Best review ever : On the Amazon Melania “documentary”: "If they showed this film on a plane, people would still walk out." - Variety 💀

No other president has ever done less, longer. Chart by @pbump.com

Yeah, despite the rumblings from other reporters this still feels like another bit of Axios wishcasting. What's for certain is that any Democrat who votes to cave now and betray the base in exchange for nothing at all will live to regret it.

I never imagined GitHub would ask me to speak about #Log4Shell. But it happened. @github.com asked me to share the story as I lived it, for the benefit of users of #opensource. How could I say no? I hope it helps build a more secure future. No more Log4Shell. #java

“Must be real proud of your job if you can’t show your face.”

REMINDER: If billionaires like Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos paid their fair share, we could afford to EXPAND benefits and strengthen Social Security’s customer service! Instead, Republicans are cutting Social Security and giving tax cuts to billionaires.

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never take freedom of the press or access to news for granted. www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/8/...

A $29 billion compensation package for any CEO is obscene. Tesla's captive Board is once again enriching Elon Musk at investors’ expense. This is yet another glaring reminder that the company lacks reliable, independent oversight and effective corporate governance.

“Forged signatures found on Mayor Adams’ petitions to run as an independent” electionlawblog.org?p=151295

NEW: Apple reported third-quarter revenue that handily topped analysts’ estimates, boosted by strong sales of the iPhone and products in China

One woman said she and her cellmates asked for cleaning supplies to clean their single filthy toilet for themselves, to which officers responded sarcastically, “Housekeeping will come soon.” https://trib.al/Wq30W6h

House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) said he's shutting down the House of Representatives until September to stave off a vote that could compel the Trump administration to release the files on sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein.

I think the idea that “The President is simultaneously an institution beyond the reach of criminal law and also a private person who can file $10 billion defamation suits when he dislikes a news article” is not very sensible.

the world sucks so bad right now that it’s hard to know where to begin - but here’s one thing you can do, if there’s room in your heart and home 👇

EXCLUSIVE: DeSantis diverted disaster prep resources during hurricane season in the rush to build the "Alligator Alcatraz" detention camp talkingpointsmemo.com/muckraker/co...

The Trump regime is about to burn 500 tons of USAID emergency food. Why? Because it expired after its shipment was delayed. 1.5 million children could have eaten for a week. Now, taxpayers will spend $130K for it to be destroyed. This isn’t just inefficient – it’s cruel.

Trump Mobile keeps charging my credit card and I have no idea why. I didn't sign up for the phone plan. I still haven't received my gold phone. I don't know how to make them stop because the website errors out and the customer help line couldn't help either www.404media.co/trump-mobile...

...And he may still be posting more. So far these tariffs are all the original "Liberation Day" tariff +/- a few percentage points. PLUS new sectoral tariffs PLUS a promise to retaliate

“.. Why has American job growth slowed this year to a 15-year low?” @msnbc.com @maddowblog.msnbc.com www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...

Reagan promised tax cuts would pay for themselves. Blew out the deficit. Bush promised tax cuts would pay for themselves. Blew out the deficit. Trump promised tax cuts would pay for themselves. Blew out the deficit. Fool me once, shame on me. Fool me four times...?

This is not a budget bill, it is a debt and deportation bill—and one built on the fascist foundation laid by the Heritage Foundation’s now-notorious Project 2025. https://trib.al/DZZ0tPQ

Can confirm this email is authentic — and about nothing in it is true. Social Security income is still taxed. This bill does nothing to change that. It’s willful disinformation on the part of SSA. It’s a lie.

“Right now [we’re] seeing the number actually, uh, show a decline in jobs, uh, down thirty-three thousand on ADP.” https://trib.al/ziBtM45

Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/03/o...

🚨🚨 NEW: House passes sprawling domestic policy bill, sending it to Trump's desk Final House vote is 218-214, with TWO Rs voting no (Massie & Fitzpatrick). Senate passed it 51-50. www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...

BREAKING: Democratic House leader Hakeem Jeffries sets the record for longest speech in the chamber as he delays the vote on Trump's tax bill by more than 8 hours.

