NY FED: “.. nearly half of firms that have paid tariffs still plan additional price increases to offset these costs, with some expecting to raise prices six months or more in the future.” @scottlincicome.bsky.social libertystreeteconomics.newyorkfed.org/2026/07/more...

“If Americans thought defending the liberal world order was too expensive,” Kagan wrote, “wait until they start paying for what comes next.”

"Washington, D.C., is the only national capital of any democracy whose residents have no voting representation in the national legislature."

I’m sure it’s just a coincidence.

“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness.”

Funny thing is that I *think* (and @anthonymkreis.bsky.social can confirm) that this would probably already fall within the even more obscure exception to birthright citizenship for babies born on foreign-government-run ships operating within US territorial waters.

Governor JB Pritzker is Illinois’ 43rd Governor and known for his historic investments in education, healthcare, and economic opportunity. Pritzker revisits the Gettysburg Address, Abraham Lincoln's speech that rededicated the nation to the principle that all men are created equal. #WeAreAmerica250

Important thread.

Paine rejected the idea that any man could be born to rule others, —“I’ll tell you Friend…so far as we approve of monarchy…in America THE LAW IS KING. For as in absolute governments the King is law, so in free countries the law ought to be King; and there ought to be no other.”

Bringing you all into the room where it happened... 250 years ago!

Since today is the anniversary of President Garfield being shot, I guess I should do a shameless plug for my book. Which actually ends with Garfield walking into the train station in which Charles Guiteau would shoot him. But if you want to know how he came to be president in the first place…

I feel like I should repost this every day until everyone reposts it every day and demands this simple change with big impact

There are people who worked for the last decade on making this a fantastic event and they were pushed aside and their funding taken. I feel rotten for them.

Donald Trump the Grifter in Chief.

❤️ Mr. Rogers

This is my lane. I went through the 194 Trump v Barbara opinion from yesterday section by section, noting what they got right about US migration and citizenship history, and what the dissents get wrong. Please share if you think it is helpful to others.

Amen to all of this! I am short, I can’t run to save my life, I can’t throw either, and I have one hand that barely works. The idea that sports were “fair” to being with is laughable.

This new law passed unanimously because it was hard to argue against what it includes. The problem? What it leaves out…

"Four of nine Supreme Court justices are willing to rewrite the Constitution by fiat." This has to be one of the most alarming sentences I have ever read. I don't know exactly how, but we must do something to reform the Supreme Court.

The explosion of MAGA rage at birthright citizenship ruling confirms again that MAGA is really a movement for ethnic cleansing. As we discuss on the pod, it's telling that sealed border and end to TPS/asylum don't sate MAGA. They want dramatic ethnic purges. Listen: newrepublic.com/article/2125...

My ancestors arrived here long before JD Vance’s, but I don’t believe that makes me more American than an immigrant that arrived yesterday. As a matter of fact, in my experience, the first generation immigrants are far more patriotic and idealistic about America than I am.

Last year, a study from Nationhood Lab found that 63% of Americans believed that it's a commitment to the ideals of the Declaration that unites us, while only 33% believed it was the kind of blood and soil nationalism this administration puts forward. www.nationhoodlab.org/nationhood-l...

if you have feelings about SCOTUS after today, and after the last week, and after the last months and years, remember that at least you can vote for state supreme courts in many places this year, and those matter a ton too my state-by-state guide to every state supreme court contest:

NEW from me: Americans are set to lose nearly $250B gambling this year—a record high, up more than 60% since 2019—and that's before counting unofficial betting via prediction markets or crypto Can anything stop America's gambling boom? 🧵

“Today, in a 6–3 vote, the Supreme Court decided the case in Trump’s favor. Now, even if the American people elect members of Congress who create agencies to protect our interests, the president can gut them and turn them to his own purposes.” This doesn’t seem very representative.

“Women seem to be just a little bit more resilient” Oh. Yes. taskandpurpose.com/news/ranger-...

