President Trump’s name has been removed from the Kennedy Center, new images circulated by an activist group reveal. A federal judge had ordered the removal, but the building’s facade has been obscured by scaffolding and tarps.

The Marine #Heatwave in the #Mediterranean Sea is neck and neck with 2025 for record hot in June, having been baked by two historic heatwaves so far this season. Water temps up to 7C/ 12.6F above normal and they should continue to heat up into next week.

the press cares more about this stupid fucking pool than the extrajudicial murder of American citizens

Five corporations control 90% of the US media market. Airlines merged from 12 major carriers in 1980 to 4 today. Four giants control 80% of meat processing. The evidence of corporate consolidation is everywhere. It means more power for them and less freedom for you.

Trump admits: The problems with the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool have become so severe that the pool will have to be at least partly drained for "necessary repairs."

India: "Mumbai is experiencing an increase in simultaneous cases of COVID-19, H1N1 (swine flu), other influenza A strains, and Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV)" "City doctors said COVID has made a quiet comeback over the past week after H1N1 dominated clinics for nearly a month" archive.md/8nbEL

They need a goddamn horsie to corral the pool touchers.

They want to blame everyone but themselves for this fiasco. So they’ll pretend that people touching the water have done something wrong. Fascists.

This piece is just maddening - in laying out the incredible destruction the Trump admin is doing to scientific research that might help to understand or cure … who knows what. We’ll never know since they’ve destroyed it. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/20/o...

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/

🚨The congressional Republicans have been pouring BILLIONS of our taxpayer money into ICE and GEO Group to create prison warehouse facilities. They’re profiting off it. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jun/20/jim-jordan-super-pac-ice-donation?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

The Guardian: Trump loyalist Jim Jordan linked to group that received ‘dark money’ from ICE detention contractor

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.

June 19, 2026

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It’s time to call this out. The most unqualified person to ever be SecDef is blocking the promotions of high level people for racial and gender reasons not related to their experience or merit. That makes him a person with racist and sexist issues - and a hack who weakens our armed forces.

A business tied to a longtime Trump supporter was given the no-bid contract to install a water-purification system in the Reflecting Pool. The National Park Service bypassed the competitive-bidding process typically required and gave a $1.7 million contract to the firm, Greenwater Services.

It’s about the grift. It’s always about the grift.

The 500 richest people on the globe added $336 billion to their fortunes on Monday, bringing their collective net worth to a record $13.3 trillion. Read that back. Our problem isn’t an issue of resources. Our problem is ever-expanding wealth inequality.

Firing hundreds of intelligence people doesn’t seem like a great move the week after you lost a war, but what do I know?

First things first. Pulte demands top level security clearance, a government plane & security detail before his first day on the job. Another Trump appointee with his priorities straight. www.cnn.com/2026/06/19/p...

Ken Paxton let a pedophile back on our streets. Adam Hoffman—an admitted child molester—should have gotten life in prison, but Paxton gave him an Epstein-style sweetheart deal. Today I’m calling on Paxton to release the Hoffman Files. The Epstein Class has no place in Texas.

The congressional Republicans are not conservatives, they are regressives.

I declare psychological warfare against Republicans! They made liberal a dirty word so start calling them regressives. They are anti science, healthcare, equality, etc etc They are pro foreign wars, national debt, mismanaged govt etc etc They are not conservatives, they are regressives.

Sen Ossoff saying what millions of Americans are thinking right now.

This is a good point. The oligarchs, who if anything had it pretty easy under democracy, have thrown us to the fascist wolves. And they had another option. Let's remember that when reconstruction time arrives.

Elon Musk and the ultrawealthy far-right vanguard started all this. Reflect on that. The giga—now tera—rich have not been attacked or even taxed disproportionately. They've benefitted from liberal democracy more than anyone else. They have chosen a path of destruction and domination anyway.

The wealth of America’s billionaires has surged to over $9 trillion for the first time in history. This was no accident. Here’s the full story of how we got into this mess — and how we can get out of it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wOI8RuhW7q0

Authoritarians want to grind us down. Instead, we’re leaning into community and a movement that is millions of people strong. ❌👑 🎥 @leahgreenberg.bsky.social on @msnownews.bsky.social

Alabama now has medical marijuana, but there’s a huge catch for women ages 11 to 50 “This, I think, is the first sort of mechanism of regular surveillance, regular proving that you’re not pregnant in order to access something that…should be available to everyone.” - @pregnancyjust.bsky.social

NEW: A trove of internal records from Dialog, the secret society cofounded by Peter Thiel, was left exposed online. WIRED obtained a second cache of records that reveal who's really attending, how they're screened, and what personal details they were promised would stay private.

NEWS CENTER MAINE: This is the first reelection campaign that you're run since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade. I was hoping you could talk to me a little bit about your vote to confirm Kavanaugh and whether you regret that? SUSAN COLLINS: I do not regret that vote.

President Donald Trump endorsed Rep. Mike Collins (R-Ga.), a vehement election denier and Jan. 6 riot defender, in the Georgia Republican U.S. Senate runoff taking place on June 16. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

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Shasta County, California, recently approved one of the most sweeping local attacks on voting since 2020: a measure that would end most mail-in and early voting, require strict photo ID to register and vote, and force election officials to hand count ballots. www.democracydocket.com/analysis/rep...

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🚨BREAKING: Republican lawmakers in North Carolina are trying to ban state election officials from publicly encouraging people to vote, part of a massive proposed overhaul of elections that a state legislative committee approved Tuesday. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

A lot can happen between now and Friday.

I find myself explaining the same thing to people—as a Trump biographer—in *every* Trump scandal: *never* celebrate battle wins rather than war victories, and *never* accept his word. Don't celebrate over the Kennedy Center until the tarp is DOWN, or an Iran "deal" until SIGNED.

Friend sent me this photo he took today of the Reflecting Pool ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Just laughing at how mad they’re going to be to have to rehang all those signs that are like slavery is bad

This is very dangerous: voter registration group being treated as criminal www.ms.now/news/ohio-pr...

We recently testified in support of California's SB 747. The bill is simple: if any government officer violates your constitutional rights, you should have a remedy. Learn more about this type of law, where it's gaining momentum, and find model bill language 🔗 https://protdem.org/4tYqvrq

Masterful & sickening reporting on the Tate brothers by Heidi Blake: A Web of Abuse www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

Breaking news: The House narrowly passed a $70 billion budget package ending a four-month lapse in funding for immigration enforcement agencies, capping a fight that exposed tensions between President Trump and congressional Republicans.

The elderly president's public meanderings and Truth Social posts offer a disturbing insight into the president’s priorities, according to analysis by The Swamp.

not polite to call some people stupid, but it is genuinely a party of stupid people

Polls today: —close at 7pm ET in South Carolina —close at 8pm ET in Maine (where the count is typically slow) —close at 7pm local time in North Dakota, so 9pm ET —close at 7pm local time in Nevada, so that's 10pm ET Key races to watch: boltsmag.org/whats-on-the...