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Doing what I can to facilitate the return of democracy.
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We really need some laws to make sure that if you’re wearing glasses that record video everyone knows it. Legally mandate that if you’re wearing smart glasses you also have to wear a cap with a propeller on it

International Survey Shows 81% Back Forcing Big Oil to Pay for Climate Destruction "People are no longer buying the lies. They see the fingerprints of fossil fuel giants all over the storms, floods, droughts, and wildfires devastating their lives, and they want accountability

Possibly The Needling’s sharpest satire yet. And it won’t change anytime soon. Not with factors like a state law requiring state agencies to buy office furniture made with prison labor and the governor slashing state agency budgets but refusing a wealth tax and budgeting $100 million to hire police.

AI was one of the nails in the U.S. green hydrogen industry’s coffin, due to its demand for electricity. Instead of attempting to start a civil war, Congress needs to be demanding answers to questions like “What does the planet need more right now — AI or green hydrogen?”

Finally, a Holy War I can join

Spending this Juneteenth holiday attempting to fix a broken IKEA cabinet hinge. And for the last few hours there has been no ICE trampling our rights, no Israel-Iran conflict dragging the world to the brink of ultimate disaster, only broken IKEA cabinet hinge. Can’t recommend it enough, honestly.

The takeaway from the Tucker Carlson Ted Cruz interview is that the American public has been so badly cheated for so long by the people pretending to be the political media that when anyone asks a basic follow up that an 8th grade schoolpaper reporter would it feels like cutting edge journalism

I think one of the reasons you hear so much visceral anger coming from Dems about politics these days is bc for years now we’ve been expected to respond with dignity and respect (which we do) when political violence touches the GOP. But when it touches us - we get the Mike Lee’s of the world.

Yay, something else to think about while I’m trying to sleep tonight.

Planted some pretty flowers in my yard this morning. Within an hour a deer had yoinked one plant out of the ground, and within three hours a deer had eaten the whole lot — all of this in broad daylight. Feels like a metaphor for a whole lot of the things going on right now.

It’s nice knowing that whatever’s going on in the world that we have a team of malicious idiots on it

One begins to wonder if putting the dumbest motherfucker ever to live in charge was a mistake.

So excited to see this administration’s rational, science-based, and well-executed reactions to the multiple climate change disasters this summer definitely has in store for us.

A lot of speculation about how things got so Stupid and Evil and I think one reason is we've collectively been too tolerant of Stupid and Evil for too long

I just got back home to finally sit down and watch the parade footage and it’s 100x more embarrassing than I expected. I totally forgot the weak nations that do these spend decades perfecting them. It looked like if Fyre festival did North Korea.

Just want to take a moment to shout out the international reporters helping us get the real story out. When an 80-year-old veteran with a walker is hauled off with his hands zip-tied behind his back, and the media spins it as a “threatening breach” of a police barricade

Thank you to my son and his day care for this terrifying Father’s Day gift.

Had to work all day, but thanks to everyone who turned out for No Kings! Love seeing all the photos of incredible people coming together to call bullshit on this guy from sea to shining sea.

[Exit King.]

Couple things I learned today: - Seniors are extremely fired up about this - "Fuck ICE" is a normie position now - People are MASSIVELY pissed off about Sen. Padilla being wrestled to the ground in LA - We all we got, we all we need

“No Kings” demonstration, Ocean Beach, San Francisco

Tens of thousands came out to #NoKings San Diego. Zero arrests. The only violence is that I was stung by a bee.

“A deranged maniac impersonated a police officer and killed lawmakers but if you’re an immigrant be sure you immediately comply with plain clothes people who won’t identify themselves telling you to get in a van”, what a fuckin country

Let me make this very plain Fuck you Ron Desantis. I’ll protest when and where I want.

The state of California needs to arrest the DHS "security" forces for assault and every Democrat in the U.S. Senate needs to sign onto a campaign to impeach Kristi Noem. Right fucking now.

I know it’s a small drop in the bucket of misery in which we swim, but it’s still annoying that shaking a phone and yelling “stop being an android!” accomplishes nothing.

Another great thing of about these harsh immigration policies and raids is that it is very easy for companies to replace the workers they are losing, because fully trained workers magically appear the minute you arrest one of the current workers so that there is no interruption in production.

Along with abolishing ICE we should abolish all for-profit prison companies in the country.

We feed you. They hunt us.

A terrifying escalation:

I'm sure the UFOs who visit us have strict ethical guidelines on not meddling with human systems, but if they wanna break the rules once or twice for the right reasons, I wouldn't be mad about it.

I still think it's pretty wild that corrupt oligarchs destroyed the entirety of U.S. consumer protection and corporate oversight and it's barely written about by journalists or policy folks just not really of any serious interest

Ok gang looks like we arrested a bunch of people who haven't committed any crimes so our next order of business is to invent some crimes to charge them with

Attention, politicians still struggling with object permanence: climate change will not go away just because you’ve decided to ignore it. Quite the opposite, in fact! Please enjoy this summer’s demonstration, brought to you by Planet Earth.

"I voted for lawless, anonymous, masked, and unchecked police" is one hell of a jump from "eggs cost too much."

Everything that’s happened over the past six months has been a response to an imaginary crisis. There is no immigrant invasion. No trade crisis. No scientific or governance crisis. Just people completely high off their own supply trying to fundamentally reorder society. None of this had to happen.

I’m taking over as the menswear guy. Men should rotate through the same four band t-shirts for 35 years. Replace the shirts with identical shirts if the holes in them get big or you get too fat for them

We’re deeply disappointed in much of the U.S. media. Grateful, however, to international journalists who are telling the truth.

Blue days at sea

all girls want are flowers and a partner that would gladly throw bricks at ICE

I think nuance and respectful disagreement can be found on a lot of issues, but ICE isn't one of them. Fuck ICE. I'm rooting for their abject failure and personal misery. May the people of Los Angeles send these discount gestapo hacks packing.

I know every generation has their class struggles, but let me tell you about the summer of 1990 when Supersoakers hit the market and only a few kids could afford them

Prevent it, resist it, let it not be so, Lest child, child’s children, cry against you “woe!”