Billionaires’ % share of federal election spending in:

2008: 0.3%

2024: 19%

@nytimes.com #GildedAge
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In 2024, Zuckerberg said to Congress, “We are on the side of parents everywhere working hard to raise their kids.”

That wasn't, and isn't, true.

Tomorrow we hear from Zuckerberg in the LA social media trial. He has a lot to account for.

Federal Agents Are Violating the Rights of Americans ICE and the National Guard are acting with impunity.

The transformation of ICE into a type of national police force, backed, in some cases, by soldiers from the National Guard, has been covered as immigration story—but these forces are reshaping democracy for all of us.

Listen to 'Autocracy in America' here:

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OUT: Helping you pay for health care.

IN: Helping oil companies pay for their infrastructure in a foreign country.

Why Cheech And Chong’s $100 Million Cannabis Empire Is No Joke Weed has always paid off for the godfathers of stoner comedy. Now they’ve built a company that sells THC-infused edibles, drinks and of course some tasty bud, all of which brings in some serious green.

Weed has always paid off for the godfathers of stoner comedy. Now they’ve built a company that sells THC-infused edibles, drinks and of course some tasty bud, all of which brings in some serious green.

🟥 🇺🇸 #Immigrants are an important axis in the American economy

How 36 Mayan Women in Guatemala Came Together to Prosecute Their Attackers Systematically assaulted during Guatemala’s civil war, 36 Mayan women made a final bid for justice.

An extraordinary story.

I debated 20 far-far-far-right conservatives (racists? fascists?) on Jubilee's 'Surrounded.'

Here are some of the highlights of them unable to answer my basic questions or rebut the simplest of points. Not sure whether to laugh or cry.

Here's the full 'debate': www.youtube.com/watch?v=2S-W...

Death, Sexual Violence and Human Trafficking: Fallout From U.S. Aid Withdrawal Hits the World’s Most Fragile Locations Exclusive State Department records show: As the Trump administration abandons its humanitarian commitments, diplomats are reporting that the cuts have led to violence and instability while…

“I struggle for adjectives to adequately describe the horror that this administration has visited on the world,” said a former State Department official. “It keeps me up at night.”

“If you haven’t been poor, don’t legislate for the poor.” - Rep Lateefah Simon, CA-12

Why is the Colorado River running dry? It's not just drought. It's putting sacred cows above farmers, cities, and a secure future.

So we should admit and accept, up front, that the Colorado never was and never will be a mighty river system, and that it is climate-­challenged and prone to drought. We never should have asked it for so much. We invaded it like cancer, turning water into property. I wish it wasn’t so. (From 2023)

A butterfly perched delicately on a purple flower. Its wings display vivid orange coloration with bold black sections and distinctive white spots.

Cream-spotted Tigerwing from this morning at @tapirvalley.bsky.social

#butterflies #costarica #nature 🌿

Larry David: My Dinner With Adolf.

Larry David skewers Bill Maher here.

"1Two hours later, the dinner was over, and the Führer escorted me to the door. “I am so glad to have met you. I hope I’m no longer the monster you thought I was.” “I must say, mein Führer, I’m so thankful I came. Although we disagree on many issues, ..."

RFK Jr. knows amazingly little about autism For someone who's been talking about it for so long, the HHS secretary got many basic facts wrong.

🚨Here’s a list of just a few of the major pieces of misinformation Kennedy shared about autism🚨

Radio Corporation of America advertisement originally published in Life (Sep. 25, 1939). [Full text of the main body of the advertisement follows] Paul Revere could have stayed in bed Radio could have reached "every Middlesex village and farm" before the famous silversmith got started Had RADIO broadcasting been available in 1775, Paul Revere could have spread the alarm in a split second and been spared his all-night ride. As we look back, it is difficult to realize how the patriots of the Revolution were able to carry their task to successful completion in the face of the time required to exchange communications among the thirteen colonies. What an amazing difference radio makes in your life today! Today, matters of importance, whether to nations or to individuals, are flashed around the world instantly. R.C.A. Communications provides communication to and from 43 countries and among leading cities of the United States. RCA services and RCA equipment put radio at your service in many other ways. Broadcast programs provide an unceasing flow of entertainment, offer information, news and enlightenment to millions. Airplanes fly more safely, are guided more surely to their destinations by radio. Radio plays a vital role in the plans of the Army and Navy for national defense. RCA activities are portrayed in RCA exhibits at the New York World's Fair and the San Francisco Exposition. You are cordially invited to visit these exhibits.

