It is funny that some economists were vocally in distress about why a complete closing of the Strait was not having the kind of energy shock they expected and instead of the fundamentals of economics being wrong it was just run of the mill corruption and lying

Alfred Jensen, A Pythagorean Notebook. 1965. Jensen was a close friend of fellow artist and color theorist Josef Albers, though their approaches differed dramatically. Albers investigated perception, while Jensen sought cosmic order.

IMHO it's a good general rule that if a club includes Jared Kushner, Peter Thiel, Elon Musk, and Leonard Leo, you should not join it. You do not want to be associated with those people in any way. And for those who did join, they'd better answer for that choice now. 7/

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

I'll have the mechanical Turkish coffee.

Engineer Karen Leadlay programming the analog computers in the space division of General Dynamics, 1964.

Tennessee is sending letters to immigrant parents of disabled and terminally ill children enrolled in a last-resort public health program — kids on ventilators, kids with cancer, kids in wheelchairs - telling them that if their child keeps receiving medical care after June 30, the state will report them to ICE. This program has existed for over 50 years. It has never required immigration status. Until now. Children's Special Services is Tennessee's last-resort public health insurance program for low-income kids with the most severe disabilities and life-threatening illnesses - kids with no other coverage, no other options. The state just sent letters to at least 90 Nashville families giving them an impossible choice: keep your child alive, or stay invisible. One mother, Gabriella, has a 10-year-old son born with spina bifida who requires near-monthly emergency care. They're six months from a final ruling on their asylum case. She said if they're sent back to Honduras, "he's not going to make it." Here's the part that should make your head explode: the law Tennessee is using to justify this explicitly applies only to people 18 and older. These are children. Pediatricians, advocates, and lawmakers are all saying the state is misapplying its own law to reach kids it was never meant to cover. The Tennessee Justice Center says the directive is unlawful and is preparing a legal challenge. But families are afraid to come forward as plaintiffs. Because coming forward means being seen. The state health department has not responded to a single press request for comment. What kind of government sends a letter to the mother of a child on a ventilator and calls it immigration enforcement? 📷 Jose Carlos Cerdeno/Getty #DemsUnited

Unrelated but it really fucks me up that Kurt Vile is his birth name and not a pun on “Kurt Weill”

Got my ass

Ham Slut Rasmus Spouse Denmark, Church Records, 1484-1941

What's Shakespeare's town coming to? I bet they don't even have a little dog running on a wheel to turn the spit. /s

Elon Musk is being given 715 acres of land in the Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge. A lawsuit has been filed by numerous Conservation groups. They say it violates laws that are protecting refuges and harms endangered species. It’s on a National Historic Landmark.

⚠️ Between April 2024 and April 2025, U.S. beekeepers lost 55.6% of all managed colonies, the highest annual loss rate ever documented... So naturally, the Trump administration is shutting down the lab that studies why. It makes no sense. That’s not policy. That’s sabotage.

FBI agents at the office. FBI agents at employees' homes. A DOJ that won't say why. A U.S. Attorney who was in Washington for an immigration press conference while the search was happening back in Ohio. The administration's defense is that anything the target says is speculation because they haven't seen the warrant. That's not a rebuttal. That's the point - keep them in the dark, keep them scared, keep them from registering voters seven months before a midterm. This follows the Georgia elections hub raid in February. The California voter fraud probe launched after Trump's public suggestions. Frank LaRose referred cases to DOJ last year - 167 ballots over four elections - and nobody knows what happened with those referrals. Now suddenly there's FBI activity in Ohio. Prentiss Haney said it plainly: they don't see a path to legitimately hold power beyond this year. So they're using federal law enforcement to make voter registration feel dangerous. That's the strategy. Make the work feel risky enough that people stop doing it.

Mamuka Artmeladze was 43 years old. He had no criminal record. No charges. No court date. He entered this country legally and was swept up in a mass enforcement operation targeting truck drivers. ICE’s own records confirm he posed no threat and should not have been detained at all. After 4 months inside Winn Correctional Center, a for-profit facility already under federal investigation for banned chokehold use, falsified medical records, and inhumane conditions, Mamuka was found unresponsive in his cell. He was pronounced dead less than an hour later. The cause of death is still pending autopsy. ICE has offered no answers. This is not an isolated incident. Fifty people have died in ICE custody since this administration took office — the deadliest period for immigration detention in over two decades. This is a system. 🎥: @hereswhykevin

All nine tribes in South Dakota have put out a unified call to Congress to return public, federal lands in the Black Hills to tribal entities. nativenews.net/

Hot take but I don’t think politicians should be allowed to cancel events hosted by their primary challengers. Pretty clear abuse of power.

FBI shows up to interrogate a U.S. citizen at his house—for writing an anti-ICE social media post. "This is about comments that you posted online," said agent. Orders homeowner to stop recording—refuses to even tell him which comments. Agent wearing unique World Cup uniform to indicate he is currently assigned to work with ICE on immigration issues. Craig Brittain has been actively documenting and participating in protests at the Delaney Hall ICE detention facility in Newark, New Jersey. His social media posts videos of demonstrations, conflicts with agents, and calls for the facility’s closure.

2026 is the first year in 18 years in which there are zero female active duty four-star generals. Pete Hegseth has been intervening in military promotions & fighting the military’s leaders in firing & denying promotions to women. The military promotions board – including its Trump-appointed director – selected 31 officers for promotion as “the best qualified officers within their respective competitive category.” Those 31 included seven women. Nine total promotions were cancelled by Hegseth: all seven women & two black men. Not one white man was removed.

RT @SikotiHamiltonR: 1/4 Jimmy Corry is a Belfast Protestant man whose house was burned down by a Loyalist gang hunting for non-whites. Aft…