1) Corporations and the super-rich spend billions on elections 2) Elected officials rewrite laws in the donors' favor, enact huge tax cuts, and deregulate industries 3) Donors make huge profit 4) Repeat If we want to talk about "integrity" and our political system, let's talk about this.

Congresswoman AOC has introduced a bill that would ban Supreme Court Justices from accepting lavish gifts from the ultra wealthy. Love that, but what I find insane is that this isn’t already illegal.

Due to the fallout from @ms.now reporting by Carol Leonnig & Vaughn Hillyard—JD Vance is NO LONGER taking his son to his private golf lessons on a $24k an hour taxpayer funded chopper 🚁.

www.rawstory.com/biddeford-sh... #USD #PB ICE Killer’s ex-wife not only warned ICE that her husband was a dangerous man with mental and anger issues that led to violence in their marriage. She refused to lie for him after he shot and killed an unarmed man in cold blood Abolish ICE-Stop ICE Now

They say it the best: bsky.app/profile/suzz...

DOGE axed the CDC team that tracks cyclospora. Now 1000s are sick, restaurants & hospitals scrambling. What's next? “Cyclospora is just one piece. It's making the news right now, but there are other, more dangerous pathogens.” By @emilymullin.bsky.social www.wired.com/story/cdc-cy...

Yup he is. He’s even named Stephen Miller as a defendant.

MAGA: Make America Gay Again with Pete Hegseth and the Low T Administration Insecure men have decided to abuse their power and unleash hate and cruelty against the world because they are too afraid to confront their own weakness and homoerotic tendencies. thelefthook.substack.com/p/maga-make-...

Markwayne Mullin, dumb as a post, evil to the core.

Reminder that ICE whistleblowers have been warning for months that the agency's Trump-era hiring surge has led to dangerous recruits being given alarming levels of power. Watch.

Grateful to our National Guard for stepping up to help protect life and property up north. The state will spare no resource to help communities recover and rebuild from these devastating wildfires.

In the 1960's, when the USA led the world w/ blue-chip companies in every field, the average CEO-to-worker pay ratio for major corps was 20-to-1. Now, CEO's are paid about 300 times as much as the typical worker. Those CEO's don't work any harder nor are they more deserving.

The cyclosporiasis outbreak appears to be the largest ever recorded in the United States, and members of Congress are now demanding answers from the CDC about whether staffing cuts, hiring freezes, and agency reorganization affected the federal response.

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The U.S. military on Saturday announced its first troop deaths due to direct Iranian fire since the opening days of the war, saying two were killed and another was missing in an attack on a base in Jordan. @apnews.com apnews.com/article/iran...

I wasn't convinced that data centres are using *that* much drinking water, but the refusal of the government to even look into it makes me way more suspicious tbh

"The price of apathy towards public affairs is to be ruled by evil men." ~ Plato

For anyone who thinks increasing oil & gas production is the path to energy independence, you're dead wrong. While we continue to rely on fossil fuels, we're held hostage to global pricing. The real path to energy security is local production of renewables and grid-scale storage. #EnergyTransition

And yet, still not as stupid that those who voted for him.

"This is a 25th Amendment moment. I just watched the ramblings of a mad king and what else can I say — the only thing missing was tin foil," Newsom said in response to the president's allegations, which have been proven to be false.

He Should Be Fired Immediately and Investigated…..

Can’t believe this is even needed, but here we are.

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A group of 26 Meta employees sued the company in federal court on Monday, accusing it of using artificial intelligence to target disabled workers and those who took medical leave for layoffs.

I joined Max Chafkin and Stacey Vanek Smith on their great podcast, “Everybody’s Business” to chat about Trump and White House grifting: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...

“Daily reminder: 27% of the 1,971-names linking mossad, SCOTUS, putin/bibi/krasnov are neoliberal aipac democrats. We are in a class war covered with epstein’s pedo kompromat & genocide” epsteinsblackbook.com/all-names Hart28.com 🇺🇸

Wildfire smoke will ride a northerly wind back into Minnesota on Saturday and linger into Sunday. It's unlikely to be as concentrated as the smoke that pushed the AQI in the Twin Cities into the 300s. But the warning for the Arrowhead region remains "hazardous." 🗺️: Jake Steinberg Source: NOAA

There's speaking ill of the dead, and there's speaking ill of the dead you killed. lnk.thebulwark.com/4yqL16L

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Probably more helpful to think of them not so much as “Canadian wildfires” but rather “climate change wildfires currently consuming Canada”

By Nick Anderson: "First comes the shooting. Then comes the official statement portraying the dead as dangerous. Then comes the slow release of contradictory evidence. Then comes the government’s reluctance to disclose body-camera footage, witness statements and investigative files..."

There’s no perfect substitute to the BWCA. But paddlers and campers can still find peaceful water, star-filled skies and off-the-beaten path experiences in Minnesota and Wisconsin. Here’s where to look.

Today's Kinzinger Report is out and we cover: - The declassified documents that debunk Trump's own election speech - The White House teleprompter operator caught betting on Trump's speeches - Trump Media selling Wall Street early access to the President's posts

@catgyoung.bsky.social #medsky

"He gets pleasure From chaos, and destruction, and fear, and damage, and death!" Dr. John Gartner tells @deanobeidallah.bsky.social that psychologically Donald Trump is one of the evil beings he's seen in his life.

NEW: DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin threatened to withhold election security support from states unless they use a faulty federal database to maintain voter rolls. The ultimatum is the second from Mullin, who also warned election officials could face jail time for refusing to use the system.

"This is completely outrageous." @amyklobuchar.com slams her GOP colleagues' baseless claim that there are some senators who didn't "legally win" their seats in Congress.

In the realm of questions posed during Senate hearings, this one from Ossoff -- "Isn't it humiliating to be unable to answer this?" -- ranks right up there with "Have you no sense of decency, sir, at long last?"

Watching a criminal go on TV to complain about not getting away with his biggest crime is the height of Americana

hey, remember: don't eat anything and don't breathe

Every American has the right to vote. But the President continues to attack that right, including once again voting by mail (which he has done himself).

Reminder: As DNI, Gabbard commissioned two reports from firms who examined voting machines. Both reports say there was no voter fraud in 2020. Trump is blocking the release of those reports. Gabbard briefed the White House. She no longer works at DNI.

BREAKING: GasBuddy data showing national diesel prices have just hit $5/gal again. diesel powers the trucks that move nearly everything you buy — groceries, goods, supplies. higher diesel = higher prices down the line.

Trump's big news is China acquired the publicly available voter file? Bro, DOGE employees took off with our Social Security info on thumb drives.

What’s that amendment again? Oh, yeah 25!!!...🤔🤔🤔

Gov. Shapiro said it best: the President doesn’t run our elections. County officials do — Republicans and Democrats alike. Trump can give all the speeches he wants. He still doesn’t get a vote in how Pennsylvania counts its ballots. #LoserTrumpsElectionLies

Elon Musk spent $290M to elect Trump in 2024 — and has spent $85M+ so far this cycle to keep Republicans in power. Now, Trump's DOT is gutting safety rules to clear the way for Musk's driverless Tesla Cybercab. We must get Big Money out of politics.

“Mr. President you dont own the 4th of July. You own January 6th.”

The only election interference happening in this country is coming straight from the White House, and no amount of pathetic late night rambling from a failing, fading president will change anyone’s mind