When I hear people talk about deregulation, what I'm really hearing them say is: "any limitation on harming people is a limitation on profits".

Writing a brand new play… and it feels soooo good.

In Space, No One Can Hear Your Politics The popular scientist sounds off on the promise—and limits—of space entrepreneurship, and launches his book, Merlin’s Tour of the Universe.

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What are people watching right now. I’m making a list for what’s next. FYI Shows that I just finished Abbott Elementary, Kaos (pissed it got canceled), Beyond Black Beauty, Only Murders, Foundation.

Three billionaires donated $220 million to Donald Trump between July and September.

Read that back.

Three people. $200 million. In just three months.

Citizens United is among the worst decisions in history. It corrupts our system every day.

It’s been a while. Was taking a social media break. But hope folks are staying sane in these streets. Things are cray.

Golden again. Simone Biles wins gymnastics Olympic individual all-around title Biles, who won gold earlier this week as part of the team all-around final, now has six Olympic gold medals (plus a silver and two bronze). Those nine medals are the most by a U.S. Olympic gymnast.

JUST IN: Simone Biles wins her 6th Olympic gold medal, and her 9th Olympic medal overall — more than any other U.S. gymnast ever.

On Kamala Harris, Barack Obama and a theory. On Sleepy Hollow, moving forward and Not Going Back Politics is, to some degree, a game of symbolism. But the phrase “political theater” isn’t an inherently negative one: We all respond to symbols and images that are brilliantly arranged. Under the rig...

Misogynoir: anti-Black misogyny Black women face. We saw SO much today. In NABJ video, Trump *clearly* furious Black women not deferential & asking tough questions. As I wrote, this'll keep happening. White people, esp white women, IMO it's on us to fight this burner-account.ghost.io/on-kamala-ha...

Even this seemingly “thoughtful” article is WaPo taking the bait hook, line, and sinker. The conversation should not be about Harris being bi-racial. It has to be about Trump being a racist who talks down to Blacks and tries to play one racial group against another. bsky.app/profile/wash...

Douglass: “When prejudice cannot deny the black man’s ability, it denies his race, and claims him as a white man. It affirms that if he is not exactly white, he ought to be. If not what he ought to be in this particular, he owes whatever intelligence he possesses to the white race by contract or association.”

Frederick Douglass on what happens when black people don’t fit racist stereotypes:

In Nation’s Largest Swing County, Election Deniers Move Closer to Taking Over Elections Arizona officials who have stood up to false conspiracies lost their seats in key GOP primaries on Tuesday. The fate of Maricopa County’s elections system will be decided in November.

NEW: Election deniers made big gains in the nation's biggest swing county in Tuesday's Arizona primaries.

In Maricopa County, home to 4.5 million people, they are now several steps closer to taking over elections system.

Now it's all about November:
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Now I see why we gotta add "creeps" to these weirdos' description.

From left to right: Jade Carey, Sunisa Lee, Simone Biles, Jordan Chiles and Hezly Rivera of Team United States celebrate during the Artistic Gymnastics Women's Team Final on day four of the Olympic Games Paris 2024 at Bercy Arena on July 30, 2024, in Paris, France. The text reads, “Going Gold: U.S. women’s gymnastics wins team competition.” Photo by Patrick Smith for Getty Images.

The U.S. women’s gymnastics team has returned to the top of the medal stand at the Olympics. Three years after Simone Biles’s withdrawal derailed the team’s gold-medal hopes, the Americans cruised to the gold here, with Biles as their steady leader.

More live updates here: wapo.st/4d2GI6u

Project 2025 is anti-adoption, declaring on page 489 that “all children have a right to be raised by the men and women who conceived them.”

Really?!

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HARRIS for PRESIDENT FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE July 27, 2024 Statement on Trump's Promise to End Democracy Donald Trump has previously said if he didn't win there would be "bloodbath" and claimed, "I'm not sure that you'll ever have another election in this country." He has called for the "termination" of our Constitution and bragged "a lot of people like" his calls to be a "dictator on day one." WATCH: Last night, Trump again vowed to end democracy if he did win: "You won't have to do it anymore. Four more years, you know what - it will be fixed, it will be fine. You won't have to vote anymore." Statement from Harris for President Spokesperson James Singer on Trump's vow to end democracy: "When Vice President Harris says this election is about freedom she means it. Our democracy is under assault by criminal Donald Trump: After the last election Trump lost, he sent a mob to overturn the results.

Kamala Harris' campaign noticed yesterday's Trump's speech.

Remember smoking in restaurants? And bars? I came of legal drinking age in the last gasp of indoor smoking in the US. You just had to take for granted that your clothes would smell like an ashtray after a night out. The people who pushed for bans were considered scolds and worrywarts.

And yet!

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There is no question about it: Alito, Thomas, Roberts, and the three Trump Supreme Court appointees are all GOP partisan hacks.

Pass term limits. Expand the court. Enact an enforceable code of ethics.

We must keep pushing Democrats to enact court reform. No more excuses.

There are so many reasons to love Mo Ryan’s work but damn this article hits square in the jaw. So many mic drops like this “what I really hope we do not do — again— is ask a Black woman to save us, and then sit back and do little to nothing to protect her from the hordes of jackals out to get her. “

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Manchin says he wouldn’t serve as Harris VP Sen. Joe Manchin (I-W.Va.) on Monday said he would not consider serving as Vice President Harris’s running mate, arguing it is time for a “new generation” following President Bide…

Man who was never getting the job and never should have returned is saying he’s going back into his cave. Good riddance to bad rubbish. Bye boy bye.

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I know she's busy right now, but do you think we could convince the second woman to be a major party nominee to run on the Equal Rights Amendment? Asking for myself, a person obsessed with the ERA.

Calling a voluntary change of candidates a "coup" signals further normalization of deceptive authoritarian tropes:

peaceful transfer of power = coup
anti-authoritarianism = fascism
anti-racism = racism
education = indoctrination

The point is not to persuade, but to erode language + meaning itself.

So glad folks showed up and showed out with donations and support for VP Harris. Let’s. Go.

Why sex bias in labs means women are the losers in research into ageing In laboratories worldwide cages are filled with mice who share a striking similarity: they are all male, say experts

"About 75% of the drugs that extend lifespan in mice work only on males: the drugs were developed on male mice then belatedly tested on both sexes, only to discover the females did not respond."

I hope the same folks who wanted Joe gone are donating to Harris campaign and other Dems like crazy right now. Put up or shut up!!!