Trump has a new side project: counting the number of trees in a public park across the street from the White House. He wants Lafayette Square to feature 47 trees — to match his 47th presidency, per people familiar. with @jakespring.bsky.social

I was on a Zoom call with advocates from Springfield and elsewhere in Ohio yesterday afternoon, and it’s absolutely horrifying and inexcusable what this administration is doing to this community and the lie that Sam Alito told to OK this.

next journalist who interviews vance about his faith should ask him about his role in ethnically cleansing his co religionists

But the MOU paper

Trump ripped up the walkway between the West Wing and the mansion to replace it with polished African granite carved in Italy. "Paid for by me," he claimed. Except that's not true. Taxpayers paid $689,232, per documents obtained by @michaelscherer.bsky.social www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

“The things that are happening, no one could have predicted” - SNL MAGA mom

The average life expectancy of a new Russian recruit—from arrival at a training ground to death in a combat zone—lies somewhere between 10 days and three weeks. Once sent onto the battlefield, they survive an average of 20 to 35 minutes. @peterfrankopan.bsky.social foreignpolicy.com/2026/06/25/r...

Pulte, who has no national security background and has targeted Trump adversaries, installs a GOP political operative at ODNI, raising concerns that he plans to use the intelligence agencies to promote Trump's election denialism. @julianbarnes.bsky.social Dustin Volz www.nytimes.com/2026/06/26/u...

idk, but I feel like if literal AOC has not done enough to show she is on the left, then those are not attainable votes

Lots to digest in this article but this part stood out as particularly disgusting

what

Kim Jong Un thinks this is a bit much

One of the most remarkable things about the Trump era, and especially Trump II, has been seeing how guys like Emmer have changed. He was never a moderate, but he was seen as a mainstream Republican, not a Steve King type. Now he's, well, a Steve King type

Open racism is just part of the GOP platform now.

(WSJ) - Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps attacked a Singapore-flagged cargo ship Thursday in the Strait of Hormuz, according to two senior U.S. officials, testing the deal to end the fighting and reopen the vital shipping lane .. @wsj.com www.wsj.com/world/middle...

IRAN ATTACKED A CARGO SHIP IN THE STRAIT OF HORMUZ, ACCORDING TO U.S. OFFICIALS CITED BY WSJ.

Primary Qualification for a Supreme Court Justice in the Trump Era: willful blindness

Blackman, Turley, or Wurman: who’ll be first out of the gate with an essay on the race -neutral meaning of “poisoning the blood”?

My interpretation is that Kushner and Witkoff will raise a fund with Gulf Arab State money and take their usual fee. They will personally profit from their own “diplomacy”.

It can only good English

I think this pope is consistently getting at something about 21st century life that bothers people across the political spectrum. The fact that individual people are of utmost worth. A fact lost on modern society. We can see this in many different arenas.

Mad king obsessed with his vanity projects that ought to be so low in priority that a President is hardly aware they are happening

See, this is what it’s about: not freeing the Cuban people from dictatorship, but looting the country with their pals.

Has the White House issued a denial that it's for Trump?

i don't really know how "the government is sending deportees to dangerous countries on purpose to imprison or kill them" is not a bigger story

i know i know but in todays political climate no other president would be able to even joke about not knowing what they were signing without getting fuckin pilloried and for this fuck it is just another oh lets just humor him monday

I actually think this bears repeating: Our Director of National Intelligence was just shown to *literally be taking secretive orders about what precisely to do and say in politics* from a scary cult leader in Hawaii And it wasn’t even front-page news How am I supposed to react to this?

BREAKING: A federal judge has blocked the Trump admin from implementing a new system she says is "actively" and "haphazardy" purging "non-citizens" from voter rolls using inaccurate data. ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/show...

District Court judges continuing to be the strongest bulwark against a deeper slide towards tyranny.

Judge Schiltz: "... connections between the info sought ... and any possible criminal violation range from extremely weak to nonexistent ... add[ing] to the overwhelming evidence that these subpoenas were not issued to investigate, but to harass, coerce, & retaliate."

There is no grand database that allows the government to run everyone’s name through a computer and immediately know who is a citizen, and who isn’t. The Trump admin is trying to hastily cobble together a version of that, despite knowing that existing data is not fully reliable.

The United States Department of Justice is a corrupt organization.

BREAKING: Judge Patrick Schiltz has quashed several DOJ grand jury subpoenas aimed Gov. Tim Walz and Mayor Jacob Frey, saying they were part of a retaliatory effort over their refusal to aid Trumpa dmin immigration enforcement efforts. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

he has never had to deal with a counter-party who is just as capable at stiffing him back

JD, that branch you are standing on doesn’t appear to be particularly stable.

JD Vance as Trump threatens to occupy Iran and "blow the shit out of them" -- "What has brought us to this moment is the president's leadership ... what we have already seen back home in the US is lower gas prices, we've seen the free flow of oil and gas, we've seen peace."

Worth remembering “take bribes for clemency” is one of Justice Sotomayor’s examples in the Presidential Immunity dissent that Roberts complained was far-fetched catastrophizing

“Mr. Gentile indicated that he had already facilitated payment of some amount of money to the priest for his clemency effort, according to two people with knowledge of the former private equity executive’s representations while in prison. Days later, Mr. Gentile walked free.”

Welp, even if I had wanted to go there, never going to now

Per a national security source…. “How do you negotiate when the boss is threatening the other side…?” www.cnn.com/2026/06/21/w...

Bad news: The Kennedy tarp is still up. Good news: It doubles as an incredible projector screen for showing films of Trump and Epstein.

Understand: Trump is having random police departments arrest (or issue citations to) people sticking their hand in the reflecting pool to COVER UP how his corrupt contracting fucked up the reflecting pool. These arrests are a criminal cover-up of Trump's own corruption.

The White House grounds look like the Pride Lands after Scar became king

I curated a (mostly) exhaustive list of Juneteenth celebrations across the country. Chances are there’s one near you!

!!! The guy who runs Greenwater Services (really!), recipient of the no-bid contract for the reflecting pool work

Lots of knives out for VPOTUS over the Iran MOU, but the dual-hatted Secretary of State/National Security Advisor should have done more to steer POTUS away from this disastrous war. POTUS of course bears ultimate responsibility for this unnecessary, lawless, and anti-strategic debacle.

This is insane.