So'Westerner gone AWOL

Honored to join @crooked.com's CROOKED CON today in Washington, DC—coming together with pro-democracy leaders to talk strategy, accountability & the road ahead 👇

Math, how does it work?

Due to the high volume of scam AI ads on YouTube, I suspect we're going to find out they're doing the same thing.

These men are greedy.

Hundreds of thousands of people, dead because of a decision made by the world's richest man

How Congress Can Rein in Surging Political Corruption Federal lawmakers can protect the American public by passing a new law to fully implement the Constitution’s oldest anticorruption safeguards.

Corruption in American government has reached unprecedented levels — and in too many cases, officials aren’t breaking a single law. This can change if Congress gives real teeth to the anticorruption safeguards in the Constitution. bit.ly/43MmpHM

So the terms we had Bukele agree to were basically “no lawyers, no abortions.”

No mention about keeping them safe or not torturing them.

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Credit Where It’s Due: Trump’s Weight-Loss Subsidy Is a Public-Health Game Changer By subsidizing Wegovy and Zepbound, Trump may deliver one of the most consequential public-health interventions in decades. The post Credit Where It’s Due: Trump’s Weight-Loss Subsidy Is a Public-Health Game Changer first appeared on Mediaite.

Credit Where It’s Due: Trump’s Weight-Loss Subsidy Is a Public-Health Game Changer

Let's do this! Joining Steph and the crew at 9:30 am ET.

Lawless goons. Racial profiling isn’t just something they do, it’s all they do.

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Santa Chiara Church in Naples after it was bombed in 1943. Most of the church was severely damaged and later restored after 1953.

Modernists: I’m looking to find more secondary scholarship about the bombing of southern Italy—particularly Naples—in 1943/1944 to get a better appreciation of how those events shaped cultural heritage (archives lost, art destroyed, etc). Any ideas?

#skystorians

Prosecutors Can Indict a Ham Sandwich, But Can They Convict? What happens when you indict a ham sandwich?

The grand jury refused to indict felony charges so DOJ brought a misdemeanor. The trial jury acquitted—note: that means that every single person on the jury voted for acquittal. There wasn’t even a single vote to convict. joycevance.substack.com/p/prosecutor...

It turns out when you fire all the staff who handle travel bookings, visas, and security, the inspectors can't do their job either. These absolute dipshits.

Today:

The U.S. Supreme Court allowed Trump to force trans people to misgender themselves on passports.

Also today:

The California Supreme Court ruled nursing homes can’t misgender trans residents, upholding a law I passed.

CA isn’t down with Trump’s dehumanization campaign against trans folks.

Federal agents in Chicago are aggressive everywhere but they elevate this in the SW Side. They don’t just snatch people and leave. They linger longer, march down streets with guns, interrupt traffic flows. The attacks feel concerted to instill as much fear & display power over immigrant mhoods.

Under the right policy regime, data centers could serve as huge lever to *improve* the grid and *bring down* electricity prices.

They are not unique in this sense. The exact same is true of any large new source of load.

As of today, total number of written opinions dissenting (in whole or in part) from #SCOTUS rulings on Trump II emergency applications:

Jackson: 10
Sotomayor: 6
Kagan: 5
Gorsuch: 2
Roberts: 1
Alito: 1
Kavanaugh: 1
Thomas: 0
Barrett: 0

SNAP benefits must be fully paid by Trump administration by Friday, judge orders The Trump administration recently said it would not pay any SNAP benefits, but then offered partial funding of the food stamp program after a judge's ruling.

🚨A federal judge just ordered Trump to release FULL November SNAP payments. Once again: it should not take a judge's order to compel Trump to feed hungry Americans, but this news is a relief to families in need.

Trump must follow the law and join us to reopen the government NOW.

Heh. I've had this discussion a dozen times and the working theory many of us have is "this site is so freaking useful to so many people that no one wants to go out of their way to call extra attention to it."

This video is devastating. Imagine dropping your child off at daycare, only to learn that ICE took a beloved caregiver in front of the children minutes after. Imagine going to work to care for beloved children, only to be ripped away from them and your own family by ICE.

It is clearly deeply annoying for a sociopath when a human collapses nearby and distracts attention from him.

Congratulations to Avery Bell, elected to the Lenexa City Council, Ward 3! With a decade of experience in infrastructure and a strong focus on fiscal responsibility, Avery is ready to help guide Lenexa’s growth and ensure the city’s future is built to last.

So much in wapo article abt the hideous antisemitic degeneracy at Heritage. Summed up in two nuggets. CEO Roberts says he didn't mean to offend by attacking "globalists"; then we learn his speechwriter is upset he might have to share a meal with Jews. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ talkingpointsmemo.com/morning-memo...

Someone fainted while they were trying to film Trump in the oval office

The king is irritated that one of his loyal subjects may have chosen an inconvenient time to die.

AOC's Blistering Rebuke Of Fascism, Houlahan Interrupts Mike Johnson’s Lies, and Democrats Show What Real Leadership Looks Like In A Week Full of Wins The resistance isn’t waiting for permission

Democrats Show What Real Leadership Looks Like In A Week Full of Wins

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three sheets of paper are taped to the outside of a building. they have the words "The Oval Office" in gold script

this looks like a trick daffy duck would put up to get bugs bunny into "the oval office"

Mexico President Sheinbaum presses charges after street groping incident “If this is done to the president, what is going to happen to all of the young women in our country?”

Mexico President Sheinbaum presses charges after street groping incident

He‘s saying this because he probably thinks Zohran was born in Nigeria.

Oh, we know the reason.

Nigeria has the largest oil and gas reserves in Africa, too.
It's ALWAYS about what can be exploited for profit.
#predictable #disgusting #greed