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Still that MAGICAL REALIST from Philly For Change. He/him.
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in late 2026, nearly 50 years after its launch, voyager 1 will be the first manmade object to reach a distance of one light day from the sun

FYI

Yet Luigi launched a thousand hand-wringing op-eds from the chattering class. Makes you think

DAWN PROJECT: “.. Musk’s ‘robotaxis’ are so pathetic that they require more attention and supervision than an infant. The only thing sabotaging Tesla’s robotaxi is the dangerous, defective and mentally unstable Full Self-Driving AI software running it." $TSLA dawnproject.com

Generally speaking, one swaps out license plates solely to commit crimes

Under the US Constitution, only Congress has the authority to declare war. Where are all the conservative originalists and literalists right now?

The United States should not wage war against Iran. Donald Trump’s bombing of Iran is unconstitutional. Only Congress can declare war — and the Senate must vote immediately to prevent an another endless war. This is a horrific war of choice.

It’s a good thing Congress isn’t alive to see this

Personally I am unfamiliar with any legitimate activity that requires switching license plates, which by the way is illegal.

Donald Trump bombed Iran tonight, not because they are about to have nuclear weapons (they are not), but because he needed a distraction from his tanking poll numbers and his deeply unpopular "Big Beautiful Bill." He doesn't care who gets killed, Iranians or Americans, to help HIM.

Statement from House Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries:

This is physical bravery. This guy is a patriot.

and some now-prominent pundits legitimated this nonsense

Some of us knew what he was from the beginning: www.salon.com/2017/01/24/d...

Hundreds of scientists have signed a letter to Brazilian President Lula, asking him to reconsider plans for fossil fuel development in the Amazon region.

This JD Vance op-ed did not age well

You Gov numbers: "Only 16% of Americans think the U.S. military should get involved in the conflict between Israel and Iran; 60% say it should not and 24% are not sure" It's going to change quickly, but let's at least remember where we started. today.yougov.com/politics/art...

I am at the war on California. I’m at the war on Iran. I’m at the combo war on California and Iran.

This if from yesterday: "A White House official told The Washington Post on Friday that the president 'supports diplomatic efforts from our allies that could bring Iran closer to taking his deal.'" They lied.

Tried to tell you theracket.news/p/donald-the...

New data from CATO, a right leaning think tank, confirms that only 6.9% of the 204K immigrants ICE arrested are violent, 93% have no violent convictions, & 65% have no convictions, period. Over the past year those violent crimes resulted in ~30 deaths, which I agree is 30 too many. Meanwhile— 1/2

People are getting arrested for impersonating ICE officers, yet another reason we shouldn’t normalize plainclothes, masked police forces that don’t wear badges. www.cnn.com/2025/02/04/u...

www.nytimes.com/2025/06/21/n...

16 million people would lose their health care under the Senate GoP budget plan. 338 rural hospitals would close. Millions of children would lose SNAP food assistance — all so billionaires can get a tax break. Just say no!! Call your Senators!! www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

a sitting federal judge — appointed by trump of course — awarded a student for a paper that basically says dred scott was right and should have gone further

If Zohran ends up becoming mayor, it will become fact that he is the future of the democratic party

Instead of CUTTING Social Security benefits, Congress should INCREASE payments by $200 per month and extend the solvency of the Social Security program by 75 YEARS. How? Make the wealthiest Americans pay a fairer share. I’ve got a bill to get it done.

Really disagreed with Robert Kagan 25 years ago, about attacking Iraq. Really agree with him now, about attacking Iran. www.theatlantic.com/internationa... Including the last line. On countless fronts, it's a time to be counted. A time to choose sides and stand up.

Rümeysa Öztürk wrote an op-ed critical of the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza. She was arrested by ICE and was in detention for six weeks. This white nationalist student wrote a paper that argued the Constitution applies only to white people. He won an award.

turns out climate change will cost dramatically more than economists predicted, and the cost of addressing it is actually negative. oops! prospect.org/environment/...

It’s the @madisoncondon.bsky.social bat signal

University of Florida - where professors can’t teach a class on “Race, Entrepreneurship and Inequality” but a student can get top award for writing a manifesto for the KKK in a seminar on “originalism”. And the judge who taught that “seminar” is now a Trump nominated judge. 🙃 Florida … oh man.

and as we know, "viewpoint diversity" means, "you need to recruit, hire and reward white nationalists"

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Belarus opposition leader freed from jail after pardon, human rights group says

“How is it that Matt Gaetz and Marjorie Taylor Greene... talking about the Iranian people, like they're human beings, with empathy?” Pod Save America co-host Tommy Vietor tells @mehdirhasan.bsky.social that “the Democratic Party has lost the mantle of being the anti-war party.”

JUST IN: Khalil left the Louisiana detention center where he's been since March, when ICE agents arrested him over his pro-Palestinian activism. A federal judge ruled the government could no longer detain him.

Tulsi Gabbard is now saying exactly the opposite of what she testified & the opposite of the statement in the worldwide threat assessment the entire intelligence community produced. It’s rather dangerous when the director of national intelligence cannot accurately convey a hard-and-fast reality.

Trump’s EPA is considering overturning a ban on cancer-causing asbestos. A top EPA official involved in the decision once lobbied for the American Chemistry Council – the group who sued to stop the ban. Trump is risking our health so corporations can line their pockets.

“In April, I resigned from my position at the U.S. Department of Justice Civil Rights Division for a simple reason: The department’s leadership is directing attorneys to use antisemitism as a pretext to undermine free speech.” slate.com/news-and-pol...