Postcards from a country that created a need for a day like Juneteenth

“.. pressure from restructuring expenses and tariff costs.” 🤦🏻‍♂️ @bloomberg.com #$HOG www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

The American people are struggling while Donald Trump is using the power of his office to enrich himself and his family. It's corruption in plain sight.

JD Vance lives to troll us

Lorenzo Salgado Araujo’s death wasn’t a tragedy. It never needed happen. And as with the others like him, I suspect we’ll at some point see the evidence that it was a crime. www.thebulwark.com/p/he-lived-h...

Whispering: "I see dead people"

A pilot jumped out of the door of a moving plane to his death, leaving the student he was teaching to fly to land the aircraft by herself. The student said he told her, "You know what you have to do, carry on."

🚨BREAKING: California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) will introduce new legislation making ballot seizure before they are counted and certified by a state or county official a felony. In a July 4 recorded speech, Newsom was not shy about who the law targets. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Trump is going after COVID scientists hard. Revenge tour. We didn’t cure polio by jailing our scientists. Ask not who to punish for the last pandemic…ask who will protect us from the next.

Never look a gift horse in the mouth. www.reuters.com/world/middle...

But if you were wondering about the impact of Trump’s genuinely evil immigration policies, or why we need to abolish ICE, thousands of kids needlessly separated from their families for many months is one more hideous reminder.

I was back in Immigration Court this week, this time for the hearing of a sweet little three-year-old girl, I’ll call her Estrella. She’s been in federal custody, separated from her family for more than 10 months – even though her mom lives here in NYC. The cruelty is truly mind-boggling. 🧵

ICE Killed Lorenzo Salgado Araujo on a Houston Street yesterday. It's Using the Same Script It Always Uses. migrantinsider.com/p/ice-killed...

when you’re a pundit something super high on the list of things you don’t wanna do is have people who say they’re inclined to trust you conclude you misrepresented their argument because (generously) you were being lazy

A Must Read: "Trump tried to shout and post his policy preferences into existence, then tried to sue them into existence, and now he’s trying to intimidate them into existence." www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Dan Kleban, brewery owner in Maine and a candidate that a lot of Dems like, says he's ready to make the run in Platner's place:

Graham Platner Clarifies He Covered Penis With Tattoo After Learning About Its Troubling History

I suppose a task force won't hurt but we know what needs to happen -- you need some way to overcome parochial utility & state incentives, bypass endless environmental reviews & procedural hurdles, & properly allocate costs. It's just difficult.

🚨‼️ @jbpritzker.bsky.social: Trump is everything our Founding Fathers feared most – an uncontrollable, narcissistic president who acts like a king.

"Make America Healthy Again." @moreperfectunion.bsky.social

the stench of trump and corruption, the low effort final performance, the vastly superior round of 16 opponent. such a disastrous and demoralizing way for the US to end the world cup. 0/10, would not recommend.

Schneier notes that if we want to protect jobs, we should stop taxing capital at a lower rate than labor. Pretty obvious but not heard that connection before.

I think in general he meant that the tax code needs to be designed to reward employers for hiring rather than buying crap (especially their own stock, I'd add).

Just the most evil shit ever. An entire administration of monsters.

Q: Can you clarify with you meant with your social media post with respect to Prime Minister Meloni, the restraining order? TRUMP: Oh, I don't know. I think she's a nice person, actually. I didn't put a heavy press on her. I think she made a mistake. She just wasn't there for us and I wasn't happy

Unlawfully threatening our allies better show up in the Articles of Impeachment.

Trump on Greenland: "That's what hurt my relationship with NATO...it's an important part for the United States. It's surrounded by China ships & Russian ships. Greenland should be controlled by the United States, not by Denmark. We could remove all our soldiers out of Europe. They better be careful"

Mamdani on Platner: "I believe it's time for him to drop out of the race"

Trump says he’s number one on Tic Tac. Wait… Isn’t TicTac a breath mint?

The most reliable thing in the world is that if you hear two stories about a guy behaving physically abusively toward women, there are five more you haven’t heard yet. People have patterns.

Whenever I watch the US Men’s soccer team play, I remind myself the US Women’s soccer team have won their World Cup 4 times and remain the most successful team in tournament history.

As a rival viking 🇩🇰, I wholeheartedly approve of Norway's viking row. 🇳🇴 Ro! 🥁 Ro! 🥁 Ro! 🥁 Synchronized rowing, enchanting the fans the world over.

Trump Sees Hunter Biden   Smoking Crack On Wing Of Air Force One https://theonion.com/trump-sees-hunter-biden-smoking-crack-on-wing-of-air-force-one/

Erdogan clutches a wandering Trump's arm to guide him around

As my mother would say, “That’s a crock of shit.”

Kevin McCarthy on Platner Allegations: That one thing I know about Republicans is when we had a very bad candidate, we didn't vote for that person. We walked away.

"[T]here is no slight that Trump can’t turn into a forever grievance & no failure he can’t try to pin on someone else. It’s like Caligula trying to make his horse a consul, except the horse is Trump’s own wounded ego, & it claims not just one seat, but absolutely all of them." This is excellent!

The Trump Curse. #ETTD

A broadside assault on truth that must be taken seriously. This administration wants to replace independent scholarship and curation with propaganda and Prager U. drivel. The Kennedy Center was bad enough. This is worse.

One of the most frustrating parts of Donald Trump is his ability to take any moment, anywhere and make it about Donald Trump. I’m sick of thinking about this fucking guy.

Cartoon by @mortenmorland.bsky.social

As predicted, the tariffs have created more opportunity for Trump’s naked, unprecedented corruption www.pbs.org/newshour/amp...

“We’re told that the aerial image of the crowds from his rally last week enraged him so much that officials ended up deleting them,” CNN’s Kaitlan Collins reported. trib.al/FXoWSlA

It’s corruption on steroids in plain sight. He doesn’t even try to hide that he’s looting US and cashing in on insider trading. He’s the most corrupt president in American history.

This feels right to me. He’s dying and desperately trying to build up a legacy, quite literally.

@mlipsitt.bsky.social 🦢🐣🤍