BREAKING 🚨: The Supreme Court will allow the Trump admin to deport over 350,000 Haitian families, terminating their temporary protected status. This endangers the Haitian immigrants who've come to the U.S. seeking refuge and safety and goes against America's promise of equal protection for all.

Justice Sotomayor is reading her dissent from the bench.

Third (but *not*) last ruling from #SCOTUS is in Al Otro Lado. For the usual 6-3 majority, Justice Alito sides with Trump administration; holds that non-citizens stopped at the border have not "arrived in" the United States for purposes of asylum eligibility: www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...

Ukrainian President Zelenskyy reports that Belarus is no longer allowing that its signal towers are used as repeaters for Russian drones in Ukraine's north. According to him it has come effect on June 22, only three days after Ukraine's 7-day ultimatum.

Sorry to see Popehat go.

🚨BREAKING: Federal judge blocks Trump Executive Order in case brought by Democratic state Attorney Generals. More soon... www.democracydocket.com/cases/trump-...

BREAKING: A federal district court denied a VRA challenge in DeSoto County, MS. Why? Because of SCOTUS's Callais ruling. But we will not stand for it. https://www.naacpldf.org/press-release/federal-court-uses-callais-ruling-to-uphold-discriminatory-desoto-county-redistricting-plan/

If you want to get your blood pressure up this morning

“According to President Zelenskyy, these long-range operations have effectively neutralized nearly 40% of Russia’s primary oil refining capacity as of May.” Hard to see how the Russian economy can sustain this. They depend on oil exports for revenue, but can’t even meet domestic demand. #DeathSpiral

Ukraine has also targeted the oil export platforms which are greatly limited. Russia can drill plenty of oil, but it’s getting much harder to load it on to ships.

UK Foreign Secretary, Yvette Cooper, has announced a new package worth ~£290M to bolster Ukraine’s recovery and energy security as she attends the Ukraine Recovery Conference in Gdańsk, Poland.

NEW: The Senate came back & did another vote on a new war powers resolution so that Rand & Cassidy could vote against it after Donald yelled at them. Trump's claim they "changed" the vote on the original one isn't true, but this "new" one effectively kills the first one. www.cnn.com/2026/06/24/p...

The president of the Utah State Senate who championed a huge data center beside the Great Salt Lake was defeated in his Republican primary on Tuesday night, one of the most high-profile signs of the voter backlash to data center projects.

lol

The logic of this piece of shit is, "we can't prove it, and somehow we hold all 3 branches, but I pretend think they cheated. So that should give us a right to decide whose votes count. And I swear on my Grindr account, we're going to do all we can to take those rights away from the American people"

A Christian. A Muslim. A Jew. Three people that certain politicians, pundits, and cable news hosts would have you believe are destined to fear each other. Instead, they’re laughing together, talking together, and enjoying each other’s company. Turns out ordinary people are often a lot

We can share the world and live in harmony

June 22nd, 2026.

Trying not to take this personally

President Trump approval Disapprove: 55% Approve: 38% Quinnipiac / June 22, 2026

To be fair, Texas is quite big.

Current House Model Democrats at 224 seats (210-236) Republicans at 211 seats (199-225)

All citizens are advised to be on the lookout for the guy who stuck his hand in the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool

If you don't mention deaths, they don't exist. 2020 Trump: “If we stop testing right now, we’d have very few cases, if any."

Abortion ban victim: Under Texas’s cruel abortion ban, I was forced to give birth to a baby every doctor knew would not survive. I was not allowed to make a decision. The state made it for me.

BIG WIN: Georgia is another state we stopped from silencing Black voters with discriminatory maps. When we fight, we fin! https://www.naacpldf.org/press-release/black-leaders-and-coalitions-in-georgia-lead-successful-effort-to-end-special-session-without-harmful-redistricting-legislation/

I know he's riding high but this is a pretty substantial gamble from Mamdani www.nytimes.com/2026/06/24/n...

