This is a brief but utterly harrowing description of our nation in decline and the role of Trump's disastrous presidency in making it all happen, from @pkrugman.bsky.social on the pod. Transcript: newrepublic.com/article/2121...

Hello on Day 1580 of Russia's war on Ukraine. A new working week has begun with Europe basking in a heatwave. It's touching 30 degrees across Ukraine as well, and they have to fight for their survival. Here's Monday's daily thread:

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The mass warrantless surveillance law FISA Section 702 has expired. They'll try to tell you the sky is falling. Don't believe them! Instead, tell your reps: NO spying on Americans without a warrant. Period.

1 dead and a child injured in shooting in Omaha, Nebraska.

Mass shooting: 6 wounded including 2 children in shooting in industrial park area of Hanover, Maryland.

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Not a deal folks. CNN ought to know better. It is an MOU for a framework to begin a negotiation for a concept of a deal that is likely to never be achieved. Just like the Gaza "deal" was.

It’s a problem when data centers are being built without any input from the people that live nearby. I’m working to make sure communities and data center companies are both involved in the decision making process, and that residents aren’t footing the bill for big companies.

Russia promised Kyiv in two days. Ukraine has now struck 30 of its 32 major oil refineries. 40% of refining capacity offline. By autumn, whatever fuel survives goes straight to the war. Putin called it "Dvizhuha." Ukraine called it a target list.

June 14, 2026

Russia still attacks. But its rear is getting harder to protect. ㅤ Ukraine struck fuel, logistics, and occupation infrastructure while diplomacy tightened around the G7 and President Trump.

This is Kyiv tonight. Ballistic missiles. Residential buildings. 4 killed, 23 injured - including a child and a pregnant woman. The Assumption Cathedral of the Kyiv Pechersk Lavra damaged. In Kharkiv, 5 emergency workers killed. Russia has been doing this every night.

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2 wounded in shooting at Romare Bearden Park in Charlotte, North Carolina.

"In the end, we’re right back where we started in January 2025: an administration asserting that Trump’s election meant he has the right to completely dictate all government policy and spending unilaterally."

The doj is circling the wagons around chicago us attorney andrew boutros. But theres lots if evidence hes not only tied to the prosecutorial misconduct but that he misled/lied to the judge abt his knowledge abt it. So were in drip drip drip territory. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/what-...

"DOJ’s losses can compound as judges across the country find new reasons to distrust the government and cite one another in their decisions."

As the vindictive prosecutions ordered by Trump stretch on, judges and defense lawyers are starting to sketch out a road map for how to respond to the Trump DOJ’s abuses

Our client, Robert Dillon, was arrested in front of his family, spent a night in jail, and fell behind on his rent because police relied on a false facial recognition match and disregarded evidence showing he was innocent. We're going to court to prevent this from happening to anyone else.

The verdict is in!

The US World Cup in one photograph 🙄😔

"A group of insurers will continue covering routine vaccines through 2027 ... insurance companies, ... cover vaccines because they know that they are safe and effective,” says @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social in @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026... via @melodyschreiber.com

Complaints to the CFPB doubled in 2025. But under Russ Vought's tenure heading the agency, its been gutted and used as a political weapon. Vought is now using the CFPB to target community lenders deemed "woke" — while dropping cases against big Wall Street banks that have shafted consumers.

i believe in all the same policies and values as platner and his defenders *and* i also believe it’s important to actually live those values and that somehow makes me an idiot? no. fuck that. i don’t accept those terms.

so many of my friends look at me sideways when i talk about AI and allude to some of these arguments … pursuing AI for the sake of pursuing AI — without thought to ramifications like those in this thread — just seems like irresponsibly sticking one's head in the sand.

if FIFA has any integrity, it would have cited the u.s. being at war and withdrawn the event completely, playing it elsewhere. but the FiFA peace prize sort of let the cat out of the bag on any illusions about that. players, associations, countries: boycott this event.

"give us your tired, your poor, your tempest— … aw, let's stop pretending. send us the most racist people you can find so we can counter years of immigration based upon great replacemen theory." — someone in the trump administration, probably

Police want to decide which journalists can cover the Delaney Hall protests in Newark, New Jersey. But if an officer can point at someone and declare they are not press, the First Amendment ceases to have meaning. Read more from FPF's @adamrose.bsky.social:

Day 1564 of the war in Ukraine. Russia is not yet "on the run" - Ukraine is only gaining about the same amount of land it is losing, but the invaders fear a Kyiv, Kharkiv, or Kherson-like retreat may be forced upon them in the south. This is Saturday's daily thread:

i don't have a big enough following for it to make a difference at this point … but i've been suggesting that people inside & outside the u.s. boycott the world cup, but watching on tv as well as in person, not to mention not traveling to the u.s. … and petition your country to keep your team home.

even if it's hard to enforce, it should be the law. even if the current doj won't prosecute the current president for doing it, it’s just simply corrupt and should be the law. total no brainer.

Reminder that banning elected officials from trading stock is a total no brainer. They can use privileged information to make money on the stock market, while they’re supposed to be working for you. Make no mistake — it’s legalized corruption.

best video of the day!

Shrey spelling 32 words in 90 seconds to win the Spelling Bee is the new greatest athletic accomplishment of 2026. I don’t even know how he said the letters that fast. Got a “Holy Mackerel” out of @minakimes.bsky.social

call your reps & tell them to co-sponsor this.

Good for ABC for continuing to fight back and call Brendan Carr's investigations for what they are: intimidation tactics "plainly incompatible with the First Amendment." Read the letter we led from press freedom orgs commending ABC for taking a stand (this time): media.freedom.press/media/docume...

AI was trained on generations of human knowledge and work. Now Big Tech is making billions from it. It’s time to tax AI and make sure the American people benefit from what they helped build.

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long thread, with every part in it.

i love this way of taking care of the corruption. (yeah, yeah, you naysayers who will say this will never pass in al 50 states & is thus relatively toothless … i am just going to blow a raspberry in your general direction.)

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let's start with this. vote for anti-corruption candidates first. i don't mind having policy debates with non-corrupt Rs, because i think it's fair to debate such things. but let's start by weeding out trump & everyone enabling his corruption & getting caught with their own fingers in the til.

💯 it would be so easy for a small number to stop being so bad for democracy in the u.s. "hey, at least just for a while, vote with us on the stuff that is simply blatant corruption. we won't ask you to go against your constituents on true policy matters. just help us stop the corruption."

meanwhile, the war in ukraine seems to be ramping up. and mostly just as ignored as ever by most americans, it would seem.

Moscow threatened Kyiv again. Ukraine answered behind the front. ㅤ Ukraine struck Russian fuel, logistics, airfields, and command posts, as the war moved deeper into Russia’s rear and Europe’s security debate.

i make sure to look for this every night. fact-based description without hyperbole, just well-collected reporting on important events each day. today's topic is immigration and abuse of power by ICE, and the moving of the narrative of regarding which immigrants we should allow to come to the u.s.

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