Anna Plourde

Good evening (… night…) from New Zealand. Thank you for your work.

Image of the mechanical ladder outside the Louvre Text below says WENN'S MAL WIEDER SCHNELL GEHEN MUSS (When you need to move fast) Underneath is more German text which translates as "The Böcker Agilo transports your treasures weighing up to 400kg at 42m/min - quiet as a whisper."

The German company that makes the mechanical ladder used in the Louvre heist has used the image to advertise, with the text 'When you need to move fast'

10/10 response, no notes

The debate isn’t “moderate vs. progressive.” It’s “accommodate a corrupt system vs. confront it.” Voters aren’t asking for moderation—they’re asking: who will clean this up?

all the anxiety human evolution developed to help me spot bears now kicks in when i have to answer emails

after millions of views and shares of my Portland Frog art. (thank you all🙏🏾) I got requests to highlight priests, and chickens, and Chicagoans, and T-Rexes, and more… all of us who refuse to bend the knee. so this is for US.
𝚂𝚝𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚃𝚊𝚕𝚕.
𝚆𝚎 𝚆𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚆𝚒𝚗.

The image is an X post by user Joshua Reed Eakle from 20 hours ago, stating: "The end of due process for immigrants is the end of due process for citizens. Few understand this." The post includes a profile picture and a verified badge.

I understand this. Please tell me you do, too.

HAPPENING NOW: Emergency hearing before Judge Karin Immergut on Trump's effort to circumvent her temporary restraining order re: Oregon national guard deployment.

I plan to listen in for @lawfaremedia.org.

Follow along (court remote access technology permitting...) ⬇️🧵

Matthew 15:29-31: And great crowds came to him, bringing with them the lame, the blind, the crippled, the mute, and many others, and they put them at his feet, and he healed them after verifying their citizenship status.

Horrifying.

Vaccines cause adults
Tylenol causes pain relief
Neurodiversity is good

One other wrinkle to consider as Bob Iger makes his decision about Jimmy Kimmel

Gabby Giffords: I Mourn for Charlie Kirk’s Family "Too many of us know the pain of having a loved one killed by guns," writes the former Congresswoman.

I mourn for Charlie Kirk’s family. I didn’t agree with almost anything he said, but he had a right to go on a work trip and return safely to his wife and two young children.

Like all Americans, he deserved to be safe from gun violence.

Ouch SCOTUS

Calvin and Hobbes playing Calvinball

Imagine explaining to Bill Watterson while he was drawing this that "Calvinball" would one day appear in a United States Supreme Court dissent

In a nation made supposedly of laws, we have gambled on the discretion of men to keep the use of crisis authority in check. With Trump, we played a bad hand. Rather than treat emergency powers as a dangerous tool to be wielded with care and caution, this president has used them with reckless abandon as a toy — a means through which he can live his fantasies of strength, domination and authoritarian control.

It seems fairly clear that Donald Trump thinks gravity makes water flow "down" from the Pacific Northwest to California, because there is absolutely no system that connects the water in Oregon and Washington to Southern California.

Go follow @nws.noaa.gov

Maurene Comey's goodbye note to SDNY colleagues:

1977: why would the bartender in star wars even care if some robots with artificial intelligence came into his bar

2025: ohhh ok

Well worth the read.

The head of the department of homeland security announced that she planned to use military force to take over a democratically elected government in the state of California and we are arguing about whether a California Senator properly identified himself at the door.

a lion , a warthog and a monkey are walking in the jungle . Alt: a lion , a warthog and a monkey are walking in the jungle while dancing (from the Lion King)

I beg to differ on flow.

“Posse Comitatus, what a wonderful phrase

Posse Comitatus, ain't no passin' craze

It means civil control for the rest of our days

It's our fascism-free philosophy

Posse Comitatus”

www.nytimes.com/live/2025/06...

US climate scientists need all the help they can get. Including from foul-mouthed comedians! 🤡😱😱

Watch Emmy Award-Winning David Cross team up with Prof Michael Oppenheimer in the US launch of the hit series "Climate Science Translated".

#climate #arresteddevelopment #climatescience

Kind, decent, and compassionate, Pope Francis was badly out of step with contemporary western culture.

This. ⬇️

That doesn’t limit the topic very much these days. Is it terrible that I hope it’s only golf?

I just want to tip my hat to the crack team of White House economists who were able to discover--in just a few short days--that the U.S. is dependent on China for smartphones, computers and semiconductors.