Thomas Paine is my favorite founding father. He was famously abolitionist and one of the earliest voices to point out the hypocrisy of fighting for independence while keeping slaves. He also firmly believed that keeping any friendship which required compromising your morals made you a bad person.

I'll summarize this: Mamdani asked NYers to keep air conditioning at 78 degrees. A wave criticism hit online. A MSNBC broadcast pointed out the US Department of Energy recommends that 78 degree figure. Immediately after, the US Department of Energy deleted 6,000 web pages related to energy saving.

11/ Roberts made SO many factual errors, ignoring Sotomayor's mountain of evidence to the contrary. Roberts adopts Taft's (wrong) interpretation of the Decision of 1789 in Myers, as if Taft's Decision of 1926 mattered more than the actual First Congress itself. And he misunderstands Myers, too.

"China's electricity system is now roughly 1.7× larger than the US and EU combined." Combined.

Hey if ICE is using medicaid information to arrest immigrants it means 2 things; 1. The immigrants aren't undocumented. 2. They actively and knowingly arrest people that are here legally.

i can't believe something similar to the scam **i made up as an example for this post** just happened this week grack.com/blog/2026/06...

Europeans: thread of simple techniques to keep you cool and alive in horrendous heat! Kirk Murphy is a legitimate medical doctor.

"I have seen children harmed by disease, poverty, by bad luck. I had not, until now, seen them harmed so methodically by their own government." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

L to R: Chris Richards: biracial kid from Alabama who speaks about black history and has tattoos of MLK, Ali, and Obama Sergiño Dest: Dutch-Surinamese, emigrated to Brooklyn as a kid, naturalized Fola Balogun: born in Brooklyn to vacationing parents, raised in UK but CHOOSES to play for USA

Larry Ellison is worth $230 billion, could we just give him to them and then cover the difference? Or better yet, give them Musk and let them keep the change?

He took America to war - killing 13 soldiers, thousands of Iranian civilians and costing taxpayers $60 billion - to get rid of Iran’s missile program. And now that he’s lost the war, he pretends like it’s no big deal. Just unforgivable. What a charlatan.

I have read and reread the US-Iran draft memorandum of understanding (MoU) supposed to be signed on June 19. It looks as if the Iranians formulated their most outlandish wishlist & Trump just approved it. /1

Olives and coffee

How it started/how it’s going

Here's the exclamation point on this fiasco. Just crushingly embarrassing on every level.

The fact that Elon Musk is now one of history’s greatest mass-murderers, due to his total destruction of USAID, is still far too little-known. It’s on all of us to shout this from the rooftops. Never shut up about Elon Musk’s genocidal crimes.

My goodness, Ed Luce is furious giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

The world’s first trillionaire took away our Ebola response capacity, gave us screwworms, hollowed out our government so he could pay less taxes, and condemned millions of the world’s most vulnerable people to death.

There's no better distillation of Project 2025 than this: an illegal action, taken without any public oversight, for inherently corrupt purposes, now held to be irreversible for no other reason than because they added poison pills to make it unacceptably damaging.

Many different kinds of Trump voters are beginning to suspect that they got fooled. Now isn’t the time to make them like Democrats - it’s the time to make them hate Republicans. paulwaldman.substack.com/p/they-think...

Call me an idealist, but I think that a prerequisite for hosting an international sport event should be that you're willing to host an international sport event.

(A) incredible and (B) an excuse to post this

Disinformation is often a preparatory act for corruption. We see this with grooming for fraud, sextortion, sexual assault, and other malign influence campaigns.

The Minneapolis protesters were remarkable for how peaceful and restrained they were in the face of brutality. It’s why nearly all the charges against them haven’t held up in court. Seeking out footage to the contrary isn’t “telling the whole story.” It’s constructing a false narrative.

Something underreported: in their reconciliation bill, Republicans are forgoing even the normal (inefficient) oversight and restrictions on ICE/CBP funding. For instance, normally there’s a prohibition on shackling pregnant women. But not for this new money they’re providing. (1/3)

"Here, the court had already made an independent finding that intentional discrimination occurred, and Alabama could make no convincing showing to the contrary. The court’s exhaustive search of the record revealed “no evidence of a partisan motive” and “direct evidence of discriminatory intent.” ”

What is happening with CBS shows the US media bias problem. Outlets with actual integrity are regularly accused of liberal bias, even as a large and growing part of the media is owned by the right wing pushes right wing viewpoints at the expense of integrity.

