I want to propose a toast to Sergey Brin, who's unintentionally making the case for a billionaire tax better than anyone else could.

MAJOR MILESTONE: Real-world testing just exceeded our solar charging expectations. We harvested over 4.4 kWh of solar energy in a single day. ☀️ Watch the video: youtu.be/dMrEC-nvaDs View the data: aptera.us/solar-data

Solar performance news from Aptera. youtu.be/dMrEC-nvaDs

The answer to the question is an emphatic "YES!" Ohio and the Midwest can see a revival of passenger rail and reap the benefits of the economic impacts it brings. But Ohio needs to rethink and restructure how it funds and develops passenger rail and public transit. www.midstory.org/why-the-midw...

Trump is not going to like this Fox News graphic

I've made the mistake of listening to a lot of Peter Thiel interviews recently to try to understand his worldview. The guy is an absolute third-rate thinker who contradicts himself every 30 seconds and nobody pushes him on it.

NEW: Hours after heated exchange with Trump, Sen Bill Cassidy (R-LA) joins Sen Cory Booker (D-NJ) in memo to Todd Blanche seeking answers about Trump’s sweetheart immunity deal with IRS

@thepoliticsbar.bsky.social @silversmith1.bsky.social @jodyhamilton.bsky.social Hi, guys! I’m forwarding this from Marc Elias and Democracy Docket since it’s time sensitive. We have until July 2 to comment to the USPS on a proposed mail-in ballot rule change. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/mail...

Republicans were FINALLY going to address an affordability issue. Bill passed with overwhelming bipartisan support in Senate and House. Big signing ceremony today. Mike Johnson holding press conference. Then Trump pisses on him while MAGA Mike is hyping that Republicans Deliver!

asked about high housing costs and why he won't sign the housing bill, Trump immediately pivots to ranting about "communists" and says, "this country is not going to have communists" (in other words, rigging elections for Republicans with the SAVE Act is more important to him than housing)

The “Save America Act” says that all states “shall” submit their voter registration lists to the DHS’s “SAVE” voter purge program, which has error rates as high as 14% & relies on data from SSA whose databases were mishandled by DOGE. I include this & other parts of the Act in my 8-point summary. 1/

BREAKING — Judge in Coe vs. Blanche provisionally certifies plaintiffs as a class and grants temporary restraining order against DOJ accessing private medical records of trans youth treated at NYU Langone

ALERT: House Oversight Cmte Democrats to launch probe today into the botched Trump Admin renovation of Reflecting Pool and the no-bid contracts issued

@bellagerencser.bsky.social Congratulations and best wishes on your new job, Bella! Sounds exciting.

‘You can’t make billions without hurting people’: Cory Doctorow on Elon Musk, the AI bubble and bosses’ cruel fantasies

President doesn’t seem to understand how our system works. Also, please note, no American politician in history has provided more aid and comfort to our enemies than Trump.

good to see this. Musk is clearly getting visibly angry at the rising awareness of how many hundreds of thousands of people his DOGE wilding spree has already killed, millions more if this stays in place into the future. Everyone can participate in spreading the word about all the blood on his hands

Russia's stock market is crashing because it has been revealed the central bank printed 5 trillion rubles in fake money to prop up their banks and fill their budget gap.

OK, I’ll bite. 11 US senators launched an investigation into Trump’s Freedom 250 in March, demanding answers from Trump admin over diverting $100M in taxpayer dollars. Watchdog group @peer.org sued the Trump admin over refusing to provide info re diverting $100M taxpayer dollars.

JUST IN: A federal judge in California has issued a nationwide block on ICE's policy of conducting arrests at immigration courthouses. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Thanks to the absence of two Republicans - McConnell and McCormick - the Senate was finally able to pass a war powers resolution Tuesday seeking to block US military action against Iran. apnews.com/article/sena...

How much solar energy can Aptera generate in a single day? Find out this Thursday.

Jack Smith’s report on Donald Trump’s mishandling of classified documents and obstruction of justice is still hidden, thanks to Trump’s personal lawyers taking over the DOJ.

BREAKING: Judge Patrick Schiltz has quashed several DOJ grand jury subpoenas aimed Gov. Tim Walz and Mayor Jacob Frey, saying they were part of a retaliatory effort over their refusal to aid Trumpa dmin immigration enforcement efforts. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

@stephaniemiller.bsky.social @bellagerencser.bsky.social @muellershewrote.com Green Water Solutions CEO John Cafaro reminds me of Dick Tracy villain Alphonse "Big Boy" Caprice, played by Al Pacino.

