Can a president ignore a federal judge? That's the question the full D.C. Circuit will consider when it takes up whether Judge Boasberg can investigate possible contempt after the administration refused to comply with his order. The analysis is free to read. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

I just love this guy

In this era of unprecedented corruption, it is essential that we keep our terminology precise.

The bipartisan housing bill limits the ability of corporate landlords to maximize profits. This is why Trump doesn’t like it. (H/T @atrupar.com )

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...

Went looking for the 300 foot “slit” or “slits” in the reflecting pool Trump keeps lying about. Didn’t find any of that. But did find plenty of signs the paint on the bottom of the pool has simply disintegrated. My latest pool report.

Vice Adm. Nancy Lacore was fired during Hegseth’s military purge. She could have walked away quietly. Instead...she ran for Congress...and won. History changes when people refuse to stay on the sidelines...and FIGHT.

This is absolutely nonsense. The Postmaster General said during a Senate hearing today that if a proposed federal mail ballot rule takes effect, the Postal Service would refuse to deliver mail ballots in states that do not turn over sensitive voter data to the federal government.

NEW: Hours after heated exchange with Trump, Sen Bill Cassidy (R-LA) joins Sen Cory Booker (D-NJ) in memo to Todd Blanche seeking answers about Trump’s sweetheart immunity deal with IRS

Trump doesn’t want people to have housing or the right to vote www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Sounds like communism

EX-TRUMP VOTER: “I’m not into politics, but I know what’s right and wrong. The way Trump is treating us poor people is bad, because Trump has never been poor… living in Trump’s 2nd term is like living in the Great Depression.”

Kamala Harris: I’m going to stop grocery stores and manufacturers from price gouging. MAGA: OMG THAT’S COMMUNISM! PRICE CONTROLS! This will be the death of America!!!! Trump: I’m instructing DOJ to probe oil companies for high prices. Lower prices now! MAGA: our hero 😍🥰

ALERT: House Oversight Cmte Democrats to launch probe today into the botched Trump Admin renovation of Reflecting Pool and the no-bid contracts issued

Trump has jammed his fellow Republicans One GOP Senator refers to Trump appointee Bill Pulte’s first day on the job as “$hit” youtu.be/KjiGWnE3DdY?...

I don’t say this often these days, but Congress actually passed something good. My bipartisan housing bill to build more housing, lower costs, and stop private equity's housing grab is becoming law.

Four years ago, the Supreme Court overturned Roe vs. Wade and stripped women of the right to choose, leaving my daughter with fewer rights than her mother had at her age. As Senator, I’ll fight to restore her rights, and the rights of women across our state.

NEW: Federal judge Christopher Cooper orders Team Trump and Kennedy Center to file report in next month that “shall also indicate the purpose for and status of the tarp and scaffolding that Defendants have erected on the front portico of the Center”

THIS 👇 HERE IS TRUE......👍🏼

BREAKING: Federal judge grants patients' request to block DOJ from seeking or obtaining patient information via grand jury subpoena as to any transgender people who received gender-affirming medical care in New York City (including NYU Langone). More to come:

James Carville Toys With Trump's Paranoia In Latest Piece Of Brutal 'Advice' www.huffpost.com/entry/james-... Speaking the truth!

In an emergency meeting in the Situation Room, Trump discussed handcuffing Laura Loomer to the fence around the Reflecting Pool to scare away the “vandals.”

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...

Archaeologists have discovered a huge Viking Age textile production site in Denmark that dates back more than 1,000 years and underlines the sophistication of Viking society. n.pr/4vZ3JjQ

The Trump economy is about to disappoint millions of Americans.

⚡️Update: Crimea power infrastructure, Russian gas processing plant struck by Ukrainian drones. Ukrainian drones struck power infrastructure in occupied Crimea and a gas processing plant in Russia's Orenburg Oblast overnight on June 24, monitoring channels reported.

