arguing against birthright citizenship in front of the supreme court while at the same time pitching a netflix show where immigrants compete for citizenship is such a perfect microcosm of america right now that it feels fake
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New Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff 🧪
Margaret talks with Anney Reese about how a group of people made polio vaccines and ended polio but how one guy took all the credit and ruined our understanding of history.
@margaret.bsky.social @whysophiewhy.bsky.social
www.iheart.com/podcast/1119...New Behind the Bastards 🚽
Nature Boy is now in Central America, where he weaponizes the power of Instagram's algorithm to trick rubes into flying out to join him and handing over all their money.
@iwriteok.bsky.social @katystoll.bsky.social @whysophiewhy.bsky.social
www.iheart.com/podcast/105-...Say
@nationalsecuritylaw.org?
Am I mistaken that this conflicts pretty starkly with what DOJ told you in a lawsuit?
Sean Duffy blames antiquated government email systems for the fact air traffic controllers received "fork in the road" emails offering resignations
Voters promised $100 by Musk PAC say they weren’t paid
thehill.com/regulation/c...
Voters promised $100 by Musk PAC say they weren’t paid
A second class-action lawsuit has been filed against Elon Musk’s America PAC alleging that the group hasn’t paid voters what they were promised for signing a petition during President Trump’s 2024 …
I thought this piece was interesting, but I disagree with the conclusion that "no one is in charge."
Someone at X is very much in charge, and that someone is tolerant of this message and willing to let it grow and proliferate on his platform.
www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...When the Trump administration eviscerated the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health office in Morgantown, WV in April, they abruptly shut down life-or-death services for coal miners with black lung.
One of those miners decided to fight back—and won.
inthesetimes.com/article/west...
A West Virginia Coal Miner Just Saved NIOSH’s Black Lung Program
A federal judge ordered the restoration of jobs in the National Institute for Occupational Health and Safety’s Respiratory Health Division after a veteran coal miner filed a class action lawsuit argui...
I miss the days when we fretted about foreign dignitaries and domestic grifters spending $800 a night at the Trump hotel down the block from the White House.
Trump's first-term corruption seemed huge, but it's already been dwarfed by the ongoing, unchecked festival of domestic and foreign corruption four months into in his second term. Blame the Supreme Court and the Republican Congress. My latest at
@thebulwark.com
www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-unqu...
Trump’s Unquenchable, Unconstitutional Greed is Deforming America
From Qatari jets to memecoin dinners, a perverse masterclass in profiting from the presidency.
RAINN, the largest organization devoted to survivors of sexual abuse, has eliminated all resources for LGBTQ, immigrants, and other marginalized groups.
They're failing their core purpose.
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/15/w...
Top Sexual Assault Hotline Drops Resources After Trump Orders
“.. Walmart CEO Doug McMillon had previously .. stopped short of confirming that Walmart would join” other retailers with price hikes. “He changed his tune on Thursday.”
@barrons.com $WMT
www.barrons.com/articles/wal...The plaque honoring the heroes of January 6 is finished, but the GOP refuses to hang it in the Capitol.
Not one Republican has offered a reason why.
If they can’t respect the officers who defended our democracy, the very least they can do is respect the law.
“I don’t want to be responsible for killing 400 people.”
www.wsj.com/business/air...
Exclusive | This Air-Traffic Controller Just Averted a Midair Collision. Now He’s Speaking Out.
Jonathan Stewart was badly shaken by a recent close call in airspace around Newark, N.J. “I don’t want to be responsible for killing 400 people,” he said in an interview.
That’s a deep track.
I wonder if we'll be revisiting this chyron in a year's time the same way we did Hannity's infamous coronavirus zero deaths graphic during the pandemic.
/experienced grocery shopper voice:
Trump to UAE president: "We have a term 'groceries.' It's an old term but it means basically what you're buying, food, it's a pretty accurate term but it's an old fashioned sound but groceries are down."
The acting head of ICE couldn't believe that I would question his agency's use of masked, unidentified agents to sweep up student immigrants during *police week*. Have I no sense of patriotism????
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...just the biggest mark
The NYT re-creates Elon Musk’s personal X feed — and finds it “represents a flattering alternate reality filled with boundless praise — for him, for Tesla, for X, for his politics. .. and mirrors his own deepening allegiances to the far-right.”
