Jarvis: I hate to say this to my friends here at CNN, mass media is dying, so they're taking the last of these vestiges of institutions that matter and they're trying to turn them into propaganda organs under threat from the head of the FCC

KAMLAGER-DOVE: Dylan Roof, who followed white supremacist propaganda, murdered 9 Black parishioners in 2015. Do you deny this? PATEL: I'm sorry. Dylan Roof? Can you give me more information? KAMLAGER-DOVE: You're head of the FBI

this would theoretically provide power long enough to play the monorail episode of The Simpsons, which is all we really need electricity to do these days anyway

This is extrajudicial execution, without any clear threat to the US, no authorization from Congress, and far beyond even Article II. The military is not the president's personal hit squad. Or wasn't, until now.

Use of the word "evil" in official congressional e-newsletters, over time, by party

🤬Zelenskyy: Russian drone infiltrates Romanian airspace for 50 minutes

NEW: Federal funding for organizations that help students with hearing and vision loss across eight states will stop at the end of the month, according to letters sent by a top Education Dept. official and obtained by ProPublica. By @jodiscohen.bsky.social @jsmithrichards.bsky.social

Remember: The recipe for economic growth isn’t tax cuts for the rich. It’s investment in our people — in health care, infrastructure and education — to build a strong middle class. You don't grow the economy through trickle-down nonsense.

Kavanaugh's statements make the problem worse, not better. If the reason SCOTUS is using cryptic shadow docket orders is because "five" of them can't "reach a consensus or a compromise on a particular issue that might be difficult," then that order should not be precedential —there's no majority.

Today, Senate Republicans refused to have RFK Jr. sworn in under oath to give his testimony. I find it telling that Republicans refuse to take even symbolic steps to show they care about transparency and truth from the man in charge of the agency tasked with America's health.

Every school shooting is a policy choice.

so, my issue with this is that it completely misses that DHS has been turned into a quasi-paramilitary for the right

Sprinting through my office to tell everyone that Taylor Swift is engaged.

President Trump is demanding the release of a former Colorado county elections official who was found guilty of charges connected to sneaking someone into her office to search for evidence to try to prove that the 2020 election was stolen.

yes! and: it's important to remember that the reason you are doing that is not necessarily because those kinds of words, or a video at all, have power over these people the reason to do it is because those words are likely to have the intended effects of keeping you safe while protecting others

NEW: Oregon liberals, opposed to nuclear power in the 1970s, created a complex process for getting new energy projects approved. It’s now being used to stall developments in wind and solar — with a 76-year-old activist leading the charge. With @opb.org

It's just completely looney-tunes to me that a huge number of flight attendants aren't paid until the plane is in the air. Like when you hear the announcement "flight attendants, please prepare the cabin for departure," they're being instructed to do a work task that they literally won't be paid for

normal-person behavior www.thedailybeast.com/new-trump-st...

I’ve always wondered if other nations honor their traitors the way the U.S. does.

As a media witness to the last two executions, Tuesday's was different. Whether it was the Pentobarbitol causing pulmonary edema or the defibrillator that courts ruled did not have to be turned off, Byron Black was in obvious pain. “Oh, it’s hurting so bad,” he said minutes before dying.

As end-of-empire scenarios go it is so much more dignified to get your capital city sacked by the Visigoths than to have a bunch of illiterate rich people in their 70s doing it through a series of incomprehensible tantrums because their brains were defeated by their phones.

Firing the BLS Commissioner — the wonk in charge of the statisticians who track economic reality — is an authoritarian four alarm fire. It will also backfire: You can't bend economic reality, but you can break the trust of markets. And biased data yields worse policy.

NEW: A second whistleblower and former DOJ attorney has produced evidence that backs up allegations that Trump's court pick Emil Bove told DOJ attorneys to defy court orders, mislead judges and say "fuck you" to judges who rule against them, says whistleblower group. www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

Holy - and I cannot emphasize this enough - shit. Also, this guy was a senior project 2025 organizer.

