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Another understated bird, the male Black-crested Coquette hummingbird at @tapirvalley.bsky.social #CostaRica #birds #nature #hummingbirds 🌿

Kinda hard to see a free and fair 2028 election where she doesn’t win by a lot.

"The 2024 election wasn’t a restaurant where you could order cheaper eggs but politely ask for the server to hold the fascism. You’re still getting the fascism, and your eggs aren’t just overpriced now, they’re broken and rotten." -- @playtyperguy.com

Crockett: This administration has someone who is heading up DHS that is going out there cosplaying with guns, it’s clear she doesn’t know how to operate the guns

My latest: MTG Caught “Buying The Dip” as AOC @aoc.bsky.social Renews Call to Ban Members’ Trades

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They are trying…and making headway toward their goal every day…to squeeze every last breath out of the lungs of democracy. At that point, they plan to stomp on the lifeless corpse. You already know that, but sometimes it helps to see it in print. If we let it slip away…it’s gone forever.

A key challenge for me, both in my career and personally, is moving from an employee mindset to a more entrepreneurial one. If I'm ever gonna be a published author, I need to be comfortable calling the shots. I've noticed what's been helping is being more suspicious of people in general. Sucks, huh?

Goldman on CPI report: "The declines in airfares and hotel prices may have reflected softer demand for business and government travel and from foreign tourism." Less foreign tourism is going to hit the travel industry (hotels, etc).

Scoop: In a secret summit in Geneva last December, Chinese officials tacitly acknowledged being responsible for the Volt Typhoon intrusions on U.S. critical infrastructure systems and linked the attacks to U.S. support for Taiwan. www.wsj.com/politics/nat...

We continue to fight the flood of robocalls that are disrupting our lives and scamming our neighbors. Our Task Force of 51 Attorneys General identified and warned nine companies for touting suspicious robocall traffic. Each company faces penalties under state and federal law if they do not stop.

NEW: Rümeysa Öztürk says she's had 4 painful asthma attacks in ICE custody, and not only is her asthma going untreated but a nurse tore off her hijab, saying, "You need to take that thing off your head." www.aclum.org/sites/defaul...

Just for the record.

It is really, really wild to go from 100 back to 0. I feel so unbalanced today, like I barely know what to do with myself. And my neck hurts. Head too. Ugh.

As Washington DC keeps changing the rules, California is standing strong as a steady & reliable international economic partner. Here’s why the world should do business w/the Golden State: 🌎Global partnerships & open markets ⚖️Economic stability & predictability 📈Proven economic growth & resilience

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Federal officials said they were doing wellness checks on children who arrived unaccompanied at the border. School administrators turned them away. (via @laist.com)

BREAKING: Judge Paula Xinis issues an order following tonight's Supreme Court ruling, ordering the government to "take all available steps to facilitate the return of Abrego Garcia to the United States as soon as possible." [1/2] Background at Law Dork: www.lawdork.com/p/breaking-s...

Is democracy in decline? 🌎 I think not. 🚀 The authoritarian playbook is wafer-thin & innovation remains our societal strong suit. 🌟 Learn more via my @mctd.bsky.social keynote ⿻Plurality: From Sunflower to Global Digital Democracy with @ginasue.bsky.social. 🔽

If the United States were a car, we'd be an Edsel.

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BREAKING: The country of Norway just entered a bill to give transgender Americans asylum in the country of Norway… LGBTQ+ STRONG! 🌈✨

HAPPENING NOW 📈 EURO AND YEN SURGING ⚠️ US DOLLAR FALLING ⚠️ STOCK FUTURES CRASHING ⚠️ BOND MARKETS IMPLODING ⚠️ 10YR TREASURY YIELD SOARING

Every day is the worst day of news ever and I worry I'm becoming desensitized to it because I'm so overwhelmed. I'm also sure this is the point.

This is why people hate Washington. The President is bragging about his buddies' investments while people see their retirements go down the drain.

I think Martha Stewart might have something to say about this insider, trading business.

Not for nothing, but how, exactly, is it legal to send people for *punishment* in a foreign prison (esp with no due process)? Were the funds being used for it appropriated for this purpose? I feel this has just become a thing no one questions

Ring Nebula snapped by the Hubble Space Telescope

A president signing orders about shower pressure while Congress plans to rob the most vulnerable Americans of food and healthcare. We’re living in a nightmare.

Love the F**k Trump flag! It’s what we need to carry on all protest marches!

NEW from Abrego Garcia's attorneys: "The Government continues to delay, obfuscate, and flout court orders, while a man’s life and safety is at risk. Its request for an extension ... is another stunning display of arrogance and cruelty." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

So the felon in chief is demanding that Amazon stop selling books that reveal the truth about him. And watch Bezos bend the knee. Amazon will cave. They all will. Whiteness has exposed itself to be hollow and thin skinned. The tyrant will never stop demanding more and more of your soul.

Let’s cut taxes for hardworking moms and dads.

resign marco rubio

Today, we honor the incredible Dolores Huerta — a tireless champion for workers’ rights and justice whose lifelong activism continues to inspire countless generations. This Dolores Huerta Day, we answer her call of "sí se puede" by fighting for working people everywhere.

Into the light we go. Taken this morning in Glastonbury.

I would say more broadly that as policy you really shouldn’t allow government officials to accuse people of *terrorism* anonymously.

💥 "90 day delay except China" was leaked 1 day before the actual announcement. This is the biggest insider trading scheme in history.

They were careless people, Tom and Daisy- they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made. -FS Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, published 4/10/1925.

Bring Kilmar Abrego Garcia home already!!!!

Interior Secretary Doug Burgum last week ordered all national parks to “remain open and accessible.” The directive comes after about 1,000 National Park Service employees were fired. via #MtnWestNews

Cartoon by @davewhamond.bsky.social. #TrumpMarketCrash #TrumpTariffs

I would love free public transit but get that high quality (speed, frequency, etc) matters more for most (not all) riders and mode shift. This free (yay!) but empty UIC period supply machine reminded me as metaphor that free without adequate provision is a problem.

Never. Forget. Never. Forgive. ✨

The "freight train" coming for the separation of church and state is receiving scant coverage. Before I left my job at POLITICO, I was heavily researching the case at the center of it all -- started in Oklahoma. Justice Barrett's good friend helped seed it, which I reported. I have more to share 👇