A Brief History of Kids Today Are Selfish 🧵

The shame of all this will be with us forever

Trump is trying to send $1.6 BILLION of your taxpayer dollars to his sons through their investment in a mining firm. This is American foreign policy being used to benefit Trump and his family, not the American people. We've never seen this much corruption. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/28/w...

Enjoying this press tour so far. www.avclub.com/ben-collins-...

A survey of military families found that for the first time this year, rising grocery prices were a key driver to families being unable to afford healthy meals. Many reported skipping meals or reducing portion sizes so other family members could eat. federalnewsnetwork.com/defense-news...

Great speech by Talarico. “We’re the state that put breakfast in a taco.” Not the most important part I know, but it still seems important.

Harrison Ford is an award-winning actor whose iconic career spans more than six decades. Ford looks back at the Civilian Conservation Corps, a New Deal program that put thousands of unemployed men to work improving America’s parks and natural lands. #WeAreAmerica250

Cameron Katz is the Head of Content + Partnerships at Made By Us. Katz honors Frances Perkins, the labor secretary whose response to the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire led to Social Security, the minimum wage, and the forty-hour work week. #WeAreAmerica250

I completely agree with this sentiment. I missed the bicentennial by a few years, but my parents always talked about how great the celebration was when I was growing up. It just feels like such a missed opportunity.

Stealing resources from our beloved national parks to Mar-a-Lagoify the White House like he’s some sort of reverse Robin Hood is absolutely representative of Trump’s presidency. So is the ceasefire where neither side has ceased firing for that matter. I hope they’re prepared for the hearings.

NYT: “.. The 18 major construction projects Mr. Trump has undertaken during his second term come with a potential cost of more than $1 billion.” @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

“To be clear, this is NOT to say that men or masculinity are a “problem.” Rather, it’s to say that when men and masculinity are consistently viewed as preferable to femininity (as it so often clearly is in American politics), that IS a problem.”

“Mary Cunningham of CBS News reported in January that the third quarter of 2025 showed the top 1% of households in the U.S. owning 31.7% of all U.S. wealth. That means the wealthiest 1% held roughly as much in assets as the bottom 90% of Americans combined: about $55 trillion.”

my kind of Jubilee, the Japanese national team vs. 100 kids

Tracey Enerson Wood is a celebrated bestselling author known for bringing the forgotten history of women to light. In her novel The Engineer's Wife, she tells the true story of Emily Warren Roebling, who completed the Brooklyn Bridge despite tremendous obstacles. #WeAreAmerica250

Jim Obergefell is a leading LBGTQ+ activist, speaker, producer, author, and wine entrepreneur. Here he stories the 2015 Obergefell v. Hodges Supreme Court case, which guaranteed the marriage rights of same-sex couples across the United States. #WeAreAmerica250

In addition to being an amazing human being, former President Jimmy Carter was able in 1976 to see & speak to the future. Read this & know he’s talking about us right now. And we don’t have to be this way. This fake tough garbage. It’s weakness bragging how strong it is.

“Forever turned out to be short.”

“A war that was launched to destroy a terror-supporting theocratic dictatorship is ending with the president meekly nodding at a regional plan to rebuild that terror-supporting theocratic dictatorship with billions of dollars that no one but the mullahs and the IRGC will control.” Worse than defeat.

“Personally,” he adds, “I have never seen the US in such a position of weakness.”

sometimes i am struck by the sheer wickedness of this man

As Rachel Kahn of The New Republic reported, Trump insisted on Saturday that the pool had “worked perfectly” before vandals attacked, putting “a 250 foot long gash into the beautiful facade of what took so much work.” Wait until he finds out some idiot drove his motorcade on it.

The military services are again requiring new recruits to get a flu shot after an outbreak - just two months after Hegseth made them optional. It'll be mandated for larger swaths of the force in the coming weeks. abcnews.com/Health/milit...

Don't be fooled by the fact that none of today's 5 #SCOTUS rulings were "big" ones. Four of them split the Court along its usual 6-3 ideological lines—one of which guts accountability for human rights abuses; one that makes it harder to enforce Spending Clause statutes; and one that's bad for LPRs.