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Since the AG doesn't seem to be getting ethics guidance from her team these days, I wanted to make sure she has the rule in the Justice Manual in front of her, which expressly prohibits this.

What are the days when you didn’t wish your bed was already made?

"This was an experiment by a kindergarten class. They dropped seeds in the cracks of the sidewalk to see what would happen. This would help our bees " via I Love Bees

Last year, Nike made $23 billion. Its founder is worth $35 billion. But Nike pays just dollars a day to the workers who make its products. Today I met Dinar, who sews 222 labels an hour onto Nike products. She is paid $202 a month. This is corporate greed at its worst.

I’m not Southern. I’m barely Appalachian, but this hits home for me.

I hope to set up an email account so that I can send DO NOT REPLY TO THIS EMAIL in very large letters so that people will know how important I am.

Petition to have Andy Cohen host the Trump-Musk White House Housewives Reunion. America deserves all the tea 🫖. Also kill the bill. 😉

Repost if YOU are going to a No Kings Day rally on Trump’s birthday, June 14th. This is a great summary of what the events are for and why it’s important to TURN OUT! Please watch and share.

This might be the absolute greatest reply we have ever received. Thank you, Cookie Monster 📕🍪💙

LET'S VOTE OUT EVERY REPUBLICAN UP AND DOWN THE BALLOT. youtube.com/@heavymontae...

#TrumpsTrillionsTransfer

How to be a writer: be kind to yourself remember to breathe remind yourself occasionally nobody measures your word count how many drafts you do how often you punch the wall how you sleep how much coffee you drink all they care about is the words the book the dream the story

I'm at the soul-destroying phase of the book process where I feel like the more I write, the more I have left to write. Will I ever finish this book? Time will tell. 😂

I kind of feel like buying a subscription to the @washingtonpost.com just so I can have the pleasure of canceling it again

On the clash between imagination and reality: open.substack.com/pub/markstro...

Lisandra Vazquez’s daily Kkkaroline Leavitt recaps with a new cross every day is the comic relief we need. Leavitt is watching Lisandra’s posts too 🤣🌮 #TACO #Voices4Victory

The antisemitic attack in Boulder was an act of terror—full stop. It was meant to send a message of fear. Our response has to send a louder one: there is no place for this kind of hate. Not in Boulder. Not anywhere.

“One more question, sir. You wrote a book about the former president's cognitive issues, but the current president posted that the former president was executed in 2020 and replaced by a mindless, soulless robot with cancer. What am I missing here?”

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how it sounds arguing with die hard capitalists.

JONI ERNST: "Well, we are all going to die." ME: "You first, dear."

A recent report found that Elon Musk faced at least $2.37B in potential legal liability from 11 fed agencies as of Inauguration Day. As he exits, these agencies are still on DOGE's chopping block or have dropped investigations into his corporations. See what this was about?

Any poets out there willing to write an occasional poem for Taco Don?

WATCH: “I promise I’m not just saying that to juice my own meme coins.” - JD Vance at a Bitcoin conference juicing his own meme coins

"It's like the fall of the roman empire!" "You mean a 400 year gradual shift away from dense urbanization in about a quarter of the empire because of a combination of outward and inward pressures?" "No" "Oh so you mean the transfer of major political power to economic centers?" "No"

Sorta like how the invention of vaults hurt the bank robbery business.

‘They say, We leave you our deaths. Give them their meaning.’ —Archibald MacLeish Remembering the fallen this Memorial Day, we can consider our own duty to strive so that our lives and our country are worthy of the price they paid.

hospital ghost not sure who to haunt.

Every single segment on cable news about Jake Tapper's book talking Biden is one less covering Trump's corruption, his war on our Constitution and his crimes! And that is by design.

Lately, I’ve gotten into bayou-feedback. I have to make sure I maintain the proper balance of shrimp, okra, sausage, and onion.

NEWS: Sen. Ossoff and Sen. Mark Kelly reintroduced their Ban Congressional Stock Trading Act. Repost if you agree it's time to BAN stock trading by members of Congress.

Does anyone else find it creepy that your phone throws ads at you based on stuff you talked about with someone in real life?

Can we at least discuss the possibility of Jack Black being the fifth Monkee in a remake?

Don't let up. Hold their feet to the fire. (DoJ: I do not mean to literally light feet on fire.)

So if you suddenly try to break into Congress to murder the VP you've supported for 4 years because he won't break the law and the police shoot you, your family gets 5 million dollars? Do I have that right, humans?

This is f*cked up. Awarding $5M to the family of Ashli Babbitt is a disgrace to the memory of those who defended democracy on Jan 6th. It dishonors Capitol Police, Metropolitan Police, and especially those who lost their lives or were severely injured protecting the peaceful transfer of power.

This is a clear statement by CNN that a man who incited an insurrection against America 4 years ago and told 31,000 lies in his first term still has credibility People should be fired for this sort of thing, as it's these journalistic atrocities—all *dangerously* counterfactual—driving readers away

Bucharest is excited for their mayor, Nicușor Dan, to have been elected the new president of Romania! The world is rejecting Trumpism.

🎶 Imagine 🎼 🎶🎶