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At this point, disasters-waiting-to-happen are a step up from disasters-that-are-happening

Is this like when snails engage in courtship?

They say The Onion often predicts things 🤷‍♂️

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Me, being told the answer when I asked “what do you think No Other Choices’s chances are at the oscars this weekend”

Put the Strait of Hormuz on the blockchain.

by Andrew Yang

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The question now will be how bad the economy will get. Republicans were already looking at a brutal election environment. We’ll test how large a blue wave can be in polarized times

I’ve gotten more messages from Trump supporters telling me that I was right since the war in Iran started than at any point so far in his presidency.

Smart folks are recognizing the bait and switch.

A small sign of hope.

A voter's guide to the confusing world of super PACs influencing 2026 Illinois primary races Super PACs, dark-money and special interest groups — some with unassuming names that do not reflect their true purpose — have pumped more than $50 million into Chicago-area congressional races. Voters...

$50 million in dark money

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Braver than me for even considering it.

Sus.

🤖 Susan Slusser

According to Boras, it's not Birdsong's elbow:

Anyway, lots of—and especially some of us—have been warning you this was exactly where this was all headed for more than a decade.

Have a great weekend!

Litigation Tracker: Legal Challenges to Trump Administration Actions A public resource tracking the legal challenges to Trump administration executive orders and actions.

Today's Litigation Tracker updates:

-Judge orders the VA to reinstate union Bargaining Agreement
-Judge halts admin’s move to end Temporary Protected Status for Somalia
-Noncitizen airport workers sue admin for revoking airport access credentials
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@sen-ronwyden.bsky.social has counseled that Treasury may know more about Epstein than the Justice Dept.

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Dark money group offers influencers $1,500 for posts attacking Chicago Democratic primary candidate Progressive House candidate Kat Abughazaleh told MS NOW the secretive campaign is “filled with false and defamatory claims.”

This whole dark money campaign going after @katmabu.bsky.social is fucked AND ALSO the attempts to recruit out-of-state influencers really intrigue me; influencer culture is having a flattening effect on geography with really big stakes for races getting national attention.

The GOP’s “Save America Act” wld force all 50 states to submit their voter rolls to the DHS’s objectively suspect voter purge system while simultaneously making it very difficult to re-register. Remember the 2000 presidential election in Florida? This wld be 50X worse.

Girl…we know.

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That being said: for $70 a year or $7 a month you get tons of value too.

My latest interview/review for @buckscountybeacon.com is Christopher Mathias’ excellent and important TO CATCH A FASCIST. You can buy it right now.

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“Their genetics are not exactly your genetic.”

The Technobabble Defense: Cryptocurrency Silicon Valley’s Attempt To Become The New Wall Street

Silicon Valley has one trick they perform over and over again. Claim "innovation" should exempt them from existing rules, and assert that anyone who dares regulate their products threatens to derail technological progress. Unsurprisingly, cryptocurrency loves this playbook.

Pentagon Is Moving Additional Marines, Warships to the Middle East The Pentagon is moving additional Marines and warships to the Middle East as Iran steps up its attacks on the Strait of Hormuz, according to three U.S. officials. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has ap...

This seems surprising from a FIFA Peace Prize winner.

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I think he's been really smart on messaging and taking the air out of their culture war BS rather than falling into rhetorical traps like so many have before. Hopefully other Dems pick up his model.

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The President, right now.

“We can’t afford cancer research but $11 billion for one week of an absurd war is fine” is a hell of an argument

Not bad.

Jesus tapdancing Christ...