Opinion | For Now at Least, the Iran War Seems to Be Failing If you’re winning, you don’t typically threaten to destroy a civilization or look for scapegoats.

PolluterPage prints piece calling Trump “desperate, deranged”; administration “losers,” and war as “ill-conceived, ill-planned, ill-executed and, so far, failing.”

this is called "doing something"

Dozens of Project 2025 proposals appear to be included in the Trump administration's newest budget The proposed 2027 budget released by the Office of Management and Budget is filled with ideas that appear to be copied and pasted from Project 2025's Mandate for Leadership. Russ Vought, the head of t...

Russ Vought, the head of the Office of Management and Budget, was an architect of Project 2025 before being hired by Trump.

American Express Bets on Agentic Shopping With New Tools The financial giant’s developer kit aims to make AI-driven commerce mainstream.

American Express is launching new tools that enable people to shop using agents as LLMs continue to eat away at traditional search.

The tools can be integrated with commerce-enabled agents that AI answer engines like OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Google’s Gemini, and Anthropic’s Claude are developing.

Big Bird’s Obituary: Greatly Exaggerated With apologies, tonight’s column runs a little longer than I like them to.

Trump wanted to kill off PBS & NPR by defunding them. It hasn't worked as intended—viewers came to their aid & now a fed'l judge has held Trump's executive order unconstitutional. We also look at why Trump might dislike public media & a Muppet named Donald Grump.
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Cook Political Report Shifts Four Senate Races Toward Democrats The Cook Political Report shifted four Senate races to the left on Monday but noted that the GOP is still favored to maintain its majority in the upper chamber this November.  “With an increasingly so...

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Flip the Senate blue!
LFG!

I wonder what the @americanredcross.bsky.social thinks about this?? 🤔

* Crucial Home Selling Season Off to a Sour Start

@wsj.com $XHB
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This is ongoing with the Coast Guard, Secret Service also other dhs agencies as well. Needs to be fixed by Congress ASAP. Puts us all at risk.

“The teller didn’t give me any money so it’s okay that I walked in with a gun and tried to rob the bank.”

Do yourself a favor and start reading the headlines of the @thedailybeast.bsky.social articles. They love trolling DJT.

This is oddly pleasant.

The victory of the opposition in Hungary yesterday, like the Polish election in 2023, is a victory for democracy, not just in Europe but around the world.

The briefing's name is Glass...George Glass

Trump watches 60 Minutes and goes completely bananas. This isn't what Bari promised!

You all are talking about “the Pope is weak on crime” and I feel like the real gem is “should get his act together as Pope.”

Lol

To the doomers who keep saying Trump will rig the 2026 and 2028 elections: Do not concede in advance

Indeed!

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Good

one immediate dramatic consequence of the Hungarian result:

Magyar has promised to repair relations with the EU and unblock a €90bn EU loan for Ukraine

The end of Viktor Orbán’s autocratic regime is a victory not just for Hungary, but for people who value democracy around the world. Congratulations to Tisza, to incoming leader Péter Magyar, and to Hungarians everywhere.

So far, Vance’s foreign policy record is yelling at Zelensky for not thanking Trump enough, campaigning for AfD in Germany and Orban in Hungary, getting rejected by the Pope on his invite to the US, and failing in the Iran negotiations.

Agreed. We have to reckon with this. Soon.

WOW! Check out this opposition rally in Hungary today!!! 🤩🇭🇺

Scientists think dark matter might come in two forms A mysterious glow of gamma rays at the center of the Milky Way has long hinted at dark matter, but the lack of similar signals in smaller dwarf galaxies has cast doubt on that idea. Now, researchers p...

Scientists propose dark matter may consist of two interacting particle types, not one. This could explain why gamma-ray signals appear in the Milky Way but not dwarf galaxies, since detection depends on the balance of both types in each galaxy

No rich, well connected person surrounded by power would be dumb enough to appear, out of the blue, for no admitted reason, on national TV to *pre-deny* through a well written lie that they were involved in a child-trafficking ring.

Oh, except for Lutnick.

Wait, and now Melania?!

They're Coming for the Billionaires Democracy finds a way.

Great summary of key inferences from the Cambridge Disinformation Summit

@asharangappa.bsky.social

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