The Nazi comparisons are useful, but the Trump instinct to address negative outcomes by firing and silencing anyone on their team foolish enough to report them always makes me think of Mao and the Great Famine.

The Wall Street Journal is really going hard on Trump these days

The cloture vote on Bove was 50-48 last Thursday, all voting Dems plus Collins/Murkowski were nos. Seems quite likely he'll be confirmed this week. But since that was two whistleblowers ago, probably worth anyone with a Republican senator making one more call.

A third whistleblower has struck Emil Bove

RIP Tom Lehrer, one of the single most talented, prescient, hilarious, and underappreciated satirists this country ever produced. a man who actually called it like he saw it youtu.be/JPrAuF2f_oI

Worth remembering that in any other administration, a 15% tariff on our largest trade partner & some of our closest allies would be considered the worst trade war in more than a generation

Yet Another trade “deal” from Trump that leaves tariffs much, much worse than before he took office. What a joke.

Underreported trade news of the day is that Trump announced that the 15% tariffs on the EU would include pharmaceuticals that have thus far been exempt from tariffs If tariffs on pharma go up 15% this week it'd be a *massive* escalation of the trade war—the US imports $175B/yr of them from the EU

Her: you quote Alanis Morissette too much Me: well slap me with a splintered ruler

Keep yelling at your senators to oppose Trump's henchman. Scripts language here, or send a @resist.bot message by texting SIGN PECZAF to 50409.

You can either read today's news as a series of distractions-- the poor venous return is a distraction from bove which is a distraction from Epstein which is the distraction tariffs which is a distraction from whatever -- or you can read it as shit is falling apart. I'm an eternal optimist.

the wall street journal says trump's letter was part of the department of justice's review of the charges against epstein and maxwell. emil bove was involved in doj's review of those files this year. today republicans on the judiciary committee halted debate to advance bove to a lifetime judgeship

National broadcast of the flagship event for #GoodTroubleLivesOn will go live on YouTube at 8PM

Scripts/language to tell your members of Congress they need to fucking do something if Trump decides his ego is more important than our economy and fires Jerome Powell: (Can also send a @resist.bot message by texting SIGN PBLBKC to 50409.)

"Ray, who is in his late 20s, was born in a refugee camp in Nepal and came to the U.S. as a kid. He was recently deported to Bhutan — where he had never lived in and where his family faced persecution. Within 24 hours of his arrival, Ray said Bhutanese authorities ordered him to leave."

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Scripts/language to tell your members of Congress they need to fucking do something if Trump decides his ego is more important than our economy and fires Jerome Powell: (Can also send a @resist.bot message by texting SIGN PBLBKC to 50409.)

Multiple outlets reporting Trump told House Republicans last night he will fire Jerome Powell soon:

I'm not the best at thinking up band names

Man, this is just gonna be a TERRIBLE few years to need elder care

Abduction Airlines is hemorrhaging money:

Cousin: well, we forgot the chicken. But thank you for getting the eggs! Me: hey, now we know what came first! Everyone: *polite chuckles* My genius is unappreciated in my own time.

But at least none of them had to be terrified by the words "I'm from the government and I'm here to help."

How do you convince people to build resilience capacity for a catastrophe they insist isn't happening?

So I honestly can't tell if anything is happening with tariffs on Wednesday now or not, and I'm also not confident people with actual responsibilities do either

I can't believe we're *literally* doing Liberation Day Part 2 Electric Boogaloo. I thought they would at least come up with a different, equally-dumb formula.

"Companies that benefit from keeping protections weak for tenants have billions of [lobbying] dollars ... That same machine mobilizes at the drop of a hat to pump millions into elections – even in districts during the legislative process – to scare and intimidate policymakers into voting their way."

Highly recommend these mutual aid orgs. GoFundMe has also set up a landing page for verified fundraisers for those affected by the flooding here:

This confirms @heatmap.news reporting, as we were first to break the news Trump would do this in order to pass OBBA Thank you to @ericmgarcia.bsky.social for asking questions on the topic in Congress heatmap.news/sparks/ralph...

JUST IN: A federal judge has just GRANTED Planned Parenthood of Utah's request to block the Trump administration from cutting off their Medicaid reimbursements as part of the "Big, Beautiful Bill." PPAU was part of a coalition lawsuit over it. #utpol #Utah

What would you say if you saw it in another country, part #2253

Even if you assume the legitimacy of ICE operations, the idea that a fucking truck-mounted machine gun is necessary to carry them out is insane. This is about intimidation. This is them letting us know that the streets of the United States have been militarized.

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Weirdest thing at MacArthur Park this morning. This is as if they are cosplaying in a Michael Bey movie. How is this real?

Ann Coulter's statement that "We didn't kill enough Indians" is a call for violence against Native people.

the core idea that can radicalize people is so simple: there is enough. there is enough food to feed everyone. enough resources to house everyone. money and technology and medicine to stop the suffering of people around the globe. once you accept that there's only one question: why don't we?

Flashback to June 11th: "Governor Greg Abbott’s office [says] Texas is well-prepared to handle emergency management with or without FEMA... 'Governor Abbott has full confidence that the Texas Division of Emergency Management will be able to swiftly take action when disaster strikes.'"

I love that former NYT public editor @sulliview.bsky.social is public-editing from the outside. "With this made-up scandal, combined with the pre-election editorial, the Times looks like it’s on a crusade against Mamdani. "And no lofty explanation about the mission can disguise it."

Highly recommend these mutual aid orgs. GoFundMe has also set up a landing page for verified fundraisers for those affected by the flooding here:

Interview with a community member who was maced by departing DHS agents in Macarthur Park

Major speculation that this raid was a photo op, but it’s worth noting that activists who were tipped off showed up to the park early to throw up flyers and comb through the park to alert neighbors A full soccer field that was active this morning was completely cleared by the time ICE arrived

Border patrol now sweeping the park

Check out this thread from @melbuer.bsky.social this morning on the ground in Los Angeles. Seems DHS did a sweep of a public park with lots of troops and heavy gear.

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Also if you’re one of my mental health friends. This is for sellouts. Dont try to convince me that “you’re gonna change the system internally”. No you won’t.

The New York Times’ editorial decisions make more sense when you remember their publisher is a fifth-generation owner who was handed the paper as a birthright while the managing editor was a Harvard legacy whose father founded Staples. They’re very firm believers in the meritocracy, you see.

What are folks reading right now?

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