BREAKING: A federal court just blocked the DOJ from seizing private data on millions of Maryland voters. In 9 out of 9 attempts, courts have prevented the Trump administration from accessing voters' data.

@stephaniemiller.bsky.social @bellagerencser.bsky.social You're welcome! youtu.be/XhIx7xMYYfc

Now do the 2016 US Presidential Election.

Tulsi Gabbard’s election security investigation reportedly found vulnerabilities in some voting machines, but not evidence that votes were changed. Now the report is being delayed, Gabbard is out as DNI, and the public still hasn’t seen the full findings.

Oh. So Tulsi Gabbard wrote a report showing that voting machine vulnerabilities didn’t flip any votes. And now she’s not the DNI anymore. Hmm. www.reuters.com/world/white-...

Don’t put lies in the newspaper. Three tankers crossed the strait yesterday.

Miss Thing deserves to be electorally yeeted into the sun by the good people of South Carolina this November.

EXCLUSIVE: Pulled together, details across four UFC plot affidavits portray a Christian extremist movement. But I tracked how law enforcement's explicit references to Christianity and religion vanished by the time top officials addressed the scheme. And how badly they're missing the target.

Trump is trying to shift the decision about who gets to vote from the states to his administration, using benign sounding rules changes. There’s nothing more important to be aware of right now than this. Details here: substack.com/@joycevance/...

These are kids who went to bed hungry because a politician wanted a talking point.  We must be a country that feeds its children. We used to believe that was the bare minimum. Take care of the kid who is hungry through no fault of their own.

““excessive automation,” using AI to kill jobs without generating significantly lower production costs, while imposing substantial social costs….Who is the customer when the customer is the thing you’ve eliminated?” www.owenmcgrann.com/p/the-dead-e...

This is the same shenanigans the Trump Administration did in their first term to redirect budgeted funds from military housing projects to his pet border fencing project. This is in direct violation of the Constitution's Appropriations Clause, Article I, Section 9.

Plaintiffs in the Kennedy Center renaming case ask judge to order Trump to explain what the tarp/scaffolding is about. "Willfully sabotaging the KC's iconic facade to assauge Defs' vanity or massage broken egos is a clear breach of fiduciary duty." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

In two brief years, America has moved from being a marvel of air-traffic safety to being a total nightmare. Sean Duffy and Elon Musk collectively made it happen, in order to create a mess they could then fix to Musk's advantage. www.ft.com/content/72f5...

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It’s time to call this out. The most unqualified person to ever be SecDef is blocking the promotions of high level people for racial and gender reasons not related to their experience or merit. That makes him a person with racist and sexist issues - and a hack who weakens our armed forces.

“We have now handed Iran de facto control over the strait—a weapon more powerful than any nuke.” www.dailykos.com/stories/2026...

@thepoliticsbar.bsky.social @silversmith1.bsky.social @jodyhamilton.bsky.social Did Donald’s advisers allow him to drive the economy, the military, and global reputation into a ditch because they trusted his judgement, or, did they treat Donald as a POTUS in-name-only and this was their best effort?

Five years ago, thanks to the advocacy of Opal Lee, Juneteenth became a federal holiday. Today, we reflect on our nation’s journey toward freedom—and commit ourselves to the fight for true equality and justice for all.

@stephaniemiller.bsky.social @bellagerencser.bsky.social The whole District of Columbia is gonna need a smudging after Donald leaves.

@stephaniemiller.bsky.social @bellagerencser.bsky.social We laughingly call Trump “the Green President” because of the Reflecting Pond debacle, but 90% of new energy capacity added in the U.S. last year came from clean sources, despite his pro-fossil-fuel policies. www.wri.org/insights/cle...

On the state of the Russo-Ukrainian war — very sound and in accord with what I see. By @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

“The writer’s role is to be a menacer of the public’s conscience. He must have a position, a point of view. He must see the arts as a vehicle of social criticism and he must focus on the issues of his time.” - Rod Serling www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture...

BREAKING: Vice President JD Vance has CANCELLED his trip to Switzerland tonight for talks with Iran

NEWS: Janeese Lewis George has declared victory in D.C.'s mayoral race. She bested her former council colleague Kenyan McDuffie by double digits, crowning a wave of progressive wins in the local primary, @samdelgado.bsky.social and @curiouskurz.bsky.social report: