Michael Mechanic

The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation seems to be throwing some shade at ICE.

Putin is a monster and a terrorist, as evidenced by his deliberate bombing of civilian residential buildings, and no US government should take his side.

As a retiring but still sitting member of the House, MTG has the opportunity to read into the public record documents that otherwise could not be released... and would be protected by the constitution's speech or debate clause from prosecution.

Trump always likes the last person he talked to. We'll see what he posts tomorrow.

Yeah, well they have their share of 1 percenters for sure. When you hang around rich people, nice as some of them may be, they get really salty when you talk about things like taxing unrealized gains.

Science can and does fall into thinking ruts, and does need the occasional shakeup from within, but Kennedy is regurgitating old, thoroughly debunked ideas. Not bringing anything new to the table. And he's playing with people's lives. Vaccines are among history's top scientific triumphs.

Also fascinating

More and more de facto bribery, yes. But what has really changed is that these people used to give to both parties pretty equally—like, each side had its own billionaires. Now they're just straight up backing the oligarchy machine. No civic duty or social responsibility at all. Zero. Zilch.

What Steve Wozniak gets at below is kind of what my book, "Jackpot," is about. So if you're looking for gifts for family /friends... It is said to be a good read. Here's a little taste: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

I dunno, man. People wear or don't wear their wedding rings for all sorts of reasons. Seems like a pointless thing to speculate about.

WHERE ARE THEY TODAY ???

“They had seen me before, so they thought they were just going to speed away. I was like, ‘Ha ha, bitches, I got a new scooter!’”

If you're needing a little Friday shaudenfreude...

White House announces new oil and gas drilling off California and Florida But Sunshine state Republicans might oppose drilling off state’s famous beaches that keep tourism dollars coming in

Mar-a-Lago first.

Everything is fine.

Quite the combo here, signaling all's totally well with our nation.

A Fraudster Pardoned by Trump Gets 37 Years for Running Ponzi Scheme

Trump pardons these white-collar crooks, and they go right back out and re-offend. Maybe they see him grifting and want their piece. A lot of blue-collar J6 thugs he pardoned have also committed new crimes. He's even re-pardoned some of them. There's never gonna be another like him, one would hope.

It's funny, the head of Oath Keepers made the same ask, except it turns out he and his followers didn't care about that. They just hated the idea of a Black president, and proceeded to attack the US Capitol on Jan. 6. And then Trump pardoned the lot of those (actually) seditious bastards.

Johnson also refused to let the South rejoin the Union under Black leadership, leading to the "redemption"—a brutal anti-Black domestic terror campaign, one of whose leaders, Benjamin Tillman, would become a senator. Not until the 1970s would any southern state elect a Black leader to Congress.

miss piggy from the muppet show says whatever in front of her face ALT: miss piggy from the muppet show says whatever in front of her face

There is nothing "frank and honest" about calling someone "piggy," unless of course, that someone happens to be...

All these right-wingers are gung-ho to make sure every embryo is carried to term, and yet they also advocate gutting environmental regulations designed to ensure those babies have clean water to drink and air to breathe—not to mention a future on Earth.

Just some of the things I think about.

Listen up.

Lying under oath—channeling their mendacious orange boss

Instead of just chasing the news cycle, I wish reporters who covered the president would ask questions like, "Do you regret abruptly defunding USAID, given that your decision has already killed hundreds of thousands of people?"

The heck?

I haven't done that with freelancers—yet. I like to think the people I work with don't need to be told that. But it might not be a bad idea.

AI is fine insofar as it can be used to assist in sorting through big datasets and such, but it is problematic on other things.

Oh, I'm terrible

private equity buys a company and immediately starts torturing their employees and the money

Trump wants these people executed, apparently.

ESQUIRE: “ICE is hiring literally anybody, and it’s terrifying… people who flunk the exam, criminal records… yet they’re allowed to tear children from their beds at night.”

www.esquire.com/news-politic...