After reading a piece about the rise in coffee prices, I decided to go into my shopping history and check to see what I used to pay for this staple in our household. Nov 2024 = $15.99 for 36 ounces. Aug 2025 = $24.99 (!!) ~56% increase. Thanks, 🌮!

"Gabbard’s claim relies heavily on an alleged contradiction between a Jan. 6, 2017, intelligence assessment that Russian President Vladimir Putin had ordered an “influence campaign” ... and earlier intelligence assessments that concluded Russia did not successfully use cyberattacks..."

Does the WSJ letter "sound" like Trump? TL/dr: He's used "enigma," "pal," recounts narratives of himself in the third person, has a history with the poet (first line) and is known to draw with a sharpie and sign the bottom.

Just in case you've been wondering what the answer to this question is: 71.7% of ICE detainees as of June 29 have no criminal record or pending criminal charges. www.mississippifreepress.org/among-trumps...

Factcheck.org: "Contrary to [Trump's] claim that no one will die as a result of the [GOP] budget bill, an analysis from the University of Pennsylvania and Yale University estimated that the legislation’s changes to Medicaid and the [ACA] will result in at least 42,500 preventable deaths each year."

"What has made Baltimore — which President Trump and other conservatives deride as a 'filthy' Democrat-controlled 'slum' — so successful in making its streets safer?" popular.info/p/the-secret...

Tell me I'm crazy—I thought all of this was about the price of eggs. (Chart: CNBC).

He had no criminal record and was living with his grandparents in Iowa. Abducted by ICE, imprisoned and shipped off with no due process. It's simply un-American. Great work by Little Village. littlevillagemag.com/iowans-rally...

Gut-wrenching read. Mom abducted at work by ICE. Kids left at home. 15-year-old son: “I don’t know what to tell [my brothers] because I don’t want them to freak out. Because they’re little, they’re little kids.” Amplify this work by Santa Barbara Independent.

"Trump’s supporters are discovering that they have become 77 million Ivanas. They are 77 million Marla Maples. They are 77 million customers of Trump steaks or Trump universities, 77 million of the creditors he left high and dry." - David Rothkopf

"... make no mistake: This 3,000-bed facility quickly built with cages and razor-wire by floundering Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis—who is trying to get back into the cruelty spotlight—should be seen for what it is... a concentration camp. This is no mere hyperbole." -Steven Beschloss

Can anybody tell me why MAGA/GOP/🌮 wouldn’t want to harvest all the American-made solar and wind energy we possibly could? Doesn’t that make us greater than lying about gas prices being lower?

At IKEA to buy $85 chairs. Got to the warehouse section and they were priced at $125. When we got to the front, we told the sales rep, who scanned them and they rung up $85. We asked what the deal was. "They're probably marking things up back there for when the tariffs hit next week."

That should solve it.

Washington Monthly quotes defense intelligence expert: "As long as we didn’t use [bunker-buster bombs], Iran didn’t know for sure how damaging they could be. That gave us leverage with them. Now the situation is reversed."

From Gizmodo: "The law is still in flux, so there’s no hard and fast rule for protecting your phone from searches. Still, if you know you will be interacting with police, your best bet is to turn off biometrics before you head out, according to Crocker."

TNR: "Bump found that assaults on agents had decreased every month since 2024 and, despite repeated requests to ICE, wasn’t given any proof of ICE agents being doxxed, targeted, or assaulted outside the context of an immigration arrest."

Robert Reich: "So what’s Trump doing about the slump in new housing? Three things. All will worsen it."

Factcheck.org: "In defending his decision to deploy the National Guard and Marines to Los Angeles... Trump claimed that the police chief said the situation with immigration protests 'had gotten away from them'... that’s not what McDonnell said."

"To have these influential men in particular, who were part of the manosphere — that is how Trump got elected — come out and say what's going on on a policy perspective is wrong is a big f-ing deal. And it's an even bigger deal when you consider that there is nothing for them to gain...."

Dan Rather on #NoKings: "A prescient lyric from the song is, perhaps, a moment of art imitating life: 'And when push comes to shove, I will send a fully armed battalion to remind you of my love!' 'You’ll Be Back' is an entertaining reminder that no, in fact, we didn’t go back, and we never will."

FactCheck.org: "The Department of Health and Human Services has defended cuts to vaccine research with statements that mislead on the safety of mRNA technology, despite an extensive history of testing. HHS recently terminated a $766 million award to Moderna for developing mRNA vaccines..."

