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Scientist, Californian, watching the ship burn from a cliff but still trying to cure cancer and raise my boys…
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“Tariffs 101” for dummies…

Ruth was my editor when I contributed to the Post. She’s the best, as a human being and a journalist. I can’t imagine how painful to her the destruction of the institution to which she devoted her amazing career as a reporter, editorial writer, and editor must be. It’s heartbreaking.

Delta slashes profit forecast because of declining air travel. Trump's recession? Or Musk's wave of airplane crashes?

Not the first person to make this observation, but it's so striking how the media covered the crack epidemic as a problem caused by black/urban drug users and the fentanyl epidemic as a problem imposed externally on white/rural drug users.

Every. Single. Word. 🎯 🎯 🎯 shorturl.at/SKwi7

Every possible orifice in every conceivable institution is being stuffed with sycophants, criminals and grifters.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025... Afetr getting a treasonous crook of unfathomable loathsomeness and incompetence elected again, they must think the American public will believe any lie they peddle… You were on stage with a chainsaw, motherfu&$%#! 🤡

Perfect.

It takes a unique kind of genius to fuck up the US-Canada relationship.

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Cartoon by Benjamin Slyngstad

Laguna Beach is an art colony. We support the arts. Chip Bok is the brilliant award-winning political cartoonist that created this artwork.

This is why you fight these cowards. The moment you stand up to them, they crumble. Homan has nothing. The Fourth Amendment is clear and I am well within my duties to educate people of their rights. He can threaten me with jail and call names all he wants. He’s got nothing else.

From @cwebbonline.com This, right here, is a key reason we are where we are today. Pinning this.

Knowledge is power…

Nine oil refineries have shut down since Covid. The tenth is shutting down in Houston. That will put the loss of US refinery capacity since Covid at over one million barrels a day. The Nazi🤡 thinks that he can increase crude production through OPEC and he will achieve $2 pump prices. OPEC could

Any press outside of like Breitbart or whatever just never going to WH press briefings again seems like a no-brainer with the AP thing. You’re not missing much and this admin will leak like a sieve anyway, just do journalism instead of Daily Liar’s Theater stenography.

We could have had Kamala Harris. Instead, we have the most immature, petulant, stupid, needy, incompetent dipshit to ever enter American politics. What a tragically stupid country we are.

Congratulations to David Hogg for being elected the new Vice Chair of the DNC! Be sure to follow him: @davidhogg.bsky.social