Michelle Mendoza

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

Charles Schultz and the original Snoopy, 1950s

[World's Amazing Things @Hana_b30]

Mongolian Girl Has a Laugh with her Camel.
The little girl’s name is Butedmaa and she was just 5 when this picture was taken in 2003 by photographer Han Chengli, who titled it “Inner Mongolian Child”.

[Jessica Tarlov @JessicaTarlov]

Republicans never talk about the fraudsters Trump has pardoned. Philip Esformes, the largest health care fraudster in U.S. history at $1.3 billion, had his sentence commuted. Trump runs crypto scams.

His kids get government contracts and Russian oligarchs paying for wedding after parties. This is why Americans associate the word "corrupt" with the Republican Party now. The hypocrisy is staggering.

[cutiepia @cutiepia8395]

I just want to point out… the amount of money the U.S. has spent on war in the last 2.5 months is roughly the same cost that Bernie Sanders proposed for universal college. So the real question is never ‘can we afford it’… it’s what we choose to prioritize.

[MeidasTouch @MeidasTouch]

🚨 OBAMA RIPS THE "MARKET WILL TAKE CARE OF IT" APPROACH TO AI: "That’s not how we treat airlines, or drug companies, or food companies."

Obama: "My view this week has been it is good that some of the leading companies have said we need to slow this down, and we should encourage that. There have been some on the left who’ve said we shouldn’t allow them to make that decision. I agree that that can’t be a long-term solution. Government has to be regulating this.

I heard one of Donald Trump’s main advisers on this make the argument that the market will take care of it. These companies will solve the safety issues because they have every incentive to do so. If it turns out to be dangerous, people will just sue them. And they’re worried about financial liability.

That’s not how we treat airlines, or drug companies, or food companies. We now have 150 years of experience just letting the market do whatever it wants when it comes to things that deeply affect our health and our safety.

And so, there’s no replacement for an effective, government regulatory structure. And the challenge we have is that obviously, we have a president currently that has said that’s for losers. So, we’ve got a gap, at least of a couple of years, where things are moving really fast, and we have an administration that is not capable of or willing to, I would argue both, of putting together a serious regulatory framework, which is why I actually think we should be encouraging some sort of voluntary industry restraint, not because it’s a replacement, but because that may be the best we can do for now until we can get Congress and the White House to start getting serious about this."

[Muse @xmuse_]

A Beethoven working session between student and professor that happens to sound this good — and give Saturday a lift.

Justus Eichhorn & Grigory Gruzman

[Richard Smith @Richard_ezio]

Trump has pardoned Trevor Milton, a man convicted of stealing $695 million from investors.

This pardon came after Milton donated nearly $1 million to Trump's PAC.

If you are a criminal and have a bag of cash for the orange pig… you’re as good as free.

[Marco Foster @MarcoFoster_]

Anthony Scaramucci on Trump’s corruption: “When you say the word depraved, it is so much worse than that, so much darker than that. There’s a level of shamelessness to him. They are literally overtly now stealing money. They’re literally selling pardons, insider trading with information they get from the government. It is a scene I think will long be remembered by Americans if we can get a reformer to come in after him and clean this up and it’ll be one of the darker parts of our history”

[MeidasTouch @MeidasTouch]

🚨 OBAMA ON AI: "If we are thinking about AI just in terms of how do we cure cancer or get better energy, you can do that without having agentic AI and having it just roaming free in the internet. The reason you are doing that is because you have to market a product that people will pay money for.

That’s a misalignment between what our society needs and the commercial imperatives that these companies are facing, not because necessarily they’re trying to do bad things, but because they’ve got to justify these valuations.

So, that’s one more reason why it is really important for us to have a competent government and a serious bipartisan conversation around this issue, and we have to do it fast. And I would encourage voters to pay attention to this. If somebody does not have a serious plan for how to deal with this, then they’re not meeting the moment, and you should probably look for somebody else."

[Tom Harrington @cbctom]

The White House media ban
reminds me of the Teddy Roosevelt quote:

“To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.”

[Nature 🦜and Music 🎶 @GuGi263]

Back in 2003, a German film crew filming in the Gobi Desert captured an incredibly moving moment: after a tough two-day birth, a mother camel rejected her newborn. A nomadic family then performed the ancient Hoos singing ritual passed down for generations. Once the song ended, the camel shed tears and finally accepted her baby. This powerful scene became one of the most memorable parts of the Oscar-nominated documentary The Story of the Weeping Camel.

[BrooklynDad_Defiant!☮️ @mmpadellan]

It's stunning when you realize exactly how many things trump f*cked up in less than 2 years.

HILARIOUS when a song nails it perfectly.

THIS IS BRILLIANT!!!🔥🔥🔥

[Marco Foster @MarcoFoster_]

Jon Stewart on the Supreme Court: “They have single-handedly made it impossible for us to reform and save our democracy. The way they have made it that corporations are people and money is speech. There has to be a process of amending the Constitution. This idea that Citizens United stands as the law of the land is the biggest bunch of shit. The Constitution is in a suicide pact and money in elections is killing this country”

[Reggie B. @reggiebblue]

Obama: “Imagine if I had pulled Fox News’ credentials from the WH press corps. You’re laughing but this is what’s happening.
It’s unimaginable that the same parties that are silent right now would have tolerated a behavior like that from me.”

[Headquarters @HQNewsNow]

Trump says he won't send FEMA funding to North Carolina if Republican candidate Michael Whatley loses his Senate race

[Scott Dworkin @funder]

Trump packed the Kennedy Center board, tried to strip Rep. Joyce Beatty of her vote, and called her "incompetent."

She took him to federal court, stripped his name off the building, and just won again:
https://t.co/vLQSIx0OZV

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

Imagine if the Iranians were doing this to the US military on Biden or Obama’s watch. Republicans would be screaming in the streets and Fox would have these images on air on a loop, 24/7

[Bernie Sanders @BernieSanders]

Trump’s FCC just approved Trump pal David Ellison’s deal to allow Saudi Arabia, Qatar & the UAE to own nearly 50% of a merged Paramount-Warner Bros, including:

CBS
CNN
HBO
Discovery Channel
BET
Fandango
MTV
Nickelodeon
Paramount
PlutoTV
Showtime
TBS
The CW
TNT
Warner Bros.
& more

Outrageous: We don’t need Middle East dictators to control American media.

[Benjamin Solak @BenjaminSolak]

Best ground game we've seen from the 49ers in a minute