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may this day never end

I'm just glad one of these men has the nuclear codes and the other has all our personal data.

BIG NEWS: Big Crypto is going in to win a US Senate Seat in Michigan to elect Florida's Mike Rogers And if they win this seat, there's little hope of winning back the Senate this decade and maybe even next. This needs to wake Democrats up. Unchecked crypto means Republican domination forever.

For over a year and a half, the Israeli government has repeatedly used weapons supplied by America to break U.S. and international humanitarian law. 54,000 Gazans are dead. Half a million are on the brink of famine. We must pass the Block the Bombs Act and save lives.

In case you’d like an aperitif of “let them fight” drama.

YouGov poll | 6/5 “If you had to choose, who would you side with more between the following?”

The plot thickens... Great reporting from @AshleyRParker and @missy_ryan: www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

This should not controversial, but somehow it is. I believe EVERYONE deserves healthcare, no matter who you are, what you do, or where you were born.

meanwhile, in Tokyo

I've introduced the Block the Bombs Act with 21 of my colleagues to withhold certain offensive weapons that are supplied by the U.S. to Israel and demand Israel’s compliance with U.S. and international law.    Hear directly from me about the importance of this bill. (1/2)

another example of how musk cannot be trusted to control critical infrastructure

Elon threatening to just leave people on the ISS is making a pretty good case for why you nationalize your space program!

wasn't just enough to freeze a state's ability to regulate consumer protection and civil rights. now, very coercive tactics: if you want the money to build out high-speed internet to un-served and under-served communities, we have to ban your state's ability to do AI policy.

Tesla stock ended the day down 14%. The company lost $152 billion in value — the biggest hit to its market cap ever, according to CNBC.

DOGE boys asking coworkers, "Why are you putting soap in that sock?"

ICE Official Reveals Miserable Conditions for U.S. Immigrants at Djibouti Prison A top ICE official said illness is common at Camp Lemonnier, with inadequate medical care and exposure to smoke from burn pits. theintercept.com/2025/06/05/i...

The Polish foreign minister, a writer and journalist who covered the Soviet war in Afghanistan in the 1980s, clearly knows a thing or two about a patiently-timed response.

Jim Banks on CNN: "This has actually been a really good day for President Trump ... he's taking the high ground with Elon."

Might be a lesson here somewhere about outsourcing capacity for key government services to a guy who lives in a lair under a volcano

“Between 12:19 pm and 3:20 pm Musk fired off 49 posts, reposts, or replies. That’s an average of one new missive every 3.5 minutes, over a three-hour stretch.” www.wired.com/story/elon-m...

TEXAS: Trump said ICE raided a “Tren De Aragua Gathering” — turns out it was a birthday party, with kids, and nobody had a criminal record. www.texastribune.org/2025/06/04/t...

Honestly, on top of the political problem, if there are adults left in the White House -- BIG IF -- Elon's meltdown really does pose very complex NatSec issues.

🚨New: Trump Org applies for sweeping trademark for tech products. Items include— 💰 crypto wallets 💰 virtual civics training 💰 virtual cologne 1/

Always read Will's columns. Here's a gift link. share.inquirer.com/JOZh7n

There’s a timeline where Kash Patel investigates Elon Musk’s drug use, which just goes to show you the universe had a very specific plan here

In the words of Donald J Trump: “Sometimes you see two young children fighting like crazy. They hate each other, and they’re fighting in a park, and you try and pull them apart. They don’t want to be pulled. Sometimes you’re better off letting them fight for a while and then pulling them apart.”

So the Senate Commerce Committee's state AI regulation ban is a little different and a bit more clever. I still don't think it'll pass the Byrd bath, but it's at least closer.

The relentless promotion of pseudoscience, and this is particularly dangerous Gift link www.nytimes.com/2025/06/05/h...

The worst people in the world are all doing the "pick meeeee!" dance for Elon.

WASHINGTON (AP) - Harvard files legal challenge over Trump's ban on US entry for incoming foreign students.

It's worth noting here that Elon's principal objection to the reconciliation bill is that its Medicaid cuts are not nearly savage enough. If Elon wants to damage Trump great but there's no Dem tent big enough to include the "kill hundreds of thousands of poor Africans for kicks" guy

anyone ever heard of contractual obligations? www.cnbc.com/2025/06/05/m...

No, wait, I can do better. Griftstallnacht

this is like drake and kendrick lamar but they're both drake

Maybe we shouldn't get into a situation where one guy can threaten the entire U.S. space program because the president wrote a mean tweet about him. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

That's how the movie opens.