Not great that the richest man in the world agrees with this post. Note the giant gun in the image. 👀 1/

{gift link} www.nytimes.com/2026/06/28/u...

Extraordinary detail in the new book on Trump's second term administration

🎶🔥❤️ #JenniferHudson

If any other president posted that an entire country “will no longer exist” if they don’t comply, the outrage would be deafening.

FFS! Now Trump has his cabinet inventing vandals to protect his feelings. When people are using box cutters to do vandalism on this thing, it’s the same as if they were throwing paint on Lincoln’s statue in the eyes of the law. — Doug Burgum

When the Speaker of the House says he runs a 'protection program' for the GOP, that's not how democracy works. Congress is supposed to check power, not shield it. If they need protection from investigation, what are they protecting? JOHNSON ADMITTED THEY HAVE COMMITTED CRIMES. #ProudBlue #Pinks

Just 10 people have already poured $617 MILLION into this year’s midterm elections. In the entire 2008 presidential cycle, the last election before Citizens United, total billionaire spending was $16 million. This is not sustainable. We need to get Big Money out of our democracy.

NEWS: Trump just posted about his latest strikes on Iran and threatened that “the Islamic Republic of Iran will no longer exist” if the U.S. is “forced to militarily complete the job.” A reminder: the MOU specifically bars these kinds of threats.

“The intriguing findings: Grads who majored in the social sciences and humanities are proving to be resilient in today’s job market because they gained skills that can be used across multiple industries.” English majors! We’re up! 🙌🏾 www.forbes.com/sites/courtn...

The BBC has requested that Donald Trump hand over his phone records from Jan. 6 as part of his defamation lawsuit against the broadcaster.

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This gives me No Labels vibes. The Democratic Party doesn’t need a group of consultants and donors rebranding conservative talking points as some brave new vision. If your big idea is announcing you’re capitalist, patriotic, and tough on borders, congrats, you repurposed 1990s GOP messaging.

This is Arizona’s Republican, Trump endorsed candidate for governor. Is there any MSM willing to ask him why he asked Trump for a pardon? We do not need treasonous traitors as Gov in AZ. Re-elect Katie Hobbs. She respects the rule of law, honors our constitution, & fights for you. No to Biggs!

The average life expectancy of a new Russian recruit—from arrival at a training ground to death in a combat zone—lies somewhere between 10 days and three weeks. Once sent onto the battlefield, they survive an average of 20 to 35 minutes. @peterfrankopan.bsky.social foreignpolicy.com/2026/06/25/r...

“Of course, she knows this. She’s just a liar.” 🔥

Public health research at world-class institutions like the NIH is an important public good. Rep. Suzan DelBene, Rep. Lori Trahan and I are leading 122 of our colleagues to oppose the Trump Administration’s efforts to give partisan political appointees final say over health research grants.

Colorado Gov Jared Polis (D) released Tina Peters, saying she was remorseful despite obvious evidence to the contrary. “I do show remorse,” Peters said today. “The remorse is that people that should be in prison are not. That's my remorse.”

WATCH: According to Bloomberg Law, Stephen Miller was behind a DOJ memo that lets states institutionalize Americans with disabilities instead of funding the community care that allows them to remain home—undoing decades of reform and precedent.

This is such a disturbing flex. He’s basically acknowledging that he and Trump have raised the bar on what scandals presidents can get away with so much that Watergate was nothing compared to them today. True. But yikes.

Rep. Rich McCormick on abortion: "This is the trick that the Democrats always like to lay out, and it's so clever: 'What about the life of the mother?'"

Very hard to write satire these days, real life keeps imitating it.

A data-driven analysis of how the New York Times's treatment of transgender subjects shifted "from rights-based framing toward more skeptical, conflict-driven coverage" since 2014, centering trans-rights opponents over trans people themselves. www.advocate.com/politics/nat...

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With no explanation, Republicans on the State Board of Education have cut lessons that taught about racial segregation and slave revolts; that acknowledged slavery was because of skin color; and that said southern states seceded from the Union in part to preserve the practice of slavery.

Tom Emmer is a racist, and he's not afraid for you to know it.

