Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy is using his official social media account to promote his wife's book, in clear violation of the law.

New from me: Bari Weiss's Free Press has been amplifying the lie that "Biden's open borders policy" pushed thousands of kids into sex slavery -- and that Trump is now rushing to rescue them. What Trump is actually doing: separating kids from their families, jailing them, and deporting them.

You notice that the criminal-in-charge who sues everyone for everything is drop dead quiet about this. Says a lot.

Your Prime Day reminder that half of Amazon warehouse workers struggle with food & housing costs. A third have had to rely on government assistance like SNAP — which was gutted last year. If Bezos can spend $500M on a yacht, Amazon can afford to treat its workers with dignity.

President’s promise of photo and video evidence of vandalism at Washington landmark yet to be fulfilled

Poetic justice!!!!!.....

Ossoff: I don’t think many people are tuning in because he’s lost it. But more importantly, what we’re seeing is how destabilized he is by his global humiliation in the Middle East, which he cannot deny or lie away. He has cemented his place in history in disgrace.

Steve Hutkins, a retired New York University professor and a leading advocate for the USPS through savethepostoffice.com, told Democracy Docket that if the agency ultimately moves forward with the proposal, he believes “it will destroy the Postal Service.” www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Q: Why did you give a plea deal to a child sex predator? Do you have anything to say about that? Paxton: (No response.) Q: Should he be registered as a sex offender in Texas? Paxton: (No response.) Q: What do you have to say to the victim of Adam Hoffman? Paxton: (No response.)

🚨BREAKING: A federal judge Wednesday permanently blocked several key parts of President Donald Trump’s 2025 anti-voting executive order. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

ALERT: Judge Carl Nichols has ordered the Trump Admin. to respond by the end of the day to plaintiffs who've challenged Reflecting Pool project Plaintiffs (a conservation group) want Team Trump to halt future "renovations" til proper studies are conducted storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Republicans control all three branches of government and can’t stop talking about stolen elections… Weird, right?

No wonder the establishment was terrified that their corruption would be exposed and prosecuted with the new Mayor in charge. abcnews.com/US/former-ch...

Stephen Miller was reportedly the driving force behind the DOJ's recent memo authorizing states to institutionalize people with disabilities rather than fund community-based care

In the richest country in the history of the world, more than half of people should be able to afford health care.

4 years since the dreadful Supreme Court Dobbs decision turned back the clock 50 years and eroded reproductive freedom and women’s rights. Texans are dying from pregnancy complications and struggling to access basic health care. Restoring abortion rights must be a top priority in a new Congress.

BREAKING: BOSTON (AP) - Federal judge bars Trump from implementing proof of citizenship requirement to vote.

Gov. Tim Walz has filed 16 federal records requests seeking documents he says could show Minnesota was targeted for political retribution.

A federal judge ordered the Kennedy Center to submit a status report next month updating the court about why tarps have stood in front of the building’s sign since President Donald Trump’s name was removed.

What a fucking embarrassment Trump is.

PETERS: If a state refuses to turn their absentee voter list to the federal govt, will Postal Service still mail their ballots under this proposed rule? STEINER: No PETERS: So it basically coerces states to hand over their absentee voter rolls or face consequences of not being able to vote by mail

Republicans were FINALLY going to address an affordability issue. Bill passed with overwhelming bipartisan support in Senate and House. Big signing ceremony today. Mike Johnson holding press conference. Then Trump pisses on him while MAGA Mike is hyping that Republicans Deliver!

WHITEHOUSE: You have tweets calling Donald Trump and Kamala Harris '2 clowns,' calling Murkowski 'almost as dumb as Kamala,' calling Sen. Collins 'a fraud,' calling Sen. Padilla a 'thug.' You didn't tell the DOJ about those tweets? LIGRIS: No

LIGRIS: I suspect you're quoting retweets or comments to other tweets WHITEHOUSE: No. They're your tweets. You're responsible for knowing what you said. Don't put it on us to have to explain to us your own tweets. This is your mess, not ours. If you can't explain that, that's on you.

Headlines from the abyss theappeal.org/angola-farm-...

Musk and his DOGE goons have launched a major campaign of threats and intimidation designed to cover up what they did to American famine relief and medical assistance programs.

