The October 2024 cover of The Economist:

One year ago.

usa today headline: www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...

"The administration’s partial retreat follows months of opposition by those groups..." www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

some nominal fees are one thing. But even the current fees aren’t nominal. The people should have free and easy access to the edicts of the judges who increasingly run their lives. This is bs.

If you’re as horrified by the fascist regime’s attack on the rights of Haitian immigrants as I am, here’s one way to help. Demand your Senators vote for a bill extending their Temporary Protected Status at this link. The bill already passed the House (with 10 Republicans voting for it)!

We are also the only country without universal healthcare. We are such a backward nation, run by selfish, greedy people who only care about the money they can wring from the system—not us.

I absolutely love this one.

um www.popville.com/2026/06/shot...

Fantastic investigative journalism by @chicagotribune.com's Jonathan Bullington & @adrianaperez.bsky.social on Illinois' ~3,900 abandoned oil & gas wells: Holes left in farm fields that leak soil-killing brine, vent methane, and poison groundwater. And a $160M cleanup tab left for taxpayers. 🧵

I was on a Zoom call with advocates from Springfield and elsewhere in Ohio yesterday afternoon, and it’s absolutely horrifying and inexcusable what this administration is doing to this community and the lie that Sam Alito told to OK this.

In 2023, Jeffrey Goldberg and I wrote, among other things, about Ukrainian plans to liberate Crimea in @theatlantic.com. With road and ferry connections to the peninsula now cut off, they seem suddenly more plausible www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

Fascinating - one of the things that drove the declaration of independence in 1776 was the colonists' fear of being partitioned...like Poland wapo.st/4xODIp1

he is not wrong

The SCOTUS ruling on Haitians and Somalis is a disaster for the country's nursing home industry, which relies heavily on TPS people for essential service jobs. www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

🇺🇦🇳🇴Ukrainian DevDroid and Norwegian Kongsberg Defence & Aerospace signed memorandum of understanding, - Militarnyi This will pave the way for large-scale cooperation for the production of existing and creation of new technological solutions in the field of remotely controlled combat robotic systems.

Drowning prevention starts with you. Here are some water safety rules. ⬇️

James Talarico: These billionaires and their puppets have the wrong state of mind. Their hearts and their dreams are just not big enough. They have been shrinking Texas for 3 decades now. But that ends in this election. In November, we can make Texas big again.

"No other world leader can claim to have survived and thrived on the enmity of both Trump and Vladimir Putin" giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

Republicans cut 25,000 healthcare positions at the VA, making it harder for veterans to get the care they need. That's unacceptable. I'll fight to restore these positions, invest in mental health and PTSD treatment, and modernize the VA so it can deliver the care our veterans deserve.

Idk, maybe it's just me slowly pupating into a beautiful old man butterfly, but when people say things feel "off" now, this is kinda what i'm talking about. this is just really shocking stuff, and if you said it even during the Bush II admin, you would be out of politics, out of a job, etc.

NEWS: Another vessel has reportedly been struck in the Strait of Hormuz. The UK Maritime Trade Operations (UKMTO) says a tanker was hit by an unidentified projectile, damaging the ship’s bridge. All crew members are reported safe, with no environmental damage reported so far.

There was a rule when I was in Trump's first term: if a memo had a staple in it, it was too long for him to read. Life-or-death decisions were cut to one page. Or a half-page. Or less. Bold fonts. BIG pictures. When you’re wondering why everything’s a mess, remember that.

Donald Trump has called our uniformed men and women who died for their country "suckers" and "losers." But the real suckers and losers among us are those who give him (or even pretend to) give him respect.

And it's especially fine not to respect presidents who disrespect their office, their oath of office, the Constitution and laws they swore to uphold, honor, decency, morality, truth, humanity, and everything we should be striving ourselves and teaching our children to respect.

Sen. Ron Wyden: "“This is a severe institutional failure that places hundreds of vulnerable children in immediate jeopardy, effectively erasing them from the protection of U.S. oversight and thrusting them back into danger.” thehill.com/policy/healt...

🚨🚨Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden (D-OR) and 14 others have introduced the Medicare Cost Cap Act — a potentially big step for Democrats toward lowering health care costs for seniors and Americans with disabilities who rely on Medicare.

Wyden says in a letter addressed to Robert F Kennedy Jr that HHS is preparing an ‘unprecedented legal framework’

Who wants to throw a party?

USG is making moves to intervene in Trump's lawsuit against the BBC, bc the BBC is asking for discovery from government agencies that will show that Donald Trump is a criminal. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

"In order to pay for the president’s projects, the parks have had to cancel needed repairs, slash their budgets, and operate with fewer employees," reports @michaelscherer.bsky.social: www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

Exclusive: Trump is using tens of millions in taxpayer money meant for national parks to fund his desired projects, including White House paving stones he had promised to pay for, documents obtained by @michaelscherer.bsky.social show:

NEWS: Wyden Sounds Alarm on Trump Scheme to Deport Hundreds of Children, Endangering Their Safety and Legal Protections

In Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451, the fire department exists to start, not to put out, fire. In a similar vein, Harmeet Dhillon has refashioned DOJ's Civil Rights Division into an entity that perpetrates civil rights abuses rather than battling them.

Trump keeps insisting that America has become the "hottest country" since he took charge. But Pew, Gallup and other polling groups do test the perception of America in the world. And it's clear that Trump has tarnished the American brand like no president before him.

Jonathan Lemire and Russell Berman: “Trump wanted to fix up the Reflecting Pool. What he got instead was an on-the-nose metaphor for the state of his presidency: a no-bid contract to a crony that went over budget, ended in failure, and resulted in the pool being policed by federal troops”

When I approach a passport control officer when entering a foreign country, I always say, "Welcome, but be good!" Thanks to our stable genius leader who knows exactly what passports and asylum are and how to stop hurricanes and algae, I no longer need to do this. 🙏🏼

On Fridays, I write a column called 5 questions, an interview with an expert on a timely issue at the intersection of law & politics. It was a difficult week & last night, I turned to experts on dealing with stress-my Chickens. They offered important insight. joycevance.substack.com/p/five-quest...

Sounds bad!

At least 50 people have died in immigration detention since Trump returned to office, the deadliest period in ICE’s history. Yet Congress continues to give immigration enforcement agencies billions of dollars without requiring reform. bit.ly/4v1sMBH

Shanette Williams, whose daughter Amber Thurman died after being denied abortion care, speaks out against GA abortion ban We have to come together and fight this. We have to look people in the face, in the eye, and tell them that this is wrong. We demand a change.

Great nations invest in education. Great men aren’t threatened by brilliant women.

Gregg gets it correct here. “New OMB grant rule” sounds nerdy. But this is a huge and insane plan. This is the Trump admin writing down their goal of fundamentally changing the relationship between government and society. Funding for everything will be taken over. 1/

A lot of intra-Dem fighting is b/c factions are forced into competing in a single primary electorate. It'd be much healthier if it was openly a matter of each going out and winning its share of seats in accordance w/ its general election votes and then having an inter-party coalition shaped by that.

Every Mamdani scandal is like “he loves his mom and writes very well for a 15 year old”

Brilliant 🔥

TONIGHT: Former USAID official @nenrich.bsky.social talks to @lawrenceodonnell.bsky.social on The #LastWord at 10pm ET.

While it's obvious the next Democratic president should pardon these individuals on day one, the judge who handed down the sentences should also be subjected to a federal investigation to determine if he abused his power and whether it warrants prosecution and potential imprisonment.

"Over 4% inflation is good for you" balances the GOP's Biden era 3% inflation is a catastrophe... bsky.app/profile/atru...