“We can give $20 billion to Argentina but we can’t afford the CDC’s measles experts” is a hell of an argument

Trump said he deserved a cut for brokering the TikTok deal, and at once there was agreement that his son Baron would have a top executive slot... though he hasn't asked for it, and has no apparent qualifications to hold it. This is how Trump 2.0 works. www.telegraph.co.uk/us/news/2025...

A made up job title that allows him to avoid a Senate confirmation vote

Trump admin officials continue to call every criticism a “threat” and immediately go to federal law enforcement or the military as their first option to respond to it - suppressing the right to dissent against the government by threatening people with incarceration for speech.

The judge's entire reasoning in both TROs was based on the fact that there was NO VIOLENCE IN OREGON. If that changes, her position might change, and even if it doesn't change her mind, it might convince the 9th Circuit to remand. You've got to keep peacefully resisting. No matter what.

This is a breathtaking abuse of the law and power by the President of the United States. America is on the brink of martial law. Do not be silent.

Last month Judge Diane Goodstein blocked SC from giving DOJ voter data. Last week Harmeet Dhillon of the DOJ condemned Goodstein's ruling. Yesterday Stephen Miller called "left wing judges & lawyers" as "terrorists requiring force." Today Judge Goodstein's home is on fire, investigated for arson.

They are stealing taxpayer dollars from blue states because Democrats in Congress refuse to give Trump a blank check for his authoritarianism. Corruption. Coercion. Blackmail. Lawlessness.  I won’t bend the knee to a wannabe dictator and his cronies. We will prevail.

Here’s my cliff notes summary of Pete Hegseth’s big military address today

SCOOP — The White House instructed all federal agency leadership on Tuesday to send out a mandatory message to workers blaming the impending potential government shutdown on House Democrats, The Handbasket was first to learn. Absolutely no modifications to the email were permitted. My story:

In a less insane time, if it was discovered that the President of the United States said this privately to their AG, it would’ve triggered an all-encompassing, impeachable corruption scandal. Here, Trump is saying it publicly and it’s just another Saturday.

When you lay it all out like that...

Tom Homan, now the president’s border czar, was recorded last year accepting a bag with $50,000 in cash by undercover FBI agents in an investigation the Trump Justice Department later closed, The New York Times reported.

Again, there is no suspect. No motive. The shooter could very well be a radicalized MAGA Trump voter. Many within that ecosystem openly condemned, criticized, and/or hated Charlie Kirk. Loomer recently turned on him. Fuentes has always loathed him. Plus, Kirk said to release the Epstein Files.

SCOTUS: considering race as one factor in a college applicant's file is blatantly unconstitutional ALSO SCOTUS: considering race as one factor in targeting whom to detain and deport is cool cool cool

Standing up for due process isn’t standing up for criminals. It’s standing up for the fact that the truth isn’t just whatever the loudest or the most powerful person says it is.

May this portion of the dissent by Ketanji Brown Jackson haunt John Roberts forever and be the final word on his tenure as Chief Justice.

“UNESCO is the United Nations organization that promotes cooperation in education, science, culture and communication to foster peace worldwide.”

Beside the more important point about health hypocrisy, the reason American Coke is made with hf corn syrup is a combo of our massive corn subsidies (welfare!) and long-standing (pre-Trump) tariffs on cane (special tariffs in service of the corn industry).

This is especially good Chris analysis, which is saying something:

Interested media should RSVP to media @ ufw . org. Ahead of his press availability, George Retes issues the following statement:

A reminder that this represents all of the money we pay to the government in taxes for educational infrastructure just being straight up stolen from us. We aren’t getting it back and we’ll never stop paying for the services they destroy bc they aren’t lowering OUR taxes (only billionaires’ taxes).

Since April 4, #SCOTUS has issued 15 rulings on 17 emergency applications filed by Trump (three birthright citizenship apps were consolidated). It has granted relief to Trump ... in all 15 rulings. It has written majority opinions in only 3. Today's order is the 7th with no explanation *at all.*

I for one think it was cool and good that nothing was done in the last four years of Democratic control to rein in the Supreme Court, I'm glad the norm respecters won out and we're all living in a rich norm-filled paradise today.

