In Italy people created an art exhibit displaying a garbage filled Musk decorating a fence at Piazzale Loreto where coincidentally Mussolini's body was displayed in 1945. What did the Italians mean by this?🤔

it's essential for all reporting on this administration to be premised on one unassailable foundation: propaganda, bad faith and lies are its main tools. no speech, 'documentation', lawsuit by them can avoid this basic fact. not at this point. treat all assertions as untrue until proven otherwise.

I can't breathe the air, I can't eat lettuce, I can't afford gas, and my kids have measles. But at least now our soldiers will have enough testosterone.

the Ramsey County Attorney and Sheriff are suing the U.S. Department of Homeland Security over the feds' refusal to provide evidence related to the potential kidnapping of ChongLy Scott Thao during Operation Metro Surge. Here's the full complaint:

CDC is no longer surveilling outbreaks caused by campylobacter, cyclospora, listeria, shigella, vibrio and Yersinia. What could go wrong?

I mean, a federal judge just ordered formal sanctions against this nominee *this same week* What the hell are we doing here?

The Trump/Miller Doctrine is to do something awful so many times over and over that it eventually stops being covered as news. Bombing boats in the Caribbean, bombing other countries, threatening allies, ICE murders, etc. The first few times? Big news. Now? Barely even mentioned.

Russia is using high-tech components from Japan in its missiles

Concealing the death of a major elected official is Kremlin shit.

CNN montage of Trump claiming for months that Iran wants to make a deal

I'll summarize this: Mamdani asked NYers to keep air conditioning at 78 degrees. A wave criticism hit online. A MSNBC broadcast pointed out the US Department of Energy recommends that 78 degree figure. Immediately after, the US Department of Energy deleted 6,000 web pages related to energy saving.

Ramesh Ponnuru is opposed to "illegal immigration." He was born in Kansas. His father was born in India. 🤦‍♂️

There are many decisions that are wrong, sometimes egregiously, as to a particular policy issue. But Slaughter belongs next to Trump v. United States as doing deep violence to the constitutional structure itself, profoundly incompatible with the very idea of power being subject to the rule of law.

Oh my god we **did not have a president** for the first, we date America's birthday to the signing of the Declaration of Independence, I'm losing my mind.

Yeah this is obviously within Congress' power? I see absolutely no way that this isn't. The President is an empty vessel. Their job is to take care that the laws are executed faithfully. Who decides the laws? Who decides if they're executed faithfully? It's obviously Congress.

Yes, Congress should be able to do these things. A court this contemptuous of Congress deserves to be packed by Congress, not only to correct these disastrous precedents but also because Congress needs to show both Article II and Article III who’s boss.

the revealed view of this SCOTUS is that the framers got things mixed up when they wrote the constitution and that actually, the president is the central figure of the national government and congress exists as a junior partner that really ought not get in his way

Alito's argument – that counting ballots after Election Day means "the electorate’s choice does not occur on election day, and the federal election-day statutes are violated" – is some of the dumbest reasoning I have ever seen. The "choice" doesn't occur at the time of counting!

More than 600 people have been fired, investigated, or suspended for their statements about Charlie Kirk’s death. It looks like many of these retaliations were over Facebook posts. Yikes.

Dems have to run on this hard. Do not let the RFK types try to spin what his own party just signed off on here. Actual Monsanto, the comic book villain of Adbusters days, was shielded from liability over poisoning Americans. I don't care if it's slopulism: this Supreme Court wants you dead.

Jonathan Ross was the ICE agent who murdered Renee Good. Jesus Ochoa, 43, and Raymundo Gutierrez, 35 are the Customs and Border Patrol Agents who murdered Alex Pretti. Jonathan, Jesus, and Raymundo will be brought to justice in a court of law.

Military services again requiring recruits to get flu shots as Air Force outbreak grows 💉 In April, Hegseth said the flu shot would be optional for military personnel 🙄 #Pinks abcnews.com/Health/milit...

Rare red warning. Risk to life. Stay out of the sun. Avoid unnecessary exposure. Picture editor: "Counterpoint: Run the fun-on-the-beach shots?" We won't improve heat coverage until we stop illustrating public health emergencies with beach photos. www.independent.co.uk/weather/heat...

Love to campaign for a seat in the House of Representatives standing in front of a sign announcing (falsely) that the elections are rigged and so your vote won’t matter unless Oregonians vote to eliminate the vote by mail system which is beloved by the vast majority of them.

