Trump has basically turned the presidency into a giant Bribe Delivery System.

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New Documents Undermine Trump Administration’s Claims About Offshore Wind Deal There was no new investment required from TotalEnergies, according to newly disclosed terms.

The US government paid $1 billion to kill a wind farm just because. Just absolute idiocy in every direction heatmap.news/energy/total...

Trump’s Sycophants Just Approved the Tackiest Monument to Him Yet The Arc de Trump isn’t about America. It’s about one man. It must die.

“The Great Sphinx of Giza stands 66 feet tall… Paris’s Arc de Triomphe, 164 feet… But all would be dwarfed by the Arc de Trump, whose golden (of course) statues would rise to 250 feet above the entrance to the Arlington National Cemetery.”

@mjtoma.bsky.social

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Takeaways From the Supreme Court’s Shadow Papers

“None of the justices mention the threat of climate change, or acknowledge that they are embarking on a questionable new way of operating.”

This is great, and a good reminder of the attack of this administration on mRNA technology and science. What is happening to science funding now is appalling.

Graham Platner says the Iran war is “uniquely stupid.”

“Somehow, Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth might be the dumbest people to ever run a war—which is saying something, because throughout history, many wars have been done have been run by monumentally dumb people.”

a 26 year old half filipino nazi. only in america baby!

Visited Centralia in Southern Illinois earlier this week and stopped by the miner's memorial in Wamac that recognizes the 111 miners who died in the 1947 explosion. Woody Guthrie wrote three songs about them

Oh the many realignments that have happened in my life, the truism that “people’s beliefs don’t shape their politics, their politics shape their beliefs” is maybe the most salient

A Well-Aimed Potato: The Klan, Notre Dame, and Today | dansinker.com

With the Trump administration switching into anti-Catholic overdrive this week, I wrote about a time a hundred years ago when Catholic students from Notre Dame beat the shit out of the Klan. A feel good story for the ages. dansinker.com/posts/2026-0...

Live Nation CEO Sentenced To 10 Years In Online Queue

Live Nation CEO Sentenced To 10 Years In Online Queue

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

Opinion | A Stunning New Verdict Rewrites the Rules of Corporate Morality

“For the first time in France, and possibly for the first time ever, anywhere, an entire corporation had been put on trial and found criminally liable for enabling terrorism.”

Video Shows Cop Who Shot Krystal Rivera Waited Nearly 2 Minutes Before Helping Her Videos released Friday show the moments leading up to Officer Carlos Baker fatally shooting his partner, Rivera, as well as the aftermath.

JUST IN: Video shows the Chicago cop who shot Officer Krystal Rivera waited nearly 2 minutes before helping her. blockclubchi.co/4cPmAXD

Fyre Fest meal

More perfect union: BREAKING: The Senate just passed the legislation allowing the devastation of the Boundary Waters. The motion passed 50-49, and now goes to Donald Trump’s desk.

Republicans just handed the Boundary Waters to a foreign corporation.

For the GOP, it’s foreign billionaires first, America last.

World Cup without tailgating is lost opportunity to show not all Americans hate each other It stands to reason tailgating would create a lively scene when the World Cup comes to North America in just under two months. But ... no.

But with traditional tailgates prohibited at the World Cup there is a lost opportunity.

For a joyous collection of big parties.

And the chance to show that not all Americans hate each other.

FFS.

Trump Sued for Firing Most of the Black Officials in Government President Trump has been purging Black officials in independent agencies at a higher rate than anyone else, a new lawsuit says.

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California bill would limit EV-charging access in affordable housing Legislation backed by developers would waive EV-charging requirements for new low-income housing projects, just as the state looks to build 1 million more…

Hoping CA Legislature does not pass this bill that would end a requirement for EV charging in apartment buildings and other multifamily housing. Trading small up-front cost savings for much big long-term fuel costs: www.canarymedia.com/articles/ele... via @alisontakemura.bsky.social

It's particularly interesting to me that this story is still very much in the news.

It's a longer newscycle than these things normally get.

conservative free speech is when they speak and you listen or suffer the consequences

Another pardoned Jan. 6 rioter to admit guilt in child sexual abuse case David Daniel has reached a plea agreement with federal prosecutors after a judge ruled that President Donald Trump's pardons in the Capitol attack didn’t apply to child exploitation.

Yet another pardoned Jan. 6 rioter to admit guilt in child sexual abuse case:

Illiberalism Is Not Inevitable If Viktor Orbán can lose, then his Russian and American admirers can lose too.

Illiberalism is not Inevitable

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The Pope is soft on crime though.

New disclosures reveal how DOGE actually worked Depositions offer insight into what Elon Musk’s group was up to. Members describe a club-like atmosphere in which they pushed for grant and contract cancellations with little oversight.

Pretty clear from this reporting that DOGE was intended to function like a decentralized network of terrorist cells within the federal government. That's worrisome.
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Alligator Alcatraz phones were cut off. Then the beatings began, court docs say Attorneys say the Trump and DeSantis administrations are disregarding a court order requiring access to phones and attorneys for detainees.

The Constitution and a court order both say that the Everglades detention facility must allow people access to their attorneys.

Instead of complying, guards are cutting off people’s phone access and beating people who speak up.

Inside Trump’s Effort to “Take Over” the Midterm Elections When Trump tried to overturn the 2020 election, the institutional guardrails of American democracy held. But if faced with the same tests today, those barriers — and people who held the line — would l...

Hungary’s PM Viktor Orban planned to steal yesterday’s election. He couldn’t. A huge turnout and lack of ambiguity made it impossible. Voting in overwhelming numbers is the way to save our democracy. Perhaps it is the only way.

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Viktor Orbán created the global blueprint for authoritarian populism and became a MAGA hero. Today, Hungarian voters sent him packing after 16 years in power.

There is nothing inevitable about these guys. Organize. Vote. Fight back. It works.