The Far Right always are pathetic. Weak people pretending to be strong.

Iconic line from @stevevladeck.bsky.social here in response to Will Baude’s SCOTUS boosterism www.nytimes.com/2026/07/01/o...

Well, this is fucking bullshit.

Mocking Trump may feel satisfying, but it won't stop the steady march of fascism. Satire aimed at personalities rather than the systems that produced them breeds cynicism, deepens social divisions, and distracts from the real centres of power, writes Chris Hedges.

Money is wasted on the wrong people. And a trillion net worth redefines obscene.

Daily Beast: Vietnam is demolishing graves and moving it’s dead to make way for a Trump Organization golf course. I hope every single person whose grave is desecrated haunts Trump and his golf course for all eternity. #ProudBlue #Pinks #SheShed #VoteOutRepublicans

Water Tower - New York City - #FridayPhoto 🗃️📷📸

I have said this before: Pope Leo should throw some holy water at Trump and press a cross into his forehead to see what happens.

Holy shit this cartoon.

Xi played a fragment from “Swan Lake” during the reception for Putin and the Russian delegation. Specifically the infamous “Dance of the Little Swans,” that became the historic soundtrack of the USSR collapse.

Per Financial Times, while in Beijing, Trump proposed to Xi the idea that US, China and Russia should co-operate against the International Criminal Court.

As an aside, I was invited to a Chinese media launch in London to update on the belt and road initiative. One of the gifts in the goodie bag was an exquisitely crafted metal flash drive in the shape of a dragon. I saw some journos admiring it. I thought, that’s going nowhere near my laptop. 1/2

A super-El Niño could be on the way. Couple this with Trump’s war closing the Strait of Hormuz and blocking fertiliser shipments and we may be looking at a crisis in some of the poorest parts of the world.

US House Democrats and 3 Republicans forced a vote on a Ukraine aid and Russia sanctions bill, bypassing Speaker Johnson. Kevin Kiley was the 218th signature on Greg Meeks's discharge petition. Floor vote due by the end of May. www.sacbee.com/news/politic...

BUT WE ARE THE REASON IT'S CLOSED! 🤡

No argument here. From AP comments:

Disapproval of Trump's management of the economy hits 70%

An Iranian official tells Tasnim News agency that Trump “doesn’t like reality”. The official dismissed Trump's reaction to Iran's response. “Negotiators write proposals for Iran's national interest, not to please Trump. If Trump's unhappy, that's probably a good sign.”

Riding on Mother Owl Kenojuak Ashevak ~ Inuk 1996

Coming from a military family, I feel sorry for those who signed up to protect their own nation and end up shipped across the world to line the pockets of oligarchs and keep damning evidence of their misdeeds out of the news.

The reading room opens to the public today. trumpsonian.us/rr

Situation in the Gulf may soon get messy again. That’s what happens when you put US personnel in harm’s way, because you have no real plan, no strategy, no way out. We’ve painted ourselves into a very nasty corner. Well done.

We live in a time dominated by deeply unserious people making deeply unserious arguments in support of tragically serious results that serious people would have both avoided and known to avoid.

Trump caused the closure of the Strait of Hormuz resulting in ruinous gas price rises and global food shortages so it’s hysterical to watch him and Bessent frantically scrambling to claim the opening of the strait is an humanitarian effort. A humanitarian wouldn’t have started the war.

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The most important thing to note, is they are dead prisoners of war. Russians kill prisoners. Russians are war criminals. These are war crimes.

Never let someone else’s suffering go to waste.

Rumor has it that the Artemis crew was required to speak with Trump as part of NASA training to prepare astronauts for encounters with less intelligent life forms.

The U.S. has genuinely become a dystopian shithole.

I don't think there is a way back for America. Yes, Trump will die (not soon enough), but Europe is not going to trust America for a generation and by that time China and Europe will be the dominant world forces.

I feel seen

Israel kidnapped 211 European Nationals this morning 1,000km from Israel, for committing the great crime of trying to bring food to Gaza where people are dying every day from starvation. You won't see this on the news though, and no major politician will mention it.

I wonder who the Polish Foreign Minister is talking about.

Good God. He is the most fragile fuck who ever lived.

“Be NICE. Shoot an unarmed American citizen.”

He said he was going after a rapist, pedophile, and traitor. The prosecutor is going to have to argue, "That's Trump." 🍿🍿

Iran has proposed an agreement on reopening the Strait of Hormuz and ending the war while delaying negotiations on its nuclear program to a later stage, Axios reports.

CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY, ISRAEL'S PRIDE...

It’s got to be so embarrassing as a world leader or politician to have your intern post “we are glad Trump is okay there is no room for violence yadda yadda yadda” every couple of months.

Senior BBC foreign journalist:

Israel’s killing of Lebanese journalist Amal Khalil followed a now-familiar pattern: surveillance, strike, obstruction of rescue and denial. She is one of at least 263 journalists killed by Israel since October 2023. @meenakshirv.bsky.social reports.

Probably the most significant gender gap on a political issue not tied to gender I have ever come across. And not some mere fluke, consistent on our trackers going back years, a genuine point of difference between men and women.

Probably worth noting that this document was authored by this guy: