This is a big scoop and further details the scope of the far-right insurgency within the US. The “Chairman for life,” setup itself is an overt challenge to the constitution. Troy’s reporting detailing the use of the USPTO to house the legal framework of a supranational org is critically important.

🚨SCOOP: Trump's Board of Peace trademarks are being held by the United States Patent and Trademark Office, an apparently unprecedented use of executive branch power to protect the interests of a murkily defined supranational organization. america2.news/board-of-pea...

💯%, thanks for the article. Hegseth’s threats are further evidence, if anyone needs it, that America faces a far-right insurgency, not just a grifting, egomaniacal Presidency. Let this insurgency circle the wagons around its empty unAmerican policies, then starve it of oxygen like Nichols does here.

Important reporting here. A neighbor of Mr. Thao is quoted saying, “Whatever you think happened here, it’s worse.” She is right. Please read this. We cannot continue this un-American rampage, it must stop.

That awkward moment when your past foreign policy faceplants in real time.

Nothing to see here, folks 😕 This is the guy we’re letting poison memphis and dig a hole in nashville?

During Fiona Hill's testimony to Congress on Oct 14, 2019, she described how Trump and Putin discussed exchanging Ukraine for Venezuela. The quid pro quo was if Trump refuses to help Ukraine fight off a Russian invasion, Putin would not help Venezuela (a Russian ally) resist a US takeover.

“Ring out false pride in place and blood, The civic slander and the spite; Ring in the love of truth and right, Ring in the common love of good.” — Tennyson open.substack.com/pub/jaynordl...

Sound advice from Dave Troy. Standing together to reject this antidemocratic assault by the “Dark Enlightenment” of greed and ignorance is the best macro strategy, described here, and perhaps the best micro strategy too, as the same challenge presents itself more locally.

The court's Republican-appointed justices appear ready to eliminate most pockets of expertise and nonpartisanship on which the country relies as stewards of important economic, political, scientific, and regulatory power.

Trump admin officials banking on pardons if their decisions prove illegal, should consider the heavy odds that Trump will retire before his term is up, likely not long after the midterms, and Vance will have strong incentives to look like a reformer and be uninterested in handing out pardons. (FYI)

Great article from Nichols shining a light for the reactionary right in power today, and those of us hoping they open their eyes, to see their nihilism. (The negative analogies to childhood, which hopefully work as intended on the disaffected mind, could be replaced because kids are wonderful.)

Important thread from @jennycohn.bsky.social on a Harvard student journal pushing far right anti-democracy Christian nationalism and, surprise, surprise, associated with Thiel and Andreessen.

Here’s the original clip of Ronald Reagan from April 25, 1987, where he delivered a complete and total rebuke against tariffs. Trump's calling Reagan’s words here “FAKE” and “fraudulent.” They’re 100% real. And the original clip is actually far worse for Trump, as much is left out of the ad:

The spike in health insurance rates will affect not just working Americans, but our entire economy. We have to act now to lower costs.

Important article for progressives who want to win the midterms.

For those who need clear historical context about what the f this is we’re up against. TLDR: defend democracy, vote, please don’t feel too defeated, you’re not alone and we can overcome this. www.idahostatesman.com/opinion/from...

Gift article, and much needed logical and historical context from @radiofreetom.bsky.social The maniacal leadership from POTUS and Hegseth today was on full display and should get everyone’s attention. As Tom says, “Trump is not okay.”

The generals and admirals at Quantico today should be forgiven if they walked out of the auditorium and wondered: What on earth is wrong with the commander in chief? www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

Many posts from the chattering class, following recent events, that somehow it's progressives' job to win over MAGA for success in the midterms. This is not the case. Be nice, have empathy, but ignore MAGA. Reach out to non-voters and support good candidates. usafacts.org/articles/how...

After years of complaining about cancel culture, the current administration has taken it to a new and dangerous level by routinely threatening regulatory action against media companies unless they muzzle or fire reporters and commentators it doesn’t like.

Russia "amplifies what is already there, feeding existing suspicions and magnifying distrust. Because Americans have grown accustomed to treating online narratives as entertainment, the corrosive effect goes largely unnoticed until the damage is done." www.thebulwark.com/p/putins-bot...

Donald Trump has a history of making national tragedies worse. So here's a quick side by side of how one president responds to a national crisis versus how another does.