250 years ago today, #PaulRevere made his famous #MidnightRide from Charlestown to Lexington. Of course, as #RCA noted in this 1939 advertisement, he could have stayed in bed if #radio had been available in 1775.

(Life, Sep. 25, 1939: books.google.com/books?id=zUE...)

#PaulRevere250 #OnThisDay 🗃️📜📻

The Monarch #butterfly embarks on one of nature's most incredible journeys, migrating up to 3,000 miles from #Canada to central #Mexico. These tiny travelers, with wings of vibrant orange, navigate the vast distances using the sun and Earth’s magnetic fields, defying the odds

How to travel abroad as the world's most toxic brand: American Could travel get hostile? How to deal—and why the long tail of Covid might be an American’s saving grace.

Should you start faking a bad French accent? Wear loud Resistance t-shirts while blurting out SORRY?

Here's how to frolic abroad this summer when everyone (rightfully) hates us.

The Hungarian Model MAGA conservatives love Viktor Orbán. But he’s left his country corrupt, stagnant, and impoverished.

What did 14 years of autocratic populism produce in Hungary?
Poverty and corruption
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The Story of One Mississippi County Shows How Private Schools Are Exacerbating Segregation A new ProPublica analysis shows a stark pattern across states in the Deep South: Alongside majority-Black public school districts, a separate web of private academies are filled almost entirely with…

A ProPublica analysis revealed a stark pattern across the Deep South, where about 200 majority-Black public school districts educate 1.3 million students. Alongside those districts are private academies filled almost entirely with white students.

(Published Dec. 2024)

Here Are the Attack Plans That Trump’s Advisers Shared on Signal The administration has downplayed the importance of the text messages inadvertently sent to The Atlantic’s editor in chief.

“People should see the texts in order to reach their own conclusions.” @jeffreygoldberg.bsky.social and @shaneharris.bsky.social share the group chat in which officials planned strikes on Yemen. theatln.tc/AHkpb39A

Bernie Sanders has been warning about oligarchy for years. People are finally listening. The Vermont senator’s Fighting Oligarchy tour offers a lifeline to flailing Democrats—and a warning to their leaders.

Bernie Sanders' Fight Oligarchy tour has drawn record numbers of Americans in its first days. So we went to Tucson to see what was drawing them to the message he's been championing for years.

"This is the direction the Democratic Party needs to go."

"I'm fucking pissed."

The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans U.S. national-security leaders included me in a group chat about upcoming military strikes in Yemen. I didn’t think it could be real. Then the bombs started falling.

What happened when the editor of @theatlantic.com was included on Mike Walz's group chat

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The 15 Safest Countries To Travel, Ranked In A New Report Searching for the safest countries to visit? An annual report ranks the safest countries in the world—with Iceland coming out on top. The U.S. didn’t make the cut.

America is not safe for travel.

Canada, Mexico, China, EU + Greenland should boycott the Olympics. But not before calling them off, then on, then off again.

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Texas Banned Abortion. Then Sepsis Rates Soared. ProPublica’s first-of-its-kind analysis is the most detailed look yet into a rise in life-threatening complications for women experiencing pregnancy loss under Texas’ abortion ban.

Dozens more pregnant and postpartum women have died in Texas hospitals since the state banned abortion, our analysis shows.

As the maternal mortality rate dropped nationally, it rose in Texas by 33%.

There’s a Term for What Trump and Musk Are Doing How regime change happens in America

Since writing this article, I have received messages from federal civil servants who tell me it is accurate, and that they are frightened. Please share this with anyone who doesn't understand the scale of the transformation.

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David Lynch as Gordon Cole in Twin Peaks

RIP, David Lynch. Truly one of the great weirdoes in film and television history.