Good (and interesting) column by my longtime friend @markgreenny.bsky.social on Platner/Maine. My view remains: Who's "electable" in Maine is up to voters of Maine. But Mark has useful "framing" questions for us non-Mainers. theinflectionzonewithmarkgreen.substack.com/p/the-maine-...

Just think, if Trump had sexted women instead of serially raping them, inciting an armed rebellion against our government, getting convicted of 34 felonies and using his government role to make billions in ill-gotten personal gains Kennedy might actually have voted to impeach him

The president is not well. He has tremendous difficulty staying awake on the job. He has repeatedly fallen asleep at Cabinet meetings, at White House events, at a Memorial Day ceremony, and most recently at a very loud NBA game last night.

Masterful & sickening reporting on the Tate brothers by Heidi Blake: A Web of Abuse www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

Trump has successfully raised US inflation to 4.2%. Congratulations! How did he do it: 1. The war against Iran (as dumb as it gets). 2. Tariffs (dumb all the way). 3. Excessive budget deficit for no macroeconomic reason with unemployment at 4.3% Dumbest president ever.

Hey susan what happened?

Family of scammers successfully completes scam, suckers who thought they were in on the scam but actually were the marks shocked at this turn of events www.cnbc.com/2026/06/09/t...

Yup. Ro misses the main point here, don't dignify meritless fear mongering.

Thank you @charlesmblow.bsky.social and @abbyphillip00.bsky.social for directly calling out these lies and refusing to back down when the liar clutches his pearls. They're warming up to reject the midterm results with this same bullshit, so it's absolutely vital we nip this nonsense in the bud now.

BREAKING: The 2026 Social Security Trustees Report confirms that Donald Trump's policies are weakening Social Security’s finances. Now Republicans are eyeing benefit cuts. Here's what you need to know: 🧵

#TrumpMakesUsSick My healthcare insurance was already unaffordable at $1,700/mo. We still paid it. Then it jumped to over $3K/mo because of Trump’s Big Ugly Bill. And here’s the part people need to remember: most of the bill’s pain doesn’t even hit until after 2026 midterms.

President Trump does not live in the factual world. He promised no war with Iran, and he has certainly broken that promise.

If you were thinking “huh, wonder if they showed up at some voter’s house because there was some filler birthdate in the database, maybe something like super obvious from 126 years ago like, idk, 1/1/1900” than wow great guess spot on.

Speak Truth...until he turns burnt orange!...

We all know Trump has been a Spurs fan since Vietnam

Protocol violation: The U.S. Flag Code (36 U.S. Code § 301) states that during the national anthem, “individuals in uniform should give the military salute,” while “all other persons present should face the flag and stand at attention with their right hand over the heart” Trump is a dipshit

Not once have you ever heard Mike Johnson, Donald Trump or any other MAGA Republican talk about billionaires paying their fair share It's always taking something away from you and me In this case, stealing our funds from Social Security and Medicare that we worked for and paid into our whole lives

If "logic" or "facts" mattered to this guy: Calif adopted "no-excuse" mail-in ballots nearly 30 years ago. And—until Calif GOP blew itself up under Pete Wilson—the late-count ballots were seen as big *GOP* advantage. Just ask Gov. George Deukmejian. (If M.Johnson or Trump had ever heard of him.)

Scott Pelley’s emotional defense of journalism and the First Amendment is devastating in its heartbreak, sorrow, and loss. "There is no democracy without journalism." Thank you Mr. Pelley. Your only crime was committing excellent journalism. ✊

"Something remarkable happened in April. For the first time in history, wind and solar generated more electricity than gas across the entire planet. Not in a country. Not in a region. Globally." Tons of great news here from Danny Kennedy (via @billmckibben.bsky.social's newsletter, which rules).

Kushner Companies bought 666 Fifth Avenue in 2007 for the elevated price of $1.8B, borrowing all but $50M. It was a remarkable risk. Indeed, the Kushners were still scrambling to cover their loans a decade later. “Is Jared Kushner the World’s Worst Real-Estate Investor?” asked Vanity Fair.

Let's be clear: that would create conditions far worse on every dimension - especially the "limits on its nuclear program" - that existed under the JCPOA. There is no way Iran is now agreeing to the limits it agreed to then, & we've incinerated our credibility along with that agreement.

