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HUGE: Senate Parliamentarian says that Mike Lee's public land sell-off violates the Byrd rule, requires 60 votes in the Senate. A bunch of other terrible anti-environment provisions do too. This isn't over, but this is a huge win. www.budget.senate.gov/ranking-memb...

“DRACULA” can stand for “Don’t Rank Andrew Cuomo’s Useless Lazy Ass” or “Don’t Rank Andrew Cuomo’s Useless Lecherous Ass” because this is a big-tent movement where we believe in ideological diversity

The concept of sexual harassment has endorsed Andrew Cuomo for Mayor.

We bombed Iran without congressional approval and I still have chores and work and kids in sports and supper to make. Living through autocracy and another possible forever war while living day to day is wild.

No money for Medicaid or SNAP or museums or schools or sidewalks or gun violence prevention or art or libraries. Always money for war.

Just brutal for Tyrese. Brutal.

The U.S. Senate is currently considering a budget reconciliation bill that quietly includes language that could devastate our public lands. It would: - Make over 250 million acres of public land eligible for sale - Mandate the sale of at least 2 million acres of Forest Service and BLM land

We still have no idea who the ICE agents are. They could be insurrectionists, extremist militiamen or criminals themselves, chasing law-abiding citizens down the street for recording their kidnappings. The odds they aren't are low. Congress must raise hell about this. A masked gang runs our country.

they’re assembling the pervert megazord

Love when a YouTube promotion gets denied for "shocking content" when it mentions climate change twice.

Disappointed by the increasing amount of GPT bullshit on Reddit.

Why do the characters in JAWS not simply defeat the shark in the marketplace of ideas?

A beautiful afternoon to bike with @bradlander.bsky.social

In order to keep global warming below 1.5C or 2C, we need to move industrial activity to clean energy. This will MORE THAN DOUBLE our global need for electricity. We are going to need a LOT more wind, solar, geothermal, and other clean electricity than most people are expecting. ⚡🧵

One of my favorite quotes for Pride.

If you’re under 30, you weren’t even born the last time Andrew Cuomo lived here. This is your city. Vote like it.

We've been kind of slammed @404media.co recently, but thought we would take a minute to reflect on the impact of some of our bigger stories recently. We believe that reporting from a small team can make tangible change and that you don't have to be part of a big organization to do investigative work

"Build as much clean energy as possible as fast as possible" should be our No. 1 national priority in the coming decade. All our national resources should be bent to the task. The president should talk about it every week in a national address. It should be the moon shot X100.

You can see the ICE agents in their minivans then the LAPD cars in the back appearing to block the Dodger Stadium parking lot entrance. When I asked an LAPD officer if they are blocking ICE from entering the parking lot she said “put it this way. The Dodgers don’t want them coming in.”

But of course Trump Travel Restrictions Bar Residents Needed at U.S. Hospitals www.nytimes.com/2025/06/18/h...

Fascinating look at the ruling earlier this month from Hungary's Constitutional Court ordering the government to improve its climate law, from @isabellakaminski.bsky.social for @drilledmedia.bsky.social drilled.media/news/Hungari...

y'know it's kind of a tell that they think celebrating the end of slavery is DEI

the destruction of chattel slavery is one of the great accomplishments in our nation's history and the reason conservatives hate celebrating it is because doing so legitimizes the black counter-narrative of the united states

"Anger is tracked via Fitbit. Tear gas exposure now counts toward your Apple Health goals."

The last few months have been the most impactful by 404 Media yet. Stopping ICE data access; triggering changes at AI companies, more. We continue to be the most impactful tech outlet on the internet, and our subscribers let us do this work. Here are some of those recent examples:

"Democrats head into the general election with a statewide ticket fully backed by Clean Virginia — and free of Dominion Energy’s money." Yes, please. virginiapoliticalnewsletter.substack.com/p/clean-virg...

Everything seems like too much but we do actually have a chance to stop this monstrous, historically, comprehensively hurtful bill. Use our app and script to call your reps today and tomorrow and every day after that. www.whatcanido.earth/action/stop-...

Insanity

Urgent Action Needed! H.R.1 is THIS close to passing. Use WCID to call your reps and make a difference. Let's unfuck the world together! 🌍💪 #WCID @wcid.earth www.importantnotimportant.com/p/wcid-urgen...

the lesson of this isn't that tucker carlson is actually good but that you should ask these people basic factual questions instead of bullshit about politics

i once again would like to express my desire to meet Alexi Lalas in the octagon

I just pulled out my copy of Newton's Principia, a book that was originally written in Latin, and noticed that the translation I am using was completed with support from the National Endowment for the Humanities, which has basically been destroyed Science depends on the humanities 🧪

DC folks let’s hang out tonight peoplesbooktakoma.com/event/human-...

seen some people complaining that this is a political stunt and lemme say if this was the kind of political stunt more politicians were doing on a regular basis we wouldn't be where we are today dude is actually putting himself on the line here, fuck off with that shit

So I just want to be clear that the gentile President's anti-immigrant goons illegally assaulted and kidnapped the leading Jewish candidate for Mayor in New York City for walking into a federal building for the crowd that is keeping track of The Antisemitism Problem

Lander and Padilla have set the standard that absolutely every Democratic politician should meet or exceed if they don't want to get primaried.

Do not look away.

terrific piece

"The incident was the latest in nearly daily mass deaths of Palestinians who were seeking aid in past weeks, including near sites operated by the U.S.-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation."

#Birds friends - what are the great birding newsletters out there? Of whatever flavor

NYC said #NoKings.

LAPD is illegally sharing license plate data with ICE and Border Patrol. Under California law, police agencies are barred from sharing license plate reader data with out-of-state public agencies or federal entities.

The Dodgers’s silence about ICE in LA — and Dave Roberts’ feigned ignorance about what’s going on — is an absolutely horsehit look for the franchise of Jackie Robinson and Fernando Valenzuela www.latimes.com/sports/dodge...