’s not how DOD contracts work.

Republicans sure do love pedophiles. They elect them, they pardon them, and they platform them in their ads. Vote blue for sanity and decency.

I've been teaching ethics and moral philosophy for 30 years. I agree with this 💯

Meta’s invite-only program for content creators has accounts promoting white supremacy, neo-Nazi ideologies and histories of anti-LGBTQ rhetoric.

This 💯. Fuck Metallica

Nobody this cowardly, craven, and self-serving should control a company with the financial resources of a medium-sized country. We need to break these companies apart. "Too big to fail" needs to be replaced with "too big to exist."

I know Rahm Emanuel. I worked with him for years in the Clinton administration, and then when he was Obama’s chief of staff. Rahm Emanuel represents everything that’s been wrong about the Democratic Party for the last 30+ years. Be warned. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/the-rahm-bomb

Our system of governance derives its legitimacy from the consent of the governed. When public servants use propaganda to manipulate the people they are supposed to serve in order to MANUFACTURE that consent, our SERVANTS soon become our MASTERS. It’s one reason why the VOA can’t broadcast in the US.

This piece reinforces a couple of thoughts I’ve been mulling over: 1. “Thou shalt not bear false witness” is far more important than our society values it 2. We are committing untold acts of friendly fire by not being careful when taking our verbal shots at people, wounding those whom we’d protect

Susan Collins is a crook. Trump covered up for her. ProPublica has the story.

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Ossoff: "We are witnessing people drunk with power who are utterly reckless, utterly corrupt, and obviously believe that they live with impunity. They believe they're untouchable. They believe they're invincible. Let's prove them wrong."

What happened to American journalism that the president can float a blatantly illegal bribery scheme to win the midterms and American news outlets report this as "Trump makes an extraordinary offer of $5,000 payments if GOP win midterms?"

ProPublica spoke to dozens of people who had lived in homeless encampments when cities cleared them out in “sweeps.” We distributed notecards so people could tell us about the toll in their own words. ➡️ This is what they wrote:

This METR OpenAI report is a bombshell. I'm going to summarize for a non-technical audience. OpenAI is constantly testing models, thousands and thousands at a time.

The fact that people have said worse about Melania with barely a ripple is proof positive that Trump's relationship with Harp is inappropriate and problematic

If we are going to have charter schools lets at least make them useful and mandate that all children who are unvaccinated for reasons not having to do with being medically fragile have to use them and that the schools have to enrol them

Imagine how much better the world would be if the media had given as much attention to the fact that the President likely raped children and is brazenly corrupt as it did to a Cambridge professor who possibly plagiarized. Our media is broken, and the people who broke it did so intentionally.

She turned drumming into total emotional release. Years of arm and leg coordination behind every beat.

I think we all miss the days when military commanders would fall on their swords after a humiliating defeat.

This cruelty has no need but cruelty. Haiti remains deeply dangerous; a country in the throes of anarchy. Hundreds of thousands of people are SAFE. They are safe. They are safe here and the nation has decided to make them unsafe. We are embarking on a tragedy and we cannot look away. We cannot.

One of these things is not like the others One of these things doesn't belong Can you tell which thing is not like the other By the time we finish our song?

The party that just got caught weaponizing the justice system and lying about the reflecting pool wants you to believe that a man who saved millions of lives and devoted his life to saving others is a criminal

I'm assuming that Bernie Moreno's silence regarding Max Miller is an indication that Miller has something on Moreno that could end the senator's career. It's either that or he hates his daughter.

Again: Where are the calls for Miller to resign from all the folks who had thoughts about Platner? They’ve known all along.

And no one wants him to....no matter how bad it gets

Provided the forces of fascism are defeated, I fully expect Ossoff to be president one day.

CNN needs to fire Scott Jennings. He told an OUTRAGEOUS lie to manufacture a narrative for his political team. That’s insane. He needs to be off the airwaves. Like NOW!

Has Mitch McConnell commented yet on Lindsey Graham's death?

It's a Potemkin village presidency. Not quite Weekend at Bernie's but close...very, very close

Democrats forced their Senate nominee out within days of a serious allegation. Republicans have repeatedly rallied behind candidates facing similar accusations. That difference says something important about what each party now tolerates. open.substack.com/pub/adamkinz...

ICE fascists killed Lorenzo Salgado Araujo on Tuesday morning. His son Ronaldo didn’t recognize the man in the video by his face, he recognized his father by his voice, crying out for help. That’s how Ronaldo learned ICE fascists had killed his father 💔 open.substack.com/pub/letsaddr...

He needs to officially withdraw - today

This point needs to be made over and again: The main purpose of wealth taxes should not be to raise revenue. That's a small and secondary benefit. The main purpose should be to *reduce the fortunes of the ultrarich*. Why? Because those fortunes present a massive threat to democracy and public life.

Star Trek Forever

It's kind of cool that the Great American Fair went with a theme of the sparsely populated, largely vacant vistas of America's prairies. Isolation and solitude are underappreciated - it's good to see them celebrated. That is the theme, right?

May they meet with success.

Jack Smith: I'll give you an example from from my life. I resigned as special counsel. I know I need to get a lawyer because the president has said he wants to jail me for doing my job. And so I retain lawyers, as soon as that becomes public, the president and the justice department target that firm

Fuck Sony - The PS5 will be the last console I own from them. As long as there is a company supporting physical media, that is what I will support.

Just 10 people have already poured $617 MILLION into this year’s midterm elections. In the entire 2008 presidential cycle, the last election before Citizens United, total billionaire spending was $16 million. This is not sustainable. We need to get Big Money out of our democracy.

Kagan makes sure that Trump’s gutter racism — and the majority hand-waiving it away — gets into the record.

Since it no longer reflects, just call it the distraction pool as it distracts attention from Trump's ill-conceived war of choice w/ Iran, his long association with Epstein and the refusal to release all the Epstein files, and his corruption in office and the use of that office for self-dealing.

Pretty sure that 2026 will be remembered as the year of the drone.

I'm looking forward to seeing Texans root for one of the most "woke" teams in the NBA. Hopefully, they can follow that up by voting Talarico into the Senate. Go Spurs!

This Pride Month let’s resolve to keep defending the civil rights and liberties of our LGBTQIA+ neighbors and of all Americans against authoritarian clampdown.

Happy Pride and keep pride in democracy.

What some like to call ""TDS," the rest of us just call "moral clarity."