Breyer's ruling is a masterclass. "... this case is not one involving the kind of foreign policy or national security questions that traditionally are left to the President. It instead implicates the President’s domestic use of military force, a matter on which the courts can certainly weigh in."

You've probably seen this, but it also deserves one more post, both in support of the sentiment (that being, you know, "democracy = good") and the history it represents.

CNBC: "The rift sent Tesla shares plummeting 14% on Thursday, wiping out roughly $152 billion in value, the most for any day in the company’s 15 year-history on the public market. While Musk is still the richest person in the world on paper, his net worth plunged by $34 billion..."

CNBC: "The [CBO] projected that about 11 million people would lose health-care coverage due to provisions in the bill passed by the House... The CBO estimated that an additional 4 million or so would lose insurance due to expiring Obamacare subsidies, which the bill doesn’t extend."

ProPublica: "One year out of college and with no apparent national security expertise, Thomas Fugate is the [DHS] official tasked with overseeing the government’s main hub for combating violent extremism." Rep Bennie Thompson (D-MS): "None of this will make America safer."

It's kinda like fourth-grade boys deciding they're no longer best friends and divvying up their toys, except there are a lot of actual cars and spaceships involved.

Not that I mind 🌮 getting owned here a bit, but here's a thought -- should a *privately held* company be the U.S.'s only option for getting astronauts to and from the International Space Station? Shouldn't that maybe be NASA?

"With Vought, a self-described Christian nationalist, at the helm (of DOGE), the slash-and-burn effort against the federal government may be on the cusp of an even darker turn."

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(Said like Steve Harvey on Family Feud) "And the CBO SAYS.... [bing!] ... $2.4 trillion added to the debt!"

Go Bob, go. "Republicans are lying about Medicaid work requirements. The truth is that a vast majority of recipients who can work are already working. Work requirements are just a shady way to fund tax cuts for the wealthy."

Love how Republican Senator Mullen from Oklahoma keep saying: "What WAS we ranked nationally in math and reading in 1979..." Kinda says it all.

SB46 passed Louisiana’s House with a vote of 58-32. Sigh.

I was working on a new flying video and came across this image which I kinda love. This is on approach into the airport at Hickory, North Carolina. The ballpark, mountains, green trees... strange alien markings on the parking lot pavement...

Just saw this. "Stephanopoulos cracked the seal on 'This Week' connecting the dots between Trump’s pardons and presidential fundraisers, suggesting Trump and his family were making millions through various pay-to-play schemes."

Photo of the day. We decided to run up to South Dakota last week to get a look in person before the parks close permanently... or some 🌮 tries to change it. Enjoy!

New 🍊 nickname is TACO. Check out what it stands for. (It'd be even cooler if we figured out that he chickens out on his tariff plans on Tuesdays because... well, you know.)

I guess we already knew this president is for sale -- and relatively cheap, at that -- but everytime I read this crap I wonder how any self-respecting American voted for him.

FYI: When the GOP says their budget simply kicks "illegals" off Medicaid, they're lying. They're actually kicking off 10 million poor folks—and kids from CHIP. Undocumented immigrants don't get Medicaid; they can get state-funded healthcare from some states, but GOP is trying to stop that, too.

The real story in this WSJ piece is that there’s some dipstick at the Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty worried sick about kids understanding gender and justice.

Big story from the home team. “Kasper has never been charged with or convicted of any crime. He has not been accused of being a member of MS-13 or Tren de Aragua.”

Call your senator. Get this out of the bill. Rule of law. www.senate.gov/senators/sen...

Just in case anyone needs more evidence that Elmo needs less influence over our lives... even Grok was turning on him until it was throttled.

Read and share.

At what point do you realize you're being played? CNBC: "Elon Musk’s America PAC didn’t keep its promise to pay swing state voters who signed a pro-Trump petition ahead of the 2024 election, and who enlisted others to do the same, a new lawsuit alleges."

Dan Rather: "If 'invaders,' aka immigrants, can be taken into custody without due process — no charges, no lawyer, no court appearances — what is to stop Trump from doing it to anyone he deems a threat? Perceived political enemies? Lawyers? Journalists?"

"[8 of the world's top 10 most valuable companies are in the US.] Research funded by the federal government has paved the way for a long list of breakthroughs... Yet rather than building on this foundation, [Trump] is determined to destroy it." - Scott Galloway www.profgalloway.com/brain-drain/

Aged like fine whine.