The same goes for Bill Cassidy, Todd Young, Susan Collins, Lisa Murkowski and John Barrasso. AKA the "Grown-ups" in the GOP. They all knew.

According to a recent Redfin survey, more than 44% of U.S. homeowners and renters said they struggle to afford their mortgage or rent payments. And because of that, they’ve been forced to forgo dining out at restaurants and taking vacations. trib.al/GOuXUDs

“We are hearing from voters that they believe the survivors deserve justice, and Congress must fulfill its duty to check the executive branch and hold Trump accountable.” www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...

UCLA in the ranks of institutions that stand up—and prevail. And another [non-Scotus, of course] federal judge in the ranks of those who stand up for rule of law. Courage and principle are contagious. Stand up, and support others who do.

Elizabeth Warren has called for probe of Trump family foreign crypto deals

If you haven't had the chance to see this yet, you should. It will be worth your time, and you'll feel better about America after you watch it.

Does Trump really think #Ukraine can win? I doubt it, but let's hope that today's change of direction lasts longer than his other short-term zigs and zags: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

China announces it will reduce its carbon emissions by 7 to 10% from peak levels (i.e., now) by 2035. This is the first emissions reductions pledge from the world’s largest greenhouse gas emitter, and a hugely important step forward.

Donald Trump is breaking Social Security (gift link)

Canada goes big. One month, $2.6B in aid equals 12% of everything Ottawa has given since 2022. The support stretched from tanks to cyber shields, a wave of commitments instead of the usual trickle. It’s a change, and a signal: Ukraine’s allies are learning to surge when it matters most.

For 15 years, over 90 psychiatric hospitals across the country have violated a law giving patients access to emergency care, with or without insurance. Almost all the facilities faced the same lack of consequences, a ProPublica investigation found. By @emcahan.bsky.social

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky tells the UN that President Vladimir Putin will keep expanding the war in Ukraine "wider and deeper" unless he is stopped nordot.app/134362006466...

This gentleman is right. Trump's United Nations speech was the worst speech of any US president in the history of the United Nations. Trump is an international embarrassment. 😳👇

Imagine ducking a meeting on health care for millions just to post an ALL-CAPS rant about ‘illegals.’ That’s Trump. www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...

I wrote about why we left America   I am starting my new life as a full-time writer focused on U.S. history and politics right after we left the United States. Life and work in America felt increasingly untenable for us. We were in the privileged position to have the choice to leave.

a new mRNA therapy apparently can cut the rate of Huntington's disease progression by ~75%. yet more miracle shit www.bbc.com/news/article...

A statue of President Trump and Jeffrey Epstein holding hands has been removed from the National Mall a day after it was placed there. The statue had a permit to remain in front of the Capitol until Sunday night.

It’s a stomach-dropping scenario: Your phone gets stolen, and all your information is gone along with it. If that hasn’t happened to you already, it may never, thanks to a useful iPhone feature. Here's how to turn it on right away.

New on Heads Up News: Jimmy Kimmel’s return is a win for the resistance www.headsupnews.org/p/jimmy-kimm...

Kirk literally said Biden should be executed.

Chobani yogurt faces boycott over Ivanka Trump partnership with Planet Harvest

The great sleeping giant of America always remains asleep until some venality becomes so noxious, some action so disrespectful of the common good, some brutality so noisy, that he has no choice but to awaken. I believe that sleeping giant is awake – and turning the tide on Trump.

MLK Jr. warned: don’t sleep through a revolution. The Kremlin Klown Kar wants you demoralized, distracted, powerless. Don’t give them what they want. Fight back with us at Gaslit Nation + Sister District www.mobilize.us/sisterdistri...

John Oliver shares a damning clip of a Russian activist admitting they didn’t fight back hard enough when independent voices were silenced. (Any Ukrainian could’ve told you that!) Worth a watch: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ohPT...

