It's not every day The Onion makes fun of your work. I'm going to call that a win. theonion.com/city-of-baltimo…

My and @CharmCityEllen’s kid went with his friend to his first Pride. They had a great time. But I think he partied too hard, because the second he came home he threw up. My kid is not yet 3.

David Smith has personally been involved every step of the way here. He told Donald Trump “we are here to deliver your message. He tried to recall emails on this that weren’t good for him. He hired an IT consultant to write political hit pieces. This is about David Smith’s political interests.

Clayton had no history of interest in election administration. No background in voting rights. No public record on ballot counting. Then he went on CNBC and declared California's vote-counting creates "opportunity for fraud." Days later: nominated as Director of National Intelligence. Elias names it correctly. That was the audition.

⚠️Four cops have a man face‑down on the pavement… then spot a bystander, punch him in the face, tackle him, and arrest him too. Public safety, apparently.

Kate was a spokeswoman for John Edwards in 2008, and stayed on to the end after the Enquirer broke that he was cheating on his cancer stricken wife with a campaign videographer, fathering her child, and as we later learned committed 6 campaign finance felonies to cover it up.

1. Axios doesn't quite get it but there are two scandals here: (1) reporters (seemingly) having access to tapes from Situation Room and (2) Situation Room repeatedly used as place to plot out covering up Epstein case. Scandal (1) would be serious enough in normal times but Scandal (2) is the real real outrage

I think it’s rather interesting that despite being far wealthier in absolute terms than a Vanderbilt or Carnegie or Stanford, and being directly positioned in an industry that could benefit from it, no tech elite has ever founded a university, and few have even given endowments

SO annoying when a judge follows the language of a 63-year-old statute explicitly prohibiting anyone other than Congress from changing the name of the Kennedy Center b/c that ruling interfered w/Trump's attempt to turn D.C. into a rebranding exercise in his honor. NYT, folks 🤡

No they won’t. The tech oligarchs are the most useless set of elites imaginable. No set of rich people in American history have been as useless a drain on society as they have

ICE took a 31 y/o Haitian asylum-seeker into custody, drove her 30 miles away to a Pittsburgh office, put an ankle monitor on her, then sent her out the front door with no way to get anywhere or contact her family. She froze to death at a bus stop. It's now ruled a homicide.

Elias: Why does California have signature matching? They have it to satisfy the same right-wing zealots who claim there’s fraud, right? So they do this whole kabuki theater that takes all of this time in order to contend with the fact that people say that if you don’t do signature matching, there’s going to be fraud. And then they get attacked for taking the time to do that very thing. The fact that the New York Times thinks there’s a middle ground here… Here’s my message: I don’t compromise with Republicans because there is no middle ground between a firefighter and an arsonist, and they are trying to burn down democracy.

What timeline are we on man. There’s a $60 million UFC cage on the White House lawn for the president’s 80th birthday. 125,000 guests. 494 port-a-potties. He compared it to the Eiffel Tower and said maybe they’ll never take it down. The world’s first trillionaire was minted yesterday. SpaceX IPO. One person now holds more wealth than the GDP of most countries. The government is negotiating to own a piece of OpenAI. The CEO walked into the White House and pitched it himself. They’re calling it a Public Wealth Fund. That same government killed OpenAI’s biggest competitor’s models on a Friday night. The reason? A verbal jailbreak claim from an unnamed company. The same jailbreak works on OpenAI’s models. Nobody touched them. The competitor got blacklisted by the Pentagon four months ago. Their crime? Refusing to let the military use their AI for mass surveillance of American citizens. A judge called it retaliation. The Pentagon did it anyway. Both AI companies filed to go public in the same two-week window. Both targeting trillion-dollar valuations. One has a government equity deal in progress. The other can’t keep its products online. The engineers who built the banned models can’t use them anymore. Because of their passports. And an AI company that spent thousands of hours cooperating with government safety testing got punished harder than any company that didn’t bother. UFC on the White House lawn. A trillionaire. Government-owned AI. Export controls based on phone calls. Cage fights and trillion-dollar IPOs in the same news cycle. Watch the film titled Idiocracy. That’s the timeline we’re on.

One document is all it took to put uranium drills on the Continental Divide Trail. Not a vote. Not a public hearing. Not an environmental review. One filing. Because under a law signed by Ulysses S. Grant in 1872 — written to strip-mine the West during the Gold Rush — any company can stake a claim on federal public land, and the burden falls on the government to prove harm. The company just shows up. Gamma Resources Ltd. showed up in February. Out of Vancouver. $29 million in debt. Zero revenue from operations. Their own auditors have flagged them as a "going concern" — which in financial terms means: we're not sure this company will survive. They've changed their name twice in just over a year. And now they have a legal pathway to drill 12 uranium boreholes — up to 500 feet deep — into New Mexico’s Carson National Forest. Directly on the Continental Divide Trail. In the Chama Basin — the headwaters of the Rio Grande’s largest New Mexico tributary, a watershed that supplies drinking water to over half of New Mexico’s population. More than one million people. Twenty-three tribes and pueblos. Acequia farmers who have drawn clean water from this basin for over 400 years. Families on shallow wells with no alternative water source. They've already identified nearly 3 million pounds of "yellowcake" uranium in the ground. They want to start mining by April 2027. They put it in writing, in their own investor pitch: New Mexico’s land is “low-hanging fruit”. This isn't a loophole. This is the door that was never closed. The General Mining Act of 1872 still governs hardrock mineral rights — including uranium — on 350 million acres of American public land. Under it, foreign companies can freely prospect on land held in trust for every American, extract minerals worth billions, pay zero royalties to the government, and aren't even required to disclose how much they take or what it's worth. It has never been fundamentally reformed. Not once in 154 years. The 1872 Mining Act itself requires no reclamation bond. Zero. No legal requirement to guarantee cleanup. No financial assurance that the land will ever be restored. Nothing. The current administration's "Energy Dominance" orders made it worse — declaring uranium a national priority and signaling to the industry that federal land was open for business. Gamma Resources did the math and liked what they saw. New Mexico's entire congressional delegation has demanded a full environmental review and is drafting legislation to withdraw the Chama watershed from all mineral development. The Continental Divide Trail Coalition has raised the alarm. The Forest Service still hasn't decided if this even requires a full review. A 154-year-old law. A foreign company with no revenue. A watershed tended for centuries by people who were here long before any of this was possible. How is a law written for the Gold Rush in 1872 — still deciding the fate of our Public Lands in 2026? #DemsUnited

1. Progressive Champions PAC, a super PAC created last month, says on its website that its mission is to “elect bold, progressive candidates up and down the ballot.” A Popular Information investigaiton reveals that it's a GOP front group. Following along for receipts. 🧵

The ability of the most dangerous drivers to act with impunity driving up risks and costs for everyone is not “a benefit” to other drivers. Car crashes have been the leading cause of child and young adult traumatic injury and death for decades. Public order includes safe driving.

UnitedHealth continuously denied rehab care for seniors on Medicare Advantage recovering from surgery. But when patients appealed, they reversed 99.7% of denials. So they knew the denials were wrong, they just hoped people wouldn't fight back. That's a predatory business model. No more profit-driven claim denials: we need Medicare for All.

the trump administration has a standing executive order they’re arguing for at the supreme court that would have denied balogun american citizenship, by the way

Removal of Trump’s name elsewhere, front-and-center: x.com/tizzywoman/status/2065…

Knowing who was President in 2020 is something The World's Greatest Researchers can't figure out.