It ain't going away, no it ain't going away....

online: "there is no measure too extreme or draconian to take when it comes to keeping children safe."

offline: "why should we slow down in school zones? a few dead kids is a worthwhile price to pay if it means I can get to the intersection a few seconds earlier."

Arkansas AG Threatens to Sue Sites for Providing Info About Abortion Pills One of the sites, Plan C, is a well-known resource for information about medication abortion.

ICYMI: Arkansas is threatening two websites for simply telling people where they can find abortion pills, which raises First Amendment concerns, as @maryrziegler.bsky.social told @autonomynews.co. She said the point might be to create a chilling effect

the funniest thing that happened during the pandemic were all the rich people who flounced out of california for texas, got to texas, discovered it sucked, moved back, and then wrote blog posts about their "learnings"

@jamestalarico.bsky.social: "As a state rep, I get paid about $600 a month. That's not much to live off of. Many of my colleagues, including myself, we have day jobs that help us pay the bills. And by breaking quorum, we are leaving those day jobs behind... So this decision was not made lightly."

Before you see a hundred or so posts saying that Texas has issued arrest warrants for the absent Dem legislators, you should be aware that they are civil warrants issued by the House that are not effective outside the state

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I’m Not panicking. I’m Outraged. Read more here.

I have been the subject of many spurious accusations and politically motivated attacks, but this one is in a class by itself. According to Tulsi Gabbard — the nation’s top intelligence official — my refusal to post on Twitter is being reviewed by the Department of Justice as evidence of wrongdoing.

This is what I'm on about! Groceries are not like other inflation items. People can put off buying a new car or house for years, but they have to buy food regularly, it's not optional if you want to live. Deciding to accept post-covid prices as the new normal was a bad decision.

can’t lie the texas democratic party are cooking with this, this is insanely good news

We need a national conversation about how the President spends his time. What got bumped from his schedule today because he needed 20 minutes to write a tweet about ads and celebrities, for example

The looming Trump-cession Orange man bad (for the economy).

New in PN: The looming Trump-cession

"No administration in history has done so much so quickly to immiserate the American people. And no administration since Herbert Hoover’s seems less willing to change course as it barrels over a cliff."

as someone who comes from appalachian evangelical stock I just cannot tell you what a gigantic red flag the head doily is.

It's an actual problem. If nothing else, you need to be able to transmit intelligence, surveillance, mission reports, etc. Hard to do that accurately when people can't read or write. Your military becomes much less lethal if they can't tell each other where the damn enemy is.

I just had exactly this conversation this morning. I’ve had this conversation thousands of times at this point. Some people get angry with me. They call me a Doomer. That’s fine. I just don’t know what people see.

Adding a new series of posts by Chad Bianco, the sheriff of one of the most diverse counties in the country, in which he touts eugenics.

I’ve been having a few too many conversations like this. Them: Hi Kate, how are things with your work, with the world? Me: the university is under attack, democratic norms being broken in half, so, pretty bad. Them: But everything is going to come back and be okay after the midterms. Me: Uhh, no.

Wonder how sexual predator Brett Kavanaugh and sexual predator Clarence Thomas will vote on the fate of sexual predator Ghislaine Maxwell.

It’s good for people to change their minds, we shouldn’t mock them for it. That’s a big part of the right’s success, they don’t condescend to people and welcome them in.

I feel like sometimes people don't believe me when I tell them that a genuine problem the US Army faces is that they need noncommissioned officers who can read and write fairly well and are having trouble finding them amongst an enlisted population with mostly no education beyond high school.

If you, regular person, did anything like this after a fatal car accident, you would be prosecuted for a variety of crimes, including insurance fraud.

If you then repeatedly lied to the courts about it, like Tesla did, you'd get prosecuted for that too, plus stiff monetary sanctions.

ELIZABETH WARREN: What Zohran is saying is 'I want people to be able to afford to live in NYC'

FABER: But raising taxes in order to do it?

WARREN: Oh my goodness! Oh dear! Are you worried that billionaires are going to go hungry?

Trump admin will review panels on Edgar Allan Poe’s opposition to abolitionist movement at Philly site The content was flagged at the Edgar Allan Poe National Historic Site where visitors can tour the poet's original unfurnished home and explore other related exhibits.

GIFT LINK: Two panels that reference Edgar Allan Poe’s opposition to abolitionism were flagged for President Donald Trump’s administration’s review by National Park Service staff at the historic site in Philadelphia where the gothic horror author once lived. share.inquirer.com/d6rXL4?utm_s...

“.. Within about three minutes of the crash, the Model S uploaded a “collision snapshot”—video, CAN‑bus streams, EDR data, etc.—to Tesla’s servers .. The vehicle then deleted its local copy, resulting in Tesla being the only entity having access.”

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Two weeks ago, I was the first to report the existence of training videos instructing FBI personnel to flag mentions of Trump in the Epstein files. This weekend, I sued them for the videos.

I have to agree that the Democrats are handling the Epstein files really well. All of the requests for documents and legislation being proposed, the money probe by Wyden and Senate Finance dems, the House dems asking for the birthday book, shutting down congress with endless Epstein amendments...

Supreme Court poised to permanently entrench Republican rule The latest move by SCOTUS is a "five alarm fire"

"If SCOTUS guts the Voting Rights Act, the prospect of Republicans stealing only 5 seats in Texas will feel quaint. While California must counteract what the GOP is doing in Texas, we don’t have enough seats to counteract what they could do if the VRA if gutted. It cement permanent GOP rule."

I’m sorry but I really have to stand up for myself and independent media here. Everyone is crediting Ken Delanian for the Maxwell sex offender waiver story, but I was hours ahead of him. Hours. Independent media is important.

I got food poisoning from eating smothered steak (mushrooms cheese & carmelized onions) in 1989 and I never ate it again.