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The Contrarian
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Crime and Punishment — A cartoon by Nick Anderson
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Carl Quintanilla
about 17 hours ago
“.. Since the end of the Great Recession in 2009, only the top 0.1% of U.S. households have seen their wealth increase--from about $5.8 trillion to $25.1 trillion in the first quarter of 2026.” - Schwab
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Iran stands to generate upwards of $230 million to $270 million per day from oil exports under the newly issued United States sanctions waivers.
about 19 hours ago
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No conflict here. Wake up
@democrats.org
he’s not even a governmental employee. Start raising hell.
@housedemocrats.bsky.social
@democrats.senate.gov
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about 20 hours ago
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Norm Eisen
about 21 hours ago
BREAKING: Over 100 former judges, @DDFund_ & @LDADemocracy have lodged a massive complaint w/ NY bar to investigate acting AG Todd Blanche for *Trump slush fund *DOJ political retribution *Epstein Files fiasco We have never seen anything like this
www.democracydefendersfund.org/prs/06.22.26...
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TODD BLANCHE MUST BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE FOR PATTERN OF SERIOUS ETHICAL MISCONDUCT
Today, Democracy Defenders Fund, Lawyers Defending American Democracy and a group of 101 former federal and state judges formally filed a comprehensive complaint in a letter to the New York State Bar,...
https://www.democracydefendersfund.org/prs/06.22.26-pr
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CAKE
1 day ago
The congressional switchboard number is (202) 224-3121. Put it in your cell phone. Use it. If you're not calling at least once a week, you're not doing your part.
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PatriotTakes 🇺🇸
1 day ago
Reflecting pool arrests: 5 Epstein client arrests: 0
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Scott Horton
3 days ago
Michael Bloomberg is convinced that the fossil fuels industry has completely captured the US government and US media. And he's correct. He plans to do something about it.
www.ft.com/content/5d02...
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Michael Bloomberg arms green lobby for fight against oil interests
Billionaire pledges $285mn to renewable industry associations as nations face energy policy decisions in wake of Iran war
https://www.ft.com/content/5d02676c-60cb-4d11-b719-9ece20d11849?syn-25a6b1a6=1
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Bill Kristol
3 days ago
If DOD needs $80b to replenish stocks and pay for Trump’s unauthorized, unwise, and unsuccessful war, every cent should come out of the bloated appropriation for ICE and border patrol for Trump’s awful mass deportation project.
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The Bulwark
4 days ago
You know who's obsessed with the Reflecting Pool? Donald J. Trump.
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Baumer
4 days ago
Touch the reflecting pool: criminal. Attack police for Trump: hero patriot and pardoned.
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Rep. Mike Levin
4 days ago
This should be on the front page of every newspaper in America.    Trump’s DOJ just shut down a federal investigation into a coal company owned by Sen. Jim Justice, one of his closest allies, after it racked up tens of thousands of alleged violations for dumping dangerous chemicals…
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The Tennessee Holler
4 days ago
🔥 🇮🇹 Italy’s PM Giorgia Meloni to Trump after his lie about her begging for a pic: “My popularity is none of your concern. I suggest you focus on yours.”
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Kevin M. Kruse
4 days ago
(summoning the spirit of Lee Atwater) "Thanks to Ken Paxton, an admitted pedophile might be your neighbor right now and you wouldn't know it."
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Carl Quintanilla
4 days ago
DOWD: “.. A historian once told me that the presidency would distill Donald Trump to his essence. “.. That essence, it turns out, is trillions of microscopic organisms that suck up all the oxygen and endanger life around them.”
@nytopinion.nytimes.com
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Carl Quintanilla
5 days ago
“.. The first rule is to have muddled objectives. .. The second rule is, do not know thine enemy. .. Finally, be sure to alienate your friends.”
@edwardluce.bsky.social
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Mueller, She Wrote
4 days ago
FYI: JUST the act of lifting sanctions nets Iran about $5B PER MONTH. That's in addition to the $24B in unfrozen assets, and the $300B that will probably be managed by Kushner's hedge fund for a fee.
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The Bulwark
4 days ago
Trump's grand solution to food affordability? Cut funding to the programs that makes food affordable.
@crampell.bsky.social
breaks down the full impacts of these SNAP cuts and what it means for Americans already struggling to afford their meals.
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Trump’s One Big Beautiful Hunger Crisis
His solution to the food affordability crisis is to cut programs that help people afford food.
https://lnk.thebulwark.com/4aTE1VB
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The New Republic
5 days ago
Conservatives wanted Barack Obama impeached over the money he agreed to pay Iran (which was Iran’s money, frozen in U.S. banks), which was $1.7 billion. Trump is going to hand Iran 176 times that amount.
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David Ho
6 days ago
Spain’s electricity bills have decreased due to its commitment to renewable energy, reducing the influence of fossil fuels on electricity prices.
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Why Spain’s electricity bills have fallen during an energy crisis
Homes and business are benefitting from Spain's commitment to clean energy.
https://www.euronews.com/2026/06/16/spains-renewables-revolution-is-paying-off-electricity-bills-are-lower-despite-energy-cris
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick
5 days ago
This is BIG. After spending over $1 BILLION on the purchase of multiple commercial warehouses that ICE planned to convert into the largest jails/prisons in the nation, ICE is now largely abandoning the idea and will aim to sell off multiple warehouses at a loss.
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Missing The Point
5 days ago
Art of the Kneel
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Add this to the other millions of things that they have done that is illegal.
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The Tennessee Holler
5 days ago
ICYMI — Hillary Clinton said Israel was “relentless” about trying to get the Obama administration to join them in going to war with Iran.
