VETO TARGETS: Projects and spending planned for New Orleans and groups that serve Black communities throughout the state saw some of the biggest cuts from Gov. Landry’s veto pen, based on a review of his line-item revisions to the state spending plan. @greglarose.bsky.social reports

Maybe Vance doesn't know this part of history because it's in one of the books his administration has banned. The difference between the Watergate era and now is that back then, Republicans actually did something about a law-breaking president. Today, they only roll over for their cult leader.

Missouri’s governor opposes outside influence — while backing a measure bankrolled by out-of-state funds. “The fact that the governor is benefiting directly from … a dark money group from Delaware … shouldn’t be lost on anyone,” a critic said.

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

cc: Stephen Miller

"The Extreme Sentences Handed to Anti-ICE Protesters Should Terrify Us All" 30-100 years! Perhaps the most important and scary story you'll read all week:

Here are the top 5 dogs of the week!

Today, I introduced legislation to require that the minimum wage be a living wage. $25 an hour is what’s required for a full time worker to pay their bills, and we shouldn’t accept that full time work leaves people living in poverty.

These geniuses don’t seem to realize passports are for American citizens, when they LEAVE the country 🤦🏼

Current state: Pedos on the Epstein list putting everyone else on watchlists for wanting to see the Epstein list.

Republicans become a far-right party that embraces white nationalism while those Americans standing firm on the nation’s historic democratic principles jockey to create a political system that will represent their movement. open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...

Jim Obergefell is a leading LBGTQ+ activist, speaker, producer, author, and wine entrepreneur. Here he stories the 2015 Obergefell v. Hodges Supreme Court case, which guaranteed the marriage rights of same-sex couples across the United States. #WeAreAmerica250

Massie: "I think it's ironic that we control the House, Senate, Supreme Court, and the White House, and we're yelling 'election fraud'? I mean, we won all the damn elections."

NEW: A Kansas Republican scheme could deny voters a say and give lawmakers control over who represents the state in Congress. It comes as the GOP revives attacks on the 17th Amendment — the constitutional right of voters to elect U.S. senators directly.

in a nation that is based in a constitution and the rule of law, power belongs to the man who can exploit emergencies that create exceptions to the constitutional order, enabling him to exercise power without regard to the law open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...

PETERS: If a state refuses to turn their absentee voter list to the federal govt, will Postal Service still mail their ballots under this proposed rule? STEINER: No PETERS: So it basically coerces states to hand over their absentee voter rolls or face consequences of not being able to vote by mail

The outcome could help determine how much authority states retain to establish standards that go beyond federal minimum requirements, and how much influence large national industries have in shaping those rules. open.substack.com/pub/davidpak...

excited for the Democratic party to mutter, shuffle their feet, do nothing then pretend this never happened & ignore it if they win in '28 as always, happy to be wrong but doubt I am

I will be on the Senate floor giving a comprehensive speech outlining the last 500 days of Trump's dizzying, unprecedented campaign of corruption. We cannot normalize what he is doing. He is stealing from us.

The president keeps raving about vandalism even though he’s responsible for the pool’s issues. trib.al/4jSWTpL

Far harsher sentences than the worst J6ers, who are free today: “Enrique Tarrio, the leader of the Proud Boys who was convicted of seditious conspiracy, was sentenced to 22 years in prison. Stewart Rhodes, the leader of the far-right group the Oath Keepers, was sentenced to 18 years in prison.”

“They want to send a message to any member of Congress that the cost of trying to regulate the AI oligarchs is complete political destruction.” trib.al/hgZ9F9v

Anytime any respectable journalist mentions our two chief negotiators with Iran, Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff, they should note both receive sizeable paychecks from Middle Eastern nations with deep equities in these talks. It is a fundamental corruption.

