Incredible. They just asked everyone at the Boston Pops show to stand for a patriotic singalong and then started singing Neil Diamonds AMERICA, the most pro-immigrant anthem ever written. A+ no notes.

People were saying.

As someone in the comments says, this photo is Pulitzer-worthy. Also, a sad commentary on white, male America today. Douchebags.

100 years ago.

Ten years ago today, J. D. Vance called Trump “cultural heroin” in The Atlantic: “To every complex problem, he promises a simple solution … He never offers details for how these plans will work, because he can’t," Vance wrote of Trump. Read the piece: theatln.tc/foJ8lGw3

Public libraries are one of America's greatest institutions.

For America's 250th, I read Frederick Douglass’ speech, “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?” on the House floor—for the first time in history. His speech endures as a mirror & mandate for us all—to confront our inequities while fighting for an America as good as its promise.

Good morning from DC—where you’ve got to look twice to see if the masked paramilitaries on the street are ICE or Patriot Front.

These assholes forgot their brown shirts.

Patriot front marching from Union Station right now. White supremacist and neo-fascist organization. Cowards.

We live in exciting times. I don't mean that as a positive.

The $400m flying bribe has shelves of fake books, some titled “Library”.

This family is robbing us in front of our eyes while destroying and defacing our public spaces

Ted Cruz says Texas is 3rd world country.

In 1983, I was in college. Listening to Neil Young. My then-gf's brother, literally about 14, asked "who's Neil Young?" I almost plotzed.

This here is the entire crux of the issue. We had sensible regulations requiring years of testosterone suppression and hormone therapy to play in women's sports. This had not been a problem for nearly twenty years, including at the olympics. Then the right made it one by straight up lying about it.

(🚨) So to be very clear, FIFA rules do *not* allow the USMNT to appeal the Balogun red card *on the basis of claiming the referee erred*. But. Under the circumstances, the USMNT should appeal on the very different grounds ESPN just reported on: misapplication of VAR protocols.

That a court order seems necessary is depressing.

Slaughter is an earthquake: SCOTUS has overturned a 90-year-old precedent that facilitated much of modern governance by granting many agencies meaningful independence from the president. Now SCOTUS crushes that independence ... for seemingly every agency except the Federal Reserve.

There's no sugar-coating Slaughter. It's an enormously important ruling (far more important than the other three decisions #SCOTUS handed down today). It's a huge win for Trump/the executive. And it's going to have massive ramifications for the functioning of the government long after Trump is gone.

Ugh. Supreme Court rules in Slaughter, 6-3 that Trump can fire people from the FTC. But in Cook, Court rules 5-4 that Trump cannot fire everybody from the Fed. Roberts writes both majority opinions There's no real difference between the FTC and the FED other than Roberts likes the Fed.

Alito's argument – that counting ballots after Election Day means "the electorate’s choice does not occur on election day, and the federal election-day statutes are violated" – is some of the dumbest reasoning I have ever seen. The "choice" doesn't occur at the time of counting!

Democrats are the only ones who are expected to work toward bipartisanship. Republicans are allowed to talk like this.

I’m shocked SCOTUS didn’t say “you can’t be sure it’s rape if there were other motives involved” 🤷‍♀️

It's now an indisputable fact, with no further judicial review, that Donald Trump sexually assaulted E. Jean Carroll. The president of the United States is a sexual predator.

First (but *not* last) ruling from #SCOTUS today is in Watson v. RNC. For a 5-4 majority (with Thomas, Alito, and Gorsuch, Kavanaugh dissenting), Justice Barrett holds that federal law does *not* bar states from counting late-arriving mail-in ballots that are postmarked on or before Election Day.

BREAKING: The Supreme Court grants six new cases for next term and, among other cases, denies Trump's appeal of the E. Jean Carroll verdict. The $5 million sexual abuse and defamation verdict against Trump in Carroll's case stands.

In the NYT ME-SEN poll, Platner is up by 2 because he’s running up the score with college grads, not because of any working-class pull

I agree that this thing should be fisted....

The arm on NBA star Kelsey Plum, who throws a rolled-up jersey to her dad sitting in the upper bleachers. www.reddit.com/r/AbsoluteUn...

Everyone who hasn’t been naturalized is a birthright citizenship. Miller himself only has his citizenship because he was born here.

We keep striking Iranian radar, command and control, anti air, drone and missile sites which is interesting since according to Trump we already destroy all their radar, command and control, anti air, drone and missile sites

When we talk about places contracting with ICE's notorious 287g contract, it's usually county sheriffs or even state-level agencies. But some cities are so zealous they contract with ICE directly. In Arizona, there's only one such city: Mesa. That's now an issue in the July elections:

Liars got good Women and Mothers killed.

@bagleycartoons.bsky.social always nails it.

Anthony Fauci should sue Peter Navarro for defamation. I’m not saying this hyperbolically, I mean it.

my kind of Jubilee, the Japanese national team vs. 100 kids

Would love to see someone do some scaling on the answers. I seriously doubt the dimensionality is much above 1.

“Watergate pales in comparison to what we’re doing” is quite the thing to imply

"If we lost the midterms, these Democrats are actually going to do the fundamental work Congress is supposed to do."

A big question is whether we'll now see major ICE raids or whether they'll do something more disguised, because ICE is toxic even in red areas. Either way, local press reports that this could mean an economic loss of up to $400 million. Way to own the libs, Ohio! newrepublic.com/article/2124...

The monument

"Mr secretary! The floor is hers. You know, there is a chairman. That's me" -- even the Republican committee chair is losing patience with Markwayne Mullin, who is gripping a stress ball as he clearly struggles to control his temper

Well, I mean, yea. This president has survived unheard of corruption, the stupidest warin American history, gross rapeyness and covering up pedophilia, to name a few. Nixon merely tried to subvert democracy and cover it up.

Mike Rogers 9 days ago: "Send me to Washington. I'll get this bridge open." Mike Rogers today: "It's no money out of our pocket having that bridge closed for another six months." Huh! Who'd you talk to between then and now, Mike? Why the change of heart? www.metrotimes.com/news/mike-ro...

The new Minnesota Nice. Be a proud, racist asshole.

I am not a lawyer but I know the Supreme Court’s rulings today violate international agreements on refugees & migrations that the US is party to. Because international law matters when states enforce it, this is a political window for democrats to insist the treatment of refugees & migrants matters

Am I reading this right? The SCOTUS majority now says that PRIVATE PROPERTY OWNERS cannot prevent anyone from packing concealed heat on the owner's property?

The time to check your voting status is now until the election. Don't wait until the last minute. Trump is doing EVERYTHING he can to stop as many people as possible from getting their vote counted. vote.gov You can register, update, and check your voting status. Please RT and spread the word.