Minnesota was the first state to establish an ironclad right to reproductive freedom after the Dobbs decision. Politicians across the nation turned back the clock on reproductive rights. But here in Minnesota, we trust people to make their own decisions.

REPUBLICAN SEN. TILLIS: “What Freakin’ parallel universe did I wake up in? You’re telling me — if it’s true — damaging the reflecting pool lining is something Pirro wants to prosecute… yet they’re releasing people who pled guilty to assaulting officers?”

Trump invokes the traditional definition of treason—providing “aid and comfort” to the enemy—in attacking U.S. senators, including four Republicans, over their vote today in favor of the War Powers Act resolution on Iran. Trump also pretends he won a war he lost.

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101 former judges have asked New York disciplinary authorities to investigate Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche, alleging ethics violations tied to his conduct at DOJ. My latest: open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

Micah Lasher, a state lawmaker and former aide to many of New York’s top officials, won a Democratic primary for a coveted open House seat in Manhattan on Tuesday.

NEWS: In a stunning upset, Mamdani-backed Darializa Avila Chevalier will defeat five-term incumbent Adriano Espaillat in the NY-13 congressional primary. With victories by Lander, Valdez, and now Avila Chevalier, Mamdani went 3-for-3 with his endorsements in New York City's Democratic primaries.

The Iranian consulate in Hyderabad says that $12B in frozen Iranian assets have been released following the U.S. and Iran's latest talks in Switzerland.

Republicans made a CHOICE. They passed a law to rip away health care from millions. They REFUSED to save the ACA tax credits. All while they showered billionaires & giant corporations with TRILLIONS in tax cuts. Now more than 5 million Americans have lost health care.

NEW: Democratic Rep. Dan Goldman loses New York primary to Brad Lander.

It’s all spaghetti at the wall now with Vance and Kushner. Bill and Andrew break it down on Morning Shots live

💰 @grahamformaine.bsky.social PLATNER: “Wall Street’s takeover of our economy wasn’t an accident... We are living in a system operating exactly as intended… policy choices made by establishment politicians in the service of people who donated the most money to them. And it needs to end.”

Never did I think I would see a cure for sickle cell in my lifetime. A friend of mine in fifth grade died from this disease. My parents kept me home from the funeral because they thought I was too young to handle it. Modern science is a miracle. www.wafb.com/2026/06/23/n...

Sealant Team Six guarding our vulnerable shores against Algae-Qeada, Algaetifa. And Algae Sharpton.

Minnesotans are living through a coordinated campaign of retribution from the Trump Administration. Funding cuts. Lawsuits. Terrorizing our citizens. Today, I filed 16 FOIA requests to find out how far this campaign reaches.

hudsoncountyview.com/jersey-city-... “Citizens Bank made a choice to finance the caging of human beings for profit. Jersey City is making a choice too: we will not be complicit, and we’ve already begun the process of pulling city funds,” Mayor James Solomon said in a statement.

In a new court filing, SPLC provided evidence that the prosecution into the org came directly out of a letter that extremist groups sent to Stephen Miller complaining that they had been included in SPLC's Hate Map. emptywheel.net/2026/06/23/h...

The facts of this case are bad. County wrongly claimed family owed $2,000 in taxes, foreclosed on the home, and sold a house it assessed at $190K for just $76K and tried (unsuccessfully) to keep all $76K. Screwed a family out of tens of thousands to collect $2,000 that they didn't actually owe.

Trump: "Thanks as well to the president of the NRA who is here with me. I saved the Second Amendment. The NRA has been with me right from the beginning. How do you feel about national right to carry? We're working on it."

The Senate for the first time approves war powers resolution in rebuke to President Trump over Iran conflict.

☢️ North Korean leader Kim Jong Un says expanding the country's nuclear arsenal is the "most correct" way to respond to growing global instability, accusing the U.S. and South Korea of escalating tensions while reaffirming that Pyongyang has no intention of giving up its nuclear weapons,

CNN shows a side by side of J.D. Vance taking credit for what Obama already had in place — an Iran deal Trump ripped up before killing a lot of people and wasting a lot of money (at Israel’s request) H/T @acyn.bsky.social

SpaceX shares have now officially crashed below their $150 IPO launch price