I’ve directed flags across the Commonwealth to be lowered to half-staff in honor of Trooper Pahira. May his memory forever be a blessing.

This morning, we lost one of our very finest when Pennsylvania State Police Trooper Michael Pahira died in the line of duty in Schuylkill County.

20,000 people killed by heat in Europe in less than a week. That's the finding by @ccallahan45.bsky.social, a first-rate scientist who has co-authored several important climate attribution studies. Near real-time analysis like this is so important -- it makes the invisible visible.

Relevant journalism: the pools of Lancaster County lancasteronline.com/news/local/b...

JD Vance: "It was 5-4. Sometimes the Supreme Court makes mistakes. We're gonna try to correct that mistake, but nobody is perfect, including the Supreme Court."

Trump: "We're gonna declassify almost everything ... I told [Bill Pulte], 'You can declassify whatever you want.'"

🌡️🥵 Heat advisory now in effect with feels like already ~92-97 late AM -- actual temps soon in 90s. Haven't seen anything yet. Heat index near and past 110+ a good bet next several days. Full update: www.capitalweather.com/dc-region-fa...

NBC Exclusive: A White House task force has been gathering thousands of pages of documents from intelligence agencies — with plans to declassify some of them — so Trump can amplify new disinformation about past elections, three people familiar with the effort said.

this is what happens when the birthright case isn't unanimous.

The heatwave hitting the US right now needs to be taken seriously. Climate columnist @markgongloff.bsky.social has advice on staying cool and how to detect heat exhaustion 🎥

Two measles cases have been confirmed in Chester County, the first in the Philly region this summer. Overall, there have been 88 cases confirmed in PA this year, more than five times the cases reported in 2025. www.inquirer.com/health/chest...

Lancaster County is forecast to see triple-digit temperatures and dangerous heat index values as Independence Day weekend approaches. lanc.news/4479WhH

Could this be the year that construction finally begins on Mosaic in downtown Lancaster? lanc.news/44Kq7Sd

"Senate Republicans have argued that Shapiro’s plan to draw $4.6 billion from the state’s rainy day fund to cover some of the deficit projected by his plan is irresponsible"

The USDA booth is selling $47 Trump hats

President Trump reaped at least $2.2 billion from his family’s holdings last year, a new filing shows.

Pa.'s budget deadline won't be met tonight and the Senate is recessing for the week, but GOP leaders say they anticipate a deal will be ready after July 4 lancasteronline.com/news/politic...

The legal arguments for Trump's birthright citizenship executive order are vapid and embarrassing. Multiple lower court judges legit laughed DOJ lawyers out of the room. The fact that four Supreme Court justices twisted themselves into logical pretzels to buy it is a constitutional emergency.

What have we lost? The Fourteenth Amendment is holding on by what is effectively a single vote, and Brett Kavanaugh provided a statutory roadmap for next time (and yes, there will be a next time). But, you're right, time to stop bitching!

The 11 a.m. Tuesday time slot is at the Great American State Fair is apparently not the most fruitful, as there are more musicians in the band than spectators. (The band, consisting of young musicians, including a heluva brass section, was quite good.)

LMAO -- Fox News is again broadcasting from Trump's state fair and again there is *nobody* there. I've seen fairs in rural parking lots with more attendees than this.

A stretch of upcoming record-breaking heat from the Midwest to the East Coast will bring potential health-impacting consequences. Soaring daytime highs, days-long duration of heat, and morning lows that will be record warm will compound the heat impacts. Visit weather.gov/heat on tips to stay safe.

Iran and U.S.-allied Oman are moving forward with plans to collect payment for ships transiting the Strait of Hormuz. The payments would not be labeled a toll, but modeled off the Singapore “voluntary contributions for safe navigation.”-NYT

Biggest US power grid PJM to vote on managing data center demand reut.rs/3QwazhP

“They said: ‘Sir, we’ll do it for nothing. This is the greatest honor,” Trump told the New York Times in January.

If Alito does retire, the Senate GOP can afford to give away three votes on his replacement to provide cover to incumbents running for re-election—though that could go down if there are any other defections.

Donald Trump came one vote away from getting the Supreme Court to say that the 14th Amendment does not guarantee birthright citizenship for the children of undocumented and temporary immigrants, a view held only by fringe far-right nativists until VERY recently. This is shocking. I am stunned.

