Vouchers are destroying democracy in AZ. I detest funding segregation in schools which can legally reject kids based on religion or disability. And they do. Kids return to public schools after being told that they’re “not a good fit.” We’ve lost voter oversight on the spending public tax dollars.

Söder is calling for maximum cuts to the *Bürgergeld* (citizen's benefit) because costs need to be reduced. Last year, the state of Bavaria waived 2.4 billion euros in gift taxes. I’ll just leave that there.

“Impotence all the way down.” I’m not going to say it; I’m not going to go say it; I’m not going to say it …. 🤐. How about: Release the Epstein files.

The orange Dear Leader can’t abide that he blew it (blue it?) at the Reflecting Pool, so he invented a fake “vandalism” narrative, and now Park Police are having to arrest harmless tourists to puff up the phony narrative, Soviet-style.

A military judge has sentenced Army Sgt. Quornelius S. Radford to spend the rest of his life in prison for attempted murder in the August 2025 shootings that left five people wounded at Fort Stewart.

Today is election day in New York, Maryland, and Utah! Want to keep up with the coverage? Follow these local newsrooms and reporters for the very latest:

“Given the signals that we’ve received from this administration, all of the ways they have acted to intervene in elections and to insert DOJ in election processes in a way that is inappropriate, we would be foolish to not be prepared,” she said. “So we are prepared." www.nbcnews.com/politics/202...

From today's @financialtimes.com #starmer #resignation

Prime Day reminder that Amazon... -Helps fuel ICE's deportations -Gave $1M to Trump's inauguration -Scrapped plans to display tariff costs after pressure from Trump -Shelled out $75M for the Melania doc -Donated to Trump's ballroom -Wants to reboot The Apprentice w/ Don Jr

The Justice Department issued and then withdrew subpoenas that sought to compel reporters at The Washington Post and The Wall Street Journal to testify before a grand jury, according to reports.

Tucson ditched red-light cameras years ago. With a statewide measure threatening to close the door on photo enforcement, the city is racing to keep its options open — backed by a decade of deadly traffic data. 

Amid a wave of positive headlines about Russian refineries in flames and logistics crippled, the battle for the legendary "fortress belt" of Ukraine's Donbas region has begun in earnest, with Russian forces breaking into the city of Kostiantynivka in Donetsk Oblast and overrunning the urban area.

Ukraine's response to the challenge of Kostiantynivka could be crucial in deciding whether this industrial city will be known as the last great fortress Russia took, or as the beginning of the end for Ukrainian-held Donbas.

Sotomayor's dissent: "The court’s decision today is yet another notch in its belt, unabashedly remaking the law in its preferred image. The majority jettisons two decades of settled precedent and breathes new life into two decades of rejected legal theories." www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...

Sotomayor, dissenting, cuts to the chase: "Today’s decision marks yet another low point in this Court’s esteem for its precedents." www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...

Old common law maxim: for every legal injury, there must be a remedy. Supreme Court: nah

Supreme Court rules against Rastafarian man over religious rights claim against prison officials The conservative majority often backs religious claims, although recent high-profile wins tend to involve conservative Christians

Supreme Court strikes down religious protections for the incarcerated. The right won't care because this plaintiff was a Rastafarian, but this precedent this creates is staggering for every faith. apnews.com/article/supr...

Supreme Court appears to have put a final nail in the coffin of lawsuits seeking to hold companies liable for human rights abuses overseas using the Alien Tort Statute. This footnote in the ruling sums up what it means for corporate defendants:

Today the Court only issued a decision in case number 4: Blanche v. Lau. A 6-3 decision declares that green card holders returning from trips abroad may be deemed "applicants for admission" in some situations, despite their permanent resident status, via a rapid decision by a frontline CBP official.

Today was an absolute blood bath at SCOTUS for the less powerful to enforce civil rights in the federal courts. TL;dr - SCOTUS rules 6-3 that only corporations have rights that are enforceable in federal court??

If Supreme Court functionally rules that only white Christians have religious freedom, we don't have religious freedom, we have Christian nationalism.

