Spent Saturday with President Obama and New York's Cutest — turns out my first name is Mayor and I need to be doing more squats.
Here’s to building a City where families can thrive and every classroom is full of this much joy.
New in PN: Speaker Johnson's beginning of the end
"Johnson has such a small majority he can’t afford to alienate anybody, & he has nonetheless managed to alienate everybody. The coming months will be brutal for him & are likely to end w/his speakership destroyed in a humiliating, titanic blue wave"
[Knowing nothing else about this story]
When I see people using words like "hubby" or "kiddos" or "furbabies" I automatically assume the writer's IQ to be <100.
This is why we can't have nice things.
@hcrichardson.bsky.social
Orange fluffy cat inside my car.
I have to go to work and this is not my cat.
Dude, you will never one-up the pope
This is the stunning back story of how the shadow docket evolved under John Roberts. Well worth your time.
I don’t think we talk nearly enough about the fact that corporations like Amazon, don’t pay a single cent to maintain the roads they use, the transportation system they use, the courts they use, they pay nothing for the infrastructure that is absolutely critical to their business.
WE Pay for
A male zebra finch on a perch, leaning towards and looking at the camera.
Beep is checking in to make sure you aren’t doom scrolling 🐥🫵
I appreciate your efforts on behalf of the bluebirds. They are frequent visitors to our feeders this time of year.
Yes but I would add, convince me this will be a liveable space in 30-50-100 years (my offspring are all competent adults)
France passed a law requiring solar panels on every parking lot with more than 80 spaces.
Equals 10 nuclear reactors
Reduces heat island, shades cars
The US -- 800 million parking spaces. Most of them are uncovered asphalt sitting in direct sunlight.
Why aren't we doing this?
I'm atheist and I know that criticizing the pope is dumb AF
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BALINT: Are you trying to get revenge on states that did not vote for your boss?
VOUGHT: What's interesting about your question is Joe Biden--
BALINT: Oh, for goodness' sake!
“By the Left! You think Buck gives a shit? He’s like Tommy Tuberville. So long as his face is on TV and the MAGAs love him, he’s happy as a pig in shit.” --Penn Cage, from the book Southern Man by one of my faves, the late, great Greg Iles
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it's only tuesday....what further hell must we suffer this week
Lion King, all the way
Sometimes I get offended looks when I wear mine ("I hate people" and "can you not"). My husband always gets a laugh for "I am a goddamned delight," but I much prefer the hidden-behind-your-hand snort from those that connect with my intolerance for ignorance. I'm just willing to say it out loud.
And then everyone is all kumbaya
Have you finished eating yet?
(turned the heat off. a little early for NE ohio. cross your fingers for me.)
We invite you to treat yourself to the healing power of watching a rescued baby goat boinging around.
Over the course of her career, #MostCorrupt2026 member Sen. Susan Collins has accepted a breathtaking $8.3 million in corporate PAC donations. She’s repeatedly abandoned Maine families and used her position of power to reward her friends on Wall Street. #MESEN
Sen. Jon Husted represents everything that’s wrong with Washington. He's taken $552,225 from corporate PACs, accepted $116,892 from Epstein co-conspirator Leslie Wexner, and is embroiled in a $60 million bribery scheme—a huge public corruption scandal in Ohio. #MostCorrupt2026 #OHSEN
by tomorrow he'll add it to list of wars he's ended this term alone
Reports indicate that Iran has proposed a 10-point plan to end hostilities, featuring the lifting of all U.S. sanctions imposed since the George W. Bush administration. This demand is part of a broader, previously rejected, proposal for permanent ceasefire rather than temp pause.
Confirmed by NYT.
deep thoughts
I wonder if there was some sort of reason the Founders routed the war power through Congress rather than the whim of one person. Probably not.
