My brain has 37 tabs open. I don't know where the music is coming from.

If I can be a nit-picky historian, I would point out that William McKinley was president on July 4, 1901. He was shot on Sep 6 and died on Sep 14th, which is when his VP Theodore Roosevelt became president.

The cost of the Iran War has been massive. Direct military costs will likely approach $100 billion. But the total could be closer to $1 trillion when long-term costs from inflation impacts, debt interest payments, and veterans’ benefits are included. My @morningjoe-msnow.bsky.social Chart

Don’t have to worry about fighting crowds at the Great American State Fair in D.C. One fair attendee comments: “I’ve seen bigger crowds in the waiting room for a colonoscopy”

"I try to keep as calm and low-key as possible. But I cannot describe the mix of rage and sadness that I feel at the idea that someone brought our children into this. They are four years old. Four. They do not know or care what a Democrat or a Republican is...For God’s sake, they are just kids."

This 1679 “Sabionari” Stradivarius is the only playable guitar by Antonio Stradivari left in this world.🤗 So take just a moment to hear a sound that’s well over 300 years old! @55SweetThing #globalmuseum #music #guitar #Stradivarius

Phang: I have standing to be able to get Todd Blanche to comply with Judge Sullivan’s order, which is now telling him that on or before July 2nd, he either has to put up or shut up. He either has to bring forth unredacted files or show cause as to why he should not or cannot do so.

I like how everyone's slightly sketchy high school friend who does seasonal contractor work in the summer and smokes pot all winter knew the reflecting pool lining was gonna fall apart.

Trump is backing away from getting Iran's enriched material: "You could make the case, why even bother? It's not very valuable stuff."

Trump lies constantly and he is desperate for the Iran war to be over. So desperate that he’s giving Iran 20 times the money Obama did, and getting nothing in return, except an open strait that Iran will charge a “maintenance fee” to all ships. Well done, bozo

Holy shit www.wisarchive.com/post/my-work...

All the people crying that we need “regular sports guy” Dems are the same people who told Obama—an absolute regular sports guy—to tone it down.

I've just posted a new (fairly short!) paper on unitary executive theory's impoverished theory of democratic accountability. Give it a read -- I'd love to hear any thoughts! papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Where the fuck is WH press corps response to attacks on women reporters? Shameful bootlickers and enablers

Is this big? Because it seems big. www.notus.org/2026-electio...

82 years ago today my grandfather, who lied about his age to enlist in the military, was in one of the first waves of landing crafts to hit the beaches of Normandy. He's been gone a long time now, but today I remember him and the other brave souls who fought and died for a righteous cause.

Again, please share. In every aspect of American history you will run smack dab into the critical contributions of Black people. It’s not Black history. It’s American history. Trying to erase it is a fool’s errand. We live it every day. time.com/5836444/blac...

The U.S. and Iran are contemplating a preliminary memorandum of understanding to potentially consider opening exploratory discussions about the possibility of future negotiations, pending clarification, interpretation, review, regional consultation, weather conditions, and vibes

Zelenskyy: Our intelligence services receiving data from American and European partners, about Russia preparing a strike with the Oreshnik missile. We are seeing signs of preparation for a combined strike on Ukrainian territory, including Kyiv, involving various types of weaponry.

Why didn’t I share Trump’s truth social post about an imminent Iran deal as though it were fact? Oh, I dunno. From the Chief National Security reporter at Reuters:

President Zelenskyy says it's unfair to only offer Ukraine associate membership of the EU. "It's time to move forward on Ukraine's membership in a full & meaningful way. We defend Europe - fully, not partially and not with half-measures. Ukraine deserves a fair approach and equal rights in Europe."

Tonight we congratulate our friend Stephen Colbert and his writers, staff and crew for eleven years of excellence. Watch Colbert’s finale tonight, and then never watch CBS again.

