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The same people demanding you present a photo ID to vote are perfectly fine with letting you be arrested, handcuffed & thrown into a van by armed men wearing plain clothes, face masks & presenting no identification of any sort.

The High-Flying Escalation of CBP's Predator Drone Flights Over LA Custom and Border Protection flying powerful Predator B drones over Los Angeles further breaks the seal on federal involvement in civilian matters typically handled by state or local authorities.

“Military gear has been used for domestic law enforcement for a long time, but flying military gear over LA at a time when the president has sent military units against the wishes of the governor is noteworthy," says Matthew Feeney, longtime tech researcher and advocacy manager at Big Brother Watch.

Indeed we do.

Goes without saying: if this is important to you, contact your senators. Even the ones who are horrible and catty and think that you need to be told that the tooth fairy doesn't exist as well as "we're all going to die."

Fellow parents of college-aged students, you might want to be aware of the National Science Foundation budget proposal dated May 30th that reduces REU funding from $47 billion per year to $0. (page 27 if you go look it up - I can't get the link to the document to transfer here)

Buried in the tax bill: "no State or political subdivision thereof may enforce any law or regulation regulating artificial intelligence models, artificial intelligence systems, or automated decision systems during the 10-year period beginning on the date of the enactment of this Act."

From a friend: If 8647 is a call for assassination, what exactly was "hang Mike Pence"?

Big numbers are hard, so try this on for size:
Elon says he'll cut $2,000 from the US budget of $6,800 - sounds like big savings for the United States!
After in office, he drops that to $1,000
April 10 - brags about $150 in savings
Spent to date by DOGE: $135
Actual savings: $15
Just dropped zeroes

Bribery in plain sight.

Top Trump Crypto Buyers Vying for Dinner Seats Are Likely Foreign, Data Shows The majority of top holders of Donald Trump’s memecoin have used foreign exchanges that say they ban US users, suggesting many purchasers are based abroad

Must-read new Bloomberg analysis: Most of the top holders of Trump’s memecoin - who are vying for an “intimate dinner” with POTUS and a White House tour - are likely foreign. www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

Wow. Who could have seen that coming. 🙄

How telling is it that all of my (Republican) senators and representatives REQUIRE a "title" that implies binary gender options only when communicating with them via email. 😒😒😒

The 19 richest U.S. households saw a $1 trillion wealth increase in 2024, a rise that exceeds the size of Switzerland’s economy.

These 19 households now control $2.6 trillion in wealth — almost as much wealth as the bottom 50% of American households.

If this isn't an oligarchy, what is?

This

In some places, demonstrations are hundreds of people of like minds gathered together to show unity....
And in some places it's groups of twenty to thirty staged along intersections counting the hundreds of thumbs 👍🏼, cheers, and honking from passing cars.

We will not be silenced.

This is an obvious point, but cannot overstated. There is an enormous difference between deporting someone - where they get off a plane as a free citizen in their home country AND FUNNELING THEM INTO A BRUTAL PRISON FROM WHICH THEY HAVE NO CHANCE OF EVER EMERGING!!!

I just finished reading 1984 and the similarity between rewriting in newspeak and the purging of "DEI" terms like female, trauma, status, political, pollution... from federal documents is beyond terrifying.

Could someone in the press pool just ask Linda McMahon what "A1" stands for? PLEASE. I just want to hear her explanation.

I don’t think a better headline could have been written about what happened yesterday.

www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

902/4,500 miles... A bit slower for this most recent hundred thanks to a nasty run in with a cranky sciatic nerve. I'm walking a little better now and on the mend, but there were some days there that I was knocked out by a half mile.

2:14:48 for teams prelims... We'll take it!

Proud of every WI voter who did a better job of keeping money out of politics than the SCOTUS did in 2010.

So close.

801/4,500 miles and the biggest single ride haul yet for my roadside cleanup

Let it begin.

I keep hearing Repubs saying people should move on from the group chat war plans convo.
When are they going to move on from 2020? The investigations are STILL continuing w/Jordan and Comer.
It's 2025 and we are losing our democracy. You'd think that would be more important. No one wins if we do.

Honestly, adding someone to a group chat by mistake is totally understandable... what I DON'T understand is why this was a chat, when it seems that some other, more secure, avenues should have been used *regardless of the actual content* and also how NO ONE ON THE CHAT NOTICED. #butheremails

714/4500 miles in 2025. Max leads Zeb and I on a tour of the Grand Rounds Scenic Byway.... Chillier than we'd hoped (low 40s) so we cut the ride short at 43 miles.