Proposed historiographical rule: if you're going to say Herbert Hoover was a man of sterling integrity you must immediately discuss him getting Lewis Strauss to use the Office of Naval Intelligence to break in to Democratic party headquarters.

I know it's already getting beaten to death this morning but the Army casualty figures from WWII are still stunning. 85% of hospital admissions were from disease, not injury. Imagine wanting to put flu back in the barracks.

Donald Trump converted the White House into a money-making operation for himself, his family, and his closest advisors and biggest campaign donors. It's endless corrupt self-enrichment from a president who says he doesn't "think about Americans' financial situation.” No kidding.

Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) claims FBI Director Kash Patel "may" have unlawfully paid more than $1M in bonuses to agents on his Director’s Advisory Team and on his security detail. www.ms.now/news/kash-pa...

If I didn't know why this was being done, the first thing I would do is ask is "Why do we need to produce sterile flies?" Their response: "I don't instantly know why this is useful therefore it isn't." That's their entire mindset.

Letter to the Editor from Bruce Fein in the NYT today. Trump is not immune from IRS audits.

Trump just said Stephen A. Smith lacks a high IQ. Stephen A. Smith is--surprise!--Black and--surprise!--just criticized Trump. Trump is--surprise!--showing he's a racist piece of shit. Again. ***** ftw.usatoday.com/story/sports...

Politicians in the US are deathly afraid that Americans might ever see a Chinese EV.

NEW: Trump administration officials earlier this year killed a federal criminal investigation into the coal empire owned by Sen. Jim Justice, the Republican former governor of West Virginia and a close ally of the president’s. By @justinelliott.bsky.social @josh-kaplan.bsky.social

I thought people were kidding, turns out Elon really did axe the screwworm containment program back in March 25. fucking imbecile www.agri-pulse.com/articles/226...

a glaring omission from much of the convo about the Delaney Hall labor and hunger strike imo is the fact that *these people shouldn't be laboring in the first place* this is slavery, & even the 13th Amendment's 'punishment for a crime' exception doesn't apply! ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...

Coal is currently the most environmentally destructive energy source. Coal combustion produces more CO₂ than any other fossil fuel. ~60% more than natural gas & ~30% more than oil. There's no serious environmental case for coal. The remaining arguments are economic & political, not scientific.

More great news.

lol of course he has been

This is bad. Bad for researchers. Bad for science. Bad for universities. Bad for professional associations. For example: 1. Every award would be vetted by political appointees, who could overrule peer reviewers and deny the award if it doesn't advance the president's priorities. 1/🧵

There is not a grand jury in America that will indict E. Jean Carroll. We see you.

Ken Paxton just gave an Epstein-style deal to a pedophile. Paxton released Adam Hoffman — an admitted child rapist — back on our streets after Paxton’s rich lawyer friend got involved. The Epstein Class has no place in Texas. Ken Paxton has no place in the US Senate.

Proposed NDA language goes well beyond draft regs. NDA unconstitutionally tries to bind federal employees from disclosing any info post-employment. This goes against existing & well-settled case law. No one should sign. And we will sue to protect 1st Amendment rights.

"No Preference shall be given by any Regulation of Commerce or Revenue to the Ports of one State over those of another" U.S. Const. Art 1, s. 9, cl. 6

Other, more serious & fully democratic countries simply have elections, count votes quickly, & don't have major parties manipulating the electoral plumbing to try & sow lies about nonexistent fraud & steal elections. They do it all the time, over & over, & they don't tolerate this nonsense.

I NEVER want to hear ANYONE ever complaining about the deficit and spending when the President, his family and his cabal of corruption ARE DRAINING OUR TREASURY TO LINE THEIR OWN POCKETS TO THE TUNE OF BILLIONS OF AMERICAN TAXPAYER DOLLARS AND NOBODY IS DOING ANYTHING ABOUT IT

I’ve been thinking a lot about this… how initially the Trumpists tried to disown the violence/treachery of Jan 6 with conspiracy theories about Antifa and the FBI, but how later they embraced the violence and flipped the narrative, turning villains into heroes.

And let’s not forget the writers, producers and crew who also made the Late Show what it was and who have lost their jobs because our president is a thin-skinned thug who deeply fears the ridicule he so richly deserves.

Nothing says intellectual freedom like being forced to take a class