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This one caught my eye because our home has aluminum wiring. When it was built all the copper was in Vietnam. www.reuters.com/business/aut...

On the eve of America’s 250th birthday we had confirmation of presidential corruption on a scale Nixon could never have imagined....What’s worse is that nobody believes that there will be any consequences for Trump, his cronies, and their henchmen. paulkrugman.substack.com/p/bicentenni...

On July 3rd our First Felon escaped the 101 degree temperatures of Washington DC for the 73 degree temperatures of Mount Rushmore and warned us about communism. apnews.com/article/amer...

But just as in the 1850s, we are now, once again, facing a rebellion against our founding principle as a few people seek to reshape America into a nation in which certain people are better than others.

I'll take my happiness while and where I can find it but I sure didn't expect it to come from the 5th circuit. www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

I noticed this wasn't getting much coverage and it is such a perfect example of the stupidity of our First Felon since it a combination of his tariff stupidity plus his Iran war stupidity. Anybody feeling liberated yet? www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...

But NAFTA gave more than tariff relief. It gave, or seemed to give, certainty: businesses could invest in border-spanning supply chains confident that they would be able to use these chains for many years to come. paulkrugman.substack.com/p/the-end-of...

[Thomas] Paine rejected the idea that any man could be born to rule others.... Where…is the King of America?” Paine asked in Common Sense. “I’ll tell you Friend…so far as we approve of monarchy…in America THE LAW IS KING.

The latest from Texas Observer cartoonist Ben Sargent. See more from Loon Star State: www.texasobserver.org/topics/loon-...

7/3/2026- Tree of Liberty www.timesfreepress.com/news/2026/ju...

Now permitted to spend freely in coordination with GOP candidates, national Republican committees can use their flush war chests to help candidates like Paxton close fundraising deficits.

REMEMBER: All Trump's stock trades are part of a blind trust managed by a third-party institution that is tracking various indexes* *It's not a blind trust and they haven't disclosed who is managing the trades or what indexes they are purportedly tracking.

So very few Americans even remember a nation that didn’t have a large, expensive social safety net — albeit one with some big holes in it. (In Texas, 19 percent of the population under 65 and 14 percent of children lack health insurance.) paulkrugman.substack.com/p/there-are-...

The corruption of our MAGGAT administration and their families detailed in this substack post is about to be exceeded by what is to come after SCOTUS' Trump v Slaughter decision.

It’s not a very satisfying outcome. Yes, we were being exploited, and now we know it. And the bad guys got away with it. But then, there’s a reason Americans are very angry, and that the establishment has lost credibility with the public. /1 www.thebignewsletter.com/p/crime-pays...

...There have been...comments...that a future Democratic president could make extensive use of these new powers, but this Court is utterly partisan. The moment a Democrat takes office, it will instantly decide that he or she has almost no discretionary power. paulkrugman.substack.com/p/a-verdict-...

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Four of nine Supreme Court justices are willing to rewrite the Constitution by fiat.

#Marburg in Uganda is confirmed. Uganda formally reported 1 case to #WHO today. A reliable source tells me there are actually 2 confirmed cases. The positive: Uganda is very good at containing outbreaks. The negative: Uganda doesn't like sharing news about them. Link below goes to updated story.

Despite leaving the White House more than a year ago, the world’s richest man appears to be seeing continued returns from the $290 million he spent underwriting Donald Trump’s 2024 presidential campaign. /1 oligarchwatch.substack.com/p/what-do-yo...

See link for 89th session and note SB2212 from 88th session. www.texaspharmacy.org/page/2025Wra...

With the Supreme Court’s decision, Trump now has “unchecked power to remove any head of any independent agency. Get the agencies to bend to his will, to play by his rules.”

Wall Street now accounts for about 65 per cent of the entire world's stock valuations. Smaller markets like ours barely get a look-in. And on Wall Street, it is the top 10 titans that have attracted more than a third of all the cash thrown at the NY Stock Exchange. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-06...

Texas, for example, flagged more than 2,700 people as potential noncitizens using the SAVE database.... As Votebeat previously reported, hundreds of the voters flagged for investigation had likely already proven their citizenship when registering to vote. /1

Tech giants that refuse to hand over documents related to their enforcement of Australia's social media age ban face fines of up to $1.65 million under new legislation. /1 www.abc.net.au/news/2026-06...

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So this would be terrible even if we had a temporarily competent administration. But now you’re doing all of this, the Supreme Court is doing all of this to empower the guy who brought you the Reflecting Pool, who brought you the Iran war. Utter nightmare. paulkrugman.substack.com/p/the-court-...

Ukraine has intensified its drone attacks on Russia, setting fire to a major oil refinery in the south and killing at least two people, according to Russian authorities.

"The lawsuit also alleges that OpenAI knowingly stripped copyright management information from publishers’ work — including author bylines, copyright notices, and terms of use information — in violation of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act."

The supremacy of the dollar, the pre-eminent tool in America’s toolbox of global financial power, has been seriously damaged by the rise of alternative payment systems – a rise that was greatly hastened by the Iran war. paulkrugman.substack.com/p/the-humbli...

Lufkin high school, 1913. Does anybody know if the building still stands?

Whoa! Indiana goes full communist! I tell you for true if democrats want to lead they better get out there in front of this.

It's the spirit of all the people who share this land! ― Gary P. Nunn, What I Like About Texas

Today's cartoon by Bill Bramhall:

State funding and policy have fallen short, advocates say, and the consequences are not confined to your backyard.

This is obviously not good. It’s actually quite horrifying. How did we so quickly descend into becoming a truly massively corrupt country on a level that we used to think of as being associated only with tinpot dictators in the third world? paulkrugman.substack.com/p/corruption...

A tech giant just admitted — in writing, to the federal government — that they’re laying off thousands of workers because of AI. It’s why Congress needs to pass my proposal to tax AI and keep people employed.

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This president and administration are turning the extraordinary resources of the American people—the things we the people have created over decades with our effort and our tax dollars—to their own ends. We are paying for their theft with a significantly diminished country, and even with our lives.

Dr @hcrichardson.bsky.social was talking about basically this last night in Politics Chat. The “democratic socialist” platform today is the Eisenhower Republican platform from the 1950s. America has long supported these programs.

Krugman: Okay. The congressman from Silicon Valley says democracy may still work. I think that’s a really optimistic punchline. paulkrugman.substack.com/p/catching-u...

Then the Republican Party platform addressed the needs of workers. Quoting President Dwight D. Eisenhower, it said: “Labor is the United States. The men and women, who with their minds, their hearts and hands, create the wealth that is shared in this country—they are America.”

Thread, and the answer is no "we" are not ready to have a public health conversation about what it takes to achieve the best result for our US populace.

However, cities are fighting back against Flock Safety, and DeFlock has openly challenged the company's claims, arguing that there is no independent evidence that ALPR systems reduce crime.

New ACIP charter could allow RFK Jr. to further restrict vaccine access, critics say The charter shifts focus away from reviewing and recommending vaccines to considering other ways to prevent disease. Read more: ow.ly/rpiL50ZhMIq 📷: The White House/Flickr

The Price of “Efficiency” Read more about the devastating effects of the USAID cuts in my Substack newsletter. nickanderson.substack.com/p/the-price-...

6/27/2026- The Roberts Court www.timesfreepress.com/news/2026/ju...