Happy week, everyone! A week just like all the other weeks! 🤔🧐

The option of doing journalism, i.e., not attending these farces, standing up for one's colleagues when he attacks them if you make the grave mistake of still attend these farces, & instead not printing lies in the newspaper based on your leading questions at these farces, remains readily available.

NEW: Ballroom donors have won more than $50B in government contracts according to watchdog group @publiccitizen.bsky.social www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

trumps doctor says he has a medical condition known as "heavy eyelids" which is the natural result of being extremely healthy

Trump is blinking again

Remember: no judge or jury has found these boats were trafficking drugs. We're simply taking Trump's word for it. He’s unilaterally acting as judge, jury, and executioner. This is a danger to us all.

Hegseth plans to cancel Tomahawk missile sales to Germany because he's afraid Putin will disapprove, Politico says. Actually it's more clear evidence of US realignment with Putin. www.politico.com/news/2026/06...

📌This is called voter fraud. I am sure sanctimonious Republicans will call for Tuberville to resign in disgrace, and will set about prosecuting him to the full extent of the law, right?

It's the White House Co-dependents Association

Brilliant

If my math is right, the crime rate for pardoned insurrectionists is roughly three times higher than that of immigrants.

Bret Baier said over a year ago that the press had a duty to scrutinize Trump family corruption. He's since given that topic 5 minutes of airtime --- a miniscule fraction of the airtime he previously gave Hunter Biden’s business interests. www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/bre...

Trump continues his hard work today to bring down rising prices and solve the affordability crisis.

The Trump administration continues to try to realign the US away from the West and towards Russia. Last year it rolled out the red carpet in Alaska; now it's at Putin's pound shop Davos to show off pictures of a ballroom. It's trying to enhance Russia's status at the cost of the US's.

MAHA in action. RFKJr must be proud.

Accountability is a thing that happens in other countries

This Irving Berlin song is making a comeback. Have you heard it? 👨🪦| 🪩🕺🏻💃🏻👯‍♀️😘 youtu.be/u_drue83ugM

Giving billionaires and corporations the green light to buy our elections. Making it easier for polluters to destroy the planet. Stripping millions of reproductive freedom. Granting presidents immunity. Gutting the protections of the Voting Rights Act. The shame of the John Roberts court.

NEW: Trump's new intelligence chief was once a dildo-dodging memestock oracle. Read about his bizarre involvement with a cult-like group of gullible investors: www.thebulwark.com/p/bill-pulte...

100% certain Rubio did not say “Hunter is a private citizen” 🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️

When government thinks its role is to avoid making you feel badly about stupid things you did

The American delegation at the Fascist International, headed by Greg Bovino (the man who had an SS-coat custom made for his use) is drawing no meaningful media attention in the US. Why?

Not gonna lie, this is a badass museum donation. 🇺🇸 Shonda Rhimes donated the Oval Office set from Scandal, the same one fictional President Fitzgerald Grant called home for seven seasons. Now it’s part of the Obama Presidential Center Museum

A new study has found that the National Guard's presence in Washington, D.C. had no effect on violent crime in the city. The Guard has been deployed since last August as part of a federal task force to fight crime, and their numbers are set to double in the coming weeks. n.pr/3PWDxqK

Wait a minute — Iran (who Trump said has no military) bombed the shit out of Kuwait last night in retaliation for us striking them in a war Marco Rubio just yesterday, told Congress was “over”? Do they think we’re all fucking stupid?

He's a master of distracting us from crimes he's already committed by continuously committing new crimes. 5 months until the Midterms. #AccountabilityIsComing

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>> In Violence & the Sacred, Rene Girard posits that one of the signs of a crashing society was when the concept of justice was replaced by undisguised revenge. Another was when peopl freaked out over any lowering of strict norms of gender identity. Just leaving this here. << ‪@janelovesrain #1/2

Congrats once again to, uh, ALL the Senate Dems for voting to confirm him

This is really important. “More than 100 retired NASA astronauts have banded together to form a new nonpartisan organization…” and its members believe deeply in “principles such as the rule of law, checks and balances, and the peaceful transition of power.” Follow @astronauts4america.bsky.social

Bari Weiss just fired the stopwatch.

This is so brutal.....well done Senator Cortez Masto.....

As others have said, our polity cannot survive if it tolerates & does not punish blatant performative public lying like this. Our institutions are broken & need to be reformed, but institutional reform can’t solve this. Anyway, congrats again to the 99 other Senators: bsky.app/profile/mcop...

The Trump administration installing a convicted Jan 6 rioter into a highly sensitive, top-secret Pentagon counterterrorism unit is the ultimate proof that loyalty to Trump matters more than the lives of our troops and diplomats. Our nation’s military secrets have officially become MAGA party favors.

Again, Bill Pulte is a 38-year-old -- no really, 38 -- who only holds a BA in broadcast journalism and absolutely zero experience in the intelligence field. He has no qualifications for this job at all. Aside from being a psychotic lickspittle to the president.

@netflix.com should take all these fantastic and fearless journalists and create a news arm. With CNN up next for the integrity dissection, Netflix could create a world class, worldwide news stream with global reach on their global platform. If you agree, share this. If you don't, that's cool too.

bari weiss was too chickenshit to fire scott pelley herself so her newly knighted goon did it for her. i wish them both a very merry ratings crash.

I know I'm a broken record, but Trump *not* releasing his taxes as he promised and the IRS *not* auditing his taxes every year and releasing the results like they have for every goddamn president for forty years is the actual scandal. This won't outlast his term and should be fought right now

Fifty years, sorry. Forty is stuck in my head from writing this almost a decade ago about the exact same shit.

This is 600% bullshit

It's not a good sign for your democracy when the attorney general is "not committing to doing anything in writing."

I took all of Jesse Watters' monologues about the war from last week and condensed them down to the most important parts - a series of cliches and predictions that did not come true. He will wake up tomorrow as if he never said any of this and repeat it until the war is over.

‘Terrible and Inhumane’: Delaney Hall and the Grim Reality of ICE Detention.., superb piece open.substack.com/pub/contrari...

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Rep. Madeleine Dean: "What is true is that the president has lied about being on Epstein's plane, and the unredacted files prove that. There's a lot in here. It's all covered up."

Every member of Congress who remains silent on Bill Pulte’s appointment as director of national intelligence is actively choosing personal political survival over the literal safety of the United States.

the current director of national intelligence is a guy who two years ago received a trophy declaring he “Fucks Only The Young” at an (oddly dildo focused) event he organized dedicated to the conspiracy that Bed Bath and Beyond never actually went bankrupt

What GOP economist Doug Holtz-Eakin told me a year ago when I asked him to rate Bill Pulte’s job performance: “I have been underwhelmed by his performance as FHFA Director, unimpressed with his lack of leadership during an affordable housing crisis, and baffled by the rest of his vaudeville act”