As a result, the kids had to sell mom's home for $2.4M, and distribute the mostly tax-free profits amongst themselves. $700K for some. Just $700K, mostly tax free. Think of the children*!! /3

(*in their 50s)

Elon's involvement in the Wisconsin Supreme Court race cost his candidate around 5% of the vote--even though he spent $25 million dollars on his behalf.

Elon's endorsee ran 5 points behind the other statewide Republican candidate. That's an unbelievably negative return on investment.

We are beyond excited to announce that Virginia has just made history by passing HB2096, the #StopSuperSpeeders bill—the first of its kind in the nation at the state level! 🎉

Let the record state that a Democrat tried to get Congress to exercise their Constitutional authority over tariffs to prevent the president from unilaterally starting trade wars with allies like Canada.

A Republican blocked it.

www.coons.senate.gov/news/press-r...

Trudeau: "I want to speak first directly to the American people. We don't want this. We want to work with you as a friend and ally. We don't want to see you hurt either. But your government has chosen to do this to you. As of this morning, markets are down and inflation is set to rise dramatically."

Much of the time it seems like the WSJ is offering a clearer analysis of the dangers of the Trump administration than the NYT

Compromises, "everything bagel liberalism", and weak enforcement have led to very few new homes to show for years of legislation. We need to do better than this!
calmatters.org/housing/2025...

Photos from protests at two different Tesla showrooms in the Bay Area yesterday. Are you attend one today?

Latest claim in the right-wing outrage-o-sphere is that a judge ruling against the actions of someone in the executive branch is unconstitutional... When that's literally the point of having a judicial branch. Checks and balances. Separation of powers.

Shouldn't someone on the left be putting together a video showing the worst of Jan 6 violence alongside Trump issuing his pardon? Run an ad on TV?

Polls showed that a majority of Americans opposed pardoning everyone.

One police officer died and 174 were injured!

Something I'd encourage people to read, is this report about dentists called "Drilling for Dollars".

niemanreports.org/revealing-ho...

Obviously not all medical practitioners are horrible monsters like this. But what do you do when all the incentives are bad from end-to-end?

Murder is bad, actually

"Joe, you should do this thing that is legal."

and

"Everyone, we should change the law to disallow this thing."

are not inconsistent pieces of advice!

Like, if I were a basketball coach in 1953, I could tell my team to dribble the clock away, while also telling the NBA to add a shot clock!