Ukrainian drones are endlessly attacking occupied Crimea. It never stops.

A majority of Texans oppose the construction of data centers in their community, including nearly two-thirds of Texans living in rural areas, according to a new poll from the University of Texas/Texas Politics Project.

💰 @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.”

JUST IN: A federal judge in California has issued a nationwide block on ICE's policy of conducting arrests at immigration courthouses. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Folks have asked me if this is the start of Republicans having a spine. No. Not even close. This is low-hanging fruit to make them LOOK like they’re standing up to Trump without actually doing anything.

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When George W Bush won re-election in 2004, he said: “I earned capital in the campaign, political capital, and I intend to spend it.” I’ve waited 20 years plus for a Dem to take a similar approach to spending capital. Tonight we saw Zohran Mamdani do it. 3 for 3, about to be.

Oh hey i was reminded of something. Anthony Fauci came to the White House AT THE INVITATION OF TRUMP. Trump is mad because a million people died under his watch so he’s blaming fauci vs accept responsibility. Just like Iran, and just like the reflective pool. Always someone else’s fault

He used our tax dollars to pay for it. He ruined it. Now we’re being treated like trespassers.

Joy Reid: “Mamdani went 3 for 3. This is a sea change. Get used to it.”

good to see this. Musk is clearly getting visibly angry at the rising awareness of how many hundreds of thousands of people his DOGE wilding spree has already killed, millions more if this stays in place into the future. Everyone can participate in spreading the word about all the blood on his hands

NEWS: Claire Valdez has been called the winner in New York's 7th Congressional District after opening up a commanding lead, marking another major victory for Zohran Mamdani as his endorsed candidates continue to rack up wins.

4/ "Philip had two sons whose marriages matter. Simon Pelham Barr married Estelle DeYoung, a woman of Dutch Jewish ancestry from Amsterdam, on December 1, 1915. Their son was Donald Ely Barr — born 1921, Manhattan. The OSS officer. The headmaster. The man who hired Epstein."

6/ He joined Lehman Brothers in 1929 and sat on the board for forty-four years (until 1973), until the day he died. "On October 11, 1939, Alexander Sachs walked into the Oval Office and handed Franklin Roosevelt a letter. The letter was from Albert Einstein. It warned that Nazi Germany might...

5/ The other son, David S. Barr, married Elinor Sachs Elinor was the sister of Alexander Sachs And Alexander Sachs is where this story detonates The Uncle Who Delivered the Atomic Bomb Harvard Aid to Supreme Court Justice Brandeis 📸 ATOMIC ENERGY, Barr (1961) open.substack.com/pub/aeroswif...

1/ Her name was Sarah Wasserman. She married a man named David Barr in a city called Berdychiv — a market town in what was then the Russian Empire. Sarah Wasserman’s grandson was an OSS officer named Donald Barr. In September 1974, Donald Barr hired a twenty-one-year-old college dropout...

Over the past year, conservatives have transformed redistricting into virtually unrecognizable terrain. Lawmakers now have almost total free rein to draw districts that maximize partisan advantages and target minority voters. Here's how Trump and SCOTUS got us here: https://bit.ly/4xKxbeV

Chilling and true www.thenation.com/article/poli...

We should visit in the thousands and do our hands in the water. Make them arrest us all.

❗️🇷🇺Moscow Region. Russians are complaining that television is staying silent about the fact that none of their gas stations are working and there is no gasoline anywhere.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

Breaking WaPo: The Trump Justice Department took the extraordinary step of seeking to force reporters for The Washington Post and the Wall Street Journal to testify before a federal grand jury — but withdrew the subpoenas after they were challenged by the news organizations.

The Reflecting Pool is a perfect example of Trump’s effort to destroy republican governance and turn Washington into an imperial capital, with himself in the role of “czar.” trib.al/a7CF4ti

It has become very clear that destruction is the only thing he is good at.

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...