Smoking weed under a rainbow, never kill yourself

And a good-looking pup at that-! A King Charles Cavalier-? Hope the house-training is coming along without too many paper towels, ha. You will have to share this pup's name-!

Aide to Rep. Nadler Is Handcuffed Amid Confrontation With Federal Agents

Federal officers entered Rep. Jerry Nadler’s office in Lower Manhattan on Wednesday and handcuffed and briefly detained one of his aides. The confrontation happened shortly after the aide observed federal agents detaining migrants in a public hallway outside an immigration courtroom.

I don’t know how many times we have to say this, but the U.S. government is not a business and shouldn’t be run like one. It’s a service—for the people.

RFK Jr. says he may bar scientists from publishing in top medical journals Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. took aim at reputed journals such as the Lancet and said the agency will create “in-house” publications instead.

The definition of authoritarianism and the opposite of free speech:

The government will now control science reporting and silence anyone who opposes RFK Jr's opinions.

"RFK Jr. says he may bar scientists from publishing in top medical journals"

wapo.st/43sc0Bz

How much you want to bet it was the only thing he had clean.

A mutual aid approach that candidates and office holders could try is to set up hyper-local banks of volunteers to help people navigate SNAP/medicaid/Section 8 etc procedures.

Which could also lead to data helpful to future reforms.

I am considering myself lucky I don't know/haven't yet seen the uh, content of this latest left-punditry-squabble; still, I can well imagine. A lot of people make a habit of going after low-hanging fruit--maybe they should take a hint from Peewee Herman and marry a fruit salad instead. :)

Justice Dept. abandons police reform deals with Minneapolis, Louisville Harmeet K. Dhillon, who leads the Justice Department’s civil rights division, announced the decision days before the fifth anniversary of George Floyd’s death in Minneapolis.

Just days before the 5th anniversary of George Floyd’s murder, the DOJ is backing away from police reform agreements in Minneapolis & Louisville. Consent decrees are a vital path to accountability. We've seen what happens without oversight — this is a terrible step backward.

if a UNITED STATES CONGRESSWOMAN can be prosecuted for literally doing her job, what does that say for you and me???

any person of power who thinks this is okay should lose their job.

I was alarmed when one of my first-year-college students confessed he'd never ONCE watched an entire movie--even at home--without looking at his phone (during the boring parts, he said, also to watch previews of the movie so he "knows how it will turn out").

The international immune system is activating. Democracy, flawed and fragile, is developing antibodies against a very specific kind of viral politics. The backlash is electoral, cultural, and institutional. And it is spreading.

www.theindex.media/rebuke/

[guy who smashed a window at the capitol] “he made a mistake and was doing what he thought was right, let’s pardon him and give him back the fine he paid”
[guy who stood outside home depot] “why would we bother with a hearing before sending him to the el salvador terror prison”

Guy who said he was right about covid and the 2020 election says he’s right about tariffs in part because so many people agreed that he was right because they were idiots or opportunists.

Many/most manufacturing “jobs” that could be onshored will go to robots/AI.

As 25% of factory jobs in China are expected to be in next few years.

Our entire discussion on this is fighting the last war.

I'm assuming you mean funny/weird and not funny/ha-ha. Another funny thing is how fickle American voters are.

Uh, I believe the point is to be better than the criminals.

Bernie Sanders: "I think this is a prelude not only to cutting benefits, but to privatizing Social Security ... why do you lie so much about Social Security? Why do you make it look like it's a broken system? The reason is to get people to lose faith in the system so you can give it over to Wall St"

Terrific writer and thinker (and sounds like person). Sending condolences to his family peeps and workplace peeps both.

MAGA's Big Lie budget Trump’s economic agenda is about fooling the American people.

New in PN: MAGA's Big Lie budget

"Trump has said he wants to do three things:

1. Balance the budget

2. Extend tax cuts

3. Keep Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid fully funded

But doing all these simply isn’t possible. And Republicans know it."

Seems like he should be able to just press Off and wait 30 seconds and then press On (or maybe he pays someone fifty cents to do that). Really tho this does not inspire confidence in what's about to happen to ... all of civilization.

America waking up to the fact that the biggest recipients of “DEI” are white women. And veterans are right up there.

remember tonight to set your clock ahead an hour. but if canada and mexico set their clocks ahead an hour, then set your clocks back an hour. except for clocks in the automotive industry and clocks made with parts already covered under the USMCA, in which case

Exclusive | Commerce to Overhaul ‘Internet for All’ Plan, Expanding Starlink Funding Prospects The agency plans changes that will make Elon Musk’s satellite-internet service eligible for more rural broadband funding.

Oh wait, Howard Lutnik is trying to hand Elon Musk billions in government contracts? You don’t say… www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

The cowardice of the GOP has been astounding 👇

#TraitorTrump

Portraits of Ukrainians returning home show just how much has been lost Months after they fled, Ukrainians return home, seeking normalcy—or at least closure. Instead they find rubble and dust.

People seem to have forgotten what the Ukrainians have gone through, was Putin’s invasion has done. Here’s a photo essay of Ukranians in their bombed out homes www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

In OK we've had a fairly large number of teachers run for office. Needless to say they haven't exactly taken over--yet--but their political presence is definitely more noticeable and indeed more powerful than it was even five years ago. Run, journalists-!

Not a particular Katy Perry fan but I think a better title (possibly) would be "I Kissed my Personal Liberty (goodbye) and Danced to the Free Market Mambo."

F.D.A. Cancels Meeting of Vaccine Experts Scheduled to Advise on Flu Shots (Gift Article) The cancellation plays into fears among scientists who worry that Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will use his position as health secretary to sow doubts about vaccines.

NEWS

The FDA, which operates under the authority of Robert Kennedy Jr., canceled the meeting to discuss next year’s flu vaccines.

This could interfere with or delay production of flu vaccines.

86 children and 19,000 adults have died from flu this season.

About 430,000 people were hospitalized.