Dan Harmon on fascism:

Could someone...maybe from Walter Reed, help me identify which stage of dementia is the one where they demand the execution of 6 elected lawmakers? Ballpark, how long's he got? We're in the finale now, right? RIGHT??

California union proposes taxing billionaires to offset Medicaid cuts A major union announced a proposal to impose a one-time 5% tax on billionaires in California to address federal funding cuts to health care for low-income people.

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Governor Newsom has issued a response on social media:

Sex is great and everything but have you tried the undescribable relief of receiving a text from the secretary of state telling you your ballot has been received and counted? #ilovecalifornia #phew #yesonprop50
Wheresmyballot.sos.ca.gov

A grim reminder: these people will never be satisfied. There’s no point at which they will say “we’ve won, let’s enjoy life.” They will always be looking for someone else to punish, to revile, to dehumanize. They’re empty without that.

Weird that the FCC Chair had no issue with Kilmeade wanting to euthanize homeless people.

Trump is trying to avoid accountability for all of the terrible policies he’s put forward. But California is fighting back with proposition 50, the Election Rigging Response Act, which will allow us to redraw district lines in the state. Make sure to vote this November in the special election.

"How Are the Very Rich Feeling About New York’s Next Mayor?"

A Dramatic Reading of The Recent New York Times Dispatch from the Hamptons.

Presented by The Gilded Age's Morgan Spector.

More collaborations between reformed robber baron George Russell & Zohran Mamdani please.

The injunction is silent as to the use of force. And it is not necessary for the injunction to address that use-of-force question because the Fourth Amendment’s reasonableness standard continues to govern the officers’ use of force and to prohibit excessive force. To the extent that excessive force has been used, the Fourth Amendment prohibits such action, and remedies should be available in federal court. I agree with the dissent on that point. But to reiterate, this injunction against brief stops for questioning does not address the useof-force issue.

It's not the most important part of the issue but Kavanaugh saying "well they should just sue if they're the victims of excessive force from ICE" when he himself has previously voted to bar lawsuits against federal officers for violations of the 4th Amendment in immigration cases takes chutzpah.

TN-7 special election GOP primary debate — asked for 1 policy they disagree with Trump, they all said release the Epstein files! Just kidding

Van Epps, Bulso, Reeves said nothing 🫣

Barrett said the COVID vaccine (which saved many) hurt millions 🤔 — and blamed the vaccine for folks dying alone

You were expecting voluptuous Playboy model tits, and he drew pubescent 13 year old girl boobs.

The context of that "script" inside that young female body is super creepy

It's basically

Jeffrey

YOU like to fuck kids
I like to fuck kids
Happy birthday, pal!

what a humiliating way for don jr. to find out his dad sends birthday cards.

Just consumed a fortune cookie that had no fortune in it & that was the rightest I've ever had one be

Comer says he will postpone Ghislaine Maxwell testimony The House Oversight chair also rejected an immunity request from the Jeffrey Epstein associate.

The scheduled congressional deposition of Ghislaine Maxwell is indefinitely postponed.

A convicted priest is back at work. Child advocates want Pope Leo to act. Carlo Alberto Capella served prison time for a child pornography conviction but was allowed to return to work at the Vatican, posing a test for Pope Leo XIV.

Rev. Carlo Alberto Capella was released from prison and quietly returned to work after being convicted of possessing and distributing child pornography while serving as a Vatican diplomat, according to reports on Catholic blogs.

Detainees at Florida’s “Alligator Alcatraz” are on a hunger strike over what they call inhumane, dangerous conditions.

Some haven’t eaten in 10 days. One of them, Pedro Hernández, was hospitalized and still refuses food until they are treated with dignity.

We are being “governed” by the dumbest people on the planet.

Idiots.

Drought in Utah.

Nothing says climate policy like skipping brunch and hoping the sky notices.

Today would be a good day to release the Epstein Files.

Unredacted.

In their entirety.

Going to have to Update The
Stephen King Book Collection.....

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