Ossoff: "How does American politics really work? It's coin operated. Money goes in, favors come out. It's been running on secret money, corporate money, billionaire money ... all of this gave rise to a depraved president who exploits this rot to empower and enrich himself"
bad news for my new weed delivery startup, Bombadil
torn between "we need to soften IP law to stop the calcification of the culture" and "we need to give the Tolkien estate the right to extrajudicially execute these clowns at will"
Plato is too liberal for Philosophy class at a formerly-great university?!?! Texas education is broken.
First, the Court takes a step back from its assessment of the particular categorical exclusions invoked and emphasizes the animating text of NEPA. The claim that the conversion of a commercial warehouse equipped with four toilets and two water fountains and designed for cargo storage into a detention center capable of housing over 500 people is the type of action that would not “normally . . . significantly affect the quality of the human environment” is, bluntly, absurd. See 42 U.S.C. § 4336e(1); see also ECF 15-1, at 16; ECF 15-13, at 4; ECF 34, at 10; ECF 15-4, at 66. As such, even before the Court examines the text of those exclusions, Defendants’
Friends, is it good when a judge tells you your argument is, "bluntly, absurd"?
Is it good when the judge says your proposal "raises a red flag"?
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Absolutely incredible.
NASA Astronaut Reid Wiseman, who commanded Artemis II, took this footage from the far side of the Moon with his iPhone.
Watch with sound on.
Apparently “ synthetic influencers“ for politics and commerce are a business model. It seems like it shouldn’t be legal.
Yep. I'm so glad people are showing up for this fight!
Coincidentally, the same day, the SF Chronicle posted my (extremely similar) opinions on the topic.
www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/open...
Trump “even mused he should award himself the nation’s highest military honor, the Medal of Honor.”
And that’s not even the craziest part of this excellent WSJ story about the paranoia and chaos that overshadow the White House right now.
Free link:
www.wsj.com/politics/nat...
Starlink Outage Leaves US Naval Drones Adrift: Insights into Satellite Dependence 🎁 medium.com/the-dock-on-...
Trying to keep perspective in this kind of mood, I sometimes sing the Beatles’ I’m a loser to myself
I mean the wife
This is one of the best threads about Republican hypocrisy in a long time.
Don’t blame the victim here
Jake, IMO: It would make a stronger statement, and make you prouder in the long run, just not to go.
We created this guide for anyone who could experience a miscarriage in a state with abortion restrictions.
We wrote it in consultation with dozens of doctors, including those who regularly treat patients who are miscarrying 👇
that they are freaking out this badly over a surtax on second homes worth more than five million dollars - the most excessive rich person thing imaginable, which doesn’t even affect most of them - really makes it clear how little attention you need to pay to the freak outs
So at the risk of maybe overreading this and making an educated guess, I think I can guess what specifically Wyden is talking about.
I think it's about use of AI (LLMs) by FBI to surveil American communications without a warrant
This village uses its solar income on free communal lunches, buses and other communal efforts.“If you divide money as individual income, people feel disconnected. People who didn’t know each other for years now get to know each other within days”
I love everything about this.
It taught my kid a lot, and they got great grades and into the schools they wanted. But they regret the pressure that it put on them and would not recommend it.
And it was chosen because he thought the Japanese character for 10,000 "万" looks kind of like a little running dude
Of which many are bots. But still.
JD Vance is the ultimate Reply Guy. He’s Well Actuallying the Pope about Catholic theology.
Four cardinals in the Vatican library looking at a flip phone showing the tweet and furiously debating whether he's just profoundly misunderstood just war theory or if he just googled it and thinks the word "just" means "do a bit of, as a treat"
Gorgeous ruffs!
Fuck all Republicans
Amid War, G.O.P. Puts Off Testimony From Senior Pentagon Commanders www.nytimes.com/2026/04/13/w...
In total, Lancet researchers found USAID prevented more than 91 million deaths over those two decades—including 30 million children under five.
Every year since 1994 crime has gone down and every year Americans think it is worse than last year which explains why rural MAGA grandmas think their favorite grandchild will be murdered if she moves to the city.
I (human) strongly agree
