Straight up milking the market

"I don't think people are sufficiently prepared notwithstanding what happened in 2021, for the possibility that he will try to fuck with this election. And he will. He's already basically telling us that's what he's going to do, just the same way he told us he would do that in 2020."

We should be learning from other countries...

Life comes at you fast

I think this is the most likely explanation for what unfolded after the fact. #DonaldJChrist

I thought this was a joke headline at first, until I found out it was real.

Turns out VANCE is the joke.

Yeah, it was staged.

And DoorDash grandma isn’t saving extra money from no tax on tips, because it’s going straight into her gas tank.

Wet towel in space: NASA astronaut demonstrates how surface tension forms a perfect water sphere in microgravity at the ISS

Oklahoma high school principal tackles gunman YouTube video by CNN

youtube.com/shorts/JtUpV...
This principal should get some kind of an extreme award for courage. What a remarkable feat.

Cartoon by @deadder.bsky.social.

Tax Day is a reminder of America’s unequal tax system. But we can fix it | Zohran Mamdani, Gabriel Zucman and Joseph Stiglitz There is no justification for a regressive system in which the super-rich contribute less than the rest of us

"There is no justification for a regressive system in which the super-rich contribute less than the rest of us," write @josephestiglitz.bsky.social, @gabrielzucman.bsky.social, and @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social.

A young man from Sichuan, China goes to "Skid Row" in Los Angeles to feed the homeless. Ends up getting arrested.

LIVE: Katie Phang TESTIFIES in CONGRESS Over MAJOR Merger Senator Cory Booker is holding a public forum on Wednesday with the Senate Judiciary Committee regarding the proposed merger of Paramount-Skydance and Warner Bros. Discovery. They plan to examine how ...

An exciting day: I’m testifying today in a Senate hearing about the possible merger between Paramount & Warner Bros.

This kind of power consolidation is a danger to freedom of speech and media independence so it must be fully vetted.

Hope you’ll tune in and watch:

www.youtube.com/live/xETe83T...

Repost from Mayra

There were more protesters outside the Turning Point rally in Athens GA than event attendees.

this is called "doing something"

Most Americans have the political memory of goldfish. How anyone could forget how bad Trump45 was just tells us that they were too brainwashed by Fox/RW propaganda to’ve ever realized at the time; thus, still too uninformed to know to this day. It’s easier to fool a man than convince’em he’s a fool.

To everyone who insists that voting doesn't matter and it can never make a difference: Hungarians just voted out an autocrat who had been in power for over 15 years.

Voting works.

Los Angeles at the ICE Detention Center

Oh, yeah, that was the Obama Iran deal.

Let’s end tonight on a high note from Coldplay

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

Art of the deal, baby.

NYT: “Trump championed the U.S. steel industry, promising to strengthen it and impose stiff tariffs on foreign metals… Yet the White House has secured tens of millions of dollars worth of donated foreign steel for Trump’s $400 million ballroom project.” www.livemint.com/news/world/i...

TRUMP: “Do everything I ask or I’ll bomb you back into the Stone Age!”

IRAN: “How about, instead, you do everything we ask and we’ll call it a day?”

TRUMP: “Deal.”

FOX NEWS: “Awesome Trump is the world’s most masterful negotiator!”

I’m reminded that America is a big place. In fact, it’s not one country. It’s a federation in which freedom and oppression exist in varying degrees across the spectrum.

I agree 100%!!

Chinese carmaker BYD unveils a recharge as fast as filling up with petrol. And no need to wear gloves.

Certainly not coming to a forecourt near you in America because the fossil fuel giants and their puppets in government like making lots and lots of cool money from easily-conned petrolheads.

If you havent seen this, make sure you read.

I went and saw Project Hail Mary.
A guy came in with his service dog and the dog sat there the whole time just concentrating on the movie.
Afterwards I told the guy I was amazed your dog watched the movie like that.
He replied, me too especially because he hated the book.