Trump administration to phase out HIV funding for South Africa www.politico.com/news/2026/06...

I really want to live long enough to read books full of declassified info exploring how (or even if) our intelligence communities (long-deemed diabolically omniscient) were able to harden essential structures from assault by the dumbest and most corrupt motherfuckers imaginable

An $11,000 golf cart. More than $7,000 on TV subscriptions. $1.5 million in office renovations. Those were among the expenses that one sheriff’s office billed to a settlement aimed at rooting out racial profiling in the department. With @azluminaria.org

Fuck Haberman and Swan along with every person in the media/punditry who did everything they could to make sure that this nut got back in the White House just so they’d have content to make money off of. I will never stop being disgusted by that.

The moral crisis in this country has nothing to do with religious values and more to do with the power of greed.

Q: What's stopping Iran from down the road rebuilding and restarting their nuclear program? JD VANCE: First of all, they would have to get a lot of money in order to rebuild their nuclear program (The MOU gives Iran a lot of money!)

Never forget that as Elon Musk became a trillionaire today, it is estimated that 750,000 people have died as a result of his cutting of USAID. The majority of those deaths were children.

Natzi generally start with disabled people. I believe we’re on the way to the start of something quite awful. www.cbsnews.com/news/doj-dis...

In case you missed it earlier this week I went down into DC to inspect the Reflecting Pool and yep, they ruined it. www.sfgate.com/politics/art...

Trump spectacularly failed his latest cognitive test

Here’s how you can tell @nytimes.com is biased in favor of trmp. When you sounds off on something they describe him giving “fiery” remarks. But when he appears incoherent and out of it, NYT says nothing. Joe Kahn is an embarrassment to journalism

Trump starts wandering off in the wrong direction after a G7 photo and world leaders have to step in and redirect him

“I’m the boss,” Trump tells the G-7 leaders, who mock him behind his back, watch him wander in a stupor, witness him accelerate America’s decline and plot their future without the once-reliable ally.

This is the way to do it. Speak clearly. Pill no punches. Say exactly what’s at stake. Impressive articulation.

Ossoff on Mike Collins: "He's pro-war. He's pro-tariffs. He's pro-cutting your healthcare. He's also a notorious bigot and antisemite, and an election-denying extremist who is only a congressman because his daddy was a congressman, and is a Trump puppet who will serve his needs & agenda mindlessly"

“Anyone who saw the images of a bloated and stuporous Trump wandering around the meetings of the G7 conference this week—or who heard his blatant & patently ridiculous contradictions—would not be surprised to learn that he’s increasingly losing touch with reality.” open.substack.com/pub/america/...

As Eddie Glaude explained about America’s “divided soul” and “double consciousness,” we cannot be both “a beacon of freedom and a white republic.” That means overcoming the notion that “freedom is the possession of white Americans to give and take away.” www.americaamerica.news/p/freedom-ca...

Trump told Maggie and Jonathan that a "historian" had written that Trump had more power than Attila the Hun, Genghis Khan, Napoleon, Stalin, Mao, and Hitler. The "historian" turned out to be a golf caddy. 25th Amendment, anyone?

You can call this fraud, theft, or both. Because that's what it is.

The world's most expensive assisted living facility

Donald Trump f*cked up with the Iran War so badly there's no good way to unf*ck it back. Is our country going to keep letting him do this with everything else through January 20, 2029 (even assuming, which we can't, that he won't f*ck with elections before then)?

Where is the Senate in all this? Sure looks like a treaty... and there are lifted sanctions, commitments, and $300 billion at stake....

Here at the Reflecting Pool where a big chunk ofTrump's blue paint-apoxie has peeled off the bottom of the pool and is bobbling in the water.

Today’s score: NYT 1, WSJ 0

It's appropriate to call it the Reflecting Pool because Trump's $16 million "beautification" project reflects the corruption and incompetence of his regime.

Vance rebukes Israel for pushback over Iran agreement. Hegseth blasts NATO allies' "shameful" response to U.S. attack on Iran. Meanwhile, Trump praises Iran for being led by “very rational people.” Why would anyone be an ally of the U.S. under these guys?

At least 211 people on boats have been murdered by Trump in our name. Elect a criminal, get crimes.

