Margo Martin @MargoMartin47 X.com Congratulations, Georgia Women's Tennis! The photo shows Trump and five white dudes in red ties standing in front of and completely blocking 10 young women
Priceless post from the official White House social media
“In 2000, they bought The North Face. Same year, they bought Eastpak. In 2004, Kipling. In 2007, Eagle Creek. By the time they were done, VF Corporation controlled an estimated 55% of the US backpack market….More than half. One company.”
You would think that would flag monopoly concerns….
Today my task is writing an exceptionally horny 17th-century Puritan sermon.
It makes sense in context, I swear.
I hate that my probable preferred candidate (Porter) is the only one I trust to have the maturity to do the right thing and get out of the race. Becerra is busy telling himself he has "momentum" right now and he's risking our future on that.
"We're fucked?"
Mahan needs to drop out ASAP. The party throwing its weight behind a guy who was polling at 3% seems like suicide unless these numbers continue to move.
Still a lot of time, but either Becerra or Porter is going to have to drop out and sooner is better.
United States Ambassador To Italy Mrs Clare Boothe Luce Listens To The Words Of Pope Pius Xii,During An Audience At The Pontiff'S Lakeside Summer Residence.13 October 1955
American conservative politician Clare Boothe Luce converted to Catholicism in 1946.
In a 1953 meeting with Pope Pius XII, she was fiercely lecturing the pontiff on the Church's moral duty to fight communism when the Pope finally interrupted her.
"You know, Mrs. Ambassador, I am a Catholic too."
Nothing says "America is Back Baby!" like "Allbirds became an AI hardware middleman because they wanted to pump their stock instead of going into bankruptcy, so they said they will find some computer chips somewhere, but can no longer sell shoes."
Yeah. I'm not going to be in a rush to mail in my ballot. We have six weeks for the polls to clarify.
I'm worried Becerra (who seems ... fine?) will get the stink of "the party is pushing him" which could turn off younger voters. But of course if the alternative is a billionaire ...
(And, if there are two Republicans in the top three, any Democrat outside the top two Dems who doesn't withdraw is PERMANENTLY disqualifying themselves from ever receiving my vote in any primary. That would be demonstrating a combination of stupidity and ambition that is unacceptable.)
I'm basically going to look at the latest polling, and if there are two Republicans in the top three I'm voting for the Dem who is polling the best regardless of who it is.
Which kind of sucks, but we can't have two Republicans on the November ballot.
Wow. Hampshire was always its own weird little thing, but this still feels like a bellwether for the state of higher ed in general.
Someone on the other app asked why Screenwriters don’t just go out and make their own features. I was like “Uh. With what money?” And then one dude (why is it always a dude) says “Well, Frances Ha was made for NO MONEY.”
The budget for Frances Ha was $3 million.
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In the past month the number of Waymos I see every time I’m out and about in Los Angeles feels like it has skyrocketed.
I rarely go out without seeing 3 or 4, even in a quick run to the grocery store a mile away.
Gen Xer here. My dad and I took a trip to New England and New York and drove from college to college checking a bunch of them out.
And you know one of those conservative U.S. Catholic bishops would happily let himself be declared Pope, too.
Vice President J.D. Vance has a moral, ethical, and constitutional obligation to invoke Section 4 of the Twenty-Fifth Amendment by securing the support from a majority of the cabinet to “immediately assume the powers and duties of the office as Acting President.”
I am here for messaging that the THREAT alone - regardless of if it's carried out or walked back - should end his presidency.
The die is already cast. You cannot wield the power that man has and say that kind of shit.
Just emailed my senators and representatives AGAIN.
It's not enough. But everyone please do it.
Dylan Williams @dylanotes This meets the threshold for intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national group as set forth in 18 US Code § 1091 prohibiting the crime of genocide. It any Iranians are killed pursuant to this threat, President Trump will be guilty of genocide, as will those assisting him. Rapid Respo... @RapidRespo... • 4h Donald J. Trump @realDonald Trump A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again. I don't want that to happen, but it probably will. However, now that we have Complete and Total Regime Change, where different, smarter, and less radicalized minds prevail, maybe something revolutionarily wonderful can happen, WHO KNOWS? We will find out tonight, one of the most important moments in the long and complex history of the World. 47 years of extortion, corruption, and death, will finally end. God Bless the Great People of Iran!
Called my Senators and Representative, urging them to cut their recess short, show up in DC, and prepare articles of impeachment against Trump for violating "18 US Code § 1091 prohibiting the crime of genocide," as so clearly explained by my @cipolicy.bsky.social colleague @dylanwilliams.bsky.social
The one that got me was when I realized that I was older than George Harrison was ... when he was in the Traveling Wilburys.
Rule of thumb, as I understand it, is that we don't get much in the way of gains when the health fund is in trouble, so my expectations have been rather low. Early reports seem ... fine? Maybe?
One of the lessons from Vietnam is that when they start bombarding you with numbers like these -- ordinance used, targets struck, so many killed and wounded -- there's more we're not being told.
I feel like Rahm called in a lot of favors or spent a lot of money this last week. I’m hearing his name a lot given that he’s someone I haven’t thought about in years.
Man, I thought only the New York Times wrote headlines this stupid.
Or even just, why is Rahm on this thing?
How on earth is he "next generation?" He worked for Bill Clinton, is older than Obama, and would turn 70 his first year in office.
(Also, Van Hollen seems wonderful.)
Leading Report on Twitter writes: "BREAKING: U.S. Army is increasing the maximum enlistment age from 34 to 42."
Here are 5 menswear outfits to make recruitment officers think you're 43 🧵
Since Schumer has no interest in hearing from non-New Yorkers, my (many) emails to Schiff and Padilla explicitly say that so long as they support his leadership, I will treat his decisions and failures as theirs and will support their primary opponents.
This is completely unbearable. But also like… why are his insane ramblings never summarized like this in the media? We gotta wait for a substack guy to put it together like this?
This horrific story gets worse when you find out how this young woman originally came to the US: as a 17-year-old on Jeffrey Epstein’s plane
Doesn't that feel like an excuse? "It wasn't me, it was my editor!"
I don't know any writer who lets a hired editor make (rather than merely suggest) changes, regardless.