PSA: Trump, Republicans, their megadonors (+ some corporate Dems) need you to believe any limit to the greed of the ultra-rich means societal collapse. That lie is a cover story as they hollow out the middle class. The people they vilify are the good guys. Hope this helps.

It seems the USA's 'manifest destiny' is to elect the very worst people among them and destroy the democracy they swore to defend.

Republicans will NOT make a billionaire contribute to the basic needs of the community BUT they will make the whole community bear the electrical, water, and building costs of a data center owned by a billionaire.

Vote Democratic Socialism, health care, social security, child care, education funding, gender and racial equality etc etc and etc.

How is it the power grid couldn’t handle electric cars but it will be fine with all these data centers?

petebuttigieg.substack.com/p/a-terrible... I am a reasonable man. I try to keep as calm and low-key as possible. But I cannot describe the mix of rage and sadness that I feel at the idea that someone brought our children into this. They are four years old. Four.

heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/june-27-2026 The profligate use of our tax dollars for whatever Trump and his cronies want while the American people suffer is at least as representative of Trump’s reign as is the peeling, algae-filled, militarily guarded Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool.

🧑‍🌾 UPDATE: “The Supreme Court blocked thousands of lawsuits over the weedkiller Roundup, ruling the manufacturer can't be sued for failing to warn the popular product might cause cancer.” www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...

John Roberts' Constitution forbids any attempt to proactively ameliorate racial discrimination and racial inequality, but permits open racial discrimination as long as there is a facially neutral explanation available, even if it isn't remotely plausible. This, my friends, is "Colorblindness."

Make Susan Collins eat those words at the ballot.

NEW: This week, the legal battle over Trump’s crackdown on mail voting is heating up, as DHS confirmed the 1st phase of its national mail voter list will be complete by the end of the month. Meanwhile, the GOP is pushing states to purge during the 90-day "quiet period," which should be unlawful.

heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/june-20-2026 The pattern Walz identified with regard to the pool applies also to Trump’s debacle in Iran. And not only is the reflecting pool defying his narrative, so are Iran and Israel.

An anti-CRT movement targeted an accomplished educator — driving her out of two Georgia school districts. The mission began inside a golf community clubhouse on a Sunday afternoon, where parents were coached on how to land a Fox News appearance. (Published 2022)

The peace deal in Trump's disastrous war of choice in Iran is falling apart, but don't worry, Americans, he's busy tweeting about rebranding ICE, polling people on whether "dumocrats" or "dumbocrats" is a better zinger, and spewing conspiracy theories about the reflecting pool.

If you havent been following the DOGE files, AltFDA has been updating this thread daily (I think?) with more and more info. Look at the lists in this thread and realize the scope and scale of getting rid of people dedicated to their job and mission. The scope is staggering 💔

www.dailykos.com/stories/2026... For the life of me, I can’t recall a single instance of a trans or gay service member rendering a hundred and sixty of his fellow servicemen and women incapacitated or sick.

www.washingtonexaminer.com/premium/4615... “There will be no deal with Iran other than unconditional surrender,’ wrote Donald Trump on March 6. He did not specify which country he was referring to.”

heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/june-19-2026 One hundred and sixty-one years after Juneteenth was established, we are in danger of losing the new nation that it celebrated—one that would honor the equality of all Americans.

Joe Oltmann, MAGA podcaster and close friend of Colorado GOP Gov candidate Scott Bottoms, said today: “I think violence is going to be necessary… I think we know who our targets are. And there are targets.”

Dead people have more rights than women.

They are working on giving personhood rights to fetuses. Fetuses will have more rights than their mothers.

Nearly $2M of dark money has flooded into Democratic statehouse primaries in Colorado | The Colorado Sun coloradosun.com/2026/06/18/d...

emptywheel.net/2026/06/16/d... Much of it is ridiculous and fascist. But given the way conspiracy indictments work, given the abundance of comms FBI collected and likely at least a handful of cooperating witnesses, it is not to be taken lightly.

New in PN: Trump's losing fight against the green energy revolution "He can’t bring back coal, which will wind up as a niche energy source. He can’t make EVs illegal or stop people from buying them as the cars get more appealing, & pretending batteries don't exist won't stop the explosion of solar"

Here’s Glenn Greenwald pointing out Trump’s “deal” is no better than what Obama had in place without a costly deadly war no matter what MAGA says — and reminding us @washingtonpost helped him sell his war by pretending this was ever about helping Iranians🤥