I'm glad law enforcement moved so swiftly on this. michiganadvance.com/2026/06/30/s...

This feels like a lot to give up for a rental, even someone as great (when healthy) as Kawhi. open.substack.com/pub/justinru...

“I’m just telling you what I heard from the Department of War.”

What @kovarsky.bsky.social said in this little thread.

Josh Marshall; gift link. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/the-b...

Great statement from @rweingarten.bsky.social

Vought's OMB has been sitting on billions of dollars of congressionally appropriated funds, refusing to apportion and send them out into the agencies in a timely manner — including for life-saving programs.

And here's a similar one from the DNC. SCOTUS didn't "emphatically reject" the anti-birthright arguments. It barely did, by the skin of its teeth.

Statements from Dems like this one make it harder to press for Supreme Court reform. This ruling was a near-disaster and shows how unhinged SCOTUS has become—now just one vote away from overturning the 14th Amendment. But a sitting senator says they "applaud" the ruling.

Jackson's concurring opinion is a tour de force -- a history lesson and a call to arms.

democrats have a choice. they can join james carville and bill maher and tell transgender americans they are less than. or they can be patriotic americans and reaffirm that we are all created equal. there is no middle ground.

New England Journal of Medicine editorial board warns OMB proposal could sideline peer review in federal research funding., by @jeremyfaust.bsky.social : helpful resources on how to comment in the article. open.substack.com/pub/insideme...

KBJ is the best.

Not just three dissenting votes. Kavanaugh would also side with Trump on the constitutional issue. Bonkers.

constitutional birthright citizenship survives by 1 vote. and to think people were worried about this beautiful institution.

A spokesperson for U.S. Health and Human Services confirmed that the agency is canceling 53 out of 67 grants, under the Teen Pregnancy Prevention Program, affecting grantees in more than two dozen states, including West Virginia, reports @kelciemmorris.bsky.social.

Clarence Thomas's concurring opinion in the trans sports ban case in West Virginia contains some of the ugliest transphobic stuff I have ever seen in a legal opinion. Straight-up gleeful. Vile man. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...

"America’s extreme right wing is by far the country’s big problem, and it’s hard to address that problem when powerful elites insist that the trouble is with “both sides.”" newrepublic.com/article/2125...

My annual re-watching of 1776 is going to hit harder this year.

This seems important and very plausible. open.substack.com/pub/gelliott...

The air conditioning moralism is a sideshow. Europe didn’t use to face these conditions. They are new. Of course it takes time and money to realize it’s not a fluke and start to rebuild a whole country. But it’s imperative, people are dying.

You may have heard about the OMB rule change that will put politics over federal grants. However bad you think it is? It's probably worse. Thanks to @theverge.com for letting me report this one out. There is still time to comment. bit.ly/4v2X4nQ

Dude.

This is just a fantastic post (and a fantastic newsletter altogether).

Some Thoughts on a Possible Big Primary Upset(s) in Colorado talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/some-...

Our tax dollars being stolen in order to make our electricity more expensive. Times reports it as "Trump would pay" and "struck deal"

for the bicentennial we had Dylan’s Rolling Thunder Revue and now Trump just puts some bleachers out in the sun and Fox pretends it’s highway 61

I don’t have much to say about Slaughter, and honestly I think we do too much justice to the Roberts Court by treating its opinions like serious judicial reasoning. But I will say that it’s striking how openly the court treats congressional oversight as somehow antithetical to democratic government

Congress cannot ‘commandeer’ these agencies because they do not belong to the Executive - it creates and funds them, and it can destroy them!

Gorsuch's Slaughter concurrence iwould be more persuasive if he (a) didn't repeatedly rely on tendentious descriptions of his opponents' arguments and (b) didn't laughably claim the mantle of Franklin Delano Roosevelt for what he acknowledges is a project of dismantling the administrative state.

Compare Alito and Barrett's rejection of reliance on the Black Codes in Wolford last week.

Humphrey's Executor is dead and the president can fire anyone in the executive branch at will but NOT Federal Reserve governors is really a parody of the difference between the money power and everything else in America

Humphrey's, executed.

The Fifth Circuit opinion was one of the dumbest things I've ever read. The fact that it was reversed by *just* a 5-4 majority is breathtaking.

Absolutely disgraceful. Robert Kennedy owns all of this. Every sick and dead child is on Robert Kennedy.

Yeah, the headlines will focus on Trump's loss in the E. Jean Carroll case, but this is a lot more important for our democracy./

And I think this from @peterbeinart.bsky.social is important context, without undermining the point: open.substack.com/pub/peterbei...

Some of the Left does have a genuine destructive problem conflating the war crimes and human rights violations of the Israeli state with Jewish people -- millions of whom are sickened and enraged by Israel's crimes against humanity financed by U.S. tax dollars.

This piece is really good on how to design industrial policy to promote competition. lpeproject.org/blog/the-dil...

and will do NOTHING about it and still have his state police and local police assist ICE when they begin their ethnic cleansing in Ohio

There’s a lot in here that is interesting and provocative, some of which even seems to me right. But I think the overall argument is wrong, wrong, wrong. www.liberalcurrents.com/for-a-libera...

It's Sunday evening, so we need a new announcement of a cease fire in time for the markets to open tomorrow morning. www.axios.com/2026/06/28/u...

Fits with the three stories they run every day: 1. Trump is exciting and powerful, a force of nature 2. Dems are feckless and silly 3. Oh here is an article with more research than a masters thesis about the consequences of what Republicans are doing.

It me.

good weekend to explore volunteering for a campaign or democratic-aligned GOTV orgs. reserving even just a few hours one day per week can make a big difference. i’m going to be volunteering for Ossoff and KLB in GA. what are y’all planning on or already doing?

They keep screaming at us that they intend to steal the election. I know lots of folks on the Dem side are working against that goal, and I think the countermeasures will be effective, but we all need to be in this fight. Literally nothing is more urgent for our democracy.

The usual excellent summary of the week by @leahlitman.bsky.social. Gets right to the point of the implications of this court's opinions about your rights. Add @strictscrutiny.bsky.social to your podcast diet! www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

New Reporting Raises Fresh Red Flags About RFK, Jr.’s Vaccine Lies talkingpointsmemo.com/morning-memo...

Soooo, the Regime has just informed state and local health departments that they have days to “agree” to Trump and RFK Jr.’s policies or, it is implied, lose funding for certain programs. And the only programs that got the notice were related to immunizations, HIV, hepatitis and tobacco.