“Fire is Not the End”
Olympus E-M10 IV with 14-42 kit lens @ 42mm, f/5.6, 1/30s, ISO 1250. Close to the Clark Butte trail.
A judge just blew up Apple’s control of the App Store
It’s somewhat heartening to see that there can be serious consequences to a strategy of lying to a judge.
T. rex researchers eviscerate ‘misleading’ dinosaur leather announcement
I’m shocked, shocked that there is lying going on in the advertising industry.
Even MAGA Is Disgusted by Trump’s “Kim Jong Il–Style” Cabinet Meeting
That feeling when you agree with Ann Coulter
Couldn’t have said it better myself. I’d also missed that Pam Bondi claimed Trump saved us from 258 million overdose deaths - that’s 75% of the US population. So by their math 3 out of every 4 of your neighbors are fentanyl addicts.
Today I hiked 13.5 miles of basically obliterated trails. Perhaps not my best decision ever.
Trump’s tariffs loom over the economy as shipments from China fall
Hard to see how we avoid a recession at this point. And the only way China blinks first is if the Trump administration can convince the American public to accept as much pain as Xi can convince the Chinese public to accept. Good luck with that.
Trump Attacks Judges at 100 Days Rally, Plays Video of Men He Sent to El Salvador
The audience reaction may be the scariest part. Our own little Nuremberg Rally.
Obituary: Rule of Law, 1787-2025.
Trump Says He Could Free Abrego Garcia From El Salvador, but Won’t
At this point there is no doubt that Trump is openly and gleefully defying a Supreme Court lawyer. The “I’m only doing what my lawyers tell me to do” claim is obvious bullshit, and anyone who believes it is a damned fool. The Supreme Court order requiring him to facilitate Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s return is only a page long. Even this buffoon should be able to read that much. If he gets away with this, due process and the rule of law are pretty much dead, and we’re all in this country only until he decides otherwise.
The US government has a new policy for terminating international students’ legal status
No surprise: the pause in deporting international students was not a win. There is now an even more draconian policy for removing people that the government will, I’m sure, use to further suppress dissent.
I just realized that Trump does have a plan to end illegal immigration: simply turn the USA into a worse shithole than anywhere else on the planet.
Finished: Eye of the Storm, by Jack Higgins 📚. The fictionalized story of the 1991 mortar attack on #10 Downing Street. Higgins brings in many of his favorite characters, right back to Liam Devlin. Airport reading, but good airport reading.
House Transportation proposes to include $20 per vehicle fee in GOP megabill
Oh look, another regressive tax!
Amazon has no choice but to display tariffs on prices now
Bezos answered the White House by rolling over and showing his belly and whimpering. The Verge rightly roasts him by quoting back some of his asinine rhetoric on how his wealth enabled him to stand up against intimidation.
Boycott Amazon.
The Trump administration’s anti-rights campaign is turbocharging harmful trends already present, gutting international human rights protections and endangering billions across the planet, Amnesty International warned today upon launching its annual report, The State of the World’s Human Rights.
Trump Administration Proposes Defunding Suicide Lifeline for LGBTQ+ Youth Beginning October 2025
Literal erasure in action.
Color additives banned? Not exactly.
Marion Nestle (who has been a nutrition researcher and writer for decades) looks at what RFK Jr’s “ban” of artificial dyes will actually do. (Spoiler alert: nothing.) Also incidentally calls out some of the lies from his press conference.
Exclusive: Most Americans see Trump as “dangerous dictator,” poll says
The other 48% are in denial.
(And yes, I’m cherry-picking the poll that most sings to me. Deal with it.)
White House blasts Amazon over tariff cost report: ‘Hostile and political act’
How’s that sucking up going for you, Mr. Bezos?
US dismisses all authors of National Climate Assessment, email says
Because the Trump/Musk administration wants everything to burn down literally as well as figuratively.
Michigan Democrat files articles of impeachment against Trump
Good for you, Mr. Thanedar. At this point, I don’t care how quixotic this is. I’d like to see new articles filed every day by every Democratic member of the House.