Christopher Lepkowski

No amount of support for Russia can end the war, because Russia is the criminal aggressor. A modicum of support for Ukraine could, however, end the war, by making it impossible for Russia to continue. This should not be a hard choice.

The timing of the raid on Omar’s Washington-area home—22 days before the November midterms, in which she is a heavy favorite for reelection—adds additional scrutiny, as DOJ policy prohibits federal prosecutors and agents from timing investigations or charges to affect election outcomes.

Is insider trading an official act? Asking for a Chief Justice.

See Skeleton in House on Haunted Hill and his other big movies

The Plot to Enslave America

This is from British politics, but given that this horseshit is global— There are NO tax cuts in modern times in the US or the UK that are “paying for themselves”. This is a peddled fairytale, and you should heap scorn on anyone pitching it to you. Just laugh in their face, send them running

Rare you get live visuals of state capture.

my guide is especially helpful if you care about an issue a lot and want to know the (often dozens of local) referendums that will affect it. here's just a sampling on housing/transit/climate!

Sheriffs & DAs have huge powers over criminal justice, e.g.: often deciding how much local assistance ICE gets. So I worked all year on whittling down the thousands (!) of these races happening in 2026 to find the ones that matter most. NEW TODAY: Learn about the 25 most pivotal November races.

An acute reminder that we don’t live in a free country as long as American tech oligarchs continue to maintain their power.

Absolutely wild thing to say in public let alone at the UN

For all his anti-Trump grandstanding, Newsom is hopelessly ill-suited to handle this authoritarian moment. If Americans want to restore their democracy, they should kick out every one of these establishment Dem assholes at the soonest opportunity.

AG Bonta, the goal was for you to not allow massive media consolidation in the hands of autocrats and their acolytes, and you're announcing the terms of how they bought you off. You can't sell that here.

newsom and bonta let paramount threatening to pull out of california torpedo the entire lawsuit and this is going to be an abject disaster for everyone - including california, where they'll gut jobs anyway what a fucking disgrace

Imagine a job where, faced with a difficult decision, you could just stop going to work www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...

Links to quick and convenient message to Governor’s office for CA residents

The federal government has inserted a provision into a funding deal with CA that would make the state abandon its net neutrality law, broadband affordability, and public safety protections. Tell the governor to reject this provision before accepting these funds. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

Recovering from being this stupid is going to be a lot of work

The crudest thing about Trump 2 is the *mixing* of personal corruption with government business—arbitrary US moves can be appealed only by funneling money to Trump and family. One is continually struck by the hollowness of a Supreme Court that decided to SPECIFICALLY SHIELD that co-mingling!

It’s really irritating being able to see how American media works now that the Overton window is completely broken/owned If somebody else was president, we’d be hearing about this stuff for months or years— but now they disappear by the end of the week

Asked why reporters had been instructed to lower the window shades on the plane, Trump said that it was “because you’re probably on a dangerous flight." “But if I go, you go. Right?" Trump added “Perhaps someday you want to change professions”

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Why hasn’t the rest of the country been doing this? Why wasn’t Buttigieg doing this when he was transportation secretary? The reason why DSA is so powerful is because they show that *nobody* else is fucking politics does *anything* in the public’s interest anymore

“I gotta give him a plug” JFC

The first segment of this week's This American Life features Rick Cole (@urbanistcole.bsky.social) talking to Ira Glass about the surprise military "exercises" in Pasadena and elsewhere which were ostensibly training for the World Cup. This is fantastic radio; a must-listen

Tom Levenson. Cosign. balloon-juice.com/2026/07/24/t...

If the political party in charge was reversed, you would never stop hearing about this for years— perhaps deservedly so… But the way things are, I assume this won’t be discussed again by… next week?

Was hit by this. Worth checking.

This is an important point! Wealthy countries don't usually have a lot of doctors & researchers who are good at diagnosing, tracking, & treating parasite infections. Why? Treating parasites is kinda walled off into "tropical medicine" and "third-world medicine." You know, USAID stuff.

no single tool or art project will "fix" climate change. our job as imaginative people with technical skills is to form a distributed but aligned ecosystem of creative interventions that identify harms, care and repair, and replace toxic patterns

I once lightly groused that Substance Painter didn’t support my 3D space mouse, and the CEO himself appeared to assure me support was on its way. Old school Twitter had the juice.

The US built the greatest talent magnet ever, attracting the smart, skilled, and striving. They’d come to study, then stay and build things here, or leave with positive impressions and fruitful connections. Helped make the US wealthy and powerful. Then America chose to throw it away. And for what?

It’s worth noting that Taco Bell identified the source before the FDA did, and promptly pulled it from their stores. The FDA didn’t even name the source until Taylor Farms outed themselves, and hasn’t issued a recall. Basically, Taco Bell is now a more reliable authority than the FDA.

This decimation surely presages more transfer of public wealth to private hands—we’re the nation who *voted* to have our pockets picked and get nothing back for it