Hear me out: CA could do a lot worse (and has) than this actual, brilliant, progressive D in public office.

Incredible shots of the exchange between Rep. AOC and RFK, Jr. at today’s congressional hearing.

(image credit: WSJ reporter @lizessleywhyte.bsky.social)

Yup. I have it.

Prince - Let's Go Crazy & Kiss (Arsenio Hall Show) 1991 YouTube video by Music Royalty Vault

Nobody better.This whole Arsenio appearance is legend. Watch him simultaneously make love to the audience, the camera and himself. Bittersweet today, knowing what those dance moves cost him. 💜☔️

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Not really.

we must chase Cat Piss Men back to their rightful place on the fringes of polite society

Clusters of large white trumpet like flowers with long green leaves.

The clusters of flowers on this huge rhododendron tree are as big as dinner plates. Seen at the Ballard Locks today. 🌱

Say what you will about the worst members of the Roberts Court, but they all make sure their wives are in on the grift.

Jane Roberts, Martha Alito and Ginni Thomas are equal partners with their husbands in the grand project of destroying the United States and enriching themselves in the process.

The Onion plans to turn Infowars into a comedy site with satirical echoes of the fringe conspiracy theories that Mr. Jones is known for. Tim Heidecker, one of the comedians behind “Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job!” on Cartoon Network’s Adult Swim, has been hired to serve as “creative director of Infowars.” He said he initially plans to parody Mr. Jones’s “whole modus operandi.” Mr. Heidecker has been working on his impression of Mr. Jones. But eventually, when that joke gets old, Mr. Heidecker said that he hoped to turn Infowars into a destination for independent and experimental comedy. “I just thought it would be just a beautiful joke if we could take this pretty toxic, negative, destructive force of Infowars and rebrand it as this beautiful place for our creativity,” Mr. Heidecker said in an interview. During a recent trip to Philadelphia, he traveled to the Liberty Bell to film a video in character as the new creative director of Infowars.

Get excited.

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A share of merch sales will go to the Sandy Hook families, which will be the first time they get any money since they filed this lawsuit eight years ago.

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Power without accountability: The Palantir manifesto The problems with our tech philosopher kings

New, from me: Take the Palantir manifesto seriously, if not literally.
It reveals that our tech philosopher kings want public money, but without public accountability. This creates a dilemma for governments unaligned with its techno-fascist vision. 🧵
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There going to be an immense political push to look forward, not back, to "heal the nation." But the nation isn't going to be healed if we don't listen to the historians telling us that MAGA leaders must be imprisoned, their entire movement destroyed, the earth salted, real American values restored.

Democrats should hold themselves to higher standards than Republicans. That’s how we build a party that people actually believe in.

In the same manifesto, Palantir's owners argued that we need a national military draft, that soft power is over, and that we were too hard on Germany and Japan after World War II. I don't think that company should be allowed to exist anymore.

I very much believe in this and highly recommend running on it. Salt the earth.

Oregon judge blasts RFK Jr., striking down declaration restricting gender-affirming care for youth "Unserious leaders are unsafe," the judge wrote in his 49-page opinion.

"Unserious leaders are unsafe," the judge wrote in his 49-page opinion.

Passing of the torch. I know Mamdani is Constitutionally barred from becoming POTUS. But just knowing how bad this pairing makes the Schumer/Jeffries/AIPAC wing of the party look warms the cockles of my heart.

‘He’d gaze at the stars and go: I’m gonna be up there one day’: Prince by those who knew him best, 10 years after his death From lurid pranks and late-night drives, to why playing in the Revolution was like joining the marines – Prince’s friends and collaborators recount their memories of one of the music world’s most majestic and mercurial performers

"The last time I saw him playing in London with 3rd Eye Girl, two years before he passed, he yelled, 'My friend George Clinton, on the balcony!' at the end. The spotlight fell on me and while everyone was looking up he snuck out, leaving me with all his fans."

Prince by those who knew him best:

We all know Republican families consist of a man, his ex-wife, her new boyfriend, and the kids who live with mom.

This story is huge for 2 reasons. Not only is it a window into the Master Plan of billionaires buying SCOTUS, but the fact this leaked out means the Court is in full blown Civil War mode. Brace yourself, America

A peer reviewed study shows a promising link between flu and shingles vaccines and a reduced risk of dementia. A heroin addict who cut off a raccoon’s penis for “further study” says these vaccines cause autism. For busy Americans, it can be hard to know who to trust.

Part of me wants to blow this off. But people just pay so little attention to where stuff is coming from online that I fear they can’t see that this is obviously AI.

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We are so far beyond even Teapot Dome levels of "government captured by private industry" in this country, and Democrats genuinely seem to believe their unpopularity is driven by being too nice to trans people, instead of being driven by their screamingly obvious hypocrisy about this.

The ant colony cordially invites you to a celebration of insects' rights in honor of Raid.

It shocks me how many businesses still don’t seem to get that Trump’s cultural revolution did not actually happen

The nepo babies that run the New York Times are suspicious that some other children of the elite have not used their connections to line their own pockets and they think we should all be suspicious too.