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Biden proposes 30% climate change tax on cryptocurrency mining NEWS.YAHOO.COM The White House is trying to persuade Congress to pass a 30% tax on the electricity used in cryptocurrency mining in the next federal budget in order to minimize the nascent industry’s impact on climate change.

Is the Debt Limit Constitutional? Biden Aides Are Debating It. - The New York Times WWW.NYTIMES.COM As the government heads toward a possible default on its debt as soon as next month, officials are entertaining a legal theory that previous administrations ruled out. It took them long enough to realize that this was the route they were going to have to go. They're coming a little late to the game with this with a month to go until the limit is breached.

Will be interesting to see what the price point is, but it's way past time for the entire regional cable sports station model to get blown up.

Well the discourse about this one should be particularly deranged.

Don't worry, Dick Durbin is currently drafting a letter asking John Roberts to investigate himself.

Yeah, it's already been announced that he''s gonna veto it.

Just looked up what the "Fischer Trucking Emissions CRA" is and it's exactly what you'd think. Just lets trucks dump out a bunch more smog emissions. Cool.

Been out all day till just now. Great day.

Every so often they would have a good price for something online, but going into the brick and mortar store was always a weird experience. It always felt somehow like the overall footprint of the store was huge but that they didn't actually have a good selection of any one thing that I was looking for.

Prosecutor's memo said Hispanics get tougher plea deals; state attorney calls it a mistake WWW.TALLAHASSEE.COM State Attorney Jack Campbell said the document misstated his office's policy for plea bargains. "We're not prosecuting people because of race," said Campbell. Uhhhh, yeah, we had an explicitly racist policy for plea bargains. On accident though.

Stephen King has a check mark despite not having signed up for Blue and Elon's admitted now that he's paying for it personally out of spite, I guess, because King criticized him. Which is basically an admission that most people see a blue check as a badge of shame. This dude's brain is soup at this point.

Activist at "Cop City" training center site had 57 gunshot wounds, autopsy report says WWW.AXIOS.COM The results differ from those of an independent autopsy performed at the request of the activist's family. Jesus

No right-wing social media alternative is ever going to take off, because people on the right don't actually want to have a discussion amongst themselves, they want to have an audience of punk leftist kids that they can try and trigger by being as obnoxious as possible.

The fact that it's Walgreens is significant because their CFO admitted a few months ago that in the last two years they've basically ginned up a panic about shoplifting serving no real purpose Walgreens executive says 'maybe we cried too much last year' about theft WWW.CNBC.COM Walgreens acknowledged it may have overblown concerns about thefts in their stores after shrinkage stabilized over the past year.

Not even just a single ad, but specifically it's a one minute long Instagram video that I never would've seen in my life had there not been a two week long right-wing media blitz about it.

Texas judge Matthew Kacsmaryk did not disclose law review article to Senate - The Washington Post WWW.WASHINGTONPOST.COM The judge who delivered a high-stakes abortion pills ruling last week removed his name from a law review article during his judicial nomination process, emails obtained by The Post show. Hey look, it's a conservative judge hiding something damaging again. Who could've predicted.

Update: Clarence Thomas's mom has been added to the Garden of Evil

It's moments like this--where you have prominent writers and political figures all the way from the far right to what you could generously call the center-left--all popping at once to say, "I don't understand why people keep ragging on the billionaire nazi garden. I have also taken many trips to the billionaire nazi garden," that really de-mystifies how things have gotten to be as fucked as they are.

Gov. Greg Abbott announces he will push to pardon Daniel Perry who was convicted of murder WWW.STATESMAN.COM Abbott's pardon tweet published less than 24 hours after Tucker Carlson called out the governor on his broadcast to say that Texas did not recognize the right of self-defense. Can't really understate how gross the idea of immediately pardoning this guy is when you click through and read the details of the case, including the fact that he was basically fantasizing about shooting protesters days before the shooting happened.

Within minutes of each other this afternoon, separate judges released rulings on mifepristone, the abortion drug. One banning it and one requiring the FDA to continue allowing it. So I guess the abortion pill now exists within some sort of a quantum realm.

Taibbi and Elon:

Top 50 list with Mad Max Fury Road nowhere to be seen...

This why this shit he's doing at Twitter is going to damage everything he's a part of across the board. If this happens at any other company they can find a couple of scapegoats to fire and run damage control, but when this is happening at the same time Elon is changing the Twitter logo to the Doge dog for the lolz then it's just like "well, yeah, this company is run by a man-child who's probably perving on people in his spare time"

It's an almost 50%-50% dead heat right now

Runoff election was today. Vallas has an early lead, but it sounds like nobody knows what parts of the city have been counted yet. Saw something earlier today suggesting that the youth vote was turning out more than in the February election.