For anyone who thinks increasing oil & gas production is the path to energy independence, you're dead wrong. While we continue to rely on fossil fuels, we're held hostage to global pricing. The real path to energy security is local production of renewables and grid-scale storage. #EnergyTransition
Ballou on Epstein Files Lawsuit: The judge ordered them to produce these foreign-language documents, and the DOJ’s response was, “Look, Judge, we told Congress that we weren’t going to follow this part of the law, and Congress didn’t do anything.” That’s not how the law—or any law—works.
"Mr. Blanche gave bizarre excuses for not meeting with Jeffrey Epstein's victims – yet he spent two days personally eliciting testimony from Ghislaine Maxwell." Liz Oyer
Ossoff: "Here's what's going to happen tonight: the world's most famous sore loser will deliver a prime-time presidential sour grapes address to pursue his 6-year-old grievances about the 2020 election, while his war in the Middle East spirals out of control & the cost of living continues to rise.."
People don't want masked thugs terrorizing their neighbors. They don't want warehouses being turned into detention centers. They don't want billions of taxpayer dollars spent on a rogue police state. They want healthcare. They want affordable homes. They want their basic needs met.
The longer we allow grandpa to rage post to distract from the EPSTEIN Files, the more danger he creates for the safety & security of the world. Any doubt he would use nuclear weapons in a heartbeat if he thought it would benefit himself? I'm with Maj. Jason Watson: IMPEACH. CONVICT. REMOVE 🇺🇸
I think @govandybeshear.bsky.social should just appoint a Dem to fill McConnell’s seat. It would force proof of life, and the state law that stripped him of that power should be challenged in court. I’m sure Thune would refuse to seat the appointee, but I think it’s a fight worth having. BE BOLD!
Hello, fellow bookworm! 🤓💚 @profmmurray.bsky.social
"Almost anything my kids do... they have inside information." Trump stuns CNBC hosts by admitting his children possess inside knowledge due to his political power🇺🇸
Oh please do this. 🤞 “On July 4th, it’s going to be 107 degrees out, and I’m going to make a really long speech just to show that I can do anything. It’s going to be 107!” — Senile Satan, unregistered sex offender
They are arresting U.S. Air Force Officers for free speech and U.S. Olympians for curiosity—but not rich men for raping children with Jeffrey Epstein.
@weissmann.substack.com I was rereading Liar’s Kingdom the other day, outside on my patio, and this little friend came to remind me, and to underscore, that we must stay “tethered to the facts” and the law, and that “Politics today is often a game of inches.” 😊
If only immigrants of color were rich pedophiles then Republicans would bend over backwards to protect them. Alas.
Did DoD just admit in a court filing that it used xAI's Grok Gov Model to hit the girls' school on the first day of the Iran war? Based on some passages flagged by @rgoodlaw.bsky.social in DoD's recent filing in NAACP's case against X, it looks like it did 1/
Fonda: This isn’t the first time that Americans’ rights have come under attack. But this time, what is really different from the last century is that the attacks are coming from every part of the government: the executive, the legislative, and the Supreme Court.
it's notable to me that the administration tried to frame tonight's UFC event as a "gift to Americans" but you can't watch it unless you have a paid subscription to Paramount+
"A Prince, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people." —The Declaration of Independence
1/ Trump was found liable for sexually assaulting E Jean Carroll, defaming her, and now he’s going after her again. Trump cannot be allowed to use the full weight and power of the US Government to come after women who speak up, or anyone who supports them in doing so.
Again, please share. In every aspect of American history you will run smack dab into the critical contributions of Black people. It’s not Black history. It’s American history. Trying to erase it is a fool’s errand. We live it every day. time.com/5836444/blac...
The Forgotten Black History of How Memorial Day Started
Historians like the Pulitzer Prize winner David Blight have tried to raise awareness of freed slaves who decorated soldiers' graves in 1865
time.com
The GOP may feel backlash from redistricting, @nhannahjones.bsky.social says. “I think they may have miscalculated in thinking that not just Black folks, but people who actually care about democracy of all races all across this country were just going to lay down for this.” #Velshi
Nikole Hannah-Jones: Diluting Black vote in South ‘disrespectful to our ancestors’
Nikole Hannah-Jones, author of the 1619 Project, says the Voting Rights Act’s necessity was demonstrated when, “within hours of the Supreme Court's ruling, white southern legislatures moved to change the voting maps. Jones says, “that shows that what was holding them back was the Voting Rights Act.”
msnbc.com
Because this country likes to forget what it’s capable of, I take it as a duty to remind us. We sit at the brink of the largest decimation of Black political power since the fall of Reconstruction — a Second Redemption. And the end of Black political power means the end of democracy itself.
The Civil Rights Era Is Collapsing Before Our Eyes
nytimes.com
Data Centers do NOT have a right to your water. ZERO. Thank you, @aoc.bsky.social
Acyn@acyn.bsky.social · 3mo agoAOC: This is what drinking water in Georgia looks like after Meta began data center construction in the community.
For two years, Mike Johnson refused to hang the plaque on the wall honoring police officers who defended the Capitol on J6 against a mob of violent rioters, even though a law was passed to mandate it. But he supports paying over a billion dollars to the criminal rioters.
REED: How many taxpayers' returns were leaked by the IRS in the 2020 breach? BLANCHE: Excuse me? REED: 405,427. One of them was Donald Trump, correct? BLANCHE: Donald Trump and his family. REED: And Donald Trump was president at the time. So it was his IRS that allowed this breach of privacy
Otto and I got the book we wanted today! On our way back to the car, we stopped in the park for a bit and found 🍀🍀. @weissmann.substack.com 😃💙 (at Wesleyan RJ Julia Bookstore)
Otto and I got the book we wanted today! On our way back to the car, we stopped in the park for a bit and found 🍀🍀. @weissmann.substack.com 😃💙 (at Wesleyan RJ Julia Bookstore)
