Making my first (and likely last) skeet an appreciation of this incredible book. Thank you @sheaserrano.bsky.social for helping a sad Kings fan out.

Peacemakers are needed more than ever, and I hope I can live up to the ideal of peacemaking that President Nelson expressed.

Shutdown hostage taking Russ Vought's threatens more mass firings; SCOTUS blesses his de facto impoundment

New from me: Russ Vought is using federal employees as hostages in federal shutdown negotiations, threatening mass firings if Dems do not accept Trump's terms.

Meanwhile, the Supreme Court just allowed Vought to impose a de facto impoundment of foreign aid.

donmoynihan.substack.com/p/shutdown-h...

CDC ordered staff this week not to release their experts’ assessment that found the risk of catching measles is high in areas near outbreaks where vaccination rates are lagging.

“The decision to vaccinate is a personal one,” a spokesperson said, echoing a line from a recent editorial RFK Jr. wrote

An "economist" so dumb I had to explain to him how the import price index works last month will now lead the BLS, kill me

Hell (detail), follower of Hieronymus Bosch, 1474-1516, 📸 by @logankassel

Every Republican who goes on the Sunday shows tomorrow should be pressed to denounce this illegal and authoritarian proclamation from the president. And none of this "I didn't read the tweet" bullshit.

McGovern: "You all know the truth. You know this bill is cruel and will hurt millions of Americans, but Trump wants you to fold. And the sad fact is many of you will fold in a nanosecond. You will vote for this even though you know it's bad for your own constituents. You're absolutely terrified."

I seriously think the Social Internet is 21st century cigarettes. Complete with secondary smoke causing a lot of harm in nonusers.

False Flags The LA protests are just human

I went over as much footage as I could find of the Los Angeles protesters speaking in their own words. An interesting theme emerged:
www.kenklippenstein.com/p/false-flags

The absolute disgrace taking place today in front of cameras in the White House is yet another reminder that for all the talk of Joe Biden's failures, the people who failed America the most are our citizens. Empowering this guy (again) was a foreseeable disaster we'll be lucky to survive.

Once again, incredibly disappointed in ESPN's broadcast coverage of the Boston Marathon. Glitchy feeds, missing big moves, ignoring much of the women's race. Stop covering major races like it's a parade. Running fans and the elite athletes deserve better.

do you think Cory Booker can make it for 3 years and about 10 months longer?