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NY Tmes exec editor Joe Kahn said in 2024 that the issue of democracy's survival was not a top priority in his newsroom's coverage. Now Trump is sending federal agents to NYT reporters' homes to deliver subpoenas over coverage he doesn't like. I wonder if democracy is a priority for Joe now.

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I spoke with Mitch McConnell for 20 minutes this morning about removing excessive spending in American politics. McConnell agreed money isn't speech. He supports an independent Federal Elections Commission, that has more commissioners.

Oh shit. That 911 call. No wonder there's a public clamor. www.wlwt.com/article/mitc...

Le Pen will run for president of France despite embezzlement conviction www.politico.eu/article/mari...

Republicans have always shown notable unity and persistence on public statements to and through the press. www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...

I feel ancient: I donated to Sara Gideon's Senate campaign for Maine in 2020. Yes, Dems need to win all the elections. Mainers are going to do what they want.

neither canadian leaders nor the canadian people will ever trust the united states again and they absolutely shouldn’t

that boy might already be in the ground

“.. Members of the group Patriot Front ride the metro on the 250th anniversary of U.S. independence in Washington, D.C.” @reuters.com

Don't want to speak ill of the dead, so getting this Mitch McConnell take out now. He saw Trump with complete clarity, as a danger to America, but protected him anyway. Perhaps more than anyone, he had the power to end Trumpism, but chose party over country. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/jan-6-and-...

just looked it up to be sure, and ... this man's wife is an American citizen born to non-citizens

NEW: Most Supreme Court Rulings Are Secretive Votes With Little Justification ProPublica conducted a new analysis that shows the court is deciding more consequential rulings than ever before in largely unsigned orders with little to no explanation.

As the Pentagon stays quiet, AP reconstructs a US strike that killed over 100 Iranian children. Donald Trump is to blame, but he is never held accountable by conservatives. For ideological reasons. apnews.com/article/iran...

It was easier to believe in American exceptionalism when John Williams composed the 1980s soundtrack to our lives. youtu.be/g2dJCtATZ9A?...

I actually think this statement is a big deal. Because it tells you all you need to know. They believe, in their bones, in an imperial presidency where the executive rules absolutely and uses his power to destroy enemies and enrich himself.

The American press can call it the Iran War if they want to, or even the consequences of military operations like Operation Epic Fury, but at the end of the day it's Trump's War. apnews.com/article/iran...

Soft cheese power

I am so excited to travel to Budapest and just go around saying: You did it, you did it, you did it!!* (*and God willing we can follow your example.)

South Korea isn't America: South Korean court sentences ex-first lady Kim to 7 years for taking luxury gifts tied to favors. Bet it didn't include a Qatari jet, but her country's highest judicial court didn't make her immune from prosecution while her husband was in office apnews.com/article/sout...

And make no mistake, when the Klan was ranting about unassimilable immigrants in the 1920s, they were very much talking about Italians whom they attacked as Catholic pawns of the pope, as a "criminal race" whose members were all tied to the mafia, and as a non-white threat to white women.

"Yeah, we're doing far worse things than Nixon did and look: nobody cares. What an achievement!"

a reminder that watergate was legitimately bad. nixon weaponized presidential power to cover up crimes committed by his subordinates, illegally spying on americans and using agencies like the IRS to harass political opponents.

Vance, an admirer of Richard Nixon, says Watergate would be ‘a 12-hour news story’ today apnews.com/article/vanc...

Mafia boss. "We like everyone in the room,” Trump said. “I don’t like a few people, but that’s okay.” apnews.com/article/trum...

Trump is immune from accountability for financial corruption. Bravo conservative Supreme Court justices. Just all-around stellar work on holding executives accountable for self-dealing. apnews.com/article/new-...

Somehow the nation's reflecting pool became troubled. But I get why there's so much more reporting on a national landmark than on fishermen murdered in international waters, by the US government, for spurious reasons. It's easier to report on something Americans know. apnews.com/article/refl...

Borders. Borders everywhere

FFS I thought we'd moved past the ignorance of illustrating stories about deadly heatwaves with photos of people frolicking at the beach/in lakes/in fountains. Heatwaves are the deadliest agents of climate change. They kill nearly half a million people each year, and that's only going to increase.

Not a serious nation, except about armaments. www.usatoday.com/story/news/c...

Keep going, WSJ editorial board. Almost there. www.wsj.com/opinion/alan...

Well, good luck UK. apnews.com/live/keir-st...

Maybe the Reflecting Pool was rigged, too? apnews.com/article/trum...

As with Meloni, so with the Iranian delegation: I’m always pleased when someone actually responds appropriately to Trump’s shit-talking instead of pretending that Truth Social doesn’t exist.

Here’s How the Obama Presidential Center Is Different From Other Presidents’ Museums More than a library and archives, the new Chicago institution is a place for the community to gather, talk and play together www.smithsonianmag.com/travel/heres...

From HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT: "Trump covers up crime with scandal. That is his main propaganda tactic, the one few seem to be able to discern...The crimes are much worse than the scandals, but the media will always take the scandal bait."

Did DoD just admit in a court filing that it used xAI's Grok Gov Model to hit the girls' school on the first day of the Iran war? Based on some passages flagged by @rgoodlaw.bsky.social in DoD's recent filing in NAACP's case against X, it looks like it did 1/

"Only I can fix it!"

Trump didn't call out the Guard on Jan. 6, but he sent them to chase people away from the Reflecting Pool.

Elon Musk spent $290 million getting Trump elected. During this midterm cycle, he's spent $85 million. In total, that’s 0.0375% of his $1 trillion net worth. Oligarchs can rig the system at the expense of everyone else, and only spend pennies doing so. We must get Big Money out of politics.

New Trump administration metaphor www.nytimes.com/2026/06/19/u...

this probably could have been predicted

Take the bosses’ snacks, then form a union anyway.

If this isn't a simulacrum of America right now, I challenge you to find something more representative.

NEW: Records obtained by ProPublica detail at least a dozen SpaceX investors with addresses in mainland China, Hong Kong or Russia who acquired stakes in SpaceX years ago through a middleman firm in the U.S. called Tomales Bay Capital.