Isn’t piracy against the law? When the president claims a royal right to tax global commerce over waterways half the world away from America, the rule of law walks the plank: **Can We Call This Anything But Piracy?: TUESDAY CHAOS-MONKEY TRUMPISM** Isn't this piracy? What could make it not... 1/

OMG, that's a great nickname 🤣

“The vehicle attempted to flee the scene and, fearing for public safety, an officer discharged his weapon.” Fleeing. The vehicle was driving away. That’s murder. A legal resident of the United States is now dead. The threat to public safety is ICE. It must be eliminated.

It got muddled b/c it was mostly seen as incidental to getting at Trump himself, but Graham didn't just vaguely lean on Raffensperger. He told him to falsify the tally by not counting ballots. Straight-up criminal election fraud no different from telling a poll worker to go dump votes in the trash.

A helicopter pilot has died fighting the Gold Mountain Fire near Ouray, the fourth wildland firefighter death in Colorado this year. Please consider joining me in donating to the Wildland Firefighter Foundation, which supports the families of the fallen: wffoundation.org/kyle-clarks-...

"Two deeper structural reforms are essential. First, strip the executive of the massive powers that have accumulated over the last century. Second, make the powers retained by the executive subject to greater oversight with real consequences for abuse."

#AbolishICE 🖕 #ICEGestapo‼️

This is total insanity. Words fail to explain how anyone let alone a plurality of voters thought giving an obviously demented person control of the most powerful government in the world was a good idea. We will be lucky to come out the other side of this alive.

Conventional wisdom, with which I agree: Trump is more narcissistic, self-absorbed, and megalomaniacal than ever. Conventional wisdom, with which I disagree: Oh c’mon, Trump understands he really can’t run again. My hunch: Trump “understands” no such thing. He wants to run. He’ll try to.

The President of the United States is currently doing everything he can do to fuck with, sow distrust in, and destroy another American election. Donald Trump is America’s enemy. He should be in jail.

The Trump Administration had no problem cutting the budget for kids with developmental disabilities and instead increasing funds for his private plane. The most corrupt administration in our history.

1) Interesting "Dems Not in Disarray" front-page framing. 2) Point Dems need to keep making: -Virtually every Dem leader has now come out publicly against Platner. -Virtually every GOP party leader still all-in for Ken Paxton. (And, of course, for Trump) This is not a "both sides" situation.

And don't forget the big one: Trump. The difference between the two parties could not be starker.

"I have TDS, but I keep being right about him…How do I have derangement syndrome but keep seeing him more clearly than you?" @timmiller.bsky.social and Piers Morgan hash out their opinions on Trump's second term:

As horrific as Trump is, it's truly appalling to see how many Republicans and billionaires are assisting his criminal racket.

Bernie finally calls on PLatner to go, after virtually all other Ds. Not a leader.

The Democrats are dumping Graham Platner. The Republicans nominated Ken Paxton.

For Democrats, being credibly accused of committing sexual assault is a red line that disqualifies potential political candidates. For Republicans, it is a job qualification.

Utterly essential the party espec Bernie who championed this guy get their act together

Newsom: All of this happening—this open sewage system. You talk about draining the swamp. He gave it a presidential suite with gold leaf. This is stuff I don’t even imagine exists at this scale in a year and a half, even in Putin’s Russia or Kim Jong-un’s North Korea.

Remember kids, We’re collapsing into a lawless, fascist autocracy because Americans are raised to be legitimately stupid about civics.

This is very good and worth a 5 minute read.

The top 1% of households have 13x the net worth of the bottom 50% Lazard

4 MONTHS FROM TODAY are the Midterm Elections. Make sure you & everyone you know are registered to VOTE. VOTE for Dems to take back the House & Senate. VOTE to hold the most corrupt individual ever to occupy the WH accountable! VOTE to let our country to begin to heal. 🇺🇸 On 11/3/26: VOTE BLUE 🌊

July 23, 2025: The White House rolls out a plan to deregulate AI companies. Also, July 23, 2025: Trump buys up to $5 million apiece in stock of Nvidia, Apple, Microsoft, Meta, Amazon & Broadcom. Coincidence? Congress must BAN stock trading by the President, VP, and lawmakers.

For the record, someone elected President is a public servant. He’s not there to steal from the public or stuff his own pockets. Donald J. Trump needs to be held accountable for abusing the office and taking our money.

1/ Documentary filmmaker @kenlburns.bsky.social reflects on Franklin Roosevelt’s leadership during historical challenges like the Great Depression and WWII in this short by Retro Report, based on @inpursuitusa.bsky.social, for @pbs.org.

“As Americans gather over the next several days beneath fireworks and flags, they should remember that the celebration isn’t ultimately about the past. It’s about an obligation. The founders didn’t give us America. They entrusted it to us.” steveschmidt.substack.com/p/250-years-...

The only surprise here is that it was close. Fuck this court. Expand it*

Every. Damn. Time. #FightTheRight

Chris Murphy on the SAVE Act: "Donald Trump is the most unpopular president in the recent history of this country, and so he's trying to rig the election in part by creating this national voter ID list."

The birth of the American oligarchy started in 1980 with Reagan and has been expanded with every Republican control of the government. Oligarchy = fascism and Republican = Oligarchy. The GOP has been a fascist party since long before Trump. Vote blue no matter who.

Here's a nice view of a Kilauea ongoing eruption. www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXKu...

This is really cool and live. www.youtube.com/watch?v=HggW...

MAHER, to Vance: “.. Here's my deal breaker for your side, OK? Under Trump, you guys have two outcomes an election can be: either WE win, or THEY cheated. That shit has to stop. "

The hate and cruelty are not byproducts of a MAGA mindset, they are the driving force behind the mindset:

pass our law or we'll try to overthrow the republic every time we lose an election. because we're criminal degenerates.

Sigh. Gonna keep telling anywho will listen that while viral origins are hard to “prove”, the vast majority of the evidence points to a spillover from an animal reservoir. The “evidence” for a virus created in a lab is conjecture and largely rests on “but there’s a virus lab in Wuhan” 🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️

A house divided against itself cannot stand. We cannot be only half a democracy.

Good. We need to start talking A LOT about making Trump pay for all the things he did w/o the appropriate approvals, including the Bunker-Ballroom and the Flying Bribery Palace.

ABC has a message for viewers: If you like your local stations or “The View,” help us get the government off our backs. The network launched an on-air campaign urging viewers to push back against the FCC and its chairman through comments on its site.

Gut science and medical research Weaponize the legal system Deplete our military arsenal Squander our alliances And now cripple our intel capabilities. Trump is committing the US to national suicide. Putin and Xi couldn't do it any better. www.cnn.com/2026/06/22/p...

We agree - this should continue. #TrumpEpsteinCoverUp

R.I.P. Alan Greenspan: You were charming, thoughtful, powerful, and wrong. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/rip-alan-greenspan

If the National guard is enforcing laws that don’t exist the commanders who give the order will need to be help accountable

the definition of a reflecting pool is that it is a "shallow, still body of water designed to mirror what is adjacent". so the DC reflecting pool today is mirroring our current President and his administration and the GOP leadership in DC. If you want to clean that up, vote out every Republican.