I do not want to create an account or open a subscription I just want to buy a thing and never hear from you again why is this so hard.

"You're just voluntarily complying with this whimsical cosplay" -- holy shit, Tim Kaine is *demolishing* Russ Vought

Looking through one of the four windows of the Orion spacecraft, a tiny crescent Earth is illuminated against the blackness of space and grows smaller as the crew journeys closer to the Moon. Part of the window edge is visible; the rest is darkness. [Alt-text slightly revised from ESA/NASA version]

We are so, so small. #Artemis

This is what an aristocratic politics sounds like.

@hillaryclinton.bsky.social: "I don't understand why it's so difficult for the press to have a consistent narrative about how dangerous Trump is."

"We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both." –Justice Louis Brandeis

Words spoken many years ago that are just as relevant today.

We must continue the fight to get big money out of politics.

America’s Annoyance Economy Is Growing — The Atlantic The government should protect consumers instead of annoying them.

“As of 2018, the country had 826,537,000 consumer-arbitration agreements in force, one study found. And that’s an undercount.”

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As we're sifting through the latest Epstein Files release with all the bombshells about Elon, the Trump administration and even the new CBS News Zoo Crew, please remember that they still haven't released half of what they were supposed to release.

The Trevor Project receives $45M from MacKenzie Scott after difficult years and federal funding cuts The nonprofit Trevor Project received a $45 million gift from billionaire MacKenzie Scott at the end of 2025.

The nonprofit Trevor Project received a $45 million gift from billionaire MacKenzie Scott at the end of 2025.

OPINION: Trump administration’s credibility sinks to the bloody bottom of the Caribbean - The Nevada Independent OPINION: Trump administration’s credibility sinks to the bloody bottom of the Caribbean. Read more at The Nevada Independent.

“In a world where cartels move loads measured in the tons, Vigil asks, does anyone really think it was wise to use a fleet to sink a flotilla of boats powered by outboard motors?”

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This all seems pretty unbecoming of a FIFA Peace Prize winner

Maria Bartiromo is incredulous and keeps (weakly) pushing back as Ro Khanna lays out why the affordability crisis is due to Trump's policies and not the fault of Joe Biden

One argument I used to make to my students about why it was important to learn history (and historical thinking) is that someone was always going to be trying to tell you things were natural or had always been this way and that you needed to be able to see that as an exercise of power.

WSJ: “.. A Visual Breakdown of Trump’s Pardon Spree”

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How a Cryptocurrency Helps Criminals Launder Money and Evade Sanctions

When the House and Senate marked up stablecoin legislation, we raised all of these concerns - their anonymity, their nearly perfect design for money laundering. All the barn doors were left wide open. It’s used for crime because that is its purpose. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/07/t...

Having sent a crappy bill to the Senate the Senate - per tradition - made our bill worse by adding a provision that says that in the event of a run on a bank holding stablecoin deposits, those deposits have a senior claim, above those of law abiding citizens in insured accounts.

The US Military Wants to Fix Its Own Equipment. Defense Contractors Are Trying to Shoot That Down A push by military contractors could alter pending legislation that would have empowered servicemembers to repair equipment. Lobbyists are pitching a subscription service instead.

Even troops are struggling to get a right to repair

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OPINION: The corporate stranglehold on housing only tightens with the death of SB10 - The Nevada Independent OPINION: The corporate stranglehold on housing only tightens with the death of SB10. Read more at The Nevada Independent.

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a man in a suit and tie is standing in front of a microphone and making a funny face . ALT: a man in a suit and tie is standing in front of a microphone and making a funny face .

“May I stress the need for courageous, intelligent, & dedicated leadership…Leaders not in love with publicity, but in love with justice. Leaders not in love with money, but in love with humanity. Leaders who can subject their…egos to the greatness of the cause.” #MLKJr

Nation's largest fleet of police Cybertrucks to patrol Las Vegas The nation’s largest police fleet of Tesla Cybertrucks is set to begin patrolling the streets of Las Vegas in November.

The nation’s largest police fleet of Tesla Cybertrucks is set to begin patrolling the streets of Las Vegas in November thanks to a donation from a U.S. tech billionaire, raising concerns about the blurring of lines between public and private interests.

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Lina Khan in conversation with @hcrichardson.bsky.social about the history of antitrust and the future of the Democrats. Watch! 📺

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The way he rubs his inhumanity in Americans” face never ceases to stun me.

He’s illegally refusing to pay food stamp benefits…

…while he throws a ridiculously over the top Gatsby party for his right wing millionaire and corporate friends.

House speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) continues to try to pin the upcoming catastrophic lapse in Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) funding on the Democrats. But with the U.S. Department of Agriculture sitting on $6 billion in funds Congress appropriated for just such an event, the Treasury finding $20 billion to prop up Trump ally Javier Milei in Argentina, Johnson refusing to bring the House into regular session to negotiate an end to the government shutdown, and President Donald J. Trump demanding $230 million in damages from the American taxpayer, bulldozing the East Wing of the White House to build a gold-plated ballroom that will dwarf the existing White House, and traveling to Asia, where South Korean leadership courted him by giving him a gold crown and serving him brownies topped with edible gold, blaming any funding shortfall on Democrats is a hard sell.

Few writers have a gift for dry understatement like @hcrichardson.bsky.social (from her newsletter today)

As of October 1, 2025, a new law sponsored by our very own @venicia.bsky.social gives tenants additional rights. To learn about all the important rules that #AB121 includes, visit www.lacsn.org/ab121

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Priorities.

Making Argentina Great Again. Indefensible.

This Former Supreme Court Justice Is Trying to Salvage His Legacy. It’s Too Late. — Slate Oct 21, 2025 | 2:00 PM Kennedy is now trying to shape his legacy on his own terms. Photo illustration by Slate. The following essay is adapted from Master Plan, a new book by David Sirota and Jared Ja...

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Bitcoin is ‘not an asset’ and has ‘no intrinsic value,’ says $225 billion investment company — FORTUNE Some Fortune Crypto pricing data is provided by Binance. The Coins · Cryptocurrency October 10, 2025 at 10:37 AM EDT Hargreaves Lansdown, the largest retail investment platform in the U.K., which has ...

‘The argument that crypto has no fundamental value is based on the view that other assets…usually entitle holders to an underlying right, like dividends, etc. Crypto, by contrast, is merely a medium of exchange whose price only reflects the balance of supply and demand.’

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