Lex. #ProfessorLex.

I'm 99% here for the sports. #Detroit | @UMichAthletics | #GoBlue

[Mike Young @micyoung75]

The hydrogen peroxide workers poured into the Reflecting Pool did kill the original algae. It also created conditions for a new strain, genus Scenedesmus, nicknamed Skinny Dead Mouse by scientists, to take over instead. The scientists Viser brought samples to said they just switched the players.

The pool is also less safe in a different way now. The 16.4 million dollar sealant is peeling up from the bottom in chunks. Tourists are collecting pieces. One person compared it to taking a chunk of the Berlin Wall.

The government has been running water safety tests for days and will not release the results. Independent scientists who applied for permits to test the water themselves have been denied. NPS put out an internal email calling this a regional and national priority and asking staff to volunteer for 12-hour emergency shifts. Two weeks from the 250th birthday of the United States.

[Devin Nunes' Cattle Dog 🇺🇦 🇪🇺🇺🇸🇨🇦 🇦🇺 @Kaos_Vs_Control]

WCGW - The Surgeon General of Florida just announced ALL VACCINE MANDATES IN FLORIDA will be ENDED; thus allowing: polio, whooping cough, influenza, etc,,

[Suzie rizzio @Suzierizzo1]

This looks like an abandoned theme park!

[Enrique Acevedo @Enrique_Acevedo]

Qué maravilla de herramienta diseño la BBC Sport para las combinaciones de las próximas etapas del mundial. Espero que España mejore en lo que viene porque si queda tercera de grupo, nos tocarían de rival en 16vos.

[The Tennessee Holler @TheTNHoller]

A trail of destruction. Imagine their reaction if Obama had done even one of these things.

[Nicole Minét @mouvement33]

Everyone on the right got pissed off when I noticed the state of the art circulation and filtration system Obama had added to the Reflecting Pool 16 years ago was removed by Trump. Now we find out that Trump *did* remove it. This isn't hard to deduce. Anything Obama did will be removed and destroyed. We paid good money for that system only to be charged $14 million to have the pool painted and the filtration system removed. This was a money laundering scheme. Nothing more.

[scary lawyerguy @scarylawyerguy]

Just thinking about the months-long freak out because Michelle Obama planted a vegetable garden on the White House grounds. This is really really disgraceful stuff. Shameful and won't even get a mention in the press.

[Boston Smalls @smalls2672]

Bahahaha omg man. WE ARE SO COOKED.

[Mike Levin @MikeLevin]

ICE spent over $1 billion buying 11 warehouses to cage human beings. Now it’s quietly trying to sell or give away seven of them, more than $700 million gone, with not a single facility open and an inspector general investigation hanging over the whole mess.

This is the waste they swore they were elected to root out.

The fraud, the abuse, the blank check spent without a plan.

They bought industrial buildings at up to $145 million apiece, before renovations, with no environmental review, no community buy-in, and no real strategy for what came next. Even Republican officials told them to stop. Taxpayers are left holding the bill for warehouses that detained no one and accomplished nothing but fear.

It’s total hypocrisy.

An administration that lectured the country about efficiency lit $700 million on fire as part of Stephen Miller’s cruel fantasy of mass detention. Imagine what that money could have done for veterans waiting on housing, for families crushed by costs, for the working people they claim to serve.

I’m glad this plan is dying. It was inhumane from the first day, designed to warehouse people far from the rule of law and basic decency. But being glad it failed does not erase how it failed, recklessly and expensively. We must have full accountability for the officials who pushed it.

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[León Krauze @LeonKrauze]

Esta cuenta genial toma momentos deportivos y los compara con grandes obras de arte.

Esta es extraordinaria.

[Lex. #ProfessorLex. @LexKuhne]

Ahhhhh-hahahahaha. 🙏🏼

[talmon joseph smith @talmonsmith]

"Alexi left us!"

Zlatan: “America, you’re welcome”

[Lex. #ProfessorLex. @LexKuhne]

#WorldCup take:
1994 🇧🇷 in Pontiac > 2026 🇧🇷 in Philly.

