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Following the path of least resistance makes the river crooked Curious, hungry, and listening to Sturgill Simpson Family/Boston/Beach/Bourbon/USMC
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BREAKING: Federal judge in Vermont orders that Rumeysa Ozturk be released from detention "immediately" and on her own recognizance with no travel restrictions. More to come at Law Dork: www.lawdork.com

So many people have grown up to be the villains of our stories.

The first domino falls! Today Lehigh County, Pennsylvania became the first US pension fund to suspend new Tesla purchases in its actively managed funds 👏🍸🎉 #teslatakedown substack.com/home/post/p-...

it really is astounding that a presidential administration crashed the growth trajectory of the wealthiest country on the planet in basically two months

Do you worry that your Cybertruck doesn’t look stupid enough? We’ve got just the product for you!

ICE Agents Wait At Edge Of Delivery Table To Deport Newborn

“No matter what you have done before,” Professor William McBride wrote to Annapolis’s Superintendent Adm. Yvette Davids, “your legacy will be that of a careerist who banned Maya Angelou but retained Hitler’s ‘Mein Kampf.’” www.nytimes.com/2025/04/24/u...

Marriott’s CEO said it straight: “We welcome all… we create opportunities for all… that’s who we are as a company.” He went back to his hotel to find 40K emails from Marriott associates worldwide saying “thank you.” Plenty of CEOs talk. Capuano showed up. Marriott still has my business.

Abrego Garcia's wife: "I will not stop fighting until I see my husband alive. Kilmar, if you can hear me, stay strong. God hasn't forgotten about you. Our children are asking when you will come home ... they miss their dad so much."

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

@cptowers.bsky.social Would you swap Toglia for Manzardo? I know Toglia will get better but…

Very informative chart from Washington Post

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Good news, friend:

An NPR investigation uncovered 40,000 vets facing foreclosure due to a VA mistake. A rescue program is helping many of them, but others fear being left out if Congress cuts this new lifeline.

"The way I was taught is, if your family were immigrants to this country and came for a better life, the price you pay for that is you can never say that 'no one else is welcome.' That is what America was built on," said the Dropkick Murphys frontman Ken Casey.

I know I keep asking this, but how long does it take for people to realize they’re on the wrong side of history?

Harrison, whose plasma contained a rare antibody, rolled up his sleeve 1,173 times from 1954 to 2018. The Australian is credited with helping 2.4 million babies and advancing scientific research.

So now after yesterday we are still supposed to believe that Trump didn’t try to pressure Zelensky to investigate Biden on that 2019 “perfect phone call”? That doesn’t seem like something he would’ve done?

NEW from me: Why has Patrick Soon-Shiong touted RFK Jr repeatedly and run interference for him at his paper, the LA Times? Maybe because his biotech company has 3 applications pending at the FDA, whose parent agency Kennedy is about to be running. prospect.org/power/2025-0...

Before yesterday's crash, President Trump: - Fired the heads of the TSA and the Coast Guard - Pushed out the head of the FAA — leaving no one in charge - Gutted a key aviation safety group - Pushed air traffic controllers to quit as he purges the government He's putting Americans in danger.

If you wanted no leaks you should have gone into Settings -> Security -> Configure privacy & security -> Privacy options -> Other -> Configure -> Media interface and clicked “Disallow.” The Leak setting is on by default but we understand your privacy is important so we’ve made it easy to opt out

2024 National popular vote: Trump: 49.80% Harris: 48.33% (1.47% margin) Pennsylvania popular vote: Trump: 50.4% Harris: 48.7% (1.7% margin) Michigan popular vote: Trump: 49.7% Harris: 48.3% (1.4% margin) Wisconsin popular vote: Trump: 49.6% Harris: 48.7% (0.9% margin) 115,000 votes decided it.

This is bullshit @patriots.bsky.social, do better #nfl #newenglandpatriots

An update on the TikTok situation from our monitoring on Reddit. Now you get TOS'ed for saying negative comments about meta and Zuckerberg, left-wing politics get flagged as misinformation, and you can't tag #fucktrump #fuckelon or #fuckmeta but you CAN tag #fuckbiden and #fuckkamala

Thinking once again about the Boston Globe’s fake front page from 2016, satirically imagining what a hypothetical Trump presidency would be like Welp

Bluesky is getting its own photo-sharing app, Flashes

From a Grok analysis of my healthcare post that user Apple Lamps did . It did a good job

New from me: Trump is a lame duck, an old, tired, easily manipulated one, whose vanity is a useful tool. Foreign leaders like Claudia Sheinbaum are right to mock him, and American elites should uncurl from the fetal position and get in on the fun.