Didn’t the electorate vote for this? Well, California and Virginia did. Texans just had it forced upon them.

Seattle and its environs are full of amazing coffee places. None of them are Starbucks.

Break the monopolies all around.

The 1918 Influenza epidemic that was historically deadly was helped along by its spread through the military campaigns of WWI.

Sometimes I think they are deliberately trying to be as destructive as possible

That’s 5 female shooters (one arguably doesn’t fit the profile) over 20 years. In 2025 alone, there were US 400+ mass shootings. Mass shootings in the US have only been tracked since 2014. There have been over 7000. Less than 0.0007% of US mass shooters are female.

www.massshootingtracker.site

Would also argue Tashfeen Malik did not go out on an emotional rampage. It was a planned and coordinated event carried out with a partner. They planned the event for more than a year, complete with target practice

"This is an important thing to think about."

The corruption runs like a metastatic cancer through the US political machine. I’ve always assumed there was some corruption in politics. The depth and breadth is breathtaking

And had the credit for their work stolen

The Atlantic has been so solid on their reporting on multiple levels.

And Ford has been benefitting from a long term tariff on foreign trucks as well

Stripping America down and selling it for parts. The oligarchs will have their billions and we’ll have astronomical debt and a wasteland.

Because matriarchy is a circle and patriarchy is a pyramid

The CEO is also giddy on video talking about how Palantir “sometimes kills people”

Now do Black women. It’s appalling

We have one in Washington state over I-90…US folks are capable of doing some cool stuff sometimes….

Earlier than 80s

Live Updates from Senate

Update on Save the BWCA: vote scheduled at 11:00 AM tomorrow, Thursday, April 16, the Senate will proceed to a roll call vote on passage of H.J.Res.140.

*hopeless.

What a weird slip

Antofagasta: The chilean mining giant rushing to ruin the Boundary Waters

The owner of Chilean copper mining company was Ivanka and Jared’s landlord in DC.

www.savetheboundarywaters.org/updates/anto...

So hard not to feel completely hopeful, losing all that is good to a small contingent of super wealthy narcissists

Berkeley Pit - Wikipedia

Take a look at Butte, Montana. Large copper mine in the past, largest Super Fund site in the US. Mine has a giant pool of toxic fluid at the base of it, full of arsenic, seeping its way into the water table.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berkele...

They peed on the property?!?!

Will say this- most OBs will not work in Idaho under their current law. Eventually it’s going to be their license or their freedom-against the backdrop of a woman dying in the branches of that decision tree.

Back in the day…In Baltimore, if you didn’t show up for jury duty, they would come and get you

Oil company founded by energy secretary paid no US taxes last year Liberty Energy made $193 million last year and received more than $10 million back in tax benefits, according to a nonprofit analysis released on Tax Day.

Of course......
Oil company founded by energy secretary paid no US taxes last year.
www.politico.com/news/2026/04...

Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution - Wikipedia

Jails are privatized and then they use the prison labor to support their corporations for pennies an hour. And the 13th Amendment supports enslavement of the incarcerated. Now ask yourself why we incarcerate more of our own citizens than any other country.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thirtee...

No. When I was a resident (physician in training) I had to pay to park at every hospital I worked at in the city where I trained. I made more money when I was a waitress but was paying for parking sometimes multiple times a day (we sometimes bounced back and forth between hospitals in one day)