RFK Jr.: “You probably don’t understand this as you’re not a scientist.” Dana Bash: “You’re not a scientist either.”
Mudflats
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Author, blogger, traveler, former politico, Xitter refugee, and tired of this shit. Occasional cock-eyed optimist.
FWIW I’ve met a lot of elected officials in my lifetime, and Rand Paul was the most viscerally unpleasant.
I don't want a "Smart Fridge" that orders milk for me. I want a fridge that lasts 25 years and doesn't have a privacy policy that allows it to share my late-night snacking habits with my health insurance provider.
They never cared about women’s sports before it became politically convenient. Equal pay? Pfffft. Rampant sexual abuse? Sorry that keeps happening. An excuse to attack a tiny population of vulnerable transgender athletes? “PROTECT WOMENS’ SPORTS!”
Thank you to the outdoor industry for your quick response and standing up again for Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante. Once again, companies across the outdoor community joined together to defend the places that inspire millions of people to hike, camp, climb, hunt, fish, and explore.
I’m a little disappointed that Mitch McConnell hasn’t spoken up about Lindsey Graham yet. I guess he’s still gathering his words…
Michael Fanone's take on Lindsey Graham is one of the most powerful I've read:
Sometimes if people want to get hit by lightning you just let them
Can everyone just step back and realize how insane it is that the U.S. Supreme Court had to rule on the constitutionality of the U.S. constitution, and the vote to uphold the constitution wasn't unanimous.
Thought experiment: What would happen if a future president managed to round up 5 votes on the SCOTUS to impinge the right to bear arms.
Yes this is good news, but ask yourself why 3 justices who literally voted against the plain text of the Constitution continue to sit on the SCOTUS for the rest of their lives.
BREAKING: The Supreme Court rules 6-3 to strike down Trump’s bid to eliminate birthright citizenship as part of his attack on immigration in all forms. The ruling affirms unanimous lower court decisions that blocked the effort for violating the 14th Amendment's Citizenship Clause.
I bet the crowd at the Great American State Fair were all paid actors.
KARL: Rs are gonna make you the poster child for the D Party MAMDANI: Let them. We don't have to ask ourselves what life looks like if a socialist wins. I won last year & over the course of the last 6 months what we've delivered for working people are the very things we were told were impossible.
Holy shit, both the House AND the Senate? Polymarket is now predicting a 43% chance of a Democratic SWEEP of Congress in the 2026 midterms! I'll say it again: WE MUST VOTE. We must Get Out The Vote. Family, friends, co-workers, everybody. What's YOUR plan to make it happen?
I saw this referred to as the Strait of Warm Ooze. Very good.
Me: Watch, the next thing he’s gonna do is blame liberal saboteurs. … He blames liberal saboteurs. #teamalgae
The Mad King has been caught by aides using superglue (or should we call it Krazy glue) to affix gold embellishments in the Oval Office. He’s one step from cackling and rocking back and forth, and yet Republicans do nothing.
Now sheets of “flag blue” paint are peeling off the bottom of the #reflectingpool and floating through the thick green algae slime to the surface. Wondering when they’re just going to go full #kennedycenter on it and just cover it with tarps 😂
kash patel holding a press conference wearing a power rangers costume announcing that seal team six has put rita repulsa back in the space dumpster after foiling a very serious plot to attack the white house and steal the president’s power coin
Sometimes I’m kinda proud of myself when I don’t know who someone is.
Josh Hokit just ended his post-fight speech at the White House UFC event by yelling "Michelle Obama is a man!" A disgraceful spectacle through and through
Not believing in science really comes back to bite you, doesn’t it?