@radiofreetom.bsky.social one last q re VZLA boat. If you wished to provoke VZLA to fire on US drones over their territorial waters, wouldn’t this be how to do it? Was there any meaningful gain from this killing? Thanks

@radiofreetom.bsky.social curious if you’ll look at this VZLA small boat strike. Tri & Tbg are so close to V. They claim the boat was ordered to stop, but how and then what? By VHF? Morse code from the Reaper? Reports boat had turned back. Multiple missiles on an open boat? To kill survivors? Oh man

Must read from Tom Nichols. Thank you for the excellent overview and the gift article. President Trump and his administration must provide clarity and follow through regarding this escalation for our own good in all of Europe and world wide.

“The ‘#Timeout Against Hate’ campaign represents a powerful convergence of sports icons and leaders who are committed to fighting hate in all its forms,” Kraft said. How about those hateful anti-trans ads the #NFL ran? Rejecting those ads would have been an easy way to fight hate in all its forms.

Scientists no Longer Find Twitter Professionally Useful, and have Switched to Bluesky url: academic.oup.com/icb/article-...

This is excellent. An example of applying these ideas is, when talking to MAGA types, empathize with the personal identity crises you will hear. (That doesn’t mean agree, and walk away from abuse, otherwise. . .) After winning, MAGA remain highly agitated, why? They are oft ungrounded reactionaries.

gun freaks sure love calling schools and churches "soft targets"

New reporting from @davetroy.com on the Epstein network. Epstein offered scientists and business scions access to high society and the halls power. And, from previous reporting, he sex trafficked minors. Anyone who knew Epstein needs to explain in full, or they will live under this terrible shadow.

Yes! Mainstream academics and media, globally, have assumed illiberal, anti-democracy efforts and actors would die off naturally as broadly unacceptable. In some cases they have, but today, corporate and state actors' are successfully bypassing you, the citizen. @davetroy.com has the receipts.

📄 EXCLUSIVE: We mapped the entire Epstein-Musk-Trump social network. What we found may surprise you — and one person is threatened most: Donald Trump. america2.news/we-mapped-je...

This thread contains excerpts from the government’s June 2022 sentencing memorandum in 𝙐𝙣𝙞𝙩𝙚𝙙 𝙎𝙩𝙖𝙩𝙚𝙨 𝙤𝙛 𝘼𝙢𝙚𝙧𝙞𝙘𝙖 𝙫. 𝙂𝙝𝙞𝙨𝙡𝙖𝙞𝙣𝙚 𝙈𝙖𝙭𝙬𝙚𝙡𝙡, No. 20 Cr. 330 (S.D.N.Y.).

Elon Musk recently posted on his site that another lawyer and I are “undermining civilization.” He goes on to ask if we suffered childhood trauma and concludes by suggesting we are suffering from “generational trauma.” This is my response. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/my-o...

ICE just prevented me from entering an immigration detention facility in my district—a clear violation of federal law. Members of Congress have the right to immediately access these facilities. Listen here 👇

Hard to take seriously the red-white-and-blue rhetoric of freedom on a 4th of July where the US president has cut off aid to a democracy fighting for its independence against ferocious attack by a foreign tyrant.

📄 NEW: Elon Musk threatens Republicans and Democrats with promise to create the "America Party" if Trump's Big Bill is passed. Here's what that might look like, and why Pakistan may be up next for "denuclearization." My latest. america2.news/libertarian-...

Democrats need to get up to speed on crypto and understand it as nothing less than a threat to the rule of law, and nation states themselves. There is no 'political compromise' to be had here. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/17/o...

📄 NEW: Moody's is now the last of the big three credit rating agencies to downgrade U.S. sovereign debt from "AAA." Here's what that might mean in the context of the ongoing budget and debt standoff. My latest. america2.news/u-s-credit-d...

Sure, let’s dissect the mental and physical acuity of the former president who sought to make lives in America better while minimizing the reality of a deranged arsonist dismantling the country we’ve known and loved. What a failure to meet this moment.

A thought provoking dystopia by @davetroy.com. The fictional aspect isn’t much of a stretch, frighteningly. My take away is that rather than simply waiting for the next awful news story, we might stop and think more deeply about the philosophical questions we face as individuals and as a culture.

📄 NEW: A dispatch from the not too distant future warns that our crisis is more metaphysical than political, and urges us to use our collective imaginations to defeat autocracy. My latest. america2.news/a-letter-fro...

Federal Regulators Hold Celebratory Seatbelt-Cutting Ceremony

We're not prepared, and there's no light at the end of the BSKY scrolling tunnel. Relationships between some l/w progressive populists and some r/w reactionary populists are stunning and, as @davetroy.com describes here, converging. Exit the tunnel for a minute and check it out.

america2.news/americas-mel... Carole Cadwalladr’s moving TED talk, the marque speech at TED 2025, (link in article) describes her own ordeal while clearly characterizing America’s crisis; a technological coup. @davetroy.com, in attendance, covers the event.

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