Duke Energy is the latest utility to agree to cancel its offshore wind lease under a deal with the Trump administration. In exchange, the Interior Department will provide nearly $129 million, bringing the total spent on these lease buyouts to approximately $2.7 billion.

Republicans: we want to kill millions of African children, turn the presidency into a monarchy, and salt the earth with the tears of migrant children. Democrats: hey, let's make sure tweens can't access Instagram.

Trump has never had to account to the public for his hoarding of classified documents at Mar-a-Lago. Maybe a federal appeals court in Miami can do something about it. New from me about the outrageous suppression of the special counsel’s report. (Gift link.) www.nytimes.com/2026/06/29/o...

The Trump administration inked a $1.6 billion deal for a U.S. company to mine tungsten in Kazakhstan. The company is linked to Trump’s sons & Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick’s sons, who will be personally enriched by their fathers’ policy decisions. The corruption is breathtaking.

Iran, Teheran, Dubai, Kinahan Cartel connection. iransofaraway.substack.com/p/the-kinaha...

The Trump Crime Family’s corruption is so intense I could post one of these a day.

Federal prosecutors at a hearing today are seeking a sentence of more than 30 years for Miles Guo, who was convicted 2 years ago of a massive fraud that involved a political movement he built with Steve Bannon and other Trump allies like Peter Navarro. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

This is bleak. I have said this many times before, but our system of near-categorical civil immunity for government officials enables this despotic bullshit. If the people who were involved in delivering this shameful threat had to be concerned about losing their houses, they’d think twice.

‘Solidarity of the Shaken People’ Seeking solutions to America’s troubles, I turn to Prague in 1977 — to the text of Charter 77, a human rights manifesto that exposed violent oppression and united dissidents. Intro by Alex Alvarova www.bettedangerous.com/p/solidarity...

Nearly 400 local newspapers sue OpenAI, Microsoft over alleged copyright theft newjerseyglobe.com/media/nearly...

Jared Kushner wants Albania's protected wetlands. The government obliged. Protesters said no. 29 days later, they're still saying no — with flamingo cutouts and flags, in the streets, every single night. Europe is watching. Is anyone else?

Iran, Teheran, Dubai, Kinahan Cartel connection. iransofaraway.substack.com/p/the-kinaha...

(🧵) Unlike the NYT and Washington Post, this journalist corrects prior erroneous reporting. Events in the Strait of Hormuz moved so quickly this week that PROOF must clarify what did or did not occur. Its coverage was 100% more accurate than the Times and Post, but still flawed.

🚨MORE OF THIS: Gov. JB Pritzker humiliates Donald Trump on LIVE TV: Pritzker: "Donald Trump is a cheater. He cheats on his wives. He cheats at golf. And now he's trying to cheat the American people out of their votes.” DAMN.

Patiently waiting for the candidate police to notice that the GOP nominee for #NY21 threatened to slit the throat of the Muslim mayor of NYC for being a terrorist and a demon www.youtube.com/watch?v=JycN...

"Mistakenly, we thought that by just introducing artificial intelligence and ingesting the design requirements that we had, that that would produce a high-quality product." Holy cow, Ford bought the AI hype, believing they could go "hey computer, make me a good car" and it would.

Kalshi gave Donald Trump Jr. $300K in equity after making him a strategic advisor last year. Since then, Kalshi’s valuation has exploded by 1000%. Meanwhile, Trump’s regime has stifled state efforts to regulate prediction markets and crack down on insider trading. Always follow the money.

The absolute humility and generosity of Zelenskyy. What does he say to Caolan Robertson when giving him his much deserved award? “Don’t forget us” Whoever could!

BREAKING: Judge Sullivan has GRANTED Katie Phang's preliminary injunction concluding she has standing, has been harmed, and will likely succeed on the merits of her case demanding the full release of the Epstein files. Blanche has until 7/2 to respond. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Well, at least the BBC is covering this.

Wow. Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT) floor speech on Trump Admin. corruption has now received 1 million views He opens the remarks by arguing that Trump has turned the White House into a 24/7 corruption operation www.youtube.com/watch?v=DaQ_...