Catelin Drey flipped a Trump district in Iowa. In AZ, Adelita Grijalva’s special election win can be final vote to bring Epstein Files to light. Kimmel is back, helped by Streisand effect. This week’s Gaslit Nation gives reasons for hope, ways to fight back gaslitnation.libsyn.com/the-midterms...

Honor Charlie!

Great to see: The Vaccine integrity Project rolls out this week www.wsj.com/health/healt... @mtosterholm.bsky.social

In 2020, we mapped out the danger zones that will close in on Americans over the next 30 years — combining climate data with wildfire projections by US Forest Service researchers and others. See what changes are in store for your county 👇

The Trump administration has launched an internal investigation into FEMA employees who signed a public letter to Congress warning that the administration’s overhaul of the disaster relief agency is undermining emergency response and endangering the public. https://cnn.it/4nMcf1x

The only way the world can know if the president meant what he said today is if he comes back to Washington and puts America firmly back on the side of NATO and Ukraine with money and materiel. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

It was two words: “It depends.” NATO’s foundation is clear: an attack on one is an attack on all. That’s what makes it work. That’s what deters Russia. And here’s Trump, the supposed leader of the free world, shrugging and saying we’ll see. That’s not leadership. That’s an invitation for Putin.

On efforts to combat climate change, the US has joined the ranks of countries like Iran, Russia, and Saudi Arabia in being critically insufficient, thanks to the Trump Admin’s rollback of virtually all climate policy.

Under the Trump administration, the USDA is eliminating its annual survey of food insecurity across the country—a source that policymakers and organizations use to help struggling Americans. The news comes as the government is dramatically slashing spending on nutrition programs. trib.al/S9oKqSI

No evidence. No science. No solutions.   Just Trump peddling another dangerous lie — this time about Tylenol and autism — that sows chaos, scares parents, and puts our health at risk.

the sycophancy for trump aside, very hard to overstate the arrogance of this majority in dispensing with a precedent that has served this country and both of its political parties well for nearly a century.

With a week remaining until the deadline, President Trump is seemingly either unaware that his party lacks the votes in the Senate to keep the government open or wants a shutdown he can try and blame on congressional Democrats. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/trump-b...

Rep. Melanie Stansbury on Trump's UN remarks: "This man is literally unhinged, irresponsible, bizarre, bonkers, ludicrous. I don't even know why his staff are allowing him to stand in front of a mic at this point. It was completely incoherent."

Starting July 1, 2026, parents can only borrow $20,000 a year, or a total of $65,000 per student, from the Parent Plus loan program. High school seniors applying to college will now face borrowing restrictions.

Supreme Court lets Trump fire FTC Democrat despite 90-year-old precedent arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...

bingo 🎯

Summary of Trump’s speech to the UN today: 1. Your countries all suck. 2. None of you know what you are doing. 3. The US is better at everything. 4. All because of me. 5. I’m right about everything. 6. You should listen to me & do what I say. 7. And give me lots of awards.

Blueskyism (complimentary)

This attack on climate science is the most extreme deranged such attack by any world leader in memory.

A challenge to politics-understanders: why was Biden so unpopular given the very good policy he delivered on wages, climate, & antitrust, among others? This is not an invitation to relitigate 2024, but rather explore what his political failure reveals about the underlying mechanisms of politics.

It’s incredible that we’ve gotten to the point where the President of the United States’ address to the UN now mimics times in the past where unhinged dictators got up and rambled and aggrandized themselves and everyone had to just sit there and wait for it to be over.

REMINDER: The ~22 million Americans who will be screwed if the enhanced #ACA tax credits expire (combined w/the PAPI formula change made by the Trump Regime) are spread across the entire red/blue spectrum nationally. acasignups.net/25/09/09/red...

Trump has nearly doubled his fortune since becoming President, mostly thanks to crypto, per Forbes:

A snapshot of Silicon Valley in 2025 is Mark Zuckerberg, now a MAGA-friendly mixed martial arts fan who doesn’t worry much about hate speech on his platforms and complains that corporate America isn’t masculine enough.