Dialog, the Thiel-linked club, blamed a “well-known criminal” for a hack and had lawyers demand WIRED turn over the data. But our reporting found no break-in to speak of. Its website was handing sensitive records directly to visitors' browsers WIRED has not given Dialog or its attorneys any data

the thing about greenblatt is that this is a dude who watched elon musk give a "heil hitler" and then said "looks like nothing to me." why would anyone take him seriously?

"They are not unsophisticated people. They have been briefed for years on the operational signatures of foreign influence... They voted yes [on Gabbard] anyway. "The question is what they knew when they voted yes. The answer is: everything." open.substack.com/pub/mikebroc...

“It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.” ― Upton Sinclair

a network of super PACs that claim to be progressive and are spending millions in Democratic primaries are actually funded by a Republican dark money group, open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...

Mark Singer's obit reminded me how in 1990 Spy magazine sent 58 prominent people $1.11 checks for an unexplained "overcharge... for services rendered." 26 signed it. Then Spy sent 64¢. Half signed that. Then they sent 13¢. Two cashed it: arms dealer Adnan Khashoggi, & you can guess the other.

Real peoples lives are being destroyed as we’re all forced to live in the alternate reality of a decaying pedophilic narcissist…

Trump wants to create a national database of every registered voter in the country. Then, he and the GOP want to decide who gets to stay on it. “It’s a way of essentially taking over the voter registration process,” Marc Elias says, “or, more precisely, taking over the results.”

Transdev holds a five-year, $651M contract with Boston Public Schools, transporting about 19,000 students every day. It is currently looking to expand in Boston, where it is one of three finalists for a multibillion-dollar commuter rail contract. Read our full investigation with @wbur.org:

In 1999, a farmer gave away 87 acres of land to a small Texas city to use as a park. The city sold to a data center developer for $10 million. www.404media.co/a-farmer-don...

"In Fahrenheit 451, the abolition of reading began with tech companies simplifying books into summaries you could read in five minutes. Because people no longer engaged with the texts. they forgot how to think. Then came the book-burnings."

Will the tyrannical emotional state that brought us the war now be applied inside the United States? The emotional state, the utopia of violence, is not closely tethered to reality, and has to be considered in its own right. open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...

The pattern Walz identified with regard to the pool applies also to Trump’s debacle in Iran. And not only is the reflecting pool defying his narrative, so are Iran and Israel. open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...

"...the [DOJ] previously said it collected more than six million pages of material during its investigation into Jeffrey Epstein, and it only released around three million. So what’s in the rest of the Epstein files?" newrepublic.com/post/212114/...

I call Elon Musk a Nazi because he's an avowed white supremacist who undermines democracies, incites pogroms, targets minorities, intentionally caused the death of >750,000 people (so far) while laughing about it ("feeding USAID into the wood chipper"), and did a Sieg Heil at Trump's inauguration.

No surprises. According to court filings, investigators say several members of the group embraced anti government extremism, antisemitic conspiracy theories, and beliefs about secret elites controlling the country.

They're dumping slimy, green peroxide water from the Reflecting Pool back into the Potomac. #dc @popville.bsky.social

more and more i'm coming around to the importance of the independent agency model, which directly contradicts the unitary executive nonsense, which once again proves just how central nuking this court's power is to any reconstruction agenda

On occasion of Moscow burning a reminder that Russia engaged in the kidnapping and placement of Ukrainian children into Russian families. A generational crime which Russia and Great Russians, collectively, will face deep social and diplomatic consequences until the end of my life, certainly.

Juneteenth marks the celebration of America's second independence day. Like the people in this photo—Texans celebrating Juneteenth in 1900—we know that progress hasn't made our union perfect. But we can recommit to reaching toward that more perfect union together. Happy Juneteenth.

⚠️ The first phase of Trump’s sweeping anti-voting executive order could be implemented in less than two weeks, according to a DHS memo. The memo shows the administration is actively working to carry out the order despite continuing legal fights. Now, courts may be more likely to step in.

Trump attacks female journalists on live television. Hegseth purged women from the military's top jobs. Paxton called Talarico Low-T. These are not separate incidents. This is the strategy.