Breaking: Versailles agreement fails to resolve underlying, festering geopolitical problems

Any book about Trump that describes him as "unconstrained" or "norm-breaking" is a coverup. Any honest account from "inside the presidency" would report that he is deranged, dysfunctional, flighty, ignorant, bigoted, and a sociopath. The big question it could answer is: Is he lying or is he deluded?

it appears he has fronto-temporal dementia which is making all his usual terrible behavior 100x worse as his frontal lobes stop working. no ability to plan, contemplate consequences, or match behavior to social situations. he’s completely disinhibited.

Very good to see the NYT leading its website with an article about JD Vance’s lies today. Fact checks are not sidebars for these people; they are the main story. The NYT should do the same for Trump almost daily. Also “misleading claims” is a cop-out; they’re called lies.

Can you imagine if a Democratic president started a war for no reason, lost it within a few months, and surrendered? The media would eat that president alive. Then it would spend the next 50 years demanding every Democratic presidential candidate prove ahead of time they aren't similarly loserish.

This is what ignorance breeds: germs. Nearly 160 Fall Ill at Air Force Base After Hegseth Makes Flu Vaccine Optional www.nytimes.com/2026/06/18/u...

SCOOP: Trump resurrected the statue of a slave owner. It cost taxpayers half a million dollars. From @abbyvesoulis.bsky.social and @dfriedman.bsky.social

The chunks of blue paint peeling off the bottom of the pool is too much. I can’t. How is this real?

It’s been five years since Alex Jones lost InfoWars to the Sandy Hook families. As the verdict came down, he asked: “Do these people actually believe they’re getting any money?” He hasn't paid them a penny. Well, The Onion is going pay them anyway. The new InfoWars begins July 2nd at 8 p.m. ET.

A seemingly endless stream of brutally critical takes from GOP senators here jewishinsider.com/2026/06/wors...

New CNN has obtained new Trump book by Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan reveals how Trump compared himself to Mao, Stalin, Attila the Hun — and how a top aide found him with Superglue trying to decorate the Oval Office…. w/ @jeremyherb #RegimeChange www.cnn.com/2026/06/18/p...

This video appears to confirm it was a Russian air-defense missile — not a Ukrainian drone — that blew up that Moscow refinery’s storage tank today, creating the "flying saucer" footage. (This video was shared on Telegram by Russian military expert Yan Matveev.) t.me/arrowsmap/11...

Thiel is a creepy fucker, and not just because he "birthed" JD Vance. He's had antichrist meetings, is weirdly into longevity, and is planning his escape to Argentina. It's like a dystopian future movie plot. www.wired.com/story/leak-e...

Even if you are not an over-40-and-from-Youngstown-but-now-living-in-DC person, there is also some additional next-level lazy scriptwriting tonight. THE COMPANY THAT TURNED THE REFLECTING POOL GREEN IS CALLED … GREENWATER SERVICES. @fahrenthold.bsky.social with the scoop:

Michelle Obama: "No one has the right to sit in judgment of who is American enough. And that's why, folks, we simply don't have the luxury or time to be cynical or complacent."

If the NYT op-ed columnists are going to interview prominent figures about a subject as complex as the JCPOA, they should at least research the details so they can see they’re being bullshitted.

1/ Ukraine's massive drone strike against Moscow – with a reported 555 drones and missiles fired, and 180 claimed to have been shot down over Moscow – has prompted anger, defiance, and resignation from Russian warbloggers. "Tehran is safer", one says. ⬇️

Republicans will brag that gas prices are under $4 a gallon. But gas was under $3 when Trump launched his illegal war.

Just based on the crazy shit that Trump said yesterday, every major news outlet should be reporting on the obvious mental instability of the president. But no. They're all pretending the emperor's new clothes are beautiful.

Who cares if his defense was “fiery”? Whether “critics” say it or not, this agreement appears to be significantly less effective than the JCPOA negotiated by President Obama. And what the heck is “even less” doing there? Obama’s deal was very good, and looks even better in retrospect.

This is a great example of how focusing on Trump‘s putative emotions and subjectivity can distort the story. What if Trump’s defense is “angry” but wrong and his “belittling” is based on a lazy, inaccurate description of the JCPOA? www.nytimes.com/2026/06/17/u...

The standpoint of reporting should be the truth, not the level of Trump’s aggression (“fiery” or “lashing out”) or what he says, especially when, as is often the case, what he says is untrue.