All trump needs is the Leo six. “That’s not theocracy, that’s just natural law” Leonard Leo. “the rule of one man is more useful than the rule of many” (De Regno, Ch. 3) Thomas Aquinas. “The Führer protects the law.” — Der Führer schützt das Recht (1934) Carl Schmitt medium.com/@thcarter123...

Thanks for including the Kagan bits—they need to be shouted out. To paraphrase Joyce Vance (below), These fuckers can pretend racism doesn’t exist, but they can’t actually will racism into not existing. Argh!

I would really love it if this Christian nationalist administration would stop using Jews as a shield for their own ends.

53 years ago today, 6/25/73 With 85 million households watching on TV, former WH counsel John Dean reads his explosive 60,000 word opening statement which implicates Nixon, himself & other top WH officials in a coverup of Watergate & more. Nixon resigns 13 months later. Telling the truth matters.

This the right move - and right reason. Hochul should not delay following suit - as should all Dem governors and Rs too to if any vertebrates remain among them.

Compare Alito's description of Trump's racist statements (on the left) to Justice Kagan's anthology of Trump's racist statements (on the right). These are passages from this morning's opinions in Mullin v. Doe.

Donald Trump is making electric vehicles great again.

Kim: "I'm from New Jersey. We're used to Trump screwing us over. He screwed over Atlantic City. If he really wants to see what people need right now, next time he comes to NJ he shouldn't go to his golf course in Bedminster. He should go to Newark & talk to people there who need affordable housing."

France officially recorded its hottest day on record yesterday, with the nationwide average temperature exceeding 30°C for the first time ever. Uncharted territory.

"AI" is going to make medical care more efficient., they say. How's that going? Just about as you'd predict... www.seattletimes.com/business/med...

Trump has decimated the government’s ability to detect and counter foreign influence actions aimed at the US from Russia and elsewhere. But he has provided around-the-clock security for the Reflecting Pool to protect it from nonexistent vandals. That’s a good summary of his presidency.

A entire region of National Parks just unionized. About 650 workers in eight states and over 10 parks have won their union. The parks represented include: - Glacier National Park - Grand Canyon National Park - Grand Teton National Park - Rocky Mountain National Park And more.

going to call it for the old dynasty www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

You can either be pro-generative AI or pro-climate. It's 2026 and its 40 fucking Celsius. The Gen AI industry is operating, being funded and being constructive hand in glove with the fossil fuel industry Stop fence sitting and be an adult www.ft.com/content/57cc...

"What was so refreshing and important about Santa Marta is that we could speak freely about the root cause of climate change - fossil fuels" 🛢️⁣ ⁣ Johanna Gusman, @ciel.org, on why the Santa Marta conference worked so well. ⁣ ⁣ Watch more from London Climate Action Week on wedonthavetime.org/london

The privatization of water, energy, and housing in the UK has forced ordinary households to go without basic necessities. Our book of the week details how financialization reorganizes public goods around shareholder value. By @kbayliss.bsky.social on @manchesterup.bsky.social buff.ly/xa5dyLN

🇪🇺⚖️🇭🇺 Budapest day three: participating in the CEU Democracy Institute annual conference and listening to the panel "Can the Law Secure the Future of Democracy", featuring profs Martin Krygier, Renata Uitz, Barbara Grabowska-Moroz and András Sajó (who got blinded by the ruthless Hungarian ☀️).

The heatwave in Europe is so extreme, it's 25–32°F (14–18°C) above normal. You read that right. France recorded it's hottest day ever. The UK had its hottest ever June day. The ground is exceeding 122°F (50°C). People are dying. Tell me again why we shouldn't talk about climate change???

Your Prime Day reminder that half of Amazon warehouse workers struggle with food & housing costs. A third have had to rely on government assistance like SNAP — which was gutted last year. If Bezos can spend $500M on a yacht, Amazon can afford to treat its workers with dignity.

I think the Remain campaign failed because it spoke about the EU as this big European peace project and not as something that made life logistically easier. These voices should have been the loudest in 2016. In fact, this should have been Corbyn's angle www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

TotalEnergies made a profit of €5.8 billion in the first quarter of this year.

Beginning next week, Australians get free electricity for three hours every afternoon. That's what happens when you build out wind, sun, and batteries open.substack.com/pub/billmcki...

