Tonight sunset local time marks the beginning of Ramadan. For 1.9 billion Muslims worldwide it's a time of reflection, community, and giving. I hope you use this month as an opportunity to learn about your neighbors in a new light. More in today's post.

Stephen Colbert: “I don't usually say this to a guest, but if people are watching this right now, it's cause they found us online on YouTube” James Talarico: “This is the party that ran against cancel culture — and now they're trying to control what we watch, what we say, what we read”

This is the interview Donald Trump didn’t want you to see. His FCC refused to air my interview with Stephen Colbert. Trump is worried we’re about to flip Texas.

NEWS: CBS blocked Stephen Colbert from airing an interview with Texas State Rep. James Talarico and ordered him not to mention the cancellation over fear of FCC chair Brendan Carr. Colbert went on air and revealed it anyway. “He was supposed to be here, but… 1/

Dim-witted real estate guy and inexplicably US envoy Steve Witkoff will be taking part in talks in Geneva today to end the war in Ukraine *and* the forthcoming one in Iran. Real estate guy and possible vampire Jared Kushner will be accompanying him.

Excellent from @chrischirp.bsky.social on the current measles outbreak in London and what this says about vaccine uptake and what we can do to address it

“Trump looks like you and me, but inside he’s a different species. He feels nothing.”

Today, the Trump administration repealed the endangerment finding: the ruling that served as the basis for limits on tailpipe emissions and power plant rules. Without it, we’ll be less safe, less healthy and less able to fight climate change—all so the fossil fuel industry can make even more money.

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Are you seeing the SCAM yet? Yesterday, an executive order was signed to QUADRUPLE the amount of beef imported into the U.S. from Argentina.

The reason for the reported lie is worse than the lie.

We are deciding right now whether we want to be a country with ethnic cleansing and concentration camps.

Now that’s a President.

Kudos, Jack White 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

IOC will remove this soon due to copyright, but here it is

Luttig: It doesn’t matter what the Supreme Court does from this point forward. For two years, the Supreme Court has authorized the absolute lawlessness and unconstitutional activity of this president.

Wow: This appears to be a draft statement written by Ghislaine Maxwell in which she addresses allegations made against her and Prince Andrew by Virginia Giuffre. Maxwell appears to confirm that the photo is real and admits that Epstein committed crimes—contradicting her sworn testimony.

Trump to NBC on the Fed: “I mean in theory it’s an independent body. But I think, you know, I’m a smart guy. “I know the economy better than almost everybody.” Too stupid to know he’s stupid. A prime example of Dunning-Kruger, like many of his followers.

We gotta come up with a better system than “everything rests on whether these twelve billionnaires are nice”

I’ve been working on the Lawyers’ Committee Election Protection project for more than 20 years. This kind of threat happens in almost every cycle and almost never materializes. The threat - creating fear - IS the voter suppression tool. It costs nothing so any suppression it produces is a plus.

Putin has continued bombing civilians every day including last night. bsky.app/profile/atru...

Epstein Files: “Some suggested the Clintons ‘caved’ to Congress’ demands. More likely they’ve set a precedent that requires people with far stronger linkage to Epstein—& their wives—to testify. If they don’t, the GOP-led investigation in Congress will face claims that it’s trying to hide the truth”

This is how I felt after I read pretty much every email between Epstein and Bannon after the House Oversight release in December. So many truly sociopathic men with so much power, bent on destroying humanity for their own fascistic aims & chatting about it in real time, is enough to drive you mad.

I read this, and I almost regret it. What do you even do with the knowledge that Epstein wanted and was trying to engineer societal breakdown via far right populism bc he thought it would benefit his sex trafficking business?

He was part of an ongoing culture.

yes, ANOTHER grift...

It hasn’t gone unnoticed that all four people arrested today, including two journalists, were Black. And now we find out the charge is “conspiracy to violate civil rights,” a statute rooted in the Ku Klux Klan Act. Sit with that.

He can be Impeached by Congress and JAILED for International Law Breaches for Invading sovereign nation Venezuela

Brutal column in the Kansas City Star about a local real estate company trying to avoid public scrutiny for selling ICE a property for a massive prison camp: www.kansascity.com/opinion/arti...

JANE FONDA: “I know Don Lemon. My husband created CNN. And I will fight for their right to speak… they arrested the wrong Don. This is how autocrats act. We can’t fall for it.”

Leading American companies — including Palantir, Deloitte, and private prison giant GEO Group — raked in over $22B from ICE and CBP contracts last year. Do not forget who is profiting from cruelty and human suffering.

"The largest immigrant deportation and prison contractors in the US are expecting an epic payout this year: for every $1 that they donated to GOP campaigns in 2024, these private companies stand to reap more than $11,000 in increased annual revenue."

This is an FBI interview with a witness in 2021. Witness name is not blocked out throughout (great job, Blanche). She discusses young women being recruited in front of Trump Tower, by his employees, to attend parties with Trump at Jeffrey Epstein's in the early 90s. www.justice.gov/epstein/file...

The UAE provided Russia with the identities of US intelligence officers.

Some more #GraphicTruth for you today. MAGAts can spew lies all they want but we know who's been inciting violence from Day One.

Sitting President attempts to steal $10 BILLION from taxpayers. The most corrupt regime of our lifetimes. With no close second. And the Hunter hunters are silent. www.nbcnews.com/politics/don...

Renee Goode and Alex Pretti would be alive today if Kamala Harris was POTUS.

I don't think people understand that if you shut down the government, ICE and CBP do NOT shut down. They're funded by supplemental money from the BBB. That's why dems are separating the DHS funding bill and asking for restrictions. I want them to demand a rescission of that funding or shut DHS down

MINNESOTA — Mom goes outside to warm up her car, ICE grabs her: "Please, my car kids are all alone in the house!” So nothing has changed and Homan was just to put a new face on the cruelty, got it (H/T longtimehistory)

We did not properly punish the confederates. We did not properly punish the insurrectionists on January 6th. We have to punish ICE. They can’t be allowed to slink back into their communities quietly. Expose them. Arrest them. Convict them. Imprison them.

Your gentle reminder that grabber Trump is explicitly named as a rapist in the Epstein files.

My New One @slate.com: "Trump’s Continued Obsession With 2020 Is a Joke. His Raid on a Georgia Election Site Is Not." slate.com/news-and-pol...

ICE's decision to just leave cars abandoned in the roads is one of those dystopian things that makes you recoil in shock when you encounter it.

Fred refused to step down even while dying of Alzheimer’s. Donald has frontotemporal dementia; classic forward posture, gait problems, word salads, phonemic paraphasia (“mishiz” for missiles), unable to drink w one hand.

"I'm coming to Boston and I'm bringing hell with me." --Homan in February "Do I expect violence to escalate? Absolutely." -- Tom Homan in March "I actually thought about getting up and throwing that man a beating right there in the middle of the room" -- Homan in July, referring to a D congressman