Planned Parenthood Can Access Medicaid Funds Again as Congress Lets Ban Expire www.commondreams.org/news/planned...

Two Tennessee National Guard members assigned by the Trump administration to a crime-fighting patrol in Memphis fatally shot a man Sunday who turned toward the soldiers with a gun during a downtown pursuit, authorities said. https://to.pbs.org/4eM9uLX

A Tennessee conservation nonprofit has acquired a 600-acre tract bordering the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, protecting one of the largest remaining privately owned parcels next to the park from future development. www.goodnewsnetwork.org/great-smokey...

Late 19th-century farm abandonment in the Northeast US led to the greatest forest recovery in the history of the world, as trees returned naturally. The result is that the region is 3 or 4 degrees cooler than it would otherwise be, mitigating climate breakdown. insideclimatenews.org/news/0407202...

Oklahoma restricts the disposal of toxic oil field waste within a half-mile of a public water well. Regulators have allowed companies to do so anyway. Now, to protect its drinking water, the city of Enid has to ask those same regulators for help. with @readfrontier.bsky.social

"9 y/o Tayz imagined writing to President Washington to explain the country we have become & the country we still struggle to be. “Our current president wants to make it a Limited States of America only offering good things to a few people that he likes instead of all Americans.” HuffPost #Pinks

Trump's income soared to $2.2 billion during his first year in office. Over half that came from his family's crypto ventures. Here's what you need to know about his off-the-charts crypto corruption.

My book Coverage Denied was not only spotted, but featured in the wild! (In the SF Bay Area.)

We yell at our children because the Internet never forgets and they should be careful what type of stuff they send people online and this regime thinks they are above all that. Dumbasses. The Internet doesn't forget. #USDemocracy

WARNING: Dog "rescue" group in Van Nuys "Pups Without Borders." Some red flags. You must sign an application BEFORE meeting the dog and pay their fee, and agree it is nonrefundable if you are not "approved." Their nonprofit status is two years in arrears with compliance per state & federal sites. /1

America's gun psychopathy continues: *259* mass shootings so far in 2026. 💔 😡💔 #GunsDontMakeUsSafer The latest, with 1 person killed and 6 wounded (including 1 juvenile), in Pensacola, Fla.: www.wionews.com/world/us-pen...

Waterfalls at the Grand Canyon caused by heavy rain

Tucson, not even a checkpoint: agents smash windows, drag a US citizen to the ground, falsely claim he had a gun — then assault the man filming it. Fourth Amendment, First Amendment, § 242, all violated in one stop. This is what 'law enforcement' looks like when profiling replaces probable cause.

Today's 🤔 question: "Yeah...why is that?"

Planned Parenthood Can Access Medicaid Funds Again as Congress Lets Ban Expire www.commondreams.org/news/planned...

“Wisconsin residents sue Microsoft over noise caused by new data center *** Residents have also complained the area has become a ‘dust bowl’ due to construction” 7/4/26

These all sound like excellent ideas.

‼️ HEAT ADVISORY WARNING: Don't forget to drink plenty of water and stay inside between 11:00 am and November 1st.

🚨 Microsoft's new EU disclosure shows exactly how tech giants separate profits from where the work happens Microsoft booked 40% of its profits in Ireland, where only 3% of its employees work We need to restart global tax reforms...

“If we exposed the Epstein network, it would dismantle the whole government!” Yes

America's gun psychopathy continues: *261* mass shootings so far in 2026. 💔 😡💔 #GunsDontMakeUsSafer The latest, with 8 people wounded (including 4 children), in Brooklyn, N.Y.: abcnews.com/US/8-shot-in...

He stood by his oath, despite the consequences! A true patriot!

Judge has ordered Trump to pay $5.8 million by this Tuesday, July 7th. =================

Fairyhens canoodling: #AGoodPlace Source: www.reddit.com/r/NatureIsFu...

Hey @chicagotribune.com Editorial Board: Why did you describe me as a “bomb-throwing influencer”? This is wrong, inflammatory, and racist. Change it. www.chicagotribune.com/2026/07/05/e...