Trump sometimes loses at SCOTUS not because they're noble exemplars of judicial independence but because they're partisan hacks for a slightly different flavor within the GOP coalition. Sometimes he loses in Congress, too, and it'd be just as absurd to praise the "independence" of congressional GOP.

I think the $80 Billion ought to come out of the pockets of Dan Caine, Whiskey Pete and their dear leader.

Stick a fork in him, he's done. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

It isn't easy being green. 💚

Families of WWII airmen executed, and families of executioners, stand together in Japan

Imagine joining the armed forces to defend your country against external enemies, only to be assigned the task of guarding a pool.

⚡️ Exclusive: Ukraine believes it secured Trump's backing to act 'more boldly' toward Russia. Ukraine now believes it has secured White House backing for a campaign aimed at forcing Russia into meaningful negotiations, the Kyiv Independent has learned.

U.S. President Donald Trump privately told President Volodymyr Zelensky to act "more boldly," a senior Ukrainian official briefed on the recent Trump-Zelensky meeting told the Kyiv Independent.

Psychopaths are characterized by the ease with which they lie, the smooth disregard and lack of concern they show for being caught in a lie, the expertise by which they mold the narrative to suit their manipulations, and the absence of any emotional connection to their deceit.

Breaking MS NOW: Firings are underway at the Office of the Director of National Intelligence. This month, Trump said he planned to ask acting DNI Bill Pulte to "execute the immediate and needed downsizing of the office, reverting staff to their home agencies." www.ms.now/news/directo...

Breaking WaPo: The Trump Justice Department took the extraordinary step of seeking to force reporters for The Washington Post and the Wall Street Journal to testify before a federal grand jury — but withdrew the subpoenas after they were challenged by the news organizations.

SCOOP: A priest who is close to Trump successfully lobbied him to grant clemency to the fraudster David Gentile. Gentile privately indicated Father Frank Mann was paid for his help. EDNY prosecutors opened an investigation into the commutation. But it was closed by Trump political appointees.

NEW: Iran is publicly calling out Donald Trump and JD Vance for LYING, directly contradicting key claims the Trump regime has made about the U.S.-Iran agreement. 1/

“Regarding Iran’s released assets, previously illegally blocked by the U.S., WE will decide how to utilize them as we deem fit; there are NO restrictions in this regard.” Iran also pushed back on Vance’s claims about future nuclear inspections. 3/

Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmail Baghaei said: “Iran has no plans to allow IAEA inspectors to enter nuclear sites that were damaged during the war.” 4/4

Iran's Foreign Ministry says no U.N. Inspectors are scheduled to visit bombed nuclear sites. That contradicts JD Vance, who said yesterday that Iran had agreed in the Switzerland talks to let inspectors back into the country.

The Supreme Court barred a former Louisiana inmate from suing prison officials who cut off his dreadlocks in violation of his Rastafari religious beliefs.

The Supreme Court sided with the Trump administration and ruled that suspicion of a crime is enough to put green card holders on immigration parole.

The shameful killings of journalists in Gaza by Israeli army continue. Targeting journalists is wrong, and it must stop.

⚡️Ukraine destroys key logistics bridge in Crimea, hits over 60 Russian military targets overnight. A railway bridge across the North Crimean Canal, fuel facilities, and military infrastructure across occupied Crimea were struck in a large-scale overnight Ukrainian operation on June 23.

"The ultimate check provided by the framers for a corrupt president is impeachment." - George Conway #ImpeachTrump

Such a great restaurant!! I went there for a celebration after graduating Univ of MA - Boston in 2001. 🤞

Awwwww. Poor Elon … NOT!

The state’s highest court threw out a November ballot question that could have enacted the nation’s strictest statewide rent cap in Massachusetts, dashing the hopes of tenant advocates who had gathered serious momentum for rent control.

I don’t know this child, but she speaks to frogs so I adore her. A Panamanian Golden Frog followed her from one side of the tank to the other & back while she talked to it. It stayed in the corner watching her go after she finally waved goodbye. It ignored me. Cheers to wondrous bonds.