@nytimes.com
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...MATUS: “Consumers tend to have a longer memory, and I think that they're going to begin to pull back as we move into May.”
@cnbc.com
www.cnbc.com/video/2025/0..."The White House did not dispute any of the facts reported by Business Insider. Instead, it equated unflattering reporting with foreign subversion and deployed the weight of the executive branch in an effort to silence it"
“.. It's one thing to lose track of one airplane because you can't communicate with them, but to lose track of ALL of the airplanes ..
“.. they still had radar coverage, but that's like watching a car crash happen and not be able to do anything about it.”
www.denver7.com/news/investi...JFC - the people sending the pizzas are not just telling judges they know where they live. They are using the name of a a family member of a Judge who was murdered.
This is bananas. 🍌
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Seems to me that if there’s a senile guy doing nothing in particular the usual way and a senile guy setting everything on fire, the fire guy is the one who should be the focus of media inquiry
Good morning.
Republicans are trying to push through a bill that would throw 13M people off their insurance. All for a tax cut for the rich.
That’s the combined population of
West Virginia
Hawaii
New Hampshire
Maine
Montana
Rhode Island
both Dakotas
Alaska
Vermont
Wyoming
Casey Means is a surgeon general nominee who is an MD but not a practicing one.
She is a Means to our end.
The new appointee for
#SurgeonGeneral,
#CaseyMeans, did not finish her ENT residency and is not licensed to treat patients.
Excellent article in
@vanityfair.com by
@katherineeban.bsky.social
Leaving medicine is not inherently bad! But misrepresenting yourself as a medical professional(1/2)
17 family members of notorious cartel leader enter U.S. in deal with Trump administration, Mexico says
Ovidio Guzman Lopez is one of the brothers left running a faction of the Sinaloa Cartel after notorious capo "El Chapo" was imprisoned in the U.S.
I'm embarrassed for the New York Times that they published this piece on Ms. Rachel, in which they cite a ridiculous anonymous righwing website Stopantisemitism while indulging the mad, mad claim she may be funded by Hamas (!).
This isn't journalism:
Why Tot Celebrity Ms. Rachel Waded Into the Gaza Debate
(Denver Post) - Pilots flying into Denver International Airport on Monday couldn’t communicate with air traffic controllers for about six minutes after multiple radio transmitters failed, according to reporting from Denver7.
@denverpost.com
www.denverpost.com/2025/05/15/d...Again, this isn't an issue of left vs right, Republican vs Democrat, but authoritarianism vs democracy. You have to decide what side you're on, and fight.
The ICC’s chief prosecutor has lost access to his email, and his bank accounts have been frozen.
American staffers at the court have been told that if they travel to the U.S. they risk arrest.
NGOs have stopped working with the ICC, the leader of one won’t even reply to ICC emails.
Trump's sanctions on ICC prosecutor have halted tribunal's work
Nearly three months ago, U.S. President Donald Trump slapped sanctions on the International Criminal Court's chief prosecutor, Karim Khan.
I don’t get how the Free Press doesn’t feel the smallest modicum of embarrassment acting as if Bhattacharya was “”censored by the government”” when a literal SCOTUS decision found that there was no evidence to justify him having any standing to bring the case at all. No govt official mentioned him!
US Treasury bond yields have spiked as investors worry Republicans’ tax and spending plans will balloon the national debt and force Washington to borrow more.
Bond vigilantes stare down Trump’s ‘big beautiful bill’
US Treasury bond yields have spiked as investors worry Republicans’ tax and spending plans will balloon the national debt and force Washington to borrow more.
The AI non-sentient flattery machine is designed to hook you into the regurgitative process of self-seduction.
Is this a new spiritual delusion, or more of the same? And what does that kind and agreeable bot conceal?
www.conspirituality.net/episodes/267...
257: AI Gurus — Conspirituality
The AI nonsensient flattery machine is designed to hook you into the regurgitative process of self-seduction. Is this a new spiritual delusion, or more of the same? And what does that kind and agreeab...
Weird how centrists Joe Rogan, Glenn Greenwald and Bari Weiss all solely platform Republican voices, amplify far-right conspiracies and backed Trump in 2024.