Just moments ago the President was supposed to sign a bipartisan housing bill here in the capital. Except, in a bizarre chapter, he didn’t and is a no show—because he says he’s mad at the Senate. Here’s what’s happening ⬇️👀

Shout it from the (currently extremely hot) rooftops

Europe is warming at a rate that’s more than double the pace of warming worldwide since the mid-1990s, due to melting Arctic sea ice, reduced pollution-related aerosols, and less snow cover. These changes are also altering weather patterns, leading to more frequent and intense heat waves.

19 July 2022, Britain hit 40°C for the 1st time in recorded history. Houses burned to the ground. London ran out of fire engines... A major London hospital lost all its patient records. Fmr. BBC journalist David Shukman reveals what actually went wrong that day- & why, 4yrs on, we still aren't ready

Looking forward to the forthcoming book by @kbayliss.bsky.social (of SOAS), on the growing role of private equity in water, energy and housing

tearing up watching this #skystorians

Well this should scare the shit out of everyone, 6 weeks ago the justice department adopted a new policy to allow the attorney general the power to send any federal prisoner to any federal prison in the country. Listen to Liz Oyer former pardon attorney for the DOJ explain.👇👇

Huh

“In a recent study looking at the use of AI in healthcare, researchers from Stanford and Harvard found even top-performing AI models from Anthropic and Google produced 12 to 15 severely harmful errors per 100 cases. The worst-performing models made mistakes in 40 out of 100 cases.”

Sunny side EUp. Today's cartoon by @emadelrosso.bsky.social. More cartoons: www.cartoonmovement.com #Europe #heatwave #ClimateCrisis

Musk says not a single person has died due to him axing USAID. Sadly, part of my job involves tracking aid spending. So here’s a thread with just some of the people who lost their lives because of USAID cuts

Right now I'm in the epicentre of the heatwave, in southwest France, where the brutality of the heat has ground life to a halt. And I have to keep reminding myself: this is only the beginning.

We have an opportunity in this moment. A responsibility. To insist on everyone’s humanity, all the way through.

The only thing Trump really knows how to do in business is cause an organization or entity to take on insane amounts of wildly unsustainable debt until it's bankrupt or otherwise ruined. That seems to be the plan for Venezuela: www.ft.com/content/b7f2...

“We remove the bad people from those cities so they never come back.” Of course it will be Trump’s henchmen who will decide who a bad person is and figure out how to disappear “the bad people”. It is fascism in its truest form and it is petrifying. TRUMP MUST BE STOPPED.

We suffer from a deficit of imagination in the Trump era.

In the 4 years since Roe v Wade was overturned there have been over 400 pregnancy related prosecutions. Maternal mortality is up 33% nationwide and 50% in some states. We are being criminalized and murdered. That’s the legacy of Dobbs

How much is a person's life worth? Per the EPA, $0. The EPA recently altered its cost-benefit methodology, removing the monetary est of human life from specific pollution rules. So if you have health issues as a result of pollution, etc. you know who to thank. #ProudBlue 📹: Ronan Farrow/TT

Today and yesterday were the hottest days *ever* recorded in France meteofrance.com/actualites-e...

As you may know, I recently published a memoir called "Coming Up Short," highlighting what I've seen and learned throughout my life. If you’d like to order it, without co-funding Jeff Bezos’s next yacht, I recommend purchasing it from Bookshop. Thanks so much. bookshop.org/p/books/comi...

Tucked into the White House funding request is a line item for $13 million for DHS, "as part of a classified request." ?

Go get it from Jared, Russ.

The Utah Measles Outbreak Sets a New Record: another anti-vaccine achievement. "Going longer than any other recent outbreak, the Utah measles outbreak has grown to 687 cases in 12 months, ... the longest ... outbreak since ... 2000." vaxopedia.org/2026/06/23/t... via @aboutpediatrics.bsky.social

Is he quoting Epstein here? Disgusted with this man. Who let him speak?

🚨BREAKING: In a MAJOR VICTORY, the 6th Circuit REJECTS Department of Justice lawsuit to access Michigan's voter file. The first appeals court to rule on an appeal in DOJ's 9 defeats. I am proud of the Elias Law Group team for this critical win! www.democracydocket.com/cases/michig...

Remember when Rod Rosenstein left the Trump FBI to go to NAO group? I do.

Today marks four years since the Supreme Court ended the constitutional right to abortion. Now, reproductive freedoms are under sustained attack across the country, regularly endangering the lives of those in need of care. We must protect reproductive health care at all costs.

Let’s not forget how America’s humiliation began.