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Little things. I’m in Ireland for the first time ever, and I discovered that the caps on soda bottles are designed so that they stay attached when you open them to reduce litter.

No, this is what she’s always been. What she hates is anyone standing in the way of what she wants. She has no principles other than that.

As a New Yorker, I hang my head in disgust comparing this to either of my Senators.

Motion to replace the saying “jumped the shark” in the American lexicon with “flew the poop airplane.”

Same. Can verify.

Stefanik is an entire portfolio of cowardice.

Pursued by bear?

Right, but the Northern faction of the Democratic Party had been increasing in power since about 1915. By 1963 it had been 30 years since an R got a majority of the black vote in the pres. election, and the Dixiecrats had already run a candidate against Truman.

Actually, that was the last throes of the realignment; nearly the end, not the beginning.

Just “charged”? Seems like a convenient way to exclude “undesirables” from certain neighborhoods.

I’m reminded of this exchange with the wonderful Peter O’Toole from The Ruling Class. O’Toole is schizophrenic and thinks he’s Jesus. When someone asks why he thinks he’s God he responds, “Because when I pray I find I’m talking to myself.”

Find a No Kings protest Saturday and go!

Don't worry that you've never been to a protest before. Don't worry about being dressed wrong or looking out of place. Don't worry that you don't agree about everything -- or even about much -- with lots of people at the protest.

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Protest is good for you and good for the nation. Get out there

Follow-up: Don’t you have staff to keep you informed on important issues?

Pritzker just took a large step forward in my book.

1st: Mamdani
2nd: Sliwa
3rd: Aaron Boone
4th: Cuomo

Money doesn’t equal championships, but it certainly has an effect. What you’re leaving out, though, is that the difference in spending among teams is largely due to nothing but the willingness of owners to spend it.

One of them is literally a state legislator in Vermont (of all places). Another is (was, at this point) chief of staff for a NY state legislator.

More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days. The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes people who were held for days without a lawyer. And near...

BREAKING from PP

We found immigration agents have held more than 170 *citizens*

The govt doesn't track citizens held. So we did. We tallied:

Nearly 20 kids, two w/ cancer

More than 20 citizens held for day or more, incommunicado

www.propublica.org/article/immi...

by @nicolefoy.bsky.social

Donald Trump's Venezuela Military Strikes Hit a Colombian Ship: Report At least one Colombian ship has been struck by US Military amid escalations in the Caribbean.

When all of this is finally over, I hope the people who ordered and carried out these extrajudicial assassinations are given the due process they don't believe in before they're punished for murder.

www.newsweek.com/donald-trump...

The thing is that the modern GOP (not to mention its basement-confined moron stepchild, the Mises Caucus libertarian “party”) is accurately depicted by this language and a critical mass of the party is absolutely fine with it.
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To everyone who says, "But this won't matter": *MAKE IT MATTER.*

You have that power! This is not inside baseball and your friends and neighbors will likely be appalled. And if they're *not* appalled, don't be cynical yourself. Take the lead, give the cue.

It isn't censorship if you put out a press release boasting about your censorship.

In MAGA Trumpistan, *you* save Jesus.

Tweet from Pam Bondi: Today following outreach from @thejusticedept , Facebook removed a large group page that was being used to dox and target @ICEgov agents in Chicago. The wave of violence against ICE has been driven by online apps and social media campaigns designed to put ICE officers at risk just for doing their jobs. The Department of Justice will continue engaging tech companies to eliminate platforms where radicals can incite imminent violence against federal law enforcement.

I seem to recall that it was the biggest 1st Amendment attack in American history when the Biden admin alerted social media companies to some content and said "hey does this violate your policies?" Will Matt Taibbi, Michael Shellenberger and (lol) CBS News Editor in Chief Bari Weiss call this out?

You will very rarely see this type of identity politics named and condemned as such bsky.app/profile/atru...

Just FYI, here are my personal beliefs on the use of large scale violence.

1. Violence tends to be self-replicating, and so should be avoided as much as possible.

All violence has the potential to entrench itself.

I’m honestly curious if there’s anything else.

if we are going to have a supreme court that is as powerful as it is, i basically think justices should be forbidden from public comment on their work as well as any supplemental source of income while they are on the bench. (they should also ride circuit again but that's a bit separate.)

Someone on Twitter replies to me: "meh. buy american or stfu." Two hours later, in a separate thread, the write: "$30 for a single button-up is ridiculous unless it is decent quality silk."

This two-parter below is exactly why it's hard to make clothes in the United States.

Let's look at how much it costs to produce a button-up shirt in the US. 🧵