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Nearly 3 million acres gone in an afternoon. It’s the largest rollback of protected land in American history. And the lawsuit it’s designed to provoke is the entire point.

The numbers are in... 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐔.𝐒. 𝐬𝐩𝐞𝐧𝐭 $𝟑𝟎 𝐛𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐭𝐨 𝐝𝐢𝐭𝐜𝐡 𝐭𝐞𝐱𝐭𝐛𝐨𝐨𝐤𝐬 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐥𝐚𝐩𝐭𝐨𝐩𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐞𝐭𝐬: 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐮𝐥𝐭 𝐢𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐟𝐢𝐫𝐬𝐭 𝐠𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐥𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐜𝐨𝐠𝐧𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐥𝐲 𝐜𝐚𝐩𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐢𝐫 𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐬

Good ole, bad Mitch.

Trump’s reflecting pool is the perfect metaphor for his presidency: a vanity project built on favors and shortcuts, handed to people who had no business doing it, hyped endlessly, falls apart almost immediately, cost taxpayers millions, and somehow it’s everyone else’s fault…

The largest percentage-point increases in recent decades of federal debt as a share of GDP, occurred under Republican presidents: Reagan, G.W. Bush and Trump all oversaw substantial debt growth, driven mainly by tax cuts not fully offset by spending cuts, plus wars and, in Trump's case, COVID relief

The U.S. government is now adding about $35 billion to the deficit every week. At the same time, it is spending about $22 billion a week on net interest on the national debt.

“I look at these images now and I realise that, although as a young man I felt I was out there in the wild experiencing the untouched natural world, it was an illusion. Those forests and plains and seas were already emptying.” — Sir David Attenborough

So grateful to @katmabu.bsky.social for coming to my talk last week and taking this up!!! The committee vote is TOMORROW MORNING. The final vote is scheduled for WEDNESDAY. Stonepeak is threatening to sue if the council votes no, so unless your alders hear your outrage NOW, they may pass it.

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*Fans of an AI-driven stock boom should be aware that they are making three big bets, all of which are far from certain* Jul 6, 2026 By @deanbaker13.bsky.social #ArtificialIntelligence #UnitedStates cepr.net/publications...

And on a side note, this is really bad.

Yep.. Every single time. 😠

The dean of the S.C. Republican delegation, best known for yelling "you lie" during Obama's State of the Union.

As Republicans mull how to replace Senator Lindsey Graham, national attention turns to Dr. Annie Andrews, the Democratic pediatrician vying for his seat in the midterms

Who else saw this coming? (from The Nation's substack) 𝘈 𝘓𝘦𝘢𝘬𝘦𝘥 𝘛𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘴𝘶𝘳𝘺 𝘳𝘦𝘱𝘰𝘳𝘵 𝘸𝘢𝘳𝘯𝘴 𝘈𝘐 𝘣𝘶𝘣𝘣𝘭𝘦, 𝘱𝘳𝘪𝘷𝘢𝘵𝘦 𝘤𝘳𝘦𝘥𝘪𝘵 𝘤𝘳𝘪𝘴𝘪𝘴 𝘱𝘰𝘴𝘦 𝘴𝘺𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘮𝘪𝘤 𝘳𝘪𝘴𝘬𝘴 𝘵𝘰 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘦𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘰𝘮𝘺, 𝘢𝘴 𝘉𝘭𝘢𝘤𝘬𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘯𝘦 𝘴𝘩𝘦𝘥𝘴 𝘥𝘢𝘵𝘢 𝘤𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘥𝘦𝘢𝘭𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘏𝘚𝘉𝘊 𝘱𝘶𝘭𝘭𝘴 𝘣𝘢𝘤𝘬 𝘰𝘯 𝘭𝘦𝘯𝘥𝘪𝘯𝘨. thenationmagazine.substack.com/p/tracking-t...

The National Center for Atmospheric Research and the University of Colorado Boulder have been ranked in the top 10 globally for climate research, according to a UK analysis of the most highly cited climate research institutions.

💥 They had detailed plans. Trump met with ringleaders 💥 1776 Returns: Proud Boys Document Shows Detailed Jan. 6 Plan To Occupy Government Buildings (2022) proof www.youtube.com/watch?v=XKMH...

But the boss himself was just a failed real estate agent, 6 times over. Apologies to all the sane realtors out there. You could not fail that bad even if you tried hard, like you had 0 interest in a business you inherited from dad.

Go and kick the goons out.

WHERE ARE THE PEOPLE!? Where is Congress? Where are they? I want to film this for my kids & my grandkids. I want them to see the day democracy died in Washington, D.C. Even George is upset 🦮 & we should all be shocked! No one is here to say this is wrong! I was born here. I'm Andrew Howard. 1/5🧵

The Election Assistance Commission is a bipartisan federal agency established to help states administer elections. After Trump fired the leadership, voting rights advocates are sounding the alarm about the president’s attempts to meddle with voting months before the midterms. https://bit.ly/44rLhVh

Screw that. They haven't even accounted for the billions missing from before the senseless war and the soldiers in our cities. Let them produce spending records, learn how to govern and learn how to budget and make due in hard times. Treasury isn't an ATM for reckless idiots

At a time when the administration needed to take action to determine next steps to address a nascent drought, there's been an opposite approach by kowtowing to the oil and gas industries.

