I hear you. But I just repeat the Pratchett Rule of EM: "It may not be your fault, but it is now your responsibility."

RT @AmoneyResists: $14 million “beautification” and just 3 days later it looks worse than ever because there was a reason we didn’t paint…

Idiocracy

Trump wants federal control over state voter rolls so he can purge voters and manipulate the outcomes of elections. This is what rigging an election actually looks like:

1/ Last month I told a room of Baltic intelligence officers and diplomats that Donald Trump is an asset of Russian intelligence. Not one of them blinked. "Of course," they said. Ho hum. But in America, saying it out loud is still taboo. Why? 🧵

The election offenses manual told prosecutors not to seize ballots until after certification. DOJ removed that manual. Then started seizing ballots in swing-state counties. The sequence matters. They didn't drop the policy and happen to start seizing ballots. They dropped the policy so they could.

🚨EMBARRASSING: Trump’s billionaire buddy, Knicks owner James Dolan canceled the Knicks watch party tonight, AND LIED claiming Mayor Mamdani refused to approve more than 1,000 fans. Turns out DOLAN HIMSELF requested allowance for up to 999 people on the permit application according to the NYPD. Here’s Dolan caught on tape ADMITTING his screen could only be seen by 1,000 people. Mamdani approved exactly what he asked for. Dolan is a liar.👇🏼

This one hits hard.

The man running the agency responsible for 340 million Americans' health arrives at 10am, leaves by 4pm, skips his own division chief meetings, and when he does show up - scrolls his phone and gets described by colleagues as "checked out." Ebola is spreading. Six Americans already exposed. He has not briefed himself with CDC scientists. His response to a reporter asking if he was worried: "Yeah, we're working on it." The CDC is being run by a health economist with no public health experience who already has another full-time job running NIH. Half of the 27 NIH institutes have no permanent director. The top FDA drug regulator got fired in May - Kennedy found out after it happened. When measles killed two children in Texas, the CDC official leading the response asked repeatedly to brief Kennedy. He was rebuffed every time. The person actually running HHS operations is a longtime personal adviser whose policy spreadsheet - more than 50 items - is hidden from the department's own policy team. When Kennedy gets asked a question, his standing answer is "just run that by Stefanie." This is not a management philosophy. This is a vacancy wearing a title.

This is utter bullshit. When Indonesia refused to grant the Israeli under 17 team visa’s for the 2023 U-20 World Cup, FIFA stripped Indonesia’s hosting rights and moved it to Argentina. So @FIFAcom can stop with the lies.

Thomas Massie says the conspiracy theorists were right again about Section 224 of the NDAA, which he says will merge the United States military with the IDF. Massie says the provision is treasonous and warns that it will force the United States to compromise its own security for Benjamin Netanyahu's demands. "The difference between a conspiracy theory in Washington has been reduced from six months to six days."

ICE detain leading scorer for Iraq soccer team—interrogate him for 7 hours. Inspect his phone & perform body search—he was just entering U.S. with teammates for World Cup. Team's official photographer denied entry altogether—and sent back to Iraq for "classified information." Aymen Hussein is Iraq's star striker and all-time leading scorer. Fans were waiting to cheer the team on as they arrived at the airport in the early hours of the morning with Iraqi flags. Customs and Border Protection released the following statement in response: "All travelers seeking entry into the United States, including athletes, coaches, and staff, are subject to inspection and vetting. Admissibility determinations are made on a case-by-case basis." Incident occurred at Chicago O'Hare International Airport in Illinois.

Constitution requires two-thirds vote from the Senate to bind us to another country. They hid it in the bill because they knew it was unconstitutional. It’s treasonous as far as I’m concerned. Every single person who voted for this needs removed from office.

What's amazing to me is that, 10 years apart, there are the exact same clouds in the exact same positions. DC truly is a magical place

What was so offensive that the American Diabetes Association’s leadership had police place their own members in handcuffs and forcibly remove them from the conference? An editorial published in ADA’s journal: Diabetes Care! Read it for yourself:

TL/DR: At the American Diabetes Association (ADA) meeting, ADA leadership called the police to forcibly remove their own editor in chief for distributing a pamphlet critical of the Trump administration. Today is a great day to resign from the ADA if you are a member!

This is really stupid, and it’s not getting enough attention. The Trump administration is pulling a working $368 million ocean monitoring system out of the water, equipment taxpayers already bought, built, and sank into the deep ocean. And they are doing it right when the oceans are behaving in ways that alarm the scientists who study them. Record-breaking temperatures. A system of Atlantic currents that may be lurching toward collapse. The response? Yank out the instruments and walk away. That is not budgeting. That is smashing the gauges while the engine is on fire and calling it efficiency. For what? The Trump administration dressed it up as a “nimbler approach” and “smart lifecycle management,” which is fancy nonsense for “we shut it off and hoped nobody would ask why.” There is no return-on-investment analysis. They cannot show taxpayers save a dime, because the gear is already paid for and the science it produces protects real money and real lives. The kicker: the same people killing the monitors want to mine the deep sea for minerals. So they are destroying the only tools that could measure what that mining does. That is not an accident. That is the point. You cannot see the damage if you break the instruments first. cnn.com/2026/06/03/climate/o…

Ossoff: Last September, the President of Kazakhstan calls Donald Trump and says he wants to grant tungsten mining rights to an American company. And the very next month, Eric and Don Jr. get a stake in the American company pursuing the mining deal. Six days later, six days after Prince Eric and Prince Don get their stake, Kazakhstan announces this company will get, “The largest known undeveloped tungsten resource in the world.” A few more weeks go by, and then the U.S. government, run by their father, sets aside 1.6 billion of your tax dollars to fund and finance their mining project. In Kazakhstan. All this while you pay more for gas, for groceries, for health care, and that's just the tip of the iceberg.

RT @Care2much18: This is the dumbest tweet ever written by an American, an astonishing achievement given the depth of competition for that…

Realising Apple went public at under $2 billion and 15 times revenue in 1980. SpaceX wants you to buy at $2 trillion and 100 times revenue in 2026. That is not getting in early. That is being the exit for venture capitalists who have held this equity for years at a fraction of what you are being asked to pay. Almost none of the retail investors buying this IPO will read the 300 pages before the book closes on June 11. That is your entire competitive advantage right there.

Leen Hijaz, valedictorian at her high school in North Carolina, said the following in her graduation speech: "Before I leave the stage, I have one last thing to say. Every single person here has a voice; we have the privilege to use it when millions around the world are struggling and suffering to be heard. Whether it’s the millions suffering in Palestine, Sudan, Congo, Afghanistan and so many other countries around the world, or families being torn apart by ICE. These are not just an issue here; they are happening there, they’re happening right here as I speak. My point is, we’re not given a voice to stay silent." Corey Robin, a political theorist at Brooklyn College, writes: "The mere mention of Palestine—maybe ICE, too—sent the high school principal, Melissa Moore, hurtling across the stage to seize the microphone from Hijaz, and stop her from saying these unapproved words. Just look at this photograph: A young Muslim woman, speaking out, and a desperate, terrified principal trying to shut her down, lest the student say something unauthorized, disapproved, discordant with the views of an increasingly small clique of government officials and voters. It's so pathetic. It reads like a comic play by Václav Havel. It looks like the desperate last days of the Soviet Union. I can only hope Hijaz speaks for a generation that will, one day, sweep all this garbage into the dustbin of history".