Worse than I thought. I saw Kushner’s Albania resort up close — it is an environmental disaster. The damage at Vjosa-Narta is not fake news. Bulldozers are tearing into one of Europe’s most precious wetlands www.aljazeera.com/opinions/202...

from @ryanlcooper.com prospect.org/2026/06/09/t...

Rabid white supremacist as capitalism’s big winner is so on the nose it would’ve been rejected as a parody ten years ago.

The best part is that the Right has been arguing for decades that corporations' ONLY obligations are to their shareholders, and here's an IPO that says "fuck them shareholders" more explicitly than any company that cared about communities every now and then.

We have no idea just how far behind the United States will be in 2028. We'll have nothing: no national science infrastructure, no agricultural progress, no medical progress. The oligarch class has decided to hollow America out in a hedge fund takeover. We are being robbed of our future.

Corporation: We made $5 billion but spent $4.9 billion to keep going, so our net taxable income is $100 million. Gov’t: That’s right. Worker: I made $50,000 but spent $45,000 to keep going, so my net taxable income is $5,000. Gov’t: That’s wrong.

Fukuyama: We have reached the end of history. History: It's 2026, and an official branch of the Ukrainian armed forces is tweeting about how drone striking Andrew Tate while he's clout farming with the Russian military would be fun, but is sadly a war crime. Get bent old man.

Order of events in my Phone‘s newsfeed shows the priorities of the current administration. Power instead of People.

Here's a thread of ICE agents dragging people out of their cars to assault and beat them down:

But sure, let them have CNN too.

The President of The United States is a 5yo learning to spell new words in between nap time.

Hi! I'm Bret Rhett Chet, here to tell you why you should buy and hodl SpaceX stonk. For a mere $135/share, you get pro forma tangible book value of $7.85/share, an immediate 94% dilution. New investors are putting up 48% of all capital ever invested in SpaceX in exchange for 4.2% of the shares. /1

The Stars deal isn't finalized yet — all we can say for sure is that Plano would be out at least $700m in TIF tax breaks, while added hotel and car rental taxes plus tax exemptions on the city-owned arena could easily push the public cost to well over $1B.

GEO Group, a private prison company, signed a contract to give ICE use of Delaney Hall and “support services” like security, maintenance, food services, etc. in exchange for over $60 mil/yr But it is the detainees—not GEO Group—who actually do that work, for free ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...

honestly this is nuts, they're establishing an 8-hour security perimeter around the most used transportation hub in North America, so one guy can attend a basketball game

Dishonest POS furious over reports that they are, in fact, dishonest POS.

apparently the Mexican government has backed a new super cheap EV van, 100 percent made in Mexico, that looks sick as hell www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

This is an outrageous story. A farmer donated 87 acres to a small Texas city on the condition it be used as a public park. Years later, the farmer has passed away, the city sold the land to a developer, and now it will be the site of a 135,000 square foot data center www.404media.co/a-farmer-don...

as many of you will remember, I dug into detailed local reporting about a different ICE victim every day of Lent to meditate on their stories, and when you read them all lined up some clear patterns start to emerge. the starkest to me was that every employee of GEO Group should be sent to The Hague

Right on. So weird to just casually drop that like it was SOP at CBS even before the open fascist takeover.

So many people focused on Bari Weiss asking to make protesters look more violent and glossing over Pelley admitting they’d already dug deep for the most violent protester footage they could find. His interview is more of an indictment of corporate media than many want to admit.

Reminder: Trump was president during the election he says was rigged, and when Dems were in charge he won — which means either they really suck at rigging elections or he is full of shit. (Hint: it’s the latter)

Thomas Massie says the conspiracy theorists were right about Section 224 of the NDAA, which he says will merge the US military with the IDF. Massie says the provision is treasonous and warns that it will force the US to compromise its own security for Netanyahu's demands.

Read this whole piece.

I know what those treasonous fucks are all about. Many of them were probably at the Capitol on January 6th. They need to be classified as a terrorist organization and shut the hell down.

Any time a Spanish speaking government does right by its poorest the New York Times summons the ghost of United Fruit

Bari Weiss was exactly like this on a smaller stage, as my editor when I wrote book reviews for the WSJ over a decade ago, constantly trying trying to inject her politics into my pieces, even post copy editing.

BLOGGER WHO HAS NEVER HELD A REAL JOB: you bitches sound just like human reources

"On Thursday, June 4, several thousand people marched for the fifth night in a row through the streets of Tirana...protesting against luxury real estate ventures by Ivanka Trump, daughter of the US president, and her husband Jared Kushner..." www.lemonde.fr/en/internati...

"Who do you think is more traditionally masculine? Donald Trump or Tim Walz? Remember - one of them wears makeup and talks about ballrooms *constantly* and the other guy coached football." - me, in my head, to the guys in my tennis group

Corruption hates daylight. The names of every single donor and the “benefits” they received since donating need to be brought to light.

I thought the Filibuster meant that the Senate could never do anything..?

This is why you see way more people upset about gas prices than about the fact that we have a special concentration camp dedicated to teen girls raped in custody

There's a reason why the Supreme Court is in a big hurry to basically eliminate the Reconstruction Amendments

In general, the idea that every voter suppression tactic and attempt to erase Black representation is actually going to backfire due to xyz is a really easy way for people to convince themselves they don’t have to actually do anything.

Scott Pelley was ousted from CBS News in the exact manner Bari Weiss *thinks* she was ousted from NYT

Rep. Madeleine Dean: "What is true is that the president has lied about being on Epstein's plane, and the unredacted files prove that. There's a lot in here. It's all covered up."

Ken Paxton was indicted for scamming his own friends. He convinced them to invest hundreds of thousands in a company while secretly pocketing a commission. Paxton sold out his own friends for a quick buck. What makes you think he won't sell you out in the Senate?

The absolute bottom of the journalistic barrel is people in the media chiding Scott Pelley for having the gall to confront Bilton. If you want a job licking boots, become a bootlicker. You’re not a journalist.

The heart of our constitutional crisis in one exchange between me and Sec. Mullin. When asked a simple question - if he will obey court orders - he says he will not because some court orders are "politicized". That's not how democracy works. And that's why we are in a crisis.

Agreed. We wouldn't be dealing with all the nonsense had the press properly covered Trump from day one.

It’s early, but still safe to say that this is one of the most important articles about constitutional law that will be published this year, and I wouldn’t be surprised if it ends up being the most, full stop. yalelawjournal.org/feature/the-...

Here was DHS’s statement at the time.

“If the person is a U.S. citizen or otherwise lawfully in the United States, that individual will be free to go after the brief encounter.” Justice Brett Kavanaugh www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...

Good on @velshi.com for pressing Newark Mayor Ras Baraka on his Newark Police pushing back the press so they could not witness and report what was happening last night at Delaney Hall. The mayor conceded they were wrong.

the fact is these democratic governors do not have actual control over their own state police forces, and that’s a seriously scary problem that no elected wants to talk about or deal with

#ResistanceEarth Way to go, Illinois! The state legislature just passed the "Plastic Pellet Free Waters Act," which defines pre-production plastic pellets as pollutants and empowers the Illinois EPA to regulate their discharge. Gov. JB Pritzker is expected to it. cleantechnica.com/2026/05/29/i...

It remains baffling to me that we have a clear constitutional requirement that the president can't enrich himself on the job, something we had no problem enforcing strictly for hundreds of years, and then this sweaty conman came by and the nation just sorta shrugged it off.

What a pathetic, disgraceful shit show. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...