Trump admin agrees to pay $1.25M to 2016 Trump adviser over surveillance DOJ OK'd the settlement with Carter Page, but he could still press claims against ex-officials.

A new wholly corrupt settlement handing your money to Trump cronies.

It’s notable for several reasons:

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Reporter: What do you make of Republicans saying that Virginia—

AOC: Wah wah wah.

We have asked Republicans for 10 years to ban partisan gerrymandering. And for 10 years, Republicans have said no.

What they’re just mad at is that they have been accustomed to a Democratic Party that rolls over.

Lmaooooo

Even she knows that was a terrible answer

As Prices Climb, California Imports More Gasoline Made From Russian Oil The state’s failure to reduce driving and to stockpile fuel led to dependence on sanctioned oil refined elsewhere.

As gasoline prices climb & California loses refining capacity, the state is importing more and more gas refined from Russian oil, thereby funding Russia's war in Ukraine.

Almost seems like being stuck on fossil fuels is a lose-lose proposition.

Holy shit. The FBI raided this woman's house with a helicopter based on the word of a "gait analysis" quack they found on X.

Interior Department crafted talking points for public lands sell-off agenda - High Country News The agency’s leadership distanced itself from the controversial proposal even though staff helped research public-land sales.

The Trump admin and Sen. Mike Lee are conspiring to destroy public lands for short term profit. Teddy Roosevelt is rolling in his grave.
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It occurs to me I have never actually heard the Trump administration attempt offer evidence establishing the connection between "Things They are Doing" and "Things the Public Wants." Instead, they just repeatedly assert in a conclusory fashion that such a connection exists.

Ohio Republicans want the state to create its own Committee for the Promotion of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice.

Not particularly surprised, to be honest. This was always a huge long shot of a law; states generally have little to no authority to regulate federal behavior.

Don’t they know that Kash Patel’s girlfriend needs that jet?

I do find it funny how many people basically mean “woman in position of power” when they complain about HR.

If you count Kevin Kiley (I-CA caucusing R) as a Republican vote, the death of Rep. Scott and the resignations of Reps. Swalwell, Gonzales, and Cherfilus-McCormick put the party breakdown in the House at 218-212, with 5 vacancies.

Next scheduled special elections are in August

My hot take is that the median social system breaks under too much optimization pressure, and we should stop trying to optimize things

Largest union in the US is the teacher's union (NEA). Second largest union is SEIU, which is what most nurses are organized under. Teamsters is 4th, and UAW is 5th -- combined, they still have fewer numbers than SEIU.

Also when sweaty dudes with hammers who beat their wives get mad, there is an implicit threat of violence that simply isn’t there when girl job doers get mad. Nobody thinks teachers’ unions will go Nazi but the Teamsters might. This too is gender.

Reading this paean, one might be surprised that Platner repeatedly, and entirely voluntarily, participated in the "forever" wars he derides, going so far as to work for what became Blackwater in order to get back to the scene of war.

Indeed. Complaints about redistricting are invalid. Republicans did it everywhere and invalidated a Constitutional Amendment so they could do it on explicitly racial lines.

There are two choices: use the same levers of power as Republicans do, or let them win. There is no "principled" opposition.

The bottom rung is missing from America’s housing ladder. The ROOM Act can replace it. - Niskanen Center A model bill from the Institute for Justice offers states a clean, market-oriented path to restoring affordable shared housing.

America banned its most affordable housing.

SRO rooms once rented 40% below studio rates, no subsidy needed.

The ROOM Act would legalize them again, converting empty offices into housing for workers priced out of the market.

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Rule of law on life support

Give this woman a Gundam.

Look it's vitally important that Democrats embrace this guy who 80% of the country has never heard of & who's disliked 2:1 by people who have heard of him.

How 2 fringe groups and a friendly judge helped pull off Sheriff Chad Bianco’s ballot seizure Emails obtained by CalMatters trace the development of a years-long case that ultimately led to the unprecedented seizure of 650,000 ballots.

Anat Rubin and I co-wrote a story for @calmatters.org about the people behind Sheriff Chad Bianco's "election investigation" -- sovereign citizens, Christian nationalists, and "constitutional sheriffs."
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surely no army in military history has ever been laid low by disease, a famously uncommon problem among people living in enforced close quarters

Meanwhile in California...
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8 Things We Learned From Fervo’s IPO Filing The enhanced geothermal darling is spending big on capex, but its shares will be structured more like a software company’s.

we have a look inside what a startup hard tech company is like, and it involves spending a lot of money heatmap.news/energy/fervo...

This segment went up quickly and is already generating electricity across a wide span of canal. It also includes enough vertical clearance to accommodate a small backhoe, as requested by the canal maintenance team.
#SolarCanals💧☀️🔌💡

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.

IF you make 65k or less, the tariffs effectively doubled your tax rate, and in fact, if you make much less than that it made the percentage increase incalculable because if you make less than like 50k and have a household of three you don't pay FIT net

$1,700 is roughly the FIT burden of a household of three filing joint making 65k, to put that into tax perspective.