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[Logan Bowers 🏗️ 🏘️ @loganb]

Seattle’s “affordable housing” advocates are arguing for less housing overall because they personally profit from these taxes on new homes.

Remember that’s who they are and they don’t want to solve the housing crisis.

[Sarah Ironside 💙 @SarahIronside6]

I am begging a single trump support to explain to me why you are okay with this. You spent years saying you wanted him to "drain the swamp," yet when he proves to be the actual swamp creature, you stay silent. Why?

[Acyn @Acyn]

Karl: Israel is a Jewish state. That’s in the charter. Do you support that?

Mamdani: I’ve said time and again that I support the state of Israel as a state with equal rights.

Karl: As jewish state?

Mamdani: I believe that any state that privileges one religion over another is one that I can’t tell you I support, whether it be Israel or Saudi Arabia or anywhere else. And a lot of that comes back to a fundamental belief that we should all be considered equal, no matter what our faith is.

[The Washington Post @washingtonpost]

An independent U.N. commission said that the Israeli military had deliberately targeted children in Gaza, amounting to genocide.

The commission said it found a pattern of behavior that reflected a strategy to destroy the future of Palestinians. https://t.co/SndPKA1jDL

[Muhammad Shehada @muhammadshehad2]

Palestinians DID lay down their arms in 1982, then Israel & its proxies immediately unleashed the single biggest massacre in its history in those refugee camps

Sabra & Shatila: Over 3,500 civilians murdered. Pregnant women raped, disembowelled & their unborn babies killed!

[Amelia @amelia_tweetz]

Imagine if a woman president crashed the economy and started a war with no end in sight, and her biggest, seemingly ONLY concern was building a ballroom and redecorating the White House.

[Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼 @Noahpinion]

The way we torture pigs is a sin. We can afford to pay a little more for one kind of food in order to not torture hundreds of millions of these poor animals.

https://t.co/NzkOPNalQ3

[Justin Logan @JustinTLogan]

Incredible scoop from John, with a blistering blind quote:

[Rachel Fink @RachelSFink]

A Jewish man prepares his ATM machine ahead of the thousands of Flag Day participants who will march through the Muslim Quarter, wrapping it in cardboard and writing the words, “This belongs to a Jew. Do not damage. Thanks.”

[Kevin Van Valkenburg @KVanValkenburg]

This reader comment on a NY Times column where Ross Douthat ponders that maybe God is speaking to us through A.I. is an absolute fastball on the corner with movement, and deserves a column. "Lightening was once mysterious too; mystery did not make Zeus correct" is perfect.

[Macroblock @sainimatic]

it's 2026 and Microsoft needs to briefly throttle your machine into full power maximum performance mode to open the start menu without lag, sorry, with less lag, and they think this is something worth announcing to the press and public and giving it a name

[Jesse Spafford @jessespafford]

“Why do adults act like teenagers and make arguments designed to be maximally inflammatory?” I ask in my jump cut-heavy, short-form video that casts my opponents as immature children:

[Ramez Naam @ramez]

Everyone who cares about climate should understand this. Texas, with no pro-climate policies, has blown passed California in clean energy. In large part because Texas has less red tape and makes it easier to build.

[J.K. Trotter @jktrotter]

NEW: One of the most dangerous drivers in New York City is an NYPD cop on Staten Island. He’s gotten 547 school-zone speeding and red-light tickets in the past four years.

The NYPD is refusing to intervene: https://t.co/Wsp3wSz6XC

[Cassie Pritchard @hecubian_devil]

This is psychotic. Israel is really an irredeemable project.

[Roman 🇪🇺🏳️‍🌈 @Rx410]

A little more than a year between these two pictures

[Circe @vocalcry]

No you don’t get it when Trump says “a whole civilization will die tonight” he is being hyperbolic and posturing unlike when Iran says “death to America” which is actually a very serious threat and should definitely serve as the basis for an invasion

[More Perfect Union @MorePerfectUS]

Trump has proposed a $1.5 trillion defense budget — a 40% increase, the largest since WWII.

In exchange for more war he wants to:

-Cut the EPA budget by half
-Cut $10.7 billion for housing
-Cut $8.5 billion for K-12 programs
-Cancel $15 billion for clean energy
-Cut $2.5 billion for clean drinking water
-Eliminate $1.6 billion for youth job training
-Cut $3.5 billion from the Labor Department
-Eliminate $395 million for senior employment
-Eliminate $775 million in food assistance grants
-Eliminate the National Endowment for Democracy
-Cut $5 billion from the National Institutes of Health
-Eliminate the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP)

In all, cuts to domestic programs would account for a 10% reduction in discretionary spending.