Ebola outbreak containment hampered by USAID closure, experts say. www.cnbc.com/2026/07/06/e...

Save the date! 🎉 Celebrate 100 years of the Ben Franklin Bridge with us on Saturday, July 11 from 10 AM–2:30 PM, rain or shine! This FREE, family-friendly event features live music, food trucks, rides, and more. Don’t miss it! ➡️ Learn more: drpa.org/bfb100

Looking at the week ahead, Elias Law Group is litigating 80 voting and election cases in 40 states (plus DC). This is a lot of work for a small firm of 60+ lawyers. When we fight we can win!⚖️🗳️💪

Wikipedia is in peril. In a world where trust in truth is crumbling, the grande dame of collective online fact-gathering is under threat on every front. The MAGA right, with Elon Musk at the fore, (cont.) www.nytimes.com/2026/07/05/b...?

Send Wikipedia a donation. I did. Wikipedia Is Battling for the Soul of the Internet www.nytimes.com/2026/07/05/b...

The White House in a new report accused leaders of the Smithsonian Institution of adopting a divisive, far-left ideological framework that erases American heritage, marking the latest move by the Trump administration to reshape US cultural and historical institutions.

Tucson, not even a checkpoint: agents smash windows, drag a US citizen to the ground, falsely claim he had a gun — then assault the man filming it. Fourth Amendment, First Amendment, § 242, all violated in one stop. This is what 'law enforcement' looks like when profiling replaces probable cause.

If professional sports leagues think it's important enough require because it impacts *games,* then it's surely important enough for a country to require when it impacts *lives.*

The same Americans who don’t know who pays for the tariffs Trump imposed on imports don’t understand even the basic principles of capitalism, socialism, or communism.

I’m calling for a moratorium on AI data center construction until we have strong guardrails in place. We need the highest standards in the country to prevent the kind of pollution, jacked up electricity rates, and abuse of communities that we’ve seen from data centers in other parts of the country.

While everyone swelters and lowers their AC setting to conserve I am served by a Municipally owned electric company that gets 100% of it's energy during the day from solar. We can have a different system not controlled by greedy wealth extracting parasites if we retake control of OUR government.

Happy 4th! 124 songs to go! We pick up the Philly 250 at 8am. Check out the list so far. xpn.org/the-250-song...

Yes!

Individual fossil fuel companies like Occidental Petroleum and Exxon (never mind their trade associations like the American Petroleum Institute) outspent entire industry-wide clean energy trade associations on federal lobbying in 2025: www.eenews.net/articles/sol...

We found a 1980 police report labeled “NO PRESS.” A former city detective testified this designation was not unusual. It meant Syracuse University had “put their foot down and said no press for any kind of rape, robbery, burglary” near the school.

AMERICANS’ ONLY CHANCE to save our Country, our Democracy, Law, Bill of Rights, Freedom, our Economy, Ecology, Environment, Public Lands, EPA Air & Water standards, clean energy, our children’s future, and even Life on Earth, is to VOTE TRUMP & MAGA REPUBLICANS OUT in Nov & 2028! And KEEP THEM OUT!

29% of Americans polled say they’d vote for a democratic socialist candidate. "In The Economist/YouGov poll, 29% of respondents said they would be willing to cast their ballot for a democratic socialist, 45% said they wouldn’t, and 26% were unsure." thehill.com/homenews/cam...

How is it that every American doesn’t get the same healthcare as their representatives? Why do we tolerate this? We all deserve so much more

Every other day, 83-year-old Marilyn Tewa of the Hopi Tribe loads buckets into her pickup and drives 5 miles to haul water. “That’s what keeps us alive,” Tewa said. Four states stand in the way of a deal to give her community water. with @kjzz.org

The resistance is truly amazing. Thank you to everyone who donated to help cover the legal fees of former U.S. Olympic canoeist David Hearn, who was arrested after touching the water in the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool.

Mamdani: "Therein lies the work of America -- a striving, a bettering, the reaching toward perfection. What a privilege each of us has to live in a nation that every one of its inhabitants can shape. What a responsibility each of us possesses to prove ourselves worthy of all those who came before."

For America's 250th, I read Frederick Douglass’ speech, “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?” on the House floor—for the first time in history. His speech endures as a mirror & mandate for us all—to confront our inequities while fighting for an America as good as its promise.

Walk into any nursing home or home care situation and 9 times out of 10 the nurse or caregiver is an immigrant.

