NEW: Palantir has gone on a Democratic lobbyist hiring spree, picking up Hakeem Jeffries' former chief of staff, a top DCCC fundraiser, and a former Democratic senator to push its interests in Washington DC. readsludge.com/2026/06/22/p...

Albanians continue to massively revolt against their corrupt govt as well as slumlord criminal Jared Kushner and Crimestress Ivanka trying to seize their lands. This is how it’s done. 💙👊

Between this and the stellar WSJ story about Polymarket's fake bettors, it really feels like we have completely given up on requiring influencers to disclose paid partnerships. It only hurts consumers.

Let’s check in on how Jared and Ivanka’s luxury Albanian resort is doing…

How can President Trump spend all this time talking about the Reflecting Pool when he's got a ballroom to build?

approaching peak memeification of the data center

In Brazil, Lula was locked in a tight re-election battle, until he realized that people want a weekend, which is not guaranteed in Brazilian labor law. After advancing a five-day workweek bill, he's now surging ahead. Good piece from Rio by @mikeelk.bsky.social prospect.org/2026/06/22/l...

And the contract goes to Jared.

"Everything Trump touches turns to crud...The idea that the world’s oldest republic...the nation that invented republican values...puts up with it, that’s what really shocks me." On the pod, @pkrugman.bsky.social is just brilliant on Trump and our national decline: newrepublic.com/article/2121...

“And if we want to talk about kitchen-table issues, you can make that part of it: The reason that you can't afford your electricity is because of the corruption. The reason that you can't afford health insurance is because of the corruption.” Dems need to beat that drum: “Corruption! Corruption!”

The media is abnormalizing Mamdani as pathologically as they normalize Trump

We’re at the “how about we unilaterally disengage and hope the other side in the negotiations finally give us what we want” phase of the war lmfao

Signs pointing toward extended period of elevated to critical fire weather across Western U.S. through early Jul. Antecedent conditions: Recent anomalous heat (esp. PacNW), plus widespread severe to extreme drought, have primed vegetation (via fuel drying). Then... [Thread]

I’m really glad President Zelenskyy is saying this out loud. More people need to realize this.

“…No amount of persuasion will move those who have chosen to maintain control and violence over putting food on the table when the point of their trade-off is keeping others from putting food on theirs.” www.theguardian.com/inequality/n...

The genius of Obama's big speech is this: He effectively stated that Trump/MAGA do not accept the Declaration of Independence's promise of equality. In the battle over our 250th anniversary, we need to put that basic truth squarely on the agenda. New from me: newrepublic.com/article/2121...

Reminder that banning elected officials from trading stock is a total no brainer. They can use privileged information to make money on the stock market, while they’re supposed to be working for you. Make no mistake — it’s legalized corruption.

"Every last one of these groups has said the same thing: 'We don't want the next Auschwitz in our backyard. We don't want the next Dachau in our backyard.'" Two years ago that would've sounded like a ridiculous exaggeration but not now. Thank the goddess so many people are fighting this locally.

One photo describes how the world feels about the immoral slob.

The Russians entered this war on the rather childish delusion that they were going to bomb everybody and nobody was going to bomb them.

77+ million people voted for this imbecile.

If their name is false, then it’s good that they blocked me, ya?

there needs to be a coordinated global effort among democracies to destroy this man's financial and social media empires and leave him impoverished and powerless

"The smoke clouds assert that the war can no longer be safely outsourced to the borderlands. Its costs will increasingly be felt at home, and Ukraine intends to keep raising those costs until continuing the war looks worse, in Moscow’s calculus, than ending it." mickryan.substack.com/p/the-war-co...

The number of people at the Knicks parade today were roughly equal to the combined population of Wyoming, Vermont, North Dakota, South Dakota, Delaware, Montana & Alaska. So if you heard about any issues in NYC today, but not about any crimes in those states, you know the agenda of that media.

In countries that have successfully reversed democratic backsliding in recent years—from Poland in 2023 to Hungary in 2026—opposition movements made prosecuting those who have broken laws a central campaign issue.

Trump just wants to be on the side of the winner so it makes sense he's fully pro Iran now

Moscow residents pressing against their apartment windows to see whether the war has finally reached them. It has.

CNN: You said Ukraine is going to ultimately win this war. CARNEY: We, Germans, British, French, all share same view that tide has turned. Putin is going to lose this war. It’s only matter of time. From now until he realizes or accepts that, it’s absolutely senseless slaughter.

Allowing everything to become a grift/hustle for venture captailists and fascist billionaires has had far reaching consequences that we're going to have to grapple with for a long time

the early days and latter days of the war give this away where Trump was either in "your liberation is at hand" or "we are going to destroy a civilization" mode

Russia is knowingly and intentionally targeting the elderly with weaponized drones in Ukraine - a pattern that’s leapt out at me in the course of the last two weeks of data validation for my database of drone attacks on civilians. Read more here:

A trove of internal records from a secret society for powerful figures in US politics, finance, and tech was left exposed online, WIRED has confirmed, naming participants in its events and revealing sensitive personal details they were assured would stay private.

“Russia is already at war with Europe and has been for a long time.”

The lid of a storage tank at the Moscow Oil Refinery was blown off and sent flying.

An NBCUniversal executive’s candid remarks justifying Comcast’s donation to Donald Trump’s ballroom stunned reporters in the room and reignited questions about the company’s motives, we have learned. Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/comcast-ba...

The great irony of Israeli policymaking is that the Euro-American centre-right and centre-left already genuinely cared more about Israelis than they do about Palestinians. But that didn't stop Israel from running to far right guys who are to reliable allies what a sandcastle is to a starfort

First, this was supposed to be over in 3 days. Then, Ukraine was supposed to be overwhelmed by the meat waves. Then, Russia just needed to secure Donetsk, that's all, just Donetsk, they'll get Donetsk Oblast locked down and take it from there. There Is No Plan.

Netanyahu has managed to 1) Make Israel unpopular on a bipartisan basis in the US, and extremely unpopular among the opposition party (Dems) that will come into power 2) Engineer an outcome that will be the biggest single improvement in Iranian power since 2003

whatever happens, the thing that is going to inevitably be true is that netanyahu will have actually made the biggest blunder in israeli foreign policy history

he made a far worse mistake than Trump did. Because as bad as this will be for the US, we are big and rich enough for its ultimate consequences to unfold more slowly. Israel is a tiny place with little strategic depth and a big dependency on the US

it’s true, we have all been cackling/crying about what a terrible deal this is do the united states, but netanyahu has fucked up far worse than we have and still has further to fall

HOLY SMOKES! Moscow right now 🔥🔥🔥

The US capitulated - it's not a "deal" that Trump "won or lost." It's "we lost and we took what we could get." Big couple of years for "great powers" getting absolutely humiliated in their military adventurism.

democrats continue to attack trump from a hawkish pro war position and continue to appeal to no one. why not criticize trump for starting this war? why not criticize trump for willing to cause shock to the global economy and energy systems? why should we not want a good deal for iran? they won!

the news is never company hires 11,000 more people company hires 4,500 more people company hires 2,000 more people it's: company building data center in your town will temporarily hire 200 people brought from out of state staying at camp grounds because they aren't paid well enough to afford hotels

Which one do you think they go with?

OK, so what happens when TWO scorpions try to cross the river together? They can’t stop stabbing each other.

Wealth concentration was already way off the rails before Musk became a trillionaire. The wealthiest megabillionaires in the country have basically been doubling their wealth annually in recent years. Feels near impossible to maintain a liberal democracy in this kind of situation.

It must be so cool to live in a functional republic.