incredible photo that's definitely worth at least 1,000 words from Andrew Harnik of Getty

www.cityandstateny.com/opinion/2025... Dept of Community Safety w 5 areas: gun violence, subway safety, mental health crises, public homelessness, and hate crimes. “NYC is behind the curve on many of these efforts, but Mamdani’s proposal offers a significant opportunity to move forward.”

He bulldozed the White House during a government shutdown to build himself a ballroom, then sent a letter to the states saying that SNAP benefits for 42 million people may not go out in November to those who rely on it to eat.

😕 We are all paying for this vanity project

🧵 An open letter to the US Open and USTA: Trump will attend the #USOpen as a guest of ROLEX. Yesterday, Trump declared 'WAR' on Chicago. The USTA has called for media censorship of dissent against Trump today. I played NCAA tennis many years ago and still play. Today I resign my #USTA membership.

Chilling example of the damage done by DOGE’s recklessness. Great thread. The @propublica.org article is worth a read.

RFK Jr. just fired thousands of federal workers at crucial health agencies, including the FDA, CDC, and NIH. These are the people who inspect our food, track infectious diseases, and research life-saving treatments and cures. How is this "Making America Healthy Again"?

These people are monsters. Heartless monsters.

I’ve just never understood why MAGA ever thought Trump and his minions would ever release the files. The million photos of Trump and Epstein together weren’t a clue? What am I missing?

Government should work for the people, not whichever giant company or foreign government can dump the most money into the president's future library.

Overwhelmingly, even toxic twitter proves we’re still just not that into you, Andrew. Not big fans of the corruption, the bullying and the abuse of women. And we don’t need more cops.

This is going to hurt the red states a lot. 🤔

NEW: House Republicans in damage control mode after voting to gut Medicaid and it's getting weird. Their new lie: We didn't cut $1 trillion from Medicaid, we gave it more money! www.huffpost.com/entry/house-...

This will get much worse as Medicaid cuts decrease access to critical upstream services. And no parent should have to relinquish custody to get the help they need.

Hey @MarshaBlackburn any update on this? 🧐

Teen Vogue with the best coverage and most important reads, per usual. www.teenvogue.com/story/trumps...

PLEASE consider the valid concerns of those who voted this administration into power. Yes, millions of people are going to lose their health insurance and/or jobs now but what if a trans person had won a swim meet?? What if pronouns in bio came to life and bit people who could afford medical care???

It’s costing taxpayers $450/M annually & Alligator Alcatraz concentration camp is already flooding. Imagine a hurricane. People are going to die. There’s always enough money to hurt folks, but when it comes to public transit, low-income housing, schools, or public healthcare, “Sorry, we’re broke.”

We knew this regime was going to be bad. But still, the daily and ever intensifying cruelties leave me in a constant state of astonishment. Inconceivable betrayal. I guess they think their own kids and families (and parents) are safe. We’ll see.

As someone on SSDI, Medicare, Medicaid and SNAP who is chronically ill and disabled, my heart breaks for our country. Medicaid pays for my 38 meds. This is NOT America. The big UGLY Bill that will now be signed into law is cruel, costly, and people will die. I will keep fighting and never give up.🙏💜

If only the Dems could learn from this. 🤔

Rep Don Bacon said he voted to protect the exemption for veterans & foster youth in earlier version. But ultimately, the legislative package was “worth the cost.” Our kids are expendable. imprintnews.org/top-stories/... 'Big, Beautiful Bill' Adds SNAP Work Requirements for Foster Youth

McGovern: "For those Republicans who think it's okay to give Jeff Bezos a tax cut and at the same time cut food benefits for struggling families, let me say clearly: We don't share the same values... I believe there's a special place in hell for people who take food away from veterans, seniors..."

Many foreign-born nursing home employees have had their work permits revoked: “I’ve just spent my morning firing good, honest people because the federal government told us that we had to.”

Why We Couldn’t Sell America on U.S.A.I.D. Devastating, important read. So many millions of lives saved worldwide. “It’s too late to save U.S.A.I.D. The question now is whether we can still save America’s willingness to show up when people are dying.” www.nytimes.com/2025/06/29/o...

I loved this, too.

😂😂😂

The pro-life party.

whoa! (gift link so you can read without the paywall) www.nytimes.com/2025/06/24/u...

Sayer Nased, an interpreter who assisted the U.S. Military in Afghanistan, was detained by ICE. If deported, the Taliban would kill him for being a traitor. Trump is snatching legal migrants from court hearings to meet his 3,000 per day detention quota. I have no words for this. #OnYourSide

NYC friends making final ranking decisions, this is 5 minuties with every candidate. Good stuff. #NoCuomo is his usual creepy, pompous self. Hard to believe so many would support a corrupt abuser but here we are. Don’t rank him and we’ll all be okay. www.wnyc.org/story/the-ma...

Excellent news for families and the system! Thanks to @jabaribrisport.bsky.social and JMacforfamilies for your leadership. For those new to this issue, reporter names will remain confidential. They just can’t be anonymous. There is no reason someone with a legit concern can’t share their info.

We’ve bombed Iran. And dismantled our joint terrorism task force. And sent a third of the FBI to help ICE. And gutted the National Security Council. And a drunk guy is in charge at the pentagon. And our intelligence allies probably won’t share intel with us. Because people couldn’t vote for a woman.

“Here’s a fact that should appall New York voters, especially women: You paid for Cuomo’s lawyers to seek the gynecological records of an accuser. Why? It’s a good question that voters should ask the candidate as he makes the rounds.”

Nearly 40% of queer youth consider suicide, a rate that is heavily impacted by anti-LBTQ+ policies and administrations. The Trevor Project says it’s helped more than 1.3 million LGBTQ+ youth since it was started. These are OUR children. The cruelty is overwhelming.

Pelican dude with a half-opened shirt has power over our immigration system now.

I remain perplexed at the number of people supporting Cuomo, some friends included. Corrupt president, abuses women = bad Corrupt, disgraced former governor, abuses women = yay! It’s okay because he’s a Dem? Several strong candidates are also decent human beings. I don’t get it. #NoCuomo

Arrest them. Oh, wait. Wow. The cruelty just never ends.

I totally forgot about how he shut down the anti-corruption Moreland Commission. All of this corruption, abusing women at the same time. Multi-tasking. Hard no.

Powerful speech, @lindseyboylan.bsky.social! We DO NOT NEED another leader who abuses women and abuses power. We will all be fine without him. #NoCuomo

One of our leading citywide elected leaders and candidates for mayor peacefully asks masked ICE agents to see a warrant and is violently arrested. Horrifying and disturbing for what it is and what it represents. Fascism. www.amny.com/news/brad-la...

My. God.

I genuinely can’t believe the Republican House went through with this nightmare….

We will not win the battle for democracy if those in the pro-democracy movement prize caution over taking risks. We cannot permit ourselves to be deterred by the inevitable defeats and public criticism that are inevitable along the long path of restoring democracy.

There is no hell deep enough to contain the people involved with this