Hard to fully express the contempt I feel for this gutter racist, nor the horror of living in proximity to both him and the people who would sustain him in high office. To spend your privileged time on earth spreading calumnies about your neighbors is just incomprehensibly bleak and vile.

A man was sentenced to 30 years in prison for moving some pamphlets and artwork. Others were sentenced to 50 years for simply being present at a protest against ICE. In Donald Tr*mp’s United States, the First Amendment no longer exists.

Senate Republicans rejected a war powers resolution in a late-night vote, hours after they were berated by Donald Trump over opposition to his controversial war on Iran. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

@daveweigel.bsky.social is right. The big pitch of the establishment, NYT, Yglesias, etc is that they need the keys to the car because they know how to win (and in the Trump era, winning is existential). But nobody really believes that anymore after 10 years of Trumpism

It is difficult to read the Supreme Court's opinions over the last week and not see the general trend toward accretion of Court power. Interpretive philosophies like originalism give way to "plain text" readings (by judges) and historical "standards," without any specific guidelines. /1

It seems somewhat bad that the richest man in the world can use his money to bankrupt individuals or organizations -- including officials who are tasked with holding him accountable -- that accurately point out that his actions plausibly facilitated the deaths of millions.

"When you ask a question like that, it's so stupid" -- Trump is offended that a reporter would ask him if Iran has leverage over him

Q: "If the war with Iran could cause a worldwide depression, are you willing to risk an economic catastrophe?" Trump: "Well, not the way I'm doing it. It's not gonna cause depression…Nuclear weapon supersedes depression."

TRUMP: When you have a 350 foot slit, do you think that's proof? O'KEEFE: Reporters have been down there today looking for that slit you mentioned. There's no evidence TRUMP: All you have to do is see the parks department. They'll show it to you.

Lots of “the election was rigged and stolen” vibes in Trump’s claim that his failures on the Reflecting Pool are the result of “vandalism.” Pretty similar playbook - just keep repeating the absurd lie, get Fox, Newsmax and right-wing podcasters to run with it, and the cult buys it.

Dolezal said he and “a number of friends” deliberately submitted mail-in ballot applications with altered signatures — including forms signed by children — and then used the fact that they received ballots to argue that Georgia’s system facilitates fraud. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

The people who lack empathy don’t even have enough empathy to believe that anyone else has empathy. So they threat love of strangers as an illness or a fraud.

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“A single Tomahawk cruise missile runs about $3.6 million, roughly what it takes to fund one scientist’s multiyear grant. The entire National Science Foundation budget is less than what we spent in the first week of the war with Iran.” www.nytimes.com/2026/06/20/o...

Every time Trump threatens to attack Iran he is violating the terms of his surrender. Here's the very first graph of the MOU he signed:

The Iranian Foreign Minister makes Vance wait, then when he arrives he refuses to shake Vance’s hand or greet him. The US has never looked smaller or weaker on the world stage.

Forest Park Police Lt. Daniel Miller will not be charged by North Riverside PD for yanking a woman from her car at gun point and arresting her, out of uniform, out of his jurisdiction and wearing a Trump jersey. He’s on paid admin leave. This is not the first time Miller has been accused of abuse.

Great waste in the Great Lakes: How plastic pollution is clogging our waters

The Lemkin Institute weighs in on the new EHRC ‘guidance’. Tl;dr “In its attempt to erase trans and intersex people from public life, this document is genocidal in nature.” www.lemkininstitute.com/statements-n...

The completely & utterly demented, mentally ill President of the United States just posted this truly brainless imbecilic nonsense. Elected GOP are shameful to not remove this dangerously deranged fool from office immediately. There is something truly wrong with him. “Idiocracy” was non-fiction.

“.. I didn’t vandalize anything,” Hearn said. “I didn’t destroy or break or peel anything. By the time I realized what was going on, I was being put in handcuffs.” @washingtonpost.com www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2026/...

Today Trump officials arrested former US Olympic cyclist David Hearns for being near the reflecting pool and touching some of the detached blue rubber crap. Touching their failure is a crime now.

Facts matter. Trump is trying to restrict mail in voting by taking control of who is eligible. That’s up to the states, but Trump has decided the states can’t mail ballots to anyone who isn’t on his list. Read here to understand the EO & lawsuits challenging it: open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...