If not for Trump, what's the emoluments clause for? What's impeachment for? What's the 25th Amendment for? What's section 3 of the 14th Amendment for? What are checks and balances for?
The baddies are cherrypicking the Constitution the same way they do the bible: for their own benefit.
End corporate personhood and we'll talk, Senator
Donald Trump has warned Virginians that voting in favor of a redistricting effort on Tuesday could be a serious blow to the GOP ahead of the midterms, and it sure feels like an ad for Democrats.
www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
Virginia! Today is the last day to vote in the redistricting referendum.
Make sure to vote YES.
You can find your polling location at IWillVote.com/VA.
NOT SO FUN FACT—half of all U.S. war casualties during WWI were due to influenza. Today—Trump’s War Secretary remove the flu vaccine requirement for all U.S. military. Plus, bragging about this to all enemies is just absolute idiocy. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
Fifteen minutes before the President announced he was pausing strikes on Iran, somebody moved $500 million in oil futures. Somebody knew. Somebody told them. Or somebody is them.
New piece ↓
open.substack.com/pub/adamkinz...
Tesla saved $400 million on its federal taxes by shifting billions of its U.S. profits to countries with lower tax rates.
Yes: While you paid your taxes in full, giant corporations maneuvered to pay as little as possible — and it’s all perfectly legal for them.
The system is rigged.
“The United States is being murdered, and it’s an inside job. Every department, every branch, every bureau and function of the federal government is being fatally corrupted or altogether dismantled or disabled.”
Have been wondering when candidates would start talking about this. One of the biggest corruption scandals is U.S. history playing out in real time.
My father survived a year with pancreatic cancer but it was a year of terrible suffering. This is very encouraging news.
www.nbcnews.com/health/cance...
On the right is someone NFL doctors say is 6’3, 230 lbs with 5% body fat
On the left is someone White House doctors say is 6’3, 224 lbs with 4.8% body fat
If the White House is THAT dishonest about something so clear, why should we believe anything they say about anything?
What movie does the news call to mind, for you?
What the actual fuck….
“All we have to fear, is fear itself”
“Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall”
“What the hell is a corner store?”
Great Presidential quotes of our time
ZOHRAN: “TBH, I don’t think too much about how Republicans portray me. The power of an ideology is judged in the worth of its delivery— to be told a city-run grocery store is implausible but $500 MILLION/day to kill ppl in Iran & Lebanon is necessary speaks to a broken politics.”
Weekend at Blotto’s
🧵America's boldest, most unique educational experiment is ending. Gutted as a @hampshirecollege.bsky.social grad. This is dire for critical thought, intellectual leadership, and left activism in academia and in the US.
More than a *school* -- it was a world changing, status quo-upending revolution:
OMFG I am dead
these guys need to be writing for snl
on this day in 1963 Martin Luther King Jr. writes his powerful “Letter from a Birmingham Jail”.
“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.”
The best NotebookLM tip/hack I found was this one - when you are hitting the prompt limit (up to 2000 characters), you can copy/paste the prompt into a Google Doc and then tell NotebookLM to execute the task in the document. Genius. And it works.
#notebooklm #hack #longer #prompt
Hungary just elected a new PM who wasted zero time — he shut down state propaganda, called out the corrupt officials by name, and started the reckoning on day one. It made me want to write down exactly what that should look like here. So I did.
open.substack.com/pub/adamkinz...
Governor Beshear hit the nail on the head. This isn't about politics. It's about basic decency and the respect we should expect from any president.
Someone is dying in ICE custody EVERY WEEK.
And that doesn't even include the American citizens ICE has killed in the middle of our streets in broad daylight.
It could not be more clear, ICE needs guardrails, not a blank check from Congress.
President, Extremely Normal Brain-Wise: Pope Weak on Crime, Also I’m Dr. Jesus Christ
A+ headline.
defector.com/president-ex...
Prime Minister Mark Carney’s Liberals have secured a majority government, winning all three of Monday’s by-elections and full control of the House of Commons.
Read more here: www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/art...
How many signs of systemic collapse will it take before people recognize the system needs urgent radical reform? www.hampshire.edu/closure-info...
Maddow on what keeps despots in power and why they fall apart: "Nobody actually likes a corrupt despot. They all just support him because they think he's going to be in power forever so you need to stay on his right side in order to get anything for yourself."
