SpaceX is killing the last of the ocelots. 😭 I adore ocelots. This one was caught on a webcam in the area Trump is giving to SpaceX. 👇

Oh great, now we’ll be pulled into a special session over this. 😢

Our social media replies show that @KenPaxtonTX people assume our pastors are fake because we don’t endorse: Immorality Adultery Racism Bigotry Misogyny Homophobia So tragically sad. Welcome to the pagan Christian Nationalism of @realDonaldTrump @GregAbbott_TX & @DanPatrick

Who wore it better?

Alabama women have to take a monthly pregnancy test to get a cannabis rx filled. Where it begins is never where it ends al.com/news/2026/06/in-alaba…

Fred Rogers met with a child psychologist every week for 22 years to build his show. She shaped everything: every script, prop, and song. The whole point was to give a child's nervous system time to slow down. In 1984, a single regulatory decision ended all of it. The psychologist was Dr. Margaret McFarland, who co-founded the Arsenal Family and Children's Center alongside Benjamin Spock and Erik Erikson. She and Rogers understood that the prefrontal cortex in children, the part of the brain that controls impulse, emotion, and attention, takes decades to fully develop. At the start of every episode, Rogers tied his sneakers and changed his sweater while children settled in. Those pauses were intentional, designed to help a child's nervous system shift into a calmer, more focused state. What ended it had nothing to do with child development science. In 1984, Reagan's FCC chairman Mark Fowler abolished the advertising limits that had protected children's programming from commercial pressure. Toy companies moved within months. Between 1984 and 1985, cartoons tied to toy lines increased by 300%, from a handful of shows to more than 40 animated series. In almost every case, the toy was designed first. The cartoon was built to sell it. Researchers later put numbers to what parents were already noticing. A 2011 study in Pediatrics from the University of Virginia tested 60 four-year-olds across three groups: one watching SpongeBob, which cuts scene every 11 seconds; one watching a slow PBS show, which cuts scene every 34 seconds; and one drawing. Nine minutes later, all three took tests on attention, impulse control, short-term memory, and problem-solving. The SpongeBob group scored significantly worse across every measure. In the 1970s, children began watching television around age 4. Research from pediatrician Dimitri Christakis found that by 2009, the average age of first screen exposure had dropped to 4 months, as the content got faster and the audience got younger. Researchers separately found that each additional hour of daily screen time at ages 1 or 3 raised the risk of attention problems at age 7 by 9%.

Very on brand. They have a history.

Ouch :(

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It was great joining Njideka Akunyili Crosby — a gifted Nigerian-born, Los Angeles-based artist — to unveil our first portrait together. This piece reflects so many chapters of Michelle and my story, and we’re thrilled that it will be on display in the Hope and Change lobby at the Obama Presidential Center starting this Juneteenth.

The Alief Family YMCA closed in May 2025 after the Trump administration slashed roughly $40 million in grant funding for the Greater Houston YMCA. houstonchronicle.com/politic…

The U.S. government just made a land deal with the world's first trillionaire. Not a sale. A trade. Because apparently that's how we do things now. 715 acres of the Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge - built by Congress in 1979 to protect one of the most biodiverse wildlife corridors left in North America - handed to SpaceX. Endangered ocelots. Aplomado falcons. Piping plovers. Land the Carrizo/Comecrudo Nation of Texas has called sacred since long before there was a United States. SpaceX built a rocket launch site next door. Then came the explosions. Concrete and metal hurled six miles across refuge land. A 2024 study found that after one launch, every single monitored shorebird nest near the site suffered egg damage or loss. The Fish and Wildlife Service's response was not enforcement. It was a land swap. FOIA documents show internal planning for this transfer started as early as April 2025 - while Musk was running DOGE and threatening to fire federal workers who didn't justify their jobs to him. The agency developed what they called "the most expedited schedule possible" to get it done. Part of what's being handed over includes the Palmito Ranch Battlefield - the site of the last battle of the Civil War. A National Historic Landmark. Once transferred, SpaceX can restrict public access whenever they want. 25,000 people submitted public comments. Most opposed the deal. The government moved forward anyway. A coalition of tribal and conservation groups filed a federal lawsuit this week to stop it. Because someone has to. Why are we cutting real estate deals with a trillionaire when we could have just made him pay for it? #DemsUnited

White people were fighting on the front lawn of the White House

Some late afternoon thoughts on the tropics stuff that may only barely make it into the Gulf but will be a rainmaker worth monitoring.

cnbc.com/2026/06/15/us-iran-… We all wanted #IranWat‌ to end, but the deal is not complete. It hasn't been signed, text is unreleased, & Israel isn't party to agreement @kat223 @mcdpTX @thecorpmex @johncastellanos @Rabidreader1970 @Miriam2626 @MikeOkuda @abramson1234 @DocAtCDI

Embarrassing

Had a great turnout yesterday for dem candidates Meet & Greet in Huntsville, TX Showing up to listen to concerns of community members & small business owners is how we roll, not pandering to big donors @jerryspurbeck @kat223 @mcdpTX @thecorpmex @Rabidreader1970 @KendallScudder

This is extremely Texas

I love seeing Houston show out for someone who is just living their life but bringing a lot of people along for the ride and for positivity. And it's also just how Houston does things. Biggest small town in the world.

Not that anybody asked, but in the time that has elapsed since the @NYKnicks last won a championship, we’ve discovered eight new Subatomic Particles. J-Psi Meson / Tau Lepton / Bottom Quark / Gluon / W-Z Boson / Top Quark / Tau Neutrino / Higgs Boson