"Farage’s racial account of school failure performs a precise political function: it directs working-class anger towards minorities and away from a programme whose primary beneficiaries are Reform’s donors." ✍️ @nafeez.bsky.social bylinetimes.com/2026/06/26/h...

The way I've gotten this across in talks to US audiences is to explain that by the time the Battle of Gettysburg was fought... ...the London Underground had already been open for six months.

Don't threaten us with a good time. 😎

🚨BREAKING: Federal court REJECTS Department of Justice lawsuit to gain access to Pennsylvania voter records. Another victory for Elias Law Group and its clients. Another defeat for DOJ. DOJ is now 0-10. 👀 ELG remains undefeated! 🗳️⚖️💪 www.democracydocket.com/cases/pennsy...

🚨 ICE agents ATTACK, throwing protesters to the ground, @jordanchariton.bsky.social says he saw ICE "shoot someone point blank in the face" with a pepper ball! LIVE NOW BELOW

Fox set up a whole-ass news desk for the Great American State Fair and barely anybody showed up. ☠️

Ossoff: On Wednesday of this last week he said the war was "Done." And then on Thursday another ship was struck. On Friday the president was bombing again. This is what happens when you send your son-in-law, Jared, to cosplay as a diplomat

🚨"That's a government van, here you can see them driving into protesters who are blocking." - @jordanchariton.bsky.social reports outside Delaney Hall ICE prison LIVE BELOW:

Biden: Trump wants to give your money to the January 6 insurrectionists. My god. These people don't deserve to be compensated. They deserve to be put in jail for a long, long, long time.

Biden: Putting his name on the Kennedy Center. Building an arch in his own honor. Even hiring his own pool guy to fix the reflecting pool. Whoa. What a loser.

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Trump ripped up the walkway between the West Wing and the mansion to replace it with polished African granite carved in Italy. "Paid for by me," he claimed. Except that's not true. Taxpayers paid $689,232, per documents obtained by @michaelscherer.bsky.social www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

I agree with Susan Collins that campaigns should be about the issues, our records, and our vision for Maine’s future. The issue is Senator Collins’ record of funneling taxpayer dollars to her husband’s lobbying firm. My vision is to make that illegal.

Adventures in sane-washing: 1K word article with "obsessed" in the title doesn't address Trump's mental instability, but instead says his "priorities" (not his sanity) are "detached," he is not obsessed, but his "focus" is trained on his obsessions. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/26/u...

Larry Ellison gave $45M to support Trump's reelection in 2024. In return, Trump has given Ellison free rein to build more AI data centers and helped him gobble up companies like Paramount, WBD, and TikTok for his business empire. This is what oligarchy looks like.

What does this say about the voters of America that continue to support and believe this guy?

Germany has successfully engineered a revolutionary transparent solar glass that generates clean electricity while remaining completely see-through from both sides, fundamentally transforming how buildings produce energy. #solarpower #ActOnClimate

Himes: I got a little bit more of an up-close-and-personal look at some of the damage that was done. I’ll tell you what: the Iranians hit our embassies. They hit pretty much all of our military facilities in the area.

Donald Trump is a rapist.

And in related news.👇

I don't respect the president. I don't like him. I won't follow him. I won't listen to him. I hate his fuckin guts.

MAGA regime’s concentration camp Alligator Alcatraz is officially closed down and it was due in large part to the Muccosukee Tribe who played a major role in the fight in getting it shut down. Native Americans continue to go good for this country and humanity.

🧊🛩️ LOADING HUMAN CARGO ⛓️😲 ...in seven seconds 👀

"The Extreme Sentences Handed to Anti-ICE Protesters Should Terrify Us All" 30-100 years! Perhaps the most important and scary story you'll read all week:

Trump claimed a saboteur armed with a box cutter caused a 350-foot gash in the newly renovated Reflecting Pool. But the manufacturer behind the project says the issue was simply "finish coat separation" and makes no mention of vandalism, sabotage, or criminal activity.

Guy with Crusader Tats Suffers Humiliating Defeat at Hands of Islamic Republic emptywheel.net/2026/06/26/g...

I’ll repeat it again for the people in the back, the United States has no Supreme Court, it is now a weapon filled with 6 fascist terrorists used by the orange felon to destroy the country and relieve people of their basic human rights instead of him being in jail for treason.