As we approach America250, I wish to point out that if not for woke George Washington mandating that his troops be inoculated against smallpox, we probably wouldn’t have made it to America001.

I’m sorry, no. This is not the guy who did the reflecting pool. No. Come on. We’re just putting a hat on a hat here. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/18/u...

"Democrats in positions of power have allowed career cupbearers…to shape the party’s foreign policy thinking and action, with disasters in Rwanda, Afghanistan, Syria and Iraq, Ukraine, American counterintelligence, Iran, and Gaza being their direct legacy." www.liberalcurrents.com/no-more-cupb...

A Russian artist best known for his unflattering caricatures of President Vladimir Putin was shot dead in Poland, prosecutors said Tuesday, adding that two Belarusian men were arrested in connection with the killing. https://cnn.it/4xu7Vtm

Just got a push alert that the Iran deal is done which means it’ll be dead again after Bibi blows up a Beirut toy factory in six hours, correct?

When you see the story about how the world now has its first trillionaire, and when you see the story about how laboratories in Congo have run out of supplies to test for Ebola, it is important to understand that in many ways these are the same story.

Peak NYC

Here’s my 3rd #WorldCup ancient/historic site or relic from each country playing in the World Cup. It’s AUSTRALIA 🇦🇺. At low tide at Gantheaume Point in Western Australia, you can walk out on the rocks and see these dinosaur footprints preserved perfectly. Remarkable. 🕰️130 million years

It took them less time to take down the East Wing

618 dead walkers. What’s Tampa Bay’s excuse? | Column

"We are in extreme danger," says climate scientist Peter Kalmus @climatehuman.bsky.social. He warns that this summer "could be the hottest summer we've ever experienced in our lives, but it could also be the coolest summer for the rest of our lives."

David Brooks calls Platner a morale degenerate. The same man who left his wife of 28 years of marriage for his research assistant who is 23 years his junior. Inez Stepman and Linsey Fifield both who accused Platner without evidence founded the group woman for Kavanaugh. Stop buying the BS people!

“For the past year, FIFA has leased an office on the 17th floor of New York’s Trump Tower that has sat all but empty. The rent goes to President Trump’s family business, but soccer officials say the space sits largely idle.” www.nytimes.com/2026/06/09/w...

THERE IS AN ACTIVE POGROM IN NORTHERN IRELAND. FASCISTS IN SKULL MASKS ARE GOING DOOR TO DOOR PULLING MIGRANTS OUT OF THEIR HOMES AND SETTING THEM ON FIRE.

MAKE THE MUMMY BREAD DRINK THE BOG BEER FUCK IT, MAKE CORPSE YOGURT AND DOOM PICKLES AND MONSTROUS MARMITE NOTHING MATTERS ANYMORE

wut

People are now debating what the proper earring placement is.

This piece asks the question & answers it: a massive, generational, unforgivable failure of journalism.

It’s important to take a beat & say it out loud. This is the president of the United States. How undignified. How diminishing of our country. You wouldn’t let your kids talk like this, so why are you willing to tolerate it from the leader of your country?

There is no world in which this is okay.     Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito did not recuse himself from cases involving Trump’s Treasury Department while his own son was secretly working there as a political appointee and attorney. 🧵

ICE broke the finger of a Reuters photojournalist today. After two days of drenching people in pepper spray, people have been adding more and more layers of protection, rendering the spray useless and leading to ICE using their short metal batons that they swing with full force.

Corruption in plain sight. It will take a decade to fix this debacle. #TrumpCorruption

impartial scientific research is the enemy of despotism and so naturally vought wants to destroy it

“What would illiberal hegemony look like?” Well

Amid graduation ceremonies across the United States, many colleges are attempting to silence pro-Palestine speech at the commemorations. Students and faculty are resisting the censorship and often organizing alternative events. https://www.democracynow.org/2026/5/21/peoples_convocation_palestine

it's actually true that you cannot fund good government entirely by taxing the rich, which is why slopulist proposals to gut the tax base are a bad idea but taxing the rich at punitive levels is a goal in and of itself, billionaires are simply too dangerous to public policy to exist

No money for pediatric cancer research but there's $1.7 billion for people who beat cops and smeared feces on the walls of the US Capitol.

Your tax dollars paid for this event freedom250.org/celebration/...

People seem legitimately surprised that Trump is using his tweets to pump stock he owns and buying or selling based off of confidential information he receives as POTUS. Grifting is his entire personality. Why is anyone shocked?

The maker of jets that crashed and killed everyone onboard and the carmaker fined tens of millions for mishandled recalls have suddenly decided to sponsor their top regulator's reality show purely for the love of the open road www.wsj.com/business/boe...

These gems of humanity are what the most powerful people in the country want to destroy. It's one of their highest priorities that's received among the most concerted efforts of this constantly distracted regime

This is the horror cherry on top of the egregious fraud, waste, and abuse sundae. DOGE fired the people who send NIH money to research labs—which is a complicated process—so now even more labs are going to go under. All while Jay Bhattacharya goes on a podcast and says no NIH funding was cut.

Powerful stat that people should use

Russian ship that sank near Spain may have been carrying nuclear reactors to North Korea

Should be us. This is the price of the corrupt Trump administration decision to cede this entire industry to the Chinese, just for added gasoline sales for his big fossil fuel donors. Corruption has a cost. American industries will pay.

Maybe there’s a perfectly innocent explanation for why Fox News was waiting outside a Democratic lawmaker’s office before the FBI raid. But if this happened under a Democratic president, MAGA would already be screaming “deep state” and “weaponization.” Americans should be very alarmed.

Israeli soldier desecrates statue of Virgin Mary in southern Lebanon https://aje.news/l7pbvh

China's big bets: Solar power, high-speed rail, inexpensive high-quality EVs. US big bets: Bomb Iran, protect domestic car industry, dismantle wind power, the Freedom to Drive initiative. Who do you think is making the smarter bets?

I think it’s stupid that we don’t spell them “orderbs” at this point. Hors d'oeuvres? In this economy? No. We have orderbs.

This ruling amounts to a nationwide abortion ban. Mifepristone is safe, full stop. This isn’t about science and protecting women, it’s a calculated plot by Republicans obsessed with controlling the private health care decisions of women in America.

oh god!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Hillary was right about everything.

Why are people surprised? It's a rigged game. www.ms.now/news/news-an...

EXCLUSIVE: Newly obtained documents show a clear paper trail of Trump administration officials planning to share sensitive voter data with an outside political group trying to overturn elections, as part of a secret agreement. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

MAGA heads will explode. youtu.be/vdH7ZKsGVcw?...

2 billion in taxpayer money to make our country weaker and dirtier

Reagan actually got shot at the same hotel and never asked for a ballroom