Lonnie H.

DC United fan Screaming Eagle/Barra Brava fat bastard NASCAR fan #DaleYeah Queensryche fan Progressive Democrat Grandfather Lisa Martin's boy-toy

[Hunter Boone @HunterBoone]

reminder that bari weiss quit in shame at @nytimes because my team called her out for being A LIAR

[John Cassidy @JohnCassidy]

First it was MIT and McKinsey. Now Bain finds that returns to corporate AI investments are disappointing.

[Mike Young @micyoung75]

California voted 63 percent to ban this. Massachusetts voted 78 percent. The industry sued and lost at the Supreme Court.

So they slipped a provision into the House farm bill to void both votes and block every future state from trying. One lobbying campaign undoing two supermajority referendums.

The largest beneficiary is Smithfield - owned by a Chinese company. Congress is being asked to override American voters to protect a Chinese corporation's factory farming practices.

84 percent of Americans called this unacceptable in polling. The Senate gets to decide if that number means anything.

[Melanie D'Arrigo @DarrigoMelanie]

Donald Trump Jr takes a financial stake in a company…

3 months later, the Pentagon gives it $620 million…

after Trump’s White House told them to…

And the company’s valuation rose from
$200 million to $2 billion as a result.

This is corruption.
https://t.co/TLcOxyzOWO

[Pramila Jayapal @PramilaJayapal]

When corporations can spend unlimited money to elect the politicians who regulate them, the outcome is predictable: Health care policy written by insurers. Energy policy written by oil companies. Tax policy written by billionaires. And we wonder why nothing ever changes.

[David Sirota @davidsirota]

A corporation is not a person entitled to the same constitutional rights as a person. A corporation is an artificial entity created by a charter & subject to constraints of that charter — and both the interviewer & Kennedy just pretend to not understand that in this discussion

[More Perfect Union @MorePerfectUS]

NEW: Elon Musk wants a SpaceX IPO valuing the company at upwards of $1.75 trillion.

To get there he got the rules changed so that index funds, with millions of Americans' retirement savings, are forced to buy in.

Retirees could take huge losses, while insiders cash out.

[Captain Mark Kelly @CaptMarkKelly]

Forever chemicals in our drinking water are a public health crisis. I've been fighting to get Arizona the resources it needs to address PFAS contamination. This shouldn’t be a partisan issue. Our families deserve clean, safe water and this is a step backwards.

[Amelia Knisely @ameliaknisely]

New from me: While TANF cuts loom to West Virginia’s childhood programs, Gov. Morrisey is considering giving TANF money to Star Academy, whose CEO donated to the governor’s campaign and affiliated PACs.

No Star Academy sites remain in state. https://t.co/1ZlqKp18CC

[Fuck You I Quit @fuckyouiquit]

This costs $300,000,000. It costs $90,000 per day to operate. It comes with a support vessel to haul toys and a submarine that costs an additional $30,000,000. The helipad yacht that follows along costs another $100,000,000. But sure, he needed to fire 1/5th of Meta.

[More Perfect Union @MorePerfectUS]

A judge has ruled that corporations can vote in some Delaware elections.

Delaware Superior Court Judge Craig Karsnitz said the town of Fenwick Island was not diluting human votes by allowing companies ​and other legal entities that own property to cast votes in municipal elections.

These "legal entities" and corporations make up about 12% of registered voters in the town.

In total Delaware has far more ​corporations chartered in the state than residents.

Judge Karsnitz rejected the constitutional arguments of the ACLU, including the claim that "entity" or corporate voting dilutes the political power of living people.

[Elvin Calcaño @elvin_calcano24]

A estos tipos los presentan como los genios absolutos de este tiempo, sin embargo son individuos profundamente elementales, vacíos y hasta estúpidos. La inteligencia humana no se trata solo de procesar datos y rendimiento. Es algo mucho más complejo, contextual e inexplorado incluso. Puesto que implica pensar, sentir, crear, adaptarse y solucionar en diferentes situaciones (muchas de ellas no pueden ser captadas como datos, por ejemplo). En fin, esta gente, desde su estupidez, quieren reducir la experiencia de lo humano al rendimiento y datos. Y si no les ponemos freno, como humanidad, estaremos caminando al estadio más estúpido de la historia. Donde seremos totalmente dominados por estos imbéciles y sus tecno distopías. 👇🏿

[Equal Justice Initiative @eji_org]

On this day in 1892, a white mob destroyed Ida B. Wells's newspaper office while she was away and threatened bodily harm if she returned because she challenged the myth of Black criminality.
https://t.co/6eRXgJIOMA

[Judd Legum @JuddLegum]

1. Lead Left, a super PAC created on 4/24, purports to stand "against MAGA extremists."

It has spent $3M+ in Democratic primaries.

But it's funders and motivations have been secret.

Until now.

It's a GOP dirty tricks operation.

🧵

[Brigid Bergin @brigidbergin]

This is extraordinary work and so deeply sad and disturbing. Read every word. Take in every picture. @THECITYNY is underscoring the human toll of the current administration’s immigration policies. Don’t look away.

https://t.co/Lf5DDzhGhw

[Marco Foster @MarcoFoster_]

James Talarico: “My two rules are be yourself and tell the truth. My faith is central to who I am. That said, I’m very cognizant how organized religion has hurt a lot of people. There are a lot of agnostics and atheists who are a lot more Christlike than Christian politicians”

[Fuck You I Quit @fuckyouiquit]

I’m sure this has nothing to do with it. Purely coincidental.

[Reproductive Freedom for All @reproforall]

Inclusive, affirming, and accurate sex ed helps people make informed choices with confidence—without shame.

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

Finnish scientists trucked in real forest dirt and grass and laid it over the gravel at four daycare yards. They let the kids dig around in it for a month. The blood tests came back with changes the researchers hadn’t expected to see so fast or so clear.

The study ran at ten daycares in two Finnish cities with 75 kids aged three to five. Four of the yards got the forest treatment: about a tennis court worth of soil and grass laid over the gravel, plus planters and peat blocks the kids could dig and climb on. Three others stuck with their normal gravel yards. The last three were daycares where the kids were already visiting real forests every day.

After one month, the variety of bacteria living on the kids’ skin shot up, and the kind that helps train the skin’s immune defenses jumped the most. Their gut bacteria started to look like the gut bacteria of the forest-visiting kids. Their blood showed more of the immune cells whose job is to keep the body from freaking out at harmless stuff like pollen and peanuts, and overall inflammation dropped. The kids on the plain gravel yards showed none of this.

Childhood asthma in the US doubled between 1980 and 1995. Food allergies in kids jumped 50 percent between 1997 and 2011, then jumped another 50 percent between 2007 and 2021. And peanut allergies in one-year-olds tripled between 2001 and 2017.

The Finnish researchers think one of the reasons is simple: kids today don’t get dirty enough. 37 percent of American preschoolers now spend an hour or less outside on a normal weekday. Their immune systems are getting trained in environments stripped of the bacteria humans have always lived around.

Aki Sinkkonen, who led the study, put it in plain words: “It would be best if children could play in puddles and everyone could dig organic soil.” The Finnish government is now helping pay for daycares across the country to make the same changes.

[Power to the People ☭🕊 @ProudSocialist]

Elon continues to falsely call Hitler a “socialist”, and Grok continues to correct him, explaining that Hitler was a fascist who rejected Marxist socialism and class struggle.

Never deleting this app!