The stage is falling apart at the rehearsal for Freedom 250's July 4th celebration.

CNN montage of Trump attacking others claiming they have profited from being in office.

Huge fan of this supercut of Trump toadies moving the goalposts on the economy. This shit makes my blood boil like little else.

Ha! Here's Niiki Haley's FB post they reference:

Xitter's community notes are working overtime calling out people trying to claim Mamdani's attempts to conserve power is socialist. This one might be my favorite.

someone should look at hyperlocal precinct level data and map the correlation between new dense housing development and DSA vote share. this one analysis could cement the left-YIMBY alliance forever (I would do this but I’m on vacation rn)

This is Scott Atlas, the guy behind Trump's herd immunity covid approach, reflecting an ideology where public problems are best solved by doing nothing. "Give way to the market": The reality is that the market depends upon NIH-funded innovations. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/are-univer...

More evidence in support of my hypothesis that one not-insignificant reason you heard so much about the terrible economy when Joe Biden was president was that most journalists live in cities & went to college with lots of people who work in finance & tech, & the plural of anecdotes is data for them.

It is true, though, that Democratic candidates are discussing climate change less. That's been documented in analyses of campaign literature and social media posts. It's largely because centrist PACs and pundits have been pushing it as a campaign strategy.

NEW BLOG FOR YOU Google's energy consumption numbers in their new climate report are mind-blowing. 2 years ago they flipped from linear to exponential growth, and their climate impact is blowing out, too. A WILD testament to the obscene bloat and waste of GenAI: ketanjoshi.co/2026/07/01/g...

Ad Rock: you can disagree with the current All: POPE MCA: but if you push his buttons then you’re a All: DOPE Mike D: ordain yourself a bishop and you’re All: SCHISMATIC Ad Rock: excommunication is All: AUTOMATIC

Hey @thebulwark.com, come get ya boy!

Elon now claims he was saving lives by ending USAID

NEW: In the term ending last year, the Supreme Court passed a troubling milestone: The Shadow Docket overtook the normal process. That means more unsigned decisions with no reasoning and secret votes from the highest court. @kbmorales.bsky.social has your scoop: www.propublica.org/article/supr...

@polphilpod.bsky.social has been excellent on this. He's made a great case in several articles, like this @liberalcurrents.com piece, that there is simply no choice but to fight a values-based case against immigration restriction—if only because it inevitably radicalizes to outright ethnic cleansing

A man born two generations removed from slavery, in a freedman colony, and grew up speaking Gullah as his first language saying Birthright Citizenship devalues American citizenship is INSANE. My dude. The 14th is the only reason your grandad was a citizen. I hate Clarence Thomas so much.

'The United States was once the research engine of the world. Now China may be taking the dominant role, thanks to massive investment and a disruptive year for American universities under the Trump administration.'

Vaccine double-header: Same-day flu, COVID shots shown to be safe 💉 The analysis looks at medical records of 2.5 million patients across the Veterans Affairs (VA) health system. Read more: ow.ly/wg9450ZiTYN

JD Vance says he hopes the Pope has “learned” from what he and Trump have said about immigration

🚨 HEY #NEWYORK RESIDENTS: A quick reminder that ~450,000 of you are about to lose your healthcare coverage tomorrow. Yes, that's right, if you're enrolled in the "Essential Plan" healthcare program, your coverage may expire at midnight tonight. acasignups.net/25/09/12/new...

And where is the left wing Hoover Institution, the left wing Heritage Foundation/AEI/Manhattan Institute, the left wing New York Post, the left wing Bohemian Club?

On the theme of corruption, @karlbode.com's tireless work on exposing the ongoing broadband boondoggle -- perpetrated by Republicans, exploited by techno-fascists, and obfuscated by major media and pundits like Ezra Klein -- is staggering: karlbode.com/its-the-corr...

Sure would be good if Governor Hochul hadn't preemptively taken variable pricing and raising the congestion fee off the table just because the NY Post got angry. On bad AQ days and during periods of excessive heat, we need more tools to reduce discretionary driving.

If we wind up with the will and the capacity to embark on a third Reconstruction in 2029, order of work is going to be important—some parts of the program will be preconditions for others, and in some cases we may need to make use of existing passageways for a while before bricking them up forever.

people who know how to do things:

SPLC Prosecutor Kevin Davidson Admits He Went Looking for a Crime Based on a Flimsy Political Advocacy Letter emptywheel.net/2026/06/30/k...

