Alan Bail

We needed to respond not with "this is not true", "we do not believe this", which doesn't work, with a strong offense, "educating" the electorate in a manner working class and other voters can identify with. Watch how trial lawyers communicate to jurors if you want to know how to communicate.

We can do more than one thing at a time. We've been generally poor at messaging, probably in large part seeking to avoid annoying some donors, consultants, constituent groups. Contracted vs expanded. This disaster has been coming for years; we've been shortsighted, blind. No time to f around.

Because banning social media for kids is not about protecting kids or making their lives better. It flies in the face of research, data, and what kids are telling us. It’s about controlling them, isolating them, and keeping them uninformed. It’s part of the fascist playbook.

This a fantastic ad and is proof that if we follow a 50 state strategy, there are seats to win at every level.

Judge Breyer opens up proceedings with an explanation of what will unfold in the coming days. For the next two days, we're going right into evidentiary hearings and then on Wednesday, we get into the legal questions in play.

City of Carpinteria, California Official website for the City of Carpinteria, California. Home of the Worlds Safest Beach.

*Presumably "Carpinteria", CA, on the Central Coast between Ventura and Santa Barbara.
carpinteriaca.gov

Traffic heavy across the state with Hawaii under tsunami warning Freeways, major highways and roads all saw congestion as people moved to higher ground.

Good live coverage of tsunami impact on Hawaii.
www.hawaiinewsnow.com/2025/07/30/t...

A tsunami warning has been issued for the Pacific coast of Japan due to a major earthquake off the coast of Kamchatka.

A tsunami warning has been issued for the Pacific coast of Japan due to a major earthquake off the coast of Kamchatka.
#tsunami

The National Tsunami Warning Center has issued a Tsunami Watch for San Francisco following the 8.7 earthquake in Kamchatka, Russia. A Tsunami Watch means the danger of a tsunami affecting San Francisco is not yet known. DEM is monitoring and will send out additional information when available.

More info on Tsunami WARNINGS and WATCHES along the west coast of the U.S.
Impact, if any, to California is forecast to be shortly before to somewhat after midnight, July 29 - 30, 2025.
www.tsunami.gov/events/PAAQ/...

A TSUNAMI WARNING IS ISSUED FOR THE STATE OF HAWAII EFFECTIVE AT 0243 PM HST.

ORIGIN TIME - 0125 PM HST 29 JUL 2025

A TSUNAMI HAS BEEN GENERATED THAT COULD CAUSE DAMAGE ALONG COASTLINES OF ALL ISLANDS IN THE STATE OF HAWAII. URGENT ACTION SHOULD BE TAKEN TO PROTECT LIVES AND PROPERTY.

TSUNAMI WATCH: West Coast of U.S., from an 8.7 magnitude earthquake off the coast of Kamchatka, Russia. WARNING for Hawaii coast, all islands.
www.tsunami.gov

"Jesus, take the yoke!"

Imagine how different the reaction would be if instead of toy dolls they said little boys can get by with fewer toy guns or even adults should get by with just 2 guns, what do you need 30 guns for anyway?

They're not even trying to hide the corruption.

Happy birthday, Brad!
(It's difficult to say which of you is keeping the other one young!)
Many, many more...

In Trump’s Washington, a Moscow-Like Chill Takes Hold (Gift Article) A new administration’s efforts to pressure the news media, punish political opponents and tame the nation’s tycoons evoke the early days of President Vladimir V. Putin’s reign in Russia.

Here's an important analytical article from Peter Baker in the NYT which is quite sobering. Or perhaps may drive one to drink. Perhaps a glimpse into our future.
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/26/u...

CAUTION: Nobody in Clarksdale, MS should read the below editorial. They may read the local court's order granting a TRO, compelling the take-down of the editorial.
The Court's order seems ludicrous and unconstitutional on its face (see www.uscourts.gov/about-federa... (and more) while available!

Trump says he has instructed DOJ to terminate all remaining Biden-era US attorneys U.S. President Donald Trump said on Tuesday he has instructed the Justice Department to terminate all remaining Biden-era U.S. attorneys, asserting that the department had been "politicized like never before."

Here you go:
"While it is customary for U.S. Attorneys to step down after a change in the presidential administration, usually the incoming administration asks for their resignations and does not issue tersely worded termination letters..." www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

He appears to be talking US Attorneys (one per judicial dist), and not Asst. or Dep. USA's; if so, requesting their resignations is not unusual. T may just trying to sound tough by crudely "firing" them. (I'm a former CA DAG - not the same, but familiar with the M.O.) He's always stirring the pot.

This is why you fight these cowards.

The moment you stand up to them, they crumble.

Homan has nothing. The Fourth Amendment is clear and I am well within my duties to educate people of their rights.

He can threaten me with jail and call names all he wants. He’s got nothing else.

I’m having great difficulty right now seeing how our political system doesn’t devolve into violence.

An Unchecked Trump Rapidly Remakes U.S. Government and Foreign Policy The president’s swift moves underscore the confidence of an administration with a much firmer grip on the levers of government than during his first term.

Utter failure to grasp what we are facing www.nytimes.com/2025/02/15/u...

1. People lack the framework to recognize an attempt to overthrow the constitutional order
2. The lack of elites *acting* like point 1 is true makes it illegible. Without Ds behaving as if it's a crisis, it's not a crisis.

the single most un-american and anti-constitutional statement ever uttered by an american president

‘Cybertruck Man’
a cartoon in defiance of Musk
#political #cartoonist #cybertruck #elon #musk #democracy #tiananmen

Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial park in Washington, D.C.

Absolutely. Grind it to a halt.

Another outrage, potentially destroying university health research, and, ultimately, the ability of most universities to operate in any recognizable manner.
And the flood continues.

NBC’s Garrett Haake is reporting that “Customs and Border Protection has officially taken over the lease of what was previously the headquarters space of USAID in the Reagan building in downtown DC”

"A Golden Age in arts and culture"
I guess he's going to show us, isn't he.
Destruction of the benefits of an open society, intellectual exploration, beauty, nature... are desired goals.
This is going to be so ugly.