🚨 The EU is trying to quietly weaken nature laws during summer break. We have 10 days to stop this. Don't let them destroy our forests, rivers & wildlife in silence. #HandsOffNature www.wwf.eu/campaigns/it...

WARNER: Do you accept the fact that 1 million Americans died from covid? RFK Jr: I don't know how many died W: You're the secretary of health and human services. You don't have any idea how many Americans died from covid? RFK Jr: I don't think anybody knows that W: How can you be that ignorant?

RFK Jr. rolled out that old chestnut again about how healthy Americans were in the 60’s, so here’s a fact check. In 1965: -42% of American adults smoked; it’s 11% now. -The infant morality rate was 24.7/1000; it’s 5.6/1000 now. -Overall life expectancy was 70 years; it's about 77 years now.

The president is sending the military to control American cities and if you're a reporter who's framing that illegal power grab as "pushing the boundaries of constitutionality" or "acting boldly to fight crime" or whatever, please go find another line of work where you won't get us all killed.

FUCK YEAH SCIENCE arstechnica.com/science/2025...

"Mamdani’s proposals would make the city more livable for working people while improving public goods — from transit to child care — that benefit everyone, including those footing a slightly higher tax bill."

“This is about the President of the United States and his complicit lackey, Stephen Miller, searching for ways to lay the groundwork to circumvent our democracy, militarize our cities, and end elections.” – Gov. J.B. Pritzker

My heart breaks into 10,000 pieces once again.

Constituent: You talked about abuses in the medicare and medicaid system and I found interesting that the president pardoned someone that defrauded the medicaid system for $1.3 billion

this iconic advertising copywriter named Kathy Hepinstall Parks died over the weekend and I wanted to share something from her website I thought Bluesky would like

this is andrew cuomos current campaign strategist, this is revealing in real time just how much vote blue no matter who is a statement centrists use as a weapon to get the left in line

Nicole Collier said she won’t sign “permission slip” to leave the chamber, which would require accepting round-the-clock monitoring by state troopers.

Newsom releases new ad 🔥

Newsmax, the conservative cable outlet, has agreed to pay $67 million to resolve a defamation lawsuit filed by Dominion Voting Systems. The case stemmed from false allegations pushed on the network that the 2020 election had been manipulated.

Remember: If we allow ourselves to fall into fatalism, or wallow in disappointment, or become resigned to what is rather than what should be, we will lose the long game. The greatest enemy of positive social change is cynicism about what can be changed.

Let's ban congressional stock trading once and for all.

It’s good to know where your flaws come from. But at some point, you have to own them and work to change for the better. Took me a while to figure that out. 😉 I journal a lot. #WriterSky #Indie #Writing #WriteLife #booksky #newskies #writingcommunity #selfcare #ilovejournals

Actual posts by the American government

A dozen or more transgender members of the U.S. Air Force who had sought early retirement to avoid being discharged for their gender identity have had those retirements canceled. Each has served between 15 and 18 years.

Trump’s EPA has: -Killed $15 million in research into forever chemicals in farmlands -Attempted to roll back forever chemical limits in drinking water -Delayed rules requiring corporations to report their forever chemical usage How does this “make America healthy again”?

Priorities.

From this month's edition of The Onion.

BREAKING: Convicted sex trafficker who taught young girls how to blow old men says sole person on earth who can pardon her did nothing wrong.

Noticing a pattern here.

Going to have to Update The Stephen King Book Collection.....

It’s about damn time

Wow

Off the rails.

Will everyone quit and roll over? The law firms, media companies, universities, government employees. Will you all cling to what you have and hope you can just ride it out, Republic be damned? Shame on all of you who don’t stand up, just remember we will never forget.

This is moving. Kamala Harris feels the pain we feel. Not just from her loss, but from the trauma and abuse our country is living through. What could have been…

A sad and dark day for America

The Trump administration proposes eliminating a 2009 finding that greenhouse gases endanger people. That would undermine the EPA's climate change regulations for power plants and cars.

How do you heal when the world won’t stop reopening your wounds? How do you reclaim your voice when the powerful keep shouting over you? How do you move forward when the people who harmed you are never held back, never punished, never even named? open.substack.com/pub/jojofrom...

This is an executive order that lays the groundwork for sending homeless people and people with mental illness to concentration camps to be "civilly committed." It was never going to stop with immigrants. This is horrifying beyond words. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

The oil industry buys off Congress. No action on climate. The NRA buys off Congress. No action on guns. Insurance companies buy off Congress. No action on health care. The list goes on and on. Money in politics is the root of our dysfunction.

PARIS (AP) — French President Macron announces that France will recognize Palestine as a state.

#ExplainLikeImFive: Why does the USA continue to PRETEND that the US government is not controlled by a CRIMINAL? Why are we unable to recognize EXTORTION? Why do we accept blatant subversion of the US Constitution? Why do we accept elimination of OUR RIGHTS? #usdemocracy

Your wordle/games subscription doesn’t go in some magical separate pile. It goes to the New York Times, and it pays for things like Bret Stephens, Maggie Haberman, and both sides coverage of ICE and all the rest. Wake up.

The EPA is preparing a proposal that would revoke a critical 2009 legal determination stating that greenhouse gases are harmful to human health. That finding has been the backbone of U.S. climate regulations for over a decade.

Who else thinks we should ban members of Congress from trading stocks?

It's become clear that this administration is just a protracted war on anybody who's read a book without pictures in it. It's a miracle we're all still getting up and going to work every morning. The psychological drain is the point, and I'm increasingly grateful to the people who are still decent.

What does Donald Trump’s ugly bill mean for Massachusetts? 30,000 clean energy jobs gone. $3 billion in lost wages. $6 billion ripped from the local economy. It’s a lose-lose-lose for working-class families.

I'm not loving a country that pays its adults half as much to teach children to spell as it does to kidnap them.

Why is the White House involved in sports team names at all? Or Coca Cola ingredients?

Jeffries: We believe that when you work hard and play by the rules, you should be able to afford to live the good life.. That’s the American Dream. And no one has done more to deliver that American Dream to the American people than organized labor.

This piece is so timely right now.

Yesterday, Maurene Comey, who prosecuted the Epstein case, was summarily fired from SDNY. Her letter to colleagues pulls no punches. "Fear is the tool of a tyrant, wielded to suppress independent thought." h/t @msnbc.com

1. We interrupt this programming for some LEGITIMATELY GOOD NEWS Violent crime in Baltimore has PLUMMETED to historic lows How did the city do it? Baltimore adopted a comprehensive set of "woke" policies, treating violence as a public health issue