He’s going to shoot a journalist in the audience and Jake Tapper is going to jump to his feet and throw his Freedom of the Press handkerchief like he’s calling a 10 yard penalty

Climate change denial takes many forms. The demand for state subsidized home insurance in wildfire, hurricane, and flood risk areas is one of them.

work is not the only four letter word i can write about

every Republican with more than 3 brain cells eventually just became this guy

1. A Congress has the power to judge its own elections, not the election of a subsequent Congress

2. They're not getting that done with a majority you can count on one hand

3. A subsequent Congress with a Democratic majority can seat itself just fine. Are we going to have a dueling Long Congress?

Just to add some perspective here, at peak, Saudi Arabian wheat production was over 15% of the United States’ production at the time

Happy Ceasefire Extension Day.
Also known as Hormuz Is Still Closed Day.

Celebrated weekly.

if you are a rich guy who owns a small business, and you think it would be cool to have a "funny" or "offbeat" company handbook or policies instead of boring HR boilerplate, just imagine what it's gonna be like to sit in a deposition and have people read it out loud to you, cause that WILL happen

Your Guide to NASA's Budget How big is NASA's budget right now? What was it like in the past? How does it compare to the rest of government spending? These answers, as well as…

While we're talking percentages, let's talk about the proposed cuts to NASA's science budget.

NASA is currently 0.36% of US federal spending. www.planetary.org/space-policy...

The proposed budget cuts NASA science by 47%.

NASA science is already on a shoestring, and that string is about to break

"microlooting" they are gentrifying retail theft

If you want to get a sense of how thin the GOP's national security bench is, the 29-year-old CT official at DHS who was suspended for seeking sugar daddies was their first pick.

We must abandon the old New Left line about the inherent corruption of engagement with politics, power and policies.

"Death to the gerontocracy" one of those goals you don't have to work very hard to achieve huh

I assume markets are green on the news.

AMAZING: Iran has vibecoded a replacement to Bloomberg where every time you exceed data limits, they fire a Shahed at your office! Will this finally end the Terminal?

"We should replace NATO with the Abraham Accords" is one of those things that you'd say as a caricature of pro-Israel analysts but now these guys seriously believe it and even have Congresspeople saying it for them

yup! House Democrats unceremoniously canned Scott from his leadership position on a reasonably important committee (Ag handles the farm bill and food stamps) *because of his health and age* and he still forged ahead with reelection.

they're calling her the LeBron James of being a state legislator

Grim but useful read.

Global energy markets are on the verge of a disaster
economist.com/finance-and-...

That movie hit like crack as a kid

NGDV mail truck

I love how it sounds like a ballistic missile but refers to what looks like a toddler’s crayon drawing of a mail truck

Why did they give the NGDV (mail truck) the most military-coded name in the world

Or literacy

April - 206

Caesar is master of the Mediterranean
Ships are now trains

Trump refusing to recognize congress's actions seems like the modal outcome to me ngl.

If you order TEMU steaks you’re just volunteering to be the host for exciting new food-borne pathogens

Quincy basically died after voting down the motion to recognize US servicemen after the Mexican American war lol. He died from the rage of hating all of them.

I'm in this picture and not sure how I feel about it