A very Happy Birthday to you.

They live among us.

A Maine air carrier was forced to stop delivering mail today. USPS owes them $388,000 and hasn't paid since March.

Trump is breaking the Post Office. Rural Maine pays the price. #mepolitics

With the help of the Sandy Hook families, The Onion has reached a long-awaited deal to take over InfoWars.

We've enlisted the help of @timheidecker.bsky.social, who will be InfoWars' Creative Director.

Please stand by for more.

“As of today?”

Sean Hannity left the Catholic Church in 2019.

So phony and performative

Cover of Mother Jones with an image of fingers pointing at John Roberts and the coverline "Blame John Roberts for Everything"

The NYT big expose on SCOTUS today pairs well with @ariberman.bsky.social and @pemalevy.bsky.social's cover story on how ~everything wrong with this country today can be laid at the feet of John Roberts: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Conservatives' brains are so broken. Thomas is one of the most powerful people in the country and he lives like a billionaire, vacationing on private yachts and private ranches.

But he is still filled with resentment over "liberals" making his life miserable back when he was a baby in 1948? Wut?

On January 10, 2022, the Knicks played the San Antonio Spurs at the Garden. It was Pride night. Richards was there, attending with a friend. An 18-page report prepared by Eversole's Threat Management Group and reviewed by WIRED shows just how closely she was being monitored. 07:10:20 // CAM 0241 // scans her ticket to section 102, Row 8, Seat 5 07:11:14 // CAM 1434 // goes up terrace escalators on level 3 to level 6 concourse 07:12:52 // CAM AC10 // hugs usher Appendix A of the report has a screenshot of the embrace, with Richards circled in red. 08:08:58 // CAM 1093 // talking with F&B worker at the Draft Kings Bar 08:10:49 // CAM 0512 // pays for the drinks 08:31:19 // CAM 0485 // eating at a table It goes on and on. At 8:48 pm, camera 0489 spots another quick hug with an MSG “membership experience executive” (there's a grainy photo in the report's Appendix N). Two minutes and two seconds later, the same camera captures her heading into the women's bathroom. Her exit is noted after precisely two minutes and five seconds.

The owner of MSG and the Knicks compiled this kind of second-by-second surveillance of a trans woman while they were in the arena. They're doing this at all venues owned by James Dolan of perceived enemies. Crazy, crazy shit.

www.wired.com/story/madiso...

Trump's terrorists got pardons, the police officers they're attacking barely got a plaque.

The Strait of Hormuz, ALREADY OPEN before we began bombing Iran, is open again. Yay!
There's talk of an anti-nuclear agreement for the price of unfreezing $20B in frozen funds. Double yay!
All in all, we'll have spent and/or transferred $52B to replicate the Obama deal, which he tore up. Triple yay!

TSX jumps more than 1% as Iran opens Strait of Hormuz Canada's main stock index rose sharply on Friday after ‌Iran's move to open the Strait of Hormuz raised expectations that the conflict would end soon and normalize oil and gas supplies, lifting investor sentiment globally.

TSX jumps more than 1% as Iran opens Strait of Hormuz reut.rs/4thaeNM

U.S. allows mining near Minnesota wilderness area, with waters flowing into Canada The vote, passed by Congress on Thursday, overturns a pair of decisions made by the Joe Biden administration

The mining process exposes minerals to rain that creates sulphuric acid ergo Minnesota is a bad location. The company is foreign owned, would ship to China and back, no discernible US benefit per @hcrichardson.bsky.social www.theglobeandmail.com/world/articl...

ICE is not about immigration.

ICE is about normalizing a paramilitary force on peaceful streets.

Abolish ICE.

The Founding Fathers knew a king-like tyrant would one day try to rule as personal dictator and use presidential powers to live above the law. But they never foresaw a branch of government abdicating oath for complicity and grift, or algorithmic media producing a citizenry so manipulated by deceit.

a frustrated man sitting on a bus

They’re gonna call this "a pivotal moment" in history and I was just trying to get through Tuesday.

#LivingThroughHistory

Insane!

Yippee ki-yay! (Better 160 years late than never).

The selfishness of MAGA. Just like during the pandemic, they don't care if other people get sick or die, as long as they're not inconvenienced or discouraged from their illogical beliefs. That, combined with their incredible ignorance and gullibility, hurts all of us.

HOWLING

President Zelenskyy: The future is already on the front line - #Ukraine is building it.

"In four years, Ukraine has built a new defense industry. One that is large-scale, effective, and impressive in every sense. Our missiles,unmanned systems,interceptors,attack&naval drones,reconnaissance systems⤵️

Trump TS post featuring an illustration of himself as a Christian faith healer

I’m not sure it has broken through to the general public that the president is a megalomaniac crazy person. Hopefully posts like this help.

Folks, the Hungarians just ousted Orban after he spent a decade and a half consolidating power. The odds the Hungarian resistance faced were far worse than what we’re facing in the US. Like abolitionists and civil rights activists have learned here, everything seems impossible until it isn’t.

Hear, hear!

Hungarians showing how to win big in an unfair election: organize AND protest AND vote AND demand profound change.

This was 15 months ago.

We’re about to pay Iran $6 billion to re-open the thing that was open before the war.

Art of the deal, baby.

Tonight in Budapest’s Heroes’ Square, a sea of young Hungarians—who’ve only ever known Orbán’s corrupt, suffocating regime—are packed together, singing, chanting, and daring to dream of freedom again.

Their hope is raw, their courage is real. The heart of Europe is beating in Budapest tonight. 🇭🇺❤️🇪🇺

Every single one of the astronauts who went to the moon and back on Artemis II was educated at a public school.

Thinking of the teachers who poured into Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch, and Jeremy Hansen tonight. You helped send a kid to the moon!

🌕 💛

Epstein is dead.

America’s Future Is Hungary MAGA conservatives love Viktor Orbán. But he’s left his country corrupt, stagnant, and impoverished.

In honor of Vance's visit to Hungary, where he will campaign for Viktor Orban, I am reposting my article from last year. I argued that Orban's Hungary is one of the poorest countries, and certainly the most corrupt and least free country, in the entire EU.
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...