Mike Luckovich

The U.S. military shot and killed an American on U.S. soil this morning

The NYT reports that Trump personally called FIFA President Gianni Infantino and asked him to review Team USA’s Folarin Balogun’s World Cup suspension after his red card Days later, FIFA reversed the suspension It’s the first time since 1962 that FIFA has overturned a World Cup red-card suspension

I think this might be one of the most incredible, unsettling and symbolic photos of today’s America I’ve ever seen. I can’t stop looking at it. From Reuters, published on the Guardian website.

"Measles is the canary in the coal mine for vaccination & public health. Robert B. Shpiner, a critical care expert at UCLA medical school wrote “I have seen children harmed by disease or poverty BUT NOT UNTIL NOW have CHILDREN🤒been HARMED METHODICALLY by their OWN🤮GOVERNMENT.” LA Times #Pinks

I think the AI boom is the best thing to happen to humanities students in years because one cycle of "AI savvy" graduates as employees is all it'll take for like 90% of employers to peace out and go looking for people who have actual skills

Paine's argument was that over a certain amount of wealth (for him that amount was £23,000) society is far better off redistributing the excess to the poor, the young, the elderly, and the infirm...in part because the harm that would accrue to those still very rich people was quite minimal.

Real haters don't leap. They wait and watch. They know the true reasons for hating will be Revealed

This should be posted everywhere until the midterms and then some.

This is, I believe, the connoisseur's 4th of July dril tweet

Please vote some younger, tougher leftists into Congress. These long term corporate dems ain't cutting it.

Nearly one million people who bought President Trump’s memecoin have lost a total of $3.81 billion, a report from a cryptocurrency analytics firm found.  nyti.ms/4wucpPy

The sooner we are rid of the MAGA ideology, the better.

This is a man asking others to help him overturn the next election

Thomas Paine is my favorite founding father. He was famously abolitionist and one of the earliest voices to point out the hypocrisy of fighting for independence while keeping slaves. He also firmly believed that keeping any friendship which required compromising your morals made you a bad person.

All told, 321 diamonds, 56 sapphires, 13 emeralds and six rubies encrust the watch-sized gold ring presented this week to Bill White, the U.S. ambassador to Belgium, to give to U.S. President Donald Trump. https://to.pbs.org/44batiO

🚨 BREAKTHROUGH: Scientists at MIT have discovered something that sounds like sci-fi. They found that temporarily "turning off" a lazy eye for just 2 DAYS could reboot the brain's connection to it restoring vision without harming the good eye. news.mit.edu/2025/how-vis...

Happy Fourth. On this day, I like to revisit Frederick Douglass’ “What to a Slave is the Fourth of July,” and in particular, this video NPR produced a few years back of portions of the speech being read by Douglass’ descendants. youtu.be/NBe5qbnkqoM?...

They arrested a guy for touching the reflecting pool but not the cops who killed two protesters.

I'll summarize this: Mamdani asked NYers to keep air conditioning at 78 degrees. A wave criticism hit online. A MSNBC broadcast pointed out the US Department of Energy recommends that 78 degree figure. Immediately after, the US Department of Energy deleted 6,000 web pages related to energy saving.

new metaphor just dropped

If you were cool with this, you can shove that "Happy Independence Day" up your ass.

This little boy’s parents told the doctor he was still breathing. Police officers did the same, and the doctor pulled rank. He pronounced a child dead & sent him to the morgue while he was still alive. The parents are facing charges. The doctor hasn’t even lost his license.

*extremely selina meyer voice* “The level of laziness in this season’s scriptwriting is staggggering.”

Watch the latest from @eggerdc.bsky.social and @sarahlongwell25.bsky.social:

This World Cup we're being out-fanned on every level

No surprise that the deranged looking man is also deranged.

lol i swear to god this is an actual commercial that just ran on fox news

Cartoon by Mike Luckovich

Trumpism didn't just normalize corruption. It normalized cruelty, spectacle, and the idea that power no longer has to answer to decency. The greater damage? Convincing Americans that institutions can't be trusted, decency is for suckers, and shamelessness is a virtue. Read @zeblarson.bsky.social

Oh America, you're so f**ked...

At least they're not hiding their corruption. Go big or go home.

Damn. @nbcnews.com www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

Trump’s profiteering in office was once unimaginable in a democracy, particularly by a sitting American president. The Trump family’s earnings move him into an echelon of enrichment more associated with strongmen in Russia and Turkey. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/02/w...

BREAKING: ALEX JONES POPPED LIKE A BALLOON youtu.be/tdSB8muDtzc?...

days after a disclosure revealed he's raked in billions from the presidency, Trump has the gall on CNBC to boast that "I'm the only president that's ever given up my salary"

NEW: This is too much. The DOJ accidentally emailed copies of Volume II of Jack Smith's final report to the lawyers representing a woman they charged with obstruction of justice for emailing Volume II of Jack Smith's final report. My latest: www.muellershewrote.com/p/doj-accide...

Glad everyone’s ok — it’s also hard to imagine a better metaphor for the current state of 🇺🇸 than this

This is some serious bullshit. I want to see the transcript of the grand jury proceedings. www.cnn.com/2026/07/02/p...

INCREDIBLE SCENES ON FOX as there is LITERALLY NOT A SOUL at Trump's fair, which has now been open for 15 minutes

If you think Mamdani is a communist, wait till you hear about this Republican congressional candidate doing work for the Cuban communist government! ICYMI @cheetah.bsky.social:

Hey, look at that, what had been subtext is once again just text. This is a Redeemer administration.

Let's hear it for President Dealmaker, who negotiated and signed USMCA (calling it the “best and most important trade deal ever made"), then ran against it, won, and breached it while asking "who would ever sign a thing like this?' from the same desk where he signed it, and now won't renew it.

Could we please call this as it is? He's never been anything other than status conscious; a need to be the alpha, as represented by money, power, women. He attracted similarly wounded souls who want to live vicariously. Not all his supporters; enough to swing the electoral math. He's a parasite.

NEW: Most Supreme Court Rulings Are Secretive Votes With Little Justification ProPublica conducted a new analysis that shows the court is deciding more consequential rulings than ever before in largely unsigned orders with little to no explanation.

An open question for Texas cosplay-Christians flaunting their sanctimony by forcing schoolkids to read The Bible in schools: Take all the time you need.