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A reminder while Republicans bitch about Dems finishing the redistricting fight they started: they have full control of gov’t— they can pass a law banning gerrymandering any time they want. They won’t. Republicans aren’t mad gerrymandering exists; they’re mad that they’re not the only ones using it.

Hung Cao—who compared abortion to the Holocaust on the campaign trail and claimed combat injuries with no documentation—just became Acting Secretary of the Navy. This is what the collapse of institutional standards looks like in real time.

This graphic shows how successful the JCPOA was, which cost US taxpayers nothing but Obama signed it. Can we please stop electing racist dickwads?

All federal wind power R&D at the Department of Energy is $0.137 billion. So the government is paying 7x the amount it spends on all wind power R&D just for a fee to kill one wind project. Seems bad.

Sneaky move

"The sanctions repeal was inserted into the must-pass piece of legislation that authorizes nearly $1 trillion in annual Pentagon spending, two pages inside a 1,260-page law."

If you watch and share one thing today make at this. Why is every democrat in the country not talking like this?

More of this, less of bombing other countries

(From @acyn.bsky.social )

Yikes! Always something…

We better wake up to what’s happening online. The right isn’t just posting anymore; they’re scaling influence with AI.

📌 AI-generated pro-Trump “influencers” are surging on social media and are starting to shape what people see and believe.

A Nursing Home Owner Got a Trump Pardon. The Families of His Patients Got Nothing. At least three families won multimillion-dollar wrongful death suits against former Skyline Healthcare owner Joseph Schwartz. They haven’t collected a cent.

Joseph Schwartz’s case is the latest in a string of health care fraud pardons by Trump.

The president also granted clemency to nursing home magnate Philip Esformes, convicted of a $1.3B scheme, and Judith Negron, convicted in a $200M fraud case.

Using AI to write is plagiarism — intellectual theft. Like plagiarism, it should be treated as a moral and legal taboo.

“Trump’s enablers will be remembered for hiding the dementia, crimes and treason of the worst parasite in US history.”

A thoroughly corrupt, debased hack. A malicious liar.

Yep.

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Shiller's measure of long-term price-earnings ratio suggests stocks are overvalued, at least in historical terms. CAPE is now at levels last seen during the 2000 dot-com bubble

Standard Republican economic policy. They do it every time they're in control. They also deregulate everything that protects consumers. And then a few years later we have a financial crisis. Every. Single. Time.

This report on the “Biden Administration’s Weaponization of the FACE Act” repeatedly cites conduct that occurred…during the first Trump administration.

This chart is stunning.

When you add it all up, the collapse in immigration looks like this: a decline of roughly 50K for illegal (even including the people arrested and not released) and a decline of about 132K for legal. Over 70% of the cut in immigration has come from LEGAL immigration.

Every once in a while, I like to watch this video clip of Joe Biden comforting a grieving Parkland family to remind myself what compassionate leadership looks like.

This is the stuff I truly miss.

They don’t know how war works and they don’t know how negotiations work—but they do know how grift works. Our oligarchs will make money, Putin will make money, and that’s the only "victory" they care about. As a war this is obviously a defeat for the US—had the US won it would be dictating terms.

Reagan’s OMB Director:

Pro-tip for the Swalwell campaign staff now maligning the women accusing their boss of sexual misconduct: it's not worth it. There will be other campaigns and other candidates but there will never be another time that you won't regret behaving this way towards survivors.

Martin Sheen joins me on @siriusxmprog.bsky.social tonight for an amazing hour on filmmaking, activism, and spirituality. I offered the SXM Hollywood studios but he wanted to come over; so this is my 1st-ever interview at my own kitchen table.

I cannot overstate how wonderful he is, throughout.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth holds regular Pentagon prayer meetings, which infuse worship with the furor of Christian nationalism. "Hegseth is trying to evangelize the military leadership with his version of Christianity,” says @briankaylor.bsky.social of @wordandway.bsky.social.

Yes! People seem to forget that it was actually Republican *strategy* to use the sham Benghazi investigation to chip away at Hillary Clinton's approval numbers in the years ahead of her inevitable 2016 run! Kevin McCarthy accidentally admitted it! bsky.app/profile/cort...

Fox News, circa 2013.