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I use this account to find news and mouth off. My art and pottery exist on another account. Still a patriot, electron on the outer ring.
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LA is not burning. There is no invasion Trump is lying. FOX,CNN et. al. are lying.

A federal program to protect US cities against extreme heat has just evaporated

If you block Amanda, you no longer have to suffer her inane bullshit.

Also, things ended badly for both of them and not because of protests but because of war.

David Hogg is an op. He’s free now to raise money for his “cause.”

Greyhound, I promise I will never talk smack about you ever again. Bravo

Elon Musk’s DOGE allies made FAA staff sign NDAs to keep a new communications project secret. Sources say the project would be a great vehicle for Musk’s Starlink to embed itself into the FAA’s operations. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

NEWS Granting the @NYTimes.com request, a federal judge agreed to UNSEAL certain search warrant materials in the now-dismissed bribery case of New York City Mayor Eric Adams. www.documentcloud.org/documents/25...

NEW: A federal judge raised alarm Friday that the Trump administration appeared to have deported a 2-year-old U.S. citizen to Honduras with "no meaningful process" — even as her father was fighting to keep her in the country. Details w/ @joshgerstein.bsky.social www.politico.com/news/2025/04...

Breaking news: The European Commission is issuing burner phones and basic laptops to some US-bound staff to avoid the risk of espionage — a measure traditionally reserved for trips to China www.ft.com/content/20d0...

Now, this is news.

i feel physical pain from how stupid this presidency is.

I don’t chase people anymore. Learn to be an adult.

We wouldn’t be here if SCOTUS had allowed the January 6th trial to go forward as scheduled.

NO ONE should stand for this.

Mark Cuban is just another billionaire idiot who equates the markets with the economy.

And what did Tapper say to push back on her lies? Did he confront her?

Three million Americans marched today. Here’s why we wrote about one American who didn’t.

📣 Now that I’ve completely updated all 436 House district graphs with the most recent Medicare, Medicaid, CHIP & ACA exchange enrollment data, tomorrow morning, before I leave for my #HandsOff event, I’ll be posting the *42 districts* where the Republican won by less than 15 points.

LONDON (AP) — UK police charge comedian Russell Brand with rape and sexual assault.

The IRS unit that audits ultrawealthy earners has lost 38% of its employees this year. This will starve the government of revenue by making it easier for the rich to evade taxes — which the top 1% already do to the tune of $163B a year. See what DOGE is really about?

Congratulations to Judge Susan Crawford on her victory, and to the people of Wisconsin for electing a judge who believes in the rule of law and protecting our freedoms.

Booker: "I confess that I have been imperfect. I confess that I've been inadequate to the moment. I've confess that the Democratic Party has made terrible mistakes that gave a lane to this demagogue. I confess we all must look in the mirror and say 'we will do better.'"

The Pentium as a Navajo weaving This is super-cool. Recommended! www.righto.com/2024/...

Republicans just tried to pass a rule to stop new mothers from voting. House Democrats defeated it. And now GOP leaders have been forced to cancel votes for the rest of the week.

Russia, completely unprompted, has condemned the conviction of Marine Le Pen in France claiming it 'violates democratic norms'.

No single scandal is a distraction from another scandal. The totality of the scandals is a distraction from all of them. That made sense in my head.

Literally “up is down”

Just in general, yes.

3,500 FULL TIME STAFF TO BE CUT FROM US FDA: WSJ 2,400 STAFF TO BE CUT FROM US CDC: WSJ

ICYMI, child pornographer: I got this Trump pardon, it covers ALL my crimes.

There aren’t enough Luigi’s in the world…

Stacey Plaskett: "In December of 2023, many people made Secretary Lloyd Austin go through the stages of the cross in self-flagellation and mea culpas for not informing the president that he was having a surgery, and now how we are treating Secretary Hegseth as if he is untouchable." Spot on!

Turkey said it rejected 'prejudiced' international statements over the arrest of Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu and the nationwide protests triggered by it, as authorities detained nearly 1,900 people taking part in the demonstrations reut.rs/4hLsWGU

The "Is it a constitutional crisis yet?!" discussion is so absurd: Of course you can construct increasingly esoteric definitions for why this current moment doesn't meet your exact criteria yet. But meanwhile, this is where we are: Masked agents of the states abducting people for writing op-eds.

A very good point. One important reason Jan 6 failed was counter protestors stayed home, something I'd like to know more about.

Who are “Others?”

18 U.S.C. § 793(f) makes it a federal crime to for people entrusted with information related to the national defense to, with gross negligence, disclose it to others in violation of that trust.