Bravery.

PLEASE stop putting Americans on tv to have opinions on "socialism" they consistently have no idea what they're talking about

The saddest part of Trump's historically corrupt 2nd term is witnessing the impotence of our entire political system to do literally ANYTHING about it.

ICE finds a new way to dodge Congress about a secret protester database www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Last year ICE said a man tried to murder a female ICE officer while she was trying to arrest him. They swore under oath he grabbed her by the neck and tried to choke her to death. He was even indicted for attempted murder. Problem is, it never happened! Bystander video unraveled the lie.

Train-commuting home in New York today under the heat dome, let me just say for the record: our infrastructure isn't ready for what's to come. Not even close.

How did Pakistan end up mediating US-Iran diplomacy? Part of the answer is Pakistan was an early supporter of Trump’s crypto currency ventures. One executive is Zach Witkoff, son of Trump envoy Steve. Zach Witkoff signed an MOU re: the company’s coin with Pakistan’s finance minister in Islamabad.

July 4 weekend is a time to celebrate friends and family - and a distraction for a criminal president to pull off the biggest heist in 250 years Don't let go of a holiday news dump about Trump's $2B-and-counting sale of the presidency. Demand justice My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/trum...

Gregg Abbott has been Governor of Texas since 2015 and has spearheaded abortion bans, deaths of immigrants, & locking up immigrant kids. 📌Texans need to vote Gina Hinojosa for governor in order to protect our rights, freedoms and history. #GinaHinojosa #AbbottFailsTexas @ginafortexas.bsky.social

You know why it's easier to love the US soccer teams than it is the US a lot of the time? It's because those teams look like us. They're kids of immigrants, they're from all sorts of backgrounds, and they all come together to play scrappy against the world. They're the best of us.

SpaceX = white tech bro hype Nvidia = white tech bro hype Anthropic= white tech bro hype Crypto currencies = white tech bro hype Data Centers = white tech bro hype Tesla =white tech bro hype All of this nonsense is going to implode, and likely at the same time.

Remember: The real freeloaders in this country are the rich — not the poor or immigrants or any other group of people vilified as scapegoats. The richest 1% evade over $160 billion in taxes every year. The United States literally has yacht and private jet tax deductions. Hello?

BREAKING: A new video shows DHS lied, again, about an ICE shooting. Yesterday, ICE reportedly told police that a man “weaponized” his vehicle by “ramming” into an ICE sedan, forcing an agent to fire his gun during an operation in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. Except… that’s not what the video shows.

I haven’t seen *any* coverage of this and worry people have just become numb (or are too distracted by the World Cup, Knicks, etc.)

Found a Great American State Fair live cam and it's like having a water cooler that dispenses schadenfreude. www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ez0...

The 84-year-old senator has been hospitalized twice this year.

Marco Rubio is against birthright citizenship. But Marco Rubio *is* a birthright citizen. Ted Cruz is against birthright citizenship. But Ted Cruz was born in Canada. He only got US citizenship by a birthright citizenship law because of his US mother. They are both shameless hypocrites.

Parked but not idle: The buses “will charge up their nearly 200-kilowatt-hour batteries overnight, when the power supply is at its cleanest & cheapest, then send energy back to the grid from 4 pm to 7 pm on days when the grid is strained. The district will earn revenue for the power it shares…”

Chief Justice John Roberts' legacy is a far-right Supreme Court that prioritizes expanding corporate power above all else. I warned of his right-wing nature when I testified against his nomination in 2005.

What an incredible World Cup by the DR Congo team, who overcame a devastating Ebola outbreak and war, and brought unity and hope to so many through dark times. Fimbu!

The Trump administration is requiring borrowers to choose new repayment options after the Biden-era plan was ruled unconstitutional

An extraordinary cancer stat recently just dropped: zero. That’s how many UK women in their early 20s died from cervical cancer between 2020-24. My latest @opinion.bloomberg.com is on 20 years of HPV vaccines--& how the US could better maximize the potential of this critical public health tool (🎁):

Today, I voted YES to release the names of Members of Congress who used taxpayer dollars to settle sexual misconduct and other misconduct cases in Congress. No more abuses of power and no more hiding behind a system that shields perpetrators. We will always fight for justice for survivors—period.

If Mitch McConnell and his family want privacy, he should resign. Otherwise, he needs to reveal his condition and advise of his ability to do his job.