In countries that have successfully reversed democratic backsliding in recent years—from Poland in 2023 to Hungary in 2026—opposition movements made prosecuting those who have broken laws a central campaign issue.

Since Trump’s 2017 tax law cut the corporate tax rate, America's biggest corporations have spent $4.8 trillion on stock buybacks. The top 10 corporations who bought back the most stock spent FIVE TIMES more on stock buybacks than they paid in taxes. This blew my mind.

No evidence of a nefarious bioweapons plot has emerged. The contracted studies cited by Tulsi Gabbard have not been covered up nor knowingly withheld. Our director of national intelligence is once again peddling Russian propaganda. The question is, why?

I love it when reporters do their job and use facts to correct lies from Trump administration members in real time.

Some incredible sights today in Moscow.

Think about that.

Here's a fun fact about Elon Musk: in 2020, his (nominal) net worth was $20b, and today it's $1t (nominally). But *that's* not the fun fact; *this* is: everything he's done since 2020 was a flop. 1/

A) This a properly brilliant piece of investigative journalism by BBC & @hopenot.bsky.social Huge kudos to all involved for doing the job the UK police & CPS failed to do: naming the alleged spymaster & clearly showing Kremlin’s role. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The entire Uruguay World Cup team got pulled up on the side of the road and investigated by immigration. Sniffer dogs, luggage ripped open. Trump America is a global embarrassment.

SafeGraph is data broker that collects location data and is used in the US Backed by In-Q-tel Peter Thiel PRINCE TURKI Prince Turki al-Faisal is the former Saudi intelligence chief. He ran the GID from 1977 to 2001, resigning 10 days before the September 11 attacks. www.surveillancewatch.io

SCOOP: So remember Dialog, Peter Thiel's private society that doesn't have a public website and no public list of members? I (along with a number of other journalists) have just been tipped off that embedded in the code of their closed off website there IS what seems to be a list of some members.

Tad late to the news but russia tried to murder the PM of United Kingdom? Might we finally start adding to the list of terrorist states? Or is success necessary? www.bbc.com/news/article...

Republicans in Congress just authorized $70 billion of federal money to a federal agency run by a guy who has a stake in a company that sells a lethal drug at gas stations, and he has sought to make it harder for the government to regulate said drug, while also sending ICE agents to terrorize people

While his mountain of horrible personal conduct could fill multiple books, one fact in particular stands out: A year ago, Musk’s actions directly led to the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people. He did it knowingly. And, worse — gleefully. Read more: www.theverge.com/tech/949259/...

More and more Michiganders are struggling because of the decisions of this president who's throwing himself a birthday party. It just rings 'let them eat cake,' when people are saying, 'let me buy gas.'

Nights aren't cooling like they used to in the continental U.S. a century ago. The minimums have risen more than the maxes in a century, although in the shorter term avg of the last 40 years the maxes have jumped ahead. It's a death race of heat.

I am of the opinion that the world would be a better place for everyone if Hitler-salute-throwing white nationalist trillionaire accelerationists with unhealthy ketamine habits wielded as little influence as possible.

In January, Zohran Mamdani took action against bankrupt landlord Pinnacle, which was responsible for over 5,000 housing violations. Thanks to his intervention, Pinnacle's new owners have forgiven millions in tenants' back rent. This is what governing for the people looks like.

One year ago, Melissa Hortman; her husband Mark; and their fog Gilbert were assassinated in a politically motivated attack.

If you paid, say, $44 billion to buy a riot-promoting machine, I doubt a fine would be much of a disincentive

Cops are great

you have been visited by the Cool Baby!!! repost for good luck

Musk is trying out an old Russian hybrid warfare technique Putin perfected over the past 20yrs: triggering civil war at the push of a button. Musk, like Putin, wants to use humans like toys to fight deadly battles for his amusement. Estonia 2007-->Belfast 2026 www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Ahem

And too often we see this as putting the U.S. at a disadvantage, as if some other country will do all the research instead. Much of it won’t get done. It’s planetary loss.

this is correct. police *especially* control blue cities. minneapolis, nyc, los angeles, dallas, houston, detriot, baltimore, etc etc