One attorney for the Education Department's Office for Civil Rights said the job became “impossible" as their caseload went from 60 to 380. “The people who remain are doing all they can. We’re doing all we can. But it isn’t enough, and it keeps us up at night,” they said. (Published May)

WSJ - China's state media has expanded its reach from Indonesia to Nigeria after Trump’s order to dismantle US government-funded outlets, including the Voice of America. www.wsj.com/world/china/... #SaveVOA

In January, I started reporting what I thought would be a science story about catatonia — a neuropsychiatric syndrome that affects a surprisingly large number of profoundly autistic children. Then the GOP started slashing research grants. nashvillebanner.com/2025/07/01/a...

the lineup at SCOTUS tomorrow is wild, we’re so cooked

MERKLEY: How do you feel about being responsible for hundreds of thousands of kids dying because of your sudden interruption in these key programs? VOUGHT: I reject the assertion MERKLEY: I find your response both ignorant & callous. Few Americans have had a more devastating & disastrous impact

June treasury data came in today, and Americans paid a record $27B in tariffs & related DHS excise taxes this month—for an annualized pace of more than $300B/year The graph of intense pain & suffering keeps getting worse

BREAKING: Supreme Court allows for the Trump administration to deport convicted criminals to "third countries" to which they have no previous connection.

according to conservatives on the court, the constitution does not protect your right to your own body but does enable the government to ship you off to a foreign gulag without any hope of return

OK, here is your one-minute primer on the whole concept of "trickle down economics," from the obituary of Fred Smith, the founder of Fedex. I mean, if you still can't see it, I have no hope for you.

Just some creepy armed Mad Max guys trying to gain entry to Dodgers Stadium. ICE says it wasn’t them. DHS says they were Border Patrol. But honestly who the hell knows? They’ve given permission for any psycho to put on a ski mask, point a gun, grab people & throw them into an unmarked vehicle.

this is very very simple

BREAKING: The enforcement chief at America’s consumer watchdog is quitting, ProPublica has learned. Cara Petersen writes in her sign-off letter that it’s “clear that the Bureau’s current leadership has no intention to enforce the law in any meaningful way.” 🧵 1/

Basically the right way to understand Miller's claim is that Trump's election was the constituent powers of the people proclaiming a new constitutional order

Yes, why is support for the far right authoritarian party's unbelievably extreme policy positions on issues like "should we invade 🇨🇦?" and "who is the right side to support in the 🇷🇺/🇺🇦 war?" "essentially unrepresented" on this "bubble" of a social media site? Verily, it's a total mystery 🤷‍♂️

Comparing the United States to countries that never had deeply institutionalized democratic processes is just dumb; they were not fully functional democracies one day and autocracies the next, and thinking so only leads to the drama-laden defeatism that says that democracy here is already over.

Whaddya know.

See you June 14th Nashville! Indivisible will be hosting and UVTON supporting. Be loud, proud, and nonviolent activist! www.mobilize.us/mobilize/eve...

how do you deal with the fact that the united states has about 20% of the overall population that lives in an entirely different fake reality

NEW from me: Trump's 90-day pause on the China trade war still leaves tariffs at the highest level since the Great Depression—and that's before upcoming sector-specific tariffs or possible un-pausing Trump may be easing his trade war, but he's far from ending it🧵 www.apricitas.io/p/trumps-ret...

“That effectively means there is a built-in way to physically destroy the grid.” www.reuters.com/sustainabili...

Bill Parsons from Franklin: "I've been writing and calling our senators and have gotten nothing. Nothing. Last week I got a response from Sen. Blackburn that had nothing to do with what I asked. I'm asking: does it make any difference?"

The corruption is staggering. So brazen. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

UPDATE: The DOGE aide was told by ethics attorneys that he held stock in companies that agency employees are barred from owning — and was advised not to participate in any actions that could benefit him personally. Days later, he helped fire 90% of CFPB staff anyway.