Under Reagan's tax cuts, the average tax cut for the top 1% was 68x larger than the average cut for middle-class households. Under Bush's tax cuts, it was 16x larger. And under Trump, 36x larger.  The GOP has always governed for the privileged few.

"Using whatever means to do so" is not subtle. And again, as inconvenient as this is, as much as we'd like to focus on kitchen table issues and pretend it isn't happening, the options are to either to escalate with the president or to passively accept living in an autocratic police state.

A State Department employee shared with PBS News an image from inside the department. The image includes a piece of paper taped to a mirror with the words, "Colleagues, if you remain: RESIST FASCISM. Remember the oath you vowed to uphold."

I think Ketanji Brown Jackson's dissents are an important exception to the "Supreme Court dissents don't matter" rule of thumb, because she is using them not to argue with the conservative justices, but to explain to the public that the conservative justices are liars and in the tank for Trump

The Supreme Court has stayed the AFGE case, which prohibited the Trump administration from moving forward with Reductions-in-Force. Several quick notes based on a cursory skim: 1/ www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...

A lot of this country’s problems boil down to straight white men who see themselves as some sort of default “normal” but any variation on that as “an identity” that is “political”

Freedom from kings. Freedom from fascism. Power to the people forever. ♥️ Happy Independence Day 🇺🇸

What, exactly, are we celebrating tomorrow? Our cutting off healthcare to the needy to enrich the greedy? Our new concentration camps? Our dying economy? Our ditching due process? Our corruption? Our broken legislature? Our corrupt SCOTUS? Our ridiculous buffoon president? #FourthOfJuly

Editors: trusted government agency sends out email full of lies to senior citizens is a front page story

“Congress” didn’t pass this murder budget. Republicans did it. Republicans did it without a single Democratic vote in the House, without a single Democratic vote in the Senate. Be precise and give, uh, credit where credit is due

Many are saying there needs to be a Bunch of Littles Bitches caucus. Obviously i support this.

WI SUPREME COURT: Statutory abortion ban enacted in 1849 is not in effect because it has been impliedly repealed by subsequent legislation. www.wicourts.gov/sc/opinion/D...

elon musk’s body count will end up being higher than most wars and most of the worst most oppressive regimes in history

Trump administration just lifted sanctions on several Russian banks close to Putin.

The odds of you ever obtaining one billion dollars is as close to zero as possible. The odds of you suffering from something that you wouldn’t have to suffer from in a society that valued collective good over wealth, like poverty, hunger, debt, preventable illness, homelessness, etc, is very likely

ICE *already* can't meet their detainment numbers without rounding up children, veterans, people born in the U.S., people with no criminal records, people at immigration hearings, plus academics and visitors with valid visas. So who do they plan to detain with >10x the budget? The answer is: you.

Elections held under conditions of domestic militarization & mass voter intimidation/suppression are not free & fair. It doesn’t mean the opposition can’t win, or that everything is futile. But pretending we’re still a real democracy, if we ever were, is not an accurate depiction of where we are.

Republicans may lie about what's in their budget bill but the numbers sure don't.

Even linkedin gets it

I can't tell if it's because I'm too NYC focused but does it feel like the news cycle spent more time crashing out on the fact that NYC picked a brown Muslim dude as is primary candidate then it did on a right wing extremist who shot 2 Minnesota legislators killing one, her husband and dog?

World’s richest 1% increased wealth by $33.9 trillion since 2015, Oxfam says share.inquirer.com/ajXvYd “…Chris Evans, a professor of taxation at the University of New South Wales, described “gross inequality in wealth” as “a disaster for social cohesion.” 🎯🎯🎯

Every word of this is depraved beyond belief. ICE abducted a six year old with leukemia, threatened him with a gun such that he wet himself, and has denied him medical treatment. I don’t know what to say. www.tpr.org/border-immig...

Over 11,000 people were either fired or took buyouts at the IRS. And roughly $500 billion in revenue will be lost just this year because of the cuts. Remind us again how that improves government efficiency?