A new arms race is underway with superpowers frantically weaponizing AI for the ultimate advantage. Read more: bloom.bg/44eYyAo 📷: Andrew Kravchenko/Bloomberg

vt.tiktok.com/ZSCGujM7M/ Because... #f'djt #Felon #Grifter #Conman

Trump argues that if TikTok is such a bad influence, how can you explain why he's number one on the platform? 🤔

Trump: "He gave [Balogun] a red card. I didn't know what that meant. I didn't think it meant much. Then I started hearing that means you can't play in the next game…How do you penalize them for a game that hasn't been played yet? It's very unfair…I asked for a review by FIFA."

1. Since December, CNN and CNBC have promoted Kalshi to viewers extensively, frequently vouching for its accuracy. The existence of a financial relationship between the networks and Kalshi, however, is disclosed to viewers inconsistently. w/@atrupar.com

"Trump has done the most American thing possible: assert undue, unwelcome, unasked-for influence and power to get his way," writes @mlsist.bsky.social. "The US have done tremendously at this World Cup... but a win on Monday may well be perceived as one engineered by Fifa."

Just in: the Belgian Federation has decided to formally challenge FIFA's red card reversal for Folarin Balogun. The federation accuses FIFA of refusing to respond to its "legitimate requests" and creating an appeal process that was "immediately declared inadmissible".

🚨 Exclusive: The White House made a direct call to FIFA to ask Gianni Infantino to review Folarin Balogun’s red card. FIFA approached for comment and referred to the findings of its independent committee.

There’s no difference between men marching in white masks and men marching in white hoods. None.

My late husband died of lung cancer about 22 years ago. He was a high energy theoretical physicist and when we were told it had metatisized to his brain, it broke his heart. If something could have prevented that...😢 Brain cancer breakthrough at McMaster University share.google/u71uco5p5QIF...

This is our extraordinary 🌎 Why are we destroying it? #ClimateCrisis #Metacrisis

Mother Nature understood the assignment.

Trump and his sons ripped off nearly one million of their supporters and made a fortune producing nothing of value for anyone. Blood sucking leeches, using the US presidency to do it. And they couldn’t care less and their cult doesn’t seem to mind. Strange times in America.

PASTOR LORAN LIVINGSTON (@CentralChurchNC): “There has never been a Christian nation, and never will be. You don’t live in one now. A Christian nation wouldn’t have killed and displaced 20 million Native Americans, or thought owning slaves was pleasing to God.”

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

I’ve spoken with Jason Watson. He knew exactly what this would cost him. He gave up his military career to take a brave stand for democracy. Patriotism that only works with obedience isn’t patriotism.

Empire collapse under the weight of metaphors.

In other "excellent news from religious bodies", the US Presbyterian General Assembly has formally voted to start the process to (correctly) declare white Christian nationalism a theological error incompatible with the teachings of Jesus: pres-outlook.org/2026/07/pcus...

Patriot Front came out of their moms’ basements, dusted off the Old Navy khakis, put on the white masks so they don’t get fired from their day jobs, and headed to Washington for America’s 250th birthday celebration. Four hundred self-described patriots, not one ounce of bravery.

If you were cool with this, you can shove that "Happy Independence Day" up your ass.

Mamdani: "As we mark 250 years ... we see the wealthiest country -- one where children go to sleep hungry while the world's first trillionaire hungers for more ... we see masked agents terrorizing our streets, eating food cooked by undocumented neighbors before spiriting them away in unmarked vans"

Jack Smith: James Comey, Letitia James, Jerome Powell. There's not criminality here. I mean, seashells?? The only reasonable explanation is the president has it out for these people. He has people who are his former personal lawyers who are going to do what he says, regardless of the facts or law

This is Harley. She's never rolled down a hill before, but she's super proud of her first attempt. 13/10 nailed it (TT: jesskoselke)

Jack Smith: "I think we are facing an attack on the rule of law that is different in kind and scope to anything I've seen in my lifetime"

Jack Smith on MS NOW: "I'm very concerned of what's going to happen in the next election, absolutely."   "I think the state attorney generals have a tremendous role to play here … And I would also say that I think a thing that all of us can do is support election workers and election officials."

