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very cool and normal that the Trump Accounts official app from the US Government is actually written by day-trading app Robinhood and collects your search history for potentially selling to third parties

"If you're unsure whether a communication is legitimate, make sure it's from TrumpAccounts.gov", they say, from the official privacy policy hosted on TrumpAccount.com.

I am very confused by this story. The endowment is $68B now. That means that the 27% increase was approximately 14.5B. How does a 2.2B investment in a company that has been underwater almost the entire time since its IPO "power" a 14.5B jump?

I don't know how one can consider themselves a leader, much less an "opposition" leader, and say nothing when the party in power raids the home of a sitting lawmaker who they openly hate. I'm usually frustrated by @schumer.senate.gov's empty platitudes, but he hasn't even bothered with those.

Chuck Schumer — one of the most powerful Democrats in the country — has not issued statements to the press or through his social media channels about the administration’s attack on Ilhan Omar, which critics have described as a five alarm fire for the state of democracy in the U.S.

Why should any Democrat care what GOP strategists are calling anything? Also, "mind-numbing malpractice" is a funny way to say, "not letting the opposition dictate terms to me, and then also making them look stupid in a very funny way".

Got seats for Taskmaster at the Hollywood Bowl! Very excited.

*looking at the worst post of my life* I must not post. Reactive posting is the mind-killer. Dunking is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face the Bad Take. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. When the TL refreshes there shall be nothing. Only I remain.

God, Imagine being Rahm Emanuel and believing the problem with your candidacy would be your Jewishness and not... everything else about you. Like, who is the Rahm Emanuel constituency? Just James Carville and nobody else?

BTW, for those wondering, to the extent that the Civil War was about "states rights", this is what they meant: not the South bravely standing up for their rights, but the South incensed that Northern states were allowed to make laws at odds with their immoral ones.

Christening a baby is nothing like christening a ship. I know that now. Once again I can only apologise.

The majority of white people still supporting this shitshow is, as they say, shocking, but not surprising.

Glad folks are appalled by photos of the "phone booth" cage under an awning, but pls understand: This IG report is likely part of a cover-up. Amnesty Int'l interviewed detainees EIGHT MONTHS AGO who said the cage was half this size (couldn't stand up), had no awning, w feet chained to the bottom.

Since becoming president again, Trump has promised: -$5000 stimulus checks via "DOGE dividend" -$2000 stimulus checks via "tariff dividend" -$1000+ checks via "savings" from expiring ACA subsidies -$5000 "dividend" if Rs win midterms No checks have been issued www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-magi...

I know there's no law and there's nobody who will have the fortitude to hold him to account, but this is plainly illegal. It's buying votes and misappropriation of government funds and whatever else. Republicans don't care. They have decided to ride this meteor straight to the end of the Republic.

The most absolutely massive flex from the state fair exhibit. This quilt is made of 40 years of prize ribbons from various categories at the New Mexico State Fair won by Carol St. Clair Johnson. She also won a prize for this quilt.

It turns out that public pressure can actually do good things! Who knew?

Somebody was really pleased with themselves about this headline.

The best way to honor the two who have left us recently, imo, is to keep being as gay as possible

I really cannot think of a greater honor than to have the Muppets say this about you upon your passing

my wife has a friend who sent Dolly Parton a painting she made & a letter explaining how much Dolly's music meant to her while she was transitioning. Dolly responded to it personally & paid for her top surgery. Sounds like an urban legend but it's real. I think we're going to more stories like this.

Dolly Parton decided to cover "Stairway to Heaven" as a gospel song, and asked Robert Plant for permission to write a new verse for it, and Robert Plant basically said "of course you can, you're Dolly Parton" youtu.be/YhTvxVxXJLQ

This girl I used to waitress with in Austin, we moved to New York together in 2003 on a literal Greyhound bus. Shared a fifth floor walk-up studio that, when it rained, had more leaks in the ceiling than we had pots and pans. We used to get drunk and smoke off the fire escape and do “sad-offs.”

Dolly wrote and performed so many iconic songs, and I'll be listening to them on repeat, but if you haven't heard it before, give a listen to Dolly's Grammy-winning cover of "Shine" by Collective Soul. youtu.be/plUD6vN80dg

Disney trying this shit is the thin edge of the wedge. Employer-tied insurance is already a trap to keep us chained to our jobs. If the oligarchs are thinking they can start whittling away at it, universal healthcare is even more urgent. www.avclub.com/disney-emplo...

6 months is what you sign up for when you marry a sex cymbal.

The sexual tension here between Ms. Moreno and Animal is hotter than anything Hollywood could manufacture. They actually got married soon after this, divorced six months later.

"If you’re not prepared to give up a few puzzles, ask yourself – what are you willing to give up to protect those most under fire?" I don't care how little you think your absence will hurt JK Rowling/NYT/Chick-fil-A. What I notice is how little it costs *you* and you're still not willing.

If you care about trans rights you should stop playing Wordle and cancel your NYT subscription. That has been the case for a few years now, but if you haven’t already, you should do it now.

Literally Pixar's "Bao".

Sometimes I see something in nature and then spend the next several years waiting for the shot. Sometimes I never get it. Sometimes you see it and a week later you land it: I give you tonight's murder of crows in front of the sunset. 🪶