Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear sent a public letter to Sen. Mitch McConnell requesting a full update on his health, citing weeks of limited information since McConnell’s June 14 hospitalization. Beshear called for transparency about his ability to serve.

Previously, most rapes could not be prosecuted after the state’s 15-year deadline, even if a DNA match was found. A 2025 WBUR 90.9 FM-ProPublica investigation tracked one woman’s fight for justice after police missed the deadline to prosecute her rapist. Read the full story: propub.li/3RqBiwt

The longtime defender of Israel will denounce Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Tel Aviv this week READ MORE: trib.al/iwX1q9u

A fed judge ruled that Pres. Trump’s mass pardons for rioters attacking the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, do not apply to a Va. man charged in connection with a pipe bomb planted by national headquarters of the Democratic & Republican parties the night before the attack. thehill.com/regulation/c...

Good morning, Asia. While you were sleeping, our most-read story was about one of the US president’s broadest threats yet to European allies as he revived his calls for the US to take control of Greenland. ft.trib.al/1tdAIPd

Puppy was scared of the fireworks and went to his deaf dad for comfort. Seems like the dog could understand ASL. 🥰

SUPER MARIO 2026 JUST DROPPED!

Making fun of Taco always hilarious 🤣😂🤣😂 #belgium #fifa

Yale’s Budget Lab ran the numbers. Households with the lowest incomes lose $2,160 a year under Trump’s megabill and tariffs. The wealthiest gain $9,670. And he just killed housing relief on top of it. The cruelty is the point. #TrumpsHousingCrisis

From @occupydemocrats.bsky.social (FB) REMINDER: He could be impeached *tonight* and convicted at trial in a few weeks and removed from office immediately thereafter if about 20 people in DC decided to put country over party for the first time in their miserable, self-dealing lives.

OPINION: "Trump’s March executive order declared a national emergency over supposed foreign interference in our elections, invoking ... [a] law lets a president block the use of 'property' like voting machines and tabulators that he claims are tainted while

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) said he told Democrat Graham Platner to withdraw from the race for Maine Senate in the wake of a report alleging Platner sexually assaulted a woman he was dating in 2021. thehill.com/homenews/sen...

Please, no more MAGAts, especially this fake "hillbilly". youtube.com/shorts/w7PiL...

A federal judge in Ohio ruled against the Trump administration Monday, citing bigoted comments President Trump and Vice President JD Vance made about immigrants. trib.al/VxIcZlU

In October 2024, the Georgia secretary of state’s office launched an investigation after receiving numerous reports from residents across several counties saying they’d received partially prefilled absentee ballot applications from Musk’s America PAC. trib.al/ozBYeYk

What's holding you up, Iran???? Business Times (FB): The Trump White House has released a 162-page report sharply criticizing the Smithsonian Institution, accusing it of promoting “extreme political activism” and presenting “a radical view of American history.”

I dreaded saying it, but this guy did it beautifully.

Dress for the job you want, not the job you have.

A Trump executive order pushes involuntary treatment for homeless people; the VA denies that would include homeless vets. www.npr.org/2026/06/25/n...

Wikipedia is under threat on every front. In response, the organization that supports the site, the Wikimedia Foundation, is increasing its lobbying budget. It is charging companies that gobble up the encyclopedia’s 65 million articles, and throttling access for certain scrapers. nyti.ms/3SLdrYK

Canadian journalist Mark Slapinski argued that New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani has provoked intense backlash from conservatives nationwide simply because his political approach is proving effective. 📷: Getty

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The universe is always a gaylor 🗽🌈⚡️

Patriotism isn't about building walls, punishing immigrants, cutting taxes for the rich, attacking the press, or dividing us by race & faith. True patriots don't pander to divisiveness or hate. They work to confirm the "WE" in "We the People of the United States."

We must change our laws so that hate groups not having permits must get one, if they're going to show up dressed like this. It MUST be treated as a demonstration.

Three days after Mitch McConnell suffered a heart attack and received CPR, his wife, Elaine Chao, fled to China. thedailybeast.com/mitch-mcconn...

Stay in the fight to preserve our rights. The fight to create a more perfect union, while standing up against the insurgency of fascism, is a daily American battle to which we cannot surrender.

45 years ago from yesterday

Corporate spending on elections has already topped $500 million this year. That's one third of the $1.58 billion in total that corporations have spent since Citizens United in 2010. Hawaii and Montana both have plans to neutralize this disastrous SCOTUS ruling. Other states must get on board.

How Trump and White Supremacy Destroyed America America is deteriorating into a shithole under the Trump Administration. It's the inevitable downfall of an empire that refuses to confront its sins of white supremacy, greed, and cruelty. thelefthook.substack.com/p/how-trump-...

Boycott them anyway. They're traitorous and un-American. Companies that have reduced their workforce as part of AI and automation efforts are not seeing stronger returns on investment simply because of those layoffs, according to research and advisory firm Gartner.

America’s largest groundwater supply has data centers being built over it. New analysis found many proposed & under-construction AI data centers directly above, or next to, Ogallala Aquifer — the largest U.S. underground freshwater reservoir, one of the most crucial N. American groundwater sources.

From The Other 98% (FB): Elon Musk just got absolutely torched by a New York Times columnist after daring him to name a single person killed by his USAID cuts. Nicholas Kristof delivered names, ages, and villages.

Transgender troops granted class action lawsuit against government www.militarytimes.com/news/your-mi...

"Someone on threads yesterday said that Stephen Miller is what happens when you bury a dildo in the Pet Sematary."