listen, if you're ever despairing about your art or whatever, just ask yourself "is anything i ever make going to be as stupid as a cybertruck?" ✨

On today’s Democratic Daily Download, @repstansbury.bsky.social busts the myths behind Trump’s Big, Ugly law. The truth? It hikes your utility bills by $400 — just to hand out giveaways to billionaires and Big Oil CEOs.

#Baltimore Mayor #BrandonScott invested in 42 summer youth camps, 29 literacy programs, extended the rec center hours to 11 p.m, planned block parties, opened the pools for safe fun, & opened several schools up for summer classes. Crime is down 62%. 🔥🔥 www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...

all i want is to one day own a modest sized home in a walkable neighborhood and raise money for shelter animals. wear an outfit i like, walk to the grocery store, buy some nectarines, feed cats, and live in peace. just don't understand why achieving this is so hard

IMPORTANT: Before the fascist attack on Senator Alex Padilla, Kristi Noem said that her gestapo in California were staying to "liberate the city socialist and the burdensome leadership that this governor and that this mayor have placed on this country."

Don't let that slide by.

House Republicans smuggled this👇attack on the federal judiciary into their reconciliation bill. Courts rarely require plaintiffs to post security, so this provision, if passed into law, would render a vast number of existing judgments—including Boasberg's contempt order—effectively unenforceable.

The House has passed the GOP's budget bill with the 10-year ban on state AI laws intact. If the provision survives reconciliation in the Senate, the California, Colorado, or any other state that sought to pass laws governing AI would be legally banned from doing so.

This is what's behind the bill:

sharing all your secrets with this guy and his employees while he commits environmental crimes on our neighbors. but sure keep asking ChatGPT to write an email for you.

“You hate capitalism, not AI.”

Oh, you mean companies’ favorite new tool to screw workers, devalue human interaction, and maximize their own profits? The tool they’re already using with glee because they own the most powerful versions of it?

I dunno. Feels like one might be connected to the other.

Universal Coronavirus Vaccine Breakthrough: A Single Shot That Could Protect You From COVID, MERS, and the Common Cold.

Two published studies:

Study 1: pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...

Study 2: pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...

Looks like we've got a cure for sickle cell. www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news...

I don’t have anything particularly profound to say, but I want there to be people in my mentions talking about hope, how we are each other’s hope, how we have no choice but to hold on to each other, to love each other, to breathe in and out for each other, because we
literally have nothing else

This crowdfunding seeks donations to support the restoration of the urushi industry, which was affected by the earthquake. The funds will be used to grow urushi saplings over a long period, plant them, and harvest them in ten years for use in Wajima's art. 🌱
gogetfunding.com/wajima/

Does anyone know if someone/some org is collecting yarn and supplies for displaced LA knitters and crocheters? People want to help. 🧶💕