1/ In August 2020, the president of El Salvador, Nayib Bukele, made an extraordinary request to President Trump’s ambassador, Ronald Johnson. A previously undisclosed report tells what happened next, according to a new ProPublica investigation. 🧵 ⬇️

Premiums for Obamacare are about to go sky high unless subsidies are extended, millions will lose their healthcare, and this is what Trump tells Dems who want to sit down and negotiate.

That part.

hey so this is insane

and a retired meteorologist shall lead us

President Donald Trump continued his Profit-Off-The-Presidency World Tour this week with a stop in Scotland, where he opened a new private golf course. You, dear taxpayer, footed the bill for most of the trip. Story: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

EXCLUSIVE: ICE may have secretly done more third-country removals than previously known Flight data from private jets contracted by ICE show a spike in activity to 13 countries targeted for third-country removals. 👀I've been working on this for two months. hardghistory.ghost.io/exclusive-ic...

WHY THE FUCK IS THE DOJ FIRING UNIVERSITY PRESIDENTS?!?!? www.nytimes.com/2025/06/26/u...

Extraordinarily difficult to listen to. My translation: "Help me Help me Help me BRAYAN Ay, no Help me Help Help Ay, no [In the background, a sound like a child shouting back to him. I make out what could be the word "papa" but I can’t tell if it’s just pareidolia] Help Help Help Help me Help me"

Indiana's governor fired all the elected members of Indiana University's Board of Trustees. Given a recent policy change, he'll be able to fill those seats with appointees. Which means he'll basically have unilateral control over IU decisions, including who gets hired, tenured, and fired.

New York GDP per capita: $117.3K Florida GDP per capita: $73.8K Republicans want you to be poor

When asked if the United States should have a military parade to show off its might, President Eisenhower responded: “Absolutely not. We are the pre-eminent power on Earth. For us to try and imitate what the Soviets are doing in Red Square would make us look weak.”

Earlier this year, ProPublica found that the sepsis rate in second-trimester pregnancy loss hospitalizations increased by more than 50% under Texas’ abortion ban. Here’s how we did our analysis. (Published Feb.)

A FUCKING TWO YEAR OLD?!

Elon Musk has cut somewhere between 0% and 3% of what he promised—and most of what was cut was not waste or fraud or abuse, but simply expenditures Mr. Musk did not personally favor for partisan reasons. DOGE is the biggest program failure in the history of American government.

We’ve talked about Operation Whirlwind before, but the mission keeps expanding, now it’s targeting scientific journals. This week, Ed Martin, the U.S. attorney for D.C., sent an unprecedented letter to CHEST, a medical journal focused on respiratory science, questioning their editorial policies

Ed Martin, Donald Trump’s nominee to be U.S. Attorney for Washington, D.C., did not disclose his more than 150 appearances on Russian state TV in a Senate questionnaire ahead of his confirmation hearing.

Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social: "The only way you can think that recognizing the accomplishments of Jackie Robinson, Elizabeth Eckford or Harriet Tubman is somehow divisive, is if you think that black people are not Americans. Their heroism as Americans makes the country better."

This continues to be the biggest story in the country: DOGE has already squandered half a trillion dollars in 6 weeks. Not billion. half a trillion, $500 billion talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/irs-p...

Wait! I thought undocumented people didn’t pay taxes! Isn’t this what they’ve been saying the whole time, that they are drains to our system and don’t contribute? This administration is garbage, their arguments are garbage, and if you believe in this administration, you are garbage, too. Full stop.

George HW Bush (R) got us mired in a recession. Clinton (D) got us out. George W Bush (R) got us mired in a recession. Obama (D) got us out. Trump (R) got us mired in a recession. Biden (D) got us out. Trump (R) is yet again ushering us into a recession. Starting to notice a trend?

The Trump administration is more than just a joke, they're a National Security Threat.

Read the entire thread. Very insightful, and frightening.

Pilot to Hegseth: "You’re going to kill somebody.” For the safety of our troops, Hegseth has got to go.

A stunning assault on the First Amendment Before Rubio's confirmation, senators and pundits acted as though he was a "sane," "rational," "normal," "moderate" nominee. He's constantly showing himself to be a right-wing extremist.

This is going to get worse, not better. Never underestimate the American public’s thirst for performative cruelty towards The Other: defendants, foreigners, anyone they’ve been conditioned to see as less than human. We’re the country that made lynchings into picnics.

Well, they lied. Obviously.

Elon Musk admitted why he’s spending $18 million & paying voters $100 a pop to flip Wisconsin Supreme Court. It’s all about keeping GOP gerrymandering advantage in US House. If Dems retake House they can investigate Musk, DOGE & his $38 billion in govt contracts www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Hey Democratic leadership, this Hegseth story right here? It's a big fucking deal, and you should be eager to hammer the shit out of the Trump admin over it. Don't play nice. There's no need to wait for further details. You need to mercilessly attack them over this.

I’m amazed how little coverage this story has gotten. They’ve burned well over $16 million to briefly hold 290 immigrants and several photo ops to GITMO. Just a total train wreck and they didn’t even mention it officially. Check out my latest. open.substack.com/pub/fpwellma...

I’ll scream it again: IT’S ALREADY SHUT DOWN!! It’s not working with all these cuts taking place, and you want to hand them our social security and Medicaid/Medicare, too?! You are just standing and wringing your hands and capitulating instead of being the leader we need you to be. Rethink this!

The thing about scientific research is that it’s one of the few national investments that’s a clear public good even if you entirely discount the actual ostensible point of it.

Seriously just fucking shut March Madness down

More of this!

This cause is close to my heart - please sign: sign.moveon.org/petitions/to...

If you don’t do this, Dems, at least do something that shows you’re unified against what’s happening. If you can’t agree on messaging, don’t go. Hold an alternate state of the union that is factual, with visuals, lists, and video. People need to see what’s happening.

Found it.

Get the word out on these special elections We win these three and we take the house No more trifecta No more BS from Trump We need people in these districts to step up and fight for it Contact your friends and neighbors and raise hell gayforcongress.com joshweil.us blakegendebienforcongress.com

Pretty much sums it up

Tonight we proposed an amendment to ensure that the Republican budget doesn’t raise prescription drug costs for seniors on Medicare. And guess what? Republicans blocked it — just like they opposed us when we gave Medicare the power to lower drug prices.

He's preparing to do something really bad.

A MINOR

Holocaust survivor Marione Ingram stood with Federal Workers at OPM, “I am here because what I see in America happening is 1930s Germany. We are now officially a Nazi America. We have a Hitler clone in the White House. He is destroying everything America defeated.” dcmediagroup.us/2025/02/07/h...

Received a letter from POTUS today purporting to remove me as Commissioner and Chair of the FEC. There's a legal way to replace FEC commissioners-this isn't it. I've been so fortunate to serve the American people and stir up some good trouble along the way. That's not changing anytime soon.

Senate Democrats are considering voting NO or delaying every Trump nominee as retaliation for his overreach on ending USAID. Smash the RT if you SUPPORT this plan. ZERO votes from Democrats!!

I think we are all searching in vain for evidence that Donald Trump or Elon Musk are serving America rather than other interests. Their anger at USAID sounds like ventriloquism from Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping. It makes no sense whatsoever to anyone who actually loves this country and its values.

“We must sound the alarm on why Elon Musk, a private citizen, wields such access to all our critical data. This is yet another wake-up call that Trump and Musk are rapidly dismantling U.S. institutions—a step ever closer to authoritarian control.” trumptyrannytracker.substack.com/p/trump-tyra...