ABC is launching a campaign urging viewers to support the network in its fights against Trump's FCC. The spots ask ABC viewers to support 'The View' and its local stations amid the FCC review of its licenses. tinyurl.com/3w4hnzk5

Diplomacy, JD Vance style, is just another name for buffoonery.

Watching a president who has propped up the fossil fuel industry sign EOs on quantum or AI, two technologies that require renewable energy sources to reach their full potential, is more failed empire shit. www.youtube.com/live/g4m3XqC...

Sure 😒

I'm starting a list of movie-inspired dystopian events Trump would actually implement, in order of likelihood: 1) Purge night 2) The Long Walk 3) The Running Man 4) Thunderdome 5) ??? boxd.it/eUo0pT

Actually, we *should* be able to expect the president of the United States to be able to restrain himself from personally threatening to kill the negotiators from another country. It's not that unreasonable at all, you pathetic toady.

U.S. Park Police killed someone today in a high-speed chase near Woodley Park. DC leaders prohibited these chases — but last year, Congress overturned DC’s law as part of this regime’s psychotic desire to hunt people. DC leaders know what DC communities need. When Congress interferes, people die.

The genius of Obama's big speech is this: He effectively stated that Trump/MAGA do not accept the Declaration of Independence's promise of equality. In the battle over our 250th anniversary, we need to put that basic truth squarely on the agenda. New from me: newrepublic.com/article/2121...

The author of this piece lives in Alaska.

Well worth your time because we all loose track of the enormity and number of the scandals we are facing youtu.be/ndkFtUKLNZY?...

POCHBALL BABY!!!

An own goal for Australia puts USA up early

🇮🇷 “There definitely has been regime change.” Johns Hopkins prof. Vali Nasr tells Democracy Now! that the US & Israel have killed more than 130 Iranian leaders in the 2025 & 2026 wars, effectively replacing an entire generation of the country’s leadership. Nasr writes that the new generation was...

I heard the Democrats plan to auction off chunks for the reflecting pool paint as a campaign fundraiser.

One of Elon Musk's most cryptic posts says this: "Whatever happens, we have got the spaceships, and they do not." We decode this here. It's a serious statement about the future he actually envisions: newrepublic.com/article/2119...

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.

Best sports speech since the "Miracle" speech. 🥲

53 years in the making.

The fight over the Kennedy Center—and Trump's enormous, humiliating fig leaf—as parable. It's fights like this as far as the eye can see. www.offmessage.net/p/detrumpifi...

This is a good point. The oligarchs, who if anything had it pretty easy under democracy, have thrown us to the fascist wolves. And they had another option. Let's remember that when reconstruction time arrives.

To end his war on Iran, Trump was forced to return to the status quo with the Strait of Hormuz open and no nuclear deal in place.

The official number U.S. casualty count stands at 426, an ~11% increase since the first ceasefire between the U.S. and Iran was struck on April 8. This tally, however, is missing hundreds of casualties, including two soldiers wounded in action earlier this month. theintercept.com/2026/06/16/u...

“Bonhoeffer, the Protestant, and Mueller, the Catholic, had not only brought a great spiritual force to the [anti-Nazi] resistance but had given an example of individual courage in their various missions abroad.” - Shirer, Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, p. 1638

I think it would be hilarious if Joe Biden started trolling MAGA by showing up for ice cream photo ops at testaments to Trump's many failures like the reflecting pool and the Kennedy Center.

I think a post-restoration America could take care of this problem on its own. But completely agree with these ideas: it’s time for institutional actors the world over to stop ducking fights with this awful degenerate. Responsible leaders wouldn’t leave this up to protest or boycott movements alone.

Cops killing a dog and now a baby. 🤬

It always comes back to the fact that conservatives want to wield power to take away the rights of people they dislike without being made to feel like the assholes they are for it. Springsteen concerts aren't "fun" anymore, when he's basically calling you a dick.

Different genre but it reminded me of something @tommorelloofficial.bsky.social said years ago when usual suspects complain about artists and celebs speaking out, that: I don’t put away my first amendment rights and responsibilities just because I picked up my guitar

Every day Trump gifts us with a new metaphor for his presidency.

“.. I cannot recall another instance in which Iran suffered such serious military setbacks yet emerged with what could be considered a diplomatic victory.” @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/06/16/w...

FASCISM HAPPENING NOW. Star Tribune reports that members of Signal groups that tracked the movements and actions of federal agents in the Twin Cities during Operation Metro Surge are being arrested in home raids this morning. www.startribune.com/live-federal...

26 days ago:

Kash Patel may have a “personal slush fund” of taxpayer dollars to pay loyalist agents, says Raskin www.ms.now/news/kash-pa...

FOX & FRIENDS: There's also the $300 billion in reparations that's gonna come from Qatar and some of the Gulf states, and then $24 billion in unfrozen assets. Is any of that true? JD VANCE: Most of that is basically Iranian propaganda (That's not a no!)

But somehow his takeaway was still...

What if she's a Sim in real life?

Pete Hegseth becomes the first American Secretary of War to lose a war deanbaker22.substack.com/p/pete-hegse...

Critics described Romeow's performance as "real."

A Ukrainian drone dives lazily through Moscow skies to strike an oil refinery in the SE of the Russian capital earlier on June 16. The refinery, 16km from the Kremlin, provides a large proportion of Moscow and its region's fuel needs, Ukrainian news sources say. Russia's fuel crisis set to worsen.

The most shadow banned post in the history of posts lol

So basically the deal is just nothing?

Total lifetime charitable giving by these five parasites is ~$10 billion, or 0.4% of current net wealth, equivalent to the median American donating a total of $771 since they were born. (The parasites have another ~$30 billion in fake "philanthropy," money sent to tax-avoidance funds they control.)

i have been obsessed with this for years. allowing manufacturers to sell direct to consumers would be good for consumers and also destroying the car dealership would be an existential crisis for republicans

Meta's response, which we've received verbatim across four stories & have repeatedly printed, answers some question—but it isn't one we're asking. That is already incorporated into our reporting here (which btw, lends it more weight, not less). The response isn't news & that's what we're reporting.

While I wish the Rangers never traded him, I'm happy to see K'Andre Miller win a Stanley Cup.

This is genuinely great news. As Ukraine closes the gap on medium/long-range strikes — using it to significantly degrade Russian operations in occupied Crimea — it is disrupting Russia's long-range advantage as well.

The X exodus was great. Now do Instagram, WhatsApp and Facebook.

Putting Musk in prison for a very long time should be a standard campaign promise for Dem presidential nominees.

NBA championship update this morning, feat. Josh Hart and Jalen Brunson (via IG)

𝘐𝘯 𝘕𝘦𝘸 𝘠𝘰𝘳𝘬 𝘊𝘰𝘯𝘤𝘳𝘦𝘵𝘦 𝘫𝘶𝘯𝘨𝘭𝘦 𝘸𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘥𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘮𝘴 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘮𝘢𝘥𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘛𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦'𝘴 𝘯𝘰𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯' 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘤𝘢𝘯'𝘵 𝘥𝘰 🏀 #NYC