Gifting this great piece from 2021 in The Atlantic by @radiofreetom.bsky.social

Trump is allegedly running a pay-for-pardon scheme. It's corruption at its finest. We won't let Trump rig our justice system for the rich, powerful, and Trump-loyal. Equal justice under law.

Danny Glover Reveals Alzheimer’s Disease Diagnosis “I can live with [the diagnosis], in a sense,” Glover said. More ↓

In an order released by SCOTUS we learned the Court will hear a case on whether semi-automatic weapons bans are constitutional. Read here for my assessment of how bad this is for people who are already scared every time the send their kids off to school. joycevance.substack.com/p/beyond-the...

Every year, someone on social media calls me a hypocrite because I criticize Shark Week’s harmful nonsense while still taking Discovery’s money and appearing on Shark Week shows. Sick burn bro. Except I have never once appeared on a Shark Week show. Not once ever.

Wow -- one of the climbers atop the Empire State Building appears to have gotten down on one knee and proposed to the other

"FBI Director Kash Patel failed to properly disclose a six-figure purchase of stock in a bitcoin-fueled business intelligence and mobile software company that has contracted with the Department of Justice." @davelevinthal.com for @notus.com

US Tries To Talk Iran Out Of Tolls As Talks Resume In Doha – Axios www.axios.com/2026/07/01/i...

DECLARATION OF EMERGENCY AND AUTHORIZATION FOR DUTY FREE IMPORTATION OF PHOSPHATE FERTILIZER FROM MOROCCO "Currently, United States production of phosphate fertilizer is insufficient to support domestic agricultural food production after accounting for exports" www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

so will every woman now have to pee in a cup at airports?

We just got Trump’s financial disclosures. Trump made $2.2 billion in his first year as president. While costs are going up for you, he’s cashing in.

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt's old congressional campaign still owns a bunch of creditors a ton of money, reports @taylorgiorno.bsky.social of @notus.com www.notus.org/campaigns/ka...

I've decided to compile a definitive thread of photos of the best goats I've photographed during my walks in the countryside, together with supporting biographical information. I will put the vital story associated with each goat in the alt text, since some of it is a little long to fit in a post.

"It's not clear why we need these new cities." I talked to @moreperfectunion.bsky.social about Silicon Valley's push to replace government with billionaire-run city-states. The Network State cult: From Próspera to Gaza to California Forever. 224K views in a day! www.youtube.com/watch?v=6iLf...

10 years ago, Congress put Puerto Rico's finances under an unelected fiscal board that put Wall Street first. Now Trump is firing its members and opening the door for even more of his Wall Street buddies. It’s time for Puerto Rico to have the right to determine its own future.

Here’s what the father of Laken Riley said about sleazy politicians like Lawler invoking her name “I think it's being used politically to get those votes. It makes me angry. I feel like, you know, they're just using my daughter’s name for that. And she was much better than that”

..... aha. yes. i see. bsky.app/profile/tbon...

In Denver, a 29-year-old democratic socialist/Ethiopian immigrant just defeated a 15-term progressive congresswoman. coloradosun.com/2026/06/30/c...

i just hope everyone involved here has fun www.btcpolicy.org/articles/for...

The SCOTUS headlines tell you who won and lost. They don’t always tell you what the decisions will mean. Here’s my look at where we stand after the Court’s final day of issuing opinions in briefed & argued cases. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

If there’s one thing a Christian nation cannot tolerate, it’s a pregnant woman on the road.

Huh you mean like literally a dozen journalists were writing about was… real? Wow. Good thing we voted for the fucking fascist.

Trump laughing all the way to the crypto bank 💫 edition.cnn.com/2026/06/30/p...

Do not enter the freedom truck. I REPEAT: DO NOT ENTER THE FREEDOM TRUCK!

How old were you when you learned that many populations of animals are cut off from one another and from suitable habitats by our highways? I remember feeling very stupid when I learned this in my twenties; I've since found out it's one of those blindingly obvious facts that many people don't know.

Yet another bad apple. The barrel is full of only outstanding apples. We just keep running into the bad ones and manage to film their extremely rare instances of bad behavior 🙄🙄🙄

Nothing about this sounds fascist.

Leonard Leo is a lawyer, but he's never argued a case in court. He's never held elected office. But for years he rebuilt the American legal system, resulting in the Supreme Court's right-wing supermajority. (Published Oct. 2023)

I have yet to see reporting on whether Usha Vance’s parents were citizens when she was born. Her parents came to the U.S. in the late 1970s and she was born in 1986 so it’s entirely possible that JD Vance’s own wife benefited from birthright citizenship.

Boggles the mind that the entire world saw ICE execute defenseless people in the street and somehow there are still sitting Democrats who have a wide open flank on abolishing the agency

"The states and federal government accused Cal-Maine Foods, Versova and Hickman’s Egg Ranch of a behind-the-scenes arrangement to “artificially inflate the daily price quotations for eggs” between June 2022 and March 2025" so basically most of the biden presidency how weird

They want to convince their followers that we are un-American, in the wrong country. But it’s them. THEY are in the wrong country. Their goals, plans, ideology are no less than an insurrection against the Second Founding - the constitutional framework for our country created after the Civil War.

i just did a lot of work to figure out that Troy Downing has a beard now

Being American has little to do with how long your family has been in America. JD Vance disagrees, but, then, 1 in 6 immigrants have been here longer than him. www.ctinsider.com/columnist/ar...

Of course, this is what's happening on the 4th. Of course.

>having friends is now ‘ultimate biohack’ please just be normal

shitty weather forecasts? blame elon and his merry band of dipshits because they gutted NOAA on the basis of “lol who needs to measure climate anyway” everything bad these days seem to be his fault, trump’s fault, or both

This is REALLY important. “Over 50% of Americans say climate change is a serious threat; only 10% think their compatriots feel the same That perception gap on the issue is among the highest in the world, per a new Gallup poll.” They want you to think you’re alone. You’re not. #ClimateCrisis

"We gotta put a big bed sheet over the Statue of Liberty"

Breaking: E. Jean Carroll moved to the collect $5,779,783 from the bond Trump deposited in the court's registry, since that verdict reached the "end of the line" at SCOTUS. Trump's lawyers are still trying to delay, per the filing.

Divider And today, RFK Jr. single-handedly laid off many FDA meat processing inspectors and destroyed perception of American food safety www.forbes.com/sites/louisb...

She was fired for writing "world is better off without (Charlie Kirk) in it" in a reply to a private Facebook post. Fired! Now she gets nearly $2 mil but won't get her job back. www.knoxnews.com/story/news/e...

In Texas, an ICE goon aggressively grabbed a US citizen simply because they were present. The goon then threw the woman’s phone.

me talking to magically resurrected founding father: and so sir you can see how the supreme court has become a deeply illegitimate institution that threatens the very republic you created founding father: there are *how many* papists on it???

the egg price thing under biden was all fake lol

JD Vance says his faith makes him averse to “low wage foreigners”

In May 2025, health inspectors found 18 health violations at Trump Bedminister and scored it 32/100—the second lowest score in the county that month. It made him $37.6 million that year. (p.858)

JFC. Criminally stupid. People could be killed bc of this.

This is bone-chilling. A conservative hedge fund manager wants to require little girls to pass genital inspections for their “safety.” And it’s only for girls’ sports. There’s a clear link between transphobia and child sexual abuse.