𝐈𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐨𝐝𝐮𝐜𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐏𝐋𝐀𝐍, 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐓𝐨𝐨𝐥 𝐓𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐅𝐢𝐧𝐝𝐬 𝐄𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲 𝐏𝐮𝐛𝐥𝐢𝐜 𝐋𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐬 𝐅𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝐎𝐩𝐞𝐧 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐑𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝐍𝐨𝐰 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘗𝘶𝘣𝘭𝘪𝘤 𝘓𝘢𝘯𝘥𝘴 𝘈𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘕𝘦𝘵𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘬 𝘪𝘴 𝘢 𝘧𝘳𝘦𝘦 𝘵𝘰𝘰𝘭 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘧𝘪𝘯𝘥𝘴 𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺 𝘱𝘶𝘣𝘭𝘪𝘤 𝘭𝘢𝘯𝘥𝘴 𝘥𝘦𝘤𝘪𝘴𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘰𝘱𝘦𝘯 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘩𝘦𝘭𝘱𝘴 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘸𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘰𝘯𝘦 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘭𝘢𝘸 𝘮𝘢𝘬𝘦𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘮 𝘢𝘯𝘴𝘸𝘦𝘳.

While AOC & Bernie stand with everyday Americans—tapping into frustration, fear, and anger, drawing huge crowds—Schumer is holed up in DC, bouncing from talk show to talk show, defending a vote he never should’ve made. That’s not leadership; that’s self-preservation. @schumer.senate.gov

Apple alleges that bank robbers are out here robbing banks

They won't leave peacefully or legally. We are on notice. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

For decades, the Endangered Species Act allowed America to innovate without harming wildlife. This move by the Trump administration will have catastrophic impacts on endangered species and the habitats that support them.

It is not a crime in America to touch the Reflecting Pool People have been doing it for decades If Davey Hearn can be charged for that…any American can be charged for anything We @democracydefendersfund.org & WLG are not going to stand for it @cnn.com👇

Enough of the #TechBros,INC datacenter/hype BS! brockovichdatacenter.com

The quick resegregation of higher education is particularly pronounced. In 1951, in the case of McKissick v Carmichael, the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals compelled the UNC Chapel Hill School of Law to admit 4 black students. In 2025, they admitted 5. law.unc.edu/wp-content/u...

The acting AG Todd Blanche is a pedophile protector. YET, another reason to not confirm him for DOJ AG.

This chart of how scores dropped when an econ prof. switched from take-home midterm to proctored in-person final sadly tracks with what I've seen. Why I've thought people (especially STEM profs) have had their head in the sand about LLMs and academia... www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...

For ICE recruiters, being rash and prone to violence is a huge plus.

🐂💩 on top of.. ditto x1000

Trump just denied disaster aid to four blue states, after approving aid to six red states.

NEWS: Republican U.S. Senate candidate in Iowa Ashley Hinson says her family can barely afford groceries. Her disclosures say she’s worth up to $7M richer since taking office. And the “all my stocks are sold” claim? Also false. The receipts 👇

Three witnesses were in the van with Lorenzo Salgado Araujo Per their attorney: no ramming, no danger to agents & no reasonable basis to open fire Unreasonable force opens these agents to liability This is becoming another national outrage & it should be👇 -TN

EVERYONE: Please call your Dem. legislators and tell them to vote "NO" on the NDAA addition with the poison surveillance pill? Even if the House has passed it, they will have to pass it again once the Senate changes it in any way. So call both.

We know that ICE trains with the IDF. They have brought the same terror we see in Gaza to the U.S. Please remove section 224 & 219 from the NDAA bsky.app/profile/blue...

Republicans in the house have blocked @Rep. Ro Khanna’s amendment to strip section 219 out of the NDAA. Tell your Senators they must introduce or support an amendment to strip this section Section 1217 out before voting on the NDAA. Remember once this is done it can’t be undone. Please call now.!

📢 @LOTTE published a new campaign to 27,953 followers!

BASSEM: “This is what Israel does every day.” 🇺🇸 media isn’t even talking about the fact that 🇮🇱 killed the guy that organized a World Cup watch party in Gaza (and 2 kids) 3 minutes after the Egypt-Argentina match started.

The old con's got the opposite of "The Midas Touch".

"..he and his fellow tech oligarchs have, without our consent, unleashed machines to find the patterns in the digital trails we leave behind just by existing online, and using that mechanized pattern recognition to replace us with digital doubles of ourselves." -Naomi Klein

“In his Instagram post, Encina thanked Gomez, the Getty photographer, whose presence on the train he said was ‘quietly reassuring.’ In the interview, he said seeing a photographer there gave him some comfort because someone was documenting what was happening.”

Why the WB deal went through for Paramount (orig. from WSJ, not paywalled) 𝐃𝐎𝐉 𝐃𝐞𝐜𝐢𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐭𝐨 𝐀𝐥𝐥𝐨𝐰 𝐏𝐚𝐫𝐚𝐦𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐭 𝐃𝐞𝐚𝐥 𝐒𝐮𝐫𝐩𝐫𝐢𝐬𝐞𝐝 𝐒𝐭𝐚𝐟𝐟 𝐈𝐧𝐯𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐠𝐚𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐬 𝘊𝘢𝘳𝘦𝘦𝘳 𝘢𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘵𝘳𝘶𝘴𝘵 𝘰𝘧𝘧𝘪𝘤𝘪𝘢𝘭𝘴 𝘪𝘯𝘷𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘨𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘞𝘢𝘳𝘯𝘦𝘳 𝘢𝘤𝘲𝘶𝘪𝘴𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘸𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘯𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘰𝘸𝘢𝘳𝘥 𝘳𝘦𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘥𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘢 𝘤𝘩𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘦𝘯𝘨𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘮𝘦𝘳𝘨𝘦𝘳, 𝘱𝘦𝘰𝘱𝘭𝘦 𝘧𝘢𝘮𝘪𝘭𝘪𝘢𝘳 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘮𝘢𝘵𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘴𝘢𝘺