Sellner is the person so far on the right that AfD members were sanctioned for meeting with him.

the trump official — who led the siege & occupation of Minneapolis — admitting to having an ongoing dialogue/rapport with Martin Sellner, a straight-up Nazi who influenced the Christchurch shooter, while speaking at a conference about remigration (read: ethnic cleansing) is a pretty big deal!

At the start of my terrorism studies course, I ask students what most terrorists have in common. They always say: 1- Mental illness 2- Religion. They are, of course, wrong. The two most common traits of violent extremists are: 1- Gender 2- History of domestic violence and online mysogyny.

"I haven’t seen anything as stupid as the WeWork IPO document in a very long time — until Elon Musk filed to take SpaceX public . . . " "WeWork was a joke. SpaceX is a threat. And if Musk and his bankers have their way, you are going to be their bagholder . . . " AMERICAN SPRING MADE IN USA 2026

Trump has sued over jokes, tweets, and news stories, but not once over accusations of severe crimes against minors.

“If the person is a U. S. citizen or otherwise lawfully in the United States, that individual will be free to go after the brief encounter.” -Brett Kavanaugh www.texastribune.org/2026/04/23/t...

"They're all crooks. The Jews. What they've done to Germany. The Jews. They're crooked as hell. They're all crooks." Can’t believe Trump said that about… oh, it was about Somalians in Minnesota, as if that makes it all okay.

FLORIDA LAW: You can't use partisanship in drawing districts RON DESANTIS: We're redrawing districts to help Republicans JUDGE APPOINTED BY RON DESANTIS: There's no way to tell if these districts were drawn for partisan reasons

The GOP Platform: Protect the fetus; starve the child. Honor the soldier; abandon the veteran. Enrich the corporation; fleece the worker. Quote the Bible; ignore the verses.

Yep. Ebola is most contagious right after a person dies. Training local workers to bury victims safely while still honoring the family's traditions, mitigates a single death from turning into 50 new cases. It’s one of the most cost-effective frontline defense we have against a global pandemic.

I misread this as “Under my administration women will be allowed …” and imagined lots of women lining up for their turns.

Inflation is alive. Real wage growth is dead. bsky.app/profile/fox9...

Just verifying this as a 1990s teen boy who was a big fan of Ms Williams. Would go to war for her. Checks out.

Wild: Colorado law enforcement officials warned that ICE/DHS social media posts could convince “white supremacist violent extremists to attempt to join or infiltrate ICE and engage in bias motivated violence, endangering the public, other ICE personnel, and local law enforcement.”

True story: The media kept undercounting attendance at anti Gulf War rallies at the Federal Building in LA, that organizers did a sign in sheet so they could prove there were more people there than claimed. The media (LA Times) then decided to stop discussing crowd sizes.

The White House has undertaken mass exclusion of international students. It has slashed new F-1 visas circa 32% in the latest available State Dept. data. That stunning, destructive act says a thousand times more than any empty words uttered at a press conference.

It would be cheaper to give every coal miner $5m every year than it is to keep them employed in coal mining. Not even joking; there are maybe 40k coal workers, but annual economic burden of U.S. coal is $200B-$500B (climate change, public health, water & ecosystem damage, dispatch inefficiency).

I’m not sure why this isn’t being mentioned more, but: IRS policy for 50 years has been that the sitting president & VP get audited every year, in an effort to reassure the public they’re not corruptly abusing the office to enrich themselves.

Corruption and Economic Growth, Mo, Pak Hung 1999 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... "we find that a 1% increase in the corruption level reduces the growth rate by about 0.72%"

They made 60 trades/day for the first 3 months of this year.

The podcast bros said they were supporting Trump for two reasons: He wouldn’t start any wars, and he’d release the Epstein files. Massie lost tonight for two reasons: (a) forcing the release of the Epstein files, and (b) trying to restrain Trump’s war in Iran.

Trump actively values his underlings being criminals, because it binds them inextricably to him. That's why he chose Paxton.