that is magnificent my god

we all know I have no life, so:

he’s an absolute piece of toxic waste

Alright, I’m home now so here’s the Norm update. Yesterday at 4pm, I got a text from a family I’ve been helping who had a loved one abducted a couple of days after Renée Good’s murder. This was the family that Norm Nation kept from being evicted (and you delivered). ICE had released their loved one.

jesus that’s a haul and a half

Sen. Jack Reed to Warsh as he dodges questions about divesting his assets: "Excuse me. I must commend you on the way you can circularly go around questions and not answer them. It's a skill. Unfortunately it's not a good skill for the chairman of the Fed."

This is also Ruiz mentioning the cocaine off the toilet bowl. It's not necessarily news but now it's on the congressional record.

Palantir manifesto described as ‘ramblings of a supervillain’ amid UK contract fears

Alarm caused by posts of Alex Karp, tech firm’s CEO, championing US military dominance and of AI weapons

A group of Ecuadorian fishermen survived a US drone strike, were detained at gunpoint, hooded, phones wiped, ship blown up, disappeared to El Salvador, then released without charge.

“They knew we were fishermen. Even the Salvadorian authorities said things had been handled very badly.”

JUST BE HAPPY Suffering, Swedenborg, and the hells we choose

I wrote about the possibility that we live in hell and what it means to "choose happiness" johnpaulbrammer.substack.com/p/just-be-ha...

When you weren’t supposed to go into the pond but you did and you brought your ball but it drifted into deeper water and you forgot about how much you hate swimming and NO ONE WILL HELP YOU.

Julio César Jasso Ramírez: The Teotihuacán shooter who celebrated the Columbine massacre and the fascist far right Authorities in the State of Mexico have identified the assailant as a 27-year-old man from Mexico City

Julio César Jasso Ramírez: The Teotihuacán shooter who celebrated the Columbine massacre and the fascist far right

Authorities in the State of Mexico have identified the assailant in the April 20 attack as a 27-year-old man from Mexico City

english.elpais.com/internationa...

varsity theater, vertical, 1308 s. 4th street, dinkeytown [i.e. dinkytown], minneapolis, minnesota, 1981

varsity theater, vertical, 1308 s. 4th street, dinkeytown [i.e. dinkytown], minneapolis, minnesota, 1981

Feel like it should be a bigger story that Howard Lutnick's firm (run by his kids) created a financial product to buy up tariff refund claims at a major discount, and will now be cashing in on the higher costs passed onto consumers.

Palantir manifesto described as ‘ramblings of a supervillain’ amid UK contract fears Alarm caused by posts of Alex Karp, tech firm’s CEO, championing US military dominance and of AI weapons

www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

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i can feel it!

‘Operation Zero Out’ Campaign Seeks to Clear Expensive Water Bills in Jackson, Mississippi Operation Zero Out: Jackson aims to provide relief to Jacksonians facing expensive—and at times inaccurate—water bills.

“ This is a process that we're fleshing out ‘cause it's only like two or three weeks old,” Brad Franklin said. “It took off faster than we could even imagine, so now we're trying to figure out how to meet the demand and also do it in an efficient and fair manner.”

one part of our family used to make “wine” 100 years ago and what has survived is essentially paint thinner but is offered to all at christmas eve dinner

Bill would give towns right to require proof of residency before providing welfare • New Hampshire Bulletin New Hampshire’s centuries-old welfare law is pointed and clear: If a resident is poor or unable to support themselves, a municipality must provide relief. That aid can come in a number of forms, from…

House Bill 348, on its way to the governor's desk, allows cities and towns to require a person in need to prove their residency in order to qualify for long-term services. From @ethandewitt.bsky.social #NHPolitics

no way. damn i love this.

When I worked as a paramedic, we would sometimes get *direct* calls from patients' family members to avoid having the police involved. These would take up to an hour+ at the scene before we would take the patient to a hospital.

tiktok comments: Marlene how did you add the clouds background!' Reply Delaney Hochstetler • Creator That's the sky, we were outside

goodnight

Today in free market fundamentalism

oh my god

SORKIN: There's a whole number of very large companies, including Apple and Amazon, that have not sought reimbursements yet for the tariffs. From what I understand, part of the reason is they're worried about offending you.


TRUMP: I think it's brilliant. They got to know me very well. I'm honored.

yeah we used to go to an amazing all you can eat sushi place in queens and listen folks we got our moneys worth with our kids lol (they went out of business during covid 💔💔💔)

ohhhhhhh right popcorn shrimp needs the fryers ughhhh

in my teens and early twenties i could eat endless whatever- i remember for my cousins confirmation we went out to dinner somewhere in rockaway beach w endless king crab legs and the waiter laughed when i ordered it but my family was like “you’ll see”