Surprised he heard about it.

Mike Johnson if he had been alive in 1776:

"We expect the “Hate England” gathering in Philadelphia to be filled with angry rants and totally false narratives.

"Their so-called 'No Kings' meeting is only meant to smear a fine man in George III who is only trying to make the colonies great again."

The government is in its second-longest ever shutdown, food stamp benefits won’t be going out next month, many govt workers aren’t getting paid, and Trump is suing his own DOJ for $230 million while building a $250 million ballroom at the White House. Are we winning yet?

Sen. Shaheen: I had a meeting with some constituents last Friday. One was a small business owner who had cancer. He said, 'If I didn't have that insurance through the ACA, I would not have gotten my cancer treated, and I would be dead by now.' That's what this fight is about.

A Bug’s Life (1998)

Can I tell you a secret? I don't care if there are undocumented immigrants in this country. I think it's a non-issue. Without social security numbers they're not getting the welfare people claim they're getting, the vast majority of them are normal people trying to live a better life. This whole wall deport-the-illegals bullshit is just the one percent convincing the working poor to blame a subset of the working poor for the fact that they're all poor, instead of realizing they're all poor due to vast income inequality and resource price inflation in combination with wage stagnation. The existence of another poor person is not why you're poor. It's because the people who control everything refuse to increase your wages. Jessie Memer

Witkoff tries to praise Netanyahu in Tel Aviv, but has a hard time finishing his thought because of booing

Remember:
•1 million seconds is about 11 days
•1 billion seconds is about 32 years
•Musk now controls $500B and 500B seconds is about 16,000 years.

Billionaires are the only minority destroying our country. Abolish billionaires. Invest in working people. Save our democracy.

Phang: Don’t get distracted by the idea that this grand jury motion is going to have a lot of value.

The likelihood of a judge issuing a ruling anytime soon? Slim to none.

Even if it’s granted, it’ll be so heavily redacted that we probably won’t see a lot.

Great question

Video: How Los Angeles Police Officers Broke Protocols and Injured Protesters A Times analysis of videos and interviews with police, protesters and legal experts found that officers misused 40-mm sponge rounds at immigration-raid protests.

Scary @nytimes.com mini-doc on LAPD's violence causing horrific injuries to non-threatening protesters.

Police union said LAPD showed "extreme restraint."

Video proves it's a lie.

If I were a cop I'd be so angry my union tries to cover up for officers who tarnish badge & endanger other officers.

Has Musk apologized yet for his Hitler-loving AI?

I can’t see it if he has.

Have Republican and Democratic Party leaders alike demanded an apology from him and an investigation into how it happened?

Or is antisemitism just a cudgel used to attack supporters of Palestinians?

Folds: If we’ve been told our whole lives that we can’t spend money on the arts because they’re not important—then why was taking over the Kennedy Center and the arts the first thing they did?

It is extremely important. It’s the bedrock of self-expression.

#PSA

Imagine if the media covered, and got as worked up about, Donald Trump and MAGA’s actual and open antisemitism as they do about Zohran Mamdani’s non-existent and made-up antisemitism. 🤷🏽‍♂️

This might be the stupidest opinion post I have ever read. Instant unfollow.

Zohran: Imagine living in a city where you can afford your rent, your groceries and even a meal at a restaurant now and then without much stress

Eric Adams: Imagine a platypus so powerful that it could destroy the city. We need more cops

He's right. We can't have it both ways on the racism. We wouldn't let anyone else... we can't have it both ways on the sexual predator thing either. ie Cuomo et al

Kennedy’s New Advisers Promise Closer Scrutiny of Childhood Vaccines The reconstituted C.D.C. panel will revisit the standard vaccination schedule. The former head of an anti-vaccine group is now a special federal employee.

This headline is wildly misleading. Childhood vaccines ARE closely scrutinized. The real story- as outlined in the piece- is that this group of Kennedy quacks is attacking safe & effective vaccines that keep children safe from life threatening diseases.

A reminder that the @nytimes.com told New Yorkers to not rank Mamdani at all, & instead endorsed former hedge fund manager Whitney Tilson.

Tilson sits at a whopping .8%.

Corporate media trust is dead. They killed themselves by failing to fulfill their promise of holding the powerful accountable.

BREAKING: Andrew Cuomo officially CONCEDES the Democratic primary for mayor of New York City to Zohran Mamdani

Starting to think these folks aren’t the “free thinkers” they think they are

“Neither our media nor our political system is designed to deal with a far right authoritarian party” Mark Copelovitch unpacks his signature phrase.

"The media continues to cover politics as if it is still the 1990s. 'Both parties are basically center-right or center-left parties.' The journalism infrastructure in our country wants to pretend that that’s the world that we live in. The instinct is to treat everything politicians say as valid."

How did this work out?

Now she has a chance to possibly stop a regime change war and is doing… nothing.

If you’re under 30, you weren’t even born the last time Andrew Cuomo lived here.

This is your city. Vote like it.

You lose healthcare. They gain yachts. Keep spreading the word.