I'm RT-ing my response to someone yesterday. Our government wasn't like this, even 30 yrs ago. There's one main reason why it's this way. It doesn't have to be. Federally fund campaigns.

Scott Colom is poised to do the impossible: flip Mississippi blue. He’ll be the first Black U.S. senator from Mississippi since Reconstruction. And when he does, it will be because of conversations like this. Going to MAGA rallies and talking to voters in line.

Last night Sen. Collins finally made the move from concerned to upset.

“Publicly financed elections is the only way we save our democracy.” YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!

He's absolutely right.

Van Hollen tells me Democrats should not commit to voting for Schumer or anyone else for leader without getting commitments for a bold agenda bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

Van Gogh used color to express feeling rather than visual fact. "Instead of trying to reproduce what I see,' he wrote, 'I use color more arbitrarily to express myself. #artbots #vangogh

Tim Moore, the man who oversaw the drawing of North Carolina’s 2023 congressional gerrymander as Speaker of the NC House and drew a seat for himself, lost his election for NC-14. amp.newsobserver.com/news/po…

The Democratic political class that turned hope and change into more of the same and created the conditions for Trump's ascent should not be considered the experts on what Dems should do right now. Neither should Never Trump Republicans, who created the mess in the first place. It's great for these people to participate in a popular front - but they shouldn't be the leaders or the media-anointed "experts." They've done a lot of damage that we're now going to have to clean up. Those who have been trying to prevent that damage for decades are the experts and the leaders.

Zohran Mamdani: “It’s not enough for us as Democrats to win power. We have to use that power to deliver change that Americans can feel in their wallets. When you look at these campaigns, if we want to speak about James Talarico, he campaigned on a vision for universal childcare. If you want to talk about Keisha Lance Bottoms, she campaigned on a vision of cutting red tape to build housing. If you want to talk about Jocelyn Benson, she campaigned on a moratorium for data centers. What I’m excited to see now is a recognition that the work is only just starting and this has to be delivered for working people across the country”

You know what is among the most effective crime prevention measures? Accountability. So don’t get it sideways and say accountability is a distraction. It’s not. It’s an obligation. Or all this was for nothing. Cuz it will happen again. Accountability. Now.

The big lesson of the Biden years is that you have to prosecute these people. You can’t just move on. You need to make the next generation of grifters and hate mongers scared for their lives.

In 2022, I worked for Haley Stevens’ campaign. Over my time working there I quickly learned that she was bought and sold by AIPAC. A Democrat from the middle of America, obsessed with foreign interests and willing to sell herself and us out for it. 1/4

House and Harbor (1924) exemplifies Hopper's early mastery of planar composition, distilling architecture and maritime clutter into crisp geometry. Painted during his breakthrough watercolor phase, it captures New England's industrial edge through abstraction. #artbots #hopper

Americans are tired of being told their needs are unrealistic by politicians who have been bought by the wealthiest people in the country.

Storm clouds and the horse. Photo taken this morning in Glastonbury at sunrise.

Luke Murray coached his first game as a head coach tonight, and his dad, Bill Murray, was in the stands at Boston College to watch it. It took him 18 years and nine different schools to get there. And he has said his famous father never once made a phone call to help. Here is the whole thing. Luke grew up around New York City playing basketball, football and baseball. As a high school senior, he started coaching an AAU team, and he was hooked. He graduated from Fairfield University. About two weeks later, he took a job running basketball operations at Quinnipiac. Then came the long road. Post University. Arizona, as a graduate assistant. Wagner. Towson. Rhode Island. Xavier. Louisville. Then UConn, under Dan Hurley, where he helped win back to back national championships. Through all of it, there was one rule. "There has never been a moment when my dad has picked up a phone" And Luke wanted it that way. "I would never want him to." He said his dad taught him that growing up. "He instilled in us a desire to achieve on our own." So he did. One small job at a time, for 18 years. He once put it perfectly. "Certainly, nobody thinks about Bill Murray as I'm trying to put together a scouting report." Bill Murray never got in the way. He just showed up. He was a regular at UConn games, cheering from the stands like any other parent. Basketball was always their thing. Luke has said his favorite sports memory with his dad was watching Michael Jordan's Chicago Bulls win a championship together. This spring, Boston College finally gave Luke his own program. He took the job in the middle of UConn's tournament run, scouting opponents for the Huskies while hiring a staff and moving his family to Boston. He called it the week of a lifetime. Tonight, his first game as a head coach was against Wagner, one of the schools where he worked as an assistant, on Hurley's staff. Boston College won 76 to 50. Money Williams scored 22 points, and the Eagles made 49% of their field goals. And up in the crowd, wearing a maroon Boston College hat, was one of the most famous actors in the world, just being a proud dad. Here is the honest part. This is one win, at home, against a smaller program. Boston College has not made the NCAA Tournament in 17 years, and it has finished near the bottom of the ACC for a long time. The hard part is still ahead. But Luke Murray did not get here because of his last name. He got here by grinding through nine schools and 18 years, without leaning on his dad's name. And tonight, his dad got to watch the payoff. #collegebasketball #billmurray #wearebc #bostoncollege #cbb

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ICE HSI agent Kent Blacklidge who racially profiled and tackled US citizen Leo Venegas while trespassing at his worksite (the first of Leo's three illegal detainments) was just arrested for rape and child sex crimes. The agent's duties had included child sex investigations.