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Well, at least Kim Davis lost today.

Why Elon Musk Needs Dungeons and Dragons to Be Racist The fantastical roots of “scientific racism”

The great @adamserwer.bsky.social takes on racism in D&D and Tolkien www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

LEVI'S - THE STRANGER (1971): This psychedelic Levi jeans advert is a beautifully animated work of art (rotoscoping in action!). Spoken word jazz legend Ken Nordine provides the cool voiceover.

Mike Johnson gets warning House return poised to go 'sideways pretty fast' House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) was warned Tuesday that, just because a faction of Democrats caved on the government shutdown, his path to getting the House up and running smoothly again is still fraught with peril.Above and beyond facing a vote on releasing the notorious Jeffrey Epstein files, wh...

House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) was warned Tuesday that, just because a faction of Democrats caved on the government shutdown, his path to getting the House up and running smoothly again is still fraught with peril.

a new genre of photo in the last year is federal agents working for ICE pointing guns directly at photographers

When you see it 😉

The United States is on the Cusp of a Digital Dark Age | TechPolicy.Press The first in a series of provocations, Dean Jackson and Sam Woolley write that the current assault on knowledge infrastructure is complex and multidirectional.

US knowledge infrastructure is under attack, write Dean Jackson and Sam Woolley, as part of a series of provocations ahead of a symposium at the University of Pittsburgh's Communication Technology Research Lab (CTRL) on threats to knowledge and democracy. The assault is complex and multidirectional.

We should reform the pardon power.

Trump grants pardons to Giuliani, Meadows, others linked to 2020 election efforts The pardons include 77 allies tied to efforts to overturn the 2020 election, including Rudy Giuliani, former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, and former Trump attorney Sidney Powell.

The pardons include 77 allies tied to efforts to overturn the 2020 election, including Rudy Giuliani, former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, and former Trump attorney Sidney Powell.

FBI Warns of Criminals Posing as ICE, Urges Agents to ID Themselves In a bulletin to law enforcement agencies, the FBI said criminal impersonators are exploiting ICE’s image and urged nationwide coordination to distinguish real operations from fakes.

In a bulletin to law enforcement agencies, the FBI said criminal impersonators are exploiting ICE’s image and urged nationwide coordination to distinguish real operations from fakes.

Trump’s Tax Cuts Are Exposing Companies to Biden’s Tax Hike Democrats’ older alternative minimum tax claws back billions of dollars in savings from the newer GOP law.

Big companies are running into a roadblock to getting all of their Trump tax cuts: the corporate tax increase that Democrats passed three years ago.

Donald Trump says he may strike Nigeria to save Christians. Really? The reality behind the American president’s latest threats

The idea of a “Christian genocide” in Nigeria has gained traction in conservative circles in America. The claim is mostly a wild exaggeration

J. B. Pritzker Sounds the Alarm The governor of Illinois discusses what ICE is doing in Chicago, how the Trump Administration has created a “secret police,” and what to do when the federal government is breaking the law.

In a new interview, Governor J. B. Pritzker talks about what’s happening in the streets of Chicago—and what he fears might happen to free and fair elections if military troops stay on the ground in American cities.
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Pope Leo XIV asks the AI industry to 'cultivate moral discernment' Pope Leo XIV addressed AI developers in an X post on Friday, about six months after he said the tech poses "new challenges" to "human dignity."

Pope Leo XIV addressed AI developers in an X post on Friday, about six months after he said the tech poses "new challenges" to "human dignity."

Infighting at DHS Is Complicating Trump’s Deportation Push White House pressure to speed up the pace of deportations has led to internal discord in the Department of Homeland Security over tactics, people familiar with the matter said.

"CBP have been forced to later release many people they have taken in, finding out they are US citizens or have legal protection from deportation. Noem said recently no citizens had been arrested, but at least one citizen has sued the admin for arresting him twice..."

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190. SNAP WTF? A very quick explainer on what (and why) Justice Jackson issued an "administrative stay" in the SNAP case late on Friday night, and on what's likely to happen next

Read about WHY Ketanji Brown Jackson stayed the SNAP order. Her move is probably the best solution for getting SNAP benefits approved quickly. open.substack.com/pub/stevevla...

Short-term legal win, long-term political loss.

There was a surprise guest at our show in Washington, D.C.

#CrookedCon2025

Okay, so I did it. In honor of Sandwich Guy, on what should be the last day of his trial, I figured out the chords. And so, with apologies to the late and great Bob Marley, I banged out this quick and (very) rough rendition of "I Threw the Sandwich." 🤣

Jury acquits D.C. 'sandwich guy' charged with chucking a sub at a federal agent Sean Dunn faced single misdemeanor offense after federal grand jurors refused to indict him on the felony charge sought by prosecutors.

BREAKING: JUSTICE DEPARTMENT EATS A LOSS IN 'SANDWICH GUY' CASE AS JURORS FIND DEFENDANT NOT GUILTY www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...

I heard some old friends at Pod Save America were in town, so I decided to stop by. As we saw this week, we can change this country for the better. But it’s going to take all of us getting organized and having honest conversations about the best way forward.

Maine voters approve new law to prevent suicides and mass shootings The red flag policy follows the worst mass killing in the state's history.

Maine became the twenty-second state to adopt a “red flag” law for regulating guns, with the approval of nearly 59 percent of voters.

The policy follows the worst mass killing in the state’s history.

Deal or no deal: can the Trump-Xi truce hold? Our weekly podcast on China. This week, the trade weapons are holstered, but neither side has left the battlefield

“This felt to me like Xi Jinping going from playing defence…to going on offence.” Jon Czin talks to Jeremy Page about the America-China trade truce, on “Drum Tower”

Someone you know relies on SNAP. They just don't talk about it Two years before she went on public assistance, Joanna Rakoff had a best-selling novel that won literary awards. She presented like a middle class working mom. But in reality, she was struggling — wor...

Essay: Two years before she went on public assistance, Joanna Rakoff had a best-selling novel that won literary awards. She presented like a middle class working mom. But in reality, she was struggling — worried about feeding her kids and keeping a roof over their heads.

Republicans aren’t happy. (Very strong language warning).

And they're living it up with dancing girls at Mar-a-Lago and drinking bubbly at the new Café de Rose Garden and hitting companies up for Trump's opulent ballroom and squeezing a 747 from Qatar and selling watches and crypto and sneakers and otherwise making a mint.

It shouldn't be hard at all.

Robert Held Witnesses Chilling Testimony in Chicago Lawsuit Against ICE

ICE is terrorizing and traumatizing Chicago