[Callum🗿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @CaliJ98]

Jesus Christ

[gino.eth 💽 @GinoTheGhost]

The Reflecting Pool is a perfect metaphor for the Trump administration:

- Ignore experts and science
- Overspend
- Declare early, historic victory
- "THE LEFT HATE THIS"
- Ends in total failure
- Unfounded conspiracies about sabotage
- MAGA pretends it doesn't actually matter

[O.W. Root @owroot]

If you are sick of AI slop and not knowing what the hell is real, follow Film 20 for a feed of pure film photography from professional and amateur film photographers from around the world.

[Lex. #ProfessorLex. @LexKuhne]

@MikeLevin @davidfrum Michiganders – all Americans, actually – must hold Republicans responsible for this corruption by voting only for Democrats.

Not only is the #Gordie grift maddening, but demanding only $1M to sell out two nations, a swing state, and a province is, quite frankly, insulting.

[Mike Levin @MikeLevin]

A brand new bridge between Detroit and Canada is finished and ready to open. It would speed up traffic for millions of trucks, cut delays for American businesses, and help the auto industry that employs people in every state. There is just one problem.

Donald Trump won’t let it open.

Here is why.

The family that owns the old bridge stands to lose business when the new one opens. So in January, they gave one million dollars to a pro-Trump super PAC.

Weeks later they met with Trump’s Commerce Secretary.

He called Trump.

Hours after that, Trump announced he would block the new bridge. The opening was set for June 12. It got canceled the day before. The bridge sits there finished and empty.

Now here is the part that should make every taxpayer angry.

Canada paid for the entire bridge.

Every dollar. And the United States already owns half of it for free. Trump is holding up a bridge we got for nothing, to protect a donor who wrote him a check, while picking a fight with our closest ally and biggest trading partner.

This is corruption in plain sight.

A billionaire pays, and the President delivers. American workers and businesses pay the price.

Open the bridge. A government should work for the people, not for whoever writes the biggest check.
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[Handre @Handre]

Two small island economies blew up in 2008. Iceland and Ireland. Their names differ by one letter, and their handling of the crisis differed by everything that matters.

Iceland's three big banks, Kaupthing, Landsbanki, and Glitnir, had grown assets to roughly ten times the country's GDP by 2008. Pure credit-fueled madness. When the music stopped, the Icelandic government did the unthinkable: it let them fail. Bondholders ate the losses. The state refused to socialize private bank debt onto 320,000 citizens who never signed up for it. Capital controls went up, the króna collapsed, and the politicians actually prosecuted bankers. Twenty-six of them went to prison. Sigurður Einarsson and Hreiðar Már Sigurðsson, the men who ran Kaupthing, served real sentences.

Ireland took the opposite road. In September 2008, the Irish government issued a blanket guarantee covering the liabilities of its major banks, including Anglo Irish Bank, a property-lending casino that should have been allowed to die in peace. The taxpayer absorbed the bill. By the time the rescue ended, Ireland had poured around 64 billion euros into its banks, roughly 40 percent of GDP. The state took on private gambling debts, then went to the Troika in 2010 hat in hand for an 85 billion euro bailout, and accepted years of austerity to pay for losses it had no business owning.

Both economies recovered. Both eventually grew again. The difference is who paid and who learned. Iceland made creditors and reckless bankers bear the consequences of their own decisions, which is the entire point of capitalism: profit and loss, not profit and bailout. Ireland protected the people who made the bad bets and handed the invoice to schoolteachers and shopkeepers.

You will hear economists call Ireland's GDP rebound a triumph (much of that "growth" is multinational accounting fiction, Leprechaun economics, but that's another lesson). What they skip is the moral architecture. When you guarantee bank liabilities, you abolish the discipline that makes markets work. You tell every banker in the country that downside is optional.

Iceland jailed its bankers. Ireland reimbursed theirs.

[Lex. #ProfessorLex. @LexKuhne]

Woof. 🤮

[Marlene Robertson🇨🇦 @marlene4719]

Bridget Macron is all of us.

And yes, the photo is authentic.

[Lex. #ProfessorLex. @LexKuhne]

@atrupar If (hypothetical) President Orange Tabby were similarly addled, what would the O/U be on vets recommending euthanasia? 🤔🫡