Klein: "Rufo is a very smart and often quite honest analyst of his own side. One thing I appreciate about him is he always says what he is doing clearly and in public." The old George-Wallace-is-at-least-open-about-his-racism trope,an attempt to justify this journalistic horror.

Rufo has now primed Klein to accept the first step in the radicalisation pipeline of irrational fear over 'large-scale demographic change'. Klein is now openly affirming the 'concerns' underlying the Great Replacement Theory in The New York Times. Great job, Klein! You did it! Yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay!

Stephen Miller lets it slip: "they all have a life they want after the Senate... corporate boards they want to be a part of" Withholding lucrative jobs is how Trump and the oligarchs keep their grip on power. This would be called corruption anywhere else Video credit @acyn.bsky.social on X

Big in Louisiana today: State Supreme Court upheld decision vacating the conviction of Chris Duncan, who spent 26 years on death row claiming innocence. Context: 80% of people on Louisiana death row have been exonerated; this conviction hinged on discredited doctors. We reported on case here:

YEP. Every government, business, and school that buys into this trash is buying into catastrophe as prices skyrocket in the next months and years.

imagine trying "I know I've been gone four months but I'll explain when I'm back" if you were a shift worker at Arby's

Not just electricity -- *total* energy.

I need y'all to understand that I teach high school and there are teenagers already planning to leave the U.S. to because they will be studying science or medicine. They are SO serious about it - saving money, learning extra languages, and looking to see if there are familial connections abroad.

Tomorrow, Ireland takes over as EU Council Presidency for six months, when the EU is renegotiating tech and tax rules. In The Guardian this morning I argue it must recuse itself from these discussions because it is so captured by big tech. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

This is indeed the case and it's perhaps not gotten as much attention as it should. The lower courts are bordering on open mutiny to an unprecedented degree, and it's not just Democratic appointees. The Supreme Court's perceived legitimacy is in freefall *within the federal judciary.*

TMZ DC with perhaps the most brutal video from Trump's Great American State Fair, showing Dr. Oz on stage bragging to Dean Cain about how big the crowd is, only for the reporter to pan around and show absolutely nobody is there. Original post: x.com/i/status/207...

A shocking disclosure from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission last week: it will no longer make staff differing professional views or non concurrences public, even if the dissenting staffer(s) WANT them to become public. This is a huge blow to transparency and another sign of NRC's Trumpification.

Shouldn’t he be campaigning in Texas?😂 “Paxton was caught on video traveling with an alleged mistress from Dulles International Airport to Reykjavik, The Daily Mail reported. She was identified by the outlet as Tracy Duhon, a Christian influencer and mother of seven.”

looks good to me 👍

relatedly, new euphemism for "steal elections outright by corruptly invalidating millions of opposition votes" just dropped

“It is incoherent to immunize the president from prosecution on the theory that he can be held accountable through the political process — and then to deny Congress and the public information that would help them do so.” gift www.nytimes.com/2026/06/29/o...

Obama was the guy in college you’d ask to walk you home after a party and Trump was the guy who was the reason you wanted an escort home.

Loisaida Open Streets emerged as a community-led effort in the pandemic to make sure our streets supported the needs of the neighborhood, from mutual aid to block parties. This is a win for Alphabet City neighbors, who have long fought for this transformation to become reality:

OMFG. I cannot begin to describe my gasp at how Roberts & co decided to go all in on LOST CAUSE theory & insist that the Reconstruction Congress did Confederate sympathizer President Andrew Johnson wrong by attempting to keep him from destroying Reconstruction www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...

Humphrey's Executor is dead and the president can fire anyone in the executive branch at will but NOT Federal Reserve governors is really a parody of the difference between the money power and everything else in America

Adding: this is one reason conservatives work so hard to stigmatize "virtue signaling." Virtue signaling is actually incredibly important! It lets other people know that they are not alone in their values. It works against pluralistic ignorance. That's why they want you to feel abashed & stay quiet.

That helps explain why big media, always the handmaiden of power, works so hard to frame climate concern as some fey, boutique, out-of-touch elite concern. They don't want you to know that other people are concerned too. If you knew that, you might organize & push for change! And so we get this:

Trump's DOJ has dropped a case against Abbott Laboratories despite substantial evidence alleging they sold baby formula contaminated with deadly bacteria.

Basically, the Legislature can pass laws, but the Executive has total power to decide what they mean, or if they mean anything at all.