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Weird how centrists Joe Rogan, Glenn Greenwald and Bari Weiss all solely platform Republican voices, amplify far-right conspiracies and backed Trump in 2024.
I was going to summarize the article but there's too much. Nearly every aspect of rural life is being hindered by Trump's policies. Schools, farmers, coal, tourism, broadband and so on.
Everything is more expensive, less safe, no longer active, understaffed and underfunded.
New in PN: The white rural reckoning
"Months into his second term, Trump’s policies are already starting to wreak havoc on the very rural white citizens who have been his most loyal voting base."
The white rural reckoning
Trump is betraying the very voters who put him back in power.
“I noticed it right away. The T is missing. It just says R-U-M-P,” she said.
‘RUMP’: Customers upset with missing ‘T’ in Trump-branded watch that cost $640
A man in Rhode Island bought his wife a Donald Trump-branded watch as a gift, but what they got was a “Rump” watch due to an unfortunate typo on the watch face.
Democrats need to stop hand-wringing about their limited power in Congress and to start extracting whatever political price they can from the Republicans who are abetting Trump's corruption.
Gift link:
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Opinion | Conduct oversight on Trump’s graft — or censure James Comer
House Democrats must pressure Republicans to fulfill their constitutional duties.
I focused on Comer as a place to put pressure on the GOP in part because his hypocrisy is so egregious and in part because he’s easy to trigger.
But, as I note in my (free) newsletter, he was also Fox’s preferred vehicle for Biden smears.
s2.washingtonpost.com/camp-rw/?tra...Steve Smith & Kid Rock’s hypocrisy getting some national recognition
For more background on the constitutional merits of Trump's executive order, check out Imani Gandy’s piece “Birthright Citizenship Is Absolutely On the Table.”
buff.ly/8gwgvjb
Birthright Citizenship Is Absolutely On the Table
This is how Donald Trump and the Supreme Court could upend birthright citizenship.
* 30-yr yield briefly touches 5% highest level since April 9th
@cnbc.comBabe wake up they’re trying to make Indigo Children happen again only it’s working this time
Two British academics discovered that a "copy" of Magna Carta, held in Harvard Law School’s library for 80 years, is one of seven originals dating from 1300.
Read more:
nyti.ms/4dkc3maFour National Weather Service offices have gone dark at night, and more service reductions are temporarily planned because of the significant cuts this year, which are stretching meteorologists thin.
But could these cuts also kickstart a modernization plan?
nyti.ms/3YOf6wN
The Weather Service Had a Plan to Reinvent Itself. Did DOGE Stop It? (Gift Article)
The U.S. forecasting agency was working on streamlining itself for the modern era. Days away from hurricane season, it’s now struggling to keep offices open.
“.. he found it ironic that Mr. Trump was praising a Middle East built ‘by the people of the region’ when he was speaking to an audience dotted with foreign billionaires and ‘in front of an authoritarian leader who has brutally silenced all dissent.’”
@nytimes.com
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/14/w...
Trump’s Pledge to the Middle East: No More ‘Lectures on How to Live’
JUST POSTED:
Trump-Kushner Hotel Project in Serbia Hits a Snag: Alleged Forgery
Serbian authorities say an official admitted to forging a document allowing a protected site in Belgrade to be demolished and replaced with a Trump hotel.
Fate of project is now up in the air.
nyti.ms/3YLwORG
Trump-Kushner Hotel Project in Serbia Hits a Snag: Alleged Forgery (Gift Article)
Serbian authorities say an official admitted to forging a document allowing a protected site in Belgrade to be demolished and replaced with a Trump hotel.
A must-see conversation with Gen. McChrystal — who argues America is stuck in a pattern where leaders lie to Americans, they know they’re lying, WE know they’re lying, and everyone accepts it.
How he’s working to return character to leadership:
@cnbc.com
www.cnbc.com/video/2025/0...SPRINGSTEEN, on tour in the UK:
“.. "In my home, the America I love, the America I’ve written about, that has been a beacon of hope and liberty for 250 years is currently in the hands of a corrupt, incompetent, and treasonous administration."
@variety.com
variety.com/2025/music/n...
JFC - the people sending the pizzas are not just telling judges they know where they live. They are using the name of a a family member of a Judge who was murdered.