Protecting his stock portfolio while ripping away health care from 17 million Americans. This is Washington at its worst. We need to ban Congressional stock trading.

Private equity is destroying hospitals, housing markets, the media, and other vital parts of our communities. The industry thrives off the "carried interest loophole" — which Trump promised to eliminate. Guess what his budget doesn't eliminate? The carried interest loophole.

Trump doubled tariffs on Vietnamese imports to 20% today—of course, we still don't have the official paperwork so I have no idea what exemptions will look like. But it's a big tax hike on $140B in shoes, furniture, audio equipment, solar, cashews, cinnamon, the Switch 2, & more

AOC: "On this point of tax on tips, as one of the only people in this body who has lived off of tips, I want to tell you a little bit about the scam ... the cap on that is $25,000 while you're jacking up taxes on people who make less than $50,000 across the US ... while kicking them off the ACA."

AOC: This bill is a deal with the devil. It explodes our national debt. It militarizes our entire economy. It strips away health care and basic dignity of the American people for what? To give Elon Musk a tax break.. We cannot stand for it. And we will not support it. You should be ashamed

"Paramount said late Tuesday that it has agreed to pay President Trump $16 million to settle his lawsuit over the editing of an interview on the CBS News program 60 Minutes, an extraordinary concession to a sitting president by a major media organization." www.nytimes.com/2025/07/02/b... (Gift link)

Guardian: DOJ issues orders to begin civil proceedings to strip naturalized American citizens of their citizenship for certain offenses. And because it’s civil, there’s a lower burden of proof, and the deportees don’t get a lawyer. There’s 25 million naturalized citizens in this country.

A physician at a Sudanese clinic said basic antibiotics probably would have cured a three-year-old boy’s chest infection. The medicines had been scheduled to be delivered in February. Then the new U.S. administration froze foreign aid programs. wapo.st/4kgohOr

A member of Taiwan's parliament stole a bill and ran off with it to prevent it from being passed

The best way to reduce the cost of Medicaid is to name and shame big employers that pay their full time employees so little, they qualify for Medicaid

Sinaloa cartel hacked phones and surveillance cameras to find FBI informants, DOJ says reut.rs/3I1PLKi

ICE is now changing tactics and arresting people who have been granted asylum hearings.   This is both a violation of US & international law that demands immediate attention from all New York elected officials & underscores the urgent need for legal service providers to be at all of these cases.

Bezos Wedding Guests Given Monogrammed Plastic Bottles To Urinate In During Ceremony theonion.com/bezos-w...

Vaccination schedules on the CDC website have already started changing under RFK Jr. So we published a guide to the evidence-based vaccine recommendations in place *before* all 17 members of the advisory panel were abruptly dismissed by the new admin. www.scientificamerican.com/article/see-... 🧪

Fascinating...

How do they get away with this? The bill they passed cuts Medicaid by $793 BILLION. $793 BILLION. It's in the bill. They wrote it. Their own budget office says 10 million people will lose Medicaid coverage. Just wild.

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CARTER: How could you possibly justify the decision to terminate HIV vaccines studies? RFK JR: We've been promising an HIV vaccine since 1984 and every year Congress pours money into it CARTER: Because they haven't come up with one, you then cut the forward motion by getting rid of NIH dollars?

RUIZ: Did you read the report & fact-check its sources prior to publication? RFK JR: I did not fact check RUIZ: It included citations to sources that don't exist. How does that happen? RFK JR: All of the foundational assertions are accurate RUIZ: They did not exist. How can they be accurate?

We the people have spoken. Congress must do their job and represent the will of the nation. Say NO to “King” Donakd!

If people really find this to be such an easy conclusion, then Congressional authority should be easy to get. So why don’t they insist on a vote? They know this isn’t “progressive” resistance. They want to marginalize it as such because on top of this war being ILLEGAL, it’s also deeply unpopular.

Let me tell you how the Senate Republicans are making even deeper cuts to Medicaid than the House did.   Here are 3 things you should know as we fight to save Medicaid.