BREAKING: The Brennan Center and 2 dozen+ other orgs sent a letter to Gov Gretchen Whitmer urging her to withdraw MI National Guard members from DC. There's "no reason to trust” the Trump admin to use the troops “appropriately or even lawfully,” they write.

As I've written before, if Republicans successfully redefine some forms of birth control as causing abortion (IUDs, emergency contraception) they can restrict access to contraception without touching Griswold. Thanks, Sam Alito newrepublic.com/article/1796...

Who among us could have predicted this? (Virtually every single global health expert and epidemiologist.)

I don’t let people who I wasn’t friends with prior to working at the DC Council buy me coffee because I take ethics rules seriously as a public servant. Meanwhile this guy claims all these gifts come out of genuine friendships that by *total coincidence* started once he was a SCOTUS justice.

shah also served as deputy director of the national CDC and is a respected expert on rural health (which will be especially relevant as republican cuts start to fully kick in)

I know there is, um, other stuff happening right now, but HHS under RFK Jr. has postponed yet another meeting of the US Preventive Services Task Force, while also failing to provide public access to nominees' application materials as promised in a Federal Register notice

This alone should be a decade-defining political scandal resulting in prison sentences.

I cannot believe a few guys making bets on a prediction market are driving some news coverage at CNN and CNBC. It’s clearly info slop, not news. This piece by @atrupar.com & @juddlegum.bsky.social reveals how truly bad it is & how viewers are being misled. Yikes. open.substack.com/pub/aaronrup...

England's song is Wonderwall. So i think they are the losers no matter how you slice it

Yalla #Mexico fans — we are all now #Morocco fans now 🇲🇽 🇲🇦

Our food is still better and nothing can ever take that away.

I haven’t seen England and Mexico this heated since 1861 when Mexican Benito Juárez suspended payments on its foreign debt to the U.K.

this is the soccer we were promised

There’s so much to love about this #WorldCup, but I hate the ways in which it’s been tainted — starting with Trump receiving a FIFA Peace Prize. Visa denials, forcing Iran to commute from Tijuana, Trump calling Infantino to request a reversal of the suspension — it puts an asterisk on everything.

I am obsessed with this quote. How is it possible to not have never used a porta potty as a full-fledged adult?

If this is true -- a very big if -- it is surely how McConnell would have wanted to go: exploiting the timing of the death of major figures (Scalia, RBG) for cynical partisan gain.

The WHO’s safe guideline for 24-hour PM2.5 exposure is 15 μg/m³, which means DC is right now at about four times that threshold. Fine particulate matter at this diameter (2.5 micrometers or smaller) bypasses the body’s upper respiratory defenses entirely and penetrates deep into the alveoli.

DC folks with asthma/COPS/cardiovascular disease: please stay indoors, run HEPA filters, and mask up with a N95 when outdoors. This volume of fine particulate matter will undoubtedly increase the risk of asthma attacks, heart attacks, and stroke.

I didn’t think I would be personally affected by this (let’s be honest, DC neighborhood fireworks go on until the wee hours), but I can feel my house vibrating and I’m in the northern tip of the DC diamond.

NEW: Two-hundred-and-fifty years in, Justice Jackson is doing the work that is needed from our leaders. The United States needs leaders willing to speak forthrightly about our past and ambitiously about our future in order to make it through the treacherous present. This Fourth, at Law Dork:

I love America because it is a place where a young couple paid a penny to cross the US-Mexico border, worked in sugar factories and the fields of California. And then, thanks to hard work, Pell Grants and community college, their great grandson could work covering politics at the White House.

I cannot imagine how terrifying this poor woman must have been. My heart breaks for the District and our country.

Fascists marching in the capital, assured of protection from their President and indifference from much the plutocratic media, marking the 250th anniversary of the American experience.

JUST POSTED: An updated tally is in, and the count of Trump followers turned financial losers is even bigger than first thought. Much bigger. 988,905 buyers of #$TRUMP memecoin have lost a total of $3.81 billion. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/04/u...

The anti-vax group formerly led by Robert Kennedy Jr. has been promoting the story of a woman who says vaccines killed her 18-month-old twins. She’s the lead plaintiff in the group’s lawsuit against the American Academy of Pediatrics. Well, now she’s been charged with suffocating the toddlers.

Cabo Verde tied Spain and took Argentina to extra time. That entire team should hold their heads high.

Absolutely insane that Cape Verde — a country of 500,000 — played Spain, Uruguay and Argentina…and lost to none of them in regulation. Easily one of the greatest performances in World Cup history.

If Taylor Swift really wanted a private wedding venue she should’ve considered the National Mall.

Just here to post this again like I do every year, not only because Douglass was one of the founding philosophers of American liberty but because I am so moved by the kids Frederick Douglass’ descendants deliver “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July”

we are one day away from the funniest VAR offsides graphic ever

Don't want to speak ill of the dead, so getting this Mitch McConnell take out now. He saw Trump with complete clarity, as a danger to America, but protected him anyway. Perhaps more than anyone, he had the power to end Trumpism, but chose party over country. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/jan-6-and-...

in tears at the guy throwing down the kangaroo after that PK

People with asthma or COPD, anxiety disorders or PTSD, small children, pets, and many others are going to be suffering through all of this Trump self-promotion on a holiday that’s supposed to be a rejection of kings and dictators.

A wave of military aircraft every 10 minutes for eight hours feels less like a party and more like psychological warfare.

Important read about this latest death in ICE custody from @austinkocher.com

This is a feature, not a bug — the entire purpose is to make women inferior to the whims of men.

LMAO -- Acting AG Todd Blanche struggles to deliver a speech to National Guard members in DC over the noise being made by protesters

Here’s Why Weather Forecasts Have Seemed So Inaccurate Lately. Meteorologists simply aren't able to gather as much data as they used to, and you're suffering for it. gizmodo.com/heres-why-we...

Jesus, famous for his income based doctrine

Buried towards the end of the article: "Cal-Maine — the only of the three companies that is public and reports quarterly financials — reported a profit of $1.22 billion for the 2025 fiscal year" So their portion of the fine (1.5 million) is...0.1% of just one year's profit. White collar crime pays

goooooooooool! 🇲🇽 #mundial

On the same day SCOTUS ruled against trans athletes, HHS said it is reorganizing its civil rights office to make it easier to discriminate against LGBTQ people.

If someone doesn't like your research grant, the US government may soon be able to help them sue you. www.science.org/content/arti...

Do people who've never lived in Washington have a sense of how titanic a labor it is to get the Mall this empty, especially near the Fourth of July? Normally the monuments and Smithsonian would look _carpeted_ with tourists right now. Even 'Gigli' didn't chase people off like this.

Justice Jackson is right. This is thankfully the end of the road for President Trump and his allies' unconstitutional attempt to rewrite the 14th Amendment. Birthright citizenship is a settled case — again.

@governorwalz.mn.gov has said Minnesota's Guard are not meant to assist Trump's disgusting "DC Safe and Beautiful Task Force," but this is sure what that looks like. Governor Walz, recall your Guard members out of DC NOW.

[Sinister attack ad voiceover:] “Janeese Lewis George opposes families losing their homes just to pay for child care.”

I couldn't make it through this whole story. Late-stage capitalism and health care are a deadly combo. www.statnews.com/2026/06/29/n...