Reckless and corrupt AF. Trump is trying to blackmail states to comply with his illegal, unconstitutional demands. www.cnn.com/2026/06/10/p...

Trump's war has wiped out an entire year and a half of wage growth

A FIFA referee was denied entry to the US. The Trump administration response was to say "we're not going to allow terrorists to sneak into the country". A respected soccer referee, called a "terrorist". It's a ridiculous and absurd assertion. But racism isn't rational. We are a laughingstock.

Trump campaigned under the idea that everything in America is a mess (it wasn't) and "only I can fix it". How has that played out? Everything is now more expensive. It's impossible to find a job. War is raging in the Middle East. The stock market is selling off. America elected a charlatan. 🙄

🧪⚛️ For scale, this is roughly 25 years of NSF funding, or 5 years of NIH funding. This, from people who claim that we can’t afford to support research, or public health.

I'm one of those mango lovers. I might have to get a ticket for this event.

Some phone calls are better than others. Congratulations to the New Yorkers who won affordable World Cup tickets.

This administration is obscenely enriching itself through naked graft, corruption, and bribery. The president is pardoning scores of rich white guys convicted of fraud after they make a proper contribution to his many grifts. But sure, Jimmy. It's the black people.

It truly amazes me the things MAGA myrmidons must tell themselves to justify the needless cruelty of Republicans in America today. Children losing cancer care...it's their parents fault! 🤬

I expect Nithya Raman will be the next mayor of LA. She is a progressive endorsed by the Democratic Socialists of America. If the two largest cities in America, NY and LA, are both run by socialists and quality of life improves, the GOP invective is hollow. Just mendacity to help the wealthy.

If you credulously do a segment about the vote in California in which you don’t say the president is lying, you’re spreading disinformation to your listeners.

#proudblue #pinks #takebackourcountry

Republicans are coordinating efforts to undermine confidence in elections, while at the same time saying people should be able to have confidence in elections.

Just asking Grok some questions

Very good question. It seems like transparent looting at this point.

There’s been a lot of talk in this race about what makes a "real man." A man does what’s right when no one is watching. He upholds his commitments to his family and neighbors. He doesn’t lie, cheat, & steal his way through life. Real men serve others. Weak men serve themselves.

John Bolton is facing prison for mishandling a single classified document. Donald Trump himself illegally took dozens of boxes of classified documents. Bolton is now Trump's enemy, so he goes to prison. Trump's insurrectionist supporters get a pardon, and possibly money. None of this is OK.

"The pick is bad for U.S. intelligence and a threat to civil liberties. But the greatest danger of appointing Pulte as DNI is that it’s a further step in Trump’s plans to subvert free and fair elections in the United States, in 2026 but especially in 2028." open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...

Loose gun laws have not been an American success story. In fact, it's one of the nation's most intractable failures and our elected officials, tragedy after tragedy, refuse to address the problem. We make it far too easy for dangerous, insane, and evil people to kill people.

Spain - a progressive success story (aka, challenge the right wing narratives) "When the rich get extra money, they tend to save it, which simply pushes up asset prices; when the poor get extra money, they spend it, which creates all sorts of real economic activity."

Kevin Hassett would explain this by saying people are feeling great about the economy, see they're going out and spending. 🤔

"An armed society is a polite society" How many times have we heard this? How many times have we seen just how untrue this is? Quite the opposite in fact. We've made guns freely available to every irritable hothead in America who can't tolerate even the slightest inconvenience. 🤬

It’s no big surprise that Trump’s DOJ is deleting all of the January 6th press releases from its website. Here’s the thing: I downloaded all of them in Feb. 2025 (that’s right, more than a year ago) suspecting that they’d do just that. And we’re working to post them all online, as are others.

Everything Trump touches dies.

Vanilla Ice is happy to be invited to perform at his first paid gig in 30 years. Just hope that $250 check clears.

There's no shortage of Asians in the world, but there's a serious shortage of Asians on the stem cell registry. Let's help change that. A stem cell donor can save a life. I know, because I'm alive today because of a stem cell donor. www.buzzfeed.com/lily_grossin...

Tallarico should hold a barbeque campaign rally and tell voters, if Paxton is so misinformed on a silly thing like he thinks I'm a vegan what other, much more important issues, is he misinformed about? But on that note, vegans are voters too, and entitled to equal rights.

It seems like anything that can be monetized will be monetized in America today. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Tax cuts don't pay for themselves. They never have. Otherwise we wouldn't have $40 trillion in national debt. Tax cuts are easy to campaign on, but not fiscally responsible. And wealth should be taxed, not just income. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

On Memorial Day, we pay tribute to the brave men and women in uniform who gave their lives for this country that we love. It is a debt we can never fully repay, but we must never stop trying.

I cringe when I see "Happy Memorial Day". It's not a happy day, it's a solemn day. It's not a day we celebrate, it's a day we commemorate. We remember and mourn those who gave their lives in service to the nation. The US president, commander in chief, should know this better than anyone.

Like clockwork. Not even 24 hours.

This is why the war in Iran was always a fool’s errand. Trump was never going to commit the necessary resources to actually win it. Now, we’re apparently getting ready to leave with an emboldened Iran and a Middle East that’s in a worse position than when we started.

Here’s a thought — Maybe these people don’t deserve to be handsomely rewarded? (From NPR)

Stephen Colbert ended his final episode of The Late Show while singing "Hello, Goodbye" with Paul McCartney on the Ed Sullivan stage that made The Beatles mega stars.

Who has really been mistreated by a weaponized Justice Dept? Abrego Garcia

Not sure many people outside of the InfoSec world know what quantum computing is, or even heard the term. You'll be hearing more about it soon. It's a potential impending disaster with the likely effect of making all of our current cryptography obsolete. www.linkedin.com/pulse/your-o...

The damage we are doing to so many lives, so many families, in the quest to score political points and advantage, is unconscionable. We are not a healthy nation.

I've been skeptical of the claims that Trump is exhibiting dementia, but he just referred to his son as "a person I've known a very long time." This sounds very familiar to anyone who has a parent with dementia or Alzheimer's. 😳