🔥SEN. @ossoff.senate.gov : “Ivanka’s husband Jared Kushner’s on the Saudi payroll for $2 BILLION— as he leads 🇺🇸 diplomacy + asks sheikhs for billions more… Never have we seen so little effort to hide so much corruption. The Mar-a-Lago mafia taking corruption to spectacular new heights.”

The St. Louis Post-Dispatch had a pretty thoughtful editorial staff but with a blind spot for issues affecting POC much of the time. My small local paper’s owner/editor would travel to foreign lands and come back and write editorials about how everywhere else sucked and our small town was the best.

I just signed a bill to rename Minnesota’s community solar program after Speaker Melissa Hortman.

Melissa was a true champion of solar and I was proud to sign this in honor of my dear friend.

Largely pulled by bots…and we pretend AI hasn’t already taken over

We live in the world of letters to the editor now

Mark Twain used to joke about it!

Paddington 5: Escape From New York starts production in 2027

Triple threat

POPETUS

Ahem.

Let your toenails grow. No one sees them anyway

Chop suey Sando. Spaghetti sandwich chaser

WE NEED BAD IRRELEVANT TAKES IMMEDIATELY

FLOOD THE TIMELINE

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Remember when Bill Clinton spoke to his AG for a few seconds privately, on the tarmac, and the US media, following the instructions of bad-faith wingnuts, made a huge multi-week scandal out of it?

They call me whatever names they want. I will never stop fighting for the right to vote and against voter suppression.

Jobs and Workers Are in Balance. Nobody Is Happy About It.

Job growth has slowed nearly to zero. But unemployment remains low because the labor force isn't growing either. So the labor market is "balanced," but workers feel stuck.
Great @lydiadepillis.bsky.social story unpacking the implications of a no-growth labor market.
www.nytimes.com/2026/04/03/b...

Conflictburton

Your wife: no iPad. No chicken leg. My wife: iPad and 1 chicken leg.

We are all Americans. This attack on our children and families’ constitutional rights won't stand.

Opinion | Trump Is Right on Birthright Citizenship The 14th Amendment’s authors would exclude illegal and visiting aliens from U.S. ‘jurisdiction.’

originalism, i am told, is supposed to respect popular sovereignty. but here we have two “originalists” who insist that their language games — and that is what this is, a language game meant to extract meaning where it does not exist — ought to control over a sovereign act of the people.

Report: Ohio exonerates 1 death row inmate for every 5 it executes A new report from Ohioans to Stop Executions documents 12 death row exonerations, widespread official misconduct, and 30 pending executions — several involving active innocence claims.

Forensics: Report: Ohio exonerates 1 death row inmate for every 5 it executes. 🧪

A new report documents 12 death row exonerations, widespread official misconduct, and 30 pending executions.

tiffinohio.net/posts/report-ohio-exonerates-1-death-row-inmate-for-every-5-it-executes/

Much of reactionary politics today is best understood as a Confederate restoration project.

Trump’s Deportation Push Takes an Economic Toll on Mixed-Status Families The administration’s efforts affect many households that include U.S. citizens.

U.S. spouses and children are caught up in the effects of President Trump’s mass deportations, which are pushing some families into financial ruin.

Easy, breezy, beautiful

I will read and cite that story