Mark

Trump wants you to think he has all the power and that you have none. Not true. Not even a little.

Use your voice and your vote—this is America and the PEOPLE have the power.

Brooklyn 8:37 PM

Like if your entire takeaway is to keep posting away on Twitter as Musk twists the algorithm to back the AfD and Restore Britain crowd, that's on you. But I feel like going full General Petain is something of an idiotic thing to do in the middle of a far right power grab

Aide Wearily Begins 5th Explanation Of Why Trump Can’t Pardon Prince Andrew WASHINGTON—Exhausted from repeated efforts to explain the most basic aspect of political power, an aide to President Trump nevertheless began wearily explaining for the fifth time Friday why he couldn...

Aide Wearily Begins 5th Explanation Of Why Trump Can’t Pardon Prince Andrew

One of the greatest bollard walks in history.
#WorldBollardAssociation

A page from DC Power 2024 #1 featuring a script by Cheryl Lynn Eaton and art by Asiah Fulmore

I'm telling you right now that this page would have NEVER seen the light of day if DC did not have a great black editor in Marquis Draper. (I'm naming him, because any company worth their salt should be trying to steal him.) Not because people are racist, but because they wouldn't get it.

Wait, no Hegseth?

Chickens, etc.

Testify!

@marcelias.bsky.social's work to block the SAVE Act is invaluable.

And as I write here, the SAVE Act's dangerous imposition of administrative burden in order to vote operates as a political determinant of health, leaving medically frail disenfranchised: mirandayaver.substack.com/p/the-save-a...

tl;dr We are ruled by people who enjoy watching other people die.

After everything we saw, every Republican senator except Mitch McConnell voted to confirm the deranged sadist RFK Jr.

That’s not just failing to learn. That’s an agenda. That’s actively seeking the deaths of other Americans.

Don’t underestimate the role of eugenics in the thinking of the GOP.

A remarkably disheartening thing is you get the sense there are a handful of genuine historic fork in the road moments of what kind of country we want in our lifetime, and I still can’t shake how much during the height of Covid we had a decision of what lessons we’d all take from it and what…

New Research Uncovers Shocking Level of Trade in Protected Chambered Nautiluses • The Revelator The beautiful marine mollusks have international protections, but sale of their shells continues by the tens of thousands.

The number of nautilus shells that we think are needed to sustain the trade in nautilus shell inlay furniture and handcrafts is indeed in the tens of thousands per year. https://therevelator.org/chambered-nautilus-trade/

House Speaker Johnson rejects request for Jesse Jackson to lie in honor at Capitol | CNN Politics House Speaker Mike Johnson has denied a request for the late Rev. Jesse Jackson Sr. to lie in honor at the United States Capitol, citing past precedent over how the deaths of other high-profile figure...

Jesse Jackson shaped America as we know it and inspired us to live up to our nation’s founding ideals.

He should lie in state at the Capitol. Shame on Speaker Johnson.

This song has been a go-to since the day it came out.

To be fair they double as a marital aid.

Underrated.

Also a world-class writing prompt. Spoiler alert: It's a real tear-jerker.

"...all at once?"

Google knows things about you that even you don't know.

From the majority opinion:

“Recognizing the taxing power's unique importance, and having just fought a revolution motivated in large part by ‘taxation without representation,’ the Framers gave Congress ‘alone... access to the pockets of the people.’”

Special Saturday Triad: What I Saw at the Battle of Minneapolis The national media has moved on. Minnesota is still under siege.

“You now live in a country where volunteers deliver babies at home, in secret, off the books, because mothers fear that if they go to the hospital, they will be abducted by masked, armed agents of the state while giving birth.”

This is a guy who should never have power over anything or anyone.

You can hear the midterm campaign ads being written right now:

@waysmeanscmte.bsky.social

This is a guy who should never have power over anything or anyone.

Wasn't Justice Kennedy's son Trump's guy at Deutsche Bank?

"Unforgivable crimes against humanity continue today, hidden in plain sight due to the normalization of pathological unlawfulness of our current sick societies."

Circling this sculpture are words that read "time heals nothing".

Smith has been making clock pieces since '75

Nothing, 1983
Mimi Smith

A lesson about networks that I’m kind of proud of: at the beginning of the year, I gave my 200 students a dumb survey: fav books, foods, etc. I told them they could use pseudonyms and that I’d share their responses with the class. We’ve been using that data in various ways: to make points about +

What problem is Trump's new global 10% tariff meant to solve?

If it's about leverage, ask: How much leverage do you get from a tariff that disappears in 150 days?

If it's onshoring: Who builds new factories based on tariff that disappear before the factory is built?

It's a tax. That's all it is.