Most damning part of this @nytimes.com interview with Scott Pelley is at the very end. Where he says that the real problem with Bari Weiss was not her political toadying. It was her ignorance, inexperience, and dumbfounding incompetence.. Check it out: www.nytimes.com/2026/06/07/m...

The Trump administration is spending more than $100 million to fight the “emergency” of “white genocide” in South Africa.

He has zero respect for actual military. They are simply pawns to him.

Case study of how corporate media will change the narrative to censor the facts. Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/07/m...

Most governing that actually mattes for people's lives happens at the state level.

Tell me more about Trump/Republican family values… www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

In another example of “everything looks like a conspiracy, when you don’t know how anything works”: Trump and co. allege that “slow counting” reveals fraud, when it’s actually a signal/side effect of the security measures that are used to both prevent fraud and ensure that legal votes are counted.

Someone needs to give Pete the Peacock a history lesson.

Police pushed out a couple of the attendees at a diabetes scientific meeting. The crime: Passing out printouts of a recent publication calling out the administration for destroying our research infrastructure. The right to free speech was infringed upon. Censorship is real. We have to stand up.

Adorable young kestrels surprised by a butterfly.

I’m heading into the hospital shortly to round on patients, and if any of them are acting like the president, I’ll be looking for their nurse and asking how long they’ve been this way, whether they received sedating medications, and if the primary team is aware of their mental status changes. 🤷🏻‍♂️

Thank God the USA sent thousands of better men than Pete Hegseth to Europe in 1944.

The lesson Hegseth draws for D-Day is that Europe has allowed too many Black people from Africa and swarthy people from the Middle East to immigrate to its shores, betraying its white heritage. Pure racism.

"Last September, the President of Kazakhstan calls Donald Trump and says he wants to grant tungsten mining rights to an American company. And the very next month, Eric and Don Jr. get a stake in the American company pursuing the mining deal. Six days later ...

Reminder that there was a dedicated guy who worked Iran nukes stuff, Nate Swanson. But Laura Loomer had him purged.

Andrew Weissmann (Legal Analyst) explains why the DOJ is not in compliance with the #Epstein Transparency Act.

Corruption hates daylight. The names of every single donor and the “benefits” they received since donating need to be brought to light.

"Kill the filibuster...then pass big things. Pass that anti-corruption agenda. Let Trump veto it. Then spend weeks bashing him for his veto...Make Trump veto, veto, veto. Make him the face of the corrupt status quo." From @ericschmeltzer.bsky.social on D's future: open.substack.com/pub/betterdo...

Plenty of votes in my 75 years have been for people I didn't really like and had major disagreements with, because they were clearly the better alternative. Ideological purity is a losing strategy.

We have to end his power in November. It is life or death.

In this video, I say the obvious about Trump’s proposal to increase the military budget by nearly 50%: it’s a bribe to officers and soldiers so that they will side with him when he tries to overthrow the Constitution and stay in power indefinitely. snyder.substack.com/p/trumps-mil...

The whole point is that he is unqualified and will make us less safe. This isn’t a glitch. It’s the design. The US is to bend to its rivals abroad and collapse from within. For this he is the right guy! www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

WATCH: “Ivanka is Veruca Salt from Willy Wonka… the people of Albania are not particularly pleased… she & Jared have caused an international incident…” The @thebulwark.com crew on Javanka’s obscenely corrupt Albanian luxury resort island grab.

The Pujo Committee: the most important congressional investigation you've never heard of. It was the basis for Louis Brandeis's best-selling book Other People's Money.

Trump’s Deportation Machine Is Breaking: Here’s Proof www.dworkinsubstack.com/p/trumps-dep...

Platner’s sexting scandal has been a bat-signal for misogyny among certain “progressive” men. Ken Kippenstein called his critics and other mainstream Democrats “smoothgroins.” Kyle Kulinski said Platner could sext his mother. I wrote about it all here: www.liberalcurrents.com/the-men-defe...

CBS has now gotten rid of both Stephen Colbert & Scott Pelley in service to an authoritarian president.

Democrats need to treat this moment as a hinge point of American history, NOT a policy dispute. This is to decide what kind of country we have, authoritarian or free. Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/03/o...