Just cancelled Hulu / Disney #Freekimmel

Justin Webb just referred on Today to "platforms like Bluesky, where you can see the celebration of the killing" of Charlie Kirk. What I'm seeing on here is overwhelming condemnation; despair at the violence of US politics; alarm at where this might go; & calls for equal horror at other shootings.

Why are electric bills increasing so fast? Because the Trump Administration is strangling supply with stop work orders and tax increases on wind and solar.

I have a language suggestion, which everyone can do, but is primarily for media members who value truth and Democratic politicians: Instead of asking and adjudicating if an obvious lie is false, make the fact that it's false your premise. "Why are you lying?" instead of "some say that's not true."

This is the second day in a row he’s said this. This is an intentional normalization effort.

Texas Republicans are redistricting early at the behest of Donald Trump. The response by Democrats in California to counter-balance is being triggered by a blatant GOP plot to steal the 2026 midterms. This isn’t a race to the bottom. It’s a means of avoiding the bottom.

The floodgates are open & the logical (perhaps inevitable) conclusion of all of this is that the far right authoritarian party will not accept losing when that actually happens despite the rigging. We should have punished people for 1/6/21. We didn't. So here we are. bsky.app/profile/mcop...

When Trump needs to cover something up he brings in his criminal lawyer, Todd Blanche. That’s why Blanche is now handling the Epstein case for the DOJ.

Just so’s we’re all clear, almost 3/4 of everything we buy from Europe is now 15% more expensive.

So this is what "winning" looks like. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

I’m going to go way out on a limb and predict 3 things after this takes place: 1. DOJ will announce Maxwell completely exonerated Trump. 2. They will lie and announce they made no deals or promises to her. 3. The deal they made with her will happen at the end of Trump’s term.

John Roberts May Be the Worst Chief Justice in Supreme Court History when he is done, Taney still in the lead by a few lengths, but Roberts closing in with a strong breaking wind behind his back

“American history has no shortage of legendarily bad chief justices & disgraceful decisions. But Chief Justice Roberts has overseen the wholesale corruption and capture of the Supreme Court, and history should look back on his tenure with revulsion.” @atrupar.com open.substack.com/pub/aaronrup...

My plan to revive American manufacturing is to: raise the price of inputs like steel, aluminum & copper; create shortages of rare earths; generate less electricity; invite retaliatory tariffs; cut R&D; raise borrowing costs by blowing out the budget; and to cover it all in a cloud of uncertainty.

DOOCY: Why do you think the Chinese is buying up so much farmland so close to military installations? TRUMP: I don't want to get into that. I have a very good relationship with President Xi. They're paying a lot of tariffs.

Anyone noticed that ICE agents look like slightly better equipped al qaeda?

In ways both great and small, we are starting to see the basic functions of government unravel. And all of it can be attributed directly to the policies and personnel choices of Donald Trump.

This just in: Trump moves to bankrupt the US in the same way he bankrupted every business he ever ran by taking on unnecessary, massive debt.

-A living wage -Guaranteed healthcare -The right to join a union -The right to vote -The right to choose when, how, and with whom you start a family -The right for you and your family to live free from gun violence These are the foundations of real freedom.

Can’t make this up.

Truly imagine if Mamdani had used the word “Shylock.” It would have quite literally destroyed his career and every org and leader calling him out would be making this into a month long news cycle. Trump? Hardly a peep. When you accept antisemitism from the president, you aren’t fighting it.

"They took hospitals and health care away from you so they could build concentration camps for immigrants."

Amazon paid $40 million to license a Melania Trump documentary. ABC paid $15 million to settle Trump’s defamation suit. META paid Trump $25 million for suspending his social media accounts. And now Paramount is paying Trump $16 million to settle his ‘60 Minutes’ lawsuit. Truly pathetic.

I’m sick of the mainstream media using euphemisms and other weasel wording to soft-pedal the Trump regime’s corruption. Rather than committing crimes, Trump “sidesteps laws.” Rather than lying, he’s “untethered to truth” or “inverting the facts.” Read my latest Stop the Presses newsletter.

No name. No badge. No ID. No warrant. Face covered. That’s not an officer that’s an armed thug with government protection. If you can’t show who you are or why you’re detaining someone, you have no business laying a hand on them.

Voters next year will get to decide whether they want the House doing oversight on the current government of the US, which is cesspool of corruption and conflicts of interest, or continue to ignore that for the next 3 years to continue a decade of Biden investigations.

RFK jr is a catastrophe to the United States and a humiliation to his father's legacy

Socialism is what they called public power. Socialism is what they called social security.    Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations.   Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people. —Harry Truman, 1952

He wants poor kids to go hungry even if he wouldn't have to pay to feed them.

Anybody watching this Trump program knows that it’s all fiction & performance. His “instincts;” his “deal-making;” his status as “the ultimate CEO.” It’s utter fiction. It’s awful that media figures w/a reasonable level of sophistication pretend that the silly stories from Trump camp are credible.

He’s right. We all need to talk to our kids more. Don’t mistake their resilience for lack of awareness of what’s going on around them.

This op-ed is extraordinarily authoritarian. Uses outright lies to justify illegal attack on Harvard and cruelty toward international students. A whiff of fascism. How could WaPo run this? thttps://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/06/23/kristi-noem-harvard-foreign-students-dhs-restriction/

In writing, Trump's judicial nominees have all signaled their support for his election denier conspiracy theories, and their willingness to end birthright citizenship. But Senate Democrats didn't challenge the nominees on these answers when they had the chance. Most of them didn't even show up.

“It should be illegal for you to be mean to me and legal for me to kill you” is basically the Republican platform.

Trump realizes people are turning on him, which means he will get more desperate, aggressive, extreme, and violent. These are all actions of a weak regime and weak man.

The radicalization of the American right is THE story of US politics over the last four decades and political reporters are still not allowed to talk about it

NYT found the “big beautiful bill” would be the largest transfer from the poor to the rich in a single law since at least 1990. In fact, it would be the largest transfer *ever.* Reagan’s low-income cuts were MUCH smaller - and his tax cuts were done separately. And before him, nothing comes close.

Who else nearly fell out of the seat when you heard Cosplay Kristi accuse Sen. Padilla of “political theater”?

We see regularly scheduled articles about why Bluesky is bad. But what about the obvious point that Twitter is Elon's Machine for Fascism and it's breaking reporters' brains? I decided to write it. Reporters need to get off Elon's Twitter

IMPORTANT: Before the fascist attack on Senator Alex Padilla, Kristi Noem said that her gestapo in California were staying to "liberate the city socialist and the burdensome leadership that this governor and that this mayor have placed on this country." Don't let that slide by.

Exactly right. The assault on a senator was a crime but Noem’s “liberation” comments were actually even worse.

A US Senator. Donald Trump’s America.

Folks, CBO estimate of the distributional effect of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act is out: www.cbo.gov/system/files... It's grotesque