these aren't some tourists who were vacationing in the congo, these people are aid workers and doctors and federal workers, rubio and trump are playing needless games with these people's lives

biden’s got my vote for 2028 🫡

imagine what kind of a country we could have if congress worked the way it was intended to.

President Trump signed an executive order that puts some 8,000 high-ranking civil servants into a new category of employees who can be fired for any reason. n.pr/4vpyTQZ

Exclusive: The Trump administration is diverting at least $90 million from entry fees to national parks to fund a $1.6 million fireworks display and $76 million to repair fountains including the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, according to documents.

Trump will have appointed roughly 1/2 of the federal judiciary by the time this is done, full of people like Lane who now have lifetime seats (and thus a thumb) on what we are and are not allowed to do with our democracy. Any political program that cannot square the need for purges will not survive

Bari's move here was about as strategically stupid as anything I've ever seen. Like, waltz into Stalingrad levels of stupid.

little cliche at this point, but this is a feature not a bug. big tech knows objective truth for many comes from what they see in search. AI is the next leap in surfacing information but AI cannot think or reason. it regurgitates whatever it deems correct. same tricks deployed for SEO work with AI.

The 60 Minutes team after 6 months of David Ellison and Bari Weiss.

More footage from St. Petersburg shows a Ukrainian long-range FP-1 flying toward the oil terminal while Russian "air defense" tries to shoot it down. Bystanders watch the drone move across the city toward its target. #Russia

The SCOTUS has become so bold that they went from "This is the outcome we want, so we'll pretend/twist the law to fit the decision we want to get to" to "This is the outcome we want, so we're not even going to consider lower court rationale, apply the law, or pretend like laws matters for our side."

Full statement of Scott Pelley after he's fired from CBS 60 Minutes, detailing the sort of corruption of journalism Bari Weiss has brought to CBS News:

WASHINGTON (AP) — US Supreme Court allows Alabama to use congressional map favoring Republicans in this year's elections.

It's not just measles: Doctors are seeing more of a number of vaccine-preventable illnesses. And it's not just childhood vaccines: They're seeing more adults refuse tetanus shots after injuries, and even blood transfusions bc the blood might come from a vaccinated donor. From me and Dani Blum:

This is incredibly bad for many reasons. The obvious: targeting scientists using approved and legitimate methods to move samples (deactivated is a really important word in this doc). The less obvious: high similarity to a number of existing conspiracy narratives targeting public health work.

i hate to surprise people but tarrio isn't coming up with this legal idea on his own...

there's a word out there for this...

Hezbollah has formally rejected a US-brokered partial truce, stating they will not stop cross-border attacks on northern Israel in exchange for Israel sparing Beirut's southern suburbs, per BBC

blanche really thinks he's outsmarting the room here

a you-can't-make-it-up @bobbyallyn.bsky.social scoop: George Santos told X followers he was going to the State of the Union. Then he didn't show - and placed bets on Kalshi that netted him tens of thousands of dollars. Now he's under federal investigation by DOJ and CFTC www.npr.org/2026/06/02/n...

this is the kind of merit that pete hegseth has brought to the department of defense

here's is what Rubio looked like on the night he claims he was working hard with the president and definitely not shirking his secretary of state duties (Julia Demaree Nikhinson/Getty)

they hate it

Again, when the Biden admin did a slightly more organized and thoughtful version of this (which also had its problems) VCs like Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz decided it was an attack on the very concept of innovation and they had to elect Trump to fix it. Now Trump has done a worse version...

Gold has overtaken US government bonds as the world’s top reserve asset, per FT

Pressure is mounting on Russian President Vladimir Putin over how to end his war in Ukraine as Moscow’s offensive stalls, financial resources dwindle and Ukrainian drone strikes exacerbate public dissatisfaction, Russian and European experts said.

Kenya’s high court on Tuesday effectively delayed the Trump administration’s plan to set up a quarantine unit in the country for Americans exposed to Ebola. The plan has sparked angry protests in Kenya.

Here was DHS’s statement at the time.

Holy crap. The ways in which this is bad is very very many.

another day, another story about the administration's war on knowledge itself, all in service of allow its corporate patrons free rein to rob us blind and poison our world www.nytimes.com/2026/06/01/c...

This is absolutely nuts: hackers are hijacking high-profile Instagram accounts by simply asking Meta's AI chatbot to change the email on the account. Meta's AI does it, hacker gets password reset code, they're in. A staggering security issue www.404media.co/hackers-simp...

absolutely. this is the kind of steadfast ethical respectability individuals at any threatened institution should be emulating. we only know this instance because the meeting was recorded. imagine the conversation's we're not reading about we are the majority view, don't let them tell you otherwise

the trump official — who led the siege & occupation of Minneapolis — admitting to having an ongoing dialogue/rapport with Martin Sellner, a straight-up Nazi who influenced the Christchurch shooter, while speaking at a conference about remigration (read: ethnic cleansing) is a pretty big deal!

Telling SCOTUS that Alabama can’t push through its racist maps because it’s too busy honoring Jefferson Davis’s Birthday is perhaps the best thing I’ve ever read. That we’re here because Clarence Thomas ignored Alabama’s request for a SCOTUS decision by this morning is just the cherry on top.

Excellent profile of Tom Steyer @tomsteyerhq.bsky.social We're going to need some class traitors www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

So much for rehabilitation.

The methodology here is fairly close to "half of families have below median consumption".

some content farm on facebook is going to find an antisemitic angle to this

enjoy your $8/gal gas on July 4th, America

step back and ask yourself why do we believe tech guys with money have all the right answers? do we take them seriously because we think money = wisdom? do we understand the only way guys (investors) like this can survive is by scraping the moldy bottom of every barrel for bad ideas they can sell?

Sarah’s book is jaw-dropping, and Meta has been pulling this clown shit for over a year. As the article points out, it’s clearly a personal vendetta rather than good crisis comms. Too bad the Streisand Effect exists!

FORMER FED CHAIR JEROME POWELL WARNED THAT ALLOWING A PRESIDENT TO REMOVE FEDERAL RESERVE OFFICIALS OVER POLICY DISAGREEMENTS WOULD UNDERMINE THE FED’S INDEPENDENCE AND DESTROY ITS CREDIBILITY WITH THE PUBLIC.

59 straight and 125 of 149 (84%) days in 2026 with WindWaterSolar meeting >100% of demand on the California ISO grid for an avg of 4.9 h/d among all 149 days. CAISO had the lowest U.S. wholesale electricity prices 2025-26, indicating most stable grid. No blackout since 2020 eia.gov/electricity/...

maybe one of the most archived and preserved sets of data out there. grab your copy today! on a different note, how absurd is it that trump wants to erase this event from history but still give money to the cucks who did his bidding on the day where nothing apparently happened?

It is part of a much longer list, of course, but yes. Everyone has just decided that domestic law, the Constitution, & a raft of signed, ratified international treaties simply do not matter for this One Special Boy.

Nothing says I love this city and will put it first like threatening to fuck off if you don’t get your way If Pratt could or wanted to help Los Angeles no election defeat could stop him from keeping up that fight You think Zohran would have LEFT NYC if he had lost www.foxnews.com/entertainmen...

1) Someone really needs to push back on this idea of 1st Amendment zones. I haven't taught polisci 101 in 20 years, but last time I checked the entire US was a 1st Amendment zone. 2) What's the point of having 1st Amendment zones if you're just going to have police rampage through them?

Live your life so people don't root for the venemous spider