BREAKING 🚨 🚨 🚨 The 6th US Circuit Court of Appeals said that Michigan was not obligated to produce the confidential voter data – which could include social security numbers and driver’s license ID numbers – to the department. www.cnn.com/2026/06/24/p...

But USPS WON'T SEND MAIL BALLOTS if the States don't supply all that information ... Someone, anyone please make this make sense ... 🤦🤷🤦🤷

Thus ruling changes that. But, Trump can now go to the Supreme Court.

NEW: Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-La.) called out Trump to his face today during a testy Capitol Hill meeting. “As I recall,” he said, “he did not particularly care for my comments." GOPer: Both "expressed their feelings & didn’t hold back.” www.huffpost.com/entry/bill-c... w/ @delaneyrules.bsky.social

Several GOP senators trickled out of the lunch tight-lipped and trying to duck the press. “A spirited conversation,” is all Sen. Ted Cruz said. “Lots of unity,” Sen. Rand Paul said with a smug look. "Lots of Republican love on Republicans.” Asked if he was joking, he replied, “Me? Sarcastic?”

At one point, Cassidy stopped referring to Trump as “Mr. President” and called him “brother,” Sen. Jim Justice (R-W.Va.) told reporters.

Unless Trump was calling him "Senator"--which I highly doubt--I can't think of any reason Cassidy should call him "Mr. President."

House Democrats have launched an investigation into Trump's botched $16 million Reflecting Pool renovation.

Florida House Speaker Daniel Perez has appointed accused sex trafficker and pedophile Matt Gaetz to the state nonprofit that oversees spending of the settlement money from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill.

Crews have begun dismantling the Everglades concentration camp after a call with state officials Monday told them to start taking down, the tents, fences, trailers and other structures.

Eight people, including five children, died walking 8 hours in 40 C heat to get cholera treatment in Sudan, because their local USAID-funded clinic had closed www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/4/...

Negar lives in Takhar province, Afghanistan. Her newborn twins died last year when she had to deliver them at home because the USAID maternity clinic closed edition.cnn.com/2025/07/22/a...

This is Mohammad Nagar, aged 1, who died last year when USAID cuts meant the clinic had no medication and couldn’t treat him for meningitis edition.cnn.com/2025/07/22/a...

In Nigeria, Yagana Bulama lost her newborn baby due to malnutrition caused by US food aid cuts. She had already buried three babies www.pbs.org/newshour/wor...

In Kenya, Jane, aged 9 died of malnutrition in a refugee camp because her mother Rovina couldn’t find care and also feed her other eight children hsph.harvard.edu/news/usaid-s...

In Afghanistan, USAID cuts closed 400 pregnancy clinics, leaving at least 30 women dead. They each had names and families www.bbc.com/audio/play/w...

In 2025, USAID stopped funding clean water in Goma, DRC. Goma then suffered the worst cholera outbreak in 25 years, with 1,479 deaths, a 361% increase. Every one of those people had a name www.oxfamamerica.org/explore/issu...

In Cote D’Ivoire, 70% of HIV medication was provided by USAID via PEPFAR. Over 2,000 health clinics have closed globally due to USAID cuts. In Somalia, child malnutrition has risen 73%

For the first time in 30 years, child deaths are now rising, in large part due to USAID cuts Lancet modelling shows USAID cuts will cause 14 million deaths including 4.5m children, by 2030. Independent CGDev research backs this up

Thanks to ODA, since 1990, we halved the number of children dying before the age of five, from 10 million a year to 4.9m In 90 countries, child deaths dropped by two thirds In just 3 years, we cut maternal deaths by 40%, down to 280,000 USAID saved an estimated 92 million lives over two decades

USAID provided ~ $63BN a year to 130 countries for essential food, health, agriculture, rights and democracy needs. The US accounted for nearly half of global Official Development Assistance

Musk says not a single person has died due to him axing USAID. Sadly, part of my job involves tracking aid spending. So here’s a thread with just some of the people who lost their lives because of USAID cuts