I'm going to KEEP talking about how Florida Senator Rick Scott, the RICHEST man in all of Congress DEFRAUDED Medicare & is trying to CUT Social Security. Will you join me?🤚

1/ Families in Montana got hit with a 28% rate hike so investors could pocket a 10% return. In Maine, wells are going dry while a bottler pumps a billion gallons a year. Soon to be in Utah as well. Wall Street is coming for your necessities. 🧵 #DV1 #ProudBlue #Voices4Victory #USDemocracy

Happy Fourth of July from Willie and me!

Texans, vote for Gina Hinojosa! She hangs out with Willie, she doesn't want to kill pregnant women and force feed Christian sharia law down your throats. It's time to push Greg right on out of the governor's mansion in Austin.

PASTOR LORAN LIVINGSTON (@CentralChurchNC): “There has never been a Christian nation, and never will be. You don’t live in one now. A Christian nation wouldn’t have killed and displaced 20 million Native Americans, or thought owning slaves was pleasing to God.”

FEARLESS Black Americans have been confronting hatred with dignity for generations.

Believe them! Believe Women! My new favorite from @nakedpastor.bsky.social

Sad to watch this regime purge anyone who puts the country before this president. (And make Us all Less Safe in the Process)

Happy 4th @bluestormcomin1.bsky.social! @jaybird54.bsky.social @antifa75.bsky.social @goodmourning.bsky.social @hopeful66.bsky.social @lake-life-girl.bsky.social @angrygrrrl1111.bsky.social @merlinmm.bsky.social @simplycommonsense.bsky.social @mathmargarita.bsky.social @cat736.bsky.social

150 people from 50 countries become US citizens at Mount Vernon on America’s 250th birthday apnews.com/article/amer...

Condoms have existed in various forms for centuries, ln the US, access was restricted after a federal law that classified contraceptives as "obscene" materials & prohibited their distribution through the mail, making the sale & advertising of condoms difficult or illegal. #Pinks

Birth control pills faced an even longer and more difficult path to acceptance than condoms. While condom restrictions began weakening in the 1910s and 1930s, the first oral contraceptive, Enovid, was not approved by the FDA until 1960. #Pinks

Even then, many states still restricted access to contraception under Comstock-era laws. Married couples nationwide did not gain a constitutional right to use birth control until the SCOTUS Griswold v. CT (1965) decision, & unmarried adults did not receive the same right until 1972. #Pinks

We used to balance free markets with rules that kept wealth & power from concentrating at the top. As those guardrails weakened, a handful of people & corporations gained outsized influence, leaving the rest of us broke, stressed, & democracy itself under pressure. #Pinks #Neoliberalism

In 2024, ProPublica and @documented.net obtained 14+ hours of videos from Project 2025’s Presidential Administration Academy, intended to train the next conservative administration’s political appointees “to be ready on day one.” Check to see how Trump 2.0 is deploying this playbook:

While most leaders spend their pre-speech hours reviewing briefings or touching up remarks, Trump was busy doing what he does best: consuming his own press.

Astronomer Henrietta Swan Leavitt's discovery completely changed our understanding of the universe. She was born #OTD in 1868. A human "computer" at Harvard College Observatory, she was assigned to study variable stars—stars whose brightness fades and intensifies over time. #WomenInSTEM (1/3)

Add them to the ever-growing list of entities whose government contracts deserve thorough scrutiny, and any funds obtained unlawfully should be recovered and returned to the American people. Happy 250 birthday! #DemVoice1 #ProudBlue #Pinks

New York Public Library #America250 #July4

Trump: “Our American ancestors did not shed their blood just so that a band of thieves, radicals and lunatics could come in and loot, pillage our nation.”

I didn't realize the end of The Nice Guys is a nod to The Rockford Files, but of course it is.

Meta data center water discharges suspended after contaminating the city's reclamation water supply with bacterium — system offline for months for cleaning, closed-loop cooling system purge spread rare metal-resistant bacteria in Cheyenne’s water system. www.tomshardware.com/tech-industr...

What is freedom? Are you really free if your groceries or medicine are so expensive that you can’t afford them? Or if your boss can change your work schedule on a whim or block you from getting a new job? Lina Khan explains how excessive corporate power makes us less free.