In almost exactly one month, Missourians will be voting on a GOP-backed referendum that, if it passes, would effectively end citizen-led ballot initiatives in the state. Here's all you need to know: boltsmag.org/missouri-ame...

Very disturbing report but also very illustrative. I keep hearing people say that with the revocation of special protected status for hundreds of thousands of people we're likely to see surges like we saw last year in Chicago, LA and Minneapolis. But this suggests ... www.nytimes.com/2026/07/01/u...

my essay this week was, icymi, on the people who wielded the declaration as a weapon against bondage (gift link)

“Lost confidence in Trump” … no one wants to go into a fight with a coward or an idiot. Or maybe both.

Want to know what dilutes patriotism? A system that’s rigged against the American. And who can fault Americans for looking at a president flying around in a $400 million Qatari jet or making $2.2 billion in his first year in office and thinking ‘hey this place doesn’t actually seem all that fair.’

Sister Leticia "Letty" Ugboaja was walking to Sunday Mass in McAllen, Texas, when federal immigration officers stopped her, confiscated her rosary, and put her in handcuffs. DHS would not respond to requests for comment. The Catholic nun from Nigeria is a nurse who entered the country legally.

More like: they haven't read either one and have no intention of starting now.

Just hours after the devastating earthquakes in Venezuela that killed over 1,900 people, ICE attempted to deport children and families from the Dilley Trailer Prison to Venezuela. They were woken up in the middle of the night and sent to Arizona on their way to Venezuela.

This is disgusting as usual. More of the same partisan political speeches to active duty troops following the standard practice of Trump, Vance and Hegseth to violate a fundamental principle of the Republic. It’s also gross that more Republican vets don’t call this out. bsky.app/profile/atru...

JD Vance: "It was 5-4. Sometimes the Supreme Court makes mistakes. We're gonna try to correct that mistake, but nobody is perfect, including the Supreme Court."

The Cook Political Report just shifted the Alaska Senate Race from Lean R to Tossup.

Don't do any of this.

JD Vance Says the Midterms Will Determine the Future of Birthright Citizenship talkingpointsmemo.com/news/jd-vanc...

The most corrupt presidency in American history. Trump turned the presidency into the world’s most profitable business enterprise for himself. His financial disclosures show nearly $800 mill tied to World Liberty Financial, $635 mill from a meme coin, millions more from Trump-branded ventures.

Trump’s Moneymaking Run: Unrivaled in Presidential History www.nytimes.com/2026/06/30/u...

No previous president has ever manipulated American foreign and domestic policy in order to make himself a billionaire. Unprecedented www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

2/ @rokhanna.bsky.social what were you thinking when you tied up with these guys?

Full segment here:

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BREAKING: Trump reported more than $1.4 billion in income from crypto, digital tokens and related partnerships in 2025 — appearing to have substantially increased his income after reentering the White House. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Two of Donald Trump's wives would have been deported. And Don Jr. and Barron Trump would have Eastern European citizenships.

Anti-sunscreen

absolutely vital to win the senate this november. need to basically blockade judicial confirmations for the next two years.

Just shocking this was a 5-4 ruling. This Court is so so badly broken.

Preying on the gullible - A tale as old as time. Relentlessly teaching critical thinking and scientific skepticism at every age is the ONLY fundamental way to combat this. Everything else are just bandaids

LFG!

Warren: So we’ve got all these ways to lower the cost of housing. And Donald Trump just doesn’t care. And he openly says so. The guy who ran for president saying, “I will lower costs on day one.” Remember that? He ran for a year saying, “I will lower costs on day one.”

Naomi Osaka walked into Wimbledon carrying both a tennis bag and generations of Japanese cultural elegance. Absolute slay. 🤍🇯🇵

Really not looking forward to tomorrow's SCOTUS decisions on trans rights, which are ostensibly about sports (but depending on the ruling, will affect far, far more than that, and not likely in a good way).

Looks familiar

Not for long. Not for long.

LFG BBC! www.newsweek.com/donald-trump...

Dems should run on this, pointing out that Trump doesn't care about housing affordability because the only people that matter to him already own multiple houses and have no trouble affording them.

Good for Tidal. Happy to be a subscriber. techcrunch.com/2026/06/29/t...

They just continue to insist that there are massive crowds showing up to this thing despite the fact that this is also the 200th anniversary of the invention of the camera.

Another day, another huge pile of your tax dollars spent on **canceling energy projects during an energy crisis** www.nytimes.com/2026/06/29/c...

need to start thinking now about a full package of judicial reforms: new justices, new circuits, new district courts, ethics reforms, docket reforms, and transparency reforms.

Wanted to get the vibe of going to Trump’s state fair but didn’t want to drive all the way to DC, so I just went and stood in an empty field.

Is this what the GOP thinks a "real man" is supposed to be like? 🤔

There's no plan to roll back the excesses of this Supreme Court that doesn't start with Democrats winning a majority of Senate seats (and it probably requires enough wins for a few Dem no votes).

I want to build a future where trans people lead research studies that improve our health, not merely question why we exist. Where trans people become doctors, to help trans patients be healthier. A future where we lift each other up instead of merely trying to survive. 9/X

Even in grad school, there were no queer mentors for me to look up to. I thought coming out would ruin my career. This is why I am out and proud and loud - for all the trans kids out there They deserve to know trans scientists exist, and to be able to dream that they can become scientists too 8/X

On the question of reforming the Corrupt Court I’ve seen several references to enforcing a code of ethics. I’m definitely against Kept Justices like Sugaring advocate Justice Thomas. But to my thinking this is mostly a distraction from real reform. Thomas would be just as corrupt if he were …

FACT CHECK: TRUE 😂 "We appeal to 'the center,' which is an ambiguous blob-like thing that exists only in the minds of Democratic strategists whose brains stopped working in the 1990s."

MAJOR BREAKING: In a 5-4 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court held that states may count mail-in ballots that are postmarked on or before Election Day, even if they arrive afterward. Justices Thomas, Alito, Gorsuch, and Kavanaugh dissented.

The odd baby-splitting in the combination of Slaughter and Cook reveals the right-wing Court’s priorities: It may be sanguine about the demolition of agencies mostly used to regulate big business/protect workers, but is unwilling to let Trump take over the Fed and unleash global economic chaos

New: In two new cases (Slaughter and Cook), SCOTUS eliminates long-standing precedent that protected independent agencies from at-will firing by a vengeful president — BUT also creates a Federal Reserve carveout. Some baby splitting here as Court protects Fed from Trump's whims. Roberts writes both

Why are Russian windows so unsafe??🤔