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I can't vouch for it personally but Craigslist took the ad down for verification and then put it back up again, so they seem confident it's real. It seems like more people should know if Trump's paying people $1000/head to show up at his birthday parade. washingtondc.craigslist.org/doc/tlg/d/wa...

It’s unbelievable that a lot of news organisations keep reporting as if Trump is popular. He is not. His administration and his agenda are not.

one big reason beltway journalists shouldn’t buy white house spin about los angeles is that the actual public opinion info we have doesn’t suggest the president has a winning hand here

I really hope someone told Brian Wilson about this because he'd be into it

Really important story - army officials asked soldiers to identify themselves if they don't agree with Trump's politics that way he'd get only supportive soldiers in uniform during his political rally on base. Heavier soldiers were also barred from participating.

My favourite one like this is Don Henley getting Brian to autograph a copy of Pet Sounds. Brian signed it "thanks for all the great music" then thought for a second, crossed out "great", and wrote "good"

FYI from one of the best pubs in the business these days.

!!! Quinnipiac poll of 1,265 RVs, conducted from June 5-9, finds Trump at -11% approval on “immigration issues” and -16% on “deportations.” Full poll here: poll.qu.edu/poll-release...

Has there been an outbreak of subway surfing recently? Waiting for five minutes on a platform and I heard three different announcements at least three times each.

"Places that Democrats run are good and nice and places that Republicans run are poor and backwards" is a slam dunk. Republicans have been making the opposite case for decades.

RIP to Brian Wilson, who gave us many perfect albums but also the perfect interview

Real world: - Trump team trying to create a Reichstag moment. - Trump telling military audience that LA is hellhole full of "animals" - Officials in Calif trying both to calm things down, and stand up PUNDIT world: - Is it smart politics? - Is Gavin running? - Doesn't Trump look strong!

FYI, this is real: es.vaccines.gov

Leavitt doesn't answer a question about if Trump still supports a two state solution but says, "clearly Gaza is an uninhabitable place. It needs to be rebuilt with the help of our Arab partners."

Something that I think weighs on many is that everyone knows that if ever the Democrats were fully in power at the Federal level again, they will not immediately move to reverse what has been destroyed and build something new. This reality just sits out there like an anchor.

Cuomo PAC darkens skin of @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social in new mailer to NYC voters.

Shaheen: "Mr Secretary, you pointed out that javelins were given to Ukraine during the first Trump administration. But I would point out that he was impeached over holding up giving those javelins and equipment to Ukraine."

cool ad. its a real shame the video compression on bluesky fucks up the retro 16mm look of this so bad.

CNBC: You guys set the deadline for early July to have more trade deals. We're expecting more to come. What can you tell us? LUTNICK: Oh, there are so many coming ... starting today, we are gonna be focused on other deals ... you're gonna see deal after deal

yet impeachment is apparently and forever off the table while Susan Collins furrows her brow more and more.

"You cannot tell us how much the contract is for?" -- Pete Hegseth refuses to answer Sen. Reed's questions about the Trump's Qatari aircraft, including the cost of refurbishing it

This is, straightforwardly, a) viewpoint discrimination, b) in violation of the first amendment and the law creating the Fulbright program and c) overseen by a white supremacist and sexist

the media breathes a sigh of relief that they no longer have to obliquely cover the fact the president of the united states is a longtime pedophile jeffrey epstein associate as part of their exciting "FEUD" coverage

So now, not only can foreign students not come here to study and do research, Americans can’t travel abroad to study and do research? Welcome to the American North Korea

Today’s mood.

Another example of @adamserwer.bsky.social’s observation that for our current crop of two-bit authoritarians, free speech means “I can say what I want and you can say what I want”, in this case with explicit threats to back it up

We've got a poll tracker up now for the primary election in the mayor's race, and it will be updated as new polls are released.

Oh.

Four different NYT columnists are actively penning pieces about how the real problem is that a trans person once told them to fuck off

dude this party is such an echo chamber. it's just friends hanging out and chilling and having a good time. you need to invite some people over who want to kill you with hammers

My latest breaking story for @nyc.streetsblog.org on the watering-down of a bill to stop recidivist speeding:

I remember when this guy was constantly undermining and bigfooting the mayor of New York City

Manhattan can’t build 300 low-income senior units on a lot that it owns.

look who learned what 86 means

They should eschew all choreography and just stare straight at Trump when they get to “Do You Hear The People Sing.”

My work here is done

This is like when Russian oligarchs and, more recently, Chinese tech billionaires learned the difference between being a fantastically rich person and being in direct personal control of the state and its powers.

tHe PaRTy oF bUsInESs aND sMaLl gOvERnMenT aNd liMIteD iNtRuSIoN

I don't think there's any real question that the orders are illegal under 10 USC §12406; the statute explicitly requires that orders "shall be issued through the governors". Newsom doesn't need to wait for the courts. He can direct the Nat Guard to disregard the illegal orders and stand down.

My "President Trump is not a child predator." t-shirt has people asking a lot of questions already answered by my shirt.

People who run red lights are utter assholes. This guy didn't even slow down, barreling through the crosswalk as I jumped out of the way.

More asshat driving in Astoria: this guy pulled out of his building's garage and calmly drove down the 31st Ave bike lane before turning onto 29th St. howsmydrivingny.nyc/4g0s2v1r

It is 100% carrying water for the opposition to participate in this collective delusion that Dems for some reason need to answer for every teen who throws a rock rather than hold the Trump admin accountable for intentionally creating chaos and breaking the law to stoke violence. They are in charge.