Elon Musk once vowed to use his obscene wealth-amassed in part by US government subsidies-to combat poverty Instead, he cut aid for starving kids, halted cancer research, and-days ago-inspired a pogrom All while paying next to nothing in taxes-as Americans can’t afford food or rent TAX THE RICH

"Abundance adherents often bristle at the suggestion that the project is orchestrated by Silicon Valley elites. But as the leaked documents demonstrate, Rosen and his colleagues clearly view it as such, and even frequently use the word “elite” by choice." lol

Something I found frustrating this week is Americans attributing the vile racism we saw this week to Belfast, not to small groups of bigots in Belfast

Local children are being used as props in Orange Caligula’s human cockfight.🧵

The world’s first trillionaire took away our Ebola response capacity, gave us screwworms, hollowed out our government so he could pay less taxes, and condemned millions of the world’s most vulnerable people to death.

Elon Musk Became a Trillionaire After Taking a Chainsaw to Federal Workers, the Poor, and the Sick

Two years ago, writer Bob Lord warned us that America's oligarchic policies would create a trillionaire someday. That day is today. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

“It didn’t matter that we were press.” — Photojournalist Ian Peters, forced back by officers in riot gear while covering an immigration protest in Newark, New Jersey, on May 31. Later, police chased him and another photojournalist to their cars.

When OG Anunoby was 8, he begged his father, a finance professor, for a basketball hoop. Dr. Anunoby asked his son what sort of return he expected on his investment. OG's pitch: buy it, and I'll practice every single day. 20 years later, the returns are still compounding. (via Dovi Safier) #NBA

“In one instance, according to the whistleblower, an inmate who trains puppies was instructed to give one to Maxwell for a period of time so she could ‘play with the puppy, even though neither inmates nor staff are ordinarily allowed to pet the service dogs in training.’” people.com/ghislaine-ma...

“A group of Jeffrey Epstein survivors came out in opposition to Todd Blanche’s nomination as President Donald Trump’s permanent attorney general, citing his participation in secret White House meetings on how to contain the political fallout from the Epstein files.” www.cnn.com/2026/06/11/p...

“What is now happening in the US does remind me of the way German science was destroyed by its Nazi government in the 1930s, well before the start of the Second World War.” History rhymes in front of our eyes. 🧪 www.the-scientist.com/internationa...

Remember a little while ago when we all found out that a bunch of prominent right-wing influencers were straight-up paid by Russians and everyone just shrugged?

I generally don't like cross-posting from Twitter, but Mike Young absolutely nails how the US wound up with a resurgence of the flesh-eating screwworm decades after it had been eliminated.

Michigan Governor caught on hot mic with Oracle CEO Clay Magouyrk, discussing citizen opposition to AI data centers, bragging how she ignores their concerns: “We’re used to people saying 'f*ck no,' & doing it anyway.”🇺🇸

Cover-up American colloquial [kuhv-er-uhp] / ˈkʌv ərˌʌp / Any action, stratagem, or other means of concealing or preventing investigation or exposure. i.e., They gathered in the Situation Room to scheme ideas for their Trump-Epstein Files cover-up.

“The Trump administration's goal is not to make the world think none of this is happening, or to make the world think what's happening is fine. It's to show that nobody can stop it.” @redford.bsky.social defector.com/the-state-of...

Too bad America has a bunch of conspiracist kooks in charge who would rather we all pay more to embrace coal and oil than, I dunno, believe in science

“When I read about the dismantling of 60 Minutes, it reminded me of that bizarre limbo period of 2019 at Deadspin, where we all knew the end was coming, while simultaneously hoping that it never would.” defector.com/60-minutes-w...

Just to be clear folks, undocumented immigrants pay their Social Security percentage on wages earned in the U.S., but they cannot collect the benefits. THAT is how our SS fund is decreased by Trump's policies, and why those who think otherwise might be called stupid.

Musk functionally ran the US government for 6 months last year and managed to: increase spending, slash services, kill 100,000s, and help nurture both Ebola & Screwworms. Yet somehow no one mentions this when they talk about the company he is going to take public this week.