Grunion Shaftoe 🅅

Mostly? Ourselves. Social Security "funds" are actually 'invested' in Treasury bills and bonds.

Next: trade partners that need to buy dollar-denominated assets will park their money there.

also: financial organizations will often have a lump of Federal Notes as a bulwark against crazy risk.

Trump sidesteps Senate and judiciary with some U.S. attorney picks The Trump administration has installed four U.S. attorneys without Senate confirmation, prompting questions about checks on executive power.

Trump illegally appoints staff.
Man, if only Obama had known this trick!

Hope you all are happy today! I am trying to get my happy on!

Sweet pea bee🌱

Best I can do is the cast of Police Academy.

You know what would be evil? If 47 inveighed Tim 🍎 to just moderately disrupt the autocorrect of a certain list of persons

#history

Wha's that?

Good Boy #dogsofBlueSky 🐕

OMG!

#Reverse ! #humor
@smbccomics.bsky.social

white power

white power

Remember when we were all told to calm down, and that they weren't really white power monsters?

mechanical turk

the #MechanicalTurk was actually a kind of fraud

Europa came from the middle east

Reminder: Europa came from the middle east

It strikes me that "presence patrols" are just ways to expose heavily armed and bored (and maybe a little scared) people into totally random circumstances.

It's incident farming.

Amid campaign cash battle with Adams, Cuomo hits Hamptons for major fundraiser As he and Eric Adams compete for financial support from New York’s deep-pocketed business community, Andrew Cuomo is returning to the Hamptons on Friday for his first large-scale campaign fun…

Why are non-constituents allowed to meddle in the election of a local official ?

To be fair, the express busses needing to make the right onto 6th avenue at Herald square is a real handicap

That's not a ridiculous pace.
That's an NYC pace.
If you think this is a stupid-fast pace... please get off the NYC sidewalks.

True Story. 👇

Go get'im boyo.

Good government group backtracks amid redistricting fight, won’t oppose efforts ‘counterbalancing’ Texas Common Cause softened its stance on redistricting after previously equating Gavin Newsom with Texas Republicans.

I want every state to have apolitical, citizen-based redistricting commissions.

Lots of people want that.

But ya can't force some arseholes to the table with roses; Time to get out the shotgun.

What? She couldn't negotiate a middle school?

Real Madrid 'firmly rejects' US-hosted match and warns of 'a turning point in the world of football' Real Madrid “firmly rejects” having a regular-season Spanish league game played in the United States and has warned of “a turning point in the world of football.”

¡Bien! ¡Aléjate! Es muy #peligroso para #todos aquí, incluso para los #gringos.

I suspect she's got a 'dead hand' solution, so ... maybe?

Texas

This is how Texas COULD have been redistricted to ensure that voters could hold their congressional delegation accountable.

I mean "shot while trying to escape" isn't just for Tom Robinson

aaaaaannnnnd .... she's gone

In 1800 #France, the worst that could happen if an #aristocrat #raped, #brutalized, and #killed a person in public was a small #fine.

That's what they want to get back to : Everything is legal for a price ... for them ...

YouTube video by Metallica Metallica: One (Official Music Video)

youtube.com/watch?v=WM8bTdBs-cw

#Metallica's "One" was clearly inspired by Dalton #Trumbo's "Johnny got his gun", and anti-war novel he wrote two years before the US entered world war II, and Trumbo's post-blacklist adaptation features heavily in the video. 🎶

Oh that's simple : He cheated, and nobody had the balls to spot it until about a month ago.

Just a reminder: None of 47's ancestors were here before 1885

What most fail to understand...