Gov. Newsom to Sky News:

"I can't take this complicity of people rolling over. I should have brought a bunch of knee pads for all the world leaders. I mean, handing out crowns, the Nobel prizes that are being given away. It's just pathetic."

"And I hope people understand how pathetic they look."

We are now 29 days beyond the statutory deadline for the full release of the Epstein files.

Where are they?

Someone had better leak the Epstein Files to prevent WW3.

Mayor Jacob Frey: "They are already trying to spin this as an action of self defense. Having seen the video myself, I want to tell everybody directly that is bullshit."

Jack Smith is calling for the House Judiciary Committee to release the recording of his full closed-door deposition before the panel.

"Doing so will ensure that the American people can hear the facts directly from Mr. Smith, rather than through second-hand accounts."

..."They smashed out his window and pulled him out," according to witnesses.

When the school principal asked to see a warrant, or even just a badge or ID, "they proceeded to put hands on him."

In Texas The Water Rises: A Reckoning
open.substack.com/pub/therickw...

“It’s going to remove significant employment opportunities.”

Celebrated ad man @martinsorrell tells “Money Talks” how he thinks AI will transform his industry https://econ.trib.al/xeBoBAf

To find out more about the curious case of FBI chief Kash Patel receiving $25,000 from a Ukrainian-Russian-American filmmaker who was part of a Putin-financed propaganda operation, I knocked on the door of a house in Beverly Hills.

Here's what happened.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=K5-C...

The writer Colum McCann biked across America, searching for a God. “I had the sense that, in these churches, people wanted me to convert, or be saved, but I had no idea what they wanted me to convert into, or to be saved from.” Read the full essay:

NEW: Remember when the GOP, the right & originalists/literalists blasted Obama as an "emperor" for using exec. orders to implement policy? Trump has gone much further & is abusing laws to impose tariffs & mass-deport. So where are these conservatives now?

link.motherjones.com/public/39515...

A friend drove two hours today for her breast cancer chemotherapy only to learn it was canceled due to NIH cuts. Clinical trial ended midstream. No treatment, no restart, no plan, no information. Her bro-in-law's chemo was also canceled.

also, listening to @andyrichter.co on here lucidly talk about comedy, including why American conservative comedy just usually fails at being funny in any way even to people who are conservative, is such a delight

America isn’t immune to what happened in Chile, Argentina, Italy, Germany, Turkey, Russia, and Israel. This is what happens when the general population lets batshit rabble rousers and their cronies come into power and says this could never happen in our country, they’re just looking to stir the pot