Solar and wind are currently meeting 90% of Britain's electricity demand. grid.iamkate.com

Dog rescued in Venezuela after 6 days in rubble! Such goodness all around 😍

Mamdani is trying to prevent New York’s power grid from failing, you idiot. 78° by choice is a lot better than 100° without electricity.

NEW: This is too much. The DOJ accidentally emailed copies of Volume II of Jack Smith's final report to the lawyers representing a woman they charged with obstruction of justice for emailing Volume II of Jack Smith's final report. My latest: www.muellershewrote.com/p/doj-accide...

Though the federal agents often wore masks concealing their identities, Block Club Chicago identified 271 of them. Many were trained specifically for crowd control, yet reported using force more than 150 times — and sometimes lied about it. Read more: blockclubchi.co/4eD8XMr

A nun arrested by ICE while walking to Mass was released from custody one day after Congress members intervened on her behalf.

"Bureaucracy jobs will now increasingly be once again dispensed as favors and cleaned out when a new president comes into office; institutional knowledge and expertise will be purged in favor of political loyalty and back scratching," writes @moiradonegan.bsky.social.

How is this even possible. Do you have to pay to get in? Pass security?

The real headline from the birthright‑citizenship case isn’t the outcome. It’s that four Supreme Court justices signaled they believe a president can effectively rewrite the Constitution through executive order.

BREAKING on MS NOW: Mike Johnson's latest effort to force through the SAVE America Act to rig elections just failed. The House failed to clear a procedural vote 198-224 on the NDAA largely because the SAVE Act was attached.

The guy whose yacht Steve Bannon was arrested on by Post Office cops just got 30 years in prison. www.npr.org/2026/06/29/g...

NEW: Oil companies are blasting millions of gallons of toxic waste underground each year — less than a half-mile from Enid, Oklahoma’s water wells. But to protect their city, officials must appeal to the state agency that created the problem. With @readfrontier.bsky.social

Um.

A Japanese fan broke down crying after his country's elimination, but a group of Brazilians fans went to console him and Mexican fans made him soar. You gotta love the World Cup! ❤️🌎⚽️ Video: RÉCORD

It’s amusing that ppl believe the midterm election will change anything.

Orbán hid half of Hungary’s budget deficit, new PM says - They lied to Hungarians. The budget deficit figures that the Orbán government publicly claimed, those contained in official documents, and what we are now seeing bear no resemblance to one another www.ft.com/content/5327... via @FT #FarRight

Trump says housing bill he tanked last week is a ‘big yawn’

Did the rapture happen overnight? Fox & Friends is broadcasting from a completely empty Trump state fair on the National Mall

PSA: We are all Democratic Socialists, we’re just in various stages of admitting it.

I don't give a shit about football, but I just heard my favourite stat about this World Cup. Every single country taking part has universal healthcare... Except one. Can you guess ?

'Chaos will follow': Sotomayor blisters court as Trump is given 'power unknown' to kings www.rawstory.com/sotomayor-bl...

BREAKING: The Supreme Court just ruled that the Fourth Amendment applies to police use of overbroad "geofence warrants" to search for and locate unknown numbers of people in a large geographical area. This win reinforces that we don't lose our right to privacy simply because we use a cell phone.

This is the future Big Oil built for us. Fossil fuel companies knew decades ago that their products would drive increasingly severe and frequent heatwaves, droughts, and wildfires, but lied to protect their own profits at the expense of public health and safety. The public deserves accountability.

Our independent federal regulatory agencies were created to protect the public from corporate harms. The only reason to end these protections is to give corporate America even higher profits by shifting the risks of harms to individual people. The shame of the John Roberts court.

I’m not going to hail Barrett and Roberts for allowing us to count our votes. It’s a huge win for democracy, but it shouldn’t have even been a question. That we were one vote away from disenfranchising votes is all the more reason to expand the court in 2029.