Two officers who defended the Capitol against the Jan 6 rioters just sued to block Trump's $1.8 billion slush fund. Check out their standing argument, it's pretty interesting:

This pup was absolutely not digging in the dirt. Everybody knows that would require a permit. Thinks you have a whole lot of nerve accusing him of breaking municipal laws with no evidence. 12/10 (IG: san_francisco_rott)

Once upon a time Google was literally the most amazing information retrieval system I have seen in my life. It was quick and returned primary sources to read on almost any subject. It was better than magic. It makes me sick to see what they've done to that resource.

Weird how Trump went after one of the loudest America First members of Congress harder than he's ever gone after any pedophile or foreign dictator. Starting to think he's not actually America First guys...

I appreciate @natecohn.bsky.social & Eve Washington's NYT piece pointing out that random simulations of nonpartisan districting tend to produce many minority opportunity districts, perhaps as many as we have now. But although the subhead comes close, the authors do not ever quite say the key point—

This is a political time to wake up EVERYDAY prepared to Speak Truth to Power!.....

I’m pro-freedom, pro-law and order, pro-limited government, and pro-the Declaration and the Constitution. And so today I’m a Democrat.

THANK YOU David Letterman & Stephen Colbert for a lifetime of smart satire, laughs, speaking truth to power & sending us to bed with a smile on our collective faces. You will be missed. 🙏 #EndOfAnEra

For 40 years, American foreign policy regarding Taiwan and NATO was defined by one word: deterrence. It was a quiet, bipartisan commitment designed to keep American troops out of avoidable wars. 1/3

Terrorist Slush Fund is exactly it.

"We find a sharp rise in non-existent references following widespread LLM adoption, with a conservative estimate of 146,932 hallucinated citations in 2025 alone....hallucinated references disproportionately assign credit to already prominent and male scholars." arxiv.org/abs/2605.07723

Sure he was, dude. What a pathetic loser.

Trump plans to steal $1.7B from taxpayers to pay off the terrorists he already freed from prison. abcnews.com/US/trump-poi...

one of the only things I miss from Twitter is being able to remind Brendan Carr what a corrupt hack he is based on my 20 years of writing about corrupt U.S. telecom policy hacks I've seen my Techdirt writing upset him several times

Many congressmen pretend to have been briefed about “inside information” regarding UFOs. They are always the weird ones too that no one hangs out with. They have NO special information . We don’t know any more than everyone else. If someone pretends they do, they don’t.

AOC on possibly running for the Senate or President: They assume my ambition is a title or a seat. My ambition is way bigger than that. My ambition is to change this country. Presidents come and go, elected officials come and go, single payer healthcare is forever.

He launched the war to distract from the Epstein files, he just dropped the UFO files to distract from his war. And he’ll keep on trying to distract you from 1) All the money he, his pals, & his family are making, and 2) This economy that he has singlehandedly fucked up.

Someone out there decided it would be a good idea to put a German Shepherd in charge of babysitting a bunch of Doberman puppies and they were 100% correct

The thing is, I can imagine the thinking here: jawboning the market buys time and if you can get the strait reopened before the pressure of physical barrel shortages hit, you can confine almost all of the pain to other countries and avoid the worst of the political blowback.

Do you Remember when Obama, Clinton and Bush tried to get a comedian fired for making fun of them??? Me neither … only whiny b!tches do that 🤷🏻‍♂️

Would the seven people on Bluesky who would answer "no" please raise their hands?

perfectly normal stuff at the #WHCD then… “Preznit Fuckwit used the occasion to whine about why he needs a vulgar Epstein Dance Hall” "They are to report accurately on what had just occurred right in front of their very eyes" Corporate Media FAILS US -again open.substack.com/pub/jefftied...

Trump, attends his first Correspondence Dinner as President, to stage another bad assassination attempt. Karoline Leavitt fucked up tho and said "shots will be fired" before the event starts. All an attempt to pitch his stupid ass ballroom. Fuck they're pathetic.