when the literal and the symbolic join hands.
Yahoo News
Semi-truck carrying Teslas catches fire, shutting down 5 Freeway in Los Angeles
Roads along the 5 Freeway in Sylmar were shut down after a semi-truck carrying Tesla vehicles was engulfed in flames Saturday. Los Angeles Fire Dep...
 #Tesla #Swastikars
That Kristi Noem goes to the ring of hell where dog killers end up. #PetsBucketListOrWishes #HashTagGames
I am sure Usha's parents, both professors (mother is a provost at UCSD who studies Bio -- wonder how her grants are doing?), would welcome her back (and "her" kids) with open arms.
Salon.com
Divorce him already, Usha
JD Vance and his wife really seem to loathe each other
 #Vance #uspol_
John C. Calhoun would be very proud of Charlie Kirk.
Salon.com
How Charlie Kirk turned to religion to level up his racism
The "debate me" bro reveres a minister who claimed God cursed Black people to be "servile"
 #USPol #Slavery #Racism
"Love is love." Bert and Ernie #MuppetsDeepThoughts #HashTagGames
The Daily Beast
House Ethics Committee Slaps AOC Down Over Met Gala Dress
A congressional probe has determined the progressive representative did not pay a fair rate for the outfit.
 now do Trump (where to begin?) Stephen Miller (Palantir) Clarence Thomas (all those 5 star vacays) #USPol
The AI video of Trump smiling while watching Obama being arrested is nauseatating. As an aside, I wonder if the writer of The Curb your Enthusiasm jingle can sue. More to the point, this is about Epstein and Trump's hope that he can create a new thing to get MAGA all excited. So is the racist pablum about the Washington football team name. #USPol
Is he awake now?
The Daily Beast
Anti-Woke Dad Who Moved Family to Russia Sent to War Zone
Derek Huffman, 46, joined the military with hopes of becoming a Russian citizen. His wife said he was duped into a combat role.
We're all 1 awful twist of fate away from being George Retes: "Retes, who served in Iraq, said agents never told him why he was being detained @ the federal Metropolitan Detention Center in downtown LA. He was packed off, w/o a phone call, access to a lawyer, or even a way to clean the pepper-spray residue off his clothes & face, he said. While in custody he became so distressed that he was put on suicide watch, but he was still not allowed to contact an attorney."
Yahoo News
Army vet calls for investigation after being detained for three days in ICE raid
George Retes, a U.S. citizen, was held for three days after getting caught up in an immigration raid in Ventura County.
 #USPol
This is personal: "Appointing the 4 Horseman of the Scientific Apocalypse — RFK Jr. as Sec of #HHS, Dr. Oz to run Medicare & Medicaid services, Dr. Makary as head of the #FDA & Dr. Bhattacharya to run# NIH — has signaled the end of any serious approach to biomedical #science & public health by the federal govt. Together & separately, they have taken a wrecking ball to our august scientific institutions that were previously considered to be the best in the world."
Salon.com
Donald Trump goes nuclear in the GOP's war on science
Billions of dollars in cuts to research are leaving lives at stake
 #USPol