I was in a book club and couldn’t remember the name of the book I needed… something about dogs and rain…
In seconds they handed me “The Art of Racing in the Rain”. 😆

Russia screams “disinformation” at the UN while burying its own dead.

Amb. Melnyk:

- 30–35K Russian troops lost every month. Recruitment failing.

Cash incentives no longer enough.

This is not strength.

It’s attrition masked as propaganda.
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Sen. Jack Reed to Warsh as he dodges questions about divesting his assets: "Excuse me. I must commend you on the way you can circularly go around questions and not answer them. It's a skill. Unfortunately it's not a good skill for the chairman of the Fed."

NASA releases new image of planet Jupiter captured by James Webb Space Telescope, the most powerful telescope ever built.

Virginia Woolf, more than a hundred years ago:

Kevin Warsh just lost me. He argues he's going to be an independent Fed Chair, but refuses to acknowledge that Trump lost the 2020 election. If you can't state simple facts when you're in the political spotlight, you aren't independent. You're a coward.

Author @gilduran.com was just banned from “free speech absolutist” twitter for criticizing the Palantir CEO’s manifesto— so here’s his upcoming book: www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Ne...

Alex Jones points out Lutnick’s family business is profiting billions off of the tariffs being overturned

As corporations that raised prices on consumers now take billions from taxpayers

Grifts everywhere— and we lose

Gray whales are starving. Some have died off Oregon Coast Gray whales aren't getting enough to eat to survive their long migration toward Alaska.

Sorry to post this for those who abhor seeing this kind of news about wildlife. But while we are collectively agonizing over the state of our nation, the state of our planet is probably the more urgent news.

"This is an important thing to think about."

That world would be Trump World, Rep Emmer.

Warren: "Why try to end independence of the Fed? Bc Trump's economic failures are causing him political problems, he wants the Fed to artificially juice the economy Having a sock puppet in charge of the Fed would also give the president access to the Fed's powerful authorities to enrich himself"

A Beacon of Hope in the Fight Against Hate and Extremism YouTube video by Southern Poverty Law Center

An outrageous attack on SPLC, a legacy civil rights organization, from DOJ that threatens criminal indictment: youtu.be/25dlBorkAy4?...

Every time Republicans use the phrase “common sense” they know they’re wrong but can’t admit it. They just want low information people to believe them.

Sen. @elizabeth-warren.bsky.social on Trump's Fed Chair nominee: "Having a sock puppet in charge of the Fed would give the President access to the Fed's powerful authorities to enrich himself, his family, and his Wall Street buddies."

Rep. Robert Garcia: "Unfortunately, I have to announce that Democratic members will not participating. This roundtable is not a real hearing. It's set up to appear like one. We should be clear about why that's happening. Last week, Pam Bondi skipped a legally required deposition ... "

"It'll hurt them. It'll hurt them militarily" -- Joe Kernen gives Trump a chance to say he doesn't actually want to commit war crimes in Iran, but Trump doesn't really take it

Donald Trump will always insist he could have stopped the Russian aggression in Ukraine on Day One because his plan was for Ukraine to surrender.
Those who prefer freedom and autonomy will always resist and persist. #SlavaUkraini

Trump: We lost 13 men, and that's terrible. But...

Trump thinks rich people can’t get bombed. He is shocked, in fact.
The American intelligence and military leaders are failing us at every turn.

Dave Chappelle on investing in his Ohio town and backing its local public radio station For more than 25 years, comedian Dave Chappelle has called the small village of Yellow Springs, Ohio, home. Amna Nawaz traveled there to meet with Chappelle and understand why he’s invested millions o...

Comedian Dave Chappelle has called Yellow Springs, Ohio, home for more than 25 years.

Amna Nawaz traveled there to meet with Chappelle to discuss his investments in both the community and the local public radio station. https://to.pbs.org/3O6mQs4

Of course they are concentration camps. And @anatosaurus.bsky.social is right that once you accept the euphemism you are halfway to normalizing the thing.

SPJ joins coalition urging WHCA to defend press freedom at annual dinner Society of Professional Journalists, improving and protecting journalism since 1909

A copy of the letter to the White House Correspondents' Association that lists Donald Trump's attacks on freedom of the press that Rachel mentioned on tonight's show can be found on the web site of the Society of Professional Journalists:
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The person negotiating in the Middle East on behalf of the United States does not technically work for the United States.

Maddow: "Do we think our servicemen and women are in good hands? Do we think that there is care being taken in terms of what they're risking their lives for?"

I like to watch this event but not this year… maybe never again. The WHCA has lost its damn mind.

When throngs of journalists and politicos descend on the Washington Hilton’s 30,000-square-foot ballroom this Saturday to celebrate the First Amendment at the annual White House Correspondents’ Dinner, they will be rubbing elbows with some of the very officials working to erode it. CBS News, for instance, has invited Pete Hegseth and Stephen Miller as guests at the table, while the dinner itself is hosting Donald Trump as an “honoree.”

Well this tracks.

Two guests that CBS has invited to sit at its White House Correspondent’s Dinner table will be…

Stephen Miller and Pete Hegseth

Via @oliverdarcy.bsky.social

Pittsburgh to close schools for NFL draft; switch to remote learning The influx of fans later this week has led the school district to make a controversial decision: canceling in-person school.

The influx of fans later this week has led the school district to make a controversial decision: canceling in-person school. n.pr/4cxl1MM

This, from @edwardluce.bsky.social, is exactly right. Netanyahu is toxic in the US & deserves to be. The Israel-US special relationship is over. But I don’t mourn for it as I do for his other innocent victims. The main reason Americans sympathize with Palestinians is it is the right thing to do.

Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu share a lot of traits. They are both solipsistic, mendacious, narcissistic, and paranoid megalomaniacs who perceive themselves as victims of a cabal of elites. Now they share something else: They have lost a war together. Driven by vanity and hubris, the U.S. president and Israeli prime minister miscalculated Iran’s mettle, and now their mutually inflicted failure is causing them considerable political harm at home. What started as a Smith & Wesson partnership has degenerated into a Thelma & Louise ending.

Great piece by @alonpinkas.bsky.social—Trump and Netanyahu are co-authors of the fiasco in Iran. They have helped each other fail. It could not have happened to two more deserving monsters.
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