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My general disappointment and anxiety about the state of things was mildly improved by the news that I will be able to get weather on the screen in CarPlay with the iOS26 update. It’s the little things

Medicaid pays for 60% of births in Mike Johnson’s home state of Louisiana — yet he voted to cut Medicaid. If you’re not voted into office to defend the health and wellbeing of your constituents, what the hell are you there for?

Trump has wanted a police state with himself sitting at the top as its undisputed boss since his first administration. The standoff in L.A. shows how truly eager he is to turn America’s vast warmaking powers inward on his domestic foes and critics. Story: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

See this? CBP/ICE tweeted they will be at the 6/14 FIFA World Cup party. Message: get your papers in order futbol fans. The tweet has since been deleted. Subsequently VIP FIFA boat was boarded by the fucking U.S. Coast Guard! Who checked papers. For soccer y’all #FIFA #UnmaskICE

Work, wages, and wealth for all Marylanders. That’s the mission of our administration. Since taking office, we have: ✅ Signed into law the Access to Banking Act to increase access to capital in low and moderate income communities and empower entrepreneurs. 🧵 youtube.com/shorts/fY2W_...

Minnesota was just ranked the 5th best state for child wellbeing — here’s why: ✅ Free school meals ✅ Nation-leading Child Tax Credit ✅ Paid family and medical leave

Saw comment “I was raised to expect more from police.” Well you weren’t raised in our house dad said cops were either people too dumb to get a real job or guys that wanted a badge and uniform and hit people with a flashlight. /1

Seth gets it

W.E.B. Du Bois on Robert E. Lee: “Either he knew what slavery meant when he helped maim and murder thousands in its defense, or he did not. If he did not he was a fool. If he did, Robert Lee was a traitor and a rebel–not indeed to his country, but to humanity and humanity’s God.”

Today Speaker, Mike Johnson called for vigilante violence against California Governor Gavin Newsom.

During the secession crisis the US Army had eight colonels from Virginia. Only one took up arms against the US in violation of his oath. Lee’s cousin was a naval officer who remained loyal pointing out his oath was to the US not Virginia. These radicals lie about American history.

"As time passes, people, even of the South, will begin to wonder how it was possible that their ancestors ever fought for or justified institutions which acknowledged the right of property in man." - U.S. Grant. I fear that time remains in the future.

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem called Los Angeles a “city of criminals” and not a city of immigrants. But like its name, Los Angeles is a city of angels. We protect and look out for one another, especially the most vulnerable.

The 🇨🇦 military has been mobilized to evacuate & support citizens threatened by forest fires. The 🇺🇸 military has been mobilized suppress & terrorise citizens standing up for each other. We are not the same! #Never51 #CanadaStrong #BoycottUSA #FuckTrump

MURRAY STATE DOES IT FINALLY THIS TIME. A WIN SO NICE, I HAD TO BEVEL IT TWICE.

Insane scenes in Downtown Los Angeles as the cops open fire indiscriminately on people milling about. The cops shattered a business’s windows while firing on a live-streaming journalist. Keep this in mind when people talk about the protesters causing property destruction. 🎥 : AXN News on YouTube

Right now scrolling through social media the reason MAGA controls the White House, the House of Representatives and the Senate and Democrats don’t is clear. MAGA knows what they want and build all their words & images around it. Progressives don’t want to win unless it’s 100% their way /1

The President of the United States is advocating for arresting the duly-elected Governor of California for his SPEECH He thereafter admitted that the Governor of California had committed NO CRIME—but he still wants him arrested Spend as much time as you need processing what that means for America

Make no mistake. There are people eagerly watching the LA livestreams because they want to see “a damned California liberal” die. Sons of Liberty would have straightened out Murdoch, Musk, Bezos, Zuckerberg, Thiel, Bannon, Alex Jones a long time ago and have prevented this.

Yeah. Marketing. King did marketing. Malcolm X did too. Ghandi did marketing. But hey if you just want to protest and change nothing that’s a choice too. “Those people”. 😂 Let’s all get our foil halos on and declare our greatness.

DOGE is a failure. Promoted by conspiracy theories, nonsense and incompetence, it ruined professionalism and capability and saved nothing. economist.com/united-state... from The Economist

National Guard firing tear gas in response to what's described as "several dozen" protesters suggests to me that they're operating on a schedule, not in response to real events. (Or, even worse, some of them are panicking.)

Went to local farm selling blackberries. Choice was already picked or pick your own. Laughed when offered to pick my own and bought picked. Asked who chooses to pick. People looking to save a little money or people that have never gotten into chiggers or scratched by the thorns.

Major General Randy E. Manner, former Acting Vice Chief, National Guard Bureau statement to Fox News: "This is an inappropriate use of the National Guard and is not warranted.”

"In the old days, that might have been cause for a corruption investigation. In the modern era, it’s just another Thursday." www.nytimes.com/2025/06/08/u...

That TD catch by #StLouis #Battlehawks was phenomenal. That’s how you build a legend as a team and build fans. #UFL

Did you know that University of California Press @ucpress.bsky.social has a metric tonne of books #Free2DownloadAndRead in their Open Access page? All available here: www.ucpress.edu/book-lists/o...

On Pentecost, Pope Leo calls for a church that “opens the borders between peoples and breaks down the barriers between class and race;” criticizes an “exclusionary mindset that, tragically, we now see emerging also in political nationalisms.” 🔥 🔥 🔥 www.vatican.va/content/leo-...

Trump ain’t trying to stop violence. He’s trying to create it. Hold fast, Los Angeles!

Chinese propaganda surges as the US defunds Radio Free Asia – The Washington Post: ‘have allowed China to fill a programming void and expand the reach of its talking points’ ‘Beijing has added 26 new Tibetan language frequencies and 16 new Uyghur language frequencies since the end of March’