Holding a newspaper, but his statement doesn’t mention Lindsey Graham

Spoke with Mitch McConnell last night. His last words were “Graham still survives.”

WOW— "Ethics officials granted a conflict of interest waiver to an unnamed official at the SEC, allowing them to hold on to stocks in Alphabet, Meta and Microsoft despite their work on an investigation that could involve the companies." @taylorgiorno.bsky.social for @notus.com

Congresswoman Summer Lee barred Daniel Moraff from her campaign over sexual misconduct complaints that Lee received about Moraff. Moraff is being ridiculed for not properly vetting Platner, but our investigation shows Moraff was hiding his own sexual misconduct issues

“at least three complaints of sexual misconduct” against the Toys-R-Us heir in 2022 paydayreport.com/platners-dan...

NEWS --> Three men who were in the van with the victim of the ICE shooting in Texas are potential witnesses, but they're now under pressure to self-deport, a rep for the families tells me. They remain in detention even as ICE's story falters. Details in this piece: newrepublic.com/article/2129...

Let’s travel back in time to last month, when Trump was trying to sell us on the MOU, saying we “totally” destroyed Iran’s military, the MOU “probably is unconditional surrender,” more bombing — like what we’re doing right now! — won’t open Hormuz, and without the MOU we face “worldwide depression”

This has been the Iran War situation since the first week of March. The violence waxes and wanes, the diplomatic negotiations are ongoing, but this fundamental issue has not been resolved

Iran has made it pretty clear that in their view the United States gave them the right to control (and tax) the Strait of Hormuz. If they don’t get to do that, and Trump fails to convince them to back off from that central piece of leverage, the war isn’t over www.nytimes.com/live/2026/07...

Someone please still report this out.

The one thing about this I mourn is that it deprives a reporter of finding out what really happened during Platner’s Blackwater deployment in Afghanistan in 2018, why he signed up for it, and why he left after just 6 months

Between this and the national guard in Memphis it’s kind of disturbing me (yes I know I’m a member of the media) the degree to which these killings aren’t really breaking thru rn

Looks like Cory Mills broke the law when he filed his candidate paperwork with Florida last month. Now it’s past the filing deadline, so he may have knocked himself off the ballot and out of Congress without any help from the Ethics Committee investigation www.ms.now/news/legal-c...

Hand clasp meme FIFA+Trump^^^hating Christopher Steele

Update: this is happening

Why in the world are they kicking off the dc fireworks with “25 or 6 to 4”

The tax shelters are full

Born down in a dead man’s town!

👀👀 DOJ inadvertently delivered Volume II of Jack Smith's report to the lawyers representing a defendant accused of improperly accessing/sending the report to herself. They notified Judge Cannon of the breach today. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Beautiful, uplifiting rare groove. This group only ever put out this 45 in 1972. Repressed in 2017 is this one is thankfully indeed on streaming services www.youtube.com/watch?v=rU0u...

Deleted this post because the NPR report about the decision was wrong in saying it struck down limits on how much parties can raise from donors. The ruling only eliminated coordinated spending limits, the fundraising limits still appear in place: www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...

Oracle sub-zero and heading downward for months

“the plotters had far-right views, but hoped to kill Republican officials”

Katie Phang Just Made Jeffrey Epstein Central to Todd Blanche's Bid for Confirmation emptywheel.net/2026/06/27/k...

What’s the AP style for usage of “cease”

This pool is not designated for reflecting

The District of Columbia has settled a lawsuit by a protester who said he was detained and handcuffed for following National Guard troops around the city while playing Darth Vader’s theme song from “Star Wars.”

Do u do this while telling the girl why she can’t stay here?

"I think it's ironic that we control the House, Senate, the Supreme Court, and the White House, and we're yelling 'election fraud'?" said Sen. Thomas Massie.

Todd Blanche ‘conceded’ violating law on Epstein files, judge finds

"earlier Thursday, the naval arm of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps said in a statement that only routes announced by Iran were authorized, warning ships against using any other corridor.... The [attacked ship] is owned by Evergreen Marine, a large shipping company based in Taiwan."

“In January, she posted the name of Jonathan Ross, citing news reports” www.syracuse.com/news/2026/06...

Consumer electronics getting significantly more expensive due to the AI industry may accelerate the backlash even faster than the data center buildout www.theverge.com/tech/952162/...

Rep. Tom Kean is back home but still ducking the press and sticking to his tell-all date of June 30, which happens to be the Q2 fundraising deadline www.nytimes.com/2026/06/24/n...

Alternative theory— Boulos is on the board of the Trump presidential library foundation, which raises money to preserve Trump’s legacy. search.sunbiz.org/Inquiry/Corp...

can’t believe a narcissist is being so publicly humiliated by a reflecting pool

Crowds flock towards the exit in the middle of Trump's speech.

The Iranians added that Trump must also take the SAT and lose 35 lbs

"the left has ceded all notions of patriotism to the right" is a real [citation needed] claim

Trump signed a memorandum of understanding saying no more threats of attacks, now he’s threatening to destroy the country and possibly assassinate Iran’s diplomatic negotiators if they close the Strait of Hormuz in response to Israel violating the agreement

Wonder if this was supposed to be a private DM — if so, might be about posthumous clemency for her husband, former Arkansas Gov. Jim Guy Clark, a Democrat convicted for involvement in (hang on to your butts) the Whitewater scandal

Trump can and will continue his “boy who cried wolf” Iran strategy for as long as the villagers will let him www.nbcnews.com/world/iran/i...

A year ago the Trump administration policy was to deport college kids who wrote op-eds criticizing Israel’s military

American Flag Blue >> Iranian Flag Green

Hey speakng of Trump pool guy snafus let’s remember this www.cnn.com/2023/06/05/p...

When the Red Sox broke their World Series drought, they sent the trophy around the state so small towns could play host to it for a week or so and people could gawk at it. Knicks: Do this.

Has the MOU actually been signed, as the U.S. has claimed? Seems the Trump administration has been lying to the world about that, which is reckless and offensive and insane

Iran gets: $300 billion economic fund U.S. releasing all frozen assets “Maintain status quo of nuclear program” All sanctions lifted, unimpeded exports & related transactions No new sanctions Control of Hormuz w/Oman U.S. pulling military & ensuring peace in Lebanon www.nytimes.com/2026/06/17/u...

This version of the MOU from @nytimes.com, read out on a conference call, differs somewhat from the @wsj.com text that the USG reportedly shared at the G-7, particularly w/r/t Articles 1, 5, and 8. Not great if there are version control problems within the USG! www.nytimes.com/2026/06/17/u...