Today was a BANNER Day for Democarcy:

SAVE Act Dies in the Senate and Dems win redistricting in VA to pick up potentially 4 seats!

LET’S GOOOOO!!!!

Sorry, keeping fascism out was the only choice. We are ruled by a criminal because of that mistake.

Vaccines work

Science is real

Vaccines save lives

Why is this hard?

they won't be winning this game if they keep missing threes.

first game blowout will just mean a split at home.

I missed it. what was the call?

☘️

'He acts with cruelty': Judge voids RFK Jr.’s ‘unlawful’ directive with scathing opinion A federal district judge in Oregon overturned Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s directive that said health care facilities providing gender-affirming care to minors are barre...

'He acts with cruelty': Judge voids RFK Jr.’s ‘unlawful’ directive with scathing opinion

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respectfully?

that drug addled liar doesn't deserve any respect.

I don't give a shit about his problems with dead animals.

I care about his destruction of science, public health, and truth in government.

politicians on the take, no doubt.

if they didn't get money, they thought they were getting something that outweighed the costs to New Jersey.

they should be prosecuted for corruption, too.

too much money from billionaire tech bros. irresistible.

not democracy.

This Data Center Is Getting a $77 Million Tax Break to Create One Job No other project in the country has gotten such a large subsidy to create so few jobs, according to watchdogs.

A New Jersey data center will reportedly receive $77 million in tax breaks — while only creating one permanent job.

One job, in exchange for higher utility bills, noise pollution, and potential groundwater pollution.

Is it any wonder communities are organizing to stop data centers?

Years ago I decided that taking one day off after travel to recover, do laundry, etc, was an overall gain in work efficiency for the week following a trip. I highly recommend this strategy! Also I am terrible at actually implementing it and I may need to file a formal complaint against myself.

🏀 REPORT | Knicks owner James Dolan has built what WIRED calls a personal “deep state” across his venues – Madison Square Garden, Radio City Music Hall, and the Sphere in Las Vegas – using facial recognition, internal watchlists, and a security apparatus likened to a private intelligence agency. Surveillance reportedly extended beyond venue walls, with staff monitoring nearby neighborhoods and events. Databases allegedly included not just security threats, but people critical of Dolan on social media, lawyers suing MSG, and people loosely connected to them. An internal lawsuit and employee accounts describe real-time tracking across venues, in some cases down to the second. The most detailed case: “Nina Richards” (alias), a trans woman and regular Knicks fan, was allegedly monitored for two years. An internal report tracked routine movements - ordering drinks, interacting with staff, using the restroom. Security chief John Eversole allegedly ordered the surveillance and, according to accounts, referred to her as “him or it,” claiming her courtside presence could “damage MSG’s reputation.”

See new posts Conversation Pablo Torre Finds Out @pablofindsout REVEALED: Confidential report shows MSG surveilled Knicks super-fan, second-by-second — from entrance to bathroom to courtside. "This is not somebody threatening anyone at the Garden — this is a transgender woman on Pride Night, getting a good seat."

🏀 REPORT | Knicks owner James Dolan has built what WIRED calls a personal “deep state” across his venues – Madison Square Garden, Radio City Music Hall, and the Sphere in Las Vegas – using facial recognition, internal watchlists, and a security apparatus likened to a private intelligence agency...

could have been a true quote from another military member who's has f-cked up as Hegseth.

who can tell?

who cares?

unfit, unqualified.

don't care what party he claimed.

shun the immoral PoS. not welcome.

godspeed, Liam Nissan. 👏

Superb idea!

Anyway in better news, the Cúirt literary festival is on in Galway. Oddly enough my memories of it always involve good weather. Looking forward to seeing some readings. Poetry probably as it gains from public reading whereas bits out of novels seem a bit stranded in isolation.

Hey my muchachos, I promised my wife I'd get a real job so I'm financing a Jeep Grand Cherokee and driving for Lyft. I also promised her I'd delete all my social media so this means adios for now. I'll see you at DFW airport. Drive carefully my dudes and dudettes

emoluments.

what a fancy, impenetrable word for criminal bribery and graft.

If not for Trump, what's the emoluments clause for? What's impeachment for? What's the 25th Amendment for? What's section 3 of the 14th Amendment for? What are checks and balances for?

The baddies are cherrypicking the Constitution the same way they do the bible: for their own benefit.

remember when Sam Bankman-Fried got Steph Curry for an FTX commercial to promote how easy it was to trade crypto with the app because “I’m not an expert, and I don’t need to be”

guns? you'll keep them. you claimed Dems would take them, but you were wrong.

white christian nationalists are the They, desperate to indoctrinate your children against woke liberalism and science.
great replacement theory is an old, hateful idea that's been used by every autocrat.

you are doing a great job, Mr. Mayor. keep at it. don't stop.

Mayor Mamdani and a group of children hold hands while running through red tape in a hallway.

For too long, bureaucracy kept 7 child care centers across our city empty — spaces that should have been alive with laughter instead collected dust.

We've run through that red tape. This fall, all 7 will open their doors, bringing an additional 240 free 3-K seats & real relief to working families.

RFK Jr. just said in a hearing that vaccination rates in the U.S. went down “because the government lied to them about COVID”.

He blithely ignores that under his “leadership”, the government is lying to us NOW. Vaccination rates and trust in the government have plummeted since he was installed.

Palantir's CEO published a manifesto arguing Western tech firms have a "moral debt" to US military dominance, that AI weapons are inevitable, and that "some cultures are dysfunctional." This isn't just a regularly evil tech or defence contractor, it’s a fascist political project.

I think this is true for all of America.

our slide into the fascist gutter won't be pretty.

much of what was good about this country has been willfully destroyed by a criminal administration looting the wealth and the white christian nationalists who want to remake society in their hateful image.

Superpower Suicide The geopolitics of our moment

“Superpower Suicide” is a concept to help understand the approach of the Trump regime to the rest of the world. We are fighting a war for no reason we can name, losing it, and covering our defeat with genocidal and apocalyptic propaganda.
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funny how an uninformed, ignorant, drug-addled liar, without credentials, thinks he's the one who decides what questions are right and wrong.

Fractures Emerge Between GOP’s Pro-Pedophilia, Extremely Pro-Pedophilia Wings

I still can't believe Trump had to be taken out of the situation room and the Nuclear football hidden from him yesterday and it NOT THE FUCKING HEADLINE EVERYWHERE. We are doomed.