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I did not edit this, this is the actual parade with the actual music being played. CINEMATIC

I encourage everyone to consider attending one of the many demonstrations planned for tomorrow across the country. Show up. Demand accountability. Peacefully protest. Find the rally closest to you: NoKings.org

Undocumented immigrants pay almost $100 billion in taxes each year. The top 1% evade $163 billion in taxes each year. Stop pretending that immigrants are the ones taking advantage of taxpayers.

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Musk should be asked about this in every interview he does now and forever. To ignore it is a dereliction of duty. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/o...

Trump has helped convicts avoid more than a century of prison time through pardons and commutations. And that’s excluding Jan. 6 cases. Add them and the total is 𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝟕𝟎𝟎 𝐲𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐬. Gift link: wapo.st/3Hfd174

Editors, please assign a deep dive piece on the grave damage musk & doge have done to the United States, rather than how he’s feeling about it.

This won’t be in the headlines because clicks, but: “His 130-day mandate as a special government employee in the Trump administration was set to expire about 30 May.”

Hard agree with part 2 of the FBI’s Dan Bongino’s statement here: This is a reminder of the damage self-serving individuals, with a history of extremely poor judgement, can do when they fail to control their impulses.

Impact of GOP tax bill by annual income: 17K to 51K: -$700 4.3 million or more: +$389,000

From Wyatt Cenac’s choo-choo take on “Flaming Hot” AI 🚃 “given the user still needs to do a lot of the heavy lifting, that doesn’t feel like artificial intelligence as much as the artifice of intelligence.”

Please, Mr. President, come for The Boss. Say something, and make it good. We can talk about it all weekend.

Like a British version of a NY Post headline

Since Trump took office, his family has made $2.9 billion in crypto. Again, this is a level of corruption so cartoonish, so obvious & on the surface, that it seems to have stunned everyone to silence.

“Which viewpoints NPR and PBS promote does not matter. What does matter is that neither entity presents a fair, accurate, or unbiased portrayal of current events to taxpaying citizens.” 🍌🍌🍌 www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

If members of the press are worried they didn’t give enough coverage to the cognitive decline of a sitting president, they have an amazing opportunity to make up for it right now.

You know it’s a good toddler party when the kids stay in the bounce house and you leave with a pocket taco #homestate

Bryan Stevenson bringing resolve, hope, and making me cry while doing laundry. On the Media @onthemedia (segment at 29:26) https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm/articles/brendan-carrs-fcc-has-been-busy-plus-rewriting-the-history-of-watergate

“Although we disagree on many issues, it doesn’t mean that we have to hate each other.” Larry David: My Dinner With Adolf www.nytimes.com/2025/04/21/o...

Quintessential music for LA at sunset, driving through the hills, you've got a man waiting for you, reintegrating with the glitterati... but is #CourtandSpark a Summer Album or a Winter Album??? @talkhouse.bsky.social pod.link/1795533637/e...

Wisdom from my toddler: “If you want to be happy, then you laugh. If you’re laughing, then you’re gonna be happy!”

See: #ProjectEsther #project2025 www.vox.com/today-explai...

Elon Musk said he’d cut the federal budget by $2 trillion Quickly lowered this to $1 trillion Now he’s down to $150 billion And even THAT appears to be an overestimate of $92 billion So-after firing thousands of workers and destroying government services This clown will cut $58 billion Maybe

I can’t believe how stupid everything is

a lot of people think you need a lot of money to buy clothes. now you're right. ok. my bad.

It is 2002. I am 18 years old. We are in a once-in-a-generation economic crisis. It is 2008. I am 24 years old. We are in a once-in-a-generation economic crisis. It is 2020. I am 36 years old. We are in a once-in-a-generation economic crisis. It is 2025. I am 41 years old. We are in a—

Come check out my economic policy Wallop Myself in the Dick and Balls Nonstop Over and Over Again. If you notice the walloping, I will triple the walloping of my dick and balls. At the end my dick and balls will feel good somehow. How does this work? I will not elaborate.

@booker.senate.gov dismantles a Confederate monument.