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If SNAP benefits vanished tomorrow, feeding 42 million Americans for a month would cost about $7.8 billion.That’s less than 1% of the combined net worth of the three richest men in the U.S. A reminder of how obscene inequality has become and how easily hunger could be solved if we chose to.

Once again, the main day of Tea Party protests had about 300,000 nationwide, but saw endless coverage.

The No Kings protests had about 7,000,000 nationwide, and many media outlets reacted with a yawn.

No Kings was nearly 25x as big as the Tea Party but the Tea Party got 25x the attention.

Inside the Trump Adminstration's Bluesky Invasion On Friday, after months of internal discussions, federal agencies began posting on the left-friendly social network. Within days, they dominated a list of the most-blocked accounts.

"What they attempted to position as bridge-building quickly looked something more like trench warfare. Instead of conscientious outreach across the aisle, the Trump administration’s Bluesky launch mixed trolling and partisan messaging, creating instant backlash."

www.wired.com/story/inside...

🚨ICE posing as sheriff in Hollywood, CA. Governor Newsom is going to see this and he is going to be lit with rage, as he should be. The guy asking questions on video pointing out all the illegal acts they are committing. Let’s make sure he sees what happened tonight. 1/2

If we are light a royal title, can this be the moment that we shake the dust off "Lord Baltimore"? Unused since the Calvert family line left the scene in the 18th Century and John Waters has a filmography that justifies a sword to the shoulder.

Yo, Chuck, your fam needs a distraction or two. Do it.

It was so obvious he was lying and yet you choose to follow. Shame on you.

The @chicago.suntimes.com photographer who risked their personal health and safety to take this photograph is Anthony Vazquez. Please credit photographers and media outlets. In this age of misinformation, a photo with no context could be anything at all.

"Tesla is bringing back the controversially named “Mad Max” mode in its Full Self-Driving (Supervised), a level 2 advanced driver assistance system that Tesla claims will become level 4 fully autonomous in the near future – something it claimed every year for the last 7 years."

I'd guess her corporate backers convinced her to sit through media training.

Auspicious start for the new CBS News, laundering unattributed cop shit-talking through the incoming editor-in-chief’s blog and failing to correct a misspelling of the story subject’s name in the web headline for three days.

And every one of them will milk it for weeks, as a go-to distraction from substantive policy questions.

The destruction of federal agencies will continue, but with a kinder-gentler spin. The ICE budget won't go away, but their raids will probably become more subtle and focus on political critics.

If you thought the Kirk funeral was a spectacle, imagine what they'll stage for Trump's sendoff.

Thus forcing critics to re-focus to what they should already have learned about the rest of the White House circus.

By the time Vance is sworn in, Miller and Vought will have cinched their grip on the neck of government (Johnson gets free rein to steamroller the remaining Dem oppo in the House).

Between-the-lines interpreters of Friday's medical report think it means DJT won't be around for long.

Once he goes, so will the pressure to release the Epstein files, the scrutiny of his family's financial hijinks, and everything else specific to his personal actions.

This week's science homework

Cover of first edition of the book

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy was published OTD in 1979.

Douglas Adams: “Isn’t it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?”

#litsci 🐡 #BookSky

Notice how she didn't answer the question. The media needs to stand up and support each other. If one question is ignored or derided, then the next person needs to ask it again until they get an answer.

So, does each send constitute a Hatch Act violation, or is it a separate offense for each addressee on each email?

Asking for a friend in the next administration

The Epstein files have turned the entire GOP in Congress into a bunch of Gym Jordans. They know the truth about a pedophile but are actively covering it up.

Jesse Watters of Fox wants to bomb the UN? Still think Fox is ok? Remove Fox. Contact your cable company to remove Fox from their channels. I can’t imagine who even watches it 🤮

I was back at 26 Federal Plaza today, where an ICE agent violently threw this bereft woman to the ground in front of her kids. She had not touched him. She did not pose any threat. She had to be taken to the hospital. (🎥: Elias Eliahu)

California: Tweet at Governor Newsom to Get A.B. 566 Signed Into Law We need your help to make a common-sense bill into California law. A.B. 566 intends to make it easy by directing browsers to give all their users the option to tell companies they don’t want personal

We need your help to push @governor.ca.gov to sign AB 566 into law. Let’s make it easy for Californians to control who has their data. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

This may explain why there’s an aggressive response to people who merely post Kirk’s own words. It threatens the existence of the alternate Kirk - the motivational speaker that had been marketed to young kids and white Christian groups through selective quotation & clips.

NIH has rescinded its scientific integrity policy. Hard to see this as anything other than clearing the way for shoddy research on things like vaccines. Regardless of the rationale, it's bad news for public health.

grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

Update: Civil War cancelled due to shooter being demographically uncooperative

Pritzker: Any rational person who has spent even the most minimal amount of time studying human history has to ask themselves one important question: Once they get the citizens of this nation comfortable with the current atrocities committed under the color of law, what comes next

The president is sending the military to control American cities and if you're a reporter who's framing that illegal power grab as "pushing the boundaries of constitutionality" or "acting boldly to fight crime" or whatever, please go find another line of work where you won't get us all killed.

YouTube video by UNFTR Media Trump's Crypto Scheme MUST Be Stopped

Earlier I wondered if Trumpworld was enabling the Epstein buzz, to distract from something else they didn't want anyone to notice. I had no idea what that might be.

Here's one possibility. It tracks with DJT's moves to degrade American government and finance.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=i4fG...