In a speech before the United Nations General Assembly today, President Trump said climate change is a “con job” and climate scientists are “stupid people” — and he called green energy and immigration a “double-tailed monster” that is destroying Europe. 🧵 1/5

BREAKING: Judge Amy Berman Jackson, Obama appointee, dismisses former FBI agent Pete Strzok's suit claiming his firing was Trump-inspired and political. Under Biden, US paid Strzok $1.2M over release of texts. Doc: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us... Earlier: www.politico.com/news/2024/07...

The world is a very strange place

Yup.

meanwhile.. abcnews.go.com/US/ryan-rout...

NEW: Air Force jets are doing ICE flights to Africa with transponders turned off, making them nearly un-trackable. This includes the third-country removal to Ghana and another secret flight. We figured out where it landed. From me for @rollingstone.com: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

"Hold my potato chip bag." -- Tom Homan, apparently

Saturday is for replacing your car door.

Step 1: Cut funding for food stamps Step 2: Stop measuring hunger Step 3: There's no evidence cuts to food stamps led to a rise in hunger www.wsj.com/economy/trum...

Oregon has been the national leader on vote-by-mail for decades. Now Donald Trump thinks he can undermine our elections for his own benefit. Hell no.

this exists it is called thinking

It is shocking how much the USA has lost in 9 months.

A worker making $50,000 a year contributes to Social Security on 100% of their income. A CEO making $20 million a year contributes to Social Security on less than 1% of their income. Instead of raising the retirement age, we should scrap the Social Security tax cap.

25th Amendment

Somewhere Hitchens weeps

One thing that can’t be remarked upon often enough is just how cringeworthy JD Vance is. The unfunniest unfunny person in American politics, stunningly uncomfortable in his own skin and with other humans, surely an artifact of how many times he’s reinvented himself & how he doesn’t know who he is.

The union representing the musicians from Jimmy Kimmel’s band releases a statement calling the FCC’s pressure on Disney “state censorship.”

🚨BREAKING: The U.S. Department of Justice filed lawsuits against Maine and Oregon Tuesday, escalating its campaign to obtain sensitive voter registration data from states across the country. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

If Pope Leo has not canonized Charlie Kirk by April 20th we will prosecute. by Pam Bondi

Seems bad

BREAKING: A historic coalition of national & California labor unions led by the AAUP filed a federal lawsuit against the Trump administration challenging the illegal & coercive use of civil rights laws to attack the University of California system & the rights of their members.

Hundreds of students have left Chelsea public schools this year, as families exit a community — and a state — that’s become a prime target for immigration enforcement.

lol

The president is boasting about how he has shut down boating and fishing in the Caribbean because everyone is afraid that he’ll murder them.

I missed yesterday that the president announced that 88% of the United States had died

JD Vance Booed  By Own Reflection  In Mirror https://theonion.com/jd-vance-booed-by-own-reflection-in-mirror/

Desperate Kash Patel Asks Shooter’s Family If They Can Solve Any Other Cases

NEW: Maurene Comey, daughter of James Comey, sues the Justice Department over her abrupt firing from her job as a federal prosecutor for the Southern District of New York. www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

The Pope is exactly right. No society can survive when one man becomes a trillionaire while the vast majority struggle to just survive — trying to put food on the table, pay rent and afford health care. We can and must do better.

The honorable public figure who made his name ... spreading the pizzagate conspiracy theory

Charlie Kirk’s death raises new questions about Joe Biden’s advanced age.

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This is an archived government report that found that “Since 1990, far-right extremists have committed far more ideologically motivated homicides than far-left or radical Islamist extremists.” It existed yesterday and is gone today.

Pivoted so hard they affected the earth's rotation

Kirk didn't serve in the military or hold office. The war hero treatment -- half-mast flags, military guard, Air Force Two escort, calls for a statue at the Capitol or to lie in the Rotunda -- shows that for MAGA, service to Trump has become the highest, most honorable form of service.

“We heroically answered the phone.”

millennials are band directors now and I think that’s terrific

Lowering the flags on 9/11 at the Guantanamo Bay McDonald's for Charlie Kirk is the most dril tweet thing that's ever happened

Unreal 🧵

Payback to big donors.

Just gonna drop this here tonight wapo.st/3VKVNT2

Flags lowered to half mast down here at Guantánamo Bay on eve of 24th anniversary of 9/11.

Donald Trump is diverting law enforcement from going after human traffickers, child predators, and terrorists. He's the most pro-predator president in history.

Ahead of the 24th anniversary of 9/11, Democrats are demanding answers from HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. about the future of the federal World Trade Center Health Program, which covers treatment for 9/11-related illnesses such as cancer and chronic coughs.

Remember when they tried to blame the 2008 subprime crisis on the Community Reinvestment Act, a law promoting loans in middle and low income areas that was passed back in 1977? They will *always* find a way to blame black people. It’s all they’ve got.

LAWSUIT INCOMING: FBI leaders fired by Director Kash Patel — including Brian Driscoll and Steve Jensen — have filed some kind of action against the Patel and the bureau. Details TK

There are more home buyers over the age of 70 in the U.S. than under the age of 35, per NAR