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E-motos shouldn't be in bike lanes Californians, there’s a bill for that! actionnetwork.org/letters/ebik...

The guy Trump picked to lead the office that’s now investigating Jack Smith: — said Niki Haley is ineligible to be president — has neo-Nazi ties — was Andrew Tate’s lawyer — 2x Claremont fellow — wrote for Gateway Pundit — called for Pence to be hanged — called for secession after 2020 election

Maurene Comey's goodbye note to SDNY colleagues:

I say often that my former political party has become un-American. “Bullshit Joe, give me an example of something un-American,” people say. Ok. Here’s one. Advocating to revoke the citizenship of an American citizen bcuz of his political views. That’s pretty damn un-American.👇

Helpful research! It’s Not Just Trump Voters. Both Parties Are in Denial. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/16/o...

WATCH: “I WAS AN INTERPRETER IN AFGHANISTAN FOR 3 YEARS.” ICE grabs a man whose name they don’t even know at his immigration hearing, shackles him, expedites his removal. Q: Why would anyone ever help our military again? — Trump is endangering and weakening our military.

If you burn down a forest, you don't miss out on lumber for just that season. You have to replant all the trees, nurture them, and wait for them to grow. The science and research budget cuts happening now are wanton, senseless arson. Recovery, if it ever happens, will take generations.

treason to this nation’s principles

America cannot long remain free, nor first among nations, if it becomes the kind of place where universities are dismantled because they don't align politically with the current head of the government.

It’s that time of year again

Back the blue? Your followers BEAT the blue on Jan. 6 and then you pardoned them. Shameful.

This is bleak reading

Gosh, I wonder why? 🤨

There is so much possibility for economies not reliant on cops with guns and jails, economies we can program and co-govern with our dreams. I saw a bit of that this weekend. But in too many ways, folks are accepting some hyper-capitalist sleepwalk as good enough.

BILL GATES: “The picture of the world’s richest man killing the world’s poorest children is not a pretty one.” @financialtimes.com www.ft.com/content/bdd9...

Proof this guy is full of SITH.

I think a lot about what Carl Sagan said in one of his final interviews.

Call it something fancy like "malfeasance" or something simple like "incompetence" but either way there should be articles of impeachment to remove the HHS secretary for being a shameless liar who is working relentlessly to make people sick.

Despite seeing several people I totally trust say this was real I still felt I had to verify it with my own eyes. And having done so I still can't believe it's real.

Pope Francis’s "Urbi et Orbi" Easter speech: “How much contempt is stirred up at times towards the vulnerable, the marginalized and migrants...I appeal to all those in positions of political responsibility in our world not to yield to the logic of fear which only leads to isolation from others.”

In the current moment: Pugnacious progressives > cringing centrists. Best of all, but a bit hard to find: Pugnacious centrists.

Interesting history of copyright and courts in video games thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/how-nintendo... #Gaming #Law #OpenAccess #VideoGames via @mitpress.bsky.social

"After all these years in and around politics, I’d like to think I have a pretty strong stomach, but yesterday was sickening... This was not newsreel footage of two dictators meeting somewhere far away and long ago. This was yesterday. Here in the Oval Office." www.thebulwark.com/p/two-dictat...

It's striking how much Trumpists hate what's made the United States great: immigration, trade, medical and scientific research, the rule of law, an enlightened patriotism, a willingness and ability to correct past injustices. At the end of the day, Trumpism is Third Worldism.

It always boggles my mind that I, a journalist, am expressly forbidden from trading stocks, but members of Congress, with vastly greater knowledge of market-moving news, are allowed to profit by front-running markets, and so may profit by in essence stealing from the public they represent.

The problem is: they've mistaken correlation for causation. They think their parents and grandparents had a good life *because* of manufacturing jobs. When, in reality, their parents and grandparents had a good life *despite* manufacturing jobs, because of unions, high taxes, and social policies.

This is really unfair to everyone who just voted for him for the racism.

If you think this can’t happen, remember that of the 125,000 Japanese Americans who were interned during WWII for years without charge or trial, two-thirds were U.S. citizens. Including me.

Just got to the Mall and saw this sign, which no one is going to top. #HandsOff2025

We are deporting innocent men without any due process to a foreign gulag because they have tattoos about soccer, autism awareness, and loving their mothers.

From 2010 to 2016 (latest data I have ), NIH research contributed to EVERY drug approved by the FDA

Shot. Chaser.

Hey friends: it's time for the fact check that no one asked for but I did anyone because it's fun 📈🍾 Not only is this anecdote amusingly far from reality, it's part of a long-running blame-shifting meme used by the US' fossil fuel advocates A little 🧵 4 u 🆒🆗🆕 ketanjoshi.co/2025/03/19/t...

“‘I was put in a cell, and I had to sleep on a mat with no blanket, no pillow, with an aluminum foil wrapped over my body like a dead body for two and a half days.’”

America hasn’t felt this upside down since I was a child in an internment camp.

The erosion of trust in science & scientists — sometimes due to complex social/historical factors but often deliberately perpetrated by charlatans — has tragic, deadly consequences, and, if unchecked, is an existential threat to society.

“Being your family doesn’t mean I’m going to accept you killing my comrades. When JD justifies his distrust of Zelensky by ‘reports’ I thought I was going to choke…His own cousin was on the front lines. I could have told him the truth…He never tried to find out more.” archive.is/2025.03.09-2...

The Pentagon flagged a photo of the Enola Gay in its DEI purge… apnews.com/article/dei-...

Why? Because Maine’s governor Janet Mills told him to his face she would obey federal and state law, not his bullying edict, and he snapped at her like he did at Zelenskyy and she said see you in court. So, being a thin-skinned hateful savage, he’s now collectively punishing/antagonizing Mainers.

Democracy is burning, and we need sites like Bluesky more than ever. And Senator Durbin wants to repeal 230, which would massively stifle the ability of sites like Bluesky to exist, while massively empowering X and Meta. Why? It seems that someone in his office doesn't understand 230.

(1/3) It needs repeating: in 1994, Ukraine was persuaded to give up its nuclear weapons to Russia in return for the US, the UK, and Russia guaranteeing Ukraine’s sovereignty, security, and territorial integrity.

DOGE savings (WSJ): $2.6b TSLA subsidies (10 years): $15b Annual increase in deficit: $900b Cuts to Medicare: $880b

> crypto, another technology that is poised to come into its own in an AI-dominated world; infinite content generation increases the value of digital scarcity and verification, just as infinite transparency increases the value of secrecy

You cannot determine whether you saved or cost money based solely on one side of the ledger. Example: I saved my household $2K by not paying the mortgage.