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD
5 days ago
Hegseth proudly ended the flu vaccine requirement for the military. Following this idiocy, only 40% of new trainees got vaccinated. There’s now a flu outbreak at an AF facility. A new recruit has died, though it is not clear if it was from flu. Now, the flu vaccine is again required there.
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Scores Fall Ill at Air Force Base After Hegseth Makes Flu Vaccine Optional
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/18/us/flu-outbreak-air-force-base.html?unlocked_article_code=1.rFA.l4Dh.KflZtnYU9M9A&smid=nytcore-ios-share
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸
5 days ago
You can call this fraud, theft, or both. Because that's what it is.
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Michael J. Stern
5 days ago
When you are paying $765 million to companies to get them to cancel clean, renewable energy projects, you are screaming to the world that you are a corrupt fossil fuel lobbyist bitch who does not give a damn about what's best for America.
www.nytimes.com/2026/06/17/c...
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Trump Administration to Pay $765 Million to Cancel 4 More Wind Projects
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/17/climate/trump-wind-farms-cancel-millions.html
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MeidasTouch
5 days ago
The algae always comes back...
meidasplus.com
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The Contrarian
6 days ago
On top of stalling the release of the Epstein files, letting Trump's corruption run wild, and slashing healthcare and SNAP benefits to give billionaires more tax cuts, Republicans are now menacing Social Security.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸
6 days ago
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ProPublica
6 days ago
NEW: Records obtained by ProPublica detail at least a dozen SpaceX investors with addresses in mainland China, Hong Kong or Russia who acquired stakes in SpaceX years ago through a middleman firm in the U.S. called Tomales Bay Capital.
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Before SpaceX IPO, Investors in China Secretly Acquired Stakes
One previously unreported SpaceX investor has ties to Chinese military contractors. The information was revealed only after ProPublica went to court to obtain it.
https://www.propublica.org/article/spacex-elon-musk-ipo-foreign-investors-china?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=propublica-bsky
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Robert Reich
7 days ago
Elon Musk’s DOGE cut the federal government’s screwworm monitoring program, which cost $15 million. Now, the Trump administration is preparing to spend $1 billion to combat the screwworm outbreak. Never forget how destructive and downright stupid DOGE was.
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MeidasTouch
6 days ago
March 9: "We're now totally independent of the Middle East. We don't need their oil." April 1: "It doesn't really affect us. We have so much oil, much more than we need." June 17: If I didn't agree to the MOU, we "would run out of reserves at about 4 weeks..."
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Steve Rattner
7 days ago
Warsh wants to cut short-term rates while selling off the Fed's bonds, pressing the accelerator and the brake at the same time. The likely result: cheaper money for Wall Street, costlier mortgages for everyone else. My piece in
@nytopinion.nytimes.com
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www.nytimes.com/2026/06/16/o...
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Opinion | Good Luck, Kevin Warsh. You’ll Need It.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/16/opinion/kevin-warsh-fed-chair-interest-rates-trump.html
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Politico
7 days ago
Trump reviews slowed screwworm response, former officials say
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Trump reviews slowed screwworm response, former officials say
"Devastating" staffing cuts and spending reviews at USDA constrained the government’s response to the spread of a flesh-eating pest that threatens livestock.
http://dlvr.it/TT4khw
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Kevin M. Kruse
8 days ago
People laughed when Trump said the war would only end with unconditional surrender but he's a man of his word and he has now surrendered unconditionally
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Asha Rangappa
8 days ago
This guy cannot be fired soon enough
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Is releasing billions of dollars to Iran unconditional surrender? Sounds like the surrender was from the United States.
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10 days ago
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Bill Kristol
9 days ago
They warned me that if I voted for Kamala Harris we’d get a new deal with the Iranian regime worse than the JCPOA. I voted for Kamala, and they were right.
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ControversyCow
10 days ago
Can you Spot the Game Trump attended... 🕵️‍♀️
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Robert Reich
11 days ago
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Patrick Monahan
10 days ago
Remembering a multi-day conservative freakout because Lizzo briefly played a founding father’s flute
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CleanTechnica
10 days ago
Most Efficient Solar Module in the World — New Record
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Most Efficient Solar Module in the World — New Record - CleanTechnica
Support CleanTechnica's work through a Substack subscription or on Stripe. The Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems (ISE) is no stranger to solar power records, and it’s just set another one....
https://cleantechnica.com/2026/06/12/most-efficient-solar-module-in-the-world-new-record/
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Matt Ufford
10 days ago
lol the Knicks lost one game in the last 8 weeks of the playoffs and it was the Trump game
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The Bulwark
10 days ago
"'The ocean drives our entire economy and life systems,' said Stanley R. Riggs, a retired coastal geologist....'We’re pulling the plug on some of the most important science being done.'" ICYMI
@crampell.bsky.social
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Trump Just Gutted A Major Line of Oceanic Defense
Just in time for hurricane season, the Trump administration is defunding its global ocean-monitoring system.
https://lnk.thebulwark.com/49S6db9
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Mueller, She Wrote
11 days ago
NEW: officials inform the court that Trump’s name has been removed from the Kennedy Center.
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Wolfgang Blau
11 days ago
Edward Luce in the Financial Times about Musk:
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Scott Horton
11 days ago
Update: Reuters now reporting that the Emiratis _have already delivered $3 billion_ to Iran as a first installment under the deal, which requires the payment of reparations to Iran.
www.reuters.com/world/middle...
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Exclusive: UAE to unlock billions of dollars for Iran, sources say
The United Arab Emirates has agreed to unlock billions of dollars for Iran, four sources said, ​in a tactical shift after weeks of Iranian attacks on the wealthy Gulf Arab state during the U.S.-Israel...
https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/uae-unlock-billions-dollars-iran-sources-say-2026-06-12/
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