Pat Beall

Cricket right now

Don’t let the door hit you on the way out, Kristi Noem.

FT comments section this morning - saying what everyone else is thinking, right?

Walz: "There are no Somali folks in the Epstein files"

Tubes. Aluminum tubes.

Sooner or later, the costs of disinvesting in state capacity become apparent. If you put more money into bombing places you need foreign service capacity more, not less

Yeah, no mulligan. He had it right the first time. It is Iraq. Only illegal and unsupported by even thin lies.

I'm sorry the rich guys can't literally escape the real world. ☹

For once, The Lincoln Project agrees with Trump.

> @covie93.bsky.social

It is not unhinged to speculate about an unhinged man who is, as of this date, unstrained by law.

This aged well. Note the author.

Welp

Hillary Clinton could stand in the middle of 5th Avenue and do nothing, and maga would say she shot somebody.

This is amazing.

www.getyourfuckingmoneyback.com

Trump, seeking executive power over elections, is urged to declare emergency Activists who say they are in coordination with the White House are circulating a draft executive order that would unlock extraordinary presidential power over voting.

This is an important @washingtonpost.com story. I'm gifting the link and please be advised that I'm not interested in your views of Jeff Bezos. I do care about supporting reporters and journalism and finding out about scary stuff like this ⬇️ in time to make sure it doesn't happen. 🎁 wapo.st/3N5cpEn

Yes, please keep trotting out one of the most unlikable dinguses in human history to tell people in swing states that he's going to yoink their federal funding. This is an excellent strategy. Proceed.

J.D. Vance wants your mother to die of a treatable illness.

White House circulating blatantly illegal draft emergency order to take control of elections Voting rights experts and at least one state election chief said Trump doesn’t have the authority to claim such powers — and any attempt would be blatantly illegal.

A draft emergency executive order to declare a national emergency to allow President Donald Trump to take unprecedented control over voting is being circulating by anti-voting activists who said they are in coordination with the White House. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Kash Patel’s use of jet delayed FBI team’s mass shooting response, whistleblower tells top senator Sen. Richard Durbin says FBI director’s “misplaced priorities” led to the delayed response to the Brown University shooting in December.

Breaking MS NOW:

Agents with the FBI's elite evidence response team were delayed in reaching the scene of a mass shooting at Brown U. in December because there was no FBI plane available.

Kash Patel was in south Florida at the time with one of the FBI's two available jets.

it's molting season for RFK Jr

BREAKING

Former ICE agent:

On my first day training new cadets, I received secretive orders to teach them to violate the Constitution by entering homes without a judicial warrant.

Well. There are shirts in between.

The SAVE Act is Christian Nationalism in Action Gendered Burdens and the Right to Vote

"The larger project is not about Republican dominance. It’s about creating a government and society where men are dominant and women submit." @pamherd.bsky.social on the real impact of the anti-American, anti-woman, anti-democracy SAVE Act. Kill it please, senators. open.substack.com/pub/donmoyni...

Five great writers, plus a few
Elizabeth Bear
William Gibson
Connie Willis
Arthur Conan Doyle
Barbara Tuchman
Michael Lewis
Ray Bradbury
Lawrence Wright
John Le Carre
John Scalzi
William Gibson

Let them eat national treasures.

I HAVE SEEN ENOUGH. AS GOVERNOR OF THE FREE WORLD, I, GAVIN C. NEWSOM, AM OFFICIALLY BANNING "KID ROCK" FROM CALIFORNIA. HIS SHIRTLESS VIDEO WITH "SECRETARY BRAINWORM" WAS INAPPROPRIATE, CREEPY, AND VERY LOW ENERGY. NOT WHAT YOU WANT AROUND OUR CHILDREN! ALSO, SOME OF THE WEAKEST PUSHUPS EVER WITNESSED. CALIFORNIA ONLY ALLOWS WINNERS! I AM ALSO BANNING WORKING OUT IN JEANS, VERY STRANGE! THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER! — GOVERNOR GCN

I HAVE SEEN ENOUGH. AS GOVERNOR OF THE FREE WORLD, I, GAVIN C. NEWSOM, AM OFFICIALLY BANNING "KID ROCK" FROM CALIFORNIA.

MAHA was always a con. It was always about the ego and ambition of a drug-addled narcissistic fraud.