Lancaster County is under an air quality alert as increasing ozone levels pose a risk for children, older adults, and people with respiratory problems. lanc.news/4wc9v1w

JUST IN: #SCOTUS spokesperson knocks down withdrawn NPR report that Alito has retired. "NPR's reporting regarding Justice Alito is inaccurate. And their reporting that there was any kind of court statement is inaccurate." -- Patricia McCabe, Supreme Court spokesperson

With this ruling, the birthright issue is not going away. The right hasn't really begun *organizing* around getting rid of the citizenship clause. Like Roe, this will be their fight for a generation. And if the Democrats just say "we won" and ignore it, like Roe, the Republicans will eventually win.

Notably, FOUR justices would have rewritten the Constitution by fiat. Kavanaugh only concurred because he thinks the law Congress passed in the 1950s granting birthright citizenship governs the case, but he thinks Congress could eliminate birthright citizenship along Trump's lines if they wanted.

The outcome is thus: 5–4 that the Constitution protects birthright citizenship for the children of all immigrants. 6–3 that Trump's order is unlawful (because Kavanaugh says it violates a statute, NOT the 14th Amendment.) www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...

The Supreme Court strikes down Trump's attack on birthright citizenship. By a 5–4 vote, it holds that the 14th Amendment guarantees citizenship to children born of unauthorized and temporary immigrants. Roberts and Barrett join the three liberals. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...

The conservative Court just struck down limits on coordinated spending between candidates and political parties — a massive win for Republicans that will fundamentally change how tens of millions of dollars are spent in congressional elections.

The supermajority's decision in NRSC allows wealthy donors to circumvent limits on contributions to individual candidates by donating much larger sums to political parties, which can now spend the money in direct coordination with specific candidates. An open invitation for quid pro quo corruption.

The Supreme Court's second opinion is NRSC v. FEC. By a 6–3 vote, the court guts another campaign finance statute and overturns a 2001 precedent that upheld restrictions on political parties' coordinated expenditures with candidates. The three liberals dissent. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...

Clarence Thomas's concurring opinion in the trans sports ban case in West Virginia contains some of the ugliest transphobic stuff I have ever seen in a legal opinion. Straight-up gleeful. Vile man. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...

The Supreme Court's first decisions are the trans athlete cases. By a 6–3 vote, the court holds that Title IX and the equal protection clause do NOT stop states from excluding trans women and girls from female sports teams. The three liberals dissent. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...

Highs in Lancaster are expected to climb from 91 degrees Tuesday to 97 degrees Wednesday before topping 100 degrees Thursday and Friday, according to the National Weather Service. lancasteronline.com/news/local/d...

Penn Manor school board adopts $123M budget with 4% property tax hike lanc.news/4vzCgFt

A man shot and killed while walking in Lancaster County Central Park last week did not know his attacker, Lancaster city police said late Monday. lanc.news/4gNERXQ

Since President Trump killed off the $7,500 tax credit for buying or leasing a new EV, sales have cratered. Buyers instead are pivoting to hybrids, showing they are open to electrified vehicles while hedging their bets.

This past November, @lancasterwatchdog.bsky.social looked into why the turbines weren't being used. Now it turns out they're coming down. lancasteronline.com/news/local/w...

TMZ DC with perhaps the most brutal video from Trump's Great American State Fair, showing Dr. Oz on stage bragging to Dean Cain about how big the crowd is, only for the reporter to pan around and show absolutely nobody is there. Original post: x.com/i/status/207...

At the Great American State Fair, there's an antivaxx activist (Aaron Siri) who's taken one of the main stages, so across about half the fair you can hear him screaming about vaccines. He's putting charts up on two screens. The vibe is astronomically bad

This past November, @lancasterwatchdog.bsky.social looked into why the turbines weren't being used. Now it turns out they're coming down. lancasteronline.com/news/local/w...

A deportation flight from Miami arrived in Caracas hours before Wednesday's earthquakes. On board were 146 Venezuelans, including 19 women and seven children, according to ICE Flight Monitor lancasteronline.com/news/nationa...

Updated fatalities for the recent European heatwave: 1,040+ in France 327 in Spain 25 in the UK 7 in the Netherlands 3 in Poland 3 in Romania

Folks are going to start proposing phantom wind farms just on the hopes of getting a federal payout to cancel them.