SHOUT OUT to Mike Luckovich: one of the all-time great political cartoonists. 🏆 With corporate media doing such a poor job in these most perilous of times, his work is more vital than ever! THANK YOU @mluckovich.bsky.social!!! 🙏
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Retired. Enjoying coffee in the morning without rushing. Left of center off of the Strip Las Vegas. USAF, Antifa, LGBTQ+ ally, BLM, “Don’t be a dick” - Wil Wheaton
“To practice any art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow. So do it.” ― Kurt Vonnegut
After Max Miller’s statement, Bernie Moreno finally issues a statement denouncing Miller, saying he needs psychological help and should not be in Congress.
Drunken late night rant… We’ve been in an oligarchy for decades. We are approaching oligarchical fascism at an alarming rate. If the people under 40 don’t start giving a damn… they’re the ones that will suffer the most. Old farts like me will be fine (mostly).
Today Mayor Katie Wilson announced she’s already fired Seattle’s next police chief after he somehow teargassed Capitol Hill, deleted public records, hired someone to have an affair on the job with, and threatened to fight a reporter all before 9 a.m.
The Needling@theneedling.com · 5d agoNext Seattle Police Chief Already Fired: tinyurl.com/xhtsyt36
You guys go on ahead, I’m going to hang out here for awhile ☺️ Armchair Books, Edinburgh's Old Town
MS NOW's "Morning Joe" has Joe Manchin on the show this morning because some producer apparently thought the network was under its quota of shitty politicians lately. @ms.now
A senator is refusing to confirm the president’s personal attorney as attorney general unless the nominee rescinds a slush fund for pardoned insurrectionists in writing. That’s an INSANE SENTENCE. Oh, and I guess the tax immunity provision is totes cool.
My wife is watching Hallmark Christmas movies in July! It’s 107° outside! Shoot me.
O'Hehir's darkly funny thesis: Stephen Miller's ideological project keeps collapsing because everyone else in the administration is too busy stealing. The true believer wants a white ethnostate. His colleagues just want the money. The graft is the brake.
Trump's 'white-supremacist wonderland' about to face 'humiliating implosion': analyst
The Trump's administration's efforts to turn the world into a "a white-supremacist wonderland" will suffer a "humiliating implosion" for one darkly funny reason, a Salon columnist argued Sunday.Executive editor Andrew O’Hehir skewered the fragile egos of many a MAGA minion in his lengthy editorial o...
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I could be wrong… but… the Spoon team looked STACKED the moment they selected teams. Halftime seems to show that, but the fourth quarter will tell… #WNBA
💥 This order clearly reflects that a federal judge does NOT just believe what the Acting AG Todd Blanche represents and has ordered him to basically “prove it.”
Katie Phang@katiephang.bsky.social · 2w agoBREAKING: In my lawsuit against Todd Blanche for the Epstein Files, Judge Sullivan has just ordered Blanche to produce, in camera (in chambers), the UNREDACTED emails & documents, and Blanche must bring documentation supporting his representations the DOJ’s redactions are what he claims they are.
Pornainen, Finland (pop 5,000) is now heated by a silo of crushed soapstone. I spoke to CNBC about it. 100 MWh, charged when power is cheap, emissions down ~70%. Days to weeks of storage, no critical minerals. www.cnbc.com/2026/07/25/f...
Finland’s radical answer to renewable energy’s biggest headache: The world’s largest sand battery
A small Finnish town has turned to the world's largest commercial sand battery to tackle a major hurdle in the energy transition: intermittency.
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Canadian life expectancy is 3.3 years longer, and our crime rate is a third of yours.
🚨BREAKING: Alaska recently removed thousands of people from its active voter lists after they were flagged as noncitizens. But a state news outlet found that some were in fact eligible to vote. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
Alaska wrongly removed eligible voters from active voter lists
Alaska removed thousands from voter lists after they were flagged as noncitizens. But a state news outlet found some were eligible to vote.
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Today we're joined by a modern-day political hero: Justin J. Pearson. An elected state representative from Tennessee, Justin has taken on the state's MAGA political leadership and Elon Musk's data centers, and is now wading into the fight against Trump's national gerrymandering by running for....
How to defeat the neo-confederacy w/ Justin J. Pearson
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Our cat Remy heard the doorbell and has been hiding ever since… a 13 lbs scaredy cat. His sister is by the door wanting scratches from a new person.
It is not just Trump, it is every sycophant, enabler, voter… it is a cancer that must be eradicated.
#TuckFrump@realtuckfrumper.bsky.social · 2w agoPeter Navarro just lost appeal because Trump forgot to do one crucial thing #AlterNet