Deductibles are up an average of $1,000 per person and families are gambling on staying healthy.

North Carolina Bill Would Legalize Killing Abortion Providers and Advocates—Seriously jessica.substack.com/p/north-caro...

The UK Just Broke Its May Heat Record Twice youtu.be/bW0v1f6wO7w

i genuinely hate how internet culture has become so normalized and widespread. i do not want a white house deputy chief of staff saying "it's white boy november" or a secretary of state tweeting that he's "locked in for this banger." grow up.

Funny that the administration thinks they will get away with overriding free speech and whistleblower laws. They won’t. Don’t sign this. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

this is the thing about people who say they need to be exposed to more perspectives: no you don’t right wing perspectives are dogshit, especially these days - it’s either vicious, preening meanness or it’s the most obvious bad faith trolling you’ve ever seen there is nothing to be gained from it

Musings from the Barn🐮 While not terribly Mini of the Moo variety, Crouton thought it important to expand Nickel's duties to include supervising the humans during more tasks now that he's big enough to see over the doors. Two helpful (hungry) steers at your service💚 www.instagram.com/p/CEC2x_FjYXX/

Mr “wonderful” still trying to build a 40,000 acre data center, still obsessed with the elevation Utah ladies

An NBC News investigation finds dozens of examples of criminals imitating ICE to rob and attack people www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

Sadly, every word is true. The American experiment is over. Killed in the middle of Fifth Avenue and no one in power blinked an eye to stop it.

The Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein Memorial Reading Room exhibit is taking a nationwide bus tour this summer. The tour starts on July 4 and will run through the midterms. Celebrities will drive the bus, and candidates want to make it part of their campaigns. www.thedailybeast.com/jeffrey-epst...

Bring out the Gimp. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Pete Hoekstra: You've got folks who are doing everything they can to get the Canadian public to rally against America. Just doesn't make any sense. Radio-Canada: But do you understand where that frustration is coming from? Hoekstra: Absolutely, no.

Donald Trump is scheduled to be at Walter Reed tomorrow for his fourth annual physical exam in 15 months. Apparently, unaware of the meaning of annual.

The travel industry is on edge after Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin reiterated his threat to withdraw U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers from airports in so-called "sanctuary cities" in a move that could jeopardize international flights. https://to.pbs.org/4du9mjA

They took his law license for five years. I wonder what he’ll do for work?

Developers are trying to buy whole suburban communities as sites for data centers, promising to bring jobs, infrastructure, and municipal revenue. Here’s the gag, though: The jobs are temporary, the infrastructure is useless, and the revenue is diminishing and offset by monster tax breaks.

Two tankers carrying liquefied natural gas have passed through Hormuz in the latest sign that traffic through the vital shipping lane may be picking up as talks to extend a fragile ceasefire between Iran and the US continue. The two ships are carrying LNG from Qatar and bound for China and Pakistan

Wet and cold holiday weekend here. Remi all grown up.

Squamish Nation warns of fake letter ordering homeowners to vacate property #Fake #BritishColumbia www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Great news!! #Canada A U.S. man who investigators found likely started a wildfire in a sensitive ecological reserve in B.C.'s Discovery Islands archipelago in 2018 has lost an appeal of a $2.35-million fine. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Pick your ripe tomatoes, cucumbers, and chillies often! Regular harvesting encourages plants to keep producing more fruit. Don’t let them sit too long—your garden rewards you with more when you stay on top of the harvest. 🌶🍅🥒 #GardeningTips #HomeGarden #HarvestTime

Sunlight, algae and ice: How 3 Great Lakes scientists won an international award #Canada Research focuses on underwater organisms in Lake Erie www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Math, English, science — and vegetables? Students in Canada's greenhouse capital learning to grow food #Ontario #Canada www.cbc.ca/player/play/...

my mom texted to tell me I was just mentioned on MS NOW the mention: 😆

Carlin was spot on.

faking an assassination attempt so you don't have to go to a wedding sounds like a curb your enthusiasm episode

Big news: Thomas Massie is unleashed—he is pledging to release more Epstein names and says Melania Trump knows more than she is letting on. White House urges Republicans to tweet support for Trump as Iran deal falls apart. Marco Rubio accidentally calls Trump a stupid person.

60 Minutes confirms Iran is bypassing the US blockade and exporting 100,000 more barrels of oil per day than before the war. Most of it is reportedly going to China.

“I didn’t expect the corruption to be quite as widespread as it has been. The self-dealing, the lining of his and his family’s pockets. It’s shocking. You look across the board at the Trump family, I’ve never seen a family get so rich off the presidency.” — Megyn Kelly

Trump bombed a girls elementary school 85 days ago

Sen. Thom Tillis on CNN: "Look, we were told about 11 weeks ago by Hegseth and the Department of Defense that they had obliterated Iran's defenses … Now we're talking about a posture where we may accept the nuclear material remaining in Iran. How does that make sense at all?"

Sen. Thom Tillis to CNN: "When you see these mistakes made by Hegseth, I think with all these mistakes in total, it's beginning to make Kristi Noem look like a five-star recruit."

Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick made a $5 million donation last month to a committee supporting House Republicans — an unusually large contribution. The donation was made four weeks after the Oversight Committee arranged to interview Lutnick about his ties to Jeffrey Epstein.

Rep. Mike Levin (D-Calif.) revealed Friday that House Republicans on the Appropriations Committee voted to make themselves eligible to collect from President Donald Trump's $1.8 billion January 6th slush fund, triggering immediate outrage online.

#Canada #Alberta worth reading & talking to your friends and family about. Well done, Corey Hogan Over the next few months, those of us who love this country are going to run into friends, coworkers, family who have forgotten the case for 🇨🇦

The Art of the Deal TRUMP: Give up your uranium. IRAN: No. TRUMP: OK. Open the Strait of Hormuz. IRAN: No. TRUMP: OK. What if we end our blockade, and you can charge for passage through the Strait? IRAN: Only if you give us BILLIONS of dollars and pull out all your forces. TRUMP: OK. Deal.

US man doesn't understand why Canada won't give bully nice foot massage.

This season of America has been a wild one, but the plot twist where we declare a war and then surrender 7 weeks later — that was outrageous. Maybe it’s all just a dream. We’ll see what the writers do next

If this deal goes through: Iran got a younger, more extreme supreme leader whose family got executed by the US/Israel tandem; they got financing for the regime AND DJT managed to legitimize their violation of the international law by allowing them to collect fees for the strait passage. Bravo.

IRGC sharing.. memes.

President misses own son’s wedding due to high-level not wanting to go

Zelenskyy: Our intelligence services receiving data from American and European partners, about Russia preparing a strike with the Oreshnik missile. We are seeing signs of preparation for a combined strike on Ukrainian territory, including Kyiv, involving various types of weaponry.

🔥 SPRINGSTEEN: "I’m here to support Stephen Colbert, the first guy who lost his show because a president can't take a joke - and the Ellisons feel they need to kiss his ass… small-minded people with no idea what freedoms of this beautiful country are supposed to be about." 🇺🇸

It was a pleasure as always to join @theweekendmsnow.bsky.social this morning, even to discuss the unpleasant details of the Trump/Blanche slush fund.

Freudian slip

“The paradox is, the US imposes crippling sanctions while also saying, ‘I’m going to liberate your people.’"

We are very far off the cliff, folks. @CBS should be avoided entirely. Shame on them.

let’s give him another trillion, he’s done so much good with the first

"Manuel" is harvesting cherries in Stockton CA. He is getting paid $6/bucket. Working as fast as I